Hut one, hut two.
Yeah, and we're continuing a very good streak here.
Is this our third week in a row or twice in a row?
This is two in a row.
Two.
Oh, I see.
I think it's just two in a row.
Well, let's keep up this streak.
It's a good streak.
Well, he's going to be gone.
Well, maybe gone.
Change of hurricanes.
A streak in your underwear.
Yeah.
All right.
We are back.
It's August 29th.
The weather's not quite as bad as it has been.
Oh, no.
I'm calling it wonderful.
It's like an eight degree drop.
It's a brisk 95.
On highs.
Even more than that.
No, about eight degrees.
Right.
I'll take it.
Yeah, it's nice.
It's actually, I was out in the garage just walking through.
I was like, this is getting tolerable again.
Yep.
It's funny that we are celebrating that the high was 98.
Right.
Really, we are celebrating it.
Everybody was like, oh, how nice.
What frustrates me is, you know, it always gets hot here in North Texas.
Some years worse than others.
Yes.
This is a bad year.
It's not the worst even since I've been down here.
No, it's not the worst.
And it gets hot in Florida, other places, and then you'll have a hot summer somewhere
else and all of a sudden everything is climate change related now.
All of this hot weather, no, it's just North Texas.
And they also make you feel like a fool.
So we have like, what, 20 days of 100 plus.
And they're like, really, you can't see that?
You can't see that is climate change?
Are you that stupid that you don't know this is obviously climate change?
No, we've been through this before.
Totally.
This is nothing abnormal.
I know.
It's like every four or five years, you'll have long stretches like this.
But I tell you what, it's been it's been brutal.
It's not been fun.
I mean, we've had we've had like seven days of like 105 plus.
I mean, that that that hurts.
Well, like I said, it happens, you know, and it's it's starting to come back.
It's starting to where they're blaming everything on climate change.
And it's coming back to bite the Hawaii politicians who have who blamed climate change on the
fires out on the wildfire.
Yeah.
And it's coming out that now had nothing to do with that.
Nope.
All had to do with the power management and the power lines of the electric company and
the force management.
Yeah.
And the force man was a power company, I believe, is responsible for maintaining all the brush
around it around the wires and around the wires and the poles and the poles.
The poles were supposedly just tinder what it sells.
Really?
They're so old and dry and not soaked in whatever that chemical.
Yeah.
Creosote.
That stuff's shitty.
That stuff's nasty.
Oh, it is totally nasty.
So you know what?
It is it designed to keep it from rotting and drying out.
Right.
Correct.
Right.
There you go.
But the the telephone poles had had fallen over.
They were leaning.
They were leaning, leaning really far from what I understand, according to the radio.
Right.
And they were having wind gusts of up to 80 miles an hour.
Yeah.
Which is never a good thing.
Which not to the light.
It was a shit show, guys.
I don't I don't even think they know how the fire started.
But any time you have a dry situation where it's fueled by heavy winds, it's the worst
case scenario.
Yeah.
And when you don't manage your land properly because of the one-eyed newt may die, the
one-eyed newt.
Well, that's what they do.
They said, well, we can't we can't upset this this native.
Sure it is.
Salamander.
But we'll sacrifice how many people have died now.
There's still 300 people missing, I think.
No, they said over a thousand missing.
No, no, no, no, no.
Unaccounted for, which can mean anything.
Right.
People on vacation, they did this, they did that.
But they're saying one hundred and eleven hundred and one hundred and fifteen.
So could this fire have gotten hot enough to just make them disappear?
I don't know.
I would imagine so.
There's nothing left.
I I would imagine so.
They said that some of the bodies that they were, you know, finding in the search and
rescue, they went to kind of move them and they just crumbled.
Like Pompeii.
Yes.
That's what I mean.
Because these people, I think it is possible.
These people may never be found.
They've just been incinerated to nothing.
That's correct.
I think that's possible.
You know, there's a there's also stories where the brain fart.
There's a story where there were two cars in the middle of a field or a parking lot
or something and there's nothing around them within like one hundred foot.
And the cars were like, how did they catch fire?
Yeah.
Well, I mean, showering embers all over the place, right?
Yeah.
It was just a point that that brought up because the the houses around the cars, the trees
around the cars were green.
Nothing was damaged except for the cars.
How weird?
The grass didn't burn or anything.
Correct.
Yeah.
So the the cars totally burned, incinerated to nothing.
I don't know.
Yeah, they were just a horrible tragedy.
You know, we skipped.
Well, my point is, but there's a lot of weird unexplained shit going on.
Yeah, I just know.
You know, I kind of I kind of attribute that to, you know, when there's tornadoes and people
are like, oh, my God, the only thing left standing was at this end of that.
And how did it jump from one house to the other house?
I mean, granted, you can expect that in a tornado.
But in a wildfire, you have to expect the same thing where there's correct shifting
winds and and just just weirdness.
Right.
I mean, I think I know their conspiracy theories are abound.
Right.
I mean, they're oh, yeah, they're just coming up with everything.
And I'm saying we skipped our intro.
This is dudes like welcome to dudes like us.
Oh, oh, man.
Well, it's it's August 29th.
Yeah.
And we said it's a warm day and we got a thankful that our our podcast producer, Mr. Austin
over there just got a staples taken out.
And he's back back in action back back in action.
I'll do that because I'm Sean.
I'm Paul and I'm Jeff.
He has arm reattached trying to tell what it was.
Wow.
With a couple of staples, 10 staples.
Yeah.
Like actually nine.
The major part of his skull reattached the hospital charged for 10, but they only put
nine in.
That's kind of weird.
Yeah.
Because what you can't they might have put in 10 years can't find the other one.
Well, well, whatever.
We'll find it when he goes to the airport.
TSA.
That's funny.
Sir, sir.
God.
Yeah.
So anyway, getting back, there's there's this new group of scientists because in the past,
you've always heard what 99 percent of all the scientists agree that they called the
15 circles, you said?
Well, the scientists, the scientists, the scientists, the 1600 scientists, 1600 scientists
have all signed on.
Oh, 1600 scientists that said that they're they they think that everything is being over
dramatized, correct, exploited.
And they and they just think it's wrong.
Correct.
They said that 1600 scientists, which debunks the whole political narrative that all the
scientists everybody agrees agrees that climate change is we're all going to die in 10 years.
And throughout the years, you always see this, you know, just like Al Gore said, back in
the late 90s, the 12 years were going to be.
Yep.
I mean, I remember it was it was the earth is going to be around anymore or whatever.
The Arctic's not going to be have any ice on it.
Greta Thunberg said, man, six years ago, it's always something that in five years the earth
will be gone.
And, you know, these things keep coming and passing, but they keep passing these bills
that in anticipation of this is going to happen.
Well, that's the reason why is because people there are people are making money on this.
That's exactly what it is.
This is a money maker.
This has nothing to do with the reality.
It's for money.
It's about power.
Who's that?
Gore Al Gore and power.
I mean, Al Gore was the climate czar for a while.
Think about it.
Absolutely full of shit.
If everybody's on board, if they force everybody on board and they enable the EPA or Congress
or anybody to like come up with a climate emergency and they now have the power, they
now have the power to push ideology.
Look how look how much we just fell in line.
We're like sheep.
We're like lamb.
And then when the covid came along, we just all followed suit.
We all bought into this gibberish of covid issues and just absolutely nuts.
And then we turned on each other because some people were very mass and some tribal and
it did get very tribal dividing.
And apparently that's coming back.
They're talking about how there's going to be more lockdowns and now there's more
mass mandates at some schools and colleges and stuff.
I mean, really?
I mean, well, there's also they learned nothing.
They've learned nothing.
And I don't think there are people are going to fall for it.
The same people that fell for it last time.
They're not going to fall for it.
Just I mean, there's going to be a small percentage of people because they still subscribe to
that.
Oh, yeah.
They still wear masks.
And that's that's their product.
It is totally.
But I find it I don't know if it's humorous, but the N95 mask, there's all these studies
out now that are saying it's detrimental to your health.
It's toxic.
It gives you cancer and some other issue.
The irony because you're inhaling your carbon monoxide for too long.
The irony is just thick.
Yeah.
So it's and they want you to wear these things all day.
Kids to wear these things all day.
I know.
It's unbelievable.
And and it's goes against the and it's happening again.
So there was a total of one thousand six hundred and nine scientists and professionals from
around the world.
They signed the warrants, including three hundred and twenty one from the United States.
Yeah.
And one was a Nobel Nobel Prize winner.
And he in physics, there's two of them.
Yeah.
It's two.
The coalition pointed out that Earth's climate has varied as long as it has existed with
the planet experiencing severe cold war and warm phases.
The Little Ice Age only ended as early as 1850.
Therefore, it's no surprise that we're now experiencing a warming phase.
So have you ever seen how they show a clock of of the the the history of the earth?
Right.
If they handle they represent it as as a clock and they say, you know, this is what happened
in these dates, the playa scene.
And exactly.
And then they show.
Then they show when when humo, you know, homo sapiens showed up on earth and they show up.
And I don't know the exact numbers in the analogy, but we show up in at eleven eleven
fifty nine.
PM.
Fifty nine point one.
Within in eleven seconds.
Right.
That's when we show up.
Right.
In the history of Earth.
Right.
And when you look at all the change that has happened over the four plus billion years.
Right.
I mean, climate has always changed.
How do you how do you think?
I think I brought this up the other time.
How do you think there are seashells on the top of mountains?
You know, they're finding because crustaceans used to be the entire Mount Everest.
Well, yeah, yeah.
And one of the one of the things that they found is that their shells.
And so when a shell dies, it opens up.
They're finding shells that are fossilized closed.
Right.
Meaning which that was an ocean at one point.
Well, well, well, not just that, but it's that something happened down and and killed
Earth instantly.
Well, they're actually saying that Mount Mount St. Helen, Mount Mount Everest was used to
be on the seafloor.
Right.
And it shot up in the air.
Yeah, I mean, you know, I mean, when you look at how much change has happened in the Earth,
it's just crazy.
It I mean, it's ridiculous.
Well, it is for them to it's exciting to change it like this.
Well, it is.
And the studies and it's kind of frightening if these people get their way, because the
the studies of these scientists, what they're doing is they're studying CO2 level throughout
history because they can go down in the dirt.
Yeah.
And shit.
Yep.
And we're at two percent or three percent, I think, today of of carbon dioxide or monoxide
or whatever one of those.
And they said if it drops to two.
The plants it was more shallow than that was like if there's a point zero two difference.
Yeah.
You know, basically, there won't be there won't be enough for the plants to survive.
Well, that'll kill us in a hurry.
Yeah.
So we're trying to reduce that.
We're trying to reduce it.
We're like, whoa, whoa.
And we're like, yeah, we're like right on the edge of if you reduce it too far, our plants
aren't going to survive.
See.
And I subscribe to the notion that we're we're ignorant to think that we can even change that.
Of course.
I mean, we cannot make that much change to Mother Earth.
I mean, it's so immense.
It's so massive.
And it fixes itself.
Yes.
It's about the money and it's a free money and power.
It's a free source of money and wealth coming from us, the United States folks.
We're the one we pay for the entire fucking world.
Yeah.
Well, look what they're doing over there in the Netherlands, right, where they're shutting
down all the farms, killing all the cows.
Unbelievable.
And destroying the livelihood of of generations of farmers.
Yes.
Thousands of them.
Yeah.
And and and and hurting their own economy.
I don't get it.
It's well, I do.
I get it.
They're trying to kill all the cows out there.
You know why?
Because you have folks like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg that are well, Mark Zuckerberg
is unique because he's going out in the wilderness and vaccinating deer.
And it's interesting.
I saw the Joe Rogan show to go back to.
First of all, let me finish up with Bill Gates.
Bill Gates is he's developing his own farms with his own cows and chickens.
He wants to infuse the chickens so that when they produce their eggs, the vaccines already
in there, not just the covid vaccine, but anything that they want to put give to us.
And they want to have a delivery system set up within the cow meat as well.
Is that considered GMO?
Yes.
100 percent.
But what Mark Zuckerberg Berg is doing is ultra GMO.
And it's interesting because the folks that are hunters, avid hunters, they all know when
they go hunting in certain areas.
It's like published in like hunting magazines, what Mark Zuckerberg is doing.
And he is actually going out there and vaccinating the livestock, the wild game out there.
It's like they're giving special food so that they can take it.
And then they're like, well, you got to go in these certain regions.
There is a syllabus.
There is something in the magazine to tell them what region to avoid, because that's
the Mark Zuckerberg infected areas.
Oh, wow.
What's he vaccinating them with?
I don't know exactly.
I think it was something with covid.
I don't know.
You know, like a covid vaccine to the deer, the deer and the elk and the moose and the
we talked about this at one point.
It's like a caddis or a caddis.
So yeah.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's a it's a it is a program that's out there right now.
It's an acronym.
And yeah, I just saw something about Zuckerberg teaming up with Bill Gates.
And again, it's it's it's ideology as well.
Right.
So, OK, so if you think about it, dieticians, nutritionists, whatever, say that meat is
not the best diet.
And who says that?
We just watched a I think I was telling you guys about that.
I we just saw those people said that.
I'll find you 10 others who say the opposite.
Right.
No, you're absolutely right.
But I mean, so there is growing Zotis.
There's growing notion that a plant, not necessarily vegan, but a plant based diet, a majority
plant based diet is where you want to go as opposed to a meat majority.
And I say that's that's an agenda.
They've been trying for a long time to get people stop eating meat because of greenhouse
gases.
It's bad for the climate.
Right.
They're tied into their idea and into the ideology.
And there's a huge push by these elites to eat insects.
Right.
And I would argue that, again, we all know that moderation is is a real thing.
Right.
If you have a diet where it's, you know, it's massively dominated by meat, you should balance
it with, you know, vegetables and legumes and this and this and that.
Right.
I mean, it's always a balanced diet.
Right.
We've all heard that.
So I think I think they're just saying that I'm not going to become a vegetarian.
No, no, no.
But to be but to be balanced, we need to eat more plant based food.
These are the same people that we don't eat enough who presented the food pyramid to us.
Yeah.
Well, that food.
That's just another thing.
I mean, they keep changing the food pyramid.
You know, we have good bullshit on everything.
I call bullshit on all of it.
I don't know who to trust anymore.
I mean, to go back to the Mark Zuckerberg thing.
So there's a program called Zotis.
It's affiliated with Pfizer.
Oh, what a shocker.
Funded by Mark Zuckerberg.
They rounded up a hundred white tailed deer and injected them with Myrna.
So far, a hundred million wild animals have been injected.
Hundred million wild animals have been ejected.
And who else?
The people they're trying to kill us.
You know, this was unbelievable.
So when you go elk hunting, your elk could be, I mean, how are they?
It's not like they're capturing them and they're out in the wild and they're capturing them
and they're injecting them.
I mean, they've got to be.
What is their distribution method?
What is the delivery system of the?
Well, it could be the food that they eat or hell, man.
They could just shoot them.
Yeah.
Just a syringe.
Yep.
They just shoot them.
I don't I don't I don't buy it.
A hundred million animals.
No way.
Logistically, I don't see that even be impossible.
I am certain that it has something to do with the food that they're eating.
Yeah.
Well, how else would you do?
What what are their kind of delivery service or method?
Yeah, I think the food would have to be it because you couldn't.
I don't think you could.
Those teams would be enormous.
Enormous.
First, you have to capture that keep in mind.
And I'm doing this from the perspective that we go elk hunting every year and you never
see one and we never see one.
And so somehow the Facebook team can go out there and just round them up and inject them
all where they're allowed to at night.
Yeah.
OK, well, I guess that helps.
Right.
But you see what I'm saying?
I know.
This is this is bullshit is what I think that is.
I don't think I think that's more just get us all riled up to hate Zuckerberg and and
conspiracy theories stuff.
But who knows?
I mean, you know what?
We've been shocked by other things that we've thought were been ridiculous that are true.
So the thing about Mark Zuckerberg and the program that he bought called Zotis is that
it does exist.
Now there there are platforms out there that saying that's false, that I just kind of looked
at right now.
But there's like Jeff said, there's platforms that say it's true.
Oh, yeah.
But the fact is that he does own to believe he does own Zotis.
And it is funded by FISA.
And it is an agenda that he has.
And it's something going on over there.
So, you know, I mean, it's like where there's smoke, there's fire.
It's kind of hard.
I hate being a conspiracy theorist.
I feel like I'm fucking Alex Jones over here.
You know, it's just like.
But you know what?
The weird thing about Alex Jones is that outside of the New Jersey issues that he had, that
the shooting crisis that they had out there, you know, outside of that, everything he said
almost everything that he has said is true.
Yeah, I think it is.
I think his delivery needs to be better.
It was a little rash, but he's a little crazy.
The New Jersey shooters wasn't I mean, yeah, it was horrible that he said it.
But what he was getting at is that the CNN, these news affiliates have crisis actors that
will go out right and and play in the background, you know, drum it up.
Oh, and just make it something that's not.
Well, we're out here in the high winds and we got this floody water and got these people
kind of strolling.
Yeah, holding hands and walking.
What's going on?
They're walking normally behind the.
I think he was 100 percent incorrect on that one.
But some of his other stuff, I don't know.
I haven't listened too much of him.
Yeah, there was a gay frogs.
You talk about Alex Jones.
Yeah, I've never I don't even know what it looks like.
I've never seen him before.
He's kind of baldish.
He's he he's a.
Now, did you get kicked off his platform?
He did.
He's been deplatform in 2011.
He came out with the covid plan.
He already said this was going to happen in 2011.
He told you who was going to do it, meaning meaning an outbreak where CDC is going to
like take control or literally covid.
He he I don't think I don't know if he said covid, but he named all the players.
Right.
And what would happen?
Exactly.
And they already know.
I mean, there have been books written on, you know, that kind of stuff.
Like who was it?
One of the major like Clancy like wrote a novel where there's lots of books out there.
I like to take control.
And he's a genius.
He takes control.
I think he's got like some sort of photographic memory, too, because he can spout facts.
And even on the Joe Rogan show, Joe Rogan was like, dude, you're full of shit.
And he's like, look it up.
Look it up.
And sure enough, he looked it up and all the stats, the stats he was spouting were true.
Wow.
I don't want to jump on the whole Alex Jones bandwagon.
Who was the the what was the show that he had with Infowars and Infowars?
And then you have the one guy that worked for him with the beard.
Oh, yeah.
We all watched him.
Yeah, he he he had some really good stuff during the 2015 time frame.
And I think he's got a little more.
Well, he got booted off, too.
So he's got a little more extreme.
I mean, it's amazing, though, that that they just get booted off and then they go away.
I mean, it's ultimate censorship, right?
Who were the guys?
I mean, that was an immensely popular show.
We actually liked him.
Yeah, he was like I said, he's good.
He's I would see but from in a while.
I was his name.
He was a young guy.
I don't remember, but he had some really good interviews and videos during the like I said,
2015 is well bearded.
He wasn't at the time.
He is now.
He's very well bearded now.
And then was a mat, was it?
No.
Oh, OK.
No.
Yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, I I know it's easy to get wrapped up in conspiracy theories and all that kind of
stuff.
But man, it's hard to believe a lot of it because I mean, deep state is thick, man.
I mean, it's it's we don't know.
And they're they're running this campaign to stomp out Trump.
And I hate bringing that shit up.
But you know what?
The fact of the matter is it's true.
You know, regardless of what we think, everyone thinks everybody knows Trump is a narcissist
jackass.
However, everyone wants to see him in action.
Everyone wants him to be making decisions right now.
We just don't want him to do being a jackass.
Right.
I'll tell you what, which is inevitable.
I think I think this bug shot has backfired on the Democrats.
Yeah, fundraising on it.
Well, and they're also fun.
Everybody's fundraising on it.
Both sides are fundraising on it.
Right.
Which is funny.
But I think Trump will be more successful with it, though.
Oh, yeah.
I think you're right.
Well, I mean, and everybody knows it's a witch hunt, right?
They know it's a political rich hunt.
It is.
I mean, and then they're, you know, making the trial like be accelerated, like like legal
scholars were like saying, yeah, no trial has never been like this.
No one's ever done this type of accelerated trial before.
Right.
I mean, it's just bullshit.
The whole thing is bullshit.
So it's disgusting.
It's just it's what's next.
I mean, what's next?
And you know, the thing is that the bothers me is that even if Trump weren't in the picture,
they would be blowing up somebody else.
That's right.
And dragging them through the mud.
Well, they're starting to drag Vivek through the mud.
Yep.
They're starting to dig shit up from him.
Yeah, what makes you think they're not going to employ the exact same tactics against anybody
else they consider?
So it's just like, you know, all of them and Chris Christie's things that we shouldn't
hold on.
Let me eat this sandwich real quick.
All right.
You know what?
We shouldn't be.
We shouldn't mess with Trump just simply because he's going to be in the courts all the time.
And that's just it.
That's their plan.
Yep.
That's their plan.
The whole thing.
Oh, we should know.
You know what?
Maybe you should go after the Democrats and tell them to stop playing fucked up.
Yeah.
They're playing stupid political games.
I mean, it's just ridiculous.
You got all these putts Biden, Hillary, Obama, Hunter, Comey, all these guys doing horrible
illegal things.
Yep.
And there are no consequences because the Department of Justice.
It's just frustrating.
And then you get the other side of this guy.
Well, that's not true.
Right.
How can you possibly say that's not true?
And they say to you, how can you possibly believe that?
All you ever listen to is Fox News and they're lying to you.
Everybody's so entrenched, man.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
Fox News.
Well, Trump's not getting along with Fox News either.
That was probably not.
That was one of the reasons why he didn't want to go on the debate, which we had talked about.
Yeah.
I thought the debate was a shit show personally.
I didn't even finish it.
I thought they were talking over each other.
I watched the whole thing and they were being childish.
I thought.
Yeah.
I watched literally five minutes of it and it turned me off.
I turned it off.
It was a question of would you support Trump if he was the got convicted and was ended
up being the nomination.
Raise your hand.
And was running from prison.
Yeah.
And of course, Vivek, his arm went up quickly.
Yeah, he hurt himself.
I think.
I don't think so.
He trumped.
His arm shot up.
No, I know his arm shot up so fast that I think he pulled his.
But what gets got me is is like, oh, I just trumped.
I trumped.
Yeah.
And then DeSantis, it was so obvious he was looking.
All right.
What's everyone else?
Oh, it made it look so so bad.
It was not a good look for him.
No, but they say I mean, he bounced.
He bounced in a positive way.
He did.
But then so did Vivek.
And then it just devolved into a screaming match.
I know what the crowd, the candidates.
And I was like, yeah, I'm out.
I know.
I watched for, I don't know, maybe an hour.
But I mean, I thought it was a bad look for the Republican Party.
I mean, I wasn't impressed with anybody.
Yeah.
Part of that has to do with the moderators.
They needed to get a better handle on that.
Well, it's hard, though.
I mean, they're all talking over each other and they're and they're talking.
And then you stop it down.
You say, I want to turn your damn microphone off if you keep it up.
Yeah.
Well, then they turned around and admonished the crowd.
I know.
That's what I was like.
I was like, I'm done.
I know.
It just got it just got childish.
I'm done.
All right.
I'm going to make a little subject change here.
I am.
I was reading about how they have a come.
They've come up with a new way of administering the death penalty.
I saw this.
Yes.
What do you think about that?
OK, so sort of but loose.
No, today they do.
They do.
Right.
They have a cocktail of drugs.
So the pentothal and like and like aspirin.
Yes.
And the covid and what and what and what and what's interesting is what to vaccine to things.
People who were against the death penalty somehow made it to where it was very difficult
to get those drugs.
Did you heard about that?
Right.
There's other ways to kill people.
Yes.
But but just that the popular cocktail that had a very good success rate, because remember
some of these people survive, they survive the the the death penalty.
If you survived, you go, all right, you win.
You get life.
But yeah, I don't know what they try again later on.
I don't know what they do when somebody survives.
I mean, they are there are let them lay there and eventually die.
Well, here's the thing.
Oh, they.
So it's like they have.
Well, you're going to serve one hundred years.
But you you are when they have to say you're serving multiple lifetimes.
Right.
And, you know, so you've got that's bullshit.
I think there's still people have 600 years.
Yeah.
Well, part of that has to do with parole.
That's why they do that.
Right.
So if you do I'm doing life without the possibility of parole, that's one thing.
But if you don't have that, you're eligible for parole within a certain time.
So when you do consecutive life terms, that makes your parole out.
You're not going to reach it.
You're not going to reach.
That's why they do that.
You have to be one hundred and forty seven when you for your first parole.
Correct.
All right.
So anyway.
All right.
So there was a new there was a new thing they're going to do.
They're giving straight nitrogen.
Yes.
Straight nitrogen, which is abundant.
They said it will put them to sleep and kill them.
Well, and that's part of it.
They want to be humane about this.
So they they want the lowest chance possible of them not dying.
Right.
But they're not sure.
That's inhumane.
But they're not quite sure.
They've never done it.
So they think the person will just fall asleep within a minute and then they'll be dead within
a minute.
Yeah.
Then dead a minute after that.
So but they're not quite sure.
So the amount of nitrogen to fill that room would be up.
I'm sure it's a mask.
It's a mask.
And they're going to do it, by the way.
Nebraska.
No, no.
It was Alabama.
Is it Alabama?
Can you look?
Oh, Alabama to be the first state to execute prisoner using pure nitrogen, setting off
debate on death penalty methods.
So the interesting thing is there was some expert that they were interviewing and they
said, I mean, well, I mean, there's not that really many.
There's not that many ways to to administer the death penalty.
But the one that they said was the most humane was firing squad.
Yes.
I said, just shoot me.
That's the most humane.
Yeah, I agree.
I think it's a good idea, too, because stand there, blindfolded, boom.
Whatever they did to deserve to be killed, they put someone through torture and torment.
They deserve it right before they die.
You know, why don't they just put them to sleep with the same stuff they killed the
frogs in the chemistry class?
Like with chloroform and then was that what?
And then I already shoot them in the head.
You killed your frogs.
Glad you seen E.T. where they put it in a little container.
Yes, that I'm free.
And ball in there and they start drawing rabbit.
I don't remember that.
Oh, no, I remember that to you when I first came out in 1980.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, it's just like, yeah.
Yeah.
And then they were killing.
Yeah, they're killing them.
And then they dissect them.
That's part of the class.
Right.
Anyway, I just thought it was interesting that OK, so interesting that nitrogen is going
to be the new thing they're going to try.
That is interesting.
I wonder if nitrogen is readily available to write.
It's like it's a huge part of what we're breathing right now.
Right.
So I mean, does that mean that people are going to start utilizing nitrogen to start
killing people?
I mean, it's kind of an interesting notion.
Well, I mean, you have to you have to like hold them down and put a mask on them.
Well, what if you go to sleep and someone messes through your window and they kind of
slide a little tube in there and they I don't think it.
I don't think it works like that.
I don't know.
I thought what was interesting is that's a good I don't think I think because because
now they're like, well, this is an inhumane way to we don't know if it's inhumane or that.
And I think the people of the prison says we're like, well, we're going to have to rely
on the prisoner to tell us if it's inhumane or not.
That's the only way.
Right.
So if he dies peacefully.
All right.
It's seem like it worked if he has if he's flipping out and start seizing and puking
everywhere.
OK, that's inhumane.
Yeah.
So they're going to rely on the results of this.
They will tell if it's you.
So they like administer nitrogen.
They go.
How do you feel?
I feel fine.
How about now?
Yeah, no, I feel great.
I'm so hungry.
Yeah.
Can I have another last meal?
Can I have some lobsters?
Yeah.
Well, how about now?
No, I don't feel anything.
I mean, I think at that point, I thought that was a funny quote.
We'll have to rely on the prisoner to tell us.
Right.
Yeah, I'm sure you'll be able to tell.
Right.
If this guy starts flipping out and seizing and all kinds of crazy shit, you'll know, OK,
well, this is what's the best idea to do.
Right.
I wonder if he has a say in it.
I don't think he would.
You're going to be a guinea pig.
No, you know, you can pick your method.
Is that what you're asking?
That's like, did they come to him?
There is a guy that requested the firing squad.
That's what I would want.
Yeah.
And they shoot you in like the heel, just the kneecap, the heel and clip the hip and
maybe glance the shoulders.
Let's take all the joints.
Now they have like straight in the kneecap.
These hips, shoulders.
I reload.
I missed.
They have they have like five or six guys with rifles and only one of them has the kill
shot.
Really?
I did not know this because you don't want that.
Those people to be stuck with.
I just killed a human.
OK, hold on.
So you're saying there's eight or nine guys that you said?
No, well, there's usually five or six.
OK, five or six.
And they and you're saying five like five are shooting blanks and one has a real bullet.
Yeah.
Yeah, but one bullet may not kill them.
Did the middle of the head.
Well, they're probably like 20 years surprised.
I mean, you've heard people survive crazy shit.
You shoot someone in the middle of the head with a hollow point, half the brains flying
out the back.
OK, I get it.
You don't have to be graphic.
Yeah, it's just seriously.
So really.
So there's blanks and one guy has.
That's what I've always heard.
The real bullet.
And you confirm that for us, Mr. Producer.
Yeah, that's how does a firing squad work?
Yeah, like do they really have blanks?
Most of them.
I have never heard that.
I've heard that.
Whether it's true or not, I don't know.
But I've heard that as well.
Why not just rig up like 200 pounds of TNT on their body?
Just obliterate obliterate their body.
I think they should just send them down to a Titanic.
Oh, instant death.
Instant.
Just so it's like.
Yeah.
And they you know what they say?
That'd be humane.
They wouldn't feel.
And we'll we're going to get you let you see something you've never seen before.
Right.
So they use a pressurized can with a cork and they just pull the cork, which depressurizes
it.
Yeah.
Whenever they're ready, they just pull the string.
They're up at the surface and it's go boop.
God.
And it becomes fish food.
All right.
What have we got?
By country.
All right.
Well, I don't want it.
Sometimes one or more soldiers of the firing squad may be issued a rifle containing blanks.
So some of them.
Hold on.
But in such case, the soldiers of the firing squad are not told beforehand they're using
live ammunition.
This is believed to reinforce a sense of diffusion of responsibility.
Right.
I'm not the one that killed him.
So maybe it's OK.
There are seven people.
Two of you have blanks.
That way you could always go.
I had the blank.
I'm pretty sure I had the blank.
Yeah.
So you have five bullets going into him because I shot at his foot that his foot wasn't bleeding.
That makes more sense than one because that one where if it just kind of glances off his
skull and he leaves like a divot down his scalp.
Right.
All right.
So I guess that's you have to reload.
You know, you have to put the black powder on and you have to pack with the poles and
put the little hurry.
He's all in there.
He's in pain.
Hurry up and reload.
Get your bayonets down.
All right.
Well, so anyway, I thought this thing right here, this guy is talking about, he says,
contrary to the assertion that firing squads traditionally have only one rifle live load
and all the rest are blanks firing squads have all weapons one loaded with the live
round.
No one would risk that that the only shooter with a live round might miss or only wound
the condemned.
The purpose of an execution, whether with rifles or anything else, is to make sure someone
is dead very quickly and very certainly not to play games to see if one person out of
six would be able to hit a target if not to play the game again.
Let's hear one of the reasons the fire squad.
Let me see if I said, yeah, so who knows?
Well, look at this fire squad.
Should they get 20 guys up there?
And do they I mean, do they really I know this is also a dumb question, but whenever
I see I don't know if they were real real footage or movies, but you see them like take
shots to the to the body and they just kind of slump over.
Are they all getting shot in the head?
I mean, I know that would be the easiest way to kind of I'm sure to make sure they're dead.
I'm sure in a movie you don't want to see their face explode.
So they're trying to hide that graphic movie.
Well today you may do that.
But back in the day, they're trying to hide the violence.
Right.
So if you don't want to they weren't going to show them getting the bullet.
Right.
So we know for sure that that would be the I mean, that makes it's common sense.
Right.
That's getting shot, you know, in the ear.
What is it?
What is it that we're drinking?
Oh, segue.
Nice segue.
Because we're just talking about getting shooting people in a firing squad.
I was just looking I just pulled back on this.
I was like, God bless.
So our bourbon, right?
So our bourbon.
All right.
So what is it?
Let's talk about it.
Let's pull it up, Mr. Producer.
It is there you go.
It's the new riff single barrel.
And the bottle is interesting.
It's like half of half the bottles painted or something.
It's like a frosted black color.
You know, something up top.
So we got this a total wine, right?
Get this a total wine.
It's a single barrel and it's new release to the area.
I know when I was in Missouri, this was all over the place up there.
And it's Kentucky.
And it's due to get due to the Dallas Fort Worth area.
At least it was when we bought this.
And it's from Kentucky.
I don't know what distillery distillery, what's distillery on this new new rift distillery
distilling how novel.
Yeah.
This is the single barrel.
They have the stranded bourbon as well.
But the fellows at Total Wine says get this one instead.
And we did.
I think it's it's a winner.
And I'm glad we did.
This is so the nose is incredible.
I mean, I mean, it's rare that, you know, I get excited about drinking it because the
nose is so good.
Right.
I mean, because they're all the nose is all fairly similar.
This one's got something very unique about the nose.
I'm not sure what it is.
Yeah.
There's something in there.
Julie tasted it.
She said she smelled a lot of vanilla.
I don't know if I picked it up or not.
So the nose is great.
The the finish is fantastic.
I can see the smell of butterscotch and vanilla.
Yeah, I can taste it.
I could definitely taste it.
See if we can find some tasty notes.
And what was it?
What was the proof of it again?
One one.
Well, so the tasting notes are like it's a broad, fulsome, mouthful, leading to a sweeter
vanilla accent before gathering of rye spices like cloves, cinnamon, mint, dark berry and
right into the finish.
Golly, it's really good.
I could pick up the mint.
Oh, there's the smell.
Hold on.
Go back up.
The nose.
They call it the smell.
No, yeah, the most.
No.
All right.
Thirty percent rye in the mash bill makes itself immediately known.
OK.
Honey, caramel, freshly opened tangerine, dried citrus peel.
Really?
A little vanilla, a ton of herbal dill, fennel and thyme with thyme.
Kind of dill.
With a little less licorice.
Liquorice.
I don't know about all that, but you don't taste the dill.
This is 30 percent rye.
Yes.
Well, and it's 51 percent rye, rye whiskey.
I don't know what that means.
You wouldn't be wrong to think that.
Oh, OK.
You wouldn't be wrong to think that it was a 51 percent rye, rye whiskey, but it's 30
percent.
The nose says it's a spicy.
It's spicy in detail, showing mint, black pepper and vanilla with hints of orange and
oak.
Oh, so that's somebody else's take.
Well, this is from the Riff bottle and bottle.
I'm sorry.
The Riff rye.
What is this?
Is this bottle and bond?
No, this is a single barrel.
All right.
So get these flavors.
It becomes more uniquely ryey.
It leaves with sweet honey, dark citrus and dried apple, but the rye influenced fennel,
thyme, rosemary, dill, bubble gum, ripe pineapple, roasted oak and half baked whole grain bread.
Shut up.
What the hell?
I get so tired of this.
OK, hold on.
Go down to taste and aftertaste.
I smell two thirds baked.
Yeah, that's so dumb.
I think whoever wrote this is two thirds baked.
Yeah, and I don't even want to read this, to be honest.
Well, I will tell you, ultimately, the new Riff is good.
I'm enjoying it.
It's got a fan.
What is the proof on this bad boy?
Yeah, I was trying to get that.
Each single barrel is going to be different.
So I don't know.
He's going to have to look at the bottle.
119, maybe 112.
112.
112.9.
We've got to get our.
I would really love to hear our producer talk in the microphone once in a blue moon.
Wouldn't it be nice?
Maybe all those staples.
All those staples affect.
People are like they don't have a producer.
They're full of shit.
They're going to act like they have someone back there.
There's no one.
I make our listener, make our listener believe you that you are real.
No, our viewership is way up.
Wow.
I know because we're we're awesome and we're sharing incredibly important information every
Tuesday night.
We should be making money at this point.
Yeah.
Well, hey, we got to start at least two dollars.
We got to start crowdfunding.
Maybe.
All right.
I don't know.
Anyway, I would give this an eight, gentlemen.
I don't give a lot of eight.
I think it's about a seven for me.
I think it's about a seven and seven and four and fifteen, 16th, seven point four.
Not quite seven.
I'm going eight.
I really enjoy it.
What's the proof on this?
One twelve.
Mr. Produce is just a part of our imagination is what he's saying.
You're a jackass.
Yes.
Plus, the producers going to have to talk about his experience in Alabama and him following
passing out and not face planting, but back of the head planting and cracked a skull wide
open.
Yeah.
It's a brain leakage.
That's a brain leakage.
Whatever.
It was kind of a scare.
Why don't you tell us the story briefly, Mr. Producer?
The story of.
Get in the mic there.
Yeah.
My bad.
Can y'all hear me?
Yeah, we can hear you.
That's fine.
So give us the real story.
How did you fall down and crack your head open?
Walk us through the day.
Because the days prior you went fishing, hanging out at the beach.
Yeah.
Wednesday.
Did you catch any shark?
In the beginning of the week, we didn't really do much.
And then Wednesday we went DC fishing and we went far out.
I'm talking we were going about 60 miles.
You puke?
45 minutes.
That's exciting.
Did you get far out there?
You didn't get sick, huh?
I was dizzy.
I was nauseous all the time, but I was.
Really?
I was conscious enough.
That would be what I would be afraid of if I went out there.
I was conscious enough to go fishing.
I caught a big red snapper, but I didn't catch the biggest one.
Oh nice.
The ginger.
What you wanted was a massive bluefin tuna.
And then you would have made like $5,000.
What are you guys laughing about?
What did I miss?
The red tuna?
The red snapper?
Jeff called her, oh a ginger.
Alright, so you came back and you spent the day in the condo, the cabin or whatever the
house was in.
Sorry, I'm just making it up.
I'm just tired, and then the next day we were out in the sun shopping, going to souvenir
shops to see what we could find.
And then the following day I was doing nothing.
I just laid in bed pretty much all day.
I'm on vacation.
And it hadn't occurred to me that I didn't drink water.
Yeah that's important.
Basically throughout that week.
Especially when you've been out offshore and running around in the sun.
Well I drank water that day, I just didn't drink enough.
Yeah it evaporates off your body quickly.
Towards the end of the day I had eaten food without much beverage, which was stupid.
And going downstairs, because this is a beach on the house, it's about suspended five yards
above the ground.
Beach on the house.
So they covered the house with a bunch of sand.
Would they bury it?
That's beach under the house.
I think you meant a Jones house on the beach.
House on the beach.
Yeah.
We're just giving you a hard time.
Don't worry, don't worry.
Keep going.
He's a concussion, come on.
Yeah, yeah.
I hit my head.
He's talking in rhymes.
Come on Yoda.
We can hear that chair from over here.
Crack opened my head, I did.
And basically walking down those stairs I get to the car.
Car's already open for me.
I just have to walk in.
And then I suddenly get really light headed.
And I rest my arm and kind of my body on one of the little posts suspending the house.
And I look down and I get really light headed and nauseous.
Really light headed and nauseous.
And I just remember thinking, okay, let's get in the car.
And then I woke up.
Someone yelling at you, Austin, Austin.
And I was like, well, yeah, I woke up, the way I woke up was my friend's aunt was yelling
my name, yelling my name over and over again.
Multiple people on top of him.
Because she just witnessed me faint, fall backwards, hit my back on the floor, and then
my head whipped back on the concrete and bounced.
Not good.
And then my body-
You're lucky it wasn't more serious than it was.
And then my body started twitching and my eyes were rolled back in my head.
And I was out for about 10 seconds.
And then I woke up because I was passed out, but I swear I heard my name, someone call
my name.
And I woke up from that.
And then I was like, I woke up to my, I was on the floor.
I was on, this is a driveway.
It's concrete.
Yeah, this is a concrete driveway.
And I wake up and my friend is holding my head because it is open.
My skull didn't crack just because my dad said I split my skull open.
No, I didn't.
Your skin split open.
My skin split.
The scalp split open.
And I will say it was a big split.
Which bleeds a lot.
And heads bleed a lot.
I will say it was a giant split, but it wasn't my skull lucky.
I got lucky that I didn't get my skull-
That you didn't crack your skull.
Cracked my skull.
I got lucky that frankly the only brain damage I got was I just got a concussion, which is-
That we know of.
Okay.
And you have to wait 30 years before you know the real impact.
Then all of a sudden he'll start speaking in tongues.
Right.
But I was very concussed.
He'll be like, damn it, it's when I hit my head 35 years ago.
Oh, shit.
Well, so we ended up falling backwards and cracked his head open.
Yep.
And we ended up going to the emergency room.
Hospital.
Yeah.
Yep.
Then I refused an ambulance.
You refused it.
That was the first time I've done that.
That's a good idea.
I told this little short skinny cop girl that I did not want an ambulance.
Yeah.
Well-
Well, I mean, who cares as long as they got you into a car and drove you to the emergency
room?
I can understand that.
When you have your own ability to get to the emergency room and your life is not in immediate
danger, you don't need to ride in an ambulance.
Well-
I mean, I do believe it.
I blame... You know, one of our kids, we went on vacation and one of them got sick
and we called an ambulance.
And I remember, Austin overheard, we were complaining that the ambulance was like $5,500-
Oh, yeah.
To drive one mile up the street.
Right.
Well.
One fricking mile.
Yes.
And so I'm sure that was what was going on in the back of his head.
Okay.
Well-
Even though it was-
I mean, yes and no, but really, after I... My other friend had grabbed bottles of water
and I was just downing it while basically phased on the ground.
Not much mind thought going on there.
And about two and a half bottles in, I have a deep sigh, like a yawn.
I go... And then I exhale.
I'm back, right?
And I was like, holy shit.
Where am I?
You know?
I had one of those moments where I'm like, okay, I'm good.
So how much time did it take?
So you hit the ground, you're up, police talking to you, they took you to the... From that
point-
From how long did it take me to not be dazed?
Well, no, throughout the night.
Did that take up basically five hours of your day?
It took up...
The whole-
Okay, we left-
I bet it took more than that.
Okay, we were leaving around 430.
Hospital suck.
Yeah.
And we came back at seven.
Well, I'm sorry to hear you.
When did you leave?
We left at 430 and came back at like seven.
Oh, okay.
So that's-
Two and a half hours.
That's pretty fast.
Yeah, it was pretty fast.
I mean, it was pretty good because it's a public beach.
We're going to the wrong hospital.
No shit.
And the cop took like less than five minutes to get there.
She was there instantly.
Maybe we have the wrong injury.
And then-
Maybe.
Yeah, but he's white.
Fire... Yeah, exactly.
It is Orange Beach though.
I wasn't entirely white.
I was pretty tan on that beach.
Wow.
Yeah.
So they shaved your whole body.
They did.
I thought that was a little weird because I hit my head.
I was like, that's not my body.
That's standard procedure.
The cop just said, no, sir, it's necessary.
And they circumcised you.
I was like, uh... Again?
Again.
He already took off.
He's got a little bit left hanging on there.
Let me get it.
Yeah, then they inverted your penis.
And then removed your left testicle.
Geez.
Sorry, sorry.
You got staples.
They sorted on you, but you got 10 staples.
I got 10 staples.
Yeah, that's a lot.
I've never got staples before.
I haven't heard much people getting staples, so at the time I didn't really know how much
was a lot.
It's a lot.
So young man, what did you learn from this experience?
I learned that... To hydrate.
Yes.
It really hurts when you hit your head really hard.
Yes.
Yeah.
Well... The hydrate, hydrate.
Well, also, you got to hydrate, so prepare for that.
I learned that brushing your teeth is important.
That's the lesson we all need to learn, man.
And staying slur is good as well.
Yeah.
And the other thing is that when you start, you have now got those feelings before it happens,
you can kind of anticipate that.
A lot of times, I can get up really quick and get lightheaded.
And instead of just walking around, I'm like, whoa, whoa, take a chill pill.
Don't walk anywhere.
Because I know very well I could pass out.
I've never passed out before, but from that, but I'm just saying...
From that.
Yeah.
From that.
I had some sort of seizure, had a couple times, called a... I think it was called vasovagal.
I don't even know what that means, but that stuck in my head.
It means New World Order.
That's not... That's on the $5 bill.
It's under the pyramid.
Yeah.
Yeah, we talked about that too.
Did we talk about that on podcast or was that...
No, we didn't.
That was at Living Spaces.
Living Spaces.
Do they have a little theme song up with Living Spaces?
Well, we probably should.
Yeah.
That's our sad hangout.
Yes, it is.
Have we ever said that on the podcast?
I don't know.
Well, shout out to Sean.
What makes Living Spaces so better than Ikea or...
Well, do they serve beer in Ikea?
They have a bar.
Yeah, $2.00.
Too lot of beer.
Yeah, $2.00 pint of draft beer.
We'd like two pizzas and three orders of pretzels and three beers.
That'll be $12.00.
Okay.
That's the pinnacle, that's the climax of our Friday afternoon, right?
We hit a couple alcohol stores looking for unicorns.
We've said that before.
I know we have.
He knows it's funny.
Then we end up at Living Spaces because, first of all, we love furniture as much as we love
bourbon.
What's bad is the guys up front know us now.
Yeah.
You know how when you walk into a furniture store or car dealership or anything and they
just like in the movie Toy Story, they're like, ah.
They all start converging on you.
They go, oh my God, this guy.
They're just like, have fun.
They don't even look up from their clipboards.
They see us walking in through the parking lot and they continue every conversation.
You can always tell the new person because they always try to...
They engage us.
Yeah, they try to engage the long timers who know us.
It's like, hey, have fun.
Yeah, have fun.
It's so sad.
They're so sad.They're aware that y'all just leech off of them.
100%.
Yeah.
I mean, that's why they want us there.
They want us to... They lure us with the cheap beer and cheap pizzas and cheap...
The last time we were up there, I ordered the food and Sean, of course, behind the bar,
he knows us.
Hey, where you been at?
I've seen you.
Just giving him shit.
And he starts to say something snarky and I was like, that's it.
No tip for you.
Because at Living Spaces, they don't give you the ability to tip.
You can't tip.
Yeah.
Anyway, so we'll make sure...
He's a good kid.
Yeah, but we can't wait for Sean to join us on the podcast, maybe one of these times.
Yeah, he's too busy playing video games.
Is he?
Is he playing video games?
Oh yeah.
He wants to open up his own bar or what is it now?
What?
His laundromat.
He's working on a laundromat?
No, he wants to open up his own laundromat.
Oh, that's what it was.
That's not a bad idea.
Well, laundromats, they can yield a lot of profit if you're in the right spot and you've
got the... The laundromats have really become sophisticated lately.
I mean, think about it.
There's a million laundromats... Well, not maybe not a lot of laundromats, but there's
a million of nail places, a million of dry cleaners.
Do dry cleaners get as much business now that everyone... Not everyone, but they're not
as... You don't see suits anymore.
You're wearing khakis and a polo.
I think people...
People still take it, but...
Nobody likes to iron, right?
So, I mean, they're lazy.
Well, no, but how much of that business has gone away?
I think you're right.
I think some of it has... Well, here's the other thing.
Some people that can't afford it will take their golf shirts there.
Yeah, because you can just launder shit there.
Because what happens is that if I take my golf shirts and throw them in the regular
laundry, well, it damages them over a period of time.
If you take it to the laundromat, it preserves them a little bit longer.
Maybe it's just the way I wash my clothes or...
It's the chemicals, because laundromats use a lot of nasty chemicals.
No, I'm saying it lasts longer taking it to the dry cleaners.
Well, I know.
I wonder if that's part of the chemicals that they use.
I don't know.
But my uncle owned a laundromat for years.
And it was nasty chemicals.
Did you ever work there?
No.
No, I never did.
He did for years.
Did you ever jump in a bag and put yourself on the little machine and go up and down the
hangers?
I never went to his laundromat.
You ever see that?
You know the hangers?
You put one on there and it goes around this whole big roller coaster ride.
Kind of like the movie Mikey and the Monsters, Inc.
Remember that?
Correct.
But they were doors.
With the doors.
Yeah, with the doors and flying around and shit.
Yeah, I'd never been to his laundromat, but he sold it.
He ended up selling it and opened up a bar called Fritz's.
And so how did he do with that?
How did he do with the bar?
He did great.
Well, he was old enough, right?
So he sold it, opened up a bar, and his sons ran it.
I think it would be fun to own a bar slash restaurant.
And it was great.
It was like the old fashioned just bar.
I mean, do they do well?
I mean, I don't get it.
What, bars or laundromats?
Bars.
Well, bars can do well.
I mean, I'm talking about the corner bars, like what you're talking about.
Like a small bar.
Are you going to get rich doing that?
Probably not.
Well, here's the thing between a lot of the setbacks for bars.
There's a couple.
One of is location, obviously.
Getting the business is one, regardless.
I'm going to throw location into that.
But another part of that is once you get there, are you going to own the land?
Are you going to buy the building?
Usually you rent it, right?
Yes.
So when you rent it, it is such a kick in the nuts.
Yeah.
It is so fricking expensive.
Well, like in Frisco, try buying land to open a bar.
Yeah, that's why you wouldn't open in Frisco.
That's right.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, but if you have deep enough pockets, then I would recommend you buy the
land.
If you want a bar to be successful, obviously, besides all the normal shit that you got to
do, just to own the bar, manage the bar, design the bar, create concepts, you got to own the
land.
You got to own the building.
Because if you don't do that, fuck it.
That's a bill that never goes away.
Yeah.
So I would buy a bigger building, use like two thirds of it, and then rent the other
third out.
Right.
So you have residual income.
You got some money coming back to you and whatever.
You know what's amazing to me, though?
I think that the biggest thing about bars and maybe even restaurants, but really more
bars, right?
People want to belong somewhere.
Right.
And the idea is to...
You want to go where everybody knows.
You know what?
You joke.
But you know how many bars we've gone to where their customer service just sucks?
Yeah.
I mean, the bartenders and the waitresses and there's no...
I mean, they don't give a shit.
Yeah.
Even like going to the Rebel.
It's amazing to me.
It would be so easy.
The hostess in the front, it's kind of cool when we go to the Rebel.
The hostess in the front, she knows us.
Right.
We walk in and say, hey, how you doing?
Hey, hey, hey.
They recognize you because you're ugly.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, not only is it so important, it's so easy.
It's so easy to make people feel like...
They're welcome.
That you're happy that they're there.
Yeah.
Well, you got to be grounded with yourself too.
You know, a little bit.
I mean, customer service, you got to pay attention.
That makes the difference.
That kind of stuff will make or break you.
I mean, just imagine...
Know all their names.
I mean, let's imagine we owned a bar, right?
I mean, one of us owned a bar and you walked around, I mean, you were there, right?
And you walked around and you're like, hey man, I'm blah, the owner, blah, blah, blah.
What's your name?
Where are you from?
You know, that will make them come back for life.
Well, plus when you walk into a bar and they're like, Jack and Coke?
And you're like, yes, I'll have a Jack and Coke.
Yes.
That is huge.
And guess what?
The Jack and Coke is only $5.50.
That's even better than a 12 bucks.
Yeah.
That'll be $17.50.
You can literally corner the market.
Everybody's so fucking greedy in this town.
Well, it costs...
With their drinks and their food.
Well, that's because it costs a lot to own a business.
I get it.
But I mean, damn.
Yeah, but there comes a point where you're kind of like, dude, come on.
I mean...
Especially when you're at these bourbon places and you're like, I know that bottle costs
you 20 bucks.
Right.
And you're charging me 10 bucks for a shot.
I mean, even if they went to Total Wine and bought the bottle there, which they're not.
Well, liquor yields the biggest profit.
That's why these companies that open up and just do beer and wine, they're not going to
do as well.
It's like you almost want to go out and spend...
Even TABC and the liquor license is off the fucking charts.
How much that cost?
I don't recall exactly how much it cost, but I remember we were going over for a filter
downtown McKinney, the coffee shop.
We were going over when we got the license.
It was like...
I want to say is like...
I don't even remember.
$3,500 or something like that.
Per year?
Per year.
Yeah.
It was expensive.
And I'm saying...
Seriously...
I think that's what I'm not appreciating.
There's probably so much cost that goes into why they charge so much for their drinks.
Exactly.
Because you have to pay so much money out.
And it's unfair.
I think they're greedy.
I mean, why...
The government?
Why did you have to pay that much for a liquor license?
Oh, because anyone could do it.
We want to make sure people are responsible.
You know what?
You make sure people are responsible by going to the alcohol beverage commission and getting
your license and keeping your continuing education up.
That's how you're responsible.
Don't sit there and charge bars and restaurants so much money just so they could sell the
product.
It's just criminal in my mind.
Well, if you think about it, that's...
Because that was just beer and wine for years, right?
Let's say it was 3,500 bucks, 3,600.
That's 300 bucks a month that you have to account for in revenue.
Before you even break even.
Correct.
Liquor, I imagine, adds on to that, right?
Oh, yeah.
But here's the difference.
Liquor is more expensive.
However, liquor yields the highest profit.
Correct.
Yeah, the margin.
Like, incredible.
You know, you got about 35 shots in a bottle.
I think so, right?
Is that right?
35 shots?
I think there's between 30 and 38 shots.
I want to say 38 shots in there, but whatever.
750 milliliters equals how many ounces?
Yeah, whatever.
18, in fact.
Right around there.
But the point is that it yields a lot.
So if you buy a bottle for 20 bucks, you sell a shot for five bucks and there's 30 in there,
god, that is a huge profit margin.
Yeah, but they're charging like eight to $12.
I know, but we're talking...
I mean, it's ridiculous.
And they're buying it from wholesalers, so they're paying retail for this stuff.
You don't get a very big break.
I'm not thinking a break, but I'm thinking of these allocated ones that you see in these.
They're not paying aftermarket prices for that stuff.
They're getting the McKenna tenure for 40 bucks, which you should pay for it.
Right, right, right.
They're not paying 154 like we'd have to on the aftermarket.
You know what the other racket is with bars and restaurants?
Is their POS system, the point of sales system.
Right.
Okay, so anyone can have a regular computer.
But a point of sale program, computers, all the shit lined up that swipe your credit card,
they put in the order and stuff, that stuff costs a lot of money because you just don't
buy it.
There's a service associated with that.
So now, every time you swipe your credit card, there are fees that are applicable to it.
Correct.
So they charge you to use the computers, there's that fee, and then there's a charge for every
swipe you do.
Yep, we did.
We had that with our store.
It's just, you know, there's so much competition in that field, I would think that you can
find somebody that it doesn't charge that much.
Credit card companies, if you want to take credit card, that's why you see at these gas
stations cash, gases, 3.80 a gallon.
Otherwise, it's this.
You can't control what the credit card, I mean, what, 5%.
Well, it's also the transmission service.
It's all of it.
They're all, they would dime you to shit to hell.
So there's just a lot of exorbitant fees in there.
I think that is a pretty bad one too, that POS systems, there's Squirrel, there's, oh
God, I got a brain fart, Square.
I can't even remember what we used at the store.
There are so many, but they're all expensive as hell.
I mean, they're so expensive.
It's just like, why can't they just come up with a simple one that you just buy?
Just buy it.
You know, I mean, it's an easy thing.
It's basically a tablet.
You slap a little thing on there to swipe the card or you have some umbilical with the
USB thing for you to take your card.
It scans the little fob feature on the credit cards, but it's the whole service.
It's just, it's a beat down.
Then you have to buy QuickBooks or something similar, then you have to pay for an accountant
unless you want to run your own QuickBooks, right?
Well, I mean, you gotta deal with all your bartenders drinking all your liquor.
And insurance, insurance is ridiculous.
I don't want to open a bar anymore.
Yeah, forget it.
I thought it was a bucket list, but I'd scratch that off.
I was surprised when we own our business, the cost of just opening the door.
Right?
Yeah.
Hiring people and shit like that.
Now, if you've got deep enough pockets and you can afford, uh, cause you're going to
need to be-
It'll probably take a loss first couple of years, right?
Uh, yeah.
So what they say is that whatever it is in four years is what it is.
Is kind of the-
Is what it's going to be forever.
Kind of.
It's kind of like that.
That's, that's the grind.
Interesting.
You know, so after a year, you know, you should be, you should be figuring things out and
you should be pretty comfortable where you're at.
There's still room to grow.
I remember I'm putting this in at, in at filtered, for example.
I mean, we, uh, we, well, ours was kind of a rocky road, but, uh, we started closing
that margin up pretty, pretty quick.
We were like 30,000, um, minus 30,000, 20,000, 15,000.
So every month, you know, with all the revenue we were making, uh, yeah, we had a big lump
sum of money and it was just slowly but surely decreasing, decreasing and decreasing.
And the very last month where we had to give it away, uh, before we got, you know, we gave
it away and I think we were at that point, we were like 2,500.
It was really, really close, but you know, collectively it was tapped, you know, and
frankly, as much as a kick in the nuts, it was to hand something that you-
Yeah.
Point your heart and soul into.
Yeah.
And, you know, you give it to somebody and we, we let it go and we, we dropped it for
a whole year and we all moved on.
And then all of a sudden we found out that that guy that we gave it to, uh, because we
had that non-transferable lease agreement, we were still responsible for paying the rent
on there, even though we transferred it.
Cause some guy came in and says, Hey, look, I'll buy you guys off and we'll pay for everything
that you all got up.
Oh, well he paid for like the first two or three months.
And then after that he couldn't pay anymore.
So they called us up and they were like, Hey, this guy over here hasn't paid us in six months.
Wow.
And so we're like, Oh shit.
So you know, I get a phone call and so I was like, all right.
And so I get on the horn.
I start calling a bunch of people to get some, some employees back there.
And sure enough, man, we went back to filter downtown McKinney coffee shop, uh, with the
sound recording studio with live music and visual artwork up on the walls and awesome
up to date.
That's plug.
Oh yeah.
So we, um, we, as soon as we came back, we were in the green.
All right.
Cause we were, we were at a skeleton crew and we basically brought in all our, some core
people that worked for us that were solid.
So you resurrected the place.
The place came back to life and in my sister-in-law, uh, kind of assumed control of it, uh, before
she was the, the primary owner, but she took a back seat, right.
Um, which is, you know, argumentative, but I mean, I wouldn't have done it that way,
but you know, it is what it is and you can't go back in time and fix that now, but now
she is.
And now we're kind of wanting her to back off a little bit more so she can live her
life and be a little bit happier.
I think it stresses her out too much.
Right.
Oh, it's being a, well, you were alluding to that.
Like when you own your own business, your, your heart and soul is poured into it, right?
It is because you can't, you can't afford to, unless you've got multiple stores and
money coming in, you can't afford to hire a general manager.
You can't have fired a, you know, hire a manager and all the staff to do it for you.
No, no.
Yeah.
Julie ran the store, managed it.
That was her full-time job and she didn't pay herself for over a year, which she didn't
get a summary, right?
She dumped it right back in.
So, you know, we almost had to move out of this place.
Yeah.
And, uh, luckily it worked out, you know, we had four or five employees, um, that worked
for us and it just got to the point where like what Sean went through, you know, you
have this bucket of money.
You're hammering.
And we got to the bottom of it.
We're like, all right, we tapped my retirement.
We tapped your retirement.
We're going to have to go get a loan at this point if you want to keep this thing going.
Right.
And we're like, no, we're done.
We don't want to dig ourselves a deeper hole than we're already.
Cut your losses or stick it out.
Correct.
So we, we made the decision or that it's time, right?
Painful.
So painful.
And it still is to this day, you know, cause it's a blast being your own, uh, boss, own
boss.
Like I'd work at JC Penney and I'd come over there and, uh, I'd work from like five to
eight.
Right.
My wife would be happy to, I'd go in there and I was like, no one's telling me what to
do.
That's right.
Right.
Customer came in and pissed me off.
There's a sense of pride and what is to have your own own store.
It is, you know, and I could sit in there and this is mine.
Right.
And it is, it's very prideful and it was a really good feeling, especially being over
corporate being jerked around over there.
And then you're, you come into your own place and it's, uh, it is, it's liberating.
So a customer comes in, you come out from the back room with no shirt on helicopter
in it.
Yeah.
Part of the problem while we didn't make it.
Oh, really?
She was like, no, Jeff, stop it.
Come back here.
I gotta make that special wax sauce.
Right.
I can't be nude in front of the customers.
Right.
Again.
I've been watching the video.
It doesn't look good.
Video.
You had no cameras and video.
It's time.
No wifi.
This was in 2000 before cell phones.
Uh, no, it was 2005 ish six ish.
So the technology was at a hundred percent there yet.
Oh, that's yeah.
That's early.
I want to hang out with you a whole lot back then, you know, back then was like, uh, I
think the most I knew you as I came over because you had a pipe burst one to, uh, Preston and
the boys fucking spray painted the side of your house.
It's still there.
Oh, nice.
It's still Jeff's like, yeah, your boy always said that's the way you meet.
You're a hoodlum kid.
Yeah.
You're a piece of shit.
I think I phrased it as our boys just spray painted the side of my house.
Any idea on how we get it off?
So yeah, power wash.
And you said it's still there.
Still on there.
You did nothing.
Well, I think you gave me some kind of graffiti remover and I tried it to do shit.
Did you let it sit there?
Yeah.
Just read it, did it, and it's, it didn't work.
And I was like, fuck it.
You shake the can good enough.
Yeah.
This is well before I met you.
Did you do the 50,000 applications like it suggested?
Wow.
Did you say that on the camera?
It just eats away the brick.
50,000.
It just eats away the brick.
It's a whole.
You're like staring into your kitchen.
Yeah.
Sorry, honey.
Yeah, but what's with the boys?
They're so, they're such idiots, man.
They're fucking idiots.
I know.
It's like, well, I asked him, I was like, well, what's good for your brain?
You thought you could paint the house?
Right?
Dude, we could go through a million stories of idiocracy from our kids.
Oh, yes.
Yes.
I don't want to know yet.
Yeah.
Even, even Austin, everyone's living life's life lessons.
Austin learned his life lesson.
Hey, but the bit, the bourbon was fantastic.
The single barrel new riff.
I never heard what the proof was.
112.
So this is solid.
Solid.
A 7.4.
Jeff got it a seven and you gave it an eight.
I gave it an eight.
So we're going with an eight.
Well, eight's getting up there with the 1845 and all the Elijah Craig's that we really
like.
I don't know if you guys noticed, but I'm wearing my 1845 shirt.
I know.
I see that.
It's a sharp shirt.
Yeah.
I've kind of taken the bottom up a little bit, pulled it up over my belly button, made
a little knot.
Yeah.
It's just a knot.
It's an attractive hook.
So you're showing your little abdomen there.
Another reason why we don't do video.
Your belly button.
Pull my shirt down so my cleavage shows out a little bit.
You're like those Mavericks dancers.
I think it's a Daisy Dukes.
Those male Mavericks dancers that have their.
Sean and Daisy Dukes.
My 1845 bourbon shirt.
And a halter top.
No one even hear that.
All right.
Well, today was a good day.
I mean, the temperature was hot, but palatable.
Absolutely.
I went on a motorcycle ride this morning.
For about 90 minutes.
So it's the end of August.
It's the very, very tail end of August.
September's about to start.
That's what will be.
October's going to start.
Guys, Labor Day is this weekend.
Halloween's going to kick in and you're not invited.
You are permanently off the fucking list.
All right.
I'm going to go with the one that blew up on me last year.
August 29th.
Do I know the story behind that?
No, you were Galavante this year.
All right.
Well, let's check that next podcast.
I was looking forward to Halloween and I had all these.
I don't even remember what happened.
Things set up, the speaker, everything was ready to rock and roll.
And no show.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know what happened.
I don't even remember.
No showed?
Yeah, he no showed.
Well, I own it.
At least you were invited.
This is true.
I'm still, I'm still sour.
Yeah, he's old.
I don't even remember what happened, but I own that.
All right.
Thanks.
Thanks, Mr. Producer.
It's the first half.
It's August 29th.
Dudes, I guess I'm Sean.
I am Paul.
Thanks for watching.