Circling Back - This Christmas In Fun & Simping for Shkreli

Episode Date: December 21, 2020

Our final (non-Patreon) episode of the year. Recapping This Weekend in Fun, the woman who’s simping over Martin Shkreli, opening gifts live on-air from Brett Merriman, and how everyone’s going to enjoy their Christmas and New Year’s. Support us on Patreon and receive weekly episodes for as low $5 per month: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast (0:00) Fun & Easy Banter (10:42) Recapping This Weekend in Fun (30:00) Brett’s Present Time (39:31) Simping For Shkreli (50:42) This Christmas in Fun (58:29) Brett’s Breaking News Support This Episode’s Sponsors: Headspace: www.headspace.com/circling (FREE month) Postmates: Download the app and use CIRCLING for delivery credits. Miller High Life: Celebrate Responsibly, Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, WI --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/circling-back/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

all right we're back circling back podcast coming to you live from the lodge my name is will defriest my right david carter ruff short week but still podcast week really we don't even have a full week dude i didn't get a notification this time that's ruthless i know but it is what it is and by that i mean it is podcast week i like podcasts might as well do some freaking podcasts that's what we're doing right now what'd you do differently did you trim your facial hair it looks shorter something's off i think dylan shivery came in with a little snip step i got it when i got a haircut last week and i i trimmed i mean nothing nothing crazy you got some wild boy grays coming out of that goatee yeah i'm jealous dude oh yeah can you see my can you see my gray my mustache you're not allowed to say you're jealous of anyone's facial hair yeah i am no you are privileged and you can't say shit like that no

i'm a nine out of 10. My beard's a 9 out of 10. A 10 out of 10 would be if it had a significant amount of gray or white in it. It's like Bezos being like, oh, I'm so jealous of your like brand new Toyota Camry. No, because he's the richest dude in the world. I don't have the best beard in the world. I mean, you're tier one. You're up there. You know,

I had a dream two nights ago that I was like looking in the mirror and I had a not a full beard, but my beard, but it was very, very gray. And I was like, dude, I like, I was like my beard just overnight turned gray. And it was, I was like excited about it. Then I woke up and I had a fucking mustache. It was not gray. The mustache is coming in nice though.

Like if we're doing a status report on your mustache, I'm very happy with the progress here. I mean, it's not, yeah, this is, I've been trimming it. This is where it's going to be. This is as good as it'll get. I noticed you took it up a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It started to handle bar.

That was a good move. It looks better. I don't like the handle bar. I didn't notice that. I'm sorry. Yeah, handle bar, it says, like, yeah, I'm looking for a bar fight. You're just there to drink with that mustache. Yeah.

That's the difference. Just there to drink. Drink or get in a kiss fight. you're just there to drink with that mustache. Yeah. That's the difference. Just there to drink. Drink or get in a kiss fight. And steal your girl. You know? Dave has a wife. He doesn't need to steal any girls. I'm just saying,

that's the look. He's a child on the way, Dylan. He's not stealing girls right now. Okay. Calm down, everybody. Plus, I don't even really go to bars, you know? Look, I think y'all are

taking this a little bit too literally. I was just trying to make a little joke maybe like your your outdoor patio it's your uh reasonably priced restaurant oh i thought you meant at my house i was gonna say you're welcome anytime but not to i'll whip your ass on your patio i don't know why you would do that i think we're friends sorry yeah you go over to have a beer with dylan and he just dave just walks out the door and you're just laying there just like hurting on your patio that'd be a tough look for you what's he hurting he would do that what what's

he hurting he's just holding his knee like he's not like hurting cattle this hurts i brought i brought some tacos here this morning and parks was with me and uh he's like what if dave steals one of my tacos and i was like i was like don't worry man i'll just whip his ass he's learning he goes okay well i said beat him up i don't i didn't say ass he was telling me about his new triceratops and he's telling me his last name shivery and uh i tried to convince parks that his last name wasn't shiveryory, that his last name was Chicken Butt. He didn't believe me. He's like, no, it's not.

Everyone in my family is Chivory. And I was like, no, you're Parks Chicken Butt. He didn't believe me. He can spell his first and middle name. He can't spell his last name yet. Yeah, because no one can. It's freaking weird. The name?

My last name, yeah. You know what the Triceratops name is? What is it, like Brian or something? Steve Horns is what he named him. That's a great name. Steve Horns. I'm like, dude, you crushed that. That's awesome.

I had to spell your name this weekend, and I absolutely knocked it out of the park. Did you? Yeah. There's no excuse for us not being able to spell it. We hear it. We used to hear him say his handle every day. C-H-E-V-E-R-E. E-R-E-R-E.

E-R-E-R-E. E-R-E-R-E. E-R-E-R-E. E-R-E. Yeah, it's like the old McDonald's song. How do I form? E-I-E-I-O, except it's E-R-E-R-E at the end. That's how you know how many E's you're supposed to do. Is that how you learned it? I remember being a kid and being like, okay,

there's a connection there. That's not how I learned it, but I made the connection early on. Because the song is popular when you early on. Because, you know, the song is popular when you're five. Oh, yeah, dude. It's one of the top hits. Yeah.

Too many E's, man. It's the Mo Bamba of being five. No one needs that many E's. Dude, who played Old MacDonald? Old MacDonald was a banger. Is a banger. I got, hey. No?

What? I was doing Old McDonald, but in the style of Mo Bamba. Instead of having hoes, I had hay. Do you get it? Yeah. Actually, hoes would work, technically. Mama E-R-E-R. Uh-oh.

E. Ellie. Yeah. We're doing a lot. How's everyone feeling this week? It's Christmas week Yeah It's podcast week as well

It's sad boy season No it's not It's sad boy season It's literally not sad boy season Yeah it really is Sad boy season starts January 1st Nah it already started for your boy No dude

Yeah Dude come on It's Christmas week It's also podcast week We're making it through Even though I have to go the next four days Without the homie We'll make it through We Even though I have to go the next four days without the homie, we'll make it through. We got this.

Dude, I got plenty of time. We gotta swing sticks. If you don't swing sticks, I'm... We're swinging sticks. It's over for your boy. We're swinging sticks. Okay. Promise. Let's get some official business out of the way. I'm gonna make it quick today. Go follow Circling Back Pod and Wash Media on the Grom. Add me on the group!

Mm-hmm. Listen to him. Is that Lil' Esco? Who is that? No, no, no. Lil' Esco is back. I didn't know if he went away. That dude has ten times the swag as Lil' Esco. Why did Lil' Esco go away?

He just fell off of my radar, so technically he's back just to me. Yeah. You say he's trying to get flipped. What, him claws? He was overexposed. There was too much little Esco at one point and then people got

kind of sick of him, I think, so he had to go into hiding, which was probably a smart PR play. There are some notable people on the internet that just give me anxiety

just by their existence and he's one of them. Yeah. Cole Campbell's in there too, but... Yeah. But he's a different breed. Remember he got in that...

He's built different. He got in that vehicle and he said, I'm about to whip this hoe and he just did like a donut. And everybody's like, oh, that's tight. Damn. I went down a little Esco wormhole last night.

Is he old enough to drive? Yeah, he's aged. Like, he looks like he's like 17 now. Yeah, the video that you sent was very interesting. I didn't recognize him. He ages like a movie star. You know how like there's a kid and maybe he's like 12, and then like two weeks later he's married with three kids?

Yeah, it's like, what happened? That's why they pretty much made every Harry Potter movie breaking child labor laws to make sure that they could get him in before these kids looked like full-blown adults. Yeah. I don't know what movie it was, but the one where they have all the long hair, it's just fucking terrible.

Cut your hair. I've never seen those. Dude, come on. They slap. You should do that for the next week. Nah. Why? It's too much of an undertaking.

And people are like, the books are so good. You got to read the books, too. No, you don't. I'm not reading the books, man. Don't read the books. It's either one or the other. It's going to take me six years. I'm not reading the books, man.

It's going to take me six years to read that series. You see how thick those fucking books are? They're big. Yeah. They got some one and a half spacing on that shit, though. They're thick boys, man. Yeah, but it's not, like, small font and stuff. I'm not going to dedicate a significant chunk of my life to Harry Potter.

You know what I mean? It's not. I've decided I might jump into The Mandalorian. Oh, man, the gas that The Mandalorian was getting all weekend was insane. I somehow avoided spoilers, and I was like, dude, I want to be in on this. I almost just watched the finale of season two just to understand what everybody was freaking out about. Yeah, we, I mean, I've been on the edge.

I watched the first episode. Yeah, I did too, and I enjoyed it. So now it's like, okay, I guess I have to watch it now. But now, do you have to re-watch that first episode? Yeah, we do. Yeah, it's just too much. re-watch that first episode. Yeah, we do.

Yeah, it's just too much. I don't know how official business got taken this direction, but I don't hate it. Dylan's over here talking about his name or some shit. It's a cool name, dude. Let's just skip ahead.

You know what we're doing? Patreon this week? Tell me. Since Friday's Christmas, we're dropping Voices tomorrow. No one expected that to happen. All you people sitting there at your desk right now, get psyched. Wow.

Yeah. We're dropping them early tomorrow morning, so just look out for that. And then we're doing Bachelorette on Wednesday. It might be available for consumption on Tuesday night, immediately following The Bachelorette. We have a special guest coming on on the podcast to enjoy with us. But keep an eye out. Keep an eye out.

We're not doing that live, right? No. Okay. It's Patreon content, Dave. We can't just give it out for free. That's fair. I thought about that, too. I went down that wormhole.

But, yeah, we're going to be doing both of those episodes. And then next week we'll be doing Lister voicemails. And then we'll be back after the new year with a regular schedule, including Bachelor content with Bachelor Mike. Is that his name, Mike? I don't know his name with tyler's hot friend tyler's hot yeah the hot fellow that hangs out with tyler the other hot guy so we'll be doing that very excited about that should we do this weekend in fun recapping it sure if you want to

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I was over here trying to remember what I did on Friday. It's a time of year when days and weeks just kind of run together for me. Just get them all mixed up. But Friday I didn't do anything. I just chilled, which was ideal. Got the homie back from his mom, and we got up super early Saturday and drove out to the ranch to see some family.

We did the whole present thing out there. It's the only time we could all get together with that part of the family. So we did the whole Christmas thing out there. Got to see the fam. Got to do presents. Had a nice big Thanksgiving Christmas dinner. Dude, what'd you scoot? It was tight.

So I think my sister, Haley is her name, I think she got tired of coming over to my house and seeing my bachelor kitchen setup, like bachelor style. I have my plates and my pans and my silverware, all that stuff. Do you have reusable utensils in your silverware drawer? I have decent stuff, but I don't have full sets of stuff. And that's partly because when I split with Dallas, we just split everything.

And so my stuff, it wasn't super nice. And also, I was just missing some stuff. My pans were trash, as you can probably imagine. Yeah, they were. So I got new pans. I don't have to imagine. I know. I got new dishes.

I got new silverware. Damn! Did you get any china? I got baking dishes. What kind of china? Chickadee china? The Chinese chicken? I didn't get any china. Did you get any china? I got baking dishes. What kind of china? Chickadee china? The Chinese chicken? I didn't get any china.

Did you get a drumstick? Mark that, Randy. This fucking guy didn't get china. I didn't get china. Don't mark that. That's not... China. That's not entertaining.

And that's pretty much it. I missed that. I capped off the weekend by getting two dubs last night in Warzone. Wow. No one saw that coming. One in cause, one in solo. No big deal. The chopper was singing last night last night in Warzone. Wow. No one saw that coming. One in Quaz, one in Solo. No big deal. The chopper was singing last night, Will.

You have no idea. I'm still a kilo boy. Everybody knows that. I was just laying them down. What's a kilo boy? I was just laying them down, dude. Did they say he was a top boy? What?

No. What? I don't know what that means. But yeah, I'm just trying to get through sad boy season. We're doing it. It's not sad boy season. It's not sad boy season. It's definitely sad boy season. It's rude boy season.

Rude boy. The name we were looking for was Matt. Matt James is the new Bachelor. Matt, not Mike. I knew it wasn't Mike because I think – I knew it was a generic M name. You thought it was Mike Jones? Who? No, it's definitely not Mike Jones.

I don't think they would make him the Bachelor. It'd be a weird move. First round draft pick's coming soon. What's Mike Jones up to? Who? Stop. Please. All right, that concludes my weekend.

I caught that dub with Dylan last night in quads. It was a fun one, man. You guys were mobbing last night? We were slaying, dude. That's epic. I'm not good with the sniper, but I was making magic with it last night. Really? Dave was putting them down.

I must have not gotten the invite. I domed some dudes. We were calling them headshot by the end of the game. Why didn't I get an invite for this? Oh, man, we must have just... We couldn't find you. We must have been busy. Yeah, this is not cross-platform.

Can I take Klein's place next time? Please. Just kidding, Klein. Who's our fo... Oh, Zach. Zach, yeah. Dude, Dave was in his bag last night. Fuck.

I play a lot better when I'm not having a booze drink, I learned. Why? Why didn't you have a booze drink last night? I just didn't feel like it. I've been having a nightcap like every night this week. You know why?

Because I knew with it being podcast week and short week, holidays, Christmas, next 14 days might be a lot of that. Yeah. So I'm like,

you know what? I gotta take some nights off. I'm gonna get one Peloton ride in today that's like a really hard one, hopefully, unless I just get lazy, with the hope that it's just going to last me through the entire holiday season. Not doing it every day.

I'm just doing one. Do you think it'll work? No. Oh, okay. No, you'd have to really spike that heart. Yeah. 200 beats per minute. I can get spiky.

Can you hit 200? No. I hit 174 in a boxing workout yesterday. I hit my top at all times is 187 That's a lot I don't think that's good Well, if you saw how hard I was fucking pumping at the end of my ride to hit my PR There's like a danger zone, it's just like an engine

I know, Dylan And I'm in it I went I'm just saying, be careful I don't want you to drop dead, man, I'm sorry What, you think I'm just not going to get my heart rate up when I'm trying to get a personal record? I want you to get your heart rate up, I just don't want to get that thing pumping too fast, you think I'm just not going to get my heart rate up when I'm trying to get a personal record? I want you to get your heart rate up. I just don't want to get that thing pumping too fast, you know?

Don't talk to me until you fucking have personal records that you're trying to break, dog. Shit. Damn. No, I don't mean that. You can still talk to me. I've been plateaued for five years. I told you that. No more PRs for your boy.

I've been switching up my strategy. It's not really working on Peloton. My kilojoules are just trash. You should try blood doping. I've been switching up my strategy. It's not really working on Peloton. My kilojoules are just trash. You should try blood doping. I'm really sorry to hear that. If I can start doping in order to get better at my Peloton, then I'm all for it. I asked Sally for some... EPO.

Yeah, I was like, you're in the medical industry. Can't you get me some EPO or something so I can just start really getting my numbers up? I got a buddy who got a Peloton after me, and he's just crushing me in his numbers. And it's like, well, I either need to start doing it more or I need to start doping. My buddy Jeff. He's absolutely working me. It's embarrassing. Doesn't he ski very often?

Yes, he does. So he's probably got quads. He's cheeked up. Yeah. He's cheeked up. He's a big guy. Big-ish. Yeah, man.

It was a low-key weekend. How about that? how about that how about that my saturday was just ultimate ultimate sports guy just college football or late oh no friday nights it started friday night triple g fought watch that saturday college football but Buddy's convinced me, like, hey, let's bet the over on this Oregon State, Arizona State game. It's the late game. It's an excuse to stay up, have another drink, and just wall track it. So we did. And you know what? The over hit.

In the third quarter. Congratulations. And I am now $70 richer. Whoa. How are you going to spend that? That's a generation of fucking wealth. I don't $70 richer. Whoa. How are you going to spend that? That's a generation of fucking wealth. I don't discuss that publicly. Okay.

But I'll probably buy like Dogecoin or whatever. I don't even know what that is, but it sounds tight. Yeah, so I really didn't. I don't think I left the house Saturday. We had some furniture delivered. That was cool. What'd you scoop? Got a new dresser for our bedroom.

Let's go. We got a, oh, we had to build a dresser for the nursery. How'd that go? Elicited 95% of it. She was just, went to town on it. I was like, you know what? There was like a couple of things I had to come in and like, and do, but it was, it was from Wayfair.

There was no, no children trafficked with... Are you sure? Yeah, pretty positive. How much do you pay for that thing? Maybe you need to call and recoup that. It was not super pricey. But putting it together... Trying to get little Luca a brother. We don't support

human trafficking, Will. Podcast week. Dylan is disgusted right now. Shaking my head. We don't support human trafficking, Will. Podcast week. I just kind of, what? Dylan is disgusted right now. Shaking my head. Oh, as of yesterday, I'm officially jogs with dog guy. Oh, man. Can Randy handle that?

Well, we didn't do like a long distance. We probably did a mile at the most. We just went around like the long way around our block. But he was having fun, man. And like, if I like, you know, I'm like always looking to him to see if he's doing okay.

If I speed up a little bit, he'll speed up and like try to get ahead of me, which is just funny. He's just a big, he's a big, big lad. Yeah. He's a big boy.

But yeah, so I don't know how often we're going to do that. I'm thinking maybe weekly just get out, get the blood flowing. That's that. I'm thinking maybe weekly. Just get out. Yeah. Get the blood flowing. That's good.

I'm that guy. Stella was chasing chickens all over the ranch Saturday. It's become a problem. Weren't you choking chickens all weekend? David. Come on, dude. You're talking about masturbation. I'm talking about an actual dog chasing real-ass chickens around a ranch.

Like, what are you doing? Just fucking asking questions. God. And she got in the horse pen. Dude, I'm— Like, Stella, what are you doing? She's fucking asking questions. God. And she got in the horse pen. Dude, I'm... Like, Stella, what are you doing? What were the horses doing? They're used to dogs.

They don't really, like, pay much attention to her. But she's flirting with danger, man. I had to get her out of there. Do they... She literally crawled through and, like, got in there. Has she had any cute moments where, like, they boop noses or anything? No. Oh.

No, I won't let it happen there will be no animal man it is a big animal horses they'd be kicking too man you catch one of those those hooves do you keep the horses in the back hit the hit the seinfeld in the front of the ranch i got the horses you get it i got the horses in the back yeah i gotta do that's a sick reference they're just they're just at the at the barn david there's a pen for him and shit and they get to roam around it's it's just typical you know ranch situation you fucking smart ass oh sorry i'm not familiar with typical ranch situations dylan

i can see dylan walking around just I'm not familiar with typical ranch situations, Dylan. I can see Dylan walking around just humming to himself like, typical ranch situation. Just really enjoying yourself. I don't get that one. No cell phones in sight, just vibes. Horses in the back. You didn't get any grams off, I noticed.

Yeah, what's with the lack of stories, dude? You're at the ranch on Christmas with your family. I know I didn't do a story. Get some stories off, dog. Did you take some dumbass photos? Wasn't even even worth posting i took some of park's opening presents is that qualifies post in your book i don't know you didn't post them jerk yeah we'd have to see him it could be you also didn't post pics of your nog what i said is mr nog i did i did i took a picture and i was like no this i mean this is gonna get roasted so i did dude come on let us rate your nog no i don't no we don't need that.

Did you have spills down the side and stuff? It just wasn't a great looking picture. What did you mix into it? Did you put nutmeg on the top? What's the deal? I don't like nutmeg. I opt for no meg. That's a first.

Just put a little crown in there. Okay. Hey, Hot Shot, how far could you punt eggnog? That's a good question. Ooh, wow. You a thick it's a pretty thick liquid day so you got to think that it's a thick wood uh-huh no one's doing thick wood for amorphous solids don't say amorphous solid well it's technically thick wood answer the question dude i'm tired of dodging my questions today 20 feet get to your weekend already will call you real dodging right now today. 20 feet. Get to your weekend already, Will. Call you Ram because you'll be dodging right now. What makes you think my weekend's over?

I'm just getting started. Your weekend's trash, dude. No, my weekend was super dope. I won $70. Actually, I was up on the weekend across the board. Look at you. Mr. Big Boy stacks himself. You know what?

I have become, officially, I'm an angel investor. So if anyone has anything they'd like me to invest in, let me know. I would like to invest my winnings into your company or whatever it might be, your charitable matter. You're going to invest $70 into a company? I will invest up to a few hundred dollars in your company. Hop in the stonks, dude. A few hundred dollars in your company. Hop in the stonks, dude. Yeah, get some Illyrium.

Is that what I need to do next? Yeah. Get some Penn National. I heard they're doing well, according to everyone that I follow on Twitter. I have 15 shares of that. Wow. I got that. Did you sell your Washed Media shares to buy Penn?

Mm-hmm. Damn. Yeah. Dave Portnoy actually has all my equity at this point. Fuck. Yeah, it's not good. I feel like he did it to bear hug Brett. I feel like it's too late to get into Penn.

He's still fucking with Brett. Yeah. I would love that. If Portnoy offered me a buyout of Washed Media at an absurd price just to get back at Brett, I might have to take it. If Portnoy acquired Washed Media at some point, we would have to write into the deal that you can't fire Brett for at least five years. Yeah.

It's like, no. Brett has to be on salary for X amount of time, and you're also not allowed to email him ever. You can't communicate with Brett. You guys want to hear my fucking weekend? I need to look more at the stonks. You do need to. Please research the stonks. You do need to. Please research the stonks extensively.

Get a stonk or two. From Penn? It's too late. I need a time machine to go back to when it was very, very cheap. Time machines would be great for the stonk market. You got to think. Imagine. Yeah.

Remember one of the Back to the Futures when Biff got a hold of the little baseball almanac? Atlas. Yeah. Atlas. Yeah. Or whatever it was. He knew all the- All the scores. Super Bowl winners. The Atlas, yeah, or whatever it was. He knew all the – All the scores.

Super Bowl winners. Pretty impressive. What would you do with that? I would go back in time and place bets on those teams, and I would become very wealthy in the future. Oh, yeah. I guess that's the obvious answer. That'd be a really fun way to do it.

Just, like, you could, like, cherry pick which games you wanted to go to, just knowing, like, that game's going to be awesome. You would have to lose some intentionally to throw people off? But what are they going to do? They can't prove you have time. Be like, dude, there's no way you're getting all these right. Yeah, but it's not like you're counting cards. You went back to the future.

Back. You get cut off eventually. People will stop accepting your bets. Like, this guy never loses. I'm not going to take his wager. That's why you create a shell company. You bet under that. I don't know how that works, Dave.

Or you just get people to place bets for you. That too. You have a partner. Or like a hundred. This is my son and my partner, HW. Playing for you.

I'm a betting man. I'm a gambler. I've gambled my son. I parlayed my boy. He makes Randy laugh every single time. He loves it. It's an automatic laugh if you do it. I took a live tease.

It's not that great. But we do it because of Randy, I think. There will be laughs. This is my platform with live in-game betting. You're getting pretty good at that guy, actually. I hedge your poli. I fade your pics. That's ridiculous.

Can I do my weekend? God. You done, Dylan? I'm actually, in lieu of doing my weekend, I'm just going to read Micah's Read of the Week, Volume 21 instead. Are you guys cool with that? Oh, I just got it. It's Journalism Week. Journalism Week.

Oh, God. I went to Missouri. Journalism School. Shut up. Yeah, we get it, dude. I had a wild weekend. Friday. Your boy went to Johnson City.

Ever been there? Tennessee? No. Oh, Texas. Yeah, Texas. One close to Austin. I went to the Johnson City Lights. They have a lot of lights in Johnson City, apparently.

The Johnson City, Tennessee? I literally just made that joke, David. Like, literally 15 seconds ago. Get off his back. He was looking at the stonks. Did you really? Yeah. I was looking at Micah's read of the week.

I really was. When you see that it's journalism week, you can't help but just get excited for it. Yeah, you've got to write something. You've got to report on something. Hold on, I just got the headline of the week. What is it? This is something I don't know why we're not talking about. You want to just add this?

Creed Scott Stapp has been cast as Frank Sinatra in a Dennis Quaid-led Ronald Reagan biopic. I'm so out on that. I'm fine with it. We're down my way. That guy can't do Frank Sinatra. I haven't seen what he looks like. That's really good. Love Sinatra.

Sorry, Will. What's your weekend? Yeah, I went and saw the lights. It was lit. Did you take mushrooms? Oh, you took your nieces. No, it would have been dope if I didn't have nieces there. Mushrooms would have been pretty sick there.

Yeah, we took them. I was a little worried because like... Did they have fun? I'm not great with kids. Did your car still smell? Did they comment on that? No, they actually liked my car a lot. Oh, good.

Which was big. But I'm not very good with kids. So I didn't know if they were actually going to like this or not. Because for me, it's like, okay, cool. These are just a bunch of Christmas lights. You better get good with kids. You're going to be babysitting. I can't wait to babysit Luca.

bunch of Christmas lights. You better get good with kids. You're going to be babysitting. I can't wait to babysit Luca. And then we ended up like just kind of mulling around there for a little bit. I don't know. But I didn't know if they were going to like it. And it turned out they loved it.

That's great. I was just like, what's going on here? You did good. Yeah. And so then I went out to dinner. Woke up the next day. Watched a little footy. But I had the pleasure of doing something that everyone wants to do over the holidays on a Saturday.

And I got to go to a car dealership with Sally for a really long time. So that was really fun and just completely burned away my entire Saturday. Oh, she texted me. Yeah. She used me as a reference. Yeah, she was going to use you as a reference. Did she really get the car that she said she got? The Ford F-150 King Ranch edition? Yeah. Not really. Did she get the one she said? I don't know what she said she was going to use you as a reference. Did she really get the car that she said she got? The Ford F-150 King Ranch edition?

Yeah. No, really. Did she get the one she said? I don't know what she said she was going to do for you, so. Okay, I won't say it. It's the worst time to go look at a car because it's truck month. Yeah. Everybody's just there, like, trying to take advantage of the deals. They just want trucks.

The sales guy's like, are you looking for the, there's a truck dealership, like, right down the road. Why are you here? Just, like, pass them off. Yeah, it's a truck dealership like right down the road. Why are you here? Just like pass them off. Yeah, it's like, what am I doing here? But then, Saturday night, date night, we do what we do every year. Went to Jeffrey's for dinner right around the holidays. What'd you order, man? We went off.

I'll admit, we went off. Started off with some deviled eggs. You got to hit them with the deviled eggs. And then we d dive straight into, Sally did a Caesar salad and I went straight into table side lobster bisque. They poured it table side.

Caesar salad in 2020. They poured it table side, not to brag too much, but you know. Yeah, it was swag. And then your boy got the filet. I had to do it to him. You did?

Six ounce? I actually got an eight ounce. Oh, that's big boy got the filet. I had to do it to him. You did? Six ounce? I actually got an eight ounce. Oh, that's big boy shit. Mm-hmm. Damn. Mm-hmm. How'd you finish it all? I ate it.

I cut it up and I ate it. Eight ounces of steak. That's a half a pound. Yeah. A lot of people don't know that. I like to get the bone in stuff because it just jacks the price up with limited. So does T-bone. Yeah.

T-bone. Oh, my steak is too salty. Because it jacks the price up with limited difference. Salted T-Bone. Oh, my steak is too salty. Because Jackson Price lived with limited difference. Salted steak. I don't understand. This steak is too salty. That's how he fucking

sounded that night. God. Jesus. Dude, and then your boy woke up yesterday and he just went off. Watched the Man U game, hung out a little bit,

drank some coffee, had a little tea. Well, you drink... I drink coffee as well. You had coffee and tea. Pretty much the last 360 days. And then I went to finish up my Christmas shopping, which was truly, truly nice. So I'm all done with that.

How many dubs did you get? Dubs? Like Christmas shopping? Did you eat a W? Did you eat a W? Like Christmas shopping? No, like Dave and I both got dubs. I got a me and you dub yesterday.

I texted y'all to watch the game. I ended up being 6-2. Super entertaining game. That's a goal every 10 minutes. Like, that's great. You're right. That's my biggest hang-up. Did anybody do a bicycle kick?

No one ever scores. No bicycle kicks. Yeah. Yeah. What about a knuckleball? Anybody kick a knuckler? A toe punch. Shut the fuck up.

Like a knuckle puck? No one says that. Can you do that with a soccer ball? You can knuckle a soccer ball. It's a very you do that with a socket you can knuckle a soccer ball it's a very different shape i can knuckle a soccer ball you want to see you want to see it it dances everywhere that's tight it's very tight yeah yeah the second i learned how to do that's all i wanted to do in life turns out it wasn't good enough to do that for a living though you've been toe punching life this whole time knuckle puck's not an actual thing all right you can't

do that no knuckle puck's bullshit you can knuckle a, right? No. You can't do that? No. Knuckle puck's bullshit. You can knuckle a soccer ball, though. Yeah. I can do it. You can knuckle a baseball. You couldn't do it. Oh, I know that. You should just be dancing and diving. Should we move on to our next segment?

I'm kind of excited for this. That's not how it sounds at all. You're right. So Brett's not in the studio today. You guys aren't going to hear from Brett until R&B Radio tomorrow. Are y'all doing R&B? Possibly doing R&B tomorrow. But Brett did drop some presents off at the studio for us.

He did. Do you guys want to go through and open these one by one? Sure. Randy, if you want to grab that microphone, you got your present too. If you want to toss that mic up in your face, then we can make that happen. Dude, turn his mic on. Who wants to go first? Say hello, Randy.

Hello, Randy. God damn it. Just go first so we can take that mic away. I think Randy should go first. All right. First up is young Randy. You got to start

with the youngest person that's going to whine if they're like, oh, can I open mine yet? Don't worry. I got a little webcam. Not that close to the mic. Let's going to whine if they're like, oh, can I open mine yet? I got the camera over here. Don't worry. I got a little webcam. Not that close to the mic. Let's see what he got me.

He got me some kooky biking socks. Oh. They have little rabbits on them. Show them to the folks. Those aren't biking socks. What makes those biking? Because they're – they got – Oh, they're bikers.

Oh, yeah. Those are nice socks. Just FYI. Is that Merino? Smith. Merino wool? Yeah. Those are nice socks.

Dude, I love a good pair of socks. So don't wear them biking. I hope that's what I got. They're made in Italy. Buongiorno. Dave, you ever heard of it? Prego. What's the brand?

Prego. Paul Smith. Yeah, it sounds very Italian. Yeah, man. Paul Smith. Thanks, Paul. Have to come over for some ghoul. That's very nice of Brett.

Those are cool, man. Thank you, Brett. Those are tight. You're a bike guy. You like to ride your bike around and shit. You strike me as a guy who would wear fun socks

to a wedding under your suit. Yeah. And like crazy suspenders underneath his tux. No. He was laughing at the party. That old Randy.

Thank you, Brett. Oh, this guy's here to party. Look at his suspenders. Crazy. Dude. Sick suspenders. Crazy. Dude. Sick suspenders. Didn't you wear some kind of dope suspenders to your wedding? You wore something.

I had suspenders at my wedding. But somebody, it was at maybe Lily's. You were wearing some different suspenders. Oh, at Lily's, yeah, because I was a groomsman. We all had to wear these, like, Mexican-themed suspenders. They were tight. I wore some at mine mine but no one ever saw them i never took my jacket off i felt like i was too like i felt i felt invincible in my jacket so

i didn't go jacket off at your wedding no i didn't i don't know why um but i was wearing some suspenders that need to get get in play again because i loved them bring them back scottish tartan just beautiful well guys i i hate to do this but i'm gonna i'm going to open this and i don't know what it could possibly yeah based on the to open this, and I don't know what it could possibly be. Yeah, based on the shape of yours, Dave, I don't know what it could be. What is this? I'm going to give the folks at home the full effect. I hope it's a – well, we'll see.

Could you get a mounted duck head? Just open the damn present, David. Dude, what's your problem? Show us. Show us your face. Show us your hat. Oh, shit. We got Golf Dave.

Smathers and Branson. David Ruff. That is actually really, really sharp. This is tight. How about that? Brett is a one thoughtful dude. I was thinking these were going to be like... Say thank you to Brett.

Hang on. I was thinking these were going to be like. Say thank you to Brett. Hang on. I was thinking these were going to be, I don't know, like handmade kind of bits. I thought it was going to be Paradox. Paradox Brewery hat. I was kind of thinking that too. I would have been fine with that. This is a very nice hat. Thank you, Brett.

D-A-R-A-D-O-X. Yeah, go check them out. My next? Are we going clockwise? Very cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good looking hat. That's a good looking hat. You That's a good-looking hat.

Dave Ruff's going to get some stuff out of it. If I had gotten that hat, I wouldn't be upset at all. You'll be seeing a lot of this hat. I like that. Yeah, Brett got me socks as well. I didn't get... Oh, shit. I don't know why he got me these socks, but these socks have a...

Those look very nice. These have a frog with mushrooms on them, Dylan. Oh, that's because you get high. Do I? I thought I didn't burn. Wait, toad venom plus shrooms. That's, like, very trippy if you think about it. Far out.

These are very Wilmont socks. Those are cool-looking socks. Ty's going to be trying to get these from me. Don't lie to him, dude. Is he just giving me socks? Is this kind of a personal dig? Because you're a sock guy? Yeah. Do you look like a sock? I personal dig? Because you're a sock guy? Yeah.

Do you look like a sock? I'm going. Did you say thank you yet? What's Randy giggling about over here? Does he still have a mic on? I'm going. Turn his mic off. Mine are also socks.

He's being such a dick. And mine have dinosaurs on them. Oh, shit. The homies are going to love these. Mad cute. Mad cute. Thank you, Brett. That's very thoughtful. Parks is going to love these. Mad cute. Mad cute. Thank you, Brett. That's very thoughtful.

Parks is going to love these, but he can't wear them yet because they're too big. So your boy's going to wear them instead. Wow. I can't believe you're going to pass down the gift of socks to your son. Wow, yeah. They're for me. You're never going to give those to Parks, are you? He's not getting his little grubby little hands on these.

Nobody wants your smelly-ass socks, don't. David. You guys have me to thank for these gifts, by the way. Why is that? You can thank Brett, but you have me to thank. These are very cool. Because Brett said that he saw that the frog socks were available, and he said that he had to get a gift for everybody instead of just me.

I wonder why they've got the hat, we've got the socks. These are awesome. I guess it's – he knows I needed it. Thank you, Brett. Very thoughtful. I feel like you have a million hats. Dude, I do, but I only wear... I have three or four that I wear.

No, but you go three or four, like, through phases. It's better than me who has one that he wears, and he has a hundred hats. You do have a good hat collection. It's kind of annoying, honestly. You don't even wear hats, dude. Why don't you start offloading those to me? I'll at least wear them.

I'll let you know when I go through them and donate. Maybe I'll do that this week. Let's do a trade. Let's do a hat swap. Hat swap with the boys. Dude, whole squad swapping hats? How do I de-wrinkle this?

You have to wear it. Wear it, you fucking dumbass. Put it on your dumbass head. What if my head's tiny? This is a good hat. My head is tiny. That is a really good looking hat. Congratulations on your hat. I. What if my head's tiny? This is a good hat. My head is tiny. That is a really good looking hat. Congratulations on your hat.

I'm playing Wednesday morning, so maybe I'll wear it on the course, the golf course that is. Will and I are also playing Wednesday. Playing the Texas Rangers golf club.

Wow. Yeah. It's not like an exclusive thing. out there. I hope you hit it pro far. That's pretty good, bro. Rusty Greer's out there just like...

Ruben Sierra, you can donate to charity and he'll hit a long drive for you. Julio Franco's the marshal. He's got that Jim Furyk-ass swing. Yeah. Steve Bouchel's out there manning the third hole. Did you guys see that Tiger Woods' kid was playing golf this weekend? No, I completely missed that. Yeah. Yeah okay no one volume shot on that at all that kid has a gorgeous swing oh here we go we gotta put that on the uh too much dip run down yeah

yeah what i like about it though dude yeah thank you brett this swing's better than mine oh i wish i had Charlie Woods' swing. How much fun is that going to be if he's, like, legit, legit, though? Really fun. You know? Really fun. There's a... It would be weird if he did not end up having a, like,

phenomenal amateur and collegiate career. 0.5 PGA Tour wins. Are you taking the over-under for Charlie Woods right now? Oh, I'm mashing the over. Over. Okay. Yeah. Okay.

Just making sure because I'm hitting that over hard. I mean, he's set up for – he's got it all. Yeah. He's got the genes. He's got the swing. He's got a good teacher. He lives with Tiger Woods. Okay.

Is he going to have the hunger to drive? It's hard to say. Because he's not exactly coming up out the mud, you know what I mean? That's very true. His dad's very wealthy. Yeah, yeah. Tiger Woods has had a nice financial run. You've got to think his dad's bringing in at least six figs.

I think he's got the drive, the chip, and the pup. He's got the drive, the chip, and the pop. You guys want to talk about Headspace real quick? Life can be stressful even under normal circumstances. 2020 has challenged even the most difficult of times. You need stress relief that goes beyond quick fixes, and that's Headspace. Headspace is your daily dose of mindfulness in the form of guided meditations in an easy to use app you know it's the one of the only meditation apps advancing the field of mindfulness and meditation through clinically validated research think about that yeah you guys want to hear a true story true story i've been

having trouble sleeping lately i've been getting up at like 3 30 a.m like every single night and pretty much staying awake till 4 30 it's the witching so i told sal i was like i gotta put some some headphones, like maybe some Raycons next to our beds so that I can just toss on a meditation. Last night, I was up. I started reading about the next thing we're going to talk about, but I was like, man, I would really like to go to sleep right now. What did I do?

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God. That means Micah was up against it, putting together that Read of the Week, if he got the Shkreli news in there. He got it in, man. Snuck it in. You don't think he's ever done anything wrong, right, Dylan? Stop. Stop.

No. Hey, man. He's just a capitalist, bro. Dude, he's a pharma bra. He's a pharma body. This guy stinks. He is someone that I have kind of, I just haven't thought about in a year or two. I think we kind of talked about it maybe back in the day when he was originally, I remember

he acquired the unreleased Wu-Tang album. He did. He did. And that was the last time I thought about this person. Yeah. Now he's in jail, I think, for like three and a half years or something like that. What was the official charge on this dude? Money laundering.

He was caught money laundering and fraud. This guy stinks. Yeah. It had nothing to do with his actual, I don't think it had anything to do with the actual jacking up the price of the pharmacy stuff. But, yeah, he got in trouble. Yeah, price gouging, very – what? Huh?

I don't know. The word – it didn't work there. Do you want me to intervene right now and start talking? Right. Price gouging, drugs that people very much need. Yeah, like cancer patients and such. Yeah, life-saving stuff. Two securities fraud charges and one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud.

Love that. Love that. Good for him. So he was basically trying to deceive a security company. Interesting. Interesting. You don't mess with that. Do you think he's ever been to our office before?

There's no way he's scamming these folks here. Not at all. Why? So an article was written by Elle magazine that interviewed a woman who previously worked for Bloomberg, who now is allegedly romantically involved with them. Right. Have you guys read into this at all? Oh, yeah.

I'm waiting for you to just drop it on me. Dylan, didn't you used to own a magazine, Elle magazine? Because you were like the expert on taking L's. Do you own a magazine, Elle Magazine? Because you were like the expert on taking L's. I got two dubs last night. You did get two dubs. I'm sorry.

True. So this woman came out and said that she'd been dating him for a little bit. So she started as a reporter for Bloomberg, and she started dating, or not dating him, but talking to him a lot and gaining his trust in her reporting. And so she was with him a lot. And then they started developing a romantic relationship that came to a head in prison where they could only make out. So it didn't come to a head. They only made out.

Stop. And now she's just absolutely simping for him.'s even gone as far he's ghosted her at this point he's like please get away from me but now there's a whole expose in l magazine just saying like oh my god i'm still i'm so in love with this guy this woman's an absolute psycho she wrote about her no someone else wrote about her but she also has written like a screen she wrote a or wants to write a book and she wrote a screenplay that she sold the rights to or something. So she's just absolutely like gone over this fucking guy over this guy over this guy sucks. You guys want some nice little things from the article that I screenshot.

He's not even hot dude. He's like a little dweeb. He's not. For reference he increased the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000 percent overnight. That was the thing that really landed him in the crosshairs of most society. That does piss people off normally. 5,000%.

Do you guys want to hear some excerpts from the thing? Please. This wasn't like a new revelation, but it was something that got brought to light that always entertains me. When they were selecting the jury, it says, even the jury selection had been uneventful, with potential jurors dismissed for saying that Shkreli was the face of corporate greed and that, quote, he disrespected the Wu-Tang Clan. I just like the idea.

I've always enjoyed that quote, that he's disrespected the Wu-Tang Clan, just because I like imagining somebody going up to, like, a judge and just being like, no, I can't be a juror in this. You disrespected the Wu-Tang. You don't disrespect the Wu. Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with. Exactly. Well said, Dave. Your Honor, Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with. Have you seen the meme?

It's Saul Goodman. And he's like with his client and says, Your Honor, my client is just built different. That's so stupid. That's pretty good. Do you want another one? Yeah. He told her he was one of the only people allowed, or that she was one of the only people

allowed to visit him in prison and mused about running for office or starting a podcast when he got out. I love the dreams of Martin Shkreli at this point. You got to think there's a pod in his future. She said that belief in himself, although it may seem delusional at times, it draws you in. Oh, my God. I don't even know if everything he was saying was true,

but maybe like 1% is, and that's awesome on its own. Really? So if you lie 99% about what you're saying, that's... Starting a podcast isn't that hard. No. You could probably do it from prison if you wanted to. You just need internet, really. If he was a real one like Billy McFarlland, then he would have just done it from prison.

Yeah. He could smuggle in a microphone. Do you want another one? This is the first time they kissed in prison. A realization hit her. In the visitor's room, she said, I told Martin I loved him. And he told me he loved me too. She asked if she could kiss him.

He said yes. The room smelled of chicken wings, she remembers. Okay. What if we kissed in prison? And it smells like chicken wings. Like chicken? That's what you remember? Don't tell Elle magazine that's what you remember about this.

Because that's what they're going to write in the article. You can't say it smelled like chicken wings. This is already a mega tough scene. What a weird detail. Yeah, it's so very... Well, they say scent is the strongest... Sense tied to memory? Yeah.

Is that right? Yeah. It's very true. It is. First kiss, chicken wings. Smelled like chicken wings. Sounds like a pretty dope scenario.

Want to hear how dedicated this woman was to her job? She said, he sounded ragged and fragile and I got concerned that he would commit suicide because of all this stuff was to her job? She said, he sounded ragged and fragile, and I got concerned that he would commit suicide because of all this stuff was happening all at once. But still, her job came first. She pre-wrote an obituary for Shkreli, just in case he did, in fact, kill himself. Okay.

Pre-wrote an obituary? Can you imagine dating someone? The fact that he even dated her after she did this is crazy. Do you think that's commonplace? Not to hook up and try to marry your subject you're writing about, but if you work for a major outlet and there's a celeb who's getting up there, do you have a pre-written just in case? Like, oh, I'm not doing so well.

So she worked for Bloomberg. Bloomberg 100% has a Jeff Bezos pre-written obituary, right? I don't think so. I mean, I'm thinking like if somebody's like, you're like, oh, man. You're getting old. Okay, in that case, probably. If someone's getting really old, then sure. But those aren't like –

ESPN always has like sneaky, fast montages for people. I'm like, damn, y'all put that montage together pretty quick you can do that you think they have a hit squad dude just died just so they can launch the content like do you think Bloomberg has like a they have an obituary written for Warren Buffett right he's still alive yeah he's like he's old but they have they have one he's still moving hella stocks of stocks around. He's a billionaire. Good for him. Dude, the Margaritaville alone has made him generationally wealthy. Dude, that's so true. I didn't think about that.

Can you imagine simping for someone like Martin Shkreli? No. Shkreli. It's insane that now- He's a DJ, right? He's not even talking to her now. My boyfriend, Martin Shkreli. He's not even talking to her anymore.

Ever since it came out that she was getting involved with Elle magazine for this, the other Elle magazine, not Dylan's Elle magazine, he's just ghosted her. So now he's not even talking to her. And she's still just Simp City over here? Dude, she's on Twitter right now responding to people, talking about how much she likes him. He does wish her the best in her future endeavors.

No one's breaking up like that. That's what he said. What's this young lady's name? Her last name is Smith spelled S-M-Y. Oh, is it Smythe? Way to principle. Smythe. I think it's Smythe.

S-M-Y-T-H-E. Does she not have a first name? I don't know. No, they just call her the Smythe. I just remembered the article. They just referred to her as Smythe the entire time. Smythe Shkreli. Smythe. Got any Smythe? God. God to her as Smythe the entire time. Smythe Shkreli. Got any Smythe?

God's got any Smythe? That's what Shkreli's going to say when he gets horny in jail. Got any Smythe? She got Smythed. Do you think Shkreli's going to come out with teardrop tattoos or anything? He's going to. That'd be so sick. Filled in or not, though?

Hard to say. Yeah. There's gonna... That'd be so sick. Filled in or not, though? Hard to say. Yeah. There's something else I think he got filled in. Filled in means you caught a body, Dave. Oh. Everybody knows that.

She divorced her husband for this dude. He's really hot. Over this fucking guy? What if she's just a big Wu-Tang fan? She's listened to the album. Yeah, I'm sure she's really into Wu-Tang.

Oh, Christy Smythe. That's her name. Christy. Hey, Christy, you're crazy, girl. Dude, she's nuts. Oh, she's got crazy eyes. She's got like, yeah. Like, she's slashed a tire before.

You know what I mean? Like, when she listens to Goodbye Earl, she's like, I get it. Shkreli's in the trunk goodbye earl she's like i get it like this shkreli's in the trunk yeah she's like they spitting martin shkreli he's he's motherfucking spitting he's motherfucking spitting that's a good meme i will listen to his podcast. Oh, will you? For content purposes. I'll do it too. I'm fine with that. I want to hear his take on the market and the stonks.

What if he's just frauding you? That's what I want to know. Well, I'm going to take everything he says to do. I'm going to fade it, assuming that he is trying to defraud people. Oh, okay. So it's just, yeah. That's good. Think about it.

That's good. I don't have anything more on Shkreli. I'm glad to have my Shkreli update, though. Yeah, you're welcome. Don't simp over Martin Shkreli. Just don't do it. Simp over dope dudes. Should we do this Christmas in fun, presented by Miller Hot Life?

We're just doing combo platter episode today. This Christmas in fun? This Christmas in fun, dude. This Christmas in fun. This Christmas in fun, dude. This Christmas in fun. I gave you my heart. That's not your cue, right? I'm sorry. Yeah, I didn't mean to get Dylan on the same train again. That's not your cue, chief.

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And we're coming up to Christmas season. People like a little champagne. But some people like the champagne of beers. Oh, buddy. I simp for Miller High Life. I do, too. I do, too. A buddy hit me up this weekend. He was like,p for Miller High Life. I do, too. I do, too. Buddy hit me up this weekend.

He was like, how much Miller High Life are you drinking these days? I was like, you know, times are good. A respectable amount. Things are good. You've had a good year. Yeah, you've got to celebrate the wins of everyday life, of which we have many, with Miller High Life. Big or small, there are moments worth celebrating every day. Celebrate with Miller High Life.

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Think about that. Wash has been around for way shorter than that. Well, all three of you guys, will you guys come with me and toast on New Year's Eve with Miller High Life at midnight? Can we do it virtually? Because I will be in Colorado. E-toast. Yeah. Sure. A digital toast. I would love to.

Let's do it. E-toast. We'll do a Riley toast. Miller High Life. The champagne of beers A quality beer within everyone's reach Celebrate responsibly Miller Brewing Company Milwaukee, Wisconsin Dylan, what are you getting into?

Thank you for asking, Will This doesn't just have to be Christmas, by the way This should just probably be the entire year Yeah, yeah, that's fine So the next four days, like I said I won't have parks, unfortunately Sad boy season rolls on playing golf with Will on Wednesday. Maybe we aren't going to even play.

Yeah, we're playing. You don't even have a tee time. Don't play. Dude. Yeah, we're playing dog. Like there's hella tee times. I signed online this morning. Um, and then Friday I get parks back, which is Christmas.

And so we're doing like a, our Christmas morning deal on the 26th, actually. So the day after Christmas, having some family over for that. Can't wait. We're doing another like Christmas meal type thing. We're doing a prime rib. Can't wait. Dude. What?

What? What? Say it. Sally's family, they were talking about doing prime rib. Oh, yeah. They're Italian., they were talking about doing prime rib. Oh, yeah. They're Italian. And I obviously voted for prime rib. We're doing Italian.

Oh, that's a mistake. I know. I know. I don't want to tell you, Will. It's a mistake. I'll save it. Anyway, so, yep, doing Christmas on the 26th with the little guy. Very, very excited for that. And then on New Year's Eve,

your boy's going on a little vacation. He's going skiing. Oh, shit. Ski trip. Taking park skiing for the first time ever. Park cities? I'm really, really hoping that he takes to it and he enjoys it

because I want to keep going over and over again with the little guy. And this is going to be a big moment, a big trip. So be thinking of us all right what if you hate skiing i want to be devastated man honestly you're not going to teach him are you he's gonna he's gonna do a lesson a lot of people were critical of your technique they said well you are a good skier you you have an old school style and i just don't want you i don't want him

to get made fun of because his dad taught him something like bootleg way to ski. I got that super dope technique, David. All right. Who is the better skier, you or Will? It's obviously me. Anyway. It's me, dude. Can't wait, man. It's me.

I have the internet behind me as well. And then I'll be hitting the ground running. What if Will doesn't secretly give him park skiing lessons? I'll be hitting the ground running in 2021, ready to just put out some dope content. Sick. You know what I'm saying? Are you saying, like, it's podcast year?

It's going to be podcast year. Fuck. A lot of people say the third year is when 53 minutes into the pod. A lot of people say the third year is when the company really starts

to hit its stride. So, look out. That's all I'm saying. If we can make it through the pandemic, we can make it through anything. People will say that too, yeah. That's pretty much it, folks.

Very cool. What's the D-Man getting into oh we have a dinner too oh we do have a dinner next week i'll handle the dinner do you make a res we made a res where fonda never heard of it you've never even been dumbass yeah didn't i go with you no i would never go with you. I've been to Fonda. No, you're thinking of the time that he and Brett went alone and did not invite me. Oh, I've been. I was literally sitting at home doing nothing. I've been. I didn't know you needed a reservation for that.

It seems like... You don't. I think it helps. It's a very high-end restaurant. I've been there... It's a high-end establishment. Is it? It's like Matt's Plus.

Are you kidding? Fuck off, dude. That's a bad take. No, that's not an insult. It is like a nicer version of Matt's. It's so much different. The food's completely different. It does hit different.

Not even Tex-Mex. No, but you know what I mean. Tell us about your stupid fucking whatever. You done, Dylan? Yeah. Barring some bad test results, I'll be going back to Duncanville tomorrow. Wow, this is one of those times when you don't want things to be positive. Right.

Cool. Right. But, yeah, we'll be doing that, going up, going to spend a few days there playing golf Wednesday morning. And, Will, we are doing Italian Christmas Eve per tradition and I believe prime rib Christmas. Best of both worlds. Must be nice, man.

Even though a friend of a friend once told me a decade ago that prime rib is for peasants, I love prime rib. Who said that? A friend of a friend. You need an unfriendly friend. Yeah, anyone who says that's just an idiot. I love prime rib.

Prime rib is phenomenal. Right? Yeah, it's great. I don't know why people make fun of it. It's so good. You know what? I don't care. Nothing major, man.

That is such a tryhard. He's got an Archer avatar on Twitter it's very possible but yeah nothing nothing major man next week I'm gonna be I'm gonna be

I don't know hanging around Duncanville plays in Belton third round of the playoffs against Spring that'll be you know I'm not gonna go or anything

but I'm gonna be i'm gonna be following it you could go belton's not that far just north of georgetown why don't you go watch the duncanville game okay i'll go all right let's do it yeah i don't have much in the hopper sally's working pretty much the entire two weeks between now and when we're back in the studio like full time uh and so i'm just chilling. We're doing Christmas with Sally's family. Or Christmas Eve, I'm sorry. Probably spend the night at her parents' house, waking up, doing a little present opening there. We're doing, as we

said, Italian food. And then on Christmas Day, we're heading back to our crib, doing a little me and Sal Christmas time with a little Rosie action in there. Your boy's preparing duck for dinner that night. Not prime rib. You're really doing it.

Yep, we're doing duck. Quack. And then the week after, really got nothing in the hopper. As far as everything goes, like, I have no clue what I'm doing. New Year's Eve, no freaking clue. Like, I might be a wild boy on New Year's Eve. Just do something crazy. No, I literally don't know.

Drink a couple High Lives. Yeah. New Year's Eve, no clue. I don't don't know i think what day is my birthday hard to say let's look at let's look at a 2021 calendar i think it's on a monday better night if it's on a monday no sunday then your boy's out we sure am i right i don't know i'm really bad with that kind of stuff no it's on a saturday dude. That's big for your boy. That means that I'm probably going to get a dinner off on that Saturday. But I don't really have any big plans this Christmas. I'm just looking forward to winding down a little bit, opening some gifts, giving some gifts, just doing all of the above.

I'm pretty stoked for the gifts that I will be giving this year. Me too. I told Sally this is one of those years where I'm more excited to give things than I am to receive them. I might be transcending into cool uncle after this Christmas. I did that on Friday. Really? Yeah. Because of the lights thing?

Yeah. All of the lights. Yeah, I guess you are technically their uncle. Wow, thank you for insulting my unclehood. God. Do you guys want to do some breaking news? Did bread hit you up? Oh, yeah. A little choose your adventure here. That's a breadism.

Let me choose. Alright, we have Russian spies. Yes. Ariana Grande. No. Or Ratio Alert. Let's go Ratio. That's always fun. So you don't want to go with Russian spies, Mr. Jump the Gun. We'll get back to it. Who got ratioed?

Per Brett, this chick, Liz Mayer. He wrote that, not me. Apparently she thought she tried to dunk on local journalists on a Monday morning, and folks aren't thrilled by her supposed salary numbers. I saw this. I have no clue what this is about, so I'm just clicking in. She said one problem contributing to the demise of local media is very minimal output of some local reporters. When you file like one story a week, it's hard to justify high five-figure or low six-figure salaries,

and you're not doing much to attract readers. Too little content. She said too few readers equals too few advertising and too little advertising dollars. No one wants to have to file three things a day, and that's not the necessary standard. But finally, a couple things a week, one or more of which is the same thing your competitors also filed is death. I don't know what any of this means or why this is breaking news.

What's the deal here? She is getting ratioed pretty heavily. She is. But that's, I don't know. I'm not even competent to comment on local journalism. So she wants six figures for just doing one thing a week? I'm just looking for a weather person that just keeps my attention. Doing bits, rolls up their sleeves, really gets into it, maybe undoes their tie.

Or if their lady takes the jacket off. Okay, keep calm down. I'm just saying, I like to see that they have a passion about the weather. It's the same one that I have. She's an Arsenal fan. This makes all the sense in the world. No wonder she's fucking pissed off right now. She's about to get relegated.

Ooh, that's tough. She's putting out major Elizabeth Holmes vibes. She's Elizabeth Holmes with a Karen haircut. That's not a compliment. Is she a journalist herself? She is. She is. She's a comms strategist.

What strategist? I don't know. She apparently graduated from some place called Blunt in 2016. What's that? Smoke some, bitch. Oh, no. Maybe that's... No, never mind.

I'm an idiot. That's not a graduation. That was a campaign she worked on. Hey, tell me about these Russian spies, man. James Blunt's campaign. You're a journalist. You're beautiful. You're unelectable.

What's up with the Russian spies, dog? You want to hear what's up with the Russian spies? Yeah. This dude, by the way, I'm reading this verbatim from Brett. I have no clue what these stories are. This dude, Alexei Navalny, who got poisoned, duped a state-employed spy into revealing how they did it. Hint, his underwear.

Whoa. Mindblown.gif. I'm clicking that title. Yeah, he apparently got poisoned through his underwear. A Russian agent sent to tail opposition leader Alexei Navalny was revealed how he was poisoned in August with a lethal nerve agent planted in his underpants. Not ideal. That seems like a top three bad place to get poisoned.

Yeah. Just get poisoned right in the dick. Don't want that. No, thank you. Get that poison dick, you know. That girl is poison. Did you hear about Ariana Grande? You know, Grande is big in Espanol.

Yeah, but do you know that's not how you're supposed to say it? A lot of people don't know that. Do you know that about her? Grande? It's apparently like Ariana Grande. No shit. She said this on an award show one time, and I legitimately couldn't tell if it was a bit or not.

She probably just decided that that's how you're going to say it to make herself, make herself feel different That's what little kids do in kindergarten From what I understand It's Italian She's Italian Is she? Unless her mother has some sort of

I believe that's true But the weird thing is The classic Or like the actual Italian way To say the word, what she calls grande, is grande. Grande. So that is the Italian way. Oh, okay. Unless like the American way and the way that the Italian, her immigrant grandparents came over is grande.

Okay. Grande. Which may be it, but that's why it's very confusing. Anyway, I still think most people think that she's not Italian, but she is. But anyway, it's not that important. I don't really care. Well, she's engaged to a dude who looks just like Pete Davidson, but as if Pete Davidson never had any personal problems.

That's lame. Yeah. She's dating bootleg Pete Davidson now. It's just bad. I don't get it. That guy kind of looks like Natalie Portman. He's a real estate professional. Okay.

So he's probably very wealthy. We should link and build. He's in the brotherhood, Dylan. Nice. That's very chill. Wait, wait, wait. Is that her tattoo or his? That's her tattoo.

She's a very pretty young lady. Very tiny. Nice chin on her. She got wait, wait. Is that her tattoo or his? That's her tattoo. She's a very pretty young lady. Very tiny. Nice chin on her. She got pipes, Dave. She does. She doesn't really enunciate that much, though. She needs to do another SoulCycle song. Or whatever, remember?

Oh, about walking side to side after going to SoulCycle? Yeah. Did she do Meet Me in the Middle? Is that her? Yep. It's one of her hits. One of her biggest hits. Right.

Yep. That's all of her hits. One of her biggest hits. Right. Yep. That's all I got. Good eyebrows. Brow game's stupid. I enjoyed this episode. Who the fuck is this guy? He's a real estate professional, Dave. How did they meet?

I don't care. It doesn't even matter. I'm fucking 36. He sold her a sick condo in Malibu. A nice 3-2. Good for him, man. Hey, good for him. He's in shock right now.

He's like, what? He's like, when's this going to end? I don't have much time left. Keep in mind, she was also engaged to Pete Davidson, so not all things work out in the long run for her every single time. Oh, yeah, before that. Rest in peace, Mac Miller. Were they engaged?

I don't know if they they engaged? I don't know if they were engaged. I don't know either. She likes her a bad boy, but this guy doesn't. He doesn't look like a bad boy. No, this guy's a twerp. This guy looks like

he delivers your newspaper in the morning. Why is she about to stone cold stun him in this photo? Marrying the fucking milkman. Yeah. Yeah.

This guy works for the geek squad. He'll fix your modem in 20 minutes. Have you tried restarting it? Shut the fuck up. Why are you still working here, dude? You're married to Ariana Grandy.

Yeah, go work for College Honks, a moving company. Yeah. What are you doing? Did y'all ever eat Grandy's growing up? Nah, dude. I know Will did, and there's no way they had Grandy's.

I have no clue what you're even talking about. Yeah, they don't have those up there. They had good chicken fried steak. Did they? You'd know. Chicken man. Chicken fried steak guy. The fact that you still claim chicken fried steak being Did they? You'd know. Chicken man. Chicken fried steak guy. The fact that you still claim chicken fried steak being your last meal is just crazy.

Dude, I love chicken fried steak. You've never eaten it once. It's a comfort food, man. You've literally never had it. Okay. Okay. Shall we? Is this our last?

This is not our last episode, so we don't have to. We've got one more episode of the year. Okay. So I can't wish the good things to the backers. can still do that i hope everybody has a merry christmas how about that wow i do too of course merry christmas everybody happy hanukkah this is our last free episode of the year oh yeah so we can wish everybody a happy new year merry christmas and thank everyone for their their their continued Yes, thank you. We very much appreciate you guys. This is a,

I'm being sincere. Very much appreciate you guys. And a big congratulations to all our listeners who acquired superpowers today. Yeah. Yeah. Very big.

Shouts to them. Very big. Very cool. KJ's already paid off. You see, dude, he came in so hot. KJ,

I'll let him explain. KJ walked into the studio with something literally in his bag today. He came in so hot. KJ. I'll let him explain. KJ walked into the studio with something literally in his bag today. He's like seeing through walls and shit. It's incredible. It's crazy.

I thought he was bearing gifts. Me too. And no, he just got, he acquired something very, very dope. You have to listen to Too Much Dip podcast,

which records right after this. Yeah. We'll talk more about that. Bye.