All right, this is officially our second episode of our fifth season.
Yes.
And it's officially winter.
It's officially cold as a damn cold.
It's cold outside, man.
Yes.
It's January 16th, 2024.
Dude, it's like a moment here.
Welcome to the podcast.
We've got a great show lined up today.
I'm Paul.
And I am Joe.
It's 25 degrees outside.
It was eight yesterday.
Eight.
It may be 25 now, but it was like 10, 12 this morning.
As cold.
Yeah.
I've been taking my wife to work in the morning.
And you know, strange enough, I chose to walk over to Jeff's house, at least partially.
I was cooped up in the house.
I work from home.
So I was like, yeah, I need a little fresh air.
I pulled up next to him and he opens the door.
And I'm like, we've been doing this for four and a half years or five years.
You've never gotten a head start and started walking.
Except on the coldest end here.
Yeah, it's 20 degrees and you decide to do this.
I got a lot of stuff going on in this brain.
I felt it therapeutic to walk a little bit before I got here.
Certainly brisk.
That's for sure.
And it was cold.
But what I was getting at is walking down the street, I noticed like several houses
that had water coming out of them.
Coming out of them?
Really?
There's already burst pipes?
Yeah, there's burst pipes.
I mean, a lot of people will note that there's like faucets that don't work.
That's because some of the plumbing gets jammed up.
But on worst case scenarios, those plumbing parts that get clogged up,
once that ice starts to really form, man, it expands.
It's the hard freeze warning, right?
I will tell you, through my job, I have seen some spectacular stuff that ice can do.
Like Dallas, for example, the city of Dallas has a plant where they process water.
And they distribute it.
It's like in the Highland Park area.
Like they pull the poop out?
Like a sewage plant.
I don't think they manage like sanitary water like that.
I think what they do is they just have water that's coming in from a stream or a fresh area.
Like runoff, maybe?
Like rain runoff?
It's water that's channeled there strategically.
So they've got these avenues that the water gets.
So the plant will take the water and it puts them into these large vats in a process.
It puts it through filters and stuff.
And what I'm striving at is that these pipes are 24 inches, 3 foot in diameter.
And they're big boy pipes.
They're super thick.
They've got bolts that they got like 50 rivets around this motherfucker.
And that thing was split open like a coconut.
Oh wow.
From ice.
It's amazing what Mother Nature can do.
Half inch thick steel or iron or whatever.
It's crazy.
Mother Nature is crazy.
It's absolutely bone.
It just took me back to it's hard to fathom that something like that can happen from water freezing.
Have you ever seen the Great Lakes?
There's like an ice pile up when there's like heavy winds during winter.
And it stacks up this big gigantic...
Like iceberg-y type things?
Small icebergs.
And it's the same type of thing.
It's just incredibly destructive.
And we think that we can control the climate.
Oh yeah, we totally do.
And impact it.
You're so stupid.
It kinda is.
Oh, it's global warming.
Bitch please.
It doesn't look like global warming to me, you fucktards.
Yeah, Julie, where she works, they had a couple pipes burst in the ceiling right at the front of the building.
And it just flooded the whole front office all the way down and there's water.
At the CTE Center, huh?
Yeah.
Wow.
That's expensive.
Yeah.
And you know, I will tell you...
And we pay for that, right?
If there's insurance, yeah, sure.
The insurance will cover it.
But there's a lot of moving parts to that.
Like there's a lot of pipes that burst from fire suppression systems.
Those are kind of the big heavy hitters.
Because a lot of times those things will be put somewhere where the area's not climatized.
Like there are specific rules that kind of are forgotten.
They're the first to get frozen and ruptured, yeah.
They're kind of forgotten.
It's kind of like, hey, you know, they got the fire suppression systems up in the attic or above, right below the roof lines.
And the contractors forget that they need to climatize that.
They got to like wrap it in, you know, foam.
Yeah, well, they got to...
Well, there needs to be some sort of a radiant barrier of some sort to maintain the integrity climatically in that little area.
Because when it freezes, those joints pop.
That's another amazing thing because those pipes are super thick too.
And those things are just being contorted like they're freaking starburst candies, you know.
It's amazing.
The power of nature.
And the pressure of water that comes out of those.
Yeah.
So my question is this.
How come the houses here in North Texas are not built to accommodate for the cold?
It gets cold like this every year.
There may be one winter where it doesn't get down to eight.
But how come the houses up in Wisconsin and Chicago don't burst?
Yeah, because they don't want to...
It's not code, for one thing.
And if it's not code, then certainly home builders are not going to go the extra cost, right?
Yeah, that's kind of what it is.
And there's cutting corners is one.
And there's also where you put the pipes.
A lot of times in the northern states, they won't have pipes on the exterior of the building or the perimeter of the building.
Meaning that if there's a bathroom, they keep it all within the envelope of the house and not that outside wall.
Where I grew up, that was the case.
Yeah.
Because I have two.
Whenever it gets this cold, I have two areas in the house and they're both externally facing my externally facing sink, my sink.
You know, the cold water stops.
And then the toilet right next to it.
So if we were to build another house, we want to say no outside faucets or pipes.
Well, you won't have like a spigot, you know, for...
Well, no, I mean inside.
Like you don't want your kitchen sink.
Like yours is on a wall.
Mine's right. And it never has any problems, which is interesting.
Typically, you know, but it does happen.
Under the slab leaks are, you know, that happens.
I mean, look, leaks happen.
It's unfortunate, but water is devastating, too.
That's what I mean. Why don't they change the code? They know it happens every year.
People you hear just crazy shit happen with all their pipes.
What the February freeze was catastrophic.
Well, that was bad.
Two years ago.
But every year it does this.
That was like tens of thousands of...
Because that was compounded with the power being out and nobody had the ability to heat up.
And you know what's fucked up about that whole experience is the money that it costs to do all those repairs that the insurance companies had to pay for.
You know, you're kind of pointing fingers at who's to blame for this.
And then the ERCOP is kind of like, hey, what's this?
But guess what? We're a municipality.
So you can't suck this fuck off.
Well, their whole board quit after that whole thing.
Like literally like six of them.
They were all like, hey, we're done here.
So they didn't want to tab on that.
We are. So you wonder why your insurance is going up.
It's because of that.
That's part of that. Right.
You know, probably. Yeah.
They're going to get their money back somehow.
Oh, yeah. They're not going to lose money.
And I listened to the news before it got cold here.
So last Friday, maybe.
And Greg Abbott was on making an announcement saying, hey, there's cold coming up.
We got plenty of power.
There are two days because we got wind power back up.
But there are going to be two periods.
And I'm making this up Monday at noon from noon to three.
Like they already knew that.
Yeah.
So because they see the weather patterns like what there's going to be no wind power from like noon to three on Monday.
Wind power. God.
And on Tuesday. So they're like during those times we have reserve energy, but we may ask you to.
Not when you're washing machine during that period. Correct.
So my thing is we can't rely on this renewable energy because it's unreliable.
That's right. Because you have your wind stops.
You have to make accommodations for it.
You have to plan and you're out of energy unless you have a coal backup somewhere.
Right. Yeah.
You know, during that period, I just ran my washer washing machine empty.
I just ran it. Right.
So, I mean, there's other kind of tricks.
I'm going to call it tricks, but there's like little things that you get circulating pumps for.
I mean, they already sell those.
Like, for example, if you are if you have part of your house where it takes forever for the hot water to get to.
Oh, I hate that. Yes. Tell me how to fix that. I hate it.
It's called a circulating pump. So really you go to the farthest end.
I thought it was an Insta hot thing. Insta pot. No, not Insta pot. Oh.
All right. So that's just the source. The water is hot.
So that has nothing to do unless you have it like right next to the sink with again and again.
No, the circulating pump is different. So circulating pump, you go to where it's at.
So you go to your sink and you you have those two. You have the hot and cold. Right. Right.
And you basically you unscrew the little things that go to the sink and then you tie one into the the cold into one side of the pump and you tie the hot into the other side of the pump.
And the pump has an output that it's got its own little heater.
So it's like putting a little water underneath your no, no, no, no.
So what it does, it takes the hot water and it shoves it into the cold water.
That's it. That's why they call it a circulating pump.
Like constantly. No, there's a timer.
Some of them are kind of sophisticated where you have Wi-Fi where you can say, hey, I want you to turn on.
Like if you get up, let's say you take a shower strategically every six, six thirty in the morning every single day.
Hey, I want you to turn on at six twenty. Circulated pump goes turns on.
OK, it turns out for like a couple of minutes.
So it's basically it's basically, you know, when you go to the sink and you put on hot water and then you walk off for five minutes.
Yes. Ten minutes.
But doing that for you, but not wasting the water. Exactly.
And it's kind of interesting how it works. I mean, it's it's shoving the hot water into the cold side. Right.
You know, so basically if you're somewhere else in the house and you flip the cold water on, it might be a little it's going to be warm.
However, it won't stay warm for long because, you know, it's does that make sense?
Yeah, no, it totally makes sense. But I mean, but I'm not crazy.
I mean, I thought in the newer homes now they have like the, you know, the big thing that's like it's instant hot water.
All that is is it's a tankless water. It's a tankless water heater.
Yeah. I mean, that's just another way of getting hot water.
It's not instant, though. It still has to run through your pipes.
Yeah. Really? Yeah.
But everybody who has one like touts how? Oh, yeah.
No, I know that problem anymore because, you know, I don't know.
I don't know. That's not true. That is nothing. Not true.
No, not at all. So like if you were to get a if you were to get a tankless water heater in your house and you were to do nothing else but get the tankless water heater, it's still going to take the same amount of time for that hot water to get from point A to point B.
Very interesting. Because you can't. I mean, right.
Because all it's doing is a different way of heating water is not making the water get through the pipe any faster. That's correct.
And, you know, it consumes a tremendous amount of natural gas.
Which is good. I like it.
Well, it depends unless you're like in New York where they want to rule out gas natural gas.
Right now they're going after was it kitchen sink dishwashers.
When is it going to use you to allow to use like half a cup of water to clean your dishes and their dishwashers.
When is this going to stop? When Biden gets out.
And he needs to get out.
Iowa was a big step in that direction.
Well, we're going to do this real quick. Going back to the windmills.
Those are, you know, those are ecological and they don't use fuels.
Well, they take 80 gallons of oil a year.
Yeah, it's a ridiculous amount of oil that it takes to lubricate the engines.
Yeah, but that's made from bio biofuel.
That's from dinosaur shit. Oh, well, that doesn't sound right.
You know, so 80 get each one of those.
You got to Lubbock all those 80 gallons.
It's 80 gallons. 80 barrels in it.
Well, they said 80 gallons.
Who's they? The news on the radio.
Unless they read it wrong.
So I have no way of knowing if that's a lot or not, because I mean,
when you consider how much energy they produce versus how much oil they need to stay operational.
Does one of those produce a lot? I have no idea.
I just think they're obscene. They're obnoxious.
And I can't imagine that people who built their retirement home, you know, like out in the country.
And now what they look at is like 4000 of these stupid windmills.
I can't imagine they're happy about it.
Well, it's just like over on the East Coast. Right.
So they want to put they put these windmills in the ocean.
Well, they're backing off of that now.
Well, they are because it's killing whales. Well, that too.
But the Kennedys didn't want to look at them.
You know, they're big like one. If you remember, what was his name? Robert Kennedy,
the guy who killed the chicken chip aqua, whatever that place was.
No, Senator Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Robert Kennedy. OK.
You know, he was big proponent for clean energy.
But they're like, you know, we're going to put this wind farm out there like no.
Yeah, I want to see it.
I want clean energy, but just not where I am.
NIMBY, not in my backyard. Right. Right.
So nauseating. It is.
So plus it's they're fearing with whale migration.
Because I guess those produce some kind of ultrasonic sound.
I tell you what, causing whale problem.
And I find it so interesting when the left the leftist environmental groups turn on each other.
It's just like the Sierra Sierra, Nevada Sierra Sierra Club Sierra Club,
when all the birds were getting killed by the by the windmills out in the rural areas.
I mean, eagles and falcons and hawks.
I mean, by the thousands, you know, torn up by these things.
I don't know. Did they solve that problem or do they just pay them to go away?
The Sierra Club. I don't know.
Do they put like a big fan cover over it like you? Yeah, they did.
In your house. Yeah. Yeah.
There's there's a mesh. There's a style of windmill that is far better to use than the current ones that we have.
Like a corkscrew. Yes.
So there are pylons that basically instead of having these huge propellers stretched out,
these things are literally like three feet wide and go up 10 foot and they just spin on a cylinder.
Why wouldn't they do that? Well, there's that looks like a new wind turbine design.
Look at that. That was Tom out. Yeah. Yep. Yep.
So those things are supposed to be far more efficient and don't require 700 gallons of oil a day a year.
Are they are they degradable, biodegradable because the big ones are not.
I don't know. I don't know. We talked about that.
There's like huge we did talk about that where they're burying the blades in the salt mines.
Yeah. But yeah, the nuclear, the nuclear waste.
But those are they biodegradable? I don't know.
Probably not. I would assume that they're just like the other ones, except that they're not so tremendous.
Those almost look metallic. I don't know if they are.
Well, I think they just look like drill bits. It's German engineering and they're ingenious.
In fact, they've got a couple that will literally like they'll do in a tremendous amount of energy for your house.
Put that on my roof. Yeah, they're not.
It only looks like it's 200 feet tall. No, I don't.
True. I don't know how tall those are, but they've had some small.
I think that's a dude standing right there on the right on the picture.
Oh, yeah. Oh, OK. So it's not as OK. It's not as big as what I was thinking then.
No. Well, whatever. I mean, they're cool, though.
So we're talking about alternatives in better, better alternative.
They're better and they don't take up all the oil.
I mean, I mean, because those other ones take an absurd amount of oil.
They really do. Seventy gallons. I mean, I'm looking at 700 gallons.
Those don't take any kind of oils. I don't know. I'm sure they do.
But I'm also they also are balanced on some sort of.
I mean, I don't know. I mean, they're balanced, though. The science of it is that they're kind of on a pivot.
What's it called? Pivoting on a little like a top.
You know how a spinning top can spin for quite some time.
Interesting. Whatever. Again, I think they should design giant balls that go, gung, gung, gung, gung.
They're in my beds. I mean, that's just that's the way to generate limitless energy.
Actually, you know, we talked about this before, but fusion is making leaps and bounds, man.
It's coming. I think it's going to happen in our lifetime.
I think they'll have not a working reactor, but they will they will prove that it's scalable within our lifetime.
I have fusion. That's incredible.
You know, it's going to it's going to solve all these problems.
Well, it's it's only going to create new ones because we're about we're all the fossil fuel businesses,
you know, all the people that own all the fossil fuel businesses, they're going to be all been out of shape.
You buy all the fusion. Fuck that. Well, yeah, but these are but these are going to be for power generation.
These are nuclear fusion, nuclear fusion power plants.
It's not going to be to run your car. I don't think. Well, I mean, that's a good point.
Why not? Well, at some point. I mean, back in the future, that's what he had.
Yeah. He put banana peels in his fusion reactor. That's true.
Yeah, that is true. So some old tampons and toilet paper.
Oh, yeah. I don't know about tampons. I just whatever was lying around in the garbage can.
Yeah, he did. He just kind of took the lid off the garbage and started dumping shit in there.
And it's funny if you pull like one nasty old sock.
Would it would it be awesome? Just well open.
Fine. I don't know about that in the movies.
It was like that's my he's holding by the string.
He's like, come on, Doc. That's my condom.
I'm not again. She's anyway.
Well, you know what? So the we're going on the energy thing that they yeah, those women are ridiculous.
And you're right. We're driving. I mean, I've you go to Lubbock when a lot when you go visit Brandon.
I travel out there and I hate seeing them. I don't I don't hate them.
I don't hate them. But I'll tell you what, I had dinner at a at a restaurant, a little steak place out there by Amarillo.
And I was sitting at the bar and there was a group of four guys sitting right next to me.
And they were all windmill technicians, workers, engineers.
It's a business, I'm sure. Well, what he told me was like, he was like, I don't care what the really weird accent, man.
It was like Hungarian. No, he was like from Michigan, but had a country.
It was like backwards country, Michigan, that kind of Canadian a, you know, kind of thing.
So it was really odd. It was a mind bend. Yeah.
But it was like, well, never. I don't know. Hey, what was he saying?
What he was saying, it was ridiculous how inefficient those things were.
Oh, God. It's like, yes, they absolutely produce energy.
They do what they're supposed to do.
But the amount of money it takes to maintain those is absolutely ridiculous.
He was just like, we're four engineers. I'm not going to tell you how much we get paid, but it ain't worth it for the work that we do.
It's absolutely crazy. Just just it just crawls all over you because that just tells you that the reason for doing it is not because it's a superior way of generating electricity.
No, it's it's it's a bullshit. It's a scam. Guys, look what we did.
Aren't you proud of me? It's a scam. It's a virtue signal.
It's a virtue. Just like the just like I think a lot of folks do with the EVs who are having a lot of trouble now.
Right. During this cold stand. I know. So great.
I hate to I hate to like like like love their misery.
But so what was the story? Where were they in?
Maybe Michigan or Detroit or something. And they and they drove down to the.
Well, first of all, they couldn't charge. Were they not allowed to charge at their house?
They're allowed power. Correct.
So they're going down to the superchargers or the outdoor chargers where you go up and you pull up and sit for three hours and you charge your car.
Well, no, it's not supposed to be three hours. Well, it's not supposed to be like 40 minutes.
But they charged it for three hours and it didn't do anything.
Right. It's too cold to charge your car.
And there's like a graveyard of EV vehicle. They called it a graveyard of robots.
Just one person's comment. Yes.
This EVs are falling apart, dude. They are.
And the dealers are saying we're not losing any more money.
We're done with this. Well, did you hear that Hertz is selling 20,000 of them? Yes.
At a loss of twenty five million dollars.
It's not practical when businesses are losing money. It's not going to fly. Well, every time I go out to see my dad and I say I need a rental car, they always try to get me a Tesla.
Screw it. I always say no, because I'll be stranded. I know where I'm going and they don't have chargers down there.
No. Anywhere that I've seen. Right. So I mean, the only reason why they stay to float and have stayed afloat this long is because they are subsidized by the government.
Didn't they? I think they said that if they weren't subsidized, the cheapest one would be.
Man, I don't want to throw out numbers that are totally bullshit, but I thought it was like 60,000 would be the cheapest that they would be.
But it's got to be way more than that. That's how much they are now.
I think they are about 50,000 because there's Tesla's come out with some I say inexpensive, but for an EV, they're like in the 30s, I think.
Yeah. All right. Well, it'd be interesting to hear what the stat is on what they would be if it was a, you know, apples to apples, fair level playing field against a gasoline car.
Well, Ford has lost billions, billions. They allow that to happen.
Well, they lose 60,000 dollars a car when they sell it like EVs, EVs.
Just dumb. How do you how do you maintain that?
Well, and why would you even want to like what was the political motivation?
It's a virtue signal. Like, look at us. We're we're ahead of the game.
You can power your house off your Ford F-150.
And then they built them and there's this. It's a nice truck.
Don't get me wrong. It is cool. But super heavy. Don't ever get into a fender bender with it.
Yeah, no shit. Well, you'll win if you're in the truck.
But there's problems with the truck, you know, and I see these videos where people like, I turned it in after six months or I tried towing something.
I made it 20 miles. It's not proven stuff like that.
And I see it being a government sponsored experiment. Correct.
It's all it is. And they're only going to get more expensive because what's what the government's looking at now, because right now they we pay for all the roads via our gas tax.
Right. Tesla's electric cars don't pay a gas tax because they don't they don't they don't pay.
They don't get fuel. That's right. And these cars are heavier.
And the way their tires are designed, it chews up the roads faster. Great.
So I have not heard that. Yes. So these are because because they're so heavy and the tires are a certain way they're chewing up the roads faster, but they're not paying into the fun to repair them, which only goes on to that.
That's kind of like, you know, I think. Well, whatever. I agree.
Everyone agrees. But it's just like it was bullshit. How are they going to how are they going to fix that?
I mean, they're going to have what I've heard. I don't know.
What I've heard is these governments are like, OK, well, if you have an EV, just like we have a registration every year, 70, 75 bucks.
Well, EVs may be 300 bucks. Right. To make up that lost tax.
And then they won't buy them. That's what I mean. They're going to get more expensive. Right.
And they're already not buying them. Right. Even when they're subsidized, they're not buying them. Right.
And I saw a video a guy had a had a Tesla. Actually, though, he had a Rivian Rivian SUV or truck and he was doing a comparison between how much it cost him to supercharge his Rivian and or fill a comparable car up with gas.
So he was like, he's like, this has an equivalent of eight hundred fifty. Yeah. Total cost of ownership. Right.
So he's like a comparable. We get like maybe 15 miles a gallon. It's a big truck. Gas is now two dollars and fifty cents a gallon.
So he did all the math and for it, he put in 43 kilowatt hours in his truck and it got him ninety four miles.
And he did all the math and he goes, that's about 10 gallons of gas at two fifty because he put I think it cost him twenty five bucks. Right. Right.
For those forty three kilowatt hours. So he did all the math and the fuel.
So the electricity for twenty five bucks got him ninety three miles.
If you want to spend that same money on a car that got fifty thousand, he would have gotten one hundred and fifty miles.
Then he goes, all right, then he backtracked that he goes, OK, for me to get one hundred fifty miles out of an electric charge, it would cost me forty bucks instead of the twenty five.
So it's fifteen bucks more. So even the fuel is getting out of whack now.
Yeah. Cost wise. How do you put a price on the fact that he released point zero zero zero zero zero zero zero made the air better.
But his tires are coming apart. He's making the roads fall apart. I know I'm joking. It's not even destroying the roads.
Our roads already suck. Big difference from the environment. Our infrastructure of the United States is tattered.
Yeah. The roads are not being taken care of. They're not being fixed in a constructive manner.
I mean, look, look at the construction going on around Dallas, Fort Worth. It's it's kind of halted.
You know, have you seen like I mean, where are we at? I don't leave Frisco.
I'm with you. I kind of don't know what's going on down in Dallas. It's really sad. Well, I drive around.
Yeah, you get around much more than so. Yeah. And I kind of go out far to like a couple hours out and drive back.
It's just not a lot going on. You know, interesting.
Well, why are you were you speculating? I'm just I don't think the money's there. The budget's not there for it.
I'm thinking that, you know, we're we're we're we're putting our money in other baskets, you know, kind of like Joe Biden passed the infrastructure bill.
What he calls the infrastructure bill. That's really not an infrastructure bill. It's a green energy bill.
Yeah. Well, you know, the structure to be to build and maintain roads and bridges, right?
He's just a piece of shit. You know, let's let's just be real. He's you know, he doesn't know what hats off to me.
I don't know. I mean, I want Donald Trump to be president, but at the same time, I don't want to I don't want to bring his attitude.
I want him to be president. I want his policies. God bless it. Everybody wants his policies.
It's going to be the Democrats. It's going to be a shit show, man.
It's going to be a shit show this whole year. It's going to be a show next year. I don't even trust the voting system.
I'm just kind of like, well, that's just it. We vote. So like, well, by the way, did you so they were going over some of the exit polls.
I don't know if this came from the exit poll, but it was Iowans.
How many of them thought that Biden won the election like fair and square?
And it was like 65 percent said that he didn't.
Sixty five percent said that he they didn't think he won the election fair and square, meaning they all believing that it was stolen. Right.
So crazy. But let's let's dig into that a little bit.
I mean, 65 percent. So does that mean the Democrats think that or do you believe that Republicans?
Yeah, yes. This this weekend was just Republican. The Iowans cock ass is just cock ass.
I'm not sure that's how they pronounce it. Yeah, I think that's a little tongue tied.
We're really excited about the cock asses this year.
How are you going to vote? Anyway, sorry. It's only Republican.
But what I did read was it always an hour. Sorry. It's the primary.
Yeah. But why? So is there another one? There's a bunch of them.
Every state, every state will have every state.
I was typically the first. But OK. And they call it. I was the first.
And then Vivek was like, I'm out. Well, he got he got less than 8 percent.
Well, still, he said he's out. So it is the very first litmus test for the whole the whole primary process.
Yeah. He was so far behind the other two. Yeah. You were so far behind Trump.
Yeah. He didn't come in second or third. And he's funding his own thing.
He's like, I've got a lot of time. I'll come back.
I was really surprised that DeSantis edged out Haley honestly.
Well, well, neither one of them are relevant. It doesn't matter. Right.
But I thought I was going to say is they were looking at one of the counties and.
The Democrats pushed a huge campaign to switch sides.
You can do that on on the day that you vote. And they did so many that Nikki Haley one by one vote in that county.
They had so many Democrats swat, swept side to kind of edge out DeSantis.
No, Trump. So, oh, she beat Trump in that county.
Yes. By one vote. Just one county, though. Yeah.
Because he trumps everywhere. Correct. So they're sneaky games.
That's a thing. Oh, yeah. So are they gerrymandering those votes as well?
No, it's not gerrymandering. It's so in the Iowa caucus, you're allowed to do it.
You're allowed to. It's supposed to be just it's the Republican primary.
So just registered Republicans are supposed to vote in it.
And Republicans are not supposed to Democrat primary.
The Democrats are not supposed to vote in the public, but they're they're shady. Right.
And they're shady on both sides, really. But Democrats Republicans do it, too.
Yeah, they'll do it, too. But and so in the Iowa caucus, you're allowed to on on the day that you vote can switch from Democrat to Republican.
But they they have they've used their vote now. They can't go vote in the Democrat caucus.
Yeah. Right. And that's and that's irrelevant because it's Biden.
Because yeah, because yeah, when you have an incumbent.
Well, I bet we see more of that this year than I see a lot more of the Democrats doing absolutely here.
Yeah. But then again, I mean, R.F.K. Junior and now Joe Manchin is threatening to join the no no titles party.
The no the third party. Yeah, it's a third party, but it's called the no no names.
No, no names or something called third party. No, no, they all have a name.
It's a particular it's the wigs. It's the no titles party or something like that.
Well, I remember 10, 15 plus years ago, Rush Limbaugh on his program says we need to instill Operation Chaos,
which was I don't know if it was the rush limbaugh said that Rush Limbaugh on his show.
So we need to launch Operation Chaos, which was this exact thing.
Right. We're Republicans. We need to make sure I can't remember who it was.
Hillary Clinton doesn't get the the the nod.
So you need to switch sides and vote for whoever it was.
It's so shady, though, but I get it. But both sides do it.
Both sides do. And the and the Dems did it.
They in the in one county, they were able to organize very well and did it.
Yeah, they did it. No, no labels. No labels. That's it.
God, I'm sure. I'm sure one of our 35 listeners was like, no labels.
I haven't heard jack shit from him in a month or more.
JFK Junior. Yeah. R.F.K. Junior. Yeah.
Yeah. They probably had Jimmy the fish show up at his house.
Hey, you can't go with you. No, no, no. He's out there.
He's out there doing his thing. But I saw a lot of California.
I caught him. They took him off the ballot in California.
Yeah, something like that. But he made some headlines recently that were very inflammatory.
And then when you read what he was talking about, it wasn't so bad.
He was justified. Oh, he was justifying.
He was justifying. OK. So his father was R.F.K. Right.
And he was the attorney general of the United States.
And the attorney general investigated Martin Luther King.
Right. He told the FBI as the attorney general, he told the FBI to listen in on MLK's, you know, phone calls and stuff.
And they were asking him. Yeah. Wiretap. There it is.
R.F.K. Junior defends Kennedy administration wiretap of Martin Luther King.
And he had an interesting spin on it.
He was saying that that the CIA was going after Hoover. Was it Hoover?
Hoover was going after MLK. Hoover was the FBI. No. OK.
Well, who was the director of the CIA back then?
I almost had it anyway because the CIA was going after MLK and telling the FBI that that MLK is all these bad things.
He's arguing that his father told the FBI to listen in on MLK, not to go after him, but to find the truth and and and to exonerate him.
You know what I mean? Right. To sort of. So who knows if that's really the case or not.
But yeah. So on Martin Luther King Day yesterday, the FBI was taking a beating.
What year were you talking about? Well, they posted a tweet.
Yes. Saying, hey, we're celebrating MLK and we always have underneath was like, yeah, this is after you wiretapped them.
And yes, this and this and may have been involved in his assassination.
And yeah, they said they mailed letters to him to tell him to commit suicide and stuff.
I was like, what? Anyway, so they got thrown under the bus. Pretty good.
Yeah. When did Martin Luther King get assassinated?
It was the 60s, 60, 69, maybe 67. So it's 68. So obviously, you know, 66, 67 was when the FBI was, you know, tailing him and wiretapping him.
And anyway, yeah, it didn't that that that tweet didn't go well.
So as Richard Helms as the CIA director back then, that doesn't ring a bell. But yeah. OK.
Dick Helms. Oh, he was CIA from 66 to 73.
Dick Helms. What was Bush?
Bush was from 76 to 77. Oh, one year as the attorney general.
No, he has the CIA. Oh, OK. Yeah. OK. I got you. Yeah.
Yeah, I got you. Interesting. A lot of a lot of history, a lot of history going on with all that crazy stuff.
And remember, the CIA was trying to convince everybody that MLK's inner circle were communist.
And remember, communism was a cold war. It was a height of the Cold War. And, you know, and so, you know, they were Carthi ism.
Yeah. So they want to see if that were true. You know, anyway, crazy.
It is crazy. You know, I look at the state of affairs that we are today politically and we're fucked up. I look back then throughout history.
We were just as fucked up as always. Always. You know, you go back into the eighteen hundreds.
It was fucked up back then. For sure. It's just different. Yeah.
Now we're dealing with the tranny crap and all that. The social stuff.
The social stuff back then. It was well, those social stuff back then to the whole Vietnam War. Oh, yeah. The war, the peace.
All that shit. It was just as toxic. And Kent State. Remember, oh, yeah.
I mean, it was bad back then. Yeah, it was. And it wasn't a good time.
And, you know, luckily we well, we have some mass shootings, but, you know, Kent State was bad.
That's where the cops did it. Where the National Guard or something. They shot rubber bullets and killed some people. Right.
Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, we think that iconic picture of the of the hippie putting the flower in the end of the the rifle.
Rifle. Yeah. Well, something comes blasting out and right in his eyeball.
I don't think it shot her head off. Well, you know, it's to keep things in perspective. Yeah, it's fucked up.
There's a lot of stupid shit going on, but there's a lot of stupid shit going on for since we've been.
I think you're right. I think it's a natural tendency to think that it's never been worse. Yeah.
You know, but that's not true. It's just different. It's just we're older.
We're paying attention now. And it was fucked up when, you know, when we were 10.
So the only thing I would probably not necessarily disagree, but the only thing that I would highlight is that politically, I can't remember two parties hating each other like they do now.
I bet there was a time back. But you're probably right. You're probably right.
Well, but I mean, it's so toxic. I just feel like I've never felt this toxicity.
I think I think I think one thing is, you're more aware. You're aware of it. That's true.
You know, you're in the middle of it. You're you're you know, and you read more than you probably should.
Oh, constantly. I hate it. So, you know, a lot of people don't feel that because they're not in it.
Yeah, they're like, what? What happened with what? Yeah, you're kidding. I don't feel the animosity. Right. Right.
So I think a lot of it has to do with how involved we are in the news. But again, I don't think this is anything out of the norm.
It's just the topics and the and the situations are a little bit different. Yeah. But it's, you know, in 20 years, it's going to be something else.
But one thing that was really interesting was, you know, how Texas is taken like Abbott is like wanting to shut down this border thing for at least for Texas.
So he has mobilized the Texas National Guard and and it's I've never heard of this. It's the Texas Military Department.
I was like, we have a Texas Military Department. I guess we do. I know. And so they went to the area.
The tactical border force. Right. And there's yeah, there's a whole bunch of acronyms.
And then so they went to Eagle Pass. Right. Where which is the where the coming over the most.
And so they basically took it over and they said border patrol. Not we're good. We got this right.
And so what a border patrol do. They made up a story of someone drowning.
Yeah. Migrants drowning and the border and the Texas National Guard preventing them from getting to them and saving them.
It was a total bullshit lie. Well, the only so shady what it is.
Biden in the in the federal government, the DOJ is suing Texas now saying you can't do this. Yeah.
Well, you know, in the Constitution, I believe, you know, there's the state constitution.
And if you're not doing your job, no, not it is responsibility of the governor in the state of Texas to protect its border.
I think every border state needs to step up and take care of their own their own border.
They've tried a few times and they've made them undo things. Yeah.
They had the shipping container wall in Arizona and they made it down while you're on government land.
We don't want it there. So crazy. You're impacting the migration of the newt.
Is there no one I don't know? I don't think I don't think they they didn't play an animal animal card on this one, but they typically do.
Yes. Let's talk about fun stuff. Let's talk about people who died.
How about your topic about your penis hole? Oh, penis hole.
Yeah. How do you get stuck in your I was just joking.
Oh, that was it. You know, because we always say, you know, we in the lead up to the podcast.
Oh, this is a podcast topic. And I was just thinking, what could be a funny thing that we use the word sticky.
I did use the word sticky. I'm kind of curious about the whole pub in the penis hole thing.
No. How did you manage that? I you know what? I sometimes I just think of funny things. Is there like a vacuum going on?
Oh, you mean how did that really happen? I'm just trying to figure out how the hair got into the penis.
Oh, it doesn't get into the penis hole. It just covers the hole. And then like, yeah.
And then your spray goes all over the place and you're like, I mean, come on.
That happens to all men that let their pubic hair get very well manicured.
Oh, so you. Yeah. So I've got like a very I've got this groomed pelt.
So it's like a flat top. Yeah. See, this is why they want to talk about this kind of thing.
Now, I'm sure people are getting visuals of his shards groomed pelt.
Oh, he's a flat iron. Just kind of smooth it all out.
I mean, part it. Maybe dead feathers back. Maybe dead people.
The better thing to talk about looks like it's a feathered back.
80s feathered back. Yes. Oh, honey, that's such a good look.
When you feather your scrotum, put a fan on it, watch just like glisten in the wind.
All right. So that was Paul's topic of the day. No, that was not my topic.
That was a joke. This message brought to you. We'll be right back.
We'll be right back. Speaking of we were back drinking.
This is pretty tasty. It's a high ribed. It's a very I don't want to slim
because I'm enjoying it, but you're going to. It's hold on.
What is it? Well, you could do good to get it.
It didn't. Oh, yeah. And then we break it down.
Feels good. What? Breaking it down.
Where is the bottle? I bought it. It's redemption whiskey.
This one is the high right. Right. Boy, right.
So this is a high right bourbon. It's redemption whiskey.
It's one we've had before. It's about one hundred five proof ish.
Not wrong with that. So it's it's it's in the pocket. It's good.
It's easy to drink. Surprisingly easy to drink.
It's easy. It's got some spice. There's warm notes of caramel,
hazelnut and a little ginger meld in there.
Ginger meld. Yeah. There are some people who actually say there's like a little
stone not stone fruit, but a little a little strawberry,
a little strawberry liquor action going on. Liqueur. Yeah.
Some people. So this is the high right bourbon, but it's 60 percent corn.
OK. Interesting. It's only ninety two proof.
I think it's a hundred five. The one we have is a hundred and five proof.
Ours is a store pick. It's a total one.
Yes. So ours is going to be different than this.
There's thirty six percent right.
Well, maybe maybe that's not even the same, but, you know, it does say high right.
So that's good. Well, it's a high right.
That's the same thing. I was just a store pick. All right. So
I like it. I like that. Some sweetness on the front.
It is got some sweetness for sure.
Yeah. You know, I got to tell you, I'm I need to I hate you guys
for like always busting my balls because I like to express the way I feel about
bourbons. But today I kind of agree with you.
I kind of got a sense of what you guys go through whenever I talk about the bourbon
because look, I think that I am all ears on this redemption.
High right bourbon is good, but I will share with you.
It's a little M.G.P. each for me.
Mean it's bland. It's got a hint of blandness.
It's got a hint of genericness.
However, that doesn't take away from the fact that I like this.
I would I'm going to go ahead and you say there's no uniqueness to this.
It it doesn't scream uniqueness to me.
It it I will drink another glass of this.
I wouldn't kick it out of bed for sure. This this is good.
It's solid. I like it. It's kind of a it's kind of a light.
And I think what they said about the strawberry liqueur is kind of hits it
because it's got a really nice, soft, rosé kind of feel to it.
You know, when you when you it definitely has a sweet nose.
It doesn't have quite the sweetness in the taste.
But I mean, there is some it's good. I like it.
Fennel, fennel, fennel, fennel, fennel.
They use it. Use that in like Italian sausage sausage sausage.
Fennel notes. I got to write it downstairs.
I could bring a black pepper from the little caramel.
I don't see. I like this.
It's hazelnut. It's how much right.
Did you say was it 36 percent? All right.
So it says vanilla, red berries and toasted oak.
Oh, taste all that's the palette.
Sixty percent corn.
Interesting.
They accept those cookies over there.
What is going on?
But I like to sell. I'm going to give this a six and a half.
Oh, I was I was going to go with six point three.
So, yeah, that's about right. That's what I'm thinking.
Oh, yeah. So, yeah, I'd like it.
We saw a nine point seven for you.
Well, my point is, I probably would buy this for my collection.
It's good. Remember, it's a store pick.
Yeah. Well, that plays it out.
You know, because you never get the ninety four proof.
My God. Probably not.
But a waste. Come on. I know.
I'm busting you. It's OK.
Speaking of ball busting, you know, we went out to eighteen
forty five distillery in Lowery Crossing, Texas this past week.
So dudes like us, for those folks that don't know, have embarked
along a couple of years ago on on the on wood crafting stuff.
So we do, you know, find us on dudes like us, Instagram, find us.
There's actually a Facebook page out there.
We're going to cultivate a pretty good and add wood projects in there.
In fact, we have a dudes like us wood project page.
But I guess what I'm getting at is we were out in eighteen forty five.
We're going to hopefully start pushing some of these freebies for them.
We're making a few plaques, little wooden boxes, little wood.
Little something here. Yeah, it's exciting for me.
It's exciting for Jeff. I wish you could have gone.
I know it would have been bad.
Well, you know, it's it's exciting to go to the store with your son and buy a gun.
I thought that was kind of cool, too. What do you end up getting?
He end up getting a Springfield Hellcat Gatling gun.
Yeah, it's a Gatling gun.
It shoots six thousand rounds per second per minute.
That's nice. That's a Vulcan gun, actually.
Oh, six thousand rounds.
That's got quite the spin on that.
So we went to Shields.
Shields. Shields. Shields.
Oh, really? I said Shields. Shields. Shields.
And because I knew they had a big selection and damn, what a zoo.
What a freaking zoo. Yeah.
I mean, anyway, it was crazy.
And he had never been there.
So I thought that's kind of cool for him to see. Did you actually buy one?
Yeah, so we went upstairs to the gun area and I was like, oh, shit, here we go.
Because I don't know anything. I really honestly don't know.
But doesn't it? To me, it seems like you're going to overpay there.
No, no, I mean, because they can I don't know.
They can volume by right. So I don't know.
I mean, I know that when Jeff and I have gone there, we've looked at some other items like sweatshirts, shoes, whatever it is.
And it's kind of like, get the fuck out of here.
Really? I'm not paying that price. Yeah, the clothing is kind of overpriced.
You've lost your God bless of mind.
Well, interesting. So I definitely.
So the only price points I knew about in terms of guns were the Glocks, right?
Because I have a Glock. So, you know, I was kind of worried about that.
I was like, I haven't even done any research about, you know, if it's price or whatever.
And we walked up and sure enough, the Glock prices were the same as Academy's Glock prices.
So I was like, well, I think we're probably OK.
Anyway, but it was a freaking zoo. And I was like, I don't even know where to start here because I don't know anything about the other gun.
Was there a line to get into the area?
No, no, but everything's under lock and key.
So you have to talk to somebody, you know, and I was like, shit, man, I don't know how this is going to go.
Anyway, this guy just walks by and he's like, you just got lucky.
And he was like, need help? I was like, we do.
And so he just bam, bam, bam. Just, you know, here are the top three brands and here's what you're looking for.
Here are the differences. And and you know, a millimeter.
So, yes, a nine millimeter. It's yeah. He got the Springfield Hellcat.
I've got a couple of Springfields, a 40 and a 45.
You know, do you guys want some ammo? I just got another 100000 rounds.
I'm running out of a closet. Just under 100000.
Yeah, I really like the 40. Yeah.
Have you shot it? Yes. Cool.
So you got a little pow to it. Yeah, it's good.
Compared to a nine millimeter. Yeah. Well, yeah, it's just significantly bigger.
I like the 45 as well.
Yeah, 40's got like a huge stopping power.
45's I mean, compared to the nine millimeter.
Oh, yeah. Like, no, for sure. Good night.
If you want stopping power with a nine millimeter, you have to get a hollow point.
I mean, basically because it's yeah.
Well, they say for home defense, you don't want to use standard bullets because they'll go through the person and through a wall with a wall.
So you want to get a hollow point. Yeah.
So cause maximum damage.
Yeah. So he immediately liked the Springfield Hellcat and the price point was pretty good.
I mean, it was like five hundred and something. That's what I knew it would be.
And the guy goes, you know, I think I have that exact one in pre-owned.
Let me go look at it. We walk over to this other thing and he was like 150 bucks cheaper.
Yes. And I was like, score. So yeah.
So he got. Is it black or the desert? Black.
Yeah. So he got a pre-owned one and got some ammo and he was really excited.
I already got him a get a license or anything. You don't need one.
No, you don't need a license. True.
Yeah. However, you do have to do a background check, but you don't have to have a license unless you want to do a concealed carry.
There you go. You can. That's why I was asked that in Texas anymore either.
If you go outside of Texas, there you go. That's why I was asked.
So, I mean, still, it's good to have it because the reason why I say that is because I don't trust the system.
I'm thinking that this is just a way for them to fuck with us so that we don't get it.
Then all of a sudden they're going to be like, oh, by the way, boom, here's a new law.
And by the way, if you want to get a concealed handguns, we lessons.
We have all these new credentials that we got to fill. So I'm kind of curious.
So all the old ones are void. So I start over, perhaps.
I'm not sure. I know we have open carry.
So you literally can walk around the street with a pistol in a holster in plain view.
But I don't think you can conceal it unless you have a concealed carry.
Yeah. Yeah, you can't conceal it. Are you are you 100 percent sure on that?
Because open carry means that's a fairly new law over the last year or so.
Can you look that up for us, Mr. Producer, like the difference between open carry and concealed carry in Texas?
Do you need a CHL in Texas? I don't think you do.
I think they I think Texas went all out and says if you have a gun, you carry it.
Yeah. Well, I yeah, I really want to know this. OK, here we go.
Open carry versus concealed carry pros and cons.
Is that is that in particular of Texas? OK, good.
So it's going to ask you for the zip code. Oh, no, I thought it was going to be there because this could be very.
This is I know a lot of people get confused. So here's a question.
Can you can you concealed carry in Texas without a license?
Texas is coming up on two years since permit ease carry passed in the Texas legislature,
which has allowed Texas Texans to carry handguns without a license since September 2021.
Although they do they don't need a permit to carry a handgun.
Over 200000 people in Texas still obtained a license in 2022.
That's what I thought. But it doesn't why everyone without anything.
So why? Yeah, but it doesn't say concealed. That's what I'm wondering.
Well, it says you're carrying it. That means like a size.
Yes. Well, they didn't specify that.
Well, there's a difference between having one under your jacket.
That's called open. Well, it's called open carry.
Why didn't they say you could open carry with that? That's what I'm trying to find out.
That's what I'm trying to do. Open and concealed.
They're just saying carry. Tell you what, why keep looking for that, Mr.
Producer, and try to just try to find something that says,
are we allowed to conceal a handgun without a permit in Texas?
What does it say? Oh, OK. Does it need to be in a holster?
If a handgun is partially or wholly visible, it must be in a holster.
All right. So that implies that if it's not visible, it doesn't have to be.
Texas law does not place similar holster requirements on a handgun being carried in a concealed manner.
Really? So why would anybody get a LTC, a license to?
Because of the reciprocating licenses in 21 other states.
Correct. 23 other states if you travel. If you travel. Right.
So well, but even if you travel, I mean, when I traveled to Arkansas, I've got my pistol in my car and I'm allowed to have in my car.
It has nothing to do with that license to carry thing as long as they have so do it.
It needs to be in a lockbox. I don't even think that you can have it in your car in in reciprocal states.
Right. You can't have it within. You can't be able to access it to work from where you're at in the car.
So that got tucked away. Gun rack. Texas.
No, outside. Like if you don't have a license in that state, you can you can carry it because a car is an extension of your home.
Yes. However, what if they don't have licenses like Texas?
So can someone from Louisiana carry a gun in Texas?
I think if they are, if they have reciprocal laws where they honor each other's laws.
So all of the state has that all the 23 states that are under the umbrella of the Texas handgun license, concealed handgun license, all share the same.
It's a reciprocal law for all those 23 states. So I'm going to make it up. Missouri.
So we could be in Missouri and I can carry my in my back. I could load my Springfield 40 in my back lower back.
Yeah. Put it in your belt loop. I forget what what what states are on that.
That's good. If that's just if it was reciprocal. Right.
The answer would be yes. If they if they have a reciprocal law honoring open carry like Texas does, then you can walk around with a gun tucked into your belt.
I'm not there yet to feel comfortable to do that. I'm not either because I need to I need to pick the gun that I want to train on and I want to take classes.
I want my wife to go through it as well. I need you to pick one of these.
So you get comfortable with it. And remember, if you're going to if you're going to conceal it like my it would be a pain in the ass for my Glock to be concealed.
It's a big a big handgun. They have much smaller ones like Dylan's is much smaller. I'll pull I'll get my Springfields out.
Not small much smaller, but I'll get my Springfields out at halftime so you can see them. Yeah. OK. Cool.
Anyway, that's that's an interesting topic. And I was excited to get that for him because I'm kind of disappointed about that.
Honestly, which part? Because the the concealed part, I think that that's bullshit.
I think that, you know, open carry is open carry. If you don't need I just I had it and it's only because I had to take like a super extended class.
So if you get your take that class, you'd be fine with it. Pardon. If you didn't take that class, you'd be OK with it.
No, what I'm saying is that I did take the class. Right.
And I think it's bullshit that they're just going to say, all right, well, you don't need to take the class.
Nobody. Anyone can take a gun. You can just go get the fucking gun.
I think that's bullshit. And then walk around. I think that there needs to be some accountability.
I'm not saying that you need to register your guns. I'm just saying that, you know, you should be able to you need a license, I think, to have a gun on you that's concealed.
If you want to walk around with a fucking AR 15 strapped over your shoulder, you can. Yeah.
And then fine. I don't care about that. You can see it. That motherfucker's got a gun.
I don't think that they should legally be able to conceal a gun unless they have a license.
Interesting. That's just my opinion. No, I get it. I get it. I mean, I'm not sure how I feel about it.
I would feel better knowing what's the point of even having it. I just there's got to be a reason why they still offer it.
It's a concealed handgun permit. So I want to read up on it because I don't know.
Well, it says right here, clear as bell. Beginning September 1st, 2021, H.B. 1927 made it legal in Texas for most people 21 over to carry a handgun in a holster without permit, both openly and or concealed.
There you go. Correct. So why? Why get a concealed handgun permit? What does it give you? I know that.
Unless it gives you confidence. Like I said, I don't have confidence to carry a gun. Maybe it would give me confidence if I went to the class.
Yeah, and that's just it too, because the class teaches you how to shoot. It teaches you a bunch of rules.
It teaches you the legalities of shooting somebody. And it also it also promotes the idea that if you have a handgun, you probably should get some sort of insurance.
I was just about to say that because they they offer discounts or they automatically maybe, I don't know, enroll you to where if you were in a shooting incident.
I think it's huge. They'll back you. They'll back you. They'll take care of you.
A hundred percent. They'll knock some shit out. So it's it's it's extremely affordable. Right. It's like it's like 50 bucks a year.
So yeah, no, that's and that that can be that that can be a good deal.
So every time I was like the NRA or just through an insurance company, insurance. It's a very specific one.
It is not the NRA, but it's a specific one. And, you know, they push it.
Liberty, liberty, liberty. That one. It's not that one.
It's not that one. Good. Good guess. Good segue to. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Great jingle. Yeah. Like that.
I had the notes. Dangle, dangle, dangle. You know, kind of like the goddamn frozen.
Speaking of frozen and choking God. Dallas Cowboys.
Segway. She's they look so bad from the first very beginning.
I actually, you know, usually like another team I don't care about.
I'm like, whatever. But I was like, oh, I was like, they're not going to get over this like for a long time.
Yeah, I'm pretty my thing is better if you slip into the to the playoffs as a Cinderella team because, you know, something,
you know, three teams had to lose for you to get in. That's different. Right. But they were the front runner.
Like from the from from a like a fucking manhandled.
Philadelphia was a front runner for most of the season until the last three or four games.
I get it. But Dallas has been beating the shit out of people like they win every game by like 20 points.
Yeah. But every game. Yeah. But they're against teams that suck.
It is. Well, OK. Their division is probably not great. Yeah.
The games they've lost are tight. I mean, no, no, I mean, but the teams are getting better teams.
The better teams, they did they be some of them. No, I don't think so.
They were 11 and six. Yeah. You don't get that record without.
They played the Giants twice, played the Washington twice and played Philadelphia twice, lost one of them.
They beat Philadelphia when they were. Now they suck.
You're saying they were overrated the whole time.
I think I think their record didn't reflect how good they were.
Like it was their true inflated. Right. I think.
Well, I mean, apparently how they went down kind of backs that up.
I mean, they did have C.D. Lamb that had like a phenomenal.
He did. He did. And they broke records.
They kept talking about that over and over again.
It's like we don't understand what's happening. I mean, the jacket player over that had a record breaking six to six.
What are they called? Six picks pick six picks six. Right. Bland.
Is that his name? Deron Bland Bland Bland.
I don't know. Right.
But very interesting games over the weekend that started out with Texas beating the shit out of Cleveland.
I didn't see that coming. I didn't see. I mean, I think Cleveland.
I picked to win that game. But that CJ Stroud, he looks good.
He looks really good. I'm almost like bitter.
I'm bitter because it's like, you know, they're a division rival and damn, they get one draft pick and it turns their whole fricking season around.
I think I know there's one game into the playoffs. I'm like, really? Fucking one pick.
I think the coach has to do with it as well. Well, yeah.
D'Amico Rhymes is is is a good coach, I think.
So anyway, what else happened? I guess the rest of the games weren't shocking, but none of them were close.
Well, I was disappointed in the Buffalo Steelers game because I was looking forward to a nasty ass weather.
Snowy, snowmageddon game and it pissed me off because the NFL moved it to Monday.
It would have been so fun to try to watch those guys out there.
Now, it was ridiculously windy. It was almost dangerous. Yeah.
So so they did the right thing. They should have left the snow on the field.
I like to see them trudging through like three feet of snow.
That's not realistic either. But when I tuned it in yesterday, I was like, this was like a regular fucking game.
Yeah, I was really surprised because they were just oh, yeah, they were really talking about how it may be just as bad and blah, blah, blah.
So anyway, no, I like the I like the outdoor games.
I like the fact that I don't like dome games as a spectator.
I like dome games, but on TV, I want to see them outside fighting the elements as well.
Yeah, those are always being miserable. Yeah.
Yeah. Being miserable. And I remember living in New Jersey and this is like in the early fuck late 70s, early 80s.
And we'd be out there playing football. Oh, yeah.
You know, in the snow with no snow. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
No. Oh, it was it was wonderful. It was wonderful.
We play. It's so cold. You don't feel it. Right.
Yeah, we would. We play full contact tackle football and there'd be a foot of snow out there and it was starting to thaw.
I remember this specifically starting to thaw.
So it was just a mud pit. Oh, and we were just from head to toe because we were all getting tackled.
Oh, yeah. Slipping everywhere. You couldn't run very fast.
So the tackles weren't going to obliterate you.
But how fun you get tackled and you just slide and it was cold as fuck.
Oh, yeah. One thing and you're just in your clothes are drenched.
It was probably and you're sweating, too, because you're working your ass off.
So we're starting to mess with the weird, weird like, yeah, thing going on.
You're sweating, but you're frozen.
It's probably, you know, upper thirties. Right.
So, yeah, this wasn't quite super cold, but it was still once the game was done.
You're like, all right, I need to go change for one thing.
So you both you both got to experience that then you were both in cold climate kind of childhoods.
Oh, yeah, I was at least for a while. I mean, I know you went to Germany.
I don't know if that was cold there, but Germany is colder.
Oh, yes. You're right. OK. Yes. Farther up in terms of latitude.
Yeah. Well, it turns out summer is a little bit different in Germany, too.
Longer, much longer. Yeah. Actually, I don't even know.
It's different weather patterns over there. Yeah. Right. Yeah.
Just because just like England, right, it's further north, but I don't think they get some snow.
From what I understand, they don't get like feet.
Yeah, I didn't I didn't get that. I got when I was a really young kid, I was in Denver for a while.
But then we moved overseas. Right. So, I mean, Argentina got cold.
But then the rest of the time it was in tropics. There was no it was wet and wet and dry.
So, yeah, I didn't. And then I moved to Houston. So I didn't get that.
Cold. Did you ever find your rear headband? I didn't. I didn't look for it.
Well, I tell you what, snow wintertime is a blast as a kid. Yeah.
Absolute blast. I would think so. It sucks as an adult.
Absolutely sucks as an adult. Right. And you think, no, it's going to be it's going to be a good time.
Now, going on vacation in snow is one thing. Right. But living in it and going shoveling your driveway.
We got we got four feet of snow yesterday. I can't get to the store. My kids are screaming for food.
I have no toilet paper. What am I going to do? Just you wipe it in the snow.
I guess. Or you're like, or you're like, I got to get to work. You do what the dogs do.
You chomp around in the snow and take a shit on top of the snow.
And you know, you're shoveling driveways or you got snowblowers and it's cold.
It sucks as an adult to live in there. I never had to do it. At least in my opinion.
I loved it as a kid. Sure. Absolutely loved it.
I mean, now now it's like we get snow and like you got snow. You know what I mean?
It's like a totally different reaction as opposed to fuck. Right.
And, you know, the cities really don't shut down up there in the north. Right.
They totally do. It's so funny. I mean, yes.
I think it was yesterday when it snowed overnight. Not even very much. Right.
It was like a quarter inch. So my where I work in my little corner is the front window
and I can oversee the front street. A car didn't pass.
And it's a high it's a fairly high residential traffic road. Right.
No tracks were laid on that road past lunchtime. Right. Yep.
It's insane how this afraid. Yeah. How we just well, I think it's also an excuse.
Oh, it is. Oh, I don't have to go to work today. Yep. Yep. Oh, no, no, can't do it.
Yep. So anyway, it's fun. I mean, what's different now versus when we were growing up
regarding school, for example, you know, we get up in the mornings and you have to run to the TV
and check the little little ticker, a little ticker ticker on the bottom.
Scrolling through the school. And you're like, come on, come on, come on.
It gets past your letter. Oh, yes. And then you're like, my school district sucks.
Mine did. Mine did. I open no matter what I did. Yes. Mine was.
I never had one snow day all the way through high school and we had feet of snow several years.
Frisco shuts down if it gets below 40. And I walked to school. It's true.
They do. Just the thought. No, it's so crazy.
And there were districts around us that closed because it's cold. Yeah.
But look at you. You're tough. Those other kids in those other school districts. Pussies.
Big time pussies, man. Look at them now. Look them up on Facebook right now.
Come up with a name of somebody in another school district. Just a peas.
Exactly. So they did you right. That's right. Look how tough you are.
And I argue with my wife. I was like, because she was looking. She goes, you know,
she goes, Richardson's closed. Dallas is closed. Fort Worth is closed.
I was like, where are they closed? It's cold. What do you mean it's cold? Right.
You just don't go to school because it's cold. Right. I was like, you know what?
I went through. I was like, I would walk literally. My kids don't.
I was like, I walked uphill. Both ways. I did. Naked. I wasn't naked.
I got gangrene. But I would walk through fucking blizzards to school.
Blizzard. Yes, I would go to school and my hair was frozen. Yeah, I've done that.
It was ridiculous. Yeah, that's crazy how their hair was all frozen. Yeah.
That's what I did. You get to put your tongue on a pole. No, no, you don't do shit like that.
Oh, sorry. Did you ever go to Ohio? You learn those things.
OK, sounds like a good idea. Oh, but bad idea. Yeah. Yeah.
In doses, I can handle it. The older we get. Yeah, I'm with you.
I was outside with my almost with nothing on.
I mean, I had a jacket on with with my underwear on. Nothing. My Crocs.
And outside. Did you play football that way?
No, I was trying to like put the little thing on top of the spigot on the back, too.
But it froze the back there. I was scared to death. I had a fuck.
I ran a Denox Stitcher Corps, put a little heater on the outside for the first year ever.
I didn't even cover the faucets with those little.
I didn't do it. Living life dangerously there.
Well, I kind of got distracted when Dylan showed up and was like, oh, we're shopping for the gun.
Because I was supposed to winterize that day. It was a hot that day.
It was like 68. Jeff and I were talking about actually I was talking about that giving you indirectly a little shit.
I was like, God damn, why does Paul have so much on his plate all the time?
I don't fucking get it. How is he so busy? I kind of am.
Yes, I don't know. I've got things going on. That's what dudes like us.
But I really wanted to go to 1845. I really did. And I wanted to bring Dylan.
I told you guys. Yes. And then I was excited.
But what I didn't know is he he made plans with me, with others to watch the game at a sports bar.
But you said he wanted to go to 1845. He did.
But I was like, you made plans. He's like, yeah, Dad, after we get the gun, we're going to this place.
I was like, well, there goes 1845. All right.
We'll be right back. All right. Oh, you're this.
Shout out to Larry Crossings, 1845 distillery. Your shit's awesome.
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I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff.