Oh yeah. It's been so long. It has been. I almost forgot my password. You don't have
the same password over and over? I do, but I just forgot it. I got several computers.
I need, you know, this is going to take a fingerprint. I think I might switch to the
fingerprint. Yeah. Did you see the, did I send you guys the video of the girl freaking out
that she has to log into everything? What the hell was that all about? I didn't understand
it. She was frustrated because she's got to log into this, log into that. Can't you just
remember it for a couple of times? Why do I got to do it every single time? Don't even
get me started on the checkbox save password. But was she pinning it on somebody? She was
blaming somebody. I think she was just blaming Elon Musk or something. Well, no, I don't
think that. I think she was just blaming the state of having to log into everything these
days that she was have anxiety about it. But the part, the part of it that frustrated her
was that when you sign in to almost anything, they've got a little checkbox. Hey, you want
me to remember you for next time? You check it. And then she was like, you know what?
Don't don't prompt that you're going to remember it if you're not going to remember it. Don't
fucking tease me. I see. Big teaser. Huh? So, uh, what a dick tease. It was. Yeah. So
this is the first half of the show. Believe it or not, Jeff used a bad word right off
the bat. Yeah, right off the bat. Richard. And we even made a pact. No more swearing
on the on the part. Shut the front door. We have a swear jar. We've failed or I did it.
We have a swear jar. It's it's in the essence of a infinity bottle. It's full. You swear
you have to deposit half ounce of your drink. Oh, that would stop the swearing. That's crazy.
All right. December 30th. Uh, New Year's Eve is tomorrow night. Uh, we're super excited.
2025 has come around the corner. Uh, January 20th can't come faster. Uh, I'm super excited.
I guess I'm Sean. I'm Paul and I have Jeff and first time tonight we got Chuckster the
Chuckster as our production manager back there. There you go. Working the wheels. Gentlemen.
All right. Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. So if we have any delays, it's his fault.
Yes. Chuck is a shirtless, but he's got these new rubberized tassels. Is he, is he, is he
helicoptering back there? I can hear it. So why not discuss dress code with him before
he came to me? I mean, you can see I'm the one that has to start my contract. He signed
the NDA. Wait till we get all the extra light to put in. Yeah. I mean, what's he going to
do with all the glitter? He could collect it on his forehead. I'm not cleaning it. All
right. Anyway, so we've got tons of fantastic topics to talk about. We got picked out some
fresh brand new, actually we got an old and new, uh, bourbon. We don't talk to me exactly
what it is yet. It'll be a, it'll be a surprise. I think we're going to go over some of the
Christmas gifts that we got. What was our favorites? Where's the worst? If you got any,
I don't know. Well, we had noticed we showed up at the podcast room and Jeff was displaying,
uh, from his future, uh, daughter-in-law brought him some Frisco, Texas, Jeff's bar dudes,
the guys, coasters, coasters, stack of them, stack. There's probably a hundred of them
in there at least. Yeah. When would we ever go through all of this? Well, you know, they're
really sharp, man. Yeah. That was a, that was a cool gift. There was a, there was insightful
got a nice little acrylic holder. Yeah. Yeah. Lid. Very cool. Just needs wheels. Wheels.
Everything is better with wheels is what you said. Well, I mean, if it's a piece of furniture,
yeah, you want to roll that thing around the table in case you need one, just roll it over.
No, no. All right. Let's walk through it. You want to start with, uh, what is your,
what was your favorite Christmas gift here? Jeff, what say you, uh, I got, it's going
to sound really strange, but I got a book of a thousand and one sausage recipes. Ooh,
is this for food or is this a gay bar? No, it's for, it's for food. And a new hobby of
mine is making, uh, uh, sausages and salamis and stuff like that. Cool. But I didn't, I
didn't realize there would be that many, uh, recipes. Oh yeah. It's like bubble gum shrimp
and it's like, you can make a pasta people, the bubble gum. You know, you can do it on
and on and on. Well, what did you peruse it and what jumped out at you? Uh, I w I've just
started reading it and the science behind, uh, making like cured meats and fermented
meats and stuff like that. There's a lot that goes into it that it's an art. It is. And
you have to be careful because you'll kill people. Right. So don't, well, you guys, I'm
gonna let you try it first. I was gonna say when you're handing out, Hey guys, you gotta
try my sausage. Yeah. I want to try. I've made, I've made, I've made some German bratwurst.
I've, I just made some of those. I've made some other brats. I've made some breakfast
sausage, some Italian sausage. Did you really, you did, you did this already? Oh yeah. I
did it. Um, I did it, uh, just a couple of days ago, uh, eight pounds of German bratwurst.
Did you slice it all up and put it on your hoochie coochie board? No, it's all froze.
Well, no, it needs to be grilled up. Oh, no, it's all raw. It's all vacuum packed and
frozen. Well, that sounds like a, uh, a dudes like us, uh, get together. Yeah. Just to sample
all of your, uh, sausage. Uh, well I only have brats right now, but, um, there's, like
I said, a thousand and one, some I won't make, but, uh, just because they don't sound good
to me, right? Some pretty exotic ones out there. Uh, but they're from all over the world.
So it's, it's very good. They got some implements to help me do it as well. What does that mean?
Implement, uh, with tools? Yeah. Tools because I have, uh, stuff it in the little. Yeah.
I already have a big five, the condom. I have a five pound, uh, of a five pound sausage stuffer.
Uh, but what has the horns, different size horns on the front that, uh, you put your casings
on and then it fills the casings. Well, those casings are a pain in the ass to clean out
because they get full of beat. Yes. And you're trying to shit, shove stuff in there to try
to push the meat out so you can clean it. Uh, well they make little cleaners that'll
push all that meat out so you can get them clean much easier than what I've been dealing
with. Like an enema style cleaner. Uh, no, it's not enema, but, uh, it's like your, uh,
uh, like a little push or I'm gonna tell you what to call it. You just push it out. A butt
plug to self like a rectum brush. Well, brush brushes do come with it. So yeah, I guess
you could stick those up your ass if you really wanted to. Yeah. Be so vulgar about it. Sometimes
the butts, just an analogy. Right. Right. So you got the other, and you, yeah, we, you
sent us a picture and you had, you had at least one flavor rocking. Right. Yeah. It
was just the German bratwurst. Yeah. And, uh, I've made that one before. Is that the ones
we sampled? Yeah. So I was good too, man. It was really good. I couldn't wait. Got home,
uh, uh, immediately stuck in the fridge. I was like, that's what I mean tomorrow for
lunch. Well, we had some leftover. I didn't, I didn't wash enough casing. So I had about
a pound, maybe a pound and a half of, uh, just ground bratwurst. So I made, we had brat
patties, which actually are delicious. I bet. I would know I'd never had. So I've got some
downstairs. I could never offered. I can, I can give you some if you want, you can have
it tomorrow for lunch. Ooh. Just make it into like a hamburger patty, grill it up, put it
on a sandwich. Is it healthy? That's it's a hundred percent pork and all the spices.
I made the spices myself. There was absolutely nothing fake in it, but there's obviously
you have to add fat to make it all. No, I didn't add anything to it. Really? Pork butt
has the correct percentage of fat to make a good sausage. Ah, and burger. That doesn't
make burger. That's a brisket. Oh, it's a patty. Oh yes. A broad patty. That's what
I meant. Yes. Yeah. Like a, like a, yeah. Is it fall apart like a sloppy Joe or does
it retain its? No, it's solid because you have to, you have to emulsify, not emulsify,
but you have to get the proteins come out to make it real sticky. Do you ever get those
tubes of sausage, like Italian sausage, and it's real sticky and shit like that. Uh, when
you're trying to like form it, the patties or anything like that. Not lately. No. Oh,
well you have to do that. Uh, so it retains its shape. Right. Most dudes, I guys just
fucking buy the store. All of this is a completely foreign concept. Yeah. I enjoy it. Julie helps
me out. Uh, it's a lot of fun. And again, it's, hey Julie, want to help me out with
my sausage? I know what's in it. Right. And you guys are all slimed up and we're nude.
Yeah. It's just some saying, you know, turn it into a ghost moment. Yes. That me more
and Pat. What's his name? I've got broth sauce everywhere. Let's do the diet. Brats. What?
Uh, I was Demi Moore ghost. The movie. Oh, Patrick Swayze. Oh, you're, you're, they're
pottering together. Oh yeah. I heard Julia, he and Julia are in there. We just have a
big mound of meat. Oh yeah. They're shoving it into the sausage. This is the first time
that, uh, this is the first time I use real casings in the past. I've used college. I
was diligent, but this time I bought a actual hog casing. So Julie was kind of gross. It's
so foul. Well, it's intestines, right? Oh, so I had to, I had to untangle these strands
of intestines and wash them out. Um, and uh, it actually, are they, is there still like
excrement residual in there? No, they, they, this company cleans them out beforehand. They,
they tell you to rinse them out because they pack them in salt. Oh, I see. So you have
to rinse all the salt out. So I rinsed water through it probably three or four times anyway,
but they're clean. It was like a garden hose. Yeah. I did it in the sink. So yeah. I mean,
is it when it's, when it's, you run a water through it, is it like, I mean, like three
foot long, four foot long. Yeah. It's about three feet long. Maybe it looks like a balloon
as the water runs through it. Fascinating. Yeah. I want to, I would love to kind of see
it at work in one of these days. Yeah. Well these look more brought like than the college.
There's nothing wrong with college in either. Uh, but it just looks a little more authentic,
I guess. Well, maybe we'll have a dudes like us podcast moment where we do a live stream
and uh, we, we, and watch Jeff make sausage. Play with your meat and sausages. And then
Sean and I have staff stand off in the corner drinking bourbon. Okay. I like where this
is going. Okay. Oh God. So that was your gift. Well, that was one of them. That was one of
them. Yeah. So then some gifts to go along with that, uh, uh, to help with the sausage
making. Very nice. Very nice. And what about you, Sean? What was your favorite gift? I
got an extra large sleeping bag, big enough for two full grown men. Ooh, interesting.
Yeah. I make sausage and you have this got awkward to man sleeping bag. And are you looking
for a guest? He's making his, he's making his own man sausage. And there's what he is.
Uh, I don't really, I didn't really get, I'm trying to think what did I get? I mean, oh,
you didn't get a, I got some clothes. I didn't get anything extravagant. My wife and I kind
of like, I mean, I gave her cash, but you know, she, you know what? That's kind of,
look, my hands are tied every year. I buy her, I buy her something nice, right? You
know, in the last year I bought her like some diamond earrings and you know, they were,
they were great. She loved them. And then she turns around and says, I'd rather you
just take that money and maybe redo our bathroom or something. I was like, I'm thinking, okay,
I buy you diamonds. It's 1500, whatever it was. I don't even know compared to a $4,500
bathroom that I'm about the top. I mean, see she's not stupid. Yeah. She knows what's going
on. She wants a new bathroom. So whatever. So this year I was like scratch the diamonds,
check scratch this check, but you know what? Whatever. It was, uh, it was kind of a weird
year for buying gifts. I mean, I gave my kids cash, which we did the same thing. I mean,
it's getting harder and harder. And I think we're going to really move to that because
you know, we get the boys a few things. You know, I got Brandon, uh, Laura, the ring book,
uh, and a couple of little knickknacks, but clothes. Um, yeah, they always get clothes,
hoodies, but they didn't get nearly as much as they used to. Right. But I bought myself
something this year. Oh, did you get your bike? Um, you know what? That's, I did not.
So for those dudes, us like us listeners out there, I'm interested in buying a, uh, a trike,
a battery powered, a bicycle. And you know, I get it. You guys are laughing. What a fabulous
person. No one's laughing. That's a fantastic gift. The gift that keeps giving. Oh Lord
have mercy. So anyways, that's kind of, that it is, I've got all kinds of advertisements
I'm going through and I'm saving, I'm collecting them. I'm trying to come up with a different,
um, you know, the amperage, you know, how much, you know, how far do they go? How fast
they go? How much I've even considered getting one. Cause there's one that's got a little
basket in the back or you could put a seat in the back. So someone that you can flip
them out. So it could be a basket or it could be a tear. It could go for a ride. I'm just
saying somebody can fit in the back. Does it have one of those orange little flags on
the back that kind of wobble back and forth? What are the laws around that? Do you need?
Well, I mean, based on our research, uh, we did while driving or whatever we did, we were
cause I was kind of like, ah, you don't need to, you know, follow right. Is it road? Is
it road worthy or? Oh yeah. They're definitely worthy, but they have to be, I don't know,
licensed or something like that. Or I forget what it does. We looked it up, whatever the
question was. So it's not a sidewalk thing. I mean, they can be, I don't know. I mean,
yes, it is a sidewalk thing. Yes. Oh, it is. Okay. Cause you can go down, uh, you can go
down parks, uh, sidewalks with it. It's not, you know, I don't see why you would, but could
you hop on a Roller and go to Kroger? Uh, well, these things go 20, 20 miles up 20 to
30 miles, depending on how fat you are. Well, the speed limit would go five. Well, the speed
limit is 40. Right. Right. So the speed limit is 40. You probably want to be on a sidewalk.
Yeah. I would trust drivers here. I'm not getting on crazy drivers out there. The new
drivers all around here. Yeah. I'm actually, I'm actually looking forward to it whenever
I pull the trigger on it. But I'll tell you what, what I did buy for myself was, uh, I
got an iPad and I technically got it for work. Um, but it's something different cause I've
had an Android forever. I've never had an Apple product. That was the same way. So,
you know, so I've, I've got a, I got an iPad. It's kind of cool. My son Preston called me
through FaceTime, which was like, I was like, Oh, this is cool, man. That's why I got that
because, because my kids were at school and they were like, we want to FaceTime you. So
I ended up getting one. So, I mean, outside of that, uh, you know, I, I, I went to, I
bought some new clothes for, look, man, I didn't really get, oh, you know what? My kids
got me. Uh, I thought it was pretty cool. They bought, uh, the time magazine of the
person of the year, like blister size or just Donald Trump, no, the magazine, but they took
the magazine and they framed it. Oh, very nice. So they technically have two, uh, two
of, uh, I guess he was person of the year and two different magazines. Is that right?
I don't know. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. That was a little art project. It was,
it was cool. I opened it up. I was like, this is really neat. I was, I was, I don't know
where I'm going to put it, but it'll have to go in my office. It won't go anywhere.
I'll just put it over the mantle. Blow it up. I need authority to do that. They don't
even let me, there we go. There's the tri-holler cargo fat tire, E-trike fully assembled. 2199
blue like that. You know, electric blue is kind of a fast color. I'm more of a look at
that basket in the front basket in the back, dude, that's Hardy looking. Yeah. All right.
We're looking at different trike options for, uh, so can these things be hacked where you
can all of a sudden go 50 miles an hour? I, you know, I don't know if they have governors
on them. I really don't. Um, why would they? I don't think it'd be safe. I mean, I wouldn't
want to do that. I mean, I'm not really, I don't really, I'm not really interested in
going, uh, fast on it. I mean, I'm not hitting the highway with it. Really Sean on the it's
way burn. I mean, cheeks are flapping. We're looking at going to your house, you know,
right? Quarter of a mile, you know, Paul's house, three quarters of a mile or maybe a
mile. I don't know. Yeah. You know, or, or maybe get my hair cut and take the back way
and not take a road later. Yeah. And I could, you know, in the, whatever, I mean the idea
is I could run up to Kroger, which is, you know, two miles, right? You know, so it's,
it's not, it must be kind of fun, you know, and I don't know. Can you go to total wine
yet? I don't know if I'd want to go that far, you know, have like 20 samples and come back
intoxicated on that. I don't know what the laws are. Well, it's driving anything, anything
you can get a DUI except a horse. Is that true? That's true. All right. Interesting.
Cause the horses know what I do know on a right of mower, you get to why the lawnmower.
Absolutely. You can get a DWI on that. Yeah. You said that's not from personal experience,
but I do remember a story where, you know, some guys, the wife took the keys away and
he, he went, he went anyway. Yep. I'm going to the bar. Hell man. There was a, it was
a construction site and there were some, some guys that were working late and they got off
late and they were sitting out the parking lot. And, uh, I guess one was waiting for
his car or a friend to pick them up and they ran out of beer. So he takes a scissor lift
and goes down the street to the convenience store, picks up a 12 pack case, whatever it
is. And I think I heard this, the cops pull them over and they're like, he takes a scissor
lift and he's like, he goes up like 20 feet in the air. You're not getting me down here
right now. Was it stolen? No, I mean, it wasn't stolen. He was just, he just used it for a
beer. He just took it for a beer run. He'd feel like walking. Wow. That's funny. Yeah.
I don't know what, how that ended up. What is that? The it's unlikely that I remember
seeing the video for riding a horse while intoxicated Texas, because the state laws
define a motor vehicle as a device that transports people or property on a highway. Texas transportation
code defines a motor vehicle as a device that could transport people, uh, property on the
highway, stationary rails or tracks. So if you want to ride a more on a shoulder of a
country road, I mean, how would that qualify? This is a, uh, how accurate is that? Yeah.
But the problem is, is that, you know, you're not going to, a horse isn't going to run
rainlessly. You know? I mean, they, they, I mean, you, they, they're, I mean, they're
going to stop. They're a, if there's a wall there, they're going to stop. A drunk rider
won't cause a sober horse to, they don't, they don't, they don't swerve. Yeah. They
may fall off. What about a drunk horse with a sober rider? Uh, so anyways, the, the, the,
the gifts that I got, that's basically it. I got the iPad and I'm interested in kind
of diving into it. Really. I got it. I got it for work. I'm, and I'm not putting like
social media shit on there, you know, and I'm, I don't, I don't even want to put Netflix
or anything like that on there. I really don't. I really just want to like keep it for work
because I went to a, um, I went to a job site with our friend, Larry, a building consultant.
I won't tell you for which company works for, uh, but you know, we, we were out there and
he was using one and, uh, they were doing some diagram floor sketches and they were
able to navigate through the rooms and, and take measurements and, uh, take offs of the
stuff that they need to do. And it was, it was very organized and, uh, I was like, I
gotta have that. In addition to that, there are certain proprietary programs that our
company uses for estimating, um, uh, my job, that's me replacement stuff, you know, big
buildings, whatever, uh, they can become quite elaborate. And this particular iPad has a
LIDAR which is used for measuring depth. You know, it can basically measure a room and
stuff and it works hand in hand with some of the software we use, which I'm, I'm anxious
to learn.
I know I can, I know I could measure, uh, on my iPhone. I could set like a point right
there in the corner and I can draw the line over, set the other point. It'll tell me how
long that is.
Dude, that's cool.
Well, your phone will do it too.
Well, if it has LIDAR, I don't know how to do that, but.
Oh, my last phone did it as well. I don't know if it doesn't do depth. Like it's not
going to read the whole room. I actually have to, I have to have to put a point in the corner.
If I go, okay, how wide is that point? Point. It'll tell me it's 15 feet.
And Mr. Chuck, pull that up. See if, uh, iPhones, uh, all have LIDAR. Cause I think you're right.
I think most iPhones do have LIDAR. I think, uh, but not all, uh, iPads do like, uh, all
the pro iPads have LIDAR, but the Air do not have, uh, LIDAR.
Interesting. I have never heard of LIDAR. I obviously understand what that is, but I
have.
Light detection and ranging.
And ranging.
I think most have LIDAR.
iPhone 12 pro and later, including the five phone pro 12 pro max.
I got the 15 pro max.
I don't know how I could use it though.
So I'm kind of gathering how this went. I'm imagining you on site and Larry's walking
around and you're like going, Oh, I don't have that. I have a ruler. I can't do that.
Larry's scribbling down with a pencil and a slide ruler. He brought in a yardstick.
Oh yeah. Yardstick.
One of those folding yardsticks.
Yeah. And he's like, uh, Larry, can you help me with this?
Tape measure. I'm ha I got a little app pocket abacus. I have to pull out.
Larry, can you help me hold the tape measure?
He's like, yeah, I'm already done with all the measurements.
I can just see the envy. I can just see the envy that you were struggling with. You're
like, I'm buying that myself. My Christmas.
I actually, uh, email texted him, uh, today I was kind of like, Hey, can you send me a,
can you send me a sample sheet? Cause they've got very proprietary graph paper that they
use on the digital, uh, good notes. I think is that what it is? Uh, on the good notes
and they've got like graph paper. It's got their own logo and everything on there. I
was going to copy it, you know, I'll copy the concept of it. Cause it does look cool.
It is good for managing. Hey, I'll tell you what, anything that makes you do your job
better. I'm all, Oh, absolutely. Dressed for success. Yes. Absolutely. And frankly, you
don't know until you, you see something and then you got to gravitate to it. In fact,
I've already reached out to some of the, um, the, uh, upper, uh, smarter people than I
in our company to see if there is any, any training available to run some of these exact
to me programming. It's smart. Yeah. Anyways, that's, uh, that was kind of my, my gift I
gave to myself. It was really not much more. I kind of feel bad. Actually, I kind of feel
empty. I love giving my wife stuff. It was kind of a bum deal. Yeah. It was that she
was like, you know what you can do? Excuse me. She said, um, she has to do some, uh,
she has to have some back, uh, stuff. She has back issues. So she's going to be going
to a chiropractor. So I basically paid for a couple of months of her chiropractor. You
know what? It's, it's, it's lame. It's a layer. Happy. Does it make her happy? Yeah, I guess
so. Yeah, that's all it matters. Yeah. And if it's motivation for her to go because she's
not worried about how much it costs or you know what I mean? Whatever. It's like when
you buy massages for people, they'll never do it for themselves. But as soon as they
get a $300 gift card to go to get a massage, they're like, well, fuck it. I'll use it.
And then they feel great. You know, one of the things, uh, one of the, one of the things,
I don't know if you guys have heard about it. Uh, Steven went last night, uh, to the
world of Springs out in the colony. Have you guys heard of this? No, no, I have not. That's
called the world of spring. I think it's our springs of the world or a restaurant. It's
a, it's a spa place out there. I think it's out there in the grand scape area. Your son
is so Metro. Uh, uh, Randy, Randy bought the family a session. So they all went last night.
Oh, nice. Yeah. And I don't even mean, I don't mean your son. I mean, it's like my son's
the same way. They're like into, they're into stuff that we would never have done. Oh, I've,
I've looked at this. I was going to, I was going to do it for Julia. I just completely
forgot about it. He mentioned it last night. Is it basically an oversized pool? No, what
they are are there basically these different, uh, they go spa spa or I don't want to call
it a hot tub, but all the, all these different hot Springs around the world have different
mineral makeup. Uh, right. They replicate that in these. So you like, I want to go to a Russian
or whatever, uh, hot spring. How big is this place? I don't know. I haven't been, but it
looks nice. So they got saunas, they got cold plunges. Yep. They've got mineral baths or
whatever you do. They have a Taiwanese bath house. Ooh. I don't know. I mean, they have
massages and whatever that is hot yoga. They have the happy ending. Hey, Sean, anywhere
you are can end up being a happy. You know what they had, they had a video up there with
like eight people in a very small sauna. I don't know if I'd want to be in a sauna like
shoulder to shoulder with like eight people. Oh, I would almost getting all kinds of slimy
and rubbing each other. Oh, you almost threw your first, your, your own very own challenge.
Yeah. I was kind of really like, I can rub one out at any time. Is that what you're getting
that? Oh God. Okay. So there it is. There's the math there. I threw it. That's how big
it is. That's a yellow card. They rub one out. I need we hold on. I, are you looking
to justify this? But you said that you said, Jeff, we'll get to that in a second. I'm yellow
carding him. I missed. I don't know. I cannot vote on this. What you're saying is like rub
one out any time. Well, that's not what you insinuated. That's a yellow card. What did
he say to me? I don't know. I was trying to talk about this and you're talking about whacking
off every year. I wasn't saying that. He said, I've got the book open. Oh Lord. Walk me through
what exactly I write down. He said, Sean, you can have a happy ending anywhere you go.
Happy ending. Okay. Got it. I thin the book. All right. All right. Show us the overview
here. What do you, Oh, damn it's huge. We got the Dead Sea, got the European region,
the Asiatic region, the Americans region, and I'm still looking for the Taiwanese. Oh,
so it's world Springs. Correct. Okay. And it's in the colony. Yeah, it sure is. Can
you do, do you have to have a bracelet to get into each section or can you know, I think
you pay to get in and you just hop for one to one. So there's no, I think there are a
lot of people there. He said it was, he said there were people there, but it wasn't too
bad. I would not. I mean, we, Jeff, you and I have been ordered drinks from poolside server
or stopped by one of our mobile bars for a quick beverage. So, you know, a quick beverage,
so you can't drink it in the pool. I guess. Can we bring a flask? So it's delight. But
Jeff urban all into this. You and I went to the Frisco pool and you know, with the, that
pool was just nasty. Oh yeah. I mean, I'll just kind of shit floating in it. Yeah. I
mean, where was this? The Frisco, the aquatic center, you know, it's just, I mean, look,
the pool's not always dirty, but by the time we get there, we're running, doing our laps
and stuff, especially because we've got the goggles and the snorkel and we're doing laps
back and forth. We can see all the shit floating on the bottom. And this all of a sudden exponentially,
these beings were populating everywhere and diapers, kids in diapers. I was like, what
in the ever loving God is going on? This is on it. It's just like, I was like, I'm out,
you know, I can't, I can't handle all this. And it just, it stinks. You know, the, the
type of people there were making it stink. And I was just like, I'm out, I'm out. I'm
out. Yeah. Yeah. I have a problem. I have no problem swimming, but when they're, you
see all the babies in the pool, I'm like, even if you have those swimmers on, if that
baby has a blowout and they do, it's getting in the pool. That little Babe Ruth stickers
bar kind of plopping around. No, it's more like, you know, mud pudding. And then it gets,
oh yeah. And it just disperses. And then no one knows the mom and dad are just like, let's
go. Next thing you know, you have equalized. Let's go. Let's go. Next thing you know, you
have pink eye. Oh, you had pink eye. I did have pink eye. Yes. Did you have a blowout
in the pool? I think someone was taking turns farting on his pillow in Hawaii. It was. Can
you get pink eye from your own blowout? That's your own bacteria, right? I don't think so.
I think you're immune to your own. You should test that shit on your eyeball. No, in my
spa where you guys smeg and you smeg my, you, oh yeah, that was, yeah. You guys were dogging
my, my spa. Like you're dogging FAC pool. It's creamy. Creamy. Uh-oh. He's bringing
out something, a yellow card. I mean, look, I can't talk about rubbing one out and you're,
you're saying that you're going to poop in a pool. No, it's my, you're going to poop
in Jeff's eye. Jeff was going to poop in his own eye. No, that was you. It was an experiment.
Lord. Okay. Anyway, this went real soft. This is kind of car. Anyway, actually it was probably
fun for Steven. What's the, what's the cost on this thing? Probably not cheap. Cause I
looked at it. I looked at it maybe six, nine months ago, uh, because I was, I was one of
the do it and it just opened. I was like, I need to wait for it to calm down. Well, you
think the price is going to come down or, oh, you're just talking about how crowded
85, uh, for adult soak 45 minutes. No. Good Lord. Is that right? I guess that thins the
herd out. What's the early bird special 9am to 3pm for 60 bucks, 39 to 59 bucks under
18 soak 40 bucks. So night owl. That must have been what they did. Cause they didn't
start until six o'clock last night, six to nine. Well, he must've done that. So that's,
I would do that. That's not too bad. I guess. Does that come with 10 drinks? I don't think
anything's included in that. Yeah. That's too bad. Oh, there's memberships. I'm sure
by a hundred, get one free anal select. So three hours. So any day, any time with our
monthly unlimited access membership, 225 bucks a month. That's annual. Yep. Oh, you'll select.
Yeah. Three hours. So any day, any time with our monthly unlimited access member membership.
So three hours. So any day. So is that like one time or any, or you can, you can go in
there up to three hours every day, every day. So it sounds like to me for 225 bucks a month.
If you're, if you're really into that, it's kind of a no brainer to do that membership.
Oh yeah. No brainer. Yeah. I like to do the Dead Sea soak cause that's got all that salt
in it. So you've the higher the salinity that you float at the top, that salt holds
you up. Are you able to do this in our own tub? If you put a bunch of salt in your tub,
yes. Interesting. That'd be kind of tedious. Be lots of salt too. Then you have to dissolve
it. It's just swirling your tub for two hours and you got like three inches of salt at the
bottom. He's like, why is it I'm not floating? Nothing to solving. Yeah. That, that won't
go bad in a hurry. Yeah. Anyway, maybe, maybe in the springtime we look at it. I don't
know. Yeah. I'm not, um, I will say this. So I started reading this new book, uh, and
it had to, it really talked about diet, uh, and exercise. But one of the things that jumped
out at me is they had like a checklist of if you're healthy or not. And they'd asked,
do you do a cold plunge or do you put yourself in a hot situation? I guess like hot yoga
or like a sauna shower. And it says, that's like really important for our bodies to do
a cold plunge. That gets the circulation going. Yeah. And to do a sauna thing. It also supposed
to stimulate, uh, like brain development. Really? Yeah. It puts your body into some
sort of fight or flight mode or something like that. And you're, cause you're like grasping
for air and it's like super cold stuff. Those cold plunges is supposed to shock your body
into focus. Well, would you guys do the old polar bear thing where you're like on the
edge of a lake and they're having to break the ice and you're jumping in there? Is that
dangerous? Don't people get trapped under the ice and die? Yeah. But hopefully, well,
there's other ones as well where they're like on the, on the beaches of Lake Michigan,
when it's like zero degrees out there, I run in, they run back out. I have never done that.
Would I do it? It depends on how much alcohol is involved. I don't know. There you go. So
studies suggest that cold plunges may stimulate your immune system, potentially reducing the
risk of infections. Uh, cold plunges do lots of things. I'll tell you one thing that I
know and I don't even have to look at this as, uh, and this is something for those folks
out there that have panic attacks, uh, panic attack, cold shower. It'll, it'll reset you
in a hurry, huh? Yep. It'll changes everything. And it doesn't even have to be that cold.
I mean, my pool's probably what? 55 degrees. I don't, well, no, can't probably not that
cold, but it will be right. But as soon as we get a couple of weeks into this, you should
try it. You and Shelly just jump in there, just boom, hot right back out. I guarantee
is cold enough for it to do whatever you're saying needs to be done. I mean, look, all
you gotta do is get the hot tub rolling. Oh yeah. Get the hot tub rolling and hell you
and I've been out there in the cold with the hot tub rolling and we didn't even think about
jumping in the cold water. No, that didn't. But I may, we should, I think maybe I will
now see, well up until this point I was like, Oh, it's just a, you're being stupid. Yeah.
You're being silly and fun. Well, are you off the rest of the week? But if you're saying
it's like healthy for you, it also helps repair muscles like, like ice baths. Uh, that's why
you see all like the football players and basketball players, athletes, they sit in
the ice bath. I said it improves your blood circulation, your blood pressure. Yes. I'd
be in benefits for your skin health, cognitive function, sleep quality. I should have maybe
next time Julie runs a marathon, I was like for the hotel, I'm just going to go to get
a shit ton of ice, put it in the bathtub, fill it up and you're going to get in for
a minute. Interesting. That's free ice. They take 20 minutes to build up and all the other
tourists are like, there's no fucking eyes. What the fuck man? I have this big old garbage
bag full and they look at the video. This man took 449 trips to the ice machine. What
an asshole. And 20 pounds of ice. Right. A little tiny bucket. Right. I mean, even, even
if without ice, I mean, it's great to have the ice for some of those, those cold plunges,
but I mean, just really you could turn on the cold shower. Oh yeah. Cold shower does
the same thing. Oh yeah. Anything that's going to like just put your body into like any,
take your time. Your, your, yeah. Anytime your breath is taken away is based on what
Dr. O'Neill says. Anytime your breath is taken away like that, it sets, reset your system
almost. She, well the problem here in, at least in my house, I don't know if you guys
experienced in the summertime, I don't have cold water. Hmm. My pipes run through the
roof to come down and when it's 105 out and it's 200 degrees in the attic, the coldest
you can get it is like lukewarm. Oh yeah. I'm like barely have to turn the hot water
on at all during the summertime. Oh, I, you know what? I never really take cold showers,
so I wouldn't know if mines like that or not. Well, I don't want a hot shower in the summer,
so I'll keep, I just keep turning it. I was like, all right, that's where it needs to
be. Interesting. But yeah, I don't have to turn really much hot water all on at the summertime.
Interesting. All right. Can I take a little bit of a hard left to go over some current
events? Well, I mean, we were talking about the cold plunges and stuff like that and the,
the Greenland has a bunch of cold plunging you can do there. Do they have any spas and
mineral? Well, they've got underground rivers in Greenland. They got plenty of precious
minerals and speaking of underground river, there is a underground freshwater river that
goes underneath Hawaii. Really? Under the water and it's fresh water. It's fresh water
and it comes up and it goes under the water and under the ground, under the ground. I
don't know if it's, I don't know how far down it goes, but it's way down deep and it goes
out into the ocean and it comes up and they capture the water. The winery that we go to,
or maybe it was the one of the, the winery, the distillery, it was a distillery. The oceans
organic captures that water to use for their vodka. Before it's mixed with ocean water.
Correct. Yeah. They've, they've capped it somehow. That's fascinating. Yeah. Yeah. So
yeah, there's, there's some kind of deep sea, freshwater river that empties. So they discovered
this is not, it's actually kind of based on this, this article I'm reading right here.
It says they discovered it in like 2020. Oh, I don't know, but I was, I didn't know. I'm
sorry. I misspoke. It says, uh, the last 30 years. So I mean, okay. So I mean, Hawaii,
obviously those are volcanic. They're created by a soft spot in the crust to make volcanic
islands. Okay. Purely volcanic activity. But I mean, it's a full tropical ecosystem, right?
So it's got tons of rain, lots of rain, tons of freshwater dropping on it. So obviously that
stuff goes somewhere. Well, there we go. We've got a graphic on the screen here. Thank you,
Mr. producer. Uh, all right. So it's, so there are several underground rivers in Hawaii, including
the Hawaii, uh, a U W a Y. There's also the Makiki stream, the M a K I K I stream, uh, an irrigation
network of underground streams that once crisscrossed the Hawaiian landscape, the Awao'i would carry
water from one patch of land to another, eventually returned to the salt ponds and fish ponds.
Okay. Maybe I'll just correct. Well, keep in mind, this is, you were soaking all this up while
you're tasting those drunk. Oh dude. I mean the, the amount of those Mabu, Mabu, Bobby freaking
drinks you were having every two seconds, you were popping a new picture of an umbrella pineapple
drink. And we're like, Hey, make sure you send pics of Hawaii. Dude, it's four in the morning.
What the fuck is wrong with you? It was, I counted 1182 drink. I had lots of my ties. Yeah. So that
was my goal. I was, I was going to drink a bunch of my ties cause it's basically fruit juice and
booze. Yeah. And, uh, I did. So I would just say that any like savvy knowledge you gained on this trip
is probably needs to be fact checked. Yeah. Well, I was correct about the underground river, right?
I didn't know how far away it was. So anyway, I thought that was fascinating. Yeah, that is fascinating.
That is fascinating. Uh, you know, going back to Greenland, that was in the news recently because
Trump was like, we're taking over Greenland and taking all the weird earth mills. We're going to
buy it. We'll crush you and the Panama canal. Um, yeah. So I read something very interesting. I
thought it was a, just him being goofy. You know, I really didn't understand where the Greenland
thing came from. I mean, just ignorance, right? But it turns out it is of vital importance to the
future of not only the United States, but the Arctic region in terms of freedom, uh, freedom of
that area, because it's a very highly sought after piece of land, right? It's got rare earth
minerals that everybody understands what that means for future, for future technology, right?
And by the way, future technology leads into what future war? 56,000 inhabitants. Yeah. It's, it's
like nobody there and nobody wants to live there. Oh yeah. It's miserable. Is it, is it miserable?
I don't know. I mean, what's the weather in Greenland?
Well, it's so green besides fucking cold. Well, it's interesting that they named it Greenland,
which is ice and Iceland, which is green. Yeah. So it really should be white land.
Well, no, I mean, I'm thinking 75% of the Vikings did that on purpose as a, as a deterrent.
Could be 75% of Greenland is covered by a permanent sheet of ice. I'm saying like it's,
and also that, that ice they've got, they've got underground rivers under the ice,
under, I should say underground, but under the ice, they've got rivers running everywhere.
And it's all natural water. You know, they say that if the entire, uh, Greenland ice were to melt,
it would raise the earth, uh, like an inch raise the earth, raise the earth, a water level, sea level.
So here's the interesting thing I learned about Greenland and why Trump's even talking about it.
Cause I was like rare earth minerals. Yeah, that's important, but we just found out we have a massive
lithium, uh, you know, deposit or reservoir or whatever you call it. Nevada somewhere. Right.
Right. So I was like, okay, well maybe we don't care about Greenland as much cause we just found
we have all that shit. There's a, there's a bunch of other shit there. Well, the environment,
the environmentalists are causing problems to be able to dig for that. Oh yeah. You're going to
kill the one winged butterfly or something. Oh, right. Right. But here's the one winged,
the more interesting thing. It's a pair of selling fly. The more interesting thing to me was the
defense part of it. So they're saying that now that the, the, you know, there's new sea passages,
right? And China's vying for this Russia's vying for this. Cause you know, remember, well Russia,
especially cause they're in the Arctic region, but they're saying missile defense locations.
Oh, 100%. I mean, this is, you don't want that to go, uh, you do not want Greenland to be, I mean,
cause really it's a, it's a last line of defense before to get to the United States for submarines.
I mean, imagine that especially over the Arctic. That's what I'm saying. I mean, it's like it's
strategically positioned to defend from attack over the Arctic pole. You see what I'm saying?
Yeah. And you, so yeah, I didn't realize that part of it was so important. So anyway, this guy that
I don't even remember his name. I kind of read it to you guys in the green room, but, um,
he was advocating that it's so critical that we partner with Denmark, partner with Greenland all
of 56,000 of them, I guess. And, uh, and we build up, we build up the infrastructure on that, on
that. Is it, it's not an Island. Is it an Island? It's an Island. It's an Island, right? We should
know this. No, it's not an Island. Greenland is an Island. Yeah, it is an Island. It's not a continent.
It's on the continental plate. North American continental plate. Is it?
It's definitely not a continent. It's not a continent. It's not part of the seven continents.
Is it part of North America? No, I don't know. Oh, actually it is part of North America. Yeah.
You know what? Let's fact check that. Yeah. Help us out here. If Greenland's,
if Greenland is an Island, how come Australia is not? Yeah, there you go. Greenland is a North
American Island, autonomous territory of the kingdom of Denmark. So it is an Island. It's just
a large, very large. Yeah. So I guess there's no, also it's super large, depending what map you get.
There you go. I guess there's no size limit on Island. You know what I mean? Why is an African
an Island? Well, why isn't, you know, that whole South America, North American Island? Jeff,
I don't think we can answer that in this podcast. I mean, think about Australia. Yeah. Why isn't
Australia an Island? Because they declared it a continent. Why isn't Africa an Island? Because
they declared it a continent. I mean, I guess Greenland could have been a continent, but.
Is England an Island? They were just an Island. Yes. The Isle of England? It's not a continent.
It's part of Europe. Great Britain is an Island, yes. Island is a series of Islands. I don't know.
I don't know the answer. I do know the answer to that. Yeah, but it's not. Yeah, it's considered
an Island. I didn't know Greenland was an Island though. I didn't know that either. I may have
known that when I was in like middle school, but. I did not know that. I don't know it now. Anyway,
it's fascinating. I think they're actually called, because when you think about it, it's part of a
region. So it's North American region, not North American continent. Yeah. So the, like the UK
would be in the European region. Well, the continent is the continental plate, right?
Yeah. Just because it's an Island doesn't mean it's not part of a continent, right? There are
tons of Islands off of Australia. So you're saying that these are, we have seven continental plates
that we're referring to? Yes. Oh, oh yeah. See now that size makes it look much more plausible to be
an Island. The other map we're looking at, it was as large as Africa. And remember we looked at
Antarctica and it was like, it never ended. I mean, it was ginormous. Interesting. I wonder,
is that a big tourist spot? No. Do people, I mean, are there tours to Greenland? I'm sure there are.
Yeah. For scientists. I mean, nook. I don't know. I mean, maybe that's one of the places, you know,
that people should go. I'd like to actually go maybe the summertime, because I could do that
walk around. How long could you stay there though? You go fishing, I guess. What else are you going
to do? They have ice fishing. They have world springs there. Do they have some good bourbon?
I'm sure they do. What's the, what's the local drink of choice in Greenland? Oh boy. Probably
fish soup. Oh, like booze. Fermented fish soup. My ties. I wouldn't think so. I wouldn't either.
All right. Moving on to the second half of this conversation, the Panama Canal.
Why is Trump talking about the Panama Canal? It just seems so random, right? Well, because they,
so it is random. They talked about it, but the Panama, the Panamanians have been overcharging
folks to get through the Panama Canal. So whiskey. Yeah. They have been, they're
called as a whiskey out there. They're denying. Okay. Yeah. Going back to the people of Greenland
also love whiskey. It's part of their everyday life from the morning till late evening. I like
them already. Wow. Wow. From morning until late evening. Whiskey has been made with unpeated
barley and aged al rosa sherry casts. What do 1845 would do out there? I bet it'd do well.
Be really well. You think they have it there? Specks. I don't think they're going to be able to
gain the flavors from their pecan orchard. Yeah. Maybe not specs. And look, anyway, going back to
the Panama Canal. Uh, so they deny that they are overcharging anybody, especially the United States.
Of course they do. Right. So I don't, I don't know what's going on. I mean, you know, of course
Trump is like going in all hot and heavy. Well, Trump is big about, uh, America getting its, its
fair shake, right? Because we've overpaid on everything for so long. Yeah. We've been
taken advantage of. No question about it. They know all that shit that, uh, he, he, you know,
clamped down on last time and imagine he's going to do the same thing this time. And maybe Panama
Canal is another thing. He's like, yeah, you're charging this country this much and you're charging
us this much. Right. What's going on? Why is our stuff more money? You know, what's interesting
about Panama Canal? My family has a ton of history on the Panama Canal. My grandmother. As slaves?
Wow. No. They built it? Yeah. Being a hundred percent serious. Uh, I mean, remember when they
brought all those workers down there to work on the Panama Canal, they need, they brought their
families and they had schools and they had churches and they, so all of that was like considered,
you know, the, the entire system put together to build the Panama Canal. But apparently I'm trying
to remember what the family history is, but my grandmother, my grandmother was a little girl there
in Panama and, uh, she grew up there and my, uh, my, my mom and her sister were little girls there.
I mean, we have a ton of history there and somebody was a carpenter. I, I wish I remembered
what all the Panamanian, uh, canal history is, but it's fascinating. I know it was a big deal.
When they shut down, not shut down, but transferred ownership or whatever management
for the Panama Canal. My brother-in-law was down there and he did that. Yeah. It was 1977.
And that was a Jimmy Carter who rest in peace. No, he, no, he didn't know when they transferred
power. It was not the seventies. Yeah, it was. It was 1977. Well, when they, well, he did something
down there where he, maybe he closed the base down. Maybe that would have been, that's what it was.
Um, yeah, 1999, that's when he was there. Okay. So it says, uh, one of Jimmy Carter's greatest
accomplishments was negotiating the blah blah blah treaty ratified the US Senate in 1978. These
treaties gave the nation of Panama, eventual control of the Panama Canal in 1999. Oh yeah.
Eventual control. Yeah. We'll talk about Jim Carter and their second half because we're, we're, we're
running up on a stop here and I want to make sure we talk about our bourbon as well. Oh yeah. Good.
To go back to how much they're charging. So there are, they are charging way out because I've got,
I've got two different charges. So they've got four, how much time do we have Chuck?
Uh, we, we have about 15 minutes. 15. Okay. So the, the Panama, uh, so like for a yacht,
it's, uh, it's just under two grand just to have, let's say I have a 40 foot yacht, 65 foot yacht.
Damn. And to, to, to, to traverse through the Panama Canal, the charge almost two grand.
All right. Not only the two grand, but you have to pay a $75, uh, inspection fee and a $165
security charge. What if I have just like a canoe? Uh, kayak. Well, it doesn't get into those costs,
but the big thing, which Trump was referring to, uh, they're charging between 60,000 and $300,000
for certain large vessel boats to go through. Just American.
Uh, across the board. So prior to the expansion of the canal, uh, uh, transit cost was 461,000.
Oh, big time. I mean, that's like the toll road.
So then the record jumped to 1.1 million. It estimated the canal supplies, 12% of Panama's
gross domestic product. So, I mean, dude, come on, think about it. They're overcharging. So that is
ridiculous. Can you imagine the boat and you have how many containers on a boat, you know, 150,
200 containers, 500, 1000. I don't know. Yeah. Thousands. You know, stack of, you know,
they're about like four or five tall. And I mean, it just, that is, I mean, they're saying
four hundred and sixty one thousand to 1.1 million. 15,000. So, I mean, how do you guys feel about the
fact that the U S like solely built it and, and to the tune of like 30,000 workers dying from
malaria and shit like that or yellow fever or whatever it was. I mean, should it have been a
situation was like, no, we built it and it was our blood, sweat and tears and we're going to
run it and own it forever. Would that have been unfair? When was it built? Uh, turn of the century,
right? Uh, so maybe that would, maybe that's what the negotiation was back then. Hey, although no,
that was during the Jimmy Carter era that the negotiate, I don't know. May 4, 1904. I don't know.
How many boats or ships go through that a day? How many ships could go through the Panama Canal in a
day and then do, let's do the math. Is it 10? Is it a hundred? I don't know. I don't know. Oh no,
I imagine it's a lot more than that. I mean, it's 24 hours, but what did it have been wrong to like
retain control? I think so. I don't think that we want any part of that. Look, it's just, it's,
look, we, we made that, we, we funded a shitload of money to get that done because we had a strategic
interest in it. The world has a strategic interest in it. It's not just us, you know, because all the
other countries want to run through that canal too. They don't want to go all the way around. Right.
That's ridiculous. Panama is extorting that money. So I mean, I think Trump is absolutely
100% correct. Yeah. That's bullshit that they're charging that much. Well, it says in 2022,
they average 39 ships per day at 300,000. That's about $12 billion a day.
Damn. Well, I mean, you'd have to ask, what does it take to, okay. It's not, it's not simple shit
that's going on there. Right. I mean, you're, you're all, well, yeah, but there's, they have to
dredge. I know they have to routinely dredge it and they have to, I mean, so the question is how
much goes into maintaining that all that shit, the equipment and the, and the doors and the dredging.
I mean, so we got to know the details behind that. Right. So then you had that one boat that was all
cockeyed that went in there, got stuck in the Suez Canal. What a shit show that was. It's kind of
same concept though, but I guess the Panama Canal has got like concrete on other, you know, they're
within a fixed walls on either side. Is that what it is? I don't know. Yeah. Suez Canal has shores.
Right. Right. I don't know. That's a good question. But yeah, both of them are critical,
but more importantly, there's a bourbon we need to talk about.
And what is it gentlemen? John hasn't even had any yet. What's up with that? Are you okay? Well,
the drink of the day is the Jack Daniel's bottled in bond Tennessee whiskey bourbon. Oh, we've had
it before. And what size is that bottle, Sean? It's a 700 milliliter bottle because they're
trying to give us the shaft. Yeah. Is it really? 700. Yep. What? Yeah. That's the new thing. The
kind of, yeah, we don't feel like making extra bottles because in Europe they make 700 milliliters.
So we're just going to match it. And we're going to discount it. We're going to discount it. Yeah.
Bullshit. Yeah. Discount anything. Ooh, fancy website. So I'm a fan of Jack Daniel's. I do.
You know, it's got a unique taste to it. And this is just Jack Daniel's on steroids, in my opinion.
Regular Jack Daniel's is 80 proof, 85 proof, 90 proof. All right. This is bottled in bonds.
It's a little bit, uh, it's not dumbed down as much. It's got a lot more flavor. Oh yeah.
It's excellent. Actually. That's good. I like it. I like it a lot.
It's very tasty. Although Julie liked the wilderness trail better than this.
Oh, well the wilderness trail that we had, uh, and we pre-gamed with that because of the,
we introduced that bottle to our, we dumped four ounces into the infinity bottle of the
wilderness trail. Yeah. Four ounces of the, the, the wilderness truck. It's very nutty. Um, I
enjoyed it. It's, uh, it's basically, it's, it's nutty. It was like a, it's like a granola nut.
I mean, was it a four grain or a weeded? It's, I didn't see what it, it didn't say that. It said
bourbon. Uh, it didn't. So it said it was barrel is a bourbon 100 single barrel, 185 of 250
wilderness trail barrel one six to 21 G. Yeah. I didn't see where it said weed or anything. Does
it say it on there? It just says bourbon. So I guess it's just a good old fashioned. All right.
So the Jack Daniel's sold out Jack Daniel's the bottle bottles. Jack's time honored the recipe
of 80% corn, 12% malt, barley, and 8% rye. We just jumped from, uh, uh, the wilderness trail over to
the Jack Daniel's, uh, bottled and bond. Uh, so the barrels were hand selected for their unique
and particular characteristics of deeper color, a color flavor and aroma, which bring a darker,
richer, and more Oak Ford character. The Jack Daniel's bonded, uh, big bowl Tennessee whiskey
at Hunter proof with layered notes of caramel, rich Oak spice giving away, uh, to a pleasantly
lingering finish. Easy to drink. It really is super easy, super easy to drink. And it's not
ridiculously priced. Even though it's under 700 milliliters is bothersome, but, uh, it's, uh,
under 50 bucks. Yeah. And it's, and I don't even really care about 700. I mean, if they're going
to do it to make all of them 700 milliliter, I mean, why are you doing that? I feel like
they're ripping us off. Well, because they're one of the few bourbons that probably focus on
the European market. Right. And so they have to make it that size bottle and they're probably
not willing to do a seven 15 United States and 700, but they make so much money. I know. Come on.
Or do they sell more? Uh, although they can't sell, they can't sell some of the fifties in Europe.
That's why they can sell seven fifties and 700 here. Think about it. Yeah. But they do have 750
milliliter Jack Daniel's bottles. It's just the bottom bond. Isn't that's what I mean? They can't,
they only want to make one bottle, right? Europe forces them into it and they can get away with,
and they can get away with 50 less milliliters for the same price in the United States. So,
Hey, why not? I feel, I feel ripped off. I know, but the flavor is there. I don't feel ripped off
for the flavor. It's very tasty. Have you highly recommended? So you neither. Well, I know you,
Ooh, I have been to the story. Cause I was like, have you guys been there? And I knowing that you
haven't, it just makes it seem more snobby. I'm going to go, I'm going to buy a barrel from there.
I already did. We should do that in harmony. Um, anyway, uh, they have very,
really, wow. They had the very unique where they do the ricks, the, the, the, they,
they stack the wood in like a, like Jenga, you know, the, the ricks. Yes. They have these little
strips of, uh, of, of the wood. We don't have video. Maple wood. And then they, and then they
burn that, you know, stack of, of maple wood, Rick sticks. And then they, uh, and then they fill,
yeah, they fill this giant ginormous vat. And then they drip, they literally drip the distillate
through it. And it's at the, at the bottom, it's like, and that's regular jacking. So they don't
age it in barrels. I think they do that as well. It's mellowed though. It's mellowed through
charcoal mellowed before it's put into the barrel. Right. And then if it's, if they take it,
is that the, is that what they call the Jefferson County technique or Lincoln County,
whatever it is, something like that. You know, it was interesting that from 1845 distillery,
shout out to those from the Lowry crossing, uh, Bob Pettit was talking about how the, the charcoal
itself, I always thought it was a flavor enhancer, you know, the charcoal, but it actually, it's a
filter. Yeah. So charcoal is a filter. Yeah. I never, I mean, yeah, you think about it in water,
of course it's going to filter, but you know, it actually filters and cleans the bourbon as it's
passing through, uh, the, the Oak barrel, but you're, you're talking about, you mentioned that they've got the Jenga, uh, wood stack. So are you saying they, they drip the bourbon through that stack?
The first thing they do is they take these maple, maple strips of wood, they stack it up really high. If you want to take a picture of it, show us a picture of it.
But so you said it's maple and it's not Oak. Uh, but that's for the mellowing, right? That's not for where they age it. So they stack these things up and then they burn it. Right.
I think it's, I think it's pine. They make it, it might be, it might be pine that that or the compressed wood.
MDF, it's MDF. But anyway, so they, they create, they take all that charcoal that they create from the maple wood, right. And they fill this gigantic bat and then they drip the distillate through it.
Once for Jack Daniels, twice for Kentucky gentlemen, right? Twice smooth. Not Kentucky gentlemen. Um,
Jack, gentlemen, Jack, gentlemen, Jack. Thank you. God, it's not anyway. And then, then they barrel barrel it. So that's what they say the mellowing, right? It's they've been, you know,
Anyway, there we go. So show that, uh, not that one over right there.
Yeah, it's a giant. Okay. That's the Lincoln County process. Like you were just talking about. Right. So there they take those charcoals and throw them in a big old that that and then drip shit in a drip.
The distillate through it. And then they barrel it and then they bottle it. So anyway, it's an interesting thing. And it makes it gives it a unique taste for sure.
Charcoal mellowing. So they chop up the charcoal as well. It looks like correct. They got it grounded in there. Correct. That looks kind of cool. It is. It is cool. A little bit of rebar.
Yeah. A lot of interesting. There's a lot of stuff that, you know, when you, when you get the store and you see all these bottles up, you're kind of like, what the hell? I don't get it. What's what? You know, it's, it's kind of like you get overwhelmed. Like, you know, 10 years ago, when we're looking at all these 1500 different types of beer, you know, like what the hell? I mean, this one's different. They're all different. There's a thousand recipes and now bourbon is exactly the same. And there's a story behind every single one of them and a family pride and, and, and how they got started and, and, you know,
this is how Papa lost his thumb.
Exactly. And, or ended up in the barrel. So now we have to put a thumb in every barrel. Right. That's the flavor profile or fascinating stories as well is, is where they, they were lost in prohibition, like so thousands of distilleries went out of business and never to return. Right. And now you hear these stories of these guys that were part of that family, right. The lineage.
And they found the recipe found the recipe in some fricking library under like microfiche, right. Like you were joking in the last podcast and, and the green, green mountain.
No, it's in Nashville. Green Hill. They changed their name. It's what are the, give me the stories in Nashville. And I, cause I, my sister and I went there and the green man, Alicia.
No uncle nearest. No, no, in Nashville. Anyway, so great hills. They didn't even realize that nearest green whiskey. No, it's called as soon as he shows it. There it is. Nielsen Nielsen. Greenbrier distillery. Nelson's Nelson greenbrier distillery.
That's it. I was close. Yeah, you were. Okay. So my, my sister and I were there and this fascinating story because they were visiting. They knew that their family was in the distillation business way back when during before prohibition.
They didn't even know that they, that they, anyway, they, they did research and they figured out, oh my God, that was our great, great grandfather. And they found the recipe and boom, they're making it.
That's the way I feel about Pabst blue ribbon beer.
That's right. That was your,
I may have some lineage there.
Oh, Nelson bros. We see that we don't have any of it, but it changed names. So I think we have, we have the one prior to that. It was Bordeaux. It was a, it was a hockey player's name.
Gretzky.
No, no, no, no. I think it was a, he was a goalie.
No, it, it, um, it still was Nelson's.
Oh, maybe part of it was retained either the green or the Nelson's.
Was it Belle Meade?
Belle Meade. That's it. That's exactly what it was. Yeah.
Yeah. Cause when I was there, it was Belle Meade. It was not Nelson's green brayer. So anyway, fascinating story. And I think that's my point though is so much of this shit. It just steeped in history, man.
Right.
It's cool stuff. Anyway, all right. So what do we think about this?
Uh, I know we said we liked it.
I enjoyed it. This is a hundred proof. So it's got a, again, ultimately we need to have our hundred proofs up here so we can say, okay, what are we comparing this against? Um.
It doesn't taste like a hundred proof. I will tell you that. It tastes like an 80 proof bourbon. No.
No.
Let me rephrase that.
The burn. There is no burn.
Yes.
It has a lot of flavor.
It's as smooth, it's as smooth as an 80 proof bourbon, but it's got the richness and the flavor of 115.
So Mr. Producer's got his glass. Hold your glass up. Mr. Producer. He has just as much as I do. Is that bottle back there? Cause if it is, I swear to God.
You sons of bitches.
It's gone.
And is there a tube running from the producer underneath the table into Sean's glass? What's going on here? Why have you not touched your glass, Sean?
I've been sipping it.
Well.
That's abnormal.
We have like six, we got like four minutes left in the pocket.
Jeff's is gone.
Yeah, mine's gone. I enjoyed it.
See? Fist bump to a real man.
Yeah. Oh.
Yep.
Did you just down it?
No, I enjoyed it. If you like Jack Daniels, you'll like this.
Oh yeah, it's outstanding.
Yeah, it's good. It's good. I mean.
Let's rate it.
I gotta tell you. I like, when I go to the movie theater, I like to go get those Reese's Pieces.
And I'm one of these guys that will take a handful of Reese's Pieces and shove them all in my mouth.
And then.
And then swoosh it.
And then chew it for 45 minutes.
Well, you know, for a long time.
That's disgusting.
No, I mean, I'm not like, I'm just saying.
They're like peanut butter, saliva.
Yeah. I want to eat it for, you know, like, you know, a minute, two minutes, and then he's slurping on it throughout the movie.
But that's, that's, that's what I just did with this, this drink right now.
Because you know what? When it's all up in there like that, it's.
You got to gargle with it.
Well, you know what? I just, I just took a big poll and it was fantastic.
Yeah.
Hunter Proof, what say you, Jeff?
I'm going 7-7 on this.
I was going to go 8-2.
I'll split the difference because, to me, it's not an 8.
Right. I wasn't quite as an 8.
And it's, it's definitely 7, so I'm going to say 7-9.
Yeah.
Fair enough.
Good. That's very good. Recommended.
I will replace this if we, or.
Do we have the Excel spreadsheet over there, Mr. Producer?
I don't know. I didn't open it, so I have to show them where it's at.
All right. So we got Jeff, what was your again?
7-7.
I would replace this.
All with 8-2.
8-2.
If we finish it, I'd replace it.
Yeah. I mean, for the price point.
But now, is it really hard to find?
No.
It's not. Okay.
I think we're going to have to add another fourth category for our producer.
We're going to have to put P for producer.
Oh, no, no. Paul's already there.
C.
C for Chuck Starr.
Jesus. Was that really that hard?
No. Look, look, look. The thing is, is that, you know, we're, for those folks out there, we are kind of migrating producers.
Austin, our producer, he's going to be going to college.
Yeah.
And frankly, he's busy with school right now because when I say he's going, he's already in college,
but he's going to be going away to Texas A&M, hopefully, you know.
And that means he's going to be leaving the podcast.
He won't be able to produce it.
So we're trying.
And Chuck is a longtime friend, a longtime participant with the podcast.
And we enjoy him being on here.
He's a natural fit.
Yeah. He really is good.
And spot on today.
I mean, he's going to wear the shoes well that Austin has built up for him.
So, you know, that's fantastic.
Looking forward to it, Chuck. And this is a first great podcast.
All right. So on the second half of the podcast, we got a couple of deaths coming up.
I mean, unfortunately, we're going to talk about barely touched on Jimmy Carter.
We'll talk about that.
Let's talk about Jimmy Carter.
And then we'll come up on the second half.
We had someone else who died. Who was the other person?
Bryant Gumbel.
Bryant Gumbel. Huge history with Bryant.
And he has a brother too, doesn't he? That was also.
Greg.
Greg?
Greg Gumbel.
Did they ever, were they on the same television show?
Well, I know they did.
Well, one of I think was Bryant Gumbel.
I don't know if it was a Bryant or Greg Gumbel did the HBO sports, real sports program.
I didn't even realize there were two brothers.
Yes.
If you were said Gumbel, I would have said that bad guy, that one guy.
There's a Greg and a Bryant.
Well, yeah, now that you mentioned that, I.
Yeah, I thought he was good. You know, I didn't have any issues with him.
I don't know if he had done anything stupid or anything like that.
But I always enjoyed his shows when I watched real sports.
We'll dive into a little bit more on the second half of the podcast.
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You know, we accept tons of people up here.
And we've got New Year's coming around the corner.
It's tomorrow. Yeah.
New Year's Eve is tomorrow.
Big night. Yes.
Crazy. And I kind of like the fact it's kind of bittersweet.
I like having Christmas and New Year's in the middle of the week.
Yeah. Weird, though.
It is weird because it kind of queers up the time that you're working.
Two Wednesdays.
Yes, you know.
It's like a little break from work.
It's like it's like a weekend. Work two days, weekend, work two days, weekend.
I know. Hello.
It's like being European or something. I know.
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