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• Barton Bryan and Mitch Royer • Season 1 • Episode 40

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In our lively latest episode, we discuss everything from new TV shows like 'American Primeval' to reflections on political leadership. It’s a fun blend of family tales, pop culture insights, and engaging discussions on making smart choices in life. 
• Launching off with a dad joke 
• New Netflix show 'American Primeval' and its historical significance 
• Revisiting 'Dexter: Original Sin' and nostalgia for classic characters 
• Reflections on LeBron James' potential football career 
• Family spring break plans: skiing vs. Napa Valley 
• The joy of outdoor activities as the weather warms up 
• Insights and reflections on political conversations and leadership

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TV Shows and LeBron James Interview

Speaker 1

Welcome to DadBots and Dumbbells. My name is Mitch.

Speaker 2

And I'm Bart.

Speaker 1

Thanks for listening, liking, subscribing, commenting. We're so grateful you listen. We love you guys very much. Today we have a special, special day. It is the Zen Spin.

Speaker 2

The table topic episode that everyone's been waiting for.

Speaker 1

We haven't done one in a couple months. It's been a little bit. Yeah, we've had a lot to say. I've run out of many ideas. Okay, it's hard.

Speaker 2

Yeah, that might be a fun thing. If you want to have us talk about something on Table Talk Pick episode coming up, go ahead and send me an email comment somewhere. Let us know what you want to hear or what you want us to discuss and we'll do it. All right, I got a quick dad joke right here, this one clever. What would bears be without the letter B?

Speaker 1

They would be ears, ears. That's the answer. All right, let's give this puppy a spin All right, here we go.

Speaker 2

All right, when are we at New shows? All right, so these are new TV shows on any of the uh the streaming channels or whatever.

Speaker 1

Uh, go ahead, you can talk first, okay so there's this show that I was put on to by some friends. It's very intense, very violent. It's called american primeval and it's on netflix and it's basically a show about people. You know, it's old west people moving west through utah, yeah, and it's about the brigham young uh, governor, brigham young when they moved out there and just how violent and serious, corrupt and and scary it was, yeah, back in the day. So we're my wife can only handle like a half episode, an episode at a time. I could. I could binge watch those types of shows like they give me really dark places, but I like it.

Speaker 1

So, yeah, I highly recommend American Pride and Evil because it's based on true events and it really opened your eyes to old Brigham Young.

Speaker 2

Does it shed any light or paint the Mormon church in a poor light?

Speaker 1

I mean a violent light.

Speaker 2

Yeah, for sure, I mean, just like what?

Speaker 1

their reign was in that area and why they settled the area and I got a lot of great Mormon friends. So I'm a little like. When I saw that, I was like dang son. See, I mean sure it'll be denied somewhere.

Speaker 2

Intrigue?

Speaker 1

I'm sure it's not true, I'm sure it's all false, so yeah. Yeah, true, I'm sure it's all false, so yeah yeah, check it out.

Speaker 2

So, uh, we've been watching. So dexter, a classic, uh, you know you're re-watching it.

Speaker 1

No, no, they have a new.

Speaker 2

They have a new, um, kind of a prequel to dexter called dexter original sin, and they found this uh, british kid I don't know his name, but he plays dexter in like 22 years old when he first starts working for Miami.

Speaker 1

Metro.

Speaker 2

And he's such a good actor. He's really kind of gotten Michael C Hall's mannerisms. Really, michael C Hall does all the voiceover work, so like when he's thinking it's still Michael C Hall's voice, kind of reflecting. So that's cool and they've done a good job at kind of bringing back. Oh and, by the way, christian Slater plays his dad, harry Dang.

Speaker 1

I love Christian.

Speaker 2

Slater and so he's funny in it and there's a bunch of flashbacks, so it's great, especially for the Dexter fans who love that series.

Speaker 1

I heard the movie wasn't so good. Didn't they do a Dexter movie? No they didn't.

Speaker 2

Are you sure?

Speaker 1

That's extra movie? No, they didn't, are you sure? That's okay, buddy, you know I I mean I watched the first five seasons.

Speaker 2

It got a little hard to watch. Yeah, they start it gets convoluted. They did like uh eight seasons and then they did a uh new like, a after like, where he ends up in like maine. Yeah, he'd like kind of that's what it was. And then he, uh, and there's a season of that and they're actually at the end of that season. You think he died.

Speaker 2

He got shot by his own son yeah um, but they're, they're bringing it back, so obviously he doesn't die. And then when he gets shot, he gets rushed to the hospital.

Speaker 1

Let's just milk this out. But hey, I love it because I'm just a fan. Well, I like prequel stuff so all right, let's spin. Do it? Give it a spin there. That was a weak.

Speaker 2

Oh, it's a week spin, but it still counts, all right well so last week, uh, there was a podcast with the kelsey brothers um and lebron and lebron james now interestingly enough, I didn't realize that they all you know kind of grew up in ohio same area, yeah, right. So they obviously, you know they talked a lot about, um, you know, remembering lebron's kind of coming up as a high school athlete.

Speaker 1

Because they're all kind of the same age, right, right.

Speaker 2

And so it was a really, I thought, more than just like a good interview. Like there's a lot of, like you know, trash talking and talking about Ohio State and also, what would LeBron like if LeBron could have played football? Like you know, what position or who do you think?

Speaker 1

He's a good football player too.

Speaker 2

Yeah, he played in high school, not his junior and senior year, but like freshman sophomore he's a wide receiver. I mean, think about like a 6'8 wide receiver with those types of athletic ability. You're just like, how do you guard that guy? Yeah, you can't, you just like you, just you just throw it up in the air.

Speaker 1

He just runs it just grabs it and sprints to the end zone well, so that's a fun.

Speaker 1

That was a fun episode yeah, and he talked a little bit. It was actually kind of cool. I I saw a clip. I didn't listen the whole thing just yet, but where, uh, you know, he was taking meetings with these shoe companies and it was down to three is adidas, reebok and nike. And he was really looking towards reebok and he had this meeting and they basically just handed him a check for 10 million dollars and saying, this is just the start. And you know, his mom and him talked and he's like, well, we live in an apartment. You know we're poor right now. Nothing's gonna really change. You know, if they're willing to pay you this amount of money, imagine what everybody else is willing to pay you. And he was like it was the, and so it was basically up to this 17 year, 18 year old kid to decide his family's future, not take a 10 million dollar check and say, hey, let's, let's see what let's play it.

Speaker 1

Let's bet on myself, and, and I mean obviously, it turned out all right.

Speaker 2

But but let's do what's different that I mean at that point. I mean he is such a celebrity who's already on the cover of yeah, you know he was. He was the air sports illustrated, so yeah, so I think he had enough like he could look around and say like this is, this is more than just like a one-shot thing where, like some, some, some company's gonna give me 10 million, that's the only but think about how many athletes have been that hype. I mean not, oh yeah.

Speaker 1

LeBron was a different hype, but they never pan out. I mean Zion's a good example, like yeah, zion got a big contract too, I remember, like Ed O'Bannon, Charles.

Speaker 2

O'Bannon Like these guys, o'bannon brothers that were coming out of UCLA and they were Nate Robertson, the number one pick.

Speaker 1

Remember that one. I mean, he didn't do anything, so there's a real chance. And when you're that poor $10 million, I think it speaks to, yeah, betting on yourself, but also the risk that still was at. We all look at it from now perspective a billion dollar athlete oh yeah, you made the best decision ever. Well, yeah, but you wanted to go with Reebok anyway and he could have probably made that company, basically as the athlete.

Speaker 2

I want you to know that somebody came to me and offered me $10 million to take this podcast and just go solo with it. I said no way.

Speaker 1

You would. I'm sticking with that boy it happened, I never told you about it $10 million. Slid me a check across the table and just give me a mil. That's all I want. I don't care.

Speaker 2

He said all you got to do is cut out your boy Mitch.

Speaker 1

Do it.

Speaker 2

And I said no way.

Speaker 1

Well, that was a stupid decision, Garth. It was a poor decision. Just give me a mil. No, give me $100,000.

Speaker 2

I don't even care, man Give me a spin.

Speaker 1

Oh, spring break's coming up.

Speaker 2

All right. Well, it's kind of coming up. This is a family topic here.

Speaker 1

It's time to start making plans. Yeah, we've got two months away.

Speaker 2

It's right around like the 16th of the year in Austin, at least the 16th through the 23rd of March which is kind of late March. Sometimes it's early March, like the 5th through the 14th, which.

Speaker 1

I like this better because it's going to be warmer and it allows us to not have such a. It breaks up the year pretty good and if it's later in March it always feels a lot better because then you've got Easter after that.

Speaker 2

Yeah, then you've got kind of a sprint to the finish line. Yeah, that's a good point. So any thoughts on your spring break.

Speaker 1

Yeah, I mean, we like to go skiing every spring break. We haven't finalized anything, which is scary Cause you know we got to start doing if we can even get a hotel, you know. So, uh, we're talking about going skiing with some friends, so we'll see if that pans out. Um, I, I think, no matter what, we want to do something like that, just some, you know, some winter sports is kind of our thing.

Speaker 2

So we're kind of doing the opposite. So one of the things that my wife and I talked about 50, she's turning 50. So am I like within weeks of each other, two weeks of each other? And so one of the thoughts we were like, oh, like, do we do a little this and that? Like, what do you want to do? Should we have a party? By the way, I am having a party. It's going to. The way I am having a party, it's gonna be an unofficial. I'm just gonna say I will be at this bar on this night. Show up if you want to. That's how I'm gonna roll. But anyway, on, uh, for spring break, uh, we're gonna. We're gonna basically fly to el paso, drop my son in with the grandparents, because he has cousins, grandparents, all that kind of right there they'll have. He has love, awesome time. Grandpa takes some him to McDonald's. I never take him to McDonald's.

Speaker 1

So that's a win for him. You're not giving that point.

Outdoor Activities and Inauguration Banter

Speaker 2

But anyway, and then Val and I we're going to fly off to probably.

Speaker 1

Napa.

Speaker 2

Nice and do like three nights, four days kind of in a you know kind of luxury, like get on the wine train. Go on some hikes, like get on the wine train, go on some hikes, just have some like kind of chill fun, but in like great weather, you know, 70 degree weather in California. Yeah, perfect weather out there, and then come back, and then it's my wife's dad's 80th birthday that final weekend, so we'll kind of have a big party over there, that's fun.

Speaker 2

And then come home. So yeah, it's kind of a it'd be fun, hopefully for the whole family. We got to make sure that the time which my son is, isn't we're? Not just, like you know, handing him off and only like that's the fun part, but like making it fun for him.

Speaker 1

You know, yeah, it's still, he'll have a blast.

Speaker 2

The kids I mean kids are so yeah, we'll leave like a nice check for the grandparents to like use it like you know like hey, let's, let's, you know, let's get, let's get them up movies let's pick them to the, you know the, hey, let's get them at movies.

Speaker 1

Take them to the park. What part of El Paso do?

Speaker 2

they live in East, so the west side is where UTEP is.

Speaker 1

The east side is oh yeah, Every time I've driven through El Paso, because I've driven through it a lot, it's not super great.

Speaker 2

Yeah, but you look over it in Juarez, which is literally over a fence or a wall or whatever you want to call it, and that is not great. So, juxtaposed to that, it looks amazing.

Speaker 1

Well, it's funny. The statistics came out that said El Paso was one of the safest cities in the country, but Juarez has the number one murder rate capital of the world, and it was literally like well, maybe maybe all the murders are pulled into Juarez and they're like, hey, no murders in El Paso.

Speaker 2

But I believe, I believe it is very, I mean it's, it's very secure. It's chill you know.

Speaker 1

Yeah, you know it's, it's it's a university town.

Speaker 2

I'm sure there's pockets that are that have some crime, but for the most part it's very spread out strip mall you know kind of like every area of town has their own, like Walmart or Target or whatever.

Speaker 1

It's a big old city, man.

Speaker 2

I always love going there. I mean, they got great gyms too.

Speaker 1

I love working out there. Dude bro, is there a great gym? I'm there. You're gonna be pulling even bigger weight. Everybody like look at this big, strong guy showing off. All right let's spin.

Speaker 2

We got two more here.

Speaker 1

Go, buddy, spinning it spinning to winning it um, oh, it's really cold out here yeah obviously, so we just had a snow day.

Speaker 2

It was literally inches snow. Yeah, we got a half inch of snow. We shut down austin. Shut down austin because we can't handle it.

Speaker 1

And now it's so cold, I don't like running outside 22 degrees this morning right now it's 50 and it's too cold. So what outdoor activity are you most looking forward to when the cold stops?

Speaker 2

you know stand-up paddleboarding oh, when it's like 90 degrees, but you you can go down to like Town Lake and you're just like you're cool because you got the water and you just go out there, you know getting your suntan on.

Speaker 1

Tossing your Speedo.

Speaker 2

Oh my God, the G-string Speedo Tanning the cheeks we have literally and figuratively Wait what? Literally only.

Speaker 1

Anyway, and I was like against it because it's like oh, those are lame, like the real ones.

Speaker 2

It seems really lame, but they're so awesome. Yeah, I've heard that.

Speaker 1

You know, like they're backpacks so we just like park at Zilker and we backpack them down. We have an electric pump to get it to the point where you don't have to do the and then you do the push pump to get it like super, super tight. Yeah, yeah, yeah, my son still has to ride with his stacy because I'm too fat to have another person on um and we go just explore around. It's so much fun dude.

Speaker 2

I love it. I love it. So yeah, that's a good one.

Speaker 1

Well, you didn't give me yours, though you, can't you can't, you can't piggyback mine yeah, it's true, um, I I really do miss uh running outside. I really enjoy.

Speaker 2

You can do that literally. This weekend it's going to be 65 degrees. Yeah, I know, dude.

Speaker 1

But I've been kind of inconsistent with my runs, which is kind of sucky and an awesome marathon is coming up and I've got to get ready and I'm not ready, so I'm a little nervous about that, but I'm looking forward to trail running. What are you smiling about?

Speaker 2

I love it, dude. No, no, I was thinking about this next one. I just thought of something so funny. All right, go ahead. Okay, so I'm looking forward to going running outside stay in the moment.

Speaker 1

I'm looking forward to running outside again and, uh, you know, taking state parks and, um, I love tennis, so my daughter and I love to play tennis together.

Speaker 2

So tennis is really cool. So those, those are kind of the. Those are great things, yeah, okay. Our last one. Oh, my wife and I bought pickleball rackets, so we're trying. We haven't actually gone and played pickleball yet. So gay, my son and I have Come on. So gay, dude, you're lame. Speaking of gay we had the inauguration. Yeah, it just happened. Uh, I did not uh, but what I was laughing at was there's a bunch of memes, you know, with like a picture of trump signing like an executive order and it's like trump signs new executive order.

Speaker 2

You cannot skip leg day, you know, and a bunch of gym memes and I just I love it, love it, I love it Cause all the things that like and if you don't understand that joke, it's like there's so many kind of like part-time train people that work out and they only are turning the guys that train their upper body only because they can wear like baggy shorts or pants and nobody notices that they have skinny legs, and so skipping leg day is kind of an executive. It's now executive order now.

Speaker 1

Yeah, I well, I mean I watched it. I think, um, I think what's cool is I think it's a I felt, like the first time in a long time, excitement, like at least the energy of people, like I know there's a whole group of people that hate it and they're scared and they're all those things, but I think just the nature of how our country could potentially be better, like let's, let's try to be one of the best nations again, and I think that's that's what I care more about. I love the cabinet choices. So I was excited about, I'm excited about, rfk junior man. I think that'll be fun. I'm excited to Elon. Elon's such a nut If you watch the, if you watch the inauguration. You such a nut if you watch the, if you watch the inauguration you would have seen this uh freaking, uh.

Speaker 2

Tim cook, ceo of apple. No, I saw mark zuckerberg.

Speaker 1

A lot of like the ceo of google right uh dana white yeah you saw jeff bezos and his plastic wife or girlfriend or whatever oh my god, she got run over.

Speaker 2

She should, I don't know what her deal is Like.

Speaker 1

I hate her face so much. I don't like Jeff Bezos in general. But all that to say, I think it was just interesting to watch. I think it's a fascinating TV. It really is a TV.

Speaker 2

I mean, I think that is what the next four years are going to be.

Speaker 2

Whatever you believe or whatever side you're on, it's not going to be boring, yeah and I think what, what, sometimes, you know, what I, what I appreciate is the out in the openness about, like you know, and the thing about executive orders is like the next president comes in and they just write their own and get rid of all the ones that you know. Biden did this and then trump does this and it's like you, to get anything that's lasting, you have to pass it through the legislation.

Speaker 2

You've got to get the house and the Senate to pass something and sign it, and so anything else is just like, is kind of like beating your chest, like hey, okay, day one I'm doing this and everyone's like Whoa, you know, and half of this country is like boo.

Speaker 2

And you know, and it's just it's interesting, I think some things are going to help, some things are going to be probably a disaster in other ways, like unintentional maybe, I think, the tariffs, things like tariffs for Mexico, tariffs for Canada. It'll be interesting to see how that actually plays out, what that does to the prices at the grocery store and that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1

It can't be worse.

Speaker 2

We do get most of our fruit from Mexico.

Speaker 1

Honestly, it sucks man. But anyway, if you don't eat fruits and vegetables, you'll be fine. Perfect, I'll be great. Processed food only there you go, but then the red dye is gone.

Political Perspectives and Current Events

Speaker 2

But I think it's going to be a treat. I mean, we'll see, we'll see definitely, we'll see, we'll see, definitely. The only other thing I'll say on it is you know, we've, over the last 16 years, since since George W, you know, you've had like eight years of Obama, four years of Trump and then four years of Biden's corpse I mean Biden, sorry, I mean Biden, sorry, you know. So that's 12 of 16 years.

Speaker 2

It's been democratically, you know, like the government has been basically, you know, overseen by a Democrat, and so I think a lot of times, democrats getting you know it's like like as specifically as a Democrat, I think we need to have a little bit more like. We need to chill out and say we've run this for pretty much, you know, for the most part of the last 16 years, like we need to give somebody else, you know, a chance to run it their way, even if we don't agree with all the things that they do. Or say it's like, you know we can't, the people can't be, the people can't be right all the time and get everything they want. It's like we've got to be able to like. It's like kids in the playground you got to share right.

Speaker 1

Sharing the government is part of that and that doesn't that means that sometimes you don't get every um value system that you believe you know out yeah, you know, and I don't think it's the end all be all either, like I, I think if we put all of our stake in one man, I think that's a problem in general. So for me, I'm kind of like I didn't love how Biden ended it, or his people ended it. I mean basically did everything that he said he wasn't going to do. He pardoned his whole family, just like, straight up, just cover my. I would do the same thing, but don't say you're not gonna do it, you know um, so that was kind of crazy.

Speaker 1

And then I really was actually kind of waiting and seeing it's like will trump fulfill his promises? He said day one that he would. This is what he got. The libertarian vote uh, because I'm a libertarian really uh, in belief in system. Was uh that ross obrek, I think is his last name?

Speaker 1

he created the silk road yeah, the dark web, basically, and they threw the book at him and put him in jail for life, which was insane, and so that was. One of the things that he ran on was like hey, day one, I'm going to pardon him. Like he's been in jail for 11 years. Like give this kid a break and he is a kid, you know. He was like in high school when he did it, so um, so I I was happy that he fulfilled that. Whether, whatever your feeling is towards that, I could care less about the kid itself or what he did, because he didn't do anything bad. He just created this system that people did bad on, um, so anyway, all that. I also.

Speaker 2

I also think I thought it was. I thought it was legit that, uh, that like rogan and um, what's his name, the, the Nelk boys and all like the people that that he that Trump had done the podcast with. Yeah, theo Vaughn.

Speaker 1

Theo Vaughn. Yeah, they were all. They're all there, yeah.

Speaker 2

Like and you know, just get like and that's, that's the loyalty thing that Trump does Like he's if you've helped him in any way, get where he wants to go. He doesn't cut people off just because they're… or ignore you after you've served his purpose. Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1

Yeah, he's a… Well, that's kind of cool, I think. But I think when you actually peel back the layers of people in general, I think let's do our best to be kind to one another, let's do our best to support. It doesn't have to be throw. You know, you didn't win anything. People like think that, oh, we won, we're back. It's like no, like you got. You got the majority elected, you got the electoral college. Awesome. We as people did not do anything to get someone elected. We voted yeah One way or the other. So half of the nation voted for somebody else.

Speaker 1

So how are we going to reconcile and move forward without having another device for years? I just want, I think generally people just want things to be cheaper, I me being one of them. I mean the cost of groceries in general, the cost of living is huge and it continues to go up and our income does not, you know, based on inflation. So if we can curve inflation, if we can lower prices at the grocery line, if we can, if we can get lower interest rates, make money a little cheaper again, that'd be awesome, because those are things that all serve me. I want my dollar to be worth more. I want to be able to buy a bigger house, like. Those are things that I care about the most, but also I also want our nation to be safe. I want our country to be protected, so let's do all those things. So that's why I'm a libertarian, because those are pretty simple things.

Speaker 1

That's why I wanted what's his name? Old guy that was a doctor, ron Paul. I was all Ron Paul man, ron Paul.

Speaker 2

Ron Paul, back in the day.

Speaker 1

Well, that's a very. I see you're very quiet but I love you. I think, if anything, this podcast shows us that a liberal and a conservative is where we're coming together and there's a lot we agree with.

Speaker 2

We can talk basketball or football or working out, and generally agree with most things that we talk about. Sometimes it's good to kind of find topics that are not quite down the middle of the lane with us.

Speaker 2

And look, it's been an awesome thing for me, you know, to to be more just open-minded about you know what, what's going on right now with, with, you know, the new administration, that kind of stuff, and not necessarily like be on either side, just kind of watch and observe and like just take, take, take perspective. Yeah, because it just doesn't make any sense to be angry.

Speaker 2

Yeah, however, whatever side you're, on like just be walking around angry and just like feeling like you know the country's out to get you or everyone's bad and everything's just tight.

Speaker 1

That's a miserable place. Yeah, it's so good and I feel bad for people that really are that like upset yeah because I, biden, got elected. Okay, cool, like I'm good, like We'll just keep moving forward. What's the problem? So that's what I think people need to have a little bit. People need to chill out. I think we need to cool it. Pretty good, let's do that, let's cool it.

Speaker 2

Let's cool it All right, there you go.

Speaker 1

Thanks for joining us. I hope we solved all the world's problems in. I think we did. I'm pretty sure we did?

Speaker 2

We hit LeBron and, by the way, lebron is better than Jordan in totality. Just putting that out there, not in the six years.

Speaker 1

To see what he's done at 40 is amazing. Let's go. I'm still Jordan all day. There's still memes of like.

Speaker 2

Jordan did this at 40 and LeBron didn't. Okay people.

Speaker 1

Anyway, well, thanks for listening. Appreciate you guys joining us. Thanks for liking and subscribing you guys have a good day.

Speaker 2

All right, Peace. Everybody Love you.

Speaker 1

Love you.