1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 And we're back. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:10,960 It's kind of odd. 3 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,000 We got some people that we've been trying to get on the podcast for a while, so it's 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,240 kind of weird seeing them here finally. 5 00:00:16,240 --> 00:00:20,680 Every time we get a new guest, it's kind of a trippy thing because it's kind of like we're 6 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:24,680 being put on the spot for the product that we put out. 7 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:25,680 So we got two. 8 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:28,560 They're not avid listeners, but hopefully they'll be after this. 9 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:33,120 So this is September 10th, 2024. 10 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:34,520 And Ducacos, I'm Sean. 11 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:35,520 I'm Paul. 12 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:36,520 I am Jeff. 13 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:37,520 I'm Stan. 14 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:38,520 I'm Nick. 15 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:41,760 And we're ready to rock and roll. 16 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:43,640 We've got our two guests. 17 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:48,680 They're proprietors of a business in downtown McKinney called The Kelt. 18 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:51,040 And we're just going to ask some questions and let them talk about it. 19 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:55,800 But I guess to start off with, do you guys have any questions regarding us? 20 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:57,060 No. 21 00:00:57,060 --> 00:01:00,900 So first time listeners out there that have not ever listened to Ducacos, basically we're 22 00:01:00,900 --> 00:01:03,440 three guys that grew up all over the planet. 23 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,280 And we got together drinking and being stupid. 24 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:10,880 All of our kids went to Centennial High School in downtown Frisco. 25 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:13,080 And so we kind of met organically through that. 26 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:16,860 And we started drinking beer together and hanging out and going to like little parties 27 00:01:16,860 --> 00:01:18,060 and things. 28 00:01:18,060 --> 00:01:19,960 And we're so goofy. 29 00:01:19,960 --> 00:01:22,600 And we have such good chemistry and we're solid friendship. 30 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:28,680 I mean, really we count on each other like a true brotherhood and when we get together, 31 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:31,560 we just babble and have so much fun. 32 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,280 People had said, I mean, you guys ought to do a podcast. 33 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:36,720 And I've have all the sound equipment. 34 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:39,840 And I was like, all right, well, let's just dabble in that. 35 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:42,940 We had a couple of beers and set some stuff up and then we started doing it. 36 00:01:42,940 --> 00:01:45,740 And then we started turning it up more and more. 37 00:01:45,740 --> 00:01:48,220 And then we made some investments. 38 00:01:48,220 --> 00:01:51,780 And my son, Austin, our producer, he came up with the name. 39 00:01:51,780 --> 00:01:55,320 It's kind of dudes like us kind of sticks. 40 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:56,440 So we talk about life. 41 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:57,760 That's basically what the podcast is about. 42 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:58,840 We talk about life. 43 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:03,500 We you know, normal thresholds, taking your kids to school in the mornings, take them 44 00:02:03,500 --> 00:02:09,600 to college if you're at that age and retiring, you know, your first prostate check, anything 45 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,960 and everything, you know, whatever you have to go through in life that you share that 46 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:13,960 dudes like us go through. 47 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:16,920 We try to look at that. 48 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:17,920 Yeah. 49 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:23,400 So anyways, we got we got Stan and Nick from the Celt and how did you guys start that out? 50 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:26,520 Because I went on Nick was there first and then you jumped in a little bit later. 51 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:27,520 Is that accurate? 52 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:28,520 Yeah. 53 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:33,760 Yeah, Sean, I actually spent like over 30 years in banking and retired as a region president 54 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:35,720 with U.S. Bank, but did not know that. 55 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:36,960 Yeah, you didn't know that. 56 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:37,960 No. 57 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:38,960 All right. 58 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:39,960 I was one of my biggest customers was U.S. Bank. 59 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:40,960 Really? 60 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:41,960 Where are you from? 61 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:43,780 I was well, I worked for. 62 00:02:43,780 --> 00:02:45,640 So I did all of your bank refreshes. 63 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:46,640 Nice. 64 00:02:46,640 --> 00:02:51,280 And when you when mergers and acquisitions would buy new banks, you'd go out there and 65 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,440 get them and put new I.T. equipment in there. 66 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:54,440 OK, my team. 67 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:55,440 My team. 68 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:56,440 Actually, it was me at the time. 69 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:00,200 I'd buy all the equipment and get it staged for all the tech guys to install. 70 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:02,760 Yeah, that's probably what drove you out of banking. 71 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:06,720 His company could be so we can get it. 72 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:13,680 But yeah, yeah, I mean, I mean, I went to UTA and TCU and then started my banking career. 73 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:17,080 I think we're all over here except Nick to remember Texas Commerce Bank. 74 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:18,440 Nick, how old are you? 75 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:19,440 Yeah, thirty five. 76 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:20,440 Thirty five. 77 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:21,440 All right. 78 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:22,440 Well, that's good. 79 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:23,440 Yeah, that's solid. 80 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:25,960 I think he I think he was born the year Texas Commerce Bank failed. 81 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:31,880 If you remember those days, although banks that weren't supposed to fail in Texas did. 82 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:33,960 And so anyway, such a career there. 83 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:39,160 And in 2000, I moved to Oregon and went to work for U.S. Bank and then finished up in 84 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:41,280 St. Louis there as a region president. 85 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:46,200 But when I turned 35, Nick's age, I knew that I'd always, always wanted to own an Irish 86 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:47,200 pub. 87 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:48,800 Oh, and it'd be just like you guys. 88 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:51,760 They got with your 20 brothers, you know, and sit around and talk. 89 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:52,760 Wouldn't be great to do this. 90 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:54,680 I thought I'm going to do it. 91 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:59,640 And what really was impetus for me doing that was traveling to Ireland my first, second 92 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:04,720 and third time and sitting in a hotel room in Dublin by myself one night. 93 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:05,720 And it was 2013. 94 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:07,280 They didn't have a red light district. 95 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:08,280 Dublin. 96 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:09,280 No, that's that's Amsterdam. 97 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:12,920 We'll talk about that later in the show. 98 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:13,920 That was the next trip. 99 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:14,920 Yeah, that was 2014. 100 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:15,920 That was a long year. 101 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:16,920 We're kidding, guys. 102 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:17,920 We're kidding. 103 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:26,440 But anyway, so I thought, you know, I'm just going to do that. 104 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:28,600 It was still five years after the 2008 crash. 105 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:29,600 If you guys remember that. 106 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:30,600 Oh, yeah. 107 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:34,200 Changed everything in banking to where you could actually use to help people. 108 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:37,600 And now you've got to fit a square peg in a square box. 109 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:39,880 And so it just wasn't that much fun. 110 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:42,880 And I thought, you know, I'm going to do this and set a goal to do it. 111 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:45,920 And I was going to do this by the time I was 50. 112 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:50,560 And about a month shy of my 51st birthday, I left US Bank. 113 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:51,560 We called it early retirement. 114 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:53,280 I don't know what it was. 115 00:04:53,280 --> 00:04:57,600 But and then came back home to Texas from St. Louis to to do this. 116 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:00,600 And it was I take it was a long process. 117 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:06,720 My whole goal was to like build a new Irish pub in Arlington and downtown Arlington. 118 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:07,720 And that didn't work out. 119 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,440 And then we moved on to grapevine and and then something else. 120 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:14,840 And life happens and things get in the way. 121 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:18,080 And I thought, well, this is really a harder lot, a lot harder than I thought it was going 122 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:19,080 to be. 123 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:23,240 Are you saying you started it in those places and they didn't go well or you couldn't find 124 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:24,240 a spot? 125 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:25,360 You just couldn't make the project work. 126 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:26,360 You gotcha. 127 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:30,120 You couldn't work at good terms with the landlord or you got the TI prepared. 128 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:31,120 It couldn't get off the ground. 129 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:33,200 It couldn't get off the ground. 130 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:34,920 You couldn't just work it out. 131 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,400 And became very frustrated and actually for a short time there, I thought about going 132 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:42,640 back into banking and a buddy of mine that was also a banker and a fraternity brother 133 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:45,040 of mine said, came over and give me those talks. 134 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:46,040 It's like you just can't give up. 135 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:47,520 You're one of those guys that just didn't give up. 136 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:48,520 What are you doing giving up? 137 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:52,880 And he goes, and by the way, there's this little English pub in McKinney. 138 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:54,840 I was going to mention that. 139 00:05:54,840 --> 00:05:55,840 For sale. 140 00:05:55,840 --> 00:05:56,840 Yeah. 141 00:05:56,840 --> 00:05:57,840 And I was happy when you converted. 142 00:05:57,840 --> 00:05:59,840 I'm a Fort Worth boy. 143 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:03,320 I mean, that's my tractor parked out front, Sean. 144 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,920 So, and he goes, McKinney, I've never even been to McKinney. 145 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:11,480 We would drive through McKinney once or twice as we were kids up to Texoma. 146 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:16,000 And so me and my fraternity brother, Mark, and my brother-in-law, Bruce, we took the 147 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:21,600 Saturday night, 2013 right before Christmas and opened the door once we found downtown 148 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:24,320 McKinney and just fell in love with the place. 149 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:28,000 And it was like, you know, when you fall in love at first sight, that's what it was like 150 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:29,000 for me with the Celt. 151 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,720 And it was actually Churchill's at the time. 152 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:33,480 So it's an older... 153 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:35,920 Yeah, I think it was, I think, Nick, it was Churchill's. 154 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:36,920 I've had it for 11 years. 155 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:39,560 I mean, shoot, in the late 1800s, it was a brothel. 156 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:40,560 Yeah, called Rambo's. 157 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:41,560 Rambo's. 158 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:42,560 Yeah, it's named after me. 159 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:43,560 When did that close? 160 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:46,560 Fell in love with the place. 161 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,800 One of the owners almost kicked me out for drinking too much scotch at the evening. 162 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:52,800 It was Christmas, you know, so, no, I'm kidding. 163 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,640 But we had a great time and I thought, this is it. 164 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:57,200 I'm going to make this happen. 165 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:01,880 And, you know, the moral of the story is I was going to build a pub that may have never 166 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:04,880 worked, and was able to buy one for half of what I thought. 167 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:05,880 That was already built. 168 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:06,880 That was already built. 169 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:07,880 Great. 170 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:08,880 It needed some work, obviously. 171 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:12,360 And obviously we converted it over to Irish as soon as we could and became the Celt instead 172 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:14,600 of Churchill's. 173 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,280 But it was just a fantastic experience. 174 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:22,280 And I remember, I remember my first Sunday, my very, I think I bought it on a Thursday 175 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:24,680 and Sunday was Mother's Day. 176 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,000 You're laughing at this. 177 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,280 And we had gone out to the dump and bought a lot of new furniture for the place too, 178 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:32,280 because I was like all in. 179 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:34,480 It's like spend some money, fix this place up. 180 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:36,040 And the place is just packed. 181 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:37,200 It's just packed. 182 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:39,000 And half the staff doesn't know me. 183 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,920 And I had zero restaurant experience, guys. 184 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:42,920 Nothing. 185 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:43,920 Oh, wow. 186 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:44,920 Talk about jumping out. 187 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:45,920 Were you there at the time? 188 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:46,920 Yeah, it was a mess. 189 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:47,920 It was a mess. 190 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:51,680 I mean, it's like Mother's Day for us is not our day. 191 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:56,200 And the dump just decides to deliver all the furniture on a Sunday too. 192 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:59,320 Everything's rolling in. 193 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:02,360 Stan's kind of like, no one's really got a chance to know Stan. 194 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:03,360 He's like... 195 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:04,360 First time they've ever met me. 196 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:05,360 He's ex-bank. 197 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:06,360 Oh, you're the new owner. 198 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:07,360 Yeah, you're a banker. 199 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:08,360 Dude, it was seamless. 200 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:09,360 You just were there one day. 201 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:10,360 No, it was a nightmare. 202 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:13,080 I will give you credit here. 203 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:19,440 I mean, to be blunt, in the service industry, there's always talk about you got this industry 204 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:24,160 who builds a place up and then sells it to somebody and that person comes in with not 205 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,440 a whole lot of service industry experience. 206 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:30,640 And then, I kid you not, that Mother's Day Sunday, we're running out of eggs. 207 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:33,000 We ran out of syrup. 208 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,000 It was for some reason we got slammed. 209 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:38,560 But I kid you not, this was a big thing for me, man. 210 00:08:38,560 --> 00:08:41,840 Stan was out there actually bussing tables and wiping them off. 211 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:44,480 His former bank president is out there like... 212 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:45,480 He was all in there. 213 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:46,480 Yeah, he was. 214 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,640 And I remember I fired a staff member during that too. 215 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:53,160 She was like, you don't know what you're doing? 216 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:55,320 She goes, I don't like working here and I go see you. 217 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:57,560 And you're like, good for you. 218 00:08:57,560 --> 00:08:59,080 And she's like, you can't do that. 219 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:00,080 Who are you? 220 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:01,080 I got this DEI thing. 221 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:02,080 I can show you right now. 222 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:03,080 That was before DEI. 223 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:06,400 But Sean, and Nick knows this too, it's like whatever... 224 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,400 It can't be so bad forever because there is a closing hour. 225 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:13,240 You're going to get through this somehow and then deal with it tomorrow. 226 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:16,880 But it made a lot of friends that day and it was amazing. 227 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:17,880 Made a lot of friends. 228 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:18,880 You got some respect. 229 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:23,600 It was a day that was kind of the... 230 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:24,600 Watching like that... 231 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:25,600 It was a turning point. 232 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:26,800 It was like, are you with us or not with us? 233 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:29,160 And since then we've grown substantially. 234 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:32,400 Yeah, actually that's a slow Sunday now. 235 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:37,160 I'll tell you what, I have a love-hate relationship with the kelp. 236 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:42,240 I love to go, but I hate to fucking be there because it is so fucking packed. 237 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:45,360 Every time I go to the bar, I'm just like, what the fuck, man? 238 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:47,440 Every time I feel like I'm going to have to take someone out. 239 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,200 I think you did one time. 240 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:51,200 No, I've never done that. 241 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:52,760 I've never gone to a party ever. 242 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:54,960 Sean has never done that. 243 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:56,840 I go there, have a couple of drinks. 244 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:58,640 Hopefully I'm super happy and I think that's the... 245 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:01,160 Well, that's a good problem to have to a lot of people there. 246 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:02,800 The drier I get, the more giddy I get. 247 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:08,560 And the thing is, in this industry, it's typical to see a restaurant turnover, even with the 248 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:09,560 same management. 249 00:10:09,560 --> 00:10:13,800 They change the name and they change the look because it's not taking off. 250 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:14,800 Irish pubs are timeless. 251 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:15,800 Right, right, right. 252 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:16,800 They're timeless. 253 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:17,800 Okay. 254 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:18,800 You don't have to do anything. 255 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:19,800 You just kind of roll with what's working. 256 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:23,480 They had the cycle to their ups and downs and we're in a little bit of a down cycle for 257 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:25,600 Irish pubs now, but the kelp... 258 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:30,000 You got things going on, like your routine programs, you got your music. 259 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,000 Well, first of all, your Sunday brunch. 260 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,240 I mean, you have a restaurant side of stuff. 261 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:38,840 Music seven times a week and open mic and trivia and a couple of Irish sessions. 262 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:40,600 Talk about your clientele though. 263 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:46,040 I was going to say, we were painting outside a few weeks ago and we had the old slogans 264 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:50,760 on the front that were like, it was like great food, amazing drinks, great food. 265 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:52,800 And I was just like, I mean, we got good food. 266 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:56,120 I'm not saying we don't have good food, but as much as we have great drinks, I was like, 267 00:10:56,120 --> 00:11:00,600 the thing that I always hear about is people like, man, we had like a, we're having an 268 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:02,320 okay night and then we just went to the kelp. 269 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:06,760 I was like, every story I hear, every time someone finds out I work at the kelp, they're 270 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:08,560 like, oh man, I got a story for you. 271 00:11:08,560 --> 00:11:09,560 I said, you know what? 272 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:10,560 Scratch the food part. 273 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:14,240 Let's just put like great drinks, amazing stories. 274 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:17,280 And I think that is what makes Irish pubs so time. 275 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:21,760 So as people come there and the clientele, whether you're, I pride myself on this, whether 276 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:26,600 you're 91 or 21, you can share a pint at the Kelp's Bar Top and you'll make friends. 277 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:29,600 And people, I mean, there's not a lot of assholes there. 278 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:34,880 I mean, there's a really chill fraternity brothers that go in there and get a little 279 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:36,120 kind of silly. 280 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:40,800 And then next thing you know, they're, they may be acting silly, but 99% of the time I'm 281 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:41,800 there. 282 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:42,800 Yeah. 283 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:43,800 It's always the Ohio State fans. 284 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:44,800 What's up with that? 285 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:45,800 Okay. 286 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,760 So I was asking about the clientele. 287 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:53,640 I mean, if they're not all Irish, I mean, it's not like, it's not like it's a, but I 288 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:57,640 kid you not like the amount of people I know that are like, like that I walk up to it, 289 00:11:57,640 --> 00:11:58,640 I get to know. 290 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,400 And then I'm like, they seem like they've known each other for 10, 20 years. 291 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:03,280 I'm like, oh, y'all must've went to school together. 292 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:06,640 But oh no, we met backroom playing pool about two years ago. 293 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:07,640 Awesome. 294 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:08,640 Yeah. 295 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:12,640 You know, it's the cliche, uh, cheers concept where, you know, you can go to a place where 296 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:14,200 everybody knows your name. 297 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:18,040 And it sincerely is that feel that you get when you go inside the kelp. 298 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:22,440 Every time I go there, you know, and I've been going there since 2014, you know, it 299 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:23,440 may be once twice. 300 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:24,440 I don't need 10 years. 301 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:25,440 Yeah. 302 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:26,440 Is that crazy? 303 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:27,440 Yeah. 304 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:28,440 You know, and I love going there. 305 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:29,440 I brought all my kids there. 306 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:32,680 I, I'm not proud of it, but I got shit faced there with my son right there. 307 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:35,800 And I had to make him drive home, which was, you know, bittersweet. 308 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:39,980 I was thankful he got us home and I got to have fun, but I brought up my other kids there. 309 00:12:39,980 --> 00:12:43,560 So it's just like, you know, I got my youngest and my oldest where all of them have been 310 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:44,560 there with me. 311 00:12:44,560 --> 00:12:48,600 Uh, when we were building out filtered, it was like, uh, cause I would work late and 312 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,840 I was thankful cause you guys were open to like midnight and I should open, I'd like 313 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:56,120 two or three, uh, back then, you know, our diets have changed as far as alcoholic beverages 314 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:57,120 go. 315 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:00,320 You know, we went from, uh, having beer and then I want the strongest shit that you make 316 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:04,000 in beer, you know, which is the Imperial stout, you know, and, and now we're kind of like 317 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,560 in a new different phase of this where we're drinking our bourbon and whiskeys is similar 318 00:13:07,560 --> 00:13:08,560 to that. 319 00:13:08,560 --> 00:13:12,000 But I remember going there every single night and after I got done, I was all nasty cause 320 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,000 I had gypsum from, uh, you know, we're building out filters. 321 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,200 So that was my thing. 322 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:17,240 That's how it started. 323 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,460 But there were some different owners back at that time. 324 00:13:19,460 --> 00:13:21,640 And then overnight you were there. 325 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:22,640 Yeah. 326 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:24,240 And that's, it was kind of seamless. 327 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:29,200 Uh, there was a guy that kind of reminded me, I'm going to say Scrooge McDuck, but you 328 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,120 know, it's not because I think he's a Tucker Scrooge. 329 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:33,120 It's because of his accent. 330 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:34,120 He's got a Scottish accent. 331 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:36,800 It was a shorter gentleman with long hair, charismatic. 332 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:37,800 Oh yeah. 333 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:38,800 Yeah. 334 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:39,800 Yeah. 335 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:40,800 What was his name? 336 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:43,240 Uh, Billy, he was our general manager from 2014 to 2019. 337 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:44,240 Yeah. 338 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:47,360 Well, I mean, I enjoyed walking cause I'd see him walking down and I'd say hi to him 339 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:51,920 and, and I didn't know if he was part, I didn't know who owned the count or what the deal 340 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:54,400 was and I didn't know who, what you guys did. 341 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:55,720 And I kind of stayed out of it. 342 00:13:55,720 --> 00:14:00,720 You know, I met a handful of times, but we never really talked, you know, so I was like, 343 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:01,720 fuck man, I'm here. 344 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:05,800 And you know, when I was up there and I was running the filter and I was, that's one of 345 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:09,520 my biggest disappointments is that I hadn't talked to you more often and get to know you 346 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:10,520 because it was so busy. 347 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:12,120 We talked a lot, Sean, you just don't remember. 348 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:13,120 No, I remember. 349 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,120 I remember talking to you, but not with Nick. 350 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:16,120 Okay. 351 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:17,600 Every time it's Nick I was referring to you. 352 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:18,600 I remember talking to you. 353 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:19,600 We talked quite a bit. 354 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:20,600 Yeah. 355 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:21,600 No, you, I remember every time. 356 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:22,880 Because you guys were literally right across the street. 357 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:27,680 So when you, when you bought the, the count, you said you made, you, you converted it over 358 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:30,080 to an Irish, what does that mean? 359 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:31,520 Irish pub convert that over? 360 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:33,120 What'd you kick out of the bar? 361 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:34,120 Yeah. 362 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:35,840 Well, you know, you know, I, I, there, there is a difference. 363 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:41,480 I mean, when you walk in and you may not notice it right away, but, um, I think, you know, 364 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:45,400 what's hanging on the walls, obviously the Irish centered and, you know, for people that 365 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:49,400 know the 800 years of English oppression that the Irish experienced. 366 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:51,920 And I mean, there, there's a lot of history there too. 367 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:52,920 Sure. 368 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,000 And, uh, but mainly it, it's about the crack. 369 00:14:55,000 --> 00:15:00,080 The Irish have the word crack C R A I C, which basically means what goes on in a pub. 370 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:01,080 It could be gossip. 371 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:02,080 It could be talking politics. 372 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:03,080 It could be watching sports. 373 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:04,800 It's basically means you just having a good time. 374 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:06,960 You're having a crack or the crack is 90. 375 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:09,760 That means it's really, really, really intense. 376 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:13,800 And but really, I think what really separates us and those things are important too. 377 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:14,800 It's the music. 378 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:20,160 Uh, we, we have music seven times a week and, uh, we do as much Irish music, Irish rock. 379 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:22,680 You do the Tuesday night where they, they, everyone brings in. 380 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:24,120 Well, Tuesday nights open mic for us too. 381 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:26,080 And that's very, very popular for us. 382 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:27,080 Wednesday's the session now. 383 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:28,080 Wednesday session. 384 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:30,320 Oh, I always enjoyed that man. 385 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:34,000 They play like Celtic music and someone will bring their own instrument and they get out 386 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:35,000 there. 387 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:36,000 I love it. 388 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,160 Anybody wants to show up Wednesdays, Wednesday evenings can do that. 389 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:40,160 Uh, that's an open session on Sundays. 390 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:43,640 We have a closed session, which is a more professional players, but both are really good. 391 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:45,920 And we've been doing that for 10, 11 years now as well. 392 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:47,040 I really enjoy the music. 393 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:48,960 That's one thing that you don't get in a lot of. 394 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:53,880 You get a lot of music, but this is, I think the, the, the Irish music is unique and I 395 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:56,160 really sit back and you can sit back and listen to it and enjoy it. 396 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:57,720 Cause it's not something you hear every single day. 397 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:00,000 It's not the mainstream pop music. 398 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:01,000 Yeah. 399 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,160 Well, and, well, and of course we do cover bands and we do, we do country as well, not 400 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:07,760 as much country because you know, frankly, you can throw a rock and hit a honky tonk 401 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:08,760 in Texas. 402 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:09,760 Right. 403 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:10,760 But we try to find it. 404 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:16,360 So some I learned in economics one-on-one many, many, many years ago, the TCI member, 405 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:20,200 my professor said the way you succeeded in business is tell them, Nick, how do you do 406 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:21,200 it? 407 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:22,680 You find an itch, split the hell out of it. 408 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:23,680 Thanks. 409 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:24,680 What the hell? 410 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:26,880 So somebody, so somebody came in, it's like, Stan, where are you doing Irish music? 411 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:28,600 Nobody's going to listen to this. 412 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:31,520 He's like 2% of the people's going to listen to it in North Texas. 413 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:33,240 And I said, well, that's a quarter million people. 414 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:34,240 Exactly. 415 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:38,320 You know, so a small percentage of a giant number is a big number and you can't be everything 416 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:39,320 to everybody. 417 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:40,320 That's right. 418 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:41,320 Yeah. 419 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:43,680 You guys have separated the men from the boys with your, with your establishment. 420 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:50,320 I mean, really a quantum leap being recognized not only locally, but across the planet. 421 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:51,320 Tell them about our awards. 422 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:52,320 Yeah. 423 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,360 I mean, I mean, start with the city of, you know, the, you know, the, I mean, I'll flex 424 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:56,360 a little bit. 425 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:57,360 Yeah. 426 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:01,880 We were like, you know, we've won multiple winners for a best venue, a music venue, best 427 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:05,280 pub, our nightlife, I think like nine years in a row. 428 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:06,280 Oh wow. 429 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:07,280 Yeah. 430 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:09,440 We've, and then we've gotten a couple of really big ones actually. 431 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:15,000 I mean, we've, we've done some things that are, well, to be honest, our, our, for a pub, 432 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:19,280 our size are, so it's like, you know, we've won the city awards, we've won, and then we've 433 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:20,640 actually won some international awards. 434 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:26,520 I mean, and to be blunt as can be, we've also had some insane numbers when it comes to products, 435 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:30,800 which I'll talk about in a second, but the back of what Sam was saying about honky tonks 436 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:35,320 and everything in 2018, we won best Irish whiskey pub in North America from Irish pubs 437 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:36,320 global. 438 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:37,320 Wow. 439 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:38,320 And then in 2019, 440 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:39,320 That's amazing. 441 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:42,280 In 2019, we won best Irish pub in North America. 442 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:43,280 In the Americas. 443 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:44,280 In the Americas. 444 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:45,280 In the North, North and South. 445 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:47,280 Of course, I think there's only like three in South America. 446 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:52,600 But you think Irish pubs, there's a lot more than that in South America. 447 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:56,280 You think there'd be a lot out there in San Francisco, there in New York, in all Kansas. 448 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:57,280 We were up against them all. 449 00:17:57,280 --> 00:17:58,280 Yeah. 450 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:01,360 And I asked them, I said, Hey man, like, you know, it's just, I mean, I've been, I was, 451 00:18:01,360 --> 00:18:04,720 I've been to several of the pubs that we were in the finalists with. 452 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:09,480 And I was like, I mean, these are, and these are like black rose, Boston, dead rabbit, 453 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:10,480 New York. 454 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:11,480 I mean, these are legendary. 455 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:13,480 Like these are some of the best like pubs ever. 456 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:14,480 Dude, that's tight. 457 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:15,800 And I'm like, how did we win? 458 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:16,800 He goes, man, I'll be real with you. 459 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:18,840 He's like, you're in the heart of North Texas. 460 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:20,520 There are honky tonks in every corner. 461 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:23,760 He's like, and you went, you try to do what couldn't be done. 462 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:27,800 Y'all just try to be an Irish pub in, in, you know, back country pretty much. 463 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:28,800 Yeah. 464 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:29,800 And you're killing it. 465 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:30,800 You are. 466 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:34,760 And we've, we've inked, we have, we have, we have our sister pub over in Dublin that 467 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,640 we've, we've sent staff members here to work at and vice versa. 468 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:41,800 We've built that reputation about our Guinness, which I was going to say for, for strictly 469 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:45,360 numbers where we're the odd, you know, in Guinness, we're our number one account in 470 00:18:45,360 --> 00:18:53,000 the Southern region, not, not in Dallas, not in Austin, not in, you know, a downtown city. 471 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:54,880 Where in the perbs of North Texas, man. 472 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:56,240 And we're questioning it. 473 00:18:56,240 --> 00:19:02,440 Like I know, I know Carlsberg's not like an Irish thing, but we're Carlsberg's eighth 474 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:03,440 account in the country. 475 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:05,160 That's cause it's green to the bottle. 476 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:11,240 And I mean, to your point on the East coast, there's like a massive Irish, a massive Irish, 477 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:12,240 you know, following. 478 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:15,880 And it's a lot easier for them to, they're seeking out an Irish pub. 479 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:21,240 I mean, you can, you can, it's like, East coast is great, but there are so many, I mean, 480 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:26,280 it's, it's so, it's so easy to find a really good Irish pub on the East coast. 481 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:27,280 And that's just because they got the infrastructure. 482 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:29,320 I mean, they got the old crate, old buildings, they got the culture. 483 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,400 And there's more Irish in Boston than there are in Dublin. 484 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:32,400 Yeah. 485 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:33,400 Right. 486 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:34,400 That's my point. 487 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:35,400 East coast. 488 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:38,800 I mean, you're drawing from an Irish, you know, immigration, you know, group that is 489 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:43,080 like seeking out the pub because that's what they're used to as opposed to, as opposed 490 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:44,720 to you guys drawing in. 491 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:49,280 And we get a lot of Irish holidays and we, a lot of real Irish people. 492 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:50,360 I mean, we, you know, many people come in. 493 00:19:50,360 --> 00:19:54,160 This is my favorite compliment about, about the keel from like Irish proper. 494 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:58,120 They're like, Hey man, it's not Ireland, but damn it's close. 495 00:19:58,120 --> 00:19:59,120 And I'm like, you know what? 496 00:19:59,120 --> 00:20:00,120 I'll take it. 497 00:20:00,120 --> 00:20:01,120 I will take it. 498 00:20:01,120 --> 00:20:02,120 We're in North Texas right now. 499 00:20:02,120 --> 00:20:04,200 And I got Irish proper telling me that I'm the closest thing that they got outside. 500 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:05,200 That's super cool. 501 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:06,200 That's this side of the Atlantic. 502 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:07,200 Like hell yeah. 503 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:08,200 I'll take it. 504 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:09,200 That's awesome. 505 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:10,200 You should. 506 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:11,200 That's a huge win for you guys. 507 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:12,200 You should. 508 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:13,760 And proudly, you know, like I said, there's, there's nothing like it. 509 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:18,720 You know, there's every time I travel, if I had an opportunity to go to the East coast 510 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:24,160 and first off from the East coast, every time I travel, I Google Irish bars, you know, and 511 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:25,160 that's where I go. 512 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:26,160 And there's always one. 513 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:27,160 Yeah. 514 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:28,160 There's always one. 515 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:29,160 He thought New Jersey was just the greatest. 516 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,200 Oh, that's some amazing pub. 517 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,920 I was walking around with a heart on the entire time I was out there. 518 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:38,360 Cause I was like Irish bar and it'd be like walk 500 feet on the right. 519 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:39,360 I was like, fuck yeah. 520 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:40,360 Yeah. 521 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:41,360 No, New Jersey does it right. 522 00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:43,160 There's some amazing pubs there. 523 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:44,160 Yeah. 524 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:45,160 We, we, I had a good time. 525 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:48,160 I was down there, but it's, there's something to be said about it. 526 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:51,240 You know, it's, it's a little bit more, I mean, it's Boston, I'm sorry. 527 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:54,760 Is Cheers technically an Irish bar or is it just a bar downtown Boston? 528 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:55,760 It's not an Irish bar. 529 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:58,520 It's just, well, it's actually a little bit out of downtown Boston. 530 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,560 We were, I was there just last June and it's, it's not a big place. 531 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,520 It's about as big as this living room here. 532 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:04,520 Yeah. 533 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:05,520 Not funny. 534 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:09,440 But, but, but it's, but it's, but it's got the same feel and crack as an Irish pub does. 535 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:13,720 One thing that we love is not only, you know, love people come to our place, but like, you 536 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:18,080 know, another crazy number, we've had over 500 of our regulars make it to the Kilt in 537 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:19,080 Dublin. 538 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:20,520 I mean, that's a, that's a, it's a pilgrimage. 539 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:21,520 It's yeah, we call it a pilgrimage. 540 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:22,520 That's a pretty substantial amount. 541 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:26,720 When you think of like how many people from downtown McKinney or like McKinney, you know, 542 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:27,720 have made it to. 543 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:28,720 With the lottery of those numbers. 544 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:29,720 Another place. 545 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:32,880 I mean, we have been at the Kilt in Dublin with other people from McKinney. 546 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:34,920 I mean, like, holy shit, you're here. 547 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:36,480 You literally recognize him there. 548 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:37,480 Yeah. 549 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:38,480 Yeah. 550 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:44,520 Well, actually the first time me and Stan were in Dublin together in 2016, we were at 551 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:49,160 a pubs conference and we're in Temple Bar, which is like, I mean, it's Temple. 552 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:50,680 It's like clusterfuck. 553 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:55,400 It's like so many people and we are, we are sitting at a, by a table and Stan has to go 554 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:59,720 to the bathroom and he asked this group if we can put his beer on their table. 555 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,560 And you know, we, they recognize we have an American accent and they're like, Oh, where 556 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:03,560 are you from? 557 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:04,560 And since like Texas. 558 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:05,560 And he's like, Oh, we're in Texas. 559 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:06,560 Oh, McKinney. 560 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:07,560 Oh, we're at O'Lakell. 561 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:08,560 He's like, Oh, my sister goes there. 562 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:14,480 And I mean, we are like, I mean, of all the places we could have been in Dublin, all the 563 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:18,680 tables could have been, we've met someone who knew Stan across the nation. 564 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:22,400 And those are the moments where you realize the dream is, is true. 565 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:23,400 Yeah. 566 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:27,840 Like you, you, you're making connections that you, that you were hoping basically for. 567 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:28,840 Yeah. 568 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:33,280 Well, wherever we go, whether we're getting our haircut or in the hot tub at Choctaw, 569 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:39,400 you know, people know at the same time, you get a haircut in the hot tub. 570 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:40,920 You've made it walk us through this stand. 571 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:41,920 Yeah. 572 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:43,280 When you're getting your haircut in a spa, you've done it. 573 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:45,680 I'm here for the haircut. 574 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:49,680 Anyway, we always, always meet somebody that's been to the Celt. 575 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:50,680 Oh, that's cool. 576 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:55,360 Let me, I want to, I want to share my, my, my impression because I, I don't go to a lot 577 00:22:55,360 --> 00:22:56,360 of Irish bars. 578 00:22:56,360 --> 00:23:00,920 One thing I loved about that bar and maybe that's indicative of all, thanks man, uh, 579 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:04,080 of all Irish pubs is how compartmentalized it is. 580 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:08,500 Meaning you've got an area, you've got the beautiful bar by the way, beautiful bar, beautiful 581 00:23:08,500 --> 00:23:09,500 bar top. 582 00:23:09,500 --> 00:23:13,960 Then you have this little couch area that's kind of off to the, you know, then you've 583 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,560 got these high tables that are kind of secluded on the side. 584 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:20,360 Meanwhile, you've got the main tables on the stage and behind the wall, you've got the 585 00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:22,440 darts and the pool table. 586 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,240 Everything is, it's almost like, it's almost like if you had like, if Elon Musk was your 587 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,900 like your best friend and he invited you and your friends over and he had a mansion where 588 00:23:29,900 --> 00:23:33,140 every room had a different, a different thing going on. 589 00:23:33,140 --> 00:23:35,160 That's the feeling I got walking into the bar. 590 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,760 And then the downstairs bar will give you even a totally different feel. 591 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:38,760 Exactly. 592 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:40,600 The downstairs bar is kind of like a redhead stepchild. 593 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:42,480 You don't give it enough attention. 594 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:46,920 You know, it's just, it, you know, for people that don't want the, the, the loud crouch 595 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,520 or the busy or the music, uh, it's a little more chill atmosphere. 596 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:51,520 Right. 597 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:52,520 Yeah. 598 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:53,520 And it's different. 599 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:54,520 I like it. 600 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:55,520 I like it when I had to get away. 601 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:56,520 And the staircase, the staircase is badass. 602 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:58,520 I know that's stupid, but that's cool. 603 00:23:58,520 --> 00:23:59,520 How dangerous are those? 604 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:01,520 It's part of the sobriety test program. 605 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:03,520 I was just saying how dangerous are those? 606 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,800 Hey, shockingly, and I've been there for almost 12 years. 607 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:10,080 I've only seen, can I say this? 608 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:11,080 Just no names. 609 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:12,080 No names. 610 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:13,080 No names. 611 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:14,080 Okay. 612 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:15,080 Okay. 613 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:18,240 Is this, is this a, well, we get, we get deleted. 614 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:19,240 Doesn't matter. 615 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,520 Is this, is this, uh, that's the internet. 616 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:22,520 Yeah. 617 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:23,520 Yeah. 618 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:24,520 Have him look up something. 619 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:25,520 You're not going to do that. 620 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:26,520 I'm just going to show them the video. 621 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:27,520 We all can see the video. 622 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:28,520 Yeah. 623 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:29,520 Yeah. 624 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:30,520 But have it look at it. 625 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:31,520 What, what, what did you say? 626 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:32,520 Nick falling down the celt stairs. 627 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:33,520 Yeah. 628 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:34,520 What'd you tell the guy? 629 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:35,520 It wasn't a slide. 630 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,000 It was a piece of cardboard first. 631 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,920 This was after hours. 632 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:40,920 Those little things. 633 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:44,280 You got airplay on this, but he got, I don't think it works. 634 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,280 We're not, we're not going to be able to do that. 635 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:47,280 That's okay. 636 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:48,280 I'm just going to show you. 637 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:49,280 And we don't have video anyways. 638 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:50,280 Yeah. 639 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:51,280 There's no video. 640 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:52,280 All right. 641 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:56,160 So Nick has shown us a video and he's, uh, he's, he's, he's at the top of the stairs. 642 00:24:56,160 --> 00:25:00,920 Oh, I notice better angle, better angle. 643 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:01,920 Oh wow. 644 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:02,920 Oh, that was you. 645 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:07,880 Have you ever seen the episode of friends? 646 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:12,280 I come running down, dude, I kid you not. 647 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:13,640 So I'm like, it's a Sunday. 648 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:14,640 It's dead. 649 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:16,080 Dude, dude walks up, has one pint. 650 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,080 It looks like your penis got cut off. 651 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:19,080 I gotta go outside. 652 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,440 So I was like, yeah, that's cool. 653 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:25,640 And we're sitting on the stairs and then all he is and they're like, they're like, dude, 654 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:26,640 someone just fell down the stairs. 655 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:27,640 And I'm like, okay. 656 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:28,640 So you were sober. 657 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:29,640 No, I was bartending. 658 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:30,640 I was bar. 659 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:31,640 That wasn't me. 660 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:32,640 That was, I was, so I, I run down. 661 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,080 I see this fucking broken glass and blood everywhere. 662 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:36,560 And I'm like, dude, he went head first. 663 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:38,760 I'm like, what's going on here? 664 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:39,760 And I like walk out. 665 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:40,760 I'm like, there's no body. 666 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,600 I'm like, where's this dude at? 667 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:48,280 And I fucking walk outside and this dude has his buddy's shirt wrapped around his face. 668 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,760 He has a notch on his nose for every step he hit. 669 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:52,480 And I'm like, Hey, he's like, what? 670 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:53,480 I'm like, are you okay? 671 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:55,800 He's like, yeah, what's up? 672 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:56,800 So that wasn't you. 673 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:57,800 No, no, no. 674 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,800 Oh, I got bounced his face off of every step. 675 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:02,800 You just take it down the stairs. 676 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:03,800 He goes, it looked awful. 677 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:04,800 Fine, man. 678 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:05,800 I'm good. 679 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:06,800 Walk it off. 680 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:10,040 You know, the beauty of this, there's no way he wanted to admit that happened, which means 681 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:14,200 there's no way he's going to ever, he'll never sue. 682 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:15,520 Who wants to admit that? 683 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:16,520 Right? 684 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,400 We, we, we, we didn't like, oh, we didn't release it for a while. 685 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:23,960 And then like years go by and like, I get a message from someone from like on like one, 686 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:27,600 like Barstool sports or something, one of those, and they're like, it's live. 687 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:28,600 And I was like, what's live? 688 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:29,600 And I see that. 689 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,720 Oh my God, it's just like this video. 690 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:35,120 I am hopefully this guy, but yeah, nothing bad happened. 691 00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:36,120 Yeah. 692 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:37,120 Actually, he was fine. 693 00:26:37,120 --> 00:26:38,760 We didn't know how many years ago was that? 694 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:39,760 Oh, seven or a year. 695 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:40,760 Good deal. 696 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,120 I don't know what the statue viral. 697 00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:44,760 So that video went viral or what? 698 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:46,480 Uh, I don't know. 699 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:47,480 Hey, that's good. 700 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:49,560 By the way, that's good. 701 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:50,560 That's good. 702 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:51,560 Pub. 703 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:53,520 They got it on the little website as a dumb ways to die. 704 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:54,520 Right? 705 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:55,520 Yeah. 706 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:57,600 People ask me about it sometimes like to be, I'm like, no. 707 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:02,120 And since then we've, I mean, to be honest, in 12 years I've seen four people and none 708 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:03,360 of them have fallen from the top. 709 00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:09,800 It's always been like, they miss like the, like almost the, well, I mean, good for you. 710 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:14,480 I mean, cause I mean, I mean, I've been up there and I have gone, I've have left the 711 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:21,440 a few times, um, a little less than sober, a few times just saying, don't quote me on 712 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:22,440 that. 713 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:23,440 But I remember going down the steps. 714 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:24,440 I'm like, God bless. 715 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:25,440 This is rather precarious. 716 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:26,440 Extra careful. 717 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:27,440 I think. 718 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:28,440 Yeah. 719 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:30,440 I was like, I, I'm kind of like, yeah, I need to focus on this one going down. 720 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,720 That dragon's milk has got us a couple of times. 721 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,200 But, but, but, but what is it called? 722 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:36,200 Jesus. 723 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:40,320 I mean, I mean, best thing that ever came out in Michigan, right? 724 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:41,320 Oh, jeez. 725 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:42,320 Here we go. 726 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,320 Well, I thought you hated Michigan. 727 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:46,320 Why? 728 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:47,320 Yeah. 729 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:48,320 Dragon's milk is good. 730 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:49,320 Dearborn. 731 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:50,320 I like Michigan, by the way. 732 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:51,320 Yeah. 733 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:52,320 Oh, I love Michigan. 734 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:53,320 So yeah. 735 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,040 But, but anyway, um, I think we'll talk about some other videos. 736 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:57,640 Let's talk about our haunted history. 737 00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:58,640 Oh, jeez. 738 00:27:58,640 --> 00:27:59,640 I mean, yeah. 739 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:01,640 So, so there's like a ghost running around. 740 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:02,640 Okay. 741 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:03,640 Yeah. 742 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,320 So, so the place, I think 1860, it was a wooden structure at Burnett. 743 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,640 They rebuilt it in 1885 or something. 744 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,680 That is a rainbow saloon. 745 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,120 And yeah, there's, there's four or five ghosts. 746 00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:15,120 Nick doesn't like to talk. 747 00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:16,120 I don't, I don't. 748 00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:21,200 So how many experiences have, how, how, how many times has it occurred? 749 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:22,200 Okay. 750 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,980 I'll just give a blanketed statement over this whole situation. 751 00:28:24,980 --> 00:28:26,720 So this building has a weird history. 752 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:27,720 I mean, it's old. 753 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:32,080 I mean, the, the James game, Jesse James himself was inside the building before he left McKinney 754 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:33,080 to go get killed. 755 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,480 I mean, the last time he was in Texas, he was at downtown McKinney before he shipped 756 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,240 off to a, was it Arkansas? 757 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:39,240 We got killed. 758 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:40,240 Missouri, Missouri. 759 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:41,240 We got who, who did that? 760 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:42,240 Jesse James. 761 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:43,240 Oh shit. 762 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:44,240 V Jesse James. 763 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:45,240 There was a lot of people. 764 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:46,240 This is a Bonnie and Clyde stop by. 765 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:47,240 Yeah. 766 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,520 This was a, this was a saloon in brothel and burnt down and then it was rebuilt. 767 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:54,600 Um, and they supposedly like, I don't know, they don't know the whole history, but the, 768 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,320 we do know a couple of things to be fact. 769 00:28:56,320 --> 00:29:02,760 The last public hanging when the last public, like non like, how do I say this nicely? 770 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:04,840 The non like, Hey, this man committed a crime. 771 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:05,840 We're going to hang him. 772 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:06,840 This last public lynching. 773 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:07,840 I don't want to. 774 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:08,840 There we go. 775 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:09,840 Nah, we don't care. 776 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:10,840 He shoot from the hip. 777 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,360 The last public lynching was on our patio and it was botched. 778 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:19,360 They did captain the guys head rolled inside and then they're still there. 779 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:20,360 Right? 780 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:24,160 That was a bad, do you know what the video for? 781 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:28,600 I don't know, but I know it was a slimmer brothel and when, before it burnt down, there 782 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,840 was a movement in McKinney and they closed up the two brothels. 783 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:32,840 Was it like black lives matter? 784 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:33,840 No, I don't know. 785 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:34,840 What kind of movement? 786 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,040 No, I think it was more prohibitionist thing. 787 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:38,040 Yeah. 788 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,480 And pretty much what, what, what they've, the rumor was they actually boarded the girls 789 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:42,480 up and killed them all. 790 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,280 They killed them all inside the building. 791 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:48,400 Like inside, inside the Lord and then lit it on fire. 792 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:49,400 That's why the top floor burnt down. 793 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,200 The bottom floor didn't burn down only the top floor. 794 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:52,200 Okay. 795 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:53,520 You're, you're, you know what you're doing here. 796 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,800 You're setting up, you're setting up a background for tons of haunting going on. 797 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:57,800 Yeah. 798 00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:58,800 All right. 799 00:29:58,800 --> 00:29:59,800 So what Halloween coming up? 800 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:00,800 What have you seen? 801 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:02,400 What is your main stuff that happens? 802 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:03,400 What, like the glasses? 803 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:04,400 Glasses. 804 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:05,400 Oh no, they, they blow up. 805 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:06,400 Well, it was a brothel. 806 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:07,400 Are you serious? 807 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:08,400 Are you being dead serious? 808 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:09,400 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 809 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:10,400 I've got the video. 810 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:11,400 We have videos of like glasses flying off the rack. 811 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,240 There was, you know, even the guilt look in the bar, the wine glasses. 812 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:15,240 Oh yeah. 813 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:16,240 They're hanging there. 814 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:17,240 I've seen a whole row pop. 815 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:18,240 Oh, you kidding me? 816 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:19,240 Not kidding. 817 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:20,240 Late night. 818 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:21,240 You want to, you want to talk shit myself. 819 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:22,240 I do. 820 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:23,240 My hair is standing up right now. 821 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:24,240 I'm walking out of the brothel. 822 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,680 I would be like citing chance being like, please treat me right. 823 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,360 You know, like the way a brothel should. 824 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:29,960 Well, what, what are the ghosts? 825 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,680 I mean, it's not cheating. 826 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:33,680 It's a ghost. 827 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,560 Why can't there be a haunting where a hand slips down your pants? 828 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:37,560 Right? 829 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:38,880 Why can't, why can't that be a haunting? 830 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,600 Uh, because it's a different world we live in. 831 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:42,600 Damn it, man. 832 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,200 Nowadays it'll go up your ass. 833 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:53,140 Sorry, but anyway, anyway, what, what, what, one of the, uh, and we were outside of the 834 00:30:53,140 --> 00:30:56,700 so we can talk about this. I won't talk. Nick won't talk about it period. I won't, but, 835 00:30:56,700 --> 00:31:00,800 but May, I think it's her name may. I don't like to fuck with it because like, look, y'all 836 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:04,140 get to go home at night. I got to lock the door. Yeah. You're the last one out of the 837 00:31:04,140 --> 00:31:08,140 building. Like, can we bring a Ouija board? I'm like, fuck no. We've all seen horror movies. 838 00:31:08,140 --> 00:31:13,820 This is how it starts. It's not the kids like bringing in and leave. It's like the janitor 839 00:31:13,820 --> 00:31:19,500 at the night. You're going to wake them up and I got to mop up the closing. I'm the one 840 00:31:19,500 --> 00:31:25,060 that has to deal with the aftermath. I can tell you one thing and you'll agree with this 841 00:31:25,060 --> 00:31:30,580 since we switched from English to Irish, they are a lot happier. Oh, the ghost and I spin 842 00:31:30,580 --> 00:31:35,300 the ghost. I mean, and, and like, it's just an old building. You'll hear noises. You'll 843 00:31:35,300 --> 00:31:38,380 think you'll see stuff. I mean, there's a lot of corn in the eye stuff where you swear. 844 00:31:38,380 --> 00:31:44,980 Like, I mean, I, I had one, I've actually, I had, I had one the Thursday, uh, I was closing 845 00:31:44,980 --> 00:31:49,420 up and my guy was downstairs and I could have swore he was upstairs. I was kind of in the 846 00:31:49,420 --> 00:31:53,980 bar doing stuff and he was probably sitting like right corner of my eye. And I was like, 847 00:31:53,980 --> 00:31:57,100 you know, Steven, I gotta do this. Hey man, we gotta make sure we get done this. I was 848 00:31:57,100 --> 00:32:02,300 just kind of talking aloud. I swear he was standing there and I looked up and it was 849 00:32:02,300 --> 00:32:06,260 like, and then it was poof gone. I was like, what the, and I thought he was messing with 850 00:32:06,260 --> 00:32:09,740 me and I went downstairs and Steven has his AirPods on. He's in the kitchen and clean 851 00:32:09,740 --> 00:32:12,900 up like, how long you fucking been down here? He's like, I've been down here for the whole 852 00:32:12,900 --> 00:32:17,780 time. I was like, God, yeah. I was just like, Oh, and you know, that happens reportedly 853 00:32:17,780 --> 00:32:22,940 a lot. And I mean, there's a lot of things. I mean, look, I'm a, I'm a proponent to hauntings. 854 00:32:22,940 --> 00:32:27,300 I mean, I know Jeff has his opinions. He doesn't agree with it. I don't either. I don't believe 855 00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:34,220 it. I believe there is some sort of weird ether out there and I don't know what it is. 856 00:32:34,220 --> 00:32:37,820 This is my statement to say, like, do you believe it? I was like, I believe in one thing 857 00:32:37,820 --> 00:32:41,680 that I think all of us at this table can agree upon. There are unknown parts of this world 858 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:46,140 that are best left unknown. And I think that is a valid statement. I don't want to fuck 859 00:32:46,140 --> 00:32:49,100 with shit. I don't like people messing with me. If there's unknown, so I don't even know 860 00:32:49,100 --> 00:32:52,820 what that means. I don't even know what that means. I mean, if there's, if we, when it 861 00:32:52,820 --> 00:32:57,840 comes to history, there are, there's so much that we don't know. I will show you something. 862 00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:02,460 Every time I will say something, ah, that's bullshit. You know, whatever about the ghost, 863 00:33:02,460 --> 00:33:07,740 something weird does happen. So I'm being careful. I don't say anything inside the kilt 864 00:33:07,740 --> 00:33:11,100 to make it for them to listen, for them to hear. Yeah. But you know, Nick, you're going 865 00:33:11,100 --> 00:33:16,380 out of that all wrong, man. Leave them a drink. That's all you got to do. I make a drink, 866 00:33:16,380 --> 00:33:20,540 leave it on the bar and then go to bed. This was kind of like, like you set up the, the 867 00:33:20,540 --> 00:33:25,220 night of Christmas cookies for sailor cloths. Yes. Well, well, well, typically one of the 868 00:33:25,220 --> 00:33:29,320 most interesting stories is that the, an old judge that used to work across the street 869 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:33,700 at the courthouse, cause you can see it, you know, it's like 50 feet away from us. Yeah. 870 00:33:33,700 --> 00:33:37,780 And the old judge would go up there at lunch break and set up at the top of the state where 871 00:33:37,780 --> 00:33:42,300 that were the musicians play on the top floor and look out and have his lunch and have a 872 00:33:42,300 --> 00:33:47,580 beer and he could still keep an eye on the courthouse. There you go. Yeah. But he's, 873 00:33:47,580 --> 00:33:52,180 he's harmless. May is harmless. There's one mischief as one. I mean, like the amount of 874 00:33:52,180 --> 00:33:55,540 times is the mischief one. That's the one that's pulling the, the, he's the one behind 875 00:33:55,540 --> 00:34:01,260 the bar. He's the one behind the bar. I mean, like, and to be honest, it's not like, I'm 876 00:34:01,260 --> 00:34:04,220 not the only one that says this. The amount of random people who say stuff to me about 877 00:34:04,220 --> 00:34:09,460 it is kind of crazy. Like in the, in the bar, like, Hey, and we've had multiple people describe 878 00:34:09,460 --> 00:34:13,940 people's names that I've heard from like somebody completely different. Like a real good video 879 00:34:13,940 --> 00:34:18,860 on YouTube that we did about that. Conning, you know, there's a couple of YouTube videos 880 00:34:18,860 --> 00:34:22,220 out there. What time is your, I'm sorry. I was going to say you should have ghost hunters 881 00:34:22,220 --> 00:34:26,740 come out. I was just going to say that. I was, when was it? We were on one of the cable 882 00:34:26,740 --> 00:34:32,700 shows. Yeah. At one point, we're in like the top 15 most haunted in Texas. Really? Yeah. 883 00:34:32,700 --> 00:34:38,580 And they came out with all the equipment and did all the bullshit. Yeah. I just don't like 884 00:34:38,580 --> 00:34:42,820 to mess with it no more, but I always say, but they used to, you'll be shocked by like, 885 00:34:42,820 --> 00:34:46,320 it's like that, that building you're hearing like I'm looking for like the Sigourney Weaver 886 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:52,940 ghost busters kind of thing going on. No, no, no. Yeah. I got so much of that. I will 887 00:34:52,940 --> 00:34:57,300 tell you this. So when I was there, I'd granted I'd been drinking, we were playing darts. 888 00:34:57,300 --> 00:35:02,660 Jim was moving my darts. Oh, come on. No, no, we were, we were, they were all getting 889 00:35:02,660 --> 00:35:08,340 fucking competitive and shit. And I was like, guys, my dart is moving. Yeah. And I was pissed. 890 00:35:08,340 --> 00:35:13,580 I was pissed. I was like, I can't play darts here, guys. I think, I think it was the Guinness. 891 00:35:13,580 --> 00:35:19,540 It was it. It might've been. And then like the office, so the old owner of cams, it was 892 00:35:19,540 --> 00:35:24,860 an Asian food spot, the owner of cams, her bedroom was our office and she died in there. 893 00:35:24,860 --> 00:35:29,860 Oh God. So that is fact. There's not, that's not a fact. How long ago was that? I mean, 894 00:35:29,860 --> 00:35:37,260 the 70s, 90s, early 80s, 80s. Yeah. But still that's enough. I mean, yeah. Yeah. Look in 895 00:35:37,260 --> 00:35:44,020 a huge package, uh, the kelp has that, that it's history. It's got everything moving forward. 896 00:35:44,020 --> 00:35:49,340 It's got the entertainment. It's, it's, it's a great deal. I congratulate you, Stan. It 897 00:35:49,340 --> 00:35:52,980 was a great purchase and you've turned that thing around. Not only have you turned that 898 00:35:52,980 --> 00:35:58,220 business around, uh, you've also kind of turned yourselves around. I'm not saying you were, 899 00:35:58,220 --> 00:36:04,420 you weren't, but you've, you've taken on a, a health crunch where you started exercising 900 00:36:04,420 --> 00:36:09,220 and look, Ray's on board. I'm happy to see Ray kind of like shape up a little bit. I'm 901 00:36:09,220 --> 00:36:12,900 happy as hell. Cause I'm always, I see people, I'm like, fuck, even though I'm kind of a 902 00:36:12,900 --> 00:36:18,540 poster child. Well, I tell you, I really believe that, that, you know, uh, activity, health, 903 00:36:18,540 --> 00:36:23,940 going to the gym, you know, healthy diet. That's my problem. Yeah. Obviously. Yeah. 904 00:36:23,940 --> 00:36:28,900 It's a big everybody's chat, right? Nick, Nick has lost his, geez, I don't know in Ray. 905 00:36:28,900 --> 00:36:33,020 And it's like, and I go every day of the week and you go four or five times a week. Yeah. 906 00:36:33,020 --> 00:36:37,580 I mean, you're no homo. I mean, you're looking pretty good. I recall of shit. There was a 907 00:36:37,580 --> 00:36:41,340 long fucking time. Yeah. You were, you were getting kind of bulbous and I was kind of 908 00:36:41,340 --> 00:36:46,580 like, God bless you go, you go and bulbous. Yeah. Yeah. Have you ever been called bulbous? 909 00:36:46,580 --> 00:36:55,180 He's got a colonoscopy. So they took a lot of shit. I'm saying is that I saw Nick one 910 00:36:55,180 --> 00:37:00,460 time and he was overweight in my opinion, a little overweight. And then the next time 911 00:37:00,460 --> 00:37:05,580 I saw him, I was like, holy shit, who's this guy? And I was happy cause I saw some Instagram 912 00:37:05,580 --> 00:37:10,100 posts you guys working out altogether and I saw Ray and he kind of shared a little bit 913 00:37:10,100 --> 00:37:14,620 that that's what they're doing. Yeah. That's it. God bless. You know, so what, there's 914 00:37:14,620 --> 00:37:18,660 something to be said about that. So what's your routine? What do you do? Well, just overall, 915 00:37:18,660 --> 00:37:23,780 you know, it's a good culture that the kelp has trying to keep their people happy and 916 00:37:23,780 --> 00:37:28,140 healthy. We go every day, Monday, Monday through Friday, every day at the gym. I was in a rough 917 00:37:28,140 --> 00:37:33,620 patch and, and Stan had started before me and uh, I mean, saw some big strides in him. 918 00:37:33,620 --> 00:37:38,460 And then I was in a really kind of a weird spot mentally in my life and shit. And Sam 919 00:37:38,460 --> 00:37:42,520 was kind of like, I'm signing you for the fucking gym and you're coming. And uh, ever 920 00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:47,560 since then it's been kind of there and it was a, and now, yeah, I, we go, I go four 921 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:53,180 times a week. You go five times a week. Ray goes, uh, you're a one-upper, huh? Yeah. And 922 00:37:53,180 --> 00:37:57,940 you do what you do cardio, you do weights, we do cardio, metabolic weights. It's, it's 923 00:37:57,940 --> 00:38:03,760 all one on one training. Okay, nice. Oh, you got, so you got to, yeah, you got to, we just 924 00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:07,980 do what they tell us to do. Yeah. You know what? That's I'm going to, I'm going to put 925 00:38:07,980 --> 00:38:13,620 a plug out. It's, um, it's infinity personal training and Alan and, uh, 75 exchange amazing 926 00:38:13,620 --> 00:38:18,980 place. Yeah. Say one more time. Um, infinity personal training there in Alan, infinity 927 00:38:18,980 --> 00:38:23,540 personally personal training, personal training. Yeah. They're at exchange in Alan right across 928 00:38:23,540 --> 00:38:27,180 from Penn stack. Yeah. So I mean, so here's the thing. If you are struggling with weight 929 00:38:27,180 --> 00:38:31,500 or diet or any of those things and you don't know where to start and, and you need, you 930 00:38:31,500 --> 00:38:36,760 need support and you need accountability. Yeah, man. I mean, yes. And signing on with 931 00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:41,240 somebody that is like you're one on one and they, they care about you. Like they're waiting 932 00:38:41,240 --> 00:38:45,860 for you to show up and their way. And they're like, you said, you don't have to think they, 933 00:38:45,860 --> 00:38:49,780 they have a whole plan for you. They do it for you and they just walk it. They, there's 934 00:38:49,780 --> 00:38:53,900 no better way to start and then you get going with it. And it is, it is intense. I mean, 935 00:38:53,900 --> 00:38:58,140 sometimes she come out, they're just exhausted. Somebody said it was like D one football training, 936 00:38:58,140 --> 00:39:02,540 you know, there's something we said about that. I mean, I find it admirable. Really 937 00:39:02,540 --> 00:39:07,180 hard work. Yeah, it is. And keep it up. That's all I can say, especially working in the bar 938 00:39:07,180 --> 00:39:12,260 life. Look, oh yeah, that's what I was going to ask. Oh, horrible influence. Like you have 939 00:39:12,260 --> 00:39:17,740 good food there. How often do you indulge in the food? Uh, and I know just the bar life 940 00:39:17,740 --> 00:39:21,780 itself, you know, do you indulge in the drink and stuff like that? Is that a hard thing 941 00:39:21,780 --> 00:39:29,180 to overcome? Um, yeah, well it is and it isn't, I can tell you my biggest problem is my diet. 942 00:39:29,180 --> 00:39:33,220 And it's, I just eat out too much. Right. It really is. And you know, when it really 943 00:39:33,220 --> 00:39:37,520 gets down to it, you can strength train, you can get stronger, but you know, if you want 944 00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:41,740 to lose fat, if you want to, you know, you gotta cut calories. You have to, you have 945 00:39:41,740 --> 00:39:48,020 to have consume more. I mean, it's just math. It is, it is. And it doesn't matter what kind 946 00:39:48,020 --> 00:39:55,140 of calories it is. And you honestly can't work out or do cardio enough to offset the, 947 00:39:55,140 --> 00:39:59,900 what you put in your mouth. You can't, you can't die. I died. 80% of it. Wouldn't you 948 00:39:59,900 --> 00:40:06,780 agree Nick? I mean, there's a guy, go ahead. Sorry. I mean, I mean, just, just, but uh, 949 00:40:06,780 --> 00:40:13,780 uh, moderation is, uh, who said that? Uh, moderation is key. Even moderation, uh, mother 950 00:40:13,780 --> 00:40:18,940 Teresa, everything in moderation, including moderation. Oh, Gandhi, Gandhi. No, no Irish 951 00:40:18,940 --> 00:40:25,740 guys. Irish guys. Uh, Irish author Oscar. Oh, you said Robert Sturkin. That was a good 952 00:40:25,740 --> 00:40:30,500 guy. That was a really good guess. That was better than my guess. That was better than 953 00:40:30,500 --> 00:40:35,940 my guess. It's, it's what I'm just saying is moderation adds to respect of what we do. 954 00:40:35,940 --> 00:40:39,940 Like we understand what we do. We understand that, you know, we're a purveyor of, you know, 955 00:40:39,940 --> 00:40:42,980 what some people call certain things where we're like, Hey, yeah, we're slinging booze. 956 00:40:42,980 --> 00:40:47,340 We got fish and chips and all this stuff. But like, you know, it's, it's, it's, yeah, 957 00:40:47,340 --> 00:40:50,820 we sell a lot of food, but, but it, but it's like Nick said, it really gets down to moderation 958 00:40:50,820 --> 00:40:54,060 because you don't want to starve yourself to death and binge and then you're going to 959 00:40:54,060 --> 00:41:01,340 blow it. Right. You know, so, so, so really, and this is what our new food, you know, no, 960 00:41:01,340 --> 00:41:06,340 no, I, I know a lot of people that do, I just can't go that long without eating. Uh, even 961 00:41:06,340 --> 00:41:11,020 if it's late to 18 hours, but really it just gets down. It's like, don't order dessert, 962 00:41:11,020 --> 00:41:15,260 you know, maybe order a veggie instead of, uh, you know, the fries, don't order all the 963 00:41:15,260 --> 00:41:23,620 appetizers. All the appetizers, all the meat. Hey man, I think any nutritionist or, or, 964 00:41:23,620 --> 00:41:28,740 or personal trainer will tell you that, that if you starve yourself during the week, you're 965 00:41:28,740 --> 00:41:32,860 going to binge on the weekend. Oh yeah. You don't want that cycle. It's all about rewarding 966 00:41:32,860 --> 00:41:38,820 yourself every once in a while, having a good time, but being good most of the time. Yeah. 967 00:41:38,820 --> 00:41:43,220 And I want to tell you that that's my biggest challenge because I do like to go out to eat 968 00:41:43,220 --> 00:41:46,980 and, you know, a hundred calories here, a hundred calories there. It does add up and 969 00:41:46,980 --> 00:41:53,100 it is all about counting calories. It really truly is. If you're consuming less than, than, 970 00:41:53,100 --> 00:41:56,580 than you're burning up, you're going to lose fat and weight. I, I, you could do it on a 971 00:41:56,580 --> 00:42:00,380 McDonald's diet that you're not going to get stronger. And there's obviously other health 972 00:42:00,380 --> 00:42:06,220 benefits, but, but you know, if you're burning 2000 calories a day and you're eating 1800, 973 00:42:06,220 --> 00:42:11,820 you're going to lose weight. Yeah. So, so, so I count my calories. If I'm on the American, 974 00:42:11,820 --> 00:42:16,900 what is it? American fitness plan, the meal plan. So everything I eat, everything I drink, 975 00:42:16,900 --> 00:42:22,100 I log. Yeah, that's, that's excellent. I, I feel I, I fast every day, you know, even 976 00:42:22,100 --> 00:42:27,020 in fast and it's great. I just, I just don't, but again, I've been fasting for a long time. 977 00:42:27,020 --> 00:42:31,500 You would think I'd weigh 180 pounds, but that's not the case. So it doesn't work for 978 00:42:31,500 --> 00:42:34,540 me, but I'm going to continue to do it. Yeah. But Sean, you don't know what you would be 979 00:42:34,540 --> 00:42:38,780 like if you weren't fasting. Yeah. That's well, I'd be fatter because I've lost weight. 980 00:42:38,780 --> 00:42:43,860 So I'm at my point by saying that is I'm trying to make an effort. And like, I started off 981 00:42:43,860 --> 00:42:47,740 like fasting one day a week. You know, I would, I'd eat dinner Sunday and I wouldn't eat again 982 00:42:47,740 --> 00:42:52,020 until Tuesday morning. And I did that for, since the beginning of the new year and it 983 00:42:52,020 --> 00:42:58,100 actually worked. I was at two 65 and I got down to the two 45 and then I hit a wall and 984 00:42:58,100 --> 00:43:02,420 I'm kind of like, God bless. And it's exactly what you said. It's just like, yeah, you, 985 00:43:02,420 --> 00:43:07,060 you, you don't eat. And then, you know, Tuesday came along. I ate less cause my stomach was 986 00:43:07,060 --> 00:43:14,460 full. By the time Saturday hit shit, man, I was like, give me a full freaking, you know, 987 00:43:14,460 --> 00:43:19,500 I like my whiskey. I like my Guinness and I like my cheeseburgers and I'm not going 988 00:43:19,500 --> 00:43:23,340 to give that up. Yeah. Well, I mean, that's why, that's why I was like, you know what? 989 00:43:23,340 --> 00:43:27,260 This isn't working. So I think I'm going to try the, the fasting every day, do the 18 990 00:43:27,260 --> 00:43:31,660 hour break and just eat between a window and just eat reasonable. Yeah. But my personal 991 00:43:31,660 --> 00:43:35,100 trailer now, Keegan at IPD is a great guy. He always say, Stan, you know, this is your 992 00:43:35,100 --> 00:43:39,560 goal. Uh, you want to lose five pounds. You want to get your body fat down. He goes, there's 993 00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:44,180 two ways to do it. You can either do more cardio or you can eat less. He goes, I don't 994 00:43:44,180 --> 00:43:49,260 care how you get there, but if you don't meet your goals, we're doing more cardio. Yeah. 995 00:43:49,260 --> 00:43:53,060 I need a trainer like that. God bless. And that's a great point. I mean, I know, I know 996 00:43:53,060 --> 00:43:58,180 people that don't ever go to the gym, right? They never go to the gym. All they do is watch 997 00:43:58,180 --> 00:44:03,620 what they eat and they lose. Yeah. They lose a ton of weight. And I wouldn't even, I wouldn't 998 00:44:03,620 --> 00:44:06,580 even call it eating less. I would call it eating smart. Well, you know, I, you know, 999 00:44:06,580 --> 00:44:10,660 I think one of the best inventions is these Apple watches. Oh yeah. Getting your 10,000 1000 00:44:10,660 --> 00:44:16,180 steps in. And I mean, these things are amazing. I think everybody 10,000. I'll have one. Yeah. 1001 00:44:16,180 --> 00:44:22,740 I set mine to seven. That's okay. That's lame. That's lame. Well, yeah. We've been trying 1002 00:44:22,740 --> 00:44:29,460 to shame him for a year. You finally were able to shame him. Thank you. I did 25,000 1003 00:44:29,460 --> 00:44:34,100 steps on the weekends. Shut up. Hold on. Say that again. 35 years old. I did 25,000 steps 1004 00:44:34,100 --> 00:44:38,740 on the weekends. Are you serious? Like he shifted. Oh hell yeah. Oh yeah. Shoot. And 1005 00:44:38,740 --> 00:44:41,220 you're not even, you're not even trying. Yeah. That's just me on my feet. You're doing your 1006 00:44:41,220 --> 00:44:45,700 thing. You're falling down the stairs. He's doing, he's shaking his arm. Does that count 1007 00:44:45,700 --> 00:44:49,660 as steps when you fall down the stairs? No, no, but that St. Patrick's day. Is that a 1008 00:44:49,660 --> 00:44:53,300 step on each one? Between the end of the bar and the bar. Like I was looking at how many 1009 00:44:53,300 --> 00:44:56,620 steps did I do on St. Patrick's? And I was, I mean, we were in that bar nonstop just because 1010 00:44:56,620 --> 00:45:02,940 it was so busy. And I did like, I think almost like 16, 17 miles and that bar is, that bar 1011 00:45:02,940 --> 00:45:08,580 is probably what, how long is the bar? I don't know. 50 feet. No, no, no. The inside of the 1012 00:45:08,580 --> 00:45:14,060 bar. Yeah. Jeez. 15, 20 feet. Yeah. Yeah. I did, I did 15, 16 miles to walk back and 1013 00:45:14,060 --> 00:45:17,960 forth. You're doing, you're doing D1 like, you know, where they touch the lines going 1014 00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:22,540 back and forth. The shuttle. Yeah. You're doing the shuttle run all night long. Do you 1015 00:45:22,540 --> 00:45:26,820 guys hit a capacity on St. Patty's day where you like, are you kidding me? Yeah, we, we 1016 00:45:26,820 --> 00:45:29,500 have to, we have to watch that. Are you kidding me? Obviously we have line wraps around the 1017 00:45:29,500 --> 00:45:33,620 door. It is ridiculous. Also, you've got to do the counting thing where they can't, you 1018 00:45:33,620 --> 00:45:37,740 can't allow that. Yeah. I'll tell you what, I'm going to make it a suggestion. I think 1019 00:45:37,740 --> 00:45:43,340 you guys need to open up one of those windows and put some sort of a air filled tube where 1020 00:45:43,340 --> 00:45:48,140 people can exit and that way just jump down the window. That way there's a quick exit 1021 00:45:48,140 --> 00:45:51,700 plan and that way you have a free flow because people get in there and they're like, Oh man, 1022 00:45:51,700 --> 00:45:55,340 I got to all the time. A kiddie slide. Yeah. Just say, Hey man, there you go. And then 1023 00:45:55,340 --> 00:46:01,060 you get them out. Okay. I'll charge them five bucks. I'll call Boeing tomorrow. Okay. That's 1024 00:46:01,060 --> 00:46:06,940 a good one. I'll be scared about that. That's a horrible idea. All right. So Stan, I got 1025 00:46:06,940 --> 00:46:09,100 a question for you. They're going to get stranded up there. I don't know if it's such a great 1026 00:46:09,100 --> 00:46:14,660 airplane either. No, it's not a good spaceship. It's not a good airplane. All right. So I 1027 00:46:14,660 --> 00:46:20,100 got a question for you. So you walked into this situation kind of, you know, like you 1028 00:46:20,100 --> 00:46:24,460 said, you had no experience, no industry experience. You just kind of winged it. If you were to 1029 00:46:24,460 --> 00:46:29,380 do it all over again, knowing what you know now, what would you do differently? I'd have 1030 00:46:29,380 --> 00:46:36,380 got a job waiting tables in college. I mean, I mean, I mean as an entrepreneur, no, no, 1031 00:46:36,380 --> 00:46:39,460 no, no. Well, no, a quick story. And I was going to TCU. I thought it'd be really be 1032 00:46:39,460 --> 00:46:43,660 cool. And I talked, I talked to a couple of buddies of mine to this. Let's go apply at 1033 00:46:43,660 --> 00:46:47,700 Benningans remember Benningans and let's wait, let's wait tables. Oh yeah. That was a great 1034 00:46:47,700 --> 00:46:51,500 happy hour. And they gave us about 20 minutes of training and they had me carry out a big 1035 00:46:51,500 --> 00:46:56,020 tray with like 10 plates on it. How'd that go? I said, I'm not doing this. I went to 1036 00:46:56,020 --> 00:47:02,980 back to Macy's selling ties. So that was my experience in the restaurant business before. 1037 00:47:02,980 --> 00:47:08,580 Okay. But so for me, it wasn't being the restaurant business or the pub business. It was all, it 1038 00:47:08,580 --> 00:47:12,060 was all about being Irish. We had to lean on people though. I mean, to get the business 1039 00:47:12,060 --> 00:47:15,100 up and running, you had to lean on people because the people that you around you that 1040 00:47:15,100 --> 00:47:18,780 knew the business. So when you showed up, Nick was already there. So I'm assuming he 1041 00:47:18,780 --> 00:47:23,260 was one of your main people that you would lean on. Right? Yes. I'm assuming. Well, did 1042 00:47:23,260 --> 00:47:31,260 Nick help you or hurt you? Sometimes with a fantastic relationship, it becomes bittersweet. 1043 00:47:31,260 --> 00:47:40,340 I mean, hey, look, even a dead cat will bounce. Brutal, brutal. But look at Nick, I mean, 1044 00:47:40,340 --> 00:47:43,340 you, you were, were you handling both sides of it? Like the food and beverage. I know 1045 00:47:43,340 --> 00:47:48,460 you're food and beverage, but I mean, were you back in the kitchen helping them? I mean, 1046 00:47:48,460 --> 00:47:53,020 so I was there before Stan as like, I just, I was like a server bartender doing like the 1047 00:47:53,020 --> 00:47:57,420 front house stuff and I done some management before at a couple of other places. I'd been 1048 00:47:57,420 --> 00:48:05,260 in the industry at that point. This was 13 for about six, seven or about seven, eight 1049 00:48:05,260 --> 00:48:10,380 years now. Yeah. So yeah, next, next July I'll been in the industry for like 20 years or 1050 00:48:10,380 --> 00:48:16,380 coming up on 20. Shit. Damn. Yeah. I've been at the kelp for about 12. Yeah. Well, and 1051 00:48:16,380 --> 00:48:21,580 that was one thing that Stan, I will always respect him for the fact that he, he was, 1052 00:48:21,580 --> 00:48:24,700 he would, he would ask questions and he would take your input and he would, he would work 1053 00:48:24,700 --> 00:48:28,460 with it. And if he disagreed with it, you know, he'd give you reasons why he was like, 1054 00:48:28,460 --> 00:48:31,980 I don't think we should do this because of this. It wasn't just like, I'm the, I'm the 1055 00:48:31,980 --> 00:48:36,380 new head honcho where he's like, he'd be like, Nick, I understand what you're saying, but 1056 00:48:36,380 --> 00:48:40,380 I, come on, let's just, let's just try this. I think we should do this a little differently. And like, 1057 00:48:40,380 --> 00:48:44,060 there were some things that I thought I was, you know, Gunn-Hill completely right about that he 1058 00:48:44,060 --> 00:48:49,340 proved me wrong on. And, and eventually over time vice versa, yeah. It turned into where I could 1059 00:48:49,340 --> 00:48:52,540 talk to him. Hey man, I think, I think we're doing something that we could be doing better. 1060 00:48:52,540 --> 00:48:57,020 And, um, and then as for the, the front house, back house, you know, it's, it's building that 1061 00:48:57,020 --> 00:49:01,420 relationship between the two parts of the house. They say that you got F OH, B OH, front house, 1062 00:49:01,420 --> 00:49:07,500 back house. And that is the hardest part about restaurants and bars is that relationship because 1063 00:49:07,500 --> 00:49:11,580 they just like two islands and they don't like to talk to each other sometimes. Right. Yeah. And, 1064 00:49:11,580 --> 00:49:16,140 and they have different goals, right. And they can be pompous towards each other, you know? Yeah. 1065 00:49:16,140 --> 00:49:20,300 You don't know what you're talking about. You don't know what you're talking about. And, uh, I had, 1066 00:49:20,300 --> 00:49:25,340 I had a, a good, I was at a conference of Barton and conference and they said, and I was listening 1067 00:49:25,340 --> 00:49:29,420 to some guy and he said, you want to learn how to make a drink, go talk to your cooks. They'll tell 1068 00:49:29,420 --> 00:49:33,580 you how to make something taste different. Like they know what tastes, what will make things taste 1069 00:49:33,580 --> 00:49:38,460 interesting. Yeah. And, uh, I think that's, that's a really, anyone, any part of this is like, 1070 00:49:38,460 --> 00:49:42,380 take some time to get to know your, your chefs, like your cooks, like, and the stuff that they can 1071 00:49:42,380 --> 00:49:47,180 bring to the table. Uh, but, and anyone who wants to get into like management, like don't be below 1072 00:49:47,180 --> 00:49:51,020 anything. I mean, I'm, I don't cook every day, but let me tell you what I've cooked in our kitchen 1073 00:49:51,020 --> 00:49:54,940 before when they need me. And I'm like, you know, this is the best spot that I can be right now. 1074 00:49:55,580 --> 00:49:59,340 I can go sling, sling some fries on the fire. I can go take care of some business back there 1075 00:49:59,340 --> 00:50:03,900 is it, is it my like number one, probably top skill set, probably not, but I know how to do it. 1076 00:50:03,900 --> 00:50:07,580 And I think that's important. And so far, you know what that is? That's good leadership. 1077 00:50:08,540 --> 00:50:13,180 You didn't walk in going, I'm a banker motherfucker. I know exactly what I'm doing. 1078 00:50:13,180 --> 00:50:19,100 Because I didn't know everything. And, and, um, I, it's a lot of hard work. Yeah, it is. And, 1079 00:50:19,100 --> 00:50:24,540 and we did it right. But, but, you know, I, I, I'm, I'm a student of history and I know the FDR 1080 00:50:24,540 --> 00:50:29,020 during the depression, things were bad and he would just throw things against the wall and see 1081 00:50:29,020 --> 00:50:34,540 if they stuck. And we, we, we did a lot of that. I mean, I mean, remember Nick, at one point we had 1082 00:50:34,540 --> 00:50:40,620 Mozart chamber music on a Sunday night that didn't work. Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa. I like Mozart. 1083 00:50:40,620 --> 00:50:45,180 Well, I do too. I love Mozart and a lot of people did. Is that cause he had hearing aids? 1084 00:50:45,180 --> 00:50:49,820 Yeah. Hearing issues. That was Beethoven. That was going on. Oh, thank you, Stan. Thank you. 1085 00:50:51,100 --> 00:50:55,980 But no, but we tried, we tried bluegrass and, and you know, and, and, and we finally found out, 1086 00:50:55,980 --> 00:51:00,540 okay, what, what, what works, what doesn't work. It's, it's not what I like. It's, it's what our 1087 00:51:00,540 --> 00:51:06,620 patrons like as long as we're, we're, we're, we're staying true to the Irish culture. And that, that, 1088 00:51:06,620 --> 00:51:10,860 that overrides everything. We are not, and, and, and we have lost employees because of that. And 1089 00:51:10,860 --> 00:51:16,780 we have lost customers because of that, uh, because we are not going to compromise on, on, 1090 00:51:16,780 --> 00:51:21,820 on, on the Irish part of our, meaning you're not going to branch out and change the, the theme. 1091 00:51:21,820 --> 00:51:26,140 Well, yeah, they, they, there's a word for Irish pubs. They're not Irish. They call them plastic paddies. 1092 00:51:26,940 --> 00:51:31,580 Okay. It's, it looks Irish. wannabes. Yeah. I mean, there will never be a leprechaun in the cult. 1093 00:51:31,580 --> 00:51:35,500 They're trying to cater to everyone, right? Right. Yeah. Yeah. And it's just, it's just not, 1094 00:51:35,500 --> 00:51:39,260 and you can tell when you walk in and whether you like it or not. And most people do like it. 1095 00:51:39,260 --> 00:51:43,820 Most people come back. Most people, but, but we, but you can't be everything to everybody to be 1096 00:51:43,820 --> 00:51:49,660 successful in business. Nice. Yeah, I agree. Nice. Yeah. I mean, for me, but, but you know, you know, 1097 00:51:49,660 --> 00:51:55,340 Sean guys, we, we, we focus on, you know, obviously the food, uh, we focused on, on, on the Guinness. 1098 00:51:55,340 --> 00:52:00,220 We focus on, on the whiskey and we focus on the music. Beautiful. So you, so you've been 1099 00:52:00,220 --> 00:52:05,660 running the successful business for a while and I know you, you dipped your toes into politics. 1100 00:52:05,660 --> 00:52:11,100 Right. Well, you dipped your toes into politics, I believe. I think it was more in my toe. 1101 00:52:11,980 --> 00:52:15,420 Was it a full body plunge? Well, actually I lost my toe during the city council. 1102 00:52:15,420 --> 00:52:23,820 So did you run for a city, like a council or a city council in 2021? Yeah. 1103 00:52:23,820 --> 00:52:29,260 Well, that's where you truly found yourself. It was the most human humanistic experience ever. 1104 00:52:29,260 --> 00:52:33,580 Right. Yeah. I ran for a school board years and years ago when I, when I was younger and it was a 1105 00:52:33,580 --> 00:52:39,900 very pleasant experience. But, uh, so, you know, you know, you know, I, I can tell you, uh, I've 1106 00:52:39,900 --> 00:52:44,220 always been, I was always interested in politics and political junkie and I know the debates going 1107 00:52:44,220 --> 00:52:49,420 on while we're doing this and all that kind of stuff. And you know, but, uh, so it is important 1108 00:52:49,420 --> 00:52:54,620 what's going on, but to me, I'm just going to be perfectly honest and I hope this changes cause 1109 00:52:54,620 --> 00:53:00,620 there's something I want to get serious with guys. There's something really wrong, um, in the way 1110 00:53:00,620 --> 00:53:07,820 we're treating each other over. We know all about it. And it seems like the, the more, you know, 1111 00:53:07,820 --> 00:53:13,980 the person, the, the lower the level, the politics is IE city council, because you know, these people, 1112 00:53:13,980 --> 00:53:19,020 you know, the people that are voting for it. Uh, I made a lot of friends, uh, because of the run that 1113 00:53:19,020 --> 00:53:25,260 came to the kelp and I lost some friends too. And it, it, it's just, it was mind boggling to me when 1114 00:53:25,260 --> 00:53:30,380 you're talking about fixing the streets and, you know, restoring good government and integrity 1115 00:53:30,380 --> 00:53:34,620 and, you know, uh, protecting, you know, creating more green spaces and maybe slowing down this or 1116 00:53:34,620 --> 00:53:39,740 something that everybody should be on board with. And, and, and it's really just all about, um, 1117 00:53:39,740 --> 00:53:48,300 um, I need to be careful what I say. It's just really all about, uh, um, power power. Yeah. 1118 00:53:48,300 --> 00:53:52,780 That's what I'll balls down to. And Sean, this is what surprised me. It's like, good Lord guys, 1119 00:53:52,780 --> 00:53:58,700 this is, this is city council. It's like, and it was, it was an eye opening for me. Uh, and I have 1120 00:53:58,700 --> 00:54:03,260 to say that, that, that, um, that people say, stand up, think about running for council, you know, 1121 00:54:03,980 --> 00:54:06,460 what's your advice? And I said, I have three words. I said, don't do it. 1122 00:54:06,460 --> 00:54:13,020 So I went and had lunch at the kelp. And, uh, I think I had, I think I had Austin with me 1123 00:54:13,020 --> 00:54:18,140 and you shared this exact thing about your experience. And I was kind of like, 1124 00:54:18,940 --> 00:54:24,780 that sucked. It made me bitter. I was absolutely bitter. Your experience and, and, and guys, 1125 00:54:24,780 --> 00:54:31,020 what, what, what has done this? I think what is ruined social are, are it, it's, it's social 1126 00:54:31,020 --> 00:54:37,260 media. It's this iPhone that's sitting next to us for some reason, I'm just going to be perfectly 1127 00:54:37,260 --> 00:54:42,540 honest and speak from the heart here. I think that, that people become very brave, uh, and they think 1128 00:54:42,540 --> 00:54:47,820 they're anonymous when they're behind a keyboard. Uh, but they're not, uh, it's just the opposite. 1129 00:54:47,820 --> 00:54:54,140 Uh, it's like road rage in a car, but they're not held accountable and they're not held accountable. 1130 00:54:54,140 --> 00:55:01,260 And, uh, so many pillars like, it's like, Clara, I know you, how can you, you know, me it's like, 1131 00:55:01,260 --> 00:55:06,380 why are you saying, and, and because, you know, she may be center left and I'm center right. 1132 00:55:06,380 --> 00:55:10,140 And you know, that's not good enough to more. You gotta be extremely far right. 1133 00:55:10,140 --> 00:55:13,500 Yeah, that's absurd. It is evil. 1134 00:55:13,500 --> 00:55:19,980 And yeah, if you're a moderate, you know, I ran a very, what I thought was, it was a good, uh, 1135 00:55:19,980 --> 00:55:27,180 locally issues based center right campaign and just got crucified. Now I did, I did make the runoff, 1136 00:55:27,740 --> 00:55:33,900 you know, and, uh, and, and the gentleman that, that one is a, is a very good man. And I, I can't, 1137 00:55:33,900 --> 00:55:38,380 I can't say enough good things about him. Uh, he wasn't the one I was running against at the time, 1138 00:55:38,380 --> 00:55:45,500 it seemed, but, um, and, and I pray for him every night, uh, but, and I do cause it, cause he's a 1139 00:55:45,500 --> 00:55:50,860 good man and he's trying to do the right thing too. If they just left us alone, I think we could, 1140 00:55:50,860 --> 00:55:56,540 and me and him are friends. Uh, what do you mean left us alone? Uh, outside, do you feel like you 1141 00:55:56,540 --> 00:56:02,620 were harassed? No, no, no, you, you, you can't run for city council now with that national politics 1142 00:56:02,620 --> 00:56:08,860 coming into like packs. They want to know what your views are on this and that, and they're 1143 00:56:08,860 --> 00:56:12,620 pressuring you to have a certain platform. Yeah. It's like, what does that have to do with city 1144 00:56:12,620 --> 00:56:17,900 councils? And now both parties are extremely involved in, in, in city council runs even down 1145 00:56:17,900 --> 00:56:22,300 the sand and it's just a mess. And it's just a mess. And it's like, Hey, he, he's a good guy. 1146 00:56:22,300 --> 00:56:27,180 She's a good girl. You know, um, I'm going to vote. I'm going to vote for him or her because I know 1147 00:56:27,180 --> 00:56:30,620 that I know they've got a good heart and they're going to do the best job they can. Right. That's 1148 00:56:30,620 --> 00:56:35,180 not what that's not how people know. It's not, you know, it is, I say this over and over again, 1149 00:56:35,180 --> 00:56:41,340 it's how to get power and how to keep power. And those are the two things that politicians are 1150 00:56:41,340 --> 00:56:49,180 concerned with. And you can, and there are no, no stone unturned or person stepped on to get there. 1151 00:56:49,180 --> 00:56:53,580 I see another reason why they need to have a time constraints on the amount of time you can spend 1152 00:56:53,580 --> 00:56:59,100 an office term limits. Well, then there's a ballot on, on the city of McKinney, um, uh, the, in 1153 00:56:59,100 --> 00:57:04,220 November to, to, uh, do away with term limits. Yeah, absolutely. Do away with term limits. Yeah. 1154 00:57:04,220 --> 00:57:09,580 Cause they don't want to leave. Right. Oh, go away with term limits. Go figure. The people in power, 1155 00:57:09,580 --> 00:57:15,500 so, so I just want to never leave vote against that proposition. It's at the very end of the ballot, 1156 00:57:15,500 --> 00:57:20,380 but vote. No, you know, the sad thing about that, I think it'll probably pass. That's a sad thing. 1157 00:57:20,380 --> 00:57:23,820 I think eight or 12 years probably is enough. No, but here's, here's the sad thing to me. 1158 00:57:24,380 --> 00:57:28,540 There's a lot of good people that want to make a difference and they want to get into politics to 1159 00:57:28,540 --> 00:57:32,700 make a difference, but they steer clear. Yeah. Yeah. They don't want to deal with the bullshit 1160 00:57:32,700 --> 00:57:39,100 that you just described. And I would advise them not to. Yeah. And God bless the guys that are 1161 00:57:39,100 --> 00:57:45,740 willing and gals and gals, guys and gals that are willing to, to, to, to go there to make a difference. 1162 00:57:45,740 --> 00:57:51,500 Right. I think it's important to do it. I mean, I, I stepped up in my neighborhood. Uh, unfortunately 1163 00:57:51,500 --> 00:57:57,020 I had the wonderful experience of being our HOA president for over a decade. Oh, it's no politics. 1164 00:57:57,020 --> 00:58:03,820 There is no, it is absurd. So, but it's, it's a microcosm of what you went through, but it's still 1165 00:58:03,820 --> 00:58:08,860 nonetheless, uh, it sucked. Yeah, it sucked. And then the, in our community, no one would want to 1166 00:58:08,860 --> 00:58:13,740 step up because trust me, I want it out. I didn't run for that. I've had, I've had thoughts of 1167 00:58:13,740 --> 00:58:20,300 running for school board and I think what you're talking about has kept me from doing it because I 1168 00:58:20,300 --> 00:58:25,420 think it would just be a, I don't want to say a nightmare, but you have such a great temperament 1169 00:58:25,420 --> 00:58:30,780 for that type of stuff. Well, well, I'll kill you all authority. You know, I like to tell everybody, 1170 00:58:30,780 --> 00:58:34,220 you know, a lot of people say, so I'm never going to run because my past, I mean, it's like, it's 1171 00:58:34,220 --> 00:58:37,980 like, I don't think anybody cares about that anymore. It's a, what it is. Do they agree with 1172 00:58:37,980 --> 00:58:43,900 you or not on, on your ideology? And it's, it's, it's just a, it's just a real mess right now. 1173 00:58:43,900 --> 00:58:48,060 And the other thing I've said, if they can't find something on you, they're going to make it up. 1174 00:58:48,700 --> 00:58:52,700 Right. They fill in blanks, especially with AI, especially with AI now. 1175 00:58:52,700 --> 00:58:59,340 Oh yeah. Let's take a picture of you and Nick and spin it. Look at these guys. Look at these guys. 1176 00:58:59,340 --> 00:59:02,940 Look at these guys. They're looking though. They're on vacation. They're in Ireland. 1177 00:59:02,940 --> 00:59:06,220 They're on vacation in South America. Are they smuggling drugs back? But, but, but that's the 1178 00:59:06,220 --> 00:59:11,100 leveler. They're in Ecuador. Because, because the other side, I mean, I mean, searching for 1179 00:59:11,100 --> 00:59:15,660 crystal skulls, you know, you know, my side's doing it just as hard as we're getting on the other side. 1180 00:59:15,660 --> 00:59:20,620 And yeah, on both sides. Yeah. It's, it's, uh, so let's talk about Ecuador. Okay. Let's talk. So 1181 00:59:20,620 --> 00:59:27,340 you were crushing the, the Irish pub competition in South America, destroying them. Oh yeah. There's 1182 00:59:27,340 --> 00:59:32,860 like one Irish pub in Quito. Right. And you totally crushed their dreams. Which is cool. 1183 00:59:32,860 --> 00:59:37,260 Cause you know, he wanted that award and you want it, whatever. So tell us about your experience in 1184 00:59:37,260 --> 00:59:41,580 South America. Uh, I've done a lot of traveling. I think I've been to Ireland probably geez, 1185 00:59:41,580 --> 00:59:46,540 30 times you've been at least 10. We just got back from, from a group trip in Ireland, just, 1186 00:59:46,540 --> 00:59:51,100 just in June. But, um, but what is the goal? What is the function to go there just for the 1187 00:59:51,100 --> 00:59:58,380 experience or you, it's a business. I love to travel and, uh, it, it, it's, it's kind of a, 1188 00:59:59,020 --> 01:00:05,420 it, it, it inspires me. Uh, I rejuvenated by traveling. Yeah. We, we took a group trip to 1189 01:00:05,420 --> 01:00:11,260 Ecuador in March of last year and I liked it so much that I went back in June and going back in 1190 01:00:11,260 --> 01:00:16,860 October and we hear all these things about South America. It's not safe. I've been, well, Nick, 1191 01:00:16,860 --> 01:00:21,820 it was just amazing. Yeah. I mean, I quit. It was super cool. I mean, uh, real quick to chime back 1192 01:00:21,820 --> 01:00:25,420 about your same about Ireland. I mean, the reason you were saying about Ireland, I'm just sort of 1193 01:00:25,420 --> 01:00:31,340 try back to tie back in earlier. I wanted to say this, uh, one thing that Stan does correctly is 1194 01:00:31,340 --> 01:00:37,020 he, he knows the Irish history. He impresses it onto people. He tries to get us to learn it. 1195 01:00:37,020 --> 01:00:41,020 I've spent some time learning about the Irish history and that does add a lot to it. So going 1196 01:00:41,020 --> 01:00:45,100 to Ireland, part of that mission is to not only see the kelp over there and hang out with those 1197 01:00:45,100 --> 01:00:49,900 guys, you know, sling drinks with those guys, but it's that culture and the historical relevancy of 1198 01:00:49,900 --> 01:00:54,140 Ireland that you can bring back is, you know, that we were told this, we come back rejuvenated. Yeah. 1199 01:00:54,140 --> 01:00:59,260 And we were told this a while ago, you are ambassadors for Ireland. If you own an Irish pub, 1200 01:00:59,260 --> 01:01:05,420 there's something to be said about, uh, traveling afar, uh, somewhere where maybe your, 1201 01:01:05,420 --> 01:01:10,780 your lineage comes from and how it rejuvenates your batteries. You know, you just get connected 1202 01:01:10,780 --> 01:01:15,420 with everything. It's just, you know, it's not just a break, you know, going to Lake Tahoe 1203 01:01:15,420 --> 01:01:19,900 or going to Colorado, but when you go somewhere that's kind of timeless, 1204 01:01:19,900 --> 01:01:26,300 Well, well, well, well, Sean guys, travel dispels all prejudice. I've never known anybody that was 1205 01:01:26,300 --> 01:01:33,100 well traveled, uh, that, um, that, that was a bigot. I don't know how else to say it. Does that make 1206 01:01:33,100 --> 01:01:37,500 sense? I shouldn't say that. Maybe we would edit that. You're no, no, no, no, no, but you're, 1207 01:01:37,500 --> 01:01:43,420 you're absorbing, you're absorbing the experiences everywhere. Yeah. More. And you learned that, 1208 01:01:43,420 --> 01:01:48,380 that attitude that we're not better or they're not better. It's just different. Well, we have, uh, 1209 01:01:48,380 --> 01:01:53,180 we have a saying here in Frisco that like our kids are right. They've grown up in the Frisco bubble. 1210 01:01:53,820 --> 01:02:00,140 They don't know the experience. Like I grew up in Cincinnati in a just small little Ohio town, 1211 01:02:00,140 --> 01:02:07,740 right? Uh, very small, very small school. Wasn't the nicest. Whereas there in Frisco, their high 1212 01:02:07,740 --> 01:02:11,420 schools, like my son played football and he went and played football for college. I was like, 1213 01:02:11,980 --> 01:02:19,500 your high school facilities were better than this college is college. So they have this Frisco bubble 1214 01:02:19,500 --> 01:02:22,780 mentality where they don't really understand what's happening outside of that. And I think 1215 01:02:22,780 --> 01:02:26,060 you just kind of nailed that where you're like, if you travel and you start seeing these things, 1216 01:02:26,060 --> 01:02:30,940 you get, you realize how privileged you are. You get appreciation of what you have here in 1217 01:02:30,940 --> 01:02:35,100 relation to what a lot of people don't share in every, in, in, in, on the business side of 1218 01:02:35,100 --> 01:02:40,140 a research side, we call it research, but, but at the same time, whether it's in Fort Worth or 1219 01:02:40,140 --> 01:02:45,260 whether it's in Quito or Taipei, you know, if we're going to go to an Irish pub there and there's 1220 01:02:45,260 --> 01:02:50,700 going to be a takeaway and it's almost always, we need to do this very seldom is it's like, 1221 01:02:50,700 --> 01:02:54,380 we don't need to do this. It's usually a policy. It's like Nick, Nick, Nick, let's get on the 1222 01:02:54,380 --> 01:02:59,500 internet. Let's, let's, we, we were in Syracuse, New York in July, visiting Coleman's, which is an 1223 01:02:59,500 --> 01:03:05,260 amazing Irish pub. It's like, that's like the OG thing. And they were telling us a story about 1224 01:03:05,260 --> 01:03:10,860 temporary hill where 1920s, the, the Irish kids on, on, on the corner were, were, were breaking 1225 01:03:10,860 --> 01:03:17,900 the, the traffic signal live because it had green, yellow, red, red, yellow and green. 1226 01:03:17,900 --> 01:03:20,780 And they were always busting it and they were always having to put it up and they say, kids, 1227 01:03:20,780 --> 01:03:23,980 why do you keep tearing this down? Because we don't want the red on top of the green. 1228 01:03:23,980 --> 01:03:29,660 Oh, they don't want England on top of the Irish. And so, so the city council got smart and they 1229 01:03:29,660 --> 01:03:35,900 just hung it upside down. Yeah. So, so, so it's a famous place in Syracuse and intersection. 1230 01:03:35,900 --> 01:03:40,300 It's the only place in the whole country where there's an upside down traffic light. 1231 01:03:40,860 --> 01:03:44,540 And it's, and it's like, this is so cool. I said, I said, give us a traffic light, 1232 01:03:45,100 --> 01:03:50,780 ordered on eBay trying to find it and make us a sign that says temporary hill. Let's put that up 1233 01:03:50,780 --> 01:03:55,580 in the kill upside down upside down, upside down. Of course. It's like, it's just so cool. 1234 01:03:55,580 --> 01:04:00,780 You know, we have people that come in from Syracuse that know what that is. Of course we do. Yeah. 1235 01:04:00,780 --> 01:04:05,180 So what's so cool about that is you would think that, you know, if you don't know any better, 1236 01:04:05,180 --> 01:04:10,300 that you go to an Irish pub anywhere in the world and you're going to get basically the same 1237 01:04:10,300 --> 01:04:15,260 experience. But what you're saying is you're getting the local experience, the local history, 1238 01:04:15,260 --> 01:04:23,100 the local culture, no matter where you go, absorbed into that experience of visiting an Irish pub. 1239 01:04:23,100 --> 01:04:27,660 Into the kill. Yeah. Right. It's a lot of fun. It's just super cool. Yeah. Yeah. The amount of 1240 01:04:27,660 --> 01:04:31,900 things that the kill that like, you know, it's, it's, uh, yeah, we, we take away so much when we 1241 01:04:31,900 --> 01:04:35,900 travel and are things that have been successful for us and things that have not been successful 1242 01:04:35,900 --> 01:04:40,540 for us. But I mean, to be honest, like it, it, it does, you know, traveling, going to see those 1243 01:04:40,540 --> 01:04:43,820 Irish pubs, seeing what they're doing. And it's always great when you walk into it, like someone 1244 01:04:43,820 --> 01:04:49,420 else, especially when they're States away, cause they recognize like their, their staff recognizes 1245 01:04:49,420 --> 01:04:53,740 that you're not, I'm not here to compete with you guys. I I'm in Texas, man. Right. Like in Syracuse, 1246 01:04:53,740 --> 01:04:57,740 they're like perfect open book. What do you want to know? Oh, beautiful. Like they want, they want, 1247 01:04:57,740 --> 01:05:01,260 they want us to be just as successful as they and like vice president, like have you had any 1248 01:05:01,260 --> 01:05:04,540 issues with like this list? So this is like, oh yeah, yeah, I got you. Like, and this is how we 1249 01:05:04,540 --> 01:05:09,260 dealt with it. So we dealt with it. And it's, it's a, if you become colleagues, you become like 1250 01:05:09,260 --> 01:05:14,140 like friends. Yeah. And it's something, it's a brotherhood. It's, it's, it's come on, man, 1251 01:05:14,140 --> 01:05:17,580 that's what it is. It's a brotherhood. Very fraternal in that sense. It's like, you know, 1252 01:05:17,580 --> 01:05:22,940 people recognize and especially when you've been doing it, I mean, but we've done that in geez, 1253 01:05:22,940 --> 01:05:29,660 Philly, Syracuse, Boise, Dublin, I mean, wherever we always, and then we always have a take away. 1254 01:05:29,660 --> 01:05:34,380 For so long now, I mean, we've been doing this for 10 years. I mean, which has to, I mean, credit 1255 01:05:34,380 --> 01:05:39,340 has to be understood as in this industry, 10 years is kind of monumental. Like it's kind of a big 1256 01:05:39,340 --> 01:05:43,420 point. A lot of places don't make it past 10 years. And so we, we finally have a little bit of name 1257 01:05:43,420 --> 01:05:48,060 that we have this name towards that people recognize us. People know about it. And so sometimes 1258 01:05:48,060 --> 01:05:52,300 it helps us and they ask us questions. I mean, and there is a brother, it's cocktail programs, 1259 01:05:52,300 --> 01:05:58,060 whether it's menu layouts, like whether it's, Hey, what's doing good. I mean, I'll be, we have these 1260 01:05:59,420 --> 01:06:03,020 corn, peeve and cabbage egg rolls are pretty much a rubin and egg roll form. Yeah. We found 1261 01:06:03,020 --> 01:06:06,620 another Irish pub and they said, they said, and there's like, they used to work really, really 1262 01:06:06,620 --> 01:06:09,980 good. And they worked really well for us. And they was like, just all you gotta do is this, listen, 1263 01:06:09,980 --> 01:06:14,700 this and we're like, I will try them out. They're sharing whatever hits they have. And that's, 1264 01:06:14,700 --> 01:06:18,300 what a beautiful thing. Yeah. It's the beauty of it. And then you meet you dude, then you end up 1265 01:06:18,300 --> 01:06:22,220 meeting like the big guys. Like, I mean, and that's a good thing about social media, 1266 01:06:22,940 --> 01:06:28,860 cause you can make connections and we can talk to these people. Like we were in Ireland in June 1267 01:06:28,860 --> 01:06:34,540 in Limerick and a buddy of mine over there is just opened up his restaurant and we went and saw it. 1268 01:06:34,540 --> 01:06:41,100 And it was just amazing. Just crazy. Give him a plug. Give him a spot. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's 1269 01:06:41,100 --> 01:06:45,100 ACE's restaurant. Condor is his name. He just opened up a new restaurant there. If you're ever 1270 01:06:45,100 --> 01:06:50,620 in Ireland, go buy it. It is a heck of a place. I mean, Dublin, Limerick, Limerick, really great 1271 01:06:50,620 --> 01:06:54,620 spot though. I mean, if you've got a chance, you want to try it. It's not like traditional Irish 1272 01:06:54,620 --> 01:06:59,740 pop up per se. It's, but it is an experience. It's great food, great drinks. And I highly recommend 1273 01:06:59,740 --> 01:07:03,660 this. What's the weird thing is I was looking at plane tickets today to go to Dublin. You get 1274 01:07:03,660 --> 01:07:08,540 round trip tickets for 550 bucks right now. What the hell? Why are we going to Dublin? I'm in 1275 01:07:09,180 --> 01:07:15,100 for $550. I'd go to Dublin. I just wondering why you were, what was your, we're looking for a 1276 01:07:15,100 --> 01:07:21,340 vacation. My wife and I, Oh, I see. Yeah. Oh yeah. It's not the dudes like us. It's just, you know, 1277 01:07:21,340 --> 01:07:27,340 yeah, during spring break. So I don't know what Ireland's like, uh, end of March, but, uh, 1278 01:07:27,340 --> 01:07:31,180 that's a good time to go. We've been there. We've been there. It's a little cold, but it's a good 1279 01:07:31,180 --> 01:07:36,540 time to go chilly. It's off season, which is cool. Like pub, like I love Ireland, but this is my, 1280 01:07:36,540 --> 01:07:41,180 this is my one thing I would tell you to do. If you're ever going to Ireland, by all means, 1281 01:07:41,180 --> 01:07:44,780 there's the on seasons and the off seasons on season. There's tons of people that you'll meet 1282 01:07:44,780 --> 01:07:50,220 a lot of cool people, but in the, and I, I mean, Ireland's tourism is what 67% of their total income 1283 01:07:50,220 --> 01:07:54,460 is a lot. So in the on season, it's up, Jay up, thumbs up, here's your point up, next up. And 1284 01:07:54,460 --> 01:07:59,660 it's burning turn. And I understand that in the off season though, you will have so much more fun 1285 01:07:59,660 --> 01:08:04,780 getting to know people because they are going to be shocked. I love to go over there. Well, 1286 01:08:04,780 --> 01:08:08,780 it didn't have to be in Dublin. I mean, it could be anywhere and just find a pub that I'm comfortable 1287 01:08:08,780 --> 01:08:13,740 with and talking to the bartenders and the staff and the regulars. And you know, you can just like, 1288 01:08:13,740 --> 01:08:18,540 I'm coming back tomorrow. That's, that's what I enjoy about the off seasons there. You can meet 1289 01:08:18,540 --> 01:08:21,900 the staff, you part with the staff, like they, they'll take you out afterwards. Like, Hey man, 1290 01:08:22,460 --> 01:08:24,780 you closed down their pub. They're going to be like, Hey, we're going somewhere else. You want 1291 01:08:24,780 --> 01:08:29,820 to come. And I cannot begin to tell you the crazy stories I've had in Dublin, Ireland and Cork. 1292 01:08:31,580 --> 01:08:36,620 Love Cork. But like any of those big cities, like over there, you know, especially in, 1293 01:08:36,620 --> 01:08:40,460 when you get in the off season and they got the close up early, sometimes like you'll hang out 1294 01:08:40,460 --> 01:08:45,340 and then you'll end up somewhere. And like, it's kind of like, you know, back to the, that's what 1295 01:08:45,340 --> 01:08:49,500 I love the saying about amazing stories at the Gail amazing stories are meant for Irish pubs. 1296 01:08:49,500 --> 01:08:54,140 They always started Irish pubs and they never end in Irish pubs. They always always kicks off 1297 01:08:54,140 --> 01:08:59,100 something. So I always got to say like, you know, if you get yourself overseas, especially in Europe, 1298 01:08:59,100 --> 01:09:03,580 embrace the off season. If you can't, if you can, it's good time. So we got so many more stories, but 1299 01:09:06,140 --> 01:09:10,620 we have a bourbon we have to talk about. Okay. All right. So, and that's, so first of all, 1300 01:09:10,620 --> 01:09:14,460 our stories in the second half, I handed you the bottle. If you want to put a little tiny drop in 1301 01:09:14,460 --> 01:09:21,500 there or however much you want just to sample it. So this, so I, the little trip that I took out to 1302 01:09:22,460 --> 01:09:26,300 visit my dad, my dad likes to go out to Connecticut. We were born up on the Northeast 1303 01:09:26,300 --> 01:09:32,300 and my dad goes out with his family and they, they have an Island out there on the East coast, 1304 01:09:33,340 --> 01:09:39,100 about Portland and it's called she big Island and they go out there every single year. They, 1305 01:09:39,100 --> 01:09:43,740 they used to have a, they used to own, they still own a bunch of land out there, but it's nothing 1306 01:09:43,740 --> 01:09:48,620 they have to rent basically every time it is a beautiful spot. Take the ferry out there, 1307 01:09:48,620 --> 01:09:53,180 tons of food. It's cold. It's an Island. It's in the Northeast. I'm isolated. You're isolated. 1308 01:09:53,180 --> 01:09:57,820 Absolutely. Did you have some lobster rolls? Oh, no, no, not there. I did when I was in New Jersey, 1309 01:09:57,820 --> 01:10:00,940 I didn't have any lobsters. We had lobsters cause we go down the Island. That's what they do. 1310 01:10:00,940 --> 01:10:05,900 Lobster. So you go down, you drive down and they, they've got a little kids out there. They're just 1311 01:10:05,900 --> 01:10:13,340 like, Hey, you want some? So we went up to, uh, you walk up and they've got a rudimentary little 1312 01:10:13,340 --> 01:10:17,500 shack set up and they, they got the lobsters in there and you pull them out and you pick them. 1313 01:10:17,500 --> 01:10:22,220 And it's like super cheap. It's like eight, nine bucks a pound. And you walk away, you get 5,200 1314 01:10:22,220 --> 01:10:26,940 bucks and you just like, Holy shit. I just bought a butt, buttload of, uh, of lobsters, 1315 01:10:26,940 --> 01:10:30,860 all my relatives out there, they know how to cook this stuff. So they, uh, you know, basically you 1316 01:10:30,860 --> 01:10:35,500 don't do anything to it. You just steam it to death. And then there's a, a technique on opening it 1317 01:10:35,500 --> 01:10:42,300 up alive. Anyways, uh, that whole experience I like to, because who we are, the dudes like us 1318 01:10:42,300 --> 01:10:46,700 podcast, we, we, we rummage through the, wherever we go and we try to find some of the unique 1319 01:10:46,700 --> 01:10:51,500 unicorns out there for bourbons and whiskeys or different across the board stuff. We can't get here. 1320 01:10:51,500 --> 01:10:57,100 So, uh, I ran across this place. It's the new England barrel company. And this is actually the 1321 01:10:57,100 --> 01:11:01,580 second time that we've, uh, we've actually tasted this one. Now, when I was out there, I tried a 1322 01:11:01,580 --> 01:11:05,500 bottle and I actually fell in love with it. I thought it was fantastic. Then I bought, I was 1323 01:11:05,500 --> 01:11:08,860 like, man, I liked this so much. I'm going to buy another bottle and I'm going to bring it back with 1324 01:11:08,860 --> 01:11:12,780 me. Well, the one we brought back with me, it just, it tastes a little bit different. I don't know. 1325 01:11:12,780 --> 01:11:17,180 It's because of the ambiance of being out there and the, the, the emotion behind it. You had your 1326 01:11:17,180 --> 01:11:22,140 four, yeah. Bourbon, your four. Yeah. Maybe it was, I don't know. Uh, but you know, uh, this is, 1327 01:11:22,140 --> 01:11:28,860 I enjoy it. So it's, uh, this is a, uh, it's made in new England. It's the new England barrel 1328 01:11:28,860 --> 01:11:35,980 company. It's a straight bourbon whiskey. It's been aged for three and a half years. Uh, it's a 1329 01:11:35,980 --> 01:11:42,700 59 points. It's 119 proof. Basically almost a hundred. It's pretty strong. So this is actually 1330 01:11:42,700 --> 01:11:48,060 Kentucky juice that they purchased and they aged up their new England. Very nice. And it's beautiful. 1331 01:11:48,060 --> 01:11:53,660 They did a great job. Hey guys, this is really amazing. Have you touched this? This is really 1332 01:11:53,660 --> 01:11:59,660 a stage. It's this one, Nick and it's different. So the first one I gave you guys, the first one 1333 01:11:59,660 --> 01:12:05,180 we did was a little sample of our infinity bottle from the 2024 whiskey world to whiskeys. But yeah, 1334 01:12:05,180 --> 01:12:09,100 I made a couple of notes when I was tasting this earlier and I was smelling it, I'm picking like 1335 01:12:09,100 --> 01:12:13,900 the nose. I picked up a lot of vanilla and it smelled very sweet to me. It is sweet. Yeah. And 1336 01:12:13,900 --> 01:12:19,420 there's some tobacco like it, like on the very, the finish. So funky caramel molasses. What do you 1337 01:12:19,420 --> 01:12:24,780 got Nick? Very little burn tobacco molasses. I'm, I'm tasting all the spice. Uh, yeah. Uh, kind of 1338 01:12:24,780 --> 01:12:30,460 like those have a little chewy, right? The backend and kids in the back. Yep. So I mean, in fact, 1339 01:12:30,460 --> 01:12:35,420 I even taste a little raspberry on the backend raspberry. Yeah. It reminds me of a little raspberry 1340 01:12:35,420 --> 01:12:41,420 bread pudding. I like it. All right. So let's put the, let's put it with the mustard. Zach. So 1341 01:12:41,420 --> 01:12:45,180 basically what we do every week and we got categories too, because you have a hundred proof, 1342 01:12:45,180 --> 01:12:49,820 you have 80 proof, 90 proof, a hundred proof. Those are kind of in different categories. Um, 1343 01:12:49,820 --> 01:12:55,740 yeah. So when we rate those, it, in my opinion, doesn't hold as much weight as something in this 1344 01:12:55,740 --> 01:13:02,700 category because you know, 115, 120, that's a different animal. And then you start, you start 1345 01:13:02,700 --> 01:13:10,700 driving towards the hazmat era or anything over 120, 125, 30 that's hazmat area. Now me personally, 1346 01:13:10,700 --> 01:13:15,580 I love hazmat. You know, it's not about that point. It's not about quantity. It's about quality. 1347 01:13:15,580 --> 01:13:21,900 And I like pouring a nice big shot of a hazmat and I take such a minute taste just a little bit. 1348 01:13:21,900 --> 01:13:26,300 And then I, you know, I have a little beer after that so I could drink a whiskey. Uh, it'll take me 1349 01:13:26,300 --> 01:13:30,060 a couple hours. It'll take all night. Yeah. So it's not about the, you know, getting shit faced. 1350 01:13:30,060 --> 01:13:32,860 I mean, there's a lot of people out there that like, well, you guys are a bunch of drugs. 1351 01:13:32,860 --> 01:13:37,740 Now it's not about that. It's about the quality of life. And that's what the whole thing is about. So 1352 01:13:38,780 --> 01:13:44,300 if we're going to rate this on a scale to one to 10 going around the table, I'll start with Nick 1353 01:13:44,300 --> 01:13:51,500 and we'll go counterclockwise, put Nick on the spot. Um, the highest that we've rate, no, no, 1354 01:13:51,500 --> 01:13:54,780 no, no, no, don't give any hides. Let's see what they had to say. All right. Well, one through 10, 1355 01:13:54,780 --> 01:14:00,940 one being bad, 10 being the best. So am I ranking this like bourbon specific or whiskey specific? 1356 01:14:00,940 --> 01:14:05,020 Just whiskey. It doesn't matter. Does your experience with the bourbons or whiskey just 1357 01:14:05,020 --> 01:14:10,620 in general? Yeah. Even if you want to compare it to some, some Irish whiskey that you may be familiar 1358 01:14:10,620 --> 01:14:17,020 with. Yeah. Cause it's strong, but it's extremely potable. I mean, it's very, very, this good sipper. 1359 01:14:17,020 --> 01:14:21,580 I mean, this is a burden that's there is, is so sweet and mellow that it kind of just kind of 1360 01:14:21,580 --> 01:14:25,980 just across your throat. To be honest with you, I would actually rank this kind of high. I actually 1361 01:14:25,980 --> 01:14:31,660 think it's pretty good. Um, I'd probably give it a seven, seven, five. Like, I mean, it's perfect. 1362 01:14:31,660 --> 01:14:39,340 Stan, I love Nick. Um, I like this one. Well, we just got weird. Yeah. I agree with Nick. Uh, 1363 01:14:39,340 --> 01:14:44,140 a little chubby. Uh, I really liked this one. I don't know if it's quite as chewy. I like my 1364 01:14:44,140 --> 01:14:48,780 bourbon. I think probably more than you do. I love my Irish, but I like my bourbon too. I'm a maker's 1365 01:14:48,780 --> 01:14:54,780 guy when it comes to bourbon. Uh, but this is really, um, this, this, this is amazing. I mean, 1366 01:14:54,780 --> 01:14:59,260 I mean, it's clear, it's light. I'm getting no burn on the throat whatsoever. I'm picking up 1367 01:14:59,260 --> 01:15:04,060 some of the flavors that you guys said. This is a solid eight, eight and a half with me. I really, 1368 01:15:04,060 --> 01:15:10,460 I really like this bourbon. It doesn't need water. It doesn't need ice. No, it's just good. Just like 1369 01:15:10,460 --> 01:15:15,500 it is. Yeah. I agree for the, the, the proof. What's this? Did you say a hundred and yeah, 1370 01:15:15,500 --> 01:15:20,940 a hundred and 18. I would not guess that. Yeah. Right. That's the amazing thing about some of 1371 01:15:20,940 --> 01:15:26,860 these bourbons, even the hazmat. It's like, you know, it is that strong, but it, it doesn't have 1372 01:15:26,860 --> 01:15:31,500 that ethanol slap in your face when you, when you, we've had some hundred proofers that just 1373 01:15:31,500 --> 01:15:35,980 burn all the way. I think it's the thing is the age to be honest with you. This is age for three 1374 01:15:35,980 --> 01:15:41,260 and a half years. I mean, that's a lot for a, an American for anything from America. I mean, 1375 01:15:41,260 --> 01:15:44,460 three years is a minimum for Ireland and Scotland. What does this go for a bottle? 1376 01:15:45,180 --> 01:15:51,020 Um, it's about 60 to 70 bucks. So it's, it's, it's, it's doable, which is white, 1377 01:15:51,900 --> 01:15:57,340 right in the sweet spot in terms of, you know, it's, I feel comfortable. I mean, we're starting, 1378 01:15:57,340 --> 01:16:01,740 I mean, that's, that's kind of exactly, that's kind of where we're at. And in fact, when we go 1379 01:16:01,740 --> 01:16:06,540 over 70 bucks, that's kind of like, ah, yeah. Then we start having higher expectations, right? 1380 01:16:06,540 --> 01:16:11,260 Yeah, we do. All right, go ahead. And we got some expensive ones out there and sometimes they don't 1381 01:16:11,900 --> 01:16:16,860 deliver. So we got 85. You said eight, eight, eight and a half, eight and a half. All right. 1382 01:16:16,860 --> 01:16:21,900 I really liked this one because it's light, right? I mean, for one 19 proof, that's actually a very 1383 01:16:21,900 --> 01:16:26,300 light. Yeah. Well, this is the second time we're having it. And I don't think we much cared for 1384 01:16:26,300 --> 01:16:30,780 it the first time. Agreed. I don't know why maybe our palates have changed. It's been about a year. 1385 01:16:30,780 --> 01:16:35,100 So, and I'll bring to this several times, you know, sometimes when you pop a bottle open 1386 01:16:35,660 --> 01:16:40,220 and it's the first time you've opened it, you know, once you, once you bring it past the shoulder 1387 01:16:40,220 --> 01:16:46,380 and you introduce it to some changes, it does something to the mix. And so I, because the first 1388 01:16:46,380 --> 01:16:52,060 time we tried this here at this table, I didn't, I was like, this is a bust for me. I was kind of 1389 01:16:52,060 --> 01:16:59,500 disappointed, but yeah, but now that it's, it's, I think it's got some more air in it. It's rated 1390 01:16:59,500 --> 01:17:03,100 a bunch. I think it's opened up those flavors a little bit because I did, I share the same. 1391 01:17:03,820 --> 01:17:08,460 Agree. So I'm closer to what Nick has. I think I'm about a six, I'm sorry, about a seven, six, 1392 01:17:08,460 --> 01:17:14,140 seven, seven of a bitch. So I could drink that at home. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. No, for sure. 1393 01:17:14,140 --> 01:17:17,820 And you can't get that around here. A lot that I'm aware of. I've never seen it. No, no, it's, 1394 01:17:17,820 --> 01:17:21,740 it's it's a priority to that. But if you want one, I'm going up there soon. I'll bring back. 1395 01:17:21,740 --> 01:17:25,580 I'm actually bringing back like six bottles. He does that a lot. 1396 01:17:25,580 --> 01:17:28,460 Right. You're driving, right? 1397 01:17:30,540 --> 01:17:35,180 No, I'll put it in my gun case. Okay. There you go. Secret there. No, it's good. It's nice and 1398 01:17:35,180 --> 01:17:41,500 viscous, nice and oily. Like you said, chewy, oily, uh, lots of flavor. It is. It's, it's much 1399 01:17:41,500 --> 01:17:46,540 better the second time. And of course all of our pallets are different. Yes. That's, that's, that's 1400 01:17:46,540 --> 01:17:50,460 the beauty of this. It's like, everybody's going to pick up. When I went to bar school in Dublin 1401 01:17:50,460 --> 01:17:56,540 in 2013, the bar, my, the instructor said never, ever, ever criticize or make fun of somebody 1402 01:17:56,540 --> 01:18:00,140 ordering a drink at your bar. Just give them what they want. Oh yeah. Because we all taste things. 1403 01:18:00,140 --> 01:18:04,300 Do you like what you like? You like what you like. Just what makes it really fun. Yeah. Yeah. For me, 1404 01:18:04,300 --> 01:18:11,180 I would give it a 3.1. I think I'm kidding. I'm totally kidding. I'm actually going to go with 1405 01:18:11,180 --> 01:18:16,060 maybe a seven, two, seven, two. There you go. Yep. Go ahead, Sean. I'm going to do a seven, nine. 1406 01:18:16,060 --> 01:18:22,540 Uh, it's not, it's not quite an eight for me because for, for, for me, an eight is exemplary 1407 01:18:22,540 --> 01:18:27,820 in a, I think this is, I think it's right on the cusp of being awesome. I wouldn't kick this out 1408 01:18:27,820 --> 01:18:33,100 of bed. I'd make a turkey sandwich for it. I'd want to stay all night, you know? Yeah. Spoon. 1409 01:18:33,100 --> 01:18:38,380 I'd spoon it. I'd love it. We don't need to get into that enough to hurt 1410 01:18:38,380 --> 01:18:50,700 it. Too soon. And that's it. So I hear the music. All right. Well, first of all, uh, we want to, 1411 01:18:50,700 --> 01:18:56,140 you guys staying for the second half? Yeah. That's up to you guys. Well, it's the first half. It is, 1412 01:18:56,140 --> 01:19:04,220 uh, what is it? It's September 10th, 2024. And it's the first half of the podcast. Um, thank you, 1413 01:19:04,220 --> 01:19:08,620 Mr. Producer for staying on top of stuff tonight. Uh, check us out on Facebook and Instagram at 1414 01:19:08,620 --> 01:19:13,340 dudes like us dash podcast. Do like us does Woodcraft. Uh, if you want some shrug for your 1415 01:19:13,340 --> 01:19:17,660 place, a little lasering going on. We can matter. We got a machine downstairs. I can do all stuff. 1416 01:19:17,660 --> 01:19:23,420 Dudes like us. I'm Sean. I'm Paul. I'm Jeff. Stan. I'm Nick. Thank you guys. This is awesome. 1417 01:19:23,420 --> 01:19:39,420 That's good. We'll be right back. It's good, right? We're going to talk about more kelp shenanigans.