Circling Back - The Merriman Spooky Monster Ripper & F1 Austin

Episode Date: October 25, 2021

After a massive weekend in Austin, Brett fills in for Vacation Dillon. We talk Brett’s Halloween party from Saturday, F1 weekend in Austin, some jokesters on Will’s Nextdoor app, DJ Khaled’s lack of guitar-playing skills, recapping S2E3 of Sucession, and more. Support us on Patreon and receive weekly episodes for as low $5 per month: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast Purchase a Circling Back Candle: www.vellabox.com/circling-back Watch all of our full episodes on YouTube: www.youtube.com/washedmedia Shop Washed Merch: www.washedmedia.shop (0:00) Fun & Easy Banter (13:40) The Merriman Spooky Monster Ripper (32:26) F1 Weekend in Austin (51:05) Nextdoor App Jokesters (1:05:55) DJ Khaled x Bob Marley (1:15:10) Succession — S2 E3 “Mass In Time of War” (1:27:30) Brett’s Breaking News Support This Episode’s Sponsors Rhoback: www.rhoback.com (BACKER20 for 20% off) Birddogs: www.birddogs.com (STEAM) DraftKings: www.draftkings.com (download the app and use WASHED) Trade Coffee: www.drinktrade.com/steam (STEAM for first bag free and $5 off) Nomad: www.nomadgoods.com/steam Audacy: Listen wherever podcasts are found. --- 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 lodge my name's will to freeze to my left dav David, that boy, Ruff. I just showed Will the video of a guy in his garage getting attacked by a squirrel. He fucking just ran up on him and went after his face. Yeah, a squirrel comes at you, what you doing? Did you see the video of a tarantula in Australia attacking its attacker? No. What was its attacker?

Just a person who was in the bathroom trying to kill the spider, and it came at him. You know, tarantulas are harmless as far as, like, venom to humans, I believe. Are we positive on that front? Yeah. When I was a little kid, I was actually just, like, sitting at home around Christmas time, and, like, there were these two dudes, and they wouldn't fucking leave me alone. Like, they just kept on coming to my house, trying rob me like doing stuff and so finally were they like bandits dude yeah it was weird like they kept on trying to turn my sinks on and then finally one day i

was like you know what i'm out on these dudes i'm gonna mess with them right where were your parents dude they were in uh they were in Paris. Okay. I thought, wow. I could see the bit coming full circle before. The wheels were turning in your head. You almost had to stop yourself from laughing because it was too perfect of a... I just put the tarantula on one of their faces. That's a weird way of stopping a home invasion.

Because, again, they are not dangerous to humans. They are gross and scary. They do have a mild, painful bite. Sure. It wouldn't feel good, but it's less than a bee sting per source. What if you're bee sting off the Riesling? I mean, I didn't really think about that. How many cockroaches do you need to see in your place

before you get nervous that before you have to do something about the cockroaches one i don't want to talk about it one are you a noted cockroach boy dave um i don't know what that like am i afraid of them yeah i don't they they they really gross me i. I kill them. I'm not scared to death. Yeah, I crunch them. But I don't – when I see them, it's like it triggers a visceral response, much like Queso. Is that because you were conditioned to believe that they can survive nuclear attacks? No, that doesn't really bother me. That's their business if they are able to survive said attack because they definitely can't survive a good swat with a boot or a shoe. That being said, no, I mean, when it rained, we got that big rain a couple weeks ago. That's when the bugs try to get inside.

And, you know, you might see one or two and you're like, okay, do I need to burn the house down? Yeah. We don't have a problem at this point, but I have seen one, and I saw a baby one elsewhere, and that was concerning to me. Yeah, it's dangerous. Your apartment? No big deal. It's kind of intermingled with the trees, so they have a direct little bridge to get over to your crib. I feel like I've never seen a cockroach in the wild.

They're only in homes at this point. You fucking cockroach. Cockroach. What do they eat? I don't know. What do bugs eat? Yeah, I mean leaves and shit. What do bugs eat?

I don't know what cockroaches eat. I know what ants eat. They eat leaves and shit. What do roaches eat? Cockroaches eat, they're obviously they're, I don't know how to say that first word. Are they omnivorous or are they omnivorous? Omnivorous. They're omnivorous scavengers and will consume any organic food source available to them.

Wow, that's very bougie of them to only eat organic. It's true. It's free range only. Free range scraps. Yeah. Farm to table scraps for the cockroaches only. Why don't they just hang out in, like, Matt's El Rancho dumpsters?

They probably do. That's true. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I bet if I... Instead of my house. They probably are the people who administer the Dillon's COVID test. The roaches?

Because you got one of the dumpsters. It's like Joe's apartment, but they're just dressed up in lab coats giving Dillon vaccines and shit. Dillon's... Dillon? Dylan's nasal swab. Can I pivot and bring up something that's very heartwarming to hit the TL? You can. Did you see that Vin Diesel walked Paul Walker's daughter down the aisle at her wedding?

I did. If you didn't get a little misty when you saw that photo, then you have no heart. Yeah. If you didn't get a little misty when you saw that photo, then you have no heart. Yeah. They walked out of that It's Been a Long Day song that has been playing in Paul Walker's memory for like the last 10 years. Dude, Wiz Khalifa got like three Grammy performances out of that. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

No, they walked down to Vin Diesel's seminal hit from 2020, Feel Like I Do. I feel like you actually listened to that song at the gym. I haven't. I haven't. I'm on Spotify. It's not a bad song. I just envision you it comes on and for a second you're like, I should change it. And then you shrug and you're like, nah.

I remember early pandemic like week two walking the dog and that song, I was listening to it and I remember convincing myself I had COVID because it was so early and I was listening to it, and I remember convincing myself I had COVID because it was so early, and I was just like,

oh, dude, I've got a little post-nasal drip. Oh, it's in. Yeah, it wasn't. But I specifically remember that song playing, and I was just kind of like, okay. I was like, I'm accepting this. The album artwork is more concerning for me. Yeah.

It appears like he is enjoying something tremendously. What exactly? Like drugs? I don't know. Maybe he's on a boat. People do enjoy boats. That is my boat face. What, Will?

I think it looks like he's getting top. Oh. It's just me. Man, we got a loaded episode today. Should we explain why Brett's in the building? We got the magic bullet today. Dylan's on Cabeza Watch in Mexico. Correct.

Where is he exactly? Have we seen... Rumors are out there swirling. Dylan has gone full mustache. I have not seen a photo yet that I can go to. Do you want video evidence? Yeah, because I i have not seen it i have not seen a photo yet that that i can go to you want video evidence yeah because i also have not i also have not been on on social media very much over the last 24 hours so it's been difficult oh he did go full mustache i actually think dylan looks really good with a mustache yeah we had one oh a couple years ago um in that photo with parks

and it looked good yeah like i i think it's a top uh i think it's like a top three way that dylan looks it's definitely better than not having any facial hair at all on him he no one takes uh no one takes years off their life like dylan when he shaves his beard like i was going through some old photos recently and seeing a baby face dylan he looks way too young i think having the beard makes him look more age-appropriate. Sure. For his age, which is now late 30s. Happy birthday, Dylan.

38. I think that's the official. You can no longer get away with mid-30s at that point. 37, you can kind of get away with it. You can dip your toe into the mid-30s when you're 37. I consider myself late 20s, and I'm 27. Yeah. Someone's 11 years older. I was talking about you with somebody recently. I don't remember who it was, but they were like, well, how old's Brett?

He's like 30? And I was like, no, Brett, he just puts out the vibe of a 30-year-old. He's like 26 or 27. He's an old chunk of coal. I don't know if that's an insult or a single crumb of coal. It's a compliment, I think. It's probably both. We got some official business to get out of the way.

Spooky season. We had the penultimate episode last week. Yeah, it was the penultimate. They were calling it the ultimate pen. The finale's tomorrow. And you know what that means. We're going to go off. Do we have a special guest tomorrow, David?

I need to... As far as I know. I really hope so. We could have Brett. Brett will be great. We have a good special guest penciled in. Yeah, it'll be good. He won't know.

I don't think he'll have any clue what he's getting into. Yeah, but I think that's going to make it good. Yeah, that's usually how it goes. Yeah. Big special guest coming for Patreon tomorrow, patreon.com slash tricklingbackpodcast. As you know, we are also recapping the Bachelorette season right now.

We will be doing that on Wednesday as that airs on Tuesday due to Monday Night Football. So again, go to Patreon.com slash tricklingbackpodcast. We also released a candle

I think last week or the week before. Do you even burn? Oh, should we light that right now? Do we have a lighter up in this bitch? Yeah. Where'd that lighter be?

Oh, in the butt mug. While we're lighting the candle, I'm going to read a couple of reviews that we got this past week. Leaving a review helps us on the charts. It helps us just, you know, get people in the door. It's just a good thing. Don't read that one. Which one?

Oh, yeah. We're not going to read the one. We got a negative one from like early. Whoever wrote that wouldn't like it. It's not a episode. Just say it. It just says, please, no more Brett. I'm on an episode for like three minutes.

Yeah, you're good. In my opinion, this guy, he's taking it too far. No, Brett's great. Brett's got arguably the best pod in the network going now, the cold stove. Dude, the stove is cold. This is a cold stove for all of your hockey breaking news. Oh, letter flick. Wheezy F baby.

Okay. RIP Snoop Dogg's mom. Man. I didn't mean to take it there, but I feel like Martha Stewart's like his like de facto mom now. I thought they had a thing. If you told me that they hooked up one night, I wouldn't be surprised. She's been putting out heat lately on Instagram. I could see her taking him as a lover. I would, I mean, if Sally leaves me, the first person I'm DMing is Martha Stewart. Oh, yeah. She's got a ton of money offshore, I'm sure. Yeah, she's like putting

out spawn posts for like $150,000 Mercedes-Benz, and she's just like, everyone should go get one of these. God, you are so baller, Martha. Promo code, like, home cooking. Once this Bitcoin pops off. It's been popping. Dude, it'd be bussing right now.

Yeah. Someone said, I get it now. Let me just say there's certainly a loading phase for this potty. My husband's been a fan for years, and I used to find myself quite frustrated with his random bits. Now I've listened for a couple weeks. I understand him much more and even find myself laughing along. In fact, we've even found ourselves playing stand mute cancel several times on our honeymoon. Take that for what you will. Shout out you boys look at us damn uh we also had uh uh someone say found this podcast because of will and scary shouts when i first started listening i thought

it was merely insufferable social media personalities with microphones thank you for that uh but then she did clarify or he did clarify uh, then the Randy's trip to Chili's episode hit different. Now I'm an optimized backer and use goaded and build different in my daily vocab. Much love to the lads. Thanks for the last reprieve from Office Monotony. To all of your peers and coworkers and friends and family. Guys, I got news. New Dadum on Twitter, at New Dadum, just got a post off.

Cool Adam, dude? Yeah, Ghoul Adam. He's known in spooky season. We're going to talk about his Halloween costume in just a little bit. Randy, we need to pull that tweet up when we get to it. Yeah, Randy, please cue that up because A-Bomb is just putting out heat lately. Before we talk about the Merriman spooky monster ripper, let's hear from our friends over at Bird Dogs.

What do we need to say about Bird Dogs that hasn't already been said? We got a box that got delivered mid-pod the other day. It's just sitting over there. I love those mid-pod delivers. It's great. I think, actually, he delivered the box when we were doing our picnic between Christopher Walken, Travis Barker, and Khloe Kardashian. Yeah, that is the award-winning clip.

We're hoping it'll get us into South by this year. I've been told that Travis Barker only wears bird dogs while drumming, though, because they're comfortable and they also help with his sweat management. Yeah, they don't ride up. Yeah. He likes the liner. He also likes their pants. They're his going-out pants, but they're also his, like...

Everything pants. Yeah, he also goes to his day job going out pants, but they're also his like... Everything pants. Yeah. Like he also goes to like his day job in his pants, which is drumming. What is he, like an investment banker? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Travis Barker had to pick up a day job. There's a 100% chance that Travis Barker has like invested in a random startup, correct? I would bet either energy drink.

CBD. CBD was number two. Yep. He could be pioneering like those tattoos that like last like two months. I know those well. I'm thinking about getting

the bird dog's logo tattooed on me because I have a bird dog myself. Odds. No. Odds? No. If I've learned anything from this pod is that you can't do odds.

I don't feel like losing. You get... I'm denying your odds. You're a bird dog wearing bird dogs tattooed on you. So you want me to get my Springer Spaniel tattooed on me, and she's going to be wearing a pair of bird dog shorts. Correct. Can she be wearing a pair of bird dog performance chinos? Of course.

Because you know I rock with those. Okay. I'm going on vacation Thursday, not to ruin this weekend and fun for Wednesdays, but Thursday I'm going to Mexico, and I was told that we have to dress up for dinner every night. I will be bringing my Bird Dogs pants as they are comfortable,

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Even a shower. As you guys know. They're remarkable in pools, by the way. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, whether it's their swimsuits or their shorts, I'll wear either of them in the pool. I don't care. Yep.

I'm a bad boy. Correct. Brett, we had the Merriman Spooky Monster Ripper on Saturday night. Right. We're going to forego just doing a general this weekend in fun, a recap in this weekend in fun, because I think that this commands just a general discussion. Yeah. No, I don't know if you saw, it was upgraded from the Merriman Spooky Monster Bash to Merriman Spooky Monster Ripper Thursday afternoon after reports were coming in that it would be, in fact, a ripper. I think it delivered on that promise.

Sure. I spent all day Friday purchasing things, all day Saturday setting things up. So I had a blast. I don't know what to say other than I don't want to chronologically take you through the evening. Here, I'm going to ask you some questions. Sure. Out of all the appetizers, which ones do you think were the most popular? Well, the Pigs in a Blanket and Scallion Onion Jam Brioche Bites went immediately. I'm glad you brought those up. That was going to be my first question.

I didn't know what the flavor was within those. I didn't know if it was like a goat cheese of some sort or something like that. But those brioche bites were hitting. Yeah. Those hit markedly differently. Yeah. So I showed up at your place almost directly from the golf course because I played in a LLS charity tournament. Shout out to our friends over there, Central Texas LLS Society.

It was a great time. Anyway, didn't really have time to eat dinner. Went home, showered, put on my costume. Just showed up over at your place with about three signature One Iron drinks from Gray Rock Club. That's their go-to, which is a very good drink. I did have a pulled pork sandwich at some point during the day, but no dinner. So I just posted up next to your tray and ate the little pigs in a blanket. I ate like 12 of them.

Did you? Then I had a cookie, and then I had something else. And then I had the old-fashioned that you made me that pretty much ended my night. If I saw you drinking that old-fashioned for like an hour and a half, it was one of the stiffer drinks I've ever made. He gave me the cool glass, the nice glass, too, like the Mad Men-style glass. Well, you were wearing your costume, Dave. I knew it would be. I said it from day one.

He showed up as Armand, and he went and freaked it. You're right. I did. A lot of good costumes. I was a big fan of yours, even though I couldn't look at you. Making eye contact with you was just like, I don't know i know what you are but like i don't i'm uncomfortable with with this because like there's you could have had like one misstep in life and ended up like that's you yeah no i i uh when i put the two the to-dos on uh my my whole mindset changed that day at about 1230. I went to Target to get a few last second items before the Ripper with the to-dos on.

Tattoos for those that don't speak British. I stopped multiple times in Target by tattoo guys who were like, dude, that's sick. Where'd you get that? Can I see it? Because I went in short sleeves. I'm like, yeah, yeah. Hold on Where'd you get that? Can I see it? Because I went in short sleeves. I'm like, yeah, yeah. Hold on. It looked too real.

Did you tell them? Yeah, I told them. Because I don't want to appropriate their culture. True. That's a good choice from you. You don't want to get run up on by some dudes that think you're jocking their swag. 100%. But I did say, oh, yeah, of course you can take a look.

And then I gave them the satisfaction of like, oh, that's tight. And I was like, well, they're fake but what day this week what's the what's the over under on days this week that that you're going to have those fully removed from your body at this point i mean is it even this week well it has like i'm going to a wedding next weekend so i kind of kind of have to i know but like i don't have faith that they're going to be totally gone by the time you go to the wedding yeah i don't either there's going to be totally gone by the time you go to the wedding next week. I don't either. There's going to be specks all over the place. Did you say who you were? You were Machine Gun Kelly.

Machine Gun Kelly. Machine Gun Kelly. I kept it a secret as long as I could. And Caroline was Megan Fox. And I think it delivered. It was a great couple's costume. Great costume individually and together. I feel like we can't give the award for best costume to the actual host of the party.

That's fine. I think that's like hosting the Oscars and giving yourself best actor or actress. Right. I will say that both Dave and Intern Klein both said they wanted to fight me based on my costume alone. If I saw you at a bar,

I would be like, we need to get as far away from this guy as possible. I think it's a good thing, though. I think that means the costume transcended time and space. It did. No, you became the costume. Right. The black a good thing, though. I think that means the costume transcended time and space. It did. No, you became the costume. Right. The black tongue put it all together. That was

uncomfortable. Randy went as Cole's cash. In his defense, he did try for a different costume that has not arrived yet due to the international shipping bottlenecks. Yeah, the choke point. Right. I'm surprised.

Dave had a custom name tag? Getting that here in time was... Yeah, that was tough. What cost more, the name tag or the shipping for the name tag? The name tag was like $16, so you guess. I'm going to guess the latter. I want to give out a shout out to them because Office Sign Company, they were great. Really? And I was worried because I had a backup costume, but I was messaging with their customer service people.

And they were very forthright. And they were like, we're going to do our best. Because originally it was going to be eight to nine days. And of course, I waited until two days before the party. And they recognized what I was doing. They were like, love the show. This is going to be a great costume. We're going to do our best to get it to you. And of course I waited until like two days before the party. And they recognized what I was doing. Like, love the show. This is going to be

a great costume. We're going to do our best to get it to you. And they did. No shit. That's honestly like good for them. I will 100% go to them

if I ever need a name tag. Honestly, they do signs and they do name tags apparently. And it looked phenomenal. Quite well. They did the logo. They did the Lotus. I sent them a vector file. Are you familiar with these? Yes. Wow. That's the Lotus. I sent them a vector file.

Are you familiar with these? Yes. Wow. That's big time. I sent them one. And you had a pin, too? How did you acquire the vector file, Dave? I don't know.

I found one online, and then I just dragged it to my desktop screen, and then I just put it in an email. No offense to you, but you just don't have the vibe of a dude who knows how to work around a vector file. I didn't. I was just praying that they wouldn't ask for a higher quality photo. Based on how you just described how you got them the file, I don't think you actually got them a vector

file. I think they probably had to make something out of that, but that's cool of them to know. I'm glad you shouted them out because it sounds like they actually deserved it. They were great. And then the lapel pen, that was an Etsy find you uh well done david well done your costume was spot on and the the reason that i was so happy about it was the name tag without the name tag it i don't it wouldn't have been a bad costume but that made it like the perfect costume yeah um thank you i normally the name tag is not what you want

on a halloween costume right but in some scenarios when the character you are doing is wearing a name tag in every scene you got to go name tag and it's not you know when specifically you don't want the um stick on write your name in a Sharpie. Correct. That shows that you put no effort into your costume. Or it's just so niche that not one person will get it. We had an old intern. I'm not going to name him because I don't want to expose him right now.

But he wore a button-down shirt to a Halloween party one time and then had a stick-on name tag that just said, John Mayer. Wait, who was that? Was that Evan? I was like, dude, what are you doing? Were we with him? No, no, he just posted online. And I remember it was like after his internship,

and I was like, dude, you can't do that. Was that a bit? I don't know. The bit is like he looks nothing like John Mayer. He was like hoping that you would roast him so that he could get like some followers out of it. Well, maybe now, three, four years later. Maybe even five.

Five. We're old. My favorite costumes of the night were Dave as Armand from White Lotus. Yep. Phenomenal. Intern Klein's girlfriend was a very convincing Tomb Raider, Laura Croft. Yep, Laura Croft. Barrett and Laura of Club Cool fame, they were a very good throwback to the 90s

as Where's Waldo and Carmen Sandiego. Boy, that spawned some Carmen Sandiego talk. Dude, the whole squad was loving Carmen Sandiego. Just when you think you got her, next thing you know, she's in Paris. Like, how? I heard that the reason that she's jumping all over the world is that she has an immortal snail that's just chasing her.

We're not doing the immortal snail. We're not doing the hypothetical. We're not doing immortal snail that's just chasing her we're not doing the immortal snail we're not doing the hypothetical we're not doing that's why though because she's got a snail that's just constantly looking for it he's nodding let me also shout out uh mr worldwide drool adam himself yes so can we get that yeah we have we actually have a photo of adam who absolutely crushed his mr worldwide costume dude i love how he was feeling himself so much that he was like, I'm going to tweet this too. When it's 304 versus when it's 305. Of course, a nod to the 305 Miami.

I'm going to retweet him. He walked in with a bottle of Fireball. Unclear as to what happened to said bottle of Fireball. Was it drank? I don't know. No, I left at midnight because I had a big day the next day. And I did not... I saw the fireball and I was like, you know what? I think there's

two things we should do with this fireball. We should either do shots or we should dump it into the punch. Oh. The punch... You ruined the award for most punch drank. It was Will DeFries. Yeah. Not to brag, but yeah, I drank the most punch out of anybody at the party. The punch seemed

like it was evolving i noticed that different it was constantly like getting reworked more stuff was getting added and it didn't seem like it was getting measured out it was just kind of being eyeballed it was dumped yeah there was there was a lot of prosecco in there it was a lot of vodka in there that's probably what they're with a headache the next day came from there was a lot of uh apple cider in there. Yeah. And ginger beer to kind of level it all out. A little bit of sugar.

Just a smidge. That's okay. Did we dump a couple extra ginger beers in there before everyone arrived? Yeah. Yeah, we did. We had to. Did you have a recipe or were you just freestyling? Yeah, the recipe, we were adjusting off of the recipe, though,

based on the receptacle that we had on the fly. Can I give myself an award? Can I get two awards today? I'd like to give myself the most mailing costume of the night. Yeah. You know, I thought you were going to come as what you said you were going to be. Yeah, I didn't do that. More on that later.

But I'd like to apologize to anyone out there who enjoys Halloween and has a high standard for themselves when it comes to costumes because I do not have a high standard for myself and as someone who did not have

a certified costume two hours before I just went as Cristiano Ronaldo right you nailed it though I looked just like him people were like

holy shit is that Cristiano Ronaldo he did before everybody got there he did the celebration I was like oh there he is I He did the celebration. I was like, oh, there he is. I did do the celebration. Can I give Randy the most valuable, the MVP of the early part of the party?

He was the preseason MVP. Randy brought a sewing machine to the party to sew Brett's blazer. Correct. And I learned two things at this point. One, that Machine Gun Kelly wears sewed blazers. And two, that Randy knows how to sew. Yeah. Randy was about half an hour before And two, that Randy knows how to sew. Yeah. Randy was about half an hour

before the party, Dave. Randy was over there. Will was crushing a beer on the couch watching Sabres Devils. Getting really into this goalie for the Devils, or Sabres, who was...

Dude, he was standing on his head. That's hockey speak for playing well. And Randy was sewing my blazer up on my end table next to my couch.

Sewing what? Exactly. So MGK has a blazer up on my end table. Sewing what exactly? So MGK has a blazer that is basically tucked. Instead of going like the kind of the lapels, I guess you could call them. So going down towards his thigh, they're tucked underneath. So the blazer kind of hits at the hip. Okay. I had a white blazer with the lapels just hanging down,

and I needed them to be tucked. Oh, okay. Randy, turns out, has a sewing machine that can do just that. I mean, what can't he do? Right. So he came over with his friend Jason. They iced us, Will and I. Oh, yeah, me too, later on. Yep.

And then sewed my blazer up. uh, they iced us, Will and I. Oh yeah, me too, later on. Yep. Um, and then, and then, uh, sewed my blazer up. Yeah. Jason was a, uh, uh, kind of old news boy, right? And, uh, instead of newspapers, he had a bag full of Smirnoff ice. And, um, at one point he just starts shouting in the middle of the party and runs over to me and hands it to me. Yep. And I was like, okay, I guess I'll drink this now. And I did, and I felt very bad the next day. Correct. I needed something to kickstart my night, and getting iced was literally the perfect thing for me.

Yeah. I was feeling a little down. I was a little tired. And getting iced, it was a pleasant surprise. And I was like, you know what? I need an excuse to chug a drink right now because I'm entering this party with low energy. I'm not happy with myself.

I've got to figure it out. I also learned something at your party, Brett. I learned how to play a game called Stack Cup. Oh, yeah. That was a lot of fun outside, huh? Y'all were getting after it outside. Dude, that game's fun. It's essentially speed quarters with just cups.

Correct. And increasing difficulty as it goes around. Part of the reason I liked this drinking game is because I didn't have to drink anything. Oh, you got lucky. I got lucky. Some call it luck, some call it skill. Yeah. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you end up

drinking like 12 sips of beer because you get a high stack, and then people just keep owning you. I felt good about my skills in that game. I very much enjoyed it. I would say the Brett Merriman Spooky Monster Ripper was a rousing success. Yeah, I think it all went well. I very much enjoyed it. I would say the Brett Merriman spooky monster ripper was a rousing success. Yeah, I think it all went

well. I think the decor, if I do say so myself, was pretty spooky. Pretty well done. Yeah, I was really, I didn't notice it until later in the night, like how much spider web was being utilized. Correct, yeah. There was a lot

of cobweb. Took me to a No Doubt video. No Doubt. Did you leave it up? It's still up, oh yeah. There's still a lot of things that I have to clean up that I will be doing this afternoon. Did our friend from the golf course ever show up? No, he didn't. Shots to Jarrett. Come on, dude.

He hit me with a yes on the RSVP too, not even a maybe. Probably didn't get back from the track until late. Yeah, probably. So all in all, pretty good. I'll give you the MVP of the postseason, if you will, the late half of the party to one Dan Regester because Dan was on my couch with myself and Randy

until 2 a.m. watching the end of the Zozo championship with Hideki Matsuyama because he had a substantial stack on that.m. watching the end of the Zozo Championship with Hideki Matsuyama because he had a substantial stack on that. Correct. So I knew exactly, I knew that was going to happen. The minute he told me that he had money on Hideki, I was like, oh, that's on right now. And then I was like, oh, you're going to stick around here

and watch until the end. He sure did, which was fun, which was fine. We just kind of cleaned up and Dan watch until the end. He sure did. Which was fun. Which was fine. We just kind of cleaned up and Dan was on the couch. He would, but it was a significant margin, right? I think it was two strokes. Two strokes? Okay. Over Cam Tringali? I don't know.

I remember Dan just being like, fuck Cam Tringali. Cam Tringali. Not a fan. I think the queso was a hit as well. I just want to put that out there. It was a hit. It was a decision.

Was it Tostitos? No. It was Velveeta. Okay. The classic Velveeta Rotel. The Texas. At any point, did you worry about neighbors calling the police? No.

I think it's because the neighbor below me has a bunch of spooky decor on their balcony. Okay. And the neighbor next to me is like our age. As far as I can tell, I've never interacted with him. They get it. Yeah. They get it. Yeah.

Okay. So I think all in all, good time. Yeah, the stack cup or whatever y'all were playing out there was quite rowdy. Yeah, I was expecting to get a call after that game. It was rowdy. Yeah. Hey, we got a new sponsor. Oh, really?

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Yeah, a lot of people had a big day yesterday, according to my Instagram, and I feel pretty left out. And this is only my fault because I had offers to go, and I did not. But you had a good time. Everybody had a good time. Great race. Our guy didn't pull it out at the end, my guy, but that's okay.

I saw the rain in the morning scared me a little bit. It wasn't rainy. It was foggy. Yeah, it was more just kind of foggy and honestly, the reason people were praying for no rain out there was because it was already pretty warm and if there was rain, it was just going to create a very steamy environment. Got it.

But I went out to the Circuit of the Americas, COTA as they call it. How was the ride out? For the F1 race. Honestly, the ride out was pretty easy. You had your regular bottlenecks that you have in any Austin traffic scenario when you're going to the airport. But getting in was not as bad. It wasn't as bad as you would think it would be.

But we also went very early compared to what we could have done. We left at nine, so we didn't really have to worry too much about that. I was amped up yesterday. I watched the women's race. It was the final race of the season that decided the champion. No shit. What channel was that on? It wasn't on a channel.

It was just I just watched it. Oh, okay. I was going to say I've never seen that on TV. They all drive the same car, which I thought was interesting. That's the way it should be. Level the playing field. Wow. Can't have all these guys, these souped up cars out there.

Let's find out who the real driver is. I originally was not going to go to F1, but I got an offer that I could not refuse. One of my friends had some tickets. He offered me one, and I was like, you know what? Let's do it. You were into F1 before a lot of people. Certainly me. It was you, and then Dylan got into it as well.

Yeah. And I basically got forced into it. It was either that or just shut up during whenever you guys were talking about it on the pod. So I did what most people are doing and got into the Netflix original, Drive to Survive. I originally got into F1 like 10 years ago when I was sending race recaps to one of my friends who was living out of the country, and I really enjoyed it.

And I kind of took a couple years off, didn't really follow it too much. It's a big learning curve, especially before Drive to Survive existed. Going out and finding all that information about the drivers, doing everything, it was much harder to get into the sport. And now that Drive to Survive existed? Like, going out and finding all that information about the drivers, like doing everything, it was much harder to get into the sport. And now that Drive to Survive exists, it's just incredibly easy. Yeah.

It is the perfect solution to the loading phase, which makes us think that maybe we need a circling back Netflix documentary. Would it be Drive to Survive? Would it be – we're going to have to workshop some names. No, it would be something dumb like oh like oh what are you faithful and then it'd come out at christmas time and okay you thought about this yeah he clearly has there's a marketing strategy i have i knew that f1 was going to be huge this weekend and it was obviously going to be huge either way but i knew it was going to be next level because i went out friday night and everywhere

just had a bunch of uh like rich dudes who were very mediocre looking and all of these rich dudes who were very mediocre looking were walking into restaurants with uh uh women who i will say are out of their league unless they are very rich yeah it was it was a very funny dynamic to watch to people watch from afar and i truly couldn't get enough of it. Man, the people watching at the Wu Chao Bar had to have been just amazing. Unbelievable. Oh, my God. Any celebs in town?

Anybody notable? Noted gossip Instagram account, Dumois. I think the only reason that you and I are familiar with this, Dave, is because of our wives. They noted that Serena Williams, who I think is the goat, was eating at Matt's El Rancho. Oh, yeah. Okay. I would like to know her order. That would be a

fun sighting because I want to see how much of a little bitch I look like next to her. Yeah. She could beat me up. Easily. Matt's El Rancho must have been a disaster. Probably. Wait, somebody tried to go Friday. Was it Klein?

No, somebody tried to go. Klein went. I don't know how. Klein, no, they pivoted. They went, and then they ended up going to some place over here in Westlake. It was Klein. He tried to go at 8 o'clock, and it was a two-hour wait. What are they doing?

Even without F1 in town, you can't go 8 o'clock mats and not expect to wait 90 minutes. 8 o'clock might be the time when it starts to... I think 7.15 is the time when your wait is the longest. I feel like by 8, you might start being on the decline. The intern decline. Ha. That was good. Rory was here.

He didn't hit me up about going to the race or anything. For F1? Yeah. For F1? Well, yeah. Okay. For F1. I did not see noted, uh, F1 influencer, uh, Formula Bone out at the race, unfortunately. We had, we were in different spots. So being out there, this isn't a place where like, if you and J Bone wanted to meet up

and he's on the other side, like it's not, it's not easy to, it's not like you walk over a concourse and you're there. It's one of the weirder, it's like one of the weirder live events to go to because, you know, there's really no, I mean, there's no stoppages unless there's an accident or something, but there were none yesterday. It was a very clean race. And so even though the race started at 2 p.m., I was home with my son at 4.55 p.m. last night. How long does the race take?

It was 56 laps. That's really impressive. It was very easy. As someone who waited for about an hour and a half for an Uber after a Sturgill concert at the same venue, I don't know how you made it home so quickly. It was wonderful. I will say I was amazed by, I guess they recently did a poll, and I guess Max Verstappen has officially surpassed Lewis Hamilton

in terms of popularity. And points. And if you watched it out there, the crowd was so into him compared to Lewis. Where we were sitting. What's the draw? He's not charismatic. I mean, I know Lewis isn't necessarily, but like, it's not like he's just some.

Are you anti-Verstappen? Kind of, yeah. I think the draw is that Lewis was so dominant for so long. He's just a different dude. That now we have someone new that's challenging him for once. He's young. He's good looking. He's on a hip team.

Okay. But he already said he's not doing the next season of Drive to Survive. Verstappen? Yeah. So he's just going to be in the show and not part of it? He's out of it. He's not doing it. That seems weird. I immediately want to attack him for that, but I bet it's very easy to lose focus if you're doing that.

You think about when the PGA Tour is doing something like this, I don't know to what level. They should. Think about in Tiger's prime. There's no way Tiger's giving him that access. Correct. Because he's too much of a serial killer. Allegedly. I will give them, like, once you get to the track, access granted.

When I leave, we're out. Who's the other Red Bull driver? Chico Perez. Will he be giving them access? I don't know. Okay. All I know is that Verstappen came out and said nah. Hey, if you're the folks over at Haas Racing, what are you doing?

Why do you pay millions of dollars to come and last every race? It's the American way, man. Are they the lone American team? It's the American way. And there's no American driver, so you can't even market that. It's just millions upon millions of dollars to come and last every weekend. The amount of money that goes through F1,

that's part of the reason that I'm so intrigued by it because it's just insane. If you look at the wings in front of the car, if you get a damaged wing that you can't use anymore, that's $500,000 out the door. We looked it up yesterday. It was like, oh yeah, it's between $400,000 and $500,000 for new, I mean, I'm probably using terrible terms for these things.

I don't know what they're called. Red Bull. Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. The front of the car. Oh, the front, yeah. The little wheel projectors. F1 dudes are just sitting at their desk right now, just punching air. I'm sure they'll let us know.

Yeah, I can't wait. But, dude, you and Dylan are the F1 dudes to me. So if y'all aren't right, then I don't know who it is, man. I don't trust. I don't care enough about F1 to get down to the nitty-gritty of learning the different parameters for the cars and stuff like that. It doesn't interest me on that level. Why? I just want to see them going off on yachts in Monaco and stuff.

Right. With DRS specifically. Why don't you just like use that all the time because you have to be within a certain range of the driver in front of you in order to use it and they have certain zones that you can use it in one second or less thank you for asking a question that i actually know the answer to instead of a question that i have to punt on and get get ridiculed by some anonymous account can i ask a question about uh the guy who i feel like is maybe

that was their most marketable this weekend? Yes. Ricciardo? Ricardo. Ricardo. Ricciardo. He was the hat guy, right, all weekend? He was wearing the cowboy hat.

He seems like he's down to do bits. He is. I think he's smart. I think he's smart, and he knows that if there's one way to impress people, especially in Texas, it's by just leaning into the whole Texas thing. And he did an entire interview with a Texas accent. That was pretty funny.

It was entertaining. I think that he's a little too much, and I think I've said before that he puts out the vibe of a dude who has never had someone in his squad not laugh at his jokes. Like they're just obligated to because they're in the squad. There's a lot of yes men around him. Hyper famous. Yeah.

And so it gets a little old. But honestly, when they were doing the driver parade yesterday before the race and he was there getting interviewed and he was wearing a UT basketball jersey tucked into some jeans with a giant belt and a cowboy hat on. I was like, you know what? I can flex a little bit right now and I can actually like Ricardo instead of hating on him like I normally do. Okay. He did impress me. He won me over a little bit. Okay.

He had a little beef, right uh signs uh yesterday yeah i don't know i didn't it was hard because like maybe a bad pass or something they play all the audio so if if you've ever thought about how they do an f1 race it's it's confusing because it's like well what you get to see one turn like how exciting can that be they have tv TV screens that they show the TV coverage on, which is cool. And then they absolutely blast the audio from the television coverage at the track. So you have the intel the entire time. So we knew that with three laps left, Lewis might be, he might have caught Verstappen. And so like we actually understood what was going on.

If they didn't have that audio pumping in, you'd just be completely lost the entire time i'm imagining a like a football game where you're watching a cowboys game and tony you can let tony romo's audio from cbs is just blaring throughout the stadium it's like just uh incoherent rambling it's the one sport where i think it's an absolute necessity to have like in. Yeah, because you can't see everything. And you don't know when people are pitting. You don't know anything. Sometimes people would come around and be like, wait, what happened there? Dude, at one point, and I guess this doesn't happen at every stop, but it's in the middle of the race.

Actually, toward the end of the race, and I'm watching, and they just cut from it. Like, hey, there's Ben Stiller. And they just show Ben Stiller, and then they go back to it. That's it. You're like, okay, yeah, it was Ben Stiller. And they just show Ben Stiller and then they go back to it. That's it. You're like, okay, yeah, it was Ben Stiller. That's cool. Dude, we got some George Lucas yesterday. They did show the Lucas.

Really? I wonder. And Shaq. Shaq got a lot of play. Somebody rented out Shasta Fix, my favorite spot. Somebody bought out Fix from 2 o'clock on Saturday to close. Love that. And I need to know who.

I can't believe you didn't get the low-key. I'm surprised they didn't give you a uniform that you could have gone and put on to just be at fix and not have to worry about anything. You need to get the scoop from your contact. Yeah, please get the intel. I will get the scoop. At this point, it's just contacts. I basically work there, Dave. If you're a listener and you ever are interested in going to an F1 race, I highly recommend you try to go to one, whether it's the one in Austin or if they're going to Miami next year or the year after whenever they're supposed to go to Miami.

Try to go to a race. It's really, really cool. So I heard that this weekend a lot is that like, ooh, Austin's maybe not going to have an F1 race anymore. If you're F1 and you see 400,000 people come to Austin for the weekend and it like goes relatively smoothly, why would you not just put Austin on the calendar every year? And maybe have two U.S. races. And honestly, like being out there, it was one of the most positive experiences I've ever been in a giant live event like that. There was no like – I saw zero people who were too drunk. I saw zero people who were like getting chippy or having a bad time.

Everybody was just pumped up and like having an enjoyable time i saw no like riffraff going on it was great he wasn't no fights no i saw nothing bad like uh okay is riffraff still alive i don't know billy joel did the uh saturday performance after qualifying i didn't stick around for cool in the gang yesterday billy joel did it performed. Holy shit. He's the piano man. Yeah, I'm familiar. That's a big get. Billy Joel. Billy freaking Joel.

I love Green Day. If the Merriman Spooky Monster Bash was not happening, downtown would have been a great place to just post up and see who's walking around. Did you do your spot this weekend? Your membership spot? I didn't do anything this weekend besides go to F1 and get drunk. Did you not go to the bar?

No. And see who was there? I don't think celebrities are going out this weekend. I think it's more just the rich people who just follow F1 races around. It was a cool thing for people to be wearing gear from other countries. Ooh, I would have crushed in my Slovenian national jersey. But this is from F1 races in other countries. They have special hats for every city, and so you'd see people wearing one from wherever it may be.

Go ahead, Brett. There's F1 groupies that travel the world and watch every race? Probably. That's crazy. You've got to be loaded to do it. Oh, yeah. Can I say that you mentioned going out and posting up on West 6 or wherever downtown. So I've been to West 6 a couple times in the last month, and I think the pandemic has finally done it.

I think it, even though we're back to normal ish for the most part here i think it is i'm officially aged out of it no i'm officially oh i am dude sitting at star bar was a lot of fun because the group we were with but looking around and seeing like all these what i assumed to be were were ut kids in their in their burnt orange polos like clearly just came from the game um dejected, might I add. And just like hanging out. I'm like, dude, I don't need to be here because Star Bar and these other bars on West 6th, that's the reason you go to West 6th is because you're not running into these kids.

And it's not that they're assholes. Some of them are. But it's just that I feel like they're looking at me like I used to look at older guys at the bar and be like, oh, what's this guy doing? What's he think he's doing? I felt old. I felt old. The only reason I was there was because we were hanging out with Duda and stuff.

But I did feel old the entire time we were there. And I love that area. Woodrow's, I will never give up on Woodrow's. I will continue to go to Woodrow's. But Parlor, Parlor's done. Parlor's done. I'm not going into Parlor. Rustic.

Rustic's fine. You can get away with Rustic. Rustic's fine. Rustic attracts a different clientele because i think they kind of it's a little bit more low-key where it's like hey sit out here by this fire pit and listen to this uh this guy playing the guitar so it's a little bit more chill they're also the lsu bar thing to go with where you just get lsu fans there and i i fuck with those i don't mind that that's a that's a fun fan base to hang out with yeah um but i don't you know i don't i don't mean to bring it down but that i kind of had that

feeling and i i didn't like it because i was again i'm not like as old as dylan you know what's gaining in popularity though for folks that are older like yourselves is the the offshoot bars right off of sixth for example these knees for Knees, for example. Still too old, I feel like. No, Bees Knees is like, you can be like 60. Oh, trust me. As someone who went to Bees Knees a month ago, I am definitely too old for that bar. Really? Yeah.

I felt intimidated. I think you guys just need more self-confidence. I think you're maybe right on that front as well, but also I'm old. I don't feel old. You don't look old. You don't look old. I don't feel like I look that old. I probably dress younger than I am. But that being said, that scares me more because then they realize that I am in my mid to late 30s.

They're like, oh, cool, trying to be young. What are you trying to do, man? Trying to find a college girl or something? No, I'm just here with Duda. Yeah, I'm just chilling with Duda. He is the wolf of Wall Street. He is the wolf. I think also Dirty has lessened in popularity.

No, and we'll never find out. Correct. I think Dirty's gotten... Dirty's kind of jumping the shark a little bit, so people are moving to West. Where did Cool Adam go post... Because he left a little bit early. He had something to do.

He didn't dress up like Pitbull to hang out with a bunch of 35-year-olds. He dressed up like Pitbull to go absolute mob. Just the best skullcap bald guy wig I've ever seen. It just nailed it. It looked real. It looked like he was about to go as Carl Havoc and go take someone's tray.

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me? I've been having some issues lately. I don't have the Facebook app on my phone because I think it listens to me. And one of the old man things that I have on my phone is the Nextdoor app. And I do get notifications for the Nextdoor app just in case something goes haywire in my neighborhood. As of late, I've been seeing a lot of things I don't like on my Nextdoor app. I don't know what I'm looking at. Right now, David, you're looking at a photo. If you're watching on YouTube, you can see it. If you're not, whatever.

Thanks for listening on whatever you're listening on. Throw it up on the story. It's a chihuahua in a spider costume. And I got an alert to my phone, and it was kind of concerning because when you get an alert from Nextdoor, I always think, okay, something in the neighborhood is going south. Sure. This simply said spider identification.

Does anyone know what kind of spider this could be? Oh, this is cute. It tried to bite and I didn't know if it was poisonous or not. Thank you. And it's a chihuahua dressed as a spider. Let me say that this costume is absolutely bad. It's not a good spider costume. Like, it's not.

It just. It looks homemade. It looks like Randy sewed it up. Why is the spider wearing boots is my question. Great question. Yeah, I don't know. Dude, I like the people we're doing bits on next door. There's a part of me that wants to embrace the people because I don't want bad things

to happen on my Nextdoor, but there's also a part of me that's like, all right, why are we muddying the waters of an already muddy app with a bunch of bits that we're doing? Do you want to hear some of the cringe responses that people gave as to what kind of spider this was when they were trying to identify it? Please. Someone said, oh yes, the Chihuahua spider, very dangerous. Okay, that's not creative at all. Not at all.

That actually sucks. Someone said that's not creative at all. Not at all. That actually sucks. Someone said it's a Garantula. Better than the other one. Still sucks. Okay. What if someone said it was a beneficial garden chider? Simply beautiful. Oh, so what they've done here is they've taken the CH from Chihuahua

and the ITER from Spider and combined them. That is not good, and that also sucks. Greg said either a daddy short legs or a black, waggy tailor. Only dangerous if they butt you on the ankle. Lost me on the second one. The first one wasn't terrible. Daddy short legs, okay. You're not going to bring down the house.

You're not going to open for Chappelle with that line. But the second one was really bad, and it sucked. Sandra, who appears to be about 72 years old, said it's a doggy ranchula. A soggy ranchula. Someone said it's a wolf spider. Not bad. I think wolf spider might be the best one yet. They might actually get a reaction from me.

Shouts to Mary, who does not have a profile photo. It's red flag. I just don't know if Mary knows how to actually upload one. By the way, should we be applauded for not doing the red flag thing on Twitter? We should. Or did we do it? Should we do it today?

Today would be a perfect time to do it. The last ones that I'll read from this are the Dogus Hades Embarrassus, very common in colder months. No, we're going with Latin. Do you get it? Because it hates being embarrassed and it's embarrassed by its costume. Yeah, your dog is now being exploited. The wolf spider.

That's just what Dylan thinks wolf spiders are called. Randy, I sent you another one from my next door that I'm not happy about. And I want you guys' opinion on this. Will just hates Halloween. No, this is just stupid. I got an alert to my phone that said gang activity. And I was like, well, that's interesting because I don't live in a part of town that seems to have a lot of gang activity. It said saw these intimidating adolescents just loitering on someone's yard.

And it's just a couple deer. A couple bucks. Yeah, take out the muzzleloader. Am I right? Whew. But like, do we need to like alert everyone? Outdoors Brett. There are tens of thousands of people probably that have the Nextdoor app in my neighborhood.

And only two whitetail like that. Holy shit. But like, now I'm getting alerts to my phone, which leads me to believe that, you know, thousands of other people are getting alerts to their phone that says gang activity. And then you open it up, and it's just a couple white-tailed deer. Do you think people thought that Aaron was in town back on his gang shit? From Bachelor in Paradise fame? Correct.

Yeah, very niche reference. Are they going to bring him in for the new season? For Michelle? I really hope not. I hope to not see him on the franchise again, but we will. He has slowly turned into one of my favorite people on the entire franchise.

That sucker on the left there, that's an older deer. You can see the white around his eyes. He's seen some shit. Yeah, he's probably dead now. Good rack. Jesus. Probably dead.

Somebody probably went over there in the dark of night with a bow and took him. Poaching. Is it bow season? You can't hunt in the city limits, can you? I would imagine you can't discharge a firearm within 30 feet of somebody's house. Yeah. That would be a dangerous shot.

Since it's fall semester at a lot of colleges, it's actually bows and toes season. It's a hazing reference, Brett. You ever been bows and toes season it's a hazing reference brett you ever been um bows and toes no this guy you put a bottle cap under your elbow see how you like it i don't they do i don't want to do that uh i think it's terrible it's been done i know that we you know hypothetically never did such a thing yeah because you're a non-hazing fraternity don't believe in that should i just stop mentally hating on the dorks in my next door group and start embracing the fact that I'm living

in an area that is more conducive to bits than it is to actual bad things happening? Am I just being a Debbie Downer? You are. You need to be happy with that people will just do bits instead of getting their car broken into and posting about it. I kind of just want to comment on the spider dog and just be like guys you think of a better response we can do much

better stuff in this outside of wolf spider like the other ones just aren't creative you should shame everyone say look all of you you need to take a look in the mirror put down the phone and be ashamed of yourselves um next door is the last in my open my phone go through apps rotation it's it's usually twitter instagram um pop in on our discord and then it's somewhere down the line check the weather dave i know you do yeah yeah yeah i do especially when it's when i know that there's a cold front gonna blow through in the next few days is there a social network that's like that's like weather based like if there's an app that brings us together via weather i don't think so did you just come up with an idea you might have we might have to cut this

part out because you guys are weather you guys are certified weather boys we're weather i turned i turned to you guys when i need when i need some weather intel um I can tell you the one thing we don't need right now is a bunch of amateurs trying to dissect the climate and warn people about storms and whatnot. Twitter is already, if you know where to look on Twitter, weather Twitter is real and it's great. We'd have 67-year-old Jerry posting from the golf course being like, oh, we got some golf ball-sized hail out here. 100%. Oh, this one's got a Pro V1 label on it.

100%. It wouldn't last. It would get ruined. I don't even know what you call... I'm trying to think of a pun for the name of this weather social network. Yeah, that's accumulation. Good beer. Good beer.

Good beer. Good beer. They did change the packaging. Really? I'm not going to be too critical of it because I do know someone that works in that department over there. At New Belgium? Yeah, and I'm not going to be too critical of it, but bring back the old packaging. I'm actually going to see him very soon, and I'm going to ask him what happened.

Not very happy about it. No, i like this idea but again if you are in a severe weather region and many people are you need to find like the um the the niche weather bloggers who like will tweet out data in real time before it gets to like your your your news guy your you know your weatherman on the news sure and so you can know stuff way earlier and they get more into the weeds so if you're if you kind of fancy yourself to be a weather nerd like i think brett and i do um it's it's fun it's like living here it's great because you know severe weather season is is upon us right fall gotta be careful got a cold front

blowing through this week oh i can't wait i can't wait. I can't wait. It's gross outside today. Just downright nasty. Yep. I like to watch at this point, I like live storm chases. So fun. Where do you watch them? You just have to know where to look. Jeff Petrowski? Yeah, Jeff Petrowski's great. He goes to every hurricane. Never miss a hurricane. I need you guys to be better

about dropping stuff in the group text when you see it going off. I do, but I feel like nobody cares. You probably put it in the group text that you guys have for, like, video games that I'm not a part of. Brett's not in that. Yeah, I'm not in that. I'm surprised he's not. I don't even have a console, Will.

There used to be a page, and maybe it's back up, but it was a map of the United States, and it had these little dots, and they were color-coded. And it would show, and that was every registered storm chaser in the country so when there was an outbreak you would go to it and you could see if you if it was green for example that means they're live on youtube platform really and you could click it and watch their yeah and it was badass because you could watch different parts of the same storm you could go you know west virginia than be in central texas yeah you could do whatever you want what happened to said page it sounds phenomenal i don't know last time i tried it was uh not working probably

probably became pretty difficult to manage that's tough yeah unless you're if you're manually doing it especially think like snap map snap but for weathers weather and weathers. Snap Map was a problem. Why? When it first came out, people didn't know that it was like, you know, some people didn't know that they had activated it. And so you could just see where people were at all times. And like, I mean, as someone who checked it the morning after going out one night,

there were some people that did not sleep at their houses. And I was just laughing. I was like, okay, this is great. This is great content right now. I'm not going to call them out, but I'm going to laugh about this behind their back for a little bit. I don't think I've... I don't even have Snapchat on my phone.

I'll delete it. I should be applauded for deleting. We can wait for breaking news. Randy dropped a mid-pod gram again. Dude, stop doing... He does this strategically. Wow. You can't get mad at him.

Yeah. He's the gram king. Wow wow did he do it to him says here if you ain't talking money i don't want to talk hashtag cole's cash i guess i'll like it if you ain't talking money i don't want to talk is that a lyric from something randy or did you just come up with that what's it from billy joel song piano man tell me this did you go inside cole's in your cole's Cast t-shirt? He did not. How did y'all do that?

They might like crouch surf you like around the aisles and stuff. Or couch surf you. Wow. Does Kohl's have furniture? I don't know. I've never been in a Kohl's. Really? Well, I think I've been in one, but I think it was in a mall.

Do they have mall Kohl's, Randy? Or do they just stand alone? They apparently have mall Kohl's. Who would be more excited to see the person doing said bit Randy at coals or Arby's with me walking in with the Arby's shirt it's no longer huge because I put on 35 pounds I feel like Arby's you should get like if you could get a social media savvy person in an Arby's would they more easily curly fries yeah more easily than Randy at a coals might do Arby's I was gonna say do we need to go to Arby's. More easily than Randy at a Coles.

Might do Arby's for lunch. I was going to say, do we need to go to Arby's soon? Because we've mentioned them a couple times over the last few episodes, and it's gotten me real H for some Arby's. I don't think I've ever been H for Arby's. I have. I used to get their French dip all the time. Ajou?

Mm-hmm. Sounds good. We didn't know what Ajou was. Was that Dylan? Probably Dylan's uncultured ass. Dylan knows what Ajou is. He called it Ajus. Sounds good We didn't know what au jus was Was that Dylan? Probably Dylan's uncultured ass He called it au jus Yeah he's like yeah I had this au jus

No somebody did that Because he's not here to defend himself It's one of those things When someone says something incorrectly And then you try to wait like three sentences Before you say it so that they can hear That they said it incorrectly and you give them time to recover. You know what I'm talking about?

Yeah. It happens on here quite a bit. Probably. Probably. Hey, did you know this asshole's drinking Red Bull? Yeah, what's your problem? Blame Dan Regester again for this. Why, did he bring Red Bulls over?

Yes, he brought Red Bulls over. So instead of going to get Celsius because I'm out of my Amazon subscription Celsius from the store this morning, I just used Red Bulls. I figured Dan would bring Bang Energy. I don't even know why he brought Red Bulls. What's he trying to do? Stay up and watch Hideki. We're just drinking Svedka Bangs over at Brett's apartment.

I did do a Red Bull vodka that night, thanks to Dan. Brett's apartment. I did do a Red Bull vodka that night, thanks to Dan. I'm so glad it wasn't in the punch because, you know, the only thing that makes me puke is mixing Red Bull with alcohol. Really? Yeah, it's happened the last two times I've done it. I don't think there was enough alcohol in the punch, if I'm being honest.

I think we could have stepped it up. There was a bottle of vodka. I know. When I got home that Saturday, I didn't even feel that buzz. Really? Yeah. I take offense to that because that's on me. I think it had more to do with that.

You know when you're hungover, it's kind of harder to get over the hill of the hangover and get into drunk territory again? That's where I was. Okay. Unless you just shampoo effect, which I went to brunch on Sunday. I was wondering what your Sunday looked like. It was two double Mimos at breakfast or brunch and then a couple beers watching football. Okay.

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Why did he post this? And why did I get sent this five times in five different group texts? I didn't see it until you showed it to me this morning. So the family of Bob Marley, the late, the great Bob Marley. Yeah. Sends him a guitar. I don't know if it was one that Bob actually played. The way they talk about it, it was maybe.

They send him a guitar. And he's like, hey, we got to roll on this. I'm going to read the nice note that the family sends. And then I'm going to play said guitar. And do we need to play it on the show? Like around here? What? How he played it?

Yeah. Do we need to give him a little taste? We could. Yeah. Give me a sec. I'll run it through the phone. Okay. But you're going to...

Is it surprising that he... I know he is a producer of hip-hop and r&b but as a produce what is he even a producer he's a dj i don't know how he's he's many things i don't know what his producing chops are like if he's actually in the studio but a lot of producers even if it's not what randy Randy? Randy just... Randy scoff-laughed right there. He says he's the best music. Okay. We need to watch. I don't understand how

he, like, is so famous. Well, okay, that's... DJ Khaled? No, but I understand, because bangers come out, but like, does he actually do anything? Is he actually producing the songs that he's doing? Yes. Is there an entire generation of musicians,

and I quote-unquote musicians, that only know how to do things on a computer at this point and have no clue how to actually play an instrument? One million percent. It surprised me that he didn't even know the, like, let me just play it. He didn't know how to play one chord. This is just him after they read the nice note from the family.

Again, this is a Bob Marley guitar sent from the family of Bob Marley. And here is DJ Khaled giving it a few strumaroos. This is a man who's never picked up a guitar in his life. Dude, he killed that. Correct. Like, not even, you know, most, I feel like most people, not most people, most people in the music industry could pick up a guitar and maybe play like a few chords. Or at least know how to strum.

Posty can. Oh, he's a good guitar player, right? Yeah. I mean, I'm not going to act like I don't love DJ Khaled songs. Like, I do love them a lot there was a time in my life where like i think in everyone's life in here when uh all i do is win when that came on you were you were going off no matter what it's just it i love when uh when a deceased legends family reaches out and sends a guitar and then i just i just uh do some kind of bad bit on it and

record it and put it out there for people yeah no that's that you just you just take it and take it away thank you she's gonna be like look yeah i don't really know how to play but i'm gonna learn at least lie to us be like i'm gonna learn how to play this guitar you're gonna hear the next uh bieber chance the rapper song i'm yelling on'm going to be in the background strumming a little bit, playing some G, C, and D. Is Bieber like... For me, I love it when I hear Bieber on a DJ college track. They're normally pretty good.

They're normally pretty good. Because he's got I'm the One, No Brainer. When No Brainer came out, I was like, okay. Song of the Summer. Okay, yeah. It was definitely in there. I think that he gets a lot of criticism, and I don't know if it's just or not,

because I feel like I'm tainted by people criticizing him for not doing anything and just screaming at the beginning of songs. You know what else he got criticized for? His jet skiing? No, maybe that. His takes on giving oral sex to women. He said it's not necessary? He says he doesn't do it.

And he's very adamant about it. I think he was almost disgusted at the thought. So he's just looking at it. Sure. That's what you're doing. Okay. Maybe he didn't want a scar on his face. Goodness.

I don't know. What are you doing? A lot of references here. Those are the two movie references we can make. Okay. Well, I'm just saying that he got a lot of blowback for that. What he chooses to do or not to do behind closed doors with consenting people, that's up to him. As long as everybody's having fun.

But it was just an interesting stand. That's the hill you're going to die on, huh? Would Bob Marley be excited if he knew that a guitar was getting sent in his name to DJ Khaled? That's the question I have. I think if Bob Marley saw me listening to his music on the way to

work, he'd be like, okay. I don't want this dork listening to it. Let me tell you this. This is what got him in trouble. DJ Khaled said he expects oral, but won't return the favor because there are different rules for men. Okay. Well, that's just a terrible take.

Yeah. DJ, what are you doing, DJ? He's playing the guitar poorly. What he did with that guitar is 10 times worse than anything that was done on your next door app. Do you remember when he got lost on the jet ski? The chider. You guys know so much more about DJ Khaled than I do.

The best single thing to ever happen on Snapchat, and I will maintain, I will reiterate this. It's the best single thing to ever happen on Snapchat is when he got lost on a jet ski. I think his jet ski ran out of gas or it didn't have any power and he couldn't get around anywhere. So he was just stranded in the middle of a large body of water in Miami, just live Snapchatting that he was like in trouble. And I think someone eventually came and towed him away, but it was great content. See, that just, that was a Snapchat setup. Hey, DJ Khaled, go run out of gas, live stream.

It was still good. It was still good. It was still good. Brand activation like you read about. Did you see the massive brand activation downtown this weekend? For what? Ford. Oh, yeah.

Randy went to the Ford show. Someone who has... Was it for F1? Because they don't have a team there. Ooh. But it was a giant activation. No, Ford ain't getting in the F1 game. Why not?

If they bought Haas, your boy might switch. What's Haas worth? 50 bucks? I don't know. Those teams are so much. Not them. Hey, you know what, Will? I could enter my 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee and have the same amount of points that Haas does in F1.

Their brand, they're worth about $115 million. Haas? Yeah. Yeah, that's pocket change for like cubes. And then Ferrari's $1.3 billion. Mercedes is just a skosh over a billion dollars. And McLaren and Red Bull are kind of neck and neck at $620 and $640. and Red Bull are kind of neck and neck at 620 and 640. Ooh. That Red Bull investment's sneaky tempting. Not that I could do it, but... Should we get an F1 team? They're the second most popular team, more or less, right?

Think about a corporate takeover? Yeah, what's our bank account looking like? We should do a poison pill with them. What's that? Is it like a jagged little pill? Exactly. Sort of. Alanis Morissette becomes part of your board. It's a whole big thing. Yeah. Is it Alanis orged little pill? Exactly. Sort of. Alanis Morissette becomes part of your board.

It's a whole big thing. Yeah. Is it Alanis or Alanis? Alanis. I don't know. A good resort? I feel like... She was naked in that one video.

I saw it in What's His Face. They started saying Alanis on some movie. It was like Wedding Crashers or some shit, and everyone started saying Alanis. Hey, I enjoyed the Kelsey Grammer introducing... Wait, who was it? I can't remember now. It made me laugh, and I liked your tweet.

It wasn't Korn. People introducing musicians? Was it like Waylon Jennings or something? It was Dwight Yoakam. Dwight Yoakam. Yeah, I saw that. No, there's a – in the wake of SNL weekend, Craig, what's his name? Not Craig David.

Craig Kilborn? No, it was James Bond. Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend. Daniel Craig? Daniel Craig, whatever. There's a new account that just goes back and finds old, funny celebrities doing the same thing, introducing random bands, and Dwight Yoakam got introduced by Kelsey Grammer.

And it was just very, very, very 90s. Oh, that didn't work. Ladies and gentlemen, Dwight Yoakam. I mean, it's not funny. It's just stupid. It's two seconds of nostalgia. And if you grew up in the 90s watching SNL, you might be like, oh, yeah, I remember that.

He played that song. I couldn't even name a Dwight Yoakam song. I have no idea. I saw him at ACL on a side stage and it was electric. He's great. Oh, I thought it's... Okay, never mind. Never mind. He's from Kentucky. Also in Wedding Crashers. Got quite the acting

chops. Also in Sling Blade. Had a really, really shitty band. Oh, I didn't even know that was Dwight Yoakam. I knew this guy. I didn't even, I knew this guy. I just thought he was a creepy actor.

He's the divorcing husband in Wedding Crashers. Okay. Correct. Interesting. He's apparently big pals with Vince Vaughn. That makes sense.

We're going to get some Vince Vaughn and Curb this year. Is that true? Yeah. We got a heavy dose of Jon Hamm last night. Okay. Good. You know who else we had a heavy dose of last Hamm last night. Okay. Good.

You know who else we had a heavy dose of last night? Lodi and Roy. Let's talk succession real quick. To kick off this segment, can I read some fan mail that we got? Yeah. This is regarding our succession recaps. This is from a listener named Dano. Hey, Dano.

I'm sure this will be really nice. Dano said, Lads, big fan. Stephen A. Smith voice, however. Oh. What's the point of recapping Succession if you guys can't remember characters or things that happened in the episode or previous seasons? You can pull my Patreon backer credentials

if this is out of line. Dave's impression of Barrett was great, though. Oh, okay. Warm regards, Dano. Oh, thanks, man. That was me. That was me who couldn't remember Roman's name. And, you know, it's tough. You know, I should always get all of the names right in every sport

and movie and show we recap. You know what we should do? We should just start editing the show and going back and doing retakes. Oh, imagine if we were like, hey, Will, can we edit a bunch of stuff, retake? These are one editor. This would be so miserable. I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do, imagine if we were like, hey, Will, can we edit a bunch of stuff, retake? These are one editor. This would be so miserable. I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it.

You'd be like, yeah, man, I got you. Yeah, there's no way. All right, but who's the one guy who's like his dad, was like the CEO, founder of the company, and now it was Kendall, right? God damn it. No, I'm just playing. Dude, Kendall. No, I'm just playing. Dude, Kendall.

No, I'm not mad. I'm not mad. Kendall is absolutely on one this season. This is the best Kendall we've seen, although his little accent slips when he starts yelling. There's a little bit of a slip where it goes into wherever he's from. I believe it's across the pond. No, he's not.

He's American. Yeah, he's American. What? Sally thought he was British. I was like, no, he's American. Where's he from? I believe it's across the pond. No, he's not. He's American. Yeah, he's American. What? Sally thought he was British. I was like, no, he's American. Where's he from? He went to Yale. He went to Yale? He's Boston. There you go. What? Yeah, he's American.

Fucking Boston kid. He's probably fucking no Southie. But Shiv is... She has a foreign accent. That's crazy. Maybe that's just how he yells then. Shiv stinks. Stop. When he was berating his siblings for not joining him, spoilers, that was very uncomfortable because I was like, that's really mean.

I feel like there's a better way to handle it. I mean, yeah, but like honestly, I don't want all of his siblings on his side. It shouldn't be that way. No, that would be too easy. Shiv needs to be on his side because Shiv is never going to get the nod from Logan. He doesn't have any trust in her. What happened in the last 30 seconds of the episode? Does anybody know?

The way that I took how last night's episode ended was that Shiv, he wants Shiv to just be another set of eyes in addition to Roman on Jerry. And I think Logan has the long play of using Jerry as a fall person for something down the line because she's not connected with the family. He knows that she will do a good job as CEO,

but he also knows that if he just, you know, not kills her off physically, but just if he needs to use her as a fall person for the company, he can do that, and it's not going to affect them. Except Roman, who's... Jerry's a great character. She's a great character. She's awesome.

She's, like, sneaky. You're like, oh, this is a good performance. This is very believable. Yeah. She's, like, I have the utmost faith in Jerry. Yeah. Yeah. The other two squids that work for Logan,

like, they're not going to do anything. They're not doing shit. I remembered Hugo's name. Hugo and the guy that fired Roman. Yeah. It's a similar look to them. It's just old white. Those two dudes,

those guys are in Daniel Ricciardo's crew like 40 years ago. They're just yes men. The Shiv-Roman fight, spath, if you will, where she said some very mean things to him and he leaves. Was she saying that he... What did she say about

having... She's like, you need to bang something at some point. Is that his thing? Well, he's kind of a little sex-crazed maniac, but it's like in a weird... He had the thing with Jerry, the phone sex, right? Right. He's telling... I think Shiv was like, you need to settle down and have kids,

or you won't make anything of yourself. You loser. Okay. And then... I almost listened to it. No, I was on an early bird. I thought maybe she was saying, you're on your early bird shit? I thought she was suggesting that he never actually closes the deal. Oh, maybe. Like, maybe he gets to a certain point and that's it. Or he

has some weird kink. I mean, he definitely has weird kinks. Phenomenal. That is true. Kieran Coulton. Why are they, are we going to have this entire season just pan out in the confines of Kendall's ex-wife's apartment? Yeah.

I thought we were going to have them in, I thought they were going to be in Italy for a significant portion of this season based on something that somebody had said. And I kind of wanted that to happen. I mean, we're two episodes in. I'm going to give them an opportunity to go. Yeah, why don't you slow down?

We heard Sarajevo. Dude, yeah, but fucking, Kendall still hasn't left his ex-wife's house. Like, he's got to get out of there at some point. Eventually, like, next episode,

there's going to be subpoenas involved. Why, like, why did Logan leave and then he's like, you know what, actually, I'm coming back. Even, there's no risk

of a subpoena anywhere. I don't know. Like, this show, somebody said that this show is the biggest production where nothing happens. And I couldn't agree more. Yeah, but I wouldn't have it any other way. It can stand alone on the characters and the dialogue.

I did expect an FBI raid. I thought we were going to get a search warrant. Next episode we're getting FBI raid based on the scenes from next week. Oh, okay. They show in the scenes from next week a bunch of FBI agents walking into Waystar Royco. Got it.

Very happy about that. They've waited too long to documents that they're going to be looking for gone, destroyed. I need to go back and like, what's in the papers again?

It's just documented cases of horrendous abuses? Cover-ups on the cruise ships. Yeah. Okay. What's Tom's move here? Why is he so close to loading constantly?

Like, what job does... He cruises, right? He was in charge of all that. Well, he got put in charge of all that after, I think, Moe died. Tom's going to fuck over Shiv in the end. No, Tom hates Shiv. I don't think he has... Yeah, he has no loyalty to her. He knows that it's a sham marriage

that's loveless, and he's looking out for himself, and I think Tom's going to end up being a really... He's already a good character, but he's been kind of low-key this season. I like that he and Cousin Greg are still looking out for one another, even though they're on opposite sides of the battle right now. The Cousin Greg lawyer stuff is interesting. I don't really know what the plan is here.

Well, it feels like – so two things are the great thing. know what the plan is here well it feels like so two things are the great thing it feels like uh it feels like somehow greg's grandfather now wants to tank the company himself he's using yeah he's losing the lord to do it and it sounds like the guy made two references to getting his affairs in order um ethan roy right is his name so i think he's he must be dying of some sort and he looks like yeah i don't want him i don't want him in the mix in a big way he's not a character that does much for me yeah well i'm i'm very curious because like the the estate attorney that's now he's gonna have him represent connor not connor excuse me uh greg yeah uh who looks just like carl marx um with the beard and they kind of talk about putting a wedge it's their wedge into waystar to to show the world uh the you know

corporate greed and capitalism and it's like yeah where have you been like we don't need that's the thing but but it's weird because normally an estate attorney uh a state planner is helping you shield your money. I need to look into this a little bit more. I don't know much about that character, the grandpa. The one person I do want more of is the first lawyer

to just knock on Greg's door. Oh, so good. I think that guy's got potential to be a hilarious character if used correctly. He just had a smarmy smirk on his face the entire time and I wanted more of it. He's got potential to be a hilarious character if used correctly. Really well done scene. He just had a smarmy smirk on his face the entire time, and I wanted more of it. Yeah, so good.

Good. I like good. And Greg's like, well, do I choose? Do you choose? Do I be chosen? As someone who is kind of scared of that kind of shit, I get where he's coming from. It's like, hold on, I don't want to say too much, but I also can't say nothing. Right, yeah, yeah. I get where he's coming from. It's like, hold on, I don't want to say too much, but I also can't say nothing. Right, yeah, yeah.

I enjoyed that scene. I don't like how they portray Greg. I think they dumb him down too much. But that scene was a nice bit of brevity. He caught the SNL cameo this weekend. Any good? SNL this weekend was the best episode of

this season. Maybe the best episode of this season, maybe the best episode of the last two or three seasons because Jason Sudeikis knows how to run a show. He knows how to make a skit good, and he was also in every skit as an alum of SNL. He was in the very first opener, which they never have the host in because they're probably getting ready for their monologue. It also appeared as though

he went off the script a little bit and they were going a little long on Saturday. Did he do the Jimmy Fallon thing where he looks over the camera and just laughs? You're like, oh, Jimmy Fallon, you're so great. You should host a late night show forever. Did they do that? They didn't do that.

They didn't do that. They did have to cut two people from the weekend update, though, which bummed me out. Oh. They had Guy with Boat come on. Have you ever seen Guy with Boat? No, but I'm imagining it. He's – Is it self-explanatory?

It's the most cancelable character on SNL. He's absolutely outrageous. It's really funny, but it's just – he's so cringe, and they had to cut that. But they do put it on YouTube, so I did get to see it. Okay. You see, Ed Sheeran was supposed to be the musical guest. COVID. Can't do it.

Oh, so they got Brandi Carlile. I mean, kind of an up-and-coming. That's this week, right? Is this upcoming Saturday? Oh, never mind. Okay, so Brandi Carlile was originally – yeah, she crushed it. Both of her performances were good. Our friend at Eve 6 is petitioning to be the villain.

Please make it happen. Here's to the Saturday night. He's the heart of the blender guy. He is the heart of the blender guy. Is he going to be on an episode of Circling Back in the next year? If he's in Austin, 100%. I would only want to do that one in person. Because if he's going to hate us, I want him to hate us like face-to-face and not like over a satellite feed.

I want him to have the obligation of having the in-person politeness that you don't get over just like a feed. Sure. It would be a great segment too because Dylan would have no clue. No, Dylan – and Dylan can't like not be here for the interview. He has to sit in because he won't understand it. Yeah. And Dylan can't not be here for the interview. He has to sit in because he won't understand it.

He'll be sitting over there and Dylan will be in his normal spot. And Dylan will be looking back and forth like a cat watching ping pong. Absolutely. A cat watching ping pong. Yeah, it's probably a vine or something. It probably is. Oh, man. Anything else on succession? That's it.

Looking forward to next week. As a good recap, Dano. Hey, Dano, we got all the names right this time. Yeah, that's right. Brett even busted out the Ethan. I wouldn't have gotten that one. I think it's Ethan. I would have said Greg's grandpa the entire time.

Oh, you don't? Yeah, dude, you said it with such confidence. Is it Ethan or like a Scottish name? Like Ewan? It's certainly not Ethan. Oh, I think it's Ewan. Fuck yeah. You nailed it.

Is it Ewan? It's gotta be Ewan, yeah. Ewan Roy? It is Ewan. And you want to read his succession wiki? Ethan. Word for word. Ethan.

Dano is now celebrating at his desk right now. He's like, dude, I was right. I knew it was an E. Most people who watch that show could not, if they were recording a podcast right now, could not draft. It's not like we pull up the Newsweek. You just say Logan Roy's brother. Yeah.

Is what I would have said. I would have said Greg's grandpa. 50 years ago, Ewan volunteered for the war and went to Vietnam. Let's see what it says about season C. Oh, shit. See his notes. He collects war medals. Oh, Logan collects war medals. Oh, Logan collects war medals.

Oh, Ewan actually – okay, yeah, there's really nothing. So I'll just fuck off. I'm sorry for wasting your time. Ewan, good pull. Good pull. Ethan. Hey, we got Brett's breaking news presented by Odyssey. There's nothing like a great postseason run.

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wherever you get your podcasts. Brett, can you break some news for us right now? Sure thing. I'll go quick because I know we are extremely long today. Dude, let's just keep getting long. Let's get pod. Keep it going. You guys from earlier, familiar with the burger chain Jack in the Box?

The Sourdough Jack is an underrated fast food burger. What is it? Is it a burger on sourdough? Yeah. That's called a patty melt player. I don't think it is. I assume that any burger made with bread is a patty melt. I've never had Jack in the Box.

Well, they want you to know that it's sourdough. Okay. Well, apparently people agree with Dave in that it's underrated because they are opening 111 new locations in the next two years. I haven't been to one in years, but when I was younger, that was a good late-night spot. There was one near campus in San Marcos that, boy, if you're looking for some late-night eats, go get you some tacos.

I was going to say, can you speak to their tacos? Because I've heard a lot about them. Yeah. If you went to a restaurant and they served them to you, you wouldn't be stoked. But if you're just looking for fast food, like something quick and easy to eat, and you're intoxicated or high on drugs. Maybe marijuana. Marijuana. Then that's your spot. These look like some

classic tacos. They were the first to really lean into the, oh yeah, people are under the influence eating our food late at night, so let's just lean into that marketing. So they were like, what if we take the best of Taco Bell and the best of a Burger Cane, for example, and combine them? So they do tacos and burgers. I like how Whataburger

does their taquitos starting at midnight. That's fun. It's helpful. Yeah, because that's usually what I get. So I'm just saying, keep an eye out for Jack in the Box in the next few years. They're going to be a major player in the space, the QSR space, if you will. Thank you, Brent.

I've only been to one Jack in the Box, and it was to go to the bathroom before a golf tournament. Couldn't make it to the course. McDonald's is that bathroom for me. I'd prefer that over a gas station, is what I'm saying. I'm on the road, need a bathroom. I find McDonald's. Shouts to F1 for having port-a-potties so I didn't have to get pee-fried at Troughs or anything. Oh, port-a-potties?

Luckily, we had some tickets that had some nicer bathrooms. You know when you go to a golf tournament? The trailer bathroom? Yeah, it's the trailer. Yeah, I went into a trailer, but I did have to use one port-a-potty. A port-a-potty in the middle of a hot day in Austin at COTA sounds like the absolute last place I want to go. It was a take a huge breath before going in,

hold your breath as long as you possibly can, and then have a huge exhale when you left the port-a-potty season. Been there. You're familiar with all birds, correct? The shoes? Yeah. Or just the species of birds. He's heard of all birds.

The shoes. Yeah, what about them? Well, they're IPO-ing. Yes. Let's fucking go. Targeting a $2 billion with a B dollar valuation for the fucking shoe company. targeting a two billion with a B dollar valuation for the fucking shoe

company. Two billion? I don't believe any valuations at this point. Well, they're based on literal, like like, okay. A valuation is data extrapolated over a period of time with a multiple that's completely arbitrary.

I'm not going to lie. I'm on their site right now, Auburn. Oh, my gosh. I have to say, some of their new gear actually looks very comfortable and pretty nice. They'll be a sponsor in six months. And I will probably rep them pretty hard. Can I pull back the curtain? If you're listening to this point in the podcast, you can get some inside info.

They have inquired about sponsorship on this podcast, and I don't think we can confidently endorse them. I will endorse. From what Will's scrolling through, it looks like they have more than just generic shoes. I would love to know a little bit more about this men's long-sleeve CT. CT? I will work you, bro. I will work you bro i will work you hey this season of the challenge has been an all-timer if anybody wants to start a challenge podcast with me just holler at your boy i'm ready

uh randy feels like a guy that watches the challenge religiously the only person that watches the only two people i know that still watch the challenge are my wife because she watches it with me and intern klein who texted me about it every single episode. I love it. Let's see. And the last thing is somebody, remember the COVID loans that were going around? Yeah.

PPP loans that we did not apply for because we are a standup company. But we didn't need them. Yeah, we didn't need one. We didn't need it. Luckily, thanks to you, the listener. Correct. And you, Brett, the ads guy. I thank guys. And you, Brett, the ads guy.

I thank you. And you, Will, for the content. I'm out of here. Not me and Dylan, though. No, not you guys. Randy, though. Somebody got an $80,000 loan, a man in Georgia. Okay.

Used $57,000 of that loan to buy a Pokemon card. I still think that we could get in trouble at some point for a loan that was taken out under Washed Media that we did not know about, and if Randy has a holographic Pokemon card, I'm going to assume that he used that loan to buy said holographic Pokemon card. So that's illegal, right?

But, say if you were to resell that item on the Silk Road and make a profit, no harm, no foul? I don't know. Can you just pay the government? You have to pay those loans back?

I believe they're forgivable. They're 0%, right? Unforgivable. Yeah, which is why millions of people took advantage of it who didn't need it. And there's no way they'll ever track down who actually – they don't have the resources. Whoever would be in charge of enforcing that, they don't have the resources to track every business, see what they spend it on, go through their books.

It would never happen. Got it. Yeah. Dude, look, from talking to people in my old neighborhood who knew – were just blatantly like, oh, yeah, we took one. I'm like i'm gonna i'm gonna hire my my sister-in-law in quotes and and that's and it's like oh you're just you're just influxing your a tremendous amount of is it is it injecting cash into your huh is it

fraud technically uh i think so i don't know i don't really remember the terms i looked at there was like a minute where i was like should we look look into this? And we kind of talked about it. We're like, well, we don't – we're doing okay. We don't need that. So I don't know. Maybe we're dumbasses. I never even wanted to think about it because I was just like, eh, I'm going to mess something up along the line and suddenly we're going to owe $50,000 to the government at some point. Sure.

I don't want to deal with it. I'd rather just figure it out on the fly. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Now my views have shifted on PPP loans because I guess this guy can just... It's forgivable, interest-free money. And now they're coming for our unrealized capital gains.

You see that, Dave? I've only saw people talking about it. Your Bitcoin is going to be taxed before we even change it. You can't tax the Bitcoin until... No, you can't. Until we get rid of it, right? Well... Sorry. Change it. You can't tax the Bitcoin until we get rid of it, right? Sorry.

That's, you know, in a world where Bitcoin is regulated like that, yes. But I don't think it is. I've got to take my Bitcoin offshore. Did you see the whistleblower for Facebook did that? I've got to look into that. She moved to Puerto Rico. I would too into that. She moved to Puerto Rico. I would too, dude! They have like capital gains tax haven that she's just like,

oh yeah, I bought in at crypto at the right time so I don't need money. She said that in a New York Times interview. Good for her. She is, what a rollout that lady is doing at this point. I haven't seen her actually physically blow a whistle yet. Yeah. That should start every whistleblower campaign.

I think if you're a whistleblower and you're standing in front of Congress or whoever you stand in front of, I think you need to actually have a whistle and you have to blow it. Is it a Pavlovian response where you hear something and it takes you back to a childhood moment? Randy says no, so I'm going to go with Randy here. If I hear a whistle, I'm immediately transported back to like a childhood moment? Randy says no, so I'm going to go with Randy here. What's the response? If I hear a whistle, I'm immediately transported back

to the goal line of football practices. We're about to run gassers. And I get chills. I was never a big fan of having to run sprints at the end of practice. I was usually the one huffing, being like, are we done yet? I think Pavlov would be more like if you like

reacted to it like you heard the whistle then you got down like a three-point stance or something i would actually really enjoy that if every time brett heard a whistle he just like tried to skate to like the the blue line oh yeah it is a pavlovian response randy screw off i think i think dave's per Randy. Oh, so I was Googling. Let me hear from you, psych majors. Dude, I can't wait till Dylan's back and he gets to tell us about the salads that he ate at this resort that he's staying at. By the way, how many things

do you think we butchered this episode completely? Don't care. Not many. Don't care. Dude, we're shorthanded after a large weekend. Ethan Roy was one. Yeah, Ethan Roy. I said brevity instead of levity regarding the scene. I noticed that one. I didn't really want to jump in. I'm sorry.

There's no point. I mean, we did an F1 segment on Circling Back. There's going to be some holes that are going to get poked. You nailed what's the deal? DRS, I think, pretty accurate. We'll nail the DSLR thing. Yeah. Is this our longest episode we've ever done of this pod?

Circling back, not touching space. What are we at? We're about to hit 130. We hit 137, dude. Holy fuck. Yeah, we're out here. We're absolutely out here. Joe Rogan in the house.

I think it's time, though. He must have been at F1. He was probably at F1. Hopefully he had like a box seat, though, because I don't think he, like, if he was sitting behind us, he wasn't going to be able to see the track. He has no clue what F1 is. Did he take the chopper? Probably.

The amount of private planes that we saw taking off, not from the actual track, but just like flying over us and the amount of helicopters was insane. I will say one of the coolest things about F1 and seeing a race in person is seeing the helicopter that gets the aerial views flying around, chasing the action. It is so awesome seeing a helicopter maneuver like that so close to you. Why don't they just use drones? Seems safer for literally everybody involved. Because if we've learned anything from Yellowstone,

if you have a helicopter budget, you use the helicopter budget. Okay. That show went downhill the second they stopped flying everywhere in a helicopter and they started driving trucks. You know what point will defreeze thank you is it time

yes sir I don't know how to end the pod without Dylan here to say bye bye bye bye toodaloo you