Circling Back - We Went Goblin Mode, Y'all

Episode Date: December 5, 2022

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All right, we're back. Circling Back podcast presented by Vizzy Hard Seltzer, the only hard seltzer with vitamin C from Superfruit Acerola. My name's Will DeFreeze. To my left, David Ruff. I hope everyone had a great weekend. I know I did. Let me give you the highlight.

My dad, who was in town for the baptism of my son, showed up with an L.L. Bean catalog and asked me what I wanted for Christmas. And he just handed me the catalog. What'd you pick? That's to be disclosed at a later time. showed up with an L.L. Bean catalog and asked me what I wanted for Christmas. And he just handed me the catalog. What did you pick? That's to be disclosed at a later time. Did you earmark it with little sticky notes? I asked him, hey, Dad, can we just email you the link? Or I could just text it to you.

He's like, no, just circle what you want in this catalog. I love that. I love that. I was like, all right. It's an absolute refusal to evolve to modern-day technology and how things work today. Love it. It's one of the ancestral tenets.

It's an old man move that I really appreciate. My dad was probably the first person I knew with an email address, so he was with it at one point. Right now, if I send him an email, he's not seeing that thing maybe ever. He did his time, and he's out. Yeah, I don't even know what my dad's email is at this point. There's no point in using it. The best way, if I want to talk to my dad,

the best way is just drive to his house and knock on his door. Like, hey, I got something I got to tell you. If I text him or email him, it could be a while. I sent my dad a real estate listing in northern Michigan recently because it was a building that he used to own. And I sent it to him and I said, hey, this building's for sale. About three weeks later, he responded,

he said, how much? It's already sold. I mean, it's like, oh yeah, I don't even think it's on the market anymore. It's already a new business. Yeah, but there's something

endearing about that that I love. I like that the most efficient way to get shit done with my dad is by calling him on the phone and just hatching it out. It's great. Shout out to Ross.

I hope he mails me an L.L. Bean catalog in like a manila envelope and says, Will, send this back to me. There's a return label in here. Hey, Dad, you know they have a website, right? Nah. I don't need that. They used to call him L.L. Bean in college. I'm talking about Dylan Chevret, ladies and gentlemen. They did, yeah.

Oh, by the way, I would like to formally announce, I've been thinking about it for a few weeks now, I'd like to announce that I'm entering my name into the transfer portal. Really? Just to see if anybody picks me up. See what kind of offers come in. Okay, what sport are you in? I'm hoping that Hot Pie Media gives me a call. They might. They're like, hey, ma'am. They might. I could see you at the ringer.

Yeah? You think? Yeah. You just want to go ahead and do your Bill Simmons. No, I don't. Come on. I'm going to leave it open in case anybody else wants to do Bill Simmons. Talk about soup or football stadiums or something. Let's say wash media, like something just happens. We have to disperse.

We all hate each other, but we all need to go get other media jobs. What's the most likely scenario for each of us to land up at what media company? I don't know, man. Since we already named ourselves after being washed up, and this was a few years ago. I think it might be time to move on. Like double washed up. Like it might be time to just.

Like just untouchable. Yeah. Might be time to pivot. I don't know. Yeah. I'm probably calling Good Morning America. They need some people. Seeing if they have any anchor gigs.

Okay. Has there been any new news on that? Do we have any updates on what's going on with those two? We've got some straight up fucking. Are they doing this solely to raise the profile of Good Morning America? Because no offense to them, but they're kind of... I think they're doing it solely because they're just really horny. They're behind the Today Show and the morning show power rankings.

Is that correct? Can we all agree on that? Yes. In my household, if it's on at all, if the TV's on in the morning, it's either a kids' show or the Today Show. I always like that Kathleen and Hoda are getting drunk every morning on the Today Show while the kids are just sitting there eating their cereal.

Alcohol problems. Do you want an Epstein tie-in? Yes. I've been watching Ghislaine's documentary on Netflix. Really? Yeah, it sucks. Limited hangout bullshit, dude. Let me give you this.

Do you remember the clip um came out a few years ago it was of uh an anchor a good morning america anchor who was talking didn't know she was being recorded and she was talking about how she had this epstein story and how they spiked it and they wouldn't let her do it that uh that person was amyack. No connection to – Backer 20 for 20% off. Yeah, or maybe. Who knows? See how it plays out.

But that was her. And that's the person that was having the affair, just to be clear. Yes, yes, yes. She was told she could not reveal that story. And this is a couple years prior to the Epstein stuff hitting the mainstream. So it's very interesting. Almost like there was something else going on there. Maybe we'll save that for

an all new Touching Based. Speaking of, we're doing something we've straight up never done before, which is we put it to a vote for tomorrow's Patreon episode for all Opto backers out there. If you want to go vote on Patreon, head over to patreon.com slash tricklingpodcast until 4pm

Eastern time today uh and it's between touching based our conspiracy podcast in exactly five minutes where we take listeners submitted prompts and talk about them for exactly five minutes how'd we come up with a name for that i don't know a listener let's do take five oh five minutes yeah yeah i think that was just us being super creative sometimes i like to go a little over yeah a little over five minutes? Yeah. Yeah. I think that was just us being super creative. Sometimes I like to go a little over. Yeah. A little over five minutes, and I like to have fun with it. I don't like when you do that, because it literally goes against the entire ethos of what we're doing on exactly five minutes,

which is talking about something for exactly five minutes. Anyway, some more. They're both great options. I have fun with both. We haven't gotten many reviews lately, and it's because we haven't talked about them or solicited any. If you're out there and you're like, man, I'm bored right now, go leave us a review. I like reading

the reviews. Go leave a review. And finally, we have something on our YouTube channel, youtube.com slash circling back. DJ Bean did a Christmas draft reaction video. That's up on our page. Go check it out. DJ's hilarious. Go make it happen. He's hilarious. He'll make it happen. He needs to just react to every show we do.

Yeah. He makes me want to do reaction videos. We also filmed a little joint that'll be dropping, I don't know when, sometime soon. We filmed it on Friday. It's going to be funny. YouTube.com slash circling back again, and you can watch every episode up there.

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Ooh, I didn't want to ask, but we'll get to that. I mean. I kind of knew. What? I knew how the crew collectively was going to feel. Oh i thought you were like singling me out for a second i was like i feel like that's wrong no no no i we we all participated in um some um beers shenanigans you like that word i do like that we're crazy man crazy, man. God. Dylan texted. He's like, y'all down to clown.

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They do. Dylan, what did you get into this weekend, my friend? Thanks for asking, Will. Talking about the shenanigans of the weekend reminded me of a word that was perhaps the most overused word during my time editing TFM columns, and that was debauchery. Oh, dude. In every column, oh, debauchery. I like the word debauchery.

I like the word debauchery. Like, oh, you and your friends are so crazy. Shut up. It's a good word. You went out drinking. What, you want like a bunch of dudes to say like mischief? Like, that sounds soft. Debauchery's fine. It appeared in like 60% of columns that I edited. It was so annoying. Debauchery.

Okay. I hate shenanigans. I hate it too. Yeah, but no one says that. Everyone says that tongue in cheek. No, but dude, every Facebook album where girls uploaded 60 photos onto Facebook, they would be like, spring 2007 shenanigans. It was like, stop. I bet y'all were so wild. Yeah, you guys were crazy mixing your crystal light with your $6 vodka.

Plus Super Troopers kind of made fun of that word. Did it? I wasn't a Super Troopers head. Logan Roy. Really funny. Logan Roy. There it is. Is Plus, Super Troopers kind of made fun of that word. Did it? I wasn't a Super Troopers head. Logan Roy. Really funny. Logan Roy. There it is. Is he in Super Troopers?

Oh, yeah. Wow. Yeah, he's the chief. Definitely was. All right, my weekend. Friday night, had the kids, laid low. Bay had to step out for a little situation, but she got back kind of early. We had a nice little low-key night, man.

Hung out with the kiddos. Had a couple glasses of wine. It was very chill. Wow, what vintage. Saturday, very unchill. Played golf. How many holes? 14, give or take.

So you rage quit? No, it got dark. Oh, okay. That was a concern of mine when you reached out regarding your 140 tee time. Yeah, it got backed up on the back nine. The sun rage quit on you. Yeah, a few holes we had to reached out regarding your 140 tee time. Yeah, it got backed up on the back nine. The sun rage quit on you. Yeah, a few holes we had to wait about five minutes to tee off. That's not a fun course to wait on.

No. Because there's a lot of spots that if you're just stationary in, you're in a prime spot for like a push drive to land on your cart. Yeah, sure. I had exactly one margarita while playing out there. Yeah, but those pack a punch. You essentially had one and a half, maybe two. I hate to say, they're really good margaritas.

Yeah. They're really good. Saturday night, you know what it is. Debauchery abound. It wasn't that debauchery. There's debauchery everywhere. The shenanigans were through the roof. We drank like four beers.

We went to Kelly's Irish Pub, a new joint down the street, around the corner from here, almost walkable. I had 78 Irish beers. I counted. I had 78 beers. Dude, it was a bad night to be a harp. Mostly harp. I had one Guinness, which I enjoyed, actually.

I didn't think I was going to. Why? There's nothing better than a freshly poured draft. I haven't been that into them. I had six Guinness that night, which is way more than I normally... Maybe that's my most Guinness consecutively. It has to be.

And I didn't feel that bad yesterday morning. Liquid IV helped, but two ibuprofen, I was good. Two. Normally it's a three, John. I was going to say, dude. That's a flex I'll be taking, too. Randy showed up.

J-Bone. Randy was a little on edge. Jack Cameron was there. Wasn't fun to be around because he was so worried about Purdue. I did my best as someone who didn't go to the University of Michigan, as someone who's not actually invested in their success uh on more than a surface level i did my best to avoid randy throughout the game and not like not not be present i didn't want to be like a dark cloud hovering over randy's night it was a little on edge man sorry about purdue man

anyway saturday was great i had a blast they didn't get you I had a blast. They didn't get... You know what? They got stomped. Didn't get arrested. Yeah, why didn't you get arrested? You said you were going to. I was looking for some cops out around so I could just break the law in their face and do something about it. Maybe Nick Adams called in some favors for you. Yeah. Got that follow

from Nick Adams, by the way. How'd that feel? Man, what a badge of honor. It always feels good when you harass somebody enough on Twitter that they finally follow you. Feather in the old cap for your boy. Do you think it'll age well? Sure. I have bad news regarding Nick Adams.

I've officially had to unfollow Nick Adams as when I followed him, I didn't realize that he was such a voluminous shooter. He will shoot. Yeah. There's no bad shot for him. It's one aggressive tweet every single 45 minutes. He goes to more coffee shops than anyone I've ever met.

Yeah, and his playbook is fairly limited. Yeah, he'll run the same bit into the ground. It works if you're the 90s Cowboys. They know what you're going to run, and you can do about it. I don't know about Twitter. He's a better person on Twitter when you don't follow him, and you get to see the other interactions how i consume his content yeah that's how i'm going to be consuming it so that way when if he says something like over way over the top you take

all the heat for it and will and i're like man we don't even follow that guy yeah dude i know i think it's yeah that's fine we do have some listeners who have reached out a little concerned that that uh you might start actually just like falling in line with his thinking on everything. Well, he's doing a bit. Yeah, but as you know in life that you can do a bit long enough that you become the bit. That's true.

Ain't that the truth. My Sunday was chill. We're sitting in a podcast studio with a Wilmonds banner behind you. It's not exactly... I fell asleep at 8 o'clock on the couch last night after taking one and a half early birds it was a great night that's when you know that the night before got straight up debaucherous yeah dude it was just we were debauched for sure davey how about your weekend uh friday night my my pops came down uh My mom was unable to attend because of illness, which is a bummer because my mom is super Catholic. Anyway, we had the baptism Saturday.

We did some Zah, played that card Friday night. Watched – ooh. What was the order? It was Jets. Ooh. Yeah, baby. Literally my dad's first jets did he like it he did he said he said he wasn't sure that he'd ever had or heard of detroit style pizza i love

that dude between that and the llb and catalog this is just some these are some dads this is dad stuff and he's like ah all pizza is the same he didn't say that uh Saturday morning, got up, watched a little footy. It was tough. Had to follow the second half of the game on my phone during a baptism of my son. Yeah. I wasn't watching it, but I did periodically just tune in. When it was like 3-1, I was like, all right, well, goodbye. Shout out to USA.

Baptism was great it was quick easy felt way less intricate than previous baptisms I've been a part of in the

as a godfather have they stopped doing the squirt gun thing they don't do the squirt gun anymore that's tight they just pour the water right over his head from a little

silver pitcher that I will say he took it like champ he didn't even budge i was i was expecting a full meltdown but no shout out to roads that's luxury having someone pour water over your head sounds great there it is uh was it kind of a mood after that i went back to my place picked up fajitas devastating i went straight from the church with my brother-in-law thought hey we're gonna get there

a little early I put this order in for 12.15 we'll have time for like a marg or a beer you know it was ready

when I got there I was gonna say you had a bunch of food just sitting there stacked up I was like what if I had shown up at 12.15

instead of you know 11.55 this would have just been sitting here something to think about Saturday night linked with y'all 1155. This would have just been sitting here. Something to think about. Saturday night, linked with y'all.

Shout out to Kelly's. I believe it's the only Irish pub to ever open in Austin. On the opening night, a Tesla drives through the front part of the bar establishment. You walk in and they have wood already up covering it i didn't even notice it when i decorated the wood and they got that up within like five hours i was very impressed like you know i'm a certified kelly's head they just kept pouring pines man i love it um it's a cool spot is it possible that this might have been a PR stunt? A false flag. Having a Tesla drive through the front of your place day one?

If there is a vehicle, it's a Tesla. Because you know people love to dunk on Elon and Tesla when the Tesla fucks up. So Tesla is a red flag. They patched that thing up real quick. It's almost like they had it ready. Just saying. I don't hate it, though. I'll do anything to make sure Kelly's gets the pub it needs. No pun intended.

No pub intended. One question, one comment on Kelly's. Yeah. Question. So the guy, I don't know, the guy who runs the bar, who owns the bar, was not there. So I don't know if he's Irish. But they definitely have two.

Two lads. Two extremely Irish guys working the bar. Young guys. Nice guys. Good dudes. Funny guys. I wonder if they're from Cork Irish guys working the bar. Young guys. Nice guys. Good dudes. Funny guys. I wonder if they're from Clark County like you and me. I meant to ask.

We'll get to that. Dave and I are brothers now. Let me think. Are they – is there like a recruiting service when you're like, all right, dude, we need a couple Irish dudes to run this bar. Do y'all want to move to Austin, Texas and like just run the pub? I know. This is what I know, Dave.

Because Sammy's had some Italian people too. If I'm at an Irish pub in America and there's an American serving me a beer, he's not getting as big of a tip as if an Irishman's serving me that beer. What if it's a tasty ass Irishman? It's just simply not happening. What if it's like a, you know, Irish-American? I need that accent. I need to feel like I'm there.

And it's not right. All you're doing is handing me a beer, but I'm definitely going to tap higher on the Irish dude. What the heavy? Huh. I'll have a pint. Tipflation is a real thing. Tipflation is super real.

Have you seen this tipflation? No. I mean, it makes sense. Second comment, they have a bar cat. It loves Dave too. I've never owned a cat. Never been a big cat guy. Have kind of

been interested in them. As of late, my son, he likes to say meow whenever he sees one. You follow him on Twitter. You must like him a little bit okay it's a reference of course it could go a couple ways here really what was i saying i don't know i really apologize man i shouldn't have done that okay it's kind of how i operate so yeah there's a bar cat and it liked me and I kind of wanted to take it home,

but I didn't because it's the bar cat and I could never go back there if I took their cat. So anyway, cats are cool. Yeah, you can't just leave with a bar cat. It was just all over me, man. It was. Why do you like me? It was.

You're a friend of the cat. Kitty cat. Kitty cat. Kitty cat. Kitty cat. Meow. Meow. Meow. the cat kitty cat kitty cat i had more of the same guys i had more of the same nothing nothing crazy this weekend uh shout out to everyone who played the guinness game i think everyone had a nice little time playing that trying to get the the beer drink down between the harp and the g's no one's talking about my first and only time to ever do it i nailed it did you yeah oh nice

good for you so did i mean you're talking about it we's talking about my first and only time to ever do it. I nailed it. Did you? Yeah. Oh, nice. Good for you. So did. I mean, you're talking about it. We're talking about it now. So people are talking about it. Yeah. It wasn't trending. Can you explain the game? I've had to explain it to a number of family members. When you have a Guinness, there's a logo on the glass, traditionally speaking, a Guinness logo. The Guinness logo is a harp. Underneath the harp is the word Guinness. And there's a space between that that is very small. And so when you get your first pint, you try to take drinks and sips of it and put it down, and you try to land your beer right between the harp and the Guinness.

And if you do so, you get cool points. You do get cool points. I don't know. There should be some type of reward for it, but maybe that takes the fun out of it. You don't want your boy to have to go buy a round of drinks because he couldn't drink perfectly down to the Guinness logo. I will say, for a game that has relatively no payoff,

it did get pretty lit at our table. It's nice. We got hyped. Well, what I like about it is that it gets you into your beer very quickly. It's like I'm taking two, two and a half really big sips right away on this beer, and once the floodgates open, it goes down faster. It's like, I'm taking two and a half really big sips right away on this beer. And once the floodgates open, it goes down faster. It's fun to do.

Dude, no one thought we would improvise when we got different pint glasses. And we said, okay, we'll just play a tip of the beak. Oh, tip of the beak. Oh, tip of the beak. I can't do an Irish accent. I need those pint glasses. What was it, like a toucan and a...

No, they were glasses. Got him. Dude thought it was toucans. Dude, he thought it was cats. You dumb, dumb. Didn't you say your favorite birds in college were toucans? I forgot to mention I got new teeth on thursday dude show the people your new teeth dude they look so different i know i was hoping we'd get

in a bar fight on saturday and we could get them knocked out they legit look very different day wouldn't it be tight smart ass that would have been saying i would have been sick if i got him knocked out yeah yeah i didn't do anything this weekend your boy had uh your boy had some some chicken wings last night from an indian restaurant uh that i'm probably gonna be feeling in my stomach later today but they were some of the best wings i've had in a really long time dave i want you to go i want you to go there with me sometime we can eat chicken wings where is this located uh downtown or near campus i don't know not downtown i lied uh but we'll go we're gonna go eat some indian food and i'm gonna buy you some chicken wings.

Is that all you had, or was there like a- No, you know your boy hit that butter chicken as well. Oh, yeah. You're talking Clayton? Yeah. I want to try that place. I had to complete the lad's weekend with a little Indian food on top. That's just how you do it.

I'm going to run it back for lunch today. Damn. I know. I'm a savage. Lefties? I did something I never do, which is I watched White Lotus last night. Leftovers. Probably not doing lefties i did something i never do which is i watched white lotus laugh night last night leftovers i don't like lefties i'm a lefty more like wrongy you guys can't make fun of me for not knowing my left and rights anymore i looked it up the other day and some

people say it's connected to dyslexia so please don't make fun of me you're dyslexic i don't know maybe a little bit i think it makes sense i do i do think i have some tendencies okay stop stealing valor 10 of people struggle with this i'm really sorry man maybe more maybe more i'm colorblind like what are you you're saying you have some dyslexic tendencies yeah like what like they say not knowing your lefts and rights and not being able to keep that straight is one of them okay you're not straight up i'm not good no not good really bad actually yeah yeah i thought it was a bit but then i i rode in a vehicle with you and he's like man he really does he ended up in nebraska i know i know i wasn't allowed to drive down from harbor to austin when i moved here because people thought i would just end up like a different country. Ended up in Glasscock County.

Yeah. That would have been crazy. I'd be at the North Pole. Yeah, that's the total wrong direction. If you ask me which direction is east, west, north, south, I got nothing right now. I can only do that because we're right next to a street that runs north, south, but usually I'm not good. That's true. It's easier in a big city for me because you can just kind of go by the streets.

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Okay. Hey, can we talk about something real quick quick i've got crumbs all over my lap okay what are you doing i'm eating nachos in bed that i got from my driver i don't like this person you going goblin mode on us okay don't turn on the lights i'm too hungover i'm not goblin i'm in goblin mode i feel like we're getting trolled I don't like the world that we live in if this is the word of the year for those not in the know

Oxford I don't know if it's the gotta be the dictionary people right you gotta think it's a TFM they've released their word of the year for 2022 and the winner is not even just one word it's two goblin mode hate it yeah this is an attempt at relevance and uh they want to get small to mid-sized

podcasters talking about them and you know what they have succeeded we have famously talked about goblin mode in the past uh they note on here that it's a slang term austin often used in the expressions in goblin mode or to go goblin mode and it's a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent lazy slovenly or greedy typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations this is so stupid are we wrong in goblins this is so stupid is there like a goblin out there and he's just like kind of being misrepresented in the public eye? This is not who we are. This is good.

This is good. They're going to have a fake goblin on SNL's weekend update. He's going to be like, dude, what's up with this? It's Gary the Goblin? His name has to be Gary. Yeah. I don't hate Gary the Goblin. Goblin mode is like when you wake up at 2 a.m and shuffle

into the kitchen wearing nothing but a long t-shirt to make a weird snack like melted cheese on saltines that's not that weird this is from the same article why are we like but he gets dressed up to go make a snack in the in the kitchen there's been so many things that have gone on in the world over the last year and the best we could come up with is a term that wasn't even coined this year like goblin mode was a thing way before well before 2022 it was it just it wasn't popularized like if i bet if we it'll say on uh urban dictionary when it was first input there and i guarantee that we have talked about this term before it makes no sense according to this little graph they have here, this little chart,

it first popped up like February-ish. This has me, the first entry on Urban Dictionary is from June 17th, 2020. Okay. This is a pitiful, a pitiful attempt at relevance. Do you see what the second place word is no read the diet the fake dialogue i'm not doing so bad i don't know how people talk i don't know who

i am anymore that's because you're in goblin mode no one has ever said that the second place word is metaverse see puke no but that actually makes more sense to me because that's something that's like actually they're trying to change like the way that we interact with people with. Like that's a relevant term that is like nearing the future and driving change. Whereas like goblin mode is just, we're just like making, we're normalizing saltines.

Third place. With melted cheese. Third place is a hashtag. It's hashtag I stand with. See, they're really... This is dumb. They're going... This is dumb.

Goblin mode, metaverse, and hashtag I stand with. Are your top three words of the year according to Oxford? Are these in the dictionary? Is this... Dylan, answer this. That was me vomiting. Yes or no? Okay.

You gotta stop doing the vomit noise. It grosses me out. Can I do one more? No. It grosses me vomiting. Yes or no? Okay. You gotta stop doing the vomit noise. Can I do one more? No. It grosses me out. One more. Tell him not to. One more.

I won't do that. I like a good fake puke. Do a subtle one. Okay. That's gross. Gutter roll. Randy liked that one. No, Randy hated that one.

We just lost two listeners. Yeah. Gutter roll. You always know when Randy hates... Like, Randy has to wear headphones for this, and he just looked like he was going to actually puke from what you just did. Go back and clean that audio up.

Yeah. No, that was tight. And also take it out when Dylan said shit in Shopify. Is this better or worse than Time Magazine's 1938 Person of the Year? Yes or no? You have five seconds to answer. You better have the right answer. Was it Adolf?

I don't remember, honestly. Was it Adolf? Especially Hitler. Just answer the question. Wait, what was the question? Is this better or worse? Better. This is better than Adolf Hitler getting time as person of the year, man of the year, whatever.

1938, famously. I didn't know that. Okay. Ben. Well, now you know. He's been trending lately he has yeah he's having he's having a resurgence what do i do what do i do with the yeezy wave runners that are sitting in my closet what do i do with these you're it was eight off you're

right dave i don't want to sell it for a loss but i just wanted to look i wouldn't make that up yeah do you think he just you think he made that up i'm surprised time existed man look how far they've come now they have roger j dorn as an author why you follow me yeah i got published by time not a big deal kind of a big deal though i would never have given edolph hitler person of the year i'll tell you that you would have given it to nick Person of the Year. I'll tell you that. You would have given it to Nick Adams. That's a big clip for you. Nick Adams is more deserving. Should we do our Alpha of the Year nominations at the end of the year?

Yeah. He wins every time. Who's our Alpha of the Week? Yeah. Who is our Alpha of the Week? We'll see about it. I like it. Actually, can you start doing Alpha of the Week?

Yeah. I kind of like that. I might do that. We should get Nick Adams on to talk about it. It's not going to be hitler i'll tell you that that's big of you f that guy i'll say it that's right yeah i don't agree with him either famously i don't have anything else on this like i this is this is gross to me yeah they're they're trying to reach a certain demo here. I just don't understand why they need to pander like this.

I don't know. You're just, you're Oxford University. Like, you don't need to pander to people in goblin mode. I didn't realize there was a connection to the university. I didn't realize that until I scrolled to the bottom of the page and it said, copyright 2022 Oxford University Press. So maybe it's just the press not the actual university not off the press huh yeah stop the pressing you hear about these kids are going

goblin mom dave goblin mode can you lead us into i don't even know what this next thing on our rundown is all right i almost put this on there man well you didn't down is. All right. I almost put this on there, man. Well, you didn't. Wow.

I'll let you do this. Give me an intro for our dog of the week. You guys aren't going to hear about this dog of the week who defended his property against some coyotes. Dave, take it away. Our dog of the week is Casper, the Georgia sheepdog. Not a friendly ghost in this situation. Actually, he's a great Pyrenees. He looks like a mix.

He's badass looking. He's got the different colored eyes. Yeah, he's a fucking... Which is sick. I mean, it goes without saying, but Casper, straight up dog. Casper's owner, John Werwill, says in early November, a pack of coyotes came onto his property. Gross. Yeah, dude. That would be a bummer, says in early November, a pack of coyotes came onto his property. Gross.

Yeah, dude. That would be a bummer. A whole pack? Imagine the cleanup of that. Getting a shovel out for that one. Werwill says he tossed some rocks at the animals and they left, but they soon returned. And this time they got into the sheep's pen. No.

You just awoke the bear. And by the bear, I mean our dog of the week casper that's when casper sprang into action he fought off the coyotes for about half an hour and killed a few of them okay so he's just he's just in there he's piecing them up yeah probably with his little killed these coyotes just wait will okay just wait okay this dog is sick but as fox 29 notes casper was not done he pursued the rest of the pack and when it was all over casper killed eight of the 11 coyotes that preached the problem oh my god shades of valerio on this one dude just a killing spree what coyote what do we need to do for this dog to make sure that we protect him at all costs i've got okay look i don't know

if there's going to be a gofundme he did suffer some injuries as you can imagine he's undergone several surgeries to repair some of the damage he may not quite be the same but his actions will be long remembered i think he's gonna i don't think it was anything like super major but he might he might walk with a limp for a little bit his days of protecting the herd might be behind him he might be in the house now. He had surgery. I mean, I think there's some pretty significant injuries for Casper. He's going to recover, I believe. You know I stand Casper, and you know that I love Casper.

If you're one of the three remaining wolves from this wolf pack, you've got to be really hanging your head pretty low. To be fair, they were coyotes. Oh, okay, whatever, coyotes. If you're one of the three coyotes left, you've got to be hanging your head pretty low with it right now. It's like, yeah, they took out our whole squad. What were the other ones doing while he was killing the other ones?

Casper took out the squad. Can you imagine if you just walked outside to your chicken coop one night and you saw eight dead coyotes and Stella just sitting there just bloodthirsty? Just blood running down her white fur. You're like, dude, what did I raise? Damn, Stella. No, Stella would not hold up well against 11 coyotes. I'll tell you that right now.

The only thing Rosie has going for her is that her bark is much louder than her bite at this point. She has a hardy bark. This coyote's got his tail. You know, a lot of... How'd you lose it? They ripped it off. How'd you lose that tail? A lot of ranchers will keep...

I don't know why I lost my tail. A lot of ranchers... It's the joker dog. ...will keep donkeys around to protect their their property and their animals from coyotes donkeys will stomp out a coyote and kill it just like bash his skull like those horses try to do to you exactly yeah if you're a fox or coyote you don't have a chance could i kill a coyote don't pronounce it like that could i kill a coyote with my hands uh Yeah. You could, but you...

They're like 30, 40 pounds. I'd have to flip a switch and go pretty dark. You could. No, I think it would be a little bit more difficult than maybe some think. But you're going to get nicked up a little bit, and you don't want to fuck that. You don't want the rabies thing. But if it's life or death, like if I'm out in the wild, I could probably pin one down and choke it out. Yeah.

A Google search says they weigh between 15 and 46 pounds. Oh, yeah. Some of them are pretty. Yeah, okay. Almost always look malnourished. Rosie's about 46 pounds. They look malnourished at all times. They eat men?

Jeez. We had some momentum. Now we're back in goblin mode. What's going to happen with all these roadrunners are just going to run wild over here now? Yeah, like the cartoon, Wally Coyote. Are they actually nemesis? They're not actually enemies in the wild.

I would imagine they've run across each other on occasion in the wild but i don't think they're just like i gotta go find a roadrunner today it's not really a tale at oldest time like they're not like historic rivals where did this coyote find all that dynamite yeah yeah and aren't there bigger aren't there bigger prey you can go after them like a roadrunner that thing has no meat on it why go after after one of the fastest birds on land? It was crazy how much I used to watch that. I loved it. Roadrunners are very common in this area.

I like them. I think they're cool. Are they the same thing? Same thing. I didn't know that. I've always wondered how to say that as well. Yeah. I always see the Westlake High School moms driving,

and they have the big logo on the back with Chaparral on it. And then it says, like, Bryce. Yeah. Speaking of. Cade. Guys, we're down to our final four in 6A, Division II. Tell me Duncanville is going up against Westlake at some point. We've got Westlake, North Shore on one end of the bracket.

North Shore, of course, is three out of the last four years. Beat Duncanville legitimately three times. Dogs. Duncanville's got Prosper, which is a— Ricky? I fucking hope not. East Texas? No, it's north of Dallas. Okay.

Jerry Jones owns like half the town. It was like all farm community 20 years ago. Okay. So you may have Duncanville-Westlake. I don't know. I don't know much about Prosper. I know those other three teams are very, very good. But that's Dave's high school sports minute.

And, of course, the game would be held at AT&T Stadium, right? Yeah. Unfortunately, yeah. Why? Did they switch that? Because Jerry Jones. Yeah, they did. I famously went to the NRG one.

Had a good time. Felt exactly like Friday Night Lights made it look. Went to Westlake Midland Lee at University of Texas Stadium I think it was just called Memorial Stadium at that point I'm glad that Cedric Benson, Eric Winston, Houston Street for Westlake on another note can I prepare y'all for something

just so I don't look like a big jerk in the ad read what's your problem I'm going to step out for a tea break wow dude what's your problem the problem is i'm drinking a cold brew and i didn't take my medicine yesterday and your medicine yeah that's sorry i shouldn't that shouldn't it's all right i'll get something i shouldn't chuckle you can't i should probably be on the same medication honestly not me dude your boy just madepee machine. My bladder has that dog in it. Nobody pee-pees like Dave.

I'm a pee-pee machine. You think you help pee-pee me? No, you are pee-pee me, but I will straight pee-pee on you. No, Dave's the pee-pee king of washed HQ. That's facts. That's right. Brett's the Mondo king. Dave's the pee-pee king.

Yeah. I'm the sit-down king. I'm the liver king. Sorry. Sit-down king. I just heard that bathroom door shut. Yeah, you're fucked now it's Mondo time

that might be out of commission for the next 20 alright sink alert we're going to be wrapping this thing up by the time you're done just hang up Mondo is happening you are not allowed to big cat our kitchen do not pee in the sink do not pee in the sink do not pee

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let me look here on the old run this is gonna we're gonna have to wait for tinky man to get this week in cruise ships while we're waiting on dave yeah have you seen the steph curry uh full court five in a row yeah and i also saw the fake one that LeBron did like 10 years ago. Okay, LeBron won, obviously fake. The Steph won, I still think it's fake. But if it is, it's an incredible fake. I don't think it's real. I don't either, but it looks real.

I think Randy could figure out how to make that video with you. Randy, have you seen the video I'm talking about? So, Randy, do you know the LeBron James video where he's doing full court shots and he's just like like, draining them? It's clearly fake and staged from a while back. This one is just Steph Curry hitting full court shots, and the ball never goes out of frame, and so it just looks more legit than it does. But you could make it look like if Dylan was fake shooting a ball,

you could make it look relatively like he was draining shots, right? Randy, I would like for you to just do a quick search on Twitter and watch the video and give me your assessment of what you're seeing there. Dude, we're doing real-time producer analysis. We're talking about the Steph Curry full-court shots right now. You just interrupted him posting a gram. Yeah, are you getting a hot-ass gram off? Oh, I'm sorry.

We're doing actual real-time content over here. Randy is doing actual real-time content, to be fair to him. It's so annoying that he does this during our recording. Dude, Randy should just rename his entire Instagram profile to Is It Cake. That's all I care about. That's facts. You know what's funny? I will say that that video is likely fake.

But if it wasn't, it wouldn't shock me. He's the greatest to ever do that, shoot a basketball. But a lot of these videos, it's really easy to tell when it's fake, like the LeBron one that you just referenced, Will. That was trash. This one's hard to tell. Yeah. If it's fake, it's very well done. Facts.

That's all I'm saying. Have you seen it, Randy? He's watching it. He's looking at it. This is a real-time Randy reaction. To make one of those shots is incredible. Yeah. Dan can do it.

Dan can do it 50%. The thing about Dan is that he couldn't do it. Yeah. He famously did not do that. Anyway. What's up with these cruise ships, Davey? Oh, fuck. I'm back.

Randy gave us no analysis. It could be real. It could be fake. That's good. It could be real. It could be fake. It could be fake. Lawyer alert.

Just gave us a non-answer. Sheesh. Have some conviction, Randy. Is it real or is it fake? I'm not some forensic videologist. People are arguing in the comments. It's not real. No, let's get to the main event.

This week in cruise ships. Where do you guys want to start? You guys want to start with the happy story or the sad story? Let's start sad and then end with happy. I don't know which one's which, but I'm excited to find out. Headline. Headline is Davey Boy. Rogue wave kills American woman, injures four on Antarctic cruise.

Ooh. I don't like that. Yeah. The storm caused a giant wave that broke several panes of glass on the cruise ship and fell onto and killed a woman. They're saying it was on the Viking Polaris Antarctic cruise. I guess I knew you could do cruises of that region. You know, Will and I famously roomed together on a cruise before.

Right. We did. My good friend's mom legitimately just did this like two weeks ago. She died from a wave? She went on an Antarctic cruise. Yeah, that's the thing. Yeah. It's cold down there.

A lot of people don't know that. For those wondering, the U.S. National Ocean Service describes rogue waves as being very unpredictable and says they often come in unexpectedly from directions other than prevailing wind and waves. I caught a rogue wave Saturday night with the boys. I thought that was going a different direction. I thought I'd see them on my Spotify rap this year, but they didn't make it. It's a good name for a band.

It's literally a band. Oh, is it really? I thought you were making that up. No, no. They have a song called Lake Michigan. I like it. Now you see why I know that. On the list of things that have gone rogue

that you're scared of, where are waves? Honestly, they're not on my radar. That's scarily not on my radar. Classic cocky American. You're right. Have you ever been out on a boat and been like, man, I hope a rogue wave doesn't just take my ass out. I've spent a lot of time on the sea.

Did you see that kid on TikTok trying to go viral on TikTok and he took a blow-up mattress kind of thing, like kiddie pool almost, and he thought he'd put his laptop in it and have like a chill float around sesh watching a movie on a sunday evening and then a literal rogue wave just comes by and just flips him over and everyone's like yeah he absolutely deserves this yeah is he alive yeah it wasn't this was not a rogue wave of the size and uh volume of the one that you just

described where was this he was in california he was a piece of shit tiktoker it was a good thing that it sounds like he was straight up goblin mode you know that he was low-key a little bit gobliny that's a cold wave too man so uncomfortable you're all cozied up in your cabin and then suddenly this frigid water just fills your room certainly not a party wave are there theories that like about the titanic not hitting the like that it wasn't a iceberg or anything? Is there anything out there like that? Ancient aliens, potentially. I don't know.

Iceberg right ahead. That's what he said. I might do a rewatch on that. You know what I did do a little? There's one scene I rewatch often. Chill out. It's the opening scene. I like it when Leo's all... I had one of those situations yesterday where I was trying to find something to watch on tv and i saw that a movie was on and i

thought oh this might be at a good part and it i got to flip it on it's at the perfect part you want to share that movie with us lord of the rings two towers right when the battle of helms deep started you know what that's the one you want to see dude i i went and i was like wait the based on where it is on the on the uh tv guide i think we're in a good spot right now the second i went on i was like oh we're rolling on my list of movies that i enjoy but i don't know any of the character names even though i've seen the movies multiple times uh lord of the rings is pretty high up there and and the subsequent spinoffs oh i was loving it i almost texted randy i was like dude you want to hop on this rogue way with me he wouldn't have he would have ignored me do you want the happy

story yeah let's do the happy one dylan this one's from insider.com inside who will you spell that inside who do they have recommended tabs there a man who fell off a cruise ship you know we're gonna put man in quotations here let's just a man who fell off a cruise ship in the middle of the night said he survived by treading water for 20 hours eating bamboo and fighting off jellyfish in shark infested waters 28 year old man i before the pod was talking about this story and i called a kid. And I didn't mean it to be condescending. I just came out. And Randy's like, well, when do you go from being called a kid to a man?

When you stop going on cruises with your parents. Parents were on the – it was a family cruise on Thanksgiving. That's a kid move for sure. Is that a kid move? If he paid his own way, he's fine. But if his parents pay for that cruise, you're still a kid, dog. Total kid move. This kid – let me say this.

I'm a kid. Sally's parents have hooked us up on family trips and stuff. On those trips, you're a, you're still a kid, dog. Total kid move. This kid, let me say this. I'm a kid. Sally's parents have hooked us up on like family trips and stuff. On those trips, you're a kid. I'm a kid, yeah. Well, this dude, I'll just settle on dude. He's probably a listener or he's at least met someone who's listened. What makes you think that? He's 28 years old.

I feel like that's prime time. You might be overselling our footprint. Dude, he's a big Dorn guy. Oh, okay, man. He loves Dorn. Why don't you share him the company more? No, I just, you know. Dude, he's a big Dorn guy. Oh, okay, man. He loves Dorn. I like your shit on the company, man. I just, you know. Hey, what else, man?

I'd venture to guess that most people that age don't know about that. I heard the only thing that kept him alive out there while he was just drifting was he was wondering what our next conspiracies were going to be on Touching Base. He's wondering if the forums. Is that winning the poll? One of the forums to come back. Touching Base is currently winning the poll. in the poll. One of the forums to come back.

Touching Base is currently winning the poll. James Michael Grimes said he had a couple drinks on the Carnival Valor on November 23rd, the night before Thanksgiving. He wasn't drunk, he said.

What do you think he was drinking? But he doesn't remember what happened next. The next 20 hours of his life ended up being a five-year survival.

Survival. You can't just whip those boats around, you know? You gotta get a little dingy to... Yeah, it's not like when you fall off the tube, you just bust a bitch. No, it's nothing like that.

You guys have been on a cruise ship. I have not. And it's confession. Yeah, not to brag, but yeah, we go on EDM cruises sometimes. I've heard of Brody Jenner. Yeah, have you heard of Tyga? Actually pronounced Tiger. Her, Brody.

How difficult is it to fall off one of these things like i feel like the if you want to jump off you can jump off basically yeah but how to like okay there was a moment where dylan and i might have been i don't know sharing a cigarette with an intern and we might have uh been on the edge of something and i thought to myself i could die right now yeah do you remember this we were at one point we were sitting back by the propeller by the prop yeah we were almost chum there was one that the night that we went out and i don't know why we smoked a cigarette on that cruise but we did and i don't know why but like there was a moment where i looked down and i was like oh one slip and like i'm gone yeah you can you can fall out those bad boys

and a lot of these uh these falls happen at night. No telling where you are, man. Just lost in the darkness. This dude trod water for 20 hours. Trod? Yeah. That's the past tense of tread, huh? I would have gotten that wrong on the ACT.

Did not know that. Well, now you know. Is that in the article or did you know that out of your brain? No, that's a D-Rough. Dude, okay. I thought this was in the i need i need a real-time grammar analysis grimes described how he trod water and fought for his life encountering a jellyfish and another unidentified sea creature with a fin it came up on me really quick and i went under and i could see it but it wasn't a shark i don't believe dude he knows it wasn't a shark but he's trying to leave the door open a little bit so he sounds like he's more of a hero

we're in the ballpark dude pulls trod uh as night struck grimes awaited rescue he's so they didn't people didn't know like no one saw him fall off they just like did a search of the ship we don't know where this kid oh my god they checked the poop 28 year old kid um oh he said he had to eat objects floating to sustain energy including a plank of bamboo that uh that's a pretty uh timely plank of bamboo he went panda mode panda panda sorry i'll stop you guys want me to take a five-minute break? No, you're fine. A Coast Guard tanker spotted Grimes and rescued him. How about that? Just happened to see him. Shout out to the Coast Guard.

Big fan of them. This NFL Blitz arcade is 16% off right now. We're fucking doing a story. How much? Mark down from $600 to $500. Hey, Dylan, we're not going to buy it. Hey, I'm just... You wouldn't even let me get a fridge repair guy.

I'd rather have an NFL blitz machine than a fridge. Absolutely. Facts. You've got to have a fridge. We have one. We have one. It just doesn't work that well. It's just that the freezer has way too much ice buildup.

Like, I don't... We have a fridge. It also beeps. It's tip-top, man. Dude, I like the beep. It kind of reminds you, you know what? Reminds me of Roadrunner. What does it remind you of?

Blah, blah, blah. It does not. Beep, beep. He was so quick with it, though. He was pretty nice with it. How did this dude just fall off the boat? How fast? He was twisted. He said he wasn't drunk.

He was twisted. I'd like to question that. Dude, he was all hopped up on daiquiris and coladas and stuff. I don't like his wishy-washy story about the alleged shark. Or not a shark. Him being like, yeah, I had a fin. I saw it, but I don't really know what it was. Might have been a shark.

Dude, fins to the left, fins to the right. You're not allowed to do Jimmy Buffett content. I know you don't like Jimmy Buffett. He's fine. You're not a... No, he was not a... Dude, I'm a straight parrot head. No, you're not.

You're the biggest parrot head poser. I'm just... He's fine i could see that if i invited you a jimmy buffett concert like the day of you're hitting me up and you're like hey do you have any hawaiian shirts i could do you're right i only have my own poser you got something for me i'd go to a jimmy buffett concert tonight if there was one you would they're fun i'm sure they're fine. I've only been to one and it was raining. Tailgate's the best part. I miss that.

Like, if you show up just for the show, you're going to have fun, but you left a lot of fun on the table. Okay. There's still a little fun meat on that bone. Fair enough. I realized last night that I'm the chicken wing guy who leaves way too much meat on the bones when they're too hot. You got to suck that shit off.

I couldn't. It was so hot last night, I couldn't gnaw on it. Gnaw on it, bae. I'm really excited for these wings. I like wings that originate in Asia. Asian wings. Thai wings. It's the only way I eat them.

If you had it. Yeah, I don't even eat wings from the states anymore everyone knows what we're referencing chateaubriand um is it is potentially the most cocky anyone has ever been on camera douchey i think you. Cocky and douchey. And the way Faraday, just talking down to Faraday. Okay, dude. Anyway, there's an assumption that Faraday's never had that. And you know what? To his credit, maybe he hasn't.

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not gonna do that uh we got some devastating news uh last just recently i don't know if it was last week or the week before uh we talked about tgi fridays we and i think i think i might have said some some things in support of tgi fridays i thought it was the bees uh it was both okay both came up but i i famously love tgi fridays tato skins i went there a lot growing up actually there's one in the arboretum close to where i grew up and it was just like a spot for us to go to when they started doing that when they started doing their frozen stuff that you could put in the the oven at your own home never did that oh man it changed the game it changed the game yeah potato skins were good i love the potato skins you just get as much sour cream on there but it was kind of vibey too in there kind of a vibe can i tell you something sad

it turns out they're frauds what do you mean the maker of tgi friday's mozzarella sticks has been sued for containing exactly zero mozzarella what are they using usually if you have cheddar in the bank that's a good thing not in this case it's all cheddar baby good i like what you did there a judge agreed to let tgi friday's off the hook in a class action lawsuit that claims tgi friday's branded mozzarella stick snack is misleading because it contains no mozzarella cheese. But they still go dummy. They do. They do go straight up dummy. I don't, I'm not proud of myself.

Yeah, I can confirm. Like, there's a high-end Italian restaurant in Austin that has recently become a thing. People enjoy going there over the last year or two. We had our Christmas party there last year. And I feel like a scumbag every time I look at the Italian man taking our order and I say, I want the mozzarella sticks. But I love and i say i want the mozzarella sticks but i love them you should say the mozzarella sticks mozzarella mozzarella sticks i'll take your mozzarella sticks they are really good i think eating mozzarella fresh mozzarella is an experience that no one prepares you for before you go to italy no one told me like hey just fyi like those salads that you're about to be eating are

gonna go stupid everyone talks about the pizza everyone talks about did you get any gelati a little bit not i didn't get enough to to know like that it's it hits diffy over there you know oh my god oh so i'm gonna get a little bit in the weeds on this story because I'm curious. Are they – So this is not TGI Friday's, the restaurant's monstrosity. I guess not. It's their ones you can buy at the grocery store frozen.

It's a weird move to – Now I need to know about the ones that they're at the restaurant. That's a great question. should we go just find out do we have a tgi fridays near the office i don't think so by the way they still i thought it was just fridays now are they back to tgi yeah remember we famously opened one up in corpus christi will that was famously the same week that we got back from the edM cruise. And I'll be the first to admit, going from an EDM cruise where we partied for like a week straight directly into a TGI Fridays opening in Corpus Christi was not how I wanted my week to pan out.

What was our guy, the new CEO? Chip. I thought it was Cody. Maybe it was Chip. It was Chip. Well, we were all stoked on him because he talked to us and I was like, dude, this guy's living. And then like a year and a half later we checked yeah chip was no longer the ceo remember that night on the cruise that we got just super weird a chip when when we sat in the igloo i got i got my entire body painted i think i think we got roofied with like molly like it wasn't someone trying to like make us like not remember anything it was someone trying to like make us just get weird i popped top and got tribal paint all over my body didn't you not allow

us to post that photo yeah it was a little embarrassing dude it was tight i have it i have it on my phone will you send it to me it's been a minute since i've seen it i've since lost all my all my photos from before like send that to a player yeah man i'm gonna finish the podcast but sure yeah i mean not right now okay actually if you won't mind yeah we're talking class actions god i got so just freaking twisted on that on that trip man shut up no what you're on the beer plug table for a little i remember like little dicky like we're basically just boys now nicest celebrity maybe ever oh i mean you never ran into johnny football in montana yeah that's true if you've ever had but then you understand i can i can wholeheartedly say that i think

lil dicky is not doing a bit of being like the nice unassuming guy he's literally a nice unassuming guy he loves to pose with everybody just doing the little the little d thing he's the only like he was the he was the biggest artist to just hang out on the cruise and not really worry about anything. He wasn't mega yet, though. He was still very popular. He was more internet famous than he was famous famous. This was pre-Dave.

Oh, yeah. Do you not watch Dave because you're annoyed that he has a show named Dave and you couldn't do that? No, I don't watch it because I feel like you'd like it. I know, I would. It's just there's not a good excuse for me to not have watched it. It's probably one of my favorite shows in the last couple of years.

You know how I am, though. I might go back in a couple of years and just freaking binge it. That's your long play. You're just waiting to binge. Oh, I can't wait. It's on binge watch. What about you? What are you binging these days?

The Crown. Season five. I'm so in the game right now. Season five. Worth it? Yeah, but I fell asleep last night during like 15 minutes in. So I need to rewatch.

I think I'm on episode five of season five. I'm currently binging Love Island, Australia. It's trash, but I love it. Spoiler alert. They're going through a separation, Charles and Diana. Yeah, I've heard about that. I think she is about to... Bye.

So we get her actually dying in this season. I'm pretty sure. It's next up timeline-wise. Let's ride. Yeah, i need to start watching dave she died in a car you can't be you can't be casting hot dudes as prince charles that's my issue with season five mcnulty's too hot you want you want to hear my impression of um the police chief and the wire chastising mcnulty yeah sure god damn it m McNulty. God damn it. Okay, that's fine.

Wow. That's fine. Wow. Half of his lines were just him just getting pissed at McNulty. Shit. McNulty. Who's that guy?

Clay Jenkins? Shit. Or Clay Davis? Clay Jenkins might be an actual. I'm going to take a bet of Leroy. Clay Jenkins is the- His brother, Leroy. Clay Jenkins is the. His brother Leroy. Dallas politician, county commissioner.

Last note. I don't know how we didn't cover this. Trod water. That dude's getting a bed. If a guy goes through his rush named Trod water. Oh, yeah, dude. You hear about Trod water soon? That is sick.

Dude, Trod. He was fucked. Trod is a very frat name yeah it's been in goblin mode for like two years it doesn't matter if your name is trod please reach out to us we want to we want to shake your hand i want to shake its hand yeah yeah dude just straight up trod dude he was like making uh mozzarella sticks but he's like put them in between wheat thins. He was in goblin mode. It was like 4 a.m., and it doesn't matter because his dad- Going to Trott's.

His parents, they're lake house. They're out of town all week long. Yeah, dude. It's going to be nothing but dudes. Trott's entire wardrobe is just fucking lax pennies. Sick. He's got a lax penny tan. Shout out to all the Trotts outds out those weren't big down here well

dude trod that's how is that not on the all name team trod waters yeah trod waters damn glad to meet you yeah my dad was a sick my dad was a sick guy in uh 1968 dude i got a sick yeah he was a alpha chapter for sure. I went to yeah, I went to Jesuit. Yeah, oh Really dude. Yeah, I failed out. Oh, wow. There's gonna be some guys that are gonna be a real rough time, dude Yeah, yeah, did you you cuz you guys were two lacks powerhouses right guys are like Moki sketch What what the fuck that what's your fucking problem okay we're just fighting all right should we get out of here bye yeah we're trotting at this point yeah we're just trotting water bye you