Oh yes.
All right.
Chill out Barry.
Yeah.
Put your shirt back on. What is this?
It's the first half. I know it's been a month but.
I waxed for this.
Damn.
Not only was it the top.
It's been so long. Did you get some anal bleaching at the same time?
It did. It kind of burned a little bit.
It has been a long time.
Long time.
So.
Wait.
Large garbage bags which she was looking for.
All right.
Lots and lots has happened since the last time we sat at these microphones gentlemen.
Quite a bit personally and just news wise.
Stuff like dudes like us go through.
Oh yeah.
Lots of shit going on.
We'll talk about it. We've got Jeff issues. We've got Paul issues.
We've got trips to Colorado. We've got whiskey festivals.
It's weird that Sean doesn't have any issues.
Oh I forgot about the trip to Colorado. We haven't even.
Oh that's right.
We haven't had a trip since then. I mean a podcast since then as well.
Speaking of issues I had issues on that trip.
You sure did.
Is your butt still OK?
Well wait it was reamed.
Did something happen while I was sleeping?
No.
I was on the top floor. You were the one.
I was down there in the basement by myself.
I think there were creatures that lived down there.
You were down there with your power bars to sustain you.
It was probably good because I was up most of the night.
So it was probably good that I was down there not interrupting anyone.
I should definitely talk about that.
April 17th, 2024. It has been over a month.
I think it's four weeks or five weeks.
I'm editing March 5th now. I've got one more I think.
So about four weeks.
It's been about a month but it's been a hectic month.
Busy busy.
We've got our producer Mr. Austin available. Dudes Like Us. I am Sean.
I'm Paul.
And I am Jeff.
And our producer is of age.
And he's not joking.
He actually can participate in the tasting.
He's not.
That's outrageous.
I know.
Austin is not our producer. He's not really known for.
I want to say known for drinking. I mean he does drink.
And when he does, God bless.
He's a wild crazy man.
Oh man.
So he's definitely a dudes like us.
No but he's he just turned 21.
But he doesn't really drink that much.
He doesn't really.
Right.
And congratulations.
That's a big birthday man.
And it's a big deal for me because he's the he's now the 21.
That's all my kids. That's the last one to hit 21.
So they're all legal. You can all take him out to get drunk.
I was thinking more like hey can you go to the store and pick me up some stuff.
Now you have four options.
Oh geez. I'm seriously. It's kind of like when we get the call we got to go.
Total Wine Calls. Hey man we got some stuff in here. Get over here quick.
Austin what are you doing. Right.
Who's the closest to Total Wine.
Right. So they're all they're all on Life 360 and you look at the dots and you figure out who's closest.
Single bearer is available.
Yep. Madeline that's you go. Go go go go.
Dad I don't want to go.
Code 99.
Jesus.
So where do we want to start this thing off. We want to start chronologically or.
I don't remember. Let's talk about the Colorado trip because that was that was early on I think wasn't it.
Yeah. What three weeks ago.
Yeah. Yep. All right. So let me let me walk us through how that whole process happened.
So we're having a St. Patty's Day party right. I believe it was a St. Patty's Day party and we and we were having a good time at the Murphy House and we were at the St. Patty's Day party and now we have a karaoke.
A bunch of people came over. It was a throw. I was sick wasn't I.
You had but herpes. That's why she you are you are already sick.
Yeah. Heading into Colorado.
Yep.
Yeah. I remember that.
So he missed out but it was it was a great party. We had a good time and there was a little bit of a drama but you know we'll talk about that but I guess during that time we had such a great time my wife.
West. Ah yes yes yes. Excuse me. So but my wife when you know she's we were on but she was drunk and she was talking because Austin's best friend is moving to Colorado. Yes to Boulder. Yeah.
Yeah. He and his girlfriend Jacob and Evelyn they're moving out to Colorado to live. They're having fun. They love it. Yeah. And good for them.
And Austin was like I don't know how he got bothered but my wife was like you know Sean will help you move. I guess they were talking with him. They're little.
Their challenge being able to get the U haul and and they oh you know what Sean will take care of that for you. And and you found out like the next morning. Oh by the way you're going.
You're driving to Colorado.
And so I was kind of like you got to pick up the truck in like an hour ago. You know and look part of me was kind of like I can do this. Right. It's like fun and then I started really thinking I was like hold on.
Paul has a family has a cabin out there and I was kind of like dot dot dot and then something else the dudes are going to be talking about and that's losing your job for whatever reason. Right. In the 50s.
You know Jeff has experience. He's not at work right now. So he's laid off and so he's available. Paul's laid off because he's available sounds kind of connected dots like you know what.
Let's make this a dude's like us thing and go hang out at Paul's wagon or I mean a cabin up there way out there in Colorado. Yeah. Yeah. No it was a great idea. So you know we drove out there and it was a great trip up there.
Paul and I drove up there in your rental. I think you had a big ass expedition or something. It was nice. It was quite violently keeping you in your lane though. Yeah. I noticed that. Yeah. If you don't turn that thing off it will it will roll you. Yeah. It was violently saying you need to stay in this way.
Yeah. Damn man. Wake up. Wake up. That's like a safety hazard. Yeah. It almost was because it would cut over. I love it man. Yeah. Yeah. Because I'm watching Netflix or something like that. It's kind of like I veer off a little bit. I was like hey hey hey little buddy.
This wasn't a nice gentle nudge. It was a I want to turn the wheel. Yeah. You know sometimes they do that and that does it's alarming and it's startling especially if you don't know it's there. Right. Features turned on because I rent cars a lot and sometimes there sometimes it's not. And when it hits you they all have their own different vibration. Right. If you can anticipate that you know it's happening it's not going to give you a heart attack. I'm sitting here like relaxing just kind of making my lane change and it's stopping me and I'm not used to cars.
I'm not used to cars smart like that. I have a freaking 2006 Jetta right. Right. So I'm going to I'm going to over correct and I'm going to shoot us off the off the shoulder right. I mean it's crazy. Anyway I'm not a big fan of that. Yeah. The way up there we ran into it was just like I said Paul and I Sean was lucky enough to be in the U haul for 12 hours. So that was the air. That was nice air ride equipped. Yes. Yeah. The thing about the luxury luxury moving van. I'm sure. I'm sure.
I'm sure everyone out there is running a U haul at some point in time in your lives. But the haul we got what a 16 15 18 foot or something like that. It wasn't a big one. It was one of the smallest ones that happen. It gets it goes 75. All right. So we step on the gas you get to 75 and once you get to 75 you if you continue to step on the gas it's got this little eco meter on the left. Yes. And it's kind of like it rubs up and it's kind of like oh my god we're in the red. Oh slow down. Get it back in the green. And then the car kind of like stalls and you just can hear the gas flying.
The tailpipe as soon as you do that. And does it have like a gas estimator. It's like 27 28. Oh yeah. 470 5000. Well the thing is is that as that meter is going from red to green it's so distracting. And every time it gets in the red you're kind of like I'm a loser. You know but I just seriously I keep thinking because every time you stop and fill that fucking thing up it's 100 bucks. And I mean it just seemed like for a 12 hour trip 13 hour trip whatever it was I remember maybe it's 10 and a half. I don't remember how long it was. It was a long time.
Yeah. How long was it was a 10 and a half. Well it's it's it's color springs. Well we love. Yes. Well it's it's a two hour. One hour difference or the two hour difference one one hour difference. We left to what about eight o'clock eight thirty.
So is that about our head. About six o'clock. So so it was about 10 and a half 11 hours. When we got to that bar. Definitely the Colorado Springs. Yeah. So I mean it wasn't bad.
It was kind of cramped being in there and only drive it wasn't bad. I enjoy driving like that. Yeah. Especially when there's a winter storm. Yeah. Yeah. That was that was the other thing. It started. Well first of all we live in Texas so we're not used to seeing snow period.
So the fact that we get to be almost experiencing spring forward slash summer right now where it's hitting the 80s and getting up a little bit higher in the 80s sometimes. It just to leave Texas and be exposed to a different climate like that by itself is holy shit.
That's fucking. And it was I mean it was just happenstance. I mean it you know I mean I don't even think it's normal for Colorado this late to have winter storm warnings but we rolled. Oh they had blitz warnings. They were right into it. Oh yeah we went right through it.
That was crazy. So we powered through that we met up at the restaurant in Colorado Springs. It's called the Hatch. Shout out to the folks at the Colorado Springs the Hatch and we ate there. Tore it up went to Walmart bought some stuff almost stole it.
Almost stole it. We were so confused and we were bickering amongst ourselves. Yeah we were through the we scanned everything and we just walked out. We got we got to the doors. Right. And then I think you were the one Sean said. I said did we pay for that.
Did we pay for that. I was like no did you pay for that. Oh my God. Make a run for it. Go go go. That was fucked up because that was sincerely. It was a hundred bucks. Well I mean not just that but I honestly thought somebody else paid for that. Right. And we went back and it was sitting there going OK. Hello. The machine was like are you going to pay me. The little attendant guy was like. Yeah they were right on it weren't they. Oh yeah they had no idea what's going on. That's crazy. Anyway that was funny. Yeah. So I don't know if you guys.
I mean I guess some people do it. I don't know. It's kind of crazy that we walked out with the. I walked out before we went on the bottom let you forget. Oh yeah yeah yeah. I've done that but not a whole basket full of groceries. Walk away from the thing. I scanned everything and just walked away. That's what we did. Dude the person working there would have totally bought.
I had we gotten in the car and like driven away like and we're 30 minutes up the road. I would have gone back. Yeah. Right. Yeah but had us on video or on a rental three men in a rental three white men. Good Lord. Oh my God.
Oh my God. So sick of it. Yeah. So we sweetly abuse. So we left it was about what a two hour trip from Colorado Springs to your cabin. Yes. And as we kept getting higher Colorado Springs is around four or five thousand feet I think. Yes.
And we've determined your cabin is over 10,000. Yeah 10,000 feet almost exactly. Right. So I knew something was was going sideways when we got close because I was not feeling well and I was getting a headache at that point. And you got a rare snow up there at the point.
Oh my God. It was a blizzard. Yeah. I mean it was there was snow. We couldn't. Yeah we couldn't get into the driveway we normally get into because the snow was like two feet. Yeah. Well the plow would come by and it was what they call that the drift where they call that the plow.
Yeah the snow drift I mean this is the plow drift plow plow. Yeah but yeah exactly right. So as it goes speeds up and down the the you know the dirt roads up there elevation in Colorado six Colorado Springs is 6000. Yeah it creates a wall of snow.
And so that was our driveway and we had to get over that and we tried to and that didn't go well. It didn't go well at all. So we had on that we had the big expedition we put in four wheel drive and it was actually had a bunch of fancy features in there. Oh yeah. It was just too deep. Well then then we went to the other driveway and we're like we can do this. Come on. Power through it. Power through it. And then then quickly we got to a.
It was a fail. It was. And I was just like it's 11 o'clock at night. We're tired. We saw we had been driving for 15 16 hours straight pretty much. We get our shit. We trudge up to the cabin. Carrying all our shit up there. Ten thousand feet of course we're not used to that. So both Jeff and I are huffing and puffing.
I was like did you pack your defibrillator. Even Paul was. Got your axe. Oh I was. Sister basketball player was huffing and puffing too. We had to get the cabin all started up and heated up and all that kind of stuff. So that whole process is kind of cool. I mean when the I don't think dudes like us are on the planet understand the process. When you have a when you live out remote like that and you're not out there for a couple weeks or a month or however long it is. A year. You've got you've got to when you're gone for an extended period you got to prep the house because if it's freezing
temperatures happen. Well you don't want your whole God bless the house pipes to burst. That's right. And have a and then animals come in and then rots out and you show up a week or two or a month later or something like that and shit's all right. But my point is the cougars walk us through some of the of the breakdown and start up when you leave the house when you go there. What are you going to do. Yeah I mean so this is all well water right. So the first thing you have to do I mean when when we have left from the previous winter we drain all the water. It's apparently poisonous water.
Well it's got right on gas. Yes. Right on. And that's tip that's normal for for the mountains up there I guess is to have right on in the air that collects in the in the basement like in the under the foundation space the core area.
Yes. Thank you. So the first thing you got to do is turn on the fans to vent the the rate on gas. Then you got to you know then you got to turn on the the well the well pump right. You know then you have to close all the spigots you know that you left open and to drain all the water from the previous time you were there.
Right. And then you charges the system right. The water gets there's a there's a prepper tank that kind of loads up and then it fills the hot water tank and then finally water starts coming out of all the faucets and you got to make sure you clean all get all the air out of the lines and then you can start shutting off faucets and stuff.
Right. And then you got you know wait for the water to heater water heater to heat up. And I mean it's not it's not like you know it's not horrible but you just kind of you have to. It's a process. It's a process. Right. And then I know the water heater.
I think you burnt the rods or they corrode the way right. So the water up there is is so harsh it's so hard water right with all the not chemicals but just mineral natural minerals right. And I finally figured out guys we can't cannot be using these standard standard elements.
Heating elements you got to use stainless steel right which we have not been doing. So the next time I go up there I'm bringing stainless steel heating elements but yeah they get corroded so fast and so you know even though the tank.
This is what it doesn't make sense to me. The tank is sitting empty like most of the time but I'll be damned if every single time I pull that heating element out it's it's blown up right. So we don't have hot water right. And so then that's frustrating.
So anyway but yeah we got that resolved. We went to we don't went down to you know the town and got new heating elements and put them in and that was the next day. Yeah. Yeah. That night I didn't sleep very well I slept OK up and I have terrible shoulders and for whatever reason my shoulders were keeping me awake that first night as you got progressively worse.
Oh yeah well I got progressively worse through that next day. Yeah. And but we went made a made a run into the little town there. Well the first thing we had to do is call the fire department.
All right so we couldn't get the car out. We get there. We muscle through getting midnight. Yeah we get there we get our luggage up there and mind you there's a blizzard. So I was kind of we're tromping through snow. Yeah but for me I had
purchased from I keep want to say Mervins. What is that store called. Coles. So they had a sale. They were like hey buy this jacket 70 percent off. It's one that you'd wear in Alaska and 70 percent off because we're here in Texas. Texas you never wear it. I was like I bought it because I'm stupid. I'm like I walked in there I was like 70 percent off I got to get this. I get it. And it turned out man it was getting clutch. Clutch. Yeah. And wasn't your wife giving you shit like why would you give me such a hard time ever.
Oh dude that did that jacket was the warmest thing that I've ever worn in my entire life. It was like a Ford slash ever. No not a burka. No I had the big third. Yeah we had that. I have no idea. Good. Yeah I was cold as balls man. I was not prepared. You were cold. I'm prepared to be out there with your fucking Levi's leather jacket. Yeah. Fucking Fonzarelli out there. Yeah. In the morning I was not prepared. Every morning we woke up it was nine degrees. His single ply leather boots. Yeah well got it to what 45. He got it.
Well no I don't. Yeah I was not prepared. It was in the 30s maybe as high as 40 but when we woke up every morning it was nine. It was cold. Ten. It was five degrees. It was cold. Four degrees. But you know I got to say being up in Colorado where's this fair play is close to fair play is that right.
Fair play. Pretty close to fair play. So it's out there a ways and it's remote and there's my South Park right. Yeah. And this is so beautiful. Oh the snow is amazing. The whole valley was covered in snow and we don't see snow very often.
Yeah the trip out there seeing the snow piled up on the tree branches was cool. Beautiful. Especially driving into town. So majestic. When we drove into town. Yeah. Oh yeah it looked like a what was the guy's name that makes all the white movies. Jim Burton or white movies. Yeah like planes trains automobiles.
Talking about the skinhead movies. No the the the the story Nazi movies. World War Two. I'm just saying like what Molly boys the hood like what Molly Greenwald would say. What is that. Do you guys hear the story about John Hughes. Yeah. My movies are too white. Yes. That's kind of what I was driving out.
Really they called his movies too white. She did. She had an interview. Molly Winglaw did. Yeah. They were talking about biting the hand that fed you. She's like they're too white. It's problematic that they were too white. Yeah I'm thankful or something. I don't know. Actually I don't know. That's so crazy. Meaning they had no black actors in it. She's trying to appeal to the progressives today. She wants work. That's all she wants. She wants work so she's putting herself out there in the middle of an interview saying that she's follows the diversity equity inclusion kind of process.
And it's disgusting. All right. So you're saying driving through the mountains you thought you were in a huge. What was his name. John Hughes. Yeah. He's movie. Yeah I was like in a John Hughes movie. It was. It was it was cliche perfect clean and just perfect. I feel like shit. So I didn't enjoy it at all. Yeah you were like. Yeah I felt bad for you man. I didn't really know part of me was kind of like actually none of me was feeling like that. I just felt bad for you because even sitting down there the first day and I was just kind of like.
I so wanted to get some beer out and looked over at Jeff and he's just like kill me. Jeff is not here. What was that guy's name. There is no Jeff. Oh yeah. Right. Well and what's talked about is like we we we were poised to have some fun. Oh yeah. I was I was I was going up there prepared for but man that fucking thing hit me and that second night it did me in. I know you were. I didn't sleep. I was like OK we need.
Evac but I think I think you had more going on. I think altitude sickness had a little influence. Well I was sick going up there. Yeah but you weren't nauseous. I think it exasperated what you were already. You already had. I think so. Yeah I was puking that night before because that's not part of the normal sickness that you know.
That's the altitude sickness the puking but the breathing. I was having trouble breathing. Hold on. I had all of it. But here's man. Look we got to do it again. I want you up there. No. We got to go on the we got to go on the Sean Paul rock and you got to join us.
That was pretty cool. But he doesn't want to talk about it. But we have to stop in Colorado Springs. Well you have to have a night. Well they say well I was doing the research when I was wide awake at 3 a.m. puking.
It says it says it kicks in at about eight thousand feet.
And you're supposed to every thousand to fifteen hundred feet you're supposed to stop for a day or two to acclimate.
So I don't know how you do that. That's a lot of stopping. Yes. Well that's what they say. If you if you get this that's how you combat it. How you how your body gets out how your body gets acclimated. So stopping in Colorado Springs wouldn't really help.
No not much you're there for. Well no because you got to go up higher. Yeah you got to go up higher and stop. Let your body get used to it. Keep going. So and well then if we're going to be there for like you know a week or four or five days you have to go out there six weeks in advance.
Six weeks in advance. And yeah it was terrible man. I felt that second day or was it third day whatever the fuck it was I felt so bad that I left. Well that's what we were like. OK dude you need to fly home. I got to go. So you did. Yeah. So we got to come up with a remedy for that. You know and I know one of it is staying at a lower altitude than coming up. But I'm thinking that if you're 100 percent meaning you're not ill don't have any lung shit going on. I'm thinking it may be doable.
It may be doable but we got to have. What about those divers that have to get the Benz right. That's nitrogen. It's not the same thing. But what if we what if we buy some big iron lung. I was going to say give an iron lung. Yeah. We put you in the iron lung. I get in for seven or seven years.
Like that guy. It's kind of like being in an airplane. No when you get the Benz you're not in there for 70 years. I was in the iron lung for 70 years. Yeah it's not an iron lung. You're in the Benz you're in like a decompression chamber for 72 hours. He wasn't a diver. He was a person that didn't have lungs that didn't work. But when you do get the Benz they put you in like an iron lung. Didn't he just recently die. Yeah he did. He was the longest person ever in the iron lung. 70 years. I wonder if he had sex. With himself maybe. Was he ever allowed to get out of the thing. How would you clean that out.
Inside it was just like just there. Well they had little ports. Well I'm sure he shit. How would they take care of that. Yeah he's like a bidet. I was going to say they don't they have tubes. They're not in the iron lung like forever. Not forever. They are in there forever but they can get out of it for a little while. What if he can't breathe. So that's a whole body thing. Yeah. Yeah. So awful. He was in there for 70 years. He's like in a huge water heater. So really how did he go to the bathroom in there.
That's what I mean. Did they. We need you to look that up Mr. Producer. How does somebody in an iron lung go to the bathroom. That's our first. That's our first Google search. Let's see who's ever Googled that before.
Well I see I see there's holes on the side where you can reach in with a. And do what. Well you put your hands. Well you got to clean them. Probably sponge baths. Oh OK. You know he may roll over and you swipe his bottom and you know. It rotates.
I don't really know. I mean I'm speculating. Maybe he got a handy every once in a while. Was his hands are down there. I'm sure he can. I think when you're in the iron lung somebody else should do it for you. Oh that's my thought.
Yeah. Can't you. He's earned that right. Don't you think. Yeah. So you think the inside of that tube is just like you don't want to take a black light to it. As I said he's just sprayed it. OK. It's like a lot of stalactites.
But you know what. Apparently this dude had a pretty damn good attitude about the whole thing. I would have been like put me down. I don't want to live my whole life in an iron lung. But he apparently was like had some really positive things to say about his life and how he made a difference.
And he was an inspiration for somebody. I don't know. Well there it says it says that the front of it actually comes out like slides out. OK. Exposed to the patient's body. He is lifted up by a nurse and.
Oh it went away. The bedpan is cleaned. I think is what it said. It says he is lifted up by a nurse and the bedpan is slid under him. The iron lung is enclosed where it resumes breathing procedure is repeated to remove the pan.
So basically he has to say I have to poop. Right. They put the pan they open them up put the pan close them up and when he's done they open it back up. Well what did his day consist of.
I mean maybe he watched a lot of Johnny Carson. I think you just watch TV all the time. I think he was able to maybe read a book. You know how like people in the in the chairs they're like quadriplegics.
They can they can like double click with their eyes and shit and then they can do computer stuff. Well he could use his hands could they could they put the keyboard and the mouse in there. I didn't see any arms sticking out of there. I just saw his head.
Well now that'd be all inside. Oh I don't know. I don't know. I mean could he even move. Holy shit look at that picture there. There's a girl coming out of the tube. No no no. Go back or right there to the right.
A little bit more to the right. Right there. Right there. No to the right. Left. That right there. Why is there a person. Oh it's a mirror. Oh it's a mirror. Oh. She. He's got a little buddy inside there with them.
Oh that's awful. So he was the last person in an iron lung.
So why couldn't they transition him to something that's better technology. Maybe his body was just so decayed away. They're like we can't. Why. Yeah. Well I think they could have pulled off a Darth Vader you know.
You've been you've been in here let's say 50 years. Your body would be wasted to nothing. I would just think that there's something. Well maybe he didn't want to. I don't know. Who knows. Well he was there as a kid. That's all he's known.
His plan didn't cover. He's a kid. That's all he is known. So it's like this is what this is what it is. Crazy. He accepted it. Anyway going back to our story we need to put you in one of those things and then you'll be fine.
Iron lung. Yes.
You took me to the trailer. Now I'm like behind my point is we would want you to go. So we basically woke up on Tuesday morning where and you're just like I'm out of here. Yeah I've got a flight. Here we go. We're going and I was going.
We're going now. We're not going later. We're going now. Let's get this out of the way. It was an evac moment. Yeah. So let's let's get you to safety and frankly after you got down to Colorado Springs already started to feel better.
I mean we went to Denver. Yeah. Denver. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I felt I felt 90 percent better. I still had a headache 90 percent better by the time we got to the airport. You were out of the danger zone like feeling like you were going to die. Oh I did.
Man it was it was so bad. So bad. I've had it before. My dad's but not to that degree. Yeah. Not to that degree. But the sad thing about the whole thing. You get on a plane. You fly home and then Sean and I you know we ate or whatever went back to the cabin and you're sending us all these
humo pictures. Oh no we weren't. We were fagging out. Yes you know. Look. Yes we were. We were singing. Air supply. We have to face the music here. The Carpenters with a big penis. There was. Wait a second. There's nothing wrong with that part. That part was fine. We were singing Karen Carpenter. With a big penis. And she is an amazing drummer. I think our listeners out there need a little bit more context because they're getting they're they're just they're getting distracted because you keep using the word penis. Yeah.
No we were watching. OK so we we we got into we had been drinking and keep in mind we did it you know when you're drinking at 10,000 feet. Yeah but I was drinking. You start to act weird. Hot tea which was the best drink ever. The best drink ever man. You and your bourbon and hot tea. This one has lemon. Yes. Yes. And every five minutes I think I found the perfect drink. And I was just like that sounds gross to me. It did. It sounded awful. He was like try it. I was like shut up Zul. I'm good.
Anyway so we we just you know we started making a joke out of it. We started playing who the like the the gayest videos we can watch. You found them. Karen. And it was music right. We were looking for music videos. The premise wasn't trying to find the gate or was it. Well we were trying to top each other with like Baron Manilow and Karen Carpenter and you know we tried to find like what we would like.
Get dogged for Olivia Newton John. Yes yes Olivia Newton John. Anyway we stumbled on a Karen Carpenter. But how did it start. We were watching the Barry Gibb movie. That's how it started. We started watching the women's basketball. Yeah we started watching the Iowa.
Nothing wrong with that. That was Caitlin Clark. Yeah that was she's so awesome. She is amazing. And I'll talk about more about that later because there's so much we can talk about. A lot of pushback. Well we can talk about some of that now and then come back.
Well we're talking about Karen Carpenter. Let's get through the Colorado trip. Yeah but we didn't hit Karen Carpenter until after the basketball. That's true. All right. So we were we were channeling some feminine energy I guess by watching the the women's basketball. Let's still let's talk about that because that's a big deal. You had your tampons in. But hey look at this point we were all still there together. So I just want to say look look Caitlin Clark has brought a spark into the into the women's college basketball and the WNBA. That's like I'm going to go out and say that.
This is she's incredible. She has put it on the map for men that has not happened before. Well I wonder how she's going to do the WNBA. I think she's going to excel. I think she will too. But look here's the other thing. Well first of all she's got like she's got tons of followers now. There are the little kids that are following her. She's become a mentor and the people look up to her. But like you had mentioned earlier in the green room Jeff you said that the the the viewership of the women's college basketball was more or
less succeeded the men's. Yes the women's championship game viewership dwarfed the men's the men's championship. She did a blues and two to South Carolina. South Carolina looks strong. They look good. They look really good. Yeah. And yeah it was a great game. So did she lose final. Yeah she did. OK. And then she got drafted number one to the WNBA. Indiana paid. I don't think it makes seventy five thousand dollars a year. What the fuck they called. Yeah it was three hundred Indiana Fever. So she got she got paid three hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars.
She got paid three hundred and thirty five thousand over four years which ended up being like like you said seventy seventy five or something like that. So everybody was like that's outrageous. The number one pick of the men's draft makes fifty five million a year and she's only making. I mean come on guys. It's a business. They're losing money. The NBA subsidizes it. Yeah. Only reason why it's a float. But this could be the catalyst. It could. And look she's getting also all kinds of things. She's getting huge endorsements. She'll be fine. So it's not like she's not making money. She wore a fifteen thousand dollar Prada.
Outfit. Yeah. To the whatever they call it the draft draft. Yeah. It was crazy. Let me tell you something really crazy. So all the people that were playing the Indiana Fever right. When they're hosting the Indiana Fever they're moving their games to a bigger venue.
That's good. That's just grasp that because Caitlin Clark is going to be playing for the Indiana Fever when they play whatever their team is they're moving it from like a thirteen thousand stadium to an eighteen thousand stadium because they know it can be sold out. I think all these ladies on the road on the road not at home. They're going to be gunning for her though. They are. They are. And I'm worried. I'm worried that not worried. That's not the right word. I would be interested to see if the interest wanes.
I think it will. And then everybody's going to go back to you know she has she's in the WNBA. I think it will. She's not scoring 30 points again. I don't think she's going to dominate in the pros like she did in college. Well we don't we don't know. We don't know. We don't know. Most like most usually that doesn't happen. But this is something that has never happened. But I think a single woman I think she's going to have a following and a big time. Well she will. But I think I think the attention span of the sports fan will go away pretty quick. I think the first
few games several maybe a couple of months. I'm interested in seeing the first couple Indiana Fever games. I'm not going to lie. I was actually hooked on to this thing before the playoffs the postseason tournament started. Because I had heard no because I had heard it started dominating the news where she was she was taking 25 footers 28 footers 30 footers. Nobody does that. I mean shit. There's only a couple of guys in the NBA that will shoot from that distance. And and I was like OK is this for real. And then I started watching some of her games and I was like holy shit.
She is launching them from the frickin logo. So anyway I got I was I was hooked and then I you know and then I was telling you guys you need to see her. Remember. Yes. All right. And we watched her and that's why we watched her in Colorado watched her. It was entertaining because the I think it was you Paul that said it because there's lots of errors lots of ladies on the floor lots of sloppy basketball. But what I think is important is I think the basketball fundamentals.
Yes it's better team basketball are there whereas the guys are all about flashy slam jones. All you dogs want you know isolation one on two one on three. And they don't do that in the in the ladies. Now they play team basketball. It's quite a bit more than the men's.
Again I think it's sloppier. It is your athleticism is not where the men are. I mean come on. We know. Right. Right. So I mean until transgender guys get into the W.M.B.A. South Carolina coach says welcome. It's going to be a nightmare. They can't do it. They can't do it.
Has the NCAA come out and supported that day or have they reversed. I know they did for the swimming for a little bit but I thought they reversed. I think they're kind of staying low. I know the I know the N.A.I.A. has come out says no no.
You're not competing. I think the NCAA kind of got themselves into a pickle right. A rock and a hard place. Right. They can't. They know it wouldn't be a good idea but they can't say no because then then they're going to get the mob on them.
Fuck the mob. I know. I agree. But like fuck it. People are terrified. So I get it. Anyway so that was a fascinating thing. So we watched that. And again that led into the Kieran Carpenter. Yeah. Well what's next. So Jeff was kind of like he's kind of like guys guys.
Stop it guys. I was I was with Julie and we were watching this show and it was so it made me so we end up watching the Barry Gibb documentary. Those Bee Gees. The Bee Gees documentary which was fascinating. It really was. Yes it was fascinating because you know you see these guys and you hear their songs but you don't really hear the backstory of all the I mean these guys are siblings. You know and it's just this is a real life thing. And granted what a great story. I think I'm fantastic.
I did not know so much about the history. First I didn't know they were Australian because everybody thought they were British. They are British. They lived in Australia when they first started. Right. Right. Right. Well let me put this right. I didn't know they had any Australian upbringing. Correct. Right. Right. And then the fact that they went soprano way late in their careers. A falsetto falsetto. Yeah. Right. Thank you. Thank you. Well that didn't happen until the late 70s. The disco disco season. Yeah. Or that producer said we need a
falsetto. Who can do it. Then Barry's like I think I can do it. He went out there and did it was and everyone was like holy shit. It it would it rocketed them to even further start them. Yeah. Because they were already they were already popular. Well they went up and down and up and down and up and down. Right. A couple of times through their career. I remember from like the 60s. They got huge completely different sound. Yeah. When they first started through the 70s they had a different sound.
And then they went away. Then they came back with the whole disco thing and they were huge for several years. And then the whole death of disco. Yes. That whole fucking thing. I had never heard with that with that psycho. That's a DJ. Yeah. DJ did a like kill your disco or whatever in the end up after a baseball game.
It was after a white Chicago White Sox. I think. Yeah. Yeah. How bizarre. Yeah. It reminded me of when what the Dixie Chicks remember when they dogged George Bush and everybody. Everybody brought their discs to something in a bulldozer ran over him or something crazy like that. It was kind of like that. They did that. And it literally killed disco. Yeah it did. And it was I guess it was not just that it was disco got oversaturated. Yes. There everything was disco. It was grinding metal. And if you
remember the guy who has a studio 54 or whatever it was one of the big clubs in New York said that commercialization capitalism ruined disco because everybody wanted everybody. They showed disco duck and they showed these stupid seriously. That was really. Right. So they said once once it got to that point it got oversaturated.
That killed it. And then this thing was kind of cherry on top. This whole death to disco blowing up the records thing was the final nail in the coffin. And then the Bee Gees were shunned. They were. They they made a comeback when they started writing music for other people. And they had an album with Barbara.
Barbara Streisand came out and contacted Barry Gibb and because she loved him and kind of we pulled him out of the tailspin it did a reboot of what they got. She was like hey look you know I want you to write the songs for her album and sing it all night long.
Guilty. Guilty. And it worked out. I've actually never heard that music. That's good music. Oh yeah. I need to know. I know you're not a Babs fan but that's good music. Yeah. Because it's BG music anyway.
So it comes to a close right. And they've had lots of tragedy. What kind of food has it a pie. Wow. Even me pain and sorrow.
So anyway they've had lots of tragedy right. And then the brothers started dropping dead one at a time. Yeah. And then you know Shelley we got we finished watching it. Shelly tells me hey what are you guys doing guys having fun. I go yeah we're all getting weepy watching the end of this.
We were all getting weepy man. It's hard not to. When you hear what he says at the end. One of the very last things Barry says is that he give it all up to spend more time with us. Just to have his brothers back. He goes we had all the number ones and all the success. He goes I'd give that all up to just to have them back. Right.
And everyone's bottom lip started quivering. Yeah I know. I was like. I was like can you put on Star Wars or something. It was bad. I was seriously I was getting weepy and Shelley was like really really. Anyway it was great. And then that think that led into what. I don't know what happened. That may have been it for me that night. Well yeah because you left.
Before we jump into the Karen Carpenter thing because we went to bed that. We need to explain the penis comment. Oh yeah. So but we need we need we need to talk about our our our drink tonight because I'm working on my 10th class here. Yeah I mean it's like drinking iced tea.
It is. It's like flavored water compared to our last drink. Well let's see. You want me to. All right. You have it. Pulled up Mr. Producer. This is redemption redemption bourbon redemption bourbon. The thing about redemption first of all it's super sweet. This is a pre pre prohibition. Brown sugar maple. I mean it's super. It's so yes. It's a vanilla. It's 88 proof. It is so easy to drink. I could seriously.
It's like your eighth. Yeah I mean you could literally take this put it in a freezer in and when it comes out you can like it be ice cream. It's 75 percent corn 21 percent right. And say it again. How much corn 75 which is already going to make it sweet. Yeah it's a really high corn.
And then it's 21 percent rye and 4 percent barley and it's aged. It doesn't say how long it's it's probably four years. It's thick. It's viscous. It is. It tastes good. It's just it goes away really fast. Yeah it didn't last. It's it is because it's watered down. It is really tasty though. Yeah. Hey look I'll be honest. I'm always honest. This.
Sits well with me. The problem with even though it's 88. Well that's that's the problem. So the problem with me being 88 proof is that I can literally drink it. But you just like drink the whole bottle. Yeah I could easily fourth class so it's going to hit you. Yeah that's the other problem. It's going to show that even at 88 proof if you drink for it it's still going to hit you. You know it's just going to hit you differently. So for our listeners there's not going to be a second podcast. Well there might be. It's just going to be Jeff and I.
Yeah.
Now the redemption stuff is good. It's good. Yeah it's just compared to what we had in the green room. Yeah. So we had we had a hawker. Yeah that would Jeff fuel. We had a hawker. So a hawker is made out of Palestine Texas. Right. And they typically you take it. It's very fruity. It's got some orange in there.
It's not the one we had because you guys couldn't taste that. But based on the 90 proof version that they have the 100 proof version you could taste a lot of those notes. Actually you could taste all that in the fourth. The hundred forty four proof that we drank tonight. Oh my god. So tasty. For me it was super tasty. It was very rich. But it was like taking a blow torch and and firing it into your mouth. I didn't get that. No it's very flavorful. It wasn't as hot as that but there was some spice to it.
It wasn't a lot of alcohol burn. Yeah there wasn't. You tell you what if it was a blind taste testing for you and they were to say I would not have said that's one hundred forty four. I got you. I was there's no way because we've had some hundred tens of like man it's hot. Yeah that's right. So four hundred forty four. It was good.
It's very rich. I give this I give this redemption a seven seven. Really high for you. It is. I think we've may get him back on the 90 proofers. No no maybe the problem again. I'm going to tell you the problem for me with this is I can drink it. You don't want to be able to drink it. I he doesn't want to drink it like tea. Yeah I mean it's so easy to drink. It's like drinking a pop. Well it's like the old days we were like I'm going to make a drink. That's what it was like. It was like. I mean in the 90 proof version.
and it's the whole cup of it.
Go, go, go, go, go, go!
I only had one drink tonight.
Oh, man.
I don't know what happened.
I had two drinks.
Yeah, but it was a 44-ounce.
You put a whole bottle in there.
88 proof.
Yeah.
It is good.
I'm actually not going to go above a 7 on.
I'm going to say 6.8 on this one.
I think I'm right with Paul.
It's very tasty, the proof.
It just disappears way too fast for me.
But it has a really good flavor.
I'll go 7.
Just because it has a really good flavor,
it's gone in like two seconds, though.
Right.
Yeah.
But, well, I mean, I don't know.
I'm counting.
What's the price point?
I'm on 10 seconds.
Probably 35, 40 bucks.
I'm on 15 seconds.
There's nothing wrong with that.
40, 50 bucks.
Yeah, that's nothing wrong with that price point.
I'd recommend that.
So look, for those folks out there
that are just starting bourbons, look, this is a starter.
I mean, look, this could be a finisher.
If you're a beginner drinker.
No, look, there's a lot of people out there that say, hey.
This is what we were drinking.
What would you recommend?
And typically, you know.
Tawahawka 144.
No, we would not.
We would say something like.
Do you want to start and end right away?
We would start with nine banded, something weeded.
Essentially, what would say something weeded?
A weeded bourbon.
Black powder.
Was that weeded?
I don't know.
I don't recall if that was black powder or something.
But my point is that we would start with something weeded,
slowly transition into something we're not.
And you're talking about sippers, not mixers, right?
Well, the weeded.
Well, true, true, true, true.
But the weeded you could drink.
This would probably be good in an old fashioned.
Oh, yeah, it'd be great.
Yeah.
But I learned.
Whatever.
We'll talk more about this later.
I just came back from Kentucky.
I learned so much.
And one of them is I'm changing my attitude.
I'm changing my attitude about what I was
calling sipper mixers before.
Because they're not.
But most of the world, those are sippers.
What I call mixers, they are sipping.
And I'm like, damn, maybe I've been,
you know, that's something you mix with Coke.
Oh my god, yeah.
Eww.
Jesus.
Anyway.
For us, it's true.
And I don't care.
I don't care what they say.
I don't care.
Because I really love the hell out of that.
Like the Rumble 140, 144, whatever it is.
Oh my god, it is fantastic.
Yeah.
They don't make it anymore.
They don't.
And I've only got 5 1⁄8 of a bottle left.
And I'm done.
And I don't know where else to get a 40.
That's 7 16s?
Or a bottle?
It's a little over half a bottle.
Yeah.
Close to 5 1⁄8.
So this is MGP.
And it's aged no less than two years.
So it's about two years old.
OK.
And it's MGP.
And so this is part of what I learned.
See how it says straight bourbon whiskey?
To be called a straight whiskey, it
has to be aged at least two years.
To be called a Kentucky straight whiskey,
it has to be distilled in Kentucky for at least a year.
But if it's straight, it's going to be two years.
I mean, aged for a year.
And obviously, you guys know the rules about bourbon.
So anyway, I learned a lot, a little more.
Hold on.
We know the rules about bourbon.
But some of those dudes, I guess,
just need to be reminded.
Not that they don't know.
But sometimes they need to be reminded.
Right.
So it's actually three sets of rules.
When it's a Kentucky straight bourbon,
there's three sets of rules that it has to apply to it.
Right?
First, to be a bourbon, we already know 51% corn.
It has to be distilled in the United States, not Kentucky.
In the United States, anywhere in the United States,
it can be a bourbon.
And it has to be in a New York barrel.
Like, we know all that.
It has to go into the barrel, no more than 125 proof.
It cannot come into the bottle at any less than 80 proof.
Right?
Those are all the rules to be a bourbon.
So straight, because you can have a straight whiskey,
a Kentucky straight whiskey, that's not a bourbon.
Right?
To be a straight whiskey, it has to be aged at least two years.
And then to be a Kentucky straight whiskey,
it has to be aged in a barrel for at least a year in Kentucky.
So that's why it's three sets of rules
to be a Kentucky straight bourbon.
But bourbon takes care of most of those rules.
Does that make sense?
Is a Kentucky bourbon necessarily better?
No, I think it's, you know.
I know bourbon started in Kentucky.
Yes.
I think that's why, right?
Just like, you know, we're big on Texas barbecue,
the Kentucky bourbon.
I understand and everything.
But does it necessarily make it better?
Oh, no, absolutely not.
Absolutely not.
It's just, it is, I think, a climate
that lends itself very well.
It does, and the water.
Yes, and the limestone water.
That's correct.
Correct.
The limestone water.
Because distilleries here, at least 1845,
is using reverse osmosis water, which
is nothing wrong with that.
Right?
So limestone, the thing about limestone water
is it naturally filters out iron and brings calcium
and magnesium naturally to the flavor.
Right?
What about turmeric?
Turmeric?
Who's that?
Yeah, who is that?
Well, King Turmeric was back in the 1400s.
He's leaving.
Jackasses.
Turmeric is not part of this.
Anyway, anyway, so anyway, it's interesting,
because Tennessee's the same way.
Jack Daniels built his distillery on a limestone,
a limestone deal.
They refuse to call it bourbon.
They do.
Even though it qualifies as a bourbon,
they're like, where's the whiskey?
Yeah, Kentucky can call it whatever they want.
We're Tennessee whiskey.
And they call it, there's no E, or there is the E.
Which is it?
Let's see.
Kentucky has the E in whiskey.
Tennessee does not have the E. Did you know that?
I did not know that.
I knew there was two different spellings,
but I didn't know that.
So Tennessee has no E in the word whiskey.
Hold on, hold on.
Stop, stop, stop, stop.
What?
So what were those two spellings you think?
Two spellings.
So how?
Whiskey with an E.
Yeah, I know.
I want to hear him.
What was the first version, and what's the second version?
Whiskey with an E.
Yes.
Oh, so you don't know which one was which?
Well, I didn't know that there was a difference
between Kentucky and Tennessee.
I knew there were two different spellings of it.
I didn't realize one was specific to Tennessee,
one was specific to Kentucky.
But did they tell you why?
I think, from what I have, well, there's the story, right?
Oh, no, that's country whiskey.
Why is there an E in whiskey, and why
is there not an E in whiskey?
Right.
And I think it's to E or not to E?
Right.
I think Tennessee wanted to differentiate.
Oh, I mean, Tennessee and Kentucky have this thing.
Oh, so Tennessee having so many E's,
they probably wanted the extra E.
They're like, oh, just throw an E in there.
I think it's the opposite.
Tennessee does not have an E.
We're sick of the E's.
We don't want E's.
No, it said Tennessee whiskey had the E.
Is that what it says?
Well, that's what it is.
There are two variants of how.
Babylonians and Mesopotamia.
Wow.
Should we have theme music going on there?
Is that King Tumeric?
Bom, bom, bom, bom, bom.
There's Gaelic word, weigig, breatha.
There are two variants of how we, in the modern world,
spell whiskey.
One with an E and one without.
But what we can learn from this E,
if I were to pick up a bottle labeled only whiskey with an E,
what would be the appearance of that subtitle?
E, tell me.
To begin with, it tells me that the particular whiskey
has originated in either America or Ireland.
So Tennessee has nothing to do with it.
Well, it does because of Dickel.
Dickel's in Tennessee.
Well, you said Jack Daniels.
I did, I did.
But I was obviously wrong.
So it says.
What about Chattanooga?
With the exception of American brands,
George Dickel, Makers Market, Old Forth.
I hope we're recording this.
Can you give me the little sound bite?
They have an E.
Interesting.
That's not what they, you know, scroll down.
When you said I was wrong.
Because I think it's more than that.
I want that sound bite.
Well, it also says.
Scroll down a little.
It says the word.
Dude, everything I say on this podcast is wrong.
Are you kidding me?
It says the word whiskey comes from the Gaelic word
ush-key-bah.
Oh, ush-key-bah, yeah, of course.
Of course it is, Jeff.
Ush-key-bah, meaning water of life.
Can you scroll down, Mr. Producer?
Because I know it has blended into something, there we go.
Something about Tennessee.
Ah, blah, blah, blah.
Because they have a bunch of E's in their name.
Oh my God.
Okay, I'm wrong.
Fine, whatever.
I don't have the patience.
Well, you need to go back to wherever who told you that
and said you're wrong.
Okay, well first off,
no one told me that on the Scottish.
This is Spanish.
No one told me that when I did the Bourbon Trail.
This past weekend.
Oh, stop, stop.
Oh, it's the Bourbon Trail.
You know, when you've gone through the Bourbon Trail, guys.
So many times.
I mean, well, I mean, first off, it's a life change.
We ended up watching the Bee Gees movie and then we got.
We all wept together.
We wept.
We held each other.
We got triggered.
Then we ended up taking you to the airport the next day.
First thing, we're like, oh, you gotta go.
Then when we got back, Paul and I started drinking
and we're like, hey, well, you wanna drink?
I think it's time we drank, cause, you know, Jeff's gone.
You know what it was?
We were playing the music game.
You know how we, you got the next song.
Okay, it's gotta be something like the last song.
You get the next song.
Well, and we said we're going to do it with videos only.
Yes.
And that started up being pretty cool.
We started off with 80s music,
cause we're kinda like, all right,
let's pick some 80s bands.
And it has to be a video off of YouTube.
And live.
Live version, which actually was pretty cool
because we'd seen bands that we've never seen live.
Yeah, and it was cool cause they had their own rendition.
Kind of like, it was kind of like,
we were singing along with it.
Oh, that's kind of nice.
Oh, she's kind of hot.
Remember?
Yes, oh, Hart.
We were talking about Anne Wilson when she was freaking 18.
Yeah, but then we're like, oh, well, look how bad this,
and then I was like, hey, Paul, you know what?
You know, and I gave him a little trivia thing.
I was like, do you happen to know
who the best drummer in the world is?
Who, one of that, did you know Karen Carpenter
was one of the best drummers in the world?
You started this.
Yeah, I did.
And you were kind of like, really?
Well, first of all, drums, come on.
It was like innocent.
It was crazy.
And then we started off,
so we pulled up Karen Carpenter in the drum solos,
and all of a sudden she's tearing it up.
And oh, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da,
da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da,
and I had no idea that they had like a show.
Karen Carpenter drum solo.
They had like their own show.
You know what I mean?
Like a TV show?
Yeah, like a TV show.
Like a Donnie and Marie?
Yes, exactly.
They really did.
And so she was running around
doing all these different instruments
and all these different percussion things
and going nuts and it was awesome.
Was she meaty then?
Uh, no.
Wow.
She was porous.
Are you insinuating, was she anorexic?
Is that what you're gonna?
Was she an up anorexic?
Was she porky?
Is that what you're saying?
Was that bitch fat?
Oh, I didn't say that.
Did she have meat on her bones?
The baby got back.
She looked okay.
Like the way, here it is.
Hold on, hold on.
Back out of that one.
Let's pick out another one.
No, that's a good one because she and her brother,
they were an act.
Yeah, but let's do the solo first.
Go where she's wearing a green shirt.
I wanna get a haircut like him.
You do?
Yeah, I guess that's it.
Yep.
All right, so this is a five minute one.
So we probably, no, no, go back.
Go back.
Let's pick another one, I apologize.
So this is a television special from 1976.
Yeah, there you go.
There you go.
Here we go, so she's being announced.
Is this being recorded?
This is 1968.
Yeah, well, he already checked it.
All right. Hopefully.
This will play rock, roll, and they play jazz,
and they play blues, you name it.
Right now they're gonna play Dancing in the Street.
From California, St. and Long Beach.
They were just getting started.
This is 1968.
People are getting introduced to Karen Carpenter here.
And she's on the drums, which is unheard of in 1968.
Well, when they started out, she was the drummer of the band.
And after she became more and more popular
with her singing voice,
they forced her to quit the drums.
But she loved percussion.
And she was cute, and here she is singing
and playing the drums.
Very impressive.
That takes a certain talent to be able to sing
and play drums.
Bill Collins does it, too.
It's hard to do.
Anyway, when she has, she goes through some solo thing,
which is actually pretty awesome.
So anyway, Shawn totally surprised me with this.
Did you know that she's an amazing drummer?
Well, I mean, because there was a poll put out
through Playboy where...
I wanna know what the real drummers think, though.
I'm not taking away that she's good.
Let me get into this.
It's funny you say that.
So there was a poll put out by Playboy
and who was the best drummer on the planet.
Like the top 10.
Yeah, and John Bonham was...
She was number five, and John Bonham was number six.
And he was butt-hurt.
He was kind of like...
That's bullshit.
No woman can out-drum me.
Yeah, but you know, it turns out she...
And Paul and I watched several videos,
and she could tear it up.
She is a true...
The true meaning of a percussionist.
Now, John Bonham is a... That's a different animal,
John Bonham.
It is truly trying to compare apples and oranges.
Yeah, it is.
There's so many different styles of music and drumming
that it's hard to compare.
Like these guys that play for...
Rush.
Like Slipknot, the guys that are just so damn fast
and technical.
Like Metallica, that drummer.
Or like the Polka.
I don't think he's very good.
Polka band.
Well, I'm not saying those aren't bad drummers.
But how do you compare...
But how do you compare what she's doing...
How do you compare what she's doing
to what Neil Peart is doing for Rush?
Not even close.
That's what I mean.
So who's better?
Right.
Technically better.
Who's technically better?
Karen Carpenter.
I don't know, that's to be debated.
I don't know.
She's awesome.
Buddy Rich.
Anyway, so then they transitioned to like,
she was full-time singer with her brother,
and they had a band, and that's when they came out with
On Top of the World Lookin'.
On top of the world lookin'.
Down on creation in the only expectation I can find.
Birds in the Trees, Say Your Name When I Come By.
With a kiss, walk on by.
Da da da da da.
Oh my God.
Mr. Producer, can you pull up some Karen Carpenter songs?
Just like me, they long to be.
Close to you.
Ah ah ah ah ah.
Fag.
All right.
See, here we go.
That's what happened.
You just saw the genesis of what happened at the cabin.
We were singing.
Raining Days and Mondays is probably their best.
We were singing Karen Carpenter drinking what he was drinking.
Well, can't smile for, well, hell,
wasn't that like Barry Manilow today?
That is Barry Manilow.
Can't smile without you.
The Rainbow Connection.
This is close to you.
Skip it to the like, do three minute increments-ish.
You know what's interesting?
My father was absolutely in love with Karen Carpenter.
I know it.
Yeah.
All right, so we hit Karen Carpenter
and we were watching like videos of her.
And we're like, cause that was the whole point we were doing.
Let's do some live videos.
So I always post some live videos of Karen Carpenter.
And we pulled this live video
cause we were following the progression of her career.
Of her talent and her career.
And towards the latter part, prior to her dying,
she had a concert and she was a little meatier.
You can tell she was starting to get things
under control a little bit.
And she looked a little bit older.
And they had created the set.
Yeah, it was like a Roman set.
A Roman themed pillars and naked Roman guys all out there
with their junk hanging out.
The camera's panning around the stage.
Huge like marble.
Yes, it goes by this Roman statue.
This huge uncircumcised junk wagon
just sitting there on this.
It's shining there both like, really?
Yeah.
Why is Jeff not here?
We're like, we've gotta send this to Jeff.
We have to send this.
You know what?
Hold on, stop.
What really happened was,
Paul was looking at that.
He looked at the penis, he's like, oh, I miss Jeff.
That is not what happened.
I think that's exactly what happened.
That is fake news.
Well, the reason I'm saying that-
Let's text Jeff.
The thing is, I got that text like five times from Sean.
Oh my God.
Look at this penis.
Paul was too drunk to do it.
We were so obnoxious.
We were so obnoxious, but we had a ball.
It was a blast.
And then it blended into ABBA.
And then it was Air Supply.
And then it was- Sadly.
It was great.
We didn't really do that much of Air Supply,
but we hit a lot of bands.
We did.
And we dug deep.
We were like extreme more than words.
And we were like, I could totally do this.
And I was like, well, yeah.
Then I paused it and screenshot it.
Oh no. Oh my God, you did.
That's a rather-
That's very detailed.
Impressive screenshot.
Are you serious?
Is that street?
I found that.
Oh, okay.
I was like, you jackass.
I was like, you guys are gay.
Look at that. Because it was dark.
It was a dark-
Even got the pubes and everything.
Oh my God.
You think he was in there with a little chisel doing-
Can you imagine the guy back there in the,
whatever century that was,
just with a chisel and a hammer,
trying to like get that penis just right.
Oh my God.
He's not circumcised.
You gotta make a brand new statue.
No, what's crazy is there was a guy standing there
and he's looking at him chiseling while he's doing that.
Well, that was Michelangelo's David.
So-
Michelangelo.
What a joke.
All he did was make pictures of men-
That painted the Sistine Chapel.
Oh, that too, yeah.
I guess so.
Yes.
I saw that.
It was amazing.
Yeah.
I just name dropped.
Me and Michelangelo.
I just trumped.
Bragged a little bit.
All right, so we end up watching the-
Are we going with the Colorado story or-
Hold on.
So we take your ass and the producers looking at me.
We got-
Oh my gosh.
We got pulled out of the snow by the firefighters.
You can tell that part.
We did.
So we wake up the next morning prior to taking Jeff
to Denver, we called up Paul's-
Hey Paul, what's the best-
Paul calls the fire department.
Hey, what's the best way to get out of being stuck
in the snow?
Yeah, because we were like calling a tow truck from Denver
or Colorado Springs would have been like 600 fucking bucks,
man.
That would be $5,000.
I was like, no, let's call the fire department
right down the street.
They did it.
And they came in 20 minutes, boom.
They were bored.
They must've been bored.
Oh yeah.
They're like these poor shitty slickers.
Oh yeah.
They're like these stupid men.
Yeah, and then he's like,
cause you were in the rental, we had the rental
and he was like, just so you know,
half the car might get yanked apart.
Yeah.
And the back bumper is going to get ripped off.
So the back of the Expedition-
Are you good with that?
So on the front-
The show was pacing.
The front-
I was, I was loud in there.
I can't do this.
But on the front of the car, they had these hooks
designed so you could be pulled.
On the back, they didn't have the hook, however they did.
It was behind a secret plastic little thing.
Dude, the guy walks up and pulls this tab off
the back of the car-
Fuckin' thing off?
I had no idea it was there.
They got this little come along, it was like,
errrrr, just pulled us out.
Paul, puttin' on the reverse.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
I got worried.
When he started doing the winch and the fire truck
started moving forward.
It did.
I was like, we're fucked.
Yeah.
All right, well we didn't get through nearly any
of the topics that we were trying to get through.
We got through Colorado.
We did relevant tangents off of the Colorado trip.
But I wanna talk about my freaking Kentucky thing
next podcast.
Well, it's the first half of the April 17th, 2024 podcast.
So glad to be back.
Cheers, guys.
Cheers, cheers, cheers.
Yeah, big cheers.
I missed you guys.
Yeah, big time.
Thank you, Mr. Producer.
Dudes, that goes to Sean.
I'm Paul.
I'm Jeff.