Circling Back - The Dave Ruff Starter Kit

Episode Date: January 30, 2019

Introducing: The Dave Ruff Starter Kit. Dillon and Will run through a list of things that are perfectly Dave, we enter The Steam Room to talk about 'Game of Thrones' fans and the Bachelor subreddit, and we finish things off by circling back on this week's episode of The Bachelor. (0:00) Fun & Easy Banter (16:57) The Dave Ruff Starter Kit (43:09) The Steam Room (Game of Thrones and Bachelor Fans) (1:05:10) Circling Back on The Bachelor Support us on Patreon and receive episodes every Friday for just $5 per month: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast Shop Criquet Shirts: www.criquetshirts.com (code 'CIRCLINGBACK' for 20%) Sign up for MyBookie: www.mybookie.ag (code 'STEAM' for 50% bonus on your initial deposit) Twitter: www.twitter.com/circlingbackpod Instagram: www.instagram.com/circlingbackpod Visit: www.circlingbackpodcast.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/circling-back/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

all right we're back circling back podcast it's wednesday january 30th my name is will to freeze live from austin texas to my right Dave Ruff. Will almost got the belt out on me just a minute ago. Dave's been doing this bit where he makes... It's not a bit. I swear to God. He starts banging pots and pans together into the microphone

right before we start recording. No, right as you start recording. Yeah. You hit record. I'm not used to this new setup yet. Before, when we had a producer, I could talk and it wouldn't matter and now like when i realized we're it's really go time yeah i've got that little itch to clear my throat or

wait it didn't matter when we used to record what are you talking about yeah but i feel like micah could edit it out yeah we just kind of like you know what i'm saying we just made him do extra work you know i'm saying campbell yeah but only the real ones will get that we almost had to edit too i mean it's just yeah i'm pretty sure you're doing a bit i swear it's not a bit i mean that would be a bad bit admittedly like a lazy editor so where i'd rather start the podcast over if there's like a cough in the first five seconds then i would go back and edit it watching you record sunday scaries which i did a couple weeks ago we were in here. Yeah. It was interesting. Totally different.

There were parts where you would mess up, and you would just keep rolling. Yeah. And you would just edit, you know, obviously right after, and you trimmed it up a little bit. Yeah. It's hard. I'm revealing your secret right now. It's not as easy as people think it is. Like, yeah, it takes a fair amount of editing.

Today I'm going to try to edit for the first time. Wow. You're going to help me. Wow. Talking about the mail-in? Hopefully after this you'll take the leash off and I'll be free. Yeah, mail-in. That's savage of you.

Like the dog that you are. Like the dog that I am. Did you all see my response to y'all's Randy and Rosie tweets? Yeah, that was your son. Yeah. Yeah, Dave and I had some late night tweets last night of just our dogs watching television. Somebody asked me what breed it was, and I said, homie.

Ha. Wow. You know what I'm saying? I get it. Yeah. Man, today's going to be a good episode. It's kind of a Dave Ruff celebration day. Well, can Dave Ruff interject?

I hate celebrating Dave Ruff. Since we got fake news will to freeze over here, the Alex Jones of this podcast, it's negative 19. What's the fake news? It's negative 19 in Chicago right now. Do you still think the media is? Yes.

Yes. No, 100%. It's a wind chill warning. No, no, no. Is it negative 19 wind chill or negative 19? No, that's the temperature. Okay, that's fine. It feels like negative 46.

Okay, okay. Just want to give a big down there. I'll say this. That's too cold. This is one of the times where it's really cold. Is it actually negative 19? We don't know. So tell me this, because you're a cold weather expert.

Yes. Although, I don't know if I can call you that now, since you're not sure. This is weather.com. Seems like a good source. No, no. Although it is a trash website. Trash website, I will say. I was going to say, if anything, they are the most suspect.

Too many pop-ups. Negative 19, when it's that cold can you how long can you go outside and before you like your lungs just depends on your preparation if you're layered up and you know what you're doing you can be out there exposed face though like as far as breathing though i mean you're not gonna want to be out there for long so if you've got a pup you got a dog your dog needs to go out and take a two yeah what's the move i think you i don't know do you layer up your dog? I'll be honest.

I mean, people have dog jackets. Isn't there a dog warning too? Like, don't take your dogs out for too long? I don't know. Probably. I think there is. That's that song. Don't take your dogs out. Don't.

Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't take our dogs out. You don't know how much I hate you in this moment right now. Is that by the Bahamian Men? Yeah.

Do they sing Bahamian Rhapsody yeah um i never had for an oscar really that's big i never had to like walk a dog when i was living in michigan i didn't have a dog so i i don't really know okay and as a kid i didn't handle that that's a very specific question i asked and and you tried i wouldn't i don't know they actually closed the uh like local ski area when it gets this cold you know the wind comes off that lake there like it's called lake effect snow just hits different it just it just whips through the city there's some satellite images of uh northern michigan right now that are pretty wild lake effect snow is legit yeah shout out to all

my friends in western new york be careful just shredding pow no one's shredding pow every people are shredding pow no oh you should see can you ski in this weather you can i wouldn't you'd be a crazy man they like i said they they will shut down the ski area because it's just too cold and people will legitimately get frostbite isn't it i always thought that it's weird how your face doesn't get as cold as the rest of your body like you can have like skin exposed when you're skiing and stuff i've always thought that's because like you don't have like fat on your face i don't know i have no clue whoa must be nice no i'm just saying like you don't have like the layers of i don't i've never understood old toned face over here keep you warmer though yeah that's true no one really knows yeah that's the thing we'll? Yeah, that's true. No one really knows.

Yeah, that's the thing. We'll never know. No one's ever going to know. Maybe it's because your head is not that far from your heart. So your extremities are very far, like your fingertips. So they're the first to go, right? Your head, not that far. So it's getting the blood pump.

That could be wrong. That's definitely wrong. Well, I'm offering up a hypothesis. No, I think it's right. No, it's wrong. Well, I'm offering up a hypothesis. No, I think it's right. No, it's wrong. No, I think Dave is absolutely correct. If you're shirtless in the snow in a blizzard, your chest is going to get cold as fuck, and it's right by your heart. Maybe yours, because you've got a little bird chest, bitch.

Come on, dog. Sorry. What are you doing to me? Why does your voice sound kind of gravelly? I don't know. You been smoking? It sounds like I got hammered last night, but I didn't. I had like a drink and a half.

Okay, I'm sure you did. Wait, whoa, whoa. Real talk. What was the half? I couldn't finish my beer. Who was drinking a half drink? I was bloated. I had two.

I had a beer and then a glass of wine. Wow. Okay. What kind of beer did you have? I had a Bell's Hopslam. Wow. So that's essentially three beers. Where'd you go?

It was 10%. You didn't hit. That's three beers. That's three light beers. It's two. Three light beers. Two. Three.

I went to Pine House. Got a pizza off. Had a beer. Oh. Yeah. Damn. That's why you sound like shit. You had Hopslam last night.

I had one. Yeah. Literally one. That's all it takes, dog. No, it's not. One Hopslam will had a hop slam last night. I had one. Yeah. Literally one. That's all it takes, dog. No, it's not. One hop slam will make me feel a little hungover in the morning. Yeah, but everyone knows you're a bitch. Yeah.

Hit me. Don't. He just did his hair. Your new haircut, you look like... It is different. You look like an artist. Like when it goes down into your forehead. Dude, it's kind of doing the Cole Campbell thing on the side.

Is it? It's coming down, yeah. Don't compare me to cole campbell please well i got this haircut and i'll be honest uh as you know if you listen to a previous podcast we may or may not have hosted i i've had scalp issues that have been plaguing me for the better part of a year now we all know yeah and uh so i'm doing an experiment where i'm not putting product in my hair, which would normally keep it a little more controlled. It's a little bit more thick on the top and thinner on the sides. She went a little short on the sides.

She went a little short on the sides compared to what I normally do. You kind of have the look of a mid-90s bully. That's a very good compliment. Minus the beard, because beards weren't in in the midnight what if i had like a varsity jacket and i was yeah bodying yeah like you're on the cover of an mxpx album your hair and your sideburns seamlessly connect to your beard and i'm i'm i'm gel jelly

see that's interesting you say that because i kind of like it when uh when it doesn't connect really yeah there's a there's a, and I have beard envy of him. He's an ex-soccer player, and he grows. He's like probably the soccer purist will not like this, but he's like... Is it Sala? No. Oh, no, rest in peace.

Sala's dead? Oh, no, we're talking about two different people. Oh. A guy just died. He just got signed by a team in England. His plane was flying there and the plane went down and he died holy shit you can't find anything yeah i wouldn't have made light of that yeah uh yeah it's unfortunate but no he's got so this guy i'm talking about his name

is roy keen he's just a fucking bulldog or he was when he played and uh his doesn't connect and it just looks badass i mean mean, yours is seamless. Yeah. You must have loved my beard. Why? Because it didn't connect to anything? Because I had multiple misconnections. It had like a six-inch gap between his sideburn and where his beard stuck. I don't know if it was six inches. It was six.

I measured it. Yeah, you don't have big sideburns. People were saying it was a Dillon-sized gap, which I never understood. Didn't really compute, but... Yeah, I don't get that either. Hashtag polar vortex is trending man i i extreme weather is fun on social media when you're not you know sucked up in it yeah i mean i will say this though if you're going to screenshot your uh your current weather temperature

and put it on your instagram story you're going to at least at the very least catch a mute from me and oh come on at the most no you might catch you know, you're going to at least, at the very least, catch a mute from me. Oh, come on. At the most, you might catch an unpopular. You know what? You're going to catch a fave from me, but only if it's cold weather. I'm interested in that.

Now, if it's hot, like I live in Texas, I've seen hot weather. I get that your car is very warm. That's what happens to cars when the windows are up and it's hot out. Cold weather,

this is new to me. I'm never going to see these temperatures, so I want to see it. Hashtag Super super sage so he can see it i really enjoy extreme weather especially cold like when it gets like super hot i'm on into that but cold i don't know i love it cold honestly does not bother me i'm like yeah that makes sense uh mike trout you know how he's a big weather guy do you know that is he yeah i don't know he's on the west coast i'm the mike trout of cold he? He's on the west coast. I'm the Mike Trout of cold weather. Yeah, he's on the west coast. I know that. You're not the Mike Trout of anything.

Yes, I am. You're like... Never mind. What? Say it, bitch. Say it. No. We did the Dylan Chivary starter kit last week. We don't need to rehash anything from there. Were you going to name a less acclaimed baseball player?

No, I was going to say he was the Mike Trout of something else. Maybe we'll talk about it later. In the meantime, go follow Circling Back Pod on Twitter and Instagram. And also, if you haven't done so already, subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. If you only use one of those, just subscribe on both. The numbers help us.

I'm not going to be coy about it. That's just how it is. If there are any other platforms you want, let us know. As I noted last episode, we are on Stitcher now. I've been told that we are on Google Podcasts. Shout out to our boy Colin. Who? He is the fellow that was DMing me trying to help get us. Oh, from Google? I wasn't going to. Yeah, he's on there. He's from there. Yeah, shout out to him for helping, but he does need to be aware that the link that he sent is still flawed. There's a flaw in their...

whatever it's called. Can I get a sneaky shot in real quick? Coding? Yeah, it's terrible. Is it on the back end or the front end? Hard to say at this point. I want to sneaky shout somebody. Speaking of back end,

let's sneaky shout somebody. Nothing sneaky about what you're doing on Monday's episode we mentioned the video that someone made for us yeah Randy it's our boy yeah shouts to Randy

not my dog we forgot to we got to shout him out so we got to human Randy not my puppy we got to circle back and give him a shout out

that'd be weird if your dog was just making videos for us for Twitter you know how tight that would be because we would have to pay him in like new low dog food we wouldn't even have to pay him. That's the best part.

That's free labor. I would pay him. No, that's free labor. No. Who's he going to turn us into? He can't even talk. Oh, okay. We're making Randy make his videos for free

and he has no clue. Dude, we just brought up Super Sage. If you're new here, Super Sage Northcutt is an ex-UFC fighter. He's like 22. Now he's fighting in Asia probably making a lot more money did y'all see his tweet yesterday?

his video with him and his brother? no I saw someone post about it but I haven't looked yet it's 100% worth it it's the most electric thing

I've ever seen on Twitter okay Sage is he's getting in the territory where some of his posts I'm like no this one you're gonna this one's gonna

scramble your brains. You'll live. I don't want my brain scrambled down. No, no, you'll live. Do you want a live reaction? I want to. Yeah, do you want me to pull, I've got it right now. Can I, can I do this?

Yeah, we can do a live reaction. Can we just play the music on there? Why would we do that? I need to see it too, dog. We can just retweet it with our account too. No one's doing videos like this. His brother's wearing a t-shirt that says ape man. Wait, that was too much. We're dude that was cocaine dave go go find this and retweet it from the touching base account oh whoa wow throwback from the circling back account so people actually

know what we're talking about i i was never able to get into the Twitter. Oh, nice. You can't get in? What? You don't have access? Remember we had the password issue? I changed it. Remember? Oh, you did?

Okay. Let me hop in. I'll do it. I'll retweet it right now. Yeah. Do it so people can hashtag SuperSage so he can see it. Okay. Oh, you mean like should I quote tweet it?

Can we? Okay. How hard would it be for us to take that audio from that video and put it in the podcast i want to make your editing a little bit more difficult no because wow guys we weren't even following sage holy shit no the audio from that's not even good enough like i'm gonna have to edit that entire part out and like make it more concise you understand i know you understand i'm sipping this mcdonald's coffee java bean stuff not java but whatever.

It's very good. I just wanted to point that out. I didn't address that right off the top. I mean, I think we can do two more things of housekeeping before we get out of here. And I think one of them is connected to what you just said. Well, first and foremost, Friday's episode is going to be on Patreon. All listener voicemails every single Friday. Five bucks.

You get it for the month. 17 cents a day is what it equates to. Oh. 17 cents a day. I'm going to try something here. So Monday I said I had to go to the doctor. I kind of lied. What?

I went somewhere else. Hold on. I'm going to reveal it on Patreon. Oh, okay. That's my Friday reveal is what I was actually doing. Wait, did you lie to us? Well, yes, I lied to y'all, but I later told you what I was actually doing. Oh, see, I was kind of still under the impression that involved a doctor.

Well, you asked me if I was going for my leg. Oh, yes, yeah. And I said yes. That was the lie. This is a big reveal. You said it very, like, I knew something was up when you said yes about the leg yeah because i didn't know i didn't know if it was the time to bring it up so i was like it was it was a white lie this is paywall content yeah so you will you will find out what i was

actually doing and it is i'll be honest it's a little embarrassing okay on friday's patreon five dollar episode it's a five dollar friday It's reveal Friday. Are you getting penile rejuvenation surgery? Do you have an inverted penis? No. No, this is not related to my penis. Did you get a Brazilian? Did you get a Boisvillian? Okay, let's just... Patreon.

Our final piece of housekeeping. Also, something else going up on Patreon while we're on it, sorry. Be looking out for some proprietary Austin recommendations today. Today. Also, once I have a backlog of emails, mail-in emails that is, I am going to be doing a weekly editorial on the Patreon account. Good.

Similar to how I did on PGP with Mailbag, answering questions. Do it. From listeners, readers. Can you commit to doing this weekend in fun? Yeah. You didn't do it last week. I know I didn't.

Because I got gun shy about the email thing again. Shut up. Just do it. I'm going to be doing weekly, this weekend in fun and mail-in. There it is. It's out there. Boom.

Just to announce it, I'm not going to be doing things for girls after graduation every week, so people, please stop asking me. Wow. More news on that later. That was cold. Our final thing. We were never able to do this on our previous podcast, but this is something I want the

backers, circle jerks, whoever. It's definitely not circle jerks. Backers. We need a coffee sponsor. I'm tired of not having one. Do you know how many we have almost had? Yes. It is...

I made it my goal for like six months. I did nothing but try to get one and I failed. Dude, we've been teased about getting coffee sponsors for months, years. We need a coffee sponsor. What's our problem? Why can't we do it? There's so many austin-based cost coffee companies that if if we don't have them by the end of february you're visibly upset

i'm giving up coffee for the entirety of march who's our friend up in the northeast we may never know with uh can i name drop them no they sent us some coffee oh wandering no free ads it's not a free it's wandering bear yeah and they sent us their cold brew No, no free ads. It's not a free. It's Wandering Bear. Yeah. And they sent us their cold brew and it was excellent. Yeah. But then they never dropped the hashtag bag. Damn.

It's cool. Well, we still love y'all. Can we get to the Dave Ruff starter kit? I'm ready. Wow. This is what people have been talking about on Twitter and Reddit. So this is for the new listeners out there and also kind of for the old listeners as well. Last week, we did the Dylan Chivary Starter Kit.

We thought as a means to get to know the hosts, we would do starter kits for everybody. Starter kits, they're something that you see on Twitter a lot. You see it on Reddit. You see it everywhere. This week, we have the pleasure of doing the Dave Ruff Starter Kit. I feel like one of us is going to get mad about this. You didn't get mad. You handled everything like a champ, Dylan.

Of course. I think today's the day. You think Dave might get mad? Dylan, who do you think has a bigger chance of getting mad about stuff, me or Dave? think has a bigger chance of getting mad about stuff me or dave uh you you will be more like outwardly defensive and upset dave will just like grit and bear it but he's gonna be like low-key upset dude i like barrett don't bring him into this dave will do the dave will do the okay okay nothing on mine is actually i'm mad that you're i'm mad that will's mocking me like

right now now that i look at my list of Dave's starter kit items, I didn't go hard on him at all. It's pretty soft. Here's the thing. People were doing, like listeners, I love the interaction. I love the engagement. They were doing my starter kit on Twitter and on the subreddit, and it kind of ruined it for me.

I was like, oh, yeah, that's what they're going to say. It's my own fault for snooping. See actually read these but i also tried to include things that uh people who listen to the podcast wouldn't know just to pull back the curtain on dave like if you would learn these things if you were to group dinner you know they say you only roast the ones you love i just had a late entry into mine and it's's a little bit... It's not aligned with the other ones. It's not as soft. Okay. So you'll see.

Well, Dylan, do you want to start with something? Let's do this. Yeah, this one is really easy. This will get out of the way. Naming drinks after himself. Yes. Yeah. Yes.

L. Dave, David Chino. I've never done that. The Dave. I've aggregated what people are saying out there and I've brought it to the podcast that's the thing, no one is saying any of the things you think like an L. Dave is just Topo Chico and tequila well a Dave is

and a lime a Dave is vodka, Topo Chico, lime an L. Dave is just swapped to vodka for tequila that's right this all started Dave naming drinks after himself when we were, I'll admit we were a little tipsy at the Dell Match Play That's right. Make it easy. This all started Dave naming drinks after himself. I'll admit, we were a little tipsy at the Dell match play. Is that when this happened?

Yes. And we went up to this. No, it was the one day where we kind of left loose a little bit. He orders L. Dave's at the bar. But we went up to this. I've got to start doing that again. And he waits until they're like, I don't know what that is, sir. No, we went to this pavilion. I'm an asshole.

And this woman was making us drinks. And she was super nice. and Dave's just like, so what would you call this? And she was like, what? Like a vodka soda? And he's like, no, no, I want to name it after me. And she's like, what's your name? But it already has a name, sir.

And she goes, it's called the Dave. That's how it started. Oh, I remember this particular interaction, yes. We might have gotten a little too after it that day. I remember standing up there watching someone play, or someone hit a shot on the hole by the water. I remember thinking, if I have one more drink, I'm going to feel like shit tomorrow.

This year, I'm going to go hard at one of these. We are going to go. Right? Can we announce that? Yeah, we're going. We're going to do a match play. We'll be there. Courtesy of the P the pga tour yeah be on the lookout for announcements regarding that uh can i go please uh this is kind of like a three-pack that i'm going to just wrap

all into one uh it's smoking meats slash traeger which is where you do it, slash just being a meat snob. I don't say snob in a bad way, but you are a meat snob. Okay. Okay. Look, until the man has smoked his own brisket, he's not a meat snob. But Dave does not stand for low quality meat at restaurants. You're absolutely correct about that. If I know one thing about Dave, if it's low quality meat at a restaurant he will immediately bring it up and say no no you know what you know what's weird about that place

that steak is it's low quality dude you're paying good money for a steak the least they can do is give you some quality i agree some prime give me some prime baby like i you will that will completely change your opinion of a restaurant you're like they can have great everything else but if they have low quality meat dave's out there's one restaurant in town that might be on this proprietary list that's going up on the patreon today they may be one of them okay smoking meats is on my list obviously of course it is i want i want this guy i want dave to smoke a brisket let's do it i'll smoke a brisket for y'all that that is the true test and you haven't you haven't ventured that far away yet.

You're right. I haven't. Yeah. And a lot of it has to do with the time that goes into it. Come on. No, it really... Next time Alyssa leaves town... I know it takes a long time to do. Next time Alyssa leaves town, we'll have a sleepover at your house.

We'll sleep in the living room. We'll get sleeping bags. And we'll wake up at like every hour to check on the brisket. Imagine Randy in a sleepover. Randy would love that. Yeah. God. I'll bring Rosie, too.. Randy would love that. Yeah. God. I'll bring Rosie, too.

She can sleep with us. No. Yes. I got to keep them separated. Don't sing it. Is that it? Don't sing it. Is that it?

Don't sing it. Dylan, what do you got? Okay. Strap bag hats that have the strap sticking way out. Hanging out. Oh, yeah. That's TM. Dude, why is it sticking? It's like 18 inches 18 inches long it's like what are you doing it's trademark

uh yeah i have i just have a vision of you usually backwards usually the hats on it's like a paper boy look my wife made the mistake uh a few years back telling me that i look really good in a backward hat yeah dude and i have a backward hat on right now. I pretty much just floored it and just drove it off a cliff. Dude, Sally always compliments me when I have a backwards hat on, which is hardly ever. But she's like, you look good with a backwards hat. I think I look like shit. If I have a backwards hat on, it means that I either haven't showered yet, got hammered

the night before, or I'm just trying to get a look off, like cocky T-man look. That's what I'm going for, the cocky t-man look that's what i'm going for the cocky t-man look if you're new here t-man is a t-man was the former president of our old company do you have a small head i have yeah i think i do okay no i think it's average but compared to yours i'm just wondering why the strap sticks out 18 inches from your for your head usually well to be fair, on this hat... That one, it's not. It's not. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you know how the strap has a little slit that you can push it through to hide it? A what? A slit.

That you can what through? How else are you going to describe that thing? It's a slit. You stuff it in. Okay. But Dave pulls out and he left it right... The old DCO hats. I don't mean this to sound dirty. The old DCO hats. I'm not meaning this to sound dirty. The old DCO hats we used to have. Deal closers only.

No, you have to let the leather strap hang out. You have to. Okay. Yeah, that's just, that's a Dave look. Okay, go Will. People say that I'm strapped up. Dave is the weather guy who reads the Farmer's Almanac. Ah, nice. And like, I've never seen Dave reads The Farmer's Almanac.

I've never seen Dave with The Farmer's Almanac. I don't know if he's actually ever had one in his possession. I actually have a digital copy on my phone. You have a PDF that you just checked? Dave, when you're at home and let's say it's just a good downpour, like it's really coming down, do you go stand at your back door and just watch in silence? Depends on

if it's an electrical storm depends on if it's an electrical storm or not because i i fear lightning you don't like to watch the rain just beat down on your back i do but yeah but sometimes i'll go out there if it's just like a shower i will go out there okay um but i've done that less and less lately because randy likes to he wants to come out too and i can't have r Randy running out there in the rain. Sure. So I don't want to like make him feel bad or anything. Okay.

That was a good one. Whose turn is it? Oh, it's mine. Right? Yeah. We don't have to go back and forth. We can just. Riding hard for DFW.

Yeah. He's our DFW. I would have phrased that as he puts the D on his back. Well, sure. Same thing. He rides hard for him yeah you love talking dfw i do love it and kind of in this vein but i i had it's a separate item i'm gonna throw it in anyway i have dirk mavs cowboys i the more i thought of it i was like dave dave's favorite players are Dirk and Luka. You just like white European players.

Okay, on paper that looks bad. But when you really think about it, of course it's going to be Dirk. And Luka is obviously his future. He's the most exciting thing to have. I'm not just... Yeah, the next generation has arrived. Luka, that's your boy. Yeah, but yeah. That sounded like a Mavs ad, how you said that. Yeah, it did generation has arrived. It's Luca. That's your boy. Yeah, but yeah. That sounded like a Mavs ad, how you said that.

Yeah, it did, didn't it? That's fair. There was a long time where Will used to accuse me of positioning myself for a job in local sports media in Dallas-Fort Worth. Dude, I don't think you're done doing that. You're definitely going to do that at some point. No. Like Chris Harrison wants to?

Yeah, exactly. Being a piece of shit teenager. Like right now? Oh, you're not a teenager. Oh, back in the day. Yeah. Yeah. Out of everyone in this room,

you were the biggest piece of shit teenager. I don't know if that's fair. That's totally fair. On that same note, I have 90s. I don't know if that's fair. That's totally fair. On that same note, I have 90s... I don't know what else to call this genre. I just said 90s punk rock. Like grunge? Grunge.

He was a grunge boy. He was a grunge boy. We never reviewed my mixtape that we posted on Circling Back Instagram. Why did you put Daft Punk in the middle of all those bands? Because I was... This is true. I was... Not only was I into all those angry bands, I was really this is true. I was, not only was I into all those like angry bands,

I was really into the electronic scene, like Chemical Brothers. Yeah. Daft Punk. Daft Punk. Daft Punk. Here's a niche one. Dimitri from Paris.

Wow. Super niche. Did you ever get into Kraftwerk? Yeah. There was a kid down the street who was younger, but he was really into music and he got me into all that stuff. We were convinced it was the future of music. It and i don't know if we were wrong no i think

you were right but we thought like that's what all music was going to sound like it's and i guess a lot of it does it laid the groundwork for today's edm scene damn why wasn't there any shaggy on there dude t-man wants more shaggy. I think T-Man's... T-Man's just being a disruptor. T-Man. Let me be clear about me being a piece of shit teenager. You were a piece of shit teenager. I wasn't...

Okay, but compared to... Alright, yeah. I was a square. I think I wrote something that said I was the biggest non-criminal piece of shit team. I think I wrote that on the website, PGP. Okay. And no, we were just turds. We were just, we thought we were the funniest guys in the world.

Kind of like this podcast. Um, and you know, we, we, I've got, there's some cringy moments of, of stuff that we thought was funny. It wasn't funny. So yeah. Okay, fine. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I've got there's some cringy moments of stuff that we thought was funny and it wasn't funny so yeah okay fine I'm not saying it's a bad thing no I'm not mad

I'm just no I just want people new here when they hear piece of shit teen like I didn't get I didn't get piece of shit vibes

to be fair okay I got just like punk just like you're a little punk I was a wannabe yeah that's for sure you were a poser I wouldn't have I skated Just like, you're a little punk. I was a wannabe. Yeah.

That's for sure. You were a poser. I wouldn't have... I skated and stuff. No, you were a poser. Oh, that's fucked up. See, that'll get me mad. You call me that. That's cold.

That goes to the heart of my existence. You can't... We don't... The P word is not something we say on this podcast. Poser is a... That's on site. It's a career ender. Do kids say poser anymore?

Let's bring it back. Okay. Should we do poser of the week? P-O-T-D-O-V-E? There was a kid down the street. His older brother was in high school, and he was skating as well. He used to call me poser boy.

That's fucked up. And I hated him. He was a bully. I have buttoned down with vest and backwards hat. Which is, when I picture Dave at Woodrow's, you know, bellied up to the bar. It's fair. I picture him in that outfit.

It's very fair. Some boots on? Yeah, boots and jeans. I left that part out. I was just thinking, you know, waist up. It's weird. Usually you're a... What?

I'm sorry? Nothing. Don't worry about it. That's fair. the dave that's the dave starter kit yeah uh i've been pivoting slightly i've been mixing it up i okay i'm glad you said that i'm glad you just said what you just said because you i didn't put this on my list but i thought about it is that you often pivot you often say like all right i'm gonna pivot on this yeah they call me jeremy pivot like you've i think you've, is that you often pivot. You often say like, all right, I'm going to pivot on this. Yeah, they call me Jeremy Pivot. Like you've, I think you've told me that you're going to rebrand numerous times,

but I'm still not sure what that rebrand, what these rebrands have been. You're like, you'll see. I'm going to rebrand. There was one that I actually followed through on. I can't remember what it was. It might've been the mustache. I have one. It's a phrase that you say often and i always know that i always know the outcome when you say it the what come we'll see about it yeah when you

say we'll see about it that either means that you're tabling it for later or whatever was just brought up is never gonna happen we'll see'll see about it. Speaking of never going to happen, the late entry I mentioned earlier was not committing to plans. Yeah. Dave, he doesn't commit to anything. I'm surprised that you think that he's more of that than I am.

And when you do get him to, oh yeah, and when you do get him to respond, more than Will? When you do get him to respond to an invitation of some sort, he says, maybe. Like, dude, just tell me if you're going to go or or not i need to i need to account sometimes instead of a yes he does this sounds good where i'm like i don't know if that so is that a yeah like i know it sounds good that's why i pitched it to you we include you in the headcount sounds good come on

i can't get this dude to commit to anything. No. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, even when we were at Grand X and we would have actual events that we had to do, you would respond, maybe. Like, dude, we have to do this. You would respond to official business invites. Google Calendar invites.

Dave would respond with maybe. That was a bit. Dude, you have to go. That was a bit. That was a bit. You have to go. That was a bit because I, you have to go. That was a bit. You have to go. That was a bit because I knew how mad it made Micah. Me too. Responding to an in-office calendar invite with maybe.

Maybe shouldn't even be an option on there. Yeah. Maybe that's why. Oh, never mind. Okay, you have a string of people who I just default, like, oh, that's Dave's territory. If something happens, I'm not going to give commentary on it because Dave needs to. And those people are Joe Rogan, Ted Cruz, and probably most importantly, Zach Johnson. Dude, Zach's been on a tear.

I have Ted Cruz impersonation written down. Yeah. It's a Dave staple. I've never heard a better impersonation written down yeah it's a dave staple i've never heard a better i've never heard a better impersonation i feel like more people need to attempt the ted cruz impersonation because it's not that difficult okay but thank you um yeah it's good the zach johnson thing i just i'm stuck with it and i'm just riding it out and i blame our friend chad because it all happened. You know, when this came down,

the Zach Johnson bit, is it when he was trying to pop champagne at the Ryder cup? No, it was before that. It was, we had them on, we had Chad on to do master's picks like three years ago. And I said,

watch out for Zach Johnson, former, uh, you know, he's got a green jacket. Did he miss the cut? And every, no, but like Chad,

everybody, the whole thing just turned on me. Everybody was like, Zach Johnson, like have at least a less sexy pic. And since then,

on Twitter, I've been riding for Zach in a way that is funny to me and to probably the people in this room and people who really know. But like when the, when like No Laying Up guys started following me and they would see me tweet

about it. I always wondered in my head, like, do they think I'm a legit super fan? And if so, it's really funny. I'm obsessed with Zach Johnson. Yeah.

That concludes my list, by the way, because we had, we had a couple overlap. I have some on here that I can read just quickly that don't warrant discussion necessarily. Okay. Randy, Dave's dog, obviously.

Let's discuss Randy. He gets plenty of air time. Cold brew slash proprietary smoothie blend. Dave loves his morning drinks. Yeah. He's always gone off them. Yeah, I mean, right now. Look at me right now.

I'm twisted. Squeezing avocado. Dave's an avocado squeezer i really i don't support this behavior but i don't either it's savage ever since live langdon our old friend told me that i'm missing out on a lot of the minerals and vitamins because they they live along the outer part on the shell i've been scooping more but i do initial squeeze you're a scoop boy i do a hybrid i like i kind of do that in the way that you like, I kind of do that in the way that you like. It's a one-two punch.

I kind of do that in the way of like when your mom would make cookies and you'd get to like lick the thing that mixed them. Do you know what I'm talking about? Yeah. I like scoop the avocado out and then I take that last bit and I just eat it off the spoon. You would be disgusted with how I consumed an avocado this morning. I was in a hurry. Mm-hmm.

I just cut it in half i did the cut the avocado split it open took out the pit and then i just i just didn't even salt and pepper it i just ate it raw it's fine it's nature's bowl dude i respect that it's just it's not that good have you noticed when you buy avocados the little sticker on it is always right where you're trying to cut yeah i hate that i hate it too because i don't want the knife to to touch that. Man, what if you just took the sticker off though? Yeah, that's another step in the process.

It's like pick it off, man. That's like stuck on there pretty good sometimes. Just fuck off, Will. Idiot. I'm just saying. You know, it's good if you're just going for some seasoning when you're just eating it straight out of the peel. Everything Bagel seasoning

from Trader Joe's or a lot of other places have them now. But it's essentially just the seasonings from everything bagels but you can just put it on anything.

What's everything bagels? It's a... Really? I don't know. It's a type of bagel that has several different types of herbs and spices on the top.

And it's everything because it takes a lot of other bagel flavors like sesame seed, onion, poppy seed, whatever. We've gotten into some fights on this podcast about bagels versus breakfast tacos and the merits of bagels as a breakfast food. Yeah. I think I understand where my animosity toward the bagel comes from.

I think I understand where my animosity toward the bagel comes from. And it is because bagels for me have been ruined by average hotel. Yes. Continental breakfast. Yes. And so like you're in a hurry and there's just, there's some bagels laying out and you get one and maybe you put on a little butter. I don't know.

And it's real spare and it's, it's very dry. And that kind of has ruined bagels for me. I've never actually taken the time to go enjoy whatever you just said, an everything bagel. I understand that. That makes total sense. The ones that you have eaten, they've just been sitting out for days.

Correct. I still need to try an authentic New York City bagel with the hard water situation. Yeah, you know the water just hits different. The water hits different. Last time I was there, I got one. I'm going to have to take everyone's word for it, I guess. It went hard.

The final one that I have is combat sports. Dave likes being the combat sports guy. Yeah, he enjoys that. Like, I feel like not being in an office setting where other people watch combat sports kind of kills you inside a little bit because you can't talk it with Dylan and I. At some point...

You're right. Actually, it does. I text Dan and Micah about it. Micah's the worst texter. He doesn't respond to the next day. Yeah. At some point during the life of this business that we're doing here,

we have to do something sports. Podcast, maybe. And that needs to be a part of it. Dude, fine. I'll start a Premier League podcast. No, we're not doing a Premier, whatever the hell you call it, league podcast. Yeah, mark that one down for the low starter kit. Did you see the end of that Man U Burnley game yesterday?

Yeah. Oh, my God. I did not see that coming. Who's the guy from the Atlanta soccer team that just signed a big deal? I don't know. I know who you're talking about. I don't know his name. Is that a big deal?

Probably not because I don't think he'll make a that a big deal? Probably not because it's not... I don't think he'll make a splash or anything. Because it was big enough for when I opened Twitter this morning after my alarm went off. That was one of the first things that was served to me. People love repping American soccer when they go European. Christian Pulisic. I always fuck up his name.

For some reason, I can't say his name. But he's the next big American soccer player. He is going to be with Chelsea come season's end. Yeah, I know. What season's end? Did y'all hear I botched that joke earlier in the pod? Y'all kind of glossed over it. I heard it.

Will said outcome, and I said, what come? And in my head, I'm like, wait, what? That doesn't even make sense. Yeah. Okay. I did notice that you botched it. None of doesn't even make sense yeah okay i i didn't notice that you bought it none of this stuff that y'all did like that didn't make me upset no not committing to plans is the only gray one i don't you're right about that i try to be better

about it and it's not that i it's not that it's just that i don't want to commit to something and then have to backtrack dave does kind of, and I do this too. I intentionally do this, but Dave is, in our friend group, Dave and Barrett are the two people who are also most likely to do this, is to show up to Matt's El Rancho a little bit later, just knowing that there's going to be a long wait.

I don't know if that's intentional, but it's something that happens. I do it intentionally because i'm like i don't need to stand there for 20 extra minutes when i don't i don't i also hate being the person that puts our name in and has to wait for the text to come see i've been trying to get there early early like in recent times because i would rather just be there and get a spot at the bar because there's not a good place to stand there when you're waiting yeah especially on like a friday i agree yeah no you're right barrett i will say barrett is the worst at that barrett will show up when we're already seated yeah which he knows what exactly what he's doing yeah i almost feel like there's a mole in our friend

group who will text barrett like hey we're probably sitting down soon he just like jets in there that's so selfish though because at matt's, even though we usually lie to the hostess up front, you're not officially on the list until everyone in your party shows up. Yeah, you just lie though. Who cares? Hey, there's one that y'all left off. Always has to pee. That's true.

Yeah, you're a big tinky guy. Yeah, you're a big IBS. You probably need a tinky right now. IBS. I do, actually. That's what made me think of it. Is that not it? No.

That's irritable bowel syndrome. What's when you need to get a tinky off constantly? Enlarged prostate. Like, you're in danger of that. No, I had it checked out a couple years ago. That's when I got my T tested. Why do you have to pee so much? I don't know.

You have to pee like on average per day, like double what I do. They, what I've read is, and what the doctors have all told me is that like my body is just operating at such a high level. It's just constantly getting rid of waste. Is that, is that exactly what the doctors told you?

That's what he told me. Over optimization? Overly optimized. That's another one. Optimized. Oh yeah. How do we miss that? You're always optimized. Um, yeah what he told me. Over-optimization? Overly optimized. That's another one. Optimized. Oh, yeah. How do we miss that? You're always optimized.

Yeah, he told me that right after he put on a rubber glove and put a finger in my bum. That's when he told it to me. I've never done that. Yeah. I have. It's not great. I've had it done. I haven't done it myself.

He made a little joke about it, too. Did he? He tried to cut the tension. That's a scenario where you don't need the tension cut. It's just a tense situation where another man's putting his fingers in your butt. Yeah, he waited until he was no longer penetrating me. That was nice of him. He wasn't inside you when he was just giving belly laughs?

Guy and his dog walk into the bar. Oh, gross. Yeah, that seems like it would defeat the purpose. I'm over here like laughing my ass off. Clenching? And he's... Okay. Maybe we should move on.

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Do you guys hear that? It's getting a little, it's getting a little steamy in here. A little steamy. Get over here, Dave. Don't run from me. Come on, Dave. Dude, don't chill, man.

I put on my flops. Dude, come on. Will's the guy who goes into the steam room barefoot. Yeah, me. Dude, it's just covered in sweat come on just man sweat i saw a guy spit on the floor in there recently i was pissed that's gross why it's covered in sweat already i know but if i step on some dude's lugue i'm gonna be pissed i'd rather step step in spit than sweat oh that's a good question i don't't know. Because sweat comes through the pores. It's nasty.

And it stinks. Okay. It stinks. It's just salt, though. Why are you guys... You guys are like... Sorry, sorry. ...desecrating our steam room. No, this is a different steam room.

Get over here, Will. This is a private steam room. We have like a really nice one. It smells of eucalyptus. Not on a man's sweat. Is it eucalyptus or menthol? We couldn't figure that out. Man, the steam room at Lifetime

has been busy lately. It's crowded. Well, yeah. I think because of the segment. It's the circ because of the circling back effect it's the segment people like i gotta get in on that uh do y'all bring phones into the steam room should i no no what are you talking it's just me my flops and a towel yeah my thoughts that's it what's up nothing well are you steaming dave tried to call me yesterday when i was meditating and then i got off i got done with my meditation my phone, and he called me and then did the immediate follow-up text. Well, because you acted like you had something important to tell me. I know, but I had to get a meditation off. We talked about this on mailing yesterday.

Yeah, we did. Oh, you did? Yeah. Give her a listen, by the way. Thank you. Damn. What was the question? It was a spinoff topic.

I don't remember. Okay. So like Frasier from Cheers? No. It's a spinoff? Some say it's the all-time best spinoff.. I don't remember. Okay. So like Frasier from Cheers? No. It's a spinoff? Some say it's the all-time best spinoff. I'm still saying no, though. Do you want me to lead off with the steam room?

If you want to. I have a steam. I'm steaming on something. I have a major issue. Something that happened after Monday's episode. As people know, the Will's Watch was me watching Game of Thrones for the first time. I got through one episode. I came on the podcast to let everyone know what was happening.

You what on the podcast? Yeah, you know what I did. There it is. And then shortly after the podcast, I announced that The Will's Watch has officially ended after one episode. What are you doing? Dude, this is not on Twitter. Game of Thrones Twitter.

Y'all are insufferable. This is not on them. This is on you. No, y'all are insufferable. Will, you started a poll from the circling back Twitter account. y'all this is not on them this is not on them this is on you no y'all are insufferable will you started a poll from the circling back you brought this upon yourself 100 so this is on you you started you did the poll and it was the poll was set up to like put people against each other it was content no it was a polarizing so my issue you can't spell polarizing without pole you can't think about it

mine exploded your heads exploded all over the steam room oh clean it up that's a bitch to clean up yeah it'd be out of commission for a few days yeah gonna go to sauna okay game of thrones fans y'all need to chill like i'm not don't don't throw in dude me in with this crowd y'all are so ride or die that it's like almost like kind of borderline weird no I agree I agree y'all are like

that was one of the reasons to me while they get into the show they are so fast to throw some really good TV shows just under the bus just because they're like no Game of Thrones

is the best dude you know when people talk about like best of all time it doesn't matter the category it's not just TV shows it's whatever

I know it's either this is the best of all time yes and your options people make careers on this it got to the point where like fake news started popping up and people were saying things that i never even said someone tried to say that i said it was not even a top five show of all time i never said that i just said that it needs it like

there needs to be other shows in the conversation with game of thrones if you're going to talk about the greatest shows of all time by the way can we reveal the results of that poll? Because I won. Yeah, but that poll, it's set up to serve. You wrote the damn thing. I know. I knew how it was going to end. I just wanted to create some drama. Okay, I went back and looked at all of the responses. I feel like you're being a little too, I'll say, thin-skinned.

No. I didn't think it was that bad. There are people on their high horse who are just like, oh, wait until season six, episode nine for this take. Okay, it was one guy.

Okay, yeah, I'm going to wait like three months for it. I had another guy who was just like, it was so insufferable listening to you botch the names

of everything. Just to be clear, sir. We self-deprecated. You watched one episode. I think I knew more about the names and stuff than most people did after watching the first one. don't do a good job of like introducing everything don't don't get mad at me after one episode i think the the pentos thing that we missed

about uh what's her name's homeland that's not pentos the fresh maker i know that's on us that's what i'm saying that that's the one thing that we botched pretty badly that wasn't that okay i mean yeah i didn't think that was that egregious dare i say come on people people were saying that like mad men shouldn't be in the conversation which i understand your your position there but at the same time it is in the conversation it's critically acclaimed it's a very it was a very popular show the only time i chimed in and to your point about it being critically acclaimed was like okay if we're and to your point about it being critically acclaimed was like,

okay, if we're going to talk about popularity and being a culture, a pop culture phenomenon, and we talked about it being aided by Twitter and the age of social media, Game of Thrones is definitely up there.

But if you talk about critical acclaim, some of the seasons, yes, but it's not as critically acclaimed as shows such as Breaking Bad, Sopranos, Wire. Those are kind of my big three. Yeah.

And I'm not saying, and I love Game of Thrones. It might be my most fun viewing of all of those shows. Yeah. My most favorable, but I don't think it's the best show of all time. These people are, they're mistaking me saying that other shows need to be in the conversation for me saying that Game of Thrones is a bad show. That's not my stance. My stance is not that it's a bad show. The one episode you've watched.

No, I'm just saying you can't dub something the greatest of all time when it's not even done either. I'm sorry. That's how I feel. I don't think I agree because it's been seven seasons, but it's been going on for years and years and years. And it's been around for a very long time. It doesn't matter to me. What about LeBron? He's not done.

He's the GOAT. He's not the GOAT. Yes, he is. LeBron's the GOAT. Nah. He's got some room on his fingers that signal otherwise. That was creepy what you just did off mic with your hands. I converted from MJ to LeBron a couple years ago.

No, I mean, if I'm starting a team today with everyone in their prime, I'm picking LeBron. Yeah. The NBA is different, but he's not the GOAT right now for me. LeBron just hits different. MJ or other? MJ. Okay.

No, it's Isaiah Thomas. I'm not going to fight against anybody picking MJ. I watched a game last night with Isaiah Thomas doing play-by-play. How terrible was that? He's not good. Dude, that was awful. It was really bad. And he had a great cast.

He had Tough Juice, Caron Butler, Jason Terry, The Jet. Hey, shouts to me for even watching that game. What was I doing? Yeah, I don't know. I can probably guess. I just wish you wouldn't bail so quickly on the show. Because it kind of made me want to go back and watch it no so here's my here's my final statement about this i'm not bailing but this is but me watching it is not going to be a publicized thing the wills watch

the wills watch is done you folded so fast i will be watching the show at my leisure. I actually may wait until the new season is done because I don't want to be watching. I don't want to... Stop. Stop. It's going to spoil it. I don't want to... No, that's exactly... I don't want to be in the middle of season 4 when I know who all these people are, what's going on, and then have people talking about Game of Thrones

which everyone's going to be doing and then ruin everything for me. Do you get what I'm saying? Yeah. I might need to wait just so I don't have that. that also i don't hate the idea of just binging it all just straight binge that's what i did with breaking bad it was a great choice no never any cliffhangers because i could just start fucking watching okay you might be i'm excited i mean For you, I'm excited for the first gripping battle scene. Okay.

Blackwater Bay? Is that the one? The first real awesome battle scene? Battle of the Blackwater, yeah. Battle of the Blackwater? Okay, that's right. I will also say that... It's Blackwater.

People who are claiming... I don't know. people who are claiming... I don't know. It's going to take a lot for me to say that any season of Game of Thrones is better than the final season of Breaking Bad. Let's wait until you watch Game of Thrones. I know, that's what I'm saying.

I'm saying it's going to take a lot for one season to make me think that it was better. It was just such a gripping season of television. Look, that's a top three show for me for sure. Breaking Bad. If not number one.

I love that show. My current stance without seeing Game of Thrones, so I'm not going to include it, not because it's bad, but because I'm not including it, is number one, Sopranos,

number two, Breaking Bad. The character development in Breaking Bad was like nothing I've ever seen. It liddy. To everyone out there who got mad about me

not knowing the names, I'm sorry. To everyone who came at me on Twitter, just know that you're on my list. Oh, shit. What's this list you speak of? It's the on-site list. Whoa.

You're just going to fight all these people on site? Yeah, once you're on it, you're not off it. Dylan, I wish you would go back and watch The Wire. I really think you would enjoy The Wire. Okay. Where can I find The Wire? HBO now.

HBO. Come on, dude. Now. Okay. It's all available. Did I tell you guys I'm currently in limbo with HBO? I thought you were going to say ketosis. I did, too.

Well, that, too. I did, too. Oh, that would have been one. Yeah. Are you between your free trial and actually no i spent 20 minutes in ketosis that was it yeah the best 20 minutes of my life you did it for the content that was that's all no i didn't i did it on strips during an episode i did it for the bennies bro you took every single part of dave's life and like the and put it in

that meme with the brain the final one would be d Dave's 20 minutes of ketosis. I did keto pretty well. I did keto dead on for about two and a half weeks. Did you get the flu? Dude, keto has been ruined. People were ruining. Okay, maybe I helped ruin keto. Probably. I get it. I had a real one. That was a bit though. People have really, really ruined keto now. That was the bit. By the way, how shocked... I ruined it when the only people who knew about keto were people that were really, really into health and fitness or people who listened to Joe Rogan.

And now keto's gone mainstream, and now I'm going to go full hipster. It's like, ugh. How shocking was it that Colton didn't even know what ketosis was? Shocking. When you're that dude, and you're that genetic... When you're a finely tuned specimen like him... It doesn't shock me.

Really? He can probably eat whatever he wants. He's a machine. But he's been like... He's not, I don't think, though. What do you mean? He... I mean, Colton's my dude, but he was a chunky kid.

He's our best friend. Yeah. He was a chunky kid. Like, I think he knows that he can't just let it rip all the time. We haven't even talked about the... The Bachelor? Yeah. Well, we will. I think Dylan's that he can't just let it rip all the time. We haven't even talked about The Bachelor. Yeah. Well, we will. I think Dylan's got something that he wants to steam on right now.

It's actually Bachelor related. Yeah, I know. Okay. Go ahead. I'm steaming on something and I need to get it off my chest. So the whole Bree thing was just a fun little experiment. Nothing too serious at all. It wasn't an experiment.

It was just a fun little... I'm not actually going to chase down Bree and try to date her. Like, it's a fun thing. We're doing content here. If she moves to Austin next week, are you asking her on a date? Yeah. I don't know. Yes, you are. Sure. I don't, sure. She's a mid-twenties blonde chick. Of course he's asking her on a date. She's a little young for me.

Anyway. Why did you dab? There was a Reddit thread popped up and I'm not even going to tell you where it is because it doesn't matter. But a Reddit thread popped up about people tagging me in her comments, like saying, oh, like, answer this guy's DM. This was on the Bachelor subreddit. Okay. Yeah.

Thank you. It was on the Bachelor subreddit. Someone screenshot, like, her comments. And people were tagging me saying like answer this guy's dm and i was being accused of being a stalker or whatever it is which is the dumbest thing i've ever heard in my entire life shut up people this is a fun little thing we were doing content here we're on a podcast we talked about bachelor brie came up and yeah we had a fun little back and forth it ended i moved on never thought about it again

that's it don't use the word stalker you freak to my knowledge nobody on this podcast direct did we tell people like i don't know i it's kind of my fault because i dm'd her as a joke being like hey respond to my friend dylan it was something i did one time with emily radikowski for duda when they were in italy together and uh i just did the same thing I did for him. But then other people started doing it and piling on. Yeah. If she was offended by this,

I'm sorry. Look, she's not. I think she, yeah, she clearly, like from everything we know now, she clearly saw the humor. Whoa, whoa. Are you saying that people

are outraged for her? Yes. Wow. Coming into her defense. Who would have thought? Like I'm some kind of predator like going, like chill out we had a fun little back and forth she laughed it off and we went on with our lives this is similar to

when we try if i were to dm i've dm like big time uh people but nick swartzen was in town i dm'd him was like nick saw you're in town you want to come do the podcast yeah knowing that it probably wasn't going to go anywhere but if he did when i come on the podcast why not i'm gonna have nick swartz in shot i i have an issue with people saying that like it's stalkers and like somebody said like somebody said like classic men like dude come on see these are people yeah this is someone the people the people that the person that said anything about a stalker uh first of all you're the person on somebody on a bachelor contestant's instagram profile over a week after she got kicked off the show you're counting her instagram followers for a subreddit that's dedicated to these people and you're going

through old comments on her photos just reading them a week after she was kicked off this show you expose the stalker Get the fuck out of here. That's it. Hey, there's some breaking news. I'm not steaming on anything. There's some breaking news about Ariana Grande. You ready for this? That means big in Spanish.

Ariana Grande got a tattoo that was supposed to spell seven rings in Japanese. Oh, no. But it actually spells the word, and I'm not going to pronounce this right. Shichirin? Shichirin is what it spells in Japanese, which means a small charcoal grill. What? LOL, nobody's cooking with charcoal. No.

Not even wood pellets. Not even wood pellets. If it was like a smoker like that'd be cool like if it spelled like green egg or traeger like i would get that but like come on charcoal grill um yikes let me let me say something let me let me tell let me tell ariana grande stay on twitter or something don't ruin ariana she's a great talent yeah i feel like people are stuff's popping up on my timeline people like ragging on pete davidson and maybe he's i'm not following it closely but they're doing it because they're fans of ariana and they're like oh lol that's why pete davidson's like five minutes are

up and that's why he's gonna have a failed career blah blah blah that feels unnecessary i don't know did he do something to warrant that i mean he's made light of this stuff on snl it's probably he's suffers from you know mental illness he's been open about that right depression and whatnot yeah i mean yeah i don't think he's telling tales out of school on snl he's just i do have an issue with him on snl he's not as funny as he is his stand-up's great i'm one of the few people that actually watches SNL every week. Do you really? Yes. And I do have an issue with him. Okay.

He's got the Jimmy Fallon syndrome of not being able to make it through any skit without laughing. Sure. There's a time and place for that. There's been some skits lately where he has one or two lines, and he can't make it through one or two lines. He just got cast in a movie by a noted producer or a noted director. I don't know who it is, but I remember seeing it being like, good for him. Ridley Scott?

No, I think it was L. Ron Hubbard. I'll look that up. M. Night Shyamalan? Also, I feel like not enough people are talking about that Ariana Grande is Italian. Yeah, and her last name is not pronounced Grande, but it's Grandy. No one talks about that. It's also not pronounced Grandy. Maybe that's what her family calls it.

That's what she said. I know, which is weird because it's Grande in Italian. Whatever. She said Ariana Grande. Ooh, that's another one you all left off, the Italian stuff. Italy, Florence. Well, I've been there too. Yeah, but I mean, you want to see my 23 and me no no i don't it's a judd apatow movie oh so it's gonna be like kind of funny but like pretty meh overall

what's what's judd apatow's best movie oh you know what you do not want will you don't want game of thrones stands and judd apatow stands going at you those are two rabid fan bases i like judd apatow movies they're good to put on and kind of zone out and maybe take a nap during he's got like this is 40 knocked up funny people super bad train wreck 40 year old virgin anchorman 40 year old virgin okay uh bridesmaids okay he's got a lot but

everything on this list I'm not sure if he actually wrote I don't think he actually wrote them I think he might have just produced some of them so I would need to

have an official list of movies that he wrote and directed in order to make that producing yeah good for you I see that in 2009,

he did a TV series short called Randy. Okay. I see that in 2008, he was involved with Don't Mess With The Zohan. Oh, that's the Aziz thing. That's a funny bit. Have you guys ever messed with a Zohan before? He was a part of that?

Apparently. What is that? That's an Adam Sandler thing. Oh, God. He was also a part of Drillbit Taylor. Okay. Wow. That's not what you want oh man let's talk about our friends over at my bookie as you guys know everyone is asking me who's going to win the big game when you when you talk like want to know who's going to win

the big game you ask me yeah you come to will just go straight to will will tom brady and bill belichick add another championship to the patriots dynasty it hard to say will the upstart rams and brilliant young sean mcveigh be the last team standing who you got i don't know but whoever i'm taking i want to place a wager on it well just remember dylan when you are placing that wager make sure you do it with mybookie.ag. You know what, though? What? Now that the big game is here. Yeah? It's prop season, baby.

I love me a good prop bet. Do you? Oh, my God. Length of national anthem. What do you think about that? First play of the game, like the play call, stuff like that. Love, love, love it. The length of the national anthem is the most, in my opinion,

it's the most overrated prop bet until it's going on. Are you kidding me? And then it's electric. It is so exciting. It's so electric. The first 20 seconds are like, oh, this is going long. I can tell. They're really dragging out these lines.

No, I always get tired of people talking about it. But then when it's actually happening, I'm like, oh, this is tight. It's so fun. Love prop bets. Mybookie.ag. They have so many prop bets available that you can place a bet on they've been in business for years the rep is rock solid they do big cash bonuses so off the bat you're making money for doing nothing they also have fast payouts

in just two business days even better they become the destination for those prop bets we were just talking about absolutely they truly let you bet on anything. Anything. You know who's singing it this year? The great Gladys Knight. Atlanta's own. Okay. She had some Colin Kaepernick takes. Do we know the over-under on the length of that national anthem yet? Oh, she did. I think it's eight minutes.

Wow, that's quite long. No, I don't know. Who's doing the halftime show? Maroon 5? Maroon 5, but don't they have special guests? Wait, really? Maroon 5? There's rumors going around that they're going to do a Spongeongebob song i saw we may never know they canceled i'm seeing that

they canceled their halftime show press conference who's booking maroon five for the super nobody would do it they couldn't get people to do it because of the controversy when it's in atlanta who else would you like get from atlanta there's no good music that comes out of atlanta where the players play can you imagine if they got all at all Atlanta rappers to do the fucking halftime show? It would have been incredible. Yeah. There's a number of hip-hop artists and probably R&B as well that turned it down

because of the NFL. Oh, really? Yeah. Was Gucci one of them? I don't know if they tried to get Taylor Gooch. No, Gucci Mane? Oh, Gucci Mane. Yeah.

He's the East Atlanta Santa. I just typed in atlanta rappers on google just so i had like a full list just seeing like the first people that come up it just goes ti gucci main young jeezy ludicrous lil yachty donald glover lil john big boy killer mike jermaine dupree soldier boy andre 3000 jermaine dupree and that's not even that's not even having other people in it. Wait, how's Future not on there? Because it's just, this isn't like ranking anybody.

Okay. But it's got like... Shouts to Andre Three Stacks. Shouts to Soulja Boy. Hell yeah. Drake? Drake? Drake!

Then there was a really good SNL skit with him doing, with a guy doing that during Weekend Update. That's funny. He absolutely murdered it. What did you think of their Bachelor parody? They're fine. I thought they were... I took it personal how they were treating my man Colton.

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bachelor in on snl let's talk about the bachelor's let's touch on it quick uh give me your takes uh alabama hannah i somehow i hate her even more i can't stop hating her. I hate them both. I don't know what to do with myself anymore. When she's on my screen, I have to look. I literally cover my eyes at moments. She's cringy. Yeah, it's so bad. What are your takes on Kaylin thus far? You know, Kaylin, the whole sexual assault story was pretty awful.

Yes. I'll be honest. I was not prepared. I feel like that in the past, if something that big was going to happen, they would kind of... Exploit it? Not exploit it.

Maybe exploit it, but at least have like a... Was that the biggest bombshell sob story we've heard on this series? Yeah. I mean, everyone has their own sob story. Okay, don't call it a sob story. I know what you're saying,

but there's a better way to... You're right. That's a bad kind of thing. That sounded a little insensitive. That's not what I mean. Yes, it was... Yeah, dude, that hit me out of nowhere. I'll admit, I had to delete a tweet from the Touching Basic...

Fuck, circling back account. I had to delete a tweet from us because it was Colton saying that sometimes things are bigger than the show. And I quote tweeted it was something because I didn't know what it was because ABC did not insinuate anything. Then once the show started, I forget what her name was, but a very nice backer sent a DM and said, hey, just FYI, I think this is happening.

And I was like, ooh, thank you for the heads up. This looks really bad in hindsight. I feel like The Bachelor handled it pretty well. They didn't look like they were exploiting it as far as their promotion, which is good. Because's it's tough i saw that they were doing a deal where colton was posting about it and saying donate to this fund you know this charity which is good good but it wasn't like it didn't have the feel of them using it for ratings if that makes any sense you mean like when uh the whole thing happened with what's your face yes

at paradise the paradise situation where they like turned on about it to mario and corinne they droned on about it for like an hour and it was just like exactly guys like you're overcompensating for what actually happened like yeah yeah yeah i i guess that's that's fair um but man that was that was a lot that was uh pretty intense it was sad it was very very sad that aside their whole the whole uh pageant controversy between them though it needs it needs to go away yeah and kaylin did what she could to put it to rest that didn't feel authentic at all it did not it felt so hannah hannah needs to go home for our sake for her sake she needs to pack her bag and get out of there they both need to so well Hannah Hannah I'm not saying Kay Kaylin's not I'm saying Hannah is so bad they're both bad they're setting this up for a two-on-one right

conversation when you don't think I thought they were until they had the scene where Kaylin tried to squash everything and now I think the two-on-one is between Demi and the other girl. Tracy? I forget her name. Dark hair? Yes. How is she still there? That is the two-on-one that is happening.

Dude, Tracy. Talk to your man. Okay, Hannah. You can't talk all this trash about Kaylin and then when you get pulled aside be like, Oh no, girl, it's fine. Like, you're so fake she crumbled shut up

and that stupid smile that's plastered on her face I'm sorry I just can't stand this girl I'm still taken aback by Demi she's electric I can't

I can't I've never seen anybody play it this well maybe Corinne no she's playing it so much better than Corinne you're right

she is Corinne got too unhinged whereas demi is controlled chaos demi's been she's she's calculated she's machiavelli it's great she's so calculated she knows what to say in every situation i've never seen anything like it what did her mom go to the clink for oh yeah her mom did go to the clink that'd be hard to say clink. Hard to say. That'd be hard to be on a reality TV show the day your mom gets out. Oh, was that the scenario?

Her mom got out that day? I think she said it was that week her mom got out of jail. That'd be hard. Yeah. She's ride or die, though. You know, I was drunk. She's sticking by her mom. I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison.

Really? And I went to pick mom got out of prison. Really? And I went to pick her up in the rain. Really? No, none of that's real. What were you driving? A pickup truck. Okay. But before I could get there, she got ran over by a damned old train.

Really? Yeah. You never told us this story. Yeah, I don't really tell many people it. I'm sorry, man. Sounds like a pretty serious part of your past. Yeah. I feel like y'all have met my mom none of that's actually actually i haven't i don't think i've met your parents i've never met alissa that's weird we've gone to many group dinners

no uh yeah i think i probably maybe met your parents at your wedding but it was very quick exchange um i feel like that those are like the the main points of this week's bachelor but i think next week's gonna be really good they were setting uh kaylin and hannah up for the two-on-one i think that's now transferred over to demi and i think they're kind of like blowing that up just on purpose dude the thought of going into a two-on-one with demi is just terrifying she's gonna pick you apart yeah i do have issues with hannah g hannah g is the doe-eyed girl who uh colton clearly really likes why do you have issue with her i think she's so cute there's more to her there's more to her that we don't know. Oh, I don't get those vibes at all. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. She's calculated.

Her moves are calculated. Oh, she seems like innocent, happy. Exactly. Oh, stop. Dude, you're just putty in her hair. All right, we'll see. And then the other girl that I wanted to touch on was... Shit.

Cassie, who Colton is head over heels for. What's the deal? Are you saying she's not worthy? He gets touchy-feely with her like he doesn't with anyone else. I don't, no, no, I'm not saying it's not warranted. I just, it's kind of out of nowhere. I feel like she has no camera time, but then when she does, Colton's just like mounting her.

It's weird. She's very attractive. She's fantastic. And I believe, is she the speech pathologist? She is. That's what my sister does. Shouts to all the speech pathologists out there. Who weirdly, it's hard to say.

Yeah. They really wrong the people that need speech. Speech pathologist. It's hard to say. It hard. Yeah. I think she has a lot of staying power. Yeah, she might be my power player of the week.

I think my final three right now would have to be Hannah G, Cassie, and... Kalen. Huh. I think he likes Kalen. I will have to sit out this because I know the Final Four are in the winter. Yeah, you need to stop bringing that up because every time you do it, it pisses me off. I don't need to stop bringing it up. It kind of pisses me off.

You piss me off. Your face pisses me off. That's mean. I know. I can't change my face. Dude, chill. I'm sorry. This isn't the Patreon.

There's ads on this. I'm sorry, David. Hey, does Kalen have veneers? I didn't get a good look at those chompers. That's the question I've ever asked. Are veneers still really,'t get a good look at those chompers. That's the question I've always asked. Are veneers still really, really expensive? Yeah.

Okay. I need one. My front tooth. Dude, I want the whole thing. Can you do one veneer? Yeah, you can. I want the whole thing. Yeah, I would never get just one.

I would want the whole row. I want new teeth. I got a little chip situation going on. I want new teeth. Man, some people just overdo it and it just looks too fake.

No, you can't get a bad one. If you get a bad one, you're fucked. My mom has all veneers Man, some people just overdo it and it just looks too fake. No, you can't get a bad one. If you get a bad one, you're fucked. My mom has all veneers and they look like teeth she was born with. It looks great. Yeah. You know what they do? They shave them down first.

Grinding. Oh, I didn't announce this. Kirpa, she is my down to eat whatever player of the week. Wow, what's she doing? Wait, what is she eating? I don't know. She was eating, like, the pig's feet. Oh, I thought you meant something, like, sexual.

No, no. That's gross. Chill. She's my Zeke double-fist-feed-me-whatever player of the week. There's something with Kirpa, man. She's sticking around. I like Kirpa. I don't know anything about her.

I don't either, but she's there. Just watch out for her. I don't know anything, but she don't either but she's she's she's there just watch out for her i don't know anything but she's just there i need on yaka needs to go i also know what happens with the fantasy suite situation and it's quite interesting i'll say that shut up with all due respect dude shut the fuck up i'm not spoiling anything no but i don't like i don't like what you're doing i don't like what you're doing. I don't like what you're doing. Yeah, reality Dylan over here. Fuck off. People just be spoiling. Haven't you done enough? Why don't you go slide somebody's DMs?

Stop. Why do you go harass the other girls who have been kicked off the show? Let's not do that. I mean, geez, Demi's from Dallas. It's only a three-hour drive. She went to T-State. Dylan's going to show up at Demi's front yard with a boombox over his head. I have no interest in Demi.

Just playing post Malone. No interest in Demi. Are you sure? Yeah. I saw your DM. You accidentally sent her a DM from the circling back account. That would be funny. What did you think about that food bit that they did?

When they just kept bringing them random stuff. I like it. It annoyed me that they were acting like they're eating like like monkey brains or dog shit like it's just it's food that they eat well what i know okay yes i feel like i don't know this where were they thailand singapore singapore i feel like they probably have other food that's not as crazy to and i feel like they just brought all the craziest foods. But they're acting like they were so brave for trying this food that these people eat daily. Like, calm down.

Yeah. If I'm watching a reality TV show where people are eating weird food, I really would like it if it was hosted by Joe Rogan and called Fear Factor. Exactly. I agree. This has been done, people. And it's much more extreme. Joe Rogan just kind of cockily standing there with his arms crossed. Yeah me when you have to eat 20 cockroaches this is a good time or like a donkey penis yeah this is a good time so we're gonna start a new podcast on the watched media network and it's just about fear factor we're just re-watching dude that would that i would do that

not the ludicrous episodes only the joe rogan i would be so bad at ludicrous doing that now my palate i just can't handle exotic food type stuff like that. What's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten? I'll try anything. I'll try anything dead. Rattlesnake, probably. I will never eat... Rattlesnake's good.

I will never eat something that's live. Like a bug that's live that can squirm in your mouth. I'll never do that. But I will eat pretty much anything that's cooked. I think I've had grasshopper. Really good source of protein think i've had grasshopper really good source of protein i've had grasshopper would you eat horse no you can you can eat horse in canada because i love horses actually i think i think i've eaten a horse i think it's big in europe too pretty lean right yeah oh yeah speaking of lean i want some more elk in my life well this is a call to circle nation out there to uh if you have an elk hookup we're looking for an elk plug come

holler yeah is that all we got this week that was a jam-packed episode i feel good about it wasn't really i mean yeah it was jam-packed but like it wasn't concise because we're deep in the episode right now. Yeah. As always, we will be on... Dave's about to get a tinky off right now. No one has to tinky harder than Dave right now. Yeah, his legs are crossed right now. We will be back on Friday.

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