Oh, part two.
Well, I'll tell you, it's our second half.
It is 17 dudes like us like Sean is primed.
He's had eight.
He had a whole bottle of soap.
Oh, I'm getting hammered.
What the hell did we just drink?
Redemption redemption.
Bourbon 88 proof.
Yeah, Sean had the whole bottle.
It was like it was like drinking iced tea.
Pre prohibition recipe, I guess.
OK, we can sort of say it on the bottom.
It was good. It was good.
This is 88 proof.
Well, welcome back to the podcast.
I think we're all a little amped because it's been so long.
We're so excited to tell our stories and to be together at the mic.
It's a it's a true brother ship.
You know, like a brother ship.
Brotherhood.
No, I've been watching the bourbon brother watch a fallout.
I was I think a brother.
I watched that.
That was your fault, Mr.
Producer, you were watching it when I came over to visit
and we watched the whole damn thing.
Yeah, I watched the first episode.
Was it good? It was good.
I enjoyed it. I tell you what, did you guys play the video game?
No, no. Oh, I had never heard.
It's it's good by itself.
But when you when you watch it and you see these little Easter eggs
of the things that are actually in the video.
Right. I figured it's like it has much more meaning.
It makes it's so exciting to see some of that stuff.
You're like, oh, my gosh, that's cool to see the three like that.
You know, yeah.
So we we watched it.
And at first we were like, this is shock value violence.
But then it became funny.
It became there's a there's a little I was laughing out loud
many, many times.
This little my wife, my wife checked out.
She's like, you can watch the rest of it.
Shelly stuck it out after one episode.
She's like, yeah, you can watch.
Yes. The first couple of stuff.
The first couple of episodes are shock value violence.
Like Gore, right? Yeah.
And we stuck through it and Shelley, Shelley thought it was great.
They introduced the characters like a ghoul, you know, or I saw ghoul.
Yeah, it's it's so you checked out, too.
No, I've only watched one.
Oh, that's that's nothing.
I mean, I've watched the whole thing.
Yeah, you you got to get.
I watched the rest of it. I haven't had time.
It's well worth it.
Yeah, it the first two or three episodes, we were on the fence
about continuing.
But then and then we and then it started to come together.
And but for me, it was good to me.
I watched every episode and relished every moment because
because you had you had a frame of reference.
I do have a frame of reference.
And it's interesting because the video game itself.
First of all, there's there's several versions of it.
You know, the the fallout for Vegas 76, which is a multiplayer game.
And I think there's one other one.
But like Fallout four is the latest one.
It's based in the northeast Boston area, and it uses the map of the actual city.
So you could actually run the streets.
It's it's and there's you go to museums that are there.
There's tons of Easter eggs in the in the fallout four
for that you can actually go to Boston and see it.
It's a lot of history.
They talk about things that's kind of cool.
The actual movie or the the miniseries is based on California.
So it's a separate storyline happening.
And it tells you details California because the Hollywood sign and it
tells you details about the video game that you never really knew in the
when you if you played it.
Yeah. Well, yeah, because when you play, there is a storyline.
But you don't really understand what's going on.
And there's bugs in it because nothing's perfect when it comes to these video
games. But there's when I say bugs, I'm talking about anomalies
that you never able to finish.
Sure. But with the the the storyline, they have an actual congruent
point of reference.
What's happening and how do they get to that?
And I'm not going to give out the whole story, but it all boils down to greed.
Oh, yeah. Oh, of course.
You know, it's it's it's amazing.
So I enjoyed it. I had never seen that actress.
She's got the biggest eyes the hell.
It's just sick. She was in Belgrade.
She's cute. And she has these ginormous eyes.
That's kind of I almost thought she was a I at one point.
Yeah, she's in.
You probably like it. It's a parrot.
That's a you don't think she's cute.
Oh, she's way cute.
It's a period piece. You like those period pieces.
Belgrade. You should watch that.
Belgrade. Do you know what that's on?
I don't remember. We watched it.
It takes place in the late 1800s or something like that.
She's got the biggest eyes I've ever seen.
And I was just like, that can't be real.
And it is. She's a real.
The thing about it is when they when these when they take these
photo shoots of these models, whether it's a guy or a girl,
they usually enlarge the eyes when they do the photo editing.
Yeah, there she is at Belgravia.
Oh, yeah. They can show you a before and after picture of these photos
they take of random people.
And they usually that's one of the first things they do.
They do not have to with her.
She's got big ass bug eyes.
Dude, it's almost sickly.
No, I was the opposite. I was like, oh, she's attractive.
Don't get me wrong.
Mesmerized by her gigantic eyes.
I would kick her out of bed.
No, she's not. She's not very jolly.
You're not very jolly. There was a sex scene.
She's just a beautiful.
But they didn't. But they didn't show her.
Yeah, they didn't show anything.
It was very it was non gratuitous.
You know, Ella. It was Ella Purnell.
It was classy. Yeah.
Well, not really. What kind of ethnicity is she?
She looks kind of a Eastern block or something.
Ah, I said Romanian.
Yeah, we're on the same page here.
Oh, wow. We're just Bee Gees again.
Bee Gees. Oh, I love Bee Gees.
Oh, Bee Gees. Oh, sorry.
Be Ella. Ella.
Purnell. Purnell.
There you go. Right there. Here we go.
Dude. Oh, hold on. Before you look it up.
What do you think? What do you think?
Where is she from? Shawn?
Oh, I have no idea. I think she's from London.
Well, well, yeah. You said London up there.
You think she's British?
She's from a New England or England.
Oh, yeah. But saying that you're from England doesn't really.
Yeah. What's her background?
All right. Click on. Yeah. Click on her.
All right. Here we go.
Where's her parents from? Early life.
Well, she was born in Whitechapel area of East London
on September 17th, 1996, and raised in Bethnal Green.
She attended Bethnal Green Montessori for school
in the city of London, a school for girls
in the Young Actors Theater, Islington.
She's also attended classes weekly at the Sylvania
Young Theater School.
Do you know what happened in Whitechapel?
Something about Neil Shawn and.
No. What's Whitechapel?
Whitechapel. That is where I believe Jack the Ripper took place.
Was in Whitechapel.
It says her great, great, great grandfather
was from Romania.
So I'm right. I don't think that's.
OK, moving on.
Eastern Bloc. You don't have to look at it at all.
She's very Eastern Bloc looking.
Eastern Bloc. Get a quick.
She's really cute.
DNA test, the three to one. 23 and me.
You know what? My wife. OK.
The beam.
I don't want to get too far into the Kentucky story,
but it seems like every single story in Kentucky is tied to a beam
like Jim Beam or Jacob Beam or David Beam.
Like there's a massive.
Jim Beam was one of the oldest ones out there.
No, he's one of the youngest in the tree.
No, like recent, I think Jim Beam itself as a distillery is an old one.
Yes, it is by Brown.
Is Brown Foreman on them?
On them. Yeah.
The beam of the beam family owns the Jim Beam actual distillery.
I thought I thought Brown Foreman owned them anyway.
So anyway, when Shelley got all wrapped up in like
she wants to know the family tree of the beam family and how
and why they're so connected to every single distillery,
because it was like 12 sons or 12 kids.
And the first born was the one that got to to carry on the distillery.
So the other ones did their own.
So I'm telling you, the beam family is in almost every distillery in Kentucky.
So then Shelley was like, I want to know all the history about the beam family
and I want to see the family tree.
And then she goes. It's funny.
She was like, I want to do the 23 and me to find out what our what our.
You don't want to do 23 and me.
23 and me, they sell their stuff to the government.
I know. But Shelley wants to do that now because of this.
Well, do the ones that don't sell that we don't.
Hold on. But so what?
I don't want that. So what? Why?
Well, you can sell your stuff to the government.
I don't want to. OK, but why?
I don't want my stuff in the government.
That should be enough.
But he wants his privacy.
I want my privacy.
He doesn't want to.
But you're not selling to the government.
23 and me does. Yeah, they do.
That's how they're solving.
But what exactly are they selling to the government?
Your DNA?
Uh, jinx.
Yeah, but I mean, what's what exactly is it that you're trying to keep private?
Look, how many along this tree have taken the covid vaccine?
How many have been vaccinated throughout their life?
That doesn't show up.
Or maybe they start.
No, it doesn't.
Maybe they I've already taken the 23 me before covid was even there.
So maybe covid does it, but all the other stuff may.
So your your number one reason is covid.
No, no, no, no, I don't want my stuff in government's hands.
Yeah, it's a distrust of the government.
I mean, they you act like they don't already have it.
They don't. How do you know that?
Because he's never submitted his DNA to 23 and me.
I mean, look, you take blood tests, right?
You don't think far as I know, the government does not have my stuff.
It's my choice. I don't want it.
You can give your stuff to the government if you want.
I don't want it. You know, I mean, voluntarily,
but I'm saying they probably have it anyways.
You know how it's creepy where they do.
You know how it's creepy when they
when they're latching on that they're chasing somebody
and they're trying to find evidence and then they go through their trash.
Oh, yeah. And they get DNA from their trash.
They clip toenails.
Yeah. Or like their Q-tip or or crazy.
Look, if they want your DNA, they're going to get it.
It doesn't matter if they have a reason.
I think it's I think it's cool from a genealogy position.
I'd rather go with a different company that wouldn't give my stuff away.
Well, then do it. And who are the other ones?
I don't even know. Yeah.
Who are the other ones? I don't even know.
Yeah. But you're really you're you're you're you're
almost angry that we're kind of pushing this on you.
Well, no, you're pushing it on me.
Yeah. I'm trying to understand you.
It's my choice. I don't want it. That should be OK.
All right. So let me reframe the question.
Would you be interested to find out your family tree? No.
That's the part I don't understand. Why wouldn't you?
What does that mean to me?
Well, I don't know. You tell me it means nothing to me.
Well, why isn't your family?
Knowing your lineage is kind of a cool thing.
A lineage is I know my parents. That's enough.
I know my grandparents. That's enough for me.
I don't need to know who somebody was in 1800.
It means nothing to me.
Really? I would be curious to know, like,
if my great, great, great grandfather invented the steam engine.
I don't care. Really?
Yes, I don't. Interesting.
So it doesn't matter to me.
Hmm. It impacts my life zero.
If I found that out.
But there are some American families that know, like they know.
Of course. Well, and it's a sense of pride for them.
Like they they know there's like I would never use that in my life.
Yeah, I would never go out and say so.
Would you like you like reading books?
I'll read books. And you like learning history. Sure.
So, I mean, it doesn't matter if my family was involved or not.
That actually is a good question.
So let's say let's say you did know like multiple generations,
like who came over, what they did, you know, what?
From from your perspective, Sean, what?
Knowing that information,
is it simply an interesting history lesson
or does it give you inspiration to be to know that you come from a lineage
and a family crest that had like some sort of profound impact on humankind?
Like like what kind of with Jeff, I don't I don't would you get out?
I don't care. I just kind of want to I'd like to see it.
I'd like to see it just because I'm curious.
It's not about like a history lesson.
Well, again, it's not I don't care what it is.
I just kind of I get comfort kind of saying, oh, that's where it came from.
Oh, that's like when I went to Shebig Island and a year ago, whatever that was,
this whatever it was, I went, yeah, yeah, yeah, and talk it.
I learned a ton about the Colbert side of my my dad's family,
and I thought that was really interesting just where they came from,
how they grew up, how they lived. Yeah, it's amazing.
You know how long hold on.
Did you did you learn particular people? Yes.
Or did you just find out that you're 71 percent Prussian or whatever?
No, that kind of show. Well, Native American.
But that's that's what the DNA test kind of do.
But some of them like the 23 me, for example, you know, I'm
I'm meeting people I've never met before.
You know, like there's I've got a thousand relatives on my list.
That's kind of cool. And it is. Excuse me.
And I've even I've even looked up a couple on Facebook and we've connected.
And it's kind of cool.
And it's kind of like second cousins and we'll never talk.
It'll never be anything.
But you won't do like a gigantic.
There's no family reunion kind of a big grill and hot dogs for all your family.
I just want to know, like if I'm having sex with a chick, is she related to me?
Oh, no, she is.
It's good. I'm boning my fourth cousin again.
Damn it. Yeah, again. Right.
No, but the seventh time I find it fascinating because look, my mother's name,
my mother's name is Pabst.
And I was kind of wondering why I related to the the possible ribbon
beer folks, you know, and after doing a little research, it turns out
I'm pretty damn close, you know.
But after research of possible ribbon, possible ribbon beer is
actually has nothing to do with fucking possible.
They actually bought the recipe from Milwaukee, you know, so it's like,
which means you got no money coming to you.
It doesn't matter. That's not the point.
Well, actually, a couple of kegs here and there.
But you know, I'm just saying, you know, but
talk, you show up at the story
or at the brewery, by the way, with your 23 and me report.
And you're like, listen, I'm part owner.
I'm I'm four times.
I am now. That's my stake right here.
Part owner. Really?
I'm part owner. I have the deed.
I'm I'm an original Pabst.
Look, look, if it doesn't work for Jeff, that's fine.
But I mean, for me personally, I kind of want to like just kind of see
it and explore and see what happens.
And a lot of people. It's not about it's not about pop and circumstance.
I'm not looking for, you know, stars or trying to get money or any of that bullshit.
It's just kind of like I want to kind of know.
I mean, I know where my dad came from and he says they came from Ireland.
They truly did.
And but my mom's side is kind of queer.
I don't know where that came from.
But, you know, it sounds like she was northern Germany.
And I think I think for a lot of people, knowing that you Sweden,
knowing that you where you came from and that the people ahead of you,
it kind of grounds you a little bit.
I find solace in that.
I I found I find that knowing where I come from makes me feel more whole.
Yeah, like it like you're not important.
It's not the right word.
A tribal kind of it's it's you know, I got a sense of belonging.
You matter. Like like in the line.
Yeah, it's like I didn't just show up here one day.
And here I am. I'm out of nothing.
No, I came from somewhere.
And you know, it's had sex.
Yeah, but their parents had sex and their parents had sex.
And there's a story that lineage that comes to you is all a miracle.
And the reason why you don't respect that is your.
I just don't respect it.
The I just don't care. Right.
Well, to me, it doesn't mean anything to me.
But hold on. What if you found out you were a direct descendant of King Tumeric?
Oh, Eric. There you go.
I mean, that's a game changer.
I mean, no information ever.
Wow. You you went into Gregorian chant.
Wow. The tumor is a king to America.
Yeah. The only way I'd do it is if Julie had some desire to try.
I have no desire. But that's what's crazy.
So my wife and we've never had I'd fight back and push against it.
Yeah, we've never talked about 23 and me.
This Jim Beam experience where all these beams in this family
to your beams makes her want to do 23.
And I'd research and use one other than 23.
I think I think I will.
So you would do it if it weren't 23 and me. No.
So it's not 23.
I even heard producers laughing over there.
You know, I still wouldn't do it.
Well, no, I would not if I was going to do it.
It feels if I was going to do it, it would not be 23 and me. Right.
It would be something else.
But again, I don't really have a desire to give my DNA to somebody.
I totally get that.
I think it's kind of a novelty.
You know, all these all the novelty.
That's a great word for that.
All these companies get hacked.
Next thing you know, 23 and me just got hacked.
All your DNA information has just been released. Yes.
What the fuck is going to happen there?
They're going to come after you somehow.
You know, actually, the most fascinating thing to me is that
they're cracking cold cases.
Oh, yeah, that's interesting.
Yes, because the the grand.
How do they see that, though?
Yeah, no, the granddaughter gets on 23 and me.
And then as soon as 23 and me, like you said, is selling that shit to the government.
23 and me says, Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing.
We just got a hit on the DNA of a crime scene back in 1961.
Yep. And so we know now that it is a male relative
of this girl who's 18 just and they know.
And it's fucking crazy.
And they know that it's a it's what they call familial.
Yes. It's like direct family or second or third distance.
Yes. And so they they say it's either an uncle,
a great uncle, a grandfather or a father. Right.
And so they go they go check it out.
And sure enough, here's this 80 year old.
He's like, yeah, it was me.
Yeah, I was a Nazi camp. Yeah.
Sergeant. Sorry, I killed 41 people.
It was a bad year.
Gosh. Well, you know, I know they do 60 on the flip side of that.
I'm trying to figure out, do I actually have any unknown kids out there?
Oh, you have a bunch.
I mean, look, there are some dudes like us out there.
I think you're 90.
There are dudes like us out there that, you know, they live life
and they're they have one night stands.
You don't know. I mean, you don't know. I mean.
But do you want to open that can of worms? No.
Well, you know, that's what happened.
Is that what you're afraid of, Jeff?
I mean, he's got legitimate kids. You slept with every.
Well, that's what happened to that doctor.
Is it Missouri who was it was at a sperm bank?
He was using his own sperm.
And the way he got busted is because of the not 23 and me or something
just like that. Yes.
So now they have this huge network and they're keeping an eye on it
whenever someone else joins it. They get right.
I'm your sister. Oh, and here's your story.
Yeah. Did you catch that?
How many nuts that guy fucking that's like hundreds of kids
was using his own sperm instead of the sperm like anonymous sperm donor bank.
But bank. Yep. Yep.
Awful. Yep.
What if he was paying himself?
And the one reason they caught him is because he was handing down a
a genetic deformity. Yeah.
All his kids got like tiny penises.
It was. But it's a bunch of girls. So. Oh.
And guys. So I don't know how that translates to girls.
Oh, my God. Tiny vagina.
Now, it was it was something weird.
It was a deformity.
It was irregularity that they they had flagged.
They're kind of like, hmm, this is awkward.
I remember that story. That was crazy.
It was a documentary I saw.
And I don't think anything happened to him.
I think I think he just retired and kind of went his way.
He doesn't get like, yeah, what crime would you get?
I don't know. I think he.
Is there a crime on the books for that?
Excessive sperm donation?
I don't know. Well, I mean, I don't know.
I mean, what was the deal on that?
I mean, was he like replacing other people's sperm?
So, hey, this is what he was misleading them into thinking that it was.
I know. Picked from a regular sample.
Fifteen one is from a Jamaican god.
For Mr. King to Merrick. But hold up.
Yeah, I want to direct a Senate from King to Merrick. Yeah.
That's what I know.
But when you are picking sperm, I mean, don't you?
You have profiles. Yeah, they're all him.
That is they're just they're going through slide picture after picture.
And it's just him, him, him, him, him. Right.
Is there anybody besides the guy that works here?
Well, no, he didn't say it was everybody.
This doctor of King Turmeric was this guy right.
Or this to Merrick to Merrick.
Yeah. By the way, what you pull that out of your ass to Merrick?
You're talking about magnesium and calcium.
And you're like, well, you had all these like elements and spices and stuff.
That's really. Yes. Minerals.
And but when you're picking when you're picking sperm from a sperm bank,
don't they don't you want to know if the Hickey is six foot four
and he's like, well, yeah, he built.
Yeah. And he's athletic.
Yes, they have all those profiles.
He's hung like a but he like an elephant.
But he tossed all the guys who donated shit and put his sperm in there.
It says, is that what it was? So that bullshit.
That's the date that should be a massive civil lawsuit.
But look, what happens, let's just say he shows up at the office.
He's been drinking. It's late at night.
But let's just say he's been working all day and he's like, he decides,
hey, you know, I'm going to have a couple of drinks and he's have a couple of drinks.
He's like, yeah. And he's walking around.
He's like he stumbles.
He like lands on the shelf and the shelf falls over and like
1500 samples just all crashing.
And he's like, oh, my God.
I've got to replace all these samples.
I'm going to get fired.
And he's doing like a snow angel in him. Yeah.
Why? Why would he be doing that?
Well, 1500 sample, that's quite a lot.
I could do a little break.
But why a snow angel?
Yeah, he's like, where's that coming to play?
Is he basking in a just a worm?
OK, that I understand.
Hold on. I understand the worm.
Just the snow angel threw me off.
I mean, what was one of those cases?
Kind of, yeah, well, you know, these things are damaged now.
I got to replace all of them and I don't want to get in trouble.
And I've got to start no harm, no foul.
Let's start. I've got to start.
I've got to start stretching.
I got a long night ahead of me.
I've got eight hours for 50.
1500 vials.
I'm creeping, I'm creeping.
Oh, OK.
This got weird. What if we move on?
This came out of 23 and me.
Is that what happened here?
Yes. Oh, let's move on.
This is painful. I need more zinc.
These hydration is what that is.
I'm amazed he didn't go to jail.
I just don't believe he did.
So you had to we got back from Colorado.
You got a phone call and you had to go visit your pops.
Yeah, I got a call pretty.
When did I get back? Wednesday.
He called me Monday.
I think it was a Monday.
He was being rushed to the ER.
Crazy.
He was having physical therapy at his house and his physical therapist was like,
you're not good.
So they called the ER. He ended up in the ER and.
You know, he was there for a few days.
I was, you know, I couldn't get a hold of him because he looked like God
for your physical therapist being diligent.
Yeah.
So he left his phone at home.
So the only people I was talking to were nurses.
Right. And frustrating is that.
Yeah. So my older generation just don't understand the phone being important.
Well, he was he was not doing well.
He was going to the ambulance.
So he's not let me get my phone.
Well, that's a good point. Right.
So I don't think any of us would be.
Yeah. So my sister tracked him down.
She started calling hospitals and found him.
And that's how we kind of got on the talking to the nurses.
And, you know, it was, you know, he's was septic for they didn't
know what's going on at first, but it was not.
It was bad. I think he had pneumonia.
He was septic. They cleared all that up and then they put him
and then his heart really started to struggle.
So they put him on.
They had to move to ICU and put him on.
I don't remember what the drug was, but something that basically kept his heart
beating crazy.
And they said and then finally at the end of the week, he's like, I want to go home.
I'm done with this. I don't want to die here.
Yeah. But OK. So it was a dire situation.
And you got on a plane and.
Yeah, he's like he's like, I want to go home.
And this is the nurses are like, he wants to go home.
It's like and what we're all afraid of is when we stopped this medicine,
he won't make it home.
Oh, awful. So I got on the plane.
My sister got on a plane.
We got out there on a Sunday.
And so he was in the hospital for about a week when we got out there.
And they were going to stop everything on Monday.
So we hung out with them all day Sunday, got them some Starbucks.
We got them some pizza. We got pizza.
Yeah, but you were doing end of life arrangements.
Yeah, we were we were thinking this is his last meal.
Right. Yeah. And you're like, like, you know, doing the things that we all think
about, like administrative stuff.
Yeah, we were thinking about all that.
We asked him, what do you want to eat tonight?
You can have whatever you want.
He's like, how about pizza?
So he went with pizza, pizza and pizza was it some local joint?
It was pretty good, actually.
It wasn't it wasn't Newman's own frozen pizza.
No, it was that's our favorite pizza was not.
It was just some local joint out there.
It was actually pretty good.
And we got that.
And, you know, all the grandkids FaceTime them thinking this is it.
Oh, how cool is that?
So he was FaceTime with all the kids on on Sunday.
And then about a mortality moment.
Yeah. I'm just trying to think what was going through your dad's mind.
Well, he was just sitting there.
Yeah, he was in his chair.
He wasn't in bed.
He was in his chair.
And, you know, and they are coming in and the nurses were talking to me and my sister.
And they were like.
This could be it.
This is not looking good.
Right.
And the doctor finally came in late Sunday.
And she's basically the same thing, you know, I'm the doctor.
I've been seeing him for the week.
And this is what we think is going to happen.
But we really don't know.
Right.
We this is it's keeping his heart moving.
And we think when we pull these two drugs away from him that his he's just going it's
just going to stop.
Yeah, could be it.
So that happened Monday.
So we come in Monday.
We're hanging out for a few hours.
Again, he wanted his soy latte.
So we got him that.
And he was he was just picking off a menu of like, I want this.
I want this.
I would.
He's like, fuck it.
You know, and I want a Dairy Queen Blizzard and I want this.
I mean, all the stuff that you would like.
Yep.
And I have we have hospice coming in.
We're like, this is what we're going to.
This is our plan.
You know, we're going to do this to us and this and, you know, but we're not going to
take him home if he's not going to make it.
Right.
So you're going to remain here if and die here, unfortunately, because we're not going
to put you in ambulance for you to die on the way to the hospital.
We're going to put you in ambulance for you to die on the way to your home.
Kind of a thing.
So we had that whole discussion.
Do you want the chaplain to come in?
Do you want, you know, the the veterans to come in because he's a he's a veteran and
all that stuff.
So we had all that talk.
And so about 10 o'clock, they started turning the drugs down, turning the drugs down.
So it's not a curiosity.
Did he choose to the I don't know the vet thing?
No, he didn't want any of that.
Yeah.
He was just like, I just want to go home.
No, no, no pomp and circumstance.
I'm just fucking let me go home.
Yep.
And he goes, if I die, it's time.
Right.
Like I'm ready to see your mom again.
So right.
So and then, you know, they were turning the drugs down and we're hanging out.
And I was kind of listening to the thing and looking at the thing at the blood pressure
and everything and everything improved.
Right.
And the nurses were coming in.
They were surprised.
Doctors were coming in.
They're surprised or like we were out there watching it and we're like, you can't believe
what we're seeing.
Oh my God.
So his vitals improved.
His attitude improved whole nine yards.
So he got dressed.
They loaded them on the ambulance, took them home.
My sister and I met him there, got him inside.
We hung out there for about 10 days to 10 days.
Yeah, just to make sure every day after they thought he might not make it home.
So we were there for 10 days after that fact.
Awesome.
And we're like, if you make it to this day and everything's fine, we're going to get
flights home.
Yeah, what the hell?
You can't stay there forever.
Yeah.
So he's like, he's like you kids go.
He's like, you got your life.
I'm doing good.
He's showering himself using the restroom, feeding himself, getting up, walking around.
Unbelievable.
Oh, nine yards.
So, you know, he's weak as hell.
It's because he's in the hospital for.
He's getting stronger though, right?
A little bit.
Yeah.
How's his heart though?
Is it clearing up better?
No, no, it's not going to.
Yeah, it's it's it's a heart failure.
So they get better.
They made a choice to a choice was a decision was made for them to not put a defibrillator
or the other one.
What's the other one that pacemaker pacemaker?
So they chose not to put both of them in there.
Well, but that's not the issue that he has.
He has congestive heart failure.
Yeah.
When you have a heart that doesn't constantly miss beating, it's not the right word, arrhythmia.
Right.
Well, that's what the.
That's what a pacemaker is for.
Yep.
It's just a heart failure is he's pumping at 30 percent.
Yes.
Yeah.
It's a muscle issue, meaning the heart is failing.
Yeah.
So when it's pumping, it's that's barely pumping.
Right.
So Ter's grandmother had this congestive heart failure and they put both of them in her and it extended her life.
Really?
Correct.
Okay.
Well, they didn't think he would survive.
Oh, the surgery.
They talked about it.
They were like, what an amazing story.
Yeah.
So we left last a week ago today, last Wednesday.
Yeah.
And he called me on Monday.
He has CNA is coming out.
He has an RN coming out, checking on them.
Good.
Whole nine yard.
Very good.
So someone's seeing them four days a week.
He's got days on by himself.
But he called me Monday.
He's like, Jeff, I think it's time that I move by you.
That's huge.
So huge.
It's also scary because he was fighting that.
Oh, he was.
He wants he wants to live out there and die out there.
I'll be tough on you, man.
It's got to be tough on the family period.
Just it is, you know, it's difficult.
And unfortunately, we're all going to go through it.
I'm just going through it now.
Say this is, you know, a dude's like us reality.
We're all we're all going to go through this.
Because I've shared my story, my father, recently.
So I mean, you, Sean, are lucky that you don't seem to have
any parental drama in terms of health.
And you would think with my parents' health,
they are not shining icons of health.
Right.
The thing about your dad, Jeff, is he wouldn't walk in every morning.
He's a healthy dude.
Yeah, he was very healthy.
He ran marathons all night.
That's it.
Here's his mind.
He's pissed off that this has happened.
He goes, this wasn't supposed to happen.
I did everything right.
I ran all those miles.
I ran those marathons.
I ate healthy.
I was like, Dad, it's genetics.
I was like, Dad, you made it a decade more than the average man.
Oh, that's a good point.
All that stuff you did got you 10 extra years.
Yeah, because the average man dies around 73, 72, 73.
It's probably the tumeric lineage.
Could be the tumeric.
Good for the joints and the inflammation.
Yeah.
So that's what I tell him.
I was like, Dad, it is what it is at this point.
You get an extra decade after most men would have died.
What is the average right now?
76.
No, that's women.
Men are 72, 73.
Oh, shit.
Still?
Yes.
I mean, my grandfather died at 70 or 71.
Yeah, average.
I thought that was young.
You're saying it's still 72?
Yes.
That's awful.
That's so young.
Don't you guys think that's young?
Yeah, it's not very far.
73, right there.
That's awful.
So think of it as that's less than 20 years for me.
Well, what about people that drink bourbon?
It's even less.
Oh, it's 100.
No, it's more.
Yeah, I was going to say it's 150, isn't it?
You're pickling your liver.
So the thing about it.
Pickling?
Pickling.
Really?
Yes.
I never framed it that way.
You know what?
Actually, if you think about the 1500s, I don't even know.
I'm making that up.
But back then, they didn't drink a lot of water, though.
If they did, it was probably shitty water.
That's why they didn't drink it.
So a lot of the-
But now we have microplastics.
The water they drank back then was alcohol.
So they would drink a lot of mead.
They would drink a lot of wine.
So alcohol was kind of incorporated
in what their water intake.
Right.
Imagine this.
If they didn't have bourbon back then.
What a tragedy for those people.
Well, bourbon was back in the 1700s.
Yeah, but think about all the people from the 1200s.
Oh, they had other kinds of-
Like a cognac, perhaps.
They started having ports, cordials.
Yeah, but they didn't have bourbon.
Heavy wines.
I'm just saying, they didn't have bourbon.
So you wouldn't do well in the 1300s?
Oh, I would have sucked in the 1300s.
I bet you would have.
You'd been that court jester.
Hey, Mr. Paul, come over here and start sucking.
What?
Oh, you said you sucked.
No, no, no.
I didn't say suck dick.
Oh.
I totally misconstrued that.
Wow.
Can we edit that out?
That was very vulgar.
Goodness.
What?
It was very vulgar.
You either suck dick or you don't, right, Sean?
I didn't say that.
That is true, though.
It's true.
Thank you.
OK, I have some full circle shit going on here.
A moment of clarity.
Thank you, Jeff.
OK.
Anyway, I'm sorry.
I feel like this weight's been lifted.
Finally.
What the hell just happened?
OK, anyway.
Right.
So anyway, I'm hoping that he makes it.
Put it that way.
And I'm hoping he's here probably within a couple weeks.
And what's amazing about it, he's on bonus time.
Everything he's doing right now is bonus time.
Oh, it is.
Every single day is extra day.
His memory.
Can he talk, though?
Oh, yeah.
I talk to him like three times a day.
I mean, but can he like, hey, how you doing?
Hey, what do you think about the basketball game?
Yes.
That's huge.
What do you think?
So do you think there's an opportunity
that he may sit in?
No, he will not do this.
He won't be able to take the stairs.
He uses a walker.
What if he can?
He won't.
OK, so there's two different things here.
He won't climb up the stairs, or he won't sit here in.
I don't think he would be the slight bit interested to do
this right now.
Yeah.
Yeah, but what about in a month?
It'd be amazing to have his insight, though.
It really would be.
I mean, we could ask him and say, hey,
we'll bring everything to you.
I mean, I'm right away.
They always say, like, what's your secret to life?
And they're like, a Dr. Pepper and bacon every morning.
And a cigarette.
And a cigarette, motherfucker.
I'm not saying no.
OK, it's his decision, right?
Damn.
We could ask.
I just think he'll say no.
But it's his decision.
Move him out here.
Get him acclimated.
And then we'll spring it on him.
And we'll be like, hey, look, we're
going to have dinner over at Jeff's house.
And hey, you know what?
And he's like, oh, I'm doing good.
He's like, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
You know, he's like doing little shadow boxing.
He would not be able to do that.
Shadow boxing, really.
He would not be able to take the stairs.
100%.
He would not be able to take the stairs.
Damn it.
No.
He has trouble going up one.
You are really determined.
Hey, man.
We have no choice.
We're moving silver lining.
We're moving everything downstairs.
He's very, very physically weak.
I'll have to get the other machine.
Laying in the hospital for a week destroys you.
Yep, it destroyed my dad.
It destroys you.
He was crazy how weak he got.
In a week, even just a couple days.
Yeah, but I mean, what I'm saying is that after a couple
months, he may get his, what if, I mean, come on.
Positive, silver lining.
No, no, no.
That's what I said.
Hey, we'll ask.
We can try.
I don't think he'll ever be able to do the stairs.
I don't care if he gets up here and does it.
It'd be great if he would.
I was actually heartbroken that we couldn't find the podcast
and he was up here where he actually was talking.
Did you try the stick?
Well, I'll have to.
Well, he was up here.
What?
Oh, Paul wasn't here.
You did a podcast without me.
You slut.
Dude, you were fucking here.
Shut up.
You don't remember his dad sitting right there?
It's been a couple years.
I am worried about my mental health.
OK, so look, to be fair, to be fair.
To be fair.
He.
I didn't watch that.
I need to catch up on that.
A little letter of candy action.
No, it's not.
It's not funny at all.
It wasn't a.
Every clip you guys send me.
Oh my God.
You know what?
Please stop talking.
That annoying voice.
Stop.
Your mother.
You mother this.
You mother that.
What are you talking about?
The the irritating guy.
What is that?
Letter Kenny.
Letter.
Oh, you.
He's talking about the hockey player.
Yeah.
Your mother was a blah blah blah.
What the hell is his name?
I want to say sheisty, but that's not it.
Shore Z.
Yes.
It's not funny.
It's Shore Z.
You guys send that to me and I'm like, that's not funny.
You know what?
I won't send it to you anymore.
You don't appreciate it.
The show is funny.
It's very smart.
But so in your defense, Paul, we it wasn't an official podcast.
It was like during an event.
He was here for I think Brandon's graduation or Stevens
graduation.
I think it was Stevens graduation.
It's probably Stevens and he was out here already.
He was saying, hey, what you come up to the room?
Check it out.
I say, why don't you have a seat here?
He put the headphones on.
I wasn't here.
No, you weren't.
You were here.
You were so sitting here and we were all sitting here and we
were all.
You weren't here.
I don't think it was.
We've had this conversation to find that's very similar.
That was where you absolutely said this didn't happen.
And you have been proved wrong every single time.
Let's get I'm skeptical.
Well, let's just put it this way.
Just like you.
There was a lot of drinking.
There was a lot of drinking going on.
Why I don't drink.
You don't drink what?
I think the only one who didn't drink water when you're drinking
alcohol producers like gagging over there.
Coughing and gagging and okay.
I get it.
I don't remember anything anymore.
I get it.
Okay.
Well, that would be wonderful to to to listen to that.
That's just I don't even know if we have is that the bootleg
copy.
We have it.
I think it's on that flash drive.
Would you call it the seller bootlegs?
No, it's not something that we're going to make public.
But I mean he he did not there may have been certain parts
he enjoyed because he did laugh but the the the final sign off
he was kind of like I'm fucking done.
You guys are idiots.
Yeah.
Yeah, sounds like you all the children.
He didn't say that but I mean it was kind of he was just kind
of gets that sour look.
Yeah, he's got done.
This is not as funny as this what you guys do on fucking
Tuesday nights.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
Really?
You this is what you do.
This is what you like Jeff.
Is this what you do?
You are a loser.
You're so disappointing to me now.
I understand why you don't want the lineage all fucking way.
Yeah, there we go.
Fuck that.
I'm just disowned.
I'm disowned.
That's why every generation was awesome until Jeff.
Right.
Yeah, wouldn't that suck fucking Deadpool?
Dude, seriously wouldn't that suck?
So you have all scientists and doctors.
Yes, you imagine you 23 and me and you find out this guy was
a billionaire.
This guy invented the steam engine.
This guy like changed the world and then there was Jeff.
How about we shitty right?
I have a podcast every Tuesday night motherfucker.
I'm sorry.
There we go again.
Oh, well, it's better than a father.
That's the second time I've dropped MF or what's going on
with you.
Yeah, it's the booze.
I must be angry.
We haven't drank that much.
It's the it's the bourbon that we're drinking.
Let's have more.
Well, you know, hold on.
So look, look, look, look, look.
So let's move this.
Let's move on the song because actually there's a lot more
to your story.
Oh, there's bourbon to talk about.
Oh, we're talking about the Johnny drum.
Not Johnny.
Dab Johnny drum is the Kentucky from a private stock.
Bounce about the Willett distillery.
So the guys have made those notes, which is like one of my
favorite purpose.
Very, very respected.
The story, by the way, you know, I started off sampling this
and it tastes like cod.
No, I it tastes it tastes here.
It tastes like fish oil.
Yeah.
You know, a light pour.
Perfect.
God, it tastes like three ounce pour.
You just dumped in three ounce pours.
Really one.
God tomorrow's shot such a butt muffin.
Okay, this is actually I think very similar to what we just
had.
It's very what to the redemption.
We just had I'm tasting something completely different
than you guys aren't.
Okay.
How many can we can we go through some specs here?
This is a hundred and one proof.
Oh, it's 50.5 hundred and one proof.
That'd be 101.
It's a Kentucky Burby.
It's a straight which means it's not gay age two years.
It's not gay.
Bardstown Nelson County, Kentucky.
I was just there.
You were I was lucky son of a cow.
I stayed there for two nights.
Okay.
And what else do we know?
That's too small for me to read.
It's Willett.
You said you know what?
I'm not a I'm not a big fan of the label.
I'm not either.
It reminds me of Johnny Rockets burger joint.
Look at the label.
Sir Johnny drum private stock.
Look, look, this is but that doesn't matter.
The label.
I think how much was this?
About 40 bucks.
Yeah, I think it's worth it.
And it's not a bad bourbon.
It's a hundred one proof.
It's got a little peppermint kind of thing after everything
said and done.
I've got the remnants of after taste of peppermint a little
mint.
Johnny drum.
I think I think it's good.
I think it's solid.
It's a 6-2.
I would just the palette is a snowball rolling over fruits
vanilla and spices.
I'll just stop really a snowball rolling mixing them
all together in a well-balanced complex.
If I wasn't looking if I wasn't looking at the screen,
I would say you're totally bullshitting us.
It literally says a snowball rolling over fruits vanilla
and spices.
You know what?
This one takes the cake.
But everything you read there is perfect because it does
envelop a kind of a high spice fruit in it ends in little
vanilla and it's got but it's got a very leathery leather
taste leathery leathery.
What is that?
It's a very oily.
It's very Viscous.
Is it actually it's not Viscous at all, but it tastes
oily.
It's a sheet.
It tastes to me like when I first my first sample was like
total fish oil.
There's no legs at all.
It's just a sheet.
Yeah.
Well, that's because what does that mean again?
It's thick.
What's the viscosity viscosity viscosity?
It's a viscosity.
Stop super watered down.
It does have like I'm going to get her a 6-4.
I'm at 6-2.
I'm with about a 6-2.
So throw out the high throw out the low.
So keep my 6.3.
Point to 2.
There you go to the third book repeating repeating of course,
of course.
You know, the Tasty notes were courtesy of Bill Thomas from
the Jack Rose dining saloon dining saloon.
What was it?
What was the Jack Rose?
Which one was a SNL that deep thoughts by Jack and Jack
Andy.
Oh my God.
You remember the Michael Jordan one?
You're good enough.
You're smart enough.
Oh, that wasn't deep thoughts by Jack Andy though.
Gosh darn it.
You're good looking too.
Right.
And he started to he started to crack up.
It was still funny.
Kate, you know, Caitlin Clark was on SNL.
I didn't see it.
Supposedly a surprise visit.
Really?
Oh really?
So pull up a Kate.
God bless it.
Was her name?
Caitlin Clark.
Caitlin Clark SNL.
There was a little skit that she did.
You know, she is such a cute big woman and she is says all
the right things.
Her upbringing has made her say all the right things in the
right moments in terms of humility and gracious and and
and America is responding to that.
They're used to athletes being me me me me me, you know,
blah blah blah and she is not that.
This got a strange so she wrote with makeup.
She wrote.
She wrote a few jokes for the the the SNL parents for that
one show with the black guy in the yeah, the weekly update.
I'm sure she can't get some items.
Here we go.
And I was start Caitlin Clark is expected to be the number
one pick here to comment is Caitlin Clark.
Dude, she is the shit right now.
Her eyebrows are a little distracting.
Really?
Not to me.
I think she's awesome.
This is gonna be interesting.
But nothing for my joke, whatever.
I am a fan Caitlin, by the way, really Michael because I
heard that little apron joke you did.
It was a joke.
We're just having fun, you know, you make a lot of jokes
about women's sports.
Don't you Michael?
I wouldn't say a lot, but you know, it's not on the regular.
Yeah, I know.
It's definitely a lot.
That guy's buddy sort of made a super cool joke.
I'm not sure.
I don't know.
Buddy sort of made a super cut.
Take a look.
You don't have to do that.
The country are promising to only show women's basketball
games during March Madness.
The bars are known collectively as the empty ones.
On the Sports Illustrated website were actually generated
by AI and it's already making glaring mistakes.
For instance, it made up something called the WNBA.
Oh, ouch.
Iowa's final four game against UConn was the most watched
women's college basketball game ever with 14.2 million viewers
beating the previous record by 14.2 million.
Yeah, look at him.
He's like, I'm screwed.
No problem.
You know, unlike Che, I support women.
No, hold on.
I think you're a great basketball player.
I mean, I can't play like you do.
Yeah, we know and obviously I can't tell jokes like you do.
Thank you for that.
But I did write some jokes and it would mean a lot to me
if you read some of them just right over there on the cards.
Well, well, should I do this?
Oh God.
The Indiana Fever have the first pick in this Monday's
draft of reminder that Indiana Fever is a WNBA team and not
what Michael Che gave to dozens of women at Purdue University.
Really wrote these yourself?
Yeah.
Netflix's top new show is Ripley featuring an eerie unsettling
performance by actor Andrew Scott.
Critics say it's the hardest thing to watch on Netflix
since Michael Che's special shame.
This year, Caitlin Clark broke the record for three pointers
in a single season and I have three pointers for Michael Che.
One be two funnier, three dumbass.
You think she really wrote those?
No, I don't think so.
And good luck in the WNBA.
I hope you have a great first season.
Thanks.
I'm sure it will be a big first step for me, but it's just
one step for the WNBA.
Thanks to all the great players like Cheryl Swoops, Lisa
Leslie, Cynthia Cooper, the great Don Bailey.
She's got a great future ahead of her.
She does.
Maya Moore.
These are the women that kicked down the door so I could walk
inside.
So I want to thank them tonight for laying the foundation and
Michael, since you're such a big fan, I brought you a souvenir.
It's an apron signed by me.
She's awesome.
I'm telling you she is.
Thank you.
I can't wait to give this to my girlfriend.
You don't have a girlfriend.
All right.
What a great performance.
Yeah, that was good.
Good stuff.
She is just living it up right now.
Well, it rightfully so.
She sparked my interest in women's basketball across the board
whether like next year.
I mean, I don't know.
I'm going to give it a chance next year.
And also I'm going to start watching her WNBA.
I'm going to watch.
I'm going to make an attempt to.
I actually am.
Like Jeff said.
And the reason is I want to see how she stands up against.
Correct.
I want to see that.
That's really what I want to see how hard especially some of
these because they've said some a couple of us have some bad
things.
Oh, yeah, they've been mean about it.
Yeah, like you're playing a bunch of 18 year olds.
Wait till you wait.
You play against us.
Yeah, we've been in the NBA.
I'm going to tear you up.
Oh, God.
You a hole.
Yeah, Jesus Christ.
What the hell's going on over there?
Hold on.
Sorry.
I lost control.
Yes.
My bad.
Yes.
You're why you're so sweet sweating over there.
Yeah, a little bit.
Yes.
Why am I sweating?
I don't know.
It's I'm not sweating.
What's wrong with you?
I thought I saw some discoloration.
I want to I want to what your pants.
One of the things I want to want to discuss is we had an event
that we went to before we went to Colorado.
Oh, good Lord.
So the Saturday we were jam-packed with things to do and we
had we had the day before we left for Colorado.
It was so this was Saturday and we were leaving Colorado Sunday.
So Saturday we had it and we know we did good.
We did.
I can't write.
I can't be right.
Extremely.
I was going to say I was a mess the day after.
No, there's no way we drove to Colorado the next day.
We did.
We drove Sunday.
It was the next week.
We left Sunday.
We left the next day the next morning.
You left it like snow.
No, yes, because I drove the same vehicle to the Whiskey
Festival as you dumbasses took to Colorado.
You're right.
He did.
But I was in ICU for at least eight hours.
You were picked up from Shelly.
You were rescued.
You had some interesting things put in.
You talk about evac.
I were evac.
We were we were tantalizing.
We were so shitfaced that day.
Okay, but like to Jeff walk us through the anatomy of a Texas
tasting.
First of all, where'd we go?
We went to the Plano, Texas Whiskey Festival or something
whatever the hell it's called.
We want to go down there because our friends from 1845
was going to be down there.
We wanted to support that.
But in addition to the Whiskey Festival, the Whiskey Festival
itself is it's got a bunch of stuff going on.
They got a lot of vendors out there.
They're selling a bunch of food crafts.
It's not why we went, but it's a big event.
Food trucks.
Yeah, food trucks.
And there's a bunch in a little corner.
They've got the Whiskey Festival where they've got 14
booths set up.
There was only 14.
There was only 14 booths set up of various bourbons.
We didn't make it.
We didn't make it through all 14.
No, we didn't.
They didn't let us hit the last one because we were so fucked
up.
Yes, because we spent too much time.
I was lying.
We had like eight drinks at each station.
I was lying face down in the grass and I think on the seventh
stall.
Yeah, so after the first one, I don't even remember who the
first one was.
I don't remember anything.
After the first one we had we had four and they were all like
110 proof.
It was a shit show.
And we did four shots of that stuff and I was like, God, if we
stay at this pace, I'm drunk after the first one.
The third booth we showed up, we were fucked up.
Yes.
We're taking group pictures on the third booth and we're just
like, ha ha ha.
Can I just hit something?
So we walk up to the table and there's like 18 bottles of
different shit that they have.
I'll try all of them.
All of them.
Which one would you like a sample of?
All of them.
Yes, all of them.
Right now.
Immediately.
I brought my own cup.
Oh my God.
It was a disaster.
It's a crap.
We we went way too fast yet we were such new.
We still weren't fast enough to get through all of them.
We were newbies, but we had we had a lot of great conversations.
We laughed a lot.
Oh, yeah, we had a lot of fun and I it was a good time.
I recruited a couple.
Hopefully they're listening at the moment.
But I mean we recruited some guys into the podcast.
I mean we were like listen, you want to know about more about
bourbon.
We met an illegal immigrant.
What was that guy's name?
The illegal immigrant.
Oh, we partied with him.
Now he went to the bar.
Oh, that's right.
He did cut all his name.
He was Canadian.
He was an illegal.
What was his name?
Rufus.
Illegal.
I think well, no, I have no idea what his name was.
Oh, we gave him such a hard time.
I feel bad about it.
Now.
I don't think I really talked to him.
I did you guys are across the table.
I've got lots of pictures of that.
He had we had bandanas, but he had a very interesting story.
We were weird bad.
Oh my God.
The other pictures of us with bandanas.
Oh my gosh.
The next thing I know, it's like a car pulls up pocket in
and I'm like, where are we going?
Okay, who are you?
Oh, that's my wife.
She reached out to me.
Dawson and I got evac'd totally like the dozen got blown up
too, didn't he?
Oh, he did.
But he's more conditioned.
He's got a younger liver than I do.
This is now.
I mean, come on.
Well, we did fine.
We ended up after you left.
We ended up hitting a couple more food trucks and we sobered
up pretty quick.
Did you really?
Yeah, I mean,
I mean, I drive home.
I drove home fine, right?
Oh, good Lord.
I don't remember.
Oh, that's great.
I remember the drive home.
I got home.
Chuck was sitting in the front and he was his eyes were kind
of like watching everything I did.
I was I don't remember much the drive home.
No, all I know is I was hung over at eight o'clock that night.
I was like, I'm hung over and I haven't even got to bed yet.
I remember getting home and Dawson and I were like, we'll
play in horse and we get out on the driveway and I think there
was nine straight air balls for both of us and we're like,
yeah, we can't do this right now.
And then I was side and I sat down on the couch and I'm like,
let's watch.
Exactly what I did.
I passed out on the couch and it was like four o'clock.
Yes, I had all my bags packed by them.
I mean, I packed them the night before we really left the
next day.
Yeah, we left.
I was up because I hadn't packed yet.
So I was packing hung over going so sucks.
So is I I had all my shit ready to go.
I didn't have to worry about that.
I was like, I have to wake up like at six thirty or seven
tomorrow, but we did great.
Yeah, we made it.
Yeah, we did.
I was outside.
I left the keys in the car for you and had all my shit packed
in the car.
I was ready to go.
I was pumped.
I was jazzed.
I was excited because you know what?
I mean, I was excited for Austin because he was seeing his
friends off.
And yes, you know, I know it's going to be a sad moment for
him in.
Yeah, the same.
Goodbye to your friends that you've grown up for a very long
time.
Tough.
It's tough.
That's life.
It is.
You know, when I lived in, I lived in New Jersey and even
for that short amount of time, like up to where I was grad,
not even graduate, but from junior high to high school,
you know, I was with a group of people for like four years
and that that bond that we had and I moved from El Paso.
I'm sorry from New Jersey to fucking armpit of a Texas
El Paso.
And Sean Cruz.
Yeah, mind you El Paso is beautiful, but it's a piece of
shit, man.
It is beautiful.
I love still.
What's left anyone out there?
I probably would it be different?
Oh, like the migrants.
Well, illegal.
I'm talking about the no, he's talking about like the landscape.
Yeah, as you're over looking the Rio Grande, you see Juarez
the shanty town and the razor wire.
When I was there when I used to live in El Paso going over
to Juarez was a kind of a cool thing.
We go there.
We go visit the flea markets.
Julie's and it was it was fantastic.
You know, we go over there.
We go buy some cool shit.
We come back.
They had these glass factories.
We buy all this fresh hand blown stuff is beautiful by like
silver necklaces.
It was a wonderful experience up there now.
It's it's there, but it's not it's different now because
people don't do that.
Well, because there's no tourists that go over there
because the danger is the drug lords have taken over and
who the guys that are sending the illegal immigrants,
what are they called?
The coyotes.
Yes, coyotes with another word.
Cartel the cartel are the cartel has taken over.
Yeah, I mean, it's sad, you know, and I have a lot more
stories.
I'm not going to get into it.
But you know, I was firsthand seeing some of this the crazy
shit going on.
We went I went out there.
It was about 20 years ago, if not a little bit more because
my wife went to school out there and she had some friends
out there.
She was getting married.
She's like she's like, yeah, the hills the mountains up
here.
You don't go because that's where the bandidos.
Yeah, I went to that.
You don't go up there.
That's insane.
That's on the US side.
Right?
Yeah, so I went to that same school.
I was there for one semester before I moved up to Dallas.
You know, and the the type of that area was on the west side.
I was on the east side of El Paso.
That was the where the Sun Bowls at where UTEP is at.
That was all that was all rich area, you know, just people
that have a lot of money lived on that side.
And honestly, I was nicer and prettier though.
Honestly, I couldn't tell you what it looks like out there.
I just imagine that it's it's not what it used to be 20
years ago.
Yeah, no, it's not.
It's not the mountains are pretty.
Yeah, that's kind of what I was getting at is that I found
that the area was pretty was beautiful.
I mean where I lived at, you know, I was able to to walk
over the fence and walk for miles and miles and miles when
I would like get on my my my my bike, my my 10 speed your
electrical electric your shwin.
Was it a shwin?
No, I think I remember what it was.
You know, it was but I got on a 10 speed and I would drive
out because we lived on a military base Fort Bliss for
Big Xerifil for bless and we would drive out when I would
get on the the 10 speed.
I would get on roads on base because the base for bliss is
like one of the biggest forts on in the United States.
And you can go for miles and miles where there's nothing
out there.
Right.
And it was kind of amazing when the bikes had like the
ramhorn.
Yes.
Handles.
Yes, they don't have those anymore.
Do they?
Yeah, they do.
They have the same.
Oh, yeah, of course.
They curve down.
Yeah, mine had it.
It actually it was a it was a it was a it was more than a
10 speed.
I think it was a 12 speed, but it had matter.
Look at me.
I 12.
Is that an eight speed?
You got the cool thing was is that when I would drive way
out there, but the turnaround point was you ride a road,
the the the the bicycle all the way out there.
I would ride up to what they there was a Border Patrol
station out there and it was way out in the middle of
a Fort bless and I don't know if it's a Border Patrol,
but it was something similar to that.
I but they were they were doing construction out there.
So the road basically you would come to a roadblock and
there'd be a gate there and you would be able to enter
and they were doing all kinds of construction and I had
I had driven out there at night and I'd stuck around and
I would look and see this thing.
That's a great idea.
Yeah, whatever man.
I was like get on the ground get on the ground now.
Well, it kind of happened like that, but not really.
Well, I mean they were like dude, you can't be here.
What's going on?
You know, but I was a kid back then it didn't matter.
They didn't care.
It was it was the 80s and you had a 10 speed.
I was like those 12 speed.
You're like bro, I got my point is is that I went out there.
I drove out there that in the just see installation.
Now there was nothing like that.
But it Roswell or we talking about Roswell.
It wasn't nothing anything like that.
My my my point is testing to give you a grasp of the
building what it was.
It was it was it was a two-story building, but the basement
went down like 10.
It was like hundreds of feet down and they had all the
stairs going all the way down and when you look down
you're like, oh my God.
It's like you throw a rocket.
They take two minutes for it to hit the ground.
You know what that was?
What?
Man in black.
That's how they cut you.
You're throwing rocks down there like who the hell stole
rocks down here son of a idiot.
We're taking spike beat him to death.
We're trying to do nuclear shit down here.
Yeah, we're about to detonate a bomb you idiot.
But it was just it was kind of cool back then.
I you know, whatever.
It was just a normal thing that they do on military basis.
I guess I don't know break into forbidden zones.
Well, first of all for kids like me.
Yes, I mean they they would let like military brats go
anywhere.
I mean we would show up like on the big Army airfield
airfield and race the Jets.
Yeah, no, but they stand in front of it until they go right
over our heads into certain areas.
We hop in these simulators and we sit down and we play
the games that they were doing.
Dude, the simulators they had back then were less complicated
than the video games we play right now.
I mean, seriously.
I had more hours on planes than they did so you could fly
and you should have a pilot.
Yeah, you should have.
You know in your lineage, there's a lot of pilot.
I don't think so.
Yeah, I think my actual leaders is a lot of sailors.
One of the Wright brothers.
Hold on.
There's a lot of sailors.
Sailors.
Oh, I like the way Jeff says that.
That's kind of nice.
You too.
That's kind of hot.
Not really.
Can you hear me some more of that Johnny drum?
I think we may be able to we are going to be bottle that do
we want to well, do we rate it?
6.2.
I believe I gave it a 6.4.
Oh shit.
The point to 6.2 and the average is we gave it a 6.3 repeating
of course.
When we yes we did.
So we'll do what we'll infinity that we have so much more to
catch up on.
We did.
I don't know if we finished the whiskey fast.
Anyway, we did.
We did.
So we hit the bar and we met a couple people at the bar and
I feel kind of stupid and I'm going to shout out to them,
but we'll have to catch up on let's finish the day.
They were awesome.
That they were the couple.
The dude was kind of like, hey, where'd your girlfriend go?
And he's like, she had to go.
I'm gonna take a shit.
I was like, I was like, what we're like, we like you do.
He's like, laughing.
I don't tell her I said that when she comes back and I was
like, oh, you did.
Of course.
I totally told her.
They both laughed and there's a picture.
I put it on Instagram.
Instagram.
They were really, really cool.
The dudes like us.
Yeah, we met him at the bar.
Yeah, we have so much more to talk about.
Next week.
We got to catch up on a lot of things.
There you go.
Well, guys, cheers.
Cheers.
I just want to say one thing.
One thing.
I love both you motherfuckers.
We love you.
You guys are great.
And this is what happens when we don't have a podcast.
Now, we're all going through things.
And look, we're all here for each other.
I'm looking at you, Jeff.
Oh, yeah.
Well, we all need it.
Lean on us.
Yeah.
All right.
You've got some good friends here.
We'll help you out.
All right.
That's what dudes like us should do.
Agreed.
It's April 17th, the second half.
Thank you, Mr.
Producer for staying in love is gay.
Mr. 21.
Mr.
21 years old.
I can drink each time I want to.
Fucker.
Dudes like us.
I'm Sean.
I'm Paul.
And I'm Jeff.