You know, we haven't talked about in a while.
Our dead people.
Nobody's died.
Well, how about dead fish?
No, it's been like a great month.
Well, no, nobody important.
They're stacked up.
We haven't gotten to the ones that died like last month.
We don't get to it right now, but we should talk about it because there are some big ones.
Yeah, they're right.
I don't know if I can.
I could find my list.
Welcome back to the show.
We haven't done a show for a couple of weeks.
Right.
That's because Paul.
I know.
What did I do?
Oh, I went to New York City.
Staying in a sweet presidential suite.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Eating cheese and bumping uglies with the locals.
I hate the hookers.
Eating cheese.
The other two were fine.
Yeah, but eating cheese.
Bumping uglies.
Yeah, cheese and wine is what I meant to say.
Not just cheese.
Oh, that's when you get a really nice restaurant or hotel.
That's charcuterie.
Charcuterie.
Some meats and nuts.
Well, I will tell you, when I walked into the room, there was none of that.
No hookers, no cheese and wine.
No.
They just weren't on the bed.
Just.
Well, they're like nuts and Budweiser bottles.
There was nothing.
I had to go get my own bottle of Evan Williams.
Did you find the liquor store?
I did.
That's so sad.
You know what?
I bought a bottle of Evan Williams.
I bought a little 12 pack of Milm Coke Minis.
Right.
Because I knew I was going to be there three nights.
So I figured, OK, well, you know, rather than, you know, go get.
I can go through a handle.
Gallon.
Oh, yeah.
No.
Yeah, no.
So I went through four of those.
No.
Anyway, but I just I was so sad and I ended up leaving the entire 12 pack in the room.
I think I opened one can.
What do they have any nice bourbons in the liquor store?
Anything you.
No, I just got Evan Williams.
I.
You didn't go searching for the.
You didn't peruse the selection.
The unicorn.
I mean, first off, first off, everything is like quadruple priced there.
Well, New York, it's like the.
Oh, it's ridiculous.
Yeah, it's completely ridiculous.
Quintupled text.
But I will say, you know, I'm not a big fan of big cities.
I'm, you know, I'm more of a suburb country guy.
And when I was in Chicago, I didn't like it at all.
I was literally downtown.
But it's it is a good experience.
But here's the thing.
After the third at the third day, I was like, this is kind of I was starting to enjoy.
Does it grow on you?
It was growing on me.
And I really shocked me.
I enjoyed being in New York City.
Just the the walking.
Yeah.
You know, because to get from point A to point B, you don't get in your car.
Well, everything's right there.
That's kind of what it is, right?
It's like you get your little.
You hop on a subway and you a little bodega.
Go like 15 blocks and take the train and whatever.
And yeah.
And you walk.
I mean, I walked.
I walked a lot.
Yeah, you walk everywhere.
Like twenty thousand steps in a day.
It was ridiculous.
It was funny.
I picked a hotel that was a little bit closer to Central Park.
Was it with all the illegals?
Upper Manhattan.
I didn't see any illegals, but I was in I was in really nice area of Manhattan and I
got a hotel.
Taco stands closer to no Central Park.
Any hot dogs?
And here's what's funny.
So my office is in the Rockefeller building.
Yeah.
Seriously, ridiculous, ridiculous.
Like the history there and all that.
I mean, that's one of the icon buildings of New York.
Is that where NBC is?
Yeah.
The Rockefeller Center.
That's right.
That's exactly right.
They still have the Christmas tree up.
So that apparently lowers up from the ground.
Did you know that?
No, I thought they brought a new one in every year.
My understanding is they open up something and it comes from the ground up.
Isn't there a big thing where they find the tree somewhere in the U.S. and they chop it
down and like truck it in?
No, that's the presidential tree.
They don't do that in Rockefeller?
Sure.
I don't know.
The first morning I was...
One of those big trees, they do that too.
The first morning I was walking to the Rockefeller building and I'm walking and I'm walking.
You're like, I got to take a shit.
I could do it right here on the sidewalk in New York.
That's the thing.
And I did.
And it was wonderful.
And people clapped.
And they're like, are you from out of town?
Is that your first experience?
I said, yes.
They're like, hey, this is Paul.
Hey, Paul, you want some toilet paper?
Wow.
No, I'm just going to use my hands.
Wow.
Do you see any fecal matter?
I got some wet wipes.
No.
It was...
I think in certain areas, it's really nice.
Like in Chicago.
Oh, sure it is.
It was really nice.
And people every morning were spraying down their sidewalks and cleaning up their trash.
The shop owners are very proud that the apartment and apartment buildings are very diligent.
So I think...
There's over a million people who have moved out.
Well, I don't know.
Anyway, let me tell you a funny story.
So I'm not the kind of person that before I go out there, I size up everything.
Okay, there's my hotel.
There's this, there's that.
Okay, there's Chinatown.
Or there's this or that.
And so the first morning I'm walking to the office and I'm walking and I'm like, oh my
God, this all looks familiar.
It's Times Square.
And I'm walking literally through the middle of Times Square.
Isn't that great?
Yeah, exactly.
And I was like, oh, shit.
Like, where's the ball?
Did you go down there at night at all?
Times Square at night?
Yeah, I walked through it to get back to my hotel.
But it was at night.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, lit up like a Christmas tree.
God bless, man.
It was amazing.
Did you go to peep shows?
And by the way, that's 24-7.
It's lit up like that.
And like it were Vegas.
And it's busy.
There are people there around the clock.
Well, there's tourists, right?
There's tourists and then there's people that are walking to work.
Can you tell the tourists where they're like, oh my God.
Well, they're usually the ones...
Taking the pictures and selfies and getting hit by cabs.
Oh, yeah.
I tell you what, that's the other thing.
I'm amazed that people don't get hit like every corner, every hour.
Did you see any like bike messengers zipping down?
Bike messengers.
In that movie Quicksilver?
No, no, I didn't.
I didn't.
But I swear, you got to be careful because nobody's following the rules.
Like the motorcycles and the scooters and the bicycles, they just blow right through
the streetlights.
And then people have to like jump back and it's crazy.
They could totally get away with it.
But you can make a fortune if you get yourself a little scooter and a little Uber Eats account.
You can make some deliveries.
Yeah.
And you can just make all your deliveries.
It's crazy.
It is.
It's crazy because they do, they drive around.
I mean, there were...
In fact, the cops don't even give a shit.
They care.
And they get kind of disgusted.
They're kind of like, hey, go on through because they can't do anything.
It's like, what am I going to chase them?
Stop.
Or my friend up the street will say stop.
No, I should, to be honest, I never saw any cops the whole time I was there in three days.
They only have three left.
Really?
Yeah.
I saw none.
That's funny you mentioned that.
I saw absolutely none.
Anyway, so let me tell you.
So I was walking, I was walking through Times Square and I was like, wow, wow.
And I was kind of like, okay, I think I'm going in that direction.
And then I look up at the horizon and there's no tall buildings.
And I'm like, okay, I'm definitely going the wrong way here.
So I spent 15 minutes walking in the wrong direction.
I don't know what it is about cities.
I get so...
Was that like after the 15th, Evan Williams?
This is 715 in the morning.
So it was just 12.
So you were late.
Yeah.
So it was just four.
Yeah, just four.
Did you go to the 9-11 Memorial?
I did not.
You know, it was busy.
I mean, it was...
Well, you were there for work too.
I was there for work.
Exactly.
So you were there from daylight, right?
Yeah.
So the first night, the first night I went out to dinner with my project colleagues.
And the second night it was with the leadership colleagues.
The third night was with my boss.
Did you need pizzas?
No pizza.
Yeah.
I thought I wanted the third night and my boss was kind of like, oh, I don't want pizza.
Oh man.
We went and had pizza out there.
Had two slices.
And for me...
There were huge slices too, right?
I'm like, really?
Is that it?
Two slices.
I was like, that's good.
You were done.
Oh, but it was...
They're big, aren't they?
Yeah, they're big pies.
Yeah, they're big.
New York style.
New York style pizza.
Well, that's just thin.
Gigantic slices.
Right.
Yeah, I also went to a couple on the New Jersey side of the Hudson, some Italian restaurants
had some cannolis.
Oh, I bet that's good shit.
Mmm.
That was so good.
Just like down here, you get good Tex-Mex.
I think the Italian will be really good up there.
Oh man.
I love the sausage meatball sandwiches.
Meatballs.
I just wish I did a better job of planning before I went out there.
You know what I mean?
I'm going to New York City.
I go there once every freaking 15 years.
I've never been.
Right, exactly.
So I wish I had been like...
Like you said, it was a work visit, but still I should have been like, try this and try
that.
Yeah.
Go do that.
So I think your time was pretty much consumed though.
It totally is.
You can totally go to Google Maps and you can do a fly over New York, dive on, almost
on the street and do a 3D fly anywhere and pop your buildings in that you want to go,
pick your course.
You can go out there.
Did you see the Statue of Liberty from a distance?
You know what?
I never saw the Statue of Liberty, no.
I did see...
I was staring at the Empire State Building from my window basically the whole time.
Nude.
It was nude.
The Empire State Building was nude.
You smashed everything against the window.
You smashed your balls up there.
Oh, was it eye nude?
Oh, no.
It was a big meeting, a big business meeting.
Oh, I thought you said the hotel.
I wanted to.
So you weren't...
Oh, the whole time I was like, man, if I could shit these clothes and be totally nude looking
out this window.
Oh, you were totally Jeffrey Tubin it.
Oh, no, no, not really.
But yeah.
Oh, I thought we were on a Zoom call.
Oh, I don't know.
You can see me.
Oh, my God.
No, we're in person, Paul.
You mind putting your little pocket pillow away?
Wow, no, none of that.
I'd like to go some day, some time, but I just wanted to calm down a little bit.
Wanted to calm down.
But New York?
New York.
You know what?
It's never going to calm down.
Well, no, just the crime that I hear.
Maybe it's not as bad as what you see on the news.
It's not.
Chicago's the same way, right?
We hear about 14 shootings every night, you know, all that kind of stuff.
And that stuff happens.
It happens, but it's not...
They're in localized areas.
Exactly.
And it's not anywhere...
The mayor said about the...
God bless it.
Like the person being pushed off of the ledge onto the subway tracks.
You know?
And he was kind of like, you know, we got three million passengers on the subway every
single day.
You know?
He's like...
Is he a rookie?
Yeah.
But it's just...
I want to meet this guy.
But, I mean, to put it into perspective, it's kind of like, you know, if you want to take
that on a ratio or percentage, you know, it's a really small amount that's affected by crime.
Right.
No, I get it.
And from that perspective, I mean, I went down there, I saw a bunch of hoodlums.
I didn't have a problem with any of them, but, you know, I was...
What is the word?
I was...
Aware?
I was aware, but there's a...
I mean, I was ready to whip their ass, is what I was doing.
I was on alert.
Oh, you were intimidating.
No, I was...
That's not the word.
I was vigilant, is what the word I was looking for.
I was vigilant.
You know, I didn't let anybody come behind me.
You know, I was kind of like, you know...
Like, yeah, I can just see you right now.
Yeah.
Like, yeah, everybody that comes close to you, like, hey, back away.
Hey, get off me.
Why are you behind me?
No, I mean, you got to tactfully do it, but you have to be assertive.
Yeah, if I was at the subway, I wouldn't stand up close.
Yeah.
But now these people smash their shit in your face.
Their shit?
Yes.
Like their feces?
Yes.
And then they...
There's footage of that, too, in the subway.
Oh, I've not heard of that.
I did ride the subway one night.
Yes.
It wasn't bad.
I mean, it was a ton of commuters, right?
What was his name?
What?
Rode the subway?
Oh, really?
Anyway, so, yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean, here's the thing.
Any of that stuff can happen anywhere, right?
And we read all these stories about...
As a matter of fact, I thought I was sharing that story with you guys when I was talking
to the Uber driver in Chicago, and she was like, oh, you're from Texas?
Oh, it's, you know, so is it this and this and that and this and that?
And I said, oh, and you're from Chicago?
And is it this and that and this and that?
And both of us were laughing about how what we read in the news is neither one of us experienced
that in our life, right?
Yeah, that is true.
I meet a lot of people that I work with that have a predetermined thought when I show up.
Of course.
They're like, how many weapons you got with you?
Right.
I'm just like...
Do you have a horse at home?
I've got 16 that you can't see.
Right, right, right.
And I'm not going to show you.
Right.
But, you know, so I think that's just the news drumming up stuff.
Of course it is.
But maybe it isn't that way for everyone.
Look at Portland.
I don't think it is.
I think it is that way.
I think that people are scared of Texas because we're all armed.
Really, that's what it is.
I mean, we have not just in the United States.
I mean, we have that stigma around the world.
I mean, there are people that I know in Dallas, Texas right now that are from Ukraine, for
example.
They've been here for about five years.
But when they first got here, I met them and they were just kind of like, yeah, we were
kind of nervous coming here because we know everyone's all armed.
And I'm just like, you know, we're not a fucking militia.
That is exactly what the Chicago Uber girl said to me.
She goes, I don't know.
I really want to move out of Chicago and I have a friend in Dallas, but I just don't
know because everybody's got guns.
And I say, well, what that does is it makes it safer.
And I said, it's funny you say that because I read every day about how there are endless
and relentless shootings in Chicago every single day.
And you're not allowed to have guns.
Correct.
Right.
And I'm just like, so you see how it's like, it's just not, it's just, I don't know.
But there are.
But both are true.
Well, hold on.
But they don't have deaths like that in Texas.
I mean, in Chicago, they have deaths every weekend.
From shootings like that that you never hear of because it's in the black community and
they're not going to share how the reality is over there in Texas.
I think it's just right.
It's just it's a Democrat leftist narrative that they don't want.
They don't want that exposed.
Well, I tell you, man, the the the left, I'm hoping I mean, even with this January 6 thing
that even Tucker Carlson came out with his special and with all the video review that
they do and they're like, you know, hey, you're this insurrection thing wasn't so much an
insurrection.
It was more of something that you guys planned.
In fact, going through Instagram, you know, they have all these polls that you take and
this is hey, do you think the insurrection was planned?
And you click yes or no.
And you know, I click mine and it says, hey, ninety seven percent of the people think that
it was planned by the Democrats.
For real?
Seven percent.
Oh, my God.
97 percent of the Democrats think that.
No, no.
I mean, of all people who took the poll, the Democrats planned it.
Yeah, that it was a planned event and it was planned.
But they clearly based on what Tucker Carlson, what they portrayed in there, a lot of selective
editing.
But the not from the Tucker Carlson show.
That's what the Democrats did.
They did selective editing to portray a certain thing.
Did you hear what the Chuckster Chuckster Schumer said about it?
He's cherry picking scenes.
I'm thinking Schumer is saying that Tucker is cherry picking.
Yeah, he had a comment today, little speech or whatever.
So he's cherry pickings.
I was like, no, that's what you guys did.
Well, he's showing the rest of it.
And I don't I don't know.
They say there's what?
Forty thousand hours.
Well, he also said because I watched Tucker Carlson that episode.
He's like there's forty thousand, but the vast majority of it is nonsense.
It's a video of an empty room for hours.
OK, so it's really not OK.
But I just wonder, you know, I wouldn't put it past Tucker to, you know, to get ratings
and to have it be shock value and to have it, you know, drum up ratings and all that
kind of stuff for him to just show the stuff that is contradictory to the commission.
Well, he had to pass it by the D.C. police.
So their videos that they're going to show, they had to get approval by the D.C. police
to show it.
OK, OK.
I just you know what, I I do trust Tucker more than I do.
You know, the right, the left, the left, the mainstream media.
But I think they still they can still be influenced by showing what they want to get.
That's true.
On both sides of the aisle.
But what he did show was stuff that they clearly brought out in the open, like, for example,
that that right episode, you know, there were tons of video of that guy.
Shady man just orchestrating.
And, you know, it's the power suggestion.
I say that all the time.
It's the power suggestion.
Some people have a way of talking to people and getting them riled up and to go in there.
And that's what he did.
He went around and got in a bunch of groups, separate groups, trying to instigate them
to go, hey, we need to go in there.
We need to go in there now.
We go in there, do this.
He would stop because they moving.
Keep moving.
He's got the horn.
Oh, and some people would be like, hey, man, what are you doing?
Oh, this guy's a fed fed fed fed.
You ever see some of the video how some people called him out?
So he would he would shut down.
He would go into another group and incite that.
And they found out that he had sent a text to his his grandson or something like that.
He says, I just orchestrated an insurrection to the Capitol.
And then he says, you know, I'm leaving right now.
And then it turns out that he didn't leave.
He was still there.
I saw that footage.
And that's kind of what he lied to the commission about that.
And I'm kind of like, well, you know, 30 minutes.
I mean, if I were out somewhere all day long, I might miss it by 30 minutes.
You know, I thought that, too.
Yeah, I'm thinking, all right.
Well, I'm not really going to say, oh, he's a liar.
Just credit his his whole testimony based on 30 minutes of time.
I'm an issue, you know.
However, that one guy that Qunon Shaman, Shaman, the hell they were escorting him that right
there.
Very, very.
That was calmly clear.
That was very clear help.
I mean, there was trying doors for him.
One of them was locked and they were like, hey, you want to come in here?
Oh, never mind.
It's locked.
Yeah, let's go through another door.
What is going on there?
Yeah, that was weird.
And you know, he's walking right past.
And you know, it's just like, how can this be an insurrection when they're walking in
the ropes and no one's doing anything?
There are people picking up garbage and then you have some people who are going through
that.
They're all rowdy, totally a TF.
And then they have this there's a video of them passing bats out through the window,
you know, or passing something out through the window for the guys to to use.
I don't know.
I didn't see that.
It is some crooked shit.
There are there are groups of people that are all wearing the same outfit, right?
And their hand, their their left hand is on the left shoulder of the person in front of
you.
And they're snaking their way through the crowd to get up into the show.
This footage.
Yeah.
Well, he didn't show it.
I don't know if that'll come out.
I feel like eventually show it.
So again, it just kind of makes you wonder because and there were all kinds of weird.
I don't want to say weird.
There were all kinds of types of people in that that group that were whittling their
way.
There's probably 20 people that were all in a row and they're walking kind of like with
authority kind of walking through there and they're like, oh, we can make it through here.
All weren't khakis.
All wearing the same colored shirt and the same hat.
It was just like, you know, it's like an army of those had to have been plants.
See, I FBI.
Here's actually what I think.
I think I think it was orchestrated to a degree, right?
They wanted this to look bad, right?
They knew it was going to be a hypercharged event.
They knew that Trump was addressing his, you know, his fans or whatever.
Let them in.
It will sell.
And they said, yeah, let's let's let them get close.
I guarantee it's going to optic, you know, from an optics perspective, it's going to
look bad.
And and then they had some people kind of rallying them up, right?
And get them in and getting them instigated.
And then there were some that were being real about it.
Like they really did get all been out of shape.
We saw that we saw them breaking windows.
And I think those people were really doing it.
But I think they were also being egged on to create a scene.
Yeah.
But now they're saying that those people were proven to be Antifa.
They were proven people that were Antifa breaking windows.
Not that all of them were, because I don't know.
But we do know for sure that the ones that were breaking the windows were Antifa.
And when they broke the windows, they were passing through the window that was coming
from inside.
Inside out.
So there's how to get inside.
Well, I'm saying there were that's what I'm saying.
This was premeditated.
There were there were tools inside that they were using.
I don't know what they were.
You know, I think so.
But I do think it got out of hand.
I think it was planned and orchestrated to be up close, right, to the to the to the steps
where you're not supposed to go.
Right.
And it got out of hand.
And that's why I think a number of those tear gas into the crowd.
Right.
That's what kind of kicked it off.
Right.
So did you guys watch the Chris Rock Netflix?
No, no.
So I will tell you, I watched about two thirds of it last night.
And I like Chris Rock.
It was pretty disheartening to the point where I even posted a Twitter.
And I was just like, you know, it's that it shows like that in his tone in the show.
First of all, he's anti white.
OK.
He would dog and white people the whole time.
He's talking white people.
He was just like, you know, I don't understand why, you know, white people are getting mad
because people, black people are getting recognition.
You know, you still have control over everything.
You know, it's like, what the fuck are you talking about?
I mean, why do you have to talk?
I mean, it's the line.
It wasn't funny.
And, you know, and he was just like, you know, let me tell you, Republicans are just flat
out liars, liars.
Republicans are liars and Democrats, because he's like, he was saying, well, both sides
of the aisle have problems.
Republicans, they're just flat out liars.
They lie about everything.
Lie, lie, lie.
And Democrats, they just don't tell you the whole truth.
And I was like, this guy.
So he's saying they both lie, but he's just sugarcoating what Democrats are.
He's taking a joke there.
And it's just, you know, and I'll tell you what, I enjoy the comedy of Chris Rock.
I enjoy the comedy of Dave Chappelle.
This is what really grinds my gears is this, that I think the fact that they continue to
use that language in their circles is what's harboring this hate.
It's harboring this hate and it is a negative, negative influence on the relationships between
black people and everybody else.
And I will tell you-
The fact that they use that word?
It's the fact that they use that word.
And I'll tell you this too, 90% of it is against white people, you know, because you could
have Hispanics that will say, and it's totally accepted.
You know, I don't know about Asians or anything like that, but I'm just saying it just, it
disgusts me because I just think it's inappropriate.
You know, I wouldn't say that in front of people.
I mean, I'm saying it on the podcast because, you know, for the shock of all of it-
Because it's all going to be edited anyway.
No, no, I hope it's not edited because I look at the end of the day, it's not supposed to
be offensive.
What is supposed to be is I'm supposed to convey an idea and my observations of that
and all the comedians out there that use it.
I think it's inappropriate that they say it and they think that the children that are
watching that show, because it's on Netflix-
Oh yeah, number one show.
That's an appropriate way to talk and that's how black people talk.
Well, you know what?
It's not.
And I think Chris Rock nailed it when he was like, why didn't, why are you a bitch?
How come you didn't smack Will Smith back?
And he says, you know why?
Because I have parents and they taught me better.
Well, you know what?
They should have taught you how to fucking study vocabulary.
Right.
And how to speak appropriately.
Yeah, I mean, come on.
Well, I was surprised because in the few snippets that I saw, I've never seen a Chris Rock standup
or anything like that.
I was surprised at how he talked, the amount of profanity and the amount of everything
that he would do when he was being offended.
Wasn't Eddie Murphy the same way?
I mean, he used a ton of profanity.
Yes, but he didn't talk like that.
Okay, so he was like totally ghetto is what you're saying.
No, I mean, oh yeah, it was just-
Chris Rock?
Yeah.
It was just raunchy.
I mean, it was just raunchy.
The delivery was part of it.
You know, Eddie Murphy, well, he was mad last night too in some of these sections.
The section I saw when he talked about Will Smith, he was pretty worked up.
He got, yeah, fired up.
It's like he's been holding onto this for a year and he finally just let it out.
Yeah, he did.
And he talked about, I mean, there was a funny part, but still it was just kind of inappropriate
when he was talking about how rich guys can get money, I'm sorry, rich guys can get women.
And he was just like, you know, rich guys, they're not shopping for 40, 50 year olds.
They're shopping for younger women.
And he starts talking about the difference.
Yeah, a younger girl in her 20s, they're going to want shoes.
I want you to buy me the pair of shoes.
And he starts kind of mocking that.
He says, you get your women in their 40s and their 50s.
He said, hey, I need to go pick up my car from the auto shop.
Can you take me over there?
So that comparison there was kind of funny, but he was just, he started talking about
a, God bless it was Will Smith.
Oh, that's my turn to thought.
It was, it was just, well, he called him out.
Oh, he called him out.
That's what it was.
He was talking about dating women.
He was like, talk about Elon Musk.
You know, he was starting to talk.
You know why he looks so funny?
Because he's got negative comments out of him.
You know, he says that man comes, you know, because imagine all the women throwing themselves
at him and is like, he's got negative coming.
That's why he looks all goofy looking.
Negative.
Yeah.
He says he's got, he's trying to catch up.
So you found him offensive, I guess.
It was just, would that be the word you use?
He's offensive.
Yeah.
And look, I don't, and look, the language that like Eddie Murphy would use, like in
Delirious, for example, he was raunchy and you know, he's talking about gay people.
Mr. T, spend over.
Yeah.
And it was funny, but it wasn't, it still wasn't like what Chris Rock was.
He was talking about.
Totally classless.
It was.
It was tasteless.
And it was, but he struck a chord with me earlier in the set by talking about how white
people are privileged.
You know, it's like, you still own the company, you still own the country.
And it's just like, you guys had your own insurrection and you couldn't even do that.
It's like, what are you insurrecting?
You already own it.
You know, it's like, come on.
It just was inappropriate and ignorant.
He was ignorant.
That's the word, ignorant.
Yeah.
And I was just like, but my problem is, is that the children are watching this.
Yeah.
All right.
Now I will tell you.
Oh, it's only getting worse, man.
Well, I will tell you, Dave Chappelle has a very elegant way of talking and he's actually
a smart, well, I don't know if Chris Ross is smart, so I don't want to take that away
from him, but he was raunchy.
But Dave Chappelle.
I think his delivery is smarter the way he talks.
And plus he talks like with ration and he doesn't downplay all white people like Chris
Rock did.
Chris Rock does outright put white people down.
You know, Dave Chappelle, he spun it so that it was perfect.
You know, I still don't like the language of, I just think it's just tasteless and it
kind of takes away from the experience.
If they could just eliminate that one word, then it'd be fine.
That's just my opinion.
Suck it.
What language do they replace it with?
Just don't say it.
Yeah, but in their culture, they totally accepted.
But hold on, that's the problem.
That's the problem right there.
Their culture?
What culture is that?
It's the prevalent black culture.
They all call each other that.
Listen to their rap music.
Listen to their, you know, listen to, you know.
And you know what, if they want to be respected and included as a wholesome of everybody and
all inclusive, then you know, you got to act like it.
And that means that you got to step up and you got to change your vocabulary a little
bit.
You mean act like a white person is what they'd say?
No, well, that's what they would say.
But that's not the case either because it's a bunch of white trash.
Who are you to tell me what word I'm supposed to use and not use?
Correct.
I mean, we can't use, I mean, and then there's that whole discussion about, you know, you
know, hard R versus NIGGA, right?
I mean, that's kind of way different.
I wouldn't even say that.
I mean, even in the podcast, that's just kind of, that's outrageous.
What, the hard R?
Oh, absolutely.
There's no reason for that.
But I mean, Dave Chappelle said that several times in his and I was kind of like, oh, I
kind of squirm.
Well, you're saying Chris Rock did not say that?
I didn't hear Chris Rock say that.
But Dave Chappelle said it.
And he said a couple of times and funny, like when he went up to the Kentucky Fried Chicken
and and and he was like, what are you going to have for?
He says, I bet you're going to have chicken, aren't you?
And Dave Chappelle is like, yes, I am.
You know, it's funny the way you were.
Have you watched the Dave Chappelle one?
I've seen both or three or four.
Yeah, he's pretty funny.
But did you know that Chris Rock was the it was live streamed?
He was live when he did that and that was recorded now.
But the first time it was on, it was Netflix first to live stream.
You could tell because he stuttered a lot.
Yeah.
And there were some Saturday, Friday or Saturday night, whenever it was on, I was live.
But you didn't watch it.
I haven't seen it yet.
Yeah, I watched it.
I have.
I have no interest in it.
Just like Amazon Prime does live football now.
Right.
Netflix is starting to get into that.
So I wonder if they're going to get into the sports realm like Amazon did.
I don't know.
I mean, can't hurt.
I think it's kind of cool.
I think some of the live stuff is kind of cool.
Some live concerts to find some music venues.
I think that stuff, you know, have some multiple camera views.
I think that'd be kind of cool.
You know how they do.
Also, they are starting to do like live plays.
Do you remember when they did the Sound of Music Live?
They've done quite a few, though.
That gave me anxiety when I watched that.
They did Peter Pan.
Yeah, because it was what's her name?
It was like a famous actress that is also obviously a singer.
Raquel Welch.
No.
No, I'm talking about Sound of Music.
It was like recent, right?
I mean, the last.
Floor Jensen.
Three or four years.
Rihanna.
No, I'm not going to remember who it was, but anyway, it was a pretty high profile.
Barbra Streisand.
Country singer, maybe.
Carrie Underwood.
The one that won the.
Carrie Underwood.
It might have been Carrie Underwood.
Sound of Music.
I think you're right, because Carrie Underwood, Sound of Music.
Yeah, I watched it with my wife because we like that movie.
I mean, and I was watching that with my wife and I was thinking she's a singer, not an
actress.
Correct.
And that's live.
Right.
Like, you know, I mean, in front of a national audience and like I just imagine them fumbling
their lines or something.
And we've watched a couple of them.
We watched that one.
It was.
I don't think it was Carrie Underwood.
Right there.
Yeah, it sure was.
Was it?
Yeah, it sure was.
She did OK.
I mean, the show was pretty good.
Captain Von Trapp was the guy that was in.
He was a vampire in True Love or True Blood.
But we also watched Jesus Christ Superstar, which is really good music.
If you haven't seen it.
I've not seen that.
But I did not like this adaptation that they did for TV.
I did not like that one.
Like the music, obviously.
Right.
But the adaptation they did for the TV, I didn't care for.
John Legend was.
What role did he did?
He played Jesus.
He may have.
And but just the production itself, I didn't care for.
Yeah.
I mean, I mean, I know that, you know, plays are a normal thing.
Right.
I mean, Broadway and all that.
I love going to my wife and I had season tickets to Dallas Summer Musicals, which was Broadway.
Oh, yeah.
Down at Fair Park.
I had come for seven or eight years and it was date night.
Every Tuesday, we'd go down and I saw all the musicals.
It was great.
I really enjoyed.
We had great seats.
And then I don't know why we stopped, but it was Fair Park, right?
Yeah.
Down at Fair Park.
It was all the Broadway musical.
Right.
So, you know, Wicked, saw Wicked a bunch of times.
That's so cool.
Took the boys to see Lion King.
My wife and I have not seen any.
Lion King was really good.
That was fantastic.
We haven't seen any of those type of things.
I recommend it, man.
Highly recommend it.
It was really good.
In fact, Ter and I just talked about that this past week.
Yeah, going to play or something.
I mean, the Lion King, I'm telling you, it was phenomenal.
I mean, the tools that they used, the little puppets.
I mean, when they had like a flock of...
They were like full size elephants.
Oh, absolutely.
And when they were, when they had like the animals that were running down the aisles
up into the stage, they had these large sticks.
So if it were a giraffe or an elephant, they would have four or five people that were all
parts of the elephant.
And looking like totally real looking.
Yeah, absolutely.
Moving and everything.
Yeah, the legs went eee, pow, and the elephant trunk, brrrr, and the birds flying.
I have tremendous respect for drama and theater, theater and all that kind of stuff.
There's a lot of choreography.
I recommend it.
And we used to go down and we'd treat ourselves.
They have a restaurant there on site that...
Is it McDonald's?
It's Wendy's.
Oh.
No, it's...
I prefer Wendy's.
It's maybe a buffet, but it was an extra, I don't know, 50 bucks a head.
So we'd treat ourselves.
Otherwise, we'd grab some food on the way down because it was after work.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
So you'll have the 50 bucks to go to that, but if I say, hey, let's do an extra 50 bucks
for the bourbon dinner, you're totally shit on that.
Yeah, don't get crazy.
What bourbon dinner?
That's too much.
Oh, the one we skipped?
Yeah.
We skipped it?
What do you mean?
We weren't able to go.
The Chuckster was out of town or something like that.
Oh, yeah.
It just didn't work out.
I think we missed, that's right.
I recommend the Summer Music, but you have to get out to it early because those tickets
sell out and then it's secondary market and it goes fucking...
Just like any concert.
It's stupid.
Yeah.
Right?
And you have to get down on the floor because the seats up top, the leg room, it's fucking
ridiculous.
So just an FYI.
Anyway, that would be something.
I mean, it doesn't have to be big time productions.
I mean, there are plenty...
Well, these are Broadway shows.
Well, I was saying that if you don't want to spring for all that kind of stuff, there's
tons of community theaters and high school productions.
I'm thinking...
I think that you're right.
We're not worth it.
If Amazon and or Netflix were to pick up that market and start broadcasting live shows like
that, it would only benefit the plays themselves.
Yeah, the broader theater community.
Oh my God.
Because people are kind of like, oh my God, I want to go see that.
In person.
Well, I tell you what, the Broadway shows are closing in New York because they were
out of business for a year and a half, two years.
And they opened them up.
But then the crime is bad.
People weren't going because they had the regulations.
If you're inside, you can only wear masks and all that bullshit, right?
But then the crime around that area as well, where the tourists weren't even coming in
to want to go.
So there's some big ones...
Is that still that way?
You're saying they're still closing down?
There's some big ones, Phantom of the Opera, I believe, is closing after it's been run
for like 35, 40 years.
Oh my gosh.
Close them down.
A couple of big ones are like, yeah, we're done.
We can't make money at this.
Yeah, they're losing money.
Yeah, because no one's coming.
I think of Broadway shows right now like The Book of Mormon, Aladdin.
Book of Mormon.
Moulin Rouge.
Book of Mormon.
I think I saw that.
That's a Monty Python one.
They have The Phantom of the Opera.
Outstanding.
Life of Pi, Wicked, Harry Potter and The Cursed Child.
So Wicked.
I've seen that three times.
That's really good, too.
You know, you were talking about Monty Python.
What's the life of...
Life of Brian.
So my wife and I, we started watching that because, you know, I guess it showed up on
Netflix and I was like, you know what?
I've never seen it.
This is supposed to be really funny.
Painful.
It is.
It's British humor.
Guys, that was so painful.
It's 70s British humor.
My wife tuned out within the first 27 seconds and I was like, no, no, no, no, let's fight
through this.
Let's watch this.
And finally she was kind of like, you want to finish it, you can finish it.
She kind of wandered off.
Right.
And I was like, yeah, this is bad.
Forget it.
Come back.
We'll watch something else.
Right.
It was bad.
I'm not a huge Monty Python fan, but I remember my parents had date night and they went to
see a Monty Python.
It was called The Meaning of Life.
Oh, yeah.
And they came home and they were like, that was the worst movie I have ever seen.
Did they walk out of it?
They may have.
They said they there was a scene because it was like short skits or whatever.
Yeah.
One of the shots was this huge fat guy being gluttonous, eating everything in the restaurant.
Oh, yeah.
And he explodes.
And then he pukes everywhere and he explodes.
He explodes.
Yes.
They say, yeah, try this.
It's way for thin.
You know, he wants him to try the little cookie or something.
And he goes, I cannot, I cannot.
I'm so full.
And then he eats it and it literally explodes.
Explodes.
He has huge ribs.
And then he's sitting there vomiting on the girl that's trying to clean up the vomit.
Yeah.
God, it's just so over the top.
So so over.
I've never seen the movie, but it's horrible.
I've seen pictures and I was just like, I just I specifically remember them coming home
going, that was the worst movie I've ever seen.
There's a couple of funny scenes, but I mean, this which one was this?
The meaning of life.
Well, and I'm talking about the life of Brian.
Well, the life of Brian is so painful.
A young man who was born once stable down and once stable down and on the same night
as Jesus, he becomes intrigued by young rebel Judith to try impressor.
Brian joins the independent movement against the Romans, the people's front.
Judah, the one of the opening scenes is, you know, they the three kings, right?
The wise men or the wise men or three kings, whatever they show up.
Yeah, they they they show up in this.
Yeah.
Where the baby is and they and they give their gifts and all this kind of stuff.
And then they figure out and then they walk out.
Right.
And then they're like, they come back in and they're like, grab their gifts back because
the wrong stall.
They realize it's not Jesus.
Right.
It's so bad.
Yeah.
But I would look to see what they have this year, but it sounds like they have some good
ones this year.
So that was nineteen seven.
You talk about the Broadway show, the Dallas musical.
So as a matter of fact, Julie and I just watched the movie Phantom of the Opera about two or
three weeks ago.
That's cool.
Yeah.
We should definitely plan on Floor Jensen.
No, it had Gerard Butler and some girl.
We should plan on doing that this summer.
Yeah, but I enjoy the music we see.
There's some in Dallas.
They have to see.
I love that movie.
I wonder if it's Dustin Hoffman.
Probably not.
I mean, we should.
Are the tickets on sale?
Because we've got to jump on April 20th or 18th to the 30th.
Is when they go on sale.
That's the showtime.
Yeah, they're on sale right now.
Two two week runs, I think.
Yeah, we might.
If we're going to do it, we need to jump on it.
Because like you said, the tickets probably go quick.
They especially the big shows like Family Opera guarantees out.
Right.
Or you're going to get some shitty seat on a weird day.
They have coming up like in the month of March, they have something called the Thorn.
They save your money and see one of the ones.
Especially one of the big ones.
See one of the big ones.
Just to introduce yourself.
Right.
Eight hundred bucks a ticket.
Well, I've never seen that high, but then there's the music hall at Fair Park underwater
tour.
Let's see.
What about what about symphonies and operas?
You guys ever get into opera?
Maybe because maybe once just to see the production value.
I could do the symphony, but the symphony I'd enjoy.
What music they are.
Right.
John Williams.
I'd definitely go see that.
John Williams or just a Chalkovsky or any of a Bach.
Who's the guy who wrote the Lord of the Rings?
I like that soundtrack.
I think that really good.
You talk about movie soundtracks.
No.
Well, it was symphony.
It's symphony.
It's classical music.
And those symphonies were put on for movies.
Yeah.
Those symphonies were put on certain concerts like the music of John Williams is tight.
I mean, John Williams, I mean, they have like, for example, like the symphonies that played
like the soundtrack to like Skyrim are incredible.
I mean, Skyrim video games.
There are a lot of video games out there that have incredible.
Oh, they're pouring serious money into video games.
They have actors.
They have scripts.
They have storylines.
They have music.
Yeah.
Like you said, I just downloaded the Hogwarts Harry Potter video game.
I'm going to like just now.
But you didn't a couple of days ago.
Hold on.
You didn't boycott it.
I thought you were supposed to boycott it because I downloaded as well.
Brandon has it has been played it.
You know, I'm talking about though.
Well, I told you that last time that they're trying to.
Why was that boycotting it?
Because of the author, because of J.K. Rowling member.
She's she believes that there's a man and a woman and there's nothing in between.
And so the trends, the trends community is.
Yeah, but I don't care about that.
I know.
We don't.
But what happened?
What happens is some of these people, your trophies and everything are public.
They're like, oh, how can you hide your Harry Potter trophies from the public so you don't
get harassed?
Right.
By the community.
Oh, yeah.
Because if you're into Harry Potter or if you're into that game or you're into anything, Harry
Potter, that means you're anti-trans.
That's just not.
And then the woke mob attacks you.
Correct.
I don't care.
You know what?
That whole woke thing could kiss my ass.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm going to kiss my ass with the woke thing.
There are so many people that are coming out.
I mean, there's some guy named Russell Brand, I think is his name.
He was a comedian.
Yeah, he was a comedian.
He's been gay for a while.
What do you mean?
Coming out in support of.
He's not gay.
Russell Brand?
He's coming out in support of logic.
He's not gay.
I thought he was.
No, he just dresses flamboyantly, but he's not gay.
I don't believe he's gay.
Oh, I thought he was.
He's married.
He's over the top.
Continue.
Sorry.
So he's coming out and saying what?
He's basically saying, well, he's basically saying, well, he's basically saying, well,
he's basically calling people out.
You know, he he got on the The Morning Joe Show and a couple of years ago.
Yeah.
But he was, you know, they he called him out on him stating facts and they didn't like
it.
And he was just recently on the Bill Maher Show, quoting the stuff that it was when he
was on the Joe, the Morning Joe Show.
And he was also calling out how, you know, how how fucked up the media is on denying
facts and, you know, in calling people, you know, just because they have a different opinion.
He was like it was absolutely ruthless for them for Joe.
Joe Rogan, when talking about the Ivermectum thing, it was ridiculous.
Right.
Yeah.
Especially on the covid stuff.
A lot of that truth is slapping them in the face right now.
And now Fouchy.
Big time.
There were some emails that just came out that were Fouchy's is coming up with the plan
to well, he was pressuring.
He was pressuring, pressuring, I think, somebody to come out and prove that it didn't come
from the lab.
That's what it was.
That's exactly what it was.
He was he was trying to say, go in.
Yeah.
Well, right.
But that's not it.
He was trying to get some scientific evidence behind his narrative.
And the only thing is, yeah, it's believe the science, believe the science, man.
That guy's a total fraud, man.
He's like neck deep in it.
But nothing's going to happen to him.
What's going to happen?
Yeah.
Well, he retired now.
He's in his 80s, right?
Well, they could take away his pension.
Wouldn't that be nice?
Doesn't matter.
He's the highest paid.
Was.
Yeah, it was.
He retired.
Yeah.
But he's got so much money from the NIH, you know, because he's he's got royalties.
Why doesn't he just retire and go away?
Well, I think he should be just an attention whore.
Hold on.
Is he still in the limelight?
Yes, he's still making the news.
I see him in interviews still.
Oh, I didn't know he was making the rounds and doing OK.
Yeah, fuck him.
Why is he still around?
Yeah, he needs to get the hell out.
Yeah.
You know, I want to bring up a funny story about mask.
So in New York, in New York, the New York Police Department was telling shop owners
to tell their tell shoppers that come in with a mask to remove their mask because what's
happening is rampant crime and they're covering their face with masks and they can't catch
them because they can't on camera.
They can't figure out who they are.
Right.
Yeah, but they put it back on, but they have to remove it before they come in.
Yeah.
So they go past the cameras with it on.
Yes.
Yeah.
That's real.
And it's crazy.
They're telling shop owners to tell their people, tell the shoppers to remove their
mask.
Yes, I love it.
But it kind of goes back.
I was in Portland earlier and what a mess.
They're a big mess.
You know, we talk about New York and Chicago having some some troubles, but I think Portland
may be one of the worst.
I mean, it's real.
Like the mass exodus of businesses is real.
Oh, yeah.
Walgreens pulled out five stores.
Wal-Mart's closing two stores.
They're closing all their stores.
Right.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, they're just I mean, it's real.
So if you rely on them for like pharmaceutical shit.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, I know.
I have to drive.
Who?
I mean, I don't know what else they have out there.
All your mom and pop pharmacy shops are probably closed.
Well, I mean, it's way more than that as well.
I mean, you're right.
Those are critical, right.
Critical needs.
Correct.
Right.
For people that need pharmaceutical.
Who live downtown or whatever.
But, dude, all the shops.
I mean, people are saying that they're lifelong Portland people are like it's it's a ghost
town.
Yeah.
And they did it to themselves.
Totally.
They.
So there's a specific county that's downtown.
They voted in idiots that are defunding the police.
So there's Multnomah County in Portland.
That is basically the area where Chas was.
Was it Chas or Chop?
Oh, those.
Hey, those businesses sued and they won.
Yeah.
So they're they get that much.
They had 20 million.
That should be more than I know.
It's not that much.
So they had you know, it's that little concentrated area.
But you know, twenty three hundred people moved out of it.
That one little county.
One little.
Well, you know, and here's the other thing.
One of the one of the reasons for for people to feel like it's OK to rob a store is they're
like, what do you care?
This isn't your money anyway.
You're going to get insurance money and you know, well, and that's what people have been.
The shop owners have been posting on the windows is I've been you know, we've had 13 burglaries
and the first two were covered by insurance.
Correct.
And so we're eating it.
Yep.
I read that story as we can't we can't make it.
And so we're closing.
And we've been here for twenty five years and see you later.
And suck it.
Suck it.
Yeah.
We're going to Texas.
So I guess all those folks that have super deep pockets and are super wealthy are probably
going up to Portland and gobbling up all that real estate.
And it's probably China.
And because, you know, it's kind of make a comeback.
I mean, that's beautiful country.
It's a point at some point.
Oh, it's going to make a come.
Well, what about Detroit?
Detroit basically was no man's land.
But that's not a beautiful country either.
Anyway, sorry.
Michigan's beautiful.
Yeah, it is.
Yeah, but not Detroit.
Well, not now.
Anyway, it's not real beautiful.
It's making a resurgence.
That's what I mean.
How long did it take for Detroit to start getting turned around?
So if I remember, I remember it was spiraling down the tubes and they hired somebody like
an emergency manager who was a businessman.
I mean, it was some weird scenario where somebody literally the state appointed somebody to take
over Detroit to like right the ship.
And so, you know, almost like a Ross Perot type of guy.
And he went in there and it was like, boom, boom, boom, boom.
And we're doing this and we're doing that.
And it started to come around.
That's what I remember.
Now, that was about 10 years ago.
Yeah, but Detroit's one of those places that's been bad for 30 years, 40 years.
I actually saw a Democrat rule.
I actually actually saw a documentary where what is what what Earth look like if it was
not touched by manned for 40 years.
And they use Detroit as an example.
Some of the buildings and shit.
Because they're overgrown and falling apart.
This is what Earth will look like if we just added.
They just added some deer and maybe a wooly mammoth.
Probably.
But there's like this is what it's good because this has been like this for 40 years.
That's unbelievable.
So sad.
That's what I mean.
I mean, how long would it will is it going to take to write the ship in Portland?
And it'll probably take 20, 20 years.
That's what I mean, because it's still going on.
Oh, yeah.
No bullshit.
Still going on.
I've got stopped yet.
So that's going to have to stop.
Then you turn it around and then you have to get people who's going to be willing to
dump money into it.
Go, you know, do I really want to do this?
Yeah.
To trust that we can do this again.
Right.
And then they have to rebuild up their police force.
Right.
I mean, and they have to recruit.
Right.
I mean, like people that you know, I mean, I don't know if it takes long enough to those
buildings are going to come down.
Right.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know either.
But it's sad.
Well, you also have the organ is very a lot of a lot of states are like this.
California is like this.
But you have a section of Oregon who wants to leave Oregon.
Yep.
And it's about 70 percent of the landmass.
And California is same way.
Right.
So it's about 70 percent of the landmass of Oregon wants to join Idaho.
But it's only like nine percent of the population.
Right.
That's right.
That's the problem.
They have no say so in any government affairs in their state because they're grossly outnumbered.
Correct.
Except you're right.
They're all the land the land owners.
They're the farmers.
It's the rural area.
The rural areas.
Right. We don't want to live by whatever they got going on in Portland.
Right.
Because that's or L.A. or San Francisco or San Diego.
So you have this very thin strip that runs down and they showed a map of what Oregon
would look like if this happened.
And Oregon shrank down dramatically to cities basically.
Yeah.
Basically it was 30 percent of what it was.
So I disagree with that.
I think that is wrong.
I mean what to want to leave the state?
No.
The way they've got the lines divided.
I know it's by per population and part of me is kind of like well that's right.
But at the same time I'm kind of like there has to be some sort of thought where you like
you said 70 percent of the landmass wants to doesn't want to be part of that.
So I mean there comes a point where maybe there should be a line.
Maybe 70 percent is good enough.
All right.
Look maybe we need to rethink how this is this is going down.
You know maybe have a representative per.
That's why we have the Electoral College.
So the two coasts don't dictate what happens with the rest of the country.
Yeah but Electoral College that's only for electing presidents.
Correct.
So I mean how are you going to have a electorate.
OK so with that premise that maybe they ought to have some sort of Electoral College for
you know in the voting in different states.
Well no for Congress they have that too.
They have the number of representatives is reflective of the population of those states.
Correct.
So who gets to pick.
I mean I think like Oregon for example I mean it's only Oregon if Oregon wants to separate
into two the United States as a whole shouldn't have any say in that whatsoever.
I think we do though.
I think there's a.
But why does it say that again.
If you if the state of Oregon.
OK if the people of Oregon say hey you know what we want to cut Oregon in half and we're
going to be or and we're going to be gone.
Create a new state.
I'm just they want to join Idaho.
Never does the federal government get involved in that.
You know what.
That's a great question.
I'm I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
I don't think it's the government's problem.
Because I know this same conversation has happened in California as well.
There's been the right side right.
The east side of California is the same scenario.
Right.
Where they they're staunchly red.
I mean how many times do you hear about you know we all know how bleeding blue right how
liberal California is.
But then you find out then you in the House of Representatives it's the Republican from
California and you're like right.
What.
How is that possible.
Well because there are precincts right there are districts in on the on the east side of
California that are staunchly red correct.
Like Orange County was right and that just flipped blue.
I don't know how that's possible.
But anyway so yeah that's the virus.
Yeah it is awful.
Anyway but that's a great question you know because I mean OK well let's extend it further.
They're submitting a bill.
The Texas legislature is submitting a bill for us to secede.
And I think they do this regularly.
They do.
So what does that take.
Right.
So if they were to vote yes to leave the U.S. yeah to leave the U.S. right.
So I mean you know what I mean.
That's never going to happen.
Exactly.
That's not going to happen for the other stuff either for the counties to go to other states.
But I think it's different.
They don't want to secede from the U.S. they want to secede from.
I get it.
But it's the same sort of how would that happen.
Like what what rules have to be and who and who has to get involved because I think I
think I know has to approve it.
Oregon has to approve it right.
And does the federal government have to approve it.
Well here also here's the thing.
They're stuck.
70 percent of landmass is 9 percent.
They're all going to vote for it while the other 91 percent is going to vote against
it.
Right.
So they're never going to win.
They're never going to win.
But on top of that just imagine if it were to happen.
And remember each state is like a little country where they have you know exports right and
taxes and so they lose all their farmland.
Right.
And they lose all their crops and their and their and their exports to other states and
other countries.
And suddenly they don't get that tax revenue anymore.
You know what I mean.
There's so much that I don't see it happening but it's fun to talk.
It is fun to talk about.
I think it can happen by force.
What if we start sending arms instead of to Ukraine.
We send arms to eastern Oregon or to Idaho or to Western Idaho.
Tate again.
You know all they have to do is start start eliminating a few people like the Soros family.
Wow.
Yeah.
You know every day I read another story about a Soros backed D.A.
He has a bunch of unbelievable.
He has infiltrated our law enforcement or no not even law.
That's where he focused.
He has focused on the law.
He has a community of people that work for him specifically to do that.
Unbelievable.
Smart.
There was a there was a try to bring a country down from the inside out.
You disrupt law and order.
There is a conversation.
He's doing somebody.
He had in with Governor Abbott and I forget who this was.
They had a conversation with the governor and Governor Abbott explained that that's
exactly what George Soros does.
He says what he'll do is he'll fund two Democrats and he'll get one on the left that he wants
and he'll get one on the further left like way left and to compete against him so that
so it'll guarantee and he'll he'll fund the shit out of the guy that's so far left he
won't get voted in but he'll be so greatly funded that he'll stay in.
He's eroding.
Right.
He's getting he's getting that message slowly but surely into the mainstream.
Right.
And it's just that's that's the way he does it.
Man in George Soros is he a United States citizen?
No he's Austrian.
So why why does he have influence over anything because he's got money.
He's got billions of dollars.
Why does he have why is it legal for him to have influence over our elections.
That's a great question.
Well I think they're like think tanks and shit like that.
Oh they're oh oh they're like.
So the US companies.
Yeah they're like as if it were shell companies you know how you can't tell where the money
really came from because it's core shell companies.
I mean we're smart now.
I mean we're smarter I should say.
You know it's just like we should we should.
I mean.
Yeah why do you let a foreigner mingle with our elections.
You know the whole the whole Russian collusion thing.
Well that's that's illegal.
Why is the Soros collusion.
Shouldn't be allowed.
Why is the Hungarian collusion a lot of worries from.
Yeah it's not.
It shouldn't be.
I think that is absolutely meddling in our elections meddling in our our is it.
It's not law enforcement.
What do you call it.
It's law.
Those are the prosecutors are the ones that bring charges or drop charges or don't don't
bring charges.
Really what's happening.
Correct.
But that.
What do you call that.
It's not law enforcement.
It's it's pro secure prosecutorial branch.
I don't know what you call it.
Sure.
Anyway so the Joros funded mayor Joros George Soros funded mayor Lightfoot is now out.
Huge.
Yeah.
Beetlejuice.
And she's out.
I'll tell you what I like her from the only way I like the only reason I like her just
as one little snippet is I like her voice.
I'm not sure I've ever heard her speak.
I do.
I like the way she shows not to watch videos with her.
She's cool even though she's an idiot and she's fucked everything up.
There's people that will rip her up one side down another and she and she just handles
it so she cool.
She placed third.
Yeah.
I mean that was a trouncing for an incumbent that she's never had.
She said it was misogynistic racist.
Oh yeah of course.
Well because she's a black gay.
Well you know what she could take her course her black donut bumping ass and bail.
Yeah.
Probably a millionaire at this point.
I don't give a fuck.
Oh she she is.
I mean if whatever man I don't live in Chicago so who am I to throw stones.
But it's just like if she were to live it's just watch her watch her move to Texas.
Wouldn't that be just that the down to Austin.
Yeah.
Well that'd be the only place to go.
Come the Austin mayor.
Austin's getting pretty.
Austin's bad right now.
Austin's bad.
I mean it's following in the same footsteps as all these other Democrat run cities that
are falling apart.
I mean why why can't people understand it.
Why can't they see it.
It's because they're so idealistic that they think that what they're doing is is you know
the right thing to do.
And yeah there's going to be some setbacks but as I got to share some with you.
Oh boy.
Oh I'm going to trim my goatee like off.
It's it's it's you get sick of it.
Yeah I'm going to remove a about 50 percent of it.
Take it all off.
No.
The wife doesn't like it.
She says I look like my father and it's creepy.
I've done that every once in a while.
Just leave the most look like my father.
No I trim the thing all the way like literally completely off.
And my wife does not like it either.
She's like it looks like you have no upper lip and you look like you're 12 years old.
And yeah.
You should do like the food man chew.
Take it all off.
And this is a really long way down.
Well I thought about doing that like during Halloween and I could strategically let it
grow so that I could do something fun like that.
The only thing I've ever done is if I've let it grow a little bit longer.
Nothing like that.
But if I let it grow pretty bushy and then I choose to trim the whole thing off I do
it in stages.
You know what I mean.
Oh that's what I do.
First I'll do handlebars and I'll walk out and be totally obnoxious with the wife and
I'll be like hey baby how you doing.
She's like no.
Yeah I do the same.
And I'm like no really no.
And then I'll be OK fine and I'll go Ben and I'll and then I'll do the next one right.
Whatever I can do what's left of it right.
And it's so funny with the Hitler.
Yeah the final one would be like.
I'll sit behind and do the Hitler.
What are you watching.
Come and see here.
The last time I did this.
I don't know why I became Chinese right there.
The last time I did it I did a really you ever see the guy with the really thin mustache.
Yes.
That's what I ended with and I walked out and I was just she's just like hell no.
You were the guy from.
It's so fun.
It's so fun to do that though.
Anyway yeah I could see why you would do that because I could see it getting I can't even
imagine how sometimes it's kind of how long you have it is just it's obscene.
Yeah.
Plus it's it's it's kind of hard like I tried going through it like a bush.
Yeah.
Well like a vagina.
Yeah.
Well actually it's a little poor right now.
I need to I need to put a little look at him right now.
That's what his mouth is.
I'm definitely not looking at him right now.
What my mouth is like a vagina.
I don't keep saying that fully fully sandwich.
No I'm not.
I'm looking away.
Stop looking at me.
I'm looking right at my mouth.
What the hell is wrong with you.
God.
That's too much.
Stop touching it too much.
Tickle tickle is glistening.
Oh my God.
What what did I say.
That's my.
All right well I drank.
I'm always the one that has some sort of soundbite.
I had an extra large pour so I'm feeling kind of it right now in the bourbon that we we
chose to have.
So we'll right over that.
The world the bourbon of the week the first half is something that we've already had before
and coincidentally I have received as my.
It's a different one.
A different one.
Is it different.
Yeah that's important to note.
Stelum has about four or five maybe six different.
And all the bottles suck and all the labels.
They all look the same.
I know.
They're different.
Why would you do that.
I don't understand their marketing.
Their marketing team needs to be fired.
I'm being dead serious.
Their marketing team needs to be fired.
Stelum Bourbon finds its flavors in the attention of three Indiana bourbon mashbills two of
which are high rye with the third being most exclusively corn.
All the barrels from both Kentucky and Tennessee are folded in slowly through a multi-grain
step blending process.
So this is basically a big M.G.P. thing right.
Yeah two are high rye one being exclusively corn.
It's not bad.
I do feel the burn.
I guess I have always attributed that to high rye.
But I mean I think we've learned that that doesn't necessarily mean that.
Screw that a little bit.
Because we've had some smooth rise.
But I'm not sure how I feel about this.
Intense clove.
Tell you what it is spicy.
It is.
It's a very spicy finish.
It says marshmallow on cotton candy.
I didn't quite get that.
I've got more of a cayenne pepper.
Oh there you go.
Cayenne pepper cinnamon black pepper stone fruit.
Would you stop.
I get the tart under rye blackberry note personally.
I don't get any of it.
It's very peppery.
I hate all these descriptions.
I really do.
I don't taste any of this shit that they list up here.
You don't taste the candied ginger?
Maybe the aroma of honeysuckle.
That really jumped out at me.
What about the cinnamon streusel?
Shut the hell up.
When are you going to smell a glass of bourbon and go oh my god that is honeysuckle.
I've got a spice support.
It's so ridiculous.
The tart under rye blackberry and apricot.
Under rye.
Under rye blackberry.
Like it's not good enough to just say blackberry.
It's eating something that's a little too tart.
Where it makes your cheeks hurt.
You know these guys that write this shit up are laughing their asses off.
So they're just literally trying to pull out the most ridiculous shit they can come up
with.
So we have a few bourbon enthusiasts out there and this one actually has on here and this
is I've never seen this one before but it says with the addition of water the strong
pepper notes are more subdued allowing for sweet cinnamon streusel and stewed apples
to come to the front of the palate.
Everything is subdued with water.
Did you have honeysuckle flowers growing up?
Yes.
No.
I remember as a kid sitting outside in the summertime picking the flowers.
You pull the little thing out and you suck it up for real?
Oh yeah.
You suck it out of the flower?
Well it's like a drip of sweet nectar is what it is.
Yeah.
Well you talk about it.
It was good.
Well I don't know.
It just sounds weird to like pluck something off a plant and suck something out of it.
Well you don't suck the flower.
Okay.
You like tongue it.
Oh.
Makes it better.
Why don't you demonstrate?
Why don't you demonstrate you tonguing a flower?
We need video for that.
No.
What you're saying is right on.
They used to have that in I don't know where the hell I lived.
Probably New Jersey when you're doing it.
It's probably.
So yeah that'd be the thing.
You'd go out there and pull them off.
Yeah out in those little tributaries behind your house.
Oh man that was fantastic.
With the arquetoothes.
They had like a major super large snapping turtles.
They would take your leg off if they got a hold of it.
And it would like come out of this bundle of honeysuckle plants.
Honeysuckle I mean it's like almost like a bush or a vine.
Yes.
You'd be hundreds of these little white flowers.
And they're they kind of in there they're very cone shaped.
They're conical you know the cone shaped.
I guess that's the best way to put it.
They just pull out the very middle.
Yeah pull out the stem.
I don't know what is that called.
But I don't know.
Stippin or something like that.
The butt.
No it's the penis.
Well maybe I'll.
With the drip of sugar.
Maybe I'll get really lucky and I'll find myself in a in a what do you call that a trove
a patch a patch of honeysuckle and I'll be like oh this is stellum bourbon.
We'd sit there and do it like 20 or 30.
Yeah this is smells exactly like stellum bourbon.
Yeah that's right.
No that's no good though.
They do smell good.
Of course.
All right.
Anyway let's move on.
I'm trying to figure out the hell that's called.
No that's not.
It's not important anymore.
The part of the honeysuckle that you lick.
So we bought this right.
And this is the second time we tried it.
It's not bad.
All right.
The anther.
It's not bad.
I do like the proof right.
It's 115 proof.
It's got it packs a punch.
Otherwise known as a stamen.
But let me ask would we buy.
Is this a repeat.
Would we buy this again.
Well he has one coming.
Yeah I do.
It's a different one.
So is it a repeat.
Look I think it's I think what we need to do is say that Bob.
No I think we need to keep the bottle as it is with being one third whatever it is right
now.
Just keep it as part of our collection.
No it's not.
It's not ready for the infinity.
Now I would leave it there.
I would wait for somebody that says oh man I really want some of that still and my hair
I tear it up make it pour yourself a nice big glass and we're going to load it up into
the finny bottle.
Yeah just finish it like or for one of us wants to have a pour of it or something like
that.
I go into that stone again.
That's for it.
Like I said I don't want to dog it.
It's not bad.
But I mean now when we've you know gotten to the 200 range it wouldn't be one of our
go to's right.
No it's not.
It's good.
Be the bottom.
I know.
I feel bad because I'm like you know like shitting all over it.
It's not horrible.
I mean I would score it a six of 10.
Yeah I would give it a seven.
I would give it a six.
Yeah.
We dropped the lows.
Five point eight.
It's not a Williamsburg by any means.
Take the high score take the low score.
Or the back beat.
Anyway this happened pretty quick there.
All right.
Well dudes like us it is March 7th and two weeks off and we've got spring break coming
up for the college kids which we could talk about that the whole debacle that Preston
gone through not being able to set up school for the next semester.
Oh yeah.
What the hell.
We're talking about that in the second half.
We got to cover that.
Because hey the other thing that's coming up is March Madness is coming up.
I have no desire about that.
What the what.
Only if the UC.
You're in a massive minority of like dudes like us.
Only if the UC Bearcats or Xavier Musketeers are in it.
Dudes like us I'm Sean.
I'm Paul.
And I'm Jeff.
What is wrong with you guys.