Circling Back - Whale Vomit, Pledgetock, and Urban Meyer

Episode Date: October 4, 2021

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all right we're back circling back podcast presented by busy heart seltzer the only heart seltzer with vitamin c and superfruit acerola. My name's Will DeFreeze. To my left, David Roth. Hey, guys. How are you? If you're in the South Austin area and you ordered groceries for delivery yesterday, specifically from the H-E-B on Brody, and they did not arrive, it's probably because they were delivered to my place.

And due to the policy of not being able to take said groceries to the rightful owner, they're now my groceries. And I want to say thank you. What was included in this grocery run? Did they have good taste in HEB grocery items? Bananas. Okay. So these arrived with our normal grocery shipment. So we just had like a couple extra bags.

So now I have two bushels of bananas. Dude, you know what this is prime for? I'm bringing stuff up here. Well, I was going to say this is prime for banana bread season. You can let those bananas go bad and make some banana bread out of them, Dave. That'll never happen because I don't really possess those skills. But if you want to give it a try. Coffee, which, come on what so far

this sounds good uh some vegetable chips that have a nice flavor some chickpeas don't love that you're a big chickpea guy no but i do like that's in the bedroom come on man no you should not eat chickpeas in bed no the little shells on them can get in your bed they're hard to get out um also uh b vitamins really yeah like what looked like a pretty expensive large jar of their like organic b vitamins or whatever natural heb or central market brand sound like you cut a dub yesterday well yeah i felt bad and and i i've got some of it in my car. I'd like to give some of it away if possible, but I felt bad just having this stuff. I'm like, somebody's going to get a refund, but they're going to have to wait until later in the day to get them, and now I've just got all this stuff.

You know what I started to do very recently, three weeks ago? Overbuy bananas intentionally in order to freeze them for my smoothies, and it's fantastic. You doing this? Anybody doing this? You hear about this? It's really cool. I often will split the banana in half and put the other half in the freezer bag

and then put it in the freezer because I don't like doing a full banana in the smoothie because it's just a little too much sugar. You're right. It's a lot of sugar. It's like 14 grams per banana. A little pro tip. If you're going to do that, peel them first. New segment.

Pro tips with Dylan. Peel the banana before you freeze them because if you don't, it's really hard to get the peel off. Obviously. Well, I figured it out the hard way several months back. I thought you ate the peel. No, I don't eat the peel, man. No, you take it and you try to smoke it after boiling it,

if you're me in seventh grade with your buddy Dustin. Could you get high off of it? No. Were there urban legends that you could get high off of yeah i think it was in like the the malcolm x book like his autobiography or something that he like would do something with nutmeg or banana peel i could be way off but there's this we heard about it and we tried it needless to say no one got high There was this family that I knew back in school. They were driving down the road one time, and someone had thrown a banana peel. No, keep going.

A banana peel on the road. Okay. Was this like a good family? Like did a lot in the community? They were such dickheads. They just bullied everybody, man. Anyway. Were they like Italian? I think they were Irish. Okay. I say that because they all had red hair. everybody, man. Anyway. Were they, like, Italian?

I think they were Irish. Okay. I say that because they all had red hair. Oh, yeah. Oh, we're profiling. Not that all Irish people have red hair, but, you know, typically that's how it works. Anyway, they were driving, and someone had thrown a banana peel on the road, like I said, and this family, they drove off a cliff because they hit the banana peel,

and the whole family died. It was really sad but so that's a pretty sad story to start the pod man that story does not rule sorry for sorry for laughing anyway yeah yeah dylan shivery in the building bananas in your smoothies it's man bananas and smoothies they really trick it wow that is such a cool like pull back the curtain a little bit of insight like bananas in It's like bananas in smoothies. Like, no one's doing that. Epic recommendation, man.

Thank you. That's cool. What's in your smoothie, Will? New segment. You know I keep those collagen peptides on my counter, dog. Oh, you like I don't? He's got cocaps. Like I don't?

What are you doing? Please, dog. Please. Doing. Half an avocado. Chia seeds. Damn. Oh, do you have chia seeds in your smoothie, Mr. Big Stuff you doing? Half an avocado. Chia seeds. Damn. Oh, do you have chia seeds in your smoothie, Mr. Big Stuff?

Chia seeds are good. Chia seeds are for... Mr. Big Stuff? There was a little worry that it was going to inflame my diverticulitis, but the chia seeds so far have been okay. We do a little ginger root up in there, huh? I'm not familiar. I don't do that.

Oh, you're not big enough to do the ginger root, huh? I bet your smoothie tastes like shit. Stop being so condescending. Dude, if you put a banana in it. I'm a condescending smoothie guy. It's a new bit I'm workshopping. You cannot have a bad smoothie with a banana. You're right.

It covers everything. Yeah, it does. You're right. They're like the perfect amount of sweet for a smoothie. They're great, man. I'll say this. Sally sometimes puts an avocado in our smoothies, and I don't like it. I don't like it.

Tell her. Why are you talking to me? Tell her. I'm scared of her. You'll do couple smooth me? Tell her. I'm scared of her. You'll do couple smoothies? Yeah. Smoothies for him and her? Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. She makes a good smoothie. I'm going to give her credit. You know what? I'm just going to call out somebody, my wife. She likes to do the thing where I'm making a smoothie. I'll ask if she wants one.

She's like, no, I'm good. Then I pour mine, and I've got the perfect amount. I've got the macros down, and then she wants some. Yep. So I get about three-quarters of what I originally wanted. I'll bend there. That's me making an ice water. Mrs. Ruff, Mrs. DeVries, welcome to Front Street.

Yeah. The second I start making an ice water before bed just to go put on my bedside table just in case I get a little parched at midnight, I'll get to the bed to set down my water, and she'll be like, oh, can you make me one? I'm like, well, I mean. Well, the kitchen's. You heard me clanking the ice around about, I don't know, 90 seconds ago? Yeah, but sure, I'll walk back into the kitchen and make you an ice water. Oh, and your leg's not working?

Yeah. Meanwhile, she's like feeding our child. Yeah. Okay. I'm like, yeah, what? Your leg's broken? Yeah. Anyway, that's smoothie talk with the boys.

Pro tips with Dorn. Dude, don't talk to me until I've had my smoothie. You know, I think today's National Taco Day. Are you guys aware of that? Are you serious? Dude, we're on a run of national days lately. We've had National Coffee Day, Podcast Day, now Taco Day. We love all these things.

Dude, all of them. Yeah. We got Irvin Meyer walking around Columbus, Ohio asking if it's podcast week. Dude's just on one. That's crazy, man. Should we get some official biz out of the way before we get into this absolutely loaded episode? Let's do it. First and foremost, spooky season.

What better time to become optimized than right now? There is no better time, Will. No spookier time. Content from head to toe last week was just all time. Head to Toe last week was just all-time. I tweeted about it. It was an all-time content week for the boys. Got to tell you, going through the stories, I have to once again ask people to stop hiking.

Why are y'all hiking? Y'all need to stop. And if you're going to hike, do it with a group. And even if you're with a group, you can still have something spooky happen to you and you probably will i think 90 of all hikes end with something spooky anytime you hear a story about someone hiking it's always because something bad happened you never hear like the good the good hikes like oh we saw some nature it's always like oh mountain lion almost ate

ate us or hey that's a ghost i've been meaning to tell you, take a hike. Oh, wait. Get in here. Get to take a hike, yeah. I'm not going to take a hike. We're literally asking people to not. No, but seriously, stop. I know I've been over. I don't think I have been overselling.

The stories this year are just. I'm reading like 9 out of 10. I'm batting at 900. They're really good. I reading like 9 out of 10. I'm batting at 900. They're really good. I'll get you in the hall. If y'all want a preview, we put a free preview of last week's episode on the main feed. Just scroll back a couple of episodes and you'll see it. You'll see it.

I think it's called Stop Hiking. Y'all got to stop hiking. You got to. Patreon.com slash tricklingbackpodcast. Again, patreon.com slash tricklingbackpodcast. That link can be found in the description of this episode. Dude, and our Friday voicemails that drop on Thursday were really good. Yeah, Brett.

That was a great episode. Brett was a much-needed change of pace back. We needed it. A fresh breath of air. Yeah, I didn't think we were getting Brett for the entirety of the episode, but he sat there and he grinded it out. Kind of like Urban Meyer. Okay. of the episode, but he sat there and he grinded it out. Kind of like Urban Meyer. Also, go

follow Circling Back Pod and watch Media on the Grom. Also, leave a review and five-star rating. You guys want to hear a couple of reviews? Someone gave us 500 stars. 500? I thought that was an option. Yeah, it said, Not Your Grandma's Podcast. Shouts to Ross Boland for introducing me to three lads who aren't afraid to go there.

Wow, thank you, Ross. Dude, that's true. No, that's you, dude. Not us. Dude, I am afraid to go there. You hear this guy's college football takes, man? Dude, he's... Alabama, dude.

Your Alabama pick's looking good. Yeah, that was a good call. Someone said on Tuesday, this is Blair. This is Dorn-driven. Said, never stop singing, Dorn. Five stars. Thank you. I appreciate that. For every person that unsubscribes on Patreon because, never stop singing, Dorn. Five stars. Thank you. I appreciate that.

For every person that unsubscribes on Patreon because of Dylan singing, I will add another subscription for myself. That's how much joy it brings to me. Oh, thank you. Per Blair. I like to think I have a great voice as well. Someone said, proud moment. This is from Noted User, huge fan of apps.

Yeah, this guy loves apps. He loves it. He's a big app guy. Yeah, he said, proud moment. All right, we're back. Dylan just said Delco. He's very happy with of apps. Yeah, this guy loves apps. He loves it. He's a big app guy. Yeah, he said, proud moment. All right, we're back. Dylan just said Delco. He's very happy with your Delco reference. Sick.

Delaware County, for those keeping track at home. Shout out to Jackhammer. Did not know it wasn't a town until very recently. That's my fault. Darby Lunchbox said, stonks, five stars. Nobody is pumping and dumping Buffalo Wild Wings stocks like these kings. Buffalo Wild Wings only going up now like. Oh, like Cardi B?

Maybe. Yeah, she does that. Not totally familiar with a lot of her work, but I do enjoy it when it comes on a Peloton ride every once in a while. Okay. Yeah. And then the last one, from Graham, said, Stolen Valor. Said, one, need more merch. Fair. Two, Austin FC?

Really? Go crew. one, need more merch. Fair. Two, Austin FC, really? Go crew. Okay, buddy. No. Then he said, keep up the good work, Dave. Is that the Columbus team? Sorry for mocking you. I think Columbus. Yes, it's a team that was going to relocate here,

and then some shit happened, and then they just gave us a team, right? Yeah. Well, the best way to get to this stadium for the Columbus crew is that you take a road that's outside of Columbus, and then you take it to the game. Because there's a road outside of Columbus, Ohio. This is an OAR reference. He just does not know this.

It's soaring over Dylan's head. I don't know why you're putting it on him. You knew it was not going to hit. He wanted to try to embarrass me. He did. I wasn't trying to embarrass you. You look like a total freak right now. You embarrassed yourself enough.

I don't think that's accurate. That's fair. I'm just trying to embarrass you. You look like a total freak right now. You embarrassed yourself enough. I don't think that's accurate. That's fair. I'm just trying to be mean. I'm sorry. More on the Verde. Oh, do you want to get straight to it? I've been chomping at the bit.

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I feel bad for Dylan because he's going to get a bunch of coffee you're all so it's the same it's filtering hot water look into the camera and give randy a clippable take about this we can put this on tiktok you can get flamed if you choose pour over coffee over regular drip coffee you You're just a pretentious... We probably shouldn't do this in the middle of a coffee read. Why are you doing it then? You're exposing them, dude. It's the same thing as drip coffee. It's just more difficult.

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I had parks all three days because his mother was at ACLO weekend, so I had the great pleasure of keeping him all three nights. We just had a blast, an all-time father-son weekend with some bay and little bay mixed in. We had just a great little family weekend. Yesterday we went and saw The Addams Family 2. Man, is it worth seeing in theaters, man? I have my hand over the purchase button for a while trying to see. Yeah, we're familiar.

Blair's not going to resubscribe to this. I'm like four of my last four on falling asleep in theaters with Parks. What if it was the Blair Witch? Spooky. I keep falling asleep watching movies in theaters. I can't stay awake. Are you okay? It's like a thing for him now.

He's like, are you going to fall asleep this time? I'm like, I hope not. Is it because you're hitting your jewel? And he leaned over and he's like, wake up, wake up. Yeah. Is it because you're putting a bottle of whiskey into a Coke glass and just sitting in the theater? I wasn't drinking.

You're not doing that. I wasn't drinking. Dude, it's hard, especially if you're not invested. If you're bringing the kid to the movie, I'm going to assume that you're not super into seeing Adam's family too. He was cute. You fell asleep. I did.

Who's your favorite Adam's family member? Ooh. It's probably Uncle Fester maybe. Or what's the tall one's name? Mine's Samuel. The Frankenstein-looking dude. Lurch? Lurch. Thank you.

Lurch is pretty tight. You ring. Lurch. Anyway, that's it, man. And I watched a lot of football. Shout out to the Longhorns and the Cowboys, both winners. Cool, man. Is it a good time to be Dylan on the football schedule right now?

You know, it's going pretty well. Pretty well. I'm happy. I'm a happy boy. And that concludes this weekend in fun for me. Dude, electric. I think so, so too it's electrifying yeah what day do you get into this weekend oh footy dave dude dave and i had dave and i had ourselves a couple days just hanging tight uh must be nice man a little sushi den with the defreezes the defry the defreeze yeah i heard about that the freezes? The defries? Yeah, I heard about that one. The freezes.

How do you want it to be? Because that's what really matters. Defry? I don't know. Sally just calls us the Jungs. The Defees? I'm actually taking her last name. I know it's untraditional, but... Really?

Yeah. I'm changing my name. No, that's big of you. Yeah, we went out. It was fun. Next day, I got a surprise call from Will. He said, hey, you want to do this? You want to go to this soccer game?

This Major League Soccer game? And I was like, all right. We talked to my wife. And I got permission, and I went. And let me just say this. It was the most electric Major League Soccer game I've ever been to. How many have you been to in your life? As of now?

Yeah. One. I thought you'd been to a Dallas Bird game or something. The fans show out to support that team. For the fans to show out at the tail end of a Texas game, also

when ACL's in town, to have that turnout out there, granted a lot of its families, so they don't care about the other stuff, but still, was pretty impressive. They've got the section over there, the people who stand and they bang on drums and blow in trumpets and they're having fun. Shout out to the guy

two rows ahead of us every time the Verde scored would sling beer. And then he finally got yelled at. It only took two goals to get yelled at. He soaked your wife. He soaked me? Did you see me? Y'all got soaked. Dude, I was drenched in beer. That's what they told him. The security guard went up and said, got soaked. Dude, I was drenched in beer. He's in the wrong section for that. You've got to be in the right section.

That's what they told him. The security guard went up and said, hey, go over there if you want to do that. He was doing the thing where he was trying. So he had a beer in his hand, and he would stand up and do that. Like, he would raise up, and it would look like an involuntary act, like he wasn't trying to spray beer. But he did it so many times. Because how many goals did they score? Two or three?

I don't know. Enough to win. Did we catch that duck? We did. It was electric. I've never lost in that stadium, just to be clear. Wow. I'm one for one.

God, the city is buzzing right now. It really is. It really is. Shout out to me for just mashing that hot dog button. Twice. I just went, dude, straight up glizzy gang on them. I can't believe you didn't hit the barbecue while you were there. I was feeling the glizz.

As one would do. You were glistening that day day they were calling me a glizabeth taylor really yeah that's because you had you had like eye shadow on and stuff specifically was saying this uh some of the people that worked there okay they were like dude you gotta chill dude we think we only have like a finite amount of hot dogs i heard you just had two no i had more than that oh i kind of respected when i started realizing we had seats that that were all you can drink beer and i kind of started realizing after the guy started spraying beers the first time that oh the reason he's doing it's because he can just go get more without having to do anything and i was like yeah this makes sense as to why his entire beer is on my shirt right now he had a man bun. Did he? Not to say they're all of that.

I just thought it was funny. It seems like you do have something wrong with that. No. I would have one if I could grow my hair out. I would definitely have one. Really? For sure. I've never understood why you would grow your hair out just to put it in a bun constantly.

You know? Like, if you're going to spend the time to grow your hair out, why not let it flow? That's one of those trends that I thought would have gone away by now. No, not here. Some people are still doing it. If you had to take any major sports league, Major League Soccer is the one that has the most man buns per capita.

Fair. That's facts. That is facts. Dude, I had all the credit that game too. People were looking at my Slovenian national team basketball warm-up, and they were just like, dude, this guy's into some deep-ass shit. This guy does not care. This guy watches some leagues that I've never heard of. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Dude, you're a soccer guy, though. People were coming up, and they're like, dude, I'm so glad to have you on board. This is big for the city to have you on board with this Verde train. Yeah, it was like the mayor, Adler. I tell you, Adler was there, and he came up to us. What did he say? He was like, hey, love what you guys are doing at WASH, man.

It's so cool to have you all on board with the pod and the soccer stuff. The mayor of Austin singled you out in the stadium. And the city manager. And they thanked you for being a part of the Austin FC culture. A couple of trustees as well that are on the board. We might be doing some ad reads for the local government.

What about the red carpet for you, Dave? Well, it wasn't just me, but it was mainly me and me, Will, and Colin and Sally. Hot Colin. Colin by his name. It's Hot Colin. Hot Colin. It was just on fire. That dude's electric. Yeah, call him by his name. It's Hot Collin. It's Hot Collin. Hot Collin. It was just on fire. That dude's electric. So I woke up.

Shout out to him for the tickets. I had a little bit of a headache when I woke up on Saturday morning because Davey and I got into some stuff

and then I went out to go pick up some breakfast tacos and I looked down at my phone as I was leaving and I saw a text that said,

Austin FC today? And I was like, oh shit, it's about said, Austin FC today? I was like, oh, shit. It's about to be the day. So what'd I do? I hit up you, too, Dylan. I don't want this to go unnoticed. I hit up Dylan. You could have been our fourth.

I immediately hit you up, and you ruined Lad's day because Sally came with us in your place. Yeah. She held her own, though. I had a different soccer game to attend. My son's. I forgot to mention it. Did they win? They did. 2-1. I was not expecting's. I forgot to mention. Did they win? They did.

2-1. I was not expecting that. No offense to this park's soccer team. Yeah, so we were kind of joking about it. The first goal they scored was their own goal. Oh, no. What do you call it? An own goal?

Own goal, yeah. They were kicking it in from out of bounds, like right by their goal, and his teammate's back was turned to him. Fucking idiot. And he hit off his back and went in the goal. That's how they got the win. Did Parks rip his shirt off and run around celebrating? Oh, man.

Yeah. Dude, what an idiot. He went Petey Pablo on him. Did that kid's dad yell at him? I don't know. I mean, they're six. He's like, still though. Dude, it's embarrassing.

I think actually someone sent me a photo, and you're on the sideline pointing at the kid and laughing. You're over laughing at him. I did laugh, but I tried to stifle it a little bit. It was pretty bad, but funny. Kids, man. They're just out here. What are they doing? Yesterday, man, I was just watching the games all day.

Freaking red zone. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You catch any of that Man City-Liverpool game? Yeah. Probably the best second half of EPL that I've seen this entire season so far. I was just telling somebody that. Really?

It was a great one. Yeah, I mean, you never knew what was going to happen when the ball was kicked. Dude, that's really good analysis. It's like anything can happen, man. I didn't do much outside of hang out with Dave for an extended period of time. Caught up on a bunch of TV yesterday. The Lions absolutely suck, so that's

cool. Caught a little SNL, watched that premiere episode. Skipped ahead a lot. Not very good. Speaking of TV, are we going to talk about any Squid Game today? You might know him as... Wow. Oh.

Owen Wilson. I might have checked in on that. It was fine. He had a couple good parts, but overall there were a couple skits that just kind of needed to get left behind. You can't enter the first episode of the season and have a skit that falls flat immediately. That's tough. You usually want to lead with one of your stronger ones. I mean, you had an entire off season to,

to, to workshop, to do stuff. I feel like that. I feel like someone got a nod. I feel like they almost were giving a nod to the inappropriate lady who was screaming about the book and doing anal at the local high school or local school here.

They did an entire skit on just like pretty much just school board meetings. Dylan kept sending screenshots of that Casey Musgraves performance. I didn't know about it until this morning. She's a talent. She's very beautiful to me. I'll say it. She crushed her. I only watched the first performance.

She did it to him. She has great pipes, man. I can't imagine being her husband during this. Ex. Ex-husband. Yeah. Like, you've got to do everything you can to make sure that marriage stays intact so that you're not just getting poured out on every stage across America.

It's like dating Taylor Swift. Yeah. And, like, when the breakup happens, like, you just got to brace yourself for what's going to happen next. Yeah. Because you're going to get railroaded. Like, imagine not being able to enjoy 1989 because all the songs are about how shitty you are. Like, that happen next. Yeah. Because you're going to get railroaded. Like, imagine not being able to enjoy 1989 because all the songs are about how shitty you are.

Right. Like, that would stink. Yeah. Is there one of them about Harry Styles? But, like, not in a bad way? I don't know. Is she, like,

did she go through, like, a barber phase where she was trying different hairstyles? No. Isn't, like, we never go out of style? Wasn't, like,

a play on the game? Watermelon sugar. I don't know. I don't know. I could be making that up. Isn't it like a play on the game? Watermelon sugar. I don't know. I don't know. I could be making that up. He might not have even been on the scene then. He probably was. Here's an idea.

What if we got Taylor Swift on the podcast to discuss the meanings of some of her songs? Let's reach out. I'll DM her right now. Where she can say is no. I'm going to reach out to her right now. This is going to end up like when I DM'd Nick Swartzen and he never responded. Dude, I think Taylor's pretty active in her DMs, though. She responds to a lot of mine.

Okay. Oh, that's not what you want. Oh, the server error on Instagram is not what you want. I got it too, man. That's a classic 5XX server error. They must be uploading the UI. The user interface. That's the worst one. They're uploading the UI? Yeah. No, they're all – yeah.

They probably got some stuff on the back end they're doing. And then they've probably got a GUI developer, a GUI, graphical user interface. Is Tech Dave talking? Yeah. No one had Recruiter Dave coming out of the woodwork today. They probably got some guys on the back end doing some SQL server development on the back end. And maybe some guys on the front end doing C-sharp. .NET stuff. That's hot still.

Maybe some Ruby on Rails. How did you not bust this out at Grand X more when we had meetings with dudes that just got hired that we didn't know? I don't know. Do you see Jared did his Gangnam Style tweet again? He did. I gave him a like, too. He texted me about it, but I was unfortunately fast asleep, so I didn't see it.

He asked for the TFM retweet without actually atting TFM. Oh, I got bad news on that front. I'm officially logged out of the TFM. No, man, really? I got my new phone. Oh, that's a bummer. You have to know the passwords to log back in, it turns out. And so I'm officially out.

I did not take advantage of it ever. I'll have you know. I wish you would have. it's good you admitted to not doing a crime yes is it a crime to retweet i don't think there's nobody take me away shackle me daddy i love retweeting this digital bad boy you are yeah it's true people call me that let's talk about honey real quick and i ain't talking about the stuff you drizzle on your yogurt. I'm talking about my favorite plug-in out there. Oh, yeah. We all shop online, and we've all seen that promo code field taunt us at checkout. But thanks to Honey, manually searching for promo codes is a thing of the past.

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It's been one of my favorite sponsors for a while, man. And you're certainly not capping on that. No, there's no cap here whatsoever. It has saved me hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, probably hundreds. I've gotten to the point where I will go try stuff on in the store and then go home and order it online because I know that I can get it cheaper, most likely by using Honey. Yes. And it does all the homework for you.

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as I was on Saturday. I thought I had too many IPAs with the lads at the game because I was like, no way I'm seeing what I'm seeing. It was busing. That's something we skipped over, by the way. Will did go out of the gate at the game because I was like, no way I'm seeing what I'm seeing. It was busing. That's something we skipped over, by the way. Will did go out of the gate at the game IPA. You keep talking about how you're going to quit IPAs, but you keep going back to them.

What are you doing? Well, here's the deal. Yes, I'm going to try to drink less beer. But when your seats have free beer and not free cocktails, it's kind of hard to not just start chugging beers. And so I had one IPA, and I was like, dang, that was pretty good. So I ran it back a couple times. I ended up getting some other kind of Kolsch or something at some point,

but I really did stick on the IPA trade. Which IPA did you get? It's called Lagunitas. Ever heard of it? I have. Yeah, it's pretty good. Okay, very cool, very sick. I had three to four of them.

Nothing too crazy. That's crazy. I know. I also had's pretty good. Okay, very cool. Very sick. I had three to four of them. Nothing too crazy. That's crazy. I know. I also had two pounds of potato salad at the game. No one had more potato salad than me at that game. Damn. He was calling it tater salad. He was doing this whole bit. Dude, it was good, though. It was so homemade that you could see the whole grain mustard

little particles all over it. It was heat. That's how you know. Mustard. Far superior to the mayo version. Well, this was actually heavily mayo version with just a hint of mustard. It was a nice touch. Very cool. Can we talk about Urban Meyer?

Yeah, the TL was just absolutely buzzing. What, did he do something wrong? I was falling pretty close. It depends on who you ask, I guess. Do we even need to explain what happened? Has everyone seen it at this point? Most people are aware, but let's explain anyway. He made the crucial mistake that so many people make.

And when he had the opportunity to leave Ohio, he did not leave Ohio. He stayed in Ohio. Yeah, so the Jags played the— The Bengals. The Bengals. Cincinnati, so the Jags played the Bengals. The Bengals, Cincinnati, yes, on Thursday night football. Oh, Thursday night. The team flew back to Jacksonville,

which few people know is the largest city by land area in the United States. Little known fact. He did the move where you're at the bar with your boys, and they all leave, they all call an Uber, but you're like, you know, I'm gonna hang out, finish my beer. Maybe, maybe, maybe I'll go to another bar by myself. And that's what he did. And next thing you know, he decided to stay back in Cincy and catch a vibe, which happens.

Everybody's vibing in Cincy. Right. We know if this wasn't Cincy, we know that's a town he was in, but I don't know. I can't say for sure that it happened. There's so many destinations in Ohio. He could have gone. It's true. Yeah. Columbus.us maybe went up to columbus just to kind of relive the old you know how you get to columbus you take a road that's outside

of columbus and you drive it in what yeah okay anyway he got into one he tied one off tie one on what how's this what's the same tied one on you wouldn't tie one off still don't understand what that means yeah he probably did that in the hotel room later. What does that mean? It's when you tie a tie over your head, and you're like the crazy guy with the tie on his head at the party. That's not the origin of that saying, though. Okay, at least I offered something up. True.

Really, it makes no sense. What are you tying on? Anyway. I can guess. He tied one on, and some pictures began surfacing. A video. The video. He took pictures with some fans.

In his defense. Was grinded upon by a young lady. Looks like he did not turn down a photo from any fan. No. That's a good guy move. Who's more dead in the eyes in this? Is it Urban Meyer in these photos, or me after two Mexican martinis at Matt's El Rancho? It's similar there's nobody home he's he's there his eyes are open but he didn't

fall down the steps though into like the metal table no no no like you did once there's no video of it it's a long time ago it could have been someone else david a long time ago i want it's the job it's unbelievable dude don't take me to a crawfish boil that has all you can drink beer and all you can eat crawfish and expect me not to go crazy exactly sorry and it was like it's those you know the heavy metal chairs outside of mats that are so loud when you even like pull them out and we'll just roll barrel rolled into one it was just it was loud so the end of the story the video still one of my all-time favorite videos. Stop. The panning over to Dave, he was like.

Stop. That was a different dinner. It was a different dinner. I was in my bag numerous times that spring. The weirdest part of this wasn't just the fact that, you know, he had a nice young lady grinding on him at the bar. It wasn't that, you know, just the photos being posted. I think it was the action that was occurring on Twitter behind, you on Twitter behind Urban's back of his wife just tweeting through it.

Yeah. Liking tweets about it. Even commenting on it. She said Buddy needed a night out. And there's a picture of her with, I think, her grandchildren. She's, like, alluding to the fact that she's at home watching the kids while he's out there. Boy, that's the text you don't want to get.

When you're out with the boys and you get like a real cute pic of the kid and you're like, oh, yeah, I'm out here. We out here. Was his phone dead? Like was his phone dead this entire time? How is there not people just be like, Urban, get out of there. Dude, he's the age of – he doesn't check his phone like we do. Okay. He's got the big text.

Yeah. He's got his reading glasses out to check what's going on. He had an airplane mode on accident. I think what's the most, the most damning is not the photos, it's the video. Yes. Here's his biggest misstep. Well, A, staying there. B, he wasn't really dancing. He was was just straight up he was in a bar stool

and getting grinded on while sitting sitting down and not reciprocating any type of dance move so he's basically getting a lap dance um and uh worth pointing out with his arm between his legs providing some sort of shield which i don't know if that should be applauded or not. Right. And the only way I can describe it is probably his erect penis. My theory is he was creating a barrier between the young lady's backside and his... Because she was dropping it. Did he not wear compression shorts to the bar?

His piece. Does he not listen to Internet Party and know that you have to wear compression shorts to the bar? He should have worn full pads. He probably does not listen to Internet Party. I'm sorry to say that about our friend. What, you don't think on his hungover flight home, he's like, I'm going to queue up my favorite podcast from University of Michigan athlete and John Duda. I think queuing up Sunday Scaries would have been more suitable.

Oh, got him. He's probably had a lot of those this season based on how the Jacksonville Jaguars have been playing. I asked this question before the pod. I said, does it make it worse that they're 0-4? It doesn't make it better. If they're 4-0, do people care? People are hooting and hollering. Oh, if you're 4-0, like he's getting –

His team's like, let's go, Herb. But if 0-4, like, come on, coach. You've got to get back to work, player. He should have stood up and tried to dance back. He could have. He's just drunk at a bar dancing with people, random chicks. Okay, bad look, but not as bad as getting a seated, very personal grind sesh from random.

Here's a question. Was he there with people? I think there were some dudes there with him. I don't think he was just solo venturing in and out of bars. He had a ragazzi with him. Which's a question. Was he there with people? I think there were some dudes there with him. I don't think he was just solo venturing in and out of bars. He had a ragazzi with him. Which makes it worse. Why wasn't the ragazzi more protective of their very high profile friend?

Maybe they were doing the no phone thing where it's like, hey, everyone put your phones in a pile and the first one to touch them has to buy the round of drinks. Unbeknownst to them, he's just going viral at a rapid clip. Oh, man. That's not a good look. Apparently, he was going up to people telling them it was podcast week.

Yeah. He apologized this morning. He did. He had a press conference. He issued an apology. Of course, he apologized to the players, his family, ownership. I don't think he, like, I mean, based on how his wife was tweeting about it, I don't know if he needs

to apologize to her. She seemed pretty open with it. Do they have an open marriage? Was she the one who mouth kisses all the players? No, that's Dan Mullen's wife. Okay.

She mouth kisses everybody. Like, what? But like, still, like, I just don't. Dude,

that should be a bet payoff. You have to get mouth kissed by Dan Mullen's wife. How many videos of me getting grinded on in New Orleans before Sally gives me a phone call and is like, what the fuck are you doing?

That's why I have a no-grind rule at the meetups. Yeah. Yeah, please don't grind on us. No. Grind on each other, just not on us. Am I allowed to be Urban Meyer for Halloween? Yes. I just get a nice Ohio State QZ.

Dude, he was rocking a fit. That was a good look. He had that QZ and the shorts on. Still repping Ohio State, man. Dude, he was rocking a fit. That was a good look. He had that QZ and the shorts on. Still repping Ohio State, man. Love to see it. His wife literally has the X over Meyer, the M in Meyer for her Twitter. She what? She puts the X there because they don't use M's because it stands for Michigan.

Oh, really? Yeah. Is this like a – Kind of makes me less searchable. Is this like the 23-year-old going back to his high school with a letter jacket on and checking out the game? What are you doing, Urban? He's rocking the Ohio State QZ.

It's like, all right, dude. You kind of moved on. You're in Jacksonville now. At least it wasn't a USC QZ. A lot of jokes to be made about USC. Dave, do you have a special treat for us on the Urban Meyer front? We really failed. We were trying to figure out where this happened, like what actual bar.

And in doing so, we found out that Urban owns a chop house. It's called Urban Chop House. I get it. And I was looking for some good reviews on it. And the reviews are pretty good for the most part. But my favorite one comes from our friend in Columbus, Sierra. And it's a two-star review, which we were discussing before the pod. You know it's going to be good when it's a two-star review.

Yes. The one star is usually accompanied by one sentence, flaming it, get in, get out, be tactical, one star. Two takes a little bit more thought because there were some things you liked. The last thing he needed was more thought. I've never rated anything two to four on the one to five scale. It's always either one or five. I'm going to give you – this is like about 800 words.

We probably would have published this on PGP. i'm gonna give you a little bit um starts out tldr save your money and go to applebee's parentheses they have nachos there i'm looking on the menu here i'm not seeing a lot of nachos on here unfortunately um i did like this the potatoes are the star of this restaurant the name should should be changed to Urban's Potato House. Dude, fuck yes. It's got a good ring to it. Because that's the one thing he definitely got right. The mac and cheese had a strong taste of parsley,

and the asparagus was just mediocre. That's tough. Dude, not only do they have the whipped potatoes, where you can add lobster for $10, they also have pigskin potatoes. I don't know what that even consists of, but you have to think it's Torch. It's made of football.

You think that they actually serve potato skins in half footballs? Hey, listen to this. We ordered the deviled eggs, and we were not super impressed. According to my fiance, they were little zesty deviled eggs. Dude, they're crowned with voodoo shrimp

for $11. Your deviled eggs should not be more than $11. If you're hitting double-didge for deviled eggs, you better have some truffle on that thing. Where's my pig? Where's the pig? Did you watch Pig? No, I haven't watched it yet. I'm waiting

to see it in theaters. No, you're not. No, I haven't watched it yet. I'm waiting to see it in theaters. No, you're not. No, I'm not. Yeah, that's about it. I mean, there's much more, but... It looks like this place does well. The food looks good. It looks fine.

It looks fine. Is it in Columbus? The coach's pick for $59 is a 7-ounce filet, whipped potatoes, Brussels and bacon, herb butter, port reduction, and porcini potato chips. I can see you getting that. Nah. Here's a good one. Let's cut to the chase and talk about the mediocre and overpriced food, but the delicious craft cocktails. Okay.

They're getting a little credit there. Urban, urban, urban. You silly little bitch. What are you doing? Yeah. Dude, you can get a tray of Spiked Strawberries here. It's got Smirnoff vodka and Grand Marnier strawberry gel with some whipped cream, and you just eat them.

You get a tray of five for $15. That sounds like something I would have liked in high school. No, thank you. They even have a drink named after his wife, the giant Shelly Teeny. It serves up to six, and it's $40. Okay. Shelly Teeny. Maybe he was just twisted.

Babe, dude, I'm sorry. I was just twisted off the Shelly Teenys. I missed you so much. Girl, your love is like a martini. That's Will's debut country album. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yep.

Dirty. Mark Cuban and Cole Beasley are just going at it on Twitter right now. Why? The Beas. You know he can dunk. It's about being vaxxed, I'm sure. I haven't really dug in. Dude, Cole needs to take this energy and get in the booth.

Drop another mixtape. That kind of booth, yeah. Yeah, not the play-by-play. Right. Although I would listen to Cole Beasley doing play-by-play. I was like, wait, you want him to do play-by-play? Hey, can we talk about a unique investment opportunity that I have for you guys?

Has anyone in this room ever been to Thailand? No. It's on the list, though. Really? Not really. I mean, I would like to go. I would like to go, but I kind of need that trip to fall into my lap. Kind of like that girl did, Urban Meyer. Bangkok. As it turns out, whale vomit is all the rage over there.

If you can snatch up some whale vomit in Thailand, you could be making a lot of money. Apparently, there's a substance made by sperm whales that's known as ambergris. That's the color of your energy. And it can be sold for up to $40,000 a kilogram. You guys want to hear how they discovered this? Dude, moving major work on the streets. A hard-up fisherman. Oh, why was he hard up?

Good for him. He'd been at Urban Chop House. In Thailand, he was in line for a windfall of more than $1 million after finding a rare piece of expensive whale vomit on a beach. I'm not going to try to pronounce his name. We're just going to call him Narong for now. He was returning to shore when he saw a strange object in the surf at the beach in South Thailand's Surat Thani province. He found a large lump of a waxy mess

called whatever it was called, which is French for gray amber. The substance, which is regurgitated by sperm whales, can be sold for up to $40,000 a kilogram, and he found one that was 30 kilograms, which can be worth up to $1.2 million. What is so valuable about it? What's the property? Apparently, they eat a large quantity of cephalopods, such as squid and cuttlefish, of course, and then they vomit out the indigestible elements, such as their beaks and their pens. I don't know what the pens is. Pen 15, maybe?

Maybe, yeah, they misspelled something there. And sometimes these parts move into the whale's intestines and bind together, slowly becoming a solid mass, which grows inside the huge mammal for over many years. So this thing is... It's kind of like human decanting. It's got to cook for a while in there. Yeah. You've got to let it all

get together. Why is it useful? Do we know that? Dude, it's hard to say. This sounds like something I don't want. The whale then vomits the mass, which solidifies and flows to the surface of the ocean. It has a foul smell at first, but after drying out, it develops a sweet and long-lasting fragrance, making it a very sought-after ingredient in the perfume industry. Oh, there we go. Do I need to cop some of this for the next round of Sunday Scaries Candles?

Whale vomit perfume? Man, if only there was a tropical candle coming out in the near future that maybe we could have used this scent for. What? I feel like there's easier ways to acquire a scent. Have you guys seen videos of whales exploding

on the beach? No, I don't frequent live leak like you do. I've seen that video. What do you mean? No, like really, though. Tell us. They get a gassy buildup, and then they explode, and it's quite disgusting, turns out. Really?

Yeah. Okay. I'm still trying to find a way to extract scorpion venom, by the way. How much is that? As we've discussed, it is the most valuable liquid on the planet. Do you want to hear what this guy's going to do with his money? Yeah. He's a real one.

Is he going to open a tiki bar? He's going to open a chop house. So he's already gotten a certificate to prove that it's real. Okay? We're such shitheads. He said, quote, if I can get a good price, I'll retire from working as a fisherman and throw a party for my friends. That's a real one. Dude, he's throwing a party.

He's going to regret that immediately. No, I'm throwing a party. He's going to wake up with a hangover like, man, I spent like 300 grand on this dumbass party. Something tells me that he's not going to spend 300 grand on the dumbass party. I think he's going to go a little wild with it. I'm going to trade in my crypto holdings for a little whale vomit. Some say that whale vomit's the original crypto. Really?

Are you bullish or bearish on this? I'm whale-ish. It's so stupid. Did you try to even find any whale vomit when you were on your little party last weekend in San Diego? There was probably hella whale vomit over there. I couldn't find any whale vomit. I did look, but there was none to be found anywhere. You weren't even fucking looking, dude.

What kind of whales? You were taking your dumbass nap. Sperm whales, dude. Oh, hell yeah. You did take a nap. Oh, it was so good. No one cares. Dude, the boys were mobbing at the beach, and you just took a nap.

They were playing some dumbass paddle game. I was like, oh, yeah, have fun, you idiots. I'm going to take a dope nap. Oh, it was so good. No one cares. Dude, the boys were mobbing at the beach and you just took a nap. Yeah. They were playing some dumbass paddle game. I'm like, oh yeah, have fun, you idiots. I'm gonna take a dope nap. Dude, if there's one thing I hate, it's chilling at the beach in San Diego with my friends. I'd join them eventually. Your boys were bonding and forming a tight cohesion and you were just napping. I was just an hour late to the... Were they trying to get you to bring a towel to the beach and you were like, nah, fuck that. You refused.

I'm staying back. You're like, I'm laying on the sand. I'm wearing my sneakers and I'm laying on the sand. Uh-huh. You got the Carl fit off from First Night of Bachelor in Paradise. I was putting the vibes out, man. It was sick. Dude, we didn't get to do Two Minutes in Paradise last week. I've got two minutes in paradise.

Blair's going to like that one. Shouts to Blair, man. Ivan. I don't think Ivan's in the running to ever be the Bachelor anymore. Man, he's in the running in my book. Can't wait to hear about him. He let the horny get the best of him. He pulled

the old urban. He got caught. They did not hold back on the footage. He got caught lying a little bit. I didn't think it was that big of a deal because he was lying to Aaron. Who cares? Aaron sucks. Aaron has somehow become the most unintentionally funny person in the Bachelor franchise for me. Him and James as a one-two punch is just too much for me. James is still trying to position himself as being a super nice guy, which I think he is. But he seems gun-shy, whereas I want him to bro out a little bit more.

I think he's got it in him. But, yeah, we thought some prayers to Ivan. He's gone. Other than that, I don't really know what happened. I mean, I didn't watch the last hour. I don't think I did either. I think I'm just going to wait for them to recap it before this

next episode tomorrow night. Cool. I'm not trying to watch a three-hour episode of a mid-season fucking Bachelor in Paradise thing. Don't care. Yeah, I have no regrets on not watching. You should. It was one of the best standalone seasons they've ever done of any show in the Bachelor franchise history, but it's winding down.

There's too much good TV on right now, man. We'll get to that. Throwing football season on top of it, it's, you know. Can I get a little credit for how right I was about Squid Game? Yeah. Dude, you were ground floor, man. No one else was talking about it. When I started watching it, when it was the number one show on Netflix,

I was ahead of the curve. I wonder how it got to number one. No one knew about it yet but you. They were like, Will's going to find out about this. He's going to make it the number one show. I am enjoying this show quite a bit. It is so twisted. You were through four.

It is twisted. So I am through four. It is twisted. So I am through eight. Will is done, right? I have half of the next episode, half of the finale left. Oh, super edge. Yeah, your boy might have fallen asleep a little bit on Saturday night after having too many IPAs. Pulled a Dylan, huh? We out here.

It is what it is. Bro, you're not helping the old case with you falling asleep in movies. Four out of the last four. That's such a dad move. Dylan, I do it every single night. And I think when I was speaking with Bae the other day in the studio, I think she confirmed that you and I have the exact same demeanor when someone tries to turn the television off after we've fallen asleep.

It's like, no, keep it on. No. No, keep it on no no keep it on no i'm watching huh i'm wondering it's like instead i could just you know turn it off at the appropriate time and then resume it later but instead i get to go back and fast forward and see what i remember falling asleep while the tv is still on and knowing someone is awake to like turn it off later is one of my favorite things in the world i don't know why it makes no sense okay i can just turn it off later is one of my favorite things in the world. I don't know why. It makes no sense. In the spirit of Squid Game, can I put out a sort of a stand mute cancel? Yeah.

So, if you haven't watched it and you're afraid of spoilers, we're not going to have anything too spoiler alert because Dylan's through four episodes I believe? Four. Okay. So, if you don't want any spoilers at all, I don't think you're going to get too many here, but just go fast forward and wait until you hear us talking about a frat kid

from North Carolina. Just that's what you need to do. Yes. Okay. So as you know in the first four episodes they play three different games.

The first one is Red Light Green Light a game that we all played as kids. Yes. Do I need to explain how to play that? No.

Then there's the Honeycomb game. Is this a game that is native to Korea or do they play this elsewhere? I've never heard of it. I've never heard of it either. It's essentially they have an etching on a piece of honey. It's sugar.

Sugar? It's sugar that they've melted down and formed little. It's brittle. No watermelon. Formed little, yeah. And you have to break it out. You have to break your little cutout out in order to survive. And then the final one was just tug of war

classic there's three of us in here which one of us is the most likely to if we were to separate ourselves and become the leader for our little pod of people that we're going to try to work with during this game, which one are we doing

for each of us? This is easy I'm red light green light okay because i realized very quickly you don't have to run if you just fast walk or just power walk you're gonna make it through and avoid people but you run you ran in the pandemic dude i know the problem of course with that game is that they didn't know the consequences of getting eliminated yet. True. The first guy took the L. Caused some panic.

Plus, watch me freeze on him. Plus, watch me whip. Watch me nay-nay. No. Honeycomb is Will. I feel like he might have the steadiest hand. I don't know if that's accurate or not, but I know I don't. Did you all just see me hit the whip?

I can lick like a beast. Yeah, I forgot. You are a noted licker. You're a big lick boy. Do you know how many licks it takes me to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? You're the tug-of-war guy. Lil' Licky. Why am I the tug-of-war guy? You got the dead legs, man. Yeah, but I don't think you want It's not all legs.

It's a lot of leg, buddy. You don't want my legs on there. Ooh, that's a good point. I was going to have Dylan on tug of war. Now I'm thinking, Dylan, once Dylan took one step forward, Dylan would give up. I'm done with golf, man. I'll be getting slim thick lately. Okay. Told you about my getting thick, you know, on butt, hitting those weights.

So maybe I am better at that. Strategy. As we learned, it's all about strategy. Well, I haven't learned it all yet, David, because don't spoil it for me. They cut off the episode in the middle of their game, so why don't you calm down. Did you all do field day in elementary? Yes.

I won every event. They didn't kill the losers in our field day, unfortunately. I can remember I tried to join a tug-of-war team in fourth grade. Oh, no. And Michael, I tried to join a tug-of-war team in fourth grade. And Michael, I'll respect his last name because I'm pretty sure he's no longer with us. He laughed at me because I was so small. He's like, you're not playing on a tug-of-war team.

But I did win the relay with three other guys. Joke's on him. Tug-of-war day for me was the day that I got to show people that I was more athletic than they gave me credit for. Very cool. There are some people out there that might remember a day when I almost set the school record for the 200.

Wow. During track and field day in eighth grade. I'll be your honeycomb boy on this one. I think I'm better at honeycomb. I think you've got to be tug-of-war guy. I'm surgical with my hands. Yeah, big Gerard over here. You just lick away, dog.

I know what kind of damage you do when you say I'm sick, though. What? I don't know. I just feel like you'd be good at tug-of-war. You got those calluses on your hand. Is this a masturbation thing? No, it's from deadlifting. Okay. get those calluses on your hand is this a masturbation no it's from dead lifting okay you have calluses on your hands you're disgusting i do exercise show us the hands show us your hands oh yeah i have great hands it's weird that you have such small hands

i have big hands oh they're sneaky tiny sneaky tiny they're big dog run up one of my hands see what what happens. I have small hands. I'm not even a front. Squid Game is good. It's very good. I will. No, I don't think. It's dark.

Internet Party Zone Brad is saying, hey, let's not do the Halloween costumes. He's right. But people are going to do them. Oh, yeah. You can't stop them. He's right. It's a layup. Are they already selling them?

Is it more acceptable if you do it and you have all your boys do it, too, so you're out there? Would you be one of the people with the shapes on their face mask or would you be one of the contestants? No, I'm getting off that vibey green sweatsuit they're all wearing. That thing fucks. What number are you going with? 420, I guess. Oh, yeah. Sick. That's very cool burns man yeah smokes pot that's sick david your son's birthday yeah yeah yeah because yeah of course it's fritz's birthday as everyone knows and you guys make it weird we're sorry yeah sorry sorry for loving my son and trying to pay tribute to him while i'm

doing a life or death situation it's acceptable acceptable. I would go as one of the foot soldiers. I would go triangle. I'm team triangle. I might just go the main guy. That guy's cold, man. Or Will. The main guy with the black mask. One of the characters that's introduced later on, Will.

Oh yeah, I love that character. Dave, stop. I just don't want to ruin it for you. Right. You know what I'm talking about, though, right? There's a glaring lack of squid in this. I was hoping they were going to be eating, like, calamari and stuff. That was part of it. Is the final game the squid game?

Dude, we may never know. It's got to be. But, of course, with a twist. Dude, it's hard to say. This ain't your grandma's squid game. And, yeah, okay. Never mind. I can't do any spoilers.

Episode four was a tough one, though. Oh, just wait. Just wait, dog. Just wait. Just wait. I want that main gangster dude with the tattoo. I want him to just get out of there. That dude.

Dude, I kind of like that. Well, that dude is scum. He is scum. He does look tight. Does he not look badass? Yeah. That tat is sick, and his hair's sick. That dude's scum. He is scum. He does look tight. Does he not look badass? Yeah. That tat is sick and his hair's sick. That dude's a fucking problem.

I didn't want to get that tattoo then. I'm probably not going to get the jawline tattoo of a dragon. I think it might look good with your mustache. Probably would look sick. It was a snake. Is it a snake? I don't know. Either way, it's something that slithers.

Does it climb buildings? Just like a snake. I'm going to bite you. I'll get the same tattoo with a little bucket hat. Be him for Halloween. You won't. I don't. I'm going to be Armand.

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What are you doing over here? Why don't you just not do that? I thought you were setting up a solo stove mid-read. Brett's breaking news in a minute. I've got to get my stuff out of his seat. Will wants to throw a vibey party. Yeah, dude. I'm trying to throw a vibey party over here,

and you're over here just moving your briefcase. I can't wait to go. Dylan's digging out his cubby over there. Dude, it's tough. If you just make a fire, you have all this smoke, you have all this debris and stuff like that. What if I told you there's a way you could have a fire in your backyard and have no smoke, no cleanup?

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They're making fires that don't have smoke. Right. Dude, they have several different kinds. They even have a Yukon edition that's just massive. I wonder if they named it after the car. I haven't seen that one. They're like, dude, those Yukons are huge. Damn.

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God, I swear, every time someone used that term back in the day. You coined it? No, I absolutely did not time someone used that term back in the day. You coined it? No, I absolutely did not. I wanted to just die. I died a little bit inside every time. Wow. Oh, you're a frat star? Really?

Anyway, this guy is a frat star, though. It's such an old term that it's now okay to say again in jest. Are we talking about Briggs? Dude, Briggs. Dude, the kid's name is Briggs. Is Briggs Edwards the best thing to... I mean, he is championing pledge talk right now. This is the kind of TikTok-ing I'm about.

And not like the actual cool dancing that these turds are doing. So the theory here... This is cool. We got this from Randy. This is a unc kid who's now gone viral on tiktok he's got about 123 000 followers which is about a thousand more than when we started this episode and it seems as though you guys can tell me as i did not pledge uh you

have pledged tasks you have to do what are these what are these tasks normally consist of like eating a couch okay we didn't eat a couch so So you think that his task, is it generally accepted that his task was to get viral on TikTok? That's the theory that Randy told us, and it has legs. I don't know how accurate it is. That makes sense because, obviously, when Dylan and I did the fraternity stuff, TikTok wasn't around. That may surprise some of you, but we're a little bit dated out of that. TikTok wasn't around. That may surprise some of you, but we're a little bit dated out of that.

And oftentimes you will make a pledge. You'll make them go perform for sororities. You know, something to kind of make them look dumb, but it's fun, and the girls like it. You turn them into like a barbershop quartet. That's a great one. This is just on a whole new level. Okay, on September 21st he did one, and he hashtagged it.

What does FYP mean, by the way? For your page? Is that what it stands for, Randy? For you page. I don't get it. Everyone does that. I don't know why they do it. Yeah, I don't either.

Anyway, his next hashtag is pledge talk. Would indicate that he is a pledge. It's a new app. His videos, his lowest video has 652,000 views, and his highest video I think is at 7.5 million, 7.1 million. And he might be the greatest dancer of all time. He's very good. He's a once-in-a-generation talent.

He's just wearing frat tees. Dude, he's got, yeah, he's got like the gray, I don't know if they're new balances, but they look like they are. He's got the school on board too. Like he's just. Is there any way? What are the chances that he listens to this podcast? Not likely.

Not a fantastic chance. I think it's decent. I think we're giving. We have a decent North Carolina listenership. Somebody we know has like a little brother that knows this kid. I will tell you that. Somebody listens to this pod. Because did you see a couple weekends ago I reposted the kid's face during the Ryder Cup?

Who's looking over at the girl from like an old TFM video. We're back in Blacks playing and it's like a girl doing a little dance and they pan over to that kid. I posted that. A guy DM'd me. He's like, dude, I know this guy. Really? Yeah. I love that shit.

I do too. This kid is electric. What if Pledge Talk was an app where pledges just like communicate each other anonymously about getting their little dicks hazed off? Through dance? Through dance. The gift of dance. I love this kid. He's perfect.

Can we get him on the pod? He's perfect. Can we get him on the pod? Okay, choose your fighter. This guy or Rusty Rank Spears? Rusty's still the go. Don't make me. Sorry, Briggs, but Rusty, Rusty's the original, like, frat dude on TikTok.

I want to see Briggs just absolutely delete just 12 somethings. Dude, Briggs, this kid weighs 120 pounds. Yeah, something tells me Briggs doesn't have his drinking, like, whatever. I can't wait until Briggs, like, a year and a half from now, like, J.I. semester or something, puts on, like, 40 pounds and, like, just grows his beard out and he just kind of looks like shit. Yeah. Stops going to class.

Yeah. His parents sit him down, like, what's going on at college, man? At the end of the day, Rusty ranks beers. That's what he does. That's the thing about Rusty. Among other things, too. He sits there and he ranks beers. Did I see him do 12 four locos? Am imagining that or is it yeah no he did and that's when he that's when he

turned the lights out hard like that that was the one time where i was like all right maybe rusty should maybe like maybe take a step back from doing this are you saying he flew too close to the sun yeah but he wouldn't have known it because the lights were definitely out. I was worried for Rusty that day. Let me say this about Briggs. If this is a pledge task, I got to say there's some actives who don't like this. Yes. There's some actives who don't like all the attention. They probably liked it until he went mega, mega viral

and was getting a million views on every single one. If this is a pledge task, let me also add this. Fred on good, sir. True. Fogs. Definite fogs. Fogs for sure test, let me also add this. Fred on good, sir. True. Foggs. Definite Foggs. Foggs for sure. We got Brett in the building.

Shouts to Foggs Automotive in Scotia, where I bought my car for junior and senior year. Very sick. Look at you. Free ad rates. Is this small business September? Very much a small biz. That's good. Upstate New York. Very cool. I was an accord boy

for a bit. And I, I'm a Jeep guy. Congratulations. What was the sticker on your accord? Dave Matthews Band, 2012.

That's right. It's back. I remember parking that first day at the old studio, the early bird studio and parking behind Brett and being like,

what's this sticker? Yeah, it was one of those chill dude. My, one of my buddies, his dad owned a printing company, like logos that heat presses, that kind of thing.

He made stickers and I bought them in senior year of high school. Then you couldn't really peel them off that well. I had to just leave that for 10 years. You know, Dylan used to put unpeeled bananas in his freezer. Idiot. Those two were hard to peel.

Did you hear about that? It's a callback. No, I have not heard about that. When you freeze your bananas, make sure you peel them first. Why? Or it's very hard to peel. For smoothies. Have you ever put a smoothie in a banana?

If they're going bad, the freezer will pause that process. Yeah, I always put them in the freezer for banana bread. Thank you. Thank you, my king. See, I've never made banana bread. I wouldn't know how. Dave, I don't think, it's not that hard. You could easily make banana bread if you put your mind to it.

I have faith in you. Caroline whipped up a pumpkin bread that she brought for this past weekend. Oh, buddy. Oh. Thanks. Where's my slice? Yeah, dude. It's gone.

It's gone. It's like we ate all of it. Oh, buddy. Oh. Thanks. Where's my slice? Yeah, dude. It's gone. It's gone. It's like we ate all of it. I'm sorry. Don't come in here talking a big game about your girlfriend's fucking pumpkin bread if you're not going

to give us a slice. Yeah, what are you doing? Unbelievable. I would probably put some butter on that and maybe sprinkle some cinnamon on top. Oh, buddy.

Oh, bread. A little unsalted Kerrygold butter. Okay, don't get me. Just say butter. I'm a Lando Lich guy, Dylan. Dylan does margarine still. I'll fuck a margarine heavy, yeah.

What's up with you? What's up? Can we do breast-breaking news instead of talking about Dylan's margarine takes? I can't believe it's not butter. It's not. It's margarine, dog. It's definitely more spreadable than the Kerrygold.

Confirmed. Anyway, would you guys like to go space travel, Pandora, or the secondary auto parts market? There's a really good choice in all of them. Dylan, you can leave the talk. Let's start with space travel. Sure. You're familiar with Jeff Bezos, right?

Yeah. We've got Jeff Bezos right here. Well, he's sending more people to space. On the next flight, drumroll please, Randy, William Shatner in the next crew. Dude, he's too old to go to space. He's 90. You can't go to space if you're 90.

I'm not trying to be ageist, but I'm looking out for their safety. He played Captain Kirk on the original Star Trek, and I think it's a play off that. I mean, yeah, this is some nerd shit from Bezos being like, I'm going to send the Star Trek guy actually to space. Send Mark Hamill. Also going is Planet Labs co-founder Chris Boshwizing. Oh, I'm happy for him.

And Metadata co-founder Glenn DeVries. Oh, what? Glenn. It's actually DeVries. Uncle Glenn? I don't have an Uncle Glenn. Is DeVries land different than DeVries. Oh, what? Glenn. It's actually DeVries. Uncle Glenn? I don't have an Uncle Glenn. Is DeVries Land different than DeVries Land? He's actually the old co-host from the Tom Green show. Glenn. Glenn.

Anyway. This guy's a nerd. Dude, this guy. This guy's a nerd. Okay. Went to Carnegie Mellon. Please. Mellon stinks. Everyone knows it's a nuclear fruit. It's so mid. The crew will float in microgravity for a couple minutes before returning to land. What is microgravity?

Dude, they're just barely going into space. They're going like a mile into space. Oh, big deal. They're not even going to space at this point. It's stupid. Get out of here with that. Didn't you see... Did you guys see the thing?

I saw a trailer for something that says Elon sending a bunch of like just normal people to space after a bunch of training. Yeah, they already did, didn't they? Did they already do that? Did he go with them? Somebody had like a, there was a bathroom problem on board. Oh no. So they had to, like something like it didn't flush the whole flight. I don't know what it was, but yeah, they already went.

You just got space rocks and doo-doo going around everywhere. Maybe they thought they were going to Uranus. Got him! Oh, what? Good for them. What's this Pandora thing, dog? Well, unfortunately, do you remember the Panama Papers, Dylan? Oh.

I remember the Panama Canal. Well, now there's the Pandora Papers, a gigantic trove of secret wealth and dealings of the world leaders has been exposed. Yeah, I saw that there were like 12 million documents with this. That seems like too many to trudge through right now. Who's reading all that? I want to control F. Epstein and see what comes up. You are.

Send an email over and say, hey, can you guys take care of some of the Putin stuff? Putin.? Putin. Like Putin. We can't have Dave do it. Because he's on the podcast? Yeah. What's that mean? He's our third host.

Yeah. Just conflict of interest. Anyway, I just thought I was curious that in the leak, there's a lot of shell companies. She leaking. lot of shell companies she lakin and it says here that um one tide blaze involved um you know in a in a shell company is it a tiki restaurant no it's just a shell yeah it's actually a puka shell company yeah i just want to see if you had any comment yeah i use hemp for the actual necklace. Yeah, no comment. That's sick. No comment.

No comment. I need some things redacted from this Pandora report. The Pandora papers. The Cayman Islands would like a word. The what? Ooh. Somebody make the joke. Dave, you're known to frequent the secondary auto parts market, right?

Yeah, people know that about me. It's kind of a passion of mine. Randy, can you help me out here? You should see all the carburetors in my garage. Randy says he can't. The slack that I sent you at 1102 didn't come through? Is this like the chip shortage? No, not quite.

Is this why Samsung's building a plant here? A lot of people don't know that. In, like, Taylor. Williamson County, yeah. There we go. There it is. I know all about it. Yeah, so this guy was trying to sell a catalytic converter on Facebook Marketplace in Reeds,

Spring, Missouri. Okay. Problem being, did you check what's on his table by any chance, Dave? Oh. That is 48 grams of meth. Oh. How do 48 grams of meth. Oh. So. How do we know that?

Well, the police were tipped off. That's. Who knows? Come on. By this man. I don't think that. Who was selling his catalytic converter on Facebook Marketplace, went to his house, found 48 grams of meth and a handgun.

Yeah. I don't know if the spoon with the syringe next to it's really the move. I just noticed that. Can I get a street value of 48 grams of meth? Will's got it. I'm not sure. Google, it turns out. I'm going to guess 48 grams of meth street value. 200,000.

Whoa. I was going to guess like 4 grams. 65K. Yeah, I have no idea, obviously. How much does meth go on for? It looks like a lot of meth. I don't know.

I'm looking at a graph that I don't know how to read in order to get this, so it's going to be hard for me to figure this out. This guy should have just got an Adderall prescription. He'd be fine. He might be distributing, you know. Oh. You think there was an intent to distribute? I'm just saying it's a lot of meth.

There's multiple spoons. You might have just had a party. A meth party. Oh, man. Maybe he was playing spoons. Do you think he was trying to play spoons back in the day? That's the last game in Squid Game. Spoons?

What if the last game was trading lids? Yeah, I always thought spoons was kind of lame. I thought it was cool when I was really little and I'd play with my mom, and then I realized, wait, spoons might suck. I don't know what it is. What is spoons? It's like a card game, right? It's like musical chairs, kind of, because there's one fewer than the number of people playing.

And if you get four of a kind or something like that, you grab a spoon. And once you grab one, everyone reaches for one. And there's one person left out. You're eliminated. Boom. Out of here, buddy. My spoon. Take a hike.

Callback. I like spooning more than I like playing spoons. Me too. I have some breaking news. Sure. New Peloton instructor. Camila Ramon. I feel like that's got to be tough to get that job.

I'm going to equate getting the nod to being a Peloton instructor like me getting hired by Dave at Grand X. It was like, oh, shit, okay. Like, all right, I've been grinding out here, and now I get to go do it on the bigger stage. Let's ride. You were one of four. Literally. Yeah, it was big. Let's ride. Are you going to give it a try? Yeah. I can't guarantee that I'm going to get a ride in today, but I will be doing it. Based on the theme of her email, it seems to be very Latin themed.

I could use a Latin ride in my life. Been doing some tropical house rides lately. Shouts to those. Actually, I haven't been doing any rides lately. I've been quite lazy. Did one last Monday. You say you got on and you gave one a go and it was like, whoa. Yeah. Yeah. It turns out this dad weight and just

general dad tiredness has caught up to me. Turns out I'm not very good on the Peloton right now. It's okay. You'll get back. I'll get back. I'm not very good on the Peloton right now. It's okay. You'll get back. I'll get back. I'll get back. I need to get in shape.

I got a beach vacation later this month, and if I don't look hot for it, I'm going to start really grinding. What beach are you going to? Dude, hard to say. I actually don't even know. Yeah, we're going to Port Aransas. Is it time to get out of here? Yeah. We had a fun day.

That was fun. It's fun to have fun. Just to answer Urban Meyer's question, yes, it is podcast week. Also, the internet's down today. Swag. Instagram down. Facebook down. Instagram's taking a big L today.

Oh, dogs. Uh-oh. If Twitter goes down, where will we complain about things being down? Slack. Cyberdust. Usually Slack. Slack's down like twice a week. Yeah, Slack loves being down. I'll dust you off if we can't Slack. Bye. Slack. Cyberdust. Usually Slack. Slack's down like twice a week. Yeah, Slack loves

being down. I'll dust y'all if we can't Slack. Bye. Bye.