Circling Back - The Ice Day Episode

Episode Date: February 1, 2023

Y'all see this news down here in Austin? Lotta ice. Lotttttttta ice. Luckily for the listeners, we're built absolutely different and decided to come into the studio for an impromptu episode covering the latest news from The Dallas Zoo, the woman who stole $1.5 million worth of chicken wings, and This Weekend in Fun. Support us on Patreon and receive weekly episodes for as low as $5 per month: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast Watch all of our full episodes on our new YouTube channel — www.youtube.com/circlingback Shop Washed Merch: www.washedmedia.shop (0:00) Fun & Easy Banter (10:20) Dallas Zoo Emperor Tamarins Stolen from Dallas Zoo (22:00) Chicken Wing Extortion (36:00) This Weekend in Fun Support This Episode’s Sponsors Rhoback: www.rhoback.com (BACKER20 for 20% off) Squarespace: www.squarespace.com/steam (STEAM for 10% off your purchase of a website or domain) --- 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 coming to you live from the icy Austin, Texas area. My name is Will DeFreeze. To my left, David, Mr. Freeze himself. Raph. That's not an official nickname. But I'll take it. I think maybe I should be Mr. Freeze. I'm not trying to cut your nickname that I just gave you. It plays better for you. I just got to ask, what are we going to do about this weather, man?

Dude, hey, we needed it. We didn't need it. We didn't need Dude. Hey, we needed it. No. We didn't need it. We didn't need ice. We didn't need it. No. It's the lowest form of precipitation. Freezing rain is by far the worst.

Right. It's not. Facts. Like, I like cold weather and I like extreme cold weather, but this isn't the fun kind. The fun kind is like fluffy snow. It's all of, it's just winter weather without the charm. It's just danger. Dude. Yeah. I would rather have it be just winter weather without the charm. It's just danger.

Dude, yeah. I would rather have it be zero and snowy than 31 and wet. Yeah. We're in a cocktail of terrible weather right now. Yeah. Yeah. It stinks, baby. Just sliding all over the place.

Not for me, man. Call me Paul Simon because I'm slip sliding away. It's a niche reference. Dylan Chivary, ladies and gentlemen. You call him Mr. Freeze. My last name is literally Chivary, and you do nothing with it. Okay. What are you doing?

Randy, take us back 15 seconds. It's an absolute layup. Ladies and gentlemen. Stop Jim from the office thing. It's cold outside, but it's warm in your hearts. Absolute layup. Ladies and gentlemen. Stop Jim from the office thing. It's cold outside, but it's warm in your hearts. I'm talking about Mr. Dillon. Shivery. Ooh, shivery.

Why? Do you get it, David? Yeah, I get it. Okay, so you're- No nickname has ever been tossed around this much. First, I get it. Then I give it back to Will, graciously, might I add. And then you come in here complaining about it. First, I get it. Then I give it back to Will, graciously, might I add. And then you come in here complaining about it.

Like, just pick. I kicked Dave the Rock, and he kicked it right back. Yeah, it's a give and go. Yeah, and I was wide open under the basket for an easy two, and you just decided to throw it up from half court for no reason at all. Yeah, but you got fouled during the rebound, and we were in the bonus, so you at least got to go shoot two. We got two points. We got two points out of it.

You're still doing the beanie, huh? Is this your beanie era? No, it's very, very cold. I mean, if you are going through your beanie era, I don't think that when we're going through a winter weather catastrophe in Austin, Texas, it's not the worst time to go through your beanie era. Yeah, I mean, I don't get that many opportunities

to wear my Filson beanie. Not name dropping, but it is a Filson beanie. Wow. It's just a black beanie. I thought I would wear it. Are you sure it's black? No. What is it?

I didn't think so. I'm not sure at this point. After my whole snafu with Sally. Dylan. Color blindness. It's subjective. Our colors are kind of subjective, sure. What color is it to you?

Depends on my mood okay amber man i need an amber beanie it is famously the color of my energy how many beanies do you think like brandon boyd owns oh my god does he own more beanies than shirts yes absolutely he has a beanie for every occasion. They used to call him Beanie Baby. Is Parks' beanie out there? It's a Yosemite beanie. It's fucking sick. That's drippy.

Yosemite Sam? It's mad sick. No, like the park. Ah. Yeah. Some people pronounce it Yosemite, but I say Yosemite. Who are those people? No one.

I think the first time I ever saw the word, I was like, Yosemite? But I was also a child. It's Yosemite. What shows it from? You an anti-Semite? Is that curb? There's a Seinfeld episode. Sounds like a curb.

Seinfeld, probably. Larry David feels involved. He feels involved. He's got his fingerprints on it. I can hear him saying, you an anti-Semite? Yeah. Yeah. I will say this be He's got his fingerprints on it. I can hear him saying, you went into something? Yeah. Yeah. I will say this beanie's got my follicles itching.

I was talking to Barrett about this earlier. Check out y'all's interview with, I don't know anything about this person y'all interviewed. But yeah, I was like, dude, because Barrett's rocking a beanie. He's been rocking it.

He's going through his beanie phase. I was like, man, do you, does it make your head itch? He's like, eh, not really. Dude, it kills me. That's why I don't like wearing beanies. It sticks. I was like, man, do you, does it make your head itch? She's like, eh, not really.

Dude, it kills me. That's why I don't like wearing beanies. It sticks. I don't like wearing hats in general because I don't like the way that it makes hair stick to the sides of my head. I feel like I've got a follicle issue. It might be a little dry. But enough of my sob story. Why don't you pop that top?

No. See what's going on, man. Take your top off, daddy. Why don't you come pop it for me? Okay. Yeah. That's what I thought i'm gonna stay here oh do it stay right there y'all about to kiss i don't know what's gonna happen if i go over there god this mate's trying to snog me do we someone's been watching love island okay yeah dave do you have any immediate takes for the uh for as a certified love island boy i don know. Just the lads and the birds getting together. At any point during your watching experience, were you absolutely buzzing?

I mean, that was kind of my experience. I walked out to the pool and was buzzing. Everyone in the UK is going through their heart hand era right now. Dude, hottest emoji in the game right now. They've got to chill, man. All of them, the guys and the girls. There's just hearts up for everyone uh the only thing that's really bothering me about it is how um casually the guys wear um like running shoes with their swim trunks they have to

they have to like why can't they put on some slides like you're at the pool man take off your asics yeah it's it's it's always funny to see them walking around in like really tiny uh swim shirts and then they just have on like a pair of yeezys yeah like why are we doing this you don't have to no but i am where i'm two episodes in i'm it's fun i've got i've got takes i'm gonna holster them until friday hey buddy you ain't seen nothing yet that's what i hear dylan do you need to explain yourself uh dylan will not be in attendance for our first episode of the love island boys yes i am sorry to say i will not be here on friday for the first episode of the love island boys i'm very disappointed i will be out of town i'll be in park city utah more on that

later for the this weekend in fall but i'm very sad to miss it i won't be here i will make up for it when i do record with you guys on friday you should just do next week solo i'll bring the noise yeah so yeah we decided that uh the next week you will be doing it alone i might leave a voicemail for y'all to play or something i don't know i would like it if you did i would like it if you sent us at least something that we can like work with and and kind of chew on okay yeah i haven't seen a lot from this season yet but i got i got high hopes i'm not worried about it yeah it's windy it's a windy season very windy in south africa it was like that at the last time that they did it in south africa as well is that in south africa i thought that was 10 miles west of boston the last of us you see

this i'm going show to show man you never know where i'm gonna take it i haven't seen it what about the this maya jama young lady dylan what's her story is she a known celeb i don't know david so okay sally and i were talking about this and the only way i decided the only way that we could figure it out was like they have a term over in the uk that's just calling people like presenters i think it would be like a ryan seacrest like you're just kind of a host you're famous for being famous you go to entertainment things you you host shows whatever okay i think she's that she walks out um she's like you know makes her presence known for the first they introduce she arrives in a helicopter might i add and britney gave me britain turns she gave me the

uh you think she's really hot don't you you? What do you say at that point? Hey, Laura Ingram. What do you say? Hey, Laura Ingram, bye-bye. What do you say? Like, no, no, she's fine. You got nothing on you, babe. Does she like reach for a pillow to put on your lap?

It's like, no. See, it was difficult for me because the second that she got out of that helicopter, Sally looked over at me on the couch and my tongue had rolled out of my mouth onto the floor and my eyes were going out of my head and I was just going, ah-woo! Like, you've had Davide to, you know, drool over for an entire season. Give me a couple minutes of my enjama. I know you were drooling a little bit.

My enjama. Just a little bit. Oh, I do love that consume. That's facts. Yeah. Hey, we're also doing our voicemails tomorrow. Drop Dave a line. 888-618-4422.

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just a little something a little tidbit i thought you got mono from kissing right do they you think in love island or all those people quarantined? Because there's a lot of snogging going on. I like to imagine that there's a competing villa 10 miles down the road where there's just a bunch of other hot people and they are just surveying that scene and they're like, okay, this person would do well with this person. Let's pluck this person and throw them in there. Yeah. They keep them in a holding house. Like, all right, who should we call up to the bigs next? Maybe these monkeys just got called into Love Island. So if you haven't been following, maybe,

within the last month, we've had a snow leopard escape. Not a snow leopard. Not a snow leopard. Snow jag. I don't think it was a snow anything. I think it wasn't. Didn't they call you the snow leopard back in the day? No, it wasn't a snow leopard. Not a snow leopard. Snowjag. I don't think it was a snow anything. I think it was. Didn't they call you the snow leopard back in the day?

No, it wasn't a snow. What was it? It doesn't matter. It escaped, but they found it. And it was suspicious. An old speckled head. Maybe.

And then we had a vulture die suspiciously. And then we had two monkeys disappear did it get the jab? oh yeah people were asking was it jabbed?

well I didn't to be honest I didn't even know I thought tamarind was something that they made margaritas out of I've only had tamarind margaritas I didn't know that these were types of monkeys clouded leopard is what I was looking clouded aha that's it not considered dangerous no not the more research i did the more comfortable i felt encountering one i think you guys are underestimate i think you could take it yeah but i know that it wouldn't immediately kill me i don't want the smoke i'm not like dylan who's

like actively trying to fight clouded leopards. I'm not too afraid of a clouded leopard. No, you shouldn't be. But if it does get the jump on you, you're in trouble. Potentially. You shouldn't fear the emperor tamarin monkeys. They are very small. They are bearded, hilariously so.

And they went missing. Their habit was, quote, compromised, um, they went missing. Their habit was quote compromised and they were absolutely taken. And, uh, they got some tips. They had some people, uh, call in and say, Hey, we know where these monkeys are. And they were in an abandoned home, um, in the, uh, Lancaster area, Lancaster, uh, off I-20. It is, uh, usually I think it goes Duncanville, DeSoto, Lancaster area. Lancaster, off I-20. It is usually, I think it goes Duncanville, DeSoto, Lancaster. I've always said Lancaster. Have I been saying it wrong?

I don't know. Have they, I had a Mrs. Lancaster. She was my first grade. Was it Mrs. Lancaster? She was my first grade teacher. An abandoned home. Was there any foul play when it came to the actual

environment that they were living in at the zoo? Did someone break in and get these? Yes, they were taken. Okay, okay. So there was actually evidence that somebody broke in and did this and they didn't just whittle their way out

like Shawshank style. They didn't make it 14 miles south or whatever. They just grabbed a bus ticket and just headed down to I-20. They were making boats on the beach? They're going to get a round in at Country View. I know you guys don't know about that. It's a course you played in high school.

Facts. It's fine. It's Lynx-ish. It's Lynx adjacent. Okay. But they were found in a closet. They were found in a closet unharmed. They're back at the zoo in their enclosure.

Who did this? They have a suspect. Is it the Dorito man? It's the guy who there's a photo of him that looks so staged and he's just got his hand in a bag of doritos it's i don't know i don't think he did it is this a dorito play no i don't think he did this it's a super bowl it's a dallas zoo dorito class see it was going to be a bigger deal but then dallas famously got knocked out

of the playoffs and then the plan still went through and now everyone's like fuck now we're missing these tamarins something else is gonna happen

at the Dallas Zoo before the Super Bowl next Sunday by the way how yuppie dog name are these two monkeys Bella and Finn

I know I know multiple yeah so do I there's a lot of... That's a very, very hype name right now. Yeah. They could have done...

If you have a monkey, you got to have fun with that name. Ciao, Bella. What would you name your monkey, Dylan? Peter. Okay. Peter the monkey? That goes. That kind of goes.

Kind of goes. The man with the yellow hat had drip. And if it was a female... Cassandra. Cassie. Cassandra, please. She and I are on a first name basis. I'm allowed to shorten it every once in a while. What would your monkey's name be?

Mario. It's a me. Noises. That must sound like Blue's Clues. I'm sorry. We were getting the point to where it's like do we need it do we need like federal intervention in the dallas zoo like do we need to do we need to get like the the national guard down here to take control because it's like you knew you knew that someone was tampering with your enclosures like the vulture thing they knew that was

suspicious they knew those uh clouded leopards didn't just escape on their own it's like maybe hire a few more security guards it's a zoo it's a zoo like yeah how do they not do this already and it's a big zoo but it's not you know it's not like a wildlife preserve it's it's not you know what's the deal with zoos these days what's what's the general vibe what's their approval rating on zoos? People like to complain about them, and I understand some of that. It is sad when you see a condor that can't fly because it's like, you know. Do zoos generally take animals in to rehab them and allow them to live in a safe habitat? Austin Zoo, yes. There is an Austin Zoo.

I've been there. They claim to be rehabbing they take in animals that are you know injured that for example like i've said there's like a one-legged bald eagle at the austin zoo um stuff like that i don't know if they're all like that but zoos are a little problematic i've only been to one zoo in the last like 15 years san diego zoo great one i've been there like three if you're gonna go if you've only been to one zoo in the last 15 years. San Diego Zoo. Great one. I've been there like three times. If you're going to go to a zoo, you got to go to the San Diego Zoo. It's dope.

Any chance they're going to give that bald eagle a little peg leg? A little peg talon? That would be so drippy. In an eye patch too, maybe? That's a little far, dude. I'm talking about utility of a parrot. A parrot? They're probably not going to give the eagle a parrot are they i mean it's

two birds that's confusing two birds one yeah they're they're uh can you imagine their environments are totally different imagine how drippy it would be if a bald eagle came flying through with a parrot on his shoulder that'd be sick bald eagles up there on birds that if they had an eye patch they would be really intimidating what's the most intimidating bird i was an eye patcher without with with maybe an owl because they got those like their eyes are dope but there's certain kind of just kinds of hawks that i think are some some really intimidating looking birds i had a bunch of crows circling me the other day i feel like they knew something about me that i don't even know about myself were you counting i knew you got the jab it was a long december yeah they're hey they're just waiting waiting to pick pick out your bones this dude's gonna die yeah pluck out your little beard hairs yeah they're like look at this guy

he doesn't appear to work out his his his his his muscle is probably real tender oh and al whips his head around. You know how they have those crazy necks? Oh, yeah. He puts his thing down, flips it, and reverses it. And then, boom, he's got the eye patch looking at you. It's a 360 head spin. It's like, God damn.

The eye patch. Don't fuck with this dude. He's been in so many bar fights. Damn. He took a pool cue to the eye. Oh, wow. Randy just pulled up a 200 by 200 sketch of a bald animal wearing an iPad. Shout out Shutterstock for some reason having this.

Yeah, if you guys would like to see this photo yourselves because you're not watching on YouTube, go to Shutterstock.com and type in 148-520042, and that is the number for this photo. Why did Randy pull this up, man? Dude, because he gets it. Okay. He gets it. That's kind of sick, though. Someone drew this.

Someone took time out of their day to draw this. That's somebody's second day of art school. Whoever did just got a notification that someone's looking at their image for the first time. Yeah, they're probably going to get a cease and desist. Babe, babe. We got a hit. Dude, babe. Yeah, someone looked at my...

We have some motion on my eagle drawing. This is coming from Austin, Texas. That's sick. She's like, I think you need to stop drawing for a living. She's a 10, but you go back to her place and she has a bird. Is it the kind that mimics you and shit? Or is it just... No, it's the kind that's just annoying.

It's like a parakeet. Yeah. I told you the toughest thing about getting a bird well depending on what kind of bird you get of course is that it's like a lifelong commitment you can't just like like it will likely outlive you some of them yeah they're just uh yeah if my like let's hypothetically say that my parents had a bird and let's say that my parents passed, which we all do. Everyone does, Dylan. Everybody. Right.

Around us. Let's say my parents pass, and then, you know, in their will, they give me their bird. You setting it free? I'm getting rid of that bird. Like, immediately. Immediately.

I hear you. Yeah. I'm like a bird. I only fly away. I'm like a bird. I only fly away. I always like Nellie Furt fly away. I'm like a bird. I only fly away. I always like Nelly Furtado.

What's she up to? Going down, down, baby. Your street in a Range Rover. What? Different. Nelly. It's different. I thought we had a good thing going here 20 minutes in.

I did. You literally brought up a song. It's on me. We didn't expect you not to sing. You idiot. Yeah. So have the tamarins been brought back to the zoo? Yes. They're back.

If I'm one of the animals that's at this zoo, I'm looking around at all the zookeepers being like, what are you going to do? Do you think the other animals are like, hey, what's it like on the outside? Yeah. Like, what's going on out there? Someone's going to fuck around and get the like a tiger den or something some somebody's gonna go for the ultimate and be like all right we're going big tonight and they're gonna go in there and we're never gonna see that person if you climbed into a tiger's enclosure at a zoo how long you got until it just starts tearing you apart why i mean until you hang out with

until it's hungry like I think if you got in and it wasn't hungry, I think it would just chill for a while. The second that thing gets hungry, it's sinking its teeth into your neck and you're going down like a sack of bricks. You never know. They might kill for sport.

We know one big cat who does that. Polar bears famously kill for sport. i heard valerio i heard valerio skipped uh rush to go dove hunting really it was alpaca hunting he still got a bid too what it's pretty crazy yeah polar bears um the only animal known to like actively hunt a human being like stalk us? Yeah. Like, I'm going to eat this dude.

I'm going to follow him to his Ford Fusion. Why am I suddenly the one getting eaten? And he's going to cut your brake line. We've all seen the video of the woman who gets out of the vehicle at the, I don't know what it is, nature preserve or somewhere in Asia. She gets out of the car and that tiger just comes up and snags her

and just runs off with her. I mean, she doesn't have a happy ending. How do you know? Is that how that story ends? Oh, she definitely did not make it. Yeah. I remember when that dropped because that thing comes in out of nowhere

and just grabs her and it's gone. That's a wild video. Yeah. Bye-bye. Just don't get out of the video. Imagine you're stepping out the whip and you're like,

oh, fit check, and then boom, a tiger snatches you. And it's like, lights out. Extreme guy from your hometown voice. She fucked around and found out. Extreme guy from your hometown voice. She fucked around and found out.

Dude, that tiger- She shouldn't have got out of the car. That tiger's tank was on empty. It's fuck tank. Right. Which animal has the lowest amount of fucks to give? Whatever monkeys jack off in the tree. Okay. What about a honey badger honey badger they don't

give those wolverines too they're very similar animals they're both in the bad wolverines no actually i disagree i think wolverines do give a fuck you know what that's why they're always hiding and stuff i was watching alone uh last night and he came across a fisher. What a fisher is, it's basically like a honey badger. It's a dope little badger animal. It's called a fisher. Okay. And it said on the screen, it said, the fisher is so aggressive that it has zero natural enemies.

I thought that was pretty dope. They say that about me, actually. Really? Mm-hmm. I didn't know that. Yeah. Which animal is most likely to order a clutch pizza at 1 a.m.? God, I think it's a nocturnal one. God, I think it's a nocturnal one.

A night owl. Are there any chunky, maybe heavier set animals that only live at night? Yeah. I would love to see a fat-ass owl. They're just natural killing machines yeah they're pretty clutch owls are pretty clutch are there's no up for the winner are there any famous sports teams or colleges that have owls as their mascot rice my elementary oh the rice owls good call i was gonna say that doesn't make much sense outside of rice we working with much

my elementary school the dos owls oldie rice my elementary school too we were dope we were the huskies yeah it's real intimidating that's tight huskies are sick yeah sorry we're just a working dog go rams baby go rams i don't know if they're working dogs i did a rod that i don't fucking know nobody knows nobody cares what do you have do you have I did a rod questions

I might be able to answer them it is huskies right I think so yeah okay do you even know what that is Dylan yeah I did a rod

yeah yeah Dylan's like no dude I've never done a rod before give us like a brief overview

is that the dogs that pulled a little sled oh yeah yeah yeah I think I hope so. That shit's cool.

It is. There was a lady. They're Alaskan Huskies, Dave. There was a lady at our school who was really into it. I don't have extensive knowledge of the subject, but I do know what it is. Dude, Dave, I think that there's something with Alaskans moving to Michigan. I feel like it's like... The pipeline's heavy?

Yeah. I feel like Michigan is a good compromise when people are like, hey, we need to move out of Alaska. Where should we go? And they're like, let's go to Michigan. We have a good amount of Alaskans there.

And I ride for Alaskans. You know that. Everyone knows that. Yeah. Shout out to everyone from Juneau. Juneau, Alaska. Yeah. Anchorage.

I got nothing but love for anchorage i think that's the largest city by land area in the united states in but in the contiguous united states it would be jacksonville of course everybody knows that yeah yeah um dave's fact checking me yeah you fact I was going to make a joke about Dylan being the captain of the Exxon Valdez. Valdez nuts. So I've referenced it. I'm sure everybody at home is just like, yep, that's great, man. Definitely in my demographic.

Can we speak to the news story that has recently come out about, I believe it was a teacher uh or somebody who works for this school who was charged with stealing 1.5 million dollars worth of food most of which was chicken wings that's a lot of chicken wings time out like uncooked david how much it's unclear what has happened to the tens of thousands of pounds of chicken wings. That's just so many chicken wings. The food was never brought to the school or provided to the students. So I'm assuming that she maybe purchased chicken wings.

So this happened a few years ago. And then flipped them. Right? We had this with the, did you, maybe you just mentioned this. The fajitas. The fajitas. Yeah. It was also a school.

Oh, that was a school too? Wasn't it like a prison? Maybe it was a prison. Dude. Eureka. It was also a school. Oh, that was a school too? Wasn't it like a prison? Maybe it was a prison. Dude. Eureka. It was a prison. Hey, same thing. So I'm just thinking, I'm thinking about like everything that goes along with the statement

you just made. It's heavy. Yeah. My middle school, it's called Merkison. We called it Merkichazz. Bowels, right? No, that was my elementary school. Oh.

Merkison Matadors. That's so tight. Did Joe's mascot wear a Merkin? No. You ever worn one? No. The alleged scheme was apparently uncovered when the district manager conducted a routine audit

in January 2022 and found food costs were $300,000 over budget just halfway through the school year it's a lot of money see this is what sebastian was talking about when he said there's just so much money out there yeah you just have to go get it um this person leveraged the right tools i don't know if they were ai tools but something got leveraged and next thing you know she's flipping wings on the lolo probably stacked a lot of money a lot of paper how do you unload all those wings like where do you go what's the market you know just go to the streets with them i would just wing it you put up a website you would wing it like what i'm saying is i would do like a craigslist ad

yeah i got all these who's buying who's buying craigslist chicken wings somebody no one you know for the right price i'm not buying chicken wings from some rando on the internet well i thought randy i randy noted that he was surprised by how many places were open today one of which was pluckers you know given the winter weather surprising that pluckers is open but then i started thinking about how our pluckers nearest to us operates down here in austin texas place is unhinged so if you if i was told by somebody that they were getting their wings from like a random cafeteria lady who was stealing them from somewhere else i would very much believe you maybe she was flipping them to restaurants maybe she had like a friend who like owned a food truck

and she was like hey can i get some equity i can supply you with a lot of chicken wings. No, this is putting off brick and mortar vibes. Wasn't that funny? It was just a statement. Oh, I thought you said chicken mortar. No, but I couldn't. Oh, my bad. My bad. No, it's okay. All right, they stopped laughing. Chicken mortar. You get it? They would like to request for their their laughs back yeah man if they could get all the

money that they would have spent on these wings imagine the the wing they could have built in the school okay for them a wing of the building. Wings was a good show. We talked about it recently. Oh, you're too good for that kind of humor? You just moved right on? He puts himself out there and you just ignore it. It was fine, man.

It was fine. It's all right. It was fine. Hey. What do you want from me? It was fine. What if you found out these were just all going to hooters and just you know all the alpha males are eating black market wings okay does that make you think a little bit differently i don't think

so me neither i don't think so where did this happen again this happened in illinois something tells me that there's going to be a restaurant uh in the in the general area of where she was arrested and something tells me that restaurant's gonna be going out of business relatively soon they're trying to unload a bunch of black market wings like oh fuck yeah mark down if i'm a cop there i'm going to the i'm going to uh i'm going to facebook and i'm seeing if there's any uh you know free chicken wing nights at any restaurants around the area. I'm getting to the bottom of this. There's just a storage unit like in Peoria or wherever that is just filled to the brim with chicken wings.

It's like the Breaking Bad money storage unit and like Kuel's just like doing snow angels in it. Only it's chicken wings again. Chicken wings. Sausages everywhere. Is this making you guys want chicken wings more or less more honestly i don't even like pluckers wings when you said pluckers it sounded so good whoa whoa whoa dude i haven't i've hardly had any meat in the last month this is really good they're fine it's no b-dubs it's no hooters i've never been a b-dub how'd

you feel about uh how'd you feel about nick adams top 10 uh most alpha orders from hooters oh i haven't seen this daytona style wings was number one he had onion rings on there i like that okay yeah he knew that he knows the menu he said a perfect valentine's date is uh at hooters you know don't know if i told you about my college girlfriend we just started dating right before valentine's day and we're like should we just go to B-dubs or something? We don't have anything to do. And then I made it a thing. I was like, no, that's our spot. Just kind of as a bit. I did it as a bit. It's a good bit.

And it ended up saving me a lot of money being that bit. It was great. You mean your bit was to go to Red Ash every week? Yeah. My bit wasn't to go to really high-end steakhouses every week. It was simply to go to B-Dubs. Spinning half your income.

And B-Dubs was also notoriously hard on fake IDs there, so I always knew that I wouldn't have to worry about any drinks getting added on the tab. Oh, that's great. Yeah. Yeah. I want some Asian zing right now. Dude, no.

I am not opposed to Daytona, but it's not near the top of my Hooters list. But, you know, that's for another day. I agree. I agree. The only reason I would be ordering Daytona style is solely to, like, really lean in to feel like I'm at Hooters. Yeah. Daytona style.

What are Daytona style? When the waitress sits down at your table, chef's kiss. She writes her name on the napkin. Ooh. Chef's snog. I think this waitress really likes me, guys. She's being very flirty. No, no. You guys go ahead. She stayed at our table way longer than that

other one. She put her hand on my shoulder when I was ordering. I don't know if y'all saw that. Dude, like, dude, don't write my number on that napkin, dude. Don't, dude, don't write my number on it, dude. Dude, I'm just gonna throw away the receipt. Bam. Rest in peace, Austin Hooters.

I do think there's a restaurant out there that might be in need of some free chicken wings. Wilmont's? This weekend had fun, baby. Presented by Roback. I thought you were about to do an ad read for a restaurant. No, that'd be tight, though. We have a restaurant sponsor? We did get some interest from a very polarizing fast casual restaurant.

Okay, don't even tease that yet. Don't tease that. A very polarizing fast casual restaurant. I want to see how we make that work if it happens. It would be great. It would be great. I think I have an idea. I think we need to convert somebody on the podcast to being a fan of them.

You know? You get it? Well, it's... Yes. Yes, that's a good angle. We're lucky that Roback doesn't have any copy, because I don't think this would be a part of it. But if you fuck with Roback as heavy as we do, go to Roback.com and use backer20 for 20% off your order. What if I told you that there might be some stuff in the works?

Huh. Maybe something that we just referenced might be a little collab situation. They're collabing with the chicken wing lady? Nope. Something even better, David. Yep. Okay. No, they're doing a Zac Brown band, Chicken Fried.

Okay. That song absolutely stinks. No, you're always singing it. You'd be proud of me. You'd be proud of me, Dylan. That song sucks. You're often singing it. You'd be proud of me, Dylan. That song sucks. You're often singing it. I like it for nostalgic reasons, but I will say it did come on the radio during some Brooks and Dunn radio the other day. I did skip it.

It's awful. I did skip it. Hey, shout out to Dylan's back. You made the 2022 recap rowback video. I did. Yeah, you know how I know I have weak shoulders? I've never made a rowback photo. Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm trying to get there one day. I do have weak shoulders, though. Shout out. Brett was like trying on boots brett looked tight is that why you're doing shrugs when i got here this morning dude yeah they've been calling me shrug funny lately shrug funny yeah it's a play on the uh the early to mid 90s cartoon on nickelodeon about doug and his name was famously Doug Funny. I thought you were doing a Bugs Bunny thing. I might get a Doug tat.

Shrugs Bunny. No, it's not bad, though. It's not bad. Okay. Would shrugs help me? I feel like I'm naturally built to have small shoulders. I don't think working out is going to make my shoulders that much bigger. Marginally.

But not to the size of getting on a Robback ad if you ask klein like just if you just shrug like often enough you'll be built like anyone you want okay like anybody no i ride with i side with klein on this one okay he thinks i can get legs like mike all start if i just squat enough it's just not happening you sure yeah okay shout out don't doesn't understand how to build muscle that might be true i clearly do i need to log back into fitba and see what they got for me yeah let's talk about it after this pod what do you get into this take your shirt off what should we all take our shirts off for this weekend i have a pretty excellent weekend playing well thank you for asking i will be in park city utah i've never been there i've only been to the salt lake city airport my only utah experience so far i'm gonna

go snow skiing skiing i used to say snow skiing growing up i don't know why because like there's water skiing and snow skiing but i know it's just i think people would understand i'm going skiing in utah you play any ball golf i've heard the skiing there is fantastic i'm really excited i'm gonna shred it's been a minute since i shredded and yeah i've never been like i said if you got Plenty ball golf. I've heard the skiing there is fantastic. I'm really excited. I'm going to shred. It's been a minute since I shredded. And yeah, I've never been, like I said, if you got any wrecks just in my way, please do. I think our itinerary is pretty well set already.

We're going with a group of friends, by the way. And I'm really excited. Have you looked to see if there's a Pluckers? No. Probably won't go to a Pluckers while I'm there. You're the one gassing it up a minute ago. I'm pretty excited, man. Cool.

Salt Lake City? Where are you going? Park City. Park City. Park City. Pluckers, Park City. You probably won't come up with much there. Utah.

Nah. Replace that with Hooters. Nah. Yeah, are there any Hooters in Park City that Dylan can go to? Every time I get a text, I just look down, fearing that it's my wife saying we lost power. Waking up and seeing that I had no internet today, it was pretty defeating.

I'm stoked, man. He's dead anyway. I'm jealous. I've never experienced Utah. I haven't either. My only time in Utah, I have had boots on the ground there, but I was only in the airport. It doesn't count. Yeah, I don't really. My only time in Utah. I have had boots on the ground there, but I was only in the airport. It doesn't count.

Yeah, I don't really know what to expect. I'm just imagining most Colorado ski towns. Where do you fly into? Do you fly into Park City? I think so. Park Cities? Park City. Park City.

Why did I just say Park Cities? Because you're a dum-dum? I've never been. I've never water skied or snow skied there i mean same they might have a lake there there's definitely a lake somewhere yeah but you can water ski there but not now because it's probably frozen over facts yeah i'm pumped man are you gonna get any grams off because last time you went on a ski trip you famously got two grams off in one day. I might average three a day while I'm there.

Will you be doing captions? We'll see. I'm only doing three nights, by the way. I'm skiing two days. Short trip, in and out, pumped. They have an in and out there. Yeah. Animal style.

And that's it, man. I'm jealous. I'm jealous. I'm getting the's it, man. I'm jealous. I'm jealous. I'm getting the hot tub, man. The hot tub. Hot tubs might be the best part of any ski trip. It goes down in the hot tub. And in the DMs. Not really.

At this age, you really just kind of fall asleep in the hot tub and relax your muscles. And bang your head when you're walking back in. Absolutely smoke your head when you're walking inside. Almost bleed out on the first night of the trip. Yeah, you get to wake your wife up and let her know that you struck your head on the roof after 10 beers. And remember that time that you went out to the hot tub and then we all

made a pact not to follow you out there as a group? I blocked that out of my memory, but yeah, it'll always bum me out that I tried to coordinate a hot tub sesh and everyone let me sit out there for about 20 minutes alone. We thought you needed some time alone to think about things. I was like, no, dude dude they're for sure coming back and it's not like a close hot tub like you have to walk upstairs like over ice through snow i probably would have gone in after about 12 minutes

but then i was like you know what i'm gonna sit here and see if any because i could hear every everyone talking and i was like i'm gonna sit here and see if anyone's like talking about me and making sure that i'm out here alone like am i just a victim here you just see all the lights in the house go off yeah it turns out everyone's just having a really fun time like you know dancing and listening to music and stuff so cool we had more fun when you were out there actually it makes sense that's why i actually tried to i actually smashed my head on the roof as i was walking inside you're just trying to end it yeah trying to black out the next like several hours of the day i wanted i wanted to be the main character of that story what about you davey boy uh nothing crazy weather permitting

i've got my mother-in-law coming up tomorrow um she didn't get to come down um for road's birthday uh due to illness but she's better now, and she's going to come down, and that means might be got a couple date nights potentially lined up for my wife and I. Might play golf Saturday. We'll see. I don't know what the courses are going to look like. There's going to be a lot of tree trimming.

I'll be honest. This might be an all-time bad Austin weekend to go play. Yeah. Because there's going to be a lot of crap on these courses. Yeah. Yeah. an all-time bad austin weekend to go play yeah because there's gonna be a lot of crap on these courses yeah yeah i wanted to play this week but this this weather it didn't inspire me to go find a tea time yesterday it didn't inspire me to do anything i i hate being stuck in my house i feel like i never get going you You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I got going long enough to go to the gym yesterday, and I went in the sauna. I had another sauna story.

I'll give you the TLDR. A guy holding court in a crowded sauna. This guy was something else, wearing pants in the sauna, which is always insane. And he started talking about his barbecue pit, and he started talking about his business that he has over on the east side of town i remember i was like okay nobody's really like giving him anything back and he for some reason i'm not kidding just out of nowhere goes beer barbecue and country music that's what it's all

about that's okay hey show me the lie okay print the t-shirt that's what that is what it's all about print the t-shirt that's all you it's all about. Print the t-shirt. That's all you need in life. Why can't people just go sit in silence? You don't have to talk. Hey, man. Beers, barbecue, and country music. That's what it's all about.

Is that a song? Probably. Like by accident? Yeah. Randy would know. That's what it's all about. It's different. BBC.

That stands for something else. British Broadcasting. What do you got? Can you beat my weekend? Not really. Not really. Sally, my wife, she's a medical professional. We stay in Women in STEM here, which is why I'm supporting her in all her endeavors and allowing her to go

work call all Saturday, which means that your boy is doing exactly what Barstool Sports would want me to do, which is spend Saturday with my boy. It's going to be Fritz and Will day. Friday night, I am going to a Top 50 restaurant in America. Conje.

Very excited. I have been very much not eating very much meat lately. I will be eating any meat that they have on their menu. So prepare for tum-tum issues on Monday's episode. That'll be fun. Try the chicken. The jerk chicken. They actually named the chicken after Dylan.

It's jerk. Yeah. I don't know if that's accurate. They have a dish at this restaurant that is uh it was described to me as tasting like christmas and it's the most accurate description of a dish i've ever heard and i cannot wait to go eat it again it is the sole reason i made a reservation there in the first place what's it called the dish the pepper pot i think i think it's called a pepper pot oh it tastes like it's so good. It's so good. It's officially, this is, if people can get this,

I'm not going to set you back. I don't think that much based on my other time there. Conjay, Austin, Texas. Go check it out. So yeah, I don't really have too much going on. Like I said, I was hoping to play golf on Sunday, but considering the ice out yesterday, I did not go to Lions municipal golf course at 630 in the morning to make a

tea time. And therefore I will be probably sitting inside for most of Sunday, man. No football this weekend. What am I going to do with all my time? I'm just going to watch college basketball. We've really, it's so bad right now.

Yeah. It's, it's not great. Probably. Yeah. I'll be caught up on love Island. The wild boar pot yeah okay yeah weird they actually named that one after dylan too he's a wild boar come on man you were boring as fuck dude trying to get through this episode yeah i think we've succeeded i'm gonna make a fire after this. I'm going to go home and I'm going to make a fire.

I'm going to go home and pray that that power line at the end of my street doesn't collapse. Because it was not looking good. You should just go hold it up all night. I'm wondering, if that thing breaks, if the tree falls on it, is it a live wire until they turn it and do something about it? How does that work? I don't know. Does it like, does it go around in the street like whipping and cracking?

It's scary. That's scary, right? I mean, that's really scary. Just shooting out electricity at everybody. People are walking their dog. Some people, not many. Oh, I took Rosie for a walk yesterday and there were very few people on the street. Yeah, we went for a quick one.

It's great. Austin is such a ghost town during these times it seems to happen once a year just an absolute ghost town yeah the fact that we're all in the office is actually pretty pretty incredible we're bad boys no just the fact that like no some people like brett didn't even have to come in i think he just wanted to mob with the crew no he had to he was he was itching to meme he can't he didn't want't do that kind of meme-age from home I got out of doing that interview for Scariest The first thing he said

Did you watch my meme? It was perfect set up He's like looking for hyped up videos He's like just send them my way You get to go through the old camera roll Oh you guys did my caption What was the caption? Whatever I was saying it was his guys did my caption. What was the caption? Well, whatever.

I remember saying it was his. I think. That was my caption. I literally came up with that. Oh, okay. We might need to end it now. This is getting awkward. We need to go to caption court, which resides in Meme Town.

Who's the judge of caption court in Meme Town? I am the neutral, detached magistrate. You give out to me the vibe of the unhinged, kind of slightly beaten down public attorney that gets assigned to people. The PD, the public defender. Yeah. They don't pay him anything and they just get the biggest caseloads.

I'm just imagining you with the same demeanor as the dude from uh making a murderer remember that guy yeah i do it's the second time that's come up this week that guy's such a dweeb yeah with the pencil and the sock oh my god oh no no you're talking about a different i was talking about the one with uh the wisconsin dude who uh clearly murdered the night of yeah the night uh we were talking about how that didn't deliver how it was like really good through two episodes and it just became an awful show mount rushmore pilot episode for a night of i was like this is gonna be the most fun ride i've ever been on television wise and it's done but we also we also had uh not far in the distance we also had uh you know like

true detective and stuff i feel like i feel like we had hopes for that. It would be like True Detective 2. It turns out the second season of that sucked. I think it's underrated. I might go do a rewatch. Check out that pod on Patreon. All right. Is it time? It's time. Bye.

Bye. Thank you.