It's 2024, dudes like us.
I am Sean.
I'm Paul.
I am Jeff.
And I am Larry the guest back again.
Thanks, fellas.
Thank you for having me.
Smoke them if you got them.
All right, man.
Lots and lots and lots of fun.
We've got some cool, cool stuff lined up.
First of all, we're super excited that the podcast is moved through 2024.
This will be year five.
I should say season five.
That's amazing.
Yes.
It doesn't seem like it.
I would say like a year or two, no, two years.
No, we have our fifth, the start of our fifth year.
We have one hundred and ninety episodes ish.
That's a lot.
So impressive.
Right around there.
How you looking at my penis?
We should go into syndication now, get syndication rights and payments.
Right?
Yeah.
Well, that's you know, like Seinfeld, long overdue, isn't it?
Yeah, like Seinfeld.
Happy days.
We all make a million dollars an episode.
Brady Bunch.
That's nice.
Wow.
All right.
Well, yeah, we've had a hiatus, right?
We always get busy during the holidays are crazy.
Yeah.
We have turmoil Christmas and New Year's and there's always something.
There's always I mean, family gets in the way.
Yes.
Life gets in the way.
Fuck, you know, tons of tax, tons of families.
Bitches.
Don't you people have holes?
Right.
You know, let's see.
So let's let's let's talk about that.
We got we had Christmas.
Christmas was successful.
Everyone had good, successful Christmases.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was good.
I tell you what, it was different for me this year because the boys are older and we're
in that stage of life.
Steven comes home for from college.
This was his last year.
He's graduating in May.
He finally he got his you had to sign up for it, right?
He had to enroll to graduate.
He finally did that.
Oh, nice.
So so it's real.
It's really going to it's really going to happen in May.
All right.
Unless he fails everything.
Right.
But I have faith that that's not going to happen.
But this is the first year.
Like I said, Steven's at home.
He's got a girlfriend.
My other son is in going to school and he lives with his girlfriend down in Richardson.
And this is the first year we've had to compete with other families, compete.
Well, yes, compete with other families.
Yes.
To try, you know, long gone are the days of the small kids waking up and running down
the stairs to look at the tree at 7 a.m.
Right.
I get it.
So that's gone.
And, you know, and we woke up just like a normal day.
We did go over to Steven's girlfriend's house for brunch.
They invited the server, so we did that.
You know, Steven went over there early and they opened gifts over there and we showed
up.
And then my other son and his girlfriend spent time with her family and they showed up here
about four maybe.
And then we went to dinner.
We didn't cook.
Right.
So we.
In other words, it was nothing normal.
No, nothing normal at all.
We went to Jinbei, which is a Hibachi restaurant.
Right.
We went there recently and on Christmas Day and was packed.
And what is it with those Asian places and Christmas?
Was that the only place open?
Yeah, the only place is open.
They don't celebrate Christmas.
It was hilarious.
They had it in Congress.
There was a lady testifying and one of the senators was talking to this lady and he was
like, well, what do you do on Christmas?
It's like, well, I do like all the Jewish people do.
We go to an Asian restaurant.
Right.
Wasn't that Christmas story where they they have nowhere to go because you ruin the dinner
and they had to go to a they chopped the duck's head off.
Yeah.
So that was a Chinese restaurant.
So anyway, so we went to dinner.
I don't know what it was early, five thirty or something like that.
And then we came back and then we opened gifts.
We had no big gifts like eight p.m. that night on Christmas Day.
Yeah.
So it was my wife and I, my two boys plus the two girls.
Right.
And it's it's it's it's fun.
Yeah.
It's different.
And you know, my wife and I were having this conversation.
We were like, we're starting to realize that we were going to have to come up with new
traditions.
Correct.
You know, new adult traditions, like not necessarily adult traditions, but like, you know, how
families like make tamales every the day after Christmas, every single year.
Right.
Well, they do this.
They do that.
And like, if you you know, if you want your child and their significant other to continue
coming back, right, you've got to you have to come up with events.
You can't just like have them show up that day and just hang out and do nothing.
Right.
You know what I mean?
So anyway, we were yeah, we were talking about that because we're in the same boat where
it's just so normal.
So a couple of our our traditions are gone.
Right.
Because we used to get Cinnabons for breakfast.
We'd get Cinnabons once a year and it was always Christmas morning.
And we did that from since the boys were old enough to eat one.
Right.
So we get the minis for them.
And now there's too many calories.
You know, I wouldn't like completely dismiss it.
I mean, though some of those traditions can come back.
Not correct.
Hopefully the boys like my wife and I didn't do it when it was just the two of us.
Right.
We kind of we put that in place when the boys got old enough and we did that every every
Christmas we get it once a year and we don't do it now.
For one thing, my oldest is now diabetic, not because of the Cinnabons, but for other
reasons.
Right.
So you cause this year after year of Christmas Cinnabons.
Causes pancreas to freak out one day a year.
We started we started one family tradition, I guess, two or three years ago on Christmas
Eve.
Me and the wife and our two girls, they're in their early 20s.
We go out to a fancy schmancy restaurant and have a have a nice meal on Christmas Eve.
And this past Christmas Eve, it was packed.
Yes.
I think a lot of people do that.
My sister does that.
She hasn't cooked a holiday dinner for decades.
Her and her family would go out to a nice steak restaurant on Thanksgiving.
Well, they used to take vacations over Thanksgiving, but they go to a really nice steakhouse every
Christmas.
Yeah.
And you know what everybody does on Christmas Day?
They go to the movies.
Movies is a huge no, I'm telling you, I used to be theater.
It was like lines out the door.
I wonder if it's still that way.
I guess so, but oh, yeah.
Is it still busy?
Because I haven't been in the theater.
Oh, movie theaters are always busy during the holidays.
Yeah, always.
I just haven't done it in quite a while.
So I'm surprised you didn't come up with new traditions like I mean, you guys empty nesters,
right?
So you could have played naked Santa.
Well, we did.
We rolled around on the paper.
Yeah, exactly.
Got some paper cuts.
Oh, wow.
Didn't need that.
Very aggressive.
Very aggressive rolling around in the paper.
Tape gets stuck all over the place.
I had some double sided tape kind of pulled things together.
You're the first.
Tree sap.
You're the first one of the group to be empty nesters.
Well, I mean, Larry, I think you're probably an empty nester, right?
We are.
Yes.
It is greatness.
Yeah.
You guys need to.
Well, you could probably share some of your naked Santa stories that you don't have to.
But you know, these are new things.
Well, it is.
We have to come up with.
It is.
I think we're going to have to think about it.
Like I said, it's the first year we've had to really face the change.
Yeah, exactly.
Because last year, both boys were home.
My oldest was still in college and whatnot.
And then you had covid all that bullshit that was going on.
I locked everything down.
So that kind of screwed up one or two two years up.
And then before that was just normal.
Right.
They'd come down and, you know, they were older, so they would wake up early.
But it was still Christmas morning type thing.
Sure.
So this was the first year that we've had to do this.
And it.
I don't know.
It was different.
It was just different.
What was your favorite Christmas present that you got this year?
Oh, I got I got you.
Are you skipping a bunch?
Could you can't say I was just like, oh, there's so many.
I got the new double.
I got my wife got me some extremely nice Victor Knox butcher knives.
Your wife must love a nice bony knife and a nice 10 inch scimitar to cut through.
So some big meat.
Wow.
I got a boning knife as well.
And one of those stainless steel gloves.
Right.
Yeah.
What's going on over there?
That's my wife.
There she is now.
Where are the knives?
Yeah.
They're still in the box, by the way.
No, they're actually not.
I need a I need a sheath or something to put them in.
Well, you know, you walk around the house like a chef.
Yeah.
Well, Stephen, you get a hat.
No, no hat.
I got a big white mushroom hat.
She bought them from Bearded Butchers and they lasered their little emblem onto the
onto the knife.
Interesting.
But an experiment with that.
Put our laser on some stuff.
Yeah.
Metal on boning knife on boning knives.
So Stephen, you just like you just like say boning knife over and over again.
Sean, what was your favorite gift that you got from Santa?
I got to be honest.
I was kind of disappointed.
Yeah.
You didn't get anything fun or nice.
And I got to tell you, dudes like us, we go through droughts like this sometimes where
it just like, you know, I get something for the wife that's two grand worth.
And I got a little cooler and that they got from like a like a conference.
It doesn't fucking matter.
Yeah.
It had a logo of some accounting firm that they gifted her.
You know, right?
Exactly.
Now, and it's the it's the absolute truth.
Now look, but it's about giving.
That's exactly.
I was just going to say that.
I was like, you know, the spirit of it is it's you know, I was happy to do what I did
with my wife.
I got her some diamonds.
Nice.
And the wife came back to me and says, you know, you could have just spent that money
on getting the and this is she's so full of shit.
Women are so full of shit because had I would have taken that money and allocated it to
doing some of the domestic updates to the house.
She'd been all she wanted.
Excuse me.
What?
No, whatever.
Just whatever things that need to get done around the house.
Gotcha.
Yeah, it doesn't matter what it is handyman to do something, whatever it is, you know,
in, you know, whatever the kids.
So she got a fantastic kept.
Yeah, God bless.
And what was earrings and necklace?
What did you do?
I got her big earrings.
OK, yeah, they were like, you know, in the shape of your wiener.
Yeah.
Oh, they were very small.
Do they have those?
I'm sure they can make those.
You know what?
Whatever.
I was happy to do it.
I was I was proud.
I like getting things for my wife because the last time, you know, every time I get
her diamonds, she just like it's all giddy.
She wasn't that this much this year.
It's kind of some weird, weird vibe going on.
It's like I guess go through that.
I didn't get anything really fantastical.
Frankly, I was a little disappointed.
But again, it's not about receiving.
It's about giving.
And I was very thankful.
But my inner monologue was still like, really?
I didn't get a bonding knife.
Right.
I will tell you one thing, Shelly and I were kind of disappointed in ourselves, right?
In that, you know, we did the same thing we did Christmas early because we had to go out
of town.
And so let's just do our own little family thing.
And then, you know, and we didn't even we didn't wrap anything.
I mean, hell, one of the gifts.
I know.
Just get through it at her.
Here you go, bitch.
They were they were in bags.
They were in bags, but one of the gifts was like still in the Amazon box.
I mean, they opened up the Amazon box for a gift.
And I was like, OK, we've really we've stooped.
Yeah, you got to step it up.
Yeah, we got to.
I'm a huge proponent of this.
And it wasn't just me.
It was my wife was also like, why are we bothering wrapping?
Let's just give them to her and get on with it.
Hey, let me hit pause for a second.
The whole that that I like that, you know, because my daughter's birthday was January
7th.
OK.
And she sent us a list to Amazon.
Hey, I want these things.
Right.
And I was just like, click, click, click, click, click, click.
Bye.
Boom.
And they start trickling in.
They'll get trapped them for you, I think, if you want the what?
I think they'll give you a prep for you.
Yeah.
For three dollars.
50 cents each.
Yeah.
And I actually have done that for Christmas time.
But at the end of the day, fuck that.
I don't care.
It's really not a big of a deal.
It was just as exciting for them to show up at the front door.
I would I knew what they were.
So I just handed her those like a whole bunch of Amazon packages like there you go.
Open up.
Yeah, silly.
But anyways, but I think it's the sign of the times.
It kind of is.
I don't know.
I disagree with that because my wife every year picks the day and she'll sit down in
front of the TV and watch Hallmark movies all day and she raps all day.
Right.
There you go.
Well, you know what?
They love that stuff.
Yeah, they they really do.
Right.
I mean, it I will tell you, my wife did something similar because she's got a craft's room now
and it's fully functional.
And so she goes up in the room and I open the door and you would think she was naked
because she was like, stop, get out.
I got stuff going on over here.
And I was thinking, oh, what does she buy me?
Right.
Well, obviously she was just full of shit because the cooler wasn't sitting on top of
the table.
You know, so I think you got your wife diamond earrings for Christmas.
That's a good gift.
You know what?
I got my wife.
What?
Oh, pretty close to diamond earrings.
About a year ago, we bought a new SUV, Kia Telluride.
Right.
Very nice.
The three rows of seats.
Yeah.
The third row won't go down.
So you have a very large cargo area.
It comes carpeted back there.
She's constantly hauling stuff all over the place.
You got diamond earrings.
I got my wife a cargo mat.
Oh, nice.
Be able to slide things in and out.
She must have been showing that off to all of her friends.
She was.
She was always off gassing, like chemical rubber smell.
Oh, perfect.
But some Chinese manufacturing smell.
Yeah, you got that oil.
Well, it was a challenge to find the correct mat because, OK, when you fold the third row
seats down, you have a big flat area.
And a lot of the mats that they sell in the US covers that whole area.
If you want to put the seats up, you have to take the mat out and put it somewhere,
like in the garage or something.
But I found some mats that are actually only sold in Canada.
And it has a split area where the backs of the seats are.
So when you interesting when you pull the seat up, the mat stays in place.
The mat just folds up and you don't have to take it out.
See, I get I get this.
You were so proud of yourself for finding the perfect mat.
And so you were like giddy that she was going to open it.
And you're like, you're not going to believe what I found you.
She's like, so you got me a cargo mat.
Walk us through her response on this.
She was in on it.
I mean, I was telling her she didn't have that that look in her eye like, yeah, I mean,
I'm surfing through Amazon and any other page I can find for these stupid mats.
And I stumbled upon this one and I like, hey, come look at this one.
Well, good.
That's better than the response of, yeah, Martha got diamond earrings and I got a cargo
mat.
But I think the favorite gift that I got, my daughter gave me a pickleball set.
Oh, nice.
Is that a sign that you want you to work out more?
It's got exercise.
I don't know if you guys have ever played this, but it came with four panels that are
about twice the size of a ping pong.
Right.
Yes.
And it's all the rage right now.
Plastic wiffle balls, a handful of plastic wiffle balls.
Do they come with a net or anything?
Is there a science behind it?
No, no, no.
You're supposed to play that on a tennis court.
We in our neighborhood.
A full tennis court?
I thought they were a concentrated court.
In our neighborhood, they have a tennis court and a wiffle ball court about two blocks away.
So I open up this thing and I go, cool, wiffle ball.
I've heard about this.
I've never played it because I'm the worst athlete in the entire planet.
Really, really funny.
Yeah, it's supposed to be really, really fun.
So we walked two blocks to the wiffle ball court, all four of us, me and the wife and
the two daughters and we pickleball.
You mean pickleball?
Yeah, pickleball.
Pickleball.
Yeah.
What do you call it?
Wiffle ball.
Oh, you did.
He did say wiffle ball.
Oh, yeah.
Pickleball.
Yeah.
You know, it's Texas on Christmas Day, so it's like 65 degrees outside.
Beautiful day.
And we hit the ball back and forth.
We don't really know the rule.
I guess the rules are similar to ping pong, but we were so terrible at it that we didn't
even attempt to keep score.
Our goal was to see how many times can we get it over the net.
Right.
How many times can we volley it back and forth?
So it's just one team.
And this was two on one side and two on the other side with the instructions of hit it
to the person so that they can actually hit it back.
It's not like we're competing.
You know, like put spins on it.
Slip them up or anything.
Slams.
And you got to hit the ball back and forth and up and down.
What was your record?
Two times.
And I think our record was 19.
The average was really about five.
So the 19 was like off the charts.
That was a lucky draw.
But we played for an hour or so until we all came to the determination that our family
is completely void of all athletic abilities whatsoever.
But what a perfect gift.
Think about it.
It was fun.
Yeah.
How often do the four of you go do something not athletic necessarily, but yeah, that's
super cool.
Yeah.
And that's a memory right there.
Down at Shawnee Trail, I heard that there was a couple of pickleball courts.
So I heard that there's a major uproar going on between the tennis people and the pickleball
people because of the noise they're encroaching the pickleballers.
The pickleballers are encroaching on the tennis ball courts and limiting how many courts they
can play tennis on because they're taking them over and making pickleball courts and
it's creating this massive, you know, pickleball people.
Fuck them.
I think tennis folks seem kind of whitty twitty to me.
Yeah, maybe.
You know, look, there's a there's a lot of tennis.
There's a lot of tennis players out there and the craze is the craze is the pickleball.
I mean, that is a lot of people playing it.
It is a little harder than ping pong, but much easier than tennis.
And that's why.
Yeah.
That's why it's taken off because the seniors love it.
Yeah, most people extends the age group.
Yeah, it's not that strenuous.
Right.
Yeah.
And the tennis man, you've got a it's like playing sand volleyball.
I mean, you've got to practice.
Well, you could yeah, you got to be out there and be do your best, like joining the military.
But Paul, to your point, I've also heard or read online and so forth about HOAs are trying
to change the rule.
The homeowners are getting mad about the pickleball people because the homeowners that live near
or around the tennis court in the neighborhood.
Wow.
What would have would have the tennis plate.
But tennis, when you hit it, it just, you know, kind of goes.
It's not that.
When you hit a pickleball, you're hitting a hard plastic ball against a hard plate.
So is it loud?
And it's way louder.
So the residents are complaining about the noise.
I don't even think about that.
I don't care, especially at one a.m. when all the seniors get out there at one a.m. and
they just start hammering that that drunk is skunks.
That that would be fun.
Drunk pickleball.
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
They got their bourbon toddies.
Hey, how you doing?
Make me another Rob Roy.
I'd like to play some time.
I'd like to try the pickleball.
It would be fun.
I'll loan you my set.
You know, we all qualify for the senior center now.
Are you kidding me?
Really?
Where's the senior center?
It's out there next to the Brown Park Friendship Park.
Oh, like you don't know.
I didn't even know we had a senior center.
I hear that they have free lunch out there.
They have.
I don't know if it's free, but they free hot dogs on senior day.
We have movie outings and bridge and pinnacle.
Well they have the little van that comes by and picks me up.
Is that is it 50 and over?
I think so.
Yeah.
50 and over.
They used to AMC used to have senior discount at 50 and over.
I wonder if they still do.
Well we're past 50.
So yeah.
Wow.
We're cashing in.
I mean, these are the things.
This is what we've waited for all of our whole life.
We counted down to the moment that we could get a two dollars off our AMC movie ticket.
We should all go to the senior center and just like try to take over and do our podcast
there and have the old guy sit in and.
No, let's have a pickleball tournament and crush this.
I will tell you this.
I was talking to Larry.
Larry picked me up on the way over here so I can make sure.
First of all, I can make sure he gets here.
But mostly that was it.
But I was telling him this is our night.
This is our poker night.
This is what we like to do for fun.
This is our outing and we don't make a penny.
We do it because we love it.
We really do.
We want to make a penny.
It'd be nice.
Or two.
It'd be nice.
But we've got to get some some sponsors out there.
You know, shout out to 1845.
There we go.
Based in Lowers Crossing, Texas.
Yeah.
Or Boeing or Dell.
Boeing.
Boeing's in trouble.
I didn't even mean to bring that up, but they're in the news right now.
The whole.
Well, if you've seen the news, Alaskan Air, it was a Boeing.
I don't know which model it was.
I don't know if it was one of the Max's or it was a Max.
And the whole door blew off Max 900.
I think it was a new aircraft.
Yeah.
So there are about there are about 10,000 feet, I think.
So they are.
I don't know if they were taken off or coming with landing, but they the door flew off and
there's a huge opening like nobody got sucked out.
Nobody.
Well, everybody.
They said the reason they said one of the lucky things that happened is at the altitude
they were taken off for landing and everyone was buckled in.
Right.
No one was up.
There were no drinks.
Nobody was in that seat, apparently.
Well, well, so I saw a picture of it.
It was.
So there's no one in that.
Oh, there were no.
Yeah.
In that.
Oh, yeah.
There's a seat in that aisle.
Yeah.
Well, there were three of them there.
There was no one seated.
Yeah, there was.
It was it was open.
So there was a guy sitting behind the door and there was a guy sitting in front of the
door.
I don't think there was anyone in that in that for that particular.
Imagine being the guy sitting the closest to it.
Well, there was a.
Well, they said it just went boom.
Wind bang loud.
All the all the mass dropped.
Yeah.
So the guy sitting in front of the door, his comment was that he didn't even look back.
He was freaking out.
Yeah.
So he was like, I just made sure my seat belt was tied and on there.
He was like the mask fell out.
I put it on there.
I concentrated on breathing.
My ears felt like they were bleeding.
And he was just like he just said in retrospect, he was just thankful.
He was just like, well, they got to do everything they need to do to make sure they were safe.
And he was just like and then the the the analyst, they were like, well, the analyst,
the door popped off at 16000 feet.
So when it popped off at 16000 feet, they dropped down to 10000 and then they went straight.
They just kept going.
The carried on as normal.
Well, the hit.
Well, another thing.
Fuck it.
Another thing that I heard was that the pilots lost all of their communication and they're
using the intercom.
Yes.
So all the passengers heard everything that was going on.
Oh, shit.
Yeah.
And so that freaked them out.
Yeah.
So that freaked them out.
Even pilot was like, well, I'm going to die if you don't help us right now.
Our producer just showed up.
He just came back from Colorado.
He's he's a car lag.
Yeah.
Highway lag.
Well, we'll get you set up here in a second there, buddy.
Just go ahead and do what you got to do.
But that that story is interesting because the thing about it, like you said, Jeff, that
they were on their way up and had that door popped off because that that I did some research
on that particular plane and those things go up to 40000.
So if that plane is up at that altitude, that door, that cruising cruising altitude, you're
going to have a lot more damage.
You know, there's going to be.
Yeah, there's there's going to be.
It would be catastrophic.
It's going to be more pressurized.
Plus, there's no oxygen up there.
That's the masks.
Well, it it would.
The plane would just it.
I want to use the word dismembered.
The plane would just come apart because of how fast it's going.
The altitude.
I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know.
I mean, it wouldn't be good.
Yeah, but until that.
But here's the thing.
Here's the biggest thing for me regarding Boeing and this incident is that this particular
plane plane was flagged.
Yes.
There was an error that there was something going on.
There was a pressure.
There was a pressure problem.
So there's a there is a there's a little light that's clicking.
It's going on and off.
And it's just like, hey, there's something going on here.
And the guys were like, yeah, just let's avoid going to Hawaii for a while.
It's just flight to Colorado.
Oh, it wasn't allowed to go over water.
That's what they said.
That's right.
I read that.
I was like, are you freaking kidding me?
That's that's a warning sign right there.
So I mean, and look, in retrospect, I mean, Boeing fucked up.
They fucked up because they fucked up one, two, they fucked up because if they would
have if they would have just set that plane down and figured out what was going on, now
they got to what is it called when you land them or dock them, you ground them, huh?
Grounded.
They grounded all those planes.
So now instead of investigating that one plane, now they got to send them all down and make
sure that the fleet was it an anomaly.
This is a pattern now.
Do you remember that Boeing had the air sensor problem where they had two crashes, where
the people died and they it wasn't an air sensor.
It was a automatic.
I watched the documentary documentary.
It's something that caused the the plane to over create the tail.
Yeah, the tail feds to do this and it would just nosedive and they couldn't override it.
Yes.
You didn't know what what how to override it.
Well, none of the pilots were trained in it.
And they were the pilots didn't even know that this feature was there.
Yeah.
And so when it kicked on, they're like, what the hell?
Yeah.
So what's going on to two plane crashes?
Oh, yeah.
We're attributed to this.
We're like hundreds of people died and they're blaming the pilots.
They were at first.
Yes.
And then and then they did an investigation and Boeing fucked up.
They did.
And so now it's the second incident of them not being truthful or trying to cut corners
or something.
I mean, this is not good.
Who's piloting this plane?
My daughter.
I get caught.
There's a light on my dashboard and I don't know what it is.
Are you?
Have you started?
No, I'm still driving 80 miles an hour.
Yeah.
Tower one.
I have a check engine light on.
Yeah.
They said that the the cockpit door blasted off.
Gee.
So the cockpit door blasted off.
Their headsets and everything flew off.
Hence they lost all their communication.
Isn't that crazy like both doors blew off?
Well, the door blew off, but it blew the cockpit door off.
Yeah.
By the pressure, the pressurized.
Oh, my God.
And I think one of their lucky to be alive.
That's what they said.
They said no drinks were out.
So there wasn't shit flying around.
Nobody really had a bad time to ask for a second jacket coat.
Yeah.
Pushing the call button.
Right.
So extremely lucky Boeing or slash and Alaskan is probably going to pay off the wazoo as
far as all the all the trauma, mental trauma that these people are going to have.
No deaths.
That's amazing.
Yeah, that is good.
There was two kids like I want to say they were probably elementary age kids that were
on the plane.
They were interviewed on the news and they were they were really scared.
And I also saw on the news that some guy's shirt was sucked off and went out the door.
That be mine.
It'd be like that.
That's God shaming me.
Look at that fat bastard.
Why is he nude?
Why in every crisis I take off my shirt.
So he might have done it voluntarily.
Probably did.
Those people on that plane are going to be compensated heavily.
You know, they're going to get a free one way ticket.
They're traumatized.
I mean, can you like that guy that was sitting right in front of you fly again?
Would you fly again after that shit?
How would you know?
I mean, you'd have to experience it.
I would.
But you know, I mean, I think I would.
I don't know.
But I mean, you would say that.
But when you're on this way, if you've ever been in an accident, a car accident, I've
never been in any bad ones, but I've been T-boned before and I was jumpy for a while.
Yeah.
You know, and I was not all that eager to get out there.
Yeah.
And it wasn't that bad, right?
It just made it just made me very anxious when I drove.
Well, I mean, I would have done that, too.
It makes you gun shy.
Yeah.
And I would imagine the worst the wreck, the worse your gun shyness is.
Correct.
And mine wasn't bad.
So it didn't last very long.
But I still had it.
I experienced it.
Right.
I think I've read after some other crashes in the past that I don't know if it's the
airline industry as a whole or if it's each individual airline themselves, but they have
a fund.
It might be administered by the FAA.
I think you're right.
But they have it's not it's not like an insurance policy, but it's a it's a fund with monies
set aside like a tragedy fund to dole out to people who have a claim because a rainy
day fund.
Yeah.
And the door gets sucked off your airplane fund.
That's what it's called.
Yeah.
It's part of the feature.
That's exactly what it's called.
Do you also remember when there was an Alaska Airlines or Hawaiian?
I think it was Alaska where the top of the plane peeled off like a tin can.
Yeah.
Hawaiian.
That was was it?
I thought I thought it was.
I don't even remember that.
That is why it was a low high airline.
Oh, that's right.
And they said it happened from metal fatigue from the plane taking off, landing, taking
off, landing because they're going to the island.
Island hopping.
Yeah.
And and it literally peeled back like it was, you know, like a frickin, you know, like a
can.
It was like a sardine can.
Yes.
So our producer was on vacation for the last week in Colorado with skin and he looks very
rested.
Yeah.
He's well tanned.
Yeah.
You have snow burn.
Is there such a thing as snow burn?
Yes, there is.
Yeah.
I miss my little wind.
I miss my guy.
It's snow.
You have snow blindness as well.
Huh?
Because the sun reflects off of the snow.
Well, that's why you wear those big fancy colored visors.
Correct.
I've experienced that.
So do you know those silver blankets that they give out to all the immigrant?
Correct.
Yeah, they do that for marathons as well.
They pardon?
They give you those after marathons as well.
So those those those if you're in a pinch and you're in a blizzard and you're trapped
somewhere, they make excellent eye.
If you really use them for you, put them on your face.
They're translucent enough for you to see through them.
Oh, I didn't know that.
And they're perfect enough for you to breathe through them.
Well, you get like poke a hole.
I would have been.
Wow.
You have to poke a hole in it.
You've been listening to Sean Murphy and Avalanche Hacks.
Right.
Oh, well, and my next question is, do you look like a moron?
Oh, but yeah, but this is survival mode.
Yeah, yeah.
All folks in survival mode.
But my point is, is that you take those little silver things in it because, you know, if
you're ever I just saw some meme that was like some dude.
Yeah, you do look like an idiot.
You have to because he had cut one out.
He had no way to style.
He had a hat on and he pulled it on a hat and he had tucked it in his jacket and his
hood.
And it was like the silver thing.
It was kind of crazy.
But he said it's very functional.
So it was it was able to help him out in a pinch.
That makes me think of smokejumpers.
You know how smokejumpers in an emergency situation, they pull the fire blank.
Yeah, they it's like a silver like a silver type of deal.
Yeah, that is always work.
Absolutely insane that these firefighters that get called out to head to California
religiously to help those jackasses out because they can't manage their forests.
Right.
But but but they so they have the guys that that work the ground and they're digging trenches.
Yeah.
But then they have the guys jumping out of airplanes.
They're called smokejumpers and they parachute into certain areas and they they're on their
own.
Yeah.
Those blankets don't work all the time.
No, there's been a number of they have died.
Yeah.
But they they have worked for a few.
No, too.
No.
Well, burning is there's no fun with that.
But some of the guys that did survive, I mean, because they got all that gear on and then
they throw that that you know, there's been a couple of them underneath one of those little
silver things.
Those blankets.
What's amazing is they don't pass is right by them.
But the amazing thing is, I don't think they they don't the flames aren't actually burning
their body.
It's the heat.
It's just the heat.
Can you imagine how hot it would have to be for you basically to boil to death?
Well, you just get a fan.
Yeah, you're cooking under that under that silver thing.
Right.
And the smoke in a house fire.
People don't burn to death.
They that's right.
They die because of the smoke.
Typically.
That's true.
Typically.
You got to get on your knees and crawl.
Well, you know what?
It's just a horrible thing.
I don't know how the hell you might see your arm glistening over there.
How's that?
That that grip.
So when dudes like us get a little bit older, you got to go to the doctor, the dermatologist
and Jeff had a procedure and they cut a large section out of his four front forearm.
Yeah, most of his arm.
Yeah, I think it's healing very well.
But over the last couple of days, he had a tattoo removed of a penis.
It was.
And they shaved the arm.
It's not that big of a scar.
Right.
But wasn't his penis.
It was Sean's.
Mine's micro.
That would be the next question.
Why did you get a very drunk night?
Never mind.
Let's move forward.
So anyway, they shaved the arm.
I told him I'd be gentle.
So the last couple of days, I think I have an ingrown hair because they pulled the skin
together and something's popped up over the last two days.
I need to keep an eye on it.
So I put my god within the healing process.
You think it's infected?
Possibly.
So I've been putting some antibiotic on it.
That's glistening.
So you got an arm stye.
Yes.
So glistening.
My wife tried to like pop it like this.
I was like, oh, no, no, no, no.
I was like, no, you don't want to do that.
It's still kind of sore.
I would have sprayed it with bear spray, man.
Keep her away from your glistening arm.
Right.
So I need to keep an eye on it.
If it gets bad, I need to go to the doctor.
Oh, my gosh.
But I will tell you that I have not drank a lot since the holidays.
I mean, I drank some on Christmas.
I had oh, my god.
Let me walk you through this.
Chris, OK, we're talking about traditions and Christmas.
I'm backing up a little bit, kind of trying to talk about our Christmas experience other
than getting a fucking cooler.
But outside of that, you know, tradition.
So we you know, one of the traditions, we go to my parents house.
One of the traditions we go to my my in-laws house.
Most of the time we go to my in-laws house.
And rightfully so, because they have a bigger house and there are a lot of people that go.
I mean, every time we go, there's like 10, 15, 20, 30, 40 people there.
It's a lot.
I mean, there's like 50 people there at one time.
I would.
Yeah, it is kind of fun.
It can be fun to get together.
It cannot be fun.
It's it.
You know what?
It is it is what it is.
If you get along with it, if you get along with it, I laugh because there are a couple
Democrats there and it's just like, you know, now I shut up.
I don't say anything.
But there was a couple of times where I kind of vented a few.
But this past time, what I ended up doing is I rated his liquor cabinet to find out
what he had.
I was like, oh, because I wasn't going to drink, but I don't want to drink.
I'll just go to Goldschlager.
No, she's regal.
Scotch, of all things, a Mexican Scotch mad dog.
Seriously, Mexican Scotch.
Yeah.
But it was a desirable Mexican Scotch if there is such a thing.
So it's a very old Shevis regal.
So I mean, it was and it was like it was like a hundred and five proof, which is unheard
of.
So it was like a two thousand dollar bottle.
You're just sucking down.
I had I had two large portions that, you know, like your big yeti, just fool that kind of
portion and he's like, who drank my 40 year old Scotch?
So save that.
Yeah.
My point is, you know, a couple of drinks during the holidays.
I've been trying not to drink that much, but, you know, had a couple of drinks that night.
And then for the festivities out there, we have the elephant, the white elephant gift,
you know, and, you know, everyone brings a gift and we bring a couple extra to play.
Have you guys played white elephant?
Oh, yeah, we did this year.
This year as well.
It's fun.
It's a lot of fun.
Outside of that, I didn't drink from that time and all the way up to New Year's Eve
and New Year's Eve was kind of off Paul.
Yeah.
It was fun.
Paul got a little toasty, which I found, you know, what I what I saw about Paul that I
have never seen before is his taint.
I've seen that plenty of times.
He's seen my taint.
Who hasn't?
You had a tattoo of my taint on your forearm.
He's got one on his taint.
So Paul, Paul got toasty and but the first thing I've never seen about Paul, Paul looked
like a child because he looked at because he's first of all, he was on he was on good
behavior.
I mean, he he didn't I mean, he I was just happy go lucky.
He was happy go lucky.
He looked like a kid.
He was always fun.
I swear to God, he looked like a kid.
His hair was tousled and it was like kind of disarray.
You know, it's like, hey, guys, what's going on?
I was like, hey, Paul, so let me give you a little context about our New Year's Eve
gathering.
So we had Stan from Total Wine show up.
Oh, yeah.
So Stan Total Wine is kind of one of the bourbon stewards out there.
And he brings his father and I've invited him to a couple of our functions at the house.
And he brings he brought like six bottles, something like that.
I don't remember exactly.
He brings some different stuff.
It's nice to try.
Yeah.
He brought some some choice stuff.
And we laid them all out and I had some choice stuff, too.
I was gifted some some cool things.
Very excited.
Bless you.
And so it was we got a little bit toasty.
And you know, but I just remember we were just doing small little samples all night.
And it's just like one of those things where you do a bunch of small samples.
You're like, I can't wait to get drunk, but you can't get drunk if you're doing all these
small samples all night long.
Well, and it was a lot of scotch.
We are trying your scotch.
We did a bunch of things that we don't normally do, which was kind of cool.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was good.
Yeah.
Scotch, first of all, man, we got to turn you on.
Jeff came over.
He's going to do the last one.
We went through.
Uh, uh, we went through more than half the bottle of scotch that I didn't want to go
through.
That's good.
I was there was 105.
Yeah, that's good.
Urban.
$200 bottle, though.
Yeah, it was.
You can in a pass on that.
Yeah.
But the other one, the Ed Wood or Ed Eduardo or Ed.
Right.
That was good.
Scotch.
It was a 20 scotch.
I am gaining a new not respect because that's not there.
I never disrespected it, but I'm gaining a new appreciation for for for scotches.
I didn't have that before.
Probably because the only scotch I ever tried was like, yeah, super Pete.
Yeah.
Very smoky and Petey burning tire.
I think that goes for anything.
We've been trying some aged tequila.
That's well, I say I say we we you know, we have a couple hundred bourbons out there.
I say we start adding some select tequilas and select scotches, some select rums.
Yeah, why not?
I mean, I think yeah, I think you're you're you're about any of those things is going
to be as good as the crappy first one you tried.
Right.
Well, I mean, the right bourbons that we were sampling at the very beginning of our podcast
era were kind of like, yeah, we want the weeded bourbon because it's so much smoother and
easier to drink.
The harder ones are like this barrel strength bourbon from the King's County Distillery
that we're sampling today.
Nice segue.
We're talking about our bourbon.
All right.
Here we are.
What is it now?
I can't read that.
So someone's going to read that for me.
So well, clocking in at one this one, this particular bottle is a hundred and one thirty.
Holy shit.
Hundred thirty proof, depending on the batch.
The King's County Barrel Strength Bourbon is blended from older barrels that are flagship
bourbon age anywhere from four to seven years.
Many enthusiasts prefer whiskey undiluted like myself from the barrel.
You guys give me so much shit over that, but that's what I prefer.
He's an enthusiast.
So Sean's an enthusiast.
An enthusiast.
I was thinking snob.
Well, it's because it offers more intense, concentrated flavor.
Bold, complex.
This is our most consistently acclaimed limited release offering.
And they got the Breaking Bourbon listed as the best craft whiskey of 2020.
I tell you what, when we get to this level of proof, we're talking elite class.
There are not that many out there that are one hundred and thirty proof that are good.
This is very good.
It's very good.
I'd recommend this.
We liked it the first time.
What was the sticker price on this?
Did we get this from?
It was about 70 bucks, I think.
Really?
Liquor King.
I think we did get it from Liquor King.
I thought it was more.
And I appreciate the bottle.
It looks like an old medicine bottle or something.
Very simple.
Flask.
Very simple with the heaviest top.
Very plain.
The heaviest top.
Oh my gosh.
The top is ridiculous.
Yeah, it's a weighted lid on that bad boy.
Right.
It's really nice.
We're scrolling into the...
Oh, they got a lot of different locations to buy it.
Yeah.
Well, there's more than that.
It said King's County.
You know, that's King's County, New York.
Correct.
Brooklyn.
It's in Brooklyn.
Yeah.
So this whiskey is made in Brooklyn.
Go figure.
So I at Liquor King explained to us that they started out making moonshine for kind of off
market to like the Wall Street crowds, the rich people, right?
Say, hey, here's some really good moonshine.
And some of those guys said, you need to start...
Doing this for real.
Getting this.
Yeah.
Doing this for real.
Funded them.
And now they're doing their bourbons.
Amazing.
It's really good.
Well, that's true or not, I don't know.
But that's what he said.
I'm getting a lot of oak flavor.
Are you guys getting that?
Yeah.
Do we see how old this was?
This one is six years old.
That nose is amazing.
It's actually really, really good.
Yeah.
And oak would be appropriate for that because most of the bourbons out there, if you're
lucky, three years, typical.
Four years is the bottle and bonded mark.
I'm not saying it is bottle and bonded, but it is a mark for bottle and bonded.
Desirable ones are in this range right here.
And then you have...
We have Calamay out there was like 15 years.
16.
16 years.
Those are good, but it's got too much...
And I think the word is tannins, isn't it?
The word?
The Calamay is good though.
It is good.
We really like it.
But you're saying if it's overaged, it can be problematic.
It can be.
Yeah.
But we really haven't tried any that are that old that are...
Have we?
I don't think so.
Well, the 16s are oldest, I believe.
We have quite a few 12s, 10s.
I mean, we've heard people...
Oh, that Rebecca Creek 12 is phenomenal.
Oh, it's great.
It's great.
But we've heard people say, at least, I mean, I don't think I've tried any, but they say
that when it's really, really old, like age 20 years, it's like...
Well, you got the Pappy's 23.
That's age 23 years.
I wonder how good that truly is.
It's very desirable.
It's very expensive.
I think it may lead into a category similar to cheeses.
You know how some folk like the cheeses extremely rotty and smelly?
Yes.
Just funky.
I don't want to use the word tart.
Well, it is.
It's a definite profile when you get that...
Bitter.
Old.
Sure.
Just like scotch.
Some people like that peated scotch.
That's the part about the scotch, the earth tones from the scotch, the smoked peat that
they infuse it with.
I'm not a huge fan of that.
You know?
I mean, I'll try it.
I'll sample it.
I won't kick it out the door.
But there's a lot of it.
It's kind of like that...
What is that really smoky stuff from...
Balcones?
The balconies.
Brimstone.
The brimstone.
God bless.
It's like an ashtray.
Yeah.
That's way too smoky.
We've had two that are smoky.
One was too much, and I think it was the balconies.
There was another one though that was...
Is that a snow wagon?
Or a snow wagon?
It was a smoke wagon.
It was high west.
High west.
That was outstanding.
Well, let's pour a little bit to see what we think in our second half.
Okay.
It'll be hard.
Just a little bit.
Just a taste.
Just a tip.
See if my palate has changed, Danny.
You want to do that right now?
No, not right now.
You've got to taste yourself.
We haven't done this in a while.
This is 130 proof.
Well, this is Larry's third podcast here, so I was going to, during the intermission,
Larry's going to sample a little bit of the...
So you want Larry to turn a corner here?
No, I mean, he doesn't have to pound down the whole thing, but I really want him to
sample that Infinity Bottle because we have 30-something bottles in that thing.
Is there any...
It's incredible.
How's King Creek?
Is that Infinity Bottle left?
What's left in this bottle that we just did?
Mr. Producer, thank you for getting here.
Really, you didn't have to come tonight, but you came.
That's awesome.
I'm going to come, like Trump said.
That Bard's Bottle, pull it up.
It's barely got enough for three in there.
How much...
Show us the bottle.
How much is left in it?
Oh, no.
There's still enough in there.
There's still plenty.
Yeah, there's still enough in there.
Maybe I can drink a little bit more.
Yeah.
No, I've got work tomorrow.
I can't do it.
God bless it.
Yeah, and then that work thing.
So much.
Man.
Don't you hate that?
Anyway, yeah, very good.
Let's pause on rating it because I would like to get Larry's rating on this, and he made
a quick bathroom break.
So let's talk about the awards that this particular bottle, the Barrel Strength Bourbon from the
King's County...
Is this called Bard's?
Am I making that up?
What am I calling this?
It's not...
Bard's.
Where the hell did Bard's come from?
No, it's not Bard's.
It's not Bard's.
I totally misspoke.
It's not Bard's.
It's King's County...
Well, Bardstown Distillery.
That's where I was thinking of.
Okay, sorry.
No, this place makes their own stuff.
So yeah, this is 130 proof.
That's got a big old ding-dong on there.
So Larry, we want to rate it.
Why don't you start us off here on what you would rate this guy.
So on a scale of one to 10, 10 being the best.
I like this.
I like this bourbon.
It's not super harsh.
You guys were talking about the smoky flavor earlier that you wanted to be famous.
Considering it's 130 proof.
Yeah.
Well, I was going to ask you, are you used to high proof liquor?
And this is very easy to drink for 130 proof.
Dude.
It's burning a whole.
It's incredibly easy to drink for 130.
Nice.
I'm getting a heavy oak flavor on the front end and kind of cinnamon-y as it goes down.
That could be the alcohol.
No.
No, it's definitely...
It's caramel.
There is cinnamon.
A little toffee going on.
Stone fruit.
Of course.
Stone fruit and everything.
Of course.
So it's got a good flavor to it.
I'm going to go with a pretty high ranking.
I'm going to go with a eight.
Very nice.
What about seven and a half for this?
I was going to go 7.9.
Very nice.
I'm going to match Larry's.
I agree.
This is...
It's good stuff.
I'll say 8.1.
I mean, I'm really enjoying this.
Yeah, it is good.
Well, we can replace this.
This is perfect.
Well, we could definitely replace this.
This is readily available.
Yeah, a no-brainer to have this regularly on.
I enjoy it.
It needs to be part of my repertoire at the house.
Yeah.
I want to have it.
I agree.
I like to have a drink on select nights.
This is the perfect one.
130 proofs.
This over a big cube would be fantastic.
Oh, no, straight up.
A cube is fine too.
Yeah.
Over a big cube would be wonderful.
Yeah.
Even a sphere.
Sphere.
Maybe a sphere.
Even an octagon.
Some of those refrigerators and octagon.
Sitting around the fire pit outside on a cold night.
A Doheke D-Tron.
Yes.
With a nice cigar and like you said, this on a little ice.
Yeah.
That'd be good stuff.
That's a little crazy.
This particular Bertil Strength Bourbon has won a double gold.
Very nice.
What competition?
San Fran or Lugo?
This is the SFWSC.
I assume the SFWC.
I have no idea what that means.
That's got to be San Francisco Whiskey Association.
So is that what 1845 won?
Yeah, I think it's the same thing.
So they got doubles.
So 1845 got the double gold as well.
That's the same San Fran one.
At the San Fran one?
Yeah.
And that's like the gold standard, isn't it?
I mean, that competition.
Yeah.
There's some other ones.
But yeah, San Francisco is a big one.
Good stuff.
Very cool.
Well, I'm glad we were able to sample this.
And frankly, I think this is the second time we've sampled this.
Yeah, this is only the second time.
I don't remember even sampling.
Obviously, I don't remember re-sabling it.
We probably got drunk or shit the first time.
You don't remember anything after that podcast.
Yeah.
I'm going to dive into it.
You know, I'd top it off there.
You can take a picture and go buy that himself is what you're going to do.
Exactly what I'm going to do.
Oh, I would.
It's fantastic.
I enjoy the hell out of it.
So this week, they found a...
We were talking about Brooklyn and how this distillery is in a 123-year-old building.
I used to live there.
Also in Brooklyn, they had a...
They found some tunnels.
It's very bizarre.
It's a very bizarre story this week.
Yeah, it is kind of bizarre.
You know, so I kind of explained it a little bit in the green room earlier, and I'm going
to try to dumb it down even more because frankly, there are a lot of stories out there that
are stupid right now.
This one, yeah...
So I don't know the denominations of all these different religions.
So all I'm going to say is that it's somewhere of one of the Jewish ones.
And I've got it written down somewhere out there, but I'm just not going to get into
it because I don't give a fuck.
But there's like...
So the building that this church is at in Brooklyn is owned by an entity, which is a
particular faction of this religion.
And they were arguing with another faction that at the same time were trying to claim
rights to the ownership.
And they had to go to court.
And it turns out that one of the factions that originally claimed it said, hey, well,
per the policy, per the documents that we have on file, you are the owner of this building.
It was kind of like one of those...
You are the father.
No, it's in the Get All Met.
Maury, you're on Maury Povich?
Yeah, the Maury Povich show.
But the thing is that they're...
So what happened is that this church had a burrowed under the building.
How deep were these things?
Well, I don't know.
They didn't describe that.
Like 100 feet down?
No, I'm assuming it was like maybe 10 feet.
But they burrowed a hallway, a tunnel that went from one building to the other.
I'm not sure the extent of how far it was, but on the other end of the building was like
a bath house.
Was the bath house underground?
No, it wasn't.
It was access to a building.
Is this unbeknownst to the other?
When they lost their court case, they said, okay, screw you.
We're going to build a tunnel and we're going to...
Okay, it wasn't anything like that.
How did it get discovered?
Nope.
So they had built this thing with both entities because both entities coexisted there and
they were both functioning there and they both kind of built this thing.
It is bizarre, but basically it was just a way from...
How it came to light is even crazy.
How did that happen?
So it came to light because of what I just said.
It was because of the turmoil between the two factions.
Someone got pissed off.
Well, they built a tunnel.
Well, that's exactly what it was.
So, but let me tell you about the...
The reason why that tunnel was there was because the tunnel went from point A to point B because
on the other end of that tunnel was...
We'll go ahead and play the audio on this.
Oh my goodness.
I need to get back this up a little bit.
Okay, hold on.
Set up the video first.
These are...
These are the...
Would they say Orthodox Jews?
I mean, so they're wearing what you would consider the little black hats and the black
coats and they've got the hair and I mean, these are very traditional...
Jewish folks.
Yeah, they got the beard.
Jewish men.
He's just like...
I mean, I'm in my club box.
I'm in my club box.
But look at it.
Now this guy's going down a hole through the floor.
Orthodox men.
Okay, it's a group of Orthodox men.
Flashlight police.
No, it was a women's ritual booth.
All right, look.
They don't have a whole lot of narrative on there, but I'm trying to fill in the blanks
here.
So what they had done is they went from point A to point B and on the other end...
So they got the church tied into another building.
So on the other building was a...
It's a bath house, but it was a religious bath.
Kind of like when a Christian person would get baptized.
It would cleanse the soul.
And all it was was just a path from the church because they went out to service and instead
of having to open up the front door, walk across the street to the other building...
So they decided to dig a tunnel.
They dug a tunnel.
An illegal tunnel.
Like a spoon.
Well, it was illegal only because it wasn't permitted, et cetera, et cetera.
That would be an illegal tunnel.
Yeah, totally illegal.
But I mean, it had integrity though.
So it had integrity, but the point is that all it was was an access to get to somewhere
else.
And so once they had the turmoil of the argument between of who owns it, well, one of the guys
was like, hey, guess what?
They got a tunnel under there.
Oh, he ratted them out.
Yeah.
So they squeaked it.
So then the city shows up.
The city shows up and that's what you saw was when the city showed up.
Inspectors and police trying to look at this tunnel.
Yeah, they got engineers.
Well, they got engineers out there that were getting disrupted because the engineers needed
to make sure it was safe.
They needed to say, hey, are we violating this thing over a subway?
I mean, shit, underneath New York, they have took a honeycomb.
Oh, my.
It's ridiculous.
You brought up a very interesting point, Jeff, is that because you ever seen like underneath
New York, I don't know if that's the name of it, but they have like 30 stories that
go down under New York.
Right.
It goes down for a long way under that nobody knows there are abandoned tunnels that go
if something doesn't smell right.
It's almost like they built this thing for nefarious reasons.
Yeah, I don't know about a tunnel to go to a it's like their worship room.
It's more like it's almost like they found porn down there or something.
The picture of it that Mr. Producer is showing on the screen here, the picture of the tunnel,
it's not like a nicely dug with, you know, a nice walk.
It's like a prison break tunnel.
It's very but it's got a block.
So our guys, like they're just in a block.
You obviously see some plumbing.
Something's not right about this story.
Prude and nefarious, I'm telling you.
Something's not right about it.
And they're going to fill this in, you said.
Well, the city had shown up with a dump truck full of cement, you know, and they were going
to fill up the hole.
And then some students of the church decided they were going to camp out down below.
And that is why you saw all the excitement.
That was what it was.
They're jostling, jostling with the police because they don't want their tunnel taken
away.
See what I mean?
I mean, something's not right here.
Something is is a right.
I don't know.
Maybe they were trying to dig a tunnel to Gaza so they can get the hostages out of it.
Oh, there we go.
Oh, well, that is a very ambitious plan right there.
Yeah, that's work.
It's work.
I don't think so.
Is it because they can't walk through the women's prayer section?
They're like, maybe we can't walk through here.
Well, there you go.
I'm a man.
Or there you go.
Look, but you know what they may have?
They may have all these crazy rules where you can't go outside between the hours of
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
You never know, Jeff.
You'd have you have to stoop down to kind of scurry through.
Oh, yeah.
To get through that little pipe area subway rat going crazy.
That is definitely one of the most bizarre news stories of the week.
For sure.
I think that it may have been just who the fuck knows.
I mean, it's just it's strange.
We don't know.
It's going to come out.
It that I don't think they built that.
Honestly, I think what they did is they they enhanced it.
I think it.
Yeah, I think it may have been a utility area.
So you can access these pipes.
Because you clearly see some plumbing pipes in there.
There's some large ones and they go down, which tells you that there's more plumbing
down below because it has to run.
And you know how we are as men.
We're we're kids when it comes to dude, look what I found.
Let's go see where it goes.
Yeah.
Here's the bath.
So it says here that the tunnels were apparently designed to reach an abandoned woman's mikvah
or ritual bath.
Abandoned my ass.
There's brooks at the end of this tunnel.
Man would go through any tunnel to get a glimpse of a woman.
See all these little little periscopes come up.
They should have just explained that to the cops in the first place.
Hey, we were this is a place where we went off.
You don't understand.
We're not allowed to look at women.
You get it.
I like porkies.
Porkies.
Looking through the wall.
You remember, remember that one guy that stuck his penis to the wall of porkies that gym
teacher went over there and grabbed it and started yank on it.
I know what it looks like.
I want to have to look at all your penises to make sure I can get the right one.
Wow.
I've never seen porkies and now I definitely.
It's hilarious.
Typical 1980s booby movie.
It's hilarious.
Booby movie.
They came out of the porkies too, didn't they?
They did.
Booby movie.
It was.
It was just a stupid teenage.
It's kind of like Animal House.
I was going to say, what other booby movies come to mind here?
Meatballs, all those type of comedies, right?
Oh my God.
Was Meatballs a summer camp movie?
Yeah, the summer camp type thing.
The girl from Eight is Enough?
Eight is Enough.
Geez.
Remember her name?
I forget what it was.
The meatballs.
Oh boy.
I don't know.
Christy O'Neil or something like that.
Got me.
I never saw any of those movies.
I don't watch, what did you call them?
Booby movies?
Booby movies.
I've never seen a booby movie in my life.
Christy Nichols, I think.
Christy McNichols.
Oh, she's so cute.
Yeah, Christy McNichols.
She was.
She was definitely a heartthrob in those days.
No question.
Was she in that movie?
She wasn't in that movie.
Bill Murray, he was in the movie.
This is Kate Lynch.
Let me see here.
How did you get Christy McNichols out of that?
Yeah, Kate Lynch, does that look like Christy McNichols?
No.
Actually, I don't see her on here now.
Yeah.
You pulled that name out of nowhere.
Huh.
Now we're looking at the picture of meatballs on the-
See?
Booby movie.
There we go.
Anyways, yeah, it was one of those things.
Oh God.
Look, the movie was funny from back in the time.
Oh, sure.
I bet you'd be funny now.
There was a lot of- Bill Murray had a very specific- Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd,
the old SNL crew of that era, they all had their signature style movies that they put
out.
Their chic, their schtick, what do you call it?
Stupid, like Spies Like Us with Dan Aykroyd.
That was a good one.
And Chevy Chase.
Fletch.
Yeah, that was so much fun.
Fletch.
Fletch, classic.
And then there's the King of Campy.
Campy movies?
Campiness.
Yeah, kind of that dry, sarcastic, never take him serious about anything.
What comedy I liked was Stripes.
Hold on.
Campiness?
What is that?
I've never heard that.
Cheesiness.
It's another word for cheesiness.
Yeah, sort of cheesiness with maybe a flare of sophistication behind it.
Well that would be Caddyshack.
Yeah.
Caddyshack, that would be Stripes, like you were just saying.
So Stripes with Bill Murray.
I actually- I want to see that again.
That was such a great movie.
Stripes?
Yeah, that was funny as hell, man.
I want to see that again.
I've only seen it once in my whole life.
Well I liked Stripes.
And I was way too-
And I was way too young to see it.
I liked Stripes, especially during the time when they're doing their little formation
things and they have their little songs.
That's the fact, Jack.
Boom shakalaka laka, boom shakalaka laka.
Yes.
That was good stuff.
That was a good scene.
Well, you know, there's a lot of good stuff in the 80s that just came out, but I'm kind
of- is that Harold Ramis?
Yes, from Ghostbusters.
Oh my God.
Who's the girl in there?
I thought I recognized her.
PJ Soles.
Sean Young is in there.
Interesting.
John Candy is in there.
John Candy.
John Larriquette.
That was-
So there was a story about them shaving their heads and, you know, they went in there, they
were like- they didn't know- when they went in to the movie, they didn't know- or what
am I trying to say?
When they did the scene, they didn't tell them they were going to get their head shaved
at that time.
So they wanted the excitement or the-
The real reaction.
The awness of the- yeah.
It was kind of funny.
It was the interview that they put on there.
We're watching clips of stripes here.
It looks funny.
I need to go back and watch it again.
There are a bunch of movies.
You know, a lot of the kids nowadays- I shouldn't call them kids.
Some of the folks now- I mean, some of these movies just are- they're not on the radar.
They don't populate on Netflix.
No, they don't.
They don't populate-
They don't even know they exist.
I mean, look, Netflix offers a lot, but I wish they would go back and-
Play some older movies.
Yeah, put some classic shit on that.
I agree.
I think that's kind of cool.
Like Plane, Trains, and Automobiles, right?
I mean, that's currently on there.
That's John Candy.
Uncle Buck.
Plane, Trains, and Automobiles is on Netflix right now.
Is it really?
Yeah, I watched it.
I loved that movie.
I watched it during the Christmas time.
Oh, it's great.
It's great.
It's got a sad ending, though.
Well, you know, John Candy's wife dies, and he was doing whatever he could to survive,
you know, and he was selling a-
He died at the end.
Pardon?
Plane, Trains, and Automobiles?
John Candy died at the end.
Did he?
I believe so.
No, he does not die at the end.
Are you sure?
Yeah, yeah.
That doesn't make sense for a movie like that.
No, he doesn't die at the end.
He ends up moving in with Steve Martin at the very end.
I remember there was some kind of death.
His wife-
Was it his wife?
John Candy's wife passed away, and he finally explains to Steve Martin, this is why I'm
out here.
I don't have a life.
I traveled from Pony to Point B.
Maybe that's what it was.
I had to get all these stupor shower rings, curtain rings, to make a living.
That's what I do for a job.
That's what I do.
I make a minimal money, and I'm going-
That's right, because Steve Martin just despised him after everything they went through.
Like, totally despised him.
Because Steve Martin was sitting in a meeting, and he was just like, I got to get out of
here.
And this guy was like, this boss in the meeting was just like going on and rambling and talking
about irrelevant stuff.
And then at the end of the meeting, what took like an hour and a half, two hours, he's going,
that's pretty convenient after the holidays.
And he was kind of like, are you fucking kidding me?
We're not going to make a decision anyways.
And so he runs out the door, and then he was like, I got to make this flight.
And one of his coworkers was like, you're never going to make it.
And sure enough, he starts running down the street to get to the cab, and he trips over
this chest, this travel chest.
And it's John Candy's travel chest.
But it's just funny-
Isn't he part of some sort of, oh no, that was a totally different movie.
But it's just funny because before he tripped over the chest, he's got this eye contact
with Kevin Bacon.
There's another star in the movie.
He just did a little cameo.
Yeah.
So they're trying to battle and fight because this is the style of, that's what it is in
New York where you got to get the cab.
It's like you got to fight for almost.
Right.
It's kind of ridiculous.
I just had the memory-
Those are not pillows.
Right.
Those are-
Remember Home Alone?
John Candy's part of some band.
What do you call them?
I remember that.
Home Alone band?
Yeah.
Remember, she's trying to get back and she can't get on the airplane, so she goes with
these people in the van, and they're part of that German band.
With the accordions and shit.
Like a polka band?
Yeah, it's a polka band.
John Candy's part of the polka band in Home Alone.
He's dead now, isn't he?
John Candy, did he die a while back?
Yeah, so sad.
That was too bad.
Well, you know, he didn't take care of himself.
See, there he is.
I thought it was a polka band.
He was actually kind of a... I enjoyed his... I enjoyed his... I enjoyed his... I
enjoyed his movies.
His Uncle Buck.
He was awesome.
Yeah.
I liked him in Uncle Buck because he went out there and defended the girl and beat up
her boyfriend and hit him with the golf balls.
That's what it was.
He told his hurt boyfriend to run because he was going to kick ass because he was trying
to rape her, and he was like, yeah, you need to go running.
He takes his golf ball out, takes his golf bag out, starts smacking these balls, and
hits him.
I thought it was hilarious.
Shit, he died when he was 44.
Yeah.
Wow.
He had a heart attack, I'm assuming.
Well, he was a large man.
He was.
Yeah, he was not healthy.
He played a lot of good spoof characters.
He was a...
Like even the space balls.
I like an Uncle Buck where he had to sit down and do the steak challenge, and he had to
eat the steak, the salad, the potato, the shrimp, and the steak was super fatty.
He ate all the meat.
All that was left on his plate was a big hunk of fat.
We were like, nope, you got to eat all of it.
So he forced it down.
That was a good scene.
It's such a good movie.
It is.
That is actually probably my favorite.
Larry, you ready for another beer, bud?
Are you doing good?
Yeah, hand me one.
Yeah, sure.
Okay, we're drinking down a little Coors Light Larry brought for the podcast, and we've
got our bearded butchers blend seasoning koozies.
Some silver bullet pounders.
Thank you.
Oh, these are nice big old 16-hourers, too.
Great.
Ain't fucking around.
Shit.
Nothing but the best for you, Sean.
God bless, except for Christmas presents.
Ooh, was that out loud?
No.
You should have brought your cooler over.
Damn it.
Oh.
Full of beer.
I think that's what I'm going to do.
There you go.
Make use of that gift.
I am.
I think I'm going to bring it over and keep it over here.
Let me plug it in, put some cooling element in there.
Nice.
Man, I'll tell you what.
It is, I never did introduce this at the very beginning of the podcast.
Yeah, we did.
Yeah, you did.
Yeah, what we didn't do, it is January 10th, 2024.
Ah, yeah, that's right.
Yeah.
God, it's almost mid-January already.
Almost.
Time is flying by.
That is ridiculous.
We got playoffs happening.
Yes, we do.
The second half is going to pop up.
We're going to talk a little bit about the playoffs.
We're going to talk about Wild Card Weekend.
Wild Card Weekend.
Dallas Cowboys and your...
Tennessee Titans didn't make it this year, bro.
Mike Vrabel got canned.
He did, he got fired.
We'll talk about that a little bit.
Larry, you on board with the Dallas Cowboys?
What do you got going on?
Oh, yeah, man.
We're keeping track of it.
Yeah.
Now, let's talk about that in the second half, for sure.
All right.
There's lots.
We got diets for elephants and other animals in Germany at the Berland Zoo.
Takes all the trees, the Christmas trees that they don't sell.
We can discuss that.
Elephants eat Christmas trees.
Yeah, that's crazy.
Berland Zoo.
Dudes Like Us, it is January 10th.
Thank you, Mr. Producer, for showing up.
I'm Sean.
I'm Paul.
I'm Jeff.
I'm Mike.