Circling Back - The Most Transparent Episode in History

Episode Date: December 2, 2020

The single most transparent episode in Circling Back history. We begin with Spotify Wrapped — next-gen Circling Back statistics, everyone’s top genres, top songs, and top artists for 2020. We then dive into a SWOT analysis of Washed Media as a whole before talking This Weekend in Fun. Support us on Patreon and receive weekly episodes for as low $5 per month: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast (0:00) Fun & Easy Banter (10:45) Spotify Wrapped Breakdown (46:40) SWOT Analysis of Washed Media (1:12:57) This Weekend in Fun (1:18:38) Brett’s Breaking News Hawthorne: www.hawthorne.co (CIRCLINGBACK for 10% off) Poncho: www.ponchooutdoors.com (CIRCLINGBACK for a free hat) Rhoback: www.rhoback.com (STELLA20 for 20% off) --- 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 right david ruff we need to knock this one out quick because i got to get home and start pre-gaming for wednesday football. Excuse me, Wednesday late afternoon football. Oh, it's Wednesday afternoon. What time does the game start? COVID game. Dentist time. Oh, my God. Dentist time, yeah.

You get it, Brett? Tooth hurty? No. You get it. It's like because your tooth hurts, so you have to go to the dentist. I thought they'd say tooth hurty is dentist time. Isn't it beer 30? No, dude. It's always beer 30? No, dude.

It's always beer 30. It's 5 o'clock somewhere. I've always hated 5 o'clock somewhere because it's literally not 5 o'clock somewhere. Yeah, right. It's like 5.05 somewhere. One out of 60 minutes, it's 5 o'clock somewhere. Right. You strike me as a 60 minutes religious watcher.

I used to be. I don't mean that in a bad way. I used to be. Okay. I don't really have a reason for not doing it anymore, but I used to watch it all the time. I think it's maybe a little too anxiety-inducing some Sunday nights, and it's just not in my rotation anymore. Just the tics? And also, if you record it these days, it's on, what, CBS?

Yeah. So, like, if you do it during football season, you're almost guaranteed that you're going to have an error with your DVR. It's just a nightmare. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. We'll get you out of here, Dave. If you do it during football season, you're almost guaranteed that you're going to have an error with your DVR. It's just a nightmare. Yeah, that's fair. We'll get you out of here, Dave. Thanks. Yeah.

Dylan, how's it going? Pretty well. It's good to have you back. So I missed last episode because I was a little bit under the weather. I still don't feel... Oh, is that it? I don't feel perfect, even though I may look it. I don't feel perfect. even though I may look it. I don't feel perfect, but I am COVID-free.

I got two tests, and I'm good. If it's true, that's big. What was your favorite test? They didn't do the brain-nasal one. They didn't get all up in there. No brain for you? They did lower nasal, and I got a mouth swab as well. Didn't they used to call you the mouth swab back in college? They were both really easy.

What was the show on ESPN? Stump the Mouth Swab? Yeah. No, they didn't call me that. They fed that guy questions beforehand, right? Yeah, I hated that show. I just thought the guy – The Schwab.

I just didn't think he was a great TV personality. He was kind of just pompous. He was. He just didn't – Yeah, I think that was kind of like the idea, but it was like, okay, I can't watch this guy for more than one episode. No, give me my trivia champions like Ken Jennings that are humble. Got any Schwab? Hey, DM that to ESPN right now.

Hey, you guys got any Schwab? Bring it back. Do we know who the Schwab was? Yeah. I forgot his name, but. Schwab. It was Schwab. They didn't say his? Yeah. I forgot his name, but... It's not like... Schwab. It was Schwab. They didn't say his name.

Did they say his name? That guy's a loser. I'll say it. He's a dork. Oh, come on. He was doing a role. He's got no sports facts. Dork.

Come on. Is it, like, still on? I just looked at it. There's no way. No. No, it's not still on. It's after Cold Pizza. No, for, like, 15 years.

On ESPN, too. You know what? I used to watch Cold Pizza. I sure did at it. There's no way. No, it's not still on. It's after Cold Pizza for like 15 years. You know what? I used to watch Cold Pizza. I sure did. Yeah, absolutely. And I didn't hate it. I was also... There's more background. I'm ashamed of some of the shows on ESPN that I used to watch out of boredom. Just knowing there's so much other stuff out there that I could have been taking in. I was PTI in college. Yeah, for sure. PTI at one

point was great. And I'd always get mad at Wilbon because he would slight Dirk. And I'd be like, I'm never watching this again. And then I'd watch it again. Dude, that's classic. Yeah. That's pretty much where I was in 2007. Yeah, Wilbon being a big Chicago guy didn't exactly lend itself to Detroit a lot,

but he wasn't that bad. He just was very pompous about the Bears during an extended period of my life. The Bears and Northwestern. Northwestern grads are pompous about their... No, not at all. So Parks is here because school's virtual this week for AISD. And he just walked to the fridge, opened it up, and who knows what he got out of there.

It's legitimately leftovers and beer. Yeah, if you look in that fridge, it's just several beers. He's just cracking a cold one. Whatever Randy didn't eat last week. He's going to kick his feet up and crack a cold one for kindergarten class. I might do a beer review on the Circling Back Instagram story tonight. Ooh. Which one?

Of one of the beers that was sent. Shouts to George. I don't know what it's called, but we have a beer that I took home the other day, and it's some type of Christmas winter ale. And I'm very excited to dive in and try it. I might do a review tonight. We'll see. We'll see.

I can't. Wow. The anticipation is killing me. Can I impromptu review something or just announce something? This is an announcement. Put this on the rundown as Dave's announcement. I am a connoisseur of whiskey. Oh, you're a whiskey guy.

I am officially a whiskey guy. Well, did we need a whiskey guy? You didn't. No one asked for a whiskey guy in our crew. What branch? What are you sipping on, dog? Executive? I am a – I went to – what's the one?

Total Wine. Oh, yeah. I'm trying to think. Is there any conflicts with sponsors? There's not. Okay. No, Avion dipped out a long time ago, so yeah but people still my snapchat is entirely people sending me avion bottles i haven't had avion in a while anyway sorry dave go on we don't need to talk avion um thank you one of the best okay uh i'm trying i'm

drinking right now i'm sipping a bib and tucker the sixth year. I was about to buy the 12-year. I was about to just ball out, and the guy, shout out to this dude. This guy knew his shit. He was like, no, dude. Which sub-genre of whiskey are we talking here? What do you mean? Like bourbon? Is it a bourbon?

Single malt? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, this particular one is age six years, and I don't even know. I think this is a small batch bourbon. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah.

See, I don't even know. That's how new I am in the game. I don't even fucking know. I think this is a small batch bourbon. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. See, I don't even know. That's how new I am in the game. I don't even fucking know. I like my batches small. You're a rookie, but you're in the game. Yeah. Okay. And I'm about to get real smug about it.

Nice. Okay, that's fine. And I'm about to get a lot of DMs about it, because I got a feeling a lot of listeners are into this shit. I might just try to out-smug you and just go all in on my Japanese whiskey in my cabinet. I still haven't tried a Japanese whiskey since the whiskey tasting of 2016 or whatever that was.

Let's all do different whiskey. Let's all be different whiskey genre snobs. So Dave will be like the high-end stuff. I'll go Japanese. And then you're going to do the stuff that's like infused. Like remember when Kid Rock released Red Stag and it was like cherry flavored? I could just go scotch. No, it's already been decided, though.

You're doing the flavored whiskeys. I'm not doing a flavored whiskey. No, you're doing the flavored ones. No, I don't think that's going to be me. Brett's doing single malt scotches only from Scotland. Do you ever have a bottle of Jack taped to your hands for a Harvard-Yale football game? I can't say that I have. Bennett probably fucking has.

Raise your hand. Wow. Must be nice, dude. How do you spell privilege? More than that. Yeah, more than that. Yeah, let's get the programming notes out of the way. We've got a loaded episode.

Two long segments, I think, today. First and foremost, washmedia.shop. Everything's there. Get your orders in now. The stuff is great. Brett works his ass off to get this up. A lot of orders right now. I will say, get your orders in now.

We want to make sure that you guys get your stuff by Christmas. Or, you know, if it's a gift for somebody, we want to make sure you've got time to wrap and stuff like that. Get your orders in now. Also, Sunday Scaries Candles still available. We no longer need to wish T-Man a happy birthday, even though that's still in the rundown. I don't know. It's his birthday week. Happy birthday week, T-Man.

Go follow Circling Back Pod on the Grom. Also, go follow Washed Pod on the Grom. Add me on the group. Also, go follow Washed Media on the Grom. Add me on the group. It's a super quiet Add Me on the Grom. No, it's the speakers that are quiet in the studio. It's not the actual. Grow up, right?

People can hear it. Don't worry. We don't want to blow people's ears out. Technology, dude. Figure it out. I have no idea what I'm doing. What? Say it. Now I'm going to let Will finish.

Say it with the chest. Let's go. It made me, what Will just did, it made me think of the fact that Klein, when he's playing Warzone, does not mute his TV. And you can hear everything through his TV coming back in. And it's funny because he didn't know you were supposed to do that. And then he was like, I'm not getting a real headset.

Okay. Oh, Klein. We just touched a little bit on Bachelorette. Dylan can probably spell privilege just because he's grammar guy. But if you want to hear more of our Bachelorette stuff, we'll be recording right after this episode today, recapping last night's episode. Exciting stuff.

We also have Friday voicemails. Just head over to patreon.com slash circlingbackpodcast. Five bucks a month will get you in and out the door for all of it. If you want every single piece of content, though, $10 per month. And also Twitch. Twitch.tv slash watchmedia. Join the netty.

Before we really get into it, can we talk about Hawthorne real quick? Dude, hop in the netty. Dude, your boy's been making... I've been thinking about making some personal changes. On like several fronts. I'm kind of in shambles lately. But mainly just on like how I treat my body and my self-care routine. You treat your body like shit usually, but. Kind of, yeah.

Yeah. But the one place where I'm actually deciding to upgrade, it has to do with Hawthorne. Yeah. We found this company recently. We've all been using it. It's a premium tailored personal care brand that's making it easy for guys to feel and smell our best. And all you have to do is go to their website and you do a quiz. This quiz takes what?

All of two to three minutes? Yeah. Honestly, it feels kind of like a fun quiz. You know when you go to BuzzFeed and take quizzes and it's fun? This is what it feels like. It covers your skin type and your hair type, but it also gets into what do you like to enjoy when you hit the town. We'll cater our products around your style, your vibe.

Can we do a quick preview of the quiz? I'm going to ask you the questions if you're taking the quiz right now. Oh my goodness, okay, let's go. What's your favorite drink? Red wine. How do you like to spend a night out? Dinner.

Do you smoke? No. Sometimes. There we go. Is there a once every six months option on there? If you hesitate with a doctor, they're going to be like, yeah, you smoke. You hesitate like that with an MD and you're done.

You burn. They don't ask if you burn, but maybe smoke. It's implied. You would say no to that. But all you have to do is do that, and then it spits out a bunch of stuff for you that's just tailored to you. They've got deodorants that are aluminum free. Boom. They've got scentsants that are aluminum free boom they've got scent alone for day or for night

work work and play my play the play scent they sent me oh my gosh call you a playboy i i just want to like you have to i just want to like cuddle with myself when i put i've been doing a spray of work a dab of work and then a dab of play that's crazy call it work and play you're cross-pollinating the sense call it boardroom and and discoteca? Discoteca on the left. There you go. Those are two good names for some kind of product. It's not bad. Do what we did.

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Mediocrity? I was adequately online. I was enough online last night. Anytime there's a Bachelor involved, Bachelor episode, I'm going to be heavily online. And last night was like just an explosion of online content. What was unfortunate for me last night is that ABC was ripped away from my cable plan savagely. And I think they knew that Tuesday night was going to get a lot of phone calls. So they took away The Bachelor from me last night.

And so I wasn't as online as I could have been. But the one thing that I saw online that you really could not miss, and especially if you follow us, is the Spotify rap to recap. So literally everyone in the world has put out except for apple music people does this make you yes i'll make you want to do this yes absolutely yes um i i'm missing out and i even admit that like spotify is just a better product all the way around buddy but i'm just so i'm just i've been in the game for so long i don't you know i was like you once you switched i switched yeah it's unfortunate hey spotify is just more fun it's like you know ways ways is kind of fun compared to the it's it's like ways versus

spotify is sexier maps it's a sexier yeah platform yeah you know what i mean yep it's just like oh you can take you can take apple music home to mom and dad and be fine. Yeah, it's like, oh, this is, oh, listen to music. With Spotify, let's get down to it. Are you going to start cheating on Apple Music with Spotify? We'll see about it. We'll see. It's all about whether or not he can get Dylan's faves transferred over.

That's incredible. That's honestly- It's a major undertaking. It really is, man. Dylan's faves has been curated over years, and it's perfect. It really is, man. Dylan's Faves has been curated over years, and it's perfect. Did you have to pay like 99 cents for each Dylan's Faves song?

What do you mean? That was like the iTunes. Dude, that was before Apple Music. Apple Music's the same service as Spotify. It even costs the same, I believe. But yeah, it's just a streaming service that you pay to get rid of commercials and shit and all that. I used to do Pandora. Did you pay for Pandora?

For a time. The fuck? I was working a job where I had to have something. You were getting paid if you were paying for Pandora. Pandora is the cricket wireless of music listening. Okay. There's something there. He's the singular guy. There's something there. Trust me. Who? Of music listening. Okay.

You would know there's something there. There's a singular man. He's the singular guy. There's something there. Trust me. I like Boost Mobile. They had a really aggressive marketing campaign for like a year. I don't think it panned out for them.

No. No. No. Somebody got paid. None of our friends have Boost Mobile. Yeah. Dude, no one's Boosting. The only thing we're boosting is on a bike.

A little Boosty. That's what they call you. That's true. Why do they call you that? Figure it out. So they actually do, I don't know if you guys are aware of this. You might be because I sent a screenshot of something earlier. But they do a special wrapped Just for Circling Back podcast that we have access to. What?

Do you want me to give you guys some fun facts right now? Oh, sure. In the first 72 hours for our most popular episode, it was from February. And it had to do with hibachi, which is very on brand, and then me reclining on a plane. Oh, I think it was because some lady, I reclined and she pushed me back forward. And I was like, oh, that's uncomfortable. I don't remember exactly what it was because some lady, I reclined and she pushed me back forward. And I was like, oh, that's uncomfortable. I don't remember exactly what it was. But for some reason, that was our most played episode within the first 72 hours at launch.

Hibachi Plays. Hibachi Plays. T-shirt? You know what's... T-shirt? Hibachi Plays? I don't remember that conversation. It's so weird to me that people will come up to me and be like,

hey, do you remember you talked about this? It was last week. I'm like, uh, no. I do, what, like six episodes a week, and it's all like one long conversation to me at this point. I don't remember shit. It's really bad. I remember general news stories that we talk about and things like that.

But there's certain references where I'm like, oh, man, I don't know how someone just dug this out. Some things, of course, I remember. But some things I just flat out don't. This episode in particular was very popular with our friends to the north, Canadians. Oh. Maybe this was so popular because – They don't have a bocce in there?

Is this when Brett first bocced the BAM Vancouver stuff? Because it could have just gone viral up there. What do you mean bocce? I don't know what you're talking about. Maybe they were just so enthralled by our conversation? I don't know what you're talking about. Maybe they were just so enthralled by our conversation because they don't have hibachi and they were so interested in what hibachi is all about. Do they not have hibachi in Canada?

There's two hibachi restaurants. One in Toronto and one over in the Vancouver area. This sounds like an opportunity. Well, they have hibachi up there instead of just high. That was for Randy. Blake Moynes, his Canadian accent came out yet again. House.

Really hard last night. House. House. He's an interesting guy. Apparently super H. He does not even endatasia. No, he's just hanging out. He's just with the boys.

Anyway, we have a whole episode about that later. Yeah. We'll get into it. He's just there to fucking chill with Chris. Yeah. Yeah, who isn't there to chill with Chris? Dale. We have new friends in Sweden.

This is where our listeners grew the most this year. Ah, yes. Sweden. That's in Sweden. Major shouts to Sweden. I'm from Sweden. What was the growth rate? Like 10,000%?

Because we went from like 10 to 100? Be careful asking me specific questions because it's a very slow moving process of reading these statistics off. How many Swedes are listening? Apparently we grew 75% in Sweden. So 75 people. From 1 to 75. 50% in Australia. Actually that would not be 75%.

We were already big in Australia. We've talked enough about Australia to get some stray listeners out there. The more I think about that math, it doesn't play out. I'm still sick. My brain's sick. Sorry. You sick?

Yeah. Yeah, 50% in Australia. 50% is Australia for half. Well, we almost adopted a kangaroo. Yeah, we've been trying to do that. I still haven't gotten an email back. Yeah, it makes sense. Who should I reach out to at Grand X to make sure that that email gets forwarded to me in case

we get it? Jay. Cool. 31% in the UK. Oi, bruv. Oi. That doesn't surprise me. If just one of the dudes from the video from the pub is listening to our podcast, that will make my life. We can retire today and I'll be happy. Do you think

any of them know what podcasts are? Those guys don't strike me as... No. Yeah. They strike me as guys that listen to like the radio or like... Like AM radio. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

They'd probably call it a computer show. Yeah. Or like they have the weather radio on that's like Doppler radar indicates. You know those things like the ham radios? Never mind. We can move on. Yeah, dude. The hand radios.

Hey, Brett, real quick. Can we play a game called Scandinavian or Nah? Where is Sweden, Scandinavian or Nah? Scandinavian. Sweden. You're right. You win. Sweden.

Was Norway the one that got – Finland is dicey. Yeah, which one was in the middle range? What was the – we just did – I thought it was Norway. Norway is definitely Scandinavian. Yeah, it is. It's on the lower part. I've got was Norway Norway's definitely Scandinavian Yeah it is It's on the lower It's Part

I've got a map I can't even tell you Do you have any guesses On how many countries Listened to our podcast In the last year 75 How many countries

35 28 Are we doing Price is right rules Just give us the... 54 countries. Oh, sheesh. How many countries are in the world?

Well, it depends on your... Israel, Palestine, it's a whole thing. 197 is the general consensus. Wait, what did you say? It depends on what you recognize. Did you say 107? Is that real? No, 197.

How did you know that? I do... real? No, 197. All right. How did you know that? I do. We don't have to talk about it. 195 is what I'm saying on per the machine. How do we think the global pandemic has affected listens worldwide? Brett's been taking online geography classes at UT. Fewer listens, right? Yeah, way fewer.

Like almost. This is probably going to be the most transparent episode we ever do, I would say. And I will say that I don't think that if we lost every international listener from any country that's out of our top five, I don't think it would change our bottom line very much. Let me put it that way. So we need to up those countries because I want that. I want to be in Sweden one day and have a girl come up to me and be like, ah, Will. Correct me if I'm wrong. Yeah, you do.

You're the sock. Correct me if I'm wrong, but according to one of the surveys that we did, listener surveys, I believe like 80-ish percent of people listen on commutes, right? Yeah. A lot of people listen on commutes. A crazy high number. It was- So considering the commuting was way, way down this year, you got to think it's going

to affect numbers, numbies. Yeah. Not that I'm making excuses for our numbers. They're still solid. We have pretty good numbers. We're doing work. This told us that we've made some big gains this year. Are you ready for this?

I take gains very seriously. Our followers, we gained 30% on top of last year. No shit. In terms of hours listened, things went up 19% from last year. Okay. In terms of just general streams, we went up 15% from last year. And keep in mind, this is only on Spotify. We got a lot of other things out there as well.

A little interesting, though. Dylan, you were close. 47.3% of surveyed listeners are on commutes. I believe I said 80, so. You would think that the number's actually closer to your number because these are like the diehard of the diehard. We had like 5,000 responses on here, which is a good sample size. But, you know.

Do you have any guesses on how many minutes we dropped so far in 2020? From January 1st, 2020 to yesterday. How many total minutes of? How many total minutes of podcasts we dropped? I don't even know if I could ballpark that number. I'm going to say 100,015. 95,000 minutes. You guys are way overshooting.

Really? No, it's like 10,000 minutes, 9,000 minutes. I've got 63,94. Yeah. I feel like that's way too low. That doesn't sound right. That doesn't seem right. Let me see.

Let's do some quick math. I mean, that puts us at 70 minutes an episode. Wait, give me the number again. I was talking. 63.94. That's 70 minutes an episode. I wouldn't say I was way over. So, yeah, to anyone that complains out there

Like I couldn't make it in an hour That episode I'm like You're getting 70 every episode You gotta look at the big picture folks Yeah Macro level stuff Yeah

Let's see I don't think we have too many more From the general We can probably move on To our personal Is there Do you think Dylan's not on Spotify Just to avoid having to participate

In what we're about to do? 100%. So he does not get flamed? 100%. Not even a question. You want to know the real reason why I haven't switched over? Yeah, could he? Because when I was married, Dallas and I got the family plan, the Apple Music family plan,

and I just still pay for it every month. It's like $15 for the family. It's not a big deal. And so I'm just like, if I cancel, I'll move over. I got to send her a text, like, hey, your subscription's about to get canceled. I'm sorry. I just, you know. Not that it's a big deal.

Why don't you do both? Ten bucks. Both. Do both. No. Why? Because it's a waste of money. That's why.

Why is my phone? I'm trying to open my thing, and it's just blasting music right now. I tried to do that i screenshotted it for that reason very unnecessary mine started playing a little baby so we've got i've got mine queued up do you guys want to just want to run through the top artists top songs yeah top artists minutes listen that's the four i've got those are the big four i think okay let's start with the... Let's start macro. Let's do genre.

Okay. I'm so upset I can't participate in this. Yeah, dude. You can facilitate it. You're the George Stephanopoulos of our Spotify-wrapped recap. What's your genre? I thought Dylan was supposed to facilitate. Oh, you're not facilitating.

Facilitate? I don't even know the category. What's your genre, Will? God dang, just say it. Bitch. Mine's rap. Let's go, Dave. Just thumping, man.

That's tight. Mine's pop. Like a loser. Pop? Yeah. Well, it's not my fault. Taylor Swift dropped an album. Oh, yeah, that's nice.

It's not my fault. I didn't think about that. When I saw pop on mine, I was kind of like, oh, man, that doesn't seem right. But now that you mention it, yeah, I'd listen to folklore a lot. Remember when she used to do country? She's a little bit country. She's a little bit rock and roll, dude. What a great pivot.

I was wrong. Mine's actually dirty pop. Dirty pop. Remember when he did the boob thing? What's your most listened to artist? Quick, go. Hold on. I didn't get to do my genre, dude. I'm Stephanopoulos, bitch. Remember when he did the boob thing? What's your most listened to artist? Quick, go. Hold on. I didn't get to do my genre, dude.

I'm Stephanopoulos, bitch. I run the show. You're sucking off lips. What? That's unnecessary. My top genre was actually mellow gold. What does that mean? What?

I don't know. You're the only one who has that on their list. Mellow gold genre is described as elements of soft rock and folk rock and has a strong correlation with album oriented classic rock from the 60s 70s and 80s that's tight jackson brown fucking pop i have one playlist that i made that has a lot of like allman brothers the band like just those kind of southern rock things on it and i think that's what really propelled it and it's kind of my go-to if i'm in the car and i'm just like turning it yours was rap dave yes no i have to be clear i do listen to spotify almost exclusively at the gym okay you work out i'm just saying like i don't

i'm not i don't sit at home and turn on music very often okay what do you drive to podcast i'm usually podding that makes sense i think Okay. What do you drive to? Podcast? I'm usually podding. That makes sense. I think out of everyone here, you listen to the most podcasts by minute. Dude, I love the pods. I love the pods in Austin, I think. I just straight up turn on FM radio. That's insane.

You are such a normie piece of scum. I know. It's so stupid. You have the option to listen to whatever you want, and you let someone else choose for you. Yeah, with commercials. You listen to Bobby Bones. I do. I know you do to Bobby Bones. I do. I know you do.

Bobby Bones is good. It's a good show. Can I one-up Dylan on a trash move? I listen to streamed Buffalo FM radio. Thank you. That's not bad. See, I do that with The Ticket in Dallas. That's honestly probably what I listen to the most, but I do a lot of pods.

Shouts to WGR 550. Big shout. This is the one I but I do a lot of pods. Shouts to WGR 550. Big shout. This is the one I'm curious about. Minutes listened. Oh, okay. For me, 18,136. What about you, Brett? 32,671.

See, you got me. You got me. I was at 27,000 minutes. Okay. Okay. I don't... My brain can't wrap itself around how many minutes that is and how much time I spend actually just listening to music.

I did mine. Mine's 22 days of music. That's kind of... I mean, it's insane. It seems insane, but then I'm like, well, it's like background shit. Yeah, I do it. But it makes me depressed thinking about the time that I listen to music the most is when I'm driving.

And so it's like, okay, so I spent just two weeks driving I can tell you the my genre and my number one artist just because parks stop buddy stop tap it on the glass tap tapped um I don't know how it's listed on Spotify but it's red dirt country is I got really into it again this year I'm sure dude posty and then it's not posty I love pussy but how is it not posting you would love y'all think I don't think I'm obsessed with pussy I just like the guy there was a there was a two-week stretch when you absolutely had in 2018 good year 17 had fun ever that was we did it Cody Jinx is probably number one whiskey Myers is probably to Tyler Childers is probably three hell

yeah whiskey Myers is really good question Tyler Childers is probably three. Hell yeah. Whiskey Myers is really good. But Cody Jinks. I don't like that you're just trying to make your own over here, George. Honestly, that's legit what it is. I promise you. There's no data to back this up. You're right. You don't have next-gen stats?

Are you sure there's not a way to look at it? No, I'm not sure because I don't have Apple Music. How did Apple not – did they come out with their own version of this? There will be in like four days. Something tells me – I feel like they came out with something last year, but I feel like they come up with – I feel like Spotify releases on December 1st this year because they were like, we got to get ahead of this. It was smart of them to do it when there was a Bachelor episode too because everybody's online. Yeah.

Question for you all too. Yeah. Do you listen to podcasts on Spotify? Weirdly, I do both. Okay. For me, it's like, yeah, for me, I don't really have a method to my madness when it comes to listening to podcasts. Like, if I get a notification from Spotify that, oh, your new podcast, I'm like, okay, perfect. If I get one from Apple, sometimes I'll do that.

Yeah, I'm the same. And that's going to change this year with Rogan transitioning to Spotty. That's what i call it but i i almost do apple mute apple podcasts exclusively yeah i don't really know why i do that and i don't know why because i obviously don't listen to music on there sometimes i go straight to soundcloud listen to podcasts that's how you found posts so early soundcloud yeah do we want to do top artists Or do we want to do Top songs first This is the one that people are here for

Which one should we do first George Top songs Or artists Let's first go to Top artists Will you're first Go

I'm first Do you want me to start with number five And then lead up to number one Yeah Number five Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band That's fucking cool It would be a problem If that wasn't in your top five I would have been A little upset with myself And that was a good one lead up to number one. Yeah. Number five, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. That's fucking cool.

It would be a problem if that wasn't in your top five. I would have been a little upset with myself and that was a good one. Number four, Widespread Panic. Seegs, I call them. Let's call them Seegs.

I went through a widespread panic phase this year. I think because I was gearing up to see them right when the pandemic hit and it was like, it was the first concert that I would have been going to

after like mid-pandemic. Is that when the time you started getting like really into psychedelics and shit too. Yeah. Yeah. So we call Hetty will. Yeah.

That's when I started like just doing shrooms all the time and everything. Right. I'm actually microdosing right now. Really? Very cool. Number three. Not, not sure how to feel about this one. Van Morrison.

He had a tough Sunday online last week. So we'll see. There was a lot of Van Morrison. And then the next one, Stan Getz. Stan Getz is a jazz musician. One of his songs was something that Sally and I got engaged to, but he's on a lot of my jazz playlists, so I listen to him.

My number one artist of 2020, Taylor Swift. I went way too in on folklore, and I didn't realize that I was doing that so hard. No shame. I like folklore. It's a great driving song when it's cool outside it came out right Taylor such as a weird thing where she always drops an album right around the time when Sally and I are out of town and so we got played in our rental house like the

entire time we were there that's why y'all generally about posties so much because we went on that trip together right like yeah days after he released an album yeah mm-hmm yeah yeah you got wrong um mine's uh real similar to yours well do y'all want to guess just toss a guess in like i'll see y'all are gonna guess one of the artists travis scott da baby i'm trying to think of like uh like like not g unit but G-Unit, but... D-12?

You're right. Who sings D-12? Who sings Rough Rider Anthem? DMX. Yeah, DMX. Will was correct. You should have been correct, but you weren't. Dave, there's stats to back this up.

He shouldn't have been correct. I mean, that's true. He was objectively incorrect. What I mean is it was a good guess. It was fair. Sorry, Dylan. Number five, Travis Scott, which is... I think there's like, I don't understand that because I don't listen to that much Travis Scott, but. You didn't even like Highest in the Room.

I thought you didn't like Highest in the Room. No, I did. Dylan did. Oh, I like Highest in the Room. Sicko Moda side. I don't enjoy Travis Scott's music. He gets a little old. It's repetitive.

I get it. But he's my number five artist on Spotify. Number four. It's lit. Here's a guess. Ran for president. Kanye. Kanye West.

Really? I like to visit his, or revisit his catalog. He's probably in my top five, too. That makes sense. I still mess with T-Lap all the time. I don't revisit him very often, but yeah, that makes sense. Big T-Lap guy. And when I throw him on, it's start to finish on the album.

I'll let it ride. Even through the skits? No, not. No, that's fair. I fast forward. You got to skip the skits. Skits are done. It's like the Blink-182 Live album.

And I skip 808s. I don't do 808s. It's not my favorite album. You don't want to get in your feelings? No, it's just I didn't think it was kind of annoying and too much auto-tune. Number three, Drake. See, I was wondering if you were going to have Drake, and I'm actually surprised.

I am too because I make fun of Drake a lot, but he is on a lot of good songs. He has a lot of good songs, and I did a lot of Drake. Cups of the Rose. Number two. Based on your first three, I have no idea where you're actually going now. You would never guess number two.

Blink-182. Three Six Mafia. Really? Three Six Mafia. That is another group I go back, and it brings me back to like 1998, 1999. So you listen to their old shit, obviously. They don't have any new stuff, do they? They've got the, yeah, they do, but I don't know as a group really.

DJ Paul still does stuff, but the new stuff, they won a Grammy for... What was the show? What was the movie? Hard Out Here for a Pimp? It's hard out here for a pimp. Yeah, it was Hustle and Flow. Hustle and Flow. Number one, Rage Against the Machine.

I was wondering if Rage was going to be in here. That is shocking to me. It's great at the Machine. I was wondering if Rage was going to be in here. That is shocking to me. It's great at the gym. And you know what, man? In these uncertain times, it's fun to throw it on. They've got start to finish two of the best albums for me. After last night's Bachelor experience, I might have to go with none of the above.

Fuck it, cut the cord. Cut the cord. Lights out. Will's doing YouTube TV. Honestly, my favorite. Rage Against the Machine. Yeah, fuck the machine, dude. My favorite Tony Hawk song to YouTube TV. Honestly, my favorite. You were right to be against the machine. Yeah, fuck the machine, dude. My favorite Tony Hawk song

to skate to. Yeah, it's great. Well, it's in my top three. It's in my top three at least. It's really good. Brett's is going to be insufferable, I feel like. Yeah.

Number five, Rabel. You got Twiddle on there or what? Rabel? Yeah. Like Mike? No, not Mike. Rabel.

Mike Rabel. Rabel. W-R-A-B-E-L. Just a really chill, like, I don't even know how to describe it. Battery Company? What? I'm sorry. Number four, John Mayer, which I do dabble in some Johnny M.

Brett, this is the first time in the history of Spotify's wrapped that I've never had John Mayer in my top five. Really? First time ever. I reviewed it. It's crazy to me. Yeah, mine has changed quite a bit. It used to be like Dave Matthews, Dave Matthews Live.

Like, it was tough. Number three, All Time Low, who released a new album this year that I listen to a lot of. Dylan, you would hate them. You would, like, hate, hate them. The band name sounds probably like all-time trash. If you have a gun to Dylan's head

and then a bag of a billion dollars next to Dylan and if he can guess one all-time low song, there's going to be blood all over that bag of money. Yeah. Do you know Dear Maria Count Me In? Are they pop punk? My Maria. Not that one.

That one? My Maria. That's like Brooks and Dunn or some shit. Number two, Kaido. Oh, here we go. Wow, dude. Fred has fun. Like house music?

What is that? That's house music. You know Kaido. You know Kaido. That's why I just guessed right. I know him. I kind of do. I'm not real.

We had a day at the pool in Cabo where we just played exclusively Kaido, and I have to say it's the day that everyone got the drunkest. It was great. Let's go. Kygo is Tropical House, Dylan. And he's married to one of the Kardashians, right? Number one, Martin Skrillex. No.

No. Twiddle? Also no. No, Twiddle did not make an appearance. Number one, Taylor Swift. Yes, dude. My man. We're Folklore Boys?

Folklore Boys. Which I was very surprised, honestly surprised by. I really only listened to three of her songs on that album religiously. And then the other ones, it's like, all right, if I'm in the mood to just hear something different, I'll not skip it. But there's three songs on that album that I listen to a lot. And so that's just kind of how I operate. Doing top songs now?

Yeah, this is the part that I just really don't want to do, do unfortunately my top song is the worst top song in the history of all time we'll snake draft this it's a your body is a wonderland cover by taylor fucking acorn and this other guy what's wrong with you i don't know who's taylor acorns i don't know i don't know who that is it's just a cover of your body's a wonderland that i was definitely trying to learn on guitar, which is why I played it so many times. Guitar guy over here. You were trying to learn that song? Did you bring it out to a bonfire somewhere and just go at it?

Or Klein's Ranch. If you bust out a guitar at Klein's Ranch, I swear. Playing Your Body's a Wonderland, a cover of Your Body's a Wonderland. I'm not trying to lose my wife because you're playing My Body's a Wonderland or whatever. Was that Thunder? No, someone's rolling coal out there. Okay. Someone's rolling coal outside of the office.

Number two, Some Kind of Disaster, which is an all-time low song. Beautiful disaster. Number three, Could You Love Me, which is a Kygo song. Could you love me? Could you love me? I'm annoying. Am I crazy? I'll stop.

Number four, Rollin' On Home, which is a John Mayer song. Number five, Strangers, which is a Mount Joy song, which I thought might be making an appearance on my top artists. I had a similar one, Rolling on Coal. Yeah. Rolling on Coal. That's my top five. What are yours, Dave? Number five, Whoa.

Black Rob? Like Whoa? Little Baby. Oh. Number four, Transportin'. Kodak Black. I'm gonna transport, yeah.

I don't know that one. I have no clue. I don't know what the other one is. I love KB. I think it's an older one. Love KB. Number three, Blank, Ain't Barned At.

That's why 3-6 is on there. Go back and listen to it. It's pretty much all instrumental. In fact, it is. It is the ultimate Windows Down song. Ultimate, like turn your 15-inch kicker on and just bump through the parking lot song? It does.

Number two, Baby Pluto, Lil Uzi Vert. What? I'm so confused right now. These are all in gym playlists. These are all gym playlists. I promise. I mean, I can't. Dude, it's just your gym playlist is way harder than mine

you need to go hard you don't know anything about i'm embarrassed yeah when you hear my playlist you're gonna be positive that i don't go hard number one remember the name are you ready for us also three six that's one that we used to bump a lot in like sophomore year driving like our buddy who had a licensed cruiser on the movie theater we we're like, in like his like 92 Honda Accord, we're just like, dude, these guys want to fight. Let's get, dude, we got squirt guns. Let's drive by and spray them. That was us. We sucked.

I like it, Dave. That's just screams Dave getting big. Yeah. We're waiting on that, aren't we? You have such a more respectable playlist than I have. All five songs from mine are on my Peloton playlist, and my Peloton playlist was my most listened to playlist because I did it. I mean, through quarantine, I think at one point I did it 100 days in a row.

I did it at least two months in a row, but I was going every single day, and I was listening to the exact same playlist. Number five, Regulate, Warren G., Nate Dogg, and LaBeouf. Regulators. It's aouf. Regulators. It's a tropical remix of Regulators. Mound up. I never heard that, but I kind of want to. It absolutely slaps.

Sally, it came out in the car the other day, and Sally was just like, is this on your Peloton playlist? 16 in the clip, one in the hole. Nate Dogg is about to make somebody's turn cold. Now they scrapping and yelling, it's a tad bit late. Nate Dogg and Warren and G about to regulate. He just pulled up with the freaks. God, that song went so hard.

It went so hard. I love that song. You need the Tropical remix in your life. Okay. Another remix of a classic, Natasha Bedingfield's unwritten, the 2019 remix. Hell yes. I will say this is mostly on here because of the Peloton playlist, but this was also on here because getting married in Laguna Beach, we had to do the unwritten

song numerous times while we were just cruising in the convertible that we rented. It was just a necessary one. This next one's tough. It has a very good beat. Is it worse than your Body's a Wonderland cover? That is objectively

the worst. The fact that it's a cover. Okay, so this one I listen to on the Peloton a lot because it has a great beat for the cadence that I'm used to. And it is A Sky Full of Stars by Coldplay. Not great. Number two, Higher Love, Kygo Whitney Houston. Okay. Bangers only. And number one, a song that I was not into.

I actually expected Higher Love to be higher than this one. Avicii, Heaven. Ooh, a song that I was not into. I actually expect a higher love to be higher than this one. Avicii, Heaven. Ooh, great song, though. I'm still thinking about that Kygo-Whitney-Houston joint. That sounds tight. You've probably heard it. Okay. Yeah.

Well, I know the Whitney-Houston song. I just don't know if I've heard the Kygo version. I don't know if I've heard the Kygo version. The top normal song that I had that wasn't not on my Peloton playlist was Taylor Swift, The One. Which makes sense. Somebody's here. Which makes sense. Oh, we got a guest in the studio? Yeah.

Maintenance guy. To all the people that shouted out to us and sent us their screenshots of how much they listened to Circling Back, I have to say we sincerely thank you for your support. Can I get special attention to one of these people? You can absolutely do that. Shouts to Jake Vanover, who sent us his list of his top five most listened to podcasts. Are you ready for this? Mm-hmm.

Number five, Too Much Dip. Okay. Love that. Big watch media guy, it turns out, because number four is Mail In. Shouts. Number three is, Brett, you might have heard of this one called Pardon My Take. Are they in the Watch Media Network too? They're not, not yet.

Okay. I'll ask them if they want to. Number two, circling back. That's us. So you might be thinking, wow, what could number one be? Yeah, he loves Watch Media, but he's, I mean, is it scary? Number one is Touching Base with Postgrad Problems. No one is doing that.

By Grand X Media, which is crazy. Number one is Touching Base with Post-Grad Problems. No one is doing that. By Grand X Media, which is crazy because you can't even find those anymore. He listened to, let's see, 219 episodes of Touching Base in 2020, 2020, however you want to say it. But this had to be early on like we talked about earlier because those episodes aren't even available anymore. No. All but three, I think, are missing now. So big ups to Jake. That's pretty cool.

My man Andrew Hall listened to 41 episodes of the Sunday Scaries podcast in one day. Excuse me? The dude had to have gotten really fucked up the night before. He woke up, put it on, and fell asleep to it. Yeah. Like that night. 41 episodes. They average what in length? 25 minutes.

Okay. 25 minutes this year. How's that even possible, then? It's like two and a half an hour. Are you getting, like, if you, like, listen to it for two seconds and you're skipping through it, does that count? I think it's, there's 15 seconds. Is it a listen? I think.

Okay. This makes sense. He just spent a whole day. Maybe he was traveling internationally or something and just tore through them. Who knows? It's possible to listen to that many in one day. It is, but it's like it's a full day of Will in your ears. That's a lot.

He only has five hours where he wasn't listening to me. That's a lot of Will. Yeah, it's a lot of me. But to everyone who put it on their timeline, we appreciate the support. It's a great way for us to get in front of new people, and we really appreciate it. Honestly, going through all the people last night and showing how much you guys listen, I kind of got a little choked up at one point. I was getting a little happy.

Crying Will was coming out in a good way. I would like to advise people to, before they go to bed, at least once a week, just hit play and just listen to circling back like all night but but you can even turn the volume down or plug some headphones in we would appreciate that we need those minutes we need those i'm a proponent of falling asleep to a podcast and or headspace which i did last headspace works great too i did the moon landing one not the not not the rodent podcast like the moon Like you're on a... Never mind. Anyway. Fall asleep to a podcast. It works.

By the way, the maintenance guy wanted to change the AC filter. I told him, man, I'm sorry, man. I hate to be that guy. We're doing content, sir. Yeah. Also, sir, it's literally one of the coldest days we've had in Austin this year. So maybe changing the AC filters could have, I don't know, maybe come earlier. Sorry.

Maybe he's a listener. I feel bad now. He definitely is. Any closing thoughts? No, I might switch to Spotify. Please switch to Spotify so you don't have to be George Stephanopoulos anymore. Yeah, I might. I'm jealous that you get to go into Spotify clean.

You don't have seven years of old music that have designed your favorites. You get to go in with your all-time song. See, that's why I love Spotify, though. That's the one company that I want to have access to all my analytics because it brings up songs that I forgot that I loved, and it'll be like, here's a playlist from summer 2008. And I'm like, oh, shit. You guys ever use their Spotify curated, like you might enjoy this.

All the time. And it hits? All the time. Every time. All the time. And it hits? All the time. Really? That's where I find my new music. His release radar.

Their pre-made playlist. I find my new music on FM radio. Stop doing that. Are you like recording it to a cassette with like the radio guy on there? I really am getting old. This is ridiculous, Dylan. You're raising your son to listen to FM radio? He listened to Bobby Bones with me.

Is he a big Bobby Bones guy? Yeah. Does he know that it's not about archaeology? He thinks it's about Randy Travis. What does Bobby Bones call his listeners? Boners, right? Boners. No, I don't think he has a name for them, actually.

Okay. Boneheads, maybe? It could be me. Maybe it's Boneheads. Welcome to the Bonehead Zone. Let's talk about poncho real quick. You guys have seen it everywhere. Clay, at Flounder on the fly, is absolutely dripping.

We've all gotten these shirts in the mail. Dylan's wearing his at the ranch and just flexing on everybody. Did you wear it over Thanksgiving out there? I did. That's a Thanksgiving fit for the ages. I did. I didn't get fit for the ages. I did. I didn't get a pick, unfortunately. What's your problem?

I don't know. I'm a dumbass. Yeah. Yeah, you kind of are. You kind of are. We can move on. Dude, ponchos just made for the outdoors. They got everything you need, nothing you don't.

They got some beautiful shirts on here. I don't care if you're going fishing. I don't care if you're going out to have a beer with the boys. This shirt's going to look good. It's great beer with the boys gear. Yeah. I have two hats that I wear. Guess what?

They're both poncho. You're wearing one right now. Literally says poncho across Dave's forehead right now. He's got a fish on the front. He really is wearing it. I might start calling you poncho. Do it, lefty. I mean, that kind of works.

Do you get it? Do you get that? Yeah, I get it. He's left-handed as well, so double works. Very chill. Very cool. Yeah, I get it. He's left-handed as well, so double works. Very chill. Very cool. Yeah, I also play left-handed. What can we say that we haven't already said?

They got hot dudes on their site that are just rocking these shirts and making me think that I can pull them off, which I can. You have a minty one. I have a little minty one. That thing's going to get some spring play for sure. Catch me at a crawfish boil. That thing's going to be covered in juices. It's a great crawfish boil.

Please don't say covered in juices. Covered in juices, Dylan. But it doesn't matter because it's a fishing shirt. It's great. Yeah. Fish guts, juices, whatever. Guts? Fish. You've got to clean them. Oh, man. These things have an incredible fit. They're really, really comfortable. And we also have an awesome

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I was skeptical on the rope hat because I'm a notoriously tiny head guy. Can't wear rope hats. Tried it on. Now it's in my rotation. I wear it too much, some might say. It's in the rotation. I'm a rope hat guy, and it's because of poncho. No one had you as a rope hat guy going into 2021.

Look at me. I am. I'm literally, I have to. I got rope hat swag now. I like the rope hat. Actually, before we get into the next segment, I think it would implore us to have Brett describe what's been going on on some Tuesdays lately. Oh, are you talking about R&B, lunchtime radio?

I am. You're an optimized backer out there. Randy and I have been putting together a little audio-only video livestream behind a paywall that's interactive for not only Discord but the crowdcast listeners. So it's a radio show. You're actually taking live calls. Yeah. People can call in.

There's a hotline if you're an optimized backer. Except if somebody put the number on the Discord, it's a whole big thing. Anyway, we do a radio show. Literally just talk to backers out there. Play pretty chill tunes. People keep asking for the Spotify playlist. Might have to put that together at some point. But yeah,

we have fun with it, Dylan. Have you listened at all? Yeah, of course I've listened. I'm two for three. I haven't done yesterday's though. You guys launched this while I was out of town, but I've listened to both of the next two episodes, and I've been very happy with it. I still can't tune in. I don't know how to tune in live. I had to listen to the recording of it okay well

you know you're also one who doesn't know how to like work anything by side radio so this makes sense I had trouble we called Dylan to from like we can we can call people from this number and he screened our call that's to try to get on pick up numbers I don't recognize. It said spam risk. That's understandable. It's a spam risk. That's understandable. Yeah, I just clicked it. I clicked the client. Explain.

You got a call from somebody yesterday. I don't know if you remember who it was actually from, but our next segment is going to just, we're just stealing content from you guys. Sure. Yeah, we did. A backer called in and asked us to do a SWOT analysis. You want a SWOT analysis, Will?

Yes, I do. Okay. All right. Well, I do. Okay. Well, that backfired. It's a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats analysis. I always hated doing SWAT analysis. I kind of like doing them, to be honest. In school and shit. I enjoy it.

It's fun. Dave's never done one, which you'd think you would have. You seem like a veteran SWAT guy. I put off SWAT vibes, but I've never done a SWAT. Y'all do a SWAT in law school or anything? No. Damn. I played really good defense and basketball, like down low,

and they used to call me SWAT team. No, they didn't. Yeah, they did. I was just SWATing fools left and right. I'd put your shit in the third row. Dilkembe Matumbo? Yes. That would have been better if it came out right the first time.

Yeah, they just called me SWAT team. I was a one-man team, though, on the SWAT team. So you were just telling people their strengths, opportunities, weaknesses, and threats on the basketball court? No, I was swatting their shit into the third row, which I will do to you if we ever go one-on-one. You're just like, yo, you lack motivation. Yeah. You're not a self-starter. Get that shit out.

You skip breakfast every day. What are you doing? You want to prepare for most is the enemy of good. You want to prepare for most of the meetings. And one. So what we did was we SWAT analyzed each other, Randy and I. So I think now we're going to SWAT analyze

WASH Media. I think in the spirit of being the most transparent episode that we've ever done with our Spotify analytics and such, I think this is the time to do it. We can take a look back on the year of Washed. Yeah. Do we start with strength?

Are we having fun with this or are we being for real? No, we're going to be for real. Dylan, it doesn't matter. Shut up, David. Jeez. Let's have Dylan start off and just let him set the tone real early for what it's going to be. Well, let's see here. I got my notes.

Dylan's got accounting notes up. Pull up the spreadsheet, dude. Where are our strengths at? Who's starting? You. You're scared. I'll start. I don't know how we're going to play this. One of my strengths is I'm a leader. So I'm going to step up.

Ready? Yeah. Strengths. Situated between two ideal breakfast spots. Three if you count Hat Creek. That's fair. I don't know if you're counting Hat Creek, though. I never go there, but they have great breakfast tacos. They do have good breakfast. So you got Taco Deli right there off 360, and then you got, obviously, Honey Ham.

Honey Slam, I like to call it, because it slams. I call it Money Ham, because the ham's so freaking money. Actually, Parks and I had breakfast tacos this morning from Honey Slam. They're really good. That's intangible. That's also the reason why we were about five minutes late. You really had to come at the high schoolers that are running the register there? It seems unnecessary.

Those guys are cool. I'll give them a break. That was a good strength. That is a beautiful strength. Thank you, man. I appreciate it. Wonderful. I had a strength that animals aren't really getting COVID,

so the content's just still rolling in for us. Yeah, because we do animals still. There are some animals out there that are getting COVID, but what's up with those meerkats or whatever that are just emerging from the grave? By the way, like I told you the other day, minor miracle that none of us have gotten COVID. Oh, don't say that. You better knock on wood right now.

It's not like COVID's going to sneak in here and get me now that I said that. But when it inevitably happens, people are like, oh, dude, what episode was that? It's just an observation. Well, I don't like it. Is that our strength?

We haven't gotten COVID yet? Oh, he mentioned the animals and COVID, which is a weird one. But, yeah. No, it's not weird. If animals were all quarantining, we wouldn't have any content to talk about. If animals got COVID, we would probably talk about animals getting COVID. Did y'all see these meerkats? No.

I've heard about it. I didn't investigate. Minks. Minks. Yeah. Yeah, real minks, baby. Smashing. No, these mx, baby. Smashing. No, these minx, they all started getting COVID, I guess, these minx. And so they started burying them.

And now they're just waking up and burrowing their way out of their graves and rising from the dead. Who's burying them? I don't know. Undertaker.gif. Wait, what? It's weird, dude. It's weird. What's with that panda?

A bunch of minx? What's with the pandalin little animal? Is What's with that panda? A bunch of minks. What's with the pandalin little animal? Is that what it's called? A pandalin? Something to do with COVID. They're important. Pandalin rain. It's a Hornsby song.

No. Purple mink rain. Pandalin. What did that kid eat that started COVID? Oh, my God. Like a frog or turtle? This is a dinosaur. Pangolin.

No, he ate a bat. Pangolin. No, it's a penguin, Dylan. No, a pangolin. That's a dinosaur, Dylan. What are they and how are they linked to COVID-19? Get that shit. Yeah, they...

They got weird scales, man. They're cool. Don't they have... Isn't part of their... Don't they have some type of thing that they produce that could be part of a vaccine? There aren't enough of them around in order to make sure that we... I don't know. You have to get them and extract their adrenochrome.

Some theories, some scientific theories, suggest that pangolins may be the source of the novel coronavirus. See, I'm onto something. Novell. No. I think I said Novell, like, week one. It is novel. People are like, dumbass, it's novel.

The idea is that pangolins carry the virus. SARS-CoV-2 came into contact with humans. The virus then made the jump from these creatures to humans, kicking off the pandemic we're now facing. So what you're saying is that when I said that they could cure it, I could not have been more wrong. But I think they might hold something that, like, leads to the vaccine or something.

Because chasing down the source, obviously, is probably pretty – what's the word I'm looking for? I don't know. I'm not a scientist. It's a witch hunt. I'm just going to – It's a witch hunt. Before I sound even dumber than I do now. So what you're saying is that a strength of ours is that we've identified that pangolins or something –

Pangolin. Pangolins. Pangolins. Pangolins. They're cool looking animals, by the way. They're kind of in the armadillo family a little bit. Like aardvark vibes. Aardvark. Look at the face of an armadillo.

You sure this wasn't created in a lab? What, the virus? Yeah. What about that dude who ate a bat? Was that all made up? What's happening with that? I don't know. I didn't find it.

Park's still thinks that's what happened. It's a very unique virus. It's almost like it was created in a lab. Park's like, we'll just be driving to like- Very widespread. We'll be driving to Target. During an election year. Don't panic.

Hey, listen. Oh. We'll be driving to Target, and he'll be like, I can't let that guy eat that bat. I'm like, what? He goes, yeah, coronavirus. Like, oh, yeah. No, Dave's actually been having to listen to a lot of Ozzy Osbourne. Flying high again.

Great song. Brett, do you have any strengths for us? I don't even know how to land that plane. We're all pretty good looking. You got that right. Actually, you can make a case that we've gotten better looking. Yeah. Brett has started going to, like, a hair person that's just been making his hair look crazy i saw like a gif of

you recently where you had really long hair and it looked like you'd been wearing a hockey helmet on top of your hair for like a week before you came into the studio that was like what he was trying to do that was the look he wanted absolutely well there you go i just complimented you thank you yeah yeah i i lost like i lost 10 pounds in quarantine at At least. No, 10 pounds. Okay. I don't know if I got better looking. I started wearing hats more. Your hat collection is growing.

That's a strength. You added the mustache. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Good call. That's a strength. It depends on you. No, I think that's a strength. In-laws saw it for the first time recently.

How'd they feel about it? They liked it. That's the concern. I think they'll like anything. They're very nice. I was expecting a little bit more. How'd they feel about it? They liked it. That's the concern. I think they'll like anything. They're very nice. And like, I was expecting a little bit more. How did the listeners like it?

They might, yeah. I thought her little, my wife's little sister was going to make fun of me for it, but she didn't. Is she the mean teen? No,

but it would be, it would not shock anyone if she was like, what's up with the mustache? Oh, like at the table? I've been experimenting with different facial hair, but I hate all of it.

Yeah. You know, so. Was there a rumor that Will was going to? No. He said one day he was going to shave clean sooner or later. I might do it around Christmas so I don't have to see you guys for longer. Dude, I've always said the best time to shave your beard off is when it's coldest outside. Well, I just don't.

You guys are being mean to me. That's my concern. Yeah, we will. So I don't necessarily want to do it at a time where I'm going to see you a lot. I would rather not see your face when you do it. Show us your face, Will. Brother Will. There's a handsome face under all that.

I just don't want to see it. Well, Sally was talking. I'm just kidding. I don't know if what I'm. I want to talk about something, but I don't know if it's PC to face under all that. I just don't want to see it. Well, Sally was talking... I'm just kidding. I don't know if what I'm... I want to talk about something, but I don't know if it's PC to talk about. Oh. Is it sexual?

Does taking testosterone give you a better jawline? You could fucking say that. Uh, no. Well, actually, yeah, yeah, yeah. If you get in better shape? Yeah, you're going to burn more fat. I don't know if it's face fat. You've lost weight.

You're not going to turn into Bennett. You're not going to get that. Are you taking testosterone? Are you taking tea? No, but somebody on the timeline yesterday, Sally said like they must be taking testosterone because the jawline's looking pretty good. We're talking about now Elliot Page,

formerly Ellen Page, who's come out as trans. Juno. Yes. And she's got a stronger jaw now than she had before, and Sally said it might have been testosterone or something, and I was like, well, is that readily available? Because I have a trash jawline, and I've had it for 33 years.

It's incredibly easy to get it. Let's do it. Testosterone or a jawline? Testosterone. Jawlines are hard. Jawline's probably difficult. They're harder to come by. You're jawline blessed. That's decent. You know how you get a a jawline? Testosterone. Jawlines are hard. Jawline's probably difficult. They're harder to come by. You're jawline blessed. Mine's decent. You know how you get a strong jawline, huh? You take testosterone and you just eat Laffy Taffy all day.

I'm too busy shaking it. Then you shake it. We're all sprinting just right there. Shaking Laffy Taffy. Let's do some weaknesses. I didn't realize that Elliot... I saw Elliot Page trending. I didn't know that that's what happened.

That's interesting. Yeah. Okay. My first weakness kind of stems from what Dylan said. None of us have gotten COVID yet. We're not hurting. We're antibody free. We're going to have to shut down at some point still.

No, no. We're going to have to quarantine at some point. We're being fairly safe. Dylan's super old so he's going to get the vaccine quick. We've got a vaccine knocking on the door too. What vaccine are you going to get? vaccine quick you got a vaccine knocking on the door too I forgot about the vaccine what vaccine you gonna get I bet you're a Pfizer guy

I already have a Pfizer sub they send me shit every just kidding damn I ran off on my Pfizer plug twice really no

didn't they used to call you the Geyser plug back in the day dude he got you my Dude, you got him, bitch. Got him. Got him. Weaknesses. None of us drive F-150s. Dave drives an F-350.

You have a 350, but an F-150. Dylan, do you remember the time I made a joke about your family all driving F-350s once, and afterwards you're like, why'd you say that? You're like, what does that mean? I was like, I don't know.

It just sounded funny at the time. It wasn't rooted in anything. Part of me is kind of surprised that Dylan wasn't like, how did you know that? Well, y'all do have a ranch. If you told me that you guys had three F350s sitting at the ranch, I would 100% believe you. No, my stepdad drives a Silverado 2500. Hell yes. That's cool, though. I prefer the Silverado 2500 hell yeah that's cool though I like I prefer the Silverado to the f-150 I'll say doing truck talk

diesel yeah it's truck month it's I think Rams are ugly Dodge Ram's fruit a lot of Ram guy unless I'm dropping in for dance then I'll pick one up and just start just letting it's saying I don't know what that means randy and dave do okay and some of our listeners just let it sing all night the choppa yeah the choppa lord this guy dave what's a weakness difficult for some delivery drivers to find yes absolutely we've had some issues in the past also are you talking food delivery or are you just talking – And also a weakness is that we literally can't receive packages here at a successful rate. Probably about, I would say, $500 worth of lost merch or lost packages in two years. I think more.

Maybe more. A whole ass desk for one. Yeah. And you'll be shocked to find that when you contact the carrier, they don't really help you out. You're kind of fucked. At least this building is pretty much just owned by a security company that has cameras everywhere.

I think that we could find a desk. Did we lose an entire desk? A desk. No one's doing that. That's Randy's second desk. First one, we have no idea where it is. Hope you like it, Randy. I have a weakness.

One of our hosts turneded into a hot dog Is that a strength though? Oh shit you really did It could be a strength If y'all get hungry Dude we're not gonna eat you We need you for the show I'm not a hot dog dude

I'm a human being You're the Glissadente Oh man Is Randy the Glissadente Or are you the Glissadente? He is He is Or was he dressed up as you

Because you're the Glissadente He took the title He could be Vice Glissadente or are you the Glissadente? He is. He is. Or was he dressed up as you because you're the Glissadente? Right, right, right. He took the title. He could be Vice Glissadente. He's not. There are no hot dogs in the company. Is that your final statement? Yes.

Brought Lesnar over here. No, we're not doing Brought Lesnar. Are we doing a Brought analysis right now? I hate that. I have another weakness. Bottled blonde closed in Houston, which means that

our next meetup might be difficult. May have, not, I didn't go, but it's open. Like, they just don't care.

Really? I drove down Washington perhaps to get El Tiempo on Washington and it was open. Okay. What are they doing? Hard to say.

Whatever. I don't think they care about local regulations. That doesn't shock me. Neither does John Elway. What other weaknesses have we got? The guy next door is going to get us in trouble at some point? Yeah. He's far listening.

If the mic catches anything he says, we're in trouble. I think we have enough on him now. Is he over there? I don't know. We can blame it on him, though. I mean, it's not like we're saying it. He says some very aggressive things at times. Well, here's a weakness.

We've never played Among Us. I've been trying to get us to play it for so freaking long. Shut up. Randy's always like, no, it won't translate. The backers don't like it. Why doesn't Randy like Among Us? I don't get it. He hates it.

Another weakness, every time we drop into Verdansk on Twitch, we average about.1 kills a game. Never goes well. And it's getting kind of embarrassing at this point. I don't like it. I hate it. I have just general geography awareness. Listen,

I did top 200 metro areas, shots to KB, I went 200 for 200, pull the tape, Randy, it exists. It might be a strength though because it's good content.

People like... Maybe it's an opportunity to learn more. Or a threat to you. I also have that SVP still has not responded to his offer letter. That's an opportunity. It's been opportunity to learn more. Or a threat to you. I also thought that SVP still has not responded to his offer letter. That's an opportunity. It's been on his desk for like two years now.

Yeah. It's an open offer, though. He can do it 10 years from now. Do we write him a blank check? We could definitely afford to pay him a few hundred dollars a week. We offered him 100% equity in the company. Let's hire him as CEO. Give him the title.

People like titles. I'm not ready for that. We don't know what kind of corporate skills he has or lacks. We make SVP an SVP. There we go. Oh, my gosh. We should do that. That was my head exploding.

He's our senior vice president. Just in general? okay we don't we don't really need him in charge of anything like just him being there what kind of opportunities we got golf simulator in office 100 i didn't know that was on the table it's opportunity okay content i mean isn't that like ten thousand dollars what are you trying to say do you not know how to invest in something? Invest in a golf simulator. Speaking of investments, I have Bluetooth speakers. That's a very good point.

Hey, do y'all think in April when this lease is up, we're going to move? I don't know. There's never a better time to get office space. True. If we're going to switch offices, now would be the time. Get some deals. This mid-pandemic feels like the time to snag something dope

we need to get Phil to do commercial real estate too I want Phil to find our next building like David Coney yeah we can ask the founder that's the thing about McDonald's that's your real estate company

yeah the founder should we just start buying land? dude got some in West Texas maybe that's how I mean that's how Ray Kroc made his it's true nut Should we just start buying land? Dude. Got some in West Texas. That's how Ray Kroc made his nut. It's true. And going to fake ice cream. It's broken.

What's up with that? They use that powder. Saved him a lot of money, though. Billions served every day or whatever. Every year. Probably every year. What's an opportunity we have, Dylan? It's awfully quiet over here.

Yeah, I know. I wasn't prepared for the SWAT analysis. How are you not prepared for the SWAT analysis? This should be always in your head. I know why. I thought you were the SWAT guy. I know why. Because Dylan's got Instagram up and he's doing a thought analysis.

There we go. I like the broad analysis. That's my opportunity. Hey, all the thoughts out there. Just getting thot go. I like the broad analysis. That's my opportunity. All the thoughts out there. Just getting thotty. I have the homies getting old enough to twitch. He's getting more comfortable with us. We just got to put him in there and just let him start blasting. Let the choppa sing when it comes to GTA.

He's like too comfortable with y'all now. It's crazy. Opportunity. PS5. PS5? That's a good one. I've been trying to order coffee for the last eight minutes. I'm sorry. Golden tea machine. Yeah. We can rent one for free.

No, we can't. We just have to pay for it when we play. You have to be like a bar or a restaurant. You have to be somewhere that has actual foot traffic. Okay. I did apply for a liquor license. It's extremely expensive. TABC's a real apply for a liquor license. It's extremely expensive. TABC's a real bitch, too.

Yeah. It's a motherfucker. Golden Tee machines are not cheap if you just outright buy one. Let's fucking buy one. Bitch, I'll be in here just fucking spinning that trackball. You won't even know. Dylan does the cocky thing where he hits it real hard and he stops it. He stops it and just kind of looks away.

Like, no looks. Dude, that's proper etiquette. Yeah, I know. But the way you do it. You let it keep spinning and the other person. It causes problems. Trust me. It's the right thing to do.

Y'all don't know shit about Golden Tee. I don't. It's disgusting. I'm the opposite of you on Golden Tee. I'm terrible. Yeah. Absolutely awful. You're really, really bad.

I don't have that many opportunities for us. We have new merch. Watchmedia.shop. That's an opportunity. We have like a hugely untapped market of listeners if we want to dig into them. Yeah.

We do have Dave's mustache as well. That's an opportunity. I feel like we're like, I feel like you're 90% settled in. Yeah, as I was trimming it the other day, I was like, should i just

and then i saw some photos of me without it and i'm like i don't want to i don't want to go back to that no one's asking for you to take it off yeah every time i for the bachelorette finale episode will you let one of us shave it no okay every time i consider losing the beard i look at old pictures of myself i'm like yeah i can, I can't. Isn't that weird? Every time I think about losing my beard, I just think about how mean people are to me when I do it. It's pretty easy. Yeah, as you should. People get legit mad.

What threats we got? The biggest one I can find is 30 to 50 feral hogs. I put climate change. The moat I can find is 30 to 50 feral hogs. That's true. I put climate change. The moat outside can overflow. Honestly, that's a weakness of ours. Our moat is never full. What's the point of having that?

The alligators died. It was a whole big thing. They can live forever. We don't need to get into that. One of my threats is Cloyd Rivers. Did you guys talk about him on Monday? Nope. That son of a gun.

I went and looked at his numbers, or his engagement on those stuff. I don't think he's doing numbers. It's somehow worse than ours. He's got 1.6 million followers. Yeah, he stole our shit and tweeted it out to 1.6 million losers who follow that account.

Yes, if you follow him, you are a loser. Let's be clear. Do the Ace Ventura. Do the Ace Ventura. Loo-hoo-zer. That's good. I thought you were going to do a Trump first. Loser.

Loser. China. China. Loser. Fuck Floyd Rivers. What a dickhead, man. Like, didn't even change the design. Like, just straight up stole the design, put it on his own sweatshirt, and then does it.

It's just trash. That guy sucks. And to have people calling him out in the comments about it and still not do anything about it, not change it, not say anything nice, like, it's just blatantly ripped from us. This was an idea straight from Brett's head. But if you're Cloyd Rivers, you've been dealing with people just telling you how shitty you've been for over, over like six years now that you're just used to it.

You can't even read his mentions anymore. I mean, if you're a big... Just people slamming. His other sweaters also suck. He stinks, dude. It's just the lowest brow humor I've ever seen. I just hate that guy. America.

He sucked even before he stole our designs. And then once I found out he stole our designs, it was like, how much more can you suck? You suck. You suck, Floyd Rivers, you jerk. Big jerk. Agreed. We should go full Yellowstone and blow that thing up.

Yeah. Can we send him a strongly worded legal letter? We could. How much ground do we have to stand on, David? I think all of it. I mean, yeah, all of it. It's a completely original design. Can we just send it to him just to fuck with him?

We can talk about it it we'll see about it let's just ask him for like a million dollars he's a maintenance guy just hovering outside of our door he's big time hovering he's fucking making me uncomfortable

it's too bad that what does he do when other people have meetings and stuff I'm gonna have Parks just go whip his ass beat him up perfect

he was very nice dude perfect is a threat yeah we're in danger of a bear hug, guys. That's fine. They can bear hug us. That's cool.

Bears are one of my favorite animals, and I love getting hugs. I talked to Chad. He's like, hey, you're going to get bear hugged. That's fine. Is he inside? They can bear hug us. He put something inside. I think it was a filter, but he stepped back up.

I can change it. I mean, it's not hard to change a filter. You don't know how to change a filter. I'll change your filter. Is he a threat? Our maintenance guy? Yeah, he's just hovering right now. Yeah, he's a threat. What's his filter. You don't know how to change a filter. I'll change your filter. Is he a threat? Our maintenance guy? Yeah, he's just hovering right now. Yeah, he's a threat.

What's his problem? I don't know. This poor air quality is a threat. He can't change the filter. Is it hard to understand what we're doing for him right now? I miss Joe Fox. Is it difficult to look in here? Remember Joe Fox, the water guy?

F-O-X. That guy was tight. Yeah. You know Joe Fox has a lead in You've Got Mail. Oh, yeah. I didn't know that. Any more threats before we need to get into this weekend and fun? Everything I can think of is just legitimate.

Oh, I've got a good one. There's no funny threats. We missed the most obvious one. I know, like, feral hogs in mind. Us being at dinner as a group and Randy doing origami to the waitress. True. We can't do all the cool points. We have to over-tip to make up for that.

Yeah, he's going to tank our, like, coolness. We're going to be like, ah, nice. the cool points. We have to over-tip to make up for that. Yeah, he's going to tank our coolness. We're going to be like, ah, nice. My little brother. I forgot his strength. The backers? Will Mommies. Backers in general, man. Backers in general.

But one thing that we have always lacked is having that female fan base that's mobilizing. We've always got the dudes. We've been rolling with dudes pretty hard. We've got the dude. The original walk. But girls just want to have fun. Girls just want to have fun. That's the song that I was referencing.

Cyndi Lauper. Yeah, you killed it. Not a good song. One of my all-time least favorite songs. Unless your girl is just having fun. Yeah, I'm not a girl who has fun, so it's hard for me to relate to that song. Like, imagine just getting in your Jeep Wrangler. You got all the mommies with you, and you're just heading to,

I don't know, what are girls, where do they go for fun? The club. Fuck it. And you just put that song on, it's just a vibe, dude. The Pedal Tavern down in Sixth.

Imagine that blaring on your Pedal Tavern. Is it a pedal? Is it not a pedal tavern? Pedal Pub. Come on. Pedal Tavern is such a worse name for it when Pedal Pub is out there.

Imagine not singing along to that song. The Pedal Tavern is a florist on wheels. Pedal Tavern. Pedal Pub. Come on. Pedal Tavern is such a worse name for it when Pedal Pub is out there. Imagine not singing along to that song. The Pedal Tavern is a florist on wheels. Pedal Tavern. Loser. Anyway. Did y'all see the viral story out of Dallas, the restaurant, where the guy admonished his clientele for twerking? Yeah.

We literally talked about this on Monday's episode. Did we? Yes. Did you know the song that they said they were playing was called Lil Ron, a Dallas rapper. Throw That Ass in a Circle. That's a great name for a song.

You can't play that song and not twerk to it. I agree. Did we really talk about that? We referenced it. We touched on it. I don't remember shit. We're getting old. One of my weaknesses is that we're just straight up getting older, and I think we are losing our cabezas a little bit.

My technology, I can't keep up, dude. Can't figure out Spotify. No. All right, let's do this weekend of fun. Presented this week by our friends over at Roback. You guys know Roback. You love Roback. Their QZs right now are just stupid soft.

They've really just gone loco with their QZs. Everything they're doing is just great. I've been wearing a lot of stuff. Dave and Brett walked in today wearing their downed vest. I have two of their downed vests, and it's one of the best-fitting articles of clothing I have. It pairs well with almost everything. It's show up to happy hour and flex on everybody type of stuff. It is vest weather.

Get over there. I don't even remember. Is it called the Marine Layer or something, that one that I gave you because it was too big on me, that QZ? Isn't that what it's called? No, I don't know. It's two-tone. I've been sleeping in it. It's so soft.

You've been sleeping in it? Yeah. Nothing underneath. Just right on my skin, man. It's tight. That sounds swag. It's like approachable Fortune 500 company gear. Exactly.

It's like, yeah, I'm doing business, but I went to Happy Hour. I didn't even go home and change first. Right now, Stella 20 is going to get you 20% off your order. That's tight. Shout out to Stella. Very cool. S-T-E-L-L-A. Stella.

You missed Monday's episode. She got a promo code, too. Yep. I heard it from outside. She's really getting good promo codes. Are you leaking Randy and Rosie promo codes so Stella gets a little more love? No comment. Okay.

Dylan, what are you doing this weekend? Wow. So Friday is kind of a big day for Washington media, correct? We can talk about that, right? Yes. Okay. We have our Christmas dinner. Yes!

I'm so excited. It's at a steakhouse, a notable steakhouse in Austin. I like steak. I'm not even getting the steak. Just to let you know. We know what T-Bone's getting, though. I'll tell you that.

Oh, T-Bone's getting... We know. You're getting a tube steak? No, I said I'm not getting steak, David. Because I can whip some up for you. Really? How do you like it when people do that to you? It's funny.

I enjoy it. It's pretty fun. Yeah, so we've got a Christmas dinner Friday. I'm really pumped for that. Probably get a drink afterward, you know, because we're loco. Saturday and Sunday, I have the little fella. And might do a little birthday get-together with my dad. He just had one.

He turned 69. He really did, though. He turned 69. So happy birthday to him. Happy birthday. Jeez. We might get together for his birthday. And that's it.

Nice. Davey? Same. Minus the other stuff. You're coming to my dad's birthday celebration? Yep. Oh. Nothing you can do about it.

He's going to smoke something for him. Yep. Tubestick? Nope. You make the best tubesticks, though. Okay. No, I'll be attending our dinner. Looking forward to that. Looking forward to that.

Looking forward to Randy's antics. Take the napkins away from him. Yeah. How many Manhattans does Randy have? This guy, Bib. Oh, God. Randy got a different drink every time he ordered the last time we were there. He was really getting, yeah, he was going for the sampler, the drink sampler.

I loved it. Caymus, no thank you. He literally said, no thank you. Oh, that's a nice bottle of wine. I don't drink Caymus. He got like a $180 ball of wine. He's like, no, I'm all set.

I'm going to drink this sugary whiskey drink over here instead. Oh, Saturday. I only drink Carlo Rossi. I don't. He said it's true. Randy just said, yeah, it's true. Oh, it's funny.

Saturday, we were supposed to do our uh baby shower but we have uh postponed it that's why i didn't include it in my weekend and fun right i would have gone right yeah we were just like a lot of people coming in from houston and dallas and it's just like you know we don't some people were like iffy about it and it's just like, you know, we don't – some people were, like, iffy about it. And it's like, we're going to do it outside at one of her friends' backyards. But it's like, you know what, let's just be safe, call it off. But still, send us gifts, please. We'll see. We'll see. No tube stick.

Can I get some official business out of the way? Sure. You playing golf? No. Do you guys want to do the MCCH or what are we doing? I don't know. We hadn't talked about it. I know.

Wait, the what? MCCH? How do you not know what MCCH is? MCCH. Merriman Christmas Cocktail Hour. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's confusing because of the cocktail hour. If it was MCHH or something, MCH2, Merry Christmas,

Happy Hour, I think it would roll. I think it rolled off. I'm down for whatever. I just like MCCH. I'm down for whatever. Listen, the MCCH is on the table.

Okay. It's my apartment. I don't know if you guys want to do it. Maybe we can talk about it after the pod, but I'm planning on hosting it.

Okay. Noted. Noted. I'm penciling you in right now. Okay. Noted. Noted. I'm penciling you in right now. Okay. Other than that, it's the exact same as you guys. Yeah. I don't think I have much to add here.

I think the main event is Friday night. Saturday will be a lick the wounds kind of morning. Maybe get out and try to pick up some food later in the day or something like that. Because, you know, maybe I'll do something in the crock pot or something. I got a bunch of butcher boxes just waiting to get eaten. I've been tearing through that shit. Your boy made a top sirloin kind of stew dish the other night, and I have to say it was absolutely incredible.

To me, it was just great. But maybe that's in the cards if it's going to be a little cooler. But I truly have nothing else planned outside of our Christmas dinner and a little chilling. Probably watch some football. That's it. I did meatballs with the ground beef the other day. How'd that go? Fantastic. We did taco salads with the ground beef last night.

Yeah. Taco salad. Underrated. Went well. Brett, you got any breaking news for us before we get out of here? Real quick for the squad, Will, thank you very much. Three things, Dylan. Blake Bortles, Ben Affleck, or the dad joke of the day? Dad joke. I'm a dad.

Come on. You familiar with Dan Rather? Dan Rather not be. Oh. Dan Rather just tweeted, and I quote, Why is the Trump White House suddenly a very polite place to work, Dylan? Question mark. Everyone's going around saying,

pardon me. Get it? Do you get it? Someone needs to look up and see if you did that about Brock's White House. He's got jokes, man. Hey, Dave. Blake Bortles has been designated

the surviving quarterback of the Denver Broncos. He's COVID-free? He's COVID-free, and he's getting the best quarterback of the Denver Broncos. Hell yeah. COVID free? Friend of the program. He's COVID free, and he's getting the best job in the world. They're telling him to stay home so he can be the outbreak quarterback. He was great. He doesn't have to come to the facility at all.

And it's dangerous because it's Blake Bortles. He's going to eat Cheez-Its and nachos. Hey, don't slander him too much. Dude, he's a friend of the program. He still listens. Listens and sneaky. Just a very large human. Yeah.

I didn't realize how huge he was. There's nothing sneaky about it. Do you think Bortles is just sitting around looking at his phone being like, dude, why isn't Touch and Bass updated in a long time? What the fuck? Oh, that's funny. What's up with Ben Affleck? Well, well.

He got engaged. Affleck. I don't know if that's the movie. To some 18-year-old who's... Anna de Armas. Oh, great pull for him. Let's check her out. Shouts to War Dogs.

Yes. Thank you. Oh. She is very beautiful to me. Not to get too age, but during War Dogs, every single time she was on the screen, all I could think of was, man, she is beautiful. Who is she? She's Cuban.

And I couldn't pull out my phone to look up who it was because Alma Drafthouse, there's savages over there. Yeah, I couldn't have named her. It's kind of an obscure name. She is very beautiful. It's an all-time name, though. Yeah. Ana de Armas. She's also in Knives Out, Blade Runner.

Oh, she is in Knives Out. And Deep Water. I thought Knives Out was only okay. Really? I really enjoyed it. I wasn't in the mood to watch a movie that night. I'll say that. Knives Out. That's always a good time really enjoyed it. I wasn't in the mood to watch a movie that night. I'll say that. Knives Out.

That's always a good time to start a movie. So, shots to Ben and Anna. You know, probably Anna. I didn't think it was a good move for him to get engaged, but, I take it back.

You approve? Yeah, I approve. Good. He has my approval. Yeah, she's, she's cutie.

We've said it. I'll move on. We don't need to get to h all right guys that's it everybody have a great weekend be safe see you for bachelor in a few and see you on friday for listening to voicemails bye you