Circling Back - Panera Charged Lemonades with The Boys

Episode Date: December 11, 2023

The squad is back on Cabeza Watch and talking Raw Meat Experiment? Like a blast from the past. Will talks wellness techniques on vacation, Brett discusses his trip to Sayulita, we discuss how Twitter has taken ahold of Panera's dangerous lemonade, the "Baby Cow Diet" by Raw Meat Experiment, and more. Enjoy a free one-week trial on Patreon for additional weekly episodes: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast Watch all of our full episodes on our new YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/circlingback  Shop Washed Merch: www.washedmedia.shop  (0:00) Fun & Easy Banter (10:00) Recapping This Weekend in Pants Beers (36:17) Panera Charged Lemonade (51:15) Raw Meat Experiment Does The Baby Cow Diet (59:45) Circling Back Breaking News: Selena Gomez and Meat Smokers Support This Episode’s Sponsors Aura Frames: www.auraframes.com (CIRCLING for $30 off) Lucy: www.lucy.co (STEAM for 20% off)  Nutrafol: www.nutrafol.com/men (CIRCLING for $15 off) TalkSpace: www.talkspace.com/circling ($80 off!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

all right we're back circling back podcast coming to you live from the washed media headquarters in austin texas my name's will defries to my right mr dylan the coldest shivery that's good i like that intro it's nice when dave's not here i mean i like i prefer when he is here when he's not i get intro right off the jump just know just know a little energy second dave is back put a little energy behind it you'll be back in the three minute territory i don't know i got a little is back. Put a little energy behind it. You'll be back in the three-minute territory. I don't know if I noticed. I got a little color. It was outside a lot over the weekend.

I didn't notice, no. You noticed the gut? Okay. Happy to be here. I feel good about things. It's content week. I don't see any noticeable change to the pigment of your skin at all, if I'm being honest with you.

You have a standing tan. Yeah. You're just... You've got a chill olive ambiance about you. I can get pale. Probably because you see me all the time. You just don't notice

these changes in me, but I got some color. What, Randy? That was the best compliment ever. A chill olive ambiance, and you're just gonna pass over that? That sounds amazing.

I think it didn't register in my brain when he said a chill olive ambiance. Yeah. Okay, I'll take that. We got the bullet in the building today uh he's not going to join us for the entire episode i don't think but we we he i mean he was on cabezo watch all weekend so obviously he had to funnel in for the first part of this yeah there there is uh it's it's good to be back i'll say that it's been uh a long december so uh we've just been running around there's reason to believe that this

year will be better than the last amen uh yeah we've been running around landing on business you could say standing on business and other at other points landing on business we stand on it around here that's kind of tight though brett was going on business trips and whenever he'd landing it off the plane he's landing on business oh that's kind of sick it was uh shouts to american delta and allegiant zero delayed flights in the last 10 days which is okay which which had been not my case leading into this last couple i just i just go not to cuck what you were just saying but i just uh did a quick instagram search to see if anyone had acquired the handle standing on business yet. And a dude named Self-Employed Matt

has acquired the handle. He's private. So I don't know if he's going to be doing much with this. Self-Employed Matt sounds like a PGP writer that you guys had. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That would have been a commenter for sure.

Yeah. Yeah. No, happy to be here. Thanks for having me. Excited to recap my last couple days of just bouncing around places. You've been a jet setter, man. I have. I don't want to expose you guys too much, but.

So has Will. We had a conversation before the podcast, and I'm currently podcasting with two people who are refusing to drink for three days after the weekends that they had, which I'm really impressed with you guys. Not to imply I, like, really got into wine over the weekend. I just, it's good to reset. Okay, I'm very much implying that I did.

Like I had two glasses of wine yesterday. That's not like crazy, right? I mean, yeah, two glasses of wine. Saturday I stepped out a bit. Friday I didn't, you know what? I didn't ask you about your fucking weekend yet. I'm sorry. Shit, man.

Dude, speaking of having, so I wasn't going to drink yesterday either. That didn't, that lasted about three minutes. We had, there's a drink in Mexico at this place called Sur 38. Blame it on Mexico. Called The Slap. Okay.

It's basically a Mexican Bloody Mary. It's like a jalapeno green juice with mezcal. And if they were brought to Austin, it would light this place on fire. So there was a – I don't remember what it was called, but there was a restaurant that was pretty popular for our demographic in Houston that had a Tomatillo Bloody Mary. And after the layoffs at Grand X, I was down bad. I was really questioning.

You're a Tomatillo head, though. I love Tomatillo. Everyone knows that about me. I'm a Tomatillo Cabeza, please. And after the layoffs at Grand X, I was pretty down bad because I was like, I don't know what's going to happen here. The squad has been disassembled, and it's not my doing. And so Sally and I decided it would be a good time to go down to Houston and visit some friends down there and maybe hit the reset button.

And the first thing we did is go to this restaurant and get Tomatillo Bloody Marys. And like those things lit me up. I loved them. Kind of feels like you're just drinking green salsa though, which I'm okay with. I remember when I drank salsa at Matt's El Rancho a couple years ago and still feel the effects of that. Was that an odds loss? It was. I got them.

It was. And I think I still have a stomach ulcer to this day. Yeah. That hit you harder than I expected it to hit you. Yeah. I would say that Matt's El Rancho is probably a top one worst place to chug the salsa in Austin just because it can be the spiciest salsa in Austin. It's been getting hotter.

Yeah. So you drink more. They keep dialing it up. Honestly, I'm okay with it, though, because it keeps me from inhaling chips and salsa when I sit down because it's too hot. Well, you know, two chips there equals one full tortilla. That's right.

I can't even get full on chips and salsa there anymore because most of the time I'm there with Dave, and he's just absolutely hounding that basket. It's ridiculous how he does that. I haven't been there in a minute. Should we pivot the W Wash Media holiday party on Thursday to Matt's El Rancho and all just upgrade our fajitas to the prime beef?

Maybe. I could be convinced. It's been a minute since I've been there. But it's also been a minute since we really got into one at Carve too. Yeah, when you got the private room at Carve, life's just good. They're going to rename that room after us at some point.

Should we bring a sign? As many times as we've been in in there i have a flag that my dad used to fly when uh or he flew it when i got home from the hospital as a baby and it just says will's house like should i just bring that and hang it in the uh hanging on their uh their their photo of a cow maybe i mean maybe it's not my house yeah we'd probably come up with a better name than that okay i also have a flag with just a giant lobster on it if we want to do that i don't think they serve lobster there though i don't know if watch media gives a lobster but sure okay we should brett gives lobster after he gets sunburned he does yeah hey yeah i'm impressed with your spf game like how did you went surfing and you look like this yep surfing and then spent and then spent all of Saturday in the sun.

Granted, we did have like five tents stacked together. So I was very cognizant of my sun intake. I'm officially at a point in my life where I just avoid the sun. Unless I'm playing golf and I'm just exposed to it. Like if I'm on vacation, I'm trying to get that shady spot. I want all the rays. Just hit me. That's why I got a little color.

I was doing SPF. That's why. SPF 50 plus. Got that olive ambiance. He's a chill olive boy. I want all the rays. Just hit me. That's why I got low color. I was doing SPF. That's why it's 50 plus. Got that olive on me. He's a chill olive boy. Got that olive on me. Shout out to the chill olive boys out there. Sick, right? Yeah.

I'd like to stuff you up, blue cheese. Okay. That sounds cool. What? What's up? What's up? Ooh, I could use a teeny. You said you're not drinking until Thursday.

Ever since I've had one. Okay. Well, on Thursday, I'm going to have a fucking martini. I've been drinking whiskey. Whiskey has completely replaced my martini intake lately oh see uh-uh oh dude i'm on that whiskey grind i'm off whiskey man you ever heard of a nouveau curre really no i'd never heard of this until uh not last week but the week before and now i'm seeing them everywhere they're called a nouveau curre it's a i think it's new orleans cocktail

it's very booze forward. Whiskey? Yeah. It's treating your boy very well lately. I'm off my whiskey shit right now. Well, maybe. Okay. I don't know why. That's not a good reason. Let us know when you're back on. You can get in Dave and I's group chat called Original Bourbon Boys. Okay. We'll see.

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Right. Yeah. A lot going on in Dave's life right now. Yeah. It's still very weird to get eyelid rejuvenation surgery right when your son's born. It is weird. Dave's a grinder.

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i have to say as far as randy getting instagrams off in the middle of the episode this might be my favorite one all right i'm going it's just really good like it's just a good post overall uh randy i don't normally start this weekend have fun with you but what like where did you go this weekend that crazy event was happening bro let's go out this weekend right went to the concourse project they were having a boiler room set which is uh dj stands in the middle and like everyone is kind of surrounded they had two stages and there was a bunch of different djs i didn't know any of them, but I went with James and his girlfriend, and we had a fun time.

Let's go out this weekend. There's a crazy event happening. Heard of Boiler Room? No, I have not heard of it. What's it called? It's called Boiler Room. What's the DJ set called? I don't know which DJ it was.

No, but what did you just call it where everyone crowds around them? The Boiler Room. Oh, that's just what it's called. I think that's what it's called. I think it started in like London and like that was their Boiler Room sets were like that's how like DJs became big over there. I think I'd like to be a part of a Boiler Room set at some point in my life. It looked like a movie.

Those look fairly electric. Dylan, what did you get into this weekend? I'm too old to go to something like this, but it does look cool. I had a very fantastic low-key weekend. Friday, I was with Parks. I had a little buddy over. Hung out with them. I played our Zod card.

I got Jets. Fantastic. Did you go with the Dylan? I went with the Dylan, and it delivered, as always. Saturday and Sunday, spent a lot of time with Stella. A lot of time outside. We walked probably nine miles total over the weekend together on the trail. Met another backer on the trail.

Can you take Rosie for some walks? Had an LSU hoodie on. Yeah, sure. Why'd you have an LSU hoodie on? Why'd you have an LSU hoodie on? No, the guy, the backer I met had an LSU hoodie on. Oh, I thought you had one on. I was like, what?

Y'all need to listen to me. Weather was fantastic. Just did a bunch of chores. the house in order you know okay clean the sheets clean stella's bed gave her a bath you only clean your sheets once a year right no i do it about every your navy sheets with your bed pushed up against the wall and no headboard about every two weeks is that is that enough that's enough every two weeks is fine yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you're fine about every two weeks is that is that enough that's enough every two weeks is fine yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you're fine but every two weeks like i think hardos out there will be like oh dude you gotta do like every week but like every two weeks to me is probably a very tame barometer yeah caught two dubs with james fortnight it's no big deal just does your call of duty

skill translate over well to fortnight it's the same movement yeah yeah i'm just not good at first shooters or first person shooters you gotta give it a try i heard james is swinging by today too yeah james is like i feel like james i feel like james is swinging by enough that like we he might just need to hop on a pod he might need a mic a mic moment i don't know james is a he's a friend of the pod that's just he's he's just really like i could see james freezing up on the mic oh that's a that's a big claim. What do you think, Randy? That's mean.

I think he would just start saying just – he would just start saying lies about me and Brett. Yeah. Perfect. I think we have them all. Yeah. That's good. Yeah, a really chill, excellent weekend for your boy.

So I know you guys had much more going on, so I'll just pass it over to you. I went to Tennessee this weekend. I'd never been to Tennessee for longer than 36 hours before. I'd gone to Nashville. Cool city. They call it Nash Vegas. Yeah, dude.

Yeah, Nashville's cool, but it's also pretty much like adjacent to Austin. So it's like, oh, okay. That was my takeaway. It's very Austin-like. Yeah, like if you like Austin, you'll like Nashville. That seems normal. I flew into Knoxville and we went to a resort called Blackberry Mountain where I just got my straight up wellness on, dog. Straight up wellness on. Do you guys want to start with me talking about the sound bathing or do you guys want me to start talking about my cold plunge and breath work? Sound bathing? Yes.

I need that. Okay. so i'd never heard of sound bathing before and i saw that they had a class at 4 p.m uh the sun sets around five five o'clock there so i was like okay okay i'll emerge from my sound bath with like a nice sunset going on let's do this went into the room and uh there's five mats laid out kind of beds laid out and it's all in one room five mats yeah what are the chances of that okay okay okay it's good so i walk in and i'm with uh four other people and then the instructor and it's very quiet in there very zen in there and they there's a big bowl it's like a metallic bowl and she said please stand in the bowl we got to center you stand in the bowl in the bowl and so the bowl is in front of a center you. Stand in the bowl? In the bowl.

And so the bowl is in front of a window that just looks into the woods. And so I stood in the bowl and took a deep breath, and she hits the bowl with like a little mallet, and it starts to like vibrate you. And I was like, okay, okay. Go and lay down. Did you get centered? I got centered as fuck, dude. And so I went and laid down. And you just shut your eyes.

And she just starts walking around the room with these instruments. And it's meant to put you in, I think she called it the delta state, which is the state that you're in right before you fall asleep. And she said that a lot of people just do fall asleep. So if someone starts snoring, don't mind them. Just let them be in their whatever. Your boy was absolutely tranced out. Like for 45 minutes, I was like in this weird like period of not really knowing if I was asleep or not.

And it was an insane experience. Like and so like you guys have heard enough Grateful Dead because of me in the last however long that a lot of backers will know too that they do this thing called drum space during their shows at the end or towards like the the middle of the second set they do drum space where they take you on a little journey with some sounds and after the the whole thing was over after like I don't even know how long it was it could have been an hour and a half it could have been 45 minutes after it was all over and everyone had cleared I wanted to talk to the person that led it and i was like hey have you ever listened to like dead and company before and she was she gave me the best answer of all time she was like i actually used to tour with uh several grateful dead uh bands and i was like

okay this this makes me very happy but like it was it was the exact same like like sounds that you would hear from that but it was just a it – I don't want to say it was a weird experience because it wasn't like weird weird. But it was something I had never experienced before and I kind of want to do it again. But I don't really know if like I need to do it again. I'm intrigued. Some people fall asleep. Some people get very energized after it. I was just zenned out after it.

Have you ever done a float tank? No. I think that's the most comparable thing to this that's what that's what i'm thinking about when we were talking about the person that was telling us about the the how you should feel during it i don't think that they were like trained and talking about it but he he did liken it to that and i've always wanted to do that and that's what that was my selling point because i think a float tank would be fun i've been intrigued by that too i've done enough meditation like i got super into meditation during lockdown and i haven't done i don't really do it now but like i i think i can be good at it enough to be in a

float tank and get the benefits of it but the second i was going to go do the float tank in austin they shut the place down yeah it's tough there was one really close to here like kind of by matt's actually there was a place that did it well before before we did the before i did my sound bathing i did a cold plunge and we did the wim hof techniques of breathing and stuff do you guys know what that is no he's like the leader in like yeah breathing dave dave probably knows all about wim hof if i had to guess and so we we did like 30 minutes of breathing exercises before getting into a 50 degree pool and i have to say it works like the breathing exercises work and i've never been able to stay in a cold plunge for like, I can do two minutes. I was in there for three minutes and I probably could have stayed

in there for five. Are you totally optimized right now? I feel pretty optimized. I also did a mixology class at the resort, uh, night one that pretty much put me in the ground. You got twisted. Yeah. Waking up, uh, on your first day of full vacation, knowing that you only have two full days of vacation, waking up with just a brutal hangover is not how you want to do it on a wellness kind of retreat thing or is that the perfect place to do it because yeah that was that was my other question yeah i'm glad i didn't have the ropes course that day we did a ropes course as well had i done the ropes course that day i think i would have just fallen off and died like it wouldn't have been good don't no we're not doing that brett you're disgusting i was just thinking Wynn Hough.

Any relation to Jack me? Come on, man. You're, you're insane. Well, you said the rope scores, but then dude,

your boy's Sunday was just a great Sunday. I had a music driven Sunday. Rolled, rolled out of bed, started packing everything. Saw that goose had obviously released their first night of Goosemist on Nugs, and you know your boy just downloaded that for the flight. If you're not listening to Goose right now,

you got to start doing it. Dylan, they were doing postie covers. They brought out Bruce Hornsby to do That's The Way It Is. They were just doing great covers the entire time, mixing with their songs. It was just a delight. I'm going to toss on the show later in the office, and'm gonna force you guys all to listen to it and then i got to come home it's always nice to be on vacation and come home to like having something that you

ordered just sitting there so you get to like have a present when you get home okay i ordered something months ago that finally arrived i ordered a custom vinyl from a guy named Seven Tenors Omaha that he did custom vinyls of songs that you got to choose yourself from the most recent Dead & Company tour. And so Sally and I chose songs from one of the nights that we went to San Francisco and got this custom vinyl, two of the songs on it. Okay, that's sick. It was pretty cool. Getting that and getting home and getting that, I was so happy to do it it was like what does the artwork look like you could customize that too no i'll actually i have i'll show you later but it's all like this custom thing he hand writes everything on the the things and it's just cool and so i was like it's cool to have a physical like a memento yeah yeah it was it's it's cool and

so yeah your boy just vibed and uh to anyone out there who's wondering about my survivor journey i'm halfway through season 28 finale. It's been some of the best reality television of all time, and I cannot wait to see how this pans out. Let's ride. What was your – you walked in and, I quote, just kept running back the quail. I had the best quail of my life on this trip.

I don't know what they did to this stuff. Like I think quail in Texas is a pretty common thing to order at restaurants at this point. Like, there's a lot of quail stuff. Dave had some quail, or some bacon-wrapped quail at his wedding that was just divine.

Dylan, you skipped it, so you wouldn't know. I did. I've had quail maybe twice in my life, and I don't think I was impressed either time. Is it gamey? I've never had quail.

This wasn't gamey. Okay. The issue with quail most of the time is the bones. Right. That's what I remember. It's like trying to fight the bones as you get to the meat. This meat was just falling off. It was a bad day to be a quail.

I ate like six quail that day. He's putting quail away, man. That's why they call you Dan Quail. It's exactly why they call me Dan Quail. Brent, you were on Cabezo Watch this weekend, which is why you're here. I'm glad to see that you still have your head. Sure. No, I had

sort of an extended weekend. Started in Vegas actually last Monday night where I was responsible. I took $100 out of the ATM and I said, that's my bankroll for the night. So you got two hands of blackjack in? No, I

ended up playing... I'll get to that but we were there uh that that's where the business trip started shouts to our boy maddie uh front of the program dude how about that stretch of highway bro it is insane i picked up picked up the denali we're doing some some content there but played took out a hundred dollars of blackjack it was a 25 table and i'm playing for like six hours that night after I got back to the hotel casino. And Brett got hot? I ended that first night at $100. After playing like hours and hours and hours of blackjack.

Dude, that's a win. That's a huge win. Yeah, exactly. Better than Dylan's bachelor party where I lost lost all my money in the first hour. I didn't win a single bet on my trip. I was thinking of doing the thing where you take the $100,000, go to the roulette table, and just be like, all right, $100,000 on black, but let's see if this is going to be a night or not. And I didn't do that.

I was just, all right, I'll sit down and play some blackjack. And it ended hilariously even, which was kind of fun. So that was my Vegas night. Thank you for all the recommendations from the backers who were all like, get a prostitute, strip club, like this and that. I was like, that's not my Vegas style, guys. I'm going to be in bed at like 11 and wake up fully charged, ready to go the next day.

That's not my kind of fun. Didn't you say – you said you went to some like ranch where they had a bunch of like rabbits running around? Yeah, what was that? Or like baby rabbits? No, that was the pedum? It was Hidden Valley. I was putting that on my pizza that night.

Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Did you go to the secret pizza place at Cosmo? No. That's not a secret because there's a giant line leading to it. There's a giant line. I went to Javier's at the Aria for dinner.

Okay. Is it the same Javier's as in Talos where you can smoke cigars inside? I mean, people were, so. Isn't that Javier's? I don't think it was. Javier's is sick. I've never been. I will say Vegas

on a Monday night, very different than Vegas on like a Friday, Saturday. But there was a CPA conference, so it was just a bunch of nerds getting hammered. Dude, did you crash the conference? My blood check partner, Justin Chip. We're writing a movie script about that. Dude, did you crash the conference? My blackjack partners, Chips.

We're writing a movie script about that. Yeah, were the conference crashers just out and about? It was like the conference crashers. Dude, we need AI to write our script. Conference crashers has so much potential. It does. It's going to be sick. It was so funny.

It was like the guys that you could tell are, you know, they have four kids. They don't do Vegas a whole lot, but they were just getting after it. time i ever went to vegas was a tuesday night and i was like okay this is probably good for me shouts to uh to the the alfa romeo folks hooked us up drove through the desert which was really cool it is the longest stretch of highway that i never i didn't touch the wheel yeah yeah you don't you don't you don't turn it even one degree for like 45 minutes straight. And even less so because the Tenali, shout out to all the tech, has the lane assist. So even if you do need to nudge it like one degree, it does it for you. So I'm literally –

Is it a cool drive? Yeah, it's not bad. You can go so fast if you want to. Part of the reason I want to do a West Texas trip is I want to do the long drive. I want to go through and see everything. And I feel like it's the same kind of like it's a shortened version of that. It's always interesting to drive through part of the country that you've never seen before. Yeah, that was cool.

I would like to do that stretch at some point. Maybe in Itzanali. It was sweet getting into California too because you go up and over the mountains and stuff like that. The drive from like the base of the hills into la like through san bernardino that sucks that you feel like you're driving in it's just strip mall after strip mall after strip mall on like a 12 lane highway it's disgusting it's like this this is the reason people like hate like america if you ever like think that you can move to california or like la and then it takes one traffic jam to be like, oh, never mind.

I'd never want to live here. Disgusting. It was like, oh, your trip is eight miles and 56 minutes. It's like, that's awful. Anyway, hanging with the squad in LA, Hermosa Beach. Shouts to the Shellback Tavern, the Strand. Your boy was putting miles in morning walk wise because i would wake up at six because i'm used to the time change i would go down to the beach and walk from

hermosa beach pier to manhattan beach pier and back and it's like 4.2 on the dot so i did that four days in a row damn y'all just walking grind this weekend i was getting the boardwalk miles in um had some really fun fun meetings and dinners there. Then we go to Mexico. You went to a destination 40th birthday party, which I famously talked shit on in my first ever washed weekly column. And I feel bad about it now because the subject of this bachelor, or not bachelor party, of this 40th birthday party is someone who I want to, my goal for 2024 is to become better friends with him than you are. Yeah. You literally texted me that. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I hope he knows that too. Like I want him to know and be aware of this so that he knows

that when I'm spitting game at him to be his friend, that like he receives it well. Yeah. Shouts to Harbs, uh, who will be listening to this. I'm sure. And, uh, uh, very, very hungover. We, we got after it. The boys got after it. They, they got there with his wife and a couple of the boys on Wednesday and they are leaving this afternoon. Oh, they're still there. Yeah. There are a trip.

There are some, some shells of human beings. Anyone have Giardia? Uh, yes. Well, not confirmed Giardia, but there,

the group text is, is still popping with like, I don't know if I can make this airport trip, which is about 45 minutes, 50 minutes from the airport of Puerto Vallarta to Sayulita, which is a little surf town on the coast of Mexico on the Pacific side. It is beautiful. It was stunning. Absolutely stunning. I've been the subject of a scared 45-minute ride from a Mexican resort to the airport, not knowing if you're going to make it. It's not a fun place to be. No, but I'm glad you don't have the revenge. I just, I knew going

in exactly like my plan was bottled water only. And you end up, I mean, basically drinking more alcohol than water, to be honest with you. So we in friday though i i get in uh late that little solo ride to the airport you know i'm i'm concerned i don't i don't cabezo watch right yeah i had put the shuttle kind of on a whim and i was like here we go and the guy who was was my communication uh my contact was not the same guy that picked me up and so i was just a little a little on edge yeah yeah i mean i get it but he gave me two pacificos in the car and he's like all right let's ride i felt good so you get there and the boys have been going all day obviously and so immediately i was like handed three shots um we went to a restaurant called calo in sort of

downtown sayulita that uh harb's wife, Shastashina, had rented out for the 40-something people that were on this trip. It was insane. Harbz was like, I'm going to see, you know, I'll invite a bunch of people and, you know, 10 or 11 can go. It'll be great. Everybody said yes to the trip. The RSVP list was like 100%.

If I ever had like a remote birthday party and i tried to like i would have to pay 40 people to come there's no way that 40 people would accept that invite it was insane so we we rented out and they just they start doing like uh was it all what's what's the the prefix so it's just dishes coming out kind of one by one the shrimp they're ridiculous the guacamole, insane. You're a Mexico dog, of course. Oh, dude. The food was so good.

We loaded up on carajos. Taught the boys about those. Dylan can't handle carajos. Remind me what they are? It is espresso and liquor 43, which is sort of just like a, I think a coffee liqueur. I mean, it's kind of the new espresso martini for people for people in the know dude yeah we go out afterwards get after it saturday go surfing wake up early ronald nerson a little bit but we all got up we all got after it and it's a cool place it's all the streets are all cobblestone and you get around via golf cart like there's

people there's people driving around but it's almost annoying because all the streets are a little one way kind of as wide as as this table so golf cart's the way to go or you can kind of walk everywhere go surfing uh try to get pitted doesn't really work i got up like one and a half times pretty you ever surfed before this yeah i had in san Diego. Okay. It's not easy. No. It was way harder than I ever anticipated when we took that class, Dylan.

And I'm just going to gas Dylan's sails a little bit. Dylan was the best surfer out of me, Dave, and Dylan. And Dan. I had done it before. You were getting up pretty quickly. Oh, really? And letting it ride. I got up like once and it was not good.

It was not good. It was not a very successful surf. The waves were big. Apparently they had a storm kind of cooking. So there was like five to seven foot waves. I caught one, fell and got just rolled

through the surf to the point where I very much almost drowned. That was all set. I sat on the beach and had a margarita so what would the vibe in the studio be today if brent had drowned while surfing in mexico i probably wouldn't be recording today i don't think but people would want to hear people would want to hear like would you guys think he'd be like oh he faked his own death in mexico and now he's just gonna stay there that would be an underlying thought the entire time I can see why people do it because Saturday night we go to dinner at this place called bar Miramar and

It's not a traditional bar. It's basically a bunch of lawn chairs and a guy's backyard that he built a bar himself a tiki bar and Serves drinks out of his house and it has awesome reviews he built a kitchen a couple years ago where a local family comes in brings all fresh ingredients and makes food to order on the beach their menus are written in uh in pencil on the back of like cardboard uh like wheaties like a cereal box it is the coolest fucking place

yeah I'm gonna go to Sayulita now yeah do the boys need a Sayulita trip sounds pretty dope it was extremely dope I've done Puerto Vallarta before and it's really cool really cool um and uh got after it did a little karaoke Saturday night late. That was interesting. Dropped my buddies off. I was in a golf cart. They were staying on the beach at a hotel kind of like away from it all. To get back to my place where I was staying, shouts to our Airbnb, was about a two and a half mile dirt road through the jungle.

I was doing solo at about two in the morning uh in very much like jaguar territory we were told so that was jag yeah as scary of a drive through the woods as i've ever had in my life in a golf cart in a golf cart you should have had dylan there with very you would you felt comfortable with dylan there i would have man choking those things out honestly yeah but it was just something about you and no – it was jungle on both sides. And you would hear – you can hear monkeys. You can hear the crickets and spiders, like all that stuff. The first thing they told us this weekend at our place, they were like,

don't leave any food out. Don't leave anything because there's bears, whatever. And I was like, okay, yeah. I don't freak with bears. Yeah, black bears are fun. That sounds awesome. it was very fun like big labs um not brown bears though uh it's a little exciting knowing that someone could get something that could just get you at any moment oh my i felt it was it was it was very it was a very like primal instinct that's a little fun of the man i kept looking behind me and the golf cart cart has these little dim lights that are barely 10 feet.

It was intense, man. Fuck yeah. It was intense. I'm glad you still have your hat, Brett. It's good to have you back. Yeah, good to be back. It's good to have you back. Yesterday was an interesting day of travel after drinking for like 10 days in a row.

Yes. You guys had some weekends. Yeah, we had big weekends. But you got nine miles in. Yeah. So who's the real winner here? And a little color on my face. And you caught two dubs. And I caught two dubs and spent less money than you got nine miles in. Yeah. So who's the real winner here? And a little color on my face. And you caught two dubs.

And I caught two dubs and spent less money than you guys did, which is also cool. That is very, very correct. I'm just glad Brett's head is still attached because, I mean, he's been taking this neutrophil stuff and it's been paying dividends. I'll be honest, Brett, your flow this weekend, in the first slide of Juerger Grom this weekend, all-time flow pick for you. It looked great. Thank you.

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while. There was a girl who did a TikTok where she was just, for lack of a better word, tweaking. It has an obscene amount of caffeine in it, correct? Yes. A normal shot of espresso has 65 milligrams of caffeine. By the way, what I'm about to say is from Twitter, so I could be incorrect here. Twitter's always right. Like one single shot of espresso has 65 milligrams of caffeine in it, and one Panera charged lemonade has 390 milligrams of caffeine in it.

Oh my God. With free refills. With free refills. Probably a lot of sugar as well, which, you know. This lemonade has now claimed not one but two lives two people have died from caffeine issues with this if i'm not mistaken right randy are you freaking kidding me no but now like gen z has now taken it upon themselves to like make this into a bit of all going to paneras and getting the charged lemonade and seeing what happens

have you ever had like a caffeine overdose? I know. I mean, my caffeine intake is usually just coffee, which is like, if I, if I drink too much coffee, I'll start to get a little bit of jitters. And that's my, my governor, like, all right, slow down no more. So no. One time I had to go, uh, we had a wedding and it was about two hours from Austin, but we also had a dinner that we had to go to before the rehearsal dinner that was in Austin. And I was like, all right, so I'm gonna have to go to this dinner in Austin and then drive the two hours and then be on my a game for the after party. So I went to central market. They have a little nice cafe right there. And I ordered

a double iced Americano. I didn't realize that there were four shots of espresso in the normal iced Americano. And so they gave me eight shots of espresso. Halfway into the dinner, my father-in-law looks at me and he just goes, you okay? I was like, no. Wait, a normal one had four shots? Yeah. And so I had eight shots in mine. How were you acting to make him ask you that question? I was profusely sweating and it wasn't that hot out. I couldn't keep my eyes locked on one thing at a time.

So I was just kind of like looking around and like super jittery and on edge. And it kept on getting just worse and worse and worse and worse. And finally we go do the two hour drive and I'm just wired out of my mind. I get to the party and I tell Sally, like, I have to leave.

I have to go. And I couldn't sleep that night. My body was like shutting down and just like not, not handling it well. And then it started causing a bunch of GI issues with me. I couldn't keep anything in. I'm not going to go too far into that, but just, I pretty much had to tell the people that we were staying with at the wedding, like, Hey, this bathroom is ours. Yeah. It took me two days to get over it. I just looked up how much caffeine is in pre-workout and it says 150 to 300 milligrams. I usually do like half a scoop. The only time I've ever felt this way was when I took pre-workout for the first time

and I did a huge scoop. And when I do pre-workout, I make sure not to drink coffee like, you know, around the same time because I know that's just a lot of caffeine. I saw someone on the TL say that if Joe Biden can finish an entire Panera-charged lemonade, they'll vote for him. Okay. I think it would actually kill him.

I don't think our man is living through one single-charged lemonade. No one's doing a second refill, right? People are doing second refills because they don't realize how much is in it. Oh, my God. You know what i mean like it doesn't like i think they have they had signs up now but now there's like a whole revolt

to get this stuff like banned i think i they can't keep serving this stuff it's so much caffeine like for free refills and not even to mention the sugar that must be in this still and that's gotta be even more devastating that's what i said earlier i'm trying to find uh nutrition facts on this bad boy randy you brought up the uh the new mcdonald's website cosmix yeah what i don't understand what cosmix is and why they're trying to just branch off why not just make like mcdonald's cafe or i guess they have mcdonald's yeah they have mccafe but mcdonald's is launching a new a new storemix. It looks like it's just pretty much going to be McDonald's brand Starbucks. But their drinks here look very similar

to the Panera stuff. They're giving caffeine overdose. I found the sugar content. Okay. All right, so it's a 30-ounce drink, which is large. 30-ounce charged lemonade. As you said, 390 milligrams of caffeine 124 grams of

sugar yeah oh that's that good my god these i think some if you're a college kid out there and you're listening uh you should pitch to your boys that instead of doing edward 40 hands you do edward charged lemonade hands and you each drink 130 ounce on each hand don't encourage that because if someone dies they're gonna be like oh circling back told me to do it no we're telling you not to do it we're just saying i'm just saying pitch it to your boys and see how it goes do you know how much 100 grams of sugar looks like if you just like poured sugar onto a table no it'd be like this this hot dylan i try to ignore you know i try to ignore this dude that is so much sugar i got some type of of like Mexican like juice drink the other day at lunch with you. And the first thing you said was like, dude, that's got so much sugar in it.

And it did. But I don't think about these things, dude. I don't want to. I don't want to think about it. Are they regulating this shit? No, they should. Can parks just go up to the counter and buy a Charged Lemonade at a Pan a panera probably that's not okay probably you know what the hell it is like oh lemonade sounds good i don't think anyone's over i don't think anyone's smoked too much weed lately and like just overdose they just fall asleep in their bed but you can go to panera and like dose yourself with enough caffeine to die it can be lethal apparently as we've learned yeah as other like pending lawsuits what's going on i don't know like i could see matt gates being totally for keeping it or something just to like be like a thorn in people's side

this this shouldn't exist like i don't want to be a like a stick in the mud here but this should not exist would you try one no why absolutely not let's do one let's do one single 30 ounce lemonade it's it is poison for your body like that is terrible for you the sugar alone is awful don't be a wimp dude 124 grams of sugar dbap what if you went for a refill and had two of these that's what people are doing that's what the girl did in the tiktok where she started tweaking out she had two of them was just like wired 780 i honestly thought this girl was like playing it up but then when i went back to the time that I had way too much caffeine, I was like, Oh no,

that's exactly how I felt. Like I couldn't like, I couldn't piece thoughts together. My mind was racing at such a rapid clip that I was like, I just couldn't do it. It's like hospital time. And it gets to that point. Yes.

Sally almost took me to the hospital because I could like, I had so like, I could nothing that I could eat would stay down. And my mind was still just like wired. You couldn't eat? No. Anything I ate, I would immediately go to the bathroom and like my system would evacuate. Oh my God.

It lasted for two days. I wonder if they give you like an IV or something. I went to the wedding. I made it to the actual wedding because I was like I have to at least try to make an effort to go to the wedding. But the entire time at the wedding, I'm sitting on this like tough stomach and there's nowhere to sit at this wedding because there were so many people there. And I was like, I can't stand up. Like I'm going to collapse. And so we find some friends, we make them squeeze us in, but I'm sitting right on the aisle of the wedding. The flower girl starts going down the middle of the aisle, doing what she does,

tossing the flowers out. She drops the basket directly in front of me and the flowers go everywhere. And the look on her face was just sheer terror like i don't know what to do but everyone's looking at me like you're the closest person to her you need to help this girl i'm trying not to like soil my suit like and i'm just staring at this toddler and i'm like i can't help you like i can't i can't get up i'm gonna collapse in the middle of this wedding and make things even worse people are like why did that grown man not help the someone like jumped over me and helped her and i was like thank you so much i would have passed i think i would have fought like had i had to like reach down and like help her pick it up and everything

in front of everybody i think i would have collapsed that's a tough that's a not a fun feeling man are kids doing sidewalk slammers with these oh don't oh my god i sure as hell hope not this is like the recipe for the new four loco Loko. If you want to know what it feels like to have original recipe before Loko, I think you just go get a charged lemonade and put like half a liter of vodka in there. Let's do a Borg with charged lemonade. Oh, it's Borg the charged lemonade.

Oh, are people not... People are adding alcohol to this for sure, right? I mean, I assume so. And that's what... Four Loko is so dangerous because of the mixture of caffeine and liquor, right? I don't even know. I think there was something else in it that just made your stomach feel like it was eating itself all the time.

I miss, I do miss four locos. I think the combination of caffeine and alcohol when consumed in abundance is really not healthy for you. I drank three, four locos before a Michigan-Penn State game one time. And the next day was one of the worst hangovers I've ever had. I kind of miss it. I kind of miss the time in everyone's life where drinking Four Loco was completely acceptable, if not encouraged. Okay.

I Googled, why is Four Loco dangerous? It is the drinking too much of any alcohol that can lead to alcohol poisoning and, in extreme cases, death. The harm with Four Loco comes and that is marketed to kids as kind of a boozy form of Red Bull. One 23.5-ounce can contains as much alcohol as four 12-ounce beers and a large coffee. Yeah, it's a combination of caffeine and liquor. So I guess that makes sense. If you drink three before a football game and you're on 12 beers and a combination of caffeine and liquor. So I guess that makes sense. If you drink three before a football game

and you're on 12 beers and a bunch of coffee. Since the human body can't metabolize alcohol that quickly, the alcohol builds up in your bloodstream and can do crazy things like shut down the respiratory center of your brain. That's just about alcohol poisoning. Okay. Well, I want to, this Cosmix,

I want to draw your attention to this, the creamy avocado tomatillos. Oh, tomatillo. So I know you're a big tomatillo. You just said earlier. I told Sally the other day when we were walking by a McDonald's that I've really been craving it lately. There's probably going to be a day where I roll into the studio this week where I just

have a big bag of McDonald's with me. I've been paying attention to the McDonald's show. They're adding all this to the menu. This is a whole new concept. But they're launching it in Texas first and not other places? It'll be in San Antonio and Dallas by the end of 2024.

Do they serve alcoholic Cosmics? Or is it just these aggressive drinks? These drinks look so sugary. This looks like your hell. It does look like my hell. They opened some in Bolingbroke, Illinois too. Who's doing this? The Sour Cherry Energy Burst is giving charged lemonade.

I feel like it's going to be as caffeine. The Blackberry Mint Green Tea seems like it would be, too. Dylan, if you drink two charged lemonades at the washed holiday party, I'll let you out of some of the bets. I'm going to have to go to the hospital. We can be up all night, dude. I'm a big coffee guy. I can't handle 700 milligrams of caffeine. You'll be the one freaking out at Carve this time, not me.

They have McMuffins at Cosmix, but they don't have McGriddles? Yeah, they have a few of the actual McDonald's items on the menu. I had my first ever experience at a Popeye's for breakfast. Did you even know Popeyes served breakfast i didn't all they do is take their chicken tenders and just put biscuits on them like i just had i had one giant spicy tender and then a really good biscuit and like that sounds

i'm not opposed to doing it again i was a very big fan i don't even know if they do that in like regular popeyes i think that might just be an airport john hey what's the tea with the little balls of weird shit in it? What's that stuff called? Boba. What the fuck is that? Tapioca. Tapioca?

Pretty sure. What? You know what I'm talking about? I know what you're talking about, but I'm more floored by Randy's immediate response of it's tapioca. I don't even know what tapioca is.

I feel like tapioca pudding was just a thing that people always talk shit on when we were like five. Yeah, because it was always for old people. I don't really know what it is, but I'm pretty sure it's...

I think Pete and Pete were like super against we were like five. Yeah, because it was always for old people. I don't really know what it is, but I'm pretty sure it's... I think Pete and Pete were super against tapioca pudding. Yeah. Traditional milk boba tea is served with tapioca balls, which are made of starch and are commonly referred to as pearls. I'm going to throw this out right now. I know that stuff, but I don't know if tapioca or all that stuff is. I just know that's what's in it. That drink just looks so unappealing to me.

I would never try it. Never have had it, yeah. but it was big in college like it's very big college there are stores that just so only that i think did y'all ever drink clearly canadian no it was just like canadian drink that was like fizzy juice ton of sugar in it like they they sell them now at some grocery stores in austin but i hadn't seen them since like the late 90s. And they taste incredible. But again, they're jacked up with sugar. But it's one of those drinks where it's like, oh, yeah, like I don't really have a need for this in my life. How's this company?

How are these sugary companies still surviving at this point? Right. I feel like the general consensus from so many people is that they want to avoid it. Society is becoming much more sugar conscious. Well, like if you're in Mexico, like Brett just was, if you go to the grocery store, it says on the package of things that have too much sugar, like this has a ton of sugar in it. They have warnings on it. We haven't caught up to that yet. We're selling charged lemonade. It's one of the public health things that Mexico's dominating us on.

Panera already stunk. Now it extra stinks. We're going to Panera for lunch today. We're getting charged lemonade. We're absolutely not going. Last night when I got home from our little vacay, I had the absolute pleasure of taking all the photos that I had. I went into the Aura Frames app and I loaded those things up and I've just been seeing it ever since. And it's just been a beautiful, beautiful little trip down memory lane. You've heard us talk about Aura Frames. This is the best gift that you can give this holiday season. And I'm not just saying that. When you give someone a gift, you want them to enjoy it immediately. No long setup or batteries required or assembly that makes everyone frustrated with each other. There's many reasons to love Aura Digital Frames, but honestly, that might be my favorite.

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foods every day until he died of food poisoning. And once he started doing this, he got to the point where his skin started clearing up more. He felt healthier, had increased energy, and he had all these benefits to eating the raw meat. That being said, do you want to be the guy eating cod fillets outside of a whole foods that are completely raw? So he wanted to do this until he died? Well, that was just the bit, that he was going to do it. Yeah. He said his bio on Instagram,

raw meat experiment with 138,000 followers, the account got banned at one point. I don't know why. It says that he's eating raw meat every day until I die from bacteria, seeing if I live five days or 500 years. Okay. Did he eat stuff like chicken, which is known to have lots of... Yep. He never got any salmonella poisoning or anything like that. Weird. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So what's he doing now?

I've been interested by him for a while because it's like, it is kind of interesting. I don't want to eat raw meat, but it's interesting to me that he sees these health benefits that like other people would never see from it. And now he has this whole theory that like the American way of going about eating is kind of ass backwards and whatever. Well, this last couple of weeks, he has decided to go down the path of doing only raw milk. So for two straight weeks, all he did was drink milk.

He drank a gallon of raw milk a day. Wait, so no food, just milk? No food. He went full baby, he called it the baby cow diet. Okay, when I saw this on the rundown, I thought he was just eating baby cow. No, he is doing the baby cow diet where he only drinks milk. Can I read you his caption?

Said, morning friends. Today is the final day of two week, nothing but milk diet experiment. I'm still not a baby cow, but I will admit that the grass looks a bit more munchable. There's a milk diet story. Whatever. He goes into that. He said, overall, the review of the diet is a 9.2. My skin energy overall well-being is a little above average. I am missing eating other foods less each day, but I love food, so I'd never do this forever. I don't think anyone has to do it, but I think it was fun. I've read stories of people who live for decades on just milk. Maybe they're true and maybe it's made up, but it sort of makes sense to me. The milk still tastes very good every time and I never got tired of it i drank about a gallon a day on average to stay satiated for 24 or 24 7 i did go down a few pounds during the two weeks uh about six pounds and he'll likely do a longer test in

the future when he has time is there anything that could convince you to drink raw milk for just two weeks straight do you think you could actually do it if there was like a light at the end of the tunnel yeah i don't think i could do it it'd be it'd be tough but i could i mean i could do it there has to be some financial benefit to it yeah when i got covid has he taken okay sorry back up has he taken a break from his raw meat experiment as he yeah continued okay he stopped doing only only raw meat but i think i believe he said that he was doing a lot of um a lot of raw meat still after he was done with the kind of Instagram portion of it. Oh my gosh. Okay. When I got COVID,

we are a cool company. Whenever someone got COVID, I think whenever someone did, or at least when either you, me, or Dave got it, we gave a gift card to someone so they could get some delivery food. And I did mine just on a juice cleanse because I was like, I have no energy right now. What better time than to do a juice cleanse now? Food doesn't sound good. I was going crazy after less than 48 hours of a juice cleanse. I don't think I could actually do... I don't think I could do it for two weeks. I've always been intrigued by juice cleanses. I've wanted to try one. It was fine. I didn't feel...'t i didn't feel i mean here's how much weight did you lose i don't know i think i lost a lot i think i lost weight just from having

covid and just like laying around and not eating calories i wasn't doing it to lose weight i just wanted to try it for once and see how it went and they were doing they were weirdly doing like a 50 off deal so i was like all right i'm doing a juice cleanse i kind of want to try one it's it was interesting i just don't know if I want to do it again. Have you ever had raw milk? I don't think so. It's hard to get. It's not legal in a lot of states.

You guys get it. We used to get it. We had a raw milk guy. I don't know why we started doing it, but it was just one of those. I just mean straight from the cow's udder. Yeah. Nothing like...

Yeah, like full fat. There's like a fat cap at the top of like the the raw milk container because there's like possibly back mix it in yeah you have to like mix it all up and stuff gross is it refrigerated yeah okay yeah yeah it's just like normal milk but it's just thicker i don't know if it's better though like i don't know it didn't it didn't i don't know why we did i wouldn't like to see a fat cap on the top of my milk that'd be tough tough to get past yeah i guess i guess is there any liquid that you could if that if you had to do two weeks of drinking only one liquid and let's just say you're satiated if you're drinking this what liquid would you choose i mean aside from

water obviously yeah yeah like you have to do a liquid with calories in it and you have to drink it like a gallon of it every day for two weeks chocolate milk i give you chocolate milk chocolate milk as much as i love it too much of it it you get tired of the flavor i would just do regular milk i think chocolate milk is actually kind of i don't like that i do two percent milk okay okay i love i love drinking just milk out of the fridge so good do you go straight mouth straight to the container typically yeah really i don't care man i guess would smoothies count you'd i would require that you did this exact same smoothie yeah i could probably do strawberry banana that solids just pretty much

brett pretty much does that anyway i love a smoothie brett lives off smoothies panini presses and bruschetta and grilled cheese sandwiches yeah like that's all he eats yeah he started an instagram account about this um called what is it called oh it's not on his main it is on his main feed but he started raw milk revolution and i really just hope he keeps doing this i don't know i like this guy i think this guy's interesting like he's just got he's got a different view of life than most people i'm one of the uh less than 1600 followers of raw milk uh revolution so i'm excited to see how this all pans out okay he's got a good meme eye too so he's funny well no like when he first started bubbling up i was like how does this guy have such a good content gene and then i realized

that he had created other instagram accounts that had done really well even before that that had nothing to do with like his life or anything so he he's very online regardless yeah it's just he's just gross man i think we should get some raw milk for the boys i don't hate what he's doing but it's just it's just gross he talks about the mental acuity of it here he is dipping just ground raw beef and milk and eating it like that's gross i could do that but i'm built different when it comes to ground beef you know i am okay can we talk about our friends over at talk space real quick yeah anyone out there feeling down it's okay the holidays aren't so cheery days get shorter issues the family can sometimes come

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Do you want to start with... I know where Dave would start based on what I'm about to say. Do you want to start with Selena Gomez, Meat Smokers Only, or Cabeza Watch? I'm most intrigued by the selena gomez thing okay i don't know why dave must be he just really likes her music i guess um he's a big selena gomez fan i think he likes that she's from texas as well um she's been she's obviously one of probably she's i think she's one of the most followed people on instagram she's top top three she's a big name when she makes moves the rest of the world looks. Are you aware that she's now dating Benny Blanco?

And she's been dating him secretly for six months. You told me this earlier. And my first question was, who the hell is Benny Blanco? Then you told me that it's the weird guy from the show Dave that we watch. I was like, oh, yeah, that guy's funny. He was good on Dave. He's quirky, weird little guy. And then my second, my follow-up question was,

how the hell did he land Selena Gomez? Well, Randy pointed out, and I thought the same thing, because my only exposure to Benny Blanco has been through his cooking stuff on TikTok, which I'm not really interested in. And on the show Dave, where he and Lil Dicky just, I don't know, act weird towards each other. Just bro out.

But they bro out in a different way than the boys typically bro out. He's a music producer, correct? Yeah. And Randy pulled up some of the songs that he's done. The dude has absolute bangers. Yeah. Okay. Rihanna, Kesha.

Rihanna, Kesha, 303 for me. A lot of Maroon 5. Some Ed Sheeran. He's done a lot for me uh a lot of maroon 5 uh some ed sheeran he's done a lot of stuff a lot of people he's weird looking man i i just i can't i you know i guess maybe we shouldn't be surprised that like all the pop stars are branching out and dating like new guys like travis kelsey and stuff but i just didn't have benny blanco dating sel like anywhere on my radar. No, no. I mean, Biebs is on her list. Didn't she already? Yeah. She dated Biebs, right? Yeah. Oh yeah. She, she like dated him before Haley. Oh yeah. See, I wasn't, I was not dialed in at that point. Hey, good for him. Yeah. I have nothing against the guy. It's just, it's just a little surprising. Uh, Dylan dylan you've heard us you've heard me complain in the past about certain neighbor issues i've

heard you complain in the past about certain neighbor issues i know that neighbors have complained about you because you're the noisiest neighbor of all time oh i don't know about that i don't know i've heard some things um if if i told you that like an awesome barbecue joint was going to open up like right next door to your place you'd be like oh hell yeah let's go okay i know where this is going um and yes it would be it has its pros and its cons if you live next door to a barbecue place that smokes their meat that would get really old really fast so this lady in nashville is su her next-door neighbor. I'm just reading this from WKRN, the local Nashville news. I'm just a Tennessean now.

I got my finger on the pulse there. But she's suing the barbecue joint next door because she can't enjoy her home and property anymore because of all the smoke going up. I think this is a fairly normal problem. It happens a lot of places. The normal human part of me is like, oh, I kind of get it. That's a little annoying. going up i think this is a fairly normal problem so like it happens a lot of places the the normal human part of me is like oh i kind of get it like that's a little annoying that's tough uh she did move in directly next to the barbecue joint she knowingly like they they preceded her and this also has to do with a property property line dispute that is very gray um but the meat smoker

the meat smoker only in me is like you got to revel in this and just go full meat. So the home-sliced pizza that's the north one, it's just situated right in the middle of a neighborhood. It's surrounded by houses, right? You talked such a big game about home-sliced that when I finally went there, because I had to go see it for myself and see how good the pizza was,

I was so confused by where it was located in the middle of a bunch of people. Yeah. It's vibey in there too, isn't it? Yeah. So you park your car car you park on the street because it's it's there's a lot but it's really small so you park on the street and you open your car door and you're just punched in the face with the smell this really good pizza smell and the whole street smells like home sliced pizza and as when you visit it once every several weeks it's it's like all right this is great

but if you live right next door to this place aren't you just so sick of smelling pizza all the time yes yes didn't we have someone recently call in about living above like a bakery or do we talk about that like how miserable it'd be just to hear them doing that like at 4 a.m when they go in and start doing all the stuff fresh like it would get real old real quick bakery is nice because it's not like a really strong pungent smell like pizza is a really strong smell in barbecue of course it's like if the smoke just like you know fills the whole area do we think she has a case to to to get her way here i do sympathize with her as someone who's been in in the middle of disputes with neighbors and stuff like i kind of i kind of understand where she's coming yeah i'll just

say i get it i get why you're doing this but it but yeah how about another question how good is the barbecue because if it's that gas like yeah i mean you can't really complain too much joe rogan always talks about living next to like highways and stuff and how like the micro stuff that comes off of tires and that gets kicked up from highways can affect your your health long term but i don't think there's been studies that are like long enough that can actually i don't know it's owned real estate in my head i love the smell of a smoker just smoking dude it's so good it would get old though it would it would like okay what's the worst possible thing to open up next door to your place just a rowdy bar yeah how about like a light a

holiday light show that just dude they since since uh december's hit they've definitely turned up the volume i hate to say this barbecue is one of of the worst. Just because of the constant smoke. The constant smoke. Do you think you'd find soot in your place? Probably so. That's like going through your, like your, you'd have to change your air filters

like every day. Probably so. Okay, I might be on this team, you know what, sorry Dave and KJ, I might be on this lady's team. I do get it.

I get this a little bit from her. This reminded me of a story I had to look it up from 2019 that some vegan lady back in 2019 sued her neighbor for smoking meat. She lost and a big barbecue was playing outside her house just because she, I guess, was vegan. If I smell a neighbor smoking meat, I'm like, oh, bring it on. I love this smell.

But I don't want it 24-7. And these places places these barbecue places if you smoke a brisket you got to start early in the morning too you wake up and it's already going we we go to terry black's mostly i'd say we're a terry black's company here in austin texas and there's there's how i mean there's there's residential stuff around them too i bet people have to deal with that it would suck to have to move out because of like smoke from a barbecue because they ain't moving unless they legally have to you guys mind if we go south like brett did this weekend if i'd known this story was going on i wouldn't have let brett go to mexico what's happening um the uh the uh

drug lords in mexico are going on a killing spree to find the police officers who stole their drugs. Oh, my God. Had I known Brett was going down there, I'd just worry about him. I could see how Brett could be misconstrued for a cop sometimes. He was wearing a long-sleeved white button down at the bar in Mexico. That's cop vibes. Mexico scares me because these cartels are much more powerful than police they're the yeah they're way more powerful than the police

it's scary man if if i if i was on this police force i'd be like look here's their drugs just come get them i don't know fucking with y'all anymore oh yeah what point are you just like here take it back this scary shit take it back they're ruthless i feel like we fetishized like i feel like watching uh like narcos mexico and stuff like you start to root for the drug dealers and then you see a news story like this and it's like oh i probably shouldn't root for them i'll root for them in the show because it's fictitious somewhat there's some bad hombres man this is really scary it says tijuana where is tijuana that's up in the uh that's up San Diego San Diego San Diego runs into like there's no line between they they're the same city essentially just divided

by an international border my buddy and I got very close to doing like a day in Tijuana just to go down and see what was see what it's all about and we were in San Diego and I'm I'm glad that we didn't do it I think there have been times where it was like one of the more dangerous cities in North America. But I think now, I'm speaking out of my ass probably, but I think there are times when it's been safe too. Yeah, yeah.

I think the time we were going to go down there, it was considered like, we would have been fine. But like, I don't know. The border towns are, they're just dicey. The Texas border towns are Juarez, which is El Paso,

El Paso way, West Texas. That Juarez is the other side of the border. One of the more dangerous cities in the world. I want to go to Lajitas, the golf resort on the border of Texas and Mexico. On the Texas side though, right? Yeah. You can hit a golf ball into Mexico, which seems a little disrespectful if I'm being honest. Like, I don't need to litter their country with my golf.

I'm not going to throw them a Pro V1. Just launching Max Fly Noodles over there. You know I don't play with noodles. Tijuana can also save your life if you just go down there and do a bunch of blow and hookers. Oh, yeah, that's true. That's right. That needs to go viral soon.

It's been a minute. It got more traction the other day, actually. Someone said it to me. Really? Where does it get traction these days? This was on Twitter. Is your name in the other day actually someone said it to me really where does it get traction these days this was on twitter it just like keeps is your name in the screenshot when people are putting it out there so some of the screenshots say roger dorn and some say my name because it was that when the article was live i switched my name over and so it changed on the website with some screen

screenshots were already taken this one said roger dorn we can't say too much about this because i don't know like what we can actually say, but our legal counsel's not here, so fuck it. But there was a time when they were trying to turn that into a movie with some major players,

and I don't think it's ever gonna happen now. Yeah. That would've been an incredible movie. What's-His-Face was behind it. Should we not say it? Oh, yeah, we probably...

I don't think we should say it. Okay. A well-known actor. Yeah. Like someone who I would've been like, yeah, let's make this happen. Yeah, probably would've done a great job with it producer actor obviously we have an ad deal currently with netflix for the show obliterated by the way i'm watching it you like it i'm like five episodes it's good dude it's good it's wild i imagine that i'm if they did that news story in

the way that they're doing obliterated, it would be great. Yeah. Yeah. I have to say, since Sunday Scaries has gotten some ad deals with some streaming things, I've actually really enjoyed watching every single thing that I've been watching for it. Obliterated has been a fun watch. Yeah. It's wild ass. team essentially who diffuses a bomb in las vegas so they go out and celebrate after and get absolutely hammered only to realize that they didn't complete their mission and they have more work to do but they're all on drugs and drunk and so they have to go do it yes i love that you're

five episodes you're further than me there's a there's some scenes coming up that you'd be like oh my god yeah they have they censored out Instagram. I'm like, this is going to be some wild boy shit. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah. All right, that's all she wrote today. That was a fun one. Tomorrow, we've got touching base tomorrow with special guest Sal Gal.

Wednesday, we got a very special guest coming to the studio. I've confirmed that on Wednesday's episode, we will have the Battletoad bad boy. We will have Michael Weiner coming in the studio. I think he'll be sitting in a chair and not producing as dave's not here so he's just going to straight up sit for dave i could see dave getting a wild hair and i'm hearing that mike is coming in and just want to come in and do this but i'm excited to have mike on the building we have a company christmas dinner coming up it's a big week in wash media world so i was like can i come in i was like do

you want to record with mike on wednesday instead of doing touching bass and she's like i don't think us recording together is a good idea. It's like, what, too many tangents? What are her and Micah going to say together? She said that? Yeah. Are they at odds right now? No, they love each other.

I think we were in a group text while we were... That's why I said, oh, Micah's going to be in on Wednesday. That's funny. She's like, no, I don't think that's a good idea. And then Friday, we will be having a Coffee Friday, which I believe we're still thinking about live streaming. And I should probably figure out to make sure that we can do that. More on that later. But I've been wanting to do a live stream from YouTube, from our YouTube channel for a while now. And I feel like a coffee Friday where we're all just beaten down is a good

idea. But that does put more work on Randy's plate. So we'll see if it pans out. YouTube.com slash circling back. Do we have anything else today, boys? I don't think so. Man, what a time to what a time to be alive that's a good one that one felt i'm in the holiday mode knowing that we have two weeks left of like work and then we get our normal week off between christmas and new year's like i'm feeling energized right now feeling good good stuff coming up all right see you guys tomorrow bye Outro Music