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Promo code BS Joe House. What is happening? I love podcasts. I know we'll get out there. We still don't have entrance music. I'm working on it. It's weird. It's weird to do a podcast that does that music. I'm going to have to go find Ronald Janky's if this other plan had this.

Last week I had LL Cool J not calling those come back. I didn't see anything up for this week. We're going to take it down a notch a little bit. There was last week I was really am I was using a lot of third person Joe houses out there. I was dropping some crazy stats. We're going to take it down a notch and act like we've been there before.

Howell's don't let four people in your Twitter replies get into your head forgot say. If you missed the Bill Simmons podcast earlier this week we had cousin Sal we guessed the week five lines and yesterday we had Chuck Closterman talked about a whole bunch of stuff for the tail and we ended up talking about Donald Trump for 20 minutes, which I did not expect.

But that's a standing I can't wait to listen to that one. Yeah, and I should also mention I have an HBO show coming next spring and we are starting to think about that and plan it and think about hiring some people so that.

This is getting fun football seat now basketball starting I'm excited. Yeah, that's brain right brain. So I saw you in Washington DC. We had dinner on Sunday night Monday. Well, yeah, we did have dinner Sunday night. You're right. We went to that Greek fish place.

Yeah, we had a nice healthy dinner. Yeah, and then on Monday we took Uncle Tony out. We went to a place called roses, which is allegedly the hottest restaurant in America definitely the hottest restaurant in Washington.

Yeah, rose is luxury roses luxury Tony was a disbelief that we got a reservation there and and is now starting to think that you are some sort of a Washington Jedi, which I like.

Well, I'm a food Jedi. I will definitely will take that on and we ate we we ordered we just they kept bringing food out. You always find these places in Washington where they just keep bringing food out and you have no idea how much you ate but then at like 11 30 that night, you're just.

I almost did the Joe House move of just taking off on my clothes and lying on the bathroom floor, but I didn't I wondered you said it as we were walking out you're like, oh, that's it. This is this is a tile floor night.

I'm going to come off. Yeah, so that the nice thing about roses luxury, they have one of these menus where the portion sizes are pretty small, so we just tried the menu was the first time for you was the first time for TK. So let's just see what they have to offer and they do some off the menu stuff. It's very, very enjoyable experience.

And then it turned out Tony somehow knew the chef's dad and he was just he was so happy and so pleased and delighted with everything that I had to bring up a couple people in his professional life that he doesn't like just to kind of bring him back and bring him back to the

night. Yeah, he's the best though. It was great seeing him miss that guy was getting you could be in Washington DC. One of my friends. I flew out of the good airport. Yeah, there's two

reports of DC. Yeah, the one that's dullest is a million miles away and you need you have shuttles everybody hates that airport. And if you get it, if you get out of the other one, it's kind of life altering.

Yeah, it's like from the the moment you get out of the car through security or to the gate. It can be if you're lucky like 11 minutes. It's just spectacular how close the gate. And that's because you have all the folks from

Congress coming in that airport. So those guys, you know, they're not standing in line. They're not waiting around. You know, they're going to get on shuttle buses and you know, from door to gate 35 minutes experience. It's the same thing for that. So, yeah, Reagan National is always the one to do if you're in hot chocolate city.

You're numb to this now, but every time I go back to DC, I'm always just blown away. I was like, I'm visiting a movie set that they're just filming this giant movie with all the politics happening and normal people are just kind of passing through it's like, oh, yeah, there's the White House. Hey, there's the monument. It's just strange. It's the only city. I think that's like that that feels like it's not just a city, but something that exists as this alternate universe where things are happening.

Yeah, and the for the most part, the alternate universe doesn't affect the daily lives of most of the people that live in the city. I mean, people come in, you know, every day DC goes from like 650,000 residents up to like 3 million because.

Yeah, come in to work for the government and people who work for the government populate all those those marble halls, but you know, for people just trying to work and lead their daily lives. The big monuments don't have a lot of impact on.

Yeah, you don't you don't notice them after a while, but for people that come in and out, it's great. So I was there. The Washington professional football team had a big come from behind.

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