Let go.
That music's not so loud this time.
Maybe I'm going deaf. You are. Could be. Welcome to my world.
Humanity. It only brings back
the shit I had to deal with today. Today was the load up jam packed day
but it started out, which is the focus of what I'm about to say, is
going to the doctors. Here we go again.
Here we go again. What's my weakness?
Going to the gym.
It's another Dudes Like Us moment.
It's August 6th, 2024. August. Shit.
Fucking crazy. Mr. Producers in town.
Welcome back sir. Dudes Like Us, I'm Sean. I'm Paul.
And I am Jeff. We have a ton of shit to talk about.
We're going to talk about the first half. And it's a little jam packed. I apologize for being a little delayed on this. You guys don't know.
You're not impacted by this. But we are.
Sean had a gala to go to. Yes. We did.
A boondoggle. You know, you had a friend that went out of town
and came back and gifted you a bottle
of whiskey from a certain place. She did. We'll be talking about that.
We're going to talk about this in a little bit. I'll tell you what, it's not a very high proof one but I tell you
just kicking out the initial drink. I'm liking it.
For the low proof that it is, it has decent flavor to it. Are you guys pulling a teaser?
Yes. We're going to talk about the selection.
Get them all juiced up and wet before it hits.
Oh dude, my nose is wet. Wet like sweaty.
Thrombing. Well, maybe. Swollen.
Wow. So I'll tell you what, I'm going to talk about my doctor's visit today.
Very, very, very good news. You're still a male.
He didn't have to shove his finger up my bottom. He's still a male.
I've been asking. He didn't have to check my
prostate this time. I don't know what the deal is. He was like, you got a full physical. I was like,
yes, Mr. Culpepper, Dr. Culpepper. Because you had a colonoscopy last year. Maybe
you were too eager. Maybe you jumped in there and ripped off your pants and
bent over the table and you were like, okay, doctor, give it to me.
You're just gaping. I'm not quite there yet.
He's like, you know what? Not today, Sean.
No, I know. I was able to skip mine because I had a
colonoscopy the previous, within the six or nine months.
He had mentioned some numbers and I kind of
hurt listening to him, but I didn't really understand what they were talking about. He said
that guys our age should be
the average would be a one point zero. Now I'm not
sure what that's referring to. It's referring to something about your prostate.
Like the size of it. Maybe. Maybe. You have a tiny prostate.
Like a walnut. Like it's one walnut. I'm not sure. The little tiny little cute
little prostate. Or a pistachio. Maybe a Brazilian nut.
Brazilian nut, yes. And he said that yours is
better. That number is better than one percent of America. So what he said is
the average for my age is a one point zero. And he said
mine was a point six. So I was doing very well. And that he
could pass because he was, this was a little chart that he had.
And it was like, it was going up, but it was like, you know, he was like you're nowhere near
the up where we need to be concerned. He's like, hey, you know, don't worry about it.
You're going to get your, you know, whatever. He said the next six, the next
colonoscopy.
Next inspection. Which is next month. The next anal. The next anal probe.
I'm not getting those like that anymore. No. What is it called? The god damn it, I got a brain
fart. The thing I just did today. The physical. The physical. God bless. I want to see
that chart. Is it like a chart where it's like there's no finger, then no finger, and then a tiny
bit of the finger. And then a little bit more of the finger all the way up to all the whole arm.
It's rated on knuckles. So it's like one knuckle, two knuckle,
three knuckle. And you were right above needing any finger.
I was like, sir, I have been my whole life like
I've been protecting my prostate. I've been protecting my prostate.
It's been wrapped in bubble wrap. Now look,
all in all, my things are great, man.
I just tried turning that down. That's what happened, Mr. Producer.
I went to the doctor the previous week and had all the panels
and all that stuff, right. And all my shit came back great. Clostral is low.
Everything. Glucose was perfect.
Liver perfect. Everything. What about your calcium? I was like score.
She's like your calcium is perfect. She said everything.
She goes, I got them downstairs. We can look at them. Were they concerned about low
alcohol levels for both of you? Yeah, she goes, yeah, you're not quite as pickled.
So they're like, we were hoping you would drink a little bit more.
No, so I was very pleased. Blood pressure's good. She may even wean me off of the
blood pressure medicine. Ah, that is huge news.
Wow. Considering everything that's going on, that's huge news. How is your
blood pressure ever taken? You know what, you're taking that stuff, right?
I haven't taken that. Oh my God. However,
my blood pressure, so I informed the doctor because he was like,
are you taking your blood pressure every day? And I was like, no, I'm taking it twice a week.
Okay. And he was kind of like, really?
And he looked disappointed and wrote something in your chart? No, he looked disappointed
that he looked at my chart and he was like, your blood pressure is 120 over 84.
Okay. Well, there's merit there. When's the last time
you took your medicine? I'm supposed to take it when I get back.
He's like, all right, so this is on the downside of three days and your blood pressure is this good? I was like, yes, sir.
Oh, that is good news. So you know what, it's not, you know, he says it's very
rare that people will include yourself because obviously you fit in the same
category that will not, we'll go back on not taking the blood pressure medicine.
Yeah. And it's like, it all has to do with discipline and being diligent.
Well, I mean, yeah, you're diet about no salt, right?
Whatever it is. I mean, that's good too. Well, I think it's also, it's also, Sean has lost weight.
I've lost weight. Yes, that's a big part of it. Cardiovascular
health. Yes. And I got my trampoline. You still been using it?
Every day. Yeah. You know, I bought that, that
treadmill, the walking treadmill that with a raising desk, I did it today.
I walked and worked for 20 minutes.
I should do it some more. Work your way up to it.
Yeah. I'll work my way up to it. First day I'm like, I'll do it all day. You know what's funny though? I was like,
you know, at work we have this vitality program and you can record the number of steps and you know,
you get all these points. And I was like, I'm going to get a shitload of points. The problem is I'm not getting any
steps because I wear my watch and my watch is holding my mouse while I'm working.
So my arm's not swinging. Put it on the other hand. Put it on your ankle. Well no,
I mean both are, well that's what somebody said. I was like, I don't have skinny ass little ankles.
Come on, my watch is not going to fit on my ankle. Whoa.
It doesn't fit. It doesn't get that small. Yeah, that's true. What? Oh, on my
dick? Yes. Oh, like a dick watch. Jesus. This is the first half of the
episode. Well you're the drunk one, not us. So check us out on... But think about it, if I'm
helicoptering, I can get triple points. Look guys, let's take a little
moment of clarity. We've got... I'm getting 20 steps to every real step.
Check us out on Instagram, dudeslikeus-podcast.
Check us out on dudeslikeus-woodcraft. Also Facebook
has the same stuff guys. Check us out. We have merch available. Jeff is
diligently producing fantastic stuff. Yeah, he's working that machine.
Oh yeah. Yeah, do you see the American flag downstairs? American flag. I knew you
were working on it. It's done. The one with the 52 stars, right? Yeah, 52 stars. I took them like...
I shouldn't have counted. I probably made you feel bad. I thought you said
Washington, Puerto Rico. I counted. I was like 52. I was like, wait a minute.
I know, I don't want that. I was like, ugh. Yeah, he sent a picture where he was all excited.
Hey guys, this is what I'm working on. And I was like, why are there 52 stars? Yeah.
Well, it looks good. I'll tell you, it does look good. It's inch and a quarter thick. It's thick wood too, man.
Yeah, I did that. I did that because it's a larger
flag that I wanted to start bowing on. Oh, it needs integrity for
sure. It's good. Fantastic job on it. You've got that down, man. You've done what?
Like four or five of these now. No, I've done more than that. Yeah, I've got a process down.
That's excellent. It just takes time. You know, you gotta wait to shit dry and
stuff like that. So, I mean, ripping the boards is... Once you get the light, that's pretty easy.
That reminds me, I've got a couple extra clamps that I can bring over.
Wood clamps. Cramps? Oh, clamps. Some cramps.
Yeah, they're larger than the ones we have. It would help, especially for flags like that.
Right. Yeah, those big red ones I have. Bring those back. I had
some big ones. I don't know what happened to them. They probably broke.
Probably got them from Harbor Freight. I did. If your sons were anything like
my sons, whenever I visit them, I'm like, oh, there's my shirt.
Oh, there's my this. There's my that. There's my this. There's my cup. There's my cup.
But these are really... These are like five foot clamps. I'm like, why would they need those?
Oh, no. That's the ones I have over at my house. Are they blue?
No. Oh, you're missing those. Awkward. No, these are the red ones.
All right. Yeah, I don't know where they're at. That's strange for that
to be misplaced. Yeah. Those are... Those hang in a particular place.
Yeah, they're not stuck under something. All in all, there was...
For being in the mid-fifties, you know, I was excited about going to the doctor
and I'm telling you, for those guys out there, you know, those dudes, like I said, that struggle with us.
We struggle. We do. And, you know, it's about discipline and, you know,
it's mind over matter, you know. There's different stuff that I do.
I'm about to start a different thing. I was fasting, you know, like
I wouldn't eat dinner or I wouldn't eat food for Monday all day. So I'd eat dinner
Sunday and I wouldn't eat again a Tuesday morning. I'm going to scrap that program.
The program worked. It was successful. I would call it a success.
But there is a...
Based on the feedback that I got from a couple friends that are
doing a different style and that was backed up by
Dr. Culpepper today because Dr. Culpepper said
he's doing it. He's doing... So what he's doing is basically he gives you
there's a window that you eat. It's basically six hours.
Intermittent fasting. That's what that is. It's just you pick your six hours and you just
eat during that six hours. And you gorge. You just absolutely gorge yourself.
Two whole pizzas. I'm thinking no, but...
Five pizzas. Let's go ding ding ding ding.
It's like one of those hot dog... I've only got six hours.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Nobody makes that noise.
Oh, that was a... Oh, they do for a reason. That was a ballpark.
That's that... That's the worst
video ever. Yeah, that was funny, man. I about blacked out laughing.
That was fantastic. It was unexpected. I wish we had the whole thing, right?
I wish we had video on this that we could actually show that. So you know what? Look, the dudes
I guess out there that struggle... There is light at the end of the tunnel. At the end of the day,
it's about discipline. It's about you. It's about you taking it serious.
Period. No? And our Mr. Producer's kind of looking at me like, yeah,
yeah, yeah. Guess what, bitch? You're going to be this old as one day as well, all right?
Yeah, but they don't think about it until way later. No, neither do we. We don't think about it either.
Something has to happen. That's true for us, too, right? Something has to happen for us to get our attention.
Or something has to happen to where we... There's something we want to do that we can't do anymore.
And then suddenly we're like, damn, I need to lose a couple pounds.
Or I need to... You know, there's usually some sort of... Like you can't reach and clean your taint very well.
That's a big one. That's number one, actually. That's number one.
Taint inaccessibility. Yes. I haven't
reached that point yet. No, I haven't either. I'm just thinking that'd be a step.
So you can't see your taint rings. So there are some times where I have a difficult time
putting on shoes. The gut gets in the way. It's not just that.
It's just uncomfortable. Because the gut's in the way. You have to roll around on the floor and kind of awkwardly.
Because my body can't contort that far down.
But now it's better. But there was a time I was like, god damn.
I tell you, I was the same way. When I was at my heaviest, it was hard.
I could still do it, but the gut got in the way. Your stomach was in the way.
I have big poles attached to the heels of my shoes.
And I just grabbed the big pole and pulled it onto my foot.
I don't have to do anything. Yeah, that shoe horn.
One of my kids got me an extended shoe horn. It was like a three foot shoe horn.
So there really are one of those things? I was joking.
I've got one that's next to where I put my shoes on. It's fantastic.
Do you have the things that you could just put your heel in and it'll pull your shoe off for you?
I do, but I don't need those yet. You put your shoe in there and it kind of
clamps on your shoe. It's designed more for like boots, but
you can use it for, I guess, for regular shoes. They make it for shoes too.
They have like the medical. There's the big old shoe horn.
My dad had one. Dude, that is a
lost tool. Meaning? No it's not.
Meaning people don't, I don't think a lot of people, do the younger generations use this?
Hell no. Not yet. They don't need it. They can f***ing bend over and put their shoes on.
Well actually they don't give a s*** either because they like squash their feet in the shoes. They damage it.
They don't care. They don't pay for it. And then you just wiggle the foot until the thing.
Hey I need a new pair of shoes. Did you just give me the bird?
Do you? He's old school.
You actually are an old soul in a lot of different areas so I can see that.
Alright, what else we got? Well you know,
so the doctor and exercise and the trampoline
and you know what else is going on? You know Harris had picked her new vice president
today. Mr. Walls? Walls? Tim Walls? Walls?
Walls. Walls. Walls. So it's apparently, it's being panned.
Obviously it's going to be panned by the right but it's even being panned by the left.
Because they were like, you're supposed to attract people from the moderates and
this is more left than she is. Well look at Minnesota. It's a s*** hole.
It's a s*** hole right now. And Shapiro was from Pennsylvania.
They need Pennsylvania right? They can't. He's Jewish.
They hate Jews. It's so f***ed up man. And this guy Walls,
I mean this is the stupid m****** that was wanting to put tampons
in the fourth graders bathrooms. I believe he did that.
I mean what the f*** is he thinking? He also wants to give drivers license
to illegal aliens. I wonder why. Because there's a little check box on there
that says register to vote. Boom.
That's just a ploy to steal votes right? Well that's their angle.
So you know what? It's just he's a, look he may be a nice guy. I don't
care. He can go f*** himself. Well they're trying to pan him as
the mid-America values. Mid-western.
Oh he's the h*** of the midwestern. You know what? He's not.
So what else is there? He tried, he joined the military. Did you guys know that?
Yes. He was in the National Guard. And they were about to send him
overseas or somewhere. They were going to send him to Iraq. And he got scared and said no?
He backed out. You can't do that can you? He quit.
Oh he just quit. He quit. Is that the same
as dodged, draft dodging? I don't know what the deal is. How long was he in though?
Because if he had served his four years, you could quit at any time.
Yeah he's allowed to decline. I don't know those details but the thing is
that he was in the service, whatever it was. He was being sent to Iraq
and he quit before he loaded. Actually I think I said it correct. I think at the end of those four years you re-up
for another set of four. Four or two. Yeah it's not
like you just, it's month to month.
But you know, but JD Vance, he went over to Iraq, he didn't say no.
Hmm. Strange. And he was in the Marines.
Look, I mean there's no comparison. You know what? It's just
I gotta give a shout out to Josh.
What's his last name? Shapiro. Josh Shapiro. You know
he's a butt nugget but he had a great performance
today, tonight with the, when?
Oh I didn't see this. Oh this was happening earlier today.
He spoke very well. I mean he was. For what? There were like 10,000 people.
I've never seen a Democratic rally set up like this before. He was
out there promoting Harris. It was like a Trump one. Because Harris was going to jump out there.
And he was going to announce and she was going to speak and he went out there and paved the path for her man.
I mean there's no denying that there's excitement on the left right now
because of, you know, because they don't have Biden anymore. Right? They now have Harris. And now Harris is
I think they're all kind of being full of shit about being as excited as they are about her.
I think that's going to wear off. It will. Because once we start
hammering them with the truth. Well she doesn't have to give, she can hide
for 90 days. She's going to hide the entire time. Because
she opens her mouth is not good for her. Right. Right. So she's going to do the same thing.
Because nobody can stand the way she talks. Remember Biden did it and it worked. Yep.
Right? So she's going to do it because it works. Yep. Yep.
I mean there was a time when that was not acceptable. You couldn't not have like
three debates. You know what I mean? Yeah. At least you have three debates.
At least three debates and everybody was really interested to hear the
issues and they were really interested to see how they handled each other
and they handled the questions. And now it's like he's a jerk. I'm not going to give him the time of day.
No they're weird. Oh JD Vance is weird. Really? That's all you've got?
Yep. That's what we've reduced to. It's like
idiocracy. We're literally just stupid. And the crazy thing is that
it's just another magic word. You know weird was a magic
word that all the broadcasters started talking about. Yeah isn't that kind of odd?
Being a waltz is the new word now. Oh the Midwestern, the heart of the
Midwestern area. You know man. Just show all the
meme with you're weird but all the purple haired wolf
people on the liberal side. Oh that's what they did. That was so great.
It was like they were just starting pulling up all these things from the left and they were like
yeah JD Vance is weird. They're like yeah JD Vance is weird.
Look at that. Yeah you want to have sex change
for minors. Right. JD's weird. Alright so what
is this? You asked to put a Robbie Starbuck on you.
What was that all about? Well Robbie Starbuck is
I don't know if he's a reporter or what the hell he is. I'm not sure what he is either but he's
the one that's kind of whistle blowing. Yeah he's big on
Twitter and he's kind of
investigating these companies and he investigated John Deere.
Oh here we go. He's a filmmaker and activist. Okay yes and I think he's
sniffing out companies that are woke. Correct. Well especially CEOs.
Go ahead. Correct and he got John Deere
and John Deere jumped on it.
They squashed it. And undid some things. In a good way. Yes in a good way.
Yeah they said yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. We didn't know that was going on. We shutting it down.
Now the new one is Harley Davidson. Unbelievable. And
they're doing some ridiculous things talking about
another Bud Light where you don't know your customer. Even worse. Yeah and I saw some
footage of the Sturgis rally which is going on right now.
And it was they drove by the Harley booth or area
and there was hardly anybody in there. They said typically that is
packed. At Sturgis. Wow. Dude come
on that's crazy. Yeah. Oh that's why you got to go with Indian.
That's what I did. So yeah so Indian is probably going to see a resurgence
and look I'm not saying Indians bad or good but you didn't do that
because. No I did it because I like Indians. Yeah they've been
around. They've been around. I was deliberately avoiding Harley Davidson. Daughter feather.
Not because I don't I think I was avoiding it simply because
it's like that's what everybody does. So I was just kind of researched
Indian and I thought it was a cool and it's older than Harley Davidson right. Yep.
And it's like you know through and through American of course so is Harley Davidson but
anyway well that's what the issue is is their new CEO is from Germany
and he is a climate activist. He's an eco
warrior. Great. Hi my name is Klaus. Klaus.
You're a carbon dioxide. He's destroying my world. And he said
one of the things he said and we may be able to find some of the quotes that
this guy has said it's either it's either the CEO
or a board member for Harley. I think it's a CEO said that he
is a climate Taliban. He's going to be
that type of person. Oh that's great. How proud. He called himself
that. Yeah that's great. So he's gonna he's gonna like
do guerrilla warfare on on what like large companies that produce a lot
of. No. Does that mean he's gonna go to China and start destroying them? No think about
Taliban. What do they do? They oppress. Right. The Taliban
don't let the you know don't let women they have to they can't go to school.
They have to wear all the you know they have to cover themselves head to toe. They no music
no dancing. How does that translate to the climate? Meaning he's gonna go
ugly. He's gonna he's gonna be. Yeah but if he really wants to go
ugly and he really wants to make a mark on the world then he needs to address China
because China is the number one China and India actually are the number one
those are the guys that are causing all the pollution in the world. Hong Kong.
I mean where do you get your shit? You know your rubber dog shit's made in fucking Hong Kong. You know
that's the way I took it though. He's gonna go oppressive. Fuck. He is not gonna do anything.
So Harley Davidson keep an eye on the stock although you know you have
Black Rock and Vanguard all them trying to you know they'll infuse.
And prop them up so it doesn't look that bad. What do they call that short selling?
I don't know how they do it but. How about the market? Wow.
Well before we move on to that Harley Davidson I also I watched a video on it
and there's many many Harley stores closing.
There are. Not because of this. You're saying they were struggling
already to begin with. No some of this because they said Harley is trying to push out these
legacy owners who aren't subscribing to the new culture.
This is going to destroy the company if it really really
if they're really serious about it it's not gonna. There's one in California
that's been there for a hundred years just closed. I can promise you
manly manly manly man. I mean this is the symbol
like we thought Bud Light was a manly manly symbol right.
Harley Davidson is a manly manly manly manly symbol.
And guys are not gonna. These dudes that ride these bikes are not gonna deal with it.
More than 40% after announcing the DEI initiatives.
You know what but then I saw on Snopes that this is not true. Go woke go broke.
Hold on scroll up. Go scroll down. Yeah this is a fact check.
Yeah go down. Is it true or not.
So in August for Harley Davidson sales dropped more than 40%
after that company D labeled satire. It's not that it's rumor spreading
not true. But you know it could it could gain steam.
I mean look what happened to Bud Light man. Yeah but do we even believe Snopes anymore.
No I mean you know I don't believe any of these facts. Yeah they truly fuck
are they because they're a bunch of frickin bought pieces of. Yeah they tried to gain some
credibility with that whole few good people on both sides.
Yeah well this is recently came out so they're not gonna be able to
report their sales until the quarter. Oh yeah it's too early. Once the quarter ends
in September if they're on the physical calendar they'll
or the. That's when you're gonna see it. Yeah it's too early.
Because this just kind of broke the end of July.
Yeah Robbie Starbucker that's Harley on July 23rd. How so
interesting. So he I guess he's just he's not doing anything like
who are those people that do those you know underground cameras.
Project Veritas. Yeah so he's not doing stuff like that. He's just researching these guys and they're
very public out in the open. Correct. This is what they stand for. Yeah. And he's
being vocal about it. Yeah and I think he's getting the internal like presentation
and communications and shit like that. Unbelievable.
I mean I wouldn't even think it's possible. I mean you talk
about really not knowing your customers. And John Deere. John Deere is almost the same
level. Farmers. Are you kidding me? Robbie Starbuck
posted like two hours ago on X formerly on his Twitter.
I think it's hilarious that Tim Walton's framing Republicans is weird when
he thinks that women can have a penis and men can get pregnant. Oh and he
put tampons in boys bathrooms in every school in Minnesota. You're the weird guy in this
election. No shit. Per his post. Agreed. I think that whole weird
thing's going to come back to bite them in the ass. Yeah. I mean
you're weird for what? For having American values? Family values?
It's juvenile. Right? I mean it's just stupid. I mean if that's all they've got
they're in trouble. I heard something on the radio. It's almost like there's
a early 20s social media team
who got bullied in middle school running their campaign. Right. And they're
getting back. And they're like he's weird. Right. You know.
It's like a young kid term. I know. It's silly.
It is. You know what? I don't care. You know what?
It's going to work itself out. I don't even know. You know honestly
if I felt there were going to be fair elections I wouldn't even be concerned about this.
It's just I don't trust the elections. I don't either. And when it comes up time
they're already talking about it. You know he wants to push the
illegal vote that are here for voting. You know get your driver's license
and get to vote. I mean this is just nonsense. It's just nonsense.
And what the hell. I just hope that certain
people wake up. Right. You know and it's never going to happen. But you know what?
I think part of us need to wake up too. I mean what part. I would like
for some Democrats to call us out. I mean show us some sides of the
Republican that are bad. You know what about
Republicans are bad. I mean what is it that we want to cut out
from voting things that we're not going to fund anymore. We're not going to
fund Sunday night fund for certain communities
to go and bowl. You know I don't know. I mean I think
they definitely do. They definitely do the same thing that the left does which is take things out of
context. You know what I mean. I mean like I'll watch a speech right
or see the live footage of something and then I'll read
you know the Breitbart article on it and I'll be like dude seriously that's not
what they said. That's not what they meant. I watched it. Don't be
doing the same shit that they are. You know what I mean. Well we said on the last podcast that we
need to play as dirty as they do. I guess. Well even Josh Shapiro during
his rant today which you know it was highly energized but even
during his rant he's saying false stuff. He's like saying books.
Yeah it's like the banning books is like dude dude they're not banning
books. It's so stupid. They're taking sexualized books
out of the libraries where little kids could be reading them. Come on.
Let's be real about what they're talking about here. But they're not.
You know they're fucking. They twist it because no one's gonna
fact check it. It's a sound bite. It's an easy attack.
And you keep hearing it. Oh they want to ban books. They want to ban books. Yeah they're taking us back
to Nazi Germany where they're burning books. Shut up.
So dumb. But you know what people believe in it.
Coworkers believe in it. I'm just like I just look at them I'm like
what you really believe that. And they're like you really believe that.
I'm like we're done. We're so hopeless. It's never gonna get better.
So when do preseason football games start. They already have. Well the
Hall of Fame game already started. That was last week. Last week. Oh really.
Is it this Thursday? This Thursday Friday. The 11th. Cowboys play
this weekend. Really? Yeah. So this Thursday Friday I think there are some games
and there are some games on Saturday and Sunday this week. Yes.
Very cool. I know. I'm excited. They'll play. This is maybe the first quarter.
Yeah they'll maybe play one quarter of the starters.
Oh not even. Doesn't matter. It's kind of exciting getting the fever.
Get going. Get the old fantasy football stuff pumping. And it does get you
excited about your team because you know you're watching the guys that are the future.
Right. I mean or the people that you want to make the team or who's gonna make the team.
I still enjoy watching my team when they have the preseason games.
You know I don't tune out. It's like oh god it's some scrub or whatever.
I want to see how they do. Sometimes I do like in the late third and fourth quarter where it's just like
Yeah yeah yeah yeah. And the football is not as good.
Oh yeah no it's clearly. Then they really get to the bottom of the barrel
giving somebody who has a long shot to make the team. Giving him some time.
Then they cut him after that game. Or during the game.
Yeah. Which is unfortunate because all those guys are good.
They're all amazing. They're all good. They're all better than you know 98 percent of everyone
else. But you know they're just not quite good enough. And it's unfortunate.
Have you heard about the new kickoff rules? Have you heard about
the new kickoff rules? I've heard that there are new rules. Dude it is
wild. I watched it during the Hall of Fame game. Is this for an attempt to not get people hurt?
Do they use like a crazy ball and a bounce everywhere? Yes. So check this.
So the defense. The kick. It's an eight sided ball.
How does this work? How does this work?
The kicking team is on the 40 yard line of the
other team. On the receiving team. Do they have like weapons
and implements? It's like jousting. Yes. Like a joust. And they have
pull arms. NFL new kickoff rules. Maces. And they're required
to scream like banshees as they charge each other. So what is it? So they
set the ball on the 40 yard line? That's ridiculous. Well that's where the guys line up.
On the 40 yard line. It's relatively a short kick. And then the kick
they have to put it within a zone. It has to land within
like one yard. You know these two yard lines. So you have to be an accurate kicker.
Yes. And if you go beyond that what happens? It's really interesting.
Well there's some merit to that. So they kick the ball and you have to kick it
within this certain area. Yeah play it. Go ahead and play it. What they're trying to do is trying to
get these guys who get the big old head of steam and just plowin' people over.
Let's see what this is. Oh okay I was wrong. They're actually on the 35 yard line.
So look at that. It's so
crazy. So nobody can get a full head of steam. That's a perfect
way to phrase that. So it's almost like
an onside kick. But you know they're farther apart than that.
And they have to land it within a certain zone. So you can't
do onside kicks anymore. I don't know what they're going to do for that. Because the kickers
are too close. Well they're way back for one thing.
Yeah they're way back at the 30. The kickers way back and then they have to
drop it in between two zones. So this is the XFL.
Are they adopted what the XFL did? Yes basically. I'm not sure it's exactly like that.
But it's really close. So the kickoff team blockers
can now move into the ball hits the ground. Do the hall of fame kickoff. Cause that's hard.
They've already played it. They've already done it. So hall of fame game kickoff.
I'm OK because man some of those guys just get destroyed.
Yeah you know I'm not against that either. I think that you know we
need to do something because that is exactly right. Because they've got what fucking
50 60 70 yards to run. And by the time they get down
there bam they're going to level somebody. So if you shorten that time for them to
get that impact. That's OK. All the way on the left.
Oh yeah. Let's see that one. Do you have sound?
Sorry this video is not available. What the hell? Bitch. There's more I carry though.
Make sure the computer is recording as well.
Oh yeah. It is recording? Anyway I think it's going to be interesting this
kickoff thing. I think it adds a little kind of
new excitement to it. So we'll see how that goes. I'm kind of curious what we know about sound.
I don't know. Well there's nothing playing.
Oh yeah there's no video at the moment. Anyway let's see
what else about the NFL. Nothing. I haven't heard too much.
Actually. I get little updates of the Cowboys.
I get little updates of the Bengals. You know what's kind of funny is I see some
memes about the there was a DAC and there was CD-Land
where they're doing AI where they start talking
shit about DACs like saying yeah they're going to
get me fucking paid. Have you seen those memes?
Oh yeah they're very well done. I wish we had audio we can hear.
Anyway so they had CD-Land saying it and they're just talking shit.
It's like they need to pay me and they're doing the little lip sync
thing. I think personally I think CD-Land needs
another season to prove himself personally. He had a really good
year last year. So what is he? Is this his second year or third year? This is his
fourth year. Fourth year. Okay. But he's been consistent?
No? Well he had a good year last year. Yeah for sure.
I don't know how he I don't remember how he did. Especially in that first playoff round.
Yeah I did smoke him. Yeah. Sorry
shot at Cowboys fans there. Anyway let's see
oh then we got the fantasy football coming up. Oh which by the way I need to send out to the team
that you're making the brisket. I know it kind of made it sound like I'm making a brisket.
Whatever. But you're making the brisket. Is that enough? I think
is that enough food you think? Oh really? Brisket? 12 guys.
12 large guys. Bad guys. 11.
One girl. She might become an in person. Gross. Don't say it like that.
Now it's a party. Yeah. No.
Not a party. Anyway so
yeah we have the fantasy football coming up. It's going to be interesting
with the new player. That should be kind of interesting.
Oh don't forget we have to do that new trophy.
Shit. I'll take the lead on that. We're going to do a new trophy. You know what I'm talking about right?
Oh yeah. Mr. Jeff brought up the idea of
Do you think we should call it the blues trophy? Or should we call
his name out? I think we need to do Bain. Think so? The Bain award.
Okay. I'm cool with that. Or is it the high points?
Yeah. High point award. The high point Bain award.
Yeah. Okay. Go Bain or go away.
Yeah. Alright so I'll take the lead on that. I need to remember that.
Well we have an engraver so. Well we haven't really tried engraving.
Amen. Now's the time. Ooh we have
audio now. Nice. What was that? A little coffee grinder in the back?
Plastic music for relaxation. There's two coffee cups
and a blanket in front of a fire. Is this the beginning of a porn video?
What do you got there Mr. Producer? Is this one of your favorite collection ones?
This came straight out of Mr. Austin producers sound log 5. Oh look it says it's number one
in his list. It does. Four hours of classic music relaxation
with your little beamer. Intimate. Alright so did you guys
get a chance to watch the Olympics at all? Oh yeah I've been watching it every night.
Yeah. I missed several days because of the weekend but
man we watched last night it was great. I missed the pole vaulting thing.
Did you guys watch last night? No that was the decathlon
pole vaulter I guess who just has a huge neck. Oh the one that knocked the bar
off with his junk. I've never seen the video on that. Can you find the video on that Mr.
Producer? I just showed it to my wife. Yeah the pole vaulter. Just put in pole vaulter
big junk.
For those sheltered folks out there, you know the dudes I guess,
we didn't really go out of our way to find this. They found us but this guy was
pole vaulter Anthony, what's his name? Anthony
Amarati. I have not seen this.
I wonder if they're actually going to show it or just little stills. No they got little stills
but they don't show anymore. Get the fuck out of here. Show me a video on this.
Mr. Producer find a video. He's like cranking out on it or something.
Yeah see they didn't show it. Yeah well they have to. We have to find a video on it
because I guarantee there's a video on it. Oh god really? Yeah. Well they're going all
out on this one. Alright find a video. Look at this it's all zoomed in right there.
Well you're not on video. Click on video.
Carly Davidson pole vaulter hits nuts.
Oh boy. Alright let's see here. I think it's that one right there. 2024.
No it's not that one. Not this one. That's definitely not the Olympics. I don't know if there's
any mountains in there. This is right here. Pole driver gets hit. Well maybe not. I don't know.
Why is it this mainstream? Do they fucking pole it?
It's none of those either. 2024. I found it.
I found it on Twitter. YouTube is problematic.
That's unfortunate. It should be really really easy to find this.
What is the deal with this? Oh this is retarded. They're screen
they're censoring it for some reason. It just happened for crying out loud.
I mean this the whole Olympics thing. This is another reason why I don't want to watch it.
You know it just I'm so sick of the bullshit drama that goes in there.
Is this it?
Well that's a different view. Yeah. That's no that's not.
There it goes. Well whatever.
Oh I thought he it made him knock the bar down. You're just saying. No it does.
Oh it did. Oh it did. Yeah.
That can't feel good either.
Oh my god.
Well I guess it could be worse reasons for knocking the bar down.
Good for him right? I told you. You need to make sure you put that thing away.
I bet he's going to get you in trouble someday. You may get some nice
sponsorships from like you know.
That's horrible.
Oh gosh that's funny. I guess it's a good problem to have. Yeah.
Why are we? Alright I'm done watching all this. Sorry.
Finally. That's it. Finally they showed it. It bounces. Oh well we missed it.
Oh it's in the back of this? Yes. Oh never mind. Alright.
Whatever. Alright. So he's trying to knock down the bar.
But what else? Anything else from the Olympics that was kind of eye
catching? How did the the gymnastic girls do?
It was good. What is the goal ratio? What is the metal ratio?
Simone Biles got overall gold. She's good.
She's extremely strong. If you're talking about the overall metal count we're killing it. We're like
75, 76 versus the next one's like 40 something. Well it's more than that
because we're starting to win the track. Well the gold we have 24 golds.
We have 31 silver, 31 bronze and we are in number one position.
So we have 24 gold. Republic of China has 22.
The next one down Australia has 14.
Overall we have 86 medals and the next
one below is China with 59. So United States of America is in the lead
across the board. Yeah we're doing great. I mean we did great in swimming. We did great in gymnastics.
We did great in track. There was, well speaking of track, long term running,
long distance running, there was some weird scenario. I'm not going to even attempt to find it
because that's a fucking train wreck. But you know there was some, an African country
I don't know which one it was but there were these two guys that were running and there's a
Chinese guy behind them and these two African runners
allow the China guy, they even like hey come in front of us,
to allow the Chinese guy to get ahead of them. To win? To win!
I mean I don't know if they win first place but they beat them to so it doesn't matter.
Maybe that was part of the deal with their you know Belt and Road, what is it?
Belt and Road project that the China government is doing all over the world.
For cobalt mining. You guys don't know what I'm talking about?
They come in and they do infrastructure projects and they basically
they don't bankrupt them but they make them beholden to China forever.
And it's called Belt and Something. I forget what it's called but anyway
maybe that was part of the condition is let the Chinese guy win, win the race.
Could be. Well I'm enjoying the Olympics. My wife and I are watching it.
We're watching the evening time which is a condensed version so we can
get through it pretty quickly in about an hour. You know we don't want to watch the
things we don't want to watch. Yeah because we were watching gymnastics during
like the day. Like I guess when it was actually happening. Right.
And the time between when they finish and when they get their score was painful.
Oh yeah. I was like what the fuck? What's taking so long? And then I realized
we always watch the Olympics at night. Every single Olympics and it is
condensed. So anyway it's been exciting though. Yeah it's been good.
I enjoy it. Like did you see the men's 100 meter?
Yeah that's I know he won. No allows one.
Dude he won by a thousandth of a second.
It was yeah he was they had to get out of the third number because they actually tied.
Yes thousandths of a second. Crazy. But what's crazy is when you see the
finishing numbers they're the same. Yes. Because they only go to the hundredths.
So they went to the thousandths. If you look at the photo finish the guy's
foot is actually further crosses the line first but it's actually the
chest that they measure who crosses first. Oh is that right? Yes.
Ah interesting. So if you look at the picture the foot is way out.
God it was so close. It was crazy.
That was exciting. Yeah that was a good one.
I was going to ask you another thing. So the pole vaulter who won the gold.
I have a problem with this. Okay I was going to ask you guys if you had a problem with it.
Sean I'd love your opinion about this as well. So this guy was
born in Louisiana. Completely 100% American.
Went to LSU. Went to LSU. Still going to LSU or maybe
maybe he's done. I don't know. I don't know. So he is 100%
American but his dad. No it was his mom.
His mom pole vaulted for or competed
for Sweden. Right so he's going to compete for Sweden. I guess out of respect for his
mom or honor for his mom. But dude that's not Sweden.
You're not a Swedish athlete. You are an American athlete.
I don't get it. I have a problem with that. I have a problem with it too.
He was born here raised here 100%. Does he have dual citizenship?
I don't know. I don't know. Probably ought to check that because if he has
dual citizenship then yeah. I'll tell you what he's got a
smoking hot Swedish model girlfriend. That's for sure.
Oh there you go. It qualifies him. Yeah so maybe we should just lay off him.
He's doing something right. He did. And he didn't hit his junk on the bar.
Because she owns it in her pocket. Oh she's got
half of it already. Well you know what look all these
Olympic athletes you know they're all
well manicured. You know these guys women are
manicured. I mean they're fucking workout all the time. They're just like
cultured. They're just like bodies. They just fucking
they're junk. They're pelting. I thought you mean they're groomer.
So there was another girl Luana Alonzo.
She was some sort of she got disqualified.
What's the story behind this? Was she strolling around nude or something?
Apparently she got kicked out because of inappropriate behavior and then she came back and said
I did not get kicked out of her because of inappropriate behavior.
So she created an inappropriate atmosphere with her behavior.
She's from Paraguay. But I don't understand. She's a swimmer?
Well that's a different one. That's an American.
No this is from she's from Paraguay. There we go.
The real reason Glamorous Olympic Swimmer 20 was kicked out.
Alright let's find out what this is all about here.
Luana was told to leave after officials said she had created
an inappropriate atmosphere with her behavior. Stunning
20 year old blonde. Yeah but well the stunning 20 year old blonde
who lost her event on the first day of competition had been seen walking around
in her own choice of outfits rather than the official
kit. So if you scroll down a little bit Mr. Producer so what the deal is I'm not sure if this is
an exact photo. Hold on. No she wasn't walking around in that.
She was also seen spotted socializing with other athletes and was said to
be distracting her teammates still competing. Oh that's not good.
So in other words she was all being sexy as a person.
Oh and she's also being pulled back by her team. Not the Olympics.
So this is the Paraguay Olympic team was like yeah
you're causing a problem. Get your ass back home. Interesting.
Well you know there's something to be said for that. But she's also trying to
like probably boost her social media. Yeah sell her brand right.
I mean there's a picture of her. She's freaking knock out. Yeah she's attractive. Her abs
are kind of floppy. I don't know what do you guys think. Her abs kind of soft.
Really. I'm choking. God they're freaking iron tight.
Oh wow she is kind of super pretty.
Got big lips. I wonder if they're injected.
They might be injected. Anyway
did you know how but you guys know how it is right. In the Olympic Village it's like
an orgy. Apparently in what was the Olympics
where they were handing out they had a basket of condoms. They had a bunch of condoms they were handing out.
Right they're just like you know hey guys you know fuck everybody you want to. Well they're all
in shape athletes. No shit. Who have been locked in a room or
just training who now have some free time to bone.
No shit. How do you think like the shot put guy feels
he's like hey how you doing. He's like 400 pounds.
I mean he's strong as shit don't get me wrong. Actually he's not fat. He's 6'7".
Just a big dude. Really. Yes the guy who won.
Krauser. Oh yeah no I don't know anything about him. He's not a fat dude he's just big.
That's awesome. That's cool. I'll tell you what
very tasty. What are you doing?
So. Oh god. We had a. This is an intro to
the Hawaiian bourbon we're drinking. We had a we had a neighbor that went to
Hawaii and she brought back some whiskey. So this was an attempt to play some
Hawaiian music but that didn't work out very well. Wow. Anyways. Is it a bourbon?
It is a whiskey. It's a whiskey. It's a blended whiskey and it's a paniola.
Paniolo.
Paniolo. Paniolo from the. Paniolo
blended whiskey blending mainland tradition with Hawaiian history.
Paniolo whiskey is a combination of the world's best whiskeys with
exceptional island ingredients. Oh it's a blend. So
Hale Distilling Company is a craft distilling utilizing the local
Maui ingredients to create quality spirits, sustainability, community,
ohana and integrity of ingredients in practices are
brand values. Our goal is to deliver products that consumers
can trust while impacting our environment and only positive and nurturing
wares. Hale-Maui Distilling Company is located in the heart of Maui's
pineapple region upcountry Makawa, Maui. Our goal is to create a Hawaii
and a bottle and share a little with the world. Paniolo whiskey
experience.
Boom boom boom boom boom. Very nice.
So what to say about the paniolo which I believe is
cowboy. Cowboy? Yeah it is. Ooh it's Hawaiian for cowboy.
So this one's only 40% alcohol volume, 80%
proof, blending mainland tradition of Hawaii, Hawaiian history, the
paniolo whiskey combines bourbon with Maui gold pineapple. The
pineapple is distilled in neutral to allow for an extremely
clean and smooth whiskey with notes of brown sugar, caramel
and sweet corn. So the sweet corn,
you know what we need to talk about the trip to Denison.
To Iron Root. To Iron Root. Because I'll tell you what, they're talking about the sweet
corn thing and that kind of like really brought my attention. Before we do that let's finish up with paniolo.
Well but still, but they're saying the sweet corn
and then I'm bringing attention to both of them at that point because when you say sweet
corn people are like yeah it's sweet corn, it's corn sweet. No man there are
there's a lot of fucking corn out there. I had no idea. I had no idea too.
400 varieties of corn. Yeah and we need to find
the purple one. Yeah well the one with high protein and stuff like it with density
accidents and that's the stuff we need to be eating. I want to see a purple
crop. That would be cool. That's what he said. He said the entire plant is purple.
Well they grow it here in the state somewhere. Well they grow it there within the
near Denison somewhere. I need to go on a motorcycle ride and go find it.
How about that? On my Indian non-Harley.
There you go. Alright well what do we think guys? Like you said it's 80 proof.
I find it kind of a dessert kind of fun.
I drank it too fast. I'm going to get another.
Would you like another little pour to get just for the
nose and taste. This is my second drink. I'm going to give you
a little bit and then you and I are going to do the nose and the whatever correctly.
Well here Paul just take half of that. You have like four ounces over there. Take half of that.
Seriously. Oh yours? Yeah. God what did you do there? That's a four ounce pour.
What are you doing? That's good. Okay here we go.
Alright the nose. What do we have in the nose?
Lots of fruit. Lots of fruit.
They said pineapple right? It's not stone fruit. It's pineapple.
So you got maple. I don't taste pineapple though.
Well I don't smell pineapple but I smell fruit. That's kind of weird.
It's um. Oh wow. He definitely smelled the caramel. He's got sweet corn.
And you smell the brown sugar too. Yeah there's definitely
sweetness on the nose. It's interesting.
It's a very smooth finish. It's a very simple taste. Yeah it is a simple taste.
It's light and because it's 80 proof you can get away with it. You can drink a lot of it.
This stuff right here. Yes. You can. Like shit.
I'm just down that. And there's something to be said about that. They kind of put this
in the same category. Almost a TX Wussy. I think TX Wussy is a little bit
hotter though right? I don't know. We'll have to look. We have one out there.
I think it's 90 proof maybe. Well we'll just have to try all of them tonight.
All of them. Right. Every single one. Oh that one's like this one. Oh get that one too.
But I think this is tasty. It's not. I like it.
80 proof. There is more to it than I thought there would be.
Yeah I was kind of excited and there's a good reason why.
I think it came through. It was exactly what I expected. It was a nice Hawaiian tree.
If I were in Hawaii and I would pick that up and I would be happy to drink that.
I would sit there and drink glasses of it.
Do they make anything else? We drank half the bottle already.
When you say we. Go back to that distillery
distribution. Do they make any other bottles?
What's their product?
They only have one. Just one huh? Oh that's it huh? Oh wow.
Yep. Nice little logo there. Just the
Paniolo blended whiskey. 750ml bottle. Do you know the age?
On the bottle it says at least 36 months.
So it's named after the Mexican of Vaqueros or cattle drivers.
Brought to Hawaii after Captain George Vancouver gave cattle to
King Kamahama the first. These vaqueros
embrace the Hawaii tradition. Can you put their products back on the screen for us?
That's Kamehameha. Kamehaha.
Kama kama kama kama kama kama kama kama.
These vaqueros embrace the Hawaii tradition and became known as
Paniolo. Enjoy Paniolo Whiskey the spirit of Hawaiian cowboy.
So are we saying they have a vodka and a rum and a gin and this whiskey?
Interesting. Well the rum is infused with Kona coffee.
Fucking Kona. And a variety of extracts and
aromatics. So basically. So it's fake.
It's also a body oil. Especially ours right now.
Oh no that's later. It oozes out of your pores. That's not the same
thing Sean by the way. That doesn't count as a body oil. That's something
that smells wonderful that you put on your body. Not something gross that comes out of your body.
Let's look this can't be a fair. We're going to have to rate this.
You know but it can't be. This is going to be a fair rating. This needs to be a category
all by itself because this is a specialty. Because it's a 9.9
right? Well no not even close. I mean it's
I'm going to go with enjoyability just like I do against other
stuff we have. I'm not even going to rate it. I'm just going to say it's a fun thing to have.
I'm glad we have it. I enjoy tasting it. It's not something I'd be like
eeeeww skawk ad. I'd be like that was fun. You know and I'm glad we got it. It was excellent.
I would say it's excellent. It's excellent for exactly what it was for. I wouldn't mind
rating it for just comparing it to other ones. I would give it about a 6.3 which is
respectable. I was going to go 6.5. It's respectable.
That's why I didn't want to rate it because I would like in the fives.
It's not because it's just
you hate Hawaiians. We get it. It's just different.
It's just different. It's in it's own category. It's not in the same thing.
I know what you mean. We almost are getting to the point where there
are different categories that we can assess right? But I mean
we're not quite there. Well it's just like the buttercream wheat.
He was just vomiting on it. We were like this is great.
This is awful. It was very rich. I wouldn't like it at all.
But I hate butter. Anyway. You don't get butter on your popcorn?
But let's, no I don't. Ever. That's actually a good question.
I do not. I don't either. That's oil. It's not even. It's seed oil
that's disgusting. Let's talk about our tour.
Oh yes. The Denison Iron Root.
Very interesting story. You know I'll tell you
the first of all the mom came out.
Well first of all let's walk through the whole process.
The dudes are like us fans out there. All two of you. So we've got
we went to the Iron Root place. But on the way there
this was a Saturday excursion. We're like alright let's get this going. So Friday we go out
and we're like and Chuck's with us and we're heading to the Total One and we're like
we're going to the Total Root tomorrow and we're all on board. Yep yep yep yep yep yep. I call Chuck
in the morning and he's like I don't remember any of that. So he was out
and that's fine. Shit happens. It's not a big deal. But you know so we get we go get lunch
and we're like alright cool. We got everything timed. We're eating lunch
and then you know Jeff and I drove in one car and then Paul and the family
drove in another. We all had the time set and we're going to leave it at 11.30.
It's perfectly timed. I just didn't remember. And so everyone agreed.
That's how it started.
So I took my phone and I was like Iron Root to story
and I put hit let's go and Paul goes in there. 3 3 1
and he ends up in fucking South Texas summer. I don't know where the
fuck you went. It made me so mad. Well I was kind of like it was like
I was like 158. I was like really?
And when you did is when we were scrambling back from wherever the fuck it sent me
I mean that's the thing I was like I was like what the fuck I was like first pop. I thought we
picked a restaurant that was close by. That was odd to me that I was ten minutes away.
You go to Haystack.
I was so pissed and Alan was like calm me down.
I see it was like we're going to get there. It's okay. Don't worry about it. I was like I got
so frustrated because you can't fucking trust Google Maps and we've got
I've gotten to the point where you put in an address and you expected
to tell you where you're supposed to go and it did not.
They do redirect you sometimes I I'm going to dude I'm going to say I
use Google Maps a lot. I have to trust Google Maps a lot and I have
got an extremely high success rate. I know it's crazy.
Yeah. So I see a common denominator here with some of the errors
that's going on saying it's you do. I'm just saying I
looked at the address phone and I typed in the address say that you need
a new phone. No I have a new phone. Oh so we can't use that as an excuse.
Can't use that as an excuse. And my phone didn't get
banged by my junk so that wasn't it.
So anyways the group finally shows up so we're all sitting there
We were like halfway through the presentation. Oh you were not. We were five minutes late.
Here you go guys here's your tenth sample and
you didn't start sampling until the end of the tour.
No that was the second sample. Oh really. So we show up and
you know we wait for Paul. We go into the main room and they're like we're not going to start to have
once here and then she starts talking about a bunch of stuff. I'll tell you what the the iron root mom
OK. It's a family. Yeah it's a family. Oh deal. So look
this just to an over and all snaps before we
dive in this whole thing the most informative
tour I've ever been on. Absolutely. Yeah period. You went into
a lot of deep especially the sun when we were listening to the the fatty
acid esters from Makers Mark that's we had in the past.
What is F.A.E. What is that shit. And they're like oh my god we got all these
different gratings of stuff and you really kind of feel like what the fuck. Here we are
bourbon enthusiasts and we have no idea what the fuck this stuff is
and we still didn't. And then we were listening to that that explanation that the sun
gave where he starts talking about when you have these large
vessels that you've got a thousand gallons in however much
is in there and it's it's homogeneous. So when
they pump in all the flavors they pump in all the grains and all the
borrowers or whatever the fuck's in there it magically will
compartmentalize and separate it.
And so each layer has its own different temperature
well temperature steaming it. It's all different.
And each little section has its own different acid levels
you know so every it's like a different ecosystem
in every section. So it was kind of interesting to figure that out.
Oh that's what that bottle meant. It took like that the bottle basically
meant of this thousand gallon tank you have this four inch
level that they basically siphon out that four inch and that
is one barrel. That's incredible to me.
They talk about the hearts right the heads the hearts and the tails
and that and he did actually the best explanation of
what that even means and that's kind of what you were describing.
Where they are literally there's things when the distillation process starts there are things
that they want to get rid of like the nasty methanol
yeah exactly. Stuff that makes you go blind.
Yes and luckily that boils off at a different temperature
so they start the process at that temperature boil that shit off get rid of it
and then they move on to the next one and that's what they call separating the heads the
hearts and the tails right. So it was really fascinating.
I also found it interesting how they said the real art is when you dip into the
tails and how far you go into it because that's where a lot of the
esters are. The flavors that you will that you
typically wouldn't get if you just cut them off right. So you have to dip down
and you have to be smart enough you have to know alright I need to
go this deep for this long. And that's totally experimentation.
Yeah I went for 10 minutes and it was perfect. And that's what they talked about these two brothers that
kind of do it together they do all the master distilling and you know they
they're all over the place in terms of what they're it's like a lab to them
a really super fun lab and it's all that's that pot still
is manual. When I ask the question is this fed into a computer that has
all these files and it and the computer controls the temperature for a certain time period
and he's like yeah no it's all manual. I was like shit
because I bet you 1845 all computer controlled.
They have that panel. I don't think so. Yeah I'm pretty sure.
So they have so it's the same way there they're both the same
and I say it like this so it's not when you say manual there's timers
so you basically I mean they have a control so at 1845
I don't know if you notice they had the big tall still and in the center they've got this large
panel that's not there. Big control board.
Right. There's a control board that's not there. They don't have that
control board so it is manual currently at 1845. Okay.
So it is the same way. You know but ultimately. But Iron Road has a pot still where 1845
was a column still. So there's a difference there. But they do have a pot still.
No. It was in the box.
I've got pictures of it. There's a pot still. When you walk into the big room on the left
in those big wood crates. Oh yeah that's right. They were wrapped in copper
in plastic and they were about to install those. You're right.
You know there were huge ones. Just as big as that. And they were like we got to pay these guys
I mean a quarter of a million dollars you know to be able to I mean
it cost a shit load of money to get stuff. That stuff's hand made.
I mean it's fucking crazy. Anyway it was a cool little
tool. What I wished what we didn't get was
you know a lot of the tours I've been to where they have the
mash. I mean and granted they're bigger operations. And that's why
they're able to do this in their tours. But you go up on a scaffolding
area. You look at it. And you can yeah you look at the fermentation tanks
and you see when it becomes like you know like the cornbread
crust. Right. And you can even dip your finger in it and you get to taste it.
It tastes good. It does. Yeah it's super cool.
And so they didn't have that because their fermentation tanks
are enclosed with the tubes at the top. Well plus we're
sitting in the middle of their distilling room. Oh yeah no it's tiny.
No it was a tiny little operation which was great. Let me ask you a question.
I wanted to ask the question during the tour. So during the fermentation process.
So that's when they take the grains. Well first off they take the grains and they boil the grain.
Right. And then they
add the yeast. Right. Right. They're still
like I was saying is cornbread on the top of it. So when they
drain that tank the fermentation tank they're filtering
out the solids right. They have to be. Yes. And then all those grains they feed
to the cows. OK. Hold on but that's not like the initial thing.
Yes the initial. Once you got your mash bill you drain all the liquids
out of it. Right. And you filter out anything solid. And then that's
what you pump into the two into the multiple stages of distillation.
Correct. OK. I wanted to ask that question but
I was going to ask them how does that filtration process work because they had
hoses coming out of the tops of the filtration tanks and I thought
that was a little odd to be. So is that called the mashing portion.
Yes. Yes. So the mashing portion is first and that's where
they do the fermentation. Yeah. That's where the next step is the fermentation.
They grind all the corn and the wheat and they grind it into almost I don't say a powder.
Yeah powder. That's exactly what they do. And then they add their water
and then they heat it. Yes. Stir it in all the time and it cooks.
Then it goes into the distillation process. No. Then you know then you
then it goes in the fermentation tank. You throw the yeast in there. Well mashing, fermentation
then distillation. Correct. Correct. Then aging.
And then well then they do the multiple distillation you know boiling
at different levels. We talked about the heads hearts and tails. Yeah. That's where they separate the
fatty ester levels. Oh yeah. Come up with their different myriad of things.
You know I thought it was also kind of cool where
first of all we saw the kelp barrels there. I'm hoping
when Stan gets back from the middle wherever he's at
in Asia Stan's going to hopefully jump on our podcast
from the kelp. Hopefully we'll see what happens. He says he was interested in it.
But the cool thing was I saw a couple barrels there that the kelp probably purchased.
You know they said the kelp on there. Well didn't you ask them about it? I did. They said it's for them.
It's their barrel. So I'm like holy shit does that mean they're just going to sell
that there or do we get to buy a bottle? So I'm buying a bottle no matter what it is.
Yeah they were very interesting that they
they like cognac and they like I mean they're doing all this
stuff. So that's interesting you bring that up. And they're trying different things.
Well that's the whole premise. So they basically so these bourbon
these folks the whiskey guys they're at the iron root.
They took their whole process based on
cognacs and brandy's. You know and the concepts there. They went
They learned from a French master distiller. They came out and they
the French came out to their place and said this is what you know gave them some advice
and they went out there and learned some processes from the French cognac distilleries
and they came up with this other side of the idea and this concept of
let's take what is important in our region
and put it into the barrels. And that's why we're talking about the corns
that were so local which was so huge because they have blood
corn. They had purple corn. They had all kinds of they had like
four or five or six different corns that you've never even heard of.
I didn't even knew they had that many corns. And he also talked about
just the history in general of grapes. Grapes first. Oh yeah.
And how freaking complicated that is. Well apparently Texas saved
the wine industry in the entire world. That's what he was claiming.
I mean yeah because. Because that guy there in Denison grafted
European grapes onto Texas roots which would allow them to
make the party. Which would allow them to survive the aphids
which wiped out Europe. Yeah wiped out
California. That's where they grafted them first. The
California was successful there. And then he said that when the steam engine
came along the aphids were able to live and make it over to Europe
and they wiped out Europe. Yes. And they couldn't grow anything so they
came over here and got the Texas roots grafted onto their
European grapes and replanted them over there. So that's another reason
why Texans can give the finger to France. That's right. We saved your
their freaking I didn't want to want to say anything about that. I was kind of like you know
I mean France doesn't have a huge rep with the Americans. You know I'm like fuck France.
You know I was like hey you know what fuck you and your fucking
French shit. You know it's a we but we saved your wine. How about that.
Anyway but it was it was fascinating and then he moved on to corn and hold on let me let me go back
and kind of correct that because I didn't want to slam that because I don't feel that way really.
Right. I mean part of me does but I didn't feel that way about the iron roof
folks. I mean they're just coming up with a fantastic brand and I have a lot of respect for what those
guys do and it was it was we had a great time. It was and their product is
superior. It really is. Now we have in our collection
a bottle of St. Sally. We have a St. Sally and I think we have
either Prometheus or Harbinger. Yeah I did not realize
that they did St. Sally. I had no idea. St. Sally
is a blend of several different
distilleries. Right. We didn't really
have a high rating for the St. Sally based on my recollection. I think Stan
recommended it to you and you got it and we were I think I think our outlook
was too high for it. Well I think what was going on is that it
had some smoked peat in it and that's kind of the one of the
foundations of a couple legs of the whiskeys that they produce which is
fine. I mean now I think I have a better appreciation for it
but during that time I was kind of like eh you know what
not so much of a fan but I like that. Now the things I tasted there
even though I was hung the fuck over. Yeah you about shit your pants
all the way home. Oh my god it was so horrible. Hey
and you wonder why we took two cards. Hey did I hold it? He did. He goes I
am your best friend ever. He's oh so you're
taking credit for being awesome because you didn't blow
shit out of his car. And I was like Sean at this point if you let anything out it's
going to be a mess. It may be worth it.
You were struggling huh? It was tough
man. I had that I am hung over shit and I
had already processed twice. I've already purged twice for the day. That would have been the third
one by the time I whatever. I think the sphincter was kind of going
to be the last one. It was shaking. It was like a fucking head
Parkinson's. So I gotta tell you so Dylan went with
us right and Dylan is not a bourbon drinker right and so we got to the tasting
part and he's like the first three were all iron root and he was like they all tasted
exactly the same. I was like no they didn't
but I understand what you're saying. He was just shaking his head. He was like
exactly the same. Exactly the same. Cause he's a vodka drinker right.
And then he got to the next three. With the cognac
blends and the ports. Then he was like okay yeah that's different. I like that.
So what did he think of their vodka then? He liked it. The vodka was actually good. It was very
unique tasting. Yeah it was good. What did they make it out of? They made it out of corn.
Oh yeah. They were big corners. Corners.
Anyway it was a very I gave it
credit for being the most informed. I mean I've been to six distilleries now.
Oh yes. I am a connoisseur.
But it was like it was the most informative when it came to the distillation
process. They usually just skip right over that. Quite honestly. They don't want to tell you all the secrets.
We sampled the iron root promethian,
iron root harbinger, the greyson blended bourbon. Which we've had
a bottle of. All three good. Saints Alley port and cognac.
Saints Alley white port and cognac and the Saints Alley herald.
And then the vatkas. I was kind of indifferent
on the Saints Alley. I mean I wasn't. I thought they were good.
I enjoyed the first three more than I enjoyed those. Let me just put it that way.
That greyson blended bourbon whiskey was good. They also had a
Bloody Mary mix. Yeah it was like barbeque sauce style stuff.
That was pretty tasty. It was different. I liked it.
I liked it period. Let's just leave it at that.
It was thick. It was very thick. Drinking it as is I would need it to be in a mixture.
But all in all it was good. Yeah and shout out to the mom
and the son. But the mom she had these stories
of how to serve and serve it right and do it right.
You have to have this and you have to have that and do this with that.
It was pretty funny. Well shout out to iron root
republic and the mom and dog you say man.
We had a great time. We didn't buy any
and we just belted out. Because you had the shit so we had to run. We just ran anyways because
these guys were like hey we gotta go something's going on with the house. What was that all about?
We just had to get the house ready. We had people come over. I had my pork butt. I had to get ready.
And it was good. August 6th
Thank you Mr. Producer. Dudes that goes on Sean.
And I'm Jeff. We'll be right back.