Circling Back - The Brett Merriman Starter Kit

Episode Date: November 25, 2019

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all right we're back circling back podcast coming to you live from the early bird cbd studio in austin texas my name is will defreeze to my right dave private on instagram rough and you totally just cucked my bit here. Oh, shit. All right. Some personal news. I am now private on Instagram. That's big. Tell me why. We're looking for numbers. Look, here's the deal.

There's no playbook when it comes to Instagram. We're in the generation that's writing the playbook when it comes to instagram we're writing we're in the generation that's writing the playbook and if this works it'll be a play that goes into the playbook if it does not i'll probably just never talk about it again i would like to announce i'm still a man of the people you can still just pop by my account if you want and check me out at d shivery if you like what you see give me a follow if not no hard, no hard feelings. But, you know, it's free to look. Here's the deal. At DC Rough on Instagram, first and foremost. Second.

Add me on the group. Add me on the gram. I don't know how often I'm going to be approving people, but I would try to get in early because there might be like a two-week period where just a moratorium where I don't do shit. Yeah. When you go private, you start being selective and you give the review process.

What I will be doing, however... It just gets more stringent as you go on. I will be monitoring your follower growth. I thought that was a job for Brett. And if it's shooting way up, I might also go private

just to see what happens. To be clear, you've done this before, right? I've never done that before. I've done it. I did it. I had a stint a couple months ago and i'll be honest it works you did numbers yeah because i was like you know what all these instagrams there's two things that i always thought were weird that these instagram thoughts do the first is go private like randomly like people do that all the time and it's clearly to get more followers and then the other

one is that why why do all these girls post two of these like very similar photos you know i'm talking about no they just do a two photo slideshow and it's like one pose next one's like a slightly different pose they all just do two there has to be something to it i'm gonna start doing it i'm gonna start being more of a thought you're already kind of thoughtty i'm trying to i'm trying to like um what's the old saying why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free yeah i'm the cow my instagram is the cow in this analogy what's the milk yeah what's the milk dog the dope content oh so when you see me post something say damn you hitting us with the milk dude, you got that milk swag going.

Is there a milk emoji? Can we be the milk boys? Is that already a thing? I'm kidding. Brett didn't even look. Oh, there he is. Dude, Brett's over here closing deals, man. I actually drank like, I bought a bunch of milk because of cereal school.

I had to get my cereal off. You know what it is. And so I just had a bunch of milk and i was like damn this is gonna go bad before i go to michigan this week so yesterday i just sat on the couch with the container in my hand just drinking it i think sally thought i was disgusting that's pretty gross yeah i like i like me some milk though i like milk too but drink your milk cart carton uh give me whole milk because it's gain season okay Give me whole milk because it's gain season.

Okay. 2% followed by protein enriched 2% followed by omega 3 enriched 2% and then skim milk all the way at the bottom. I'll still drink skim milk. I'm not going to not drink skim milk if it's the only milk. I fuck with almond milk.

Heavy. That's not even milk. That's essentially juice. Dude, it's so good. It's so good, though. It's good, but like, you can't use it on cereal. Oh, I do. Really?

It's played better on cereal. Nah, player. I definitely do. It's great. You want to know a little life hack? You get the vanilla almond milk, and you do like Annie's white cheddar mac and cheese with it.

It gives it a little bit of like a sweet tang to it. Dude, you're such a mac and cheese guy. Oh my God. Wait one second. I'm going to add this to your starter kit. Annie's mac and cheese. I still think that you're going to put too much truffle oil in it,

but I guess I'll find out when you actually make it. Somebody made a good point on Twitter. I think it was actually Katie Nolan that you need about a third of the truffle oil that you think you do for anything in life. Yes, I agree. More truffle is not a good thing. I'm saying you need it, period, though. You say it's passe.

I went to a wedding, a very nice wedding. It was in Houston. Damn, flex on it, man. It was baller shit. You had El Tiempo? They had, no. Have you had El Tiempo yet? Oh, yeah.

Oh, hell yeah. I love it. And they had a mac and cheese bar. And it was truffle. And it was so much truffle that not only did it ruin the mac and cheese, but it pretty much ruined my entire night. Come on. Because all I could... It was just... I felt truffle at all.

It overwhelmed you. Yeah. Truffle is a lot like garlic. Yeah. Where if you overdo it, you're going to be tasting that garlic for a minute. You know who got great truffle fries guys the oak god damn shut up dude shut up food's phenomenal i met shut up i need to stop by on saturday hey i'm ready for my intro by the way oh what up dylan already plugged your box 17 in playboy turn it up turn it up turn it up. Turn it up. Turn it up. We have to add that to the soundboard. That's going to have to be a sound. Hey, guys.

Really happy to be here. We've already talked like a lot. I'm very happy to be here. Wow, we got that in. It's a short week. We got Epi stacked on top of each other today and tomorrow. Should be fun, man. No one's doing this many episodes in two days.

Yeah, you don't see that. There's other podcasts out there that might just be like, phoning it in because it's a short week. Not us. You'll have a full slate this week. Don't worry about it. Don't fucking worry about it. It could be me.

Man. What? Nothing. I'm looking at my Brett Starter Kit list, and it's pretty good. Pretty good. Before we get to the Brett Starter Kit, why don't we talk and speak a little bit

to this weekend's meetup that we had at Eisenhower's in Austin, Texas? Yes. Did we decide if it's a meetup or a meetup? I think it's with two E's. We, okay. Yeah. I didn't see any meat at the meetup.

There's a lot of meat. Besides man meat. I got some brussies off, though. Dude, these Brussels sprouts rolled through and Dylan was like thirsty as fuck for them. That truck. I went to town on them. They're so good there.

Dylan was just like, oh my God. They're fried. Do you smell these things? No, there's a trailer out front, man. I stayed at Eisenhower's

the whole time, dog. It's a little staple of Austin. I enjoyed them on the front porch. A couple backers came to say hi. It was great.

Were you just chain blasting SIGs eating troughs or eating Brussels? I just went to town on Brussels and a lot of a lot of i don't know a lot of stellas i drink a lot of stellas for some reason yeah it's good beer though at one point somebody's like started smoking sigs out back and you can kind of tell the whole crowd like perked up a little bit we were like because we were multiple beers in at this point you You know the kid who was smoking P-Funks out back with the Navy Longhorn hat on? Was the Fuck You Dorn Kid from the Dell Match Play a few years ago.

Love it. Really? How crazy is that? Tell that story for anyone that doesn't know. I've told the story like six times. Have you? Yeah. But I was in line getting a beer at the Dell Match Play, the concession stand thing.

A golf tournament. A golf tournament. A golf tournament. And this was like between two holes in a pretty close vicinity, so it was quiet. And there were probably 100, 200 people around, and this kid just from, I don't know, 30 feet away goes, hey, fuck you, Dorn. And I turn around like, are you fucking kidding me?

Anyway, yeah, that kid, and this was like three or four years ago. And yeah, that kid was at the meetup. So long time listener. Shouts to that kid. And yeah, he gave me a P-Funk as well. What's a P-Funk? A parliament cigarette.

Oh. You guys were calling, what, squares? Squares. Yeah, you never heard that? Never. Will, have you heard of that? Yeah. Even like up north, though?

Yeah. Like we call them just darts. Darts, squares, heaters. Square was never one. Yeah. Yeah, let's go burn a square. Hey, I did something I've never done on Saturday night. Or Saturday, I guess it was.

Hit the smelling salts. Yeah, I don't was. Hit the smelling salts. Yeah. I don't even know who brought those, but somebody brought us some smelling salts. I think it was the Fuck You Don't Kid, actually. No, the kid in the UT jersey had it. They were in the same squad, yeah. Okay, and let me just say, that kid had to have been like 21. That kid was the youngest looking kid I've ever seen at Eisenhower's.

Shout out to him for hitting me with the smelling salt. I didn't realize how long they lasted. You snap it, and I mean, we passed it around in a circle for like two minutes. Yeah. Isn't it ammonia? You got to feel it's not good for your brain. It can't be good for you. No, stop doing that.

Okay, that's understandable. Dave, you're done. No, I'm not. No, we're done. No more. No, I'm not. No, we're not canceling, Dave. I'm not canceling Dave. I'm canceling Dave doing smelling salts. Okay.

I want to keep his brain sharp, man. Turn it up. Turn it up. I quit Red Bull on Friday. And then shouts to the backers who just didn't let me quit on Saturday. Wait, you quit? He was drinking Red Bull vodkas on Saturday. I had five. You can't quit? He was drinking Red Bull vodkas on Saturday. I had five. You can't quit and then drink five Red Bull vodkas the following day.

I didn't order them. That's like being like, hey, dude, I quit smoking, but I'm just going to finish this pack. Yeah. Well, after these 10 cigarettes, I'm going to quit smoking. They say it's really tough to quit around the holidays. Yeah, it probably is. But people were just buying me

red bull vodka so shouts to the the backers who just kept buying me them i noticed you don't have one in front of you are you are you taking this seriously you're actually dylan good i'm happy for that makes me happy if you're such an almond milk boy why don't you start drinking those like lattes and shit dude i like i honestly because i don't know my way around coffee at all do you want me to go to barley bean with you and order you a coffee man just wait just wait till you see the setup that dave is gonna have for us at the new office oh i cannot wait to hit y'all with that yeah he is coffee guy we gave him one assignment he's excited about it keep in mind you did not give me a budget is dave gonna be a part-time barista like are you just gonna set up your own like coffee shop

another stream of revenue we could easily set up a coffee shop in there i don't know if it's zoned for that but like we could doesn't matter we have a moat we can do most things due to black market how confused would all the the business dudes in the new office be if we just had a bunch of like dudes coming in from their offices wearing like patagonia vests just ordering coffees from us we just have a keurig it's like all right three dollars they're gonna hate thank you no i can i can assure you we will not have a keurig they're gonna hate us we're probably 20 hours of like 20 hours of work in a week at the office in and out just recording like putting in the hallway if there's any if there's

any guys that work in an office out there or ladies too and you send me a video of you taking your keurig and throwing it in the garbage at your office or ladies too, and you send me a video of you taking your Keurig and throwing it in the garbage at your office, I'll Venmo you $1. $1 machine, you're saying? Yeah. You're saving the planet with every Keurig you throw out. That's why I stopped drinking Keurig, you know.

Save the planet? It's part of our green initiative, Dave. Yeah. The coffee also sucks. No, it's just regular-ass coffee, dog. What are you talking about? It's fine. It's not that good, Blair. Dude, you know, it got to the point where I was having a Pavlovian response

to the sound. It would make, you know, when you first snap it shut. Love that sound. It was just depressing, empty office. Yeah. So I need to get a coffee maker now. Can I get your recommendations?

Since I'm literally tweeting Red Bull. Are you trying to do just drip coffee? You want to get crazy? I need something in the morning that I can quick and easy. Just find a designer coffee shop, like a little boutique, and spend like nine bucks a day. Yeah. I don't want to do that, Dave.

I spend enough money at Barley Bean, dude. We'll set you up, man. Does Oak not have coffee? No, they don't open until like 4 p.m on the weekdays oh that's missed opportunity on their part no there's nobody in there i need to see their business yeah will you go in and ask them for that hey what are your goals for 2020 at the oak i'm gonna go in there rough i'm glad to meet you what's your black friday plan if you haven't started thinking about it it's too late it's too late dude god damn uh dude

shouts to all the backers that like not only came in from uh our neighboring cities in texas but to those who flew in too oh just blowing my mind multiple we had pilots from florida we had people from minnesota thanks for the shots at matzo rancho afterward homeboy and there's a lot of shots too a lot of shots too i got i got two for him on the way back i don't know wait wait good good was that at the table yeah did i do a shot yeah you did oh yeah damn dave dave what was that guy's name you're pretty good good and drunk between uh the meetup and back back at micah's yeah i was laying out of smelling salts well i was like damn yeah like dave got on one more than i did i need to step step up. Yeah, you know why? Because I don't say no to shots.

Hell yeah. Well, when you drink at a bar from 3 to, I don't know, 7 o'clock, and then you parlay that into margaritas and Mexican martinis and tequila shots. And salsa, if you're somebody. Things get out of hand. Oh, buddy. Oh, yeah. Poor Brett.

I knew how that was going to end. I'm sorry, man. Okay, so Brett lost odds and had to drink salsa. What were the odds? And who challenged you? I think it was 25. 1 and 25. It was going to end. I'm sorry, man. Okay, so Brett lost odds and had to drink salsa. What were the odds? And who challenged you? I think it was 25. One and 25. It was 25 or 24.

That's hot salsa. Yeah, Will, it was. I felt like shit yesterday. That's the hottest free salsa at restaurants. I got to say, if you didn't have an ulcer from all the Red Bull you've had, I think you're okay. Like chugging salsa. Like,

I think you might have a pretty good stomach. You're like Rosie. Like I don't, if you eat a sock, I'm like, oh, she'll just poop it out. Like she's got a beast mode stomach.

You're like a feral hog. You'll just eat anything. Yeah. No, you were calling yourself that when you were like, well, you might've been blacked out doing that, but you're like,

I'm a feral fucking hog. I'm not like anything. Why'd you keep saying? You're like, dude, what? Dude, you're other night, but you were like, I'm a feral fucking hog right now. I'll eat anything. Yeah, why'd you keep saying that? We were like, dude, what? Dude, you were walking up to groups of girls saying, respect the hog. I said, respect the hog? Yeah. Yeah, why were you doing that?

You're going to creep them out. At one point, yeah, I was trying to go to sleep the other night and go back up to my apartment. You were just pounding your chest, and you were like, call me the hog. I was like, dude, I'm not doing that, man. When we left Micah's, though, Dave and I were on like a, we almost got stuck outside. Because we, your fucking apartment building. almost got stuck outside because we your fucking apartment building dan got stuck outside and had to we almost did the same thing as dan probably because there was a door that we went out and it was very clear that there was no way out from that situation

dan had himself a night yeah shouts to just to jack hammer man he was truly living up to the jack hammer do you know my favorite moment from the meetup was dan rock rocking a ucf uh athletic tee no that's that's not surprising to anybody with a mustache a really impressive mustache good mustache yeah no mine was when i was just standing there and i wasn't even like talking to anybody really doing anything and fulton oil and gas walks by and he just drops an orange into a sangria and he wasn't even really saying it to anybody he just goes i've won mode sicko and then he disappeared after that and i was like what just happened like he wasn't saying it to like do anything in front of me or anything like that he just said it and kept going and i

was like all right that guy's a wild card by the way dude i thought he was gonna like he tracked me down and whipped my ass someone put smelling salts in his general vicinity and he threw it he grabbed it and threw it he goes no i'm not doing that the guy was like what the hell man you can't throw another man smelling you can't throw another man smelling salt by the way a lot of smelling salts at that meet up for some reason i don't know if i can i want to almost come onto the podcast to tell this story but so like a few years ago he created some kind of like algorithm to predict to predict bachelor winners and he sent it to us i remember seeing it looking at like oh this is this somebody took a lot of time to do this he told me he's told me

this before he sold it to a well-known oil company the algorithm and it ended up getting him a job there he told me we're getting a job someone yeah yeah can we trust him i don't know why you would make that up that's a really obscure but it's almost like too detailed to to make up you can't trust that kid no he's got yeah i'm not i'm not even convinced that's the real fulton oil and gas that's not his name his name is not even fulton can we just can we call our copy coffee shop in the new place folding oil and gas i don't hate that oh and and i did hear that he uh he does work in oil and gas he actually works at like a valero station yeah yeah i'm sorry no it's not someone told me that they're like yeah no he pumps gas that'd be actually really funny

don't they have that in like portland you have to have someone pump your jersey jersey jersey yeah i it sounds terrible i like that like some union some union shit like they won't just you have to then you have to tip them too oh that's great that's exactly what i want to do after i go drop 70 bones on some gas right there's i mean i've said it before i fucking hate when people complain about like the price of gas they're like gas went up 10 cents i'm like oh man that stinks that like your gas is gonna be like a dollar 30 more yeah dude you drive a vespa yeah dude go electric i looked up i looked up the tesla there's some teslas the other day after the truck dropped and i was like damn maybe a tesla makes sense for me i tell y'all and i saw the price and i was like

never mind i put uh i put in for the truck did you well? What'd you put down on that? $150,000. What's the total? Seems like a lot. Yeah, but he charges that kind of shit. It's actually a pretty good deal. It's like a $4 million truck. Dude, that truck sucks.

No, it's not. That was a publicity stunt. Somebody said the best thing I saw on Twitter was that it looked like Lara Croft Tomb Raider titty from the video game. Like the 64 bit? Yeah. It's probably one of the ugliest things I've ever seen. It's really ugly.

It has no mirrors on the side. Yeah, why? Makes you think. I think it was a publicity stunt, and they knew that people would be talking about it, but then I saw how much stock went down after the window issue issue and i was like oh maybe it wasn't a publicity stunt it just seems like that'd be something elon musk would do it's like no put the shitty windows in let's just break them everyone will talk about it and we'll eventually make out even for it you

know what else elon musk would do uh be at dinners with jeffrey epstein oh hey brett do you have any comments on uh epstein no you didn't watch the live stream okay that's for live streamers only yeah it's that you got wronged on that yeah i mean i was watching it last night which is not what you should do if you're like hung over i was watching just the replays of the live stream and just yeah you going over for me and then brett just staring blankly into the camera epstein didn't kill himself lights on nobody's home for sure in that situation i actually didn't i remember the whole like night do you remember the fight yeah remember the bet we put on the fight and we both lost yeah i owe you a hundred

dollars yes you do i owe and i'm down i almost doubled i almost tried to win it back yesterday with the Cowboys. And they did cover. They did. Will tried to put a bet in. I just kind of like, I'll put him. I'm like, Will, he's like minus 475. You don't want to do that.

But I know. You didn't say that. You're like, Will, it's minus 500. And I was like, oh, never mind. Yeah. Like, you have to give me some credit. Wait, that's my meat. I was like, you don't want it.

He was trying to bet Wilder. I don't know, dude. I just wanted money. I just wanted fucking skin in the game that's the best when the boys are betting get me in by the way the bet i lost together the bet i lost to you i don't remember making it really i just trusted you're honest about that oh it was very honest okay yeah we bet nevada um fresno state with like 10 minutes left they were tied i had yeah winter gets 25 i definitely had a business betting what you're saying is you can just get us like a little bit boozed up,

and then we'll just start making bets. More or less, yeah. I was like... Granted, I lost the Wilder bet too, so... Man, when you get the fellas together, though, you know bets are going to get made. Aw, dude. So many units out.

Dan had Ortiz. And Ortiz was winning the fight on the scorecards, I think. And after the knockout, which was... If you haven't seen it, it's all over Twitter. It's just an impressive right hand from one of the most devastating punchers of all time. Dan just got up.

Dan had been sleeping on the couch. He got up and just goes, it's bullshit. He goes, Ortiz just took a dive. And then he just walked out. and got trapped in the dog stuck in the dog park and had to hop a fence which like i told dan yesterday i was like hey man you know that like if you're stuck in the dog park you can still go to micah's apartment like you can go back to the apartment no problem dude he didn't go out that door though no there's he must have gone through the other door

he probably didn't realize where he was because he walked out the front door oh so he went to the smaller dog park yeah no because you're not locked in that one though but there's a key fob to get back in isn't there yeah but you there's a door at that dog park that leads straight out to south lamar that you have to you have to have a key to get in but it's just hilarious that he yeah he jumped the fence and then now now he has a bruised tailbone, which is one of the most annoying injuries ever. That was like my worst soccer injury was the bruised tailbone. I got one skiing, and it was really, really bad.

I knew a dude in high school who did it, and he broke his tailbone, and then he had to have surgery because he had a hole, and everybody called him dual exhaust because he had two buttholes. That happened. J-Bone had a very similar thing. It wasn't a different kind of thing. Yeah, we called him dual exhaust for he had two buttholes that happened jaybone had the very similar thing it wasn't a different kind of yeah we called him dual exhaust for a little bit yeah he had two buttholes

you don't see that usually no it most people just have one oh yeah yeah they say two is twice the fun what no one says that david turn it up it was fun we should do it again it was awesome hey i want to give a special shout out to my mvp hold on it started at three o'clock but i got there like 240 seven people were already there they showed up early how many do you think total came through i mean it was a lot of people yeah i'd say well over 50 60 dude i would say that because there was a number of people I didn't even talk to that were tagging, like circling back in posts. And I was like, oh, I didn't even know you were there. Don't know who you are.

Shout out to the girl who posted a pic with Will, and she tagged Dylan and I, and we were the trash cans. I don't know if that was intentional, but it was pretty good. I like that. Glad you enjoyed that one. Hey, I want to give a special thank you to Brett for setting this all up, making it happen. Brett was the MVP.

Is that what you were going with? Yeah, he was my MVP there. I agree with that. Brett set it all up. It was all because of him. I thought he was just okay. He was just okay at the actual meetup. I saw him mixing it up with all the backers.

He did relapse on his Red Bull. Yeah, that's true. There were a lot of stooly that a lot of stoolie a couple guys who were super into the barstool thing and they were giving me like the rundown they're like oh dude you gotta go back and watch the tapper tape or taffer i was like not jake tapper that'd be weird like yeah dude no it's worth it man he just gets reamed i'm like i don't know if i'm gonna do that yeah it was a lot of the people there or some some of the people have, obviously they're fans of both networks, and so they gave me this question about Big Cat or Dave or the whole nine.

But it was fun. I mean, I'm happy to answer all that stuff and talk about the new gig down here. So we had a good time. You're trying to move on. No, I just, I don i don't i don't know how much to drop the barstool name on here and how much not to it doesn't matter man i don't care we all know where you came from on instagram yeah same same we got those big cat follows yesterday

no way no i didn't thank you though or maybe two nights ago oh shit sorry yeah it's okay it's okay we'll uh we'll move on from that it's a good thing he got in early because I went private. I'm going private. I'm going private. I mean, had I not forgotten my phone this morning, your boy would be private right now. I'm going to check it out and see if I got any requests. You probably have. I bet you do. I'm going to guess two.

Yeah, you got some questies. Follow request nine. Oh. Shut up. Bullshit. Bullshit. Look at the top. What the fuck? He's already doing numbers, dude. Highly coveted. I'm going private right now. Bullshit. Bullshit. Look at the top. What the fuck?

He's already doing numbers, dude. I'm going private. He's already doing numbers. I'm going private. Dude, the whole squad is going private. I'm going private. That's bullshit. Can I do this from a browser?

Like, this is bullshit. I got to lock down my account ASAP. I'm keeping my account open for the people. I'm not. At Will DeFreeze is about to go private from a browser on a desktop no one's doing that did anybody do shots at the meetup uh i think i did one i don't think i did any oh i did you did uh my dude from san antonio not christian andrew oh andrew from san antonio how about was he the guy that was wearing the same outfit as micah yes i love that uh he uh he hit me with a woodford

shot we did our makers we did a maker shot oh i don't do whiskey shots yeah i normally don't either but i do it for the backers i can't i can't do that no more yeah i don't know how to go private so just pretty simple well how do you know no it's harder for because dylan's got a business account right now it's like all it's all fucked up we can't do it yet you guys ready by the time that by the time someone's hearing me talk i will be private you gotta show me that then i'll show you i'll show you hey let's talk about our friends over at liquid iv oh yeah you know it's the fastest most efficient way to stay hydrated we actually just passed some out in the studio right now because we got a box in here whole squadads low because we use it so much.

Oh, you hit me with that passion fruit? Mm-hmm. Drake? Can't wait. I got the lemon lime. I'm a traditional guy. I like lemon lime a lot. I love the classics.

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Start properly hydrating today. Brett, what's an Elbret? I think it's just a Red Bull vodka. Okay. But I didn't want to say Red Bull. That was not very inspiring. I thought you could have done more with what you were just trying to do. Sorry, guys.

It's just a Red Bull vodka. Do you like the song Rum and Red Bull? No, I don't. Because it was like our top 40 radio station, like interstitial music for, I don't know, 10 years back in Saratoga shots to one or 2.3 or fly 92.3. There was two types of people back in those days. Or wait, so it's just a radio station that plays the interstellar soundtrack. What's yeah. With McConaughey. Okay. No, it's a, it's the a radio station that plays the interstellar soundtrack what's uh yeah with

mcconaughey okay no it's uh it's the interstitial music dave like like in between transition yeah there's a transition music we also had 1027 equinox eqx weqx the nox yeah nox weqx no they were the first ones to play likeineers back in 2009, 2010. Oh, so they're the ones. Dude, since you have the month membership, Dave, can you use that at other places too? Can you go to the one in Dallas? I can. You should do it.

I think. You should go do content. Go do content for the one in Dallas. I'm not ready for the Dallas Equinox. Let me tell you that right now. No. I'm going to get on a cycle and then do it. Okay, that makes sense.

Yeah. That makes sense. Dallas Equinox, I feel like I'd be the ugliest person in there no matter what. Well, you're very handsome. I know, and that's speaking to Dallas,

just being a hot-ass city. It's hot as shit. Nobody's doing gray shirt under gray cardigan, by the way. Yeah. Yeah, you don't see that. Yeah. Nobody allowed me to spit

in their ranch water to create an l dave that is weird like why didn't i don't understand that yeah no one did that oh well that sucks hey should we do the brett merriman starter kit i'm ready we thought we did these for ourselves when we first started on uh circling back because we had some new listeners so we thought we'd uh give everyone a little rundown of who we are and uh someone made a good point we need to do it with brett do i have a slate do i do my own too or is it just no no we just get to sit here and talk about shit you like and so how long have you been how long have you been with us brett uh technically or physically i don't know how about what's the difference difference I don't September like first was my my start date

I've been down here since September 22nd 23rd damn that's a long time he's been down here for two months two months yeah

man shouts to you for being down here for two months man shouts to Austin for being cool what's your biggest success success stories thus far

my biggest success that's tough you both fucked it up biggest success story thus far. How about the meetup? I had a lot of fun doing that. It was awesome.

You did good, Brett. Thanks, Bill. Yeah. Okay. Oh, no, man. Why? I don't know. I don't know.

Should we do it? Yeah. Who wants that lead off right now? I'll get the first one out of the way. It's probably on everybody's list, but it's kind of not so fitting now since you quit it, but a 24-ounce Red Bull is on here. It's still very much a thing.

Yeah. He's trying to quit, which I respect. Which I'm going cold turkey to. I'm not weaning. I'm just going full out. You probably should have weaned. I'm not going to we. I support. I'm not weaning. I'm just going full out. You probably should have weaned. I'm not going to wean. You can't wean, dude.

You can wean. Stop, dude. This is going to be controversial. He's a big wean guy. I'm going to say for the Brett Sartic hit, pants. Dude, that's on mine. Dude, yeah. That's my second one.

Because outside of the golf course course I can't even picture it I've never seen you wear shorts I've never seen your legs do you have legs? are they bad? prove it they're just white is everything okay with your legs?

I've never seen them I don't want to see them I don't have cankles you think it's that? maybe he's a cankle boy so when he came down here for a week and you guys played golf with him and stuff and we went to lunch the next day

and I was standing outside of the restaurant because had like a 15 minute wait i think danny amandola was there wasn't he he was yeah he was and so uh yeah we were standing there and like brett was in pants and i was just pouring sweat wearing like like athletic gear i was like dude how is he doing this like he's not he doesn't even live here yeah yeah bad boy shit yeah i hate wearing shorts my legs are way too white. Just the whitest of white. They're not a bad like shape. You should tan.

Do you sunburn? Do you have thick boy legs? I have thick thighs. Okay. And athletic like lower. Oh, it must be nice. They're kind of weirdly proportioned. That's a dope combo.

Good for you. Damn slim thick. No, but they're like, they're not. Yeah. Are you technically slim thick? Slim thick with a cute, what is it? A cute ass that cute ass stop guys brett's blushing right now um i don't know this is like when duda talks about brad's butter pecan thighs on uh internet party i just don't have the i don't have the best legs in the world and they're very white so yeah i've been working on it though i've been i've been getting squats in

like it's weird that we've never seen your legs before do you work out in shorts or pants shorts And they're very white. I've been working on them, though. I've been getting squats in. It's weird that we've never seen your legs before. Do you work out in shorts or pants? Shorts. Is it a real rack or is it a Smith machine? It's a Smith rack. It sucks. Sorry, Dave.

There's nothing I can do about it. You're missing out, dude. On a lot of stabilizing muscles being activated. I know. But I do split squats with dumbbells. Okay. I used to call Dylan split split squats with dumbbells, though. Okay. I used to call Dylan split squat. Think about it, man.

Think about it. All right, guys. Did you poop while doing the splits? No, I didn't worry about it, man. Okay. I'm still... I just like the theory that he doesn't have legs. Yeah. Me?

Yeah. There's nothing under there. No legs, man. Yep. Man. You got one? Yeah, do one one do a funny one um okay let me look at my list real quick um this is one that was only mentioned once but i feel like it didn't get enough credit and i've thought about it every single shower since that brett only washes his hair once a month yeah once a month dog like i've heard so like i've heard two to three times a week

is like the maximum you should be washing your hair i've never heard once a month and i've never heard of someone conditioning their hair every day every day dog i don't i don't know about the science behind this and i can't speak to it because i've never uh been an expert in hair outside of having it myself it's just interesting to me that you do this i'm an oily boy i could never pull that hey there's someone who could tell us there's a there's a dude who's at the meetup who's uh in school to be a dermo dermatologist and they do hair i'm just gonna ask theresa i feel like there's more education involved in getting a your medical degree I feel like yeah but I feel like Teresa like Teresa knows heads she gave me some scalp some scalp uh

tips one time did it help yeah your scalps looked a lot better yeah I got it early on I was worried that you're gonna have to like amputate your scalp that would stink yeah amputating your scalp would be a brutal way to to lose your scalp get a scalp mutation yeah yikes uh so this comes from uh my old hair place in new york fleshman's hair salon shouts to her are you fleshman's no eric the fleshman oh he's called dave fleshman remember fleshman it was a long time ago doing they just called him the flesh man yep mr skin i have one mr skin a flesh man no the select the the hollywood movie nude guy yeah has mr skin pivoted yet like because they can't be doing that well let's see mr skin still exists and they still

have a it's inappropriate i wish i hadn't gone here yeah it still exists and uh they still make you pay for it are there a lot of pop-ups on that i i have an ad blocker not to stunt on you hoes but yeah i block ads must be nice i block ads all right i got one for the bread starter kit hit me lunch drinks oh he's a lunch drinker the dude gets lunch drinks off i'm an incredibly social drinker if there's like a group i'd love to have a beer or or that's what i don't know how much i can say about the first time i sat down with you brett brett and i had lunch together and what i thought would be lunch and maybe one beer turned into lunch and i think four four drinks at least four yeah i left that and uh i i didn't feel great about the rest of my day because i was like i actually have to

do like i have things i have to do today and uh being four drinks deep at noon with brett is not the way to do that if you have lunch with brett in a restaurant setting someone's drinking alcohol it's gonna happen and you know where that it comes from new york because it's just everybody is constantly getting drinks at lunch at after work drinks like i would probably go out and and at barstool i was there early so everybody who came to work for barstool after my point i was like 20 i was the 24th employee and now there's like 250 so everybody that came through for the first couple years i was like doing their like helping them out get

you know get them acclimated yeah and so i would be friends with a lot of these people and so at a certain point i was going out for drinks five times a week just just to like go get a beer and an appetizer right with like different groups of friends shout out to you for not getting fat through this process shout out to the equinox for for helping me out with that true also i would just like starve myself all day until like 4 p.m so i'd wake up no breakfast red bull just intermittent fasting lunch would be a red ball on an empty stomach is just lonely yeah shots i don't know how i don't have ulcers man you never had acid reflux or anything there's there's a throat spot for sure i've never got it i had it last

night i had it last night acid reflux yep haven't had it in a really long time but it made sense it's probably from the milk i went straight decadent yesterday it's all the milk but i also had what straight decadent yeah dude come on player i also no but i mean to be fair i did have ramen uh grilled cheese a giant thing of milk tomato soup uh red wine sake i i would have yourself a night okay well that was during the day that was all day okay if you're not getting sake's off at lunch what are you doing did you post made a milkshake no you should have or i should have i was jealous that you did at nine o'clock yeah i can't believe you did that baskin robbins oh my dave it was it was the only option a bunch

of places weren't open this ties into the lunch drinks thing but salve blanc i have on here too yeah i'm a big salve blanc guy you're only 25 year old in austin drinking salve blanc on the reg no i mean what's wrong there's nothing wrong with this i just i'm who says anything wrong with it it's my favorite white varietal don't say varietal i'm a pinot grigio guy but i can't do it not in the summer like pinot grigio just hits hits so much better in j July. Does it? Yeah. See, I'm a soft boy through and through. It's all I drink really. But I've heard like, I like white wine year round, but people don't drink it in the winter or fall.

I believe in that. No, why would you? I believe in that because I do red year round. A lot of people won't do red in the summer. Okay. So I'm, yeah. There's a time and place for everything. I'll do red for dinner and with meat if you're eating it,

besides chicken. Or just like a late night, like wine night type of deal. Red hits much harder. But white for lunch is the best. It doesn't fill you up. It doesn't make you feel slow. Beers get you bloated before you eat. I just don't like doing that.

Correct. We were at Pine House and you had a solid blonde, so you weren't bloated the next day. So did you, dog. You had to meet up with people. Well, not by choice. My issue is the tannins, you know? All the tannins in the wine.

Big tannin guy. Yeah, they just kill me. Yeah, take you down. What's the tannin count in a glass of soft blonde? Good question. I have no idea. It's somewhere between 420 and i know it's more 69 yeah 69 i think i thought red wine has as many more tannins than white yeah it's it's literally impossible to even look up i don't even know what

the hell a tannin is yeah my uh my buddy tannin he actually used to cross he actually had a full ride to afford him ended up getting kicked out. He failed out. Stopped going to class and shit. Yeah. Ended up transferring to SMU. It's fine. Doesn't his dad own a vineyard too? Yeah.

Yeah, he actually owns a couple. He's always just got some equity. Isn't that what you call Tina's cannons? The tannins? Who is Tina? In the same vibe as just drinking, I think we can add a list that like dad's or Brett's dad's brewery. Oh,

hell yeah. Shots to paradox. P A R A D O X brewery in upstate New York, Scroon Lake area. Stop by. They're opening up this week, man. I didn't know when we acquired you that we were also acquiring some free ad

reads. Yeah. Do we get a, do we get part, do we get a steak in this brewery? Uh, they don't serve steak. Are they going to do circling Bach?

They should do circling Bach. It hard to Saison? Or it hard to Saison. That's the all time. Can we put that on a shirt? It hard to Saison? Let's put that on a shirt. Yeah, we should.

Let's just make it. Shouts to KJ. It turns out it's much harder to make custom beers in Texas than you would ever think. Wait, why? Because of regulation? Fucking government? I tried to do it.

I tried to get it hard to Saison done by just a six-pack. It's very difficult. Yeah, they would not do it. We could do it at Paradox. The problem is we can't ship it. I mean, I guess they could ship it here, but we can't produce it. Dude, let's run it. Let's boot do it. We could do it at Paradox. The problem is we can't ship it. I mean, I guess they could ship it here, but we can't produce it. Dude, let's run it.

Let's bootleg it. Ourself? Yeah, we'll drive it down. Dude, we're fucking lawless as hell right now. Dude, we have to get a Yeti, though, to put it in the back. That's fine. I got a coffin one in the back of my car

that we can use. Dylan, you can get the one that Parks travels in. What? Is it that way? way what what are you talking about it's a callback we joked about like parks being in a in a traveling in a yeti because he's so little well just because yetis are so big well that too yeah the coffin one that sounds hey shout out to dave's tweet i didn't say that sounds kind of morbid call it the coffin shout out to dave's tweet from uh that was just saying that chip from chip and joanne is essentially just like a human yeti yeah i i if a yeti by that if a yeti became alive it would be chip chip games did you have anybody come at your neck for saying that because people get really defensive about

chip and joanne chip stands not even my wife i guess she's not that much of a chip stand. She's just, you know, the Waco thing. But I just don't like him. I don't have anything against him. You know what? To him, that might be a compliment. In fact, I'm sure if he saw that, he'd be like, ha, yep, as he like cracked open a fucking Bud Light or something.

It's just so annoying to go to Target and see how much money those idiots are making on all their stuff. Like, Target's essentially just Chip and Joanne, Mark. Have you ever been to Target and see see how much money those idiots are making on all their stuff like target's essentially just chipping joanne mart have you ever been to target and looked around the clientele it's perfect for it's so good like it's amazing like it's the perfect synergy yeah it's a real win-win i don't look this good i i don't know who these people are i know the show i've never actually seen them yeah that's perfect dave we had it we had somebody right we had someone write a column kind of uh talking shit on them on pgp and i think it was the most mean spirited anonymous comment section i've ever seen was it kel choy so they're they're beloved

right what they're beloved yes yes very much yeah over she wrote she wrote that she was pretty much over them and that like she was just didn't like them anymore and like people were coming at her neck he's doing numbers on instagram holy shit dude is he private or public he's public 4.7 mil he could do a lot more numbers if he went pride he should go pry his follower to to following ratio is pretty sick he's only following 84 people damn is yeti one of them strong ratio uh let's look that would be amazing oh that's great oh that's so stupid i hope so yeti is in austin i hope like they had a meeting like their monday morning like red zone meeting or something and it's like all right and like somebody like the the boss like popped it up on the screen that tweet he's like guys we got to do some marketing around this is treated this tweet did numbers like and they're like what does this mean

for our brand they don't need that i like the idea of yeti having a red zone meeting every every monday morning scott hansen's just there running it almost every account he follows is a blue check mark one of those he's one of those fuck that guy elitist lame elitist get out of here chip when i tweeted that i was like do you think people are gonna understand that i mean like Jack Mark. He's one of those. Fuck that guy. Elitist. Lame. Elitist. Get out of here, Chip. When I tweeted that, I was like, do you think people are going to understand that I mean not an actual... Yeti?

Not like Bigfoot. Yeah. I'm sure most people did. I think most people understood. Yeah, I think most people understood. I sent that live from the golf course as I was playing a solo round in Cabo. Wow.

That's when the creative juices are flowing yeah just out there vibing with my bluetooth speak still still no roi on that right uh it's not a short-term play it's returning good times to you on hey i almost brought it to the to the backer meetup but like the eisenhower's guys like dude's not we we got a dj turns out they have speakers there yeah oh yeah very loud ones very loud ones yeah and the guy warned me about it too before we started he's like hey man like i don't i know this is like a little more like secluded back here but just warning you it's gonna get loud and it did will you will you put 100 in your headline on linkedin that you're a proud owner of a bluetooth speaker yeah that's a i'll do that

right now thank you hey i have another one for Brett. All right. I feel like these haven't been mean yet. It's not a mean-spirited thing. I mean, yeah, we're not trying to bully you. All right. I feel like Dylan's was very mean, though. What was Dylan's?

I don't remember. Just the Dylan starter kit? Well, yeah, we're mean to Dylan. Oh, yeah, Dylan. Yeah, they don't like me. Fucker. When I met Dylan's sister at the meetup, I was like, man, what if she pulls me aside and she says that I have to be nicer to Dylan? dylan starter kit well yeah we're meeting too yeah dylan yeah they don't like me when i met dylan's sister at the meetup i was like man what if she pulls me aside and she like says that i

have to be nicer to dylan i was actually worried about that yeah yeah she's the nicest person on the planet she is the nicest person yeah shouts to hayley hayley and uh kindle her her husband were there on twitter to show up after he body bagged you on twitter yeah i get it from you guys i get it from my family it's like come on man i can't escape it the homie's trying to give me the smoke all the time i need to save really i need to save haven somewhere yeah he's just in his little yeti just blasting cigs uh no no not yet so dumb that's so stupid what about brett not using dating apps but using dating apps yeah that was that was a trademark of you until last week and now it's

like you caved i did are you just like is one of your things that you just caved to peer pressure kind of because like we're kind of just forcing you 30s guys and like i'm trying i'm trying to fit in we're forcing you to stop drinking red bull and get on dating apps like maybe we need to look at ourselves in the mirror yeah how's that going for you by the way that's going well it's fun that's all oh okay you get a date to our christmas party yet no not yet how does hit like does how does hinge actually work like because you i don't you sent us your like answers to your prompts and stuff. So like, is it more,

it's like, it seems more interactive than it used to be where you just used to look at somebody and swipe hinges like in depth. It's like you just has the full profile of yourself. Multiple pictures. It's supposed to like answers to questions. It's not just one picture. Like, are you hot or not?

Yeah. Like how many pictures? It's not tender ask in that way. Five. So you have any need for another one? I thinking about fish i could bring no i think better than a fish i think i could bring my bluetooth speaker and you could take a pic holding it and chicks are gonna be like whoa this dude's fucking on one uh should we have him sign up for grouper and we should go on dates with him and just gas him up the entire time it's like yeah no these guys dave's actually married uh will's engaged but uh yeah we're we're just here for bread it's a group of

friends go out with yeah it's three and three you sign up and you go three and three dude we sally used to do it all the time really yeah her and her friends used to do it in houston like all the time no shit it sounded really fun we should do that be a squad it's a good segue into my next one uh frequent user of bumble bff me yeah yeah that's how i met you guys actually yeah yeah brett and i matched i have the word both which you say both and every time i hear it i'm like yeah you're so fucking new York. Both. Say both. Like both of us? Yeah.

How do you say it? Both. Okay. It's almost like you put an L in it. It's like it's both. Oh, I guess I do. Yeah, now I hear it. When you say the L, I was thinking.

It's like how Dave says heighth. Like the both of us. That's just a mispronunciation. It's technically right. Nah. Nah. Nah, if you look at it. Now I'm going to think about that. The both of us.

Yeah, no, you're right. I do say it. I like little reminders here and there that you are very New York. Okay. You know? You're from New York. I am from New York. Upstate, though.

And that word above any other one for me that you say is like a reminder. Like, oh, yeah. I mean, I just have a whole Northeast vibe. Like, you just have the Northeast vibe. state though and that that word above any other one for me that you say is like a reminder like oh yeah i mean i just have whole northeast vibe like you just have the northeast vibe like that his wi-fi in his apartment's called ski house it is that's tight with the h-a-u-s uh-huh dude don't tell people that is it secure is it secure uh i mean yeah it's a secure network we don't have hacker insurance that's they still are trade secrets. That's on you. Okay.

That's fair. You still got to hack the password. That's not hard to do. I bet I could get it. That's not hard to do. I have a buddy who can do that. If you gave me 10,000 tries, I would guess your password. Okay, go.

My buddy just knows how to hack them. Like he can get on any Wi-Fi network. That's terrifying. That is illegal. It was very convenient when trying to connect to someone's Wi-Fi at a party to like play music and stuff getting him online it it was a good shit very online good x factor to have i think the northeast vibe is makes a lot of sense though i've been called uh the personification of a lake house or a ski house it makes sense yeah that makes sense i took that as a compliment because that's kind of how i

like to live my life is just i like northeastern people yeah we uh well the certain kind of like there's like long island new jersey is very different than like what are you trying to say i was trying to say that it depends it depends on new jersey it depends on your section of people saying catpat's not nice? Yeah, wow. Cat Pat's great, I'm sure. She live tweets for us for The Bachelor, and you're just going to throw her under the bus like that? It was her birthday the other day.

I lived with two guys from Jersey, and they were more New York feeling than Jersey. You could have told me they were from upstate New York, and I would have been like, oh, that makes sense. Got it. But that was the first time I realized, oh, Jersey isn't all Jersey Shore. That's correct.

It's not. But Jersey Shore is a cool place sometimes. Shouts to Avalon. Mac and cheese is on your list. Yeah. You've talked about your mac and cheese.

You've never made it for anybody, but you've talked about it numerous times. Mac and cheese, buffalo chicken dip, and pizza are my three favorite food items.

And I can only make a really good mac and cheese and a really good buffalo chicken dip. I can't make pizza at all. I have one. Will Jr. Dang.

Will Jr. That's pretty good. Because y'all both are, you have like finer taste for things, kind of bougie. Okay. If our text got released, you'd see a lot of products that we exchange back and forth

yeah that's not a surprise at all yeah yeah you're like you and we'll have this this same thing in common if a cheese of a charcuterie board came alive and became conscious and became human it would be you is he the meat who's the meat and who's the cheese brett's the meat you're the cheese yeah you're the cheese i'm the cheese? Brett's the meat. You're the cheese. Yeah, you're the cheese. I'm the cheese. That makes sense, actually. Dave's a little pickle. A little mini pickle on there. They're called cornichons. I'm not on the board. See, I don't know words like that, and you and Brett do.

You know what I mean? You don't know what fucking cornichon is? No. I know what it is. I didn't know the word. Yeah, that's tough. You probably don't even have a chutney in your pantry right now, dude. You're damn right I don't.

And you definitely don't have a wit trimmer. Of course not. I have extra if you need one, dude. If you're in a pinch. See, y'all are the same. That's what I mean. You can use scissors if you're in a pinch. I mean, yeah, it seems like they do the same thing.

Yeah, I can imagine that a scissor... But then the wick falls into the candle, whereas the trimmer, it keeps it on the top, and you can throw it away. I get it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Brett does have a...

His apartment is like ski housey feeling. Thank you. Well, I haven't been there with the new map on the wall, but I'm excited to see it. Map looks tight. Wait till our office gets set up, man.

Ski lodge. This is kind of just like, I mean, Brett just being more mature than normal. 25 year old. Oh yeah. That one. You're much more mature than I was at 25 at 25.

I was a total scumbag. When we played golf, I thought you were 30. Okay. I'll take that as a compliment and an insult, but yeah. And to be fair, I was a total scumbag. When we played golf, I thought you were 30. Okay. I'll take that as a compliment and an insult. Yeah, and to be fair, I mean, it was. I mean, I was just like, oh, okay. This guy's probably like 30 years old.

He's putting together like Excel spreadsheets and shit. You know, it was like the formulas. Yeah. No, I think that started, I mean mean that started a long time ago where especially with barstool everybody was like wait you're 22 like you're 23 yeah you're mature it's nice it's a very nice thing to have this guy there for a while uh yeah until like i was the youngest full time employee for a while we had like interns come in pretty early that were you know 19 20 21 but um but yeah no i was the youngest full-time guy for probably six to months to a year ish and then some of the

interns got like hired full-time and that was probably the first time somebody was younger than me okay but even then like even when i left at 25 people like wait a second you're how old i've always hung out with older people too especially there because i was the youngest by a long like a large margin so i was going out with 27 28 29 year olds when i was 22 and just kind of became better friends with that crowd that makes sense i could see how you've gotten there from yeah and even starting like back in uh when i was working with klein like i was 20 he was 23 or 24 and that's kind of where it started was just hanging out with people much older than myself so i also think that like by the way when i go when i try to run it back and go out with like randy the human and his crew, I'm lost.

You're the old man? Yeah. I'm the old man. You're an old man. They're like Juul and shit. That's tight. I'm like, what the fuck, man? There wasn't a lot of Juuling at the meetup. Yes, there was.

People were getting hella Juuls off. Somebody offered me. Someone offered me a Juul hit. People were doing hella Juuls. I declined. I don't want popcorn long, David. But you were chain blasting SIGs. I wasn't. You blasted a SIG. I had. I don't want popcorn long, David. But you were chain-blasting cigs. I wasn't.

You blasted a cig. I had a few drags of 1P Funk. But yeah, I think that's a... I've always kind of been like that. A little above my years. Okay. Thanks. Why are you saying thanks?

Because I like that compliment. I mean, it's a good compliment, yeah. We're going to have to redo this starter kit in like a year once we get more from Brett. More intel? Yeah. I think right now, Brett still, he's concealing some things. I'm trying to think of anything good.

Oh, you guys don't know my Fernette habit yet. Fernette Branca? Will knows what Fernette is, right? Yes. Okay. It's like a liquor. Yeah, it's a li know my Fernette habit yet. Fernette Branca? Will knows what Fernette is, right? Yes. Okay. It's like a liquor. Yeah, it's a liqueur. A liqueur.

That I take shots of all the time. That was so smug, that interaction just happened. You correcting him? I was like, sorry. Well, there's a difference between liquor and liqueur. I know, but it was just, okay. But yeah, it was good. It was perfect. Going from like, hey, Will, you know what it is, but it's a liqueur i know but it was just it was just okay but yeah it was good it was perfect

going from like hey will you know what it is but it's a little cool yeah it's uh so i especially at the gem in new york we would always do like i do old fashions with woodford and at the end or after the meal uh for that because it's a digestif so it god what i mean i don't even say digestif dog but you know what i'm saying it makes the it settles your stomach and it kind of gives you a little like uh a little bit of a high those are big in europe the uh after a drink dinner for that or after dinner drink excuse me oh yeah and espresso martinis yeah we were with you when you ordered one of those yeah oh yeah okay. Okay. Yeah. At lunch. At lunch.

Why did you order an espresso martini? You said you don't even like the taste of coffee. But espresso martinis are different because it's like Bailey's or Kahlua and espresso. So it's much sweeter. They're sweet. Yeah. Too sweet. I'll tell you the espresso martini story later on off pod.

Wow. Can't wait for that one. Don't go more than three beans or else. I don't know what that means, but yeah. The three espresso beans on top. Sprinkle. Oh, why? Why can't we go more than three?

It's bad luck, dog. I've had it once and it's bad luck. If you say so. I promise you. Ooh, I just realized this. this you know my favorite uh digestive is limonchallo oh it's good that's a good one i love that shit man it's good reminds me that time i was in italy yeah i forgot about that yeah is that when you were practicing santorini just uh-huh well that gallivanting around with the fedora on your head. That was grease.

I've never been. Yeah, we know. That was when Fedora Dorn was born. That was huge. It wasn't a fedora. It was a Panama hat. Do you guys want to do Napa next year? No, I'd hate to do Napa.

Do you want like a little, like all of us, I mean. Like a little party bus in Napa. Yes. Sally's doing her bachelorette party in Napa. I love Napa. I'm a big Napa nap i'm actually doing napa for a wedding next year so you might be that but shouts to pete shouts to pete he's a listener of the pod he's a big p he's a big brett fan which actually this is a good point he said we needed

this we needed this on the pod uh hockey guy yes sabers brett i love i love talking hockey and i love talking because dylan does too i feel bad that i've been watching less hockey because I do love talking hockey, but I can't right now. I have zero credibility these days. So I can't do it. Look at Pucker on Dump and Chase, man. Did you see the Sabres power play? It was sick.

No, it wasn't sick. Oh, yeah. Very bad. That sucked, man. I love talking. You hate to see it. I love talking puck with the guys. I feel like you sneaky do like talking stars a little bit.

I do. No, Dave does. Unless they conflict with the Mavs, I'm watching stars with the guys. I feel like you sneaky do like talking stars a little bit. I do. No, Dave does. Unless they conflict with the Mavs, I'm watching stars. All right. I like watching stars, too, because I did Fox Sports Southwest or whatever it is now. Yeah. And I'll throw on a stars game. We're going to go to one this season.

Hell yeah. Sabres play in January. Let's go. We can get Klein in there if he wants. I don't know. You never know what he's doing. You never know what he's doing. You never know what he's doing. He's probably like on the road in like Des Moines or some shit.

Yeah. Hard to say. Oh, speaking of weddings next year, Will. So I have a wedding. I have your wedding on Saturday. Mm-hmm. Which is for the boys. I'm sorry.

I'm getting married that day. I have a wedding in New York the Sunday before that. Oh. So I'm just going to go. I'm going like... Yeah, you're just going to parlay this. Damn. Have you put in for that vacation time yet? No, I haven't. I found out about it. Yeah. So I'm just going to go. Yeah, you're just going to parlay this. Damn. Have you put in for that vacation time yet?

No, I haven't. I found out about it. Yeah, let us know. Hopefully we can approve it, man. We're in it. Hopefully we can approve it. Yeah, you're cool with it? Like Thursday, July 31st through Will's wedding.

We'll send it through HR and see what they say. All right, cool. You can work from the road, though. I can work from the road, yeah. I guess it's me. I don't really know. Is Dylan the HR department? I guess.

I've got some complaints. How do you log off a complaint? Just text me. We'll figure it out. Dylan at washmedia.com if you're looking. Yeah, if you have any HR complaints. We're not doing this, folks. No.

Oh, can I expose Will right now? What? I'm going to expose you. Can you hit me with the expose? Expose him! Will texted me the other day. He goes, hey man, do you think we need to be using Slack more as a company?

I did. I texted him. Will, we just have our group chat, man. What do we need Slack for? Because you and I were exchanging a lot of files this past week and I was like, would our life be easier if we used Slack more? And so I hopped in slack I made some channels I hadn't made any channels in a while yeah and I was like you know what I kind of miss slack and then then he told me no well I don't and I was like you know

what good point I don't think we need to be using slack anymore I still use it every day we're pretty informal around here I use it every single day I wouldn't hate in the new office being on slack a lot slack's fun man yeah you can do fun gifs and stuff yeah you can customize your are you a gif or a gif guy i'm a gif guy oh hell no let's fucking i don't know i think i use them interchangeably i think it's like aunt or aunt which you need to stick to gif the hard g okay Stick to GIF. The hard G. Okay. Yeah. Do you say aunt? If I say, I don't know. I need to be in the moment.

Like, Aunt Tracy. But I say going to, like, my aunt and uncle's house. I hate that. Yeah, me too. It's not great. That's okay. Well, that was fun. Anybody got anything else?

I don't know. I don't think I do. Let me see if I had anything else on here. Yeah, it's Sab i let me see if i had any anything else on here yeah it's sabers hockey i just had quote office manager brett just because like that's how people know you yep i had did i say mac and cheese i think i said mac and cheese yep i have hair on mine thank you i put that yeah just flow in general yeah it's getting there too i'm gonna let it let it rip too oh shit yeah um that floppy hair it's very tall floppy haired fuck i see and all the meetups i've ever been to obviously it's just been office manager brett because of where i worked this time i was getting big game and i was like that's such a better nickname than office manager brett yeah so that's the day good for you you, man. Big game, Brett.

Yeah, it was fun. Approved nickname. Approved. I'm trying to think of anything you guys missed. Yeah. But do you like your brand? Your brand might not be as strong as you thought it was. I would have said,

I would have said pizza. Aren't you sneaky? Love Long John Silvers. Yeah. I've actually never been to. Are you a big pizza guy? Like, I know we,

we forced you to eat a lot of pizza in the beginning, but I thought that was just like a bully thing Long John Silver's. Are you a big pizza guy? Like, I know we forced you to eat a lot of pizza in the beginning, but I thought that was just like a bully thing that we were doing. He's already had pizza from the bean, from the barley bean pizza. Okay, no one is eating barley bean pizza. Will, if you go in there like 5.30,

there is a line. Really? See, this is the intel I need out of this place because I never go there. I'm actually going to do, I might do a pizza today there calm down dude the way that you eat like pizza and drink red bull and mac and cheese and stuff like i said will you should be fat because i starve myself every other part of the day it's called intermittent fasting it's don't say don't tell your parents that you've been

starving yourself since you like started working here it's gonna be a bad look for us i've been starving myself for like the last seven years it's great it's because you just you eat all you want in one sitting it has worked for me i don't think that's safe brett well it's not like i'm don't i don't eat it's i'm eating a salad a granola bar a red bowl or a protein smoothie and then i just have one big meal that's like borderline unhealthy that's fair that's like my buddy in college actually my roommate who he ate one meal a day for a while and it was like an entire fast food combo so we would go to burger king i remember this specifically when they dropped the angus burger and he got like the fucking decked out Angus fries and the Coke. He's like,

well, it's all meeting today. It's fine. Jeez. Okay. That's gross. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

I have been eating since I moved to Austin though. I have been eating much, much healthier because I'll just, I, cause I'll, I cook now. You're not going out. You're not going out as much.

Yeah. In New York. It's like, you don't cut hair. You're not going out as much. Yeah. In New York, it's like... You don't cook there? You don't cook. You just get delivery or get dinner with your buddies every single night. It's insane. Just imagining being in New York and cooking in a kitchen in a New York City apartment

just depresses me. My kitchen was literally... The counter space I had was these two chairs next to me combined. So that's... For those at home, a foot and a half by about four feet. With a sink in there. And an oven stovetop. It's tough.

Sure is. Now I have an island. Dude, you're moving on up. The game changers. You're moving on up in the world. Dave hasn't been to my place yet. No one's invited me. We did. You just said you couldn't go. Yeah, I couldn't. i had to go get an iv right do you have any breaking news on this episode i actually i have zero breaking news

yeah well you kind of put you through it on there um i've been reading um reading some stories for a certain episode of worst of and how they looking they look good i like the thanksgiving ones patreon.com slash circling back podcast for this week's episode of the worst of which we'll be recording shortly after this episode are you sure you don't want the dog one yeah i'm positive the worst one we got we can't read so it is truly the worst thanksgiving they seem to be in good spirits about it because i'm sure like looking back years later yeah but i mean when a dog dies on thanksgiving it's tough out of the circumstances it's tough it's tough um i got a little breaking news do it uh apparently

the uh supreme court has denied an appeal from one Adnan Syed. Oh, okay. Trial. They denied it. They denied it. So Adnan screwed. Yeah.

I haven't looked into like the procedural history. I apologize. Like that's, but that's pretty much all I can give you. I know Adnan hashtag free Adnan is trending. Do you care anymore when they give updates to like the, like Steven Avery and stuff like that? Like,

does that move the needle for you at all? It's weird. I didn't even watch season two. I don't even remember season two. I don't think exactly. Exactly. They doubled down and did us. Oh yeah.

Did you see the Joker season? The sequel that was like a, not that was a hoax, I believe. Oh really? Yeah. There will be one though. I, I, I maintain that they will make this into its own empire dude it's like that it's the most watched r-rated movie ever i think or at least the highest grossing i know those aren't those

aren't hand in hand but having one of those labels is a good label to have i actually have two pieces of of very breaking news, Will. Okay. This is the first time I'm seeing Jason Garrett rumors. To the Giants? Just not on the Cowboys. Oh, well, Jerry pretty much put him in a body bag after the game. I'm all about these rumors.

What'd he say? I love them. He called out the coaching staff, was just bill bill belichick uh dude you guys should try to get bill belichick we're gonna get saban basically saying like he disappointed too often with the coaching staff of this team man you know what you know coaching staff i'm disappointed in the texas longhorns you see this tom herman guy i didn't deal i i'm glad i didn't watch any of that game i watched like two snaps we're gonna say something about losing to the lions lions losing to the Lions? Lions stink.

Or losing to the Redskins? Lions stink. Yeah. No, at this point, at this point, my buddy in our group text said it perfectly. He said,

I want us to win on Thanksgiving. I want us to lose every game after that. Dude. Let's get a draft pick. We need to stop winning meaningless games like we have done

for many years. It's true. We either need to suck or be actually good. Is the Stafford back thing a long term? Like, is that potentially career threatening? No, I don't think so.

I hope they shut him down. Why wouldn't you shut him down? Because they can't make the playoffs. They'd have to win. We're 3-7-1. Oh, wow. You think they still could make the playoffs? Fusion surgery?

I don't know. To be honest, I haven't put much thought into it because this Lions team has reached the point that reading about them and caring about them doesn't really make sense for me. Like yesterday, yesterday was a track on the phone game and see what happens. Yeah. I don't even have fantasy to like watch NFL anymore.

Every single team that I'm a fan of right now is bad. There's no team in the world right now that I support that is like in NFL anymore. Every single team that I'm a fan of right now is bad. There's no team in the world right now that I support that is like in good shape. So a piece of breaking news. Pistons. Are they, they still might miss like they're, are they built long-term? There's, I think they're, I think they're doing fine.

That's the thing. They've been doing fine for like the past like five years. That's fair. They've. They've been doing fine for the past five years. That's fair. They've been a playoff bubble team for the last five years, and then we just got smoked by Giannis. Oh, fuck. They're 5-11. Yeah, I was going to say, I don't think we're doing that well.

We beat the Hawks the other night. They're probably going to trade Griffin and get a haul of picks. That's fine. Brett, what's your other breaking news? People have been starting to send me their Christmas villages on Twitter. Yeah, I like that. And I love it. I really been starting to send me their Christmas villages on Twitter. Yeah, I like that. And I love it. I really like that.

Send me your Christmas villages. And I need to figure out my rating system because I don't want to be Dylan's because I want to be different about it. But I need to figure out something how I'm going to judge these Christmas villages and or promote them. If anyone would like to send me their garland, I would like to see it. I'm a big garland guy. I'm also a big wreath guy. Okay. And then what does Dave do?

Like Christmas hams? Yeah. Send me your ham. Send Dave your turduckens. Beer can chicken turkey. Whatever it is that Dylan likes. What do you guys do for Christmas dinner? Do you guys do ham too? We usually do beef tenderloin.

I wouldn't say it's like a staple. I don't go in expecting beef tenderloin. That's just kind of what normally happens. I think we just, do we mash that Bernays sauce so hard? We did prime rib last year and it was dope. So we do. So I was, I grew up under the impression that you couldn't do prime rib unless you were in a restaurant.

Why? I don't know. Cause I always imagined them cutting it off a giant piece of meat. That would be too big to like, I mean, it is big. You have to get like the electric carver yeah like that's how I've always imagined it and so like it's never been an option in my head to like do that we do it we do Christmas Eve we do Italian like a lasagna maybe a ziti usually a lasagna and then uh Christmas Day that's one that's the game changer that's like the prime rib oh Oh, it's so good. Even though some guys I wish we were ham followers. Ham does nothing for me.

I love spiraled ham. I agree. Ham is so good, man. Ham is fine. It's like fine in like a breakfast taco or something. Like, oh, cool, we got ham. Like, I'll eat it,

but it's not going to wow me. I love it. And like the leftover ham, when you just have a giant Tupperware full of that and you're just making sandwiches out of it and you're chopping it up,

putting it in eggs. Spicy brown mustard. Oh, my God. Just wrapping it up in sar in mustard oh my god just okay wrapping it up and saran wrap or whatever getting grams off oh dude i mean i'm private i'm gonna be private by the time everyone can hear this but like the amount of grams i'm gonna get off with plastic sandwiches in michigan starting wednesday's gonna be through the roof i try to go private uh via desktop and it wouldn't let me because of my business you got to show me i'll show you

dylan it's okay you have to you have to delete your business account, essentially. I've got an update. I'm up to 10 requests. That's huge. You got nine immediately. You're slowing down. Have you maxed out? Yeah, I probably have hit my ceiling.

Is it too late to buy a turkey? No. My mom was like, if you go on Monday, you're not going to get any turkeys. I was like, you should go right now. I'm going today. You're from a small town that probably has two grocery stores. Also, you might be okay just doing a game hand or something. You don't need a full turkey for your mom and you.

My mom, I said that. I'm like, Mom, why don't I just... I'll get turkey breasts. We're good. And she's like, no, get a full fucking turkey bread. I said, okay. That's nice. That's nice.

I like that. I like that. You know what would be a power thanksgiving if you just went and bought like turkey legs and you just had you were just sitting there on your couch watching like disney plus just eating turkey legs turkey legs are fantastic i love it you ever do the disney turkey legs what disney turkey legs is that i thought that's why you made the connection oh no no like the disneyland turkey leg last time i had a turkey leg in public was at the Schlitterbahn water park

when I was like eight. And I was eating it and this girl walked by me with her like tube that she was carrying to a ride and it was wet and she brushed it against the turkey leg. And I was like,

fuck, I'm never ordering this in public again. And I haven't. Wow. That's funny. That's a staunch turkey leg stance. And the sound it made from like the... Should we get out of here probably all right guys tomorrow's uh worst of will be it'll be up early tomorrow keep an eye out for patreon.com circling back podcast again to everyone who came out to the meetup had a blast cannot be more appreciative of everyone's

coming in and supporting us it It was just a good time. Thanks for coming. I'd say it was a wholesome good time, but we were doing like... Smelling salts. Yeah, we were doing smelling salts and taking shots. It was awesome. It was my favorite one that we've done. For those asking...

It's like the only one you've ever made. No, I mean like getting back to touching base and all that shit. For those asking, I would say the next one would be probably in Dallas. Probably in Dallas. Probably if I had to guess. Houston. Houston or Dallas is going if I had to guess. Houston. Houston or Dallas is going to happen sooner than later. Dallas needs to happen.

We're all staying in Duncanville at Dave's crib. Just kidding. All right. I'll sleep in your childhood bedroom. Do you have a trundle bed? Can you pull out another bed from underneath your bed? No bunk beds. No one's doing trundle beds anymore.

Dude, people love trundle beds. They were tight. Trundle beds go. When you were sleeping over at your boy's place and he had a trundle bed,. Dude, people love trundle beds. They were tight. Trundle beds go. When you were sleeping over at your boy's place and he had a trundle bed, all beds were off. So that's what I imagine like the parched Yeti thing

is like Dylan, it's like he sleeps next to Dylan. It's like a trundle, but it's just a giant Yeti. Yeti 45. It's nice and cool, climate controlled, obviously.

It does sound kind of comfy. It's like sleeping in a bathtub. Hey, shouts to Shane. Happy birthday, Shane. Oh, man. Oh, wow. Anybody else? No, that's it.

Yeah. Any Bumble matches that you want to shout out right now or anything like that? Bumble will. Y'all see this colorblind kid going viral for putting the glasses on? Yeah. So we were actually going to do that to you when we got a camera in the studio. Do you want your moment in the sun? Let me just say something.

It's cool. It's great. The support he's getting in the sun? Let me just say something. It's cool. It's great. The support is getting its cool. But it's not that serious. It's not. Wow. Wow, dude. Why are you such a bully?

Why are you taking your own disability? It's not like he sees in black and white. I don't know. He just sees color a little bit differently than everybody else. It sounds like he might, though. No, he doesn't, Dave. Trust me. How do you know?

It's completely subjective. No. You can't see that at all, right? No. Oh, that was my favorite thing from the meetup yep randy made one of those uh what do you even call them like colorblind test like that how does randy even do photoshop with his paws i don't get it a different this is the human oh that one i always get confused he's in my i have to have he's in my phone is randy the human because randy gave randy with pause gave me his phone number and so it's just it's just annoying because i don't have his last name like randy rough i guess but um and i don't know randy the human's last name i don't either i do what is it shouts to me i'm not gonna expose him expose him i don't

know how to say it okay no i probably do trim backy oh i didn't know he's done all that work for us yeah you gotta know his last name i've emailed this dude a million times the trim backer because he likes this podcast presumably oh i get it i get that's a good pun dave do you want us to get you the uh colorblind sunglasses dylan um yeah are you just mad that he stole your thunder and now that no no i'm gonna go viral look it's a cool video i'm happy for the kid um but but the attention this is getting is just crazy to me i'm looking i'm looking at a tweet that has 68 000 retweets uh yeah i would like to try them out see if what they do for me but you're not gonna get numbers i hope i don't cry what if you just break down and cry and you're

like i might i might and i'll look like a huge dickhead for for dogging this video okay but if you put them on and like let's say you are just to be clear I'll look like a huge dickhead for dogging this video. Okay, but if you put them on and like, let's say... Just to be clear, you already look like a dickhead for dogging this video. Yeah, I know. I know. What if like Parks is there, you see him, and like there's something in the color of his hair you notice different? Like that would probably...

I might get a little emotional. That would be emotional. Yeah. Do you even know what color the homie's eyes are? His eyes are the exact same as mine. They're like black, basically. Just dark as hell? I got some dark ones, too.

Yours are darker than mine. Mine are black. It's tight. Yours are hella dilated right now. No, that's just my pupil, man. Oh, the molly must have just hit. Okay. I think people were doing molly at the thing.

Oh, yeah. I hope so. Probably that one guy. I think Brett was. Yeah, I think Brett was, too. No, somebody offered it. I said no. Serious?

Yeah. Nobody offers me shit. Because we're in our 30s, man. I know. I just want to offer I said no. Serious? Yeah. Nobody offers me shit. Because we're in our 30s, man. I know. I just want the offer, though. We look like narks, dude. I'm glad I don't get offers like that. We look like narks.

Somebody like, hey, Dave, you want to hit this? And I'm like, citizens arrest. Hands behind your back. Do you have the citizen app? Huh? Do you have the citizen app? No. I just downloaded it this weekend for potential content purposes.

It's essentially for citizens' arrests and people just post stuff. The other day I saw that there's a dumpster fire down the street from me. It basically gives you the ability to be a superhero. That sounds like it won't be abused. It's like the Nextdoor app, but it seems more unhinged. So I think good things are

to come. To what? Let's get out of here. See you guys tomorrow. Turn it up. Bye. to come to what let's get out of here see you guys tomorrow turn it up bye