I don't know how I don't know why but we're back somehow it happened all right
well we still have two special guests we do they stuck around there was like God
bless it we're too drunk to drive we'll just push through this is that a common
theme with you two all right it's a it's another dudes like us moment welcome to
the podcast it is Tuesday September 10th dudes like us I'm Sean I'm Paul I'm
Jeff I'm Stan I'm Nick and this is our second one so obviously we're a little
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I'm thankful to be here we're thankful for our guests here tonight and I don't
start our fitter real quick oh yeah of course yes yes what a great way to open
so one of the things that dudes like is we do toast the folks that just passed
away and from the Star Wars clan we had a big one we had a big one big Darth
Vader passed on God bless 93 years old shout out to him for sure all right give
us our Nick you lead the toast for us James Earl Jones you may you live long
and prosper as the Trekkies would say but this is really he's the dark Lord of
the Sith you always be to him James Earl Smith man James Earl Jones 100% and he
was the voice of CNN to right yeah he was the voice of CNN one of the
originals it was a line king I'm not a star always found that's okay but look
he was a voice actor yeah he's also Mufasa in the Lion King
feel the dreams yeah feel the dream oh that's my movie right there I remember
that movie came out when I was born yeah he was also in the hunt for red October
he was those Jack and I thought he was the Arby's guy and I was you were I mean
I was hard oh hit hit I was Ruth he's wrong dude you were like oh I love I
loved Earl he's to play I want my baby back to this I had the meat Arby's that's
being rain I know that I you already told me I was so Jeff is like a
ridiculous almanac of information but look at us it was also in cockfighter
just so you know oh what is cockfighter it's a movie we're not going there no no
I mean I'm not talking about that version I'm gonna talk about the
Millennials we got it for Sandlot you know y'all didn't get him for sand that
we got him for Sandlot and that was no sailor it's a great flick oh yeah that's
right he was the ball went over the fence monster with the monster dog it
was like you know I got him for Star Wars Sandlot and the scene in what's in
in do you want CNN I don't want CNN you watch CNN you know that's don't tell me
I'm watching you watch dude just took his sandal off and threw that so you just
outed yourself so not everybody's gonna think I'm center left now be careful
bounce left and right well well Fox is 41 CNN's 42 on cable is like come on
okay love do we have any do we have any Darth Vader any voice over there I would
just want to hear the voice yeah how about how to a montage yeah a montage of
are the brilliant James Earl Jones see a little Princess Leia here the Imperial
Senate on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan you are part of the Rebel
Alliance and a traitor take it away to my quarters of this technological
terror you've constructed the ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next
to the power of the force I mean the rebels hidden for oh god he's choking
somebody yeah he's always choking somebody oh Peter Cushing Peter Cushing
yeah I love Peter Cushing poor guy
he felt surprised
general prepare your troops for a surface attack he's an asshole
he's bitter
I like Rick Moran is Darth Vader yeah
yes I see that George's work is as big as mine thank you Karen been done all
right well it's a big deal I mean angry all the time he he had a brilliant voice
he did and you know I don't really know that much of him personally but you know
because he stayed out of the spotlight you didn't hear anything about him he
didn't like say um he you know no politics on his behalf you know he's
saying man I'm a voice actor shut the front door so I'll give my two cents on
that so in the industry you hear about slips and there's lists of like assholes
and not assholes and like the famous ones you know you we have like this
person's cool on screen really cool in real life like like come out like Matt
Damon like Matt Damon like Matt Damon is bad Damon of an asshole in real life
no bad Damon's cool Stan loves Matt Damon Stan just loves Matt Damon so I
mean born supremacy come on guys movies are great I mean I enjoy him but he's
personal the departed exactly is but but he's a good human yeah that doesn't mean
the movies don't tell you if you think I think he tries I think he tries videos
where he's starting to support kind of like the towers of tunnels and stuff like
that guy he's a great actor yeah but where were you going with that Nick I
was just saying James O'Jones has been known as like among the fans he's just a
really nice guy like when you'd find him in the street he'd be like yeah man you
want a picture cool yeah he's just nice he's like look man I was Darth Vader I
got it I got you covered so I got to give him respect flat I love that when he
was set for his entire life I mean from that 1976 movie well you have to talk
about it was Detrid storm one CNN it was and I'm a huge stars but but our
absolutely right I am yeah Ali Guinness hated playing Obi-Wan he would actually
notoriously tell fans like I will sign this for you if you promise never to
watch the movie again like he what he knew towards he was known for just
bashing Star Wars what the hell why I was kind of like 10 Louise and Gilligan's
Island you know she hated it she's really that's ginger right ginger oh yeah
she was hot she's the only one left alive now really yeah jugs were you guys a
ginger or Mary Ann sorry Mary Ann all the way
ginger really I'll do them both really at the same time well absolutely I
don't have it out enough for Murphy to go around there was something about
Kansas and it just couldn't accept Nick you didn't chime in are you ginger or
Mary Ann what come on are you familiar like what is Gilligan's Island are you
serious of Gilligan's Island I just look seriously look in all fairness it's not
his fault I mean they kind of canceled all the stuff off I mean it's just like
this this was great we grew up with it even in it really was a great show so
ginger is the one in the red and the pearls yeah that's what Stan likes yes
okay that ginger Jeff said to mrs. Howell oh you can't like pow he loves he loves
the old stuff I like the one on the right with the Jeff likes Gilligan
Nick it really is a funny movie it's a funny show how could take her teeth out
though remember remember rescue from Gilligan's Island remember when they
finally got rescued you know what I should never have been rescued I do
recall that I didn't actually watch the very ending one I remember there was
some sort of communication that they were listening to enough to remember
when the movie came out I was in high school and it was like everybody stayed
home to see how they got rescued off right well I think of lost right
everybody had to know how lost what is lost I don't know your language me and
the wife are watching it we're in season four right now it got way crazier and
I'm confused the ending is even more confusing so don't be I don't blow us
later well anyway spoiler alert they get stranded on the very same island at the
end of they find they find the professor's equipment so yeah so they get
on this boat and then just go hit a storm and they get stranded again all
right so Nick you didn't chime in now you have to guess I mean you have to not
guess but if you draw which ones are going to be okay, so I got is it miss
how no so okay Tina Louise is how she said when they're still alive
yeah, but I'm talking about she's smart and the skipper we knew he was smart
and the skipper look at him as soon as he was seller the professor, the
millionaires and his wife. Does he have tube socks on the socks? He's got
dude he does. Look at those socks they got go fast stripes going on. I gotta tell you tube socks are coming back in style.
What the hell they never finished for me I wore them. Hey Nick, my tube socks have corgis on them actually
remember it yeah they do. Do you have a corgi? No I have a terrier. What the hell?
Can you explain that? Why is there a corgi on your socks?
Taipei. It's a cool sock. Taipei. I just got back from Taiwan. Oh so you got these
was that part of the menu? At their night market. I got it for like a dollar and you know what I
could wear him like twice. The elastic is down. It's like twice. I'm gonna tie it all back
together right now because what you just said. Guess what's on the menu in Ecuador?
Corgi. Not corgi. German Shepherd. Guinea Pig. Well you know I mean in all
fairness that they got raccoon that people eat here squirrel I mean there's
guinea pigs they're easy to raise. It's a delicacy it's like a big deal like you have to go to a nice restaurant.
Did you try it? Yes absolutely it's really good. Is it like bacon wrapped dove breasts that are very
turkey. It tastes kind of like turkey. Duck's actually a little better. It's like dark meat
turkey or duck I mean it's uh I mean rich. So how many how many would you have to eat? To me I mean
I have to eat like 20. It's a little um bony it's like you're trying to like pick everything off.
Do they bring the whole carcass out or is it like pieces? You get like a plate and it's like
cut in like four or five pieces. You're talking about guinea pig right? And no cut it short you get rice with it too.
Yeah. Oh is it like a rice pilaf? A rose. A rose. Yeah it's kind of like a rose yeah. So Sean
once last time you were in Vermont. I'm kidding. Oh I was like like a year and a half ago maybe? No no but
the guinea pig so I got a friend down there and I said hey hey Jonathan do you ever eat guinea pig?
He goes I don't eat rodents. Right that's roadkill. It actually is a rodent. Yes exactly you know.
Of course it is. But we were down there the six of us me, Nick, Ray one of my managers and my brother
in-law and sister and we had this really nice restaurant on a tour and they've got guinea pig
on the restaurant and I tried and we ordered yeah of course it actually was pretty good. I smell that.
Yeah yeah of course I can't feel anything in my left toe anymore. So hold on so you're saying
that was in Ecuador? It was in Quito yes that was where Nick got on the that's how he lost his weight
he picked up on the Quito diet. So guinea pig meat was an important part of the pre-colonial
diet in Peru way before European colonizers introduced chicken, pigs, cows to South America
and it's become continued to be a tradition down in the Peru area. Yeah anyway Shawn my sister
Mary Ann shout out to Mary Ann in Burleson. Mary Ann. Is she hot? Well but she's not from Kansas either.
Okay so anyway so so she's like I can't eat guinea pig because I had one as a pet.
Yeah whatever. Nick did she try it? I can't remember if my sister tried it or not.
You kind of sneak it to her? Did you wake her up in the morning be like you just ate guinea pig?
She also had a turtle. I've had turtle. Turtles good. Gross. No you have not. You know what you
would be surprised I mean I don't I mean I've eaten all kinds of crazy food but you'd be surprised
if you don't know what it is and you're not afraid you just dive in head first that fuck it I'm going
to try all this stuff and you know you would be surprised at how much that stuff tastes so
great and then you learn what it is you're like ehhh. Baboon testes. It actually it actually was
pretty good. We enjoyed it we did didn't we Nick? Baboon testes. Yeah I raised my boys whether they
followed I think Stephen does. I was like you don't know you don't like it till you don't try it.
That's true. If you try it and you don't like it I'm fine with that. We're talking food here right?
We are. Good call. Finger licking good. Thank you thank you. It's a life motto. Very good call out.
He backs it up with it's a life motto. It's a life motto. We never really know what Jeff's talking
about. Yeah because I'd have knocked down drag outs with one of my boys he'd be like I don't like
that I was like you haven't even tried it yet. Well Paul doesn't eat like fish. Yeah well what? He's a five year old.
Yeah well hold on what fish? It's like salmon. Why you eat salmon? That's just not a favorite of mine
but we have talked about this we talked about five year old tendencies where the texture right I
can't eat this because the texture no no no you can't red card me. You just told a lie. Red card.
That was the weakest red card ever. Give me that. Watch this. No no no. You have to go. Yes and by the way
by the way watch this guys. Okay okay you're absolutely right. Are you ready for the challenge flag?
In your face. Challenge flag. Sean let's talk about soccer okay. Let's talk about soccer okay.
Hey Nick can we talk about soccer? I don't want to. Can we talk about soccer? Hey guess what Sam hates?
Soccer. Well good because I don't know that much about soccer. You can't watch it huh? No no no I
love basketball. I love football. Even I like baseball. I love baseball you know but I don't
understand soccer where people can get so excited about the beauty of the game and the art of the
game when it's zero zero at the end. I know right. Can somebody explain that to me? So it's really
simple just widen the net. All right. Make it a little bit bigger. Can somebody here explain to me
make it really easy to score. The love of soccer I really just don't get it because I don't think any
American would go to a basketball game where no baskets were scored. Right yeah I'm on your side.
I don't get it. I support 100 percent. I'm on your side. So here's my take on soccer. These athletes
these athletes are elite. They never get subbed out. They play the entire game. They run their
asses off for 90 minutes. I mean I have the utmost respect for them as athletes. I can do that at the
gym. Oh dude. You know what I mean. Dude if you if you watch a 90 minute game and watch these guys.
They never get subbed out. But aren't scores important? Yeah they are. We can go to a maps game there could be
close to 300 points scored. I'm going to chime in real quick. You're both right.
You're both right and they're talking about changing the rules on this. I know there's been
talk about it. Why in the net? 20 foot wide. The reason is because the goalies are the keepers back in
you know 10 20 years ago were a lot shorter. The average keeper now is upwards of like six five six
six. Right. So I mean think. They cover the whole thing. Yeah I mean so I mean when you're talking
like when the net was first like established like this is the dimension of the net that the keepers
were like five eleven six foot tops. What kind of legislation is going to happen to make those
goals. Is it the goals. It's FIFA FIFA. I mean I mean or do you expend the penalty box sort of
speak so that they they're forced to take longer shots. A bigger goal. I mean they're talking right
now about expanding it by six inches which would be huge across the huge because I mean six inches
is huge. Yes it is. Oh I kind of like this. No no go on. Yeah but there's talk right now. Six inches.
The way that's been put to me is they are talking about this and the reason for it is because of
that. But I mean you have to think like if I mean it's kind of like in basketball there's also talks
about basketball like changing. But the sport that they have changed everything in is golf.
We've gotten so good at golf that they're changing the actual ball because it's hitting it too hard.
It's going too much too far too far and they can't change the courses and like well why is this. So
you got these oversized. I think they should. I think they should. No I mean this is just be real
with. Let's just be real. Well they can't change the course. Have you seen the Atlantis Brawl?
I mean there's no reason. The reason they can't change the course is because golfers back in the
day. Hey we were golfers man. We were just like hanging out having some beers shooting some golf.
Now they're like trained athletes like well okay cool as shit. Like we got it. We're hitting them
way too good right now. But the greens. The beverage cart girls aren't needed there. The greens they're
making really tough right. That's how they're making it tough. You can get to the fairway
and you can get to the short game the mid game but as soon as you get to the green it is. Well I
agree about the fairways. Really tough. Last time I played golf somebody said how did you find the
fairways and I said I just walked up to them. They should add more bunkers type. Well and same reason
they change the football. It's because they're changing like the reason why kickoff is changing
is because you're saying players the zero. Oh yeah that's a big deal. How quick they can run so quickly.
So it's like you catch a ball and this whole team's just running non-stop for what 60 yards. It hits
your heart. Too dangerous. You know 20 years ago they couldn't run that as fast they could now. Now
they're they're built and we have athletes that were spending like lots of money. Well they're
conditioned. That's a great point. That's a great point. So I mean we're not like. Athletes literally
athletes are transforming. Yeah I mean look at what and if they can't change the field. The game hasn't.
They gotta change the field. The game hasn't. Yeah well that's a great point. What did you see that they're allowing
the helmet cushions. Yes they call them something. Speed fast. Guardian. Stupid. Well you got the helmet
and then they put like air pads. It's called guardian. And they're allowing people to wear those now.
By all means I want to support that. I mean it can't be a look by any chance because I mean
when you guys get hurt. I mean one of the biggest problems they have is concussion. That's right.
Being able to lose their mind. I mean you want to be able to function your 70s. You know you want to
be able to remember your 60s. Well okay but guys you know when we grew up baseball was a pitcher's
game. Now it's a hitter's game. It changed because people want to see more scores. Yeah. You know.
You know. And they juice the ball. They juice the ball. Remember. Yeah. Yeah and I think baseball
may have gone too far but soccer needs to make it. I really don't understand and I respect our
soccer fans. I really do. But I really just don't enhance. I can watch an hour and a half without
anything happening. You know. I know. Let's don't. Let's let's beat the shit out of this. OK. OK.
Because we're going to talk. We talked a little bit about this. I think the last podcast we're
talking about the female Olympic team was it the world cup team the female World Cup team.
Soccer with the pink bitch that was the pink hair that was that would kneel during the
naked rapinoe. Yeah. Yeah. American anthem. But my point is volleyball too. But she. I hope not.
No. No. No. She wasn't. She doesn't need to ruin my point is is that they had in in soccer they
had 15 year old kids here in the Frisco soccer. The boys. Yeah. Beating the the the the World Cup
the national team. Yeah. National women's team. So it's kind of like dumps it down a little bit.
So I'm to beat them up a little bit. It's like come on. You know even like the women's basketball
with Caitlin Clark. She's awesome. Oh she is amazing. Love it. I love it. Amazing. Yes. I
watch every game. What she makes 60 grand a year salary and how much in endorsements. Right.
But they hate her 30 million with one contract. They're softening on it. Not only but just for
one day. They. But it is good. They were vile when she first came into the league like they're still
oh because they've been in the league's been around for how many years right. They're calling it
races. It's never gotten the attention and the umph and the and the in the passion and then boom.
That's the same thing. It's because they're not that great. And so does Angel Reese. They come into
the league and they and they just cause all this attention and and people are filling the seats
and instead of being like damn this is good for the sport. They were like oh well she yeah.
Yeah. Oh she's good for this. Oh they got. Oh yeah. 100 percent. She is. She put them on the
map. She is the sport right now. I gotta say. So I love it. I love watching her play. Yeah. I
I had not watched women's basketball. I'm a big basketball fan until she started playing. Yeah.
Yeah. Because she's she's amazing. She is amazing. Yeah. You never know what she's going to do. No.
What about you Nick? You watch WNBA all the time. I don't. I don't either. I know he's anti.
I'm a bartender. Let me tell you what. I know what the people want and people are more asking
more now about WNBA than they have before. So I have to do. I have to give a credit for it.
Isn't that crazy? I have to give a credit for it. Like I mean and people talk about pay gaps and
everything like you want you want more pay you need more people watching and more people. Yeah.
That's bottom line. So literally it's about anyone ever asked for a WNBA game to be put on the TV.
They are now. They are now. No. No. Before this year. Did they ever? Not before this year. Never
before this year. Not before Kecklin Clark. That's huge. Yeah it is. Dude what you're saying is huge.
You're a bartender. They're asking things for that sport. You're at a very popular. I'll add something.
We were we were at your house a couple weeks ago and we had a get together. What was that function?
I don't know. Labor Day Labor Day. We had a function and they had they had Indiana on. Yeah.
You know and guess what? All of a sudden it got blacked out because it was they were playing the
local Dallas team. So that my point by saying that is that they are they are more popular.
They're as popular now for them to be on the blackout list. Normally and you know it's really
funny. I put it on simply because I like and I figured I was going to get a bunch of other guys.
No. No. No. I thought I was going to get shit from the guys as soon as the other reason as soon
as the screen went boom this is blacked out all the guys in the room were like what the fuck man.
Did you not pay for something or did and they got started getting honoree about how Kecklin
Clark was not. I was like dude do we have some this game is blacked out in your area right. I
was like I don't know. I don't know. I hope you guys it was it was an experience. I didn't do that. Yeah. I'm impressed.
I'm impressed. Yeah you did. I said Paul's a wuss. He watches women play basketball. Yeah. Well you
know what I think she's fun to watch. I really do. She's she walks the walk and I hope it's contagious.
I really do. I hope it continues. I agree. The whole thing that strives and better. I also want
them to get better. Yeah. Not very. Oh the WNBA. I mean like I was making a comparison. I mean it's
like I said that 15 year old boys are beating adult women. I mean it's the same thing with
with basketball. There's a lot of lows but at the same time I love watching the highlights. I love
watching the highlights because you you see them all kind of interacting and the way they're they're
grouping around each other and then what is the girl's name Reese. What's her name Angel Reese. Angel
Reese. She's such a butt nugget. I mean she's and I'm kind of just well look my perception of her is
her to be a butt nugget and I'm not sure if that do you think that's by design like she's purposely
trying to create drama so that it solicits more attention. No I don't think so. I don't know. They
would never do that today. There's so much unheard of. There's so much negative social media coming
in flooding in right and so they're dogging her because they're praising Caitlin and she is a she's
a competitive person and she's very vocal and so they're not responding well to that and but she's
amazing. She's double doubling. Oh yeah. The points and rebounds. I mean the the proof is in the pudding
and she's like fantastic right now. She's like the female Larry Bird maybe. No she's the female
Dennis Rodman. That magic Johnson. Female Dennis Rodman. I like seeing her in the commercials.
Oh that's Caitlin. Oh I thought you meant Angel Reese. I'm sorry. She's oh yeah no.
Dude yeah yeah it's it's good stuff. It's a good it's actually good stuff. It is agreed. Agreed.
So we are missing the Trump Harris presidential debate currently and it was a it was a tough.
I'll see all the highlights. Yeah yeah we will we will but I gotta tell you I'm with Stan. I was
talking to Stan earlier and he was like hey man I hear from you. The the emails got lost and whatever
and the debate. Yeah it well but the thing is part of me was kind of like okay we can just reschedule
because I was kind of like oh we'll just watch the debate. Part another part was kind of like
shit this is a missed opportunity because I really want these guys on and we're kind of and we showed
up yeah and you showed up. God bless everyone that's been on the podcast has typically loved it
because it's kind of like a real roller coaster. You know when you get in here and you sit down
to get the headphones on it's I want to say it's all over the place right especially when we've
been drinking right. Never never. So I want to kind of get back to some of the Ecuadorian. I do.
Oh okay cool. Talk because. Oh oh we went zip lining in Ecuador. Oh my god. Because
Ecuador is not a country you normally hear people going I'm going to Ecuador.
So it's kind of an unknown for me. I don't know what's down there. Well okay it's only it's only
a five hour flight from Houston. So why did you go there? Start with that. The press is right. I
which I don't know me and me and Nick, Ray. Uh. It's like a dart on a globe you just throw it.
Okay remember this commercial remember the old commercial where the guy comes in throws his
backpack on his kitchen cabinet and he's got a picture of the world globe and that behind
he grabs the dart and he just throws it back and it lands in Greenlee goes well I guess I'm going
to Greenland next. Oh I think I've seen that. Yeah. It's an old commercial it's like. But that's not
what happened. No. It's not what happened. Well thank you for sharing an irrelevant story. This
can be right now. This man right here, Stan Penn, has more friends around the globe than I've ever
met. How is that? Are these at bath houses or? No that's Thailand. Oh. That's not Taiwan. How do
you know so many people Stan? Social media. I use social media for a positive thing. I really do.
Good for you. I do. We need to bolster our social media. We do. And. You need to teach us. Teach us.
Uh I don't know. I think maybe because the kelp has 40,000 followers. Okay. Okay. Let me just.
All right. Next you have the floor. So straight up. Stan is so good at social media. Like people ask
him like people tell me what people tell me what he's doing is wrong. As in like there's no way we
don't have a social media company for the kelp because we have so many followers. Like we did
ourselves. Yeah we did ourselves. Like yeah and I've had companies go impossible. You have an
actual company. We want to give you a better rate than the other company. I'm like no straight up.
You don't have one. Stan Penn does all our thing. Now the funny stories we've heard of Stan's like.
Oh the seven continents story. Yeah. Stan goes so we have uh followers on uh six continents right
now. I was like really. He's like. He's like but it's not seven. So Stan. What's the seventh?
Antarctica. Stan. Stan straight up. He puts an ad for the kelp in Antarctica. It was like. Oh. Hey.
Facebook. Like us up. What's up? And guess what? What was his name? He was a Japanese scientist.
That was stationed. At a station in Antarctica. And he fucking liked us. He liked our post.
And Stan goes. We have followers on seven continents. I was like oh my god. We do. We do. We do. We do.
This is so cool. And so we can officially say because to my knowledge and and and this world
that's listening in. We're the only pub in the world that has followers on seven continents.
Yeah. But there's no Irish pub on in Antarctica. No no. But he. But but but but there is a bar
in Antarctica. There is a bar. But he officially. Yeah there is. And he actually got seven continents.
We have seven continents of people following us. Yes. That's brilliant Stan. Well done.
It cost me twenty dollars. Damn. Oh tell them about Big Rapids in the division two. Oh that was an
amazing story. Small business owners listening. Small business owners. Listen listen listen.
Social media can be done by yourself. And it can be positive. And it can be very positive.
There are there are ways to advertise and you can single and non-democratic.
So McKinney has every year the division two football championship playoff. Yes. And we
advertise in the two teams. And we knew that Grand Rapids. Big Rapids. Big Rapids. And Valdosta.
And so we advertise. We put ads in both our communities to say hey come see us. Come see
us pregame with the. Absolutely. You're going to be in town anyway. Yeah. Hang out where you're
where you have a following. Spent two hundred dollars. And yeah sorry Valdosta but Big Rapids
came in way clutch. I mean those guys were awesome. And they came in they partied with us. Not only
did they party with us but they've been back since. Because they've come back up. Yeah. And every time
officially it's like the city hosts like a party for like whoever's not Big Rapids. And Big Rapids
is like yeah fuck y'all we're going to the Celt. So straight up. Like we will get we will have more
people in the in the Celt. I mean. So it's really cool. So it's really cool. The official football
pregame party plays between this is division two championship. They play at McKinney High School
Stadium every year every December. And it was the big deal was like to go out to Plano for a McKinney
event which I never understood that. To Legacy West. Right. And so we advertised like two hundred
dollars. And it's like hey guys can't wait. We're Big Rapids fans. We bought Big Rapids stuff. We
decorated the Celt with Big Rapids stuff. Nice. You know the Bulldogs. And we're wearing we order
Bulldog caps for the staff and all this kind of stuff. And they come down here. And the thing is
they're a powerhouse in D2. They won like half the time or three out of four. Three out of four years.
And they're just amazing people. It's like a town of 10,000 people in northern Michigan.
And the school has like 10,000 people. It's D2. But they're really really a good football team.
They're passionate. And they're an amazing. They're just such good good people from western Michigan.
Nick they're just amazing folks. Yeah. We just love them. And they've been out what three years
out of the last four. I mean they're. And we know them all. And it's like we're going to the Celt.
Everybody. And of course they it's like okay so they see this Facebook post and we're advertising
in just in Big Rapids. It's a great thing about social media. You can target this stuff. Right.
And we spend $200 in probably 80 or 100. Come on. To put it in perspective like the first time we
did it we're like hey what the hell like we'll do it. But to be honest they became our friends. I
mean like we got to meet the teams from like like the former teams would show up. So we're like oh
my god you're the guys from like oh eight. The football players were showing up. The players
are showing up. The passion. The lineage was showing up. And it was it was like it was amazing.
And like you have people who are like so we first did it like two years later. It's like you have
people who are like hey I'm I just turned 21. It's my first time coming. I've heard about you
all for two years about the count. McKinney Texas like this little hole in the right. Yeah. Right.
Like we can't wait to go to the count. And I'm just like welcome. Like welcome. Yeah. Is there
any opportunity for the Celt to expand to the the next unit. I get bigger to get bigger. Is that
this like a whole can of worms you don't want to tackle mean to be to be real like we're just at
the point now and correct me if I'm wrong Sam but we're just like we want to be the best we can be.
We want to be the absolute best. Like before we said anything anywhere else we want to be like
the best of the best. You are what there's things we could do differently. There's things we're
working on 24 7 trying to make us the best. Gotcha. And it's like you know the Celt as Sam
told you from a story earlier is is perfect. It fell in the line. It was an old building. It was
an old staff maybe an escalator and it's like you know it's like think elevator. If I put a
Celt in a new shopping center we have a broken escalator. Sean is called stairs. Yeah right.
Right. Yeah we've seen videos of people falling down though. So yeah. No no. It's like think about
I mean I put a Celt in like a new building. People are gonna go that and they go oh this is.
It's gonna change the it's gonna change things. It's it's that's a benign. You know like the Celt
is the Celt. Yeah. Something that we saw at Coleman's a few months ago. In Syracuse. In
Syracuse. Coleman's have expanded. Coleman's is Coleman's. They are they're they're like you know
what. Yeah. We're us. Stay in your lane. We're gonna be so damn good that we're just not gonna
worry about it. Love it. And you know what we walked in there they were packed. People are
telling us about. People tell us about Coleman's for years. Yeah. And it's like because they're
like you know we're just gonna do us. And now by all means like their footprint around them is kind
of expanded. But no there's only one Coleman's because they know like there's only going to be
one. Yeah. Now we've met some of the family. We've actually been really good friends with their
they have a family in DC. DC. The doubler. Yeah. And and that's a different thing. Like they're willing
to pass on that lineage and say hey like you go do you and you'll have our support. The Coleman's
will always be Coleman's. Yeah. Doubler DC will always be double DC. The Celt McKinney. Yeah.
Guys I can't almost imagine a Celt II. I don't know what they would be like. I was referring to
a Celt II. I was just a just kind of like. An expansion of a Celt one. Yeah. Like larger. Let's push our kitchen
into there. Let's maybe some extra seating in there. Yeah. Yeah. Let's talk. Let's talk about this. I
mean by all means there's always looking for expansion footprint. Like and we have. But we
love McKinney. Yeah we love McKinney. And we love our corner. I do too man. We love downtown McKinney. McKinney is
is wonderful. I mean they've got the Oktoberfest that's about to pound up. That's going to be a
huge moneymaker for the for the whole area. The region. We'll be down there. We'll be in front of
filtered selling our little knickknacks. Oh yeah. And people tell me like you know we're the chairs of
McKinney. And they tell me that. And I love that. And I've been there for 12 years. And that's
interesting in the sense of I've been called repeatedly the family bartender. You know like
that's just give you like you have you have a family and you went there and then your kids now
are drinking and now they're going there. Look at my look at my son. My son is now 21. I took him
there when he was like 14 15 years old. Yeah. Now after his first sandwich. I ended up in the
stroller. I've met I've met families. I mean and then there's the caveat. There's there's the stuff
of like there's like the variations of the story. So you have the dad who took his son there and
now I'm serving a son. Now his son's friends are there. Hey don't be an asshole here. This is this
is the kelp. This is like this is the place. Yeah. And then you have people like I have I've had
couples come in with their kids and their kids are talking to me now. I go in. Yeah our mom and dad
came on their first date and that's happened. That's cool. That is so cool. They have kids who
are talking to me. Yeah. Tell me about this and I'm looking at them like yeah I remember when your
parents sitting right there and I served them that point and said hey I'm glad you did a great dinner
at Rick's town for the park. Yeah. You know and it's like you're like I remember when your dad
fell down the stairs. Yeah exactly. So it's it's about the story. It's and stories. Guess whether
not just 10 years or not just 20 years. They're extensive. I mean they go on. They go on. Super
cool man. And I have to say that's something special and and Stan will tell you this like
people know Stan as you know and everything he's done. You know people I love it when they tell me
they know Stan because they always have a story about Stan. Good stories. Good stories. Good
stories. No tell them the bad ones. I mean this genuinely. Is there a video? Is that.
We want videos of the bad ones. I want to give my my nice solid plug to Stan real quick.
Is Stan took a bloody leap. He took a leap of faith in an old Irish pub and you know what?
He crushed it. He he he spent the time getting to know that not only the guests, the staff,
and moving everything forward. He's taken some big risks and not all of them have been successful
but but some of them have. And let me say the one thing that he has done is is the count and and he
he will he's done so much for the community in that sense and I have to give him credit for that
is at the end of the day someone told me that this is not going to work and Stan has proven
everybody wrong in that sense. He made an Irish pub work in the heart of McKinney, Texas. Absolutely.
And has grown it substantially and I and Stan from I'll tell you right now man I I have uh
in and and Stan will tell you we've had our moments. We've had our moments. We've had our good.
We've had our bad but the utmost respect I have for anybody in this world especially in this
community when it comes to everything that I've been taught and shown how to do. I can't give
Stan enough credit for that so I'm going to give credit to Stan. Beautiful. All right. I appreciate
that Nick. I'll Venmo you what I promised you. Hey you better be four. I'm thinking four figures
maybe five. I don't know man jokes aside. No it's three. Beautiful. Hey and I mean you know. Look
having a having a solid mentor in the business and having a clear leadership. But I can tell you I
couldn't ask for a better right-hand man than Nick. Yeah. Yeah just just couldn't. It's been a great
partnership and we do have a good staff and I can tell you we don't have a lot of turnover at the
Celt either. We call it two years two weeks from now. In two weeks I don't know if you're going to
be there for two years or more within two weeks. Okay. I always love that. Well Sean Sean Sean
Lane asked you what's the difference between the Celt and the cult? Oh boy. Not much except if you
take out the demonic stuff you know. One one letter. Yeah. No we're kidding. But we are a family.
I mean everybody that comes here is the family and you know we run a tight ship. We do.
Well the people there are solid. Well when I show up there any given time I recognize not just Nick
but I recognize the other staff and that is so important. It's important on different levels.
It's important to know that first of all I know this guy he's going to take care of us. That gives
me that warm fuzzy feeling that the business is going to be good. At the same time it makes me feel
like you guys give a shit about your employees that they want to stay and that says a lot and I
know that's true about you because you you you take care of them. You know it's there's a lot
of reciprocation and that's what's huge and that's what I think has lost a lot of the businesses
nowadays. You want people looking for their money. You want people that are personally invested.
Right. I mean I'm not going to like name explicit businesses but I have been told by a manager
before you think I care. I got a fucking application. I got applications out the door right now. I could
fire the whole staff and have a great staff tomorrow. I pride myself on every single day
like talking to the staff. Hey how you doing? What's going on? I'm not saying I'm perfect.
By all means I'm not perfect. Are you perfect Nick? But let me tell you I
I do try to take the time like you know it's it's a community people and I'm not going to just say
this for just the count but I'm going to say this for a lot of McKinney businesses downtown McKinney
I should say is there are those stables at those restaurants and bars around the square that people
appreciate and that downtown McKinney collectively as a whole business owners have come together said
we respect the fact that people enjoy this as a community. Yeah it's a family. It's a family man.
It is and people it's not just a it's not a loser bar. I mean I'm telling you that you I fear my kids
going to loser bars. You know if I hear seriously I mean if you're going to go to a bar I mean I
would say go to the kelp you know because it's just because you trust the people out there. We'll take care of you.
Yeah we will. It's I feel like they're more safe there. I want them to get spirited and have a good
time. And show them fun. I don't have fun. I feel like there's you don't hear any shenanigans going on there.
No one doused my my glass with date rape stuff or anything. It's none of that stuff. Yeah it's
don't play don't play darts there. They move. Well wait we had to give up. That's fucked up. Do not do a
dart tournament there. Yeah. You had to give up the darts. Uh because of COVID we did. Oh yeah.
How did that uh how did that impact things? Was it pretty? Oh geez you want to talk about COVID? Wow.
That was a kick in the nuts man. That's an evil thing to talk about. Well gentlemen you know that we
fought it to stay open. We did. Remember the car rally Sean? Geez wow. Absolutely. Yeah wow that was
amazing. Uh but yeah COVID was a real struggle for us like it was like it was for a lot of small
businesses. Uh we survived came out stronger. Um I don't know. How much of a hit? How much of a hit
was it? How much did you have to float? Oh no not not a dollar amount but did you literally had to
float your personal? They were uh how long out of business? Like the big losses? We were closed
three times. I think we're closed oh geez. Do you want me to wrap? We were closed three times during
2020 and probably lost 60 percent of ourselves. Oh shit. So you had to reach deep into your pockets.
Yeah oh absolutely. We we reached the point to where I remember I was at a buddy's house
during the summer of 2020 watching golf or something. It was Mike's it was Mike's house you
know and it's like I don't know how I'm gonna make this and it's like Stan you're gonna make this and
uh yeah it was tough times. You literally did not know if you were gonna be here in America. The next
day. Right yeah. Because the money's gone. Don't want showing up. And nobody showed up because
you're closed. Times were precarious. It was actually even a better situation here in North
Dallas or Texas than the rest of the country. East and West Coast. Well what it was I don't think
we were as strong as Florida was but uh yeah yeah but but Texas but but um I can tell you another
thing econ 101 that I learned at TCU was that if you can survive the hard times you come out stronger.
Yes. And we did. Amen. And I'm proud of you guys. I'm proud I'm proud of you guys being in the
community. Came out stronger than before. So and and this is something about life gentlemen. I'm
gonna get a little philosophical here. You're going through some really hard times and you get
punched in the gut and um it's like how am I going to survive this and then somehow God brings you
through it. Yes. No I'm serious about this. It's like wow if this had if this had not happened and
challenged me and put through put me through this fire I wouldn't be where I am today. Yes. Yeah I
don't know if you can say that about every event that happens in your life but COVID was one of
those to where we we survived. We fought uh fought hard. I mean I mean it's trust it's trust and faith
right. I mean this is this is an instance. There's so many businesses that failed. Yeah. I mean it's
criminal. Where you're calling your state rep, you're emailing the governor every day, you get no
response. It's like what are you guys going to do for us? You guys are killing us here. This is not
right. This is not fair. You know we're just a restaurant. We're a pub and then finally it just
I think if you hang in there long enough and you pray hard enough and if you do the right thing
you're going to be okay. We we and and it is sometimes just sick simple economics.
Um we we survived and you come out stronger. Yeah. That's exactly what happened. That's very
respected. But but but but Sean it was hard. We for Nick for a while there we didn't know what was
going to happen. We did it and and that's I mean St. Patty's Day uh 2020. Oh geez. Three three
there's three people in the bar. The amount of booze that we had in there. I mean what to do with
all the extra green beer. Well that was okay. I mean there was so much going on. That's what I'm
mostly concerned about and and to be honest it was it was one of those situations where San said like
you know we're not a big corporate entity and yet we're seeing all this funding just disappeared.
Yeah we're not Ruth Ruth Chris Steakhouse that got eight million dollars. I'm getting crazy right.
Yeah. Unfair. Some of that selective funding was just I'm going to be like so unfair. There's two
caveats here. There's there's failure and then there's you know pushing on and failure because
we had nothing else to do. A lot of people gave up because we thought there was nothing else.
We fought and the fact was like I had I had friends in the industry would became the chilies
Applebee's asking. I mean nothing against that staff. They're going to be okay. But nothing but
straight up against those corporations calling me up saying I don't know how to run a bar that's
three four deep around the bar top and I'm like why are you going to be open but I can't be open.
Totally unfair and it was they picked they got to pick and choose who succeeds and who fails.
And then of course half the country wanted us to be closed anyway. Right. Right. And there's that.
We pushed we pushed till the very end and we said you know what we're going to do our best
and we had people telling us that we were I mean you want to talk about social media
the amount of people telling us how dare you open up how dare you even consider you're so stupid.
You're infecting infecting everyone. Yeah. How dare you. It's the blind leading the blind.
Guys how dare you lower your mask to talk to somebody at a table.
And now we look back and see how silly it was. That was the world we lived in. It was so silly
because it was like okay let's just let me give you an example according to the what we were
forced to do. Like all right. Like Sean I know you I've known you for years. So me and Stan walk in
we're in one party and you're in a different party. You can't come sit with me. You can't come say hi.
We're the pub. We're the we're like the cheers of McKinney and I can have people talk to each other
but but they might know each other but if they if they come in and say hey but they could at Kroger
but they could at Kroger. Well no no it's not Kroger it's Walmart. It's all these big
conglomerations that were everything could be closed but it's okay for you to go to Walmart.
Well you kind of lost me there Nick. I wouldn't want Sean sitting next to me.
So hey I have some good attributes. What do you mean there? There's a few. I would want I would
love a law to make him sit somewhere far away. He gave me COVID three times. Exactly. Exactly.
I have officially never had COVID all right. Really? But but but I can tell you guys um
we came out stronger than ever before. And with cleaner floors. Yes you have. And cleaner floors.
Yeah. So you started a new floor. That's that's what the process is. Just clean the floors.
But but but I'll can tell you but you know if you believe you're right about something
fight for what you stand for. Amen. But but but because Nick Jesus we had like um channel I mean
WFA out there like eight or nine times. Who? Who was up there? Channel 8. Channel 8. Oh got you.
Yeah and God bless them and you know. Stand organized as a fight. Fighting for you you're saying.
Well but they you know the media was very very fair to us. So so since ex-banker he he followed
the rules. He followed everything to the team. We absolutely followed the rules. Yes. No if they
told us it's like you know put the tables this far apart you know. No no no. We did everything right.
But no he followed them and there he's paying bills. He's paying rents. Never missed a bill.
Never missed a bill. And he's being told phone call on the phone hey your loan's coming your
loan's coming. Up until the press conference he is told about an hour before the press conference
that the money's gone that he's taken care of because he he did that. He did every single thing
that they asked him to. Lovely. And then we get this then we look at the news and it's like all
the money's gone. He's like I I did everything and we're sitting there like what else could we have
done. Yes. And it was at this moment that we organized the car rally. We realized it was rigged.
We ordered the car rally. And yeah and we didn't think anything about this car rally till we had
75 backed up and it was and people like you know you should have talked to your colleague. You know
sometimes you gotta be a little. That was huge by the way. The mayor wasn't happy. He wasn't. So Nick
tell us about the car rally. I don't know anything about this. Okay so so we we organized a car rally
said you know and we called it SOS save our square. Didn't expect anything from it. We expected maybe
20 30 car show dude. 75 everybody was backed up to Plano Parkway. It was backed up to 70. That is
lovely. Yeah. Awesome. Let me tell you what the next day the next morning Stan gets a call from
a bank that's like we want to support you all. We have new funding. We want to exclusively support
you guys. Because this was a time when all the PPP money was going to like oh yeah you know to like
Harvard University and yeah. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. Save our square car rally.
It lasted for two and a half hours. Cars were backed up to 75. Guys this is giving me chills.
That's awesome. How much did you guys fund? Were you guys able to reach like a hundred thousand?
We didn't. Sean I don't know. We didn't expect it. People news agencies banks and people are like
people got mad because they were like I mean making it there. We made some people look bad.
I'll be real with you. Like we were suffering here and no one seemed to care about the small town
businesses. No one gave a two shits about us. They still don't. They still don't. And to be honest it's like
I'll be like everyone wants to forget about the fact that there were there were corporate entities
who had the same address filed twice to get this money. People want to ignore the fact. Harvard got
like six million dollars. Ridiculous. People want to forget that 90% of those funds went to like eight
corporate entities. Yeah we're asking for 100k. All located in Saudi Arabia. Yeah and you know what?
We said screw it. What else can they do besides shut us down? And we did it. We're already shut
down. Yeah we're already shut down. And the community responded. The community. Yes they did.
Yeah. That's America. City Council didn't care much for it. But the next morning we got a phone call from a bank that was like we will support you and they got us the funds.
They kept us open. Beautiful. Yeah it was I mean. So you gotta fight. Yeah you have to fight. Fight, fight, fight, fight. God bless. And we were right. I know some of you said that. And we were right.
Yeah we were. We were right about everything. And you know it's. Remember you couldn't get a haircut then?
No. Oh and Pelosi was like. Oh yeah. Like my wife was getting our hair in the backyard. And say stuff.
Yeah. Good Lord. Yeah. Yeah. Meanwhile, meanwhile. Yeah like you said Pelosi was getting her own hair cut.
And all the people in power were. And Newsome. Oh yeah all those people were.
Yeah. Newsome was dining in a restaurant. The whole thing was real. It was real and it was a farce.
Yeah. I mean it's in the same breath. Because look COVID was real. It affected people in a very negative way.
But the spectrum in which it affected people was. The overreaction. Not saying that. I had it twice. Sicker than a dog.
I lost one of my best fraternity college buddies from it hit. And he was married and had kids. It was a real thing.
It was a real thing. It absolutely was. But shutting everything down. It's globally. That was not the answer.
That was not the answer. And then globally. And then giving them a unvetted vaccine wasn't the solution either.
Yeah. Well. You know I know that's a different spectrum. Well no no no. God bless RFK Jr. That's all I can say.
Amen. Amen. Amen. Yes. I'm on board with that. I'm looking forward to it. And I'm looking forward to the God blessed results of the debate tonight.
In fact I'm googling it right now. Who won? Who won? And you know what? What tells me I'm not seeing anything positive towards Trump.
Which tells me. That's good. Yes. So I don't know. You know if 40% thinks he wins tonight that's a victory.
So oh Lord you know what the weird thing is just that you know we're all wanting we're all wanting a better life.
And frankly I don't give a shit who's in office. I want somebody that's pretty simple right.
But I look pretty simple. The Democrats have a have some policies that I like. And yes I agree. And I think there are more policies I like on the on the on the right.
But it's just when it comes down to it I think the left has just gone too far left and it's just like God bless it.
They're being categorized in in a fascist communist way. Yeah. You know I don't know what socialist is probably the best.
What is D. I even mean I don't know. Diversity equity. Oh I know what it means. But I mean but that was the whole thing.
And when Trump went to that black journalist community and had the interview where that lady was scorned him and just said all the stuff that was fruitless.
And he turned her and she was just like you know diverse equity inclusion. And he was like well what does that mean.
She couldn't answer it then either. She was kind of like looked at him. She was kind of I just gave you what it meant and she kind of like shook that.
No you just said it. No I mean what exactly does it mean. And when she implied that Kamala Kamala Harris was a diverse equity D.I. hire. Yes.
She was a D.I. hire. What the hell. OK. She would have never been hired in that position. Time out. Biden was the presidential candidate.
And he said it. And they said who are you going to choose as your vice president. Black female. And he said I have to choose a black female.
I have to. I have to choose a black. Yes. Yeah. You know what. That is D.E.I. You know what. Joe Biden's been around forever and forever.
And I wouldn't mind having a beer with a guy because he's probably not a bad dude because he center left. Right. But he was never you know that he never did anything stupid except plagiarize in his 1988 run.
Who did you know. But who didn't back then because we didn't have you know. You know. So I was kind of like personally like Joe Biden. I really did.
I thought I saw it's like he's good Irish Catholic. You know he's like center left which is a little more of the left than I am.
But something happened to him and when he became president he got a little. Yeah. Well I think what happened is he the progressives.
He has strollers. He was he was I think he was too old at the time. He became a puppet and he became exactly exactly right. He became a puppet and they got a hold of him.
Yeah. Well that's what scares me. But I look at parties it's like they don't care who they're running because they're going to do what exactly what the machine tells them.
Yes. And that's my fear about Kamala. Yes. Right. I think that she is the perfect candidate for the deep state. Yes. To they're going to tell her what to do.
They will tell her what to do. Yes. And you know to her benefit she does agree with what they're going to tell her what to do.
Yes. She's on board with it. She's on board with it. Now Trump Trump on the other hand he's a he's a loose candidate.
Now the Republicans are just the opposite. We have a guy that's going to tell the party exactly what.
Yes. Yes. So he's not beholden to the deep state at all. So it is two totally different things. We have a machine that tells the Democrats what she's going to do.
And we have a guy on the Republican side that says no you're going to do this. Think about think about Trump for a second. Yeah. Does he need the money. No. No. Does he need the power.
He's got a lot of power. Yeah he does. He does. He's already been president. So he's already checked that box. Yeah. So what other motivation would he have.
I mean why would he put his family and himself and his marriage getting shot and getting shot at. Why else would he put himself through this if it wasn't for his the love of the passion the compassion love and everything that he is.
So the flip side of that is that there's a lot of people like well you know the only reason he wants to be president again is because he's an absolute 100 percent narcissist.
I think we agree with that. I think he is. He totally is. I do think his ego plays into this. He totally is. Yes of course it does. I should be president kind of a thing.
Yeah. But you know what I think that goes with the territory of his. He's already checked that box. He's been president. He doesn't have to run again. But he lost. He's got like king.
King syndrome going on. I don't want to look I support 100 percent is all of his policies and everyone should. And the only thing I don't support is just his his personality goes about it.
Yeah. I mean we don't you don't need it. We don't need it to all the mockery. A 12 year old bull. Yeah. Yep. Yep. But you know what. If you look past that there are bullies throughout our presidential history period.
So but I do think he has our country's best interests. I agree. I agree with that. And I think he's gotten way better now. Now does she. Maybe 50. She might as well. But I don't agree with you. But I don't agree with anything she stands for.
I mean well the thing with Kamala Harris is we don't know what she stands for. She is your thought. Isn't it amazing how she's already adopting a lot of his policies including the wall commercial. That's what he says. Blows me away. He said that clip. He's like yeah. I was going to give her a maga hat.
The thing with Kamala is she's failed up. She got zero. There you go. Well wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait walk us through that. I've in regards to really Brown. I would say don't look up. So for you buddy. Edit that one. Yeah. She's failed up.
She got zero votes when she ran for president last time. Not a single delegate. She got zero vote votes this time in this prime. I called Joe Biden a racist. Yes. Oh yeah. So she has basically done nothing. Nothing to get where she's at. Now San Francisco liberal. Hold on. She's she's done something.
Well she was a lot. I know she did a lot. Maybe it's the hair. Not the Lewinsky missiles but maybe it's the Harris missiles. Hey guys. There's a lot to juggle. Hey Nick. Right. I want to get in so much trouble for this. I'm going to lose it. No Sean. I'm going to lose it like three customers. OK. I want to give the floor to Nick. He's been very quiet in the corner. Wait. Where do you stand. He's a goddamn muppet over.
Nick is a solid RFK junior guy. OK. Let me hear it. Let me hear it. Talk to the mic. I am a RFK junior fan. I'll be honest with him. Yeah I am too. Why. Tell me why. I am too. Well because both parties spent a quarter of their presidential budget to make sure he doesn't debate with them. Amen. Amen. Amen. Hey that tells you all you need to know right there. I'm not saying I don't agree with RFK but I'm saying that both like what we don't understand.
We can do 70 push ups. You can't. But what we don't realize as a country is how both parties don't want a third party. Factorally in the sense of if Donald Trump carries 49.9 percent or 50. He's good for 46. Yes. OK. That's just OK. 49.9 percent of Texas goes to Trump. Yes. That means you have two other. If you had three parties here you had 26 percent and 24 percent.
That's 24.1. That'd be 100 percent which means you would have to go to a runoff which means the middle guy would have to go up against the second guy. The first guy. Yeah. Correct. Yeah. And our girl or girl or girl. Nick. And that can change everything. The fact that matter is is we have two parties. I know I cut them off. I know. I know. I was going to make them say we need a third party. I'm just saying you know what's the harm of it. But but you know Sean you know
Sean you might disagree with me or no no no I agree with you 100 percent. I was going to say something. Here's a feminist. Here's a trainee. I was going to say something silly. No no no Sean. What we need is not what I was going to say. No Sean. Here's what I think. I think we need a moderate party that is full of center left and center right people. Yes. Yeah. Nick I guess those are the people that get it. I wasn't mocking you. So if you go back into history we had the wigs. Oh I love the wigs. Henry Clay. Let's talk about Henry Clay. Oh man. Two.
I haven't heard that name. W.I.G. I love the wigs. You know why. Because they were for government when it worked. Yes. Yeah. And they were against it. It was it didn't work. It was the true sense of what the whole spirit of why America came about. Time out. You know time out.
Somebody wigs were a perfect party. Somebody type. Give us a background of the wigs. Jeff I'm going to lean on you. Mr. Producer put it back up there. Yeah. I again I know what are the wigs. Wigs was a third Jeff. Could you be a little more like James Earl Jones. The wigs had presidents though they did have some presidents. They did have some presidents. Yes. I was a wig. Deeper deeper deeper. Now what they stood for. I don't remember. Really Nick. I think he's a wreck. OK. The wigs.
The wigs party was the mid 19th century political party in the United States alongside the Democratic Party was one of the two major parties between the 1830s and the 1850s and part of the second party system. 1850s. And they believe for the Civil War. OK. They believe in the strong federal government when there wasn't really a federal government. So guys I'm not against a federal government. We need a government. We do. But but but they also understood but but they supported public works infrastructure the Erie Canal. You know.
All the all the kind of stuff. So I mean bring back the wigs. That's what we need. What says here it says the wigs were was derived from the English anti-monarchist party. Yeah. And was an attempt to portray Jackson as King. Yeah they didn't. They didn't like Andrew Jackson. Fuck Andrew Jackson. Yeah I don't like Andrew Jackson. Yeah. Says while Jacksonian Democrats painted wigs as the party of aristocracy they managed to win support from the diverse. You know what's amazing.
Is even back then I believe you know those political unrest. Yes absolutely. I wouldn't expect that. I'm thinking everything's like hunky gory. It was ugly. Oh it was way as just as ugly back then. Way ugly. Oh it was really ugly back then because then you can like make somebody disappear very easy. They were savage back then. They were.
Andrew Jackson was kind of a savage. He I mean if you've seen the Trail of Tears and kind of stuff he did. Oh yeah. She's read his journals. You want to like get pissed off. Read it in Jackson's journals. And we have it on the 20. Hold on. Say that again. Nick read Andrew Jackson's journals. They're terrible. That'll piss you off. You will be like how disturbed. Yeah. I mean all right. Walk us through that. I have not read this. OK. It's it's it's bad. Yeah. OK. Looking up right. The Trail of Tears. It's the Andrew Jackson.
Andrew Jackson journals. He talks about war like war prizes and stuff like in reference to like hey. But he was a populace and a nationalist. He was. Yeah. Well you know what. OK. He was. That's something interesting. OK. So there's a whole series. OK. It says a summary list in the series of Andrew Jackson. We're getting deeper guys. Yes.
Every now and then. We don't mind it man. The dudes like us want to know what's going on. If you're going to say shit back it up. Yes. This is fascinating history. So we got series. We got several series of books and journals that he's written here. We're all the way down on eight right now. This is fascinating history. We should know this stuff. He was not a good dude. He wasn't. No. No he just wasn't. Yeah. You know tell my dude. Tuck in the mic there. Come on. Why. What's wrong with Andrew Jackson.
I'm just straight up. OK. The Trail of Tears were. Yes. You know what that is. The Cherokee Nation in Georgia. I mean like they the treaties and everything like you're supposed to stay here. And he marches them all the way to I don't know Nick. Was it Kansas or Oklahoma. And even the Supreme Court says you can't do this Mr. President. And he goes yes I can. He did it anyway. And executive order. And I think forced us to like 80 thousand and like 80 percent died of the on the way. It was just.
Because he wanted to free up Georgia. And then he told his generals like hey man have fun with Indians. So this was essentially what they are. And hell this is not. But what. But we're. Well I wouldn't say that but what we're. But they they were euthanizing them. But where Jackson made his history was he beat the British at the war at the Battle of New Orleans. You know. And he was like the everybody's man. You know it was. Who's exact. Johnny Horton. Johnny. Yeah. Johnny Horton.
O'лично. You're gonna go with that. unfortunate. He was strikes more modern than classic. It seemed more modern. Georgeygen it seemed blossomy with all those Frauen
in w Dá means ge Office tyranny själv in bisschen wood.
Off to Johnny Horton's greatest hits album.
This is a banger.
Whee!
Guns and the British keep a-comin'.
There wasn't as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began a-runnin' down to Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
You guys want to hear something crazy?
My father sang this to me in the bathtub when I was a baby.
Exactly.
I know.
I remember this song.
I shit you not.
This is how I know this song.
Sean, I had this on a 45 RPM.
Remember those?
No, you don't remember those.
I'm like 54.
How old are you?
Stan?
Producer.
I don't tell my age.
You're like 56.
I think 56 or 57, right?
Played North to Alaska.
Hold on.
No, no, no.
Sing to Alaska.
Sing to Bismarck.
Me and Nick love Johnny Horton.
That is insane.
That is literally what my father sang to us.
This one's a little... Yeah, yeah.
Is he fully dressed?
Turn this up.
Turn up.
Really?
Fully dressed.
Here we go.
North to Alaska.
I'm going north to Russia song.
Good lord, Nick.
North to Alaska.
What is happening right now to you?
This is a great song.
We need to put the blues up.
Can you grab this bottle over here?
Okay, we've got to hear this.
Okay, you know, he died in a plane crash.
Oh, really?
Yeah, back when they all did.
I didn't know that.
Was he with Buddy Holly?
Was he with the Bopper?
I didn't know that.
No, I think the Big Hopper in...
Frankie Valli, right?
Yeah, he didn't die.
I don't think he died with Buddy Holly, no.
Was it with the blues singer?
No, he was strictly country.
Who was the guy that died in the helicopter accident?
Rain, you know?
Sugar Rain, no?
No, no, the best artist who died in the plane crash was John Denver.
Oh, yes, he's experimental crap.
Yeah, leaving on a jet plane.
Shut up, Stan.
And do you remember the sad story about how that happened?
He was in an experimental plane.
He was really big into that.
Yes, I remember.
And he ran out of gas because the way they had it designed is that he was supposed to
switch, like lean back and switch to the reserve tank.
And he couldn't.
Are you talking about John Denver?
It was behind him to the left.
It was in a stupid spot.
And he didn't know that it was there or that he couldn't reach it.
Nick is a huge John Denver fan.
I love John Denver.
I'm not because I'm older than Nick and I grew up during when country like wasn't country.
Remember that, Sean?
Take me home.
Country road.
Okay, that's a good one.
And Graham, Graham watch for their bed is a good one too.
Yes.
If it's not six feet wide, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft.
And I cannot believe you just brought that up.
That is a not well known whole day kids for hound dogs and they took me off on the show.
The bed.
Get my sleep.
We had a lot for the grandmas for the bed.
No, dude, we are officially off the fucking rails.
Okay, we are all the train wreck.
We're going to take this as an opportunity to segue into our whiskey of the night for the second half of September 10th.
We got the tuck in Kentucky born and raised our D1.
So if you have not sampled this before, I recommend it from this perspective that these guys have Jeff, the they put it in.
It's not a mountain high, they put it in a rock and I agree 100 percent.
Jeff, what kind of barrels do they put this in Brazilian and Barana would so that that is what makes this unique taste because there's a lot of like I'll say like like iron roof, for example, there.
Thank God.
I'm a country boy.
I really they are bounce of balls all on like like God bless it. Char one char two bottles. Yeah, you know, char three at some extremes, but that's for iron room.
But for these people, they don't give a shit.
They they they're like roasted their shit and put it in barrels and they slapped it out in a char to and it tastes like the same.
Have you tasted this one?
It's amazing.
Noah haven't.
All right.
So this one is so we sample.
We put we put a little bit in your glass.
It's in your glass.
Have a taste.
So what is interesting about this is that if I shit you not, it tastes cinnamon crunch cereal.
Yes, cinnamon.
Honestly, it does.
Yeah, it does.
I mean, what the hell is that all from?
And it has to do with the char to the wood as well.
Well, the wood, the wood, wood, wood.
It's the other on.
I think we need a little bit more information on that.
What that is that a species of water or subcategory of oak?
It's a ember on.
I think it's from Ecuador.
I clip.
So I think yours.
So the podcast we've lost first time listeners lost.
We are on the second half of the podcast.
And this happens a lot.
Usually it's with Paul, but you know, so everybody has their trigger and then Stan brought up
John Denver.
And that's no, no, no, no.
With Nick, it's Johnny Horton.
Johnny Horton.
Oh, Johnny Horton.
Yeah.
Now we know what we're going to laser you for your birthday.
There we go.
Johnny Horton's greatest hits.
Tony Horton's credit.
You fill up my sense.
That's a great song.
What do you guys have a song?
So this is a, this is a hundred and ten proof.
So it does come in hot.
And look, we met these guys at the world of whiskey's event and the, we've got the whole
crew.
And in fact, we got to get these guys on the podcast.
They desperately wanted us.
They heard us listen.
Oh shit.
It's like taking my spot.
Right.
That's the rest of mine.
And they used to, they used to that rest.
Martin used to do that.
Yes.
Oh my God.
You listen to Russ Martin.
I love the Russ Martin show.
He's dead.
Thank you.
For that.
I have to be everybody.
We've been talking about times.
Yeah.
Yes it is.
Andrew Jackson, generally Johnny Horton.
So this is a dick.
I'm assuming it's okay.
John Denver's amazing.
John.
We need to trample through this real quick.
So the Brazilian Amber on a wood, uh, we're going to have to start grading right now.
We're so we're going to start with Nick.
We're going to go on the table.
Okay.
I'm a skitter.
One, two, skid me.
Skip me.
Hold on.
What is the proof?
What's I'll start with me then William with an one talk for a second, I gotta taste it.
One 10.
It's one 10.
It doesn't taste like one 10 at all.
Shit just smells like raisins actually raised.
Excellent.
That's actually an excellent description.
It's actually really nice.
It has a very solid raisin taste.
I will rate this if you put the raisins on the screen.
Raisins.
The positions, the band.
No, put the spinners on the screen
while we're talking about raisins.
That's it.
California raisins?
No, no, these guys.
What is happening?
Yes, the California raisins.
I'm so confused.
I will rate this whiskey.
Oh my god.
Bom bom bom bom.
The California raisins.
The grapevine.
I heard you through the grapevine.
That one right there.
How much longer won't you be mine?
Here we go.
Come on, guys.
Oh, good boys.
This is a thing.
I've been doing it on the radio.
You did it.
Oh, this is.
I love you guys.
Did it.
I bet you're wondering how I knew.
Oh my god.
Claymation.
Claymation in its finest.
I give this a 9.5 because of the video.
The claymation.
Raisin advertising.
I remember that.
RD1 products.
I remember.
This is good stuff, man.
I forgot about the raisins.
Grapevine.
I love it's love, you're too many, man.
I don't ever heard it through the grapevine.
What the hell is that?
I'll tell you what.
So you said what?
Nick?
9.5.
That is off the charts.
Yeah, we're going with 9.5.
That's the highest rating we've ever had for any bourbon
on this podcast.
Is it qualifies bourbon?
I thought it was whiskey.
I don't know.
Grab it.
What's it say?
Stan, what do you got?
I give it a seven.
Oh.
Yeah, I'm with Stan.
I give it a seven.
I give it a seven, too.
It's a little heavy, a little burny.
Red card.
It's just a thick object.
Red card from Nick.
Little thick.
No, it's good, but not for your third one,
maybe for your first one.
It's not an everyday drink.
You know what?
You bring up a good point.
Like TX whiskey is like what?
90 proof.
It almost is in the category of it is absolutely not dessert.
No, but it does have that ring.
Because I think TX is like too sweet, too vanilla.
And I'm from Fort Worth.
And of course, I'd love everything from Fort Worth.
But this is a little maybe 5 and 1 half, six, seven tops.
Yeah, I'm around the six on this.
It's very different.
Yeah, I'm around the six on this.
I don't like this as much as I did the first time.
I agree.
It's unique.
It's different.
It should be in a category all by itself.
I don't think it's fair, honestly, to even include
this.
It's heavy.
Yeah.
I think that has to do with the wood.
I'm going with a 9-9.
Get out of here.
That's right.
That's what I'm talking about, baby.
You know what?
Dude, seriously, the only reason you're doing that
is because you bought it.
We know what's going on.
Yeah, that was not a group buy, by the way.
I ponied up all of it on this one.
All of it.
Look at me.
I'm not getting refunded.
Sean, don't get me wrong.
I'll drink it.
This is how I get back.
We're going to drink the hell out of it.
This is how I get back.
But look, it's not about whether you buy it or not.
I think, honestly, you need to have this in your collection.
Because it's about diversity.
Yeah.
So it is a period of civil war.
It's about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
You are not going to read the words.
Everybody knows what's happening.
From a hidden base.
Stop it immediately.
They've won their first victory against the evil Galacta
Empire.
Oh, good Lord.
Nick is challenged here.
During the battle, the rebel spies
managed to steal secret plans.
Why are you reading this?
Everybody knows what it says.
No, read it.
Read it.
It's from like 1977, Sean, right?
77.
The secret plans of the Empire's ultimate weapon, the Death Star.
An armored space station with enough power
to destroy an entire planet.
Pursued to the Empire's sinister images.
I don't have any of the backup sounds.
It's getting blurry.
Dude, dude, dude.
When John Williams dies, I'm going
to make an appearance here.
And we're going to play all John Williams.
There you go.
John.
Dude, he's got to be old now.
John Williams is still alive.
How old is John Williams?
Is he still alive?
Yes, he is.
All right.
Shit.
That's our out music.
This is our out music, Sean.
I love it.
Dude, Nick, you know what you just did?
You changed the out music.
John Williams is 92 years old.
Of dudes like us.
That's never happened.
Welcome to the podcast.
That was it, guys.
And Mozart would be 235 years old if he was alive today.
Yeah.
That would suck.
We're going to fact check that.
No, it wouldn't suck.
I would love.
I mean, just think how much.
I would never want to live that long.
I would.
But just think how much music he could have created.
Yeah, but he'd be like crotchety and his knees would hurt.
OK, hey.
No, no.
I'm thinking he could break dance.
I'm saying I've both done.
We actually went to Mozart's bloody studio.
We went to Salzburg.
Yes, we did.
Salzburg, Austria.
You can actually have a dinner and they'll play instruments.
And at the end of dinner, they'll
tell you, hey, these are his own instruments.
Beautiful show.
Yeah.
Beautiful.
Oh my gosh.
Thank you guys for coming out.
Stan and Nick from the downtown McKinney.
Had a great time, man.
Had a great time.
It was fun.
It was beautiful.
And I want to shout out to all the folks
that we did talk about.
Mozart, Johnny Horton.
God bless you.
John Depp.
You know.
Andrew Clay.
Kamala.
Andrew Clay.
Are we talking about Andrew Clay?
The asshole.
Andrew Dice Clay.
I don't think we talked about Andrew Dice Clay.
It was Henry Clay.
Oh, Henry Clay.
Henry Clay.
All right, look.
It's September 10th.
It's obviously the second half of the podcast.
We're off the rails.
So that's OK.
Because you know what?
Every now and then it's fun and it's warranted.
Dudes Like Us, we're very thankful for the guests
that we have tonight.
Mr. Producer, Austin, thank you for staying on top of shit
tonight.
Dudes Like Us, I'm Sean.
I am Paul.
I am Jeff.
I'm Stan.
And?
I am Darth Vader.
No, I'm Nick.
I'm Nick.
I'm your father.
God bless.
I am your father.
And Mike is your father.
Hey, Ruston P.J., Bill Jones.
You're awesome.
We miss you, bro.
Check us out on Instagram, dash dudes like us.
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All right, we're out.
Goodnight, guys.
Goodnight.