Nice.
He's got a nice groove.
I'll tell you what, I'll never get sick of this intro.
I just want to take my clothes off.
Actually, I'm already sick of this intro.
You typically do.
Well, I do actually.
Give it time.
He will get nude.
Are you the one that found this?
Yes.
Very nice.
It's got a Dameski, I want to say this right, Dameski, Martin and Wood is a three piece
jazz band.
Right.
They're a little bit different.
But Dameski, Martin and Wood sounds just like a bubble house is one of their top songs.
I'm going to write that down.
A little Cliff Clavinism.
Alright.
So, welcome.
We are...
DudesLikeUs.us.
Yeah, DudesLikeUs and we are in the midst of the current, what is it called?
Arctic Storm Yuri.
And we'll be discussing that tonight, but we do have a special guest tonight.
We do.
Is Yuri a female or was it a male?
Yuri, it's a Russian name.
Yeah, it's a Russian dude.
Right.
Well, because Yuri was the Streaker too.
That was his name on the Super Bowl.
There we go.
I think it is a guy's name.
Alright, but Mr. Guest, why don't you introduce yourself?
No last names?
Uh, Ron.
His first name is Ron, so no last names.
Mr. Ron Burgundy.
My name's Yuri.
I would have started with my symbol, but it probably wouldn't have worked in the pocket.
Alright, well thanks for joining us tonight, man.
I appreciate y'all letting me come and crash your party.
Yeah.
So, this is definitely the Yuri edition of our podcast.
I think so.
It dominated every second of the last five, six days.
What day are we on now?
Absolutely miserable.
Yeah, it's been crazy.
Yeah, it's, I mean, it's, well for me it hasn't really changed too much because I work out
of the house and I don't leave, so I don't have to commute anywhere.
I'm going to leave the house, but I don't have to commute.
But, Jay, because you haven't had anything negatively impact the house.
Correct.
Yeah, I didn't lose the power and all that stuff.
Not yet, anyway.
It doesn't seem mean it's not going to happen, but so far.
Is it an interesting notion that your house had power because you feel that maybe it's
on the same power grid or the same section that's zoned off for the hospital?
That was a thought.
That's a good theory.
I've heard a number of people say, yeah, we never go out because we're, it's either a
hospital or there was some DFW refrigeration center.
This is bullshit.
I want Jeff's white privilege card.
Well, Sean and I were in the week, we had nothing on our side because we were out for
like 20 hours and we had nothing important in our part.
Yeah, they didn't care about us.
Yeah, so describe it.
Describe it.
So, I mean, a little, because I thought it was off and on, off and on, off and on, maybe
not.
There's different scenarios that I have talked to different people, right?
Our power went off at 340 in the morning and a terror camera comes down and wakes me up
and I was like, finally, I went to sleep and I was like, God bless it, now I'm back up.
Right.
Because we had a crazy night with some other stuff and it was off for almost two days.
It was more than 24 hours.
It came on.
I was leaving for work Tuesday morning and it was literally about 745 that I was out
getting the vehicle warmed up and Kathy starts screaming.
I'm wondering what's going on.
She's screaming with happiness that the power's come back on.
So it was between 28 and 29 hours, give or take.
Unreal.
We were in New Orleans.
We went to New Orleans on Saturday through Monday to enjoy Mardi Gras, which was an absolute
bust.
Oh, really?
So that's a whole other topic.
We can talk about that later.
The mayor of New Orleans and the whole debacle trying to get back, but we caught a flight
back on Southwest and got in.
We were riding at Love Field at 3 p.m. and finally by the time my brother got to me to
get us home, it was 8 p.m., power's off.
So we literally slept by the fireplace.
We had firewood, started fire and slept by the fireplace with our dogs.
Funny story, the band Three Dog Night, I never knew how they got their name, but do you all
know what that references?
No.
You rate, as I understand it, and I haven't verified this, so I'm going to blame it on
my wife, she's the one who told me this, you rate how cold a night is by how many dogs
you sleep with.
And I'm going to lay with you, just to keep warm.
To keep warm.
You are talking about Sean's mind goes there.
And so a three, like the highest level of coldness is a three dogs.
So Three Dog Night.
I have heard that before.
We literally have three dogs, so we had a Three Dog Night, Monday night by the fireplace.
That's interesting, I've never heard that fact.
I've never heard that either.
It'd be worth verifying.
No, I think it holds water.
So a really cold night.
And we've had many of them.
Oh my God.
It's starting to warm now though, which 20 degrees is warmer than one.
Let's back up a little bit.
So did you spend the night at your house that night?
Yeah, like I said, we got in Monday, finally got home around 8 p.m. and we slept there
at the house that night with no power.
Power came on about 12 hours later, 8 a.m. let's say.
You guys, oh so that was a Three Dog Night, you're talking about.
So we literally built a fire in the fireplace in the living room and laid down a couple
quilts and then a couple blankets on top of us right in front of the fireplace.
And I was asleep for about an hour and I'm not sure I'd wake up because it was getting
a little colder but subconsciously I knew I needed to put more wood on the fire.
Right, otherwise you'd freeze to death.
So here's the thing and I was extremely disappointed because we have a fireplace and we lit our
fireplace up and that God bless something was burning for 12 hours at least because
we started in the morning because it's cold as shit.
That thing does not put off fucking heat.
Let's say there's different kinds.
We were laid right in front of it to get some heat.
Yeah, but I think that.
You don't burn wood though, do you?
That's my point.
I think that if they were, if I put some real logs in there it would, because that stuff
just won't work.
Well we were burning real wood.
So you were doing just like ceramic logs?
Yeah, whatever comes in that fireplace.
I was extremely disappointed and I'll tell you.
We took that stuff out.
Moving forward I think I may do the same thing because it was absolutely worthless.
First of all we never use it.
I think that was the second or third time we have ever turned that fireplace on.
Ever.
So, and this was the one where I was kind of like I really need you to work you little
motherfucker.
We took all that ceramic stuff out and sold it actually.
I think I got like 25 bucks for turning my fireplace back into a real wood burning fireplace.
Why would they design it to have like a blower that blows the hot air out or something?
I was thinking this is pointless.
But it doesn't work.
It doesn't do.
It just powers out.
Well, but you know I'm just saying in general when you do have power, right?
Well the stuff that gets so hot are all the embers and the burnt logs that would get so
hot and it gets, if you just have like a gas fire there's really not much heating in there.
Right.
Except when you get close to it you can feel the heat of the fire.
But I know we do the wood downstairs and it'll get toasty downstairs.
Oh yeah.
After.
So my understanding though is when fireplaces that are built like you know just they're
not designed to burn wood.
I know that sounds stupid.
But like standard fireplaces that they put in you know like I would imagine Frisco homes
they are not rated for wood.
They're rated for ceramic logs.
And so there was a fire.
That's true.
Yeah.
And so homes you know there are I don't know how they catch fire.
I guess they.
Yeah.
I'd like to.
Too hot or something.
That would be.
I think ours are.
I think they are.
Mine.
We've been burning wood every year for 20 years.
Mine is not.
I have had plenty of really hot fires.
The producer put up on there it's 21,000 BTUs.
I don't know what that means though.
Yeah I don't know.
Well I'll tell you this.
I know that's caused some house fires.
Well it's got a lot to do with the.
The creosote in your chimney.
You got to clean your chimney.
If you never clean your chimney it builds up.
I understand.
That's what catches fire.
So BTU do we even know what that stands for?
British temperature.
Butane.
British thermal.
I didn't.
Someone had told me that once before.
British thermal units.
Yeah exactly how that translates.
I'm not sure.
We got to switch that to ATUs.
That's kind of like.
American thermal units.
USA TU.
Nice.
The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree
Fahrenheit.
How about Texas thermal units?
Ttu.
Texas Tech.
Now on that's what we're doing.
Ttu.
Was it Iracot?
Let's ask them.
They're all knowing right now.
You know I did notice that just thinking about I had taken a picture of my fireplace for
some stupid reason and I sent it to one of the people I work with saying that we had
a house fire burning in the house and I did notice that on the left hand side there is
a sticker.
It's a metal sticker that's stamped on there.
It has the model number and specs to it.
I would like to try to figure out what the difference is between the ceramic log burning
fireplace and a wood burning one because I would like to burn regular logs.
I think it would be more pleasant too.
Well it is.
It's more homey.
It's more effective as well.
Yeah I love doing it.
And I found out after the fact you're not supposed to be burning wood in there.
I was like I've been doing it for years and years.
No one has ever said anything to you.
Well it was a miserable, miserable cold night.
Yeah I bet.
Miserable.
I told you to go to Jeff's house.
Well they were but they left.
Look at 9 o'clock.
We're going home to the fridge.
Well the thing is I was just thinking it would be short lasting.
I was giving our power grid and the Texas folks, those cocksuckers, I'll call them
cocksuckers because total mismanagement.
This had nothing to do with equipment failure.
It had everything to do with people management and the lack of being able to get shit from
point A to point B because they couldn't schedule on time for the poor management.
So have you guys heard the details about why the grid is struggling?
Do you know the details?
I haven't said it.
I've heard several rumors.
So I read up on some of it and you never know if it's all 100% true.
So right off the top you can get rid of wind and solar.
So that was 15%.
Yeah it's gone.
15% gone.
Okay that's what makes up the grid.
And then so apparently nuclear and coal are built to withstand, is it going to sound stupid,
built to withstand super super cold temperatures.
Natural gas plants are not.
Correct.
40% of our capacity went down primarily because of the two things I just stated.
Really?
Yes.
Power plants not being winterized.
So in other words.
That equipment froze.
Yes.
There are some components right.
Some components within the critical infrastructure that weren't working.
And so they had to shut the power plants down.
So we were down 40% of our capacity.
Now when you match 40% down in capacity with historic demand, right, every single house
in the state is running their furnace right.
Is running the fan to power the furnace.
And yeah it was a bad deal.
Now I'm going to spread a rumor.
Alright.
In one of the groups of friends that we have, there's probably eight couples.
And one of them posted this was a few days ago.
What they had heard was that this ERCOT had plenty of energy to supply Texas during this
code but it sold its overages of power to places up north in order to not break those
contracts and keep the money.
They decided to continue to send them power thus having less power to supply in Texas.
I have no idea.
I really hope that's not true.
I haven't heard that one yet.
Did that come from AOC?
This is Bette Midler.
Well yeah and I'm sure this is what's happened here in Texas is traumatized her.
Even beyond the capital storming that she's been hurt.
You know what I really upset.
I think because my sister's text me and she goes Texas is all over the news.
She's up in Ohio.
And I'm thinking I bet the news outlets love it.
Love that Texas is struggling.
Absolutely.
And they're going to keep it out there because you know all the red states make fun of California
because they have to go to the brownouts and everything.
You know what here's the flip side of this.
There are a lot of the northern states are kind of like Texas a bunch of pussies down
there they can't handle it.
But you know what those are the motherfuckers that are dying when it's 85 degrees outside
and they can't handle the heat.
Well nobody can argue with the fact that we have been colder than freaking Alaska in this
crazy ass Arctic.
For this crazy historic lows.
But I mean this is kind of a normal thing for like Chicago.
It is.
I know when I grew up in Ohio we'd get this cold regularly.
One degree zero ten.
So it's a standard thing.
But the infrastructure is we don't have it.
You got to address that.
It's not designed to withstand.
Yeah that that that temperature right.
Yeah.
And the houses aren't built for it either.
No.
The codes in which they run the pipes they all have to be.
I don't remember.
We never had a pipe burst growing up.
Right right.
They're all wrapped.
I mean they're all.
Yeah they're probably.
I don't know what to think.
Right.
Codes different.
They expect you to get down to zero degrees in the weather.
I've never built a house outside of Texas so I don't know what.
It's interesting.
I probably should look into that but I don't care anymore because I don't do contracting.
Right.
Anyway this whole URI thing is has created a lot of a lot of strange stuff going on right.
So at work it's disrupted work because people don't have power right.
The Internet keeps going up and down.
Right.
And then other times they're just freezing their butts off so they have to go to a neighbor's
house and I mean you know we did that people were in and out you know meetings get a ton
of meetings getting food delayed delayed deliveries for grocery stores.
The shelves are empty right.
I went crazy.
I went to the grocery store down the street and their power was out.
Right.
And I went in there and it was like I was like in it's like the zombie apocalypse.
People were just kind of strolling up and down the aisles and you can't see because
it was dark in there.
Right.
And there were all these little cell phone flashlights out looking and that's crazy.
And it was a mad rush.
So again all the staples were gone.
Toilet paper water milk.
The fucking beer section was raped.
Yes.
I mean I really I picked up.
Listen how pathetic this is.
I picked up a six pack of Shiner light schpetzel which is like a Mexican lager.
I like.
Did you like it.
I haven't.
I put it.
That's why I was one of the reasons I put it in the fridge.
I didn't want I was embarrassed.
I was just shut up.
I did.
I was like.
I wasn't brotherly camaraderie.
I was ashamed.
Exactly.
But you know I went back there and all the freezer all the meat sections.
Cleaned out.
No packed full of meat.
But everything was thawing.
Oh.
So.
So you didn't feel like it was safe or.
I wasn't about it.
It was still cold.
Speaking of meat.
I mean when you buy something from the store you leave it in the refrigerator for two or
three days before you cook it sometimes.
Oh yeah.
But if you're going to freeze it you usually do it right away.
But bigger than that I need to be going to meet.
I got a fantastic deal.
What.
What meat did I pick up for three bucks which was normally like 50 bucks.
Yeah.
Oh wow.
It rang up at three bucks and I didn't look at it right away.
And then as I was about to leave Jeff walks over there.
Oh the fucking nine twelve dollars for what you bought.
And his was like 60 70 bucks.
And I'm like wow.
So I picked up.
It was a is it like filet mignon.
It was a full tenderloin.
It was just missed it was like a scan.
It was this.
Yeah.
Missed and it was a six buck.
It was a six pound tenderloin.
It was about huge.
And you didn't stop to say oh yeah ma'am I don't think that's right.
He didn't even notice it.
Yeah.
I saw it later.
I was like you're an asshole.
I don't care.
You know what.
And we should care.
But I don't.
I didn't care.
But we were lucky.
We went picked up to me.
But the rest of the places get kind of scarce.
Interesting here.
Fox News alert.
Fox News alert makes bizarre claim about Texas power at dot dot dot and God.
I haven't read it yet.
Just a news.
You've already heard about that.
You can guess we're being punished.
I read that.
And it's God punishing Ted Cruz and John Cornyn.
Is it because we didn't take covid serious.
No.
She's a she's a fricking idiot is what it is.
She's a whack job.
Yeah.
Because we're evil.
That's why.
So back to your point about people cheering the fact that Texas is struggling.
I guess they view us as an arrogant, you know, overly independent, you know, of course, oil
and gas that bother.
They're also saying, well, you know, you can't even handle yourselves during this storm crisis.
How are you guys going to succeed from the United States if that forever an option?
I say we try anyway.
Yeah.
Well, build a wall up all around Texas.
Right.
So at least we said Cruz is stepping up saying, hey, I have no defense.
I like Ted Cruz, man.
I hope he runs for Supreme Court.
You don't run for that.
I hope he gets nominated for it.
By Biden.
I hope he runs for president.
I'd be on board with it.
I wanted him to prevail in the primary.
So you would you would want him to run for president.
Who would you want to run?
I like him.
There's another guy out there that Beto.
Yeah.
Aida Cuck.
He's such a putz.
He is.
I cannot believe you must fucking beat Cruz.
I know it.
That is ridiculous.
I think that was just laziness.
Well, the quote that Cruz had that scared me was he warned he warned Texas that Beto's
must enter a battle.
It's Robert Robert.
That Robert that Robert supporters would crawl through broken glass or crawl over broken
glass to make sure they vote for him.
And I was like, oh, shit.
You know, basically he was warning, do not do not be complacent because we'll lose this.
Yeah.
Beto.
It's Beto.
But, you know, if you're from El Paso and you live there, they usually call that Beto
Beto.
Beto O'Rourke.
It's Beto.
But, you know, whatever.
He's a douchebag.
Let's just that race was too close.
So that I apologize.
I was looking here on the some of the stuff you're talking about people who you like to
be president.
Yeah.
And that really is probably the first sign for me that the blue wave is I would have
never thought.
Well, it's either a blue wave or it was the I'm going to be a conspiracy theorist.
But I think that I think our voting machines are compromised.
There is no way I just I can't fathom that he got that many votes.
I just can't.
I cannot.
I mean, if you look at if you look at the trends, I mean, Texas is turning it's already
purple and it's turning blue.
And it's because of the cities.
We talked about this before.
Well, think about it.
All the big cities are all staunchly blue now.
Back in the was it 80s or 90s.
Texas was blue with the Democrats and Richards was governor.
That's right.
So it wasn't always red.
It was blue at one point and it turned red.
So how much the influx of the Western states, primarily California, do you think it's making
that big of a difference?
I think so.
And do you think the Hispanic influx?
Yes.
Is making a big difference, too?
Yes, hugely.
I mean, especially if they're getting all these free coupons for, hey, you know, we
could come on and grab a grab a some accommodations here.
Of course.
That's exactly why they try to college to tuition packages.
Yeah, we've talked about this many times.
Anytime that you know, that's what the parties try to do, which is government handouts.
We're going to and then you'll vote for us forever.
Right.
I want to bring up my two nominations for president.
And you know, people think I'm crazy.
Bill O'Reilly is number one.
I like Bill.
I think he's a he's a realist.
He's has he ever talked about running?
No, he never will.
He's he's I don't even know why.
But I enjoy his perspective.
I enjoy listening to him.
And he doesn't put up with people's shit.
No, he doesn't.
He's like he's like Donald Trump.
It's like X, Y, Z suck it.
And outside of that's Trey Gowdy.
I'd like to see Trey Gowdy be brought.
Yeah, that's another one.
That was the name I was trying to pull up.
He's got a buddy from South Carolina.
I think he's in the house.
Tim Scott.
Oh, yeah.
That's another black gentleman that I've been very impressed with that I found out about
Tim Scott through listening to Trey Gowdy.
I mean, I loved watching just Gowdy when he was on some of those committees and just ripping
people apart.
The hearings.
Yeah.
He's very articulate.
He's a speaker for sure.
He claims he's out.
He says I'm out of this politics.
Well, he jumped on the Fox newscast as a personality now.
I don't know if it's a permanent role, but I saw a few shots of him.
Yeah, I thought he was a great voice when he was in Congress.
Well, I think he can grow a beard.
You seen that?
No.
Oh, dude, he has so many different looks.
It is crazy.
I've never seen him with facial hair.
Well, that one's.
Whoa.
I mean, that one's all right, but he's got another one that's like.
Just like a big old bush.
He's a weird.
Wow.
He's just no nonsense.
Well, I think his hair.
His hair is kind of strange if you ask me.
It's like Harry Potter from the Slytherin, the leader.
Yeah, it does.
He kind of looks like Malfoy.
I just think he's a fabulous treasure.
Well, I like I like the way I think I like the way he would just talk kind of not slow,
but he had the South Carolina or North Carolina, wherever he was from.
He does.
Kind of that South Carolina draw a little bit and he'd be slow and he would just matter
of fact, we just put these people in their place.
Yeah, no, he's a tough.
He's he's he's a tough guy.
All right.
So the other one that people are talking about is the governor of Florida.
DeSantis.
Oh, telling Joe Biden to go fuck himself.
Did he say that?
Yeah, he was like he didn't call him Biden, didn't call him president.
It was like, Joe, you can go fuck yourself.
He literally was on tape saying that.
I haven't heard it.
It was a quote.
Wow.
I'm assuming that's he's my hero.
If that's true, that he's my hero.
Because basically, Biden said that he's going to do a travel ban into Florida.
Yeah.
Fuck.
Yeah, no kidding.
You see how he's backing out of every every campaign promise.
One after another.
I'm going to do this.
I'm going to do that.
I'm the hint.
He's just backing out of every single one of them.
And now he today he's backing out of the let's just pray he doesn't die.
He's backing out of the gosh, what is it?
There it is.
Now you just saw it.
Governor DeSantis tells Biden.
All right.
There's no backing out of that.
Help me here.
College.
The college.
Well, he says he's got a better plan.
That's a real raw news.
I don't mind.
So I don't want to get bogged down in the politics and of all that.
It's kind of natural when you're talking about, you know, the power grid and government and
this and that.
Yeah.
You know, even with the current politics going on, they're still hung up on Trump.
They can't.
They're they can't let it go.
They just can't, man.
And good because he is Trump has changed the template of how the United States operates
that in.
Well, and then Biden's all he's undoing a lot.
But he's he Trump has taken a huge dent in it.
I mean, especially with China.
It's going to take a while to for that to recover.
I hope so.
And I don't know what he's doing as far.
I don't know what Biden's doing to reverse that.
You know, probably we should probably read some of those executive orders he's putting
out the 40 or whatever he's up to now.
He's literally trying to dismantle everything that Trump accomplished, even when it makes
sense like it's working.
It makes sense.
Why touch it?
It's almost like it's personal vendetta.
It is 100 percent.
Yeah, let's move on.
Let's change gears.
I want to go back to to Yuri and I want to go back to some some disappointments that
I have.
First of all, the experience of Yuri being up here and just that some of the drama associated
with it with the pipes bursting, you know, and all the bullshit going on.
Like, you know, cars crashing and that's horrible.
But I tell you, I'm disappointed.
This was the first time that we've had a snow in Texas.
I think in 16 years, you know, it was snowing like that.
I remember I went to go get a birthday cake up a thumb up the street.
I remember driving my truck and it was very precarious driving up this icy went all the
way and all the way back.
My point is, is that this year, this was the first time I didn't get out there and just
frolic in the snow and make a snowman and do some fun shit, whatever.
Fuck it.
You know, I mean, part of that is because the kids are grown.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, because I'd be out there with the build the snowman, build the forts, having
snowball fights and just a dusting of snow.
They'd be out there playing in a scrape and trying to put it together.
Yeah, I've got two of mine from a first marriage and Kathy's got four from her first marriage.
So between us, we got six, three boys and three girls, literally a Brady bunch.
Youngest is 19 in the house this year because he, he was going to go up to OU, but with
the COVID and all that stuff, he stayed here and went to Collin, but he's he'll be leaving
out this summer.
So we'll be in P. Nestor pretty soon.
But we got, we got three, our three girls are on Colorado and the three boys are here
in Texas.
So, yeah, we so and the youngest is in Austin with his girlfriend.
He's trapped down there.
He went down there for the long, you know, for the Valentine's weekend and can't get
back and can't come back.
Yeah.
So I'm sure he's really, really upset about that.
Yeah, I bet.
Yeah, I'm sure.
How's the one in Austin?
He's 19.
Yeah, I'm sure he's torn up.
I mean, we got out there.
We got out there one day.
I mean, my youngest is my 15 year old still obviously with me and, and he wanted to go
out there in the church parking lot, you know, because we got hope fellowship behind us.
And how did that work out?
Do some doughnuts.
It was fun.
I mean, we're kind of we didn't want to stay out there very long because it was freaking
cold as hell.
But but you know, we we had a little bit of fun there.
And when it's this cold, the snow doesn't pack.
So you can't build anything.
No, we couldn't.
It's a real it's a it's a powder.
We just slat on it.
You know, our sons, I found out this later in a college station.
Your son was driving the vehicle.
I found out and pulling the three other roommates on a sled.
And my son is the one that fell off and got hurt.
Oh, what happened to the head trauma and knee trauma?
And what bad I went into the hospital or anything, but it was enough to where he was being a
little pussy talking to his mom.
It would take my call.
I would have been like that's but I've got one of his I probably shouldn't say this,
but I've got one of his friends on Snapchat.
They accepted me and they don't think about it.
They just post, but they don't check it.
So every now and then I see they're in a club or something.
I'm like, I screenshot screenshot screenshot.
Doesn't show up saying Sean Murphy's screenshot.
They just probably think I'm perving on them.
I don't know.
Right.
Yeah, there was there was a vehicle in the parking lot of the church today pulling three
people.
Yeah, I did it.
I was living on living on trail high school parking lot.
There were some kids out there.
I went over to Ron's house to help him with some some stuff over plumbing issues over his
house and there was a big debate on who's going to drive to Home Depot.
And I was like, fuck that.
I'm driving.
So I had to do some other thing.
I had to drop off the milk and things.
But man, it is it I find it very pleasurable to be driving in the snow.
It was kind of fun.
I love testing the limits.
I've had no problem.
You control yourself.
You just can't control the other idiots out there.
I think they know how to drive in it.
And they don't still think about it.
That's true.
So is that when you saw the apartment fire?
Yeah.
So I was heading to Home Depot and this was the first time that's Ohio.
Lord.
Exactly.
I went by there.
I saw the I didn't I didn't see didn't realize what it was.
I assumed it may have been a fire.
It was definitely a fire because it was about an hour previous that I went went there before.
I guess you drove by there maybe even longer than that.
There was tons of smoke.
It was thick smoke everywhere.
You know, my windows were down because I was wearing some American Army winter jacket.
So it was extremely warm.
So I was enjoying the wind blowing here.
Brisk and whatever.
I was just did you see flames?
I did not see flames, but there there were I'm not exaggerating.
There's probably six fire trucks there.
There was a couple of ambulances.
Somebody got hurt and probably a Christmas like a dried Christmas tree that somebody
in February.
They were there this morning at 8 a.m. when I went to work.
Oh, at 8 a.m.
Put it in.
Interesting.
And they were still there when I headed back around 430.
Wow.
I wonder if someone had a space heater or something like that.
Did something stupid.
I never saw any smoke or anything.
That's the sad thing about these these freak snowstorms and cold spells that people do
stuff.
Yeah, they live life.
You know, they don't know.
They turn their gas stoves on.
Well, they just they're I don't know.
It's ignorance, right?
I mean, I've seen some people that like try to heat their house with their car and they
all die from carbon monoxide poisoning.
I mean, this stuff happens every single time.
Well, funny with this again, the past few days with our group of people that we hang
out with and they're not having power.
They're talking about bringing in the propane heaters in their house.
I mean, it's the debate's upon.
Don't do it.
Do it.
You know, unbelievable.
Yeah.
I'm just so glad we had a fireplace just for that one night.
Yeah.
Generators.
People bring generators inside.
Yeah.
Carbon up carbon monoxide.
I'm doing some I'm making some changes to to my house for because of this.
If this happens again, I am getting a generator and I'm going to tap it into the power.
Nice.
Just to control a few things.
You could get a whole house generator.
You say, so you just got to pay for it.
Oh, yeah, you do.
But go off the grid on the grid.
So please.
I don't know what your I want to know what your electric bill is going to be.
I don't know.
I mean, I mean, a couple days were average generating because I was worried that the
snow was covering up all the panels.
Little back dating.
Paul is one of the one of our first friends that has solar panels.
He's an AOC voter.
Yeah.
I'm doing the whole lease thing where you don't pay anything up front.
You lease it for you.
We looked we had someone that came.
We talked and looked at that.
And AOC came down to visit him.
Yeah.
She stayed for a week.
We considered it.
We didn't pull the trigger.
We considered that.
It's I mean, the numbers the numbers kind of made sense to me.
Well, yeah, I mean, I mean, they do.
Yeah, we've talked about it.
I mean, they yeah.
So they look at your previous year's worth of energy usage.
Right.
And then they guarantee that it's in totality is going to be less than what you cover for
the entire year.
Now it's spread out even in even payments.
Right.
It's not like, you know, you know, summer is super high and winter super low.
But when you net it all out, the only thing I would want to change is I wouldn't want
to I wouldn't want to just lease.
I wouldn't want to lease them.
Whoops.
I want professional and never would never own them.
I would want to own them and just have a management team kind of, you know, manage them.
But I would want to just baffling me when they gave me the diagram of the roof.
Yeah, it's like a just Tetris design.
I know.
And I don't and I have all the things, I guess, determining how the sun rays are hitting the
roof and angles.
But it was pretty wild.
Yeah.
So I mean, yeah, so I was worried that I wasn't producing because right now my pool's running
24 7 has been that way for seven days, right?
And so I just know my electricity bill is going to be horrible.
But but yeah, so they were enough of them were uncovered that it was it was generating
at least generating that, you know, the day before yesterday.
So that's good.
That's good.
At least.
Yeah, that was good.
Anyway, so so other other interesting things that this URI thing has caused is I read something
this morning about four, four hundred or four thousand sea turtles that are cold stunned.
Just kind of laying there on the beach.
I don't know.
But some sea sea rescue group went down there and rescued.
I can't remember if it's four hundred or four thousand.
But four hundred sounds more likely.
So first it's the straws announced the code.
Thousands of thousands of sea turtles being rescued in Texas.
Look at that.
How cool is that?
What the hell does that mean?
They stunned.
It's like, you know, somebody put them in a freezer.
It's like the goldfish in your courtyard with the rhino.
So they move slower than normal.
They're hibernation giraffe with the herd of water buffalo camels.
Articulous.
What is that?
Artus?
Cartus?
Arcturus every single one.
Arcturus comes up.
Exactly.
You know what?
And if people don't follow all the episodes of this podcast, they're not going to understand
the little funny things.
So go back to that cult stunning.
Yes.
We're not doing Arca tooth this again.
Physical response to cold water temperatures.
OK, so turtles body temperature falls as body systems start to shut down.
Oh, so that's what happens to me when I'm wandering around out there.
Well, they're reptiles, right?
So they're cold blooded, right?
This is what happened when you came home drunk from the revel and you couldn't find your
way home.
Got lost.
Yes, I was cold stunned.
I was also shit faced.
So, Ron, let me share.
I don't think that's the same thing.
So we came home from the revel one night and Paul got a little spat with his wife and Paul's
like, you know, I'm just going to walk home.
OK, that's not how they went down.
I said, honey.
I'm paraphrasing.
You showed her, right?
I said, honey, I just need the exercise.
So he he had he got his steps in that day.
So he left from here, ended up at like 7-Eleven off of Main Street and we were making fun
of him because he was he had his pants were all dirty.
And then he was like face down in mud.
OK, well, it wasn't that bad.
But I did fall down in that field.
He was flailing around pictures of your pants because they had neither you were so bad.
It was so bad.
That was a rough night.
Anyway, but the joke is I met the indigenous tribes of Frisco.
Yeah, while I was out there, these pigmies had tied these little ropes all over me and
stuff and they were tiny.
Kind of like Gulliver's Travel.
Paul's Travels.
Anyway, I don't know why that story came up.
They had nothing to do with Yuri or being cold stone.
No, it was called because the cold stuff because you said you got stunned there by the indigenous
Frisco.
I was decreased heart rate.
I was hot and shit faced.
That was that was that was in May.
So yeah, you probably yeah, it was awful.
Moving on.
All right.
Now, you said it was riveting.
You said you felt revitalized.
You went in and it was such a fantastic walk home.
It was a spiritual moment.
I met the shaman.
He spit in your mouth and.
OK, don't insult them.
All right.
So moving on.
What do we have?
What was the next segue we had?
Well, we did we talk about dead people?
No, not good.
Very good segue.
We have not.
We have not done that.
That was a hard.
That was a hard segue.
It was.
All right, so yes, we've started to cover significant, you know, celebrities, personalities.
Let's talk about something we're tapering from the the year.
We think is that when this storm first started, this is going to go down in Texas history
as one of the biggest car pileups.
I'm 35.
Oh, full.
I forgot that that's the way this week started.
Yeah, that was that was last Friday.
Almost a week.
That is how the whole thing started.
Yeah.
A hundred and thirty three cars piled up in Fort Worth.
And was it still just five people that died, which I find.
I heard seven people.
There are dozens and dozens that six.
Yes, it was just very horrible.
It was extremely violent.
It's so surreal watching the videos, the live videos.
I watched one of them and I couldn't stomach there any more of them.
I could.
You know what crossed my mind and it was ironic.
My wife said the same thing when we got together and talked about it was you watch some of
the cars that slide in and come to a stop because they hit the other cars and I'm sure
they're sitting in their car thinking, thank God, all I have now is a damaged car.
And do they realize where they realizing what's coming behind them or if they did what was
going through their mind.
The only thing I could think of.
I thought about that same thing.
The only thing I could think of is put your, you know, put your head back on the headrest.
I mean, you got there's nothing else you can do.
There's really nothing I do.
The worst thing you could do is get out of the car.
You know, but that crossed my mind.
A lot of them couldn't get out, but those that could, I'm thinking if you could have
got out and just ran and jumped over that divider between the bounds of traffic, could
you, but who's thinking, who's thinking that you probably stunned and you have no idea
that a semi truck is coming behind you at 55 miles per hour or faster.
It just just plows.
It was awful.
It was like I said, it made me sick.
It made me sick.
Yeah.
It made me think about if you did know it was coming, if you're able to look in your
rear mirror, turn out and you're seeing these cars barreling down on you, you can't stop.
It made me think about my dad served in World War II and the boats.
I mean, I had the name of the right boat that was the same that were landing on Omaha beach
in Normandy.
Those guys sat in there new and that when that, that ramp, probably half of us will
be dead in the next minute or.
Yeah.
I mean, I just, I can't fathom what, in what I would do in being in that situation, whether
it's in a car and you know, in war or whatever.
After seeing that movie with Tom Hanks, was that the movie that was on?
Yeah.
That was so, I guess all is the only description.
It was an incredible scene in a movie.
Yeah.
And bolts were actually going through the ramp too.
They weren't, I mean, bolts were going through it and killing the guys.
Were they really?
Yeah.
Some of the higher caliber, caliber bullets were going through.
I guess I'm surprised that only six, honestly, we've made some extent six sounds low now
that you see this.
I'm sure there's some very heavily damaged people though.
Yeah.
They're going to be impacted for quite a long time.
Yeah.
And, and you know, who do you throw stones at, at this?
This is, we're in a major Metroplex, you know, Dallas, Fort Worth and the, they should be
able to anticipate these things.
I mean, sand trucks, they had them out there.
They claim they had, sir, they had sand or salted that section of highway.
Well, and apparently it didn't matter.
I don't think they salt down here.
They just throw sand down.
Sand.
Yeah.
Well, whatever it is, it wasn't effective.
So it just, and I don't, I hate to say like throw stones cause that's not really the
angle to, to beat somebody up, but the idea is to beat the circumstance up so that we
can, we can learn from these mistakes.
I don't know.
I don't even know how it originally started.
I don't think that's a, that's really known at this point.
Obviously it was either a semi that jackknifed or a car and it just, I don't know.
I couldn't imagine it.
Probably some fucking non-driving Indian with his Tesla.
Oh God, here we go.
Watching a movie.
Was that allowed?
Yeah.
Oh, it was.
All right.
Anyway, so yeah, that's the way this week started and it was rough.
There's that Ford quad cab truck that literally goes flipping in one of the videos I've seen.
Yep.
So that was bad.
And then now we're dealing with, um, there's just the cold that came right after it.
Right?
Yeah.
So there was like, he said six people that died, but who else, who else passed?
Well, we had like, uh, there was, uh, I was surprised on, yeah, there, there's, there's
two that, uh, I think we should talk about one died today.
This is the biggest one.
This is Larry Flint.
No, this is Rush Limbaugh.
This was Rush Limbaugh.
Oh, oh, I was more into hustler than, yeah.
So yeah, Rush, he was, um, I know I, I grew up listening to him because my dad introduced
me to him in 1988 and I was still on, I was brand new to college at the time.
And I remember my dad started listening to him and that's right when Rush started.
And uh, was, was Rush the one that was, uh, had an OxyContin issue?
Yes.
And then overcame it?
Yes.
Yeah, I think you're right.
Yeah.
Yes.
You know, he, he's had, he's had some challenges like that implant right there.
You know, he was literally deaf.
No, he is deaf.
And uh, they, they had those, those implants put in so he can hear.
I think that's just, that it's miraculous.
It is.
Back in 2000, but you see that he's sitting there smoking the cigar.
He was a huge cigar guy, huge cigar guy.
Yeah.
He died of lung cancer.
There you go.
So yeah, he was, I know, listen to him.
He would talk about the cigars that, uh, he'd be smoking and stuff like that.
And um, you know, he was, he believed in it and uh, I think it probably ultimately got
him in the end.
It sounds like it.
It's, it's disgusting to, to see some of the riff raff comments coming from certain folks.
I don't want to label them as Dems cause I'm sure it's not all Democrats, but you know,
it's at a, and this is the point that really drives a knife right into the middle.
It's this controversy that we have between the left and the right is that we start labeling
things.
Well, the Democrats are just talking shit about rush and it's not all of them, but at
the same time, none of them, the Democrats do not like rush and they do not like all
those radio stations on the AM, but they don't have any control over.
Right.
I don't even know how that works.
It's just ugly though.
It's ugly and evil and it really, it really, you can see a person's character when, when
you see what they, what they say about somebody who has passed.
I don't care if you liked them or not, just stay quiet if you didn't like them, but saying
rest in piss.
Yeah, that was trending on Twitter.
Rest in piss.
So do Democrats have control over a lot of the media?
I mean, as far as like the TV broadcast, I mean, even Fox, you know, they have some,
one of the new ones that kind of Newsmax is kind of a supposed to be kind of a right wing.
But what about the radio stations?
Why is it that they could not get rid of Rush Limbaugh off the AM station?
There was something that prevented them from being able to get them off because they tried
over and over and over and over again.
You can't take away the airwaves.
I don't know.
I don't know the, yeah, I think you're right.
I think there was a push to try to figure out how to get him off the airwaves.
Oh, they wanted to silence him.
They did not like him because he nails it.
A lot of the AM radio stations, that's why they're on the radios because they can't touch
it and I don't know if I'm telling the lie or not right now.
Yeah, because I'm wondering why is it that they can't shut those down, but I'm sure they're
floored that Rush is now passed on and he won't be able to spread the gospel of the
truth, you know?
Yeah, I mean, I think he probably has a lot of disciples, right?
There's probably a lot of really, really talented, bright, conservative talk show hosts out there
and hopefully somebody's going to kind of slide right into that spot and take over,
but he was brilliant though.
He was really influential to a lot, a lot of conservative thought.
Anyway, that's a big hit.
The other one was Larry Flint.
I don't think that was as big a hit.
I don't even think, what the hell is Larry doing nowadays?
Is he an investor?
I mean, because Hustler, who the hell is buying Hustler anymore when you got these like Red
Tube and PornHub and all these other websites?
I don't know.
I don't know what he...
Yeah, so he's mainly produces pornographic magazines such as Hustler, pornographic videos
and three pornographic televisions, something or others.
I don't know, he probably just kind of...
I don't know what he did in the later stages of life.
I'm not sure what his...
Now, what did Woody Harrelson play him on some movie?
I think there was the movie about his life.
I never saw that one.
I don't know what it was called.
What's the name of that one?
You guys know?
Yeah, Larry Flint movie with Woody Harrelson.
Yeah, I'm not sure.
Interesting.
Well, Mr. Jeff has stepped away for a second.
He's feeding his dog some...
It was called The People versus Larry Flint.
Yeah, there you go.
I remember that title.
Was it about the magazine?
I think it was a censorship case and also in the movie, it hits on the assassination
attempt that put him in the paralyze room.
I don't remember the details of it, but he was shot.
That's why he had him in a wheelchair.
Someone shot him.
Literally an assassination attempt.
I believe so.
Oh, wow.
I did not know that.
So he was kind of involved in what, dangerous mafia guys?
He was shot at a Georgia courthouse.
I think it was more of some...
Never walked again.
Christian-based or some religious-based people that think they know better that try to put
him down.
So they were punishing him for his pornographic past or something?
You're evil and in the name of God, we're going to kill you.
Do you know that for a fact or are you just kind of speculating?
I'm speculating.
I mean, who else?
We would have to do a little research on who it was that tried to kill Larry Flint.
I'd be curious what his motivation was.
I'm sure it's on a Family Guy episode somewhere.
Here we go.
Who shot Larry Flint?
It was Lee Harvey Oswald.
Yeah.
Again.
Really?
So he didn't die back then?
No.
When Ruby...
What's his name?
Ruby...
Who's the one that shot...
Jack Ruby.
Joseph Paul Franklin.
This was a big deal.
This happened in Cincinnati.
It was Hustler Magazine versus Falwell.
Did you know that?
Falwell shot him.
What was the...
So Flint was...
There was an 88Ks with Falwell.
All right, scroll down a little bit.
Let's read this.
They got shot in 78.
So Franklin was an American self-confessed white supremist and serial killer.
He engaged in a murder spree that spanned the late 70s, early 80s.
Franklin was convicted of several murders and received six life sentences.
He was found guilty of murder of Gerald Gordon.
Franklin was eventually charged to Missouri.
Didn't really say why he killed...
He didn't kill Larry Flint.
I mean why he tried to shoot him.
Why he tried to.
Why he wanted to.
Yeah, like I said, I remember...
I was young.
So in 78 or 80, I was 10, 12, 11.
Check that out.
Is that his wife?
Get the fuck out of here.
And this was all over the news where I grew up because like I said, he was...
I wonder, could he get it up?
He was dealing with a lawsuit from Cincinnati.
Was that a gold wheelchair?
And he was extremely rich.
Yeah, she was.
So look out, Rich.
He still has a hot wife.
And so I wonder if he...
I don't know if he can get it up, but if he didn't, he's probably got the pump down there.
I don't know.
I really don't want to speculate.
I'm good.
I'm intrigued.
Well, that's an interesting story.
I did not know the background behind Larry Flint being shot.
All in all, he's a piece of shit.
I don't really know...
What else did he make his money off of?
Hustler.
That was about it?
Various porn.
It was porn.
Because it was raunchy.
It was raunchy.
It wasn't the Playboy.
I remember you'd find the Hustler and it was like hardcore.
They showed everything.
The Hustler magazine took off in 72 after they brought nude pictures of Jackie Onassis.
Oh, that's probably why he got shot.
That's according to Wikipedia, so we know it's true.
Definitely true.
I remember getting back when, again, it was probably the late 70s, that Larry Flint, maybe
it was Hustler, sent something in the mail.
I think it was an anti-war thing, pamphlet or magazine or something.
But in the magazine, they were showing...
It was pictures of basically soldiers completely blown up and destroyed.
Oh, come on.
Nasty, everything.
As a try to get people against the war type thing?
Correct.
Was it Vietnam?
It was late 70s, so it was probably...
I don't know.
Well, Vietnam was done by then.
That would have been the closest war.
Right.
Vietnam.
I remember flipping through it and I was like, oh my gosh.
Again, I was probably 10 or 11 doing this.
I remember my mom saw me looking through it and she grabbed it because she knew what it
was.
She read the newspaper and knew it was coming or something like that.
She yelled at me pretty harsh because you don't need to be looking at anything from
this.
Good for her.
Took it, but I got through a couple of pages and I was just stunned at what the pictures
were because it was extremely graphic.
Wow.
I mean, everything.
You can't unsee that.
No, you can't.
And it just came in the mail.
He sent...
He mass mailed it out.
Well, apparently that's not why he got shot, though.
No, I don't know.
Again, I saw the movie and who's the chick that was married to Kurt Cobain?
Courtney Love.
She was...
Yeah, that was his wife or his girlfriend or something like that.
She was in that.
And it was good.
It was interesting.
It wasn't something I'd probably watch again, but it was good just because, again, I kind
of saw it growing up in the news and everything growing up there.
There's a lot of First Amendment battles that he had with the government on freedom of speech.
I respect that part of it.
You know what I mean?
I may not be on board with what exactly he was selling and what he was doing, but I am
100% on board with free speech and First Amendment.
Ironically, he played in the movie.
He played the judge that sentenced him.
Really?
Yeah, he played the judge is what it says here.
Oh, that's funny.
He was in the movie as the judge who sentenced him in the case.
Oh, wow.
Anyway, so that was a significant passing this week because I think a lot of people
are familiar with both two names.
Those are probably the two biggest names from the week.
Yeah.
Going back to that, I know Cincinnati was kind of on the forefront of the against pornography
thing.
And again, there was a taking a quantum leap.
The first club he had was called Hustler Go Go in Cincinnati ran by his brother, Jimmy.
Yeah.
And there was another instance where there was a one of the museums had a visiting artist
called his last name was Maple Thorpe, and it showed.
So Google Maple.
Where the fuck do you get this information?
I was going to say, were you looking for your notepad?
You got no notes.
You just pull this shit out of your ass.
I think this is years and years of being a Cincinnati tour guide, right?
It is.
So go to the go to some on your left.
The courthouse where Larry Flint on your right, you're going to see.
Well, that's where he got his first blow job.
Well, that's him.
But you want to see some of the images.
Larry Flint.
But what it is is he he was a photographer and I think he was I don't know, but there
was a lot of nudity.
Creepy.
Yeah.
Why are we looking at this?
Yeah.
It was like these aren't it.
But there's some and some of them are shown.
You're probably going to enjoy this.
There is a picture of some dude with his finger up his pee hole.
Why would I enjoy that?
Yeah, you would.
Just because.
Yeah, I'm with Jeff on this one.
But you know, you don't need to bring that picture up.
Mr. Producer, you're fine.
Don't look.
Yeah.
So so Sean can look for it later.
Yeah.
See the white guy and the black guy.
There's there's several of them engaging in things.
And it was it was like the insleeving.
It was.
Yes.
That's an exact.
I don't know if he had that.
But that would be.
I thought you might like this.
I wonder.
That would be a typical picture that he would do, but it would be done artistically so it
could be considered art.
Oh, yeah.
So it was a lot of fancy name like finger in P hole.
Let's scroll up a little bit.
Yeah.
We'll scroll back.
Which one?
I think we just went a little bit more.
Boom on the right.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I got that one.
I have a frame of that.
So that's what it was.
And it was huge news for the longest time because it was a obscenity versus First Amendment
type thing.
Right.
So I just don't know art.
I never that's I've never seen any of that.
Yeah.
A lot of bondage crap and stuff like that.
So you know, this this podcast, even though it may or may not blow up to be anything in
the future, this was this is something that is a right.
I mean, because imagine 30 years ago you weren't.
I mean, how they have the it was it was a horrible thing for an actor to say, damn it,
on TV or a movie.
You know, damn it.
You know, maybe it's 40 years.
But she's a 30 was back in the 90s.
Well, fuck it.
Maybe longer than that.
My point is, is that, you know, slowly but surely the gloves are coming off and it's
it's only a matter of time where porn is going to be this is going to be full society has
completely eroded decency.
It's it's just too bad to.
I agree.
It is too bad.
Well, we talked about that a couple of shows ago where like what are the wholesome TV shows
of today?
Yeah.
Because back when we were growing up, you had Happy Days.
You had this is before my time.
But ain't a Griffith show.
But, you know, they don't have those anymore.
That's not true.
I'm thinking of one and I can't remember the name of it.
It is based.
It's based on the 80s.
And the mom is like totally over the Goldberg's Goldberg's.
That is that is a wholesome show.
I would say there's nothing.
There's nothing inappropriate.
I've seen that except a grandfather sleeps around.
But no, you're right.
That's probably whatever.
And what about what about the one that's before that one?
Modern families.
That's I like modern family.
I mean, that's not I mean, it's got some it tries to bring in, you know, some modern society
stuff, right?
Well, you got the homosexual side, right?
Right.
You got the father that's remarried to the hot Latino and has a child that's younger
than.
Yeah, he's I guess he's an uncle to his 45 year old daughter.
I think that's fantastic.
So I watched that a lot.
It's still on the air.
No, it's been canceled.
I think it has been canceled.
So it's the Duffies Phil Duffie.
Ed O'Neill, the survivor in the biz with you Phil Duffie.
Paul, in case you're wondering, you're no, it's not a bad thing.
He's he's very comical.
But you are Phil Duffie.
You talk about the guy on the far far left.
Yeah.
That's you.
They make him out to be such a doofus dumbass.
Yeah.
And that's me.
You are absolutely that guy.
You know what?
It's not a bad thing.
I don't like the way I just characterized it.
Well, maybe he's got some other.
You mean the dumb guy?
That's me.
Yes.
Maybe the other endearing.
Now, in real life, the guy on the very far right, he's not gay, but he plays.
He plays the gay person to to a T and then out Bundy.
Now, that's just out Bundy.
And he's fun at whatever he does.
It's a great show.
I enjoy it.
I've only watched it a couple of seasons, never got into it too much.
It's been on for 10 years or something like that.
2009 to 2020.
So 11 years.
Yeah.
The the son, Nolan Gould plays Luke Dumphy.
He's actually a genius.
I think he scored like a one fifty five or something like that.
Oh, no, I know the the youngest daughter is quite jubicious.
She had a breast reduction.
Oh, she did.
Yeah.
What are you talking about?
You're talking about Ariel Winder?
Yes.
Yeah, she did get breast reduction.
She got very bucks up.
She had some she has a bullshit she had to deal with.
I think there was some sort of her parents, her mom or something like that was on the set.
And well, what do you call it when they emancipate?
Yes.
That's exactly what she's like.
I'm 15 and I want out of your life.
And frankly, and rightfully so, because the mom was you know what?
Who the hell am I to judge?
So maybe her mom was in the right frame.
I don't know. I wasn't there.
I didn't see it.
But she got emancipated because she was you know, it got ugly on the set.
McCauley call can do that.
I don't know. McCauley call is another weirdo.
I shouldn't say it like that.
He had a lot of weird experiences.
He was that weird looking dude with his porn stash.
Which was right there in the middle.
Oh, Reed, that was the daughter's boyfriend.
Yeah, that's a terrible mustache.
Yeah.
Now, the Adam Devine right guy, he was funny.
Yeah, he's funny.
He's a stand up comedian, too.
Yeah.
So one of the guys from the always sunny in Philadelphia.
No, no, no.
Oh, he's one of my workaholics.
Now, he's in those pitch perfect movies.
Yes, that's exactly where he's from.
Yeah.
I mean, definitely not a hallmark program, but always sunny in Philadelphia is probably one of my top five programs.
I can I can watch it anytime.
And it's funny.
Danny when Danny DeVito was absorbed into the program, the perfect piece of shit father.
They're all pieces of shit.
They are.
Can I being all against each other?
What a fantastic crew.
I heard that was a great show.
I think I watched one episode and then got distracted.
I didn't I didn't give it enough season.
You got to muscle through it.
It's kind of hard to watch.
That's what I was told.
You got to muscle through the first season.
But once you start getting the humor and it's almost like any show that you're not into, but you got to get into it.
Once you do it, it's it's funny.
And it's even more funny to watch some of the blooper reels.
Because you don't know how the hell they do some of these scenes.
And the rumor was these guys put the show together for a competition.
They put together like a little pilot in one the right to keep your show.
Yeah, that's what I heard.
I don't I've heard that.
I think you might be right because they they they used old fashioned VHS player recorder to do their their skits.
And I remember watching some back footage on when they were trying to get Sweet D on who they were going to get to to performance.
I think they've had probably four different actresses before it actually started.
Someone picked up the show.
Yeah.
But you know, going back to your original point, I mean, I don't think there are a lot of wholesome shows out there nowadays.
I mean, yeah, the shows we watch, I mean, Netflix and you know, Amazon.
And Netflix is even more jaded now because they have a quota, you know, as I we're going to have this fantastic show.
But we have to have the we have to have the gay people.
We have to make sure that they're the interracial interracial relationship.
They they go down the entire checklist and there's nothing wrong with that.
It's not necessary.
It's just unnecessary.
Did I tell you about I told you I have that software it's called First Draft.
It's called First Draft.
I was like, oh, my God, what software is he talking about?
No, no, no. So it's a screenwriting.
Does this have to do with your strap?
Yes. No, that's a different software.
So this one's called First Draft and and it has a checker that that that tells you a diversity score for your screenplay.
That's bullshit.
Yeah. So you click you click on this thing and it will scan.
It'll scan the description of your characters and the of your characters in the story and it'll tell you if you have enough of this or enough of that.
I didn't I mean, I've gotten I haven't I'm not even near that point to even like have something to be evaluated.
But that's what it told me it does. So if you do.
And so I thought to myself, that is why Hollywood I mean, that's not the I mean, it's feeding off of what Hollywood's telling you to do.
It's very cookie cutter. Yeah.
So so you know, when you get to these historical period movies and then they start forcing and they start rewriting the narrative.
It's already happening. Oh, it is.
It's called Bridgerton. Oh, yeah. Bridgerton. Yeah. Bridgerton. Yeah.
I mean, and I haven't watched it. What's up with that?
Oh, I don't want to make I don't want to make a big deal out of this.
But it's like they're you know, the the queen is is is black.
All right. And you know, and that didn't happen in that.
I mean, if you want to show to be authentic in terms of especially historical piece, that's what I mean.
Historical piece. If you're going to do a historical piece, it's because it's got to be authentic to the to the time.
The Obamas own a big piece of Netflix now.
Well, I don't have an issue with it. But Barack has a ball invested.
I don't know. The point I'm trying to make is go ahead and create a world where go ahead and create a world where that is, you know,
that that's what you're pitching in that world. Don't try to make it an authentic, you know,
this is a piece where it's not realistic.
You know, seventeen hundred England. Right. That didn't happen.
That didn't happen. It just didn't happen.
That would be the equivalent of like during that century to go down to some rich, you know,
Nigerian kingdom where they have like tons of gold and stuff and the and the dude sitting on the throne is a white guy.
I mean, I mean, that that that's not realistic for a, you know, like a, you know, a tribal kingdom in Africa.
I mean, it's just it's not authentic. No, it's not.
And they're not really going for authenticity anymore. They're going for diversity.
Yeah, they're trying to the power of suggestion. Well, it is.
It's just you keep repeating it over and over and over. It becomes truth.
Right. Anyway, it's disgusting.
And you know what? We can't do shit about it. So we just got to you know, actually, we can.
And that's why I would encourage you, Jeff, to continue to entertain the idea of running for some sort of seat in the school council to see if you can.
And look, man, you could take small bites out of it.
But I think the bottom I think with our kids, they need to be taught correctly in the with correct history
because that's some of the stuff that's being pulled out of the history books.
They need to rewrite the books. What's this? I don't know anything about it, but the sixteen nineteen sixteen nineteen.
The Lincoln Project, not the Lincoln Project, but it's the I think it's the sixteen nineteen project.
Why is that ring a bell?
It's it's basically you're rewriting history.
It's a different spin on what has been touted as, you know, right.
It's when America officially started was when the first slaves came over.
Yeah, it's basically painting. It's painting America as a nation born on the back of slavery.
Well, I mean, that's every nation on the planet, so they can suck it.
Well, they're trying to whether they're putting it in schools, though.
I know. And they're teaching it as the history. I know.
And having a racist math, you know, the fuck out of that.
I don't understand. I don't understand.
How is math racist? Because one plus one does not equal to.
Right. Anyway, I don't I don't know. I don't understand that either.
Where the hell does that come from? Oregon. Yeah. Yeah, it does.
Comes from Oregon. It was the Oregon school districts.
So this is a little bit of a subject change, but I want to get back to I don't know.
I know we try not to harp on cancel culture, but just Gina Carino.
Oh, yeah. Carino. What? How you say her last name was that from the Star Wars?
Mandalorian. Yeah. That was a lot of bullshit, too, because that's kind of the same thing.
The sixteen nineteen Lincoln project is that that's one of the things they try covering up, too,
about what the Jews what happened to the Jews.
What did happen to the Jews? Well, the Germans would the citizens of Germany would pull them out.
They'd beat their ass and they'd go over. Her point was that they tattled on them.
Yeah. Anybody who didn't toe the line in terms of what was considered mainstream thought
and what was the you know, the you know, you know, what what the political party was was saying was
the people. Yeah. Thank you. The narrative, the narrative of the time, you know, they were.
Yeah, they were they were tattled on.
So she just basically laid it out and created an analogy. Yes.
Hey, look, what's the difference? Oh, she all she did was retweet it.
She didn't write that. Oh, really? She just retweeted it.
She did. Are you serious? Yeah, she just retweeted it.
You know, oh, that's ridiculous. And it wasn't even it was a fair analogy, in my opinion.
It was. And and they proved your point. Did you hear about this?
Yeah. And I heard that there was somebody else that may be associated with the Disney Channel
and put something out that in essence was the exact it showed like them.
It's like babies. Yes. Going through a wood chipper that were wearing magna hats.
Yeah. Really? And they that was the man that nobody did.
Nobody did anything to him. Right. It was the guy who plays the Mandalorian.
Well. Yeah, because, you know, it doesn't fit the narrative.
And it was more than that. I mean, there was one that was even a Nazi, a Nazi reference.
They had Nazi guys, you know, Nazi prisoners behind behind bars.
And then they showed the kids in cages on the border. Correct.
Yep. That was the Mandalorian himself did that. Yeah. And he's still going.
You know, I could replace him. He wears a frickin mask.
Pedro Pascal. Correct. Is he the Mandalorian? Yes.
This cancel culture starts breaking into the Star Wars program.
That's where I'm going to have to put my foot down.
Oh, yeah. You're a huge Star Wars fan. Most people are.
I mean, most most guys like us, most dudes like us, US are.
Anyway, I just I don't know.
This cancer culture thing is is very it's very dangerous.
Slippery slope because once they cancel everyone that they disagree with,
then they start coming. They start eating their own.
This broadcast right here could get us all fired. Yeah. Great.
Yeah. I mean, it's bullshit. I mean, that's like, you know,
why can't people just go out, have a good time, do their talking and,
you know, and not have any consequences for it?
Just it's just fun. Yeah. Did you did you hear about the out in San Francisco
school board? I think it was I don't know if it was a school board
or a family group that represents the families kind of like a PTA
or something like that. Right. There's a board and excuse me.
He's a gay guy married and he is adopted some interracial kids.
I heard about this. Yeah, go ahead.
So he's he's gay. He's married. He is he is.
I don't know if they're black or Mexican or what, but they're interracial kids.
And he went up there to you know, he got elected
or suggested to be on this board nominated nominated.
And they said, you can't because you're a white male.
So even though he fit the bull, the bill in terms of supporting every diversity
quota and and and mantra, they said, you're a white guy.
And he he was he was a lib. And it's happening to him.
I mean, you know, there is no that was the point.
Everybody's trying to make it's like it's they're going to come for you.
Yep. Sooner or later, they're going to come for you.
You might think it's fine right now because they support what you support.
But at some point, cancer culture is coming for everyone.
Yes, that's too bad. It is too bad.
It's sick. And then Hasbro pulls the the toy.
I guarantee that was directed by Disney saying you need to pull all those.
You talk about her toy. Yes, her toy.
Yeah. Well, that thing shot up in price, man.
I saw the stock on that. That's like a thousand dollars for that.
You saw the stock. What does that mean?
Well, the cost of her little figure.
I know. But you have like a website that you go to.
I don't know. It populated on one of the the you have a doll ticker.
It's a New York Stock Exchange with the docker.
Gina Carano, the doll exchange. Yeah.
Yeah, I thought that same when you said that she was the GameStop of the stock market.
There you go. That's that for some reason, that populated on my screen.
I don't know what the deal is. I think she's I think she's really.
I know those those prices can't be real because those prices went way up.
Kind of like GameStop. There you go.
That's kind of the tooth.
It's a hundred area soon as I bought it.
It plummeted. So let me buy it to thirty four when there's one next to it for thirty four dollars.
If you want that to go down, were you involved in any of that?
You jump on board on that stuff? No, that's that's I really.
I've what I remember Star Wars Empire Strikes Back.
I'm out at that point. I was really to the stocks with GameStop.
No, but I heard a lot because the youngest the youngest in the house was really that.
And he was he was keeping us up on all that.
Did he do the Robin Hood thing? Yeah. Yeah.
He's he was he's bought and played, you know, a few thousand dollars here and there and uses Robin Hood.
Yeah, that was kind of that was kind of crazy.
It just shows that even the the Tomati.
Yeah, the the the groups that are supposed to be representing the little guy building in there and investing their their own Jeff.
So Jeff Sun did the same thing. Yeah.
We talked about it last time. Yeah.
Yeah, he made some money off of he got in and out.
It's a perfect time. Whatever happened to the guy that kind of led that Reddit group and supposedly had taken his fifty thousand dollars and made it into millions and was continuing to hang on?
I don't know.
They probably said he lost his ass then they probably took him out in the field and shot him.
But right now there's maybe it's what had gripped like forty million.
From what I heard him was still hanging in there trying to beat up the hedge funds and good.
And so but I thought at least sell half get your twenty and sick in the bank and then he's got the money.
Do it. You know, Mr. Producer, look up Reddit and put in commission or hearing.
So I think there is some Reddit guy is going in front of Congress or Senate.
Yeah. Well, because here's the thing, the one of the biggest takeaways I get from this is the fact that whoever the hedge fund fucks are that controls Robin Hood and said, hey, man, stop taking.
Stop selling. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
And it said they put a freeze on the fuck. I hate to say stop.
Unbelievable. I'm just so what is that what you're referring to?
Yes. Stop selling to them. But let me keep doing it.
They wouldn't allow you continue to purchase, but you can sell or vice versa.
And they basically made where they couldn't continue to make the you make the data.
Yes, sir. Platforms, though, right? Well, some platforms you could, but you could do it through Robin Hood or I think TD Ameritrade stops.
That is unbelievable. Unbelievable.
Yeah. What's the what's the stock at today? I haven't looked at probably fifteen.
No, it's like forty six. It's like two bucks. No, it is.
It's got to go back down to three. It's forty six. I own it.
You bought it when it was three hundred. I bought it when it was like a thousand forty six.
There you go. It's forty six. I don't know why I look every day.
I look and I'm like grimace. Yeah.
Yeah. That was an interesting thing. I'll be curious to see if anything comes of it, but I'll be surprised if it does.
It's just like all these political people who get in trouble that you think they're going to go to jail.
They're going to like Comey and Hillary Clinton and this and that.
You're like, nothing ever happens.
Politicians get inside information about stocks like this all the time.
All the time. Well, they got busted. There was what? Six senators who got busted.
A couple of Republicans and a couple of Democrats got busted.
Husband, such crap. Diana Feinstein. The whole thing is rigged.
Whole thing. Never heard any more about it. Yeah. Of course not. You never do.
No. Or almost to refer to the Dominion stock.
Oh, I don't know about it. Yeah. It was a Diane Feinstein has stock in it.
Pelosi's husband has it in Dominion. The Dominion.
Voting system. Oh, God. That's sickening. Isn't it? Yeah, sure is.
Anyway, well, that Gina Carano is supposedly making a movie now with Ben Shapiro.
Yeah. Yeah. OK. Yeah. So a conservative. That's right.
Being an actor, a conservative production group. You know, Ben is right.
Yeah. He was he's he's moving or has moved to Tennessee.
He's left. He's one of the groups that have left L.A. Good.
You know, Rogan moved to Austin and Shapiro has packed up and moved to Nashville. Love it.
Yeah. So this movie, I don't know what it's about, but she's it's.
Who do you say is funding it? Some conservative, conservative production,
production company. Yeah. I mean, Ben Shapiro's production company.
I can't wait for. So he may not be an actor in the movie.
He might just be the producer producing it. Yeah.
So we'll see. I'm sure it's probably a smart guy.
It's probably going to be online only because it'll be blackballed in any theater.
Yeah. How are they going to do that? It'll be online.
It'll stream it only. Yeah. But through a provider, because they're there.
It's all well, Democrat. Oh, well, do it.
Well, they're starting to get parlor. I hear is starting to come back online.
Well, for what servers they built their own farm.
Well, they need to. Well, like I was sharing a long time ago, they need.
They need to get the farm growth going. They could do it on the daily wire.
And if I were Trump, I would spend billions doing it. Right. Billions doing it.
And I would start coming up with our own shit and they want war of intellectual property.
Let's let's give them a war of intellectual property because it's all about what's right, what's wrong.
And there this is a farce with the leftist poet. Yeah.
Even the January 6th bullshit is a farce. And there's still no one's even no one's dragging in a Pelosi.
She's the mayor of the fucking Capitol, isn't she?
She's the one that's in charge of what happens there. She's the ones that should be held accountable.
Her herself are the ones she's pulled back the security. Yeah. It was her order.
I saw I saw an interview with very frustrating Trump's lawyer.
Did you see that interview with Trump's lawyer? Or basically he was Giuliani?
No, it was no, no. Are you talking about the impeachment? The impeachment lawyer, impeachment manager.
Yeah. Van Meter or whatever his name was. Yes.
He was being interviewed by someone on CBS, some lady, and he gave it to her basically saying this is all the media's fault, you know, doing the force in this narrative.
And, you know, the the the doctored evidence that he called out, he goes, you don't cover that.
And you're calling. And basically he brought that up that the the doctored evidence that she goes, she goes, oh, you mean just the, you know, the fake blue checkmark.
And the changing of the year and this and that. And he called her out and he goes, you guys, isn't that enough? Right.
They're faking evidence. Yeah, they are. Yeah. What does it take?
You need to be a journalist. There is no journal journalistic integrity anymore.
There's so much, man. McDonald and his his bullshit statement.
You know, Donald McDonald Senate saying McConnell Mitch McConnell Mitch McConnell in he doubled down.
Yeah, maybe. Yeah, there's there's six or seven that I think that's a Zepetaf.
It'll be interesting to see if they can survive this.
I think Mitt Romney is right there. He's been on the all the target for the past four years, but I think he's definitely.
The turtle. You know, and the thing is, we don't know what's going to ever the pictures of Mitch McConnell.
Yeah, he's he's a character. And you know what?
Pelosi to you know, whatever happened to take Cruz put up on the docket that we were what is the term life?
Whatever happened that it was like three Mondays ago or term limits, term limits for I mean, how can we ever heard anything about that?
Well, I mean, they just shut it down. It's not going to do it. No, no, no, no.
That that's a bigger deal than that's a that's a constitutional amendment.
So what is the process to be able to change that to add a constitutional amendment?
Well, yeah, to it's a big, big deal.
It takes what ratification of the states, which is right. But it was a but they created it.
So the for the term term limits, I'm not talking about for the presidency.
I mean, they they did it for the presidency because they did.
FDR was forced. That's right. Somebody has to somebody has to submit an amendment to the to the Constitution and it follows a process.
And so that's what Ted Cruz did. That's what I'm saying.
How come if he if he put something in, you know, where how do you follow the progress of of that?
I that's a good question. I don't know. I don't know what that process is from a because it was it was three Mondays ago where he put that thing out before.
So two thirds of both houses have to agree to do it.
And then it goes to the states to be ratified. You know, it's so they may not even take it up.
I mean, I think what I think the way it works is it goes into some committee where they're going to propose an amendment.
And then the committee like goes, hey, yeah, no, I don't think so.
And then it dies. It doesn't even get to the to the main floor of the House or the Senate.
It just dies like just dies like a lot of other good Republican legislation.
I don't know what else is going to come out of this.
This whole I was brought up January six.
You know, I talked about the lack of communication with the capital security.
And just, you know, I didn't really hear a whole lot about the killing.
You know, I heard the female ex-Navy person got killed.
That's the only one. But the police officer, the middle officer.
No, even that is being disputed. He supposedly died seven days later. Right.
What they were saying, COVID.
Well, they were saying they were saying at first that he was hit with a fire extinguisher.
But there's absolutely no evidence that that is there's no video evidence that that happened.
And they're being very, very quiet about exactly how we passed.
So they're thinking it was a it was a heart attack. I just don't know.
No, they said stroke. I heard stroke. Yes.
I don't I don't get how they can't how they cannot hold them accountable. Right.
It's just it's amazing stuff just doesn't get reported and it just kind of goes away very quietly.
The media is amazing plays a huge part in that.
And they always say five people died. Five people died.
There was a person who wasn't even near the capital.
They were like, you know, there's two hundred thousand people out there.
One of them died of a heart attack. One of them died of this.
One of them died of that. I mean, it had nothing to do with what was going on. Right.
The only two that were actually related to the riot was was getting hit with an extinguisher,
which isn't proven, and the woman who was shot needlessly by the Capitol Police.
Yeah, that that was pretty raunchy. Yeah.
It didn't seem warranted either. No, it wasn't.
You know, but they were scaling the side of the God bless the capital.
I didn't get that. And, you know, and then the people that were scaling,
the people that were trying to break open the windows were allegedly part of Antifa.
Yeah. Where is that data?
Well, you know, there was definitely some elements of Antifa and they have they interviewed people that said,
yeah, I was there. I was wearing a baseball cap.
They have photos of me breaking the window and I'm part of Antifa. Right.
So I was like, it just it's frustrating. No one's ever going to, you know, it just.
So there was one guy, I read one guy, so one Antifa member went in there.
Right. And they and they arrested him like they did the rest of the other people.
And he said he was there just to film. I'm not doing anything wrong.
I'm just here to film. Well, I mean, they still charged him with stuff.
But they also said that he would be allowed to keep the money he got for his video.
Thirty five thousand a pop from every major news organization.
That's what he was paid for his footage. Well, thirty five thousand dollars for every from from every single one of them.
And whatever happened to the horn boy with the pelt all over skirt and bullshit?
Oh, he was expecting Trump. He was expecting Trump to to pardon him.
Well, wasn't he part of a antifa riot weeks earlier?
No, no, no, no, no, no. He was well, he was a counter protester at at at at an antifa.
So he was an authentic Trump supporter. He was.
Yeah, he was. And he was also a cue, cue and on cue and on guy.
Anyway, so when he did not get pardoned, he was, you know, felt duped by Trump.
And so to try to get get out of his, you know, all these charges they were thrown at him.
He said he would go ahead and be a witness at the impeachment trial to, you know, to to show that, you know, they were right.
And Trump, you know, took over my mind and Trump was the one that made me made me do this.
Well, and his whole thing was to just get out of the charges.
He's because he was angry that Trump didn't didn't pardon him.
What a fricking freak, man.
You know, the thing, it's never going to come out.
And it's so frustrating. The police, the local, the Capitol Police ushering them in.
Come on in. Hey, there's this put inside the barricades.
There's there's a lot of yeah, there's a lot of you know, it's just like, come on, man.
You know, you can't have it both ways.
You can't say this was an incitement. And then having the Capitol Police, you know, basically they're the ones inciting it because they're the catalyst getting people to come in.
Yeah. Well, what kills me about the whole thing.
Remember, there was a guy that was putting pipe bombs was planting pipe bombs both at the Capitol and at the at the Republican National Committee headquarters or something.
And then even the Democratic National. And I've heard nothing.
I mean, that would be a massive manhunt to find this guy and to, you know, and it would be like national news all the time.
Well, it's probably not. They probably know who it is.
And it doesn't fit the narrative what they're trying to say. I don't know. I don't know.
I haven't heard anything about it. It's probably an antifa guy that if they found them and interviewed, they would be it'd be that chick from Minnesota.
Omar Omar.
It's our fucking name.
No.
Omar the ill hand Omar.
No, she's from these representative from Minnesota.
Yeah. Yes.
You want Omar? She's a mess.
She's got a piece of shit on some committee that there.
Yeah, she's had. Yeah, she's had a committee, some very powerful committee.
No, it's not really.
That's what I thought. What I heard.
They said it was totally inappropriate for her to be on that to have that influence.
Really? Now, it may not have been.
Maybe it wasn't a powerful, powerful committee, but her being assigned to whatever position she was was highly inappropriate.
Meaning did not fit the mold of whatever it was.
Now, it might have been how to how to host parties or something.
The producer had it up there.
It showed up with the pipe bomb.
Yeah, crazy.
I mean, I haven't heard anything about it.
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