Circling Back - The NYC Tex-Mex Scene With Kayce Smith

Episode Date: April 23, 2025

An Interview with Kayce Smith of Barstool Sports We are joined by Kayce Smith of Barstool Sports to talk Office Manager Brett, being a fan of Texas A&M, Austin's Tex-Mex scene, toddler parenting, and more. Also, Dave's still got it and This Weekend in Fun.  Support us on Patreon and receive weekly episodes for as low $5 per month: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast Watch all of our full episodes on YouTube: www.youtube.com/washedmedia Shop Washed Merch: www.washedmedia.shop (0:00) Fun & Easy Banter  (13:15) An Interview with Kayce Smith (1:05:15) Dave's Still Got It (1:14:20) New Golden Bachelor (1:22:25) This Weekend in Fun Support This Episode’s Sponsors:   •  BetterHelp: Visit https://betterhelp.com/circling to get 10% off your first month.   •  Shopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial and start selling today at https://shopify.com/circling   •  Aura Frames: For a limited time, listeners can save on the perfect gift by visiting https://auraframes.com/ to get $35-off plus free shipping on their best-selling Carver Mat frame. Promo Code [CIRCLING].   •  Factor: Get started at https://factormeals.com/backer50off and use code backer50off to get 50 percent off plus FREE shipping on your first box. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are coming What's up It's podcast time Circling back podcast. My name is Dave a very special special edition of circling Back for a number of reasons. Before we get into said reasons, I'd like to introduce our producer. Always producing, always just effing around heavy. It's Randall Trimbacchi. Hi, Dave.

I was a little disappointed. For someone that just hits that Matt El Rancho is perfectly on the beat, you just didn't do it this time? Well, there's a reason I went with Davis Clark. We'll get to that in a minute. Okay, you know, I'll trust the process. It doesn't sound like you do because you're already questioning me

and we're 54 seconds in. You don't like the way I'm doing it. Matt El Rancho's. You can't change the way I'm doing it just because you don't like how I'm doing it. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Dylan Shivery. Oh man, I am not going to criticize the way you're you're handling this everything you're doing a pretty good job

Honestly, I stood up late last night watching a little little scene ball a little baseball game How do people watch college baseball like every game dude? It's I love it. It's so much fun to me You don't like it. Is it boring? The quality of play, mainly the quality of pitching just isn't there. When you get a guy who can't find the zone, then they can leave them out there. Those midweek games, they kind of just throw,

like give everyone a chance to step up. The pitchers who don't pitch the weekend, you know, they just empty the bullpen. The game you're referring to is your Longhorns and your cats. And my cats. My cats. My Texas State Bobcats.

Down around San Marcos Way last night. Dude, I think it was like the top of the seventh, no, the bottom of the seventh. It went on for like 45 minutes. I'm just sitting there and I was looking at my phone. I just had it on ESPN Plus. And I looked at it, I'm like, we're still doing this. The game started at six o'clock.

It was almost a five hour game and it was only nine I'm watching the ESPN Plus and I looked at it like, we're still doing this. The game started at 6 o'clock. It was almost a 5 hour game and it was it was only 9 innings, 5 hours. Congratulations. Two grand slams, a lot of runs, 1411 Longhorns did pull it out the end but the the Bobcats are a

tough out for the Longhorns, man. We gotta start winning some conference games, my cats but um that's about that's two. Huh? My cat's two. Five hours? It was unusually long. Pitching was not great in this game. I don't know if everyone knows this, but I did used to work for Purdue baseball

doing some big 10 stuff. So I had to work in the booth and stuff doing graphics and stuff. And I was just hoping for just three out innings just to be done with the game as soon as possible. I couldn't imagine how to sit up in the booth, having to work five hours. Yeah, I did not know that about you. It's a note that I really didn't need to know, but it added some color to the conversation.

Did a couple of different things, but worked the cameras, worked the fly box, worked the graphics. Dylan worked the fly box. You worked the fly box? I worked the fly box, yeah. Hey, so you may have heard, I kick the show off, as I'll do sometimes with our guy Davis. We are coming, day after day. We are coming.

Some people were probably wondering like, why you mentioned this is a special episode, like what's going on with whoever or whomever? let me just I'll let you hear from from Davis's mouth to the pod listeners I passed the level 3 CFA exam I want to say a big thank you to everyone who's supported me throughout this journey because there are multiple times what I just want to give up everyone who's going through a challenge stay after it hell yeah I didn't know that he passed. That's some inspiring shit. Let's go. He got there man. He fucking there were doubts Lots there were doubt their man's wasn't gonna get it took the 645 train all the way to boston under three hours clean sweep

You know, it's uh, that's a comeback people. Let's go You're at a marathon too. I think yeah You're at a marathon too, I think. Yeah, and he did a great thing with that video that you just played that he panned down to his pants again, clearly showing that he did not shit himself this time. It's a week of Davis. Dude, he's really grown up right in front of our eyes. I don't like that. He's not shitting his pants.

Yeah, marathons. I would prefer that he shat his pants because I like to know when someone pushes it to that next level to where their body says, you know what, we have to evacuate. You know what? Maybe, you know, and your dog has, uh, some dietary problems. You feed him rice. Maybe that's why he kept on eating all the rice was cause you know, he didn't want to shit himself.

Oh, that makes a lot of sense as to why at lunch he eats pure carbs. He was rocking rice famously. He was rocking rice. Also just some potatoes wrapped up in foil. No one has ever just turned their eyes away from a protein option like Davis Clark. That is just one high level performer. That's the only thing I can say about him. This week we did a Patreon. I think it was a quality Patreon. It was a circling back on touching base. What else that, what is that exactly?

Well, um, it's specifically this week, we took the first ever episode that Dylan will, and I recorded, uh, on a podcast, uh, from our old podcast touching base. And we, we broke it down and we did some commentary Listened to a little bit of it then talked about it because it's very We did it with no preparation Go check it out. You can get a week free on patreon if you go check out circling back on patreon And just subscribe. There's a $5 tier a $10 tier. You've got options or you can if you want to just buy Individual episodes you can do that too. It's not as cost-efficient, but you can if you want to just buy individual episodes you can do that too it's not as cost-efficient but you can do that it was a lot of fun though

it was a nice trip down memory lane a lot of that I'd forgotten about it's actually better than I expected it to be me too I expected us to be totally scrambled and stepping on each other and all that stuff and there probably was a little bit of that but it was much smoother than I was anticipating a fun walk down memory lane I chalk it up to like us not really having any bits holstered, so no one was forcing their shot, mainly me. Like you didn't have me just like forcing stuff in. Wow, an episode with the three of us with no bits,

no precedent there, that's crazy. It's still a decent listen, but yeah, go check that out. Hey, hand up, Producer Week. I got to make something. I said that I was going to upload the full episode to Patreon. I forgot to do that. So I'm putting a note there. And now everyone, if you are part of the optimized tier or the Tuesdays, you will get the full episode after this is done.

What the fuck? Fucking Randy, dude. I swear. My bad. My bad. I swear my bad my bad. I swear dude my bad Let's Dave let's just get through it You know, we're just doing let's act like it didn't happen. Let's just get through it, man In addition to producer week, it's YouTube week and content week and podcast week. What's YouTube week?

You're probably wondering well hit check this out. No pods doing this It's a great week for you to sign up for our YouTube go subscribe like it and subscribe Start watching our show start putting them on your computer your phone your TV It's a visual show. We've often said that and you can go check us out circling back on YouTube YouTube comm slash circling back Tomorrow Thursday, we've got a lot going on. We've got Dylan's track house kicking off at two and we have listener voicemails go dropping on Patreon, which we hit every. Every Thursday, um, eight, eight, eight, six, one eight, four, four, two, two. Again, eight, eight, six, one eight, 44 22, get in, get out, be tactical.

Leave that quick message. Um, unless you got like a killer story, then you can leave like a minute or two. But, um, yeah, check that out. And then Friday we've got our sub stack dropping. message unless you got like a killer story then you can leave like a minute or two but yeah check that out and then Friday we've got our sub stack dropping go subscribe to our sub stack it's uh what is it wash media dot sub stack wash dot sub stack dot com it's just some original content sounds right yeah yeah it says it right here i don't know why okay yeah you just you just read i guess i could just read it up a thing. How's everybody feeling today? Do y'all feeling good?

I put on an absolute show in the weight room this morning, Dave. Absolute show. Muscle's just begging me to stop. One of those, you know? Are you still doing pre in the morning? Yeah, I do. How you liking that?

I'm still a big pre in the Like I do a little bit. Are you dry scooping? No, no, I don't dry scoop. Are you boot chugging it? I just regular scoop it, a wet scoop it. You're not boot chugging it? I'm also not boot chugging it. I just, I take it traditionally with a little bit of water.

Okay. Yeah, just drink it. Sorry. Yeah, no, it's fine. It's fine. I wonder what butt chugging pre-workout would be like. That would be bad. Wouldn't feel great, I would imagine.

Probably get your bloodstream really fast. I guess they do coffee enemas and stuff. be like that would be bad. Wouldn't feel great. I would imagine probably hit your bloodstream really fast. I guess they do coffee animals and stuff. People do. Some people do. I've seen most of the science doesn't really support doing that. You could just drink your coffee through your mouth orifice.

Which is what I choose. Your upper top, your upper mouth. That's just me. Your upper orifice. Right. That's what I would do. Yeah, same. Randy, are you doing pre-workout?

I don't know why I'm asking. I'm curious, cause I genuinely don't know. I do the pre-workouts. Okay. Nitro surge is that ish I'm on right now. Nitro surge. Yeah, it should do real or fake pre-workouts. That's a good idea.

It's been at least two years, right? You know there's some new stuff out. There's some new ish out there. Yeah. Somebody reached out asking why we're not doing vice headlines. And I don't really know. I'm assuming that I know there's still you could go look at vice. I don't know how much editorial they're doing these days. I guess I could go look, but vice was cell phone. Grappling with the truth.

Uganda's amateur wrestling orphans is the top headline right now. Okay. There you go. That's real. That's real. Fantastic. Maybe we'll visit that in the future. How do we want to structure this show?

Because we have a very special guest. We do. And I'm going to pull back the? Because we have a very special guest. We do. And I'm going to pull back the curtain. We've already recorded her interview. It was excellent. And it was very good. Casey Smith of Barstool Sports. We didn't tease this, did we?

The only clue people would have gotten is on the Circling Back Instagram story, because I did a question prompt. OK. So real ones know that we interviewed her today. Oh, yeah. So it's really not even a clue. It's like they question prompt. Okay. So real ones know that we interviewed her today. Oh yeah so it's really not even a clue it's like they just know. Yeah. Fantastic. Yeah. I you know I tried to make it awkward for Dylan I tried to set him up because you know Dylan, Dylan if you listen to Too Much Dip which is

the sports vehicle in this company, Dylan likes to rag on the eggs about their baseball team. Now we all rag on, we rag on all the schools, but we rag on A&M for certain things. Dylan is honed in on baseball. Dylan has fallen baseball so closely, cause he's got, he's a fan of the number one Texas Longhorns, the top team in the country. As you mentioned.

And I gotta say, you handled it well. You kind of shot me a look like, why are you doing this? Why did I? Why are you trying? Yeah, you look like you kind of like, you know, I really wish you had. I was prepared to talk a little baseball with her. But as I said during the interview with her, it's much easier to approach her about this now because the Aggies are playing pretty well. They were still in the dumps.

It would have been like, oh, what are you guys doing to me? I don't want to answer these questions. She handled it like a pro. She is a pro. Before we toss it over to our special guest, let's talk about our good friends over at BetterHelp. This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. Mental health awareness is growing, but there's still progress to be made. 26% of Americans who participated in a recent survey say that they have avoided seeking mental health support due to fear of judgment

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Thank you, Dave. I want to continue this conversation that was off mic, but I want to continue on the show because the shirt is good. Well, I'm going to get a new one anyway. I don't think you should get a new one. I want to continue this conversation that was off mic but I want to continue on the show because the shirt is good. Well, I'm going to get a new one anyway. I don't think you should get a new one. I think

you rock with what you're doing. I'm going to get a new one regardless. Right. Stand up. Stand up. Get a new one. Oh, let me see you. Don't wear on the. This is great. This is a great fit. You don't need a new shirt. I totally agree. Casey,

do you know that Brett is actually the innovator of the standup challenge during COVID-19, the global pandemic? No, I did not know that. Tell her about it. Yeah, go ahead, Brett. I raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity by encouraging people to stand up during COVID. That part's not accurate.

He did encourage. I've been really close with Brett for many years, long before COVID, and this doesn't sound familiar, so it sounds- So someone sent us a question during COVID, the question was like along the lines of like what are you guys doing to like not get stuck in like a you're like a rut during COVID like how you getting your exercise in that kind of stuff Brett said make sure you stand up during the day just stand up and we thought that was pretty that was a pretty funny kind of running with it

ever since. What I'm upset about is that Brett didn't text me that during COVID. You didn't care about my well-being. You didn't tell me to stand up every day. She had to sit down the whole time, just wait for someone to direct her and yours over here with all this great knowledge. Well, you live in New York. You're walking everywhere anyway. It's more for like the Dave who was just gassing beers in his garage all COVID. It's for me. Right. Have you told them about the champagne glasses that I bought you and other Casey before that?

To celebrate the year 2020, which famously became the worst year in history. I still have it guys. Like we spent New Year's, like it was obviously 2019 going into 2020 together and we got like little gifts for each other. Like we're not going to spend a lot of money, but just like something to remember this. And I got, you know, champagne glasses that say 2020 and like the happiest font, gold, silver, all over it. We only used them that one time, but I keep it forever and think about, wow,

I went into 2020 thinking it was gonna be my year and Brett's year and everybody else's year and look at us now. I'll keep it forever and remember Brett. Turns out, famously global pandemic and my dad got cancer, so. Okay, it was Fauci's year and look at us now. I'll keep it forever and remember Brett. Turns out, famously global pandemic and my dad got cancer. So okay. It was Fauci's year. Okay. Jesus Christ.

It was Bill Gates' year. He will drop that on us out of nowhere and just totally just stifle any momentum we have. You know me, Kasey. You know the QR. The dead parents thing hits when he wants it to. Yeah. And yeah, it has to. Well, folks, that voice you're hearing, of course, that's our guest today. It's Casey Smith, a passionate Texas A&M alum, fiercely supports her Aggies and delivers bold takes on college football from playoff rankings to NIL debates, all while hosting

lively sports shows. Casey juggles mom life with blippy battles, cheers Rory's master's win and dives into CFB drama. I think it's college football. On her podcast, the X community engages with Casey Smith, cheering her sports commentary and playfully teasing her Aggie fandom. Quote, I feel like I'm being gaslit. My Spotify is working just fine.

Ladies and gentlemen, Casey Smith. Oh, thank you. What an intro. Did you write that? Who wrote that? I've been working on it for a few weeks. Okay. Okay. I was being gaslit though, the day that Spotify allegedly went down. I listened to it all morning. I think people were lying. How terrible is Blippi?

Oh my God, Dylan. I would do anything for my son, my two-year-old son. So he just turned two in February and I just keep, like, I don't want him to get older because I like, you know, having a young son that listens to me and loves me. Uh, I need him to like something else other than Blippi. I hate this man at this point. I can't do it. It's so bad. It's so cringe. Parks used to watch it and I was like, buddy, there's gotta be some other stuff on me. He's like, nah, man, I'm just all in on Blippi. It was so, so bad. You can encourage Bli. I would try. Parts never got into the only, the only thing.

So miss Rachel is still in the mix, which I'm fine with that. The only thing that he has actually sat down and not thrown a fit about being on outside of like sometimes we'll do live sports, depending on what it is. For some reason in December, home alone one, he obviously had no idea what was going on, but I could throw a home alone one on every day and he would sit so I watched that a ton other than that It's blippy and if we spell it all the time. It's awful It's all I mean, but hey at least he's sitting there watching it. I guess it could be worse y'all doing Paw Patrol at all No, he nothing else. I tried every I've tried cartoons. I've tried old-school cartoons

I will do tell a Chinese here and there which I'm actually okay with because I don't know what they're saying So I'm okay with that, but at the end of the day, it's the excavator song. It's blippy. It's the ice cream truck It's I just I can't stand him. But what am I supposed to do? He teaches him things I guess Is this Rachel New York based? She is. I feel like with your stature, with your connections in media, I feel like you could line something up with Miss Rachel where you could get like an appearance, like maybe a private Miss Rachel show.

I don't know. That would be huge. I, so the day that she followed me on Instagram was like the coolest day of my life. Like I've been through, I have been through a lot of things in my career. I will say the date, I screenshot that more

than anything else I've ever screen shots and it's every single one of my friends. And I said, I promise you that the day I think that my son is old enough to really appreciate an in-person concert, I will do everything I can to make it happen and all of your kids are invited. So I'm holding onto it, okay? Wait, are you aware of Blippi's Harlem Shake video?

Yes, I am. Okay, okay? Wait, are you aware of Blippi's Harlem Shake video? Okay, okay. He stated by that no problem. He got past it. So different guy. Actually, I didn't know about it until like one time for the NFL show last year. And I was with the guy, the bussing with the boys guys who are also both parents, but they're girl dads. And they were saying like, thank God we're skating by talking to blip They are watching blip because our daughters don't want to watch it and they're like plus like we don't think we can get over What that guy did that guy was a creep and I was like, hold on a minute. Like yeah, what kind of creep? I need to know what kind of creep we're talking about and they told me and they asked if I wanted to see the video and

I said absolutely not. Yeah, you don't want to see it You don't want to see it. I don't. I know. You know, it's one that you, it's funny. I don't think so. It's not super graphic or anything, but it's also disturbing knowing like who he is and now he's like, kids look up to him and it's not fun.

No, I think that I'll just, you know, live in our little blippy bubble happily until my son gets old enough to where we're not watching it, then maybe, maybe I'll watch it. We'll see. Yeah. You should run that Casey Dave's son is now in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vein.

Oh. I've got two boys. I've got a four-year-old and a 14-month-old. And I have forced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I've guided, I shouldn't say forced. I've guided him toward it because like me, I'm a child of the eighties. I'm not the oldest one here, Dylan is, but he looks great. That being said, like, I'm a child of the 80s I'm not the oldest one here telling is but he

looks great. That being said like I'm like you know what maybe you might like this Ninja Turtles thing and it took hold to the point to where like he's getting my old action figures that I my parents have had in their attic for three decades. Oh I love that at what age did that start like when did you start uh we won't say force but I know what you mean at what did you did you start? When did you start? We won't say force, but I know what you mean. Did you guide him into it? Two weeks ago, really. This is very, very recent. I was getting a little worried because we did Bluey and there's some things that he

was into that I was like, man, we can't have these on all day. It's just going to make me pull my limited hair out. So I was just like, you know what? Ghostbusters is still a ways away. Let's do Ninja Turtles. Let's just see, cause he has classmates who are into it and it's stuck because I mean, the whole premise is sick.

They're Ninja Turtles. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's fair. It's sick. I love that. I would do anything to get Blippi off my screen. The problem is, is that like,

if I want to keep him happy, it's Blippi. And I'd prefer him to be happy and quiet. So for now it's Blippi off my screen. The problem is, is that like if I want to keep him happy, it's Blippi and I'd prefer him to be happy and quiet. So for now it's Blippi and I've tried Batman. I've tried all the things that I liked, but I keep being told that it's really when they hit three that you can start really pushing them a different way. So I've got it, I've got like eight months, nine months. Okay. We'll see.

I'll survive I think. Is he, is he ready Casey for knee hockey yet? Because that's my famously my that's my gift. Yeah. Well, I don't know. We've never tried. He did. So we have friends in our building that are French Canadian. And so obviously they love hockey. And they have a four year old who got a like, you know, a little toddler hockey set or whatever. And my son does enjoy playing with that. So maybe you can work with that, Brett.

Third birthday. Third birthday pencil me in for a Sunday hockey set. You won't remember that. Yes, it's literally the gift I get everybody's children probably a year or two early. You got one for parks. It's true. Yeah.

Oh, okay. All right. I believe Dylan. I believe Brett when it comes around. I was, I would get one for your Sunday, but I had COVID last time. I was invited to his birthday party. So famously, he can't, you know, send a gift. It's true. It can only be given in hand via hand. I have a segment playing later about my son because he's 10 years old and he has started wearing deodorant for the first time, which is like, I didn't know that I was not ready for that. So enjoy the blippy knee hockey

Ninja Turtles phases because before you know at the beginning of wearing getting body body odor. Well, I can't. I know. It's crazy. Like I said earlier, like I want him to stay stay young. Like obviously I prefer some things you know that he can do by himself. But I the idea of like my want him to stay, stay young. Like obviously I prefer some things, you know, that he can do by himself. But the idea of like my son having to wear a deodorant makes me want to die to be honest.

Is he fourth grade? Fourth grade, yeah. Okay, so true story. I remember the time deodorant was like something that was brought up that my fourth grade teacher, shout out Ms. Buck, basically we came in from recess and she was like, hey, we need to have a talk. She's like, y'all are at the age now, the boys,

that you probably need to start wearing deodorant. Our teacher told us to start wearing deodorant. So yeah, his mom texted me about it. She's like, I think Park stinks in like a VO way. I was like, are you sure he's not just like outside playing and sweaty, you know, that kid stuff. She's like like smells a little different. And so I googled it. Like, like, when is it like

normal for kids to start getting BO and it is like it said like eight to 13 or something like that, which surprised the hell out of me. I was not ready for it at all. I thought it was a I thought it was like a puberty thing. I did too. He's not there. What if he's what if he's got a growth spurt coming? Right. He he's hoping for it What if he's got a growth spurt coming? He's hoping for it big time. He's squishing the bug though.

Yeah, he's playing some baseball and he's looking good out there. That's good. Yeah, this whole boy mom life is just not, I mean, every day I'm like, oh my God, they're just different humans than girls, I guess. Casey, did you know that, so we have a sports pod in the WASH Media Network called Too Much Dip. And Dylan and I are, and a guy named KJ, also from Arlington, played or hosts the show.

And Dylan has taken to introducing a segment each week. And it's his college baseball sports minute. So he originally wanted you to be on that show on Monday. I know you had a traveling conflict or whatever. It's also a little bit of Brett's fault, but I won't throw him under the bus too much. That's all right. Yeah. Well, the segment though is it's less like an overview of what's going on in college

baseball and more of like a, Hey, how bad are the Aggies? Okay. So it started out because they got off to a rough start, as you know, preseason number one. I knew I was getting sandbagged. No, no, no, it's not. Okay. It's not a sandbag. I was gonna say, I was a little like uneasy about bringing you on to talk about how badly the Aggies were doing. Then they started playing really, really well. And we have, of course, the the series this weekend with Texas in Austin. I was kind of wanted to get your thoughts on it. But now it looks like A&M has has found something.

They're hitting the ball really well and they're winning a lot of games in the SEC. Do you watch much baseball? I don't. So I'm I very famously with a lot of A&M sports, not basketball and football, but I'm obviously I went to A&M graduated from A&M. So I'm an Aggie across the board. I really start to pay attention closer to the end of the season. So I would be completely lying to you if I said that I've been watching every baseball game since the beginning of the season. But I do not like we run ruled Sam Houston this week. I know that I know that we've been playing a lot better. But I also know that it was a disastrous start to the season. And I very bluntly put out a video

about Coach Schlos last season that I just cannot stand that man. Understandable. The way that he left A&M, I thought it was really cowardly. So when A&M started losing a lot, it really hurt because I was like, well, I was really hoping I'd be able to shove that back in his face. Now, postseason's coming around, we'll see. But it's not been pretty, folks, it's not been pretty. But that's my life as an Aggie fan. Yeah, a lot of storylines this weekend, mainly because of the Schloss and

Aigle deal. But yeah, like I said, it started out just me clowning on A&M, cuz I'm a Texas fan. I didn't go there for the record, but I grew up in Austin, big Texas fan. I was just clowning on A&M because I mean I'm a Texas fan I didn't go there for the record but I you know I grew up in Austin big Texas fan I was just clowning on A&M thought it was really funny and then Texas like replaced him as the number one team in the country with their old coach playing really well but yeah this series should be a lot of fun and I'm I'm less confident in Texas taking the series than I was a couple weeks ago because like I said A&M is

actually playing really well right now anyway should be fun yeah fun. Yeah, no, it should be fun. And it obviously anytime you have like the coach situation and like, you know, the way that he just lied to everybody at the College World Series last year and ended up at Texas, it was just crazy. But Dylan, you know this better than I do. You know it, you're a Texas fan, like anytime A&M really gets up for something when they're supposed to, they don't. When they're counted out early, usually it's when A&M can beat Texas in certain instances.

You look at even the SEC basketball tournament this year, A&M had no business losing to Texas in that game, but they did. So the only hope that, I mean, they've been hitting better, they've been playing better, but because it was such a disastrous fall, that should scare Texas fans. Because as an Aggie, I know that's how this works. When A&M is supposed to win, they don't when they're counted out they do. So that's my my blessing for A&M this weekend. Yeah, I want to say this is a series that they're absolutely going to get up for and

they probably are. But that can be said for like A&M versus Texas across pretty much all sports and like you said, basketball didn't go so well football well football look I'm happy that we're in the same conference again together and we have these you know annual games it's going to be a lot of fun moving forward. I agree I do I forgot like the emotion that was attached to it because I hadn't been to an A&M Texas football game obviously since college like they haven't played since 2011 and when the game started this year I was in New York and I just called my dad just like literally sobbing crying Like I was a child. I was like I forgot how much these games mean because it's been so long and most of my adult life We've not played them. So I'm glad too. I just need us to win because I can't I can't go backwards

I can't I cannot deal with what I dealt with in like the early 2000s again I just my body can't handle I'm too old for that. Okay. Is it safe to say from a totally unbiased old miss fan that... How do you feel about that by the way? Gross. He knows how I feel. Come on now. I think the Texas A&M Texas rivalry is I don't want to say cool, just more impactful than the Texas Oklahoma rivalry. Is that too much of a hot take? So I saw a take the other day that said Texas OU is a bigger football game to Texas and OU fans, but as an overall across all sports rivalry and also just like the interstate

like family to family, like Texas A&M is like the bigger rival, but football only is like a bigger Texas OU thing. Which I think I agree with the take. I wouldn't have agreed with that before I moved to the East Coast, but now that I live on the East Coast, like obviously I'm going to say A&M is bigger no matter what, but I would agree because a lot of my friends, especially guys working at Barstool have covered college football forever or bet on college football forever. The Red River shootout has always been more important than A&M Texas to them.

Now obviously A&M Texas was a big game and they would gamble on it and they'd watch it. But as far as national relevancy, I would say that. But I do think that A&M in Texas is a more heated rivalry and a more important one because it's in state. I think anytime you have an in state rivalry, like no matter what, I mean down to recruiting, down to like what towns have better food, like anything is gonna be in state. More heated is a good way to put it I would say.

Yeah, I think so too. Yeah and I mean obviously Brett, you living in Austin now, like you're living in a place where you know, Texas fans, no matter if they're playing A&M or OU or not, they hate both, like we all do. Like when I was at the College World Series a few years ago and you know, A&M or OU or not, they hate both. Like we all do. Like when I was at the College World Series a few years ago,

and A&M and UT and OU were all there, it was like, who do we hate more? Like no one knew how to hate each other less or more. It's just the way it is. And then just everybody hates LSU. Yeah, I actually hate LSU far less than I hate Texas. That's fair. That's fair.

I don't hate anybody in the SEC. Now, obviously, Texas and OU being there. But before Texas and OU more less than I hate Texas and OU. That's fair. That's fair. I don't I don't hate anybody in the SEC. Now, obviously, Texas and OU being there but I didn't hate before Texas and OU made it. I didn't hate anybody in the SEC like I hate those two because that's what I grew up with. Totally. That's fair. Brett's a uh donator to the Grove Collective. Twenty-one bucks a month case. Whoa. Their NIL coffers are loaded. Yeah, you should buy in Lane a pass to yoga, huh? Buy in Lane's yoga passes.

I have a bottle of bourbon that I bought sitting on my desk. It's true. Well, good for you, Brett. Founding member of the Grove Club. I do love Oxford, I will say. I really enjoy going to Oxford. It's a fun time, but Brett being an Ole Miss fan,

it makes me just wanna slap him in the face. Can you confirm, ever since I started cases, like what are you talking about? He went so all in on him. Like he's on the message boards and he's obviously donating. It's so funny. I'm like, I don't. That's not what I said. You're supposed to be on my side, not their side. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go Rebs. Brett, Brett worked at Barstool famously. Did he have any like nicknames around the office? Like I know OMB, office manager Brett.

That's a goaded one, but like, was there anything like we don't know about? No, office manager Brett was, I mean, that's the only one I really remember. I actually, my first introduction in person to anything Barstool was through Brett. It was a Super Bowl party in Houston and I was with one of his friends and the Barstool party was happening. And at that time, you know, we had just, I mean, I say we now, but they had just moved

to New York and it was a big deal. And Brett had to like usher me and my girlfriends in the side. I think Lauren Clary was with us actually, Brett, wasn't she? Shouts to Lauren. Friend of the show. Yeah, friend of the show now. side. I think Lauren Clary was with us actually. Bret, wasn't she? Shouts to Lauren. Friend of the show. Yeah, friend of the show now. Yeah, I think Lauren was with me. And so then I met Bret and then the first time I ever

went to headquarters in New York, Bret was obviously the first one as the elevators opened in our old office, his desk was like right in front of your face. And it like spooked me a little bit because there he was all sitting proper and you know, whatever. And I was like, all right, I guess this is going to be my friend now. He caught a lot of shit sitting proper and you know, whatever and I was like, alright, I guess this is gonna be my friend now He caught a lot of shit. Obviously, you know Famously, that's just how Casey and I became friends. She was startled by my presence, but I So I felt away from the elevator So I was always afraid like if a disgruntled barstool hater came into the building and was looking for you know Violence, it was just I was getting you getting popped for I was getting

popped for smoke. I was getting the smoke. When I say that it was like starling, it was because the desk was probably within like six feet of the elevator opening. And like it's not like it opens up and there's like a lobby like there is at the offices now. Like it's just open up into chaos. And there's Brett Merriman's face right there. But no, I mean, office manager Brett, I would say I don't, I don't think you had any other nicknames, did you? What about floppy-haired fuck?

Yeah, there was floppy-haired fuck. Yeah, but that was more just- That was a one-off, yeah. That was an insult, yeah. That was just one of the one-off insults. But I mean, all the memories of Brett are all him doing things like almost killing people with paintball guns and messing up ribbon cuttings and no things like that.

The news is going to be there. Famously, I, I, I, yeah, I still need to railroad Yonge town Bob on that one. I never, I, he told me the news was going to be there. I relayed. I was probably a little over my skis. That's that story. A little. He's also, I don't know.

He's also like a known couch ruiner. I don't know, he's also like a known couch ruiner. I don't know if you guys know this. Oh, tell us. Oh, this man went on a war path before he moved to Texas, literally destroying any couches he could with red wine. Like, and I'm not even exaggerating, it was like he was going from apartment to apartment and it was like, well we know Brett's been here because there's red wine stains all over them. And it's like. It was CJ Spiller all over again. What's going on? I spilled red wine a little bit. I thought that story was a little bit. I don't want him to get off on this guys. Like it's not a little,

it wasn't like, oh, here's a drop. Like, you know, you laugh and it's sloshes out. Like this would be like someone was brutally murdered on the couch and Brett would just be sitting, it'd be all over him too. All over his pants, all over his clothes. And it was like enough times where it became a thing. Where it was like, if Brett's coming over, he's not allowed to sit on the couch. Well, cause Casey and they always had super white couches. And so there was just no-

Cause we're adults, Brett. Yeah, so I have bought, I think I've bought you two new couch covers. And I think I've brought your friend Casey one couch cover. Does that math check out? I think it might be four total but sure. Okay. The point is is don't let Brett sit on your nice couch. With red wine. Good to know. I thought that story was gonna go he would just get drunk and crash on people's couches and didn't have accidents. Make pee pee. He thought pee pee situation. Yeah.

I think he might have. That also probably happened. He's got a pee pee situation, yeah. I think he might have been that. That also probably happened. That probably happened. We've all been there. Starting your own business can be a little intimidating, Dylan. You remember when we were getting going? I do, buddy, yeah.

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Shopify.com slash circling. Dave, you wanted to tell your chimneysmy's at Northgate story, right? Ooh. Um, which, which time? Oh, that one, that one. Uh, yeah, no, they're Chimmy's at Northgate and I have a long story relationship, but I think the real story is the time that, uh, we found out that Johnny Manziel was about a foot and a half taller

than Dylan at Northgate. I think that's where we're really going. Which is not true at all. I went to, so I had, it was for a charity auction and this is back in my like TFM days. So Manziel, like I was on his radar because I worked at TFM and he was- Roger Dorn. He was in college, that whole thing.

So I reached out to him. I was like, Hey, I got this football. I want to have you sign it for a charity auction. He's like, Yeah, yeah, come on down. So I drove down to college station and I had his number and I was like, Hey man, I'm here like ready me up. And it took him, I think two hours to get back to me. I was just hanging out in college station with big teacher. Matt actually was with me. And then finally he's like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. And then he met up and he had, it seemed like he had been out the night before.

No way. Yeah. And then as I, let's get a quick pic, whatever. So Matt takes a picture of us. For whatever reason, we're standing near a curb and he's standing on the curb and I'm not. So he's legit like six inches taller than I am in the picture and it totally wronged me.

That's why I didn't really share that picture too much around it look like it looked like I'm a tiny a tiny fellow But he was nice enough to do that and I appreciated it. I mean you're taller than how tall are you? Six one. Yeah, I would say you're taller than him. Yeah. Yeah, so but yeah, but because you guys are close enough It was really like it was hard for you So it's not like you're like six six and he was standing up. Right. It was it didn't do me any favors the picture. Casey, you ever make it out around Austin way down here? Um, I had so my sister lives there. So I come down every once in college.

I was always on dirty six, which is disgusting. We don't do that anymore. Yeah, of course we don't know. It's been a long time. I think the last time I went out in Austin was actually in COVID In the summer when you guys had started to open up in New York was still shut I came and stayed But I don't get back to Texas very often. Well, you know, it's not great Well when you come back down, you'll see that, you know, we're kind of doing things a little differently down here Nobody really goes to sixth at all. It's there's a new spot the twisted cork

it's goes to Sixth at all. There's a new spot, the Twisted Cork. It's the spot that everybody's been going to. Really? Yeah, it's a little unique in that it's at the mall and it's a kiosk, but it's a kiosk that's also a bar at the mall. What is going on right now? So next time you're in Austin, we're inviting you. We're going to go to the Twisted Cork. Is it a wine type of spot? It's twisted. They might they might have wine. Yeah, you can't call yourself the Twisted Cork without having someone surely they have wine there. But yeah, well, we're gonna go, you know, knock out a

couple hours at the mall and just kind of get lit. This feels like it's made up. But like, listen, if you if you're promising me wine and get lit up, I'm down. It's we are promising. It feels made up, but I'm not. It's absolutely not. I know Rainy Street was a thing when I was there, but is that gone now or something? It's still there.

In spirit it's gone, but it's there. Yeah, it's now, it's like condos or have bought up all the bars. Yeah, it's kind of a shame. Potential serial killer too. And I did know about that. The Rainy Street Ripper. She got up on the bars. Yeah, it's kind of a shame. potential serial killer to and I didn't know about that. I actually told Brett I do you guys know anything about the Karen Reed case that's happening in Boston right now? No,

loosely. Folks, you got it. You got to I'm not gonna like go on a rampage here. But the second trial just started yesterday. And I told Brett I was like, if you see me looking over at the TV, it's because I'm paying attention to the Karen Reed trial. Like I don't usually get in a true crime. But when I do, But the second trial just started yesterday and I told Brett I was like, if you see me looking over at the TV It's because I'm paying attention to the Karen Reid trial Like I don't usually get in a true crime But when I do I'm all in so I do know about the rainy street stuff just because Lauren told me to listen

But Karen Reid is on over here. So I just need to not you guys know I'm I'm pausing my my creepiness on this court case to hang out with you guys. It's big deal. Damn dial There's a lawyer you should get into that, Dave. Hey, true crime. You know, I, I, I'm still watching OJ docs. Like, like I haven't seen like six of them. There was a new one. It's actually pretty good. The new one was very good. Yeah.

The new one is, uh, like I felt like a lot of people who have like really studied that case didn't even realize some of the details until this one came out. Absolutely. There was a ton of stuff and they, you know, they, they kind of dumb it down. They're like, but they'll put like a little note up, like this was never introduced at trial and you're like, Oh, what? I thought I knew everything about it. It should have been, should have been, probably should have been.

I was irrationally angry watching that first episode of this one because I was just like, how did this man not get caught with all this evidence? So yeah, no, I get into that kind of stuff too. The rainy, the rainy street one was just really sad to me. So I'm not as, as deep into it, but I do know the the details of it There's another one recently a couple weeks ago. I think another body turned over one Yeah, but they just they got it like it wasn't there was no foul play But they got it

They got to start saying that as they announced that there's another body in the lake It'd be like listen another body found and it's probably something It'd be like, listen, another body found and it's probably something unrelated to a murder. It's to the point now that when they announced it, it doesn't matter if they're like, look, here's what happened. Just clear overdose or clear something, heart attack. And people are like, yeah, but why do they keep hitting up in the lake? It doesn't make sense. Like wasn't he like a kayak or something? He just had a heart attack and they're like, oh, rainy street ripper. But there are too many of them. The Dillons of the world. They're just like, well, actually, there's an angle where this could have been like people do drink too much or like, oh, D and they're like, oh, Rainey Street Ripper. But there are too many of them. The Dillons of the world, they're just like, well, actually there's an angle

where this could have been the Ripper. People do drink too much or like, oh, D, and they do die, but why are they always going into the lake? It's like, how did they get there? I don't know. I just also feel like I would avoid the area completely. Yeah. We kind of do. We haven't been on Rainey in years.

We don't go over there at all anymore. The bar's got, it's something, they just lost the, they lost the spirit of Rainey. Now it's all like West Six something, they just lost the, they lost the spirit of rainy. Now it's all like West Sixth and where else? Wherever. Twisted Court. Twisted Court. Twisted Court, which is conveniently located

near the Vans store, so you can have a couple, go check out some new shoes, and also right there by the food court. So you can go do some sample hunting and go buy Panda. Yay, it's a lot like the Parks Mall. I know you know the Parks Mall. I'm a Parks Mall kid. That was another thing that when you guys had your meetup in New York and I went that Brett reminded you and I think maybe 50 times that we're both from Arlington.

Yeah. I have a tendency to- Oh, we know Arlington. Yeah, that's like the geography guy in me. I just wanted to make sure you guys were on the same page. He loves bringing people together. I have a tendency to. Oh, we know Arlington. Yeah. That's like the geography guy in me. I just wanted to make sure you guys were on the same page. He loves bringing people together. I do. There's a good chance that we cross paths at the Parks Mall and like you and your friends,

like my friends and I were like over in the corner like just like laughing at people and like there's a group of like very good looking girls walking by and we're just like making fart noises like talking to each other. Probably in that area over by like the ice skating rink. Like I feel like that's where we would all kind of like walk in and out and like check out, you know, what groups were there. Here's the real question about the Twisted Cork.

And this is where this will be, it's a deal breaker if not. How close is it to El Arroyo? Because I love El Arroyo. And if it's not close, then we're not going. You love El Arroyo? Oh, I've never heard anyone say that. I love El Arroyo. I knew this about you and I wasn't gonna bring it up because I knew it was gonna it was gonna make waves. El Arroyo. I mean, it had its day. Hold on to be fair. To

be fair. I worked at the one in Arlington, all of high school. And I don't actually know if they're real if they're actual like owned by the same people. I think I've eaten at the El Arroyo in Austin one time okay really in Arlington at least I mean again remember I'm old now guys like this like 20 years ago it absolutely was delicious I feel like El Arroyo is a place where like out-of-towners who are in town like want to get Mexican food they're like oh this place is convenient it's close to downtown so they just kind of end up there. Plus the sign. But yeah, plus the sign will

draw you in. But it's definitely not a place that that Austinites circle. It's like people, people don't really go there. It's kind of an elitist. I apologize on behalf of no, it's fair. I would say the same thing. I love Tex-Mex, but I do feel like if you just need like a quick Tex-Mex, El Royale gets the job done. Okay. It does. Okay.

You're not wrong. Okay. We'll take you- We'll go to Twisted Cork and then El Royale. Well, you know what? No, you know what? No. I don't want to go to El Royale.

You'll ruin my experience. I don't know. I want to sit and eat unlimited chips and queso and skinny margaritas without the downer that Dylan appears to be about Elroy. We'll take you to Matto Rancho's. You'll have a good time there. Okay, that's fine. Honestly, anything, that's the one thing. Obviously, food in New York is unbelievable. The fact that they don't have good, there was one good Tex-Mex place when I first

moved here, Brett, you probably went with Casey and I. It was called Avenida in East Village. Oh my God. And there was three owners, three owners owners two were from UT and one was from A&M. When you went to the bathroom like they had like pictures of the Dixie Chicken and pictures of Austin and it so it was like real legit Tex-Mex and then one day it just disappeared and it was the only place in New York that you could get real Tex-Mex and it's just gone now and it's the saddest thing ever. That is so sad because they had they did like the queso flight, right?

They had like a brisket queso. They don't what it was unbelievable They had a four of four queso queso flights You can get the big ones like just like any like real tex-mex place You know, you can do the tortillas with just a queso. They had actual ground beef another thing up here They don't do ground beef tacos just don't exist up here and I miss it so much So wherever you guys want to take me for text mecs that's fine but you're not allowed to slander El Royo all right you got it deal more what's in the mailbag yeah so I prompted our listeners I said like

we're gonna have Casey on and I said send us some questions and it was it was is there half of them are about Brett. Oh, okay. They just want to know what Brett was like at Barstool. And we kind of, we kind of covered that already, but I do have one here for you or maybe two. Which Barstool employee would fit in best at Washed Media? I don't know how well you know us or like about us, but what is your instinct telling you? Which one would fit in with us? I'm trying to think of who would be the least mean to Brett,

but mean enough to be funny. OK, that's a good one. Honestly, the easy answer, and I do think the true answer, is probably Dan, Big Cat. I think that he's one of those guys where, obviously, sports is the first thing, first and foremost. But he can just kick back and talk with anybody. I'm trying to think of like an off the radar guy.

Brett, do you and Brandon Walker get along? I met Brandon Walker like twice in my entire, because we just, our overlap was so limited and he was also still not at the New York office when he started. Oh, that's right. So, and I had been, I moved myself up to the sales floor. So like, I remember Dave was just like, well, Brett's dead. Cause I went up and I started working with the marketing team. And so I just, I missed like the Brandon Walker intro.

I did, I have never met like Midsy before except at an Ole Miss game. So you meet Chugs while you were there? I, you know, Chugs and I didn't cross paths. Chugs was the name I was thinking would be like, chugs would fit in really well. Yeah. I think I listened to the episode where you guys played like, is this a real bar? Oh, yeah. Very funny. I think Lauren sent it to me. And

I was like, this is great. I thought I thought I had a good feel for all the personalities over there. And I was totally lost during that segment. There was there's a lot of just off the radar guys. I would say but you're right Dan would be number one. Let's hire him. We love Dan. He's got to be a cheap ticket. There's no way he costs that much. Give him a little heck. Yeah. Give him a little. Honestly though I do think Brandon would be great because like and you know Brandon having kids and stuff too like I do I know that you guys like you know you'll mix it up about your kids. Brandon also is just one of those guys like he he'll he'll talk shit when he needs

to but like he just he's a good hang. He's a good hang and he give Brett he would give Brett a hard time but he would love it. He's a fun Twitter follow too. I like I like his stuff on Twitter. He's a crazy person. I'm biased though. I mean, he's been I've been doing a podcast with him since he joined and obviously I'm with him a lot. But I always say like he helped me really all of them, but mostly Brandon helps me get ready for like a toddler life because babysitting

him is harder than babysitting a two year old. Like he's a grown ass toddler, but in the best way. I do have to shout Brandon Walker out for his hair journey. Um, Oh, he never seen a bigger glow up than that hair journey. He's come a long way. And I just want to say Brandon Walker, Brandon Walker, if you end up listening to this, I'm proud of you. We do have, when Brandon started, it was like, is that Brett's older brother, when the hair started coming in, and we both had similar floppy hair situations going on, I got a lot

of side by side. So commending Brandon Walker on his hair journey. Well, he, and I mean, you guys know this like he was the guy that has a full head of hair But like would still buzz cut it and like I know men think that's like the most annoying thing in the world Like if you have a full head of hair in your 30s and 40s, why are you doing that? But the hair became like his whole personality because he like had a New York City glow-up, you know He was living in like bum fuck, Mississippi. I don't know if I can swear on this show. I probably you absolutely can I figured.

I figured, but just to make sure. And then he moved to New York and he thought he was like, you know, super hot and got the haircut. And now it's like his whole thing. So, you know, good for Brandon, but he would fit in with you guys really well. For like the first year of Brett's washed media tenure, he would fly back to New York City just to get a haircut.

That's true. That's right. Fleishman. For like $300. Shots to get a haircut. That's true. Oh, that's right. Fleischmann. For like $300. Shots to Fleischmann. Yeah, it was, well, I had the grandfathered in, right? Oh, okay. But Fleischmann, it wasn't like I was specifically going back to New York for that.

I would be in New York for something and just would happen to schedule a haircut. Brett, I can't make fun of you. You know that until I had my son, I was going back to Boston to get my hair done. Yeah, Casey would train back to Boston. Oh, you're insane. Wow. Do you still do that? No, I don't because once I had my son and then my hairstylist there ended up having a baby as well. We were like, you know what, mate, because she would start to come to New York too. It was a whole thing, but it was like I would jump on the train. I would literally get on the Amtrak, which is three and a half hours on the Acela day in and day out.

Just go get my hair done. And I live in New York City. So I get it, Brett. I won't I won't disparage you for that. Thank you very much. Hey, I'm doing I'm doing Boston this summer in July. Which part of town should I stay in? Depends on what you want to do.

Now I will say though, the best thing about Boston, which I think is the best city in the country is that everything is very close. Like it's big city feel but it's like a small town like you can get from South to back bay and north and all of it very very quickly But I are you gonna go to Fenway? I'm not gonna have a chance to go to Fenway while I'm there Oh, you should at least like walk by it. No, I actually I might my dad in Parkside We might go to a Fenway, like early fall. Oh, like September. That's that would be the best possible thing to do. Okay. Yeah, no. I mean, really, I mean, Brett knows Boston too. It's like there's

really not a bad place to say it just depends on what you're trying to do. And like, you know, the vibe you're looking for. But I mean, I'm obsessed with Boston. I love it. All right. We should do a Boston meetup. Absolutely. It's it's a it's a city that I've wanted to visit. And I've never been I'm excited to check it out. It's the best. It really is. I mean, it's also like, you know, the you can get so many different like you can get like the, you

know, from the seaport, you get like the upscale type of versions like old school Boston, and you can do it like all in the same Day, which like in New York, you really can't do that. Yeah, you know You have to like pick a place and stay around that area, right? Okay. Yeah, what's next? What's next for Casey Smith in 2025? I Mean you guys know having toddlers that's that's just like it's five in advance every day I can't even think about what is for dinner tonight let alone But no, I mean the the cool thing about bar still being as big as we are now

It's like the you know when Brett you remember like in the old days It was like everybody to be in the office all day every day content Which it was great like we're bar still fan now You know we all have our own little entities and we all you know travel Dave lives in Miami most of the time So what's really cool for me is like during the off season, I get to chill a lot more. So until August, I'll fly to Chicago when I need to, but I get to be a mom, which is great, and get to spend more time. And I still do the podcast every week on Necessary Roughness. And then once August comes around, it's like zero to 500 overnight, and I'm traveling to Chicago

every single week for two days, then we travel on the weekends for the college football show, you know, doing three podcasts a week during the NFL show, which this year is with John Gruden, which can be awesome. Yeah, it's gonna be great. So it's like right now, it's like my slow time. And sometimes I forget like, okay, cherish this, because once August comes around, I blink and it's the Super Bowl. So you do you throttle up so much in the fall. Like I

we had a year where I was not on the show but I was like the sort of handler for this you know part of it and those weeks let it like I can't imagine working on top of that doing what you do combined with the travel combined with the NFL show like it's it's insane the ramp up that you go on and you're just like alright Let's let's go kill it on top of having a child Yeah, it is really like I almost forget how crazy it is to have to do all of that with a two-year-old or obviously last Year he was only one but the cool thing is it's like as he gets a little bit older like I'll hope that he'll get To come to some of that stuff like right now he's not at the age

where he would appreciate like going on the road to those things. But yeah, I mean, it's, it is quite the overnight, all of a sudden I'm just like busy as shit for, you know, six months, but you know, just, I'm excited to have John Gruden on the show. That'll be, that'll be a lot of fun. He, he's a trip, you know, he's,

we were playing mini golf like two weeks ago. We were, did our big mini golf tournament for the master's Masters week and I just like look over and it's like John Gruden is playing mini golf with us like he's like getting like hyped up to like Beat our other idiot employees in mini golf. Like this is crazy to me, but it's cool He seems like from the from an outsider's perspective who kind of still has a little bit of an insider perspective he seems like he's picked up the barstool like whatever that like ethos is better than most celebrity hires kind of thing. I will say and you guys know this too like you know the difference between being around people who are in the

industry and like do podcasting and media and all that and they do it and then there's somebody else and that that can work he is like who he is at all times and he really buys it I mean he's won a Super Bowl and this there's somebody else and that that can work. He is like who he is at all times and he really buys it. I mean, he's won a Super Bowl and this guy is, you know, playing against like big T and mini golf, you know, he's like, like that to me is just so wild to, to like really understand even when I see it. But he's just such a coach. Like this man needs to be back in coaching.

And I obviously don't want to lose him as a coworker because I think it's incredible, but like he only gives a shit about football and coaching and I obviously don't want to lose him as a co worker because I think it's incredible. But like he only gives a shit about football and coaching football and like that to me is something that you just you know you can't recreate anywhere else but I don't know I guess we'll see like the fact that I've done this show now with him and then I did it with Dion when we first started it's like what is going on like what what world am I living in? Who was the first edition? Was it you, Dave and Big Cat? And Dion. And we started it in 2020. And we used to fly every single Friday from Teterboro, from the private airport in Jersey. Not a big deal.

To Tyler, Texas, drive to his ranch, do the show, and then fly all the way back to New York in the same day. Because of COVID, like we couldn't have him come up to New York. And then once it kind of lifted, he would come to New York every week. But he did it for two years. And then the last two years have been Will Compton bussing with the boys. And obviously he's gone now. And then John Gruden this upcoming year. So where was Dion's ranch? It's outside of Tyler. Oh, East Texas. Yeah. Damn.

Come on. I didn't know. Yeah, out around East Texas. Is it sick? Oh, it's called like Prime Country or Country Prime. Sounds like a mortgage company. We would literally set up like full blown, like our traveling stage, like we

do for the college football show every single week and we would spend you know six or seven hours in the air and like an hour and a half on the ground I got to look what you'll you guys will know the the city it's like middle of nowhere is it Canton it might be Canton hmm it might be can they do a thing like the first Sunday of the month and all that You go out there and buy trinkets really all the moms and stuff like to go down there It says prosper and Canton. Okay, I don't know which one it is, but It's like a 5,000 acre ranch Like we would sometimes we would set up by the lake sometimes we'd set up by like

The middle of nowhere as you can see like we're all like the cows and stuff I was very very cool, but it was in 2020 So like it didn't really like feel as real as it you know would now then it was like what world are we living in? First up first thing that comes up when you search is a Houston Chronicle article It says Dion Sanders shows off Texas ranch reveals hog problem. You have that same problem, don't you? We're working through it. They're running rampant across this country.

We got to do something. That's right. You know what? Earlier we were talking about schools that I hate as much as Texas or OU. Arkansas is close up there. You said hogs, right? I hate Arkansas. Let me say it. I don't hate Arkansas. I hate Arkansas fans for the most part damn for the most part yeah is there an Arkansas contingent at the Barstow office

no no that's that's like it there should be like an art and like a ridiculous Arkansas guy yeah yeah they would be murdered they I just like I could not. Well, you have one in the studio. Mincy doesn't get under my skin because I'm not a Mississippi State guy and like Mincy, he's harmless to me. But I can understand why he gets under Brandon's skin as a Mississippi State guy. Sure.

If I had a really obnoxious Texas or Arkansas fan, I feel like there would be a murder-suicide. I can't do it. Yeah, you guys, no Texas fans either. That's right. We have one for a little bit Liz, but she like she wasn't really like into the the shit talking as much No, but in all honesty Like I don't need a Texas fan like the guys give me enough enough issues because A&M and they think A&M is weird and Occult and all that like I don't need anybody else to pile on me. I have enough to deal with Yeah, it's it without control though

I mean like you're gonna start seeing a lot more of them and they put out a couple guys Recently, of course like basketball Anthony black who played ball at a Duncanville High School Yeah, but the guy that I'm looking for maybe day two or day three If you're looking for like a guy out of the backfield who can you run the ball? Obviously block and catch the ball kind of a Debo 2.0. Sure. He's a Jaquinden Jackson, right? Also out of Duncanville High School. Just some good names to remember. Dave went to Duncanville High School.

If you haven't caught on to that, yeah. I think that I have, yes. I believe Brett might have told me a couple times. Probably two or three times. Yeah. In a 10 minute video. There was something with a Sonic that Brett kept talking about.

That one Sonic. Oh, Dave, you wanna tell the Sonic story? Oh yeah, no place hops like Sonic is something I've always said. No, like back in the day we used to play, we used to play street hockey. I think this is what Brett's referring to. We used to play street hockey, skate over to Sonic and get the brown bag special. You could get you a cherry lime made hausse, you can get one and get you a burger and some fries. And all the young ladies would wear roller skates, not roller blades, skates, quads, old school. Did you ever play the young ladies would wear roller skates not roller blades skates quads old-school Did you ever play the the sonic ladies in a competitive roller hockey match? No

No, they were they're too busy working Making a living Brett. I will say though. So I was never cherry limeade fan I love just the plain limeade and the foot long conies those the chili chili conies Oh, yeah, come on chili. Don't like the ocean waters. Remember those ocean water the get better ice than Sonic Ice. That's right. In town. Man. Before we let you go, tell us where we can find you. What shows you're on. Okay. So my name is spelled weird. So if you know, you don't know it's K A Y C E.

So it's Casey Smith on Instagram. I think it's Casey underscore Smith, Twitter, Casey Smith. I'm not a tick tock person. I am so old and washed. Uh, no pun intended. I don't, I don't do tick tock do TikTok, but my college football podcast is unnecessary roughness. You can get that wherever you listen to podcasts. It is year round. We do once in once a week right now and then three in season three a week. And then I do the Barstool

College football show with Dave Portnoy, Big Cat, Brandon Walker and Big F and then the NFL show like we talked about. So really anything football related at Barstool, you can find me there. So that's that's what I'm doing. And then in the meantime, I'm at home, you know, taming my two year old monkey that I have. There you go. Right. Fantastic. Well, thank you so much for hopping on with us. Really appreciate it. Casey, you've been great.

I will say I think it's really impressive what you guys have done. Like I know, obviously, like I've known Brett, you know, personally for a long time, and Lauren's one of my best friends. The fact you guys have like, whole fan bases going on like to camp together and stuff like that Yeah, like I Lauren every year sends me all the photos and like tells me everything I'm like, that's just so cool that you guys have you guys make fun of me for being part of a cult I think you guys are We have some great listeners. Yeah, they've been supporting us for a while and it's been a fun ride.

So thank you. I appreciate that. Of course. Anytime you guys see me, I love you all. Fun. Twisted cork. We'll see you. Twisted cork and then, uh, Elororio.

All right. Thanks, Casey. Thanks. Thank you. I think Brett got off pretty easy in that interview. I wonder if he was sweating when I brought up the office nicknames. He knew I wouldn't, I wouldn't do them like that. No, no.

He, yeah, he was totally fine. He was good. Yeah. He was good. He, um, in case you're good friends. They are. Best friends. That's what he said.

Best friends. Like, uh, man, I was jealous. Yeah. I was like, dude. Yeah. It's a good best friend to have. She's a, she's a pro, man. That was excellent. Yeah. It was like, dude. Yeah, it's a good best friend to have. She's a she's a pro man. That was excellent.

Yeah, it was fantastic. A delight. A delight. A real treat. Yes, absolutely. And dealt with your **** quite well if I must say so myself. I don't know if it was **** but yeah, it was great. I'll tell you what's not. BS that is. My

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That's a u r a frames.com promo code circling support the show by mentioning us at checkout terms and conditions apply and yeah, tell them circling back sent you don't Dave sent you don't tell him I sent you. Yeah, tell him Dave sent you from circling back definitely the right terms and conditions the new golden bachelor you want to talk david i want to go straight to the gym so i too work out from time to time um i hadn't been up there in a few days it's been tough finding time to get in there but um so i uh i mentioned this to you guys out there the the gym i attend there's some backers The way it's set up though There's like a bunch of squat racks

There's probably like ten squat racks right in the middle But if you go at like the wrong time meaning like most of the time there's a class going on So there's like four squat racks in the back right? That are pretty competitive because people you can do a lot on there and a lot of people want to do their work there. So I got one yesterday and everything else was full. It was a crowded time. It was like 4 15 4 30 whatever. And a young lady came up and asked me like how how many more sets I had. And I was like, three, I've got three. She caught me like right in the middle of my work. And, you know, I'm not, I'm not going to speed it up for anybody.

If somebody's waiting and I'm near the end, maybe I will, but you know, I'm trying to get my work done too. So you could tell me that I invite this situation. Um, so she asked how many did I invite this situation? So she asked how many sets I had, and I was like three, whatever. And I was like, what are you trying to do? And she's like, I'm squatting as well.

I was like, oh, okay. I was like, well, I mean, you can work in with me if you want. That's like common, that used to be common, like gym behavior to like, some people are competing for a machine or something. He's like, you can we can switch out. You can work in with me, right?

Did you have your shirt off like you usually do in there? No, I had it on this time. Okay. No, but I did have little holes around the nipples cut out. Okay. It's one of those and I had the bottom part shredded out like I was running track. Regina George.

Then I can understand why she wanted to use your squat squat rack. So I asked, I was like, do you want to, do you want to hop it? I was like, you want to, I didn't say hop in. I said, do you want to work in with me? I could, it's fine if you want to. She's like, no, she kind of looked at the weights and now I'm fine. I was like, I was like, yeah. I go, oh yeah. You probably doing more weight than I am. Little self deprecation, self

self deprecation. Yeah. Little boy weighed up there. I thought it wasn't a lot. It was enough. It was sufficient for me. I'm happy with it. She's like, okay, I'll wait. So where this squat rack is, it like there's like a window in front of it, like a big, like a full length window. And there's like a little place you can sit, but nobody ever really sits there

unless they're using the rack and they're resting. But still people rarely sit there. They usually just will set their stuff there their phone so she sits down it's like she's gonna wait she's gonna wait right in front of my squat rack uh-huh she wanted to she wanted a front row seat to the Dave show and what she wanted I saw her sit there and I'm like she's'm gonna try to sit I just don't really like doing the exercise, specifically like a squat, with someone right in front of me. Like me to you right now. It would be like me squatting, you know, you're like, ah.

So I'm like, okay, so then I find out real quickly that she is gonna sit there the whole time. And she had her phone out and I was like, okay, don't be like a narcissist. Like she's not there to like check you out or watch you squat or record you or record me. God. Um, but anyway, so I, I do, I do a set of squats, front squats specifically. And I, I'm kind of standing there. I don't sit down in between sets.

I'm a stand up boy. Uh, it's part of my bread initiative and she she gets up walks over and she's just like so How do you like how do you feel about those front squats? I'm like Kind of questioning pop my headphones out. I did have headphones in and I'm like, what do you mean? I was like I'm like a in like a broad sense like generally speaking like she didn't really care about your answer to that question She was trying to initiate combo Davey. I do that was like, how do I feel? I was like well, I mean, I get, I don't know. I was like, I was my form bad, whatever. She's like, no, no, no. She's like, I'm asked. She's like, I don't know.

She's like, I've been, I've been thinking about starting to do front squats. I'm just curious, like how you like doing them. Right. I'm like, really? You're fucking curious how I like doing them. Um, I was like, I started doing these a few years ago because like, I thought it would be a little bit easier on my lower back to not have to load the, the weight of the, the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the

weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of Really? You're fucking curious how I like doing them. Um, I was like, I started doing these a few years ago because like, I thought it would be a little bit easier on my lower back to not have to load the weight back there. And I was like, and honestly, I'm not trying to put on like huge amounts of weight, like front squats. It's a little bit harder to go up and wait just because of the nature of the action. Whatever. So I'm talking and I'm like, what the fuck?

Why am I? And then she continues it. And then she starts getting like a little bit. Putting her arm up on the bar and I'm like, oh, we're just straight up having a conversation right now in between sets. And I'm all for people conversing. And I think at the end of the day, though, I think she was hitting on me. It sure seems like a day or she could just been being nice.

No, being a friendly gym goer No, ask in your opinion Randy. Oh, Randy always assumes that people are being nice like the guy in Chicago That called it. What did he call us? The guy on the on the segue said like get it boys and like you guys got so offended by that or something I you weren't offended by I talking about like looking good I think he said looking good and you guys were like, what the fuck is that guy's deal? We threw him into the water because it sounded like he was condescending. That's why we were looking good.

We did have dip and dots too. We were shirtless with dip and dots. Now she was a vibe. She was definitely she was definitely. Look, she went out of her way to hit on me. I know Randy likes to put people down, but I was getting hit on. No one cares what random guy on squat rack thinks about front squats, but it's funny cuz I wanted to be like I'm not the guy to ask like I was like, I don't know if you're looking like I know that's a very complementary to me

Look around there's a lot of better people to ask. She's like I Knew it was getting a little bit much when she, she, she kind of did the touch on the arm. You know what I'm saying? When you're talking to somebody and they do like that one, explaining that off, Randy, you didn't say that. Well, let me get there, dude. Okay. Dude, I'm sitting there and I'm in my head. So this is me. I know I overthink things, especially interactions like this. I don't care. Um, I'm thinking like, fuck dude, like there's, there are backers at this gym and they're going to see me like, they're not going to be like, Oh, Dave's having an affair with

a random gym guard. But I was in my head like, okay, Mike, let's get in, get out, be tackled. I'm trying to, I'm trying to just finish up here, give you the rack. And then I'm overthinking, I'm like, did I invite this by making the joke about you probably do more weight than me? Also was that potentially offensive? You doing more weight than me to be fair? This, this young lady probably did much more weight than me. She, she clearly like was not new to squatting. Are you saying she was thick? I mean that in a complimentary way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then when, when, when I was done and it was,

she got up, she realized, I was like, Oh, that's it. It's all you you and she kind of came back in for more conversation and I was like clearly like getting I got my thumb my towel I was like I was like I can rack it I can rack the weights if you want and she's like uh no I'll just like don't worry about it I'll do it okay all right and then I started overthinking that Randy I'm walking away I'm like did I need to like offer to rack the weights for the young lady does Dave still got it People are asking Randy. Why don't you fucking answer the question? They've still got it Well, Dave always looks scrumdily. I'm sure it's every single time I say that you get mad that I compliment him. You never compliment me. Well, cuz you don't got much to compliment. I

Was wearing my in my mind my tiny early bird shirt. Oh, so you were looking big. You know what's on top of them? I've got two early bird tees. The white one. Shout out early bird CBD. Not the white, not the gray one, which is my favorite. I have a maroon one that fits a little bit tighter. I think you were wearing that yesterday.

I was wearing the maroon one yesterday. Did you mix in some upper body too? Like where you, do you have a pump going? Cause I always start lower body if I'm doing full body. Were you wearing gray sweatpants? No, and I didn't fluff, Randy. That was your next question. No, I did ask. I did walk up to the club manager and ask like where the chairs were because I was looking to do some chair carries. Yeah, you could probably do four. I could do six. I could have done eight. I think I could do six. No, I did eight. I could probably have done fucking 10.

It's just a brutal shoulder workout. Yeah. They just sold them in eight packs. No, but I was like, afterward I was like, I thought about texting y'all cause this doesn't happen very often. You might be shocked, learned. I was like, oh, I'm just getting hit on a little bit.

Or was that like Randy said, was that somebody being friendly? I will say the most I did, I was thinking if the roles were reversed and I was waiting on a woman to finish squatting, I'm not maybe she was hoping for a ball shoot now she was hoping for a ball shot yeah she's hoping for eight ball corner when you're dipping in those squats was she we're going we're going way beyond parallel oh yeah we're going we're going like ass to ground she knew the angle yeah we're talking like crossfire like fucking ball shoot out yeah that's what we're talking about yeah like crossfire, like fucking ball shoot out. Yeah, that's what we're talking about. Also, also, crossfire. Dude, I used to play shit out of crossfire. Crossfire was tight.

You lose it. You always lose a ball though. Literally, you'd find them like two years later. All very vacuum. I thought you got yours removed. So why are you so worried about that? They're still there and they just don't produce the oh, this cement. Gotcha. No, I was thinking like, dude, I wonder, I wonder what faces I make because I never really think about it when I typically don't look when if

there's a mirror, I'm not like a look directly in my eyes in the mirror guy. I think that's, I mean, I bet Randy does that at home. I bet you're a look in the mirror kind of guy. Oh yeah. You just pump shirtless. Uh-huh. Um, clank clank producer week. Uh-huh. Um, clank, clank producer week.

Um, no, I thought like, what if she, what if she was about, I thought she was going to critique my form. And I actually would have appreciated that if somebody like knows that they're doing is like, dude, here's the deal you're getting way too low here. And your lower back's doing this. Whatever. Nah, she was just asking me how I liked it. It was just a very generic question. And I should probably just appreciate the fact that somebody wanted to communicate with me at the gym in a

nice manner. Granted, it did get a little bit uncomfortable, mainly because of the situation in the seating, which she could have avoided. There were a number of other places to stand or sit, but I'm very complimented. And I want you to know that I'm happy for you, man. It's very cool. A little public gas up like that goes a long way. We're going to the twisted cork tonight. Okay. I'm going to see if however, Brett state goes, we may just meet up at the cork. Close it down.

Oh yeah. You go, you went to the court, didn't you? You got to take Casey Smith to the court. She, she made us promise. Take it out of the, yeah, we'll take it to the court. I just walked by the court. I had to try to make sure that I wasn't like obviously taking a picture of the, uh, I took pictures of you were very far away.

Yeah. I was trying to frame it up so that you could see that it was very much a mall. Yeah. Two. So I got the escalators. It worked. When's that video coming out, by the way, Adam just gave us an edit. So he's been a silly little lad.

Yeah. Rainey keeps hitting them with new, new things and Adams is what's the Adams probably up there? Fucking power lifting, but he always does. He, he's the guy that little lad. Yeah. Randy keeps hitting him with new new things and Adams is what's Adams probably up there fucking powerlifting, but he always does. He's the guy you need to ask about front squad. He's the guy. He's in the thousand club. I think he's well over it now. Yeah, I'm not in a thousand club. Not yet.

Where do we want to go? Now I'm going to do a little you want to do a little Golden Bachelor. We could do Golden Batch. We got it all. Brandi Exxon NFL football player Mel. where do we want to go? You want to do a little Golden Bachelor? We can do Golden Batch. We got an ex NFL football player. Mel Owens. It looks like Harry Winkler a little bit. Michigan alum, LA Rams.

Was he nice with it? I was looking up his overalls. I don't know the name. You don't know Mel Jones? I don't know Owens. What would it take to get you into the Golden Bachelor? He's drafted in 1981. Well, if I was much, much older.

No, no, no, no, I'm not saying you do it. Oh, okay. Although I'm just out on the Bachelor series, man. I'm out. It had its run and I was in for a while and now I'm just out. Yeah, I think I need some like, here's the problem. The time period that we watched it was pre like, so Chris Harrison was still there. They weren't afraid to have like a real toxic piece like a Luke P type a guy that sucked.

There was definitely problematic, but also like provided you with a reason to watch just because you wanted to see like, what's this fucker going to do? Luke P gets eyeballs. Yeah. Say what you want about him. He's people are tuning in to watch. It's kind of weird. Fuckers up to it's a tough place to be. If you are a podcast because, you know, you want to talk about the show. You want characters on

you don't necessarily want them to be like I don't know people that are that as aggressive but like it makes the show so much easier and when they started going in a different direction like they got rid of Chris Harrison it was like we're just never going to have the magic of having a guy like Jed who legit just had a girlfriend back home. You need a hate watch. I mean, Jed just did the show with a girlfriend. And people found out about it. He won. And he won the show.

He was chosen by Hannah B, Hannah Brown. Then Tyler Cameron just cucked him and went into Nashville and started making terrible music himself. Yeah, I'm out on this. started making terrible music drafted in, yeah, drafted in 81 by the Rams. First round draft pick, Mel Jones. Was he? Yeah, he was. Owens.

Mel, what did I say? Jones. Maybe that's why when I keep searching for his stats, I can't find him. Mel Owens. It's like, what's going on? He keeps pulling up a cricket player. Okay.

He contributed, good for him. If there were like an out, if there was an outreach like of listeners that were like, hey, we need to get you guys need to start covering this trash TV show. I would I would definitely do it. Yeah, I would do a one off man. I just don't think it's the golden batch. We talked about this with Will the other day. Uh those were we were those were fun episodes like we did a really good job of covering the show. I think

yeah, I feel like nobody covered it like we had a lot to say. Yeah and we were pretty critical. My favorite bit was just like to find the person who like everybody hated and try to find like a reason to support them. You always did that. I know I'd be like I'd go off on five minutes like a five minute diet tribe about how I hated someone. Dave was like, I don't know. I don't know, man. I might be all in on. He's got points. I used to listen those episodes and I haven't watching the show. They were they were good. Yeah, they were fun. Uh what was the show? Uh

Love Island. We lost some patrons and we stopped doing it too. We did. We did. Um Love Island was fun. Love Island is a lot of fun except it is such a, a commitment into like talk about it weekly. I guess, I mean, there's just a lot of TV to watch a lot. Too much.

Yeah. It was like every night. It was like 60 plus episodes. It was, it was, I would rather cover a college baseball season, start to finish and cover Love Island. Yeah. It's just too much, man. And college baseball is not that fun.

So shut up. I'll watch it. I'll watch Omaha. This Texas team is fun. They are good. I like their catcher. He's pretty alpha. What's his name?

Ryan Galban. Yeah, that dude looks like a baseball player. Does. It's still funny to me watching college baseball and just seeing these kids that just, you look at them and you're like, yeah, you play college baseball, like just from the neck up, like they just have the look about them. Yeah. He went deep last night. A lot of floppy haired Fox. Yeah. He's not one of them, but there are plenty

states got some states got some a lot. That makes sense though. I feel like Texas state is kind of ground floor for the baseball douchebag. Not saying the best baseball in Texas, but like in Sam Marcus, you're getting that caliber of dude. Yeah. Because it's you get the party school mix, but with the guy who's like an actual athlete and it pairs very, very well together. Yeah.

You want to talk weekends? Dude, I'm so ready. Bro, let's go out this weekend. There's a crazy event happening. I like to so ready. Bro, let's go out this weekend. There's a crazy event happening. I'd like to turn up. Bro, there's a crazy event happening. We had the party and it was lit. I got yelled at by a prostitute.

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Going to be fun, man. He's the so and under the lights, right? Under the lights. Sick. Yeah. The team is kind of struggling a little bit. They're just over 500, but he's playing what he keeps playing. Well, man, they got it. They got to find the zone. They can't they can't throw strikes right now. It's been it's been tough. You need somebody to come talk to the team. You they can't they can't throw strikes right now.

It's been it's been tough. You need somebody to come talk to the team. You wanna stop by? No, not me. I was thinking maybe Brett. Oh. Or maybe Chugs. Or still Chugs is in town. He's more than welcome to stop by. Have they done like a

players only meeting yet? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, we had it at our place actually. We'll turn the thing around. Yeah, Parks. He sent out the the around. Yeah, he sent out the text. Friday, Parks have a little sleepover situation with his best friend at my place. I'm pretty excited for that. Might take the boys to get some pizza or something.

Probably fire up that PS5 and just have ourselves a night. When you do that, do you like get on the sticks too, or do you just let them go? I'll mix it around here and there. You're like, let me get it right quick. Let me show you how I do it. What are they playing? I just want to'll mix in around here and there. Yeah, let me get it right. Yeah, let me show you. Let me show you how I'm going to show you how I do it. What are they playing? I just want to put fools in the dirt right now.

They play Fortnite. They do Fortnite. They do. What's the Marvel one? Marvel Rivals. Marvel Rivals Marvel Rivals. What's his name? I don't know. They play Roblox, which is a game that stinks.

But you want Randy playing with them? Danny Lincoln up. Randy's played Fortnite with him. Yeah and uh and uh sauce too. True. So that'll be fun. Saturday big day. Taking parks to the uh to DKR which is the Texas football stadium. There's a team autograph day. Ah yeah. And he he knows all about Arch and he wants to get a picture with Arch and that's the goal. Get Arch to sign a little poster that they give out and then hopefully get a little little picture with them. So you can't bring stuff to get signed. They give it to you there, right?

You're not allowed to bring that's the way to do it. But I mean if he's wearing like an arched jersey You can't lean over the table and sign it real quick. I don't know. We'll see for for TMA For an event like this, is it geared towards kids? Yeah. So there's not like sleazy autograph, like memorabilia guys there. It's for kids.

They have like a whole like on field experience. You get to like run a 40 and do agility drills and throw a football, stuff like that. That'd be pretty cool. I think, yeah, I've been working with him on his 40 and I think we can get him sub five. Not saying this weekend, but some of the drills I've been given him like I think we can get sub five here in the next two to three months and he has been lifting weights. Yeah, he's ready for this. Yeah, he's been doing some of that stuff and I think it's gonna pay off. So that'll be a big thrill for him. Hopefully as thrilling for him as it is for me because I'm going to I'm going to get a kick out of watching him just meet players and you're going to make it

weird with Arch. Yeah. I thought so. I have this this weird fantasy that he knows who I am because of the TFM stuff and he's at like he went to like a you know, an affluent Louisiana private school. 0% chance but dude in fourth grade. I loved Roger. Wait, are you like yeah I'm not sure. there's a good chance.

He's the funny one, you know. Not Arch. Arch is too young. He's a baby. When is he? 19, 20 years old? That's too young. Yeah, there's no way. There's no way. I was actually just doing, in my thinking in my head, like, unless, unless somebody in like eighth grade showed him, he fits the stereotype. He's just too young. Even ten years ago, 2015, he would have been ten years old. So yeah, you're right. Yeah, that's like,

yeah, way too. That's fourth grade, right? That is a box. Kids have no idea what you got, Randall. I don't really got much. The only thing that I'm really trying to do this weekend is Sunday, go to Perlis Crawfish boil. I'm trying to get a crew together there and I would really like to go. Get the pre-buy tickets. No, no. It's first come first serve at the door. I called them up the other day. It's $50 for all you can eat crawfish and then all you can drink meanwhile, brewery stuff with other, you can buy like margaritas there too. So that is the most fun event in Austin I which I've never done and I would really want to do it but I got to say my problem with it is I would go and it is expensive it's like 50 bucks but I would I would end up they do these purple drinks there they're like you

aren't included but you just kind of want one you so you find yourself getting one and then you find yourself getting three and they're not cheap and next next thing you know, it turns into like, I got a cool, nice little Sunday turning to $150 a day. Yeah, I'm concerned about that. But I'm really trying to go, I need to hit up Dan and Boosh and all of them too. I've only put it one group chat, but that's what I do. I mean, the weather looks like it's going to be all right for me, kind of cloudy, warm. So I think I might, I might go on a long bike ride. I don't know, I haven't done that in a while. Otherwise I have no plans outside of trying to do Perla's crawfish boil.

You hear that? Went once, it was a lot of fun. I don't know why I haven't gone back. I was talking about the bike ride. I might bike past your house. I might just, I might do a drive-by. Not like, you know, I might hit you with some like eggs or something.

Don't egg my home. Yeah, I'm gonna spend that much money on eggs just you with some eggs or something. Don't egg my home. Yeah. I'm going to spend that much money on eggs just to drive by your house on my bike and egg your home. I'm going to go out there and start catching the eggs in my mouth. Yeah. That's good protein. Spit out the shell.

What are you up to, Dave? Are you done? Yeah. That's it. That's it. By the way, keep me in the loop on Perlis. I will. Just let me know. Be like, Hey, just letting you know,'s it. I don't invite you. Keep me in the loop on pearls. I will just let me know. Be like, Hey, just letting you know, we're going up here at this time. Cause that might be

something I can sneak out for. Um, we got tee ball Saturday. I'm feel bad. We missed last weekend cause we were traveling. I don't think they should do tee ball on a, on a holiday weekend like that. Cause like half the team wasn't there. I get we Get we're paying for it's just that whole thing. So anyway, I We got t-ball I'm trying to be more of a present Coach on the field. I'm not the coach. I don't wear the red shirt What I am I am trying to help where we're friends with the family that the guy who volunteered he's you know He's baseball, but he just stepped up because like, nobody else is doing it.

So shout out to him. But other than that, we have a, we're going to Kanji, we're going to Kanji Sunday evening. That place is so legit. So Sunday could be a big Sunday for me. If I were to go Perla's crawfish boiled at Kanji, we would go crawfish right over to some Caribbean food. Oh my god my gut might be just absolutely fucking spinning wrecked where you might not see me Monday. Otherwise low key we got little

stars playoffs. This year's a little different years past it's been stars Mavs stars Mavs late late nights Your boy just not getting sleep this year. It's just stars night off stars night off big one tonight in Colorado But we even it up the other night These 830 puck drops are killer especially the other night when it ended it like 1230 because it went into ot Whole thing you got to stay up you committed to that life. You go to bed. You're not a real fan But yeah, all in all I'll be around Friday evening Saturday evening if something comes up somebody shoots out a text I Could potentially get out. I don't have anything tying me down other than you know, the family but besides the family

Good dirty used to go once a month did not i feel like that's not true go to twisted the cork go to the cork man i might hit the cork i do need to go to the mall i need to get some new workout shoes i've been rocking the same ones there you go i wear the same ones that i mowed the lawn in and those white newbies and they they have like green like lawn stains on them and i feel like i just got to get something a little new We didn't get the cork on the books like actually And everyone everyone commit to it get your cork on the books I can't tell if like the bartender would love having a big group show up Right because like of the potential for tips or just hate the fact that she's now having to pour like 15 beers

I don't know. I'm always looking out for the service industry personally and that's that any parting thoughts. Nope. That's a fun one. Thank you to Casey Smith. Yes. Sports. Excellent interview. She's very fun. Yep. Look forward to going to

the cork with her. Uh Randy, Dylan, thank you. We'll see you next week. Bye.