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That mono music. You've got to love it. It's

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great. One ear, right? Yes. It's so wonderful.

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You know what? We could fix that now. No, we

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can't. I can just put it back to normal. I just

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don't believe that. I believe there's some problems

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that are unsolvable. You know what I mean? I

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think we live in a world where you've just got

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to live with it. You know? We'll give it to Doge.

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They can fix it. Their guy whose name is Big

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Balls. Yes. Have you heard that? The 19 -year

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-old hacker that all the libs are getting all

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butt -hard about. And his screen name is Big

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Balls. So there are a bunch of memes out there

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playing the ACDC song. So I think it's kind of

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bullshit that they would even release those guys'

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names. It's total... Oh, he was docking big time.

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It is, and it's jacked up, man. It's not right.

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You know, it's like... I don't get it. You know,

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it... I don't get it. At the bottom, I don't

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get it. What is going on in their heads? I'm

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trying not to dive in too deep in any one direction

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right now, but I think it was wrong for them

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because they are young, but they're also brilliant.

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One of those kids on there was 23 years old and

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had applied some sort of code towards this ancient

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scripture that they couldn't interpret, and he

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created a code that broke it. Wow. And I'm thinking,

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let's do that for the, is it the Goyovich? Not

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the Goyevich, the Stoyanovich manuscript. Yeah,

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the manuscript. Yeah. No one knows what it says.

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Yeah, man, I would love to see what that says

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because it has fantastic pictures of plants and

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biology. And, you know, people give it, you know,

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women and men. But it's all like some foreign,

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weird language. Are they like nudes? Yeah, sort

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of. I mean, not like you'd see in National Geographic.

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No. But, you know, there's at least to the imagination

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where you could definitely see there's some sort

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of colloidal thing going on. Dude, so we didn't

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have podcasts last week, and it's been a whirlwind

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two weeks. It has been. Well, it's February 11th.

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This is the second week of February. Holy shit,

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it just keeps pounding and pounding. Over the

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weekend, it was fantastic weather. And then all

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of a sudden, God was like, you've had enough.

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Yes. Time to bring it down again, eh? Well, it

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was Puxatawney Phil. He saw a shadow. That we

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sure did. It was crazy. It was beautiful this

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past weekend. The birds were singing, and the

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trees started budding, and everything was like,

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woo -hoo! And then it was like... We're going

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to kill you. Yeah. Shit, man. The spring flowers

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started sprouting out of the ground. That's what

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I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. You guys

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just blew your load a little bit too soon. You're

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not going to have enough to rejuvenate come March.

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They're going to have to restock. It was crazy.

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All right. Chuck, thank you for stepping in for

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the producer again and again and again and again.

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Dudes Like Us. I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff.

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And we got a jam -packed first half of podcast

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plus the second half. We've got two weeks worth

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of shit to talk about. We're itching to catch

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up on shit. Yeah, we missed last week because

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of me. That was because of you. It was something

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that happens to a bunch of dudes like us out

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there. Surprisingly, it happens more often than

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you know. And frankly, I don't understand. What

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the concept is. Maybe I should have done a little

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research on this. Why the fuck do these builders

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put water heaters in the attic? I don't get it.

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I know mine. I don't get it either. Because I

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was looking, I was researching, I was using chat

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GPT. I was like, are there codes that force you

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to do this? No, there are no codes. I was like,

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is it less expensive, more expensive? No, it's

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actually more expensive because you have to reinforce

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the structures to hold the weight. What the hell,

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man? And you have to, there's more piping and

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all this shit. And I was just like, why are they

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deciding to do this? it is really negligent.

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Because, I mean, something, inevitably, if you

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don't proactively change your water heater out,

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it will fail at some point. Yes. To a tankless,

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or I don't know what it would cost to move it

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to the garage. I don't know. I don't understand

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it. Is yours on the second floor in your area?

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Yeah, of course. It's right over my game room.

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I mean, over my media room. Yeah. All right,

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so tell our listeners what happened. So you had

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a, you didn't have a blowout. No, I didn't have

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a blowout. I had the expansion tank. blow off.

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And what happened is, when that happened, is

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there was a geyser of water shooting feet in

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the air, hitting the ceiling of the attic for,

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I don't know how long, but it was enough to ruin

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the front of my house. Oh, yeah. It was pouring

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down my stairs. Unbelievable. Coming through

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the ceiling, through the air vents, through the

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lights. It hit my study downstairs. There's a

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chance that... That was happening for a long

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time, like maybe hours before it was actually

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noticed. Yeah. Because you weren't here. I was

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at work. Steven was sleeping, and we had some

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guests who were staying with us, and Aaron and

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Isaac, you met them the week before. Right. And

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they were leaving, and she sent Isaac back in

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to go, run back in real quick, just do a quick

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run, make sure we didn't forget anything. No

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way. So he runs upstairs to look in the room,

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and he sees the water coming down. from the ceiling

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oh my god so he starts screaming and banging

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on the wall for steven to wake up and he's yelling

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for his mom he was freaking out he's i don't

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know 11 12 years old maybe uh there's water pouring

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from the ceiling and steven gets up he was groggy

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he's like what's going on and that he sees what's

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going on dude that had you exactly what has you

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been there and watched water pouring out of your

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ceiling that would have been just Oh, I know.

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Because he raced out and turned off the water.

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Well, he did. And first, he goes, what's going

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on? So he pulled the attic stairs down and climbed

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up there. That's where he saw the water shooting

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straight up out of the tank. Oh, my God. Through

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the top. And so he's like, crap. And then he

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ran outside, and I told him two months prior

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to that. How to do it. I was like. If you ever

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have to turn the water off in this house, here's

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the key. It's right here in the front of the

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house. And I walked out there. I was like, you

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rip this off, and you put it down there, and

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you turn that. That is a must. I tell you what,

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when you told me that story, I was like, I need

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to tell my boys this. I'm not sure they know

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to do that. It's important stuff. Plus, you've

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had a major issue at your house where you were

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changing out a shower valve. I don't want to

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relive that. He didn't turn the water off. I

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didn't. Like an idiot. He was like, oh, I just

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turned the valves off. I thought the water wasn't

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going to come out. So he pulled the valve, pops

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out, right? And then all of a sudden, Armageddon.

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The water shoots out. That's okay. We'll just

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go downstairs and turn it off. No. The bathtub

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was filling up faster than it would drain. And

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then I get this phone call. And there's Sean.

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And I'm like, oh, Gary, baby. I wouldn't cry.

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Are you taking buckets up in the toilet? Yes,

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I was. And then I was like, that's not going

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to work. This is the worst part. I grab a hose,

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and I'm thinking I'm going to do the whole siphon,

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and I shove the tube out the window. And I'm

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like trying to have it automatically drain. It's

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not going to go very fast. That didn't do anything.

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All it did was kind of damage my throat and my

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lungs because I was sucking so hard. There's

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probably some lizard dust in that tube. My lips

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were blue, and I was like, okay, that's not working

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either. Your lips collapsed. That's when I called

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Sean. Sean, emergency. Emergency. Yeah, but I

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get there, and look, man, no offense, but there's

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no way on, you would have not been able to shut

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that off. because I had a regular wrench that

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you're supposed to have, and that thing had not

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been shut off. Since 15 years. So, man, look,

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I wasn't always this fat back then. I had some

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strength on me and I couldn't budget. And thank

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God I had my truck and I brought the fucking

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three foot pliers out the big old wrench. And

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I was like, yeah. And I thought it was like,

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fuck it. I'm either shutting this off or it's

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fucking breaking. Yeah. And because you were

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like, is it done yet? I was like. And it turned

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off and shut off and it was like, it's done.

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Oh, dude. I mean, the whole process took like,

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what, maybe a minute and a half? It was still

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stressful, man. That was stressful. It was at

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the point where the water was just about to lap

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the tub. Oh, it was awful. You should let your

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dogs in there to drink from it real quick. Yeah,

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that wouldn't have helped either. Just get straws,

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the whole family. Everybody up there! Drink!

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Good Lord. Yeah. It's a nightmare. So you got

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to know where those at. You wouldn't suspect

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that to happen in Texas of all places. Yeah.

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You know, it's just like, who came up with it?

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You're talking about codes. I mean, why did they

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come up with the code that think it was okay

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to put water pipes on that perimeter of your

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house for freezing anyways? Right. I mean, that's

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not the way they do it in the North. It shouldn't

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be anywhere because when it's cold outside, guess

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what? The perimeter of the house gets cold and

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it's going to pop. Two or three years ago, we

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had that 10 ,000 year winter storm. Yeah. That's

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happening every year now, by the way. Well, no,

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not every other year. Not to that level. But

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dude, that after that, nobody, all the people

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here, nobody knew how to turn off their water.

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Right. So when it thawed, there was a shit show

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all over the city. Yeah. All over the state.

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Yeah. That's something you need to learn. If

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you buy a house, buy the tool and learn how to

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do it. It's 20 bucks at Lowe's. Yeah. It's a

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big T. about three feet long yep big t -screw

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with a little groove in it and you just stick

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it on there and turn it and you're done done

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i've got one and uh if he wasn't here it would

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have been the entire house the damage would have

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been it would have been the entire house because

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it was it was like i said it was a waterfall

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down the stairs uh through the ceiling it was

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it was a mess so you know we're carpets are all

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up holes in the ceilings and everything so Yeah,

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so you're in the middle of—so they've already

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done some cleanup, but you're in the middle of

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finding contractors to, like, finish the job.

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Yeah, well, Sean was really good. He got one

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of the mitigators he works with out here really

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quick. Yeah, yeah, there was somebody—they had

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those— Dehumidifiers and fans. I'll give a shout

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-out to ServPro out in Garland. Garland? Is Garland

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east or west? That's east of here. Garland east—I

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know it's east from here, but there's a Garland

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east or west. Whatever. ServPro. So those guys

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reacted real quick. And they were Garland. So,

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I mean, when I called them, they were like, fuck,

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yeah, we're doing it. We're on our way. And they

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were like, oh, that's not our way. So, you know,

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it took them a while to get here. But they reacted

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quick. They did a good job as far as I could

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see out there. And we're lining up some people.

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First people didn't like me. That's true. Well,

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because, look, I called them out. The first people

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didn't like you, is that what you said? They

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did not. Oh, okay. It's because I'm in the industry,

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so I guess I sounded like a Mr. Know -it -all.

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Sometimes I give off that vibe. I don't know

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if that was the case. But what I was asking,

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so the carrier had given them their estimate.

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Okay. Basically, they gave them the homework

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to cheat off of. Right. So they basically took

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their estimate, took it home, wrote an estimate

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based off the estimate they provided. Right.

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And then turned it back in with their own name

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on it. And I was like. You didn't do anything

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different on here. Did they provide the estimate

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for you? And they were like, oh, yeah, we just

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took off the mitigation. And I was like, oh,

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all right. Well, did you look at the job? And

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they were like, oh, yeah, we were there and we

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did a bunch of stuff, this, this, that. And I

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was like, well, did you take into consideration

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you've got 10 ,000 bottles of bourbon to move

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and you put on their large room? That's going

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to take you far. Right. There's not near enough

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labor in there. And I was trying to help him

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and whatever. And they were like, bitch, we're

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out. Well, they were like, well, first of all,

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who are you and why are you talking to me about

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this? And I was like, look, Jeff's one of my

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best friends and I'm in the business of insurance

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claims and I'm trying to help him throughout

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this whole process. And I want to help kind of

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the whole timeline of these things going on.

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And he was like, well, you know what? We don't

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work like that. So we work directly with the...

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the homeowners and we don't work with any third

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-party management companies i was like okay well

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does eric your uh uh your president of the company

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know that you're speaking for him and he says

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yes he does i said well very good good luck to

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you and then i fired it off an email saying that

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he declined and just basically shut it down i

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mean i i don't know i feel bad but at the same

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time i'm thinking did i give off that vibe Because

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you mentioned while doing some woodwork downstairs,

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I've got to have a tendency to have that vibe,

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right? You have a huge vibe, yeah. Oh. You're

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extremely difficult to work with. Nobody likes

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that. It just vibrates. Well, I named it my dick

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vibe. No, I'm kidding. If you think about it,

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they're used to just kind of reassuring the homeowner

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that, you know, we're going to take care of it.

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They don't question anything. They don't know

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anything. So, yeah, they don't like being questioned.

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Yeah. Or inspected. Or challenged. Or checked.

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Yes. Yeah, well, you know, you got to hold some

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of these guys accountable. Sure. And that's kind

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of what I alluded to because, you know, hundreds

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and hundreds and hundreds of these. These contractors

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will come in and they drag their feet every step

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of the way. Sure. And he doesn't know behind

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the scenes. He's like, look, dude, we do a podcast

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every week. I didn't tell him this, but I'm thinking

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this. We do a podcast every week up there. I

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need that shit done. We got shit going on. We

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can't be waiting here. And that's kind of the

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spirit. I want to get Julie back up and running.

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Let's get this thing going. So once we get whoever

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we're going to get up here vetted, we're going

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to get a timeline and just punch it out. Boom.

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Well, they probably also overcharge, right? The

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industry's right. Well, all the quotes we got

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are right in line with what the insurance company

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came back with. They didn't come back and it's

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$30 ,000 more or anything like that. It was right

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in line. Okay, okay. I just think in general,

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the industry's got built -in kind of fraud in

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there. Yeah, I don't think I've seen it on this

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one. Okay, there is fraud. Right. Not everybody,

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but you know. I'll tell you, most of the fraud.

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comes from public adjusters in the spirit of

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standing up for the insured, which is a bunch

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of crack. That's a crock of crap, man, because

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I think that there was a time where sometimes

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these guys get taken advantage of. Maybe there

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is a reason to have someone help out once in

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a while, but the majority of these guys, they're

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just freaking crooks. Just absolute cash grabs.

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Skimming off the top. Well, they take 10%. Right.

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So anyways, that happened. We recommend you guys

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get the, like Jeff said, get your key, have it

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by the house, know how to use it, know where

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it's at. And your kids. Yeah, I tell you what,

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Stephen and Isaac and Aaron did a really good

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job. They got every tile in the house. And we

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have some old ones that the boys brought back

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from college and shit like that. We have a ton

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of them. All crusty. And they used all of them.

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They created the dam and the powder bath downstairs.

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Steven said it got ankle deep in there. Damn.

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And they had a dam up there to try to save the

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wood floor that was downstairs. Yes. So I'm sure

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some of it may have seeped. Yeah, I was like,

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where did it go? I don't know. I mean, the towels,

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there was a huge mound of towels in there when

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I came home. Wow. So I don't know if the towels

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sucked it up or what. Yeah, well, you know what?

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At the end of the day. That's stressful, man.

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Oh, I can't imagine it. It would suck at my house.

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It would suck at anybody's house. Anybody's house.

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Yeah. Yours is on your second floor as well,

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right? What's that? Your water heater? Yeah,

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it's right in the act. That's stupid. It is stupid,

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man. I'd almost want to talk to a builder and

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ask that question. You probably have the best

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opportunity to do that. Why do they do that?

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What's the rationale to do that? I don't know

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because, I mean, even when you do, because I

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have replaced my water heater. I did it kind

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of proactively. I had a friend who's a plumber.

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And I was like, can you just look at it to see

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if it needs to be replaced? And he goes, you

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can't ever really tell if it needs to be replaced.

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You just do it. Like when it reaches the eighth

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year or the tenth year. I forget what year. So

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I just asked AI overview. Okay. Builders in Texas

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often install water heaters in the attic because

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most homes in Texas don't have basements. Attics

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are also a good place to save space. And then

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you just got the screen of death. What the hell,

00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:14.840
man? I hate this laptop. God bless it. I need

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to just do it. I'm taking this home. So basically

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they're saving space at the risk of this happening.

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Yeah, but why not put it in the garage? I was

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going to say, put it in the garage. I wonder

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if it has something to do. Some of the houses

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here do have it in the garage. I wonder if it

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has something to do with water pressure. If it's

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on the first floor, does it increase the water

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pressure by being up in the attic? Maybe. Maybe.

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Maybe 50 gallons of pressure. Well, my water

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pressure out of the sink is the same as upstairs.

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Do you want to look that up for us? Oh, you got

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two water heaters? No. I did have a suggestion.

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Well, the sink is down. My kitchen is downstairs.

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And the faucet's up here. I mean, that's not

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enough of a distance. Chuck has something to

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add here. In addition to having your key, right,

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for your water meter, a wet dry vac. 100%. Yeah.

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Yeah, they pulled that out as well. That's a

00:17:06.059 --> 00:17:08.160
good idea. Yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah. And

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the thing with Frisco, if you live in Frisco,

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I'm probably playing Owen McKinney and all these

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sounds around here, is the city locks access

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to your water valve. So you have to either have

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a key to open it, so you have to finagle with

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that. Now, granted, it's a generic key that you

00:17:24.660 --> 00:17:28.339
could buy at Home Depot, but it's a key. You're

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talking about to get the manhole cover off. To

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get the manhole cover off. Mine is not connected,

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so I don't know why. Ours, mine is not anymore

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either. I took mine off and I removed the locking

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mechanism because it screwed onto the bottom

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of it. I removed it in the event of an emergency.

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I mean, I don't get it. I mean, it's kind of

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silly to have that on there. That's important

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to note because people are like, you know, running

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out there with their key and they have no idea

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how to get the manhole cover open. Then you're

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effed. Yep, it's locked. All of them are locked.

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That's crazy. I was doing a job in Dallas construction

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and... There was a water line break in the house,

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and we ran into the same problem. I didn't have

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a key with me, and that was a metal cover. I

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had a five -pound sledgehammer. And you started

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whacking away at the cover? It took like 10 hits.

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I cracked that thing open, but it took 10 hits

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to do it. Oh, shit. And the city got mad at me,

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and I was like, bill me. Yeah, whatever. It's

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a lid. In an emergency? I mean, I would have.

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I mean, I was going to scorch dirt on that. It

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doesn't make sense to have that on there. I mean,

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maybe, producer, maybe you could pull that up.

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Why do they lock those? I mean, you're in the

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civil engineer program. To keep you from rigging

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it. Well, they have the wireless water meters

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now. They just have to drive by and get your

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reading. They don't even drive by anymore. It's

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all regional reads. Oh, so I think it's maybe

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access so people can get access to that. Right.

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Piece of electronic. Yeah, I mean, people can

00:19:03.930 --> 00:19:05.150
go around. Regional reads, what is it, like a

00:19:05.150 --> 00:19:08.150
telephone signal? Like a telephone signal, yeah.

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So how does it charge? How does your water meter

00:19:12.029 --> 00:19:15.089
charge? I'm not sure. It's some sort of a signal

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that it puts out. It's got to be connected to

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something. There's a wire out there attached

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to it. Yeah, but where does it get power? Where

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does it get power when you drive by with a truck?

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So it does drive by with a truck. No, it used

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to. They don't do the truck anymore. You mean

00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:33.059
the transmitter? Where does the transmitter get

00:19:33.059 --> 00:19:35.440
the power? Yeah, so if it's emitting a signal

00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:37.779
that's somewhere out there in the ether, it's

00:19:37.779 --> 00:19:39.680
getting received and it's like, oh, well, this

00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:42.759
person just consumed 20 ,000 gallons. I mean,

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it's coming from the valve? Where's it going

00:19:47.980 --> 00:19:52.960
to? The city has a regional reader. They don't

00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:56.119
have it on a truck anymore. It's a cell signal.

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Is that what you're asking? Okay, so let's say

00:19:58.619 --> 00:20:02.380
it's a cell signal. So what powers up that cell

00:20:02.380 --> 00:20:04.619
signal? It's a little thermonuclear battery.

00:20:05.990 --> 00:20:07.670
It's the same kind of ones that they have on

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a flux capacitor. It's the ones they have on

00:20:09.730 --> 00:20:11.490
submarines. They have a little, like, wheel in

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there spinning with the water. Yeah, yeah. Oh,

00:20:13.549 --> 00:20:15.849
maybe that's what it is. Maybe it's a hydro wheel

00:20:15.849 --> 00:20:17.710
from the water coming through. It charges it

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up. It's like the bicycle. I'm calling bullshit

00:20:20.589 --> 00:20:25.069
on the hydro wheel. I like that idea. It's great,

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yeah. Certainly not solar. Underneath the cover.

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It's underneath the ground. Advanced meters use

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audio transmitters to send signals directly to

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the utility worker. They can be read remotely

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from the vehicle or from the office, eliminating

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the need for a physical visit. But it doesn't

00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:41.119
say how they're powered. Well, there's a wire

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hooked up to it. There is a wire. It's probably

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a low voltage. It's probably running to some

00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:48.779
kind of power underneath. Yeah, they probably

00:20:48.779 --> 00:20:52.059
have power running. When they build all of them,

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there's a wire going from one to the next to

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the next to the next. Daisy chained. Yes. That's

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what I'm guessing. Or it's geothermal. Geothermal.

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That's the best one yet. I am 100 % certain that's

00:21:03.730 --> 00:21:06.950
not the case. Because that stuff didn't exist.

00:21:06.970 --> 00:21:10.750
We didn't have that type a couple years ago.

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Pull it out and look. Pull it out? There's cable

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behind the other end. There's no power supply

00:21:17.059 --> 00:21:18.920
needed. Traditional mechanical water meters,

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such as positive displacement or turbine meters,

00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:23.259
do not require external power since they rely

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on mechanical components. That's to the flow.

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That's to the flow. That's not the... Right,

00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:29.900
but it also says some are battery -powered, some

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are grade -powered, and some are fuel cell or

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E4. Hydro -powered. There you go. Some innovative

00:21:38.019 --> 00:21:40.220
meters harvest the energy from the flow meter

00:21:40.220 --> 00:21:42.839
itself. I don't know. I think we've exhausted

00:21:42.839 --> 00:21:45.619
all efforts on this. I think we have. Yeah. We

00:21:45.619 --> 00:21:49.160
clearly don't know. Also, having your water heater

00:21:49.160 --> 00:21:51.559
upstairs or downstairs makes about four pounds

00:21:51.559 --> 00:21:53.940
of pressure difference versus it coming out at

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45 to 60, so it's minimal. So that's not it.

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So that's not it. All right, so it's got to be

00:22:00.259 --> 00:22:05.509
the convenience of... It's cheaper to put it

00:22:05.509 --> 00:22:07.769
up there for the piping design. No, it's more

00:22:07.769 --> 00:22:09.369
expensive. Oh, that doesn't make sense either.

00:22:09.509 --> 00:22:11.349
That doesn't make sense either. I give up. I'm

00:22:11.349 --> 00:22:14.490
thinking it would be less expensive of the copper

00:22:14.490 --> 00:22:17.109
pipes because if you start in the garage, you

00:22:17.109 --> 00:22:19.490
have to stem all the way around the house as

00:22:19.490 --> 00:22:21.869
opposed to up here in the center of the house.

00:22:21.890 --> 00:22:23.410
That's what I was wondering. Stemming down. Well,

00:22:23.450 --> 00:22:26.769
whatever I read yesterday or the day before is

00:22:26.769 --> 00:22:29.750
it was more expensive because you have to reinforce

00:22:29.750 --> 00:22:32.630
for the weight, right? You have to put extra

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structural. Up there. And they said it was actually

00:22:35.900 --> 00:22:37.819
longer runs. I don't know if that's true or not.

00:22:38.019 --> 00:22:39.920
It didn't make sense to me. It's a pain in the

00:22:39.920 --> 00:22:42.759
ass no matter what. I mean, and those guys from

00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:46.299
the mitigation company, they were going to tear

00:22:46.299 --> 00:22:48.200
it apart. Here's four good reasons right here.

00:22:48.279 --> 00:22:52.059
It kind of says space efficiency. I'll take a

00:22:52.059 --> 00:22:54.039
corner of my garage out. Put it in there, please.

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Agreed. I would, too. Which corner? Just a corner.

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Where the fridge is. I would put it right in

00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:03.009
the middle of the garage. Yes. Or put it in the

00:23:03.009 --> 00:23:05.750
attic over the garage. There you go. You know?

00:23:06.190 --> 00:23:08.450
That's actually not bad. Now, my house has that.

00:23:08.490 --> 00:23:10.170
A lot of houses don't have that. Well, I have

00:23:10.170 --> 00:23:11.730
my game room over the garage. I don't like that

00:23:11.730 --> 00:23:13.390
idea at all. Do you have a gay room over your

00:23:13.390 --> 00:23:18.190
garage? Game room. Oh. Yeah, yeah. My gay room

00:23:18.190 --> 00:23:20.710
is... Space efficiency, energy efficiency, and

00:23:20.710 --> 00:23:22.230
warmer clients placing a water heater in the

00:23:22.230 --> 00:23:23.829
attic or upper floor can take advantage of the

00:23:23.829 --> 00:23:25.450
energy. He reduced the energy cost for maintaining

00:23:25.450 --> 00:23:27.470
the hot water temperature. The modern design

00:23:27.470 --> 00:23:29.769
trends open floor plans and maximizing modern

00:23:29.769 --> 00:23:33.279
design trends is the fourth. Put it in the garage.

00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:36.559
Yeah, agreed. All right, well, we decided that.

00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:39.339
All those are not worth it. Project 2025 is going

00:23:39.339 --> 00:23:41.079
to put water heaters back in the garages. I knew

00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:46.759
it. Executive order, number 503. Damn. Man, you

00:23:46.759 --> 00:23:49.700
know what? Speaking of executive orders, something

00:23:49.700 --> 00:23:52.180
that was kind of interesting, I wish, let me

00:23:52.180 --> 00:23:55.559
see if I have the stats on this. So, pardons

00:23:55.559 --> 00:24:04.890
from Donald Trump. Let's see here. I have not

00:24:04.890 --> 00:24:07.950
heard any follow -up to the J6 people that were

00:24:07.950 --> 00:24:10.750
supposedly let go. Well, there's been too much

00:24:10.750 --> 00:24:13.150
other shit going on. Were they released? They

00:24:13.150 --> 00:24:14.589
were truly released because he pardoned them.

00:24:14.750 --> 00:24:19.089
I believe so. But no follow -up to that. George

00:24:19.089 --> 00:24:22.730
Bush pardoned, how many people do you think he

00:24:22.730 --> 00:24:28.069
pardoned? 2 ,000. 1 ,100. Producer? I believe

00:24:28.069 --> 00:24:32.150
it was like 150. He pardoned 200. That's close.

00:24:32.539 --> 00:24:35.559
All right. Barack Obama, how many do you think

00:24:35.559 --> 00:24:40.200
he did? 1 ,300. 15 ,000. Right at 1 ,000. He

00:24:40.200 --> 00:24:46.220
parted 1927. All right. Donald Trump, what do

00:24:46.220 --> 00:24:52.500
you think, Jeff? 400. 41. 41? Is that your real

00:24:52.500 --> 00:24:54.559
number? No, but it was around 100. It was about

00:24:54.559 --> 00:24:59.319
120. Probably several hundred. 237. Joe Biden,

00:24:59.559 --> 00:25:03.579
how many do you think he... A lot. 4 ,200. Yeah,

00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:10.799
like 2 ,500. 8 ,064. Unbelievable. And even the

00:25:10.799 --> 00:25:14.859
Democrat Party was not thrilled with his precedent

00:25:14.859 --> 00:25:18.500
that he set. 8 ,064 pardons. I don't think he

00:25:18.500 --> 00:25:20.700
was aware of what the hell he was doing. He wasn't.

00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:22.240
He was signing shit. He did not know what it

00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:25.319
was. I think it was probably friends or lobbyists

00:25:25.319 --> 00:25:26.579
who were reaching out going, hey, can you get

00:25:26.579 --> 00:25:28.039
a pardon for me? Can you get a pardon for me?

00:25:28.059 --> 00:25:30.599
Yeah. I mean, you heard what Mike Johnson said,

00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:32.480
the Speaker of the House. He met with him, and

00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:34.660
he said, why did you sign the executive order

00:25:34.660 --> 00:25:38.599
to shut down the export of natural gas to Europe?

00:25:38.700 --> 00:25:41.859
And he goes, I didn't do that. He doesn't remember

00:25:41.859 --> 00:25:43.180
doing it. He goes, I didn't do that. He goes,

00:25:43.240 --> 00:25:45.759
yes, you did. And he goes, I didn't do that.

00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:49.519
You know how terrifying that is? And Mike Johnson

00:25:49.519 --> 00:25:53.039
left the Oval Office going, oh, my God. Like,

00:25:53.079 --> 00:25:56.039
who is in charge? Was this near the end? Yeah.

00:25:56.039 --> 00:25:57.960
It was a couple months before the end. So it

00:25:57.960 --> 00:26:01.759
was 4 ,000 acts of clemency, including 80 pardons

00:26:01.759 --> 00:26:05.700
and 4 ,185 commutations of sentences. Oh, dude,

00:26:05.799 --> 00:26:07.240
and some of those stories came out. It was like

00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:09.940
a guy that killed a mom. It was a bunch of death

00:26:09.940 --> 00:26:12.500
row folks. Yeah, and it was a guy that killed

00:26:12.500 --> 00:26:15.779
his wife, you know, killed a woman and his daughter

00:26:15.779 --> 00:26:19.339
because they could possibly, they were witnesses

00:26:19.339 --> 00:26:22.039
in witness protection. And he, you know. They

00:26:22.039 --> 00:26:23.640
witnessed something, and he killed them both

00:26:23.640 --> 00:26:27.859
brutally. And people were like, you pardoned?

00:26:27.859 --> 00:26:32.079
Why would he pardon? What was his reasoning behind

00:26:32.079 --> 00:26:34.160
that? I don't know. Do you have to give a reason

00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:36.619
or just a signature? No, you don't have to explain

00:26:36.619 --> 00:26:39.799
why. He was probably good in the field, and Clintons

00:26:39.799 --> 00:26:41.680
were going to use him for some future things.

00:26:42.259 --> 00:26:44.619
Yeah, he was probably an informant or, you know,

00:26:44.619 --> 00:26:49.349
yeah, some. He was going to do suicide assistance

00:26:49.349 --> 00:26:51.769
and start picking up on Jack Kevorkian's where

00:26:51.769 --> 00:26:54.950
he left off with the Clintons. It's unreal. Assisted

00:26:54.950 --> 00:26:57.950
suicide. They generally give an explanation and

00:26:57.950 --> 00:26:59.690
a reason for why they do what they do, but they

00:26:59.690 --> 00:27:01.890
don't have to say anything. They can just say.

00:27:02.069 --> 00:27:05.230
I think Joe Biden, the farther we get away from

00:27:05.230 --> 00:27:07.990
this, will be known worse than Jimmy Carter.

00:27:08.609 --> 00:27:11.990
By far. Just because I think ultimately it's

00:27:11.990 --> 00:27:16.170
going to come out that, yeah, you're. Two, he

00:27:16.170 --> 00:27:19.670
was gone. And these people actually ran the show.

00:27:19.990 --> 00:27:22.890
And they were buffoons. Yeah, they were. His

00:27:22.890 --> 00:27:25.710
young, woke team around him that was just kind

00:27:25.710 --> 00:27:27.250
of trying to run the country, having no fucking

00:27:27.250 --> 00:27:29.769
clue what they were doing. Right. He was bad.

00:27:29.970 --> 00:27:33.930
Yeah. He was really bad. That's scary. But I'll

00:27:33.930 --> 00:27:36.049
tell you one thing. I'm enjoying the good things

00:27:36.049 --> 00:27:38.789
coming out of it. I'm kind of digging the...

00:27:39.879 --> 00:27:42.619
Trump changing the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of

00:27:42.619 --> 00:27:44.779
America. He did on his way to the Super Bowl,

00:27:44.900 --> 00:27:49.059
which was kind of cool. So, you know, that was

00:27:49.059 --> 00:27:51.339
cool. And then she populated instantly on Google.

00:27:51.819 --> 00:27:55.380
Boom, just like that. Yeah, they had been working

00:27:55.380 --> 00:27:59.460
that out for a while, actually. But, yeah. I

00:27:59.460 --> 00:28:04.579
thought at first it was kind of a joke. When

00:28:04.579 --> 00:28:05.920
you say a while, what do you mean? Like the last

00:28:05.920 --> 00:28:10.039
three weeks or years? Yeah, I mean, it's been

00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:13.240
a couple weeks in the works, yeah. Because I

00:28:13.240 --> 00:28:16.799
think he signed that. He signed it, like, in

00:28:16.799 --> 00:28:20.319
the second day. I thought he signed it while

00:28:20.319 --> 00:28:23.519
he was flying to the Super Bowl. He had a big

00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:26.759
deal. He was signing it. Gulf of America. I don't

00:28:26.759 --> 00:28:28.519
believe so, because I had heard of it well before

00:28:28.519 --> 00:28:30.599
then. Again, I go back to— And we talked about

00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:33.759
it, remember? I agree 100 % with him, but I think

00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:37.680
other countries are going to not adopt it. Right.

00:28:38.170 --> 00:28:40.849
You know, Google can do it. That's okay. Oh,

00:28:40.849 --> 00:28:42.750
yeah, I agree. I think it's fine. You can teach

00:28:42.750 --> 00:28:47.369
the American kids it's Gulf of America and it's

00:28:47.369 --> 00:28:49.369
whatnot. But I know, like, there's other maps

00:28:49.369 --> 00:28:51.930
out there that have not changed. It's worth it,

00:28:51.930 --> 00:28:54.309
though. I mean, it is the Gulf of America. It's

00:28:54.309 --> 00:28:56.049
not the Gulf of Mexico. Just like we talked about

00:28:56.049 --> 00:28:58.230
the last podcast. I think it has more shoreline.

00:28:58.230 --> 00:28:59.849
We have more shoreline than Mexico. Yeah, but

00:28:59.849 --> 00:29:02.329
not even that, though. I mean, one thing that

00:29:02.329 --> 00:29:04.769
Trump said was, you know, it represents North

00:29:04.769 --> 00:29:08.019
America and South America. It is America. Right.

00:29:08.200 --> 00:29:10.940
I mean, it doesn't just mean the United States.

00:29:10.940 --> 00:29:14.220
I want to say at the time, like Mexico controlled

00:29:14.220 --> 00:29:18.220
most of that land that, you know. True. When

00:29:18.220 --> 00:29:21.119
it was named, right? It was named in the 1500s.

00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:23.799
They had Texas, right? Well, it was named in

00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:25.940
the 1500s, and it actually wasn't named Mexico.

00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:30.339
It was a... what they called the Aztecs at the

00:29:30.339 --> 00:29:32.819
time. Right, Mexicans. So it was the Gulf of

00:29:32.819 --> 00:29:34.900
the Aztecs, whatever they called them back then,

00:29:34.920 --> 00:29:37.799
and it sounded similar to Mexico. Well, America's

00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:40.720
got a better ring. So I think it makes more sense

00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:45.900
because it's not USA, it's America, which is

00:29:45.900 --> 00:29:49.180
Canada, South America, Central America. Yeah,

00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:52.180
it's totally legit. Right, I think it is. But

00:29:52.180 --> 00:29:56.039
I think people are thinking it's just Trump trying

00:29:56.039 --> 00:29:59.069
to, Trying to troll. Trying to troll the world.

00:29:59.109 --> 00:30:00.809
And, you know, America, you know, we're just

00:30:00.809 --> 00:30:03.410
steamrolling everybody. From Mexico. Yeah, the

00:30:03.410 --> 00:30:06.029
Aztecs. You know, it's interesting because they

00:30:06.029 --> 00:30:07.809
have on there one of the earlier names of it

00:30:07.809 --> 00:30:10.450
was the Gulf of New Spain. You know, because

00:30:10.450 --> 00:30:14.190
if the population of Mexico, if you're a true

00:30:14.190 --> 00:30:16.869
Mexican, you're usually like a dark -skinned

00:30:16.869 --> 00:30:20.690
Aztec kind of flavor. Well, the indigenous, and

00:30:20.690 --> 00:30:26.019
they're very looked down upon. Yeah, even within

00:30:26.019 --> 00:30:28.220
Mexico. Well, there's racism down there against

00:30:28.220 --> 00:30:31.799
those. Of course. So they talk about how the

00:30:31.799 --> 00:30:33.700
United States, we took their land from them,

00:30:33.779 --> 00:30:36.619
which is bullshit because we bought it. Spain

00:30:36.619 --> 00:30:40.920
did. Well, we're referring to California, New

00:30:40.920 --> 00:30:43.980
Mexico, Arizona, Texas, that we took the land

00:30:43.980 --> 00:30:46.000
from them. I was like, that's not true at all.

00:30:46.039 --> 00:30:48.839
We bought that from them, 100%. Right. And they

00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:51.619
took the money, and that's it. It was a done

00:30:51.619 --> 00:30:54.779
deal. So we didn't steal it from them. You know,

00:30:54.839 --> 00:30:56.259
if they want to be mad at anybody, it fell stones

00:30:56.259 --> 00:30:57.559
in Spain because they're the ones that went in

00:30:57.559 --> 00:31:00.519
there and commandeered it. Cortez, right? Cortez,

00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:04.059
yeah. It was a different time. They were discovering

00:31:04.059 --> 00:31:08.400
the world. They were superpowers, you know. Well,

00:31:08.420 --> 00:31:11.839
you can't. Europe was colonizing. You can't apply

00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:15.299
today's morals and ethics to 600 years ago. You

00:31:15.299 --> 00:31:17.500
cannot. You can't. It was different. And it's

00:31:17.500 --> 00:31:21.240
stupid to - But just like today, you can't apply,

00:31:21.619 --> 00:31:24.359
well, let's say four years ago when the whole

00:31:24.359 --> 00:31:27.779
woke thing was at its peak, you can't apply those

00:31:27.779 --> 00:31:31.099
woke principles to movies that were made in the

00:31:31.099 --> 00:31:33.680
60s, 70s, 80s. Right. Like they were trying to

00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:36.799
do. So you had all these disclaimers. Oh, Gone

00:31:36.799 --> 00:31:40.819
with the Wind has to have a disclaimer on there

00:31:40.819 --> 00:31:43.279
because there's racist content in there. Right.

00:31:43.839 --> 00:31:47.039
Yeah, and so, I mean, you talked about wokeism,

00:31:47.059 --> 00:31:50.720
so DEI. I'm shocked, you know, because he said

00:31:50.720 --> 00:31:53.539
the government's done with DEI. Yeah. Right?

00:31:53.640 --> 00:31:55.799
But he just controls the government. He doesn't

00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:58.119
control private sector. But private sector is

00:31:58.119 --> 00:32:02.900
following the lead. I mean, Disney dropped two

00:32:02.900 --> 00:32:05.680
DEI programs. All these companies are coming

00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:07.819
out. Google did as well. Oh, yeah. All these

00:32:07.819 --> 00:32:10.500
companies are coming out and cutting DEI because,

00:32:10.619 --> 00:32:14.769
obviously, it's. saves money for them oh yeah

00:32:14.769 --> 00:32:17.970
this is cost cutting and they were sort of pressured

00:32:17.970 --> 00:32:20.789
into it because the woke mob was was you know

00:32:20.789 --> 00:32:23.490
shaming them oh yeah and and so they you know

00:32:23.490 --> 00:32:25.490
fuck i guess we're gonna have to you know spend

00:32:25.490 --> 00:32:27.609
some money on dei because that's what they're

00:32:27.609 --> 00:32:29.789
wanting us to do and the shareholders are probably

00:32:29.789 --> 00:32:31.170
like what the fuck are you spending this money

00:32:31.170 --> 00:32:34.029
on for so anyway they're following the lead i

00:32:34.029 --> 00:32:37.829
mean yeah it's great yep well i i i got to experience

00:32:37.829 --> 00:32:40.440
well in corporate america you you You've probably

00:32:40.440 --> 00:32:42.380
experienced it as well, you know. Right. The

00:32:42.380 --> 00:32:45.480
adoption of the pronouns, and I was on calls,

00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:47.859
I've said this before on calls, where my manager,

00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:50.799
who was a vice president, she's a white lady.

00:32:51.019 --> 00:32:53.599
Did she open the meeting with her pronouns? Well,

00:32:53.640 --> 00:32:56.440
yes, but then she also - My name is Jane, I'm

00:32:56.440 --> 00:32:58.900
a Sagittarius, and I identify as he, she, and

00:32:58.900 --> 00:33:04.559
fuck. I have black -rimmed glasses. Yeah, why

00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:06.619
do they describe themselves? I don't know. For

00:33:06.619 --> 00:33:08.579
people who are blind or something? I don't know.

00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:10.519
I didn't understand. I'm wearing dark pants.

00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:14.900
I have a sweater vest on, and I have green glasses

00:33:14.900 --> 00:33:16.720
on. That seems to be the thing, because it's

00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:19.720
like nowadays people are all on TikTok and Instagram,

00:33:19.859 --> 00:33:22.779
and today I'm wearing some shoes by Blue Blue

00:33:22.779 --> 00:33:25.720
Blue and some shirt by Walmart, and I've got

00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:28.700
whatever. I got shoes that were made by slaves

00:33:28.700 --> 00:33:33.779
in China. Yes, exactly. Wow. You have a phone

00:33:33.779 --> 00:33:36.579
made by slaves in China. Exactly. I mean, what

00:33:36.579 --> 00:33:38.440
the hell? I don't understand that. Anyway, keep

00:33:38.440 --> 00:33:41.720
going. Well, anyway, it came up to there was,

00:33:41.740 --> 00:33:44.099
well, this was during the whole George Floyd,

00:33:44.259 --> 00:33:49.180
whole DEI at its peak, wokeness, and she was

00:33:49.180 --> 00:33:53.039
talking about, because there was a space open

00:33:53.039 --> 00:33:57.779
and I think the CFO or something like that left.

00:33:58.140 --> 00:34:00.119
Oh, okay. There's a vacancy? And they're like,

00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:03.259
she's like, well, there's too many white men.

00:34:03.759 --> 00:34:06.259
In the C -suites. Oh, my goodness. It needs to

00:34:06.259 --> 00:34:10.739
be a woman or a person of color or whatever.

00:34:11.019 --> 00:34:13.960
Can I do that? That's illegal. Yep. And finally,

00:34:14.199 --> 00:34:18.579
finally, Trump has kind of ripped off the, or

00:34:18.579 --> 00:34:20.599
kicked over all the rocks on this one. Yeah.

00:34:20.659 --> 00:34:23.699
And their DEI is scurrying. And now you have

00:34:23.699 --> 00:34:25.619
those people that are DEI consultants and they're

00:34:25.619 --> 00:34:27.980
DEI this and DEI that. Their jobs are done. Their

00:34:27.980 --> 00:34:31.239
entire career has been based on. You know, this

00:34:31.239 --> 00:34:34.460
whole bullshit industry. And yeah, and their

00:34:34.460 --> 00:34:35.920
careers, they're going to have to figure out

00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:37.940
something else to do. We'll try to do something

00:34:37.940 --> 00:34:40.539
else. Call it something else. Yeah. So let's

00:34:40.539 --> 00:34:43.480
talk about Doge. This whole Department of Government

00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:45.880
Efficiency, man, they are steamrolling through

00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:49.400
agencies. And people are panicking because they

00:34:49.400 --> 00:34:55.860
are disclosing and exposing corruption. I think

00:34:55.860 --> 00:34:58.159
the key is they're exposing it. How much he can

00:34:58.159 --> 00:35:00.500
actually stop, because that's up to Congress

00:35:00.500 --> 00:35:03.960
to actually stop all of that. He can bring it

00:35:03.960 --> 00:35:08.639
to light so everyone can do. But Trump's firing

00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:10.559
people. He's firing whole departments. He laid

00:35:10.559 --> 00:35:14.179
off everybody from USAID and they froze everything.

00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:19.400
I think the whole go back to work or you're fired

00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:21.840
type of thing, that's been put on hold. Yeah,

00:35:21.860 --> 00:35:24.239
because there are judges that are... You know.

00:35:24.639 --> 00:35:26.679
They're looking at the legality of it. He goes,

00:35:27.059 --> 00:35:28.619
I don't agree or disagree with it, but we need

00:35:28.619 --> 00:35:31.840
to make sure this is a legal thing that he can

00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:34.679
do. I agree with that. Right? Yeah. I mean, but

00:35:34.679 --> 00:35:38.119
he is the CEO of the branch. Of the executive

00:35:38.119 --> 00:35:40.719
branch. Correct. USAID was part of Congress.

00:35:41.179 --> 00:35:45.699
Oh. Are you sure? Yes. Okay. All right. And that

00:35:45.699 --> 00:35:49.639
is a highly corrupt identity. Big time. Dude

00:35:49.639 --> 00:35:52.980
is crazy. Wow. No wonder they're all up in arms.

00:35:53.019 --> 00:35:56.679
They're like, holy shit now. And he must have

00:35:56.679 --> 00:36:00.699
mentioned earlier today that he's now going to

00:36:00.699 --> 00:36:03.420
go after, I'm sorry, that's not what I'm going

00:36:03.420 --> 00:36:06.500
to say. Now he's going to audit all those folks

00:36:06.500 --> 00:36:10.409
that have gone into Congress. and figure out

00:36:10.409 --> 00:36:12.449
if you went into Congress and you're making a

00:36:12.449 --> 00:36:14.210
couple hundred thousand years, your net worth

00:36:14.210 --> 00:36:16.130
is this. Yeah, how did you get that money? How

00:36:16.130 --> 00:36:17.889
did you accumulate all this money? How do you

00:36:17.889 --> 00:36:19.630
suddenly have tens of millions? They're going

00:36:19.630 --> 00:36:22.269
to audit where that money came from and hold

00:36:22.269 --> 00:36:24.750
them accountable. I love it. I mean, they're

00:36:24.750 --> 00:36:26.829
going into everything, and apparently they're

00:36:26.829 --> 00:36:29.389
using AI. Did you know this? Yeah, these guys,

00:36:29.510 --> 00:36:32.769
these young guys. Yes, this whippersnapper SWAT

00:36:32.769 --> 00:36:35.070
team or whatever they are. Yes, with 19 big balls.

00:36:35.389 --> 00:36:39.380
Right? My balls are... to the left and to the

00:36:39.380 --> 00:36:42.099
right. And so they're literally, yeah, they're

00:36:42.099 --> 00:36:44.579
literally going in there and they're attaching

00:36:44.579 --> 00:36:48.460
those systems to AI and turning. You see the

00:36:48.460 --> 00:36:50.699
picture of him too? He looks like Ducky from

00:36:50.699 --> 00:36:55.719
16 Candles. Yes. Yes. It's crazy. And I love

00:36:55.719 --> 00:36:58.079
it. This is going to be the new, and here's the

00:36:58.079 --> 00:37:00.460
thing, I think already there's some states that

00:37:00.460 --> 00:37:03.820
are wanting to form their own Doge, you know,

00:37:03.820 --> 00:37:07.039
agencies for the state. And I bet you there's

00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:09.579
Western countries. I don't think the other ones

00:37:09.579 --> 00:37:11.960
are, but my point is this is going to sweep the

00:37:11.960 --> 00:37:16.500
world. Right. This concept of hooking up AI to

00:37:16.500 --> 00:37:19.579
sniff out corruption and fraudulent, wasteful

00:37:19.579 --> 00:37:21.739
spending is... Well, I can't get over some of

00:37:21.739 --> 00:37:24.380
the shit that this USAID was spending on. A lot

00:37:24.380 --> 00:37:27.800
of these, like $50 million on Botswanan lesbian

00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:31.000
education or something crazy like that. Right.

00:37:31.059 --> 00:37:34.219
The same thing over in Serbia. There is trans...

00:37:35.150 --> 00:37:37.710
You know, a million and a half dollars in Serbia

00:37:37.710 --> 00:37:41.110
for trans classes. Trying to advance the liberal

00:37:41.110 --> 00:37:44.750
ideology around the world. The gay opera. Trans

00:37:44.750 --> 00:37:46.750
opera. You know, there's another one in Brazil.

00:37:47.309 --> 00:37:49.630
Tons. Just rip all that shit off, man. Just get

00:37:49.630 --> 00:37:52.710
it all out of there. And I think it's actually

00:37:52.710 --> 00:37:58.340
criminal for these. I don't care if it's left

00:37:58.340 --> 00:38:00.579
or right. Look, they're going to find corruption

00:38:00.579 --> 00:38:03.860
on both sides. It's not a matter of left or right,

00:38:03.880 --> 00:38:06.760
in my opinion. It's kind of sketchy that only

00:38:06.760 --> 00:38:08.519
the left are really kind of contesting this.

00:38:08.639 --> 00:38:10.599
But to me, it's kind of like it's a right or

00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:12.780
wrong. You know, I want money to be spent on

00:38:12.780 --> 00:38:15.039
things that are for the United States to make

00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:17.440
our country great. We're the ones that are earning

00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:22.019
that money. We work our asses off and we pay

00:38:22.019 --> 00:38:25.159
our taxes so that we're covered. in our city

00:38:25.159 --> 00:38:27.739
and state. And the federal government, yeah,

00:38:27.800 --> 00:38:30.019
we need to pay some money to make sure that we're

00:38:30.019 --> 00:38:32.280
protected and that the people that are running

00:38:32.280 --> 00:38:35.159
our country have our best interest in mind for

00:38:35.159 --> 00:38:38.179
our commerce and to keep our fuel prices low

00:38:38.179 --> 00:38:40.739
and to make sure that we're taken care of. Advance

00:38:40.739 --> 00:38:45.320
our space program so that we can explore Mars

00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:48.219
or whatever. No, no, no. I totally agree. It's

00:38:48.219 --> 00:38:50.239
bullshit that we have to spend all this money

00:38:50.239 --> 00:38:53.059
outside of the United States and to find out

00:38:53.059 --> 00:38:55.780
that Zelensky, From Ukraine, turns out, hey,

00:38:55.840 --> 00:39:00.820
man, I got like, was it he got 60 % of it or

00:39:00.820 --> 00:39:05.079
40 % of it? It was a, it wasn't, he didn't get

00:39:05.079 --> 00:39:06.679
all the money that we sent over there. Yeah,

00:39:06.719 --> 00:39:09.119
meaning we're saying in the news that we're sending

00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:11.840
$180 billion. And he's like, dude, I got $70

00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:13.920
billion. That's all I got. I don't know the exact

00:39:13.920 --> 00:39:15.699
numbers. I forget off the top of my head. But

00:39:15.699 --> 00:39:17.900
it was major. He's like, I don't know what you

00:39:17.900 --> 00:39:19.300
guys are talking about. I don't know where that

00:39:19.300 --> 00:39:21.099
money went. And when you say stuff like that,

00:39:21.139 --> 00:39:23.219
I don't know where that money went. I mean, what

00:39:23.219 --> 00:39:26.599
he's saying is he never got it. Yeah. He's not

00:39:26.599 --> 00:39:27.980
saying he doesn't know what happened to it. So

00:39:27.980 --> 00:39:29.760
that was skimmed off the top. That's more than

00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:31.860
skimming if it's like 60%. That's where that

00:39:31.860 --> 00:39:34.460
pork goes to on its way trickling there. The

00:39:34.460 --> 00:39:37.659
guy that drove the bus to the airplane to hop

00:39:37.659 --> 00:39:40.559
it on a boat to get it over to Ukraine. And then

00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:42.619
the Ukraine, they had to pay all these oligarchs

00:39:42.619 --> 00:39:44.880
to make sure it was safely got over to Zelensky.

00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:47.480
And by the time he got to him, it's like, hey,

00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:49.739
I got like less than half. I think it was like

00:39:49.739 --> 00:39:52.800
63%. I think that's how much he actually received.

00:39:53.159 --> 00:39:56.119
I may be lying. I don't know. That's crazy. Also,

00:39:56.900 --> 00:39:59.400
the thing with what we have to keep in mind is

00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:03.639
this USAID and all these other government entities,

00:40:03.840 --> 00:40:06.860
they're not elected people. No. These are just

00:40:06.860 --> 00:40:10.139
dudes and chicks in there doing this work. Bureaucrats.

00:40:10.380 --> 00:40:13.820
Bureaucrats that are spending our billions of

00:40:13.820 --> 00:40:15.760
dollars of our tax money. And doing the bidding

00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:19.679
at... Congress people and lobbyists. And when

00:40:19.679 --> 00:40:22.340
you get those 5 ,000 page bills that show up

00:40:22.340 --> 00:40:24.280
and they got to go through it in Congress and

00:40:24.280 --> 00:40:25.880
pass it, they're like, I'm not reading that whole

00:40:25.880 --> 00:40:29.239
fucking thing. And on page 422 at the very bottom,

00:40:29.260 --> 00:40:31.400
it says we're going to allocate $5 million to

00:40:31.400 --> 00:40:34.159
have some sort of trans opera in Bangladesh.

00:40:34.659 --> 00:40:38.500
And I heard today that Elon Musk said that they're

00:40:38.500 --> 00:40:41.579
not even following the most basic accounting

00:40:41.579 --> 00:40:44.809
procedures. Meaning there's no documentation

00:40:44.809 --> 00:40:47.809
on what it's for? Yeah. Like who it went to?

00:40:47.809 --> 00:40:49.489
There's no checkbook. The Treasury Department

00:40:49.489 --> 00:40:51.869
doesn't have a checkbook where they're marking

00:40:51.869 --> 00:40:54.130
where the money goes. It's unbelievable. You

00:40:54.130 --> 00:40:55.869
have a check. You just wrote it for $50 million.

00:40:56.329 --> 00:40:58.530
Where did that go? I don't know. It says minus

00:40:58.530 --> 00:41:00.510
50, but it doesn't say where it went. Right.

00:41:00.550 --> 00:41:02.510
Well, where is that $50 million coming from?

00:41:03.849 --> 00:41:05.889
Their bank account. I heard there was a Milton

00:41:05.889 --> 00:41:08.530
Friedman. I was listening to Dan Bongino today,

00:41:08.610 --> 00:41:13.069
and he played a Milton Friedman clip. Interesting

00:41:13.069 --> 00:41:16.210
concept. And it's basically, there's always a

00:41:16.210 --> 00:41:21.690
balanced budget. Because if you open up your

00:41:21.690 --> 00:41:24.949
business and you get a $1 ,000 grant, they're

00:41:24.949 --> 00:41:26.550
still writing checks even though we're at a deficit.

00:41:27.090 --> 00:41:30.170
Right. Right? So that money's coming from somewhere.

00:41:30.349 --> 00:41:32.250
It's basic accounting, yes. What they do is they

00:41:32.250 --> 00:41:34.489
go in there and they just print more money. Right.

00:41:35.090 --> 00:41:36.989
That's how they do it. Oh, we need another $1

00:41:36.989 --> 00:41:41.780
,000. So I think it's kind of interesting. Remember

00:41:41.780 --> 00:41:43.719
when the whole Epstein thing hit and everybody

00:41:43.719 --> 00:41:45.440
was like, oh, man, the client list is going to

00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:47.340
get turned loose and all these people are getting

00:41:47.340 --> 00:41:49.239
really nervous? I think it's the same concept

00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:52.679
here. The more they start digging into where

00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:55.579
this money is being paid for and then it goes

00:41:55.579 --> 00:41:58.179
back to this congressman or that congressman,

00:41:58.199 --> 00:42:00.800
left or right. It may have been a meme, but I

00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:03.019
saw somewhere out there that Epstein received

00:42:03.019 --> 00:42:06.800
money from USAID. Right. I mean, I'm just saying

00:42:06.800 --> 00:42:09.139
people are getting nervous because it's not going

00:42:09.139 --> 00:42:11.079
to look good for their political careers. And

00:42:11.079 --> 00:42:12.820
I think Maxine Waters is right at the top of

00:42:12.820 --> 00:42:14.559
that list. She looks like a lunatic out there.

00:42:14.699 --> 00:42:16.800
She does. She's panicked. You see her yelling

00:42:16.800 --> 00:42:18.619
at that security guy? Yeah. What's your name?

00:42:18.960 --> 00:42:20.559
What's your name? I already showed you my ID.

00:42:20.780 --> 00:42:23.139
Poor dude. Did you see his face though? He was

00:42:23.139 --> 00:42:26.679
just like, kill me. Unbelievable. Kill me now.

00:42:26.920 --> 00:42:29.320
Right. Why isn't there a red dot on my forehead?

00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:32.780
Take me out. Take me out now. He was miserable.

00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:34.860
He should have pulled a cigarette out. And it

00:42:34.860 --> 00:42:38.039
looked so bad for the Democrats. The more they

00:42:38.039 --> 00:42:40.820
do this, the worse they make it for themselves.

00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:43.159
Well, especially as it comes out that all these

00:42:43.159 --> 00:42:45.900
ridiculous things where millions of dollars are

00:42:45.900 --> 00:42:49.199
going to, they're fighting for that. Yes. You're

00:42:49.199 --> 00:42:52.960
telling me you're for the spending. Right. Because

00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:55.719
there's going to be 42 million that goes to rebuilding

00:42:55.719 --> 00:42:59.599
orphanages that got destroyed during the Serbian

00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:01.119
war. You know what I mean? There's going to be.

00:43:01.239 --> 00:43:02.960
There's goodness in there. There's goodness in

00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:05.679
there. And by the way, he hasn't brought up any

00:43:05.679 --> 00:43:07.619
of the goodness being something that, you know,

00:43:07.619 --> 00:43:10.719
needs to be whacked. But, you know, so what they

00:43:10.719 --> 00:43:14.599
should be saying is, you know, you're trying

00:43:14.599 --> 00:43:17.599
to throw the baby out with the bathwater. You

00:43:17.599 --> 00:43:19.179
know, that's what they should be saying. But

00:43:19.179 --> 00:43:22.820
they're just like, you know, Musk is, you know,

00:43:22.820 --> 00:43:24.659
he's unelected. Yeah, they're talking about getting

00:43:24.659 --> 00:43:27.800
rid of food for seniors. You know, kids aren't

00:43:27.800 --> 00:43:29.460
going to be able to have their school lunches.

00:43:29.460 --> 00:43:32.539
Meals on wheels. Yeah. And that's all a lie.

00:43:32.679 --> 00:43:34.780
Well, it is because I think the government pays

00:43:34.780 --> 00:43:37.480
like 2 % of that. Right. The rest of it's from

00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:39.300
other funding. What do you think about the Department

00:43:39.300 --> 00:43:42.039
of Education being like completely... I don't

00:43:42.039 --> 00:43:44.619
know. I think they're... I don't know. I heard

00:43:44.619 --> 00:43:46.949
some really good comments on... on the radio

00:43:46.949 --> 00:43:50.769
today in support of at least some kind of Department

00:43:50.769 --> 00:43:53.949
of Education because now all our kids are out

00:43:53.949 --> 00:43:56.070
of school, so it wouldn't impact us necessarily.

00:43:56.230 --> 00:43:58.570
But the concern is, you throw this down to the

00:43:58.570 --> 00:44:02.809
states, are we confident that Los Angeles School

00:44:02.809 --> 00:44:06.150
District is going to do a good job at schooling

00:44:06.150 --> 00:44:09.329
their kids? So here's my thought on this. Each

00:44:09.329 --> 00:44:11.869
city and state can do their own thing, and there

00:44:11.869 --> 00:44:14.139
could be some really... Really bad ones out there.

00:44:14.179 --> 00:44:16.460
Chicago, New York. Yeah, but I don't know how

00:44:16.460 --> 00:44:17.880
much the Department of Education, the Federal

00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:20.900
Department of Education, you know, how much do

00:44:20.900 --> 00:44:23.360
they really dictate? My understanding is not

00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:26.880
that much. I don't know. That wasn't one of the

00:44:26.880 --> 00:44:30.280
comments today. I would want to find out who's

00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:32.539
in charge of making the textbooks. Like, who

00:44:32.539 --> 00:44:35.440
approves all that stuff? That's in Texas? It's

00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:38.119
Texas. Well, I mean, but my point is that if

00:44:38.119 --> 00:44:40.929
you have a history class. History doesn't change.

00:44:41.110 --> 00:44:43.909
You just add to it. You're not going back and

00:44:43.909 --> 00:44:45.710
changing things. And that's what they're doing

00:44:45.710 --> 00:44:49.550
now. You go back. Right now, if you have a textbook

00:44:49.550 --> 00:44:52.230
in college, they're not going to say things about

00:44:52.230 --> 00:44:54.150
Trump that are great. They're going to say things

00:44:54.150 --> 00:44:58.079
that are bad about him. I don't want any of that.

00:44:58.179 --> 00:45:00.800
I want what actually happened. Just the facts

00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:02.980
on it. And all that should be changed. And it

00:45:02.980 --> 00:45:05.239
should be uniform. It should be United States

00:45:05.239 --> 00:45:08.840
history. If I have a ninth grade class in Los

00:45:08.840 --> 00:45:12.400
Angeles, the ninth grade class in New York City

00:45:12.400 --> 00:45:15.639
should have the same book. Then there needs to

00:45:15.639 --> 00:45:19.179
be a federal oversight into that. And to that,

00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:21.579
that's where I agree. I think there should be

00:45:21.579 --> 00:45:25.039
some sort of federal... A collective where you

00:45:25.039 --> 00:45:28.460
do have a panel, but not to the tune of whatever

00:45:28.460 --> 00:45:31.480
they spend, $50 billion or something on the education

00:45:31.480 --> 00:45:33.800
department. No, you can get probably $50 million

00:45:33.800 --> 00:45:38.780
and have probably 500 people managing it and

00:45:38.780 --> 00:45:40.920
making sure it's not woke, making sure it's just

00:45:40.920 --> 00:45:42.539
the facts. You know, you've got to teach the

00:45:42.539 --> 00:45:44.539
kids arithmetic. We're spending the most money

00:45:44.539 --> 00:45:48.159
on school per kid. Than any country on the planet.

00:45:48.260 --> 00:45:50.760
And our kids are at the bottom of the pool when

00:45:50.760 --> 00:45:52.800
it comes to intelligence. Yeah. All right. So

00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:54.360
it's interesting. Our producer has some things.

00:45:54.420 --> 00:45:56.480
The key functions of the Department of Education

00:45:56.480 --> 00:45:59.039
is policy development and oversight, meaning

00:45:59.039 --> 00:46:00.980
it's establishing policies for federal financial

00:46:00.980 --> 00:46:03.579
aid. and monitors the distribution of these funds.

00:46:03.699 --> 00:46:06.760
So it has nothing to do with, well, so far. So

00:46:06.760 --> 00:46:08.820
you're talking about college aid. So let's say

00:46:08.820 --> 00:46:11.239
I want to get a loan for college. They're going

00:46:11.239 --> 00:46:13.539
to be instrumental in that. Maybe. And then funding

00:46:13.539 --> 00:46:14.840
and financial aid. Which is corrupt as shit.

00:46:15.059 --> 00:46:16.820
Yeah, then we have Pell Grants, student loans,

00:46:17.059 --> 00:46:19.099
work -study assistance for higher education,

00:46:19.239 --> 00:46:23.480
funding for K -12. It's not necessarily what

00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:26.659
they teach, but it's, you know, funding for it.

00:46:26.960 --> 00:46:28.380
And then here's data collection and research.

00:46:28.539 --> 00:46:30.800
All right, data on schools and students to analyze

00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:34.079
trends and improve policy policies. See, I'm

00:46:34.079 --> 00:46:35.420
not seeing anything, support for disadvantaged

00:46:35.420 --> 00:46:37.980
groups. I'm not seeing anything about what they

00:46:37.980 --> 00:46:42.920
teach. So, and there's room for all that at a

00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:45.420
microcosm, at a micro level. You don't need a,

00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:47.800
the budget that they have, it doesn't require,

00:46:48.099 --> 00:46:50.239
it doesn't warrant that. It's massively bloated

00:46:50.239 --> 00:46:53.019
and inefficient. Unless that money that was going

00:46:53.019 --> 00:46:57.219
towards the government is going towards, The

00:46:57.219 --> 00:46:59.579
paying of some of these kids' colleges, which

00:46:59.579 --> 00:47:03.000
I don't think it is. Yeah. Is it? So I think

00:47:03.000 --> 00:47:05.079
they're going to trim this way back. I agree

00:47:05.079 --> 00:47:07.280
with that. It's kind of like Twitter. Small team.

00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:09.420
Must put in there and 80 % off. Boom. I don't

00:47:09.420 --> 00:47:12.019
think it'll 100 % go away, but I think it's going

00:47:12.019 --> 00:47:15.539
to be completely cut down, like you said. Yeah.

00:47:15.800 --> 00:47:19.179
Efficiency built into it. Because some of this

00:47:19.179 --> 00:47:21.159
stuff makes sense. You know, the Disabilities

00:47:21.159 --> 00:47:24.320
and Education Act. And he doesn't want to kill

00:47:24.320 --> 00:47:26.800
it. With the sped kids and stuff like that. I

00:47:26.800 --> 00:47:28.739
think there's a need for that. This is all about

00:47:28.739 --> 00:47:31.960
rooting out inefficiencies. Correct. And I think

00:47:31.960 --> 00:47:33.840
that's the spirit of what he's doing. And I think

00:47:33.840 --> 00:47:36.860
it's perfect that they locked them out because

00:47:36.860 --> 00:47:39.639
they don't need them. There's no room for them.

00:47:39.960 --> 00:47:42.599
I mean, Maxine Waters and the get -along gang.

00:47:42.780 --> 00:47:44.340
There's no room for them in there. There's no

00:47:44.340 --> 00:47:45.800
reason for them to get in there. Well, what were

00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:47.300
they going to do when they get in there? Oh,

00:47:47.579 --> 00:47:49.500
it was a photo op. What did you want to do? They

00:47:49.500 --> 00:47:51.619
wanted to talk to the acting director of the

00:47:51.619 --> 00:47:53.320
Department of Education. They just want to walk

00:47:53.320 --> 00:47:54.960
around like a rooster. I'll tell you what. The

00:47:54.960 --> 00:47:57.000
problem for them is that they've been able to

00:47:57.000 --> 00:47:59.000
do what they want for the last four years without

00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:01.260
any repercussions, without anybody telling them

00:48:01.260 --> 00:48:03.659
that they know. And the fact that someone said

00:48:03.659 --> 00:48:05.940
no to them, they're like a child. They're throwing

00:48:05.940 --> 00:48:09.360
a temper tantrum. It's ridiculous. Totally. was

00:48:09.360 --> 00:48:11.840
embarrassing it was embarrassing to see that

00:48:11.840 --> 00:48:15.019
it was unbelievable and then they and then they

00:48:15.019 --> 00:48:17.920
were out you know and before that they were you

00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:19.659
know having some sort of rally or something and

00:48:19.659 --> 00:48:21.159
they were taking turns at the microphone and

00:48:21.159 --> 00:48:22.239
they were bleeping them out because they're all

00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:25.019
cursing oh yeah i'm like okay this just looks

00:48:25.019 --> 00:48:27.300
you look foolish yeah does this cussing gonna

00:48:27.300 --> 00:48:30.280
sway me oh you said you look completely childish

00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:34.019
unhinged and desperate and the more you do it

00:48:34.019 --> 00:48:37.610
the better the better it is for the people that

00:48:37.610 --> 00:48:39.489
are wanting to do this. Chuck Schumer needs to

00:48:39.489 --> 00:48:41.889
distance himself from this. Otherwise, he's already

00:48:41.889 --> 00:48:43.150
an idiot, but this is going to make him look

00:48:43.150 --> 00:48:46.630
even worse. Totally. Did you see when he was

00:48:46.630 --> 00:48:48.570
trying to rally the groups, his little chant?

00:48:49.199 --> 00:48:52.300
It was so bad. It was so bad. And he threw him

00:48:52.300 --> 00:48:55.000
off the rhythm. I know. Because whatever it was,

00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:57.300
he did kind of an opposite. And we're not going

00:48:57.300 --> 00:49:00.119
to, let's get this. And he's like, let's not

00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:01.679
do something else. I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:49:01.719 --> 00:49:03.099
You just fucked everything up. It's like the

00:49:03.099 --> 00:49:06.940
one person that's clapping opposite. Yes. Yeah.

00:49:07.019 --> 00:49:09.079
I mean, it's crazy. So bad. All right. So let's

00:49:09.079 --> 00:49:11.739
talk about the Super Bowl. Oh, well. It was kind

00:49:11.739 --> 00:49:13.880
of, I don't know if it was anticlimactic because

00:49:13.880 --> 00:49:16.619
it was an ass threshing. There's Chuck Schumer

00:49:16.619 --> 00:49:19.050
up there. Yeah, I know. He's pathetic. It was

00:49:19.050 --> 00:49:21.010
so embarrassing. And the thing that Chuck Schumer

00:49:21.010 --> 00:49:24.230
has ties with, I mean, you see lots of pictures

00:49:24.230 --> 00:49:27.389
of him and the Russian president. What's his

00:49:27.389 --> 00:49:29.989
name? Putin. Yeah, Putin. They've got tons of

00:49:29.989 --> 00:49:32.730
pictures of he and Putin together out gallivanting

00:49:32.730 --> 00:49:36.650
in New York. And it's like, dude, you know. What

00:49:36.650 --> 00:49:38.610
did that happen? He's so full of shit. Just Google

00:49:38.610 --> 00:49:40.090
it, man. When's the last time Putin was over

00:49:40.090 --> 00:49:42.730
here? It was probably a decade, but it didn't

00:49:42.730 --> 00:49:43.969
matter. They were buddies. They were hanging

00:49:43.969 --> 00:49:45.590
out. They're having a coffee together, and I

00:49:45.590 --> 00:49:49.500
think a frosty at McDonald's. Right. Yeah, I

00:49:49.500 --> 00:49:52.980
don't know. I'm sure it's not unusual. There

00:49:52.980 --> 00:49:55.500
you go. That's exactly what I see right there.

00:49:55.579 --> 00:49:57.699
Oh, God, look how young. That was a while back.

00:49:57.800 --> 00:50:00.940
That was a long time ago. Schumer's like, I got

00:50:00.940 --> 00:50:03.599
a bathhouse around the corner. Let's go. He's

00:50:03.599 --> 00:50:05.719
got a creepy look on his face. You know, that's

00:50:05.719 --> 00:50:07.079
one thing that makes me sick, though. Every time

00:50:07.079 --> 00:50:11.119
you can find decades -old pictures of all of

00:50:11.119 --> 00:50:12.860
these politicians, and they're still in office.

00:50:13.340 --> 00:50:17.579
Yes. They're super young, super old, a baby.

00:50:18.010 --> 00:50:22.030
And an old man. Forever, forever, forever. Who's

00:50:22.030 --> 00:50:26.730
the old lady who was the speaker? What was her

00:50:26.730 --> 00:50:28.909
name? Nancy Pelosi. Oh, yeah. You can see her.

00:50:28.949 --> 00:50:31.010
There's like black and white photos of her way

00:50:31.010 --> 00:50:33.030
back in the day. Before they had color. See,

00:50:33.070 --> 00:50:35.530
this is what they should teach in high school

00:50:35.530 --> 00:50:38.449
because they taught this originally that when

00:50:38.449 --> 00:50:40.510
Senate and Congress was created, even the president,

00:50:40.550 --> 00:50:43.550
that you were to step away from your job, participate.

00:50:44.979 --> 00:50:48.079
in politics and then step back out and go back

00:50:48.079 --> 00:50:49.519
into your job. That's the way it was supposed

00:50:49.519 --> 00:50:52.119
to be. I know. I think that if they were to teach

00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:55.460
that in school now and just say, hey, look, we're

00:50:55.460 --> 00:50:59.119
weeding out. Instead of making these career politicians

00:50:59.119 --> 00:51:02.619
a career politician, they just need to weed them

00:51:02.619 --> 00:51:05.420
out. Yeah. Just like a president. Now, the black

00:51:05.420 --> 00:51:07.159
and white picture of her, but that doesn't mean

00:51:07.159 --> 00:51:09.119
that's when she went into Congress. Well, there

00:51:09.119 --> 00:51:11.610
are some other pictures. Oh, are they? That's

00:51:11.610 --> 00:51:13.150
hilarious. When she was getting into politics.

00:51:13.210 --> 00:51:15.510
Yeah. There's a couple. Oh, there she is with

00:51:15.510 --> 00:51:18.909
JFK. Pretty juggy, too. Oh, stop it. What? She

00:51:18.909 --> 00:51:21.090
was a cute lady back then. JFK is not juggy.

00:51:21.269 --> 00:51:23.949
Oh, Lord. Did you see that wrinkled up scrotum

00:51:23.949 --> 00:51:25.949
face of her? That was. I know. It's just not

00:51:25.949 --> 00:51:29.070
pretty. Look, I don't. She's been around. She's

00:51:29.070 --> 00:51:31.309
been in politics for probably 60 years. She is

00:51:31.309 --> 00:51:35.530
what it is, man. It's just. Oh, it's nauseating.

00:51:35.889 --> 00:51:38.599
All right. Anyway. Can we get off of politics

00:51:38.599 --> 00:51:41.179
for a little bit? Well, yeah, we were talking

00:51:41.179 --> 00:51:43.639
about what we were doing. Super Bowl? Super Bowl,

00:51:43.699 --> 00:51:46.599
yeah. I mean, is there nothing exciting about

00:51:46.599 --> 00:51:49.400
that at all? No. You know what? There just wasn't.

00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:51.199
At least the Chiefs didn't get their three -peat.

00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:56.219
I mean, Taylor Swift got booed, and I kind of

00:51:56.219 --> 00:51:58.059
felt bad for her because I don't think she wants

00:51:58.059 --> 00:52:00.239
to be on the TV screen. I don't think her fans

00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:01.699
want to be on the TV screen. She's just there

00:52:01.699 --> 00:52:03.900
to support her boyfriend. Yeah, and the buzz

00:52:03.900 --> 00:52:08.530
is that the— The Chiefs have received 40 % more

00:52:08.530 --> 00:52:11.869
fans because of her, and frankly, I don't care.

00:52:11.869 --> 00:52:12.909
I don't believe that at all. I don't believe

00:52:12.909 --> 00:52:15.530
it, and I don't care, because I think that the

00:52:15.530 --> 00:52:17.650
Chief fans themselves, first of all, they didn't

00:52:17.650 --> 00:52:21.010
even show up. The majority of the stadium was

00:52:21.010 --> 00:52:23.409
packed with Eagles. Is that true? Yes. I thought

00:52:23.409 --> 00:52:26.190
who was booing. Well, I know. It's easy to hear

00:52:26.190 --> 00:52:29.210
boos, but I mean, do we know what the fans were?

00:52:29.389 --> 00:52:33.170
Like 75 -25. Do you know that for a fact? That's

00:52:33.170 --> 00:52:35.659
what they said. That's what they said. Based

00:52:35.659 --> 00:52:38.119
on the colors. Because Chiefs fans travel very

00:52:38.119 --> 00:52:40.820
well. But I guess it was so damn expensive that

00:52:40.820 --> 00:52:42.440
they couldn't go to the Super Bowl. I mean, it's

00:52:42.440 --> 00:52:44.440
not easy to go to the Super Bowl. No. It's expensive

00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:48.360
as hell. And remember, a lot of them aren't even

00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:51.940
for a team. They just want to go. They got tickets.

00:52:52.380 --> 00:52:54.659
They're corporate. Just like those. Do you see

00:52:54.659 --> 00:52:57.480
the group of old guys who have gone to every

00:52:57.480 --> 00:53:00.000
single Super Bowl? Right. Every single Super

00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:01.699
Bowl has this group of friends, and they're like

00:53:01.699 --> 00:53:03.599
in their 80s now. Right, right. Most of them

00:53:03.599 --> 00:53:05.639
are corporate tickets, right? Oh, yeah. I mean,

00:53:05.719 --> 00:53:07.980
it's people who don't even like football, don't

00:53:07.980 --> 00:53:09.360
even understand football, and there they are

00:53:09.360 --> 00:53:12.360
sitting in a $5 ,000 seat going, oh, Kendrick

00:53:12.360 --> 00:53:16.260
is performing. Yay! He sucked. Dude, it was awful.

00:53:16.579 --> 00:53:18.920
I didn't understand it at all. Well, the young

00:53:18.920 --> 00:53:23.000
kids liked it. My son loved it. Yeah. And I was

00:53:23.000 --> 00:53:25.500
kind of like, why? And I read a very insightful

00:53:25.500 --> 00:53:27.960
article about it, because... They were like,

00:53:28.079 --> 00:53:30.260
okay, so you didn't get it. You didn't get the

00:53:30.260 --> 00:53:33.079
Super Bowl, the halftime show. Here's where they're

00:53:33.079 --> 00:53:36.639
going with that. I was like, it's primarily minorities,

00:53:36.940 --> 00:53:41.480
right? And it's primarily young, you know, rappers.

00:53:41.820 --> 00:53:43.780
And, you know, because they're catering to a

00:53:43.780 --> 00:53:45.960
younger audience, they know that the majority

00:53:45.960 --> 00:53:49.119
of the viewers are, you know, 60 % of the country

00:53:49.119 --> 00:53:52.260
is, you know, white and old, right? And so they

00:53:52.260 --> 00:53:55.599
kind of outlined. They're trying to capture a

00:53:55.599 --> 00:53:59.429
younger. Audience? Yes. Yes. Because they want

00:53:59.429 --> 00:54:02.949
to be trendy and relevant, and they know if they

00:54:02.949 --> 00:54:05.489
trot out Paul McCartney, it doesn't do anything

00:54:05.489 --> 00:54:07.030
for the younger generation. That won't do anything

00:54:07.030 --> 00:54:10.289
for me either. Yeah, it's kind of tough. I think

00:54:10.289 --> 00:54:15.670
they just should have a combination of... artists

00:54:15.670 --> 00:54:17.469
up there. That's a good idea. Just balance it

00:54:17.469 --> 00:54:18.769
out a little bit. Yeah, if you want diversity.

00:54:19.030 --> 00:54:21.449
That Bruno Mars one they did, and granted I didn't

00:54:21.449 --> 00:54:23.969
like the Black Panther kind of scheme that they

00:54:23.969 --> 00:54:28.409
had going on, but the music was good. It's not

00:54:28.409 --> 00:54:31.289
that the music from this past one was bad, it

00:54:31.289 --> 00:54:33.489
just wasn't for me. I'm just not a fan of rap.

00:54:33.650 --> 00:54:36.969
I'm just not. And I understand that it's incredibly

00:54:36.969 --> 00:54:43.340
popular. And the whole Samuel Jackson Right.

00:54:43.440 --> 00:54:46.460
Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam. I mean, that didn't fit

00:54:46.460 --> 00:54:49.780
well either. Why does it have to be so predominantly

00:54:49.780 --> 00:54:52.860
black? I'm not against black, but every Super

00:54:52.860 --> 00:54:55.960
Bowl seems to be dominating. And then we had,

00:54:56.019 --> 00:54:59.639
what's her name, Beyonce. Beyonce, yeah. What

00:54:59.639 --> 00:55:02.940
was it? Grammys. No, she performed at the halftime

00:55:02.940 --> 00:55:07.719
of one of the playoff games or something in Houston.

00:55:07.840 --> 00:55:10.079
Oh, that's when she all wore white. Yeah, all

00:55:10.079 --> 00:55:13.010
of them. It was the prelude to her Grammy win.

00:55:13.230 --> 00:55:16.989
Yes. And it was, again, so primarily black. I

00:55:16.989 --> 00:55:20.389
don't understand why isn't there diversity? It

00:55:20.389 --> 00:55:23.989
seems to be. Oh, now you want diversity. I find

00:55:23.989 --> 00:55:25.250
that interesting. It only goes one way. Come

00:55:25.250 --> 00:55:27.369
on. I don't understand it. I just don't understand

00:55:27.369 --> 00:55:29.130
it. I don't care. And maybe that sounds racist,

00:55:29.230 --> 00:55:31.710
but I'm just like. Here's where it's, it's where

00:55:31.710 --> 00:55:34.289
the money hits. Okay. So, I mean, that's the

00:55:34.289 --> 00:55:38.159
bottom line. So, I mean, it wasn't for me. I'm

00:55:38.159 --> 00:55:40.139
not going to go buy it. If it was where the money

00:55:40.139 --> 00:55:41.780
hits, they'd put Taylor Swift out there to sing

00:55:41.780 --> 00:55:44.699
it. That's true, too. Look, I'm not a huge fan

00:55:44.699 --> 00:55:46.900
of Taylor Swift, but she's bubbly. She's fun.

00:55:47.019 --> 00:55:49.019
I don't give a shit. She's an amazing entertainer.

00:55:49.019 --> 00:55:51.780
She's the top pop artist in the world, and she

00:55:51.780 --> 00:55:54.440
writes her own stuff. Kudos to her. Yeah. And

00:55:54.440 --> 00:55:55.960
I don't know those other artists. And you know

00:55:55.960 --> 00:55:57.519
what? And I don't know a lot of Taylor Swift

00:55:57.519 --> 00:55:59.360
songs. Maybe I do and I don't know it, but I

00:55:59.360 --> 00:56:00.840
mean, there's a couple songs. I think you'll

00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:03.239
recognize more than you think. I mean, she's

00:56:03.239 --> 00:56:05.000
got a lot of fun, catchy, I know every single

00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:07.179
one of them and all the lyrics. Oh, I've seen

00:56:07.179 --> 00:56:09.320
Chuck do like the break dance and he could do

00:56:09.320 --> 00:56:11.420
the worm, like to one of her songs. Chuck can

00:56:11.420 --> 00:56:13.420
do the worm? The worm? Well, it's more of a waller,

00:56:13.440 --> 00:56:16.599
but it was, huh. Like an inchworm? How come I

00:56:16.599 --> 00:56:18.039
haven't seen that? There's no evidence of that.

00:56:20.269 --> 00:56:22.349
I would think you would end up as an I've fallen

00:56:22.349 --> 00:56:25.969
and I can't get up episode. But as far as the

00:56:25.969 --> 00:56:28.710
Super Bowl goes, we all went over to Sean's house

00:56:28.710 --> 00:56:31.949
and watched it. It was pretty much out of control

00:56:31.949 --> 00:56:35.730
in the first half. Oh, yeah. It was 27 to 0 in

00:56:35.730 --> 00:56:36.690
the half. By the way, those ribs are finally

00:56:36.690 --> 00:56:40.610
done. They were what? They're finally done. I

00:56:40.610 --> 00:56:42.150
actually didn't even have a rib because I was

00:56:42.150 --> 00:56:45.650
enjoying the brats and I was enjoying the pork.

00:56:47.210 --> 00:56:49.889
And the goulash? And the goulash was good. I

00:56:49.889 --> 00:56:51.510
just never even got around to the ribs because

00:56:51.510 --> 00:56:52.869
you were still wrestling with them. And then

00:56:52.869 --> 00:56:56.809
at that point, I got full. I got lucky, man.

00:56:56.969 --> 00:56:58.989
You take a plate with you. You left the freaking

00:56:58.989 --> 00:57:01.309
cactus there. You left your football square thing

00:57:01.309 --> 00:57:03.510
there. We're going to put that in here somewhere.

00:57:03.730 --> 00:57:05.590
All right, so football squares, usually my wife,

00:57:05.650 --> 00:57:07.230
because we're debating on whether we're going

00:57:07.230 --> 00:57:08.590
to go to Chuck's or mine's or wherever we're

00:57:08.590 --> 00:57:10.469
going to have the pot. My wife likes to do it.

00:57:10.719 --> 00:57:14.500
She is a great host, I just have to say. She

00:57:14.500 --> 00:57:16.360
got butt hurt when I said, hey, we're going over

00:57:16.360 --> 00:57:18.219
to Chuck's. She was kind of like, I'm not committing

00:57:18.219 --> 00:57:21.980
to that. And I was like, what? You're not committing

00:57:21.980 --> 00:57:23.760
to that? Yeah, there's no democracy here. There

00:57:23.760 --> 00:57:27.219
wasn't. And so, whatever. I like to do football

00:57:27.219 --> 00:57:28.800
squares. And Tara goes out. She prides herself.

00:57:28.960 --> 00:57:31.780
She buys little first, second, third, and final

00:57:31.780 --> 00:57:33.539
for the football squares. I print them up on

00:57:33.539 --> 00:57:35.480
the thing. We sign our names on them. And they're

00:57:35.480 --> 00:57:38.690
just gag gifts. It's fun. It still is a lot of

00:57:38.690 --> 00:57:40.150
fun. It's a lot and a lot of food. And look,

00:57:40.210 --> 00:57:41.989
man, I'd rather have too much food than too little.

00:57:42.250 --> 00:57:44.730
So, yeah, every single time. And I learned a

00:57:44.730 --> 00:57:48.469
valuable lesson. Oh, what was that? I got to

00:57:48.469 --> 00:57:51.429
monitor those ribs better. You know, because

00:57:51.429 --> 00:57:53.690
chronologically from the time. Yeah, what happened?

00:57:53.769 --> 00:57:55.710
What do you mean? Well, I wanted the ribs to

00:57:55.710 --> 00:57:58.349
fall off the bone. Of course. That's every rib

00:57:58.349 --> 00:58:00.409
smoker's dream, right? That's what I wanted.

00:58:00.469 --> 00:58:03.500
But when, and Frank, did you try them? I had

00:58:03.500 --> 00:58:06.019
one. I tried like, I ate like 10. So, I mean,

00:58:06.039 --> 00:58:08.440
they were, they tasted really good, but it just

00:58:08.440 --> 00:58:12.719
like. They didn't. They weren't finished. I know

00:58:12.719 --> 00:58:15.239
what you mean. They were cooked, but they weren't.

00:58:15.239 --> 00:58:17.000
There's a lot of fat still left in there. Yeah,

00:58:17.000 --> 00:58:19.510
they need to render a little bit more, so. The

00:58:19.510 --> 00:58:21.630
last time I made ribs, I had the exact same problem.

00:58:21.769 --> 00:58:24.590
I did the temperature thing. I did the bounce,

00:58:24.750 --> 00:58:27.510
you know, the, what do you call it? I never take

00:58:27.510 --> 00:58:29.469
a temperature when I do ribs. Right. I did the

00:58:29.469 --> 00:58:31.530
flex thing because I'm not a rib expert. And

00:58:31.530 --> 00:58:33.769
then it looked like it was good. And then sure

00:58:33.769 --> 00:58:35.789
enough, you know, when it was time to eat it.

00:58:35.789 --> 00:58:37.769
I know what to do next time. It didn't fall off.

00:58:37.769 --> 00:58:39.989
You know, so I've got, because I cooked mine

00:58:39.989 --> 00:58:43.369
in the oven. And I just, I got a program for

00:58:43.369 --> 00:58:45.889
next time. And that's all I could say about it

00:58:45.889 --> 00:58:47.320
because. You're going to try to smoke them next

00:58:47.320 --> 00:58:49.219
time? No, I don't want to fuck it up because

00:58:49.219 --> 00:58:52.219
then I have to start all over again. Plus, I'm

00:58:52.219 --> 00:58:56.659
not used to doing it with the green egg. That's

00:58:56.659 --> 00:58:58.539
going to be a little bit more of a task to be

00:58:58.539 --> 00:59:00.300
able to control that volume in a green egg. Well,

00:59:00.300 --> 00:59:03.500
you have to buy implements to use it as a smoker.

00:59:03.900 --> 00:59:07.639
Like the heat dispersion plate and the fan control

00:59:07.639 --> 00:59:09.579
and all that stuff. For the big egg? The green

00:59:09.579 --> 00:59:11.300
egg? Yeah, I think I'm just going to get a separate

00:59:11.300 --> 00:59:13.320
smoker for that. I think the green egg does well

00:59:13.320 --> 00:59:16.519
for what I use it for. But for the smoker, I

00:59:16.519 --> 00:59:18.460
think I'm going to get just a regular smoker

00:59:18.460 --> 00:59:20.639
with the little pellets and something controlled.

00:59:21.039 --> 00:59:24.820
And I'm looking forward to that, actually. I

00:59:24.820 --> 00:59:26.920
mean, we know it's Father's Day. We know it's

00:59:26.920 --> 00:59:28.760
trial and error. There you go. The whole process

00:59:28.760 --> 00:59:31.070
is trial and error. It is. It is. I mean, you

00:59:31.070 --> 00:59:34.070
can follow a general blueprint, but the meat

00:59:34.070 --> 00:59:36.349
does not behave the same every way, every time.

00:59:36.389 --> 00:59:38.489
It just doesn't. And then you have to really

00:59:38.489 --> 00:59:41.710
know the signs. You have to study and know the

00:59:41.710 --> 00:59:44.909
signs of when it's ready based on how the meat's

00:59:44.909 --> 00:59:47.510
behaving. Right. Right. And the temperature and

00:59:47.510 --> 00:59:49.190
this and that. So, I mean, it's trial and error.

00:59:49.269 --> 00:59:52.050
You're not going to be a hero every time. So

00:59:52.050 --> 00:59:55.960
don't beat yourself up there, Sean. So it was

00:59:55.960 --> 00:59:58.019
unaffected. I'm sorry, that's not what I would

00:59:58.019 --> 01:00:00.440
say. The Super Bowl wasn't a fantastic thing.

01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:03.840
It just, the halftime, plus we had a little drama

01:00:03.840 --> 01:00:05.760
in the house. Julie was throwing bottles down,

01:00:05.860 --> 01:00:09.320
getting all drunk. I had to throw in shit. I

01:00:09.320 --> 01:00:11.360
was like, dude, can you tell her to put her shirt

01:00:11.360 --> 01:00:15.440
back on? I had to activate my safety dome a couple

01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:18.690
times. And then as soon as that happens, the

01:00:18.690 --> 01:00:20.710
doorbell, someone's knocking on the door in my

01:00:20.710 --> 01:00:22.829
neighborhood. Oh, that's right. So one of the

01:00:22.829 --> 01:00:25.489
kids that came over to the house had, first of

01:00:25.489 --> 01:00:27.090
all, it's dark in front of the house. I never

01:00:27.090 --> 01:00:34.289
heard what happened. A kid had parked his motorcycle

01:00:34.289 --> 01:00:37.449
right behind a truck, and it was dark out there.

01:00:37.489 --> 01:00:39.090
Well, the truck was leaving. He backed up like

01:00:39.090 --> 01:00:42.250
two, three feet and just. Dink. And it fell over.

01:00:42.309 --> 01:00:44.969
Oh, shit. And he was like, oh, fuck, man. I can't

01:00:44.969 --> 01:00:46.730
believe I just did that. So he came up and knocked

01:00:46.730 --> 01:00:48.590
on the door. And then it was just kind of a little

01:00:48.590 --> 01:00:52.989
fiasco. And I thought, man, it all worked out.

01:00:53.090 --> 01:00:54.710
But it was just like all that happened at one

01:00:54.710 --> 01:00:56.510
time. I was like, what the fuck is going on here?

01:00:56.650 --> 01:00:59.010
Oh, I'd have been really upset. So we were sampling.

01:00:59.929 --> 01:01:01.869
We were going back and forth in my office and

01:01:01.869 --> 01:01:04.409
kind of joking and sampling the whiskeys and

01:01:04.409 --> 01:01:08.659
bourbons. Dude, the wolves. It's fantastic. It's

01:01:08.659 --> 01:01:14.039
good shit. Yeah. So, so good. Well, speaking

01:01:14.039 --> 01:01:17.400
of so, so good, we have a first half of beverage

01:01:17.400 --> 01:01:21.000
here. Let me see here. It's an oldie, right?

01:01:21.099 --> 01:01:23.860
Woodford Reserve Double Oak. Double Oak Bourbon.

01:01:24.000 --> 01:01:26.559
Yes. So, I got to tell you, shooting from the

01:01:26.559 --> 01:01:30.840
hip, I didn't take a full pull from it yet. It's

01:01:30.840 --> 01:01:33.340
dark. It looks great. It does look great. It's

01:01:33.340 --> 01:01:35.760
got a great hue. I think the nose is pretty good

01:01:35.760 --> 01:01:38.389
on it, too. It's sweet. I pick up a lot of sweet.

01:01:38.949 --> 01:01:43.789
Oh, yeah, definitely. It smells like apple pie.

01:01:44.210 --> 01:01:52.329
It's kind of a hit and run. It doesn't last.

01:01:53.909 --> 01:01:57.090
For a split second, you've got the spice and

01:01:57.090 --> 01:02:00.750
the peppers and all the sweet flavors. And then

01:02:00.750 --> 01:02:02.250
it just disappears. The whole thing fucking goes.

01:02:02.789 --> 01:02:05.710
It immediately goes away. I definitely have like

01:02:05.710 --> 01:02:08.469
an apple, cinnamon apple pie on the nose. Yeah,

01:02:08.489 --> 01:02:14.190
it's a honeyed apple. Honeyed apple? Yeah. Yeah,

01:02:14.210 --> 01:02:16.110
there's sweetness definitely. I pick up the apple.

01:02:18.570 --> 01:02:21.889
Caramels. A little dark stone fruit. So I think

01:02:21.889 --> 01:02:23.329
where you were going with that, where it disappears

01:02:23.329 --> 01:02:24.909
quickly, you were thinking that it was going

01:02:24.909 --> 01:02:27.449
to be full -bodied to the end, very rich finish.

01:02:27.630 --> 01:02:30.489
Yeah, it's not. It doesn't really. It almost

01:02:30.489 --> 01:02:32.710
tastes stale. But it's a wonderful taste. It's

01:02:32.710 --> 01:02:37.829
just not rich. And lasting. It's not 1845 whiskey

01:02:37.829 --> 01:02:40.710
from the Lowry Crossing distillery. It's not

01:02:40.710 --> 01:02:43.429
that type. They're double oak. This is 90 proof.

01:02:43.869 --> 01:02:45.730
Keep that in mind. Yeah, keep that in mind. For

01:02:45.730 --> 01:02:48.090
90 proof, I think it's got a lot of flavor to

01:02:48.090 --> 01:02:49.550
it. Oh, it's still excellent. It's excellent.

01:02:50.039 --> 01:02:53.300
So the Woodford Reserve Double Oak Bourbon has

01:02:53.300 --> 01:02:55.260
tasty notes of dark fruit, caramel, chocolate,

01:02:55.440 --> 01:02:57.980
vanilla, and oak. It's long, creamy finish with

01:02:57.980 --> 01:03:00.480
hints of honeyed apple. The nose, rich notes

01:03:00.480 --> 01:03:02.300
of dark fruit, caramel, sharp honey, chocolate,

01:03:02.559 --> 01:03:05.599
marzipan, and toasted oak. The taste is full

01:03:05.599 --> 01:03:08.739
-bodied mix of vanilla, dark caramel, hazelnut,

01:03:08.820 --> 01:03:11.139
apple fruit, and spices. The finish long and

01:03:11.139 --> 01:03:13.719
creamy, lingering hints of honeyed apple. Other

01:03:13.719 --> 01:03:16.039
notes like cherry, wood spice, toasted marshmallows.

01:03:16.139 --> 01:03:19.789
Taste both those. Warming. Warming wood spice.

01:03:20.389 --> 01:03:22.550
I think I could pick up some marshmallow on there.

01:03:22.730 --> 01:03:27.809
What's the age on this? 38. 38? Years, yes. 38

01:03:27.809 --> 01:03:29.630
months? Wow, that's impressive. I have no idea

01:03:29.630 --> 01:03:32.250
what the age is on this. We don't know the age?

01:03:32.429 --> 01:03:36.409
No. Oh. I don't know if they have an age statement

01:03:36.409 --> 01:03:38.710
on these. Some bottles don't have age statements.

01:03:38.750 --> 01:03:40.829
They don't. It's not on the bottle. Yeah, I don't

01:03:40.829 --> 01:03:43.150
think it's aged for very long. It doesn't taste

01:03:43.150 --> 01:03:45.349
aged. Look, I'm not... I'm not super excited

01:03:45.349 --> 01:03:47.010
about this. I wouldn't buy this. It's double

01:03:47.010 --> 01:03:49.789
-oaked, so you have to assume maybe two years

01:03:49.789 --> 01:03:53.210
in the original barrel and another two in a second

01:03:53.210 --> 01:03:55.929
barrel maybe. I don't know. I don't know. Okay.

01:03:56.010 --> 01:03:58.489
All right. Well, it's a 90 proof, so that was

01:03:58.489 --> 01:04:00.469
a good point. So we're rating this against other

01:04:00.469 --> 01:04:03.989
90 proofs that we've had. I wish we could remember

01:04:03.989 --> 01:04:07.909
what those were because I can't. 90 proofers.

01:04:08.250 --> 01:04:10.250
I don't know. We have a lot of them out there.

01:04:10.309 --> 01:04:12.960
I know. But this is... I think for a 90 proofer,

01:04:13.000 --> 01:04:14.480
this is very, very good. I was going to say,

01:04:14.519 --> 01:04:16.619
it's in the upper quarter. Yeah, I like this.

01:04:16.780 --> 01:04:19.940
I like this for a 90 proofer. I'd give this a

01:04:19.940 --> 01:04:24.179
7 .8. I like this one. Yeah, I would go definitely

01:04:24.179 --> 01:04:28.039
like a 7 .5 to 7 .7. Yeah, 7 .6 for me. I think

01:04:28.039 --> 01:04:30.260
this is easy to drink. The sweetness, it's got

01:04:30.260 --> 01:04:32.679
a lot of traditional bourbon notes to it. Yeah,

01:04:32.699 --> 01:04:35.719
for sure. It's perfect for sitting around a fire

01:04:35.719 --> 01:04:37.900
with a friend. Yeah, it's easy to drink. Yeah.

01:04:38.099 --> 01:04:42.150
I'll give it a 5 .8. All right. Damn. Oh, man.

01:04:42.269 --> 01:04:44.389
It's just not my thing. That's all right. So

01:04:44.389 --> 01:04:46.849
you basically, your friend would have dumped

01:04:46.849 --> 01:04:49.030
it in your face and walked out? Look, I'll drink

01:04:49.030 --> 01:04:53.030
it. I'll drink it. I'm just saying that it's

01:04:53.030 --> 01:04:55.869
just, to me. You served me this shit, Sean? Really?

01:04:55.989 --> 01:04:58.309
I'm out of here. I thought we were friends. I

01:04:58.309 --> 01:05:01.769
would enjoy TX whiskey over this. Oh, not me.

01:05:02.050 --> 01:05:05.030
Yeah. TX whiskey is so bland. It's got a very

01:05:05.030 --> 01:05:10.480
chalky finish. At least this exposure. Right,

01:05:10.519 --> 01:05:15.340
it does. It's not doing it. We've tried before,

01:05:15.559 --> 01:05:16.920
right? Yeah, we've had it. I know what you mean.

01:05:17.059 --> 01:05:19.420
Again, it lacks the richness punch. That's the

01:05:19.420 --> 01:05:21.539
only thing I can kind of describe that as. I've

01:05:21.539 --> 01:05:24.800
noticed that our palates are starting to deviate.

01:05:25.159 --> 01:05:27.000
Because for a while, we all had the same thing.

01:05:27.139 --> 01:05:29.739
Sean hates everything. I appreciate everything.

01:05:29.940 --> 01:05:32.780
Yes. That's basically kind of the deviation.

01:05:32.780 --> 01:05:36.380
Unless it's 200 proof. Oh, I like that. What

01:05:36.380 --> 01:05:38.159
is wrong with you? It's hazmat. I love it. I

01:05:38.159 --> 01:05:40.320
mean, there's certain palates. Burn hole in my

01:05:40.320 --> 01:05:42.480
lip. It tastes like shit, but it's hazmat. It's

01:05:42.480 --> 01:05:45.159
starting to come out, you know, that Sean doesn't

01:05:45.159 --> 01:05:47.960
like this. You know, you don't like some of this

01:05:47.960 --> 01:05:50.639
stuff. I don't like the smoky shit. Right. Yeah.

01:05:50.780 --> 01:05:53.420
No. We're allowed to be different. I know. I

01:05:53.420 --> 01:05:57.099
like that. I appreciate when our votes are different.

01:05:57.500 --> 01:06:01.739
This podcast is all about. Authenticity and equity.

01:06:02.059 --> 01:06:06.440
And diversity and exclusion. Exclusion. Yeah.

01:06:06.840 --> 01:06:11.039
What say you, Paul? I didn't get Paul's. 7 -6.

01:06:11.199 --> 01:06:14.780
7 -6. So jumping back to that Super Bowl, the

01:06:14.780 --> 01:06:17.380
halftime show, who was the artist? Kendrick Lamar.

01:06:17.480 --> 01:06:20.539
Kendrick Lamar. And he evidently, I mean, there's

01:06:20.539 --> 01:06:24.289
all kinds of these. hidden Easter eggs that was

01:06:24.289 --> 01:06:26.650
going on all at the same time. Like the lowercase

01:06:26.650 --> 01:06:28.530
a, what was, do you guys know the significance

01:06:28.530 --> 01:06:30.949
about that? Is that what that was for? I have

01:06:30.949 --> 01:06:33.989
no idea. Oh, I, so there was some rapper war

01:06:33.989 --> 01:06:36.269
stuff going on. He was taking shots at Drake

01:06:36.269 --> 01:06:38.630
because apparently Drake, you know, he accused

01:06:38.630 --> 01:06:41.650
him of being a pedophile. Oh yeah. And so he

01:06:41.650 --> 01:06:44.889
was, you know, I don't understand. And it's been

01:06:44.889 --> 01:06:47.809
decades in the making, these rapper wars. Right,

01:06:47.849 --> 01:06:50.030
east versus west versus, you know. Yeah, but

01:06:50.030 --> 01:06:53.050
I think that's specific. Was Drake, was he hanging

01:06:53.050 --> 01:06:58.429
out with Pete Diddy? No. He, who was he? He had

01:06:58.429 --> 01:07:00.670
a picture, there was a picture of him with somebody

01:07:00.670 --> 01:07:03.250
young. Well, I mean, the girl from Stranger Things

01:07:03.250 --> 01:07:05.070
is the story that I heard. That was what? There

01:07:05.070 --> 01:07:06.809
was a girl from Stranger Things when she first

01:07:06.809 --> 01:07:08.710
started on the show, and she would, they were

01:07:08.710 --> 01:07:11.730
hanging out all the time. And he's a grown -ass

01:07:11.730 --> 01:07:14.190
man hanging out with a child. Yeah. And it's

01:07:14.190 --> 01:07:16.929
just odd, you know? That's not cool. It's kind

01:07:16.929 --> 01:07:20.170
of like Michael Jackson. Yeah. No, no. That was

01:07:20.170 --> 01:07:23.329
different. He had a slumber party. Then he gazed

01:07:23.329 --> 01:07:25.730
into the butthole of the seven -year -old. Well,

01:07:25.889 --> 01:07:28.670
I know, but it was his fantasy land. Webster.

01:07:28.789 --> 01:07:31.989
God. Was Gary Coleman there, too? Or was it just

01:07:31.989 --> 01:07:35.170
Webster? Was Webster there? No. I have no idea,

01:07:35.289 --> 01:07:38.139
dude. None of those things were there. Webster.

01:07:38.159 --> 01:07:39.940
None of that happened. I think he was. Why do

01:07:39.940 --> 01:07:42.179
you keep saying gaze into the butthole of a seven

01:07:42.179 --> 01:07:43.800
-year -old? Where do you get that from? He's

01:07:43.800 --> 01:07:46.039
gazing into the abyss of a butthole for the boys.

01:07:46.239 --> 01:07:48.380
Because that was one of the stories that he did.

01:07:48.579 --> 01:07:50.539
Was that in his lyrics of one of his songs? It

01:07:50.539 --> 01:07:54.260
was not. Gonna be gazing in the butthole. In

01:07:54.260 --> 01:07:58.199
a butthole. So what was the deal about the guys?

01:07:58.400 --> 01:08:01.440
What's his name? Kate Lamar? Kendrick Lamar.

01:08:01.480 --> 01:08:03.460
Kendrick Lamar. What was the turn the TV off

01:08:03.460 --> 01:08:07.099
thing? What was that about? Turn the TV off.

01:08:07.960 --> 01:08:10.159
And we were joking. We were, like, joking. We

01:08:10.159 --> 01:08:11.219
were like, yeah, we'll turn it off. What the

01:08:11.219 --> 01:08:13.559
hell is going on here? I think it had something

01:08:13.559 --> 01:08:15.980
to do with, like, the reason why you're watching

01:08:15.980 --> 01:08:19.619
the show, the whole Super Bowl, is for me. And,

01:08:19.779 --> 01:08:22.779
you know, once the halftime show is open, over,

01:08:22.939 --> 01:08:27.279
then, you know, it just, you know, it doesn't

01:08:27.279 --> 01:08:28.600
matter to watch anymore. Meaning from displaying

01:08:28.600 --> 01:08:32.430
content, it could be regaining focus. You know

01:08:32.430 --> 01:08:36.090
what? Whatever. It didn't hit well with me. Again,

01:08:36.310 --> 01:08:39.029
it was fun. They had a lot of stuff going on.

01:08:39.149 --> 01:08:41.909
There was a lot of patriotic things going on.

01:08:41.970 --> 01:08:44.409
I saw red, white, and blue everywhere. I didn't

01:08:44.409 --> 01:08:46.609
see anything vulgar. Yeah, nothing seemed to

01:08:46.609 --> 01:08:47.770
be anti -American or anti -Trump. Yeah, there

01:08:47.770 --> 01:08:51.130
was no sexual innuendos going on. It was nice,

01:08:51.210 --> 01:08:54.789
clean dancing. It wasn't my thing, but it was

01:08:54.789 --> 01:08:59.140
good. really like it but it wasn't like a bad

01:08:59.140 --> 01:09:01.020
one i've seen some that it's just like that's

01:09:01.020 --> 01:09:03.380
nasty like the one thing i can say about it is

01:09:03.380 --> 01:09:05.979
the sound quality was very good Yes, it was well

01:09:05.979 --> 01:09:07.960
produced. It was well produced. The sound quality,

01:09:07.979 --> 01:09:09.859
the music. The dancing is always great. The dancing.

01:09:09.880 --> 01:09:11.760
Yeah. But there's been some halftime shows that

01:09:11.760 --> 01:09:13.539
don't sound good. Yeah, I hear you. He sounded

01:09:13.539 --> 01:09:15.479
good, I thought. And they had the one Palestine

01:09:15.479 --> 01:09:17.939
flag that got ripped out, the one part of the

01:09:17.939 --> 01:09:20.319
show. So did you hear? So the story was, how

01:09:20.319 --> 01:09:23.159
could a protester get through security, get onto

01:09:23.159 --> 01:09:25.619
the stage? That was a massive security failure.

01:09:25.619 --> 01:09:27.119
Oh, I missed that. What happened? Apparently,

01:09:27.220 --> 01:09:29.770
it was one of the dancers. Yeah. That's why they

01:09:29.770 --> 01:09:31.329
were already out there, which means it wasn't

01:09:31.329 --> 01:09:33.310
a security breakdown. They stuffed a Palestine

01:09:33.310 --> 01:09:35.329
flag. Up their ass and then pulled it out. Just

01:09:35.329 --> 01:09:40.489
keister it. Keister. They had it pulled in saran

01:09:40.489 --> 01:09:41.829
wrap so it wouldn't get on their feet. Yeah,

01:09:41.829 --> 01:09:43.630
he was flapping it and shit was going everywhere.

01:09:45.210 --> 01:09:48.649
I missed that. When they pulled up, but they

01:09:48.649 --> 01:09:50.390
yanked it down pretty quick. Yeah, the security.

01:09:50.489 --> 01:09:53.449
It took them 30 seconds. I don't think they showed

01:09:53.449 --> 01:09:56.449
it on TV. I didn't see it because I wasn't watching

01:09:56.449 --> 01:09:58.729
it. Yeah, so the security guy pulled him off

01:09:58.729 --> 01:10:00.949
the stage. He was on a stage because the car

01:10:00.949 --> 01:10:02.470
was going. There was a car out there, and he

01:10:02.470 --> 01:10:05.050
was on a block behind the car, and he was dancing.

01:10:05.050 --> 01:10:07.170
He pulled something out of the Palestine flag,

01:10:07.329 --> 01:10:09.909
and he was on the block, and this lady was running

01:10:09.909 --> 01:10:12.789
after him. She had a little walkie -talkie, and

01:10:12.789 --> 01:10:15.130
she had some glasses on. She was trying to grab

01:10:15.130 --> 01:10:17.630
it. She almost got there. He jumps off the block

01:10:17.630 --> 01:10:19.569
and he's running out there. And they had some

01:10:19.569 --> 01:10:22.270
other flags. They were kind of going in circles.

01:10:22.670 --> 01:10:25.010
And then he pulls the flag and then all of a

01:10:25.010 --> 01:10:27.789
sudden there's three guys. Grabbed him. And the

01:10:27.789 --> 01:10:31.470
flag, it said, Trump, please buy Gaza. Is that

01:10:31.470 --> 01:10:33.369
what it said? That's not what it said. Oh, it

01:10:33.369 --> 01:10:35.890
didn't say that. Put in a Trump casino over there.

01:10:36.109 --> 01:10:40.289
You know what? That's just the whole thing. When

01:10:40.289 --> 01:10:44.369
he first said that. I knew in my heart his intent

01:10:44.369 --> 01:10:47.229
was not to do anything like that. He's getting

01:10:47.229 --> 01:10:50.590
the world riled up to react. And you know what?

01:10:50.630 --> 01:10:53.289
They did. Because he's like, first off, it's

01:10:53.289 --> 01:10:55.569
a shit show over there. The people can't live

01:10:55.569 --> 01:10:57.569
it. He's right about that. They have no, they

01:10:57.569 --> 01:10:59.229
have the worst quality of life because they're

01:10:59.229 --> 01:11:03.229
under oppression. The city is destroyed. And

01:11:03.229 --> 01:11:05.229
so he's like, let's get them out of there where

01:11:05.229 --> 01:11:07.270
they can live peacefully somewhere else while

01:11:07.270 --> 01:11:08.930
they're rebuilding. And maybe some of them go

01:11:08.930 --> 01:11:11.050
back. Maybe some of them don't. And anyway, he's

01:11:11.050 --> 01:11:14.869
really riling up Jordan and Egypt to take on.

01:11:15.270 --> 01:11:18.489
And they've both said no so far. Well, no, there's

01:11:18.489 --> 01:11:21.460
talks now today. Yes, I watch the Jordan. The

01:11:21.460 --> 01:11:23.300
Jordan guy was there today. The king of Jordan.

01:11:23.399 --> 01:11:25.899
Yeah. So I want to say one thing. I watched that

01:11:25.899 --> 01:11:27.600
whole press conference and the reporters were

01:11:27.600 --> 01:11:29.880
just dogging on Trump. Like, you know, how can

01:11:29.880 --> 01:11:32.960
you buy, you know, Gaza? Like, by what authority

01:11:32.960 --> 01:11:35.739
can you take over Gaza? And Trump said, U .S.

01:11:35.739 --> 01:11:41.100
authority. And he goes, next question. I had

01:11:41.100 --> 01:11:44.500
to laugh. He's so Trump. Anyway. All right, we're

01:11:44.500 --> 01:11:46.159
wrapping up. We've got a second half coming up.

01:11:46.260 --> 01:11:48.319
Yeah, we do. Another fantastic Berber. We're

01:11:48.319 --> 01:11:50.020
going to be popping on. It's February 11th, second

01:11:50.020 --> 01:11:52.060
week. Dudes Like Us. Thank you, Mr. Chuck. Dudes

01:11:52.060 --> 01:11:54.300
Like Us. I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff. Are

01:11:54.300 --> 01:11:57.340
we doing a new one, second half? To be determined.

01:11:57.619 --> 01:11:57.899
Ooh.