We got him now, Paul.
Could have sworn I got a beer.
Oh, there it is. Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Seriously, you're going to give me a Bud Light.
You're fucking with me. It's a pounder. Come on.
Oh, I was waiting for that.
Did you buy that?
Did you buy that specially for this?
I had I had a bunch of leftover beers. My phrase.
I figured, you know what? I need to plan the perfect.
Give it to you. Give it to me.
Have him say something like I could have sworn I had a beer
and then hand him the Bud Light.
That was perfect. I scripted that.
That was good. It was good.
There's there's still struggling, man. They are.
They're selling they're selling eight of their brands now.
Do you see that? Yeah, I thought someone had purchased them.
Yes. Yeah, they have sellers.
I mean, buyers. So I mean, but I mean, they have a shitload of brands.
So, I mean, they can are they are they arguing that this was part of a planned sale?
No, I don't think so. I think it just came up.
It's a it's an eighteen forty five second half dudes like us podcast.
August 15th. I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff.
This is an exciting second half. It is exciting.
So who does their story on who purchased them?
Yeah, there's the company purchased them and I think it's eight brands.
You should pull it up real quick.
Couple of I recognize a couple of my don't write their craft beers.
Yeah, I don't think I recognize any of them.
I think is rogue one of them.
No, not level eight.
I don't want to look at underwear.
I'm looking at performance boxer briefs.
Nice. What happened there?
No, but and has your bush.
Oh, boy. You know what you're doing over there, Mr. Austin?
We need you. Yeah, we need Austin back.
Tough crowd, right?
I love it.
But it's a solid eight of its beloved brands is Bud Light Drama Plagues.
It's business. So let's see what they're selling there.
They're showing the trends, but let us struggle.
You know what? Look, look at that. Tough shit.
You know, that's all I got to say is everything is down.
Did you see that every single brand of Bud Light is down?
Is that right?
No, those Bud Light, Budweiser, Mick and Bush.
OK, but look at those numbers.
They're all down.
Yeah, what's in of which there's a couple peaks there?
I don't know what that is. I don't know what those are.
There's too many. They had to be Michelob Ultra.
What is happening? I don't know.
There we go. I click.
Yeah. Hover over that. The peaks.
So we're looking at a graph.
We're looking at a graph.
I think that I think that's Mick Ultra.
It's got to be because that's a very popular brand.
Five twenty.
So they have dates.
The color of the shades are the dates.
So you basically have one, two, three, four
beers on your Bud Light, Budweiser,
but the ultra and Bush Light.
And I think the peaks are Bush or Mick Ultra.
And what's that peach one?
Just peach.
Well, I mean, there's Budweiser.
The colors aren't. Yeah, it's very confusing.
The colors are are the colors aren't the beer.
The colors are time.
So, well, no, there's there's.
That's Bud Light, this whole section.
Oh, I get it.
This Bud, this whole this is a very confusing graph.
So there's very confusing.
There's four columns here.
And you have Bush Light, Mickalob, and the colors are time.
So you have April 15th to the 22nd.
So this is just April.
So basically everything sucks,
except Mick Ultra for one week and Bush Light for one week.
Yeah, that's essentially what it is.
That's essentially. And you know what?
Look, I don't care. I don't care.
I feel bad for them.
But at the same time, they they made their own bed.
Sleep in it. You know, the management did the management.
I don't feel bad for the CEO or the executive.
I can't believe they haven't fired the CEO.
I just can't believe it.
He keeps he keeps fumbling the ball.
And I can't believe that he hasn't.
You know, first, I can't believe he didn't resign like a man
on on on behalf of his the people that he fucked over.
So go back and figure he should have resigned and said,
I'm sorry for letting you guys down.
It was on my watch that we floundered.
So don't take it out on the Budweiser, the Bud Light people.
Don't take it on the hardworking Americans that are, you know, bleed red.
Right. He did say that.
Yeah. But but but don't take it out on them.
I'm resigning. Oh, yeah. He needs to resign.
Yeah. Resign. But he didn't resign.
And I can't believe they haven't fired him.
It's the first paragraph.
Fucking unbelievable.
So, yeah, it's hard for me to have any sympathy for anything.
So the Anheuser-Busch InBev announced today that it will sell eight
craft brands to Tilray brand, significantly cutting
Anheuser-Busch's InBev craft beer portfolio.
Tilroy, a Canadian cannabis company, will expand this growing craft
holidays holdings, which are currently include sweet water brewing,
Montauk Brewing, Green Flash, Alpine Beer Company.
The deal is expected to close in September 2023.
So Anheuser-Busch basically selling eight brands to a pot farm.
They're selling what they are. They're selling Shock Top.
I've heard of that one, actually.
Scroll up Breckenridge Brewery.
Heard of that one. Blue Point Brewing have not heard of that.
No, me neither. Ten Barrel Brewing have not.
Nope. Red Hook, I have. I have not.
Widmer Brothers Brewing, I have not.
Square Mile Cider Company. Cider.
Cider. And Highball Energy.
I don't know that one either.
Yeah, I don't know either. So I knew three of them.
Yeah, so they're not, I mean, equal to 85 million dollars in cash.
These are small, tiny.
These are tiny little sell offs.
But this could be the beginning of something.
The beginning of something.
Well, I mean, they lost a shitload of money.
They've lost a shitload of money.
So it's and continue to.
Well, I mean, they need to have the day of record.
They just need to come back to the table and they just need to say,
Hey, we'll do it.
It's like that that one hungover or the movie Hangover.
You know, we fucked up, you know, have a moment like that.
Yeah, you know, just we fucked up, man.
We we were our hearts were in a good place.
We wanted to X, Y, Z
and involve communities that we believed were,
you know, weren't getting the right kind of reputation
or the right kind of attention.
And we wanted to give them attention.
But you know what? It's not going to happen.
You know, it's crazy. It's like it's like
I don't know if they're digging in or not,
but the perception definitely is well, what is the name of the company
that they're digging in that grades them?
Oh, I don't know.
Well, yeah, we do. We talked about this.
It's the I know, but I don't know the name of it.
The George Soros owned company that that's the reason why.
I think that they're dug in because frankly, I think George Soros.
I mean, that's really far fetched, but I think that doesn't.
I don't. What's the context?
The context is that no sense at all to me.
You think they're still they still want the LGBTQ.
They are so dug in, they're not giving up, but they hate them.
Like gay bars are no longer selling Bud Light. Yeah.
They've lost. They've lost them. They lost everything.
They've lost them more than they've lost the normal people like normal people.
But yet you've got a Bud Light.
You have a 16 ounce Bud Light that you pulled out that was ice cold.
You wasted electricity to cool the thing.
I think the money was already spent, so you might as well drink.
I've got three or four of them in there,
and I think it was one of my son's friends.
But sure. Oh, I've never had.
I've never drank Bud Light ever.
You know, you know what my very first beer ever was?
What was the Big Mouth Mickey?
No, it was Little Kings Cream Ale.
Bud Weiser, the the the white and red.
The original. The original. The original Bud Weiser.
That was my very first beer.
You like this taste fabulous. Disgusting.
Yeah. You know what they did?
And then you wonder why I went on a two or three year wine cooler bitch.
California cooler. Oh, God.
You know, how is that better?
I know how to solve Bud Light's problem.
You were a girl back then. I am. I was a girl.
Now I'm I ooze man.
I ooze man. I do.
I do. I do.
It's all over.
Well, even even the ancestors of Anheuser-Busch, Billy Bush,
came out and said they've royally screwed.
Oh, they would roll over in their graves.
Correct. Yeah, that's exactly what he said.
And it's crazy.
Well, Sean's looking at fart noises.
I mean, what? Yeah, what?
No, no. Look, I'm telling you, the way the way I would solve
the the the hold on the way I would solve it, I would simply bring these guys back.
The lead singer of Bud Light of Survivor.
You wouldn't work.
I don't know. And like a faux apology or what?
No, just come up with a new.
Yes. Yes.
Real men of genius. Oh, God.
I mean, Bud Light presents real men of genius.
What a legacy they destroyed.
Real men of genius.
That's what they needed to do.
We salute you.
They need to bring this back.
Silent killer gas passer.
Mr. Silent killer gas passer.
This type of mentality.
It worked.
Is that the Survivor singer?
No, it's not.
Not the video is not.
Oh, no, not the video.
Because of you, a simple.
You're the tick tick tick tick.
A 42 floor plummet into the very bowels of hell.
Take my breath away. Who did it?
Who cares?
Sweet mercy, please.
Just someone light a match.
Sweet, sweet mercy.
So crack open an ice cold Bud Light, oh, ninja, but nasty.
And while you're at it, crack open a window.
Mr. Silent killer gas passer.
Bud Light beer at Iserbush, St. Louis, Missouri.
It was that it was that kind of stuff.
Bud Light Budweiser in general had a fantastic campaign.
They had the Bud Wines or, you know, the frogs.
Yeah.
Yet they they hired that woman that said it was what?
Fratty. Fratty. Fratty.
We're too fratty like the frat houses.
You know, come on.
She's a Yale or Harvard grad.
And she's the wrong generation to be to be even thinking about
representing this beer.
Yes, I agree.
So, look, I mean, look, it's crazy.
They they are handling this thing all wrong.
I mean, they're just a God bless and beer distributor.
Yeah, I mean, come on.
All they had to do was have some humility.
Well, the guy who did all of these marketing this this one
and the frogs and the was up, he said, it took me 20 years
to get Bud Light where it was at.
It took them 30 minutes to destroy it.
Yes. Yes.
Oh, that they really guy who created all these commercials.
Bud Light presents, you know, and it is destroyed.
Yeah. Yeah.
I don't see it coming back.
I mean, they'd be better off changing, changing the name of
the beer.
They still sell a shit ton of it, though.
They do.
It's number two.
Well, that's a good point.
Even though it's down 30 percent, they still sell bunch.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, there are certain areas like my trip to the
northeast.
I took a snapshot of the convenience store beer selection
and adversely from like Texas, you look at the beer selection
and there's 10 percent and Heiser Bush and 90 percent of,
you know, this very small section.
Now there was the opposite was 90 percent and Heiser Bush and
10 percent of other.
But I sent you guys a little text message picture.
Yeah, you did.
You did seem confused.
No, I mean, so so that's one thing that everybody keeps
doing that.
Right.
They keep sending pictures of like a whole bunch of Bud Light,
you know, but this is misleading.
It's misleading in a store, you know, because that's just a
little snapshot.
That was in York, York, Maine.
Yeah.
And you know, but it's trying to to to give the perception that
there's no Bud Light selling right.
Like it's a giant stack of Bud Light.
Nobody touching it.
Although it's Sturgis, they had that.
I think it's regionally.
I agree.
I think it's regional.
Yeah.
And you saw that Sturgis thing with the tent, the Bud Light tent.
Oh, so they had bed light tents at Sturgis and it was empty.
Really?
Like no, no one.
What is that?
What do you say?
What Sturgis?
This is the bike rally, the huge motorcycle rally, all the Harley
driver Sturgis, North Dakota, South Dakota.
Yeah, North Dakota.
That's right.
Anyway, so they had a video, this video of them panning the
bus, I mean, because they have massive sponsorship of lots of
things, but like does I mean, they have a marketing budget
that's like unreal.
Right.
And so they they sponsor crazy, like a crazy amount of things.
And so, yeah, they sponsor this massive tent area and nobody was
there.
Well, that was probably they probably this was probably spent
last year.
They planned on doing this or they probably go for the next five
years.
We're going to do this.
It's already done.
We're going to scale back.
Let me see what this message is right here.
I was like, come on everybody, real quick video, real quick
update.
So a video appears to show a nearly empty Budweiser tents at a
motorcycle rally at the Sturgis motorcycle rally.
I'll just get to the point.
So a YouTuber was out there recording some video taking photos
and basically it was empty.
It wasn't nearly empty.
There was like nobody there and the only people that were there
were like the workers.
Right.
You can see right here.
I'll show this video here.
You can see they're walking around the tent.
They're empty.
The tables are empty.
There's like nobody even over there on stage.
You can see the workers.
They look that guy looks pissed off to be there.
Doesn't want to be recorded.
Then they're going to show like another guy here in a second.
This other dude here is like, yeah, look at him.
He says like, yeah, this ain't bothering me.
How's it going?
Yeah.
So it was basically torture for those dudes to be at least see
that one dude just turn his back and walk away.
I don't blame him.
I would do.
I would do that.
But yeah, you can see there from this video that the Bud Light,
the Budweiser tent over there at Sturges was basically, yeah,
was a ghost town.
Yep.
So they were affected.
They were affected.
They're still affected.
It's, you know, but it's, it's regional.
Like I shared, you know, what I saw up there, the Northeast, you know,
it's still popular, you know, it's, it's based.
I don't know.
Like, like you said, I mean, I could fix it.
But being the number one beer seller in the United States and dropping
30% is still a shit ton of beer being sold.
Yeah, it's still a bunch of beer.
Right.
So maybe to wear off, but I mean, it hasn't worn off.
No, it hasn't.
That's, that's what's shocking.
It hasn't slowed.
I mean, it's been pretty steady.
Well, I don't think it's, I don't think it's increasing.
I think it's leveled off.
It has leveled off, but at 30%.
I think it's, that's their new reality.
So in other words, the people they lost are not coming back.
Correct.
I think that's their new reality.
This is our volume and we need to work to grow it now.
All right.
We're doing, I don't know where this we're doing $5 million a month.
All right.
We need to increase that.
Imagine bringing in that, that, that marketing VP.
And now suddenly when she was supposed to build the brand, she permanently
dropped it by 30%.
She was fired, right?
Oh yeah.
Well, she was put on leave for a while.
Then I think she was ultimately fired.
Yes.
Well, I wonder if she was gobbled up by some sort of left-wing.
Probably.
I'm sure.
Probably being celebrated as a hero to trying to do the right thing.
Correct.
And meanwhile, she brought a massive brand down by 30% almost on a permanent basis.
She'll be, she'll be part of marketing classes for a very long time.
This is what you don't do.
Yeah, but what's crazy is I said the silver lining of this deal is that other
company is going to be like, okay, we've got to be careful here.
We don't want to be bud lighted.
And then here's Skittles.
Then here's Best Buy.
Right.
Oh yeah.
Well, Best Buy is a training.
Yeah.
It's a training where no whites are allowed.
Correct.
So WTF.
I don't know.
And Skittles is the other one where they have the packaging.
What is it?
BLM Trans person?
Yeah.
It was Black Trans Lives Matter.
Black Trans Lives Matter.
I don't get it.
Yeah.
If you know, it was interesting because there was a little advertisement.
I don't know if this was a meme or it was fake, but they had like these lovers.
When I say lovers, man on man, woman on woman, adult on child.
Oh, they were silhouettes.
Where was this?
This was on the, I don't know if it was a Skittles package, but it was, it was in the
collection of Skittles advertising.
And it was just like, it didn't say that, but you saw a man in a man silhouette, because
you know what a man looks like.
It's obvious.
Generally.
Yeah.
I mean, well, you know.
Well, we don't know these days anymore.
Well, we kind of do.
I mean, you know what a typical guy, I mean, you look at like the swim team.
I'm glad they denounced the whole.
They didn't denounce them.
They made it illegal to.
Yeah.
They did the program, but correct.
But I mean, you know what a female female looks like.
It's I think these silhouettes, right?
And you clearly see a silhouette of an adult and a child.
I didn't see that.
I don't know where that is, but that's disturbing if that's true.
Well, well, the other one, the other one is, and this one's this one's going to impact
me more than the Bud Light is Harry's razors.
I use it to shave.
Oh, this the Internet club thing type thing?
No, you buy them at Kroger Target.
OK, I've not heard about this one.
It used to be a male only, and it was basically
a very inexpensive, well-made razors to get out of the Gillette's and those really expensive razors.
Right. Yep.
So and they grew and they grew and they grew.
And I don't know if they got bought or anything, but Harry's
some prominent conservatives have called for a boycott of her over the razor companies partnership with transgender influence blogger Matt Walsh.
We know Matt Walsh was among the right wing voices to criticize Harry's over the weekend.
Yeah. So if you go up there to images or videos or whatever, but they did.
They did the same thing that Budweiser did.
Don't get it.
And they partnered with a trans or a lady who cut her boobs off, so she shirtless and you see the scars and she's growing facial hair.
She's using Harry's.
Oh, nice to do too.
And all the products.
Right. So I'm going to once I'm there, he was right to US that second one there.
I'm going to I've already paid for them.
Somebody uses the razors I have.
Yeah. And then I'm done.
I'm finding something else.
Well, I mean, and that and that is absolutely your right as a consumer.
If you don't if you don't believe in the in the politics and the and the and the agenda and the ideology of the of a company you buy razors from.
I mean, what the right.
Oh, I just don't get it.
And they just keep making these mistakes.
Yeah. Well, Gillette was just as bad.
If you remember, they they won out a few years ago and slam toxic masculinity.
We have to do away with toxic masculinity.
Yep. I remember.
I'm not buying Gillette shit either.
Right. So yeah, there is or she go broke.
Celebrating my first pride with facial hair.
It looks like a chick with short hair and a beard and nasty scars.
It's gross.
What she got on her stomach.
Well, I mean, I get it.
I mean, stop.
So it's basically looking at this she he and, you know, this dude has had I'm sorry, this females had her stuff cut off.
And yeah, let's let's move on.
I don't want to get off that fast.
I was trying to.
Yeah. Anyway.
That one that one's impacting me because I've used them for five, six years.
That's a fucking razor.
That's beer.
No, I mean, that's the point.
It's no, no, no.
My point is you have options.
There are lots of beers.
There's lots of razors.
Oh, yeah.
Lots of fucking options.
I mean, right.
I mean, why would they do this?
Why? I mean, especially why are they not learning from Bud Light?
I tell you, I've been inspired this I went to get a haircut.
God bless it.
I get a haircut every month, every three or four weeks.
But I I got frustrated because of my goatee.
And I went to the last time I got my haircut.
She said, hey, do you want me to your your goatee?
I was like, noted.
She's like, well, it needs to be managed.
So I was like, let me think about it.
So a couple of days later, I go in there because I go out to one of my job things.
And it's so fucking hot.
And it was uncomfortable.
I went in there, said, shave it.
Shave it now. Shave it.
And I had shaved either.
So she trimmed she fucking ripped off two, three inches off my goatee.
So bam, gone.
So now I'm like, what?
It's it's really thin now.
You know, well, you know, it looks fine.
It looks fine.
Yeah. Well, I mean, it's compared to what he used to.
But what my point when I'm driving it is she has this W.A.H.L. wall wall clipper.
And she said I have shaved and I had like a quarter inch double on maybe whatever.
Three sixteenths of and she takes that little wall and she's like, done, done, done, dude.
It was a fucking game changer.
I'm like, I'm buying that. Right.
I'm buying it. I am buying it.
I am going to buy it.
So I've been using a straight edge.
Did you ask her what model it was?
Yep. Yep. I know exactly what it is.
What do you mean a straight edge?
You can't not for your goatee.
Well, we can't shave a fucking.
No, no.
What are you talking about?
I use a straight edge to shave with.
Right. OK.
And I've had the single blade, the single blade.
Yeah. And it.
Oh shit. That's like old school.
I've had the same blade, the same blade for over a year.
Huh.
That creates the closest shape possible.
I don't doubt that.
They call those safety razors.
Yeah. I have these the same blade.
When you screw it, it opens up a little butterfly door.
Yep. Now, you can you can literally resharpen them super easy.
But you know.
You can buy a box of ten for like five bucks.
I was thinking like the blade, like the old school blade.
Oh, a little switch blade.
Like.
Will you.
Does Tara do it for you?
Like a mob?
No. Dude, she cut my throat.
Yeah, like the mob.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Oh, I can't breathe.
Oh, let me cut more.
No, that's what my dad used.
What's the.
What the hell?
That was fucked up.
The beaver bush or whatever that is.
The I'm sorry.
What?
Brush.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know what?
That stuff is I really wanted to get into one of those little little shaving cream.
Oh, because you have a little ramekin.
You like make your cream.
Yeah.
You like.
That's like that's like the World War Two guys like one.
Well, like in World War One, you see those guys like, you know.
Well, that's how I learned my dad, you know, because he would he would take the razor out
and I would shave.
Oh, he puts shaving cream on and I would shave without.
Of course, I was nine or eight.
Right.
Sure.
Shaving and just pull the shaving cream off.
Right.
So you kind of.
You know, it's crazy.
I I remodeled in my construction time, I remodeled a bathroom and I took out.
We gutted the whole bathroom.
But in the process of gutting it, I took out the medicine cabinet and it's even pull some
screws out comes right out.
Well, the owner, maybe previously, he takes his single blade and he would shove it into
the side of the medicine cabinet and it would fall into the wall and stay there.
Right.
And there were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of razor blades and you use that that he had
used over the years that had fallen.
Oh, it was stacked.
It was like I was I was like, are you fucking kidding me?
You know, because I ripped up off the wall and it's like this thing comes down.
I'm like, what the hell is that?
Well, at first I was like, I scored.
I thought it was coins or something.
I was like, fuck yeah.
No one's here.
I grab it and it slices all your fingers.
I quickly looked down there and I was like, oh, it's totally not going to get rusty razor
blade.
But I thought it was kind of interesting.
But yeah, so there are options to shaving out there.
I mean, the single blade one, I highly recommend.
I mean, I really do.
I have not shaved with foam or gel.
I do it once a week.
I use electric on Mondays and then I use the blade on Wednesdays.
I shave twice a week.
Yeah, I just use my electric.
I got my bra, right?
My bra and shaver and and I do the I have a bra and mustache trimmer.
Boom, boom, boom.
Super, super quick.
Well, interesting.
No, I mean, I mean, I remember in high school I used to shave with, you know, foam and those
shitty plastic ones.
OK, that's what I've learned.
I just about bled to death every single time I shaved.
Those are big fuck, man.
I mean, it was normal.
So I had my I had my toilet paper.
I have my toilet paper right there.
And I get a shit while you shave.
No, no.
So I had the toilet paper right there and I shave and then, you know, here we go.
The blood starts coming out.
And I tear off the toilet paper and I and I take a little piece and put it on like you
use lubricant and put it on.
It doesn't matter.
I put it on my other side of my neck and put it on.
I would have fucking I look like fucking potent polka dot.
I tell you, one of the I had eight of them on my best razors was the mock.
That's what I used to use.
They came up with a mock for had like four.
I'm telling you, man, dude, you can lather up your face with all that stuff and you like
with one of those mock.
They got so expensive.
Oh, my God.
They were so expensive.
I went to Harry's as I would you like some mock fours?
That'll be five hundred twenty two dollars.
Right. Yeah.
Well, put it back. But it works.
They were great.
I stopped buying because they were expensive, but they worked great.
I was bitter because they don't last like two or three shades.
Super close.
Oh, super close and super quick because it's part of your daily routine of getting ready
for work.
You know, yeah, for you know, I mean, I don't have those struggles anymore because, you
know, I work from home and shave every day.
Well, my job doesn't demand me to shave.
I was going to say you can go out on jobs out out and you don't have to.
Yeah, I mean, I'm out and I'm out.
No, I don't have to.
I mean, I want to look professional.
Sure.
But I mean, yeah, you know, I don't need to be clean shaven.
Yeah.
But the straight razor I highly recommend.
You know, the dude from Antiques, not the Antique Roadshow.
It's not even an antique.
It's the fuck.
It's the Pond Star show.
Pond, not porn.
The bald guy.
Yeah, the bald guy.
He's got his own.
In fact, that is my razor.
I bought the razor from him.
Is it an antique?
No, I didn't go to the store and actually purchased one.
Wow.
And he sponsors a brand, a particular brand out there.
And he was talking about, yeah, I've had the same razor here for three years.
You know, and all he does is he take the razor out, he cleans it, and he's got this little thing.
Oh, to sharpen it a little bit.
Yeah, just I mean, like seconds like puts it back in there.
Done.
It's a nice clean, close shave.
Done.
I mean, what's crazy about my I know I'm touting on the brawn, but but I mean, mine's a wet dry.
So I can even I have a girlfriend like I can even like foam up and use the razor with the foam.
I don't do it for you, though.
It is closer when I was it doesn't feel good.
It feels great.
So don't vibrate.
Yeah, it's very erotic.
Oh, vibrate.
Do it again.
Vibrate.
And what was the noise?
I mean, one more time, if you don't mind.
I don't want to turn.
Sure.
You have the floor.
OK, so we spent we had a big, big deal this past weekend.
We did.
We were looking so excited.
First of all, Friday night we go and we see one of the farewell tour of foreigner.
We did.
And lover boy and lover boy was inside a sauna.
It was no it was not a sauna.
It was a fucking steam shower.
It was miserable.
It was one of the levels of hell.
Well, yeah, it was good music.
But man, the atmosphere was terrible.
It was like right up next to the final boss going into hell.
Yeah, it's like right next to the asshole.
Just right there.
It was so hot.
It was humid.
Now there we went to a venue.
It's called those those those basically Fair Park.
Yeah, it's fair park out there.
They've got a it's a nice venue.
I mean, it's nice.
There's no seating out there.
I wouldn't recommend going out there when it's not conducive.
Not in the summer.
It's miserable.
It's just it doesn't make sense.
We did not think that through when we bought the tickets.
Well, we bought them in November of twenty.
But still, we should have it was nice and cool.
But we should have said August 11th.
We should have.
Hmm.
I should have said, hey, what the band took it over cover.
It's covered.
They have fans in there.
I know the band took it on the chin, man.
I mean, they they're seven dollars in their seventies plus.
Yeah.
Well, they are.
But yeah, no, there's some older ones in there.
But I mean, they they were in the sun when we first started.
Loverboy was.
Yeah.
I think that's a good point.
It was Loverboy.
They were on the they were in the.
He's he's got quite the physique working right now.
With the lead singer.
Wow.
Well, he's living life.
He did good, though.
He did good in that.
I tell you what, he did.
He hit those notes.
Yeah.
He hit those notes.
I mean, he doesn't have the articulation that he used to, but he hit one of those notes.
You know, I was like shocked when he hit it.
I was like, wow.
I enjoyed I enjoyed both of them.
Well, Loverboy was better this time than the first time we saw him.
That's true.
And I go back to I go back to the guitarist.
I think he was severely half ass showboat.
He was doing something the first time I saw him and he was terrible.
He was much better this time.
He didn't fuck around or anything like that and played all the same songs, but I thought
they sound a lot better.
Yeah.
On this one.
Yeah, it was good.
It was good.
And the venue was nice.
I did want to bring up one point about well, there's a bunch of points we can bring up
about from the aspect of monetarily speaking.
I want to you know, they weren't accepting cash anywhere.
Ah, OK.
I was a little disappointed with that.
I mean, I get it.
But at the same time, I'm like, really?
It's U.S. tender.
You won't take this?
Well, that's where we're we're going.
Right. As a country.
Yeah. Well, that's a whole different I mean, I'll think about it.
The next time we go to these kind of concerts and it's all digital digital currency, I'm
going to walk up and I go, yeah, hit me with one of those, you know, those rum and Cokes
and they're going to go beep.
Oh, sorry, sir.
You you don't have.
Well, this is the central bank program.
Yeah, that's what the center, the SDB, right?
Central Digital Banking.
Right. That's what they're they're proposing now.
They're going to I mean, what China has already enrolled into it.
Australia has started their program about a month ago and where they're not even they
do do cash in Australia, but they're limited to five hundred dollars.
What is going on with Australia?
We get totalitarian.
Who would have thought that they would have been one of the first Western nations to go
full authoritarian?
Well, they voted in the wrong folks down there.
I mean, during covid, do you remember the shit that they did?
It was bad.
I mean, there was a camp.
I said the story about the guy that walked through a park alone during in a park and
took off his mask because he was trying to breathe and then put it back in the cigarette
and then put it back on.
And then by the time he got home, somebody had reported him and cops were at his house
for taking off his mask while walking home from work.
Did he get sent to a reeducation camp?
They killed him.
Shot him.
I mean, seriously, it's crazy.
Australia.
I mean, I could name like one hundred and sixty countries that I would put ahead of Australia.
I still want to.
I'd still like to go to Australia.
Oh, no, I said that's one of the places I'd like to visit.
So we're cutting it.
I thought, I mean, because we would have all gone.
I would love to go.
We would have all gone multiple times.
What trips me out is that you would think the last place to do that was Australia.
Well, I'm thinking the same thing about the United Kingdom and England.
I know it.
You know, it just all the same way it is.
It is off the charts.
I mean, if you were to publicly put something on Facebook that says something about somebody,
they'll put you in fucking jail.
Yeah.
If you know, they'll arrest your ass.
What do you call it?
Missed gendering or mispronouning or what?
Well, it is like that as well.
It's insane.
I'm just are you kidding me?
I mean, it's we're going to hitting a melting point, but there's going to be at some point,
they're going to take away our bourbon.
Well, it's possible we're going to have to.
We have 200 about there.
We got we're stuck.
We need more and we need more 1845 to 1845 family owned and operated artisan and distillery
located in Lowery Crossing, Texas.
Lowery.
So this is a special one for us.
I think it is.
I think we've said in the past that we've we've gone out there multiple times.
I'll tell you why it's special.
It's because for you specifically, because you didn't get one.
Oh, shut up.
I did.
So Jeff and I went out there because we're douchebags and we had an opportunity to go
out there and we're like, so we got our 1845 preemption single barrel Texas four grain
straight bourbon whiskey.
And you were on a boat.
I think or something like that.
Yeah.
The first time you went out there.
So we went out there and I grabbed this bottle and of course I wasn't going to open it.
I wanted to save it.
Yeah, you're holding it.
Well, did you get a bottle?
No, I didn't.
Well, I got a bottle.
You got the last one, I think.
I got one of the last ones and Paul was like all up in arms.
And so I guess I was devastated.
We went out there all together.
The one of the following weeks, in fact, we talked about it, one of the podcasts and then
you had mentioned to somebody.
Then you went with your your tier one friends and they took the helicopter.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
We landed out in the pecan field.
Bob came out.
Hey, how you doing, Paul?
How you doing?
All right.
So let's give a little background.
So on on the distillery and where it is.
Let me finish up with the.
So they didn't have your bottle.
So you wanted the bottle.
So they recognized Paul and they were like, well, you know what?
They send a message over the Facebook for our dudes like us on Facebook page that we
have dudes like us on Instagram.
And so they sent us a message.
Hey, you know what, Paul, we do have one for you.
We set aside.
So we went there this past weekend because we did the with the ladies, the lover boy
and the foreigner concert.
And then the very next day we went out there with the ladies and my sister and poor sister
and your sister.
Yeah, because they've got a wine section, too.
They're trying out some new some wines and I got a I got I don't have the list with me
to talk about it, but there's a because we're focused on the bourbon.
But they had pulled yours aside.
You purchased yours and the lady, the bourbon, the Texas Bourbon Lady.
God bless it.
Things stuck here.
But she said, you know what?
We have another one because I because I kind of alluded.
I was like, man, I got my own personal one and then we're going to do one for the podcast.
It's like, man, sure.
Would love to.
If you have one more, I'd love to take it.
She says, well, let me see what I got.
So she goes to the back and gets one up for me.
Beautiful.
So it worked out really great.
So now we have one for the official one for the podcast.
You have your personal idea.
I have my personal one.
And now we just have to get an extra we did one, perhaps.
I mean, well, that's a limited release.
Yeah, we had to sign up.
We had to sign up for that.
I don't know if they sold the ball, but he was anticipating selling through them soon.
So to sign up for or on the secret list.
Yeah, we got to sign up for explain what's going on with the eighteen forty five.
So eighteen forty five distillery isn't really you're not going to find it.
Yeah, I know it's on the shelves.
This was so special about this.
They're super local.
Right. So first off, their website is eighteen forty five distilling company dot com.
So check it out. Check out their history.
They're new. Right.
So the story is the owner owned a brewery for seven years.
They sold it. They he wanted to get into bourbon making.
They moved out to Lowry's Crossing, which is just east of McKinney,
which is our local stomping grounds. Right.
All around here. And they bought it in 2016.
He got up to speed. I mean, and that's what I love about going to this tour.
He he is so personal and it's so such a small intimate setting.
And he walks you through, you know, how he got started.
And, you know, he buys everything, all local ingredients.
Right. Texas, a bunch of it from Denton, I think.
Yeah, it's all. Yep. All from Denton and in eighteen forty five, the history of the
is when Texas joined the union. Right.
So he's all in on Texas, all in on local ingredients.
And so it officially says in eighteen thirty six, the New Republic of Texas instituted a policy
of distributing public lands to encourage settlement.
And in eighteen forty five, the name of the company,
the Republic of Texas passed the Reemption Act, thus creating presumption grants.
In early December eighteen forty five, the land and the distillery is built upon
receiving its Reemption grant from the public later that month in December eighteen forty five.
The Congress of Texas voted the United States of America, making eighteen forty five the year
of the Republic of Texas. It's celebrating the last year of the Republic of Texas.
That's when it no longer was the country of that crazy that Texas was a was its own thing.
I think that's it's wonderful. And that's what this is all about.
I mean, yes, they've got a fantastic little video of the bottles being filled up.
It's it is exciting. And it's a family run business.
They don't have any distributors yet. Right. It's a very small operation.
And when he does the tour, it's Bob. He's the founder and the mayor of Lowry Crossing.
And the mayor of Lowry Crossing. And and you can't have a more personal experience
with understanding how it's made and how it works and and the sampling and all that kind of stuff.
Anyway, so we're super excited. All right. So what is the bourbon? We are actually so they have four different.
They have the they have a weeded. They have a four grain. They have a straight is Bob Petit.
And they have yes. Bob and June. Yep. And they have Miguel is their lead distiller.
But it was so cool about is we you know, we've met the son. We've met the.
The best is the son. He's the big dude that was back there. He's in charge of the wine area. Right. Right.
And we've met the wonderful staff and family friends and Kayla's back there, you know,
working the bar area and helping helping with on the weekends with with the samples and all the tours.
And right. It's just it's just it's so cool. It's personable. It's very personal.
Yes, they got a very nice facility. The tasting room is very nice, well appointed, some nice woods, dark woods and the wine wine section.
It is nice as well. They have a little bar up there to sample some wines as well. Yeah.
I know they're still working on the wines or just starting to oak age those.
So look at very, very forward looking to taste those things. Yeah.
So the plan is to go out there every weekend until they ask us to stop. So that that's kind of what our goal is.
Anyway, we were just so that I'm in love with the place. I think it's awesome.
They have like a pecan orchard, orchard that that they bought the land on.
So anyway, yeah, we'll go ahead. So go ahead. So this one we're tasting, it's the preemption single barrel Texas four grain.
It is one hundred and seventeen proof.
And it was aged, what to say, forty one months. Yeah. So a little over three years. Yeah. They're doing three and four years.
So and it is extremely flavorful.
I think I think where he's located, the the atmosphere, the pecan trees where he's at is adding something special.
So to what what they're able to get out of their barrels because they're winning awards left and right. Yeah.
That was crazy. And one of the unique things that they mentioned is for that region, just in that Lowery's crossing.
He was saying that, you know, he had the the angels envy and the devil share.
That's angel share, angel share, angel share, devil's cut and angel share, angel share and devil's cut.
So what he was saying, what he what he shared was that typically when they put the bourbon in there and to age the oak barrels,
it will go in, let's say they put in 53 gallons and then at the end of the process, it'll yield like minus 10 percent.
Whatever. I'm making that number up. I know it's variable. Right.
It's totally variable. But what he says, typically what happens is that the percentage of the alcohol content goes up.
But for some reason, in that little nook inside the the pecan fields that there that these buildings exist in,
that the alcohol content goes down just a little bit. So they have more alcohol evaporate that water.
Correct. Which is which has to do with perhaps the humidity that the pecan trees.
It's an ecosystem in based on what we talked about earlier in the the the green room is that that pecan tree environment is actually,
I think it's infusing into the we're just wondering how they had so much success out of the gate.
So they they they barrel it in 2016, 2019. They open it up.
They have no distiller distributors. It's not available retail. They submit their bourbon.
All of them, the straight one, the wheat, the four grain and it's winning awards almost in every.
So in other words, they won like the bourbon lottery. Right. Is what I keep saying. Correct.
I mean, how many distilleries would would like to die for have that kind of out of the gate success?
And they came in third place out in San Francisco, which is the granddad of the competition.
So the best bourbon in the world. They came in third. Right.
And currently one of the most decorated stillers of two thousand twenty three. That's amazing.
That's amazing. And so I'm super excited for them. They're super nice people.
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All right. So what are we going to give it, guys? I mean, so we know the note. I mean, three.
Just about the lowest rating ever. No. Hold on, though.
But the one thing we didn't chat about in here, a few bottles remain with a single barrel release for the four grain.
This one particular one is what does it say there? Forty four months.
This is what we have here. Yeah, it is. That's barrel barrel. Texas for no, this is the Texas weeded.
That's what we bought. Oh, that's what we just bought. Yes. Yes.
Yeah, we haven't had that one yet. I guess we'll wait for that one.
I mean, I'll tell you what, when he does the tour and he puts that stainless steel thing into the barrel,
it's such strong pours it out. Yeah, it's very exciting.
That's called thieving. Thieving. Oh, OK. That makes sense.
All right. So what he does in the tour is he does he compares one year, two year and three year all same char.
I think it's just two. No, he did one, two, three. One, two, three.
He's changing it. And he's trying to explain kind of how the barrel brings in the color and brings in the flavor
and what a major difference there is between one, two and three.
But I tell you what, when I try, I know most of the people we were laughing because we were there
and all of it's very strong. Right. High proof stuff. Right.
And the people we're with are like, oh, this is great. They're like, oh, my God.
Meanwhile, we were like sucking it down. Yeah, we were like, this is amazing.
Bobby should have bigger glasses. What the hell? Was this a thimble?
But even the one year, I thought the one year was amazing. I thought it was good.
Yeah, they all have very unique ones. And Bob goes into elaborate descriptions of, you know, the the the the stone fruit.
He didn't say stuff for the cinnamon and the you know, the caramels are in the char three.
It's it's very chocolatey kind of it's just thicker in the third year.
The third the char three because it's a there's a char three and he has a char two.
Oh, that's right. I don't think he's doing that anymore. What do you mean?
He's not tasting between the two anymore. He's doing the years now. Oh, all right.
Well, the one that we went out to, he went the one you guys, I guess you weren't there.
He did char two and a char three and he explained the differences.
And they did have a very distinct like the char two was very specifically cinnamon
and just kind of like those flavors that kind of pumped through in the char three.
It's just like it's just more even more rich.
I mean, these are char three bottles that we currently have. Right.
Yes. Yeah. All his stuff is char three. That's what that's what's amazing.
One year, one year in the same char. How what kind of difference that makes?
Well, it's also also I think here in Texas, things age quite a bit.
I can't say faster because it's still three years. Right.
But it the flavor of it happens faster because of the extreme change in temperature. Correct.
I think it's get so hot down here and who knows what this and cold and cold.
Yeah. During the wintertime, who knows what this summer is going to do?
You know, these long stretches of the super hot and it may even make it more robust.
So let's think about this. So when it is hot, does it that when it goes into the barrel the most?
Yeah, because it expands. Right. So think about this.
We have had almost 30 days. Thank you for the audience. Yeah, that's great.
We have had 30 days of 100 plus degree weather, which means it is that liquid in all of those barrels has stayed, stayed inside the wood, deep in the wood this whole time.
Right. And then when it gets cooler, all that and then it's going to contract and it's going to bring all that in.
Bring all that sugar. I think you're right. I think it's going to be it's going to be amazing. Yeah.
Anyway, so I think it's amazing. So all right. So what are we at? We're going to rate it.
Excuse me. Was that loud? Yes, that was loud. Yeah. I apologize for that. Yeah.
It's really good. I took a big swing. That's was it carbonated?
You know, so you were on a scale of one to 10, right? I'm going look, first of all, I want to say that four grains period are usually very flavorful. Yeah.
You know, we compared it to the Penelope four grain, which is, you know, high alcohol. It's too good. Yeah.
No, we liked it. We liked it a lot. I would easily put this relatively between an eight and nine. Yeah. I was going to say eight and a half or nine.
Fair enough easily. Yeah. So it's highly recommended dudes like us approved the four grain.
And I look forward to tasting the the weeded one. It's coming out. I believe they've got another one coming out.
Bob said, but it went in one ear and out the other because I was so excited about being there.
Giddy, I didn't retain a lot. You know, we also have to record him and listen to it later.
And you know, it's interesting. I've been there three times now and he always like spills some different nugget. Yeah, he does.
You know what I mean? About about what he was thinking or what he tried or who he talked to or or the process. Right.
I just love it. I love it. It's super cool. Well, the pre-emption Texas straight four grain single barrel seventy two.
It's a hit. Big hit. Big hit. And I feel bad for those folks that are listening to this and elsewhere that aren't going to be able to enjoy this.
We don't know how long it's going to take for these things to get on the shelf. It may take.
It may take five years, five, six years. Yeah.
It'll be a while, but it's it's available if you are in the Dallas Fort Worth area. Do it.
You like to sample this hit the distillery or hit dudes like us.
Enjoy our 200 plus bourbons that we have selection.
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Yeah, I should be careful.
You can align out the door. Ding dong. Hi. Who is this?
We're here for the bourbon.
Really? All right. So we were we are that kind of concluded the that Saturday because after that, I think we were pretty much done.
I mean, it was a long day. Your sister went back. She visited for a while.
She did. You know, you know where we went after that very hot day. We went to Andy's Andy's ice cream place. Yes. I love that place. Have you guys been there?
I've been a long time. They have something called the Concrete's.
It's basically custard. Yes, they call they call custard concrete. It's basically.
Oh, I thought it's more of a saying concrete. It's a blizzard concrete.
So Dairy Queen calls their blizzard and Andy's calls it double double dip used to have concrete. Right.
So basically it's a blizzard. That's just all they call double dip.
It was custard as well. Super is super good. Anyway. Oh, it was like the perfect thing to have.
I apologize. I was going to go back. Yeah, because 1845 Bob mentioned that he's going to have the double oak.
Oh, double barreled bourbon, two barrels, which is going to be a treat.
Oh, I can't wait. He says it's about 400 bottles and that's going to be how long?
Oh, no, he said he was going to age it. Not very long. Three months.
Well, you don't age it very well. When you double double oak it like that, you don't age it for very long.
Yeah, I thought it was going to be like three years in the first barrel and three years in the second barrel.
No, it's like three months or two months. Well, hold on. It's three years in one barrel.
Then three months. Yes, that's right. He's not going to change the three or four year initial.
I'm just kind of curious how it's going to hold up to the Rebecca Creek's double barreled Spanish oak.
Oh, my God. That is honestly damn good. If I see if I see that double barrel Spanish oak from Rebecca's Creek, I'm buying several bottles.
I've got a bottle. It's one of my favorites. Do you have one in your stash? Oh, yeah.
Yes, I do. You know, gentlemen, I'm in a rare case where I can spare no expense.
Whatever I want to buy, I get it. So, yes, I have a case of those.
Give it gross. By the way, this is so sad. My top shelf of my pantry can no longer fit anything.
Yeah, which is like which is dedicated to alcohol, not bourbons, but everything.
I mean, you know, you always want to keep a wide range of things for guests.
I have tequilas and rums and you know this and that and vodkas and bourbons.
I'm out of space, which is, you know, we have that cabinet downstairs.
I was we have the bourbons up here, but all the other booze that we drink, my wife and I is downstairs and cabinets.
We have a we have an old if you remember when we used to have tube TVs, they have big entertainment centers, right?
Oh, yeah. That's what it is. We don't use it for that anymore.
We have I built some shelving in there and we have our booze in there.
OK, yeah, that's cool. Well, I told my wife that there's really only one solution to this,
and that's to drink as much of it as possible quickly. Quick, because I'm buying more.
Well, I didn't tell her that part, but you know, I'm trying to finish off some of the bottles.
So, you know, I'm trying to take a stab at it. So anyway, good stuff. Very good stuff.
So anyway, that's that's our exciting. That was our exciting news.
Well, I want to go back to the foreigner concert real quick.
OK, good. They sounded very, very good. Yes. Music was outstanding.
We all knew the songs. The problem I have is none of them are original. Right. We talked about that.
I have a problem. We put we paid premium pricing for essentially a cover band.
It's yeah. A well, a very talented cover band. Correct.
Because all of these guys are legends in their own right.
Like like when I was when I was mentioning one guy from docking. Right. Right.
And I'm sure another one was a, you know, has been around the industry forever
and has played for a number of different bands or been in a major band.
All those guys are kind of very respected in their own right. But you're absolutely right.
But none of them were around when all of those hits were created.
None of them are foreigner. No, none of them are actually foreigner.
No, I have a problem with that. Right. But what do we do?
I mean, so well, that's it now. We've already done it.
But my point is so so OK, so every concert from now on, do we do we find out how many of them?
Well, Loverboy, Loverboy, I read, are is 100 percent original.
Really? All of them? All of them. Oh, that's shocking.
Yeah. I knew the drummer was a guitarist, lead singer, but the bassist and keyboard player are originals as well.
So but why do we care? Like when we listen to the Revolts bad in 10 bucks instead of what they made five, but they won't sound like that.
We have more fun and that lead singer of foreigner is sounds like the real deal.
No, no, they sounded. That's what I mean. They sounded great, but they were not part of what we grew up listening to as foreigner.
Well, what if you couldn't tell a difference?
What if if I handed you a CD of that band and a CD of foreigner and we couldn't tell the difference in a live in a live scenario?
Why would it matter? Well, it just does because you know the difference.
I mean, the Kelly Hansen, the current lead vocalist, sounds come.
I mean, he there his voice has a lot of similarities to Lou Graham. Yeah, of course.
Even Lou Graham said so. Yeah. However, he's not Lou Graham.
This is Lou Graham had that delicious he quit. He quit the band 20 years ago.
Yeah. Well, this guy came on in 2005. Lou Graham left in 2003. He came out in 2005.
All those songs were already done. Well, it's just like saying, you know, your argument is there's a really good Elvis impersonator.
He sounds just like him. What does it matter? It's not Elvis. Yeah.
I know. I do. I do understand. So but here's another thing that kind of bothered me based on this whole premise because he was kind of like, hey, this is the farewell tour for foreigner says who?
I mean, who's the why? Why would he even be a farewell tour? Because they're going to replace the all those musicians with somebody else that plays.
So just like Journey, just like just like. But my point is, like, is special.
Who is he to say that that's in a foreigner? Well, Mick Jones band as a band, they probably decided they're not going to know when the band is original.
So there's no one there that really has the authority to say, Jack, no, no.
They right now, that is the foreigner band. So if they decide to stop touring, there is no more foreigner unless someone comes up and says, hey, I'm foreigner.
Can Lou Graham come up and go, isn't he dead? No, no, no, no, no. He's actually touring now as well.
That's a great question. I mean, can Lou Graham come back and say, all right, all right, for you're done.
I would create my foreigner back. I would imagine because so why is he touring without foreigner?
He left the band. Oh, they had a big falling out, man. She's falling out. He's singing a bunch of foreigner songs.
So how do you decide? How do you decide? I think I'd rather go see him than that band.
I get it. I agree. I totally understand that. But who does he more foreigner than what this band was?
But who decides who like like who can use the foreigner name? I'm sure it was in the breakup.
I think Mick Jones owned that that property and Mick Jones was part of this band until a year or so ago because of health problems.
And I read that he was actually going to go on this tour. But health problems. He's 78 years old.
Yeah, but health problems prevented him from doing that. Yeah, like, OK.
So so how did he he stowed on somebody else the right to keep moving on? I guess as foreigner.
Correct. I guess I guess he retained the name. Right. So so these guys are so old.
Yeah. Well, you know, the band is old. I mean, it's the band came out in 70s. I know.
You know, I mean, I mean, guys, we know this. I mean, you know, all these rockers are dropping like flies.
Right. I mean, we know this. I mean, Nick, Mick Jones is about the same age as our parents.
I mean, Cold as Ice came out in nineteen seventy seven.
So it is still solid. All right. So let me ask you a question. All right. Let's say.
All right. Let's jump to our kids. Let's say let's say my son grew up listening to all the stuff I listen to.
He loves foreigner. It's his favorite band of all time.
So 15 years from now, there's a band still playing like foreigner, foreigner songs.
It's a cover band. Well, of course, it's a cover band.
But I mean, but he's not going to be he's not going to be in a position to say, oh, I'm not going to go watch them because none of them are originals because they're all dead.
Right. No, I have no problem going to watch them. But I don't want to pay a premium price to go see them.
But by the fact that there are some band members still alive, it makes it not real, which means you don't want to pay a premium for it.
I would rather have gone see Lou Graham sing all the foreigner songs because, you know, those damn musicians are just as good or just go to the rebel and have a foreigner, a foreigner cover band.
And we've seen that. Right. I got you. I understand that. I understand that.
Yeah, of course. If there's you know, if you want to see it in a bigger venue, which, you know, I mean, I'm not going to sweat to death in a bigger venue.
The quality of the music was great. So it was high quality. The music was so hot.
I mean, they said it was spot on. Yeah, music was great. Yeah.
Yeah, the music was great. I had to get up. I had old man syndrome. I had to get up. It was so hot. I felt physically faint.
I had to get up. I had to get up and leave that area. It was so hot. And when I walked around, it felt better. I came back and I was like, holy shit.
It's hotter sitting right there. Oh, really? Then it was walking around.
It was so hot in that little area. It was ridiculous. Ridiculous. And the fact that I'll tell you what, you know, really grinds my gears. Oh, boy.
You know, you got a venue like that. You've got I don't know, a couple thousand people there. How many people are there?
You probably had. I mean, that was full. Four or five thousand. At least there were.
There were there were a tremendous amount of folk in the Doseckis venue and and in the yard.
And it was packed. It's it's super hot. And they're selling water for five bucks a pop.
You know, that's not cool. I'm just I mean, come on. I mean, there should they should have it was canned water.
Yeah, it's can. It's that liquid. That stuff that they have.
You know, it's just like, look, I get it. Why would you call canned water liquid death? Why would anybody buy that?
I mean, evidently it is the drink of choice at the Doseckis.
I don't care. I don't care because I drank it and it tasted fine.
It really did. It didn't taste fine. It didn't have it. It was five dollars for a 12 ounce can of water.
But it's 16 ounce. But it was. Oh, yeah. Well, you didn't say that.
Well, that changes everything. It's a pounder of water. But they wholly mischaracterize this whole scandal.
But still, it's five bucks. There were so many people there.
Imagine if you didn't have a lot. We dropped. Look, they were selling tickets for like 30 bucks.
Right. We dropped 100 bucks on our ticket. I dropped a lot of money.
I mean, it was just look, I get it. But at the same time, it's like you need to have water fountains.
You need to have something to take care of the masses because they need to be spraying the crowd with water.
Well, I mean, I don't necessarily mean spraying, but they need to have water fountains.
It's fucking hot. And you can't be like dishing out five bucks a bottle of water.
I mean, I was like, look, man, I dropped. I didn't spend any money there.
I dropped 15 bucks on three bottles of water, three cans of water.
I drank two of those cherry bourbon things at two of them at twenty three dollars a piece.
Yeah, that's got that written all over it. And you get the triple shot.
I did. Oh, I should have. I thought about it.
No, I should have. I'll be four to two dollars and twenty two cents.
I mean, but we had a lot of beer going down there and then we had beer at that little burger place.
So you had fifty bucks in two drinks. I spent a lot of money that night.
Yeah, I did. But it was fun. I had fun. My sister had fun.
Yeah, you don't get to hang out with your sister very often. She was a nice person.
And that is the only reason why I bought shirts. I bought the forty dollar shirts.
Yeah. I bought two of them because I wanted her and I to kind of have something that we remembered that night.
Right. That's why that's why you do that kind of stuff. Right.
When you go on a family vacation, I do encourage you to do this.
When you go on a family vacation to somewhere that you know you're never going to be again, buy the shit.
Buy the shirts and stuff so that the kids wear it and they will remember.
Yeah, I agree. I agree. I do. I do recommend that even though we don't want to do that.
We don't want to spend that money. Right. Show went by really. Oh, sure did. What a great night.
Great bourbon. Was this normal? God bless. And I'm not I'm not done.
I know I'm going to get a little refill. I still have mine.
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