Circling Back - World Cup Letdown | Circling Back 7-7-26

Episode Date: July 7, 2026

Will hops on to talk about the sad end to the USMNT run in the World Cup, Dave went crazy in the kitchen last night, Dave previews the West Texas Invitational that he and Will are playing in, and the Spurs play-by-play guy is in the dog house. Support us on Patreon and receive weekly episodes for as low $5 per month: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Watch all of our full episodes on Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/6GWLSnyJKGMDIWsYC0RBG2?si=f9e2bcc01d2a4573&nd=1&dlsi=dd35daf7973642a1⁠⁠⁠ Watch all of our full episodes on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/washedmedia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Shop Washed Merch: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.washedmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • (00:00) Fun & Easy Banter • (19:25) World Cup letdown • (52:05) Dave’s kitchen • (1:03:30) A little WTI preview • (1:11:45) Spurs play-by-play guy in the dawg house Support This Episode’s Sponsors: - Bonobos: For 25% off your order, head to https://bonobos.com/steam and use code STEAM. - BetterHelp: Sign up and get 10% at ⁠⁠⁠https://betterhelp.com/circling⁠ - Warby Parker: buy one prescription pair and get 20% off any additional prescription pairs at https://warbyparker.com/steam - Factor Meals: Head to https://factormeals.com/backer50off and use code backer50off to get 50 percent off and free daily greens per box, with new subscription only, while supplies last until 09/27/2026. (See website for more details) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ranchos Good morning. Welcome back to the Circling Back podcast. My name is David. I'm going to have a great show today. We've got a special guest joining us soon. Producing Randall Trembachie. Hi, Dave.

Special guest? I had no clue. Oh, I know. You got to get... It's Will. Oh, okay. He's special. He's not that special.

Big to Freezy. Well, when you get Ladbroath football on to talk footy, he has even been popping off this World Cup. He's a fraud. He's trying to, I get what he's doing. Ask him about it. I bet he's just trying to enjoy it.

Whereas I, last night, I was tweeting through it. Not much to enjoy last night. No. Oh, not really at all, actually. So anyway, Randy's going to produce. I did tell y'all. Dylan Shivery. First of all, thank you.

Very happy to be here today. It's going to be an excellent show. I had a shower thought this morning. Wasn't actually in the shower. I don't shower in the morning. It's not a shower thought. But I had a shower thought outside of the shower that I would like to share if you guys would allow me the platform. Where were you when you had the thought?

I was getting dressed. I believe that's just called a thought. I was getting. You were just thinking. But you know the shower thought category of things, right? You know? Yeah, it's like, you think you think a random shit when you're shower. It's not just when I'm showering.

I thought a random, right. What's your brain doing when you're not podcasting? I thought of random shit when I was getting dressed. Okay. But it would, if I were to post it to Reddit, it would be on the shower thought subreddit. And be inappropriate, but okay. Anyway, do you think that you have, like, given, like, your wardrobe right now, your closet and your undies and your socks? Do you think without purchasing another item of clothing ever again, you could,

wear a different combination of clothing every day for the rest of your life? No. Pretty sure I could. Not comfortably. It would involve a lot of like unseasonal stuff. You're not going to look dope all the time. That's not what I'm saying. I know you're not, but I'm saying like I'd be wearing like a hoodie in August or something probably. I think. No, you could you could just plan it out to read you do t-shirts in the summer and then you know, warmer stuff in the wintertime. I think I wouldn't have had this thought showering because I would have been naked and not thinking about getting dressed. Okay, closet thought because I was in the closet when I was when I was thinking this looking I'm all my ish yeah that one guy that one guy pointed that out on the Instagram comments yeah because you're

obviously a 42 year old gay man I'm a 42 year old gay man clearly he said it was obvious I think I could very easily I think very easily actually well do the math say you have 10 pairs of shorts I mean you could you could put numbers to put you know get a pin and pad out and figure it out but I was just thinking do it do the math somebody in the chat do the math say you've got 10 let's just estimate. I think if you get technical here, then you could just switch up the socks, too. Here's the thing.

You know? We get so much stuff sent to us. I have so many shirts. Like, I have shirts that I haven't worn in six years, and I'm like, oh, I can't get rid of because one day I'm going to wear that shirt.

Oh, this guy's got a lot of clothes. You don't mean, you do, too. You don't know what I got. You don't know what he has. We all get free shit. Yeah, but you don't know what I do with my free shit. That's okay. Maybe you use, yeah, that's true.

I don't. Okay. Continue. Maybe you cut it into, Maybe you turn it into quilts. I don't know. Cut my clothes in two pieces. This is my homemade quilt.

That's good, dude. That's fucking good. Wow, I just threw it up. Dude, without the pre-show BTS going with the vibes, y'all wouldn't have made that connect. Y'all wouldn't have landed that right there. You're welcome. Yeah, good thing I had the ox today.

The Bluetooth connection. Yeah. That's an interesting thought you had. Because I know that I've never worn this combination before, combination. Yeah, those are new shorts. Yeah. I've never worn it.

And not even counting hats. Hats, forget about it. I got like, you know, I got like 12 gamers right now. So the hats, that's probably what makes it doable. Because I have a ton of hats. And if I just wear, even if I run out of options with the clothing, I'm not counting a cap as a traditional clothing. I could just throw on a different cap. What do they say, right?

What are they saying? I've already run by. Jake comments, just coach the numbers. Dorn's wrong. Dude has like, dude has like four shirts probably. I don't think, I don't think he actually Cushed him. Show us your work.

Jake, show us your work. I think with socks and shoes, you are really, because you could wear different socks on different feet, too. That really adds in a lot. That doesn't count. I think it counts. Okay. Mr.

Thought process. The same combination as shit. I have thoughts. That's a good question. Can you switch up socks? That, you can't switch feet? It's like wearing a shirt. It's like wearing a shirt.

his shirt backwards. Well, I'm saying I can wear one long black sock on my right foot and then a short white sock in my left foot and then the next day. That's true. I can work. Let's throw out all the dumb assery here and just. Throw out the dumb assery. The whole thing is a dumb assery.

The whole thing is a dumb assery. I think it's a fundamental exercise. Bro, let's go out this weekend. There's a little exercise happening. There's some dumb assery. Dog, I'm telling you I could do it. I'm not going to try it because what a wasted effort. I mean, no, we did four minutes on it. You should try it. I think you need to. I'm not going to try it. I wonder how many times I've accidentally worn the exact same combination of shit in here. It may have never happened. If you think about it. Man, I don't want to think about it. You don't think about this kind of stuff? No. No. I think about like when I'm looking for a shirt, I always have this thought. Not a shower thought because it's in my closet. I'm like looking through like for something to wear. I'm like, man, I got so many shirts I don't ever wear.

wear. Yeah. And then you know what I do after that? Nothing. I do the same thing the next day. I'm fucking stupid. Anytime I clean out the closet to donate, what do I do from time to time? I'll see a shirt. I'm like, man, I like that shirt. I know I haven't worn it in five years.

What if I want to wear it again? And so I just keep it. It donates. Oh. We almost have to donate as much stuff as we get. I bet you do. Donating is good. It's good to donate. I would never donate this shirt from Roebuck, though. Lute's 20. You'll get you 20% off.

Yeah, this becomes kind of your signature shirt the last month or two. It's just so freaking comfortable. I mean, the fact that he's wearing this, it's going to be hot today. I can't stop wearing. The fact he's wearing a long-sleeved button now, it tells you all you need to know about this Roebuck shirt. It just feels like I'm wrapped in, I don't know. What's something you might be wrapped in?

Oh, hold on, Steve Harvey voice. What's something? We asked 100 Americans What something you might be wrapped in Thank you, Randy, for taking that off me. I mean, if I were to answer a family Fustelle, I would say like a towel, but that's not what I meant. Let's see, towel.

Ding! Toilipaper! Toilipaper! When you panic, there's only one left up there. I don't know. Rags? I don't know. Anyway. I could do it.

What's the Roebate Code one more time? Lutz 20, L-U-T-E-S-2-0. Get you 20% off. It's crazy, yo. I ain't donating this, John. We're recording cold calls later. And I'm very excited. I've been looking.

You can still go. I posted to the Patreon and I posted to our social media. It's got the link. It's not too late. Go submit. We've got a lot of people who might get cold called today. I will, I'll pull back the curtain here and let you know. I will shoot you a text from Google Voice account.

It'll be a random number and just saying, hey, you got selected, be ready between two and three central. So, yes, if you want to be technical about it, it's not a not necessarily a cold call. It is like a, what is it? How dare you, it's like a warm call. A lukewarm call? It's a lukewarm call. But that's just how we do it. The secret's out.

So check that out. TMZ posted a picture of Diana Rusini and her husband and their kids. on a cruise together it just sucks for the family and cameras in their faces and they did blur the kids' faces but dad's just

they're in shame it just sucks man I feel bad for them you know he's got like I wonder if he's got like a serious hall pass like she's like are you got about two weeks get it out of your system you go crazy you she sends him to the bunny ranch or whatever

why's the bunny ranch keep coming up on this show Because you're a hornball. You brought it up last time. I didn't bring up shit. I asked if it was even still a thing. You weirdly knew a lot about it. No, okay. Well, we almost went a month without talking Rucini.

She's going to end up with a podcast. Everybody's doing it these days. Coming into our jerbs. And let me say this. I'm not holding back. I've got a lot to say. Uh, rolling with Rusini Is a hot dog a sandwich?

No, who's the goat? A hot dog is a hot dog. Is it Jordan or LeBron? Find out on Roland with Rusini. Oh, she's going there. Rusini. Rusini tells it all. She's Rusin at all.

Y'all got to shut up. We're doing content. Y'all got to shut up. We don't really like your vibe today. Yeah. Oh, hey, who am I? Oh, we did comedy on a comedy podcast. Was that yesterday?

That's Randy's new thing. Hysterical. Oh, man. And nobody's safe. I think we get rid of this Bluetooth speaker. Bad vibes from Dillon. What? Yeah, you're kind of like,

Are you fucking crazy? You're kind of FIFAing our podcast. You guys did that quilt song earlier because of the, because of the Bluetooth. You're welcome. Did you figure out who we were playing on a Bluetooth? No, you got, oh, yeah, we're supposed to talk about that. You wanted me to guess.

I couldn't even, I couldn't even venture a guess. Thanks for the memories, thanks for the memories. Is it Fallout Boy? Yes. Wow, there you go. Look at that, first guess. Is it actually? Yes, it's Fall Outbrough.

You looked high. You looked up the lyrics. I swear to you, I watched. I watched you like mouthing them and typing it as you mouth them. I swear I did. I swear I did. Dude, I know the name of like three pop punk bands ever. They're a good one to guess.

So I just guessed one. Because there was a very controversial debate between. Blink 183. Bizdev and producer. One time. Blink 13, Green Day, and Fallout. What was the debate? Killers versus Fallout Boy?

It was, who has a better catalog? Fallout Boy or the Killers. Or Foley's. And it was like perfectly 50-50 on the Twitter poll. It's crazy. I still say Fall Out Boy. He says Killers. Killer's bang, dude.

I feel like they have like four songs. People come at me for that. Four songs is not a bad number of good songs. Who's got four songs? Killers. That's not a bad number of good songs. You're saying they have four good songs? are four like hits four hits

that's respectable though to how many how many is fall out boy and how do you classify a hit more more oh it's not right you like that that's a good song don't tell me I like it if I don't like it I watched you bobbing your head of the of the trash you guys sometimes played here that one that one was on the enjoyable side for sure it's really hits a lot

I think sugar going down thanks for memories dance dance Grand Theft Autumn. And then if you go into their newer stuff, which I don't really like to, but they got a bunch of newer stuff that was like on, you know, NHL highlights and stuff.

Okay. You know it's a hit when they get on the highlight reels. Uh-huh. Yeah. Watch us on YouTube. YouTube.com slash circling back. Of course.

You can also, if you're already, if you're listening to this on Spotify, want you go ahead and watch the video. If you're driving in your car, just let their video wrong. Watch us on video. Don't, don't drive and watch, but just, just let it wrong. You know? Why is Dave saying that? Do they, like, get, like, earnings from people watching video on Spotify?

Yeah. We do. Yeah. So it hurts nobody. No. So just do it. It actually helps us. Come on. Hey, come on, man. Hey, hurts nobody. I know I just listed only four fall-up boys songs when I said that. Yeah, I know. I know. there's more than four, but I, you know. A little less 16 candles. I never got into Fall Out Boy, but I do like some of their songs. I never put on a Fallout Boy album. I was like, let's go.

You never dove in. I'm driving. I was already out of my angsty years when they, when they dropped. I like Novacane. That's a good song. Novakane for the soul? I think it's just Novakane. Okay.

But, yeah. It's really sugar we're going down versus Mr. Brightside. It's where you're a real pink. Down, down, baby, your street in a range over. I know that's different. Different song. Yeah. Different song, but a song nonetheless.

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That worked. Dylan, did you really, while we're waiting for Will, did you really say that Money by Pink Floyd is one of the worst songs ever made? I don't remember that. While waiting for Will? While we're waiting for Will. While waiting for Will, comma. I do not like that song.

know if I said if it's one of the worst songs I ever made, but I don't, all the, all the money sounds are a little, I feel just really corny and hokey to me. I don't, not my favorite song. That comes from the chat. You can tell me you didn't like the, that's part of it, but you know, money. Speaking of Pink Floyd, Eddie Vedder was chugging beers at the game. I saw that. Dylan. Big DeFrizy in the house. Hey man. Dude, almost tanimal today. God, you tanned out, fool. Yeah, thank you, Will. Hello. Hey, man.

Good to have you in here. Dude, Dylan's got shower thoughts today. Do you think without purchasing another item of clothing the rest of your life, the given what you have in your wardrobe, socks, undies, pants, shorts, shirts, sweaters, all of it, you could wear a different combination of clothing every day the rest of your life. Yeah. How do you two? 100%.

Thank you. Oh, undies is interesting. I didn't know that was in life. 100%. I had a math teacher who was obsessed with this. Really? Yeah. After my own heart.

What? I was taking some community college classes, and he went through all the different combinations you can do, especially if you're wearing like a tie every day. You can get pretty loco with it. Yeah, accessories add a whole different layer to this. Do belts count? I was just thinking like the main articles of clothing, you know. Okay.

Belts count. I don't know what Dylan's talking about. Okay. We're delaying the inevitable here, right? No one's ready to you. Randy say something about it's sugar we're going down or whatever it's called versus Mr. Brightside? Remember we were litigating the Brett versus that's a first round knockout. Oh, I don't I don't think so.

First round knockout. I think those are the top two songs when it comes to the pop punk. I don't think Mr. Brightside's pop pop pop. It's not. I don't think so. Nah. It's thrown in the category with cover bands. I don't look at Brandon Flowers and think, wow, that dude's kind of punk.

Oh, it's like Joey Ramon reincarnated. Like, sorry. I like Brenta Flowers. Yeah, he was, I don't know. We did that, we were doing the who's got talking about the debate. And then he said the killers only had four hits. And then he was like, all right, well, what are the Fallout Boy hits? And he famously named four.

Then I named one later. Killers mug Fallout Boy. I don't think that's true. I don't think that's true. They mug him. And in a Twitter poll, 50% of the population believes it is on my side. If the killers had a theme song for like a Spider-Man series for kids, they would definitely played at their shows unlike Ballout Boy.

You know what? I'm glad you mentioned that. Simple plan does play What's Up Scooby do at their concert. Like they need to know their audience and understand that we want to hear the Spider-Man theme song. It's a good song. Anyway, what happened? what happened last night

we look to you oh lad football brother you know when you like wake up for a date you're just not feeling it it's like man two days ago when I made these plans like I was excited then the lights get too bright and you got a tom tom

you can't sell last minute no you get out there and you just beef it you're like oh no we're all standing around this ball who's gonna get it oh he's gonna to kick it in oh. The U.S. doesn't have a good record

against European teams in the last really long time. So like expectations I don't think they were low for me last night, but like, you know. Did a dub over Bosnia and Herzegovina give us a little false confidence?

I don't know, because like maybe we should have just taken Ream off the field last night because we looked great with 10 men against Bosnia and Herzegovina fair. It's, you know why? Because We were in the foxhole. Yeah. We back against the wall.

We were like, we're the underdogs now. They're expected to score. Can I lock down? That dude stinks. I know he's older. For being the 12th man, was the crowd not as into it last night if they maybe should have been?

They didn't get into it until Polisic went out. And what's, what's his name? I always mess up his name. Ramaloo Kaku? No, no, the Aronarch team. He replaced Burrhalter. Came in and was like providing a little jolt.

I just, I feel like, I feel like we hear a lot about this 12th man. This is in Seattle. And I didn't have it last night in my living room as I sat there on my couch alone. When Belgium almost scored like in the first minute 10 and you're just like, oh, that was, and you had to have like the best save of the tournament from your keeper. You're like, oh, it's not good. Yeah.

They put the heat on it from the jump. Okay. I'll say this. I think the U.S. having some flash and. flare in the beginning of the World Cup was kind of like a cherry on top of what was already unfolding to be like a really fun World Cup in the United States, Canada, and our friends to the South Mexico. So like, it's not ruining the World Cup for me, but like, man, no. What if? Also, what if? Why not us? Wouldn't you rather lose this way than like a 97th minute

just heartbreaker? No, because to me, it's like the boys were tapped out. I want, I want politic like walking off the field devastated yeah like like he just went to war it took us as far as they could we went out sad if you lose if you lose in like stoppage time or something it's like we fucking battled to the end we didn't bet we went out like we got dusted it's just such a momentum killer to equalize and then just immediately 59 seconds later let him another goal here's the here's what ream not even getting to the merits of him being out there because i don't know what other options we have. And he is, as Dylan said, like, he's the oldest guy out there. It's real tough scene to be the guy, the guy with the big blonde man bun, because there's more casuals

watching, like myself and Dylan, I'll put you in that category than ever before. And all we know is, like, who's that guy? It's like, man bun. Yeah. Man bun messed up. Man bun stinks. So that's, we always will know. Like, it was him. It's way easier when the guys got like the unique haircut. that's messing up. And he was just getting bodied. It was actually pretty evident to that handsome little guy with the small face. I don't think he was handsome at all. He had small face.

I was trying to. All small face. He did have small face. He had small face Euro hair. God, he did have Euro hair. I'll just talk about Balligan getting to play. And he was also just a non-factor. He had a chance.

How many opportunities he got. Do you want to hear my theory on that? Yeah. I think he got hammered after the red card. So he was like, well, I got a few days off. You think he hit the town? He was just pounding liquor, just getting drunk. And then he's just hung over for this game.

Did we, I've seen this theory thrown out there. Did we have a mindset vibe shift when the FIFA thing came out? He was back. And we kind of went from like, the backs against the wall, like, we're the ones, our ox is getting gored. We're the ones who are up against it, you know, having to play with that our best player or one of our best players. And then it was like, no, he's playing. You're like, oh. And then everybody's like, the whole narrative is like, oh, you guys are the bad guy. They got out of the foxhole, like

you said. Yeah. Now we don't have to play with a chip on our shoulder. I don't have to play like with, without excuses. Now, they're the ones who have the, their ox is getting gourd. There's not something to that. No, I think we put a chip on Belgium's shoulder one we got our best attacking player. Yeah, this could have worked against us in that way. I also just think Belgium has a couple more generations on us when it comes to big games, handling the moment. They didn't even play to Broina, dude.

Do you think their youth footy is free? Or do you think they're paying like $1,000 a month and traveling all across the country even during, like, school? Yeah, where's Pablo Tori exposing this stuff? Yeah, so what's the issue here? Good question. him to learn me up on on the youth soccer stuff as a man who has two children who might entertain you soccer at some point as a as an uncle guys i don't know if you know this i'm

oh congratulations to a lad who is in the youth's soccer circuit i can i can tell you they are the travel is crazy uh and also like they're having to constantly do fundraisers just to be able to go like Well, we're going to San Diego for five days. By the way, you're going to miss a couple days of school because you've got to play the Dallas Cup. So how is that different in European countries where golf is super prevalent? They just...

Footy. It's free. I assume over there, I'm going to act like I don't know, but like I think it's free. Like they have like a... What? Did you say golf? He did.

That's why I said footy. What? You said golf. You said golf. I said golf? I said golf. I did not even realize that. You're calling it the Gulf of Belgium now.

I assume if it's not free, it's more accessible. And they have like, Will, you could speak to this, like their academy. What's their academy? It's just like. I can't speak much to it. I don't know the logistics of U.S. soccer as much. Like a lot of things, it is probably more accessible to everyone. It's a racket.

Sorry. Let's compare it to. I don't want to woke my soccer. Let's compare it to like Pop Warner football, though, which is, I mean, is soccer less accessible than football? I mean, football equipment is expensive. You know? There aren't travel.

It's not like a travel league like soccer or baseball. Soccer, you're going to go and you're going to play. Like, let's say they go play one of these tournaments in the Pacific Northwest. Just for example, like a high-level club team out of Texas. And you're going to go play five matches, sometimes two in a day, right? Maybe. I don't know. But either way.

That is in football, the comparison with like American football is, well, you're not really doing that. There's not a lot of travel. Like in high school, you see teams like Duncanville will play a major D or whatever, you know. But footy, it seems like soccer, it seems like there's a lot more. That's the development. That is how we develop them. It's not like, I don't know. I saw a place that the women, our women in America have a better system for this.

What if we take an entire recruiting class from college football one year? And we like pay them off enough money that they become interested in soccer and we just like figure out who the best defenders are and we just put those guys out there. Which is like, hey, let's pivot. Do you want to be a national hero

or do you want to have a two-year shitty career in the NFL? All of our athletes are playing football. I mean, that's, It's such a casual, like a soccer casual opinion to have, but I stand by it. Let's just try it. Yeah. I mean, you're not wrong. Let's just try to pay off some young beasts.

There's a lot of dudes out there. We just need guys who are going to win 50, 50 balls in front of our goal. Like, they're not going to get body by their guy with their good hair and the small face. I like several of our players a lot. And I feel like I have paid more attention to this particular team that I have to teams in the past. Like, I don't know if I ever believe. I don't know if I ever believe, man. If you took all the receivers and defensive backs in the NFL and you took football away from them and like, you guys are going to grow up playing soccer, you tell me we couldn't have just an unbelievable national team.

Dude, Daryl Revis would have been such a good winger. people don't talk about that enough i want i don't i don't think so i want i want a i want a brawn tending goal though he's long it's easy to say that watching like a fully grown adult like i know i don't know how we recruit i don't know how we recruited a young enough age that they can get the technical skills you know that's a thing are they getting our kids are kids who uh kids who aren't uh well off or uh even affluent or able to like do the fundraising are they Are they getting the coaching? Like if you say, no, don't play whatever other sport, play football or play, excuse me, soccer,

are they getting the coaching and development they need to, like, be as good? I don't know. Like, because I guarantee we're getting, we already have guys who are already insanely athletic that are in our national system that are just as athletic as some of the guys who play in the NFL. But it matters more if they're getting developed, like if they're learning from coaches and like if you think about it like if you're going to play the go the cheap route up and through high school and playing like local leagues and stuff you're probably not getting as good of coaching as you would if you got into like the academy game when you're um spending a thousand

dollars a month just to do it and i've seen that number thrown out there and i thought that was crazy that's that's yeah again i i haven't really thought about this until like the last two weeks ever spitballing so i'm i totally understand if i'm throwing out some shit takes there's some way worse takes out there though. A lot of takes out there. A lot of people are actively rooting against the USA yesterday, but after the FIFA stuff. I get it. Because of the orange. I would be too if I was if it was a different if I was an American and I was on the outside looking in, I'd be like, why are we giving the host team preferential treatment right now? It's not the best look. Yeah, I'll be complaining too. Did all three host teams go out in consecutive days? Do we go Canada,

Mexico, USA? All just clean sweet. I didn't think about that. We got Argentina down right now. the match this morning. Really? Yeah. Could it point in Switzerland? Egypt. Egypt. Sala.

Yeah. Look, I know a guy. Damn. Sala, your boy. I don't know. That was a Dylan-ass joke. Yes, Sir, Ibrahim scored. If I said that incorrectly,

and I probably did. No, that was it. How's the Bluetooth panning out? Dude, the vibes are just immaculating. We made some jokes earlier that wouldn't have been made without a Bluetooth. I think y'all should I think y'all should create a collaborative playlist

and just let backers put it on. I dropped one in the Slack. It's not, I, should I expose him? Did you make it collaborative? I'm pretty sure you just sent us a regular playlist. Come on, man.

Come on, you just said, I don't know how to do that. Collaborative. I tried. I don't know how to do that. Dude. Well, it said private.

Oh, I guess I'm only going to add to it. Okay, I'll fix it. Sorry, but if Argentina goes out, like, it's going to get messy. Who you guys cheer for from here on out? No.

You don't have to explain like, I'm not like getting exposed. It's the guy I discovered a week and a half ago. I forgot to check it. It's the big blonde. It's a big blonde Viking. You knew who he was before this. I did.

No, I did know he was, but I never really, I never really knew who he really was. Who are you cheering for, Dylan? Like the rest of the way? Yeah. Norway. Dude, I'm a big holiday.

What are you guys going to do after Norway loses to England, though? I'll just stop caring. Okay. I'll root for whatever team like is like the least sexy. Like is Switzerland? Dude, give me Colombia. Give me Columbia.

Are they, historically, where do they rank? Oh, pretty good. I would guess good, just based on location. Yeah. But I don't know how accurate that is. No, they're good. Now, I would imagine. I think they have very high expectations themselves.

No, I just want to point out, there's isn't a lot of, like, I would say a lot of the people rooting against USA, people from USA, USA influencers, the political tweeters, crass, the crass bros, like being like, we cannot, we have to root against USA. I'll be cheering for Belgium, blah, blah, blah. I just want those people to know. And I really believe this. There's some people, if they want people to vote a certain way,

there is a greater than 0% chance. There's some person who saw that tweet who really doesn't like the way things have been going in this country and who's maybe pressed to vote a certain way for the first time. They're going to get in that voting box and they're going to think of that dog shit tweet. And they're like, man, I don't know, dude. I don't really want to be with that guy. So I just, well, just something to think about.

You can't notch here for the U.S. because of politics. Like, that's just sorry. You can still have patriotism. Yeah. Like, look, the guys on the field, like, it's like how people are like, do these libs, dude, these cry babies, dude. It's not a good look.

They don't want to, they don't want to rock some red, white, and blue on 4th of July. I will say, though, Jason Whitlock was also rooting against USA. Just a little wrenching the game. What was his reasoning? I didn't watch the vid. I didn't want to watch it. I don't want to watch his viz. I want to go on record.

I've been cheering for the USA this whole world. That's really cool. You're wearing the scarf right now. Yeah. I wasn't cheering for him hard enough to watch the first match since it was on at 2 a.m., but I've been riding for him. I woke up and watch highlights immediately, though. You know how I do?

You're a dog. I'm a dog, dude. I woke up like 8-15 that day and watched highlights. Yeah, that's so sick. Told my wife, don't talk to me. I don't want any spoilers. Oh, dude, shout out Tillman. Shout out.

Dog. Allegan. Dog. That's it, though. Chris Richards got aired out to dry last night, but shout out him. I'm really bummed that you've kind of, you've prepared me for the reality that poach may not be a part of our lives. Yeah, I don't think he's going to be a part of our lives anymore.

And that's, that honestly is one of the most difficult things because, like, I've gotten really down a, I've gotten in the poach hole. I've been poaching around a little bit. Okay. And I've been seeing him just kind of do stuff in America, like, going out the first pitch at the Mariners game and like watching, like there was like video of him like practicing because he clearly doesn't have a lot of experience doing a baseball. And there's a video of him at the University of Washington where they were practicing.

And he's like, they're like, oh, this is the mascot. This is our dog. And he's really into the dog. He just seems like a good dude really likes our like America. And I'm like, that sucks. Because this guy Along the country roads He completely turned me

I used to not like him Like at all Just really had a distaste For the guy Mainly because he just Was a good coach For a club that wasn't mine And he completely turned me

He pulls up in the Hugo Boss He started turning The second he became our coach Because it was like Oh he's willing to go to us Cool So you say he won't stick around Because his stock is high

And he's gonna go to a better I just don't think he wants To wait around four years For America Dumb question So those guys, when they get, are they in the years between, are they just like on a salary? Space between. What?

Were they on retainer? I don't know what kind of health insurance. They have anything like that. International tournaments. He should honestly just like, just go around and do like American content. Like you should go to like the Grand Canyon and be like, whoa. Oh my God. This shit is crazy.

He's not Italian. Well, he is of Italian descent. You know, I met him. No. I met him. What? right before the World Cup Oh

I got to go to the U.S. training out in Like not the Q2 stadium But Q2 training ground Did you tap them up? Well I was hanging out with a couple Don't make any jokes Beat writers Dylan

And I was just standing around And he just walked up to us and started talking to us And I was like okay You kiss him on the mouth You're a chiller You started talking about his dad He was a farmer Hell yeah

told some really good stories he had us in the palm of his hand damn he's a real they say never meet your rivals dude because you'll just turn into putty in their hands and they're just going to be playing with you a beat writer right you get it i get it yeah yeah d1 chiller dude he seems like the absolute man yeah whoever does his styling like bravo it's probably not bravo i think we should all i think we should i think we should i think we should all he i think we should all support him in his future endeavors. I will. I don't think I don't have that much blame for him here. When, when I have inevitably pick two or three teams to monitor over there in various leagues,

his wherever he goes, I will probably, I'll probably put them in my, uh, I'll probably, put a pin in it, if you will. He was rumored to go to AC Milan, but that's no longer happening. I didn't think they had a lot of AC over there, Randy. Oh, heat wave. Stay safe, Oklahoma. Don't, don't do that. He's going to be hot, hot, hot. Heat wave.

I don't like fucking not having a USA game to look forward to. I was mad, man. Yeah, I was, I was legit mad. I hate that I care less now. If you were to listen to me, you would have got, you would have been probably excited to see that I cared that much about footy, but also like embarrassed to see someone who knows so little about watching, be so vocal towards a television.

Like, because I'm out there by myself, just like, you get fucking body, dude, you're out of position. You're at a position. Dude, I had, this was specifically towards Polisic last night, but I had several. Dude, what are you doing? First goal. Why were they so scared?

The goalie coming out. The goalie coming out. Leaving the box. That was tough scene. City of Seattle just didn't show up. leave the box. That's why you can always play on my team. Always find me in the box. Yeah. That's a, that's going to go down as one of the lowest moments in USA soccer history, especially if you've watched the, the ref cam. It turns into such a shit show when that

happens because you, you have a defender who knows they can't use their hands. They're running backwards, trying to anticipate where the ball's going. Like, no one's going to look good in that situation. No, it's tough. Especially if you're 38. If you zip-rooter it, like I was doing going frame by frame and it kind of looks like he's trying to like dodge the like lift his left leg over the ball and you're like no no dude no he actually weird the guy kicked it right to you he doesn't move like he used to move as a as an older fella yeah we can relate yeah i can i said we oh okay so i'm one than i as a 39 year old like you got to protect the body you can't be doing that much but if he just got hit right in the in the pain that would have been great

Speaking of, Ronaldo retires from international play at 41. Great talking point. Yeah, dude. Thank you. Is that breaking? You call that a segue. Is that breaking? No.

It was announced yesterday. He runs. Yeah. Are you upset about that? No. Dude, who's your goat? No. Let's get real with Rusini.

Goat talk with Big DeFrizi. DeFrizi and Rusini in the morning. They're not holding back. No, he's old. He's been playing in Saudi Arabia. dude is is holland sneaky my goat the goat he he's my goat I'm not just saying he's the goat

what level is is is rinaldo playing like relative to not his like actual play but team wise and league wise oh like money grab yeah because it is yeah yeah yeah like I mean I think it's hard to compare the leagues but like in my eyes like

you're either going Saudi or you're going to MLS. Like if you're one of those guys and you have the opportunity, it's like, guys will not go to MLS and go Saudi and vice versa. Come here, our shit's not correct.

Randy needs to be very excited about what's going on in the MLS right now because the best Polish player of all time has officially signed with Randy's Chicago Fire. And I feel like this is a great opportunity

for you to really combine some worlds here. Do the Chicago Fire? Yeah, that's the name of the MLS team. It seems a little, and sensitive famous fire stork I know

I'm American I don't know if you knew that It's like the New York City He's playing for the Chicago I've even said I've been on record saying that I would root for Austin FC over Chicago fire Oh I will not be

cheering for the Austin ice baths over the Detroit Red Wings but I will support them in their Western Conference endeavors I cannot wait to go to an MLS game and watch it with my hands like this cross and just being like, it's a bad ball. Yeah. Yeah. This stinks.

What does it be good? We're not terrible. We made the quarterfinals in what, like 20-something years? Not great. I'm either going to get really. to Syria or get really into like a mid-level like Mexican league. Like some shit where like I'm sitting at home and I put on like the Spanish channel and it's like on. I'm like, eh.

I don't understand that. I entertained watching the Mexico England game on Telemundo. It's lit. You know it. You know it's lit. They have the 4K feed. There you go. That game was awesome.

We got caught in 4K last night. Sheesh. Lukaku. Not as bad as that Spurs reporter. More on that later. Tottenham? See, dude, Dave just knows ball. Did they get relegated?

Dave just knows ball. Get excited, dude. Manchester United is going to be on the Amazon Prime behind the scene series this year. I will commit to watching that. Watch it. It's going to be good. Well, I mean, it could be horrible.

What about Man City, though? I'm a little bit more interested in that. for reasons. Somebody over there caught my eye. Do it, dude, sure. That's, that's Parks' squad, by the way. Parks picked a good one. That's fucked up.

Parks picked that. It was tough for me to tell Will about it. Well, you originally told me that he chose Manchester United, and I got really excited. And then you immediately backtracked and was like, no, I meant Manchester season. He's a citizen. Yeah.

I think it's like their light blue jerseys and the fact that they've won, like, every trophy in the last 10 years, like really makes American fans gravitate toward them. Yeah, their fans are kind of plastic. I can't talk. I started supporting Manchester United the season. They won three trophies.

I look forward to getting into this and like casually talking about it. And then having like listeners who have been listening or like really into it for years to say really mean things to me. Yeah. That's why I don't like like I don't love talking soccer on podcast because like the American fans love posturing over who's a bigger and better fan than you. You shouldn't do that to like fellow Americans who are like trying to appreciate the game more. You should be welcoming. It's crazy, dude. We're all like, look, here's the deal.

For most Americans who are riding with teams of it. We all just kind of jumped on. Like, right? Like, it's not like you had, oh, my actually my uncle was. That's so good for soccer, though. It's good for the game. Grow the game. All I care about, like, you guys know within the office.

The only actual teams, professional team that I care about is probably Manchester United. Yes. Like, it's what I'll turn it on. It's what I watch, whatever. But I still cannot get. mad or emotional over it because I've never even been to Manchester. I've never been in that stadium. I have no actual connection to the team other than N64 FIFA 99.

Like, that's the reason I chose them. I'm self-aware of that. But I also don't feel like it's like American fans are so weird about posturing in that, in that way. They're going to basically how I am about music gatekeeping. I'm going to get it thrown my way on footy. And it's fun. I deserve it.

Dude, it's like fish fans talking shit about goose. Fish fan. I, dude, I'm so tired of fish fans. They don't even like, I'm not leaving into most of that stuff, but like, God, every time you look up, they're just melting some new fandom. What's going on? Do they're mean? Why they're so mean? I don't know.

Chill out. Actual fish guys seem chill, you know? Bloop bloop. Yeah. I don't know. Should I go pick up some sandwiches for the squad? Yeah, get your boy. If you don't mind getting your boy a chicken Philly.

Dude. I saw that you got to get your beard trim. How do you see that? You got a notie about it. Yeah. I do it before the cleaning people come. So you get it. Oh, you're reminding yourself to do it.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That's a good time to do it. Because I don't do it so they have to clean up the mess. I clean up the mess, but just in case there's any stragglers, I'd rather have that straggler be there before. they come rather than after.

Totally get it. I'm still mad, respectful about my beard trimmings. Don't ask my wife. Happy birthday to your wife, David. Thank you. Happy birthday of your wife, man. Thank you for being the first. Unlike someone.

Pretty sure I was the first, just not the first to say it on a live podcast. Okay. You want to call her? Yeah. It's cool call her right now. I think she's at a... And sing to her.

I think she took, she did the power move. She took the day off. I think she's destroyed over the game last. night. I get it. Dude, she's just dropped what she. I gave her the ick. Certainly gave her the ick last night. Just like, hmm. Who fucking? This is the best we can do. Those are my three least favorite Guinness of the year that I had last night during

that game. Oh, you had three? I three. Good for you. You got went to Harvard? I had three. Not a smart play for a Harvard guy. That's some shit. I'm really lame. Well, thanks for hopping on, big dog. Wait, wait. We've been on board since 2021. Just putting that out there. you place that there and you take it away until next time there you go hey when is the next world tournament that we would be in

there's a new outfit combination right there concaf concaf that should be this that's the image right there I want to yeah fuck it dude fuck it dude fuck it all right I'm gonna go get some sandwiches multiple I guess Just get a bonnet.

Somebody will eat them. Is this how you deal with grief? You just buy multiple sandwiches? It's a stage of grieving. Yeah. All right. Buying shit for the boys. Hey, things will get better.

Hey, football's on the way. Like, American football is on the way. I don't care, man. Yeah, dude, you do. You care. One of their best defenders is... Dude, we got Arch. No, dude, I just don't care about Texas football anymore.

Don't say that. This transfer portal stuff is just giving me the ick will come right with the bobcats we're making some noise i could see myself going with the bobcats we're a pack 12 team though yeah we like that's sick dude that's a big conference we're making noise yeah it's a big one dude you get some new kicks i forgot these for a minute you like them those are your skater kicks dude they're just they're just summer knock around sneaks all right you like them yeah you got that foam tall I know. I don't like the tongue so much.

Old foam tongue. Home tongue looking ass. Barrett would hate your sock game right now. He really would. Are those just large, like soup, like XXL, no shows that are way too big for you? What's going on? No, these are, no, these are just robeck ankle socks. And I love them.

They're not no shows. Clearly. confusing. Can we move on? Bro, I just got a spam call. I might answer it, actually. It's from Rush City, Minnesota. I thought I was getting one earlier

and I answered it, and I just found out that they got my blood results back from my last doctor's appointment. You good? I think so. I think I might have to make some minor tweaks. Oh. I've had a sweet tooth lately.

Blood sugar a little high. Dude, I got my blood. I'm not going to get into my blood work. Did they tell you you should start like taking a... half of the bun away when you eat a hamburger. You got to stop with that, dude. You got to stop.

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Let's do Davy's Kitchen. Okay. Because I'm starting to get hungry. I'm so glad we got a good teammate. He's going to go on a sandwich run. Is he actually doing that? I mean, dude, we've been talking about other side bakery for like two days. He was like, do I want me to go today or tomorrow?

And I get lifted up to him. He chose today. I got crazy with some goya beans last night. Hold on. Ed, that's running back for sure. how crazy, Dave, on scale of one to crazy frog, like how crazy we get in? I got that. So at Costco, I bought the big, big pack, a big palette of black beans. And I said, you know what? We're doing burgers. So I'm going to just whip up a good little side.

Sometimes in lieu of a side dish, I'll just do two burgers. And I just didn't need two burgers yesterday. But I was like, I'm going to like trick up these beans and do them the right way. the way you're supposed to. Minced up some garlic, some onion, threw it in the pan, a lot of olive oil, got that base going, tossed in the beans, threw in some vegetable broth,

just let it simmer. Just let it simmer there. And I got to say it was excellent. It was a great compliment to the hamburger I had. You could pull my Instagram or circling back's Instagram. I posted a picture of it. How'd you eat the hamburger? man, well, first of all, I ate it the way it's supposed to be eaten with one hand.

And in addition to that, I did what I always do. There it is. I took off the top bun and I ate it. And that's just personally how I do it. It's just kind of like a, hey, where are all the fixes? I want to limit, no, I don't do that. I'm trying to limit cows and carbs. So this is just what I do.

The way you're staring at that burger is so upsetting to me. And I didn't filter this. This is how I look. this is how my home looks. What type of patty is that? Just a beef patty. Beef patty. Well part of that, don't you understand?

It's just meat and bread, dog. Yeah. Hey, but you know what? You cut out a significant number of carbs here by just going half a bond. Yeah, I mean, dude. I hate how you're staring at it. Because, I mean, it was either eat the full bun or do like 10 air, like, air, like, squats or body weight squats.

Yeah, there you go. And I didn't want to do that. You saved yourself. I saved myself because I, look, I wouldn't be fitting into these shorts had I just eating that top bun. So this is Dave's Kitchen. I just want to say, if you guys want the recipe, hit me up. Do you want to see this?

Go follow circling back on Instagram. But yeah, man. That hit it. Nothing better. Hit the spot. I hate it. Why? Chelsea had a talk with me a couple days ago.

Because where were we? I got the same talk. We were, oh, we were at Echo. And I was like, I kind of want the enchiladas, but I think I'm going to get in something a little bit leaner. Like, they have a good pork dish there that's like, it's like the banana leaf thing with the pork. And it's really good. Obviously, much fewer carbs, right? She said, Dylan, you got to stop, dude.

She said, you work out. This is going to be fine. She shamed me a little bit. You know what? I think I needed it. Am I going to stop doing the half-bun burger? probably not we shame you every day for this yeah but you're not my wife

yeah but we see you more than your wife does uh I don't maybe good eat more carbs 20 be fat huh what you know you're worried about that I'm not worried about getting fat but I do want to look and I want to look as good as I can for as long as I can I'm 42 you know before before you know it I won't be

It doesn't matter when your metabolism slows down, just get on test. It's not that difficult. I don't want to be that guy. If you're looking. You're going to be that guy. If you're maybe thinking about stepping into the world of carbs, I got this new Pizza Hut original pan pizza that you got to try. It is so good. Dude, the next new pizza I try is definitely going to be the sourdough Detroit style from Pinehouse.

Yeah, that is good. I need to try it. The nice thing about the pizza I want, it's only like $13 for a large. Is that the one on the east side? does a sourdough? I'm going to be honest. I didn't even notice it was sourdough. Oh, really?

Yeah. I mean, like, I would have, yeah. Did you get it? I thought you got the burger. No, I tried it from everybody else. I was the only dumb, dumb, we didn't get pizza. It was trending burger. It was trending burger.

I got the burger and you're going to ask the question, did I remove the top bun and bury my fingers in the toppings? No, I didn't. You know what this burger reminds me of? A lot. Elementary School cafeteria burgers. Just because there's nothing on it. It's just, it's just, it's just, one and me.

There's a fingers on top. Right. You know what I'm saying. The natural oil is for my fingers infiltrate the patty. Burger patty. I think you know what I'm saying. You're just not giving me credit for it. No one in elementary.

Well, actually, that's a great point. There was probably some like six-year-old who's eating a burger like this right now. I will put ketchup on my, my cafeteria burger. And that was it. I have a question, Dave. since you have gone down this path, what was it like? What was it like putting fingers straight on the meat?

Hands on the meat, son. Oh, man, it actually enhances the experience. Really? Yeah. You don't say. Yeah, it's not weird or gross at all. You're more, you're one with the meal. It's almost like spiritual.

You don't have the protective coating of a bunch. It's like a caveman mentality. Interesting. Getting hands on the kill, you know? Are you going to start doing this? And making it into a patty. Are you going to start doing this with other? Food's like a hot dog, just put fingers straight on the sausage.

Yeah, it's probably going to something like this. The thingies on the weenie? Ready, look. I don't want to. Got the mustard. Yeah. Just put it on there. I like you build her.

It's so fucking stupid. Sam laughs when the mustard bottle does the... Okay, be honest. Did you put the top bun back on before you ate it? Why would I... Why would I infiltrate my body with carbs? Are we, are we burger twins now? No, put that.

Burger bros? Put the knock down. Come on, knock me. Whatever, dude. Mm. And guess who's got left ovies? Dude, I'm telling you, it doesn't take much enjoyment of the burger away at all. Because you still have some bun to work with.

I'm telling you. That's such a dumb take. I think it would take a lot of enjoyment. If I had to be like having just greasy meat on my finger, I think it would take a lot. You get to wash your hands at the end, which is what I do. The other day I got, the other day I did this actually, but I got, I went to Pete Terry's and had grilled onions on it. Grilled onions and bacon. So my hands were just in the onion.

You're a deviant. Oh, it's touching the onion, dog. God, dude, you're a food perver. Yeah. I know. I know, man. Do you, my sneaky growing a beard? Sneaky.

I mean, yeah. Rainy, did you, did you dial it back? No, I just haven't. I just haven't shaved yet. Probably going to do that today. I know that much. It just looks. I'm worried you're, I'm, well, I guess I'm not really worried.

I said it look good, but I'm just, I think you might become a stubble guy. All right. Nah. Which is your choice. Yeah. My face my choice, David. How dare you? I wonder if I'm ever going to try to grow a beard again.

Probably not. It just looks bad. Now, that picture we looked at yesterday where your soul match was huge. Dude, I was trying something. I cleaned up, like, all this stuff around to see what it looked like. And I don't know why I didn't just go to a mustache after that. It was so bad. Anyway.

Dude, you could, I will free you over the burden of every bet payoff if you just go pure soul patch for two weeks. Like getting rid of the mustache? too. Yeah, it's just, because your sole patch, I didn't give it credit for how thick it was. It's thick, yeah. No, I will not be doing it. Just do it. I will not, I will not be doing that.

You, Charles might like it. I could do stash soul patch. No. I want just pure. Because that thing was bushy, man. That's what Riley Green does and other girls think he's super hot. He is. He does mustache soul patched combo. It's too much.

I know. I think that's what he does I don't want to tend to that sole patch Every time you're like trimming it up You just feel like a fucking scum bag See that's what he does Hot dude Oh that's the Matt Duchain

I don't know who that is but yeah What? You got a soul patch over there I'm looking at it now Mine connects Like mine's more vertical like a pillar Mine's like a Mine's problematic Mine's not good

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That's better. HELP.com slash circling. I guess now I can do a little WTI preview. Okay. Because I'm going to be gone Thursday when you guys do this weekend and fun. So it's this pre-kend and fun. Dave, I'm new here. I found you through Dude.

Perfect. They said that they played with you once and they had a podcast. What is the WTI? Wow. Great question, Randy. It's the West Texas invitational. It's an invitation only tournament. Yeah, you have to be invited. 16 guys. All 16 guys, one cup or one trophy, one prize. One person wins or one team wins? One team. Okay. It's a shared cup. Got it. Will will be there as well This is your two for Will This is your three for me

We're on opposite Opposite teams Damn And guess who drew Will DeFries in round one You did You And it's teams of two

Teams of four No Cut in half Eight and eight Oh eight Okay It's a rider cup situation Gotcha

Yeah So I'll keep people we start playing Thursday morning going up Wednesday evening by the time we record or by the time Dylan and Randy record this show on Thursday

I think I'll be will probably be almost done or done with our match and I gotta say Will's paired with a guy I've never played with who's a good player and we're gonna just get out there and give it our best

And there's going to be no awkwardness if I no matter what happens. So I just want to say anybody trying to put a rift there is just wrong. How's the game feeling? Overall game, I don't know. Hitting the like important thing is like putting, putting, meridian putter, shout out. Around the green, they feel around the green. The hand stuff feels good.

It's a short course. We play this little one in north of here called Delaware. springs and you don't need a driver. There's maybe one hole where you realistically need it. And even then, it's, that's pushing it as if you're really trying to get on there. So yeah, you can go out there and just hit hit, hit some three woods, five woods, whatever you want to do. But I'm going in with no little expectation because I put a lot of pressure on myself the last couple of years. And this year, I'm just like, look, it's been a tough, it's been a tough 365 for me, golf wise. So I'm just like, whatever. Let's just go out there and have some fun. That's all. So look for, look for us.

We'll do a little content from there. Will's debating on whether he should bring his film camera or not. I hope he does. Of course he should. Sometimes, sometimes occasionally on rare occasions, he'll get a good photo of me, the film camera. Rare though. What's the prize? Is it a trophy? There's a month. There's payouts if you win your matches. Okay. So there is some compensation. How many rounds are you playing? I think it's five total. Five total rounds.

And this is what you said, is it Thursday through Sunday? Through Saturday. Through Saturday. Come back Sunday morning. What are some of the types of shenanigans you guys get into outside the golf club? You know? Well, if somebody, if somebody gets skunked in their match, they have to take off all their clothes and run around and get.

their bare butts paddle by the brothers. Damn. That sounds sick. Yeah. But do you guys like share an Airbnb? No, there's a guy who has a family ranch house in Marble Falls that sleeps everybody comfortably. Nice.

So we all stay there with a swimming pool. She got a pew. She got a pool. It's got a pickleball court. Not anybody, no one's ever. I've never seen anybody use it. We do some dinner stuff there. It is a great time.

Do we know what's on the menu for the weekend? I really don't. We do the lunches there. They've got a good little kitchen in that course, so they'll whip up some good... Fuck, if you want to get like a chicken fried steak sandwich, you can get that. I'm probably going to get like a ham sandwich or a club.

Okay. Keep it light. Okay. Oh, yeah, but I'm excited. I'm a little gel. Of course, I'm not much of a golfer these days, and don't keep a handicapped. You got to keep a jan-haw.

And can't play golf when it's too hot outside because I will... It is going to be that. I will crumble. It is going to be hot. but you know just the lads our team is wearing uh so we have like uniforms because it is it is taken fairly seriously believe it or not so like team captain provides polos and stuff so he's like all right you're going to need two two khaki shorts two days and navy blue on the other so the khaki shorts is you know that can be tough uh especially in the heat so i i have got two pairs i'm bringing and i'm

look for me to possibly change shorts at the top turn. You could have, you could have borrowed the ones I'm wearing right now, Dave. These are the, these are the roadback ones. These are nice. Oh, the loopers. Yeah. I got the loopers, dog. They're khaki. Yeah, man, I might. I think I hopefully, maybe I have those. But yeah, I do a lot of changing and everything. I'm not afraid to change socks at the turn. If it gets weird, I'm very superstitious like that. How many different combinations of your outfits could you do this weekend? Oh, that's a good question. Could Jake ever do the math? Show your work.

But yeah, I'm excited for you. I hope you have a fun time. Do you guys have a booklet? I know you guys are getting a media guide. You have like booklets, cards. I heard that there's possibly bobbleheads this year. I've heard there's talk of bobbleheads, yes. They go all out.

It's a good bunch. Shout out to them. Good luck out there, Dave. Shout out to temporary commissioner Blaine. Ludo the year? original commissioner sub Ryan as well

even though he's he I'm not on Ryan's team along his business partner to his team Sam so yeah it's gonna be a little awkward have fun out there man I'll be thinking of you guys

yeah we'll check in people are gonna be chomping at the bit to know what happened follow what circling back pod on Instagram be hitting the stories yeah I'll do some stories Hell yeah.

Okay. Hell yeah. Sound good. Sounds good to me. I will be having, I will be protecting my eyes with my Warby Parker sunglasses. I think that's a really good idea. It's important, man. You know now they got the sport glasses.

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You got the brimmers. These are the brimmers, yeah. They're blue light blockers inside and there's sunglasses outside. How about that, Dave? I love these things. Parks could ask me why I don't bring him home. He wants to see me wear them more often. Let's get parks some, huh?

Yeah, maybe we should. Sure, they've got, they've got what? Is it like over 300 stores nationwide, 300 retail stores across the United States? You could go in person, try them on. Or just sit in front of your computer and use your camera. And they'll do a virtual trial and it works really well. Very useful. That's how I selected mine.

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He's in the dog house. He's in the dog house. Long story short. His Instagram story, and I'll leave out the all handles because I don't have to do anybody too wrong here. It's a picture of him and his girlfriend. And the caption says, this is my girlfriend of six years, but I cheated on her with blank. including this person's at on Instagram. So feel free to continue following me

if you really think I'm a good guy because I'm not happy face. So it obviously seems like the girlfriend got into his Instagram account and posted this without him knowing. So, yeah, tough scenes all around. Dog house, baby. Yeah, we don't really know what happened.

But we don't know what happened, but doesn't look good. So pour one out for this fellow. So is he just like a local He's a play-by-play guy Gotcha I don't really know I'm not familiar with this game

And boom goes it out of mine People get hacked all the time You don't know Could have been It could have been Russia They could hack your stuff And post stuff like that And hey what the hell

None of this happened You don't know I heard Russia Hacked our Instagram and they photoshopped out the top bond of that burglary that you're having. Well, they hacked a member when they hacked TFM and posted the Chessler's video. And also the hoverboards.

They did that for sure. They did that. It was tough. So you've got to be careful out there. Change your password. Because as Randy has learned, the scammers are getting very, very creative. And they know my name and that Randy works for me. I really don't like that text that I got.

I don't either. What was it? Remind me? It was a text. I screenshot it. I sent it to Mr. David Ruff. Let me find it here.

It was just from a random number. It says, Hi, Randall. I'm on a conference call meeting right now. Can't talk on the phone, but let me know if you got my text. Thanks, David Ruff. Yeah,

because I famously do sign my text. What the hell? I do sign my text like my boomers out there. I did a screen shot and just said, I'm assuming this wasn't actually you. I had to talk with my dad the other day about getting scammed and the dangers of AI and

yeah, I want my parents to get like life lock or something. He says he's good. He's like, don't like, all right, dad, but seriously,

man. I mean, the shit that's out there. I mean, our voice is out there so much that they've probably, it's probably not really, uh,

crazy to assume that like there's like a full scale bot that knows every part of our personality. I told him the story of here. the phone call from your sister. Yeah. I need to talk to my older brother. He's more on that than me with my mom. The links that she sent us for her Christmas list this past year were to some very non,

they look like they're straight up like Facebook links to websites that just weren't, weren't good products. Really? Yeah. It was like just normal things that like a person would want, like a heated, I don't know, umbrella or something like that. I don't think that's what I actually was, but just the website was just pop-ups, pop-ups, pop-ups.

Mom, you can't be going on these websites and putting in your, like, credit card information. Scary. Yeah. Still 1-0 Egypt, by the way. 51st minute. Sheesh. Where's that game being played?

I don't know. Okay. I don't know. As we're going to bring those sandwiches. Is that a joke? I can't figure it out. I think he was just getting a sandwich for him and Dave. You wanted a sandwich.

I think he didn't ask him. Yeah, he's not getting sandwiches with everybody. He gets me, he picks me up from this place all the time. Yeah. Oh, that's real cute. Because he is like, anybody want a sandwich? And I say, yeah, I'll take one. The sandwich is available to you, too, if you just want one.

Well, it does come with bread, though. Oh, good point. I'm out. Good point. All right, well, we'll see you. Co-call later. Tomorrow or see you later on for co-call. Bye.

Bye-ie. Thank you.