Circling Back - We're In Our Mike Golic Jr. Era

Episode Date: May 3, 2023

Mike Golic Jr. joins us to talk everything Eras Tour, Love Is Blind reunion, the ideal peanut butter and jelly, his most "down bad" pandemic moment, Chicken Piccata Summer, and so much more. We also broke down Sunday's episode of Succession, discussed the Blue Man Group meet-up at Mizzou, This Weekend in Fun, and more. Enjoy a free two-week trial on Patreon for additional weekly episodes: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast Watch all of our full episodes on our new YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/circlingback  Shop Washed Merch: www.washedmedia.shop  Support This Episode’s Sponsors Rhoback: www.rhoback.com (BACKER20 for 20% off) Sunday: www.getsunday.com/steam (50% off first box) Athletic Greens: www.athleticgreens.com/circling (FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D and 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase) --- 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 austin texas my name is will to freeze to my left david that boy rough i'm now through four toy story movies um i didn't know there was a fourth but there is and apparently there's a fifth they're going to be a fifth and the biggest takeaway i have is how did they cast joan cusack to voice um one of the dolls it just doesn't it just doesn't fit and and real toy store fans real ts fans will know what i'm talking about will you do your will you do a joan cusack please oh woody we're here that sucked i don't really i haven't done that one yet you might be surprised to learn here dylan you dylan chivery ladies and gentlemen and he's going to intro himself uh in his joan cusack voice hey y'all what okay i mean not i mean i don't i wouldn't have got i don't know

i can't i'm having a hard time even hearing her voice in my head it's not totally giving joan cusack but um i like joan cusack i just don't know if i like her in this voice i have something to share with the class what got? Got a text from Parks' mother about 15 minutes ago. Familiar with her, Gabe? Yeah. So she's about to leave town, so she actually met Parks at school today for lunch, which is a very sweet thing to do. Anyway, today was pajama day.

You got to wear pajamas at school. Parks likes to sleep in oversized T-shirts and pajama pants, whatever, which is what he wore to school today he lampshaded tsm yes and um he stayed with me last night and so i have some like old wash media shirts hit him with that fajita shirt uh so i got a text from his mom and said parks's shirt has a has wine on it a wine bottle oh no and i'm like uh yeah i was like is he in trouble for that and i'm thinking like what shirt of ours has a wine bottle on it and it's definitely the human decanting one hey so my son is uh in that in his second grade class right now wearing a shirt that

says human decanting on it with a bottle of wine. And of course we know what that implies. So father- I know, I'm new here, what is that? Father of the year word goes to you. Father of the year right here. Total accident. See Dave, human decanting is the practice of emptying your bladder.

And then with a, what's that thing called? Catheter. A catheter, thank you. You fill your bladder up with wine. So basically your bladder is a siphon. And then you use your thing as a spout to fill up wine glasses with. From your penis. Your hammer? Yeah.

Jeez. Wait, I'm confused. Was the that dave gave him in the wash you gave him that if you can't beat it suck it shirt right the dx shirt i did not give parks my d i don't think i have that one anymore i think it might have been thrown out after i was sent home from school freshman year for wearing it and it's a valid. Just waiting to get a phone call from his teacher or counselor or somebody up there. I really hope they're like, someone's up there like, I don't even want to look that up. And then they finally get somebody to look it up and they're like, oh my God. How old is Parks? He's eight. So luckily, I don't think eight-year-olds know

what decanting is. And I don't think they'll put the pieces together. I don't think his classmates will figure it out. Yeah. If they google it they're going to find succession and i don't think they're going to be able to go very much further i just learned what decanting was like a year ago just the wine won't get him in trouble right just the fact that he has wine on his t-shirt a bottle of wine probably the thing that i think would be the right flag for them me too yeah but so we'll see how it goes yeah does he know? He doesn't understand, surely. He knows what wine is because he sees his dad drinking quite a bit. Really?

I'm a wino. They've been calling you Patrick DeCantlay over here. That's true. Watching Scandal. Scandal season one, I will ride for. I can't ride for season two. I thought it sucked. Kerry Washington, what up?

I enjoyed that show. I thought season two was just so over the top. It what up i enjoyed that show i thought season two was just so over the top it was like i can't i can't get on board it's over the top i mean there's only so many candles yeah that's true that's facts that's facts we just came up with the name for our uh tactical uh swiss army knife bottle opener sandals we're just calling them scandals no one's doing that but we are yeah you don't see that anywhere with a k or c i don't know how edgy you want to get what if we called him hey dude hey i'm on my jason vorhees shit today see that you scared yet bitch you've done a new mug each day yeah that's that's the plan david

are you paying attention to anything I'm doing? Typically, no. I didn't mean to come at you like that. Yeah, what the... Why are you all sideways right now? I don't know. I'm sorry. I was pointing out.

You're doing great. You're the Tim Taylor of podcast mugs. You're kind of the Woody Page of the show. That's what people say. Yeah. You have to rely on the bit. You're the... Tony Riali. What's his name?. Yeah. You have to rely on the bit. You're the Tony Riali.

What's his name? Riali? I would take that. What am I? What does that mean? Can I be the Mena Kimes? More on that later. I'll be Kalashow.

Kalashow. No offense. You're no Kalashow. Wow. Who's your all-time favorite SportsCenter anchor? Dan Patrick. David?

Keith Olbermann. I just like his political takes. I just think they're really well thought out and hilarious. Honorable mention to Kenny Mayne. I do like Dan Patrick. I call him DP. Stu Scott. R.I.P.

R.I.P. Loved him. Kobe comes through. He once called it a badonkadonk. And.I.P. R.I.P. Loved him. Kobe comes through. He once called it a badonkadonk, and Kobe threw it down. My friends and I haven't got past that. It was like 30 years ago. That's good. There was a period where we had Kenny Mayne and Stu Scott

just next to each other just cooking. I think Kenny Mayne and Dan Patrick were side-by-side for a bit too. Yeah, yeah. I think those Venn diagrams overlapped. There became a time where I started resenting the sports center anchor when i was like you know what you're new here and like you got a cool job but like you look like you know you've got a cool job you look like you're really enjoying it and like yeah i'm jealous and that's kind of where this is coming from jealousy play it really is jealousy i'm just being a hater yeah they do fine i don't watch that much sports center these days but shout out yes you i literally put it on almost every

morning yeah you dumbed up watching goose videos goose yeah dude people love goose hey are you guys For what? For Will's five-star review of the week. Dude, that's good. That's a Randy joke. That shit's good. I got to hat tip Randy for that one. Randy knows a soundbite. I know. I think we need to up the board.

You know what? I don't want to put more work on Randy's play because I know Randy's grinding. But I was going through some circling back gifs the other day, and I was having an absolute blast just looking at them. We've got to use more of those. Will's five-star review of the week, a special edition. I'm going to read a couple for you guys. You've got more than one?

Yeah, there are a couple that I liked. One of them says, this is from GrayT69. Nice. Hey. Is that you? I hope not. It says, rope hat pulls. He notes, my girlfriend only does the sex with me

when I'm wearing my green washed arch rope hat now. Thank you, washed media. You're welcome. Welcome for the sex. Congrats on the sex. Five stars, by the way. Five stars. Okay.

We also have one from vegan meat 38 it says mentally soft five stars though it says imagine letting elon live in your head as rent-free as much as these fellows in parentheses will amazing pod thank you vegan meat i could i couldn't tell if that's a positive or negative review. I think it's a negative. I understand how much real estate Elon owns in my head. I'm not proud of that, but I can confront that this guy is correct. I've pretty much made an entire career off being mentally soft, though. Yeah, but as much as we love Twitter, as much as we've loved it over the years,

and the fact that it's in his hands now, he's doing screwy stuff with it. You know, it's okay to dislike the man right now. I like Twitter more without my checkmark right now. I feel like I have a weight off my shoulders. I just like his exclusive memes. You subscribe to him? I do. And that, my friends, was Will's five-star review of the week.

Unreal, man. I know. I know. You're pretty happy with that. You're pretty happy with that, I can tell. Mm-hmm. Have you guys watched Jury Duty Episode 5 yet? I've watched all of it.

Was Episode 5 your GOAT episode? Remind me which one Episode 5 is. I don't remember the... They might be practicing some lines together. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Dave, come on together. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Dave, come on. Get there, dog.

Yeah, the hockey playoffs have really taken precedent, taken that importance level away from – was it jury? Jury duty? Yeah, you can watch it intermission. I actually want to call it the juror. The rural juror? I know. I know.

I did watch the first episode. I liked what I saw. I'm going to continue with it, I know. I know. I did watch the first episode. I liked what I saw. I'm going to continue with it, I promise. I've got an off night tonight, at least from Dallas-related sports, so I will watch an episode tonight. Maybe two of them. I was just a late-night sports guy last night, just flipping between the Stars game and just the Lake show.

Nothing better than getting dragged into an overtime game and your team doesn't pull out pull out what oh chill doesn't pull out the dub you do man i could see sally die inside a little bit when i turned on the the hockey game and it was in uh overtime she knew that i wasn't turning that game why were you up that late because i'm a bad boy dog you i feel like you go to bed earlier than all that's facts i do normally i'm in bed by 10 uh last night no last night we had dinner with some friends uh i went home and i listened to uh the new vinyl that i got in the mail yesterday that you saw david and uh by that time i was like well i can't sit here and just listening to music because my wife will think that i'm on drugs so i need to turn on the

television and what was on lakers warriors so i got into it no offense but it sounds like you were on drugs. I wasn't. I was on three Negronis. If you want to stay up super late tonight, we got the Golden Knights buzzing. So just check them out. I'm a Stars guy.

I'm a Stars guy. What? Let's go. You're a Red Wings guy. Well, yeah, but they're famously not in the playoffs. So I got to kind of just take what I can. All right. Me versus the field. Fuck it.

Dude, I hate the Kraken. Why I ought to? I kind of just take what I can get. All right, me versus the field. Fuck it. Dude, I hate the Kraken. Why I ought to? I kind of like the name. Their branding is terrible. You don't like the S? I think it's terrible. The S stinks? I do like the name.

The colorway is very dope. I think that they had such an opportunity to do something cool, and I think they just completely bricked it. Ooh, baby, a colorway. It's a mythical creature. Yeah, yeah. Colorway? Oh, the Kraken.

The Kraken. Crackhouse. I think Loch Ness should get a team, and they should just... I would buy a Loch Ness monster hockey sweater. Hey, are we at the dude perfect level yet? Because I noticed on their Instagram, they are...

Not quite. Fuck. What's he doing over here? They put up an Instagram poll and it's like, hey, do you want to help us name our pickleball team that they own? And they put up – they've got like four options. I think I chose the Frisco Pandas. I did like that one. But, yeah, it was just – oh, Frisco Brisketket was an option and it was a picture of a head of cattle we gotta get there god we could probably do a pickleball team we get

a fun together they do fucking numbers yeah oh man good hey good for them good for our friend chad yeah yeah i guess chad's fine I have no regrets about leaving, by the way. Chad's perfect. Just putting that out there. You left on good terms. Thank you for coming back to watch media. We really needed you. It's fine.

Yeah. Happy to be here. Very cool. Well, Dave, now that you've left Dude Perfect, you kind of have some more free time, which means you can spend more time in your yard. Right now? You can feel that weather warming up, baby.

We're officially out of cold air, warm car season, and we're just officially in warm weather season down here in Austin, Texas. I love when the weather starts to warm up. Getting out in the yard, digging in the garden. One of the best parts of spring, baby. Walking through that plush green yard with your bare feet, man. Sunday lawn care makes it easier than ever to enjoy that lawn my friend Sunday's everything you need to get the lawn that you've dreamed of this spring go to get sunday.com slash steam and

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That's 50% off your first box at getsunday.com slash steam. Randy, we ran a poll yesterday. this poll asked if we should share some Taylor Swift memes from the circling back Instagram account that maybe didn't make the cut for the WASH media account. Do you want to tell the people at home how that poll panned out for everybody? I don't know. It's about 90 yes, about 10% no.

I believe it was yas. Say it with your heart. Yasify it. Yas. There your heart. Yasify it. Yas. There you go. There you go. What, Dylan? Is that going to hurt you when we launch this meme album?

No, no, no. But like why would anyone vote no? It hurts nobody, you know? Just vote yes. I think I voted no, actually. I think I probably voted yes. I voted yes. But like there's no reason to vote no on something like that.

So it's not like people really want it it's just like why not get it you're doing do an impression of when you see a dog at the bar oh god when i see a dog at the bar yeah that's what i do you gotta see the face too youtube check it out dogs are oh yeah youtube.com slash circling back podcast or something when i'm at a party catch me petting the dog that's where i'll be and i i almost got arrested going through tsa because like the bomb sniffing dog he like came out to me and i just like got down started petting it there is a guy at the gym this morning with a t-shirt on that said, lift heavy, period, pet dogs, period. That's so swag. Lift heavy, pet dogs. All right.

Fucking NARP. Oh. Sorry. I don't know if he deserves it. He's literally talking about lifting heavy. He was in pretty good shape. Yeah.

Probably in better shape than me. Big content guy likes lifting heavies. We're talking about different heavies, yeah this guy's like weights versus what he's talking about i like the idea of like a big strong dude at the gym wearing like he knows it's the worst shirt he could possibly put on and he's just dare he wants somebody to say something or wants some guy with a podcast to bring it up to thousands of people. Can you ask that guy for a link to the shirt? I want to wear it to Stagecoach this year. What shirt did he have on at Stagecoach?

That one puppies and wine or something? Which are arguably a better shirt than the gym guy. What did the gym one say? Lift heavy pet puppies? Lift heavy pet dogs. I mean, yeah, there's got to be more to life eat tacos there's one like feed me queso and show me pictures of your dog if that's all you need to be happy like you gotta step out a little more randy i think i'm gonna give you full clearance right now to uh mid-episode drop this uh uncircling back yeah and circling back yeah you're gonna have

to do it i've been logged out of everything and i don't think i can log back in until i update to ios 16 what a buzz kill just fucking update god update your phone to ios 16 dude we'll wait here let's do a live update let's narr narrate your live update. That's good. That's good content. Instead of doing that, let's kick it over to our guest today. Today we had Mike Golick Jr. on. Should we just kick to the interview? Yeah. Mike Golick Jr., ladies and gentlemen.

Enjoy. We're here today with a recurring guest. You might remember him from our happy hour live days during the pandemic. We're talking to Mike Golick Jr. Mike, welcome to the program. Guys, glad to be back. It feels like simultaneously forever ago and also yesterday because that's how the pandemic time warp works. We were just talking about the most depressing moments during the pandemic and my favorite was Dave's.'s okay so i've since checked my instagram feed at dc rough on instagram but you already know that uh team follow back no you're not i did it no not

always depends depends but you're absolutely not team follow back yeah you know team selective follow back yeah i will i will i will at least run you through the process. No, at some point, like two weeks, no, probably two months in, I got tired of not going out. So I put on like a nice denim shirt, tucked it into some jeans, which are also denim, denim on denim. Put on a backward cap, probably the same one I'm wearing right now. And I had my wife take a pic of me in the living room, just kind of post it up on the buffet. And I don't know why I posted it on Instagram and it did, it did well, did well has since been archived. Um, and yeah, that was kind of my, uh, I was just, we were, I had forgot I did that until we were talking about kind of our

in the trenches, uh, COVID era. But, uh, Mike, do you have anything that you think about when you look back upon those days? As far as my personal low, I think I would say it came so August of the pandemic. You remember all those versus battles that were going on at that time? Oh, yeah. That was great. So it was the two chains and Rick Ross versus battle. it was the two chains and Rick Ross versus battle. And that week in Connecticut, there had been a really bad rash of storms where I was living at the time.

And the power got knocked out of my neighborhood for a week. So it's August in Connecticut, which means it's sweltering hot. I'm sleeping butt naked on my couch because it's the coldest room, my living room in the house at that point, but still have been sweating through the night for five days now. And so finally I call in a whim at the hotel in town and I'm like, Hey,

do you guys have any rooms left? They had one cancellation. And so I went over that night. I had been in my living room, drinking Rose out of the bottle, watching Rick Ross, two chains. And I went over that night with the bottle of Rose in a backpack. That's all I took. And I went for that night with the bottle of Rose in a backpack. That's all I took. And I went and I took a bath in that hotel. And I watched Rick Ross and 2 Chainz on Versus drunk off my ass on Rose. It was a low that turned into a high.

That's great. That sounds great. I don't judge people for what they do during that time. But I do have to say, you might be the first person i've heard take a bath at a hotel oh you guys don't do that it's a treat uh i i i no i guess i don't i'm typically staying at like uh budget ends motel sixes so no i i don't usually hop in the tub but i'll get in the tub every once in a while but i feel like that's a recent thing with a child where it's like that's easier if I just get in the tub with him right now my my COVID moment is I mean for for years and years I swore up and down I was done with gaming like I was just over it I wasn't the gaming type and when I was like I'm never gonna put the the gaming headset on I'm

never gonna put the the big headphones on and talk to people through you know through the the playstation whenever and the the shame i felt when i put those things on for the first time and then i did it every night for like i don't know a year and a half straight and you miss it now and got pretty good at call of duty that was a fun time for us and now i miss it like crazy i want to go back i want to let that choppa sing again dave yeah i remember those days man you were you were a menace i was texting the squad like you we dropping or what are we doing mike oh mike you've been to two very uh good events lately i'm talking about the heiress tour and the love is blind reunion um which one would you like to talk about right now because we would like to touch on both

yeah i mean we could start chronologically because eras came first. And really, I had about a three-week heater because in between those was WrestleMania 39. I'd never been into wrestling. I'd never been to a wrestling event, and I got to do that too. The eras tour, listen, to me,

that's going to be the peak of my year. I've been a diehard Swifty since probably 2012, 13, and I had never seen her live before. So I got to go out and do the show in Vegas and my God, from start to finish, that woman does not stop giving the people what they need. It's she is truly at the top of her game right now. I think we must've been at the same show. Did you go set? Uh, I don't even know what day I went in Vegas. I went Friday, so I went the night that didn't have Marcus Mumford come out. That's the night that I went.

That's the night that I went. Yep. I think I remember seeing – you posted a photo. I remember being like, oh, I think they're right below – like they're right down there. But, I mean, we had some good secret songs that night. We did. So we had – was it Our Song? Yes. Our Song, Acoustic, and then we had We had Was it our song Yes

Our song acoustic and then we had Snow on the beach Which I felt some type of way about Because she made this whole big point Of when snow on the beach Because that's the song that technically is a Lana Del Rey feature Although if you can find Lana Del Rey's voice In that song

Be my guest And she made this whole point about how this isn't the kind of tour where we're going to bring someone out. Lana's not coming out. I'm just pumping her album. And then the next night she brings Mumford out to sing Cowboy Like Me, The Nerve. Yeah, it's kind of messed up.

Kind of messed up. I caught Taylor at Jerry World, AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas, home of the Dallas Football Cowboys, as you know. And I'm not going to say it was life-changing, but I did. I was gushing because my wife's a big fan, and I did like a lot of Taylor Swift songs. But I left there, man. Cruel Summer's probably going to be in my top five when that Spotify rap drops. Dude, I wasn't even a Swifty back then.

And it was so exciting to hear a new song that I just wasn't even into in the first place. Catching someone live who puts on a really good show completely changed the way you think about their music moving forward. And then when she, yeah. And especially when they have the most absurd setting scene changes and the dancers are all like really good. I like find myself, I was watching different dancers on each,

on each song. Just so impressed when they started riding the bike spoiler. If you haven't been, there's some bike riding that goes down. Dude, I thought the bikes were going off. I thought one would go off the stage at some point. I'm surprised that no bike has gone off yet.

I was terrified when the bikes came out for that exact reason. And they're crossing in front of each other. This is well choreographed bike riding. And we saw like the third show. And so I was terrified when the bikes came out for that exact reason. And they're crossing in front of each other. This is well choreographed bike riding. And we saw like the third show. And so I was like, I don't know if they have this totally down yet. Like they maybe have done this in like an isolated, like vacuum,

but they, I don't know if they've done this enough in front of a crowd to just like magically not fall off the stage. I guess they've made it this far. Well, and like you said, there's a lot of moments built into the tour that are high risk. Taylor does a stage dive through a hole in the stage and there's this whole big production. You can see where it looks like she's swimming underneath it. I'm terrified that she's going to take a header off that thing. And now are you out three or four shows? Are the people in Los Angeles in August all of a sudden going to get shortchanged because you've been playing high-stakes poker this entire tour? I think it's kind of a good move to take a dive off the stage on a bike

if you're one of the backup dancers making a name for yourself. You're TikTok famous immediately. Well, speaking of one of the dancers making a name for themselves, I don't know if you noticed, so one of the bigger guys, his name is Kalen Saunders, and his younger brother is an NFL defensive tackle for the New Orleans Saints. Incredible genes in that family. Dynamic movers.

Oh, yeah. Fast twitch only. Did you see at the Houston show they didn't do bikes? They just rode unicycles. Really? No, I made that up. Damn, what? That would be dope if they did unicycles.

Unicycles have fascinated me my entire life. They just did seg did segways yeah we may as well just upgrade to the segue or just do razor scooters i don't care now it's a testament to the strength of the tour that you could say pretty much anything was involved in a show and i would believe it i feel so left out of this conversation i haven't been why don't you go i don't know is it is it too late go figure it out dude okay no she's still touring all right it's not gonna be cheap yeah i know you're not in the you don't have the leverage in this one i think that's what's keeping me keeping me back right now mike um what era are you in right now it's a great question it's one i pondered a lot in the lead up because the outfits at these shows are such a big part i ended up going flannel so i think i would technically qualify in my like folklore evermore era so definitely pandemic

albums like we were talking about before i would like to be in my reputation era though because as you guys saw the show that one's big sexy snakes crawling over naked people i want to be like a sexy bad boy like that i think that's my time i've kind of been in my reputation era that's what like people have been reaching out and saying and i didn't realize it until they were saying that a lot of people and it turns out yeah they were right sexy bad boy is actually how a lot of people describe this podcast yeah believe it or not that's what i've often said yeah thank you yeah thank you for knowing that yeah well what are you in i'm in my sexy baby era yeah okay uh dylan's my monster standing on the hill but like overall no do you know i stay i stay in my folklore era like that's not it's not even like it's not even

a question at this point if i if i have if i have a lapse in the car it's folklore what was your guys experience with the concert girlies because the swifties are a very particular brand of this did you guys have a good time interacting with the crowd goers here what was that well um yes they were they were phenomenal um they were they knew there were multiple people who did not sit down for the entire three plus hours, which, you know, me, I'm pushing 40 and that's just not in the cards anymore. The lower back's just not gonna, not gonna hold that up. But my, my best experience or worst was, uh, trying to sneak into the men's room, just

go to the bathroom before the show. Um, and, uh, it's just a full, full of young ladies, full of women in the men's room. And I'm like, okay, I have to use the bathroom. They're all in line here. They're waiting on the stalls. There's no other dudes in there. I've got to go up to the urinal. And like, I, they're all joking and like excited because of the, you know, the concert's about to go down. And it was just, it was just really a weird experience. Just that. But everything else was great. The bar, I don't even know if these people party that much.

The bar was open, very easy to get a drink. The easiest to get a drink. I was like, am I the jerk here who's doing the double vodka sodas? Is that because most of the people there were under 21? I also think they were just glued to the show. Like they weren't willing to miss a song to go get a Negra Modelo. Yeah, got it.

See, that was my question is how'd you approach that? Because I cut off alcohol intake a half hour before the show because I didn't want to pee during that thing. I didn't miss a song. See, I pulled up the playlist and so I chose certain songs that I didn't care about seeing and then I sprinted to the bathroom and the guy's bathroom had no one in it.

My favorite part of the entire like attendance of that show was watching the boyfriends take a million photos of their girlfriends in the aisle of our section. It was just nonstop of a girl like popping out, posing five different ways. And then like looking at the phone and being like, no, we have to do more.

And like the boyfriends just look so beaten down. Yeah. This is, this is the instagram boyfriend super bowl there are some arguments all years and lift all them weights so you can get to this show and be able to survive you can't take a bad photo and then get in like an uber after it's just gonna be icy in there if she's scrolling through the photos and there's nothing usable. Heads down. Like, fuck. You can't break that. I don't think I've worried about a fit that I was putting together for a show like I did for that.

Because my wife, you know, she didn't go all out, but she rocked some sequence, you know. And I was like, man, I originally was going to do some kind of bit. I was like, I'm going to wear like a Micah Parsons jersey or something. And then I was like, you know what? This isn't about me. This isn't about me. So I put on a nice going out shirt. And, you know, I went, had a good time, took some pics.

Loved the LED light. Did you have any chicken piccata beforehand? Did not. No, we did. We went to Texas Live, the little spot in between the ballpark and the football stadium. And I think I had a hot dog, which is an interesting choice interesting choice, but I did, I went glizzy pre Taylor. So a lot of people aren't doing that, but I am like, do you like chicken piccata because it's chicken piccata summer around these parts. Everyone's just eating it. I do like chicken piccata. I couldn't tell

you the last time I had chicken piccata, but if we're going to hop on that wave, I'm happy to be aboard because I'm a big fan. Yeah. Um, you know, we had white boy summer a couple, couple of years back, but yeah, all things are trending toward chicken piccata summer. Some, a lot of there's, there's a number of people who were doing a pescatarian stuff will, for example, and they're saying it might be shrimp scampi, uh, summer. I don't know how you feel about the scamps, but we've been messing with that stuff pretty heavy down here. Dude, I hear the Mediterranean's freaking out about a caper shortage this year. Is that fast?

Yeah, because of the chicken piccata implications. It's a problem. I just feel like that's made up. That's not like a real thing. No, the Mediterranean's freaking out. I bet I could go find some capers right now. No, you can right now, but at the end of summer, it's going to be an absolute desert.

Got it. There's going to be a markup. I'm excited to come back at the end and see you guys buying black market capers i got a caper guy in south austin that you i can send you guys to if you need it uh brett big game caper brett merriman who does say hello passes on his best wishes to you he is uh he's the guy he's got a guy for everything like he's got a caper guy he probably has a caper guy yeah he's a guy guy because he once told us he had a keg guy yeah and i don't really know what we were we're putting on a little party here at the new office to which i responded um i'm i'm late i'm in my 30s i can just go buy a kid i don't i'm also legally allowed to enter a gas station. Yeah. So, yeah.

Don't do a little reality television talk? Kind of. Or what? Kind of. So, okay, I wasn't a love is blind guy. And that's on me. For me, the format is a little different. It's like, it's such a departure from the normal reality television that I watch.

And so can you explain for people that aren't big love is blind people, what happened at this reunion and why it was important? Yeah. So, and, and you're right that the format is very strange. And the reason love is blind is so potent right now is because we're in the sweet spot. We're early enough in the reality life cycle to where I think there's still some people coming on this show, buying into the format format like the bachelor and bachelorette we're so far past that now everyone's there to get famous there's very clear agendas the editing as such but for love is blind people are showing up thinking all right this experiment i can go through and do this and so yeah we get to season four which was an absolute banger you've got three couples that actually made it out of the proceedings which i think is a record for the show through

four seasons you've got all this drama around a couple of different members of the cast, Jackie in particular, who we're waiting to see. Will she, won't she be at the reunion? And so that night there was the actual Love is Blind live reunion taking place, Netflix's second live event that they've ever done. And so they're trying to get in on that, capitalize on all the attention around this show and make that happen. So that's happening in one place. In another place, they're having a live reunion watch party.

So that's where I entered in the equation. Mina Kimes over at ESPN is actually famous and popular. And so she got invited to this event. She had a plus one and asked if I wanted to go because we routinely text about the show. And so she got invited to this event. She had a plus one and asked if I wanted to go because we routinely text about the show. And so I said, hell yeah. So it's me, Mina, and then every reality show person that you can think of in there, Netflix or otherwise, people from Love Island, people from Perfect Match, some Bachelor and Bachelorette folks in there. And they're all sitting around waiting for this thing

to start and it's supposed to start at like 9 p.m eastern 6 pacific something like that and we're sitting in there they're getting the crowd hype there's hors d'oeuvres not enough i was hungry and 20 minutes goes by we're like all right you know maybe it's like the start of a football game kickoffs listed at 8 15 but really it's like an 8.30 kick. And then we get 45 minutes in. Now I'm starting to look around, and the Netflix people in there are panicked. They clearly look disheveled, so we're not sure what's going on. An hour and 20 minutes later, we get the announcement that they're having technical difficulties.

And so they're going to show the live reunion just to us in that room. They use the word embargo. They said, if your cell phone's out, security will come and take it. So now this went from zero to 60 real quick. And we were on the receiving end of some exclusive stuff. The reunion itself was fine. Like Nick and Vanessa Lachey is the host. I think really didn't have their best day. The

live format was kind of their enemy. And so overall for Netflix had to really hit them where it hurts because trying to do live when you're decidedly not the live thing and having live go that bad was a wash, but I got to see a bunch of reality stars get drunk and still got the payoff. So worked out. Oh my gosh. Uh, so I've seen one season of this uh it was the one with shane which season was that shane was season two or three they blend together for me a little bit shane also did a really chaotic live stream during this one he seems like he's unwell so shane uh this is the first time i had you time I became familiar with the show. I was really surprised that episode one, it just started so quickly.

Like people were already getting engaged first episode. But the Shane character, and I found so off-putting that I couldn't, I had to stop watching. You just quit. He was, I don't know, the guy rubbed me the wrong way like no reality TV character has ever rubbed me the wrong way before. And I've watched stop watching. You just quit. He was, he was, I don't, the guy rubbed me the wrong way. Like no reality TV character has ever rubbed me the wrong way before. And I've watched a lot. Okay. So, so every day for the rest of your life, you have to do one of these things.

You either have to watch 30 minutes of Shane on television, or you have to watch the Coach Beard episode of Ted Lasso that you famously hate. Oh, the bottle episode. Yeah. You hate that. They hate this. I'm watching that before I'm, I'm, i'm shane is allowed in my living room anymore i couldn't do it i mean we know you're a ted lasso guy that's through and through your ted lasso

dylan hates the coach beard episode so much that he said it ruined it ruined the series for him you have since scaled it back i didn't say it ruined the series i said it it really detract i mean it really took away i was enjoying the show so much that episode it was so unlike anything that we had seen before from from lasso and i was so confused why they had to do that you later explained that they were like kind of obligated to like squeeze them some extra episodes in and that anyway i have since continued watching i'm caught up and i'm really enjoying it again that's congratulations that one episode really threw me off. Can I ask? I think the more important question for me is,

because I understand the beard. It wasn't my favorite, but I also didn't hate the beard episode. I didn't have that strong a reaction. My big question with people is, how did you feel about the Christmas episode? Fantastic. Fantastic. Okay.

I absolutely loved it. As long as we're square there. Oh, my God. Yeah. That was one of the better episodes of television I'd watched in the past few years for sure. I think I can solidly say that the Christmas episode will be played on Christmas in my household for a long time to come. We love Ted Lasso because it's such a feel-good show. Yeah.

That episode, the Christmas one, was like as feel-goody as it gets. The beard bottle episode was not at all like the rest of the show. That's why it just threw me off so much. It was just so unlike what I was used to watching from that show. Some people take creative risks. It's okay. I get it.

I get it. People still complain about like the, the Sopranos concept episode where like Tony becomes a, he's in a coma and he becomes like an insurance salesman, a completely different person. And that's the entire episode. It's just him like in his coma dreams. I don't even remember that episode.

I think I blocked it out. It's pretty wild. And then you have the breaking bad. You have the fly episode. Least favorite episode for me of breaking bad. Really? Yeah. It was the only one that I like kind of walked away from.

And I was like, that kind of spiked my anxiety. I don't really like it. I get it. I feel like, I feel like the only show that did it and you guys can correct me if i'm wrong did you guys watch the leftovers at all yes i haven't dave's the only one so so the assassin episode which i feel like qualifies as a concept episode was to me one of the best of the series. Dude, that show, how long ago? It feels like about a decade ago, but I can't even remember that one that you're referring to. I don't even remember how that show

ended. I stuck with it. It's one of the most wild shows I've ever stuck with. Yeah, I don't even remember that one. Hey, Mike, a few minutes ago you mentioned love island have you taken the dive into the the world of love island yet i have not i've been getting the pressure from mina and others on that front too and i haven't taken the plunge is it worth it it is and i i'm going to speak for all of us here i think it's safe to do at this point it is it is by far our favorite like reality dating show it's it's simple love island uk if you're going to watch do uk the the one in the us is not not as good we're reformed uh bachelor alumni we yes we were big bachelor bachelorette guys were we were uh we used to cover it on a on a podcast we have now started

covering love island uk you have to give it a shot. It is a commitment though. I mean, there are what, 60 episodes in the Love Island UK. It's on several nights a week, pretty much every night, but it is so good. You got, you got to give it a shot. All right. That's good to know because I like you, I'm kind of, I think reform, I didn't have the term for it before, but reformed or retired bachelor watcher. Cause I just, I didn't have the term for it before, but reformed or retired Bachelor or Watcher because I don't have the same love for the game there anymore. So I will give this a shot. I want something new to sink my teeth into, and this has come highly recommended by so many people, now yourselves included. Yeah, if you watch half a season of it, you'll wonder why you ever watch Bachelor or Bachelorette. I need Mina Kimes to have a uh a burner account tweeting about love

island all the time i feel like i feel like we're not getting enough love island content out of her it's it's wild to see her in that room of people because mina has such an infinite knowledge of football and is so well versed in that watching her rip off because i'm walking around this room and i recognize a couple of people and mean it's just like oh that's so and so from that he's from the circle they were on perfect match she's got it all down she's like the way mel kuiper hits the draft board she just right off the dome is going through all these reality sharks oh that's incredible the mel kuiper of reality dating television love that i watched my first season of love island we just just did Love Island UK. And I had to hear these two talk about all the previous seasons, the Tommy Fury season, all the names. And I was like, all right, I'm going to watch.

And we're like, all right, well, let's do a show on it. And I loved it. And I'm hoping it wasn't just like because it was different. I'm hoping season two, when are they going to start in June? I'm hoping that hits the same. But, dude, I was skeptical because it is such a huge time commitment, but could not recommend it more. Can I ask what the best thing about it is?

I think for me it's the juxtaposition of the guys wearing swimsuits with their Yeezys at the pool. It's a good look. Two things, in my opinion, that make it so great. One is like the camaraderie that mostly the guys and the girls, they both really become really close friends. The guys in particular, they just lad out with each other. They gas each other up for everything.

They do, and it's really, really fun to watch. But the format of the show is what creates so much drama. It's perfect. It feels like it's much more's it's and it's and it's it feels like it's much more organic than bachelor bachelorette which is like feels so scripted and it's so edited this is much more raw feeling but like the way like they have these couplings or recouplings and they're designed to leave people out and if you get left out you get sent home they'll introduce two new guys to the group

who are like hotter than their other guys that are already there and that just throws a wrench in everything and then there's another recoupling so people are getting are getting shifted around it's it's drama but it's also like okay these people really have like you know built a bond with each other and it's just it's just fun to watch So that actually leads me to something I've been kicking around for a while. And I want to see if you guys can help me flesh this out. Because I think and I've noticed as now I've moved for the first time in my adult life post 30, making adult male friends is hard. Guys aren't necessarily good at that. And you just described one of the best side effects of reality dating shows.

And the same thing happens on Love is Blind is you spend so much time either in the Bachelor Mansion with these guys or in Love is Blind in the pods with these guys. You end up, they're more excited to see each other when they finally get to the outside world than they are the women they were talking to. And so what I think we need to do is create a service that tricks guys into thinking they're signing up for a reality dating show, but really they're just hanging out and meeting a new group of dudes that are going to go on and become their friend in whatever city they've moved to.

Yeah, sign me up. Like one of these guys will, for example, he's really into one of the girls, right? And he finally kisses her for the first time he goes back and he tells the group of guys like yeah we kiss and it's like you're in a like a locker room after a win like winning a football game it's just like they're dogpiling on this guy and it's like everyone's so excited for him and it's just it's a scene and it's you feel good about it right yes yeah yes like a hundred percent and combined with the um the

english slang yeah you learn like you're like oh yeah okay i'm gonna start working that into the rotation here which we have i didn't know that kissing was called lipsing over there didn't either yeah they lips what yeah literally oh yeah yeah and snogging is a snogging snogging a lot which means making out yeah wow i do appreciate how literal some english slang is like there was a british girl that played lacrosse at notre dame when i was here and when we went to like the garage she was like oh like that's the car park i'm like oh well that yeah that makes sense absolutely yeah like that you'll pick up plenty of british slang if you watch the show and it's really entertaining and And to your point about the guys being more excited to be around the other guys,

there is a storyline in the last season where near the end, when it's the final four or five couples, one of the guys gets called out because he's spending all of his time with his two other buddies in there and like not enough time with like the, the beautiful young lady who's like in love with them. We've all been there. I once had a girl in high school tell me,

uh, well, I'm breaking up with you because you like playing FIFA more than you like being with me. And I kind of looked around and I was like, fair point. Yeah. Yeah.

Like I'm, I'm 16. Like, I don't know. Like you're kind of right. I do enjoy doing this with the, and I, like, I mean, I don't get to, I don't get. You're kind of right. I do enjoy doing this. I mean, I don't get to play FIFA with the boys anymore. I'm glad I took advantage when I could.

Hey, I have a question. Yesterday we had a segment where we talked about our ideal peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. And based on the ice cream that I've seen you eat and just your Twitter timeline in general, I know that you have good taste in food. Um, what would your ideal peanut butter and jelly sandwich look like brands included? Um, brand. So it's weird peanut butter. I kind of go around Robin of mostly what looks most aesthetically pleasing to me at the store. I generally skew, like we're going to go types, like go, you know, kingdom phylum, class order, genus species, all that stuff. I'm going to skew like we're gonna go types like go you know kingdom phylum class order genus species all that stuff i'm gonna skew like jiff or skippy more often than not i want the one that says natural on the label so it makes me feel less like a monster even though i know i'm lying to myself

i'm gonna usually go smooth over chunky although recently i'm talking the last year recently i've come to appreciate chunky peanut butter in a different context. That's usually for banana snacking. So when I want a little crunch with peanut butter on top of the banana, or if I'm just going to eat it raw out of the jar, I go the crunchy for that. I see some nods. Are we in agreement there? Yeah. Yeah. That might be how I operate. That might be how I operate moving forward. I actually really like this because I'm a creamy boy on the sandwich, but I do like the idea of some crunch on the banana. I might be how I operate moving forward. I actually really like this because I'm a creamy boy on the sandwich, but I do like the idea of some crunch on the banana. I might be the world's biggest peanut butter fan.

I eat it every day. I absolutely love it. Jif Extra Crunchy is my go-to. Sometimes I'll just take a spoonful of it. The crunch, you're right. It's the juxtaposition. Just say it. It's not the juxtaposition.

It sounds like it is. I think it might be the juxtaposition. They like to fit they like to fit that you're a textural eater i am i am but yeah like the more the more like raw just peanut butter the the crunchiness is almost a necessity at that point it just it adds a lot anyway keep going with your sandwich sorry yeah no no you're fine this is an important part of the discussion um i so i'd like prefer smooth on the sandwich. I do want to lightly toast the bread. I think that texture for me, a little bit of crunch there. I know I've heard of some people who will hit it for a quick second on like a griddle or something like that and do it after I like to go in with a little bit of toasty bread. That way the peanut butter melts a little bit. You get that extra ooey gooey. And then I like

more peanut butter than I like jelly in the ratio. I'm more of a grape jelly guy than I am a strawberry jelly guy. That's how I get down. But I want just enough to where you get that sweetness in there. But to me, the peanut butter is the more important part of the sandwich. And so I go that way cut wise. I'm usually going to go straight down the middle. Sometimes I'll go diagonal, but that's more changing on the day, how I'm feeling in the moment. I like that. Knocked it out of the park. I'd eat that sandwich. Mike, I recently strained a groin muscle changing my son's diaper. I'm kind of curious what the

most washed away you've injured yourself recently is because it's been happening more and more. injured yourself recently is because it's been happening more and more. Yeah, it's a very recent one for me. So I'm back at Notre Dame this week, helping out with something on campus here. It's a project that some current students are working on. And so it involves hosting an event with, so it's me and my producer from my podcast who we both played here. We were teammates together coming back and hosting this event with two current members of the Notre Dame women's volleyball team. So we had to go shoot some video stuff on campus that's going to run during the show the other day, and it was over where they practice.

And I saw a ball on the ground, and you guys know I can't walk by a sports ball and not pick it up and do something with it. And they see that as an invitation. They're like, why don't walk by a sports ball and not pick it up and do something with it. And they see that as an invitation. They're like, why don't we play two on two? So they split me and my producer up. Each one of us had one of the D one volleyball players on our team. And so I'm like, all right, this'll be nice and easy. I don't really have a lot of competitive fire in me anymore. And we start going and it becomes very clear. I miscalculated that. I am ready to go now.

Thousand miles an hour, bump set spike nation, stand up. And it got to the point where my body just went autonomous. I didn't have control, but dove, knees down, tried to slide for one. And I get up and whole front of my left knee just taken off completely. Skin gone. So you know how the adrenaline can usually take you through that? It was like it was when I was playing. The shower when I got home, all of a sudden, turn on the water, totally forgot about it.

Instant burn. Instant screech. Not proud of the way I responded in that moment. But having to walk back to the rehearsal for what we were doing the next day with a little bit of a limp because my legs and calves are as sore as they've been in weeks and i had a skin knee was really humbling like a spot of blood on like the outside of your pants just like leaking through oh i banged it into a table the next day at the rehearsal and it was it was like the family guy peter griffin like 30 seconds

that was your flu game he's one of us i love it that's great what's next for mike gollick jr in 2023 2023 i am let's see i'm going to try and get to one more Taylor Swift concert. Love that. She's coming out to SoFi Los Angeles base now. So I'm going to try and get to one of those shows there. I know it's going to cost me another kidney, but, you know, God gives his toughest battles to me, his strongest soldier. So I'll survive. And yeah, then I'm excited. I'm calling college football games on radio for Learfield.

And it's probably my favorite thing I do, like getting to go around to college places and check everything out, mostly because I get to eat everything in these college towns. I really want to go back to Oxford, Mississippi. It's one of my favorite college towns I've ever been in. And it's the only college city I've ever been in where I had four separate meals inside gas stations and they were all incredible. So I'd like to do that again. Do you ever do any games in Texas? Um, yes, I had a Baylor game last year and two TCU games. So I got to Waco and got to see what Chip and Joanna Gaines have done in that like one stretch of town where all the magnolia stuff is oh yeah and uh

yeah talk about instagram instagram boyfriends they they also they feed there that's a good spot to take some photos oh yeah most of them have been to a taylor swift show 100 the overlap the venn diagram it's crazy well awesome man well thank you for joining us always a pleasure to hang out with you i'm sure we'll see some more of you in the future. Where can the people follow you? Yeah, at Mike Golick Jr. on Twitter. At Gojo Show is the Twitter handle for the podcast. That's on all social media.

You can check that out wherever you get your podcasts. Also, Daily Sports Podcast. We're about an hour a day. Give you a little bit of everything. Occasionally, some peanut butter jelly sandwich and reality tv combos so if you love this podcast you might also like us perfect you're the man mike thanks for hopping on with us appreciate it thanks dude talk soon thanks fellas oh man mike always brings it doesn't he oh yeah just a consummate professional i'm jealous of his his like tv radio voice jealous of his energy very articulate i know he doesn't even have to fake his voice like you do i know

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I realized it after we got done with it. I was like, we didn't even touch Succession. Oh, my God. Okay, so I apologize. I need to get out in front with it. I was like, we didn't even touch Succession. Oh, my God. Okay, so I apologize. I need to get out in front of it. This is me typing in a verbal notes app. I didn't mean to not watch it on Sunday, which meant we couldn't cover it until today.

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Like, it's just like, what are we doing? Oh doing oh dude were you lifting heavy and petting dogs again is that what you were doing facts and so i finally watched and i have to say this was an all-time performance from kendall you think so i thought it was an all-time kendall episode kendall and roman are the they are the actual disgusting brothers they have taken such a turn this what scenes are you recalling when you say that i'm trying to picture like his performance uh him when when roman starts talking to him about stuff and he just gets like fired up and he's like fuck yeah let's fucking fire everybody like he's all horned up for that when he gets on stage and starts talking about living plus you can just see the energy coursing through his veins he like he's finally living the life that he wants to live and it makes me happy he absolutely crushed the presentation he started it came out

of the gates wobbling look the wheels were about to fly off but he got him back on and like actually kind of nailed it the dad thing anytime you thing, anytime you're looking at the screen and talking to a deceased relative, it's a little weird. But it went pretty well for him. Better than expected. I don't really understand what's going to happen here. I don't like the living plus idea. Why would they push this right before the

gojo sell because kendall's unhinged they obviously don't like because they made a bad business decision do they still not want it to happen no they're trying to run any kindle that's why they're that's why they're fudging the numbers because they're trying to make an argument that they can go back to Mattson and say, we actually need more money. It needs to be more. And they know he'll probably – he doesn't have the capital to go to whatever, 195, 196, whatever it is. So they can't just nix the deal because they have a duty to the shareholders, right, and the board. So the whole thing is just them going in a roundabout way to tank this deal, to get Matson to back out. Yeah.

Am I saying it Matson or Mastin? It's Matson. Matson. The T is first. M-A-T-S-S-O-N. I knew a Matson call. If I'm not incorrect. Okay.

But it's quite enjoyable. Shiv is doing Shiv things. When is she going to tell Tom that she's preggers? He's got to know. You're going to have to watch the show. I don't know. She's like... Fucking Sally over here.

She's got to tell that player. I'd like to see them uh smushing dude great that their dynamic is weird as fuck but I enjoy it yeah I'm like I'm liking that they're they're volleying back and forth right now yeah I'm enjoying that I want them to end up back together I need her to stop talking to Madsen though though like i full stop stop talking to mattson you don't need to be doing this i don't like that she's like yeah helping him giving him insider information i think we need our man mattson to get a likable role next a role where he didn't like kill someone or isn't trying to fuck over people and stuff you know i would like to what's his name again scars yeah we need scars guard to get like a hot boy role like to play like a male model who dies in a freak gasoline fight something

like that he needs to do the mcconaughey thing where like he was trying to do serious roles and he was like wait i can make millions of dollars just doing rom-coms for a little bit there it is then turn into a motivational speaker so something that's gone on since season one it comes about like once or twice a season is have you noticed that kendall is like a sneaky fan of like hip-hop like yeah in the car and like those are like strategically like last week he comes in uh jay-z takeover a famous disc song to Nas. And then he comes out last night to a Public Enemy song and somebody pointed out like,

yeah, Kendall Roy's got his rap fandom. It's very clever. And also it's based on, you know, this is based on the Murdoch family. One of Rupert Murdoch's sons apparently has this hip-hop obsession and owned a record label. And that's who they're basing it on.

That's great. Oh, okay. It's so good. Well, Kendall does like, I mean, what's his actual name? Jeremy Strong. Jeremy Strong, like he tries to, I don't think he goes like full character actor, but I think he goes, gets pretty damn close. And so I think that's all part of it.

Like he comes up with that kind of stuff. He comes up with the attributes of Kendall that he wants to influence on the show. He's such an excellent character. It's perfect. And it makes watching it so much more enjoyable because I'm like, he's so into this. He loves it. But I'm a Kendall stan.

Yeah. There's an article on The Guardian. When James Murdoch was a hip hop mogul, how did he not buy the Wu-Tang record before Shkreli did? He owned Raucous Records, R-A-W-K-k-u-s that's a great question that's that that's like that's like a legit label are they not around anymore i don't i don't know i need to follow up but it is it is a pretty funny thing wasn't that with like talib quali and yes stefaron yeah black star that's what we're seeing here in the photo uh because you're sitting

in the presence of someone who literally took the history of hip-hop oh yeah he was a raucous gentleman people forget about that that's right that's right god dude good for you man yeah thank you thank you uh we got to talk roman what about him unhinged he's making some real knee-jerk decisions don't really like this uh side of him he's really uh acting out clearly he has not um he's... He's dealing with grief. Second time you fired Jerry in like a week's time. I'm not dealing with grief. You're dealing with grief. He's got to stop firing Jerry. Yeah. I feel like Jerry

could pretty much sink his ship at any moment because screenshots, things of that nature. Jerry needs to be the CEO of this company. Yeah. I think she would be a good one. Did she do a poor job managing the DOJ thing? It didn't seem like it.

No. It's all been swept under the rug at this point. Yeah. Yeah. I think she needs to be CEO. Yeah. I love the speech. I loved the little exchange right before Kendall hit the stage.

Oh, with Carl? Dude, Carl did not like Kendall's vibe. That was some alpha shit. Yeah. I fuck with Carl now. I think Carl could hit the stage. Oh, with Carl? Dude, Carl did not like Kendall's vibe. That was some alpha shit. Yeah. I fuck with Carl now. I think Carl can run the game. I need to holler at Carl's optometrist for those glasses he's been stunting in this season.

He's looking good. They're swag. He's looking so good. Yeah. Yeah, shout out to Carl. Well, you were saying that you've been calling him hot Carl because he's been looking so good lately. Yeah.

He's a hot older man. What, Randy? Are you being gross randy man you grow up dude do you mind out of the gutter why don't you update your phone buddy yeah that was a great scene from carl wasn't expecting it like i basically like don't fuck with me i thought he literally thought he was groveling until he was just like, fuck you. Just two guys just holding each other's dicks. Just playing a game of dick chicken. Dickin'. Sure. Fucking call me Charles.

I don't know what we're doing. No, it's fine. Charles Dickens. We're doing it. Overrated or underrated? Charles Dickens. I think over. It was the best of times.

It was the worst of times. Did you ever read any Dickens? Yes. I didn't. A Tale of cities two starring tom hanks meg ryan that wasn't in your curriculum what books did you read in like sixth grade english literature or whatever uh we did of mice and men i don't know which grade it was i did that ninth grade which it felt like I should have done it sooner than ninth grade. I'll admit.

I forgot the other ones. I don't know. If Lenny kept that thing on him. Lenny didn't fuck around. That was a sad story, man. It was, man. Yeah. It was.

It was. I didn't read any book cover to cover in high school except for Of Mice and Men because it was 115 pages it's a good story hated reading yeah i read that uh what's it called cliff's notes oh man how did i get out of high school how did you how did cliff read all these books this guy was still around i think cliff was a fan of the blue man Group. We're moving on? It's a nice seggy. Are we basically best friends with the Blue Man Group at this point?

I need to slide into their DMs today. I did not realize that the Blue Man Group quote tweeted us earlier this week, and I have to say this is a very big moment for everyone at WASH Media. I think we should pop a bottle of champagne at some point today. We tweeted the other day that there was a Blue Man Group themed meetup. I don't know what this meetup actually was, but a bunch of dudes dressed up in Blue Man Group garb, and they went out

to bars together in Columbia, Missouri. The alma mater of Michael Weiner, who went to the journalism school there. Very cool. Thank you, Will. Thank you. Good to have you, Micah. I would like to be included on future Blue Man Group meetups. Why did they throw the shade at the guys who are just super fans,

the wannabe meetup? It just feels a little weird. Yeah, what's that about? Yeah. I mean, yeah, they're paying homage. What if we had a bunch of backers get together and do a meetup without us there? We wouldn't throw shade at that.

I'd be like, yo. Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. We just had Mike Golick Jr. on talking about male friendship in your 30s. And we got these guys out here making it happen. They're putting themselves out there, taking a chance, you know. Go to this meetup, dress in all in blue, and just make some friends. Okay. Like hypothetically speaking, you walk into a restaurant.

You go to the host stand. And you're like, hold on. What? What's going on here? And you look around. You just see a bunch, you go to the host stand, and you're like, hold on, what? What's going on here? And you look around, you just see a bunch of bald dudes painted blue. Are you staying at that restaurant or are you leaving that restaurant and going to one in walking distance? A different way to ask a similar question is if you're the manager of this establishment, you walk out and you're like, oh, this is what's going on today. Are you thrilled about that? You're probably not thrilled about the cleanup after where there's a bunch of blue everywhere.

You're just mopping out blue paint for the next few days? Do they leave blue? You know how girls have lipstick on their glasses? Do they have little blue things on their glasses? Probably so. Do they go full body? So if you happen to pull up to the urinal next to one of them and you glance over because you're just curious? They probably don't paint their dicks blue, Dave. That's not what I'm talking about. That's what you're asking. I don't paint their their dicks blue dave is that what i'm talking about asking okay i'm like their thighs that's not

going to make much sense you wouldn't do it if you had the blue paint you wouldn't go all out may as well have a blue dick yeah you may as well you're right better than blue balls we all been there brother blue balls I don't think I ever have. They don't actually turn blue well. Oh, maybe I have. Yeah. The mountains do, though. What if they really turn blue?

It'd be a problem. You're probably have a disorder of some sort. It's not getting blood flow. I'm just telling you, it's like a signal to... It's like the bat signal, but it's like the bat signal but it's like the crank signal what is the crank signal when your balls turn blue into the air like the coors lights when they turn blue that means it's ready to drink when your balls turn blue it means you're ready to you're about to go on the dl for tommy johns that forum inflammation okay how do we get here i don't know how do we get here with the blue man group

this is sick uh if any backer shows up to the next meetup we have in full blue man group garb you will all night yeah you you're on the watchtap congratulations i can't believe there's not more chicks at this bar they might be they might just shave their head you can't tell from the distance maybe that's funny it's crazy there's not like a bunch of supermodels hanging out with the blue man group wannabes come on be better blue man group come on dude none of these guys went home alone you know that well they had maybe they had a blue women group at a different that's fair the neighboring bar yeah we have like this would be a good bachelor party bit where instead of like wearing like the a male of wearing the male romper, the same Hawaiian, you just all go blue man groove.

You think they talk to each other there? Because they famously don't speak. See, that might be the worst. That would be what would make me leave the restaurant. If it was dead silent in there and they were all doing like... They're just miming with each other? Yeah, it's like, no, no, no, no. We're not doing that.

Miming's for nerds. They only talk through percussion. Yeah. They only talk through trash cans with blue paint on top of them and drum them. It's like, okay, I'm going to give you this cup of water, but you can't flip it over and bang on it. Because we've got other people here who aren't with the wannabe meetup. And just like. That's what it looks like.'s what it looks like

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polo season we should give in somebody like a wilmots polo for us or something oh interesting that's a good idea huh yeah backer 20 go make it happen dylan what are you getting into this weekend got a pretty low-key weekend. I got Parks all weekend. His mom will be out of town. Pretty excited about that, honestly. Going to be a low-key Friday night. He's got a soccer game Saturday morning. How's that going to go?

Trying to find that first dub. Might be the one. Might be the one. Got some family coming up to watch him play. And then we're going to spend the day with family. And, I don't know, might mix in a beer or two. How many Zoc cards are you going to play? Hard to say.

That's up to me, not you guys. That's all I have. I'm going to say so. If I decide to play the Zoc card more than once, you're going to have to accept that. Just don't tell us. That's all i got man

what's that boy getting into oh man uh at the moment currently actively seeking a golf invite so if you're in the austin area i'm willing to go uh i don't know depending on how nice the course is i'll drive 20 miles that being said no plans uh i'm gonna at least i'm gonna hit golf balls at a minimum um last week had to hit off the mats not great not a great feeling what's the opposite of a nut moment because that's what that was you hit balls at mats el rancho no it's different yeah they put in a simulator in that background. And then you nutted? You said nut moment. What? And I was also painted blue.

It was a really weird night. Things got out of hand. Dangerous night. Please don't illustrate that, Ricky. Yeah, please don't. There's a number of things that could be wrong. He's already busy. He's already busy today doing our Met Gala fits.

Is he? Yeah. Really excited for Dylan's to come through. Mine's going to be soon. What? Oh. Randy knows he finished them. I would love to see them.

What's the status on that update, Randy? Oh, they're right here. Okay. Randy's live tweeting his update. Look, man, I'll be around. You might see me out. Only thing on the schedule, there's certain soccer cubs, 9 a.m. But that's Sunday.

Other than that, I'll see you around town. Dave's is funny. I'm looking at the Photoshop's right now. Big weekend. Retail therapy does Louisville, Kentucky. We're going to the Kentucky Derby. Very excited. We're going to the Kentucky Derby. Very excited. We're going to pop into Old Forrester, do a little distillery tour.

We're going to do a bourbon tasting at a steakhouse. And then the next day, we're going to the Kentucky Derby, baby. I'm very excited. I don't know. If I've learned anything, I've learned two things in the last year about betting on the Kentucky Derby. One is that you shouldn't listen to Brett Merriman because he told me i was an idiot last year and my horse beat his horse are any of those horses maybe i don't know like were they born in the

slop that's another thing so yeah if you know that one of the horses was actually born in the slop you choose that horse what's the forecast looking like uh the last i checked at 30 chance of showers but i'm not too worried about it the sun always shines in other words 30 chance of showers, but I'm not too worried about it. The sun always shines. In other words, 30% chance of slop. Yeah. And so it should be fun. If you're at the Kentucky Derby, if you're in Louisville, come say hi. Just come holler. Ooh, Sun Thunder, 50 to 1.

That's a good value play. Yeah, hold on. Let's see these horses. I'm going to hop out right now. Ooh, I'm not hopping on two fills because they don't need that apostrophe there. That's just unnecessary. You should probably do a tweet about that. I was about to say I hope two fills breaks its leg,

but I definitely do not want that to happen because that's bad news for horses. Can you scroll down a little bit, Dave? I don't want to scroll down in another man's laptop. I didn't know you had a horse in the race. Rocket can? Rocket can. I don't hate Lord Miles. Kind of like Cyclone Mischief. Mandarin Hero? Cyclones are notoriously mischievous. Should we have done real or fake

Kentucky Derby horses? We could. Yes. Come Thunder. Ray's cane at 50 to one. That's probably not a real one. Ooh, I like Ray's cane. That could be a really fun one down the stretch. We'll see, man. I'm sure I won't bet and I'm sure I won't watch. I'll place a bet for you if you want me to. Will you?

Sure. All right. I got nothing to do. So I have to sit there and bet. We're literally going to be at the Derby for like 10 hours that day. It's going to be a long day.

Get your beak wet, baby. If you see me napping in my seat... No, you didn't. I might be, though. Get some action in there, Dave. I'm thinking about it. I might be, though. Get some action in there, Dave. I'm thinking about it. I might get a taste, dip my toe in.

Why would two fills have that? It bothers me so much. You need to read the backstory. Yeah, you don't know if it's possessive. It could be. It's not. Because there's two of them. You're more of a two princes guy.

I don't know the reference, but maybe. Two princes? Spin doctors. Oh, yeah. over two princes guy i don't know i don't know the reference but maybe two princes spin doctors oh yeah do you know what a game show podcast hosted by randy trumbacki i think you should know it is the next one which i'm very excited about okay you want to know yeah the first fill that two fills is named after is co-owner and breeder Philip Sagan, an advertising exec in Bloomingdale who is still relatively new to the thoroughbred breeding business. The second Phil represents the father of the Sagan's family friend, Jerry LaSala. See, no one has been like, hey, I noticed there's an apostrophe in this horse's name. Maybe we should amend that, make a little edit. No one has done that and i'm possessive it's but both of the

fills on it if that's true then it would go after the s dave yeah but it's each it's talking about each individual because if you were doing them because they own uh i don't know it's it's a mistake i don't know i don't let these things bother me i do yeah we know i certainly do will has too many comma splices in this column Shut up, you don't care Yeah, it's readable Nah People know when to pause in their head There's other punctuation that gets the job done as well

The punctuation on Twitter is out of control People love my diction dog Twitter's different Twitter's shorthand You've changed on that About seven years ago I changed on that Yeah, come catch the shorthand dog about seven years ago I changed on that yeah

yeah come over here bitch I didn't mean that I don't want to you're friends for now alright good stuff guys hey special thank you to

Michael O'Junior for coming on shout out to Kendall from Succession and shout out to the Blue Man Group and the wannabes bye