Typical podcast we just missed out on. Jeff's...
Valentine's coming up, and he shares with them
that he's going to make dinner. His wife's going
to come home, and all he's going to be wearing
is a sock. Is it going to be on your left or
right foot? Yes. Yeah. Not that kind of sock.
It's a sheep. What? Yeah. I don't get that. That's
what Paul calls it. It doesn't really make sense,
I know. He talked about how he's going to be...
grilling outside, totally nude, with his apron
on and his little chef hat. You know it's February,
right? I didn't say I was going to be doing all
that. I'll probably sous vide and get my cast
iron skillet out and do it that way. Baby, I'm
making you a prime steak tonight. That's right.
I'm also cooking steak. Yeah. You can take a
bite out of me. Ew. Jeez. Second week into the
February 2025. We have a jam -packed podcast
set up for you guys today. We have a special
guest. I'm just kidding. We don't. Check us out
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some swag from us. There's some cool stuff out
there. We got some shoes, too. Shoes. Jeff's
been working on making some Dutch shoes with
our new CNC machine down there. Some clogs. Really?
Some Netherland clogs. Can I call bullshit? Yeah,
the CNC machine goes in and carves it out, comes
back out. A special bit. A big articulating arm
goes in there. It's a special bit for clogs.
Yes. Nice. Well, you know, it's a thing. My dude's
like, guys, I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff.
I believe we did that, didn't we? We did what?
No. No, we didn't. Okay. We did not. Which part?
Say our names. The last one? Just now. Oh, yeah.
That's the first one. Okay, okay. Wow. They're
running together. We only had one drink. I know.
So you both have done that now. Sean did that
on another podcast. You've done it. I've never
done it. And I'm the one worried about my mental
clarity. Yeah, I know. It's not good. You're
the youngest. I'm definitely worried about mine.
I'm being serious. It's not good. 100%. I find
myself all the time struggling to remember. The
easiest things. Yeah. Just kind of like, what
is that word? Something you use all the time,
and it just escapes me. Like today, I'm still,
like Shakespeare writes different types of irony.
That was the word, irony. I couldn't think about
the word irony. Right. Just think of Alanis Morissette
and her song. Well, now, but I'm just. There's
a word I'm thinking of. I think Alanis Morissette
used it. But it's just little things like that.
Really? That's your strategy? Yeah, that's how
you do it. I think that makes it worse. Isn't
it ironic? Don't you think? A little too ironic.
And yeah, I really do think. But it's just like
these little disconnects that, you know, it's
just like the brain's just not connecting. I
know the word. It's not reaching its destination.
It's frustrating. It's getting close. Is that
pre -dementia? It could be, man. I don't know.
I just think it's old age. I don't know about
that. There's a lot of old people out there that
have the sharpest attack. So my wife had a theory.
So I'm really bad about, maybe I'll just say
addicted, but I'm addicted to looking at my phone.
And what I'm looking at on the phone is always
news stories. the latest news stories in like
four different sources, right? So if I have any
idle time, like, you know what I mean? I'm waiting
for something to finish at work or I'm, you know,
I'm in between things to work on. I'm immediately
grabbing my phone and I'm immediately scrolling
and looking at, you know, news stories. And so
my brain is constantly being split and thinking
about all these different things. And it's just
like... You need to focus on one thing at a time,
put the phone down, don't look at the phone.
That's like dopamine rush. Yeah, and it's distracting.
You know what I do? So maybe that's it. In between
is I'll use my phone, but I'll read a book. You
should do that. Do you have Kindle? I do. Do
you read books? I do, but usually paperback,
but I get it. Yeah, just download it. I can do
that on Kindle. I download them free from the
library. Am I able to download, if I have a PDF
of a book, Let's just say I have a magical PDF.
It comes from nowhere. Am I able to upload a
regular PDF to the Kindle? I don't think so.
I don't believe so. It's got to be presented
on a platform like Audible. Audible's the audio
books. So you're forced to read their content.
No. There's programs out there that can read
a PDF book. I mean, like Adobe can read PDF.
I'm just thinking because I found a website.
The answer is I don't know. Maybe there is a
way to load them into the Kindle. I don't know.
I think they have to be downloaded from a platform,
but I don't know. Oh, you can apparently. There
you go. There you go. I've never done it, so
again, my answer is no. So interesting enough,
I bought a new iPad, and I wanted to start doing
that and start reading because my dad had my
– I wanted to start reading, period. I hate reading,
but every time I have read in the past, I've
loved it. Couldn't get enough of it. You mean
like fantasy novels? Just whatever it is. You
need to read that series I told you to read about.
That one, and there's Tom Clancy. There's just
like all the Michael Crichton stuff and all the
Stephen King stuff. It just doesn't matter. It's
just like any time I read anything, I have to
force myself to do it. But once that ball gets
rolling, oh, my God, I can't stop, and I love
it. Especially Daniel Steele. Yeah, a little
Fabio action. But it's like I went to a, I listened
to this one guy, a Pythagorean theorist kind
of guy. He does a YouTube channel. That's not
his name. It's Alf. Whatever. I'll talk about
him on another podcast. Dude, this guy is super
smart. And he shared about a PDF vault that you
can go to and you can download all these free
books. You know, and it's like thousands of them,
history books and everything. And it's like a,
I don't even know the name of it. I'll have to,
PDF downloads. It's, anyways, so I downloaded
like a couple hundred books. Oh, wow. And there's
a process to do it, you know, because they want
you to look at ads and stuff like that. So it's
tedious. But at the end of the day, you download
all these different PDFs. And I downloaded a
couple hundred. And what was your filter? Like
what books were you? Well, I was looking up like,
you know. Tibet history and mechanical engineering,
just kind of documentary -style books. No fantasy
or anything like that. The Golden Ratio, elemental
compounds, just different things that kind of
sparked interest to me. Science books, biology
books, astrology, a chakra, just different kind
of religion books. I wanted to find out more
about some of the histories of... of, God bless
it, not Christian, Muslim. I wanted to know more
about Muslim. There's some Muslim books out there
that are pretty interesting. They talk about
how it came about, and it's funny the way, well,
I won't say, but some of it's funny because they're
like, it's kind of like the Roman, I'm sorry
to say, the Mormon kind of religion. It's kind
of like, yeah, that's not true, but yet these
people out there are still Mormons, but, you
know, whatever. So I want to learn more about
it. And so that's kind of what I wanted to do.
So I downloaded all these books thinking that
no matter what happens, I have these books. So
if we don't have internet for whatever reason,
yeah, granted you got to have electricity, but
if you have a tablet, it doesn't matter. You
don't need to be connected to the internet to
look at a PDF on your tablet, right? Right. If
it's downloaded on the device, no. Yeah, like
mine, the Kindle. What also you can do is get
a library card. I download all my books for free
off the library. Really? Right into the Kindle.
First run books. Brand new books. I've got a
library card. So you just connect the Frisco
library account to the Kindle? Nope. You go into,
they have an app. Oh, you go straight to the
Frisco Public Library app. Yep. You go to the
app, and it gives you the option to download
as a Kindle. Boom. Then it takes you to Amazon.
It does its thing. Get library book, and it downloads
it to your Kindle right there. For free. So you
don't have to pay? Nope. Like you do for all
the other stuff they have there. Nope. That's
interesting. So is the Department of Education
paying for that? They're going to yank that.
I know. You're going to lose your books. I believe
most of the public libraries do that now. The
public library used to be the thing. I loved
going there. There was a period when I was doing
the disc jockey thing. There was a period where
I brought two or three laptops to the public
library. When you go to the Windows Media, let's
say I take a disc. a CD, compact disc, and with
an album, whatever, Motley Crue, brand new, out
of it, just pop it out, and you pop it in the
computer, close it, Windows Media pops up. Under
the settings, you can say download or whatever.
Take the data off the disc and put it in a file.
And then at the very end of it, do you want to
capture the graphics of the CD? Right. And it
captures everything. So it has all the names
of the songs. It has the album information and
everything right there. You were taking them
from CDs and putting them on your laptop. I went
to the public library and that's what I did.
Dude, I would sit there and take like a stack
of 10 and I'd walk over there and pop them in
there and I was in the corner of the library
and nobody saw me and I was like... I mean, were
you doing something you weren't allowed to do?
I don't think so. I mean, is it nefarious? Are
you allowed to do that? Is that what you're saying?
Right. I mean... I don't know. I mean, it seems
like you're stealing it. No, as long as you...
legally purchased the CD. Dude, I was at the
library. I didn't even purchase shit. Oh, you
were using the library CDs. Yes. I thought you
were just using their machines to do... No, no.
I brought my own laptop and I was going because
they have CDs. They have DVDs there. That's nefarious.
You know, and... You were breaking the law. Yeah,
you know, I just made a copy. They're going to
come after you. Was this in New Jersey? You were
a criminal. No, this was here. Ooh. Oh, boy.
There's no statute of limitations on this either.
They're coming for you. I know. Well, there's
no proof of it. We're going to have to delete
this podcast. Except this podcast. This podcast
we'll never see the last day. Well, you know,
it was just kind of, well, whatever. I did it.
It's done. But still, it was kind of like, well,
we're doing it right now. We're doing it right
now. And it's legal. Doing what right now? We're
doing the book. So you can pull the book right
from there and you put it on your phone. Same
thing. Yep. So what's the difference? Well, they
take it back. You return it. I can give it back.
If they ask for it. I don't want it. You want
your Motley Crue album back? I'll give it back.
It automatically pulls it back. You get it for
two weeks, and then it automatically pulls it
back. If you didn't finish a book, you'd just
pull it out again. Yeah. That's kind of cool,
man. That is actually very cool. I'm interested
in doing that. That's what I said. That way,
like I said, when I have time, I'm standing in
the pharmacy line for fucking 20 minutes. I'll
pull out my book, and I'll read it. Right. Instead
of the news. Yeah, my eyesight's too bad for
that. I have to dive into some glasses. You need
to. Yeah. Just bite the bullet and do it, man.
I got my trifocals. Try. Yeah. They're pretty
cool. I like them. Originally, I got - Oh, you're
serious? Yeah, I got progressive at first. Oh,
those gave me headaches. It's crazy because your
neck starts hurting. Fuck that. Because you're
trying to find - Well, they also said that you
can't look out like this, like when you're driving.
Sometimes you're looking off to the side. They
said you have to turn your head. Right. I'm like,
no. I wore them for like two or three days. I
was like, yeah, this is not going to work. I
wore them until Shelly lost them, and then I
had to get a replacement, and I went with trifocal
this time. So it's three distinct areas of the
glasses that you get used to looking. Give me
a headache. Oh, look, Jeff. Yeah, he ordered
that for me. Wasn't that very nice? After you
guys already got your shirts and I didn't get
one? I found the extra card. That's when I ordered
it. What are you talking about? What is this?
This is a Garrison Brothers extra large shirt
that we have for the car. I'm surprised they
were still valid. Yeah, I did that probably a
couple weeks ago. Oh, that's a little gift. Wasn't
that nice of him? Because we got them a long
time ago. Why are you looking at me like that?
I didn't have the cards. He had the cards. First,
I wasn't invited to the event. Well, first of
all, I'm the one that procured these cards, by
the way. No, he was handing them out. Just like
I got, well, I'm the one that took extras. And
I got you your beer glass. Beer glass. A beer
glass. I don't know. The Estella one? Oh, yeah.
What about that? Who looks out for you? I didn't
get a props for that. Well, thanks, Sean, for
looking out for me. Thanks for the Stella glass.
I got Chuck, too, by the way. He got two of them,
yeah. Oh. Jeff got one. That's fair. Yeah. I
feel bad. I didn't get Tim one. Way to go. He
can just scratch out my name. Yeah, he can have
mine. Yeah. He got a magic marker. I should have
told him to do that. Yeah, whatever it is, it
is. Whatever. All right, so the public library
right there. How can we search, browse, depth
articles? That's actually really cool. I'm going
to do that. Yeah, do it. But I was interested
in the PDF download one because it's a huge archive.
I mean, it's a huge database and it's free. I
think Google Books also is like that. Google
has a shit ton of books you can download just
like that. I'm a proponent for doing that. I'd
love to be able to. I'm still in the paperback
mode personally, but that doesn't mean I can't
make a transition. I've tried. First of all,
I struggle reading, period. I mean, I can read,
but it's just I struggle. It's an attention deficit
disorder for me. I have a very difficult time
concentrating. It has to be a perfect wind of
events for me to sit there and do it. I have
to shut everything down and literally put earbuds
in my ears. And even then, while I'm reading
the book, I'll start daydreaming. Right. You
know? And it's like, fuck, it sucks. Like, I
mean, right now, my job right now, a lot of my
job is writing, and it sucks because I will,
fucking get distracted in the middle of writing
something. And then I'll have to stop. I'll have
to go jump on my trampoline and, you know, come
back. Play some video games. Yeah, kind of going
back to the concern about aging brain and memory
loss and stuff like that. So, I mean, I kind
of equate it to my hearing loss. In certain situations,
right, if it's very difficult to hear, then I
just won't put forth the effort. I can put forth
the effort, and I can watch lips, and I can hear
the context, and I can, you know, whatever I
can hear, I can piece it together. But it takes
work. You know what I mean? It takes work to
listen and engage with other people in that environment.
Now I'm finding myself looking at something I
need to do for work, and my brain is deciding
that that's... That's too much work. I don't
want to do this anymore. Let me share. It looks
like it's going to be hard, so what do I do?
I go, I don't want to do that. And I'm not making
a conscious decision. I just go, I don't want
to do that. And I grab my phone and I start looking
at news. That's where I was getting to be with
corporate life. I was like, I don't want to do
this anymore. Right. I don't want to do it. About
reading? No, just dealing with executives and
all the bullshit that goes around with corporate
life. I was like, I'm done. It's really boring.
Well, it's not just that, but it's frustrating.
Yeah. You know, then you sit back and, you know,
I've been thinking, what did I do the last 35
years that was worthwhile work -wise? Yeah. Nothing.
But I'm concerned that it's not necessarily that
I don't like it. You know, I don't have... I
enjoyed what I did. Right. To me, it's like,
God, that's going to be... Jeff, you had an extraordinary
circumstance. about to be let go anytime. And
that is different. And it stinks that it beat
the hell out of you like this. Yeah, you worked
for over a decade with this cloud over your head.
Yeah, just never ending. I had 13 managers in
16 years. Jeez, that's crazy. Come on. So we're
going to double back here, back to the mental
breakdown. And I want to say, because RFK Jr.,
he was on a flight. And he added some blue shit
to his drink. And they were like, what is this?
And he says. Kool -Aid. It's blue methylene is
what it is. Blue methylene. And they sell it
at Amazon. You can buy it. And what he does,
he adds it to drink because he says it connects
all those neurons. Loose strands. Perhaps. He
says it helps him. It helps on a variety of things.
It helps cancer, anti -aging stuff, cancer. It
helps with a whole stream of things. Cyanide
poisoning. So he said he'd gone viral on social
media yet again after the video showed him administering
droplets of a mysterious blue liquid to his drink
on a board of flight. The clip of Mr. Kennedy,
who has been nominated for presidential to lead
the Department of Health and Human Services,
had garnered millions of views across X and Reddit
in less than 24 hours, leading to speculations
about the mysterious substance in it. when the
video was taken, but one of the prevailing theories
suggests that RFK was administering a dye called
blue methylene. He actually weighed into that.
While flying... Hold on. Let me see it go down
here a little bit further. So what is blue methylene
made out of? Well, that's a good question. So
let me type that in real quick. It's methylonium
chloride. It's a synthetic compound. So it's
fake. Right. It's not naturally occurring, apparently.
So it's synthetic dye made. And look, this is
also the same stuff that you put in for your
fish. But what's interesting is I'm looking at
the screen here, medicinal uses, right? I don't
see, I see cyanide and carbon monoxide poisoning
antidote, urinary tract pain relief, anti -malarial
research. And the treatment of, good Lord, methemoglobinemia,
which is a condition where hemoglobin loses its
ability to carry oxygen effectively. I don't
see anything about it making your brain more
efficient or connecting loose strands. So that
was something that he said. Right. And he says
there's studies out there that... frankly, that
they're not out there. There are studies out
there. They're not going to be readily available
because otherwise, if you're going to be healthy
about it, no one wants you healthy. They're going
to suppress all that stuff. Did I share in one
of the other podcasts about how there was a study
done about salt over in the UK and how the salt
folks over in the UK were eating three times
the amount of salt subscribed or prescribed by
the American Heart Association and those people
that had Three times the amount of salt that
the American Heart Association prescribes. They
lived longer. Less heart attacks, better health,
blood pressure. Everything was great. They published
their findings, and the American Heart Association
reached out to them and said, pull the article.
Pull it, or you're no longer going to get funding.
They told them to fuck off, and they published
it anyways. But it's not going to get any airtime.
But my point is that anything that's good for
you, this is all crystal skull shit. And this
is one of the latest ones. There was hydrogen
water that was put out there where you take your
water, add hydrogen to it, and the more hydrogen
in it is supposed to help your body. I don't
know. I don't know. I didn't buy it. One of our
listeners, Larry. purchased one. He says he hasn't
because he was reading some articles on it. There's
a doctor out there, I forget his name, Dr. Alex
something, and he started promoting it. I was
going to say on the Joe Rogan show, and he was
talking about hydrogen water and how healthy
it is. Was he trying to sell it? No, it's not.
He got his fame from telling people when they
were going to die, essentially, because he was
a specialist that worked for insurance companies
that would diagnose folks to determine whether,
you know, how long they're going to live based
on what they have and ailments. And basic lifestyle
choices. Yeah. And he was really good at it.
And he was like, because he had a conversation
with RFK and he basically said, hey, dude, you're
going to have 10, you got 10 years. You maybe
have 10 years, maybe 15. And he says, so these
are the things that you need to do to create
a better lifestyle for you. Even Dana White.
Dana White had the same conversation with the
same doctor. Yeah. So he's a well -known doctor.
I just brain farted at the seat. I can't remember
his God bless the name. Yeah. Crazy. Hold on.
Yeah, it was Alex Berens. Is that him right there?
Berenson? Let me see what he looks like. He's
an author. He's not a doctor. Hold on. Alex Berenson,
I read a bunch of his books. Really? Show a fucking
picture of him. No, that's not him. Was it like
Fabio type books? No, it's a spy novel book.
They're really good. Really? Yeah. I forgot about
his books. I read quite a few of them. I want
to see which ones are still out there. I forgot
about him. I was going to say Dr. Berg. Dr. Berg
is one of them. I prefer sci -fi and fantasy.
Those are my go -tos. I'm rating The Wheel of
Time right now. Have you read that? We saw this
show on Amazon. I watched the show, and then
the guy who used to work for me from England.
was a big fan of The Wheel of Time, and he actually
told me about it probably a decade ago. And he
goes, it's a great book, and there's a series,
and it's one of the top sci -fi books out there.
It's Gary Brekka. Gary Brekka. That's what it
is. And it's a trilogy or like a series? Well,
it's a series, but it's a hard read for me for
some reason. Interesting. I downloaded it. I
bought the book because the library didn't have
it. Actually, they did, but there were too many
holds on it. Hold on. Hold on. They have a hold?
On a digital book? Yes. They only have a certain
number of licensed copies. Yeah, they may have
like six copies and ten people want to read it.
So you just put your name on it and they'll shoot
you an email. Hey, your book's ready. You go
out there and download it. Interesting. That
doesn't make sense to me. It's copyright. You
have to buy the right of the book. Yeah, I get
it. It's all chain of custody kind of thing.
But at the same time... You'd think they'd be
unlimited copies. I'm just thinking it's all
licensing. Yeah, digital means unlimited, right?
But it doesn't in this case, right? Yeah, it's
just a license. Because they want their money.
They get their money when they sell these books
to the library. Oh, yeah. Well, there's 15 books.
I'm on the first book. Oh, damn. I'm on the first
book. I'm about 40 % done. Yeah, I've heard of
Robert Jordan, I think. Yeah, it's a good book.
There's a lot to it. That's a lot of books. Yeah,
it's... I read the very first one. What is it
about? It looks like Dragon Reborn, The Shadow
Rising. It's a fantasy, epic fantasy. Didn't
you watch The Wheel of Time on Amazon? No, I
don't think so. There's two seasons of it. We
did. We liked it. The book, the show actually,
there's obviously more in the book, but it follows
the story pretty close. Yeah. Can you look up,
I read a really long series called Gore. G -O
-R. When I was in middle school, and I'm not
sure I probably should have. It was pretty racy.
Real Time, when did that come out? I read all
these books. Maybe four years ago, the first
series. Is that the same guy? John Norman. That's
John Norman. Oh, what was the other guy? That
wrote the Real Time? Robert. Reardon or something
like that? Robert. Robert something. Robert Jordan.
It was close. Okay. All right. So I'm wondering
if maybe one of like exercise in your brain by
reading these books is also a good way for you
to be for me to for anyone to be able to be able
to reach for those words that you struggle to
get. Oh, yeah. No, reading is good for your brain.
It's like exercise. Absolutely. And you learn
quite a bit, actually, because they use words
that you don't hear or see normally. Like irony.
Yeah, like... I know, damn well. It wasn't that
I didn't know irony. It's just that I'm forgetting
simple things. I know, I know. It's so frustrating.
Well, start reading. See if it helps. I read
today that another sign of pre -dementia is when
you start losing things because you're putting
them where they don't belong, like finding a
remote in the freezer. Oh, I've never done that.
So, I know. That's the next. If you find yourself...
Did that happen to you? No, no, no, it did not.
It did not. But I forgot about John. On Friday,
when we went on our run. Yeah, that's true. You
were absent -minded. I mean, so yeah, John Rodriguez
reached out and said. Well, in all fairness,
you were struggling that day because we were
just, look, we had a little powwow. Frankly,
it just wasn't the same, Jeff. I mean, we went
out there. We're just like, oh, this is a good
time. Cheers, guys. Yeah. And we all just kind
of looked at the ground. Yeah. Sipped on our
beer. You guys want something to eat? Yeah, I
guess we'll have some chips or something. And
he just shuffled home. I was like, Chuck, are
you crying? It was weird. It was really awkward.
I mean, he didn't even call us. And, you know,
he could have showed up. I know. He never calls.
He never writes. He never brings me flowers.
I was in bed by 8 .30 that night. So you're saying
we had two and a half hours available for you.
Okay, first off, you need to work on your work
stamina. I do. So that you can go with us for
an hour and a half or an hour. I sat in my office
for eight years downstairs all day, every day.
That was my work day. Yeah, you have no stamina.
I don't. Get a trampoline. We do. So fucking
figure it out, Jeff. I am. I'm working with my
wife and figuring out timing and shit like that.
We would love that. Yes. We want you there. It'll
be late. I mean, it'll be closer to, although
I get home today. About 515, 520. See, we can
make that work. Well, whatever. Anyway, we're
working on it. Actually, what we could do is
we could just be parked right out in front of
your house and just wait. We'll just be pre -gaming
until you get there. There we go. Hey, here he
comes. Yay. Okay, wow. I don't know why we're
panting. Brody's got, when he started working
at MTV. He's got a sock too? No, he's got the
shirt embroidered with his name. It's funny how
you get excited about when you feel real in a
job. Right. When they buy you apparel. You know
what I mean? It's got his name on it. They threatened
to spell it I -E. Uh -oh. And he's like, no,
no, no, it's D -Y. And they're like, eh, well,
we put I -E on the form. I'm sorry. And he was
all worried that when the shirts were going to
show up, they said ID. Yeah. And they didn't
mess up his name. But anyway, he's got these
cool shirts. They gave him like five of them,
you know. Right. Anyway, it's cool. Well, anyway,
yeah, and it's a real thing. So work that out
with Julie. Anything I can do to influence that,
let me know. Great. It would be more likely to
be successful if you're not involved. That's
true. Well, sometimes the power of suggestion,
you know. Yeah, I hear you. I'm just saying,
have her put herself in Jeff's shoes. Yes. What
if she didn't have time to go do something with
Andrea? He's got three desperate friends that
miss him terribly. That's what she needs to know.
Yes. Needy. Needy. Very needy. Needy. Clingy.
Clingy. And she -themed. Pathetic. Yes. Friends.
Did you say 5 .30 to 7? See, he's already having
problems with the schedule. Yeah. Why not? Anyway,
let's move on. I want to talk about things that
we can look forward to. We're kind of in the
dead spot, like in between Christmas and the
holidays. Football's done. Football's done. Sports
are kind of done, except the Stars. Baseball's
done. What about the Mavericks? What about Dirk?
Dirk's going to, where did he go to? Oh, not
Dirk. Luka. Luka. Lakers. Dude, Mavs fans are
losing their shit over this trade. And it's shady.
There's like some highly irrational fans out
there. They staged a protest down there. Yeah,
but what was the angle? I mean, why did they
do that? No one understands it. That's the kind
of question is, why did they do this? No one
understands it. There's all kinds of rumors.
But I'll give you the story that Barry told me
because Barry knows, right? And so, okay, Luca
has always battled weight issues. He's always
been slightly overweight, under -conditioned.
He has to take a week off during the season to
try to get back into shape, you know, before
the playoffs start, and it leads to injuries.
He's not very durable because he's got too much
weight that he's carrying on his 6 '7 frame,
okay? So that factors into it right there. And
the other thing is he was set to get after, not
this year, but after next year, he was set to
get a Supermax contract, which is... They only
offer that type of contract to players that have
been with the team since they were drafted, okay?
And there was, you know, the general manager
was kind of indicating that, you know, maybe
he was, you know, maybe wasn't going to sign
that Supermax contract. And so they were potentially
on a path to lose him anyway. So maybe they were
going to try to get something for him now and
work for success right now by getting Anthony
Davis. Maybe they could get to the – they're
going to be in the playoffs. I see some other
stuff. They're on the outside looking in on the
playoffs. I see some other stuff that they're
talking about. Injury is one of them. Yes. Because
he's not staying healthy offseason. Right. And
so it's conditioning. There is some outside influences,
his extracurricular lifestyles. Whatever he's
doing is – I don't know if it's drugs or what
it is. Where are you getting that from? Right
here. from ESPN. TMZ? No. It was reported the
night that, hold on, Off Court Habits. Well,
Los Angeles isn't going to be any better for
him. It's going to be worse if he does have something.
Yeah, if he's got some vices, he's going to struggle
out there, more so than Dallas. Well, I mean,
but look, this is a multi -billion dollar business.
So these guys making these trades, they got to
know something that we don't. I'm thinking it's
injury. where he gets injured every year just
about. Right. And I think he's only, what, 25?
About to be 26? Right. So he's still young. And
I think the longevity of him was in doubt. So
here's the problem. Anthony Davis averages 40
games a year. Yeah, he's just as bad. He's just
as bad. Maybe even worse. He's already injured.
He's going to be out for a while. Exactly. So
here's the other knock on Nico. The general manager.
He didn't come from a basketball background.
Yeah, he is a shoe salesman that made it up to
the upper ranks of Nike. And he hobnobbed with
all the executives and people in the industry.
And his best friend is the GM of the Lakers.
And it was a side deal that the two of them worked
out. This is the part that blows me away. The
VP of the Mavericks, Michael Finley, didn't know
about it. The head coach, Jason Kidd, didn't
know about it. All these key people didn't know
about it. He just worked it out with the governor
of the team, who is like apparently the right
-hand man of the owners. So the owners are just
investors. They're not. Yeah, they're not involved.
They're not like Cuban. Exactly. Not like Cuban.
And so they're just like, you want to do what?
Okay. Is it going to make us more money? Okay.
Yeah, sure. Whatever. And so the governor of
the team, I don't know what his name is, but
he worked it out. Talked about it with Nico,
and Nico talked to his best friend over at the
Lakers, and boom, next thing you know, it happened.
So anyway, people are freaking out. Because here's
the biggest thing. I think what they're not considering
here is the entertainment value of the game itself.
People love watching Luka. He is exciting to
watch. As a matter of fact, I'm not even a Mavs
fan, and I quit the NBA, and I was like, well,
he's fun to watch. This guy's good. He's fun
to watch. They just lost that. Yep. And they
hate the Lakers on top of it. I know. Because
the Lakers are just a nauseating, you know, superstar
stacking team. Why would they give it to somebody
in their own conference? Why wouldn't they go,
like, Eastern? Is that where Lieberman's at?
Yes. Lieberman, yes. I thought Lieberman was
quitting. No. No. No. Where have I heard that
from? Well, he made some comments, but then he,
you know, said, you misunderstood me or something,
some bullshit like that. That's probably when
the middle of the P. Diddy stuff is coming out.
I don't know. Well, he's, the other day, he just,
Had a milestone. He is the only person to score
40 points at 40 years old. It's incredible what
he's doing. It really is. I can't stand him,
but I can't. Nothing but respect in terms of
what he has done in this career. It's absolutely
incredible. And he is the GOAT. I hate to say
it. Yeah, well, he's just a racist POS. That's
the problem. I kind of feel that way, too. But,
you know, whatever. Oh, by the way, I meant to
bring that up about Lieberman James. Lieberman
James. He, at the Lakers game. there were members
of the Eagles, the Philadelphia Eagles. Right.
And it was before the Super Bowl, and there were
two of them, three of them. Two were, you know,
black athletes, and one was the 22 -year -old
guy that had the pick six. Dejean or whatever.
Yeah, Dejean or Dejean or whatever. Right. Anyway,
all three of them were, like, courtside or something,
and Lieberman James shook the hands of— one of
the guys skipped over that kid even though he
reached his hand out. Even though he was with
them, he didn't know him. So he was like, I don't
know you. And didn't take his hand and skipped
over him and shook the hand of the next guy.
That's the kind of guy he is. He's just not a
nice guy. He's just a dick. Yeah, he's a dick.
Now, you could call it racist because he shook
the hand of the two black guys and not the white
guy. But, you know, now they asked that kid,
you know, oh, now that he's like a Super Bowl.
You know, he made a name for himself, right?
Everybody's talking about this kid now. It's
like, you know, would it be different now? You
know, and and Deshaun was classy about it. He
was like, oh, if he if I were to get a chance
to meet him again, I would love to meet him.
I mean, because, you know, he's a kid. Right.
He's like our kid. He's grown up watching him
play basketball. Yes. Unbelievable. What a great
story. That's one of the neat stories about the
Super Bowl was that kid. Got a pick six and played
really well. Goop and John slided by him. Hey,
I want to bounce back and we'll come right back
to this because I don't want to leave an open
-ended hydrogen water thing because that doctor
is Gary Brekka, the one that was on the... Joe
Rogan show. And the benefits of it, I'm not going
to dive in a lot, but just benefits, antioxidant
properties, metabolic enhancement, athletic performance,
overall health and awareness. That's what they're
saying. It's more than just hydrogen water. It's
a molecular revolution. And they're the science
behind the hip, whatever. Is somebody trying
to snuff that out or what? No, there's no one
said it. No one has said anything negative about
it. A hundred percent. In fact, there are thousands
of studies that have all produced of the benefits
that it produces. And you can get different hydrogen.
Can we make it ourselves? Yes, you can make it.
You just got to buy the little apparatus for
it. And it's like 40 bucks for one. There's different
types that you get. I did a little research on
the different ones. What does it do for you again?
Like gives you an erection? Well, it adds more
hydrogen into your body, essentially. Okay. Is
that a good thing? Yes, it is. Yeah, we need
more hydrogen. There's some people that say,
you know, the hydrogen peroxide, you know, take
a cap full. I don't know if that's necessarily
true or not. I had heard that. So hydrogen or
bomb would be good for us then? Yes. Did you
say bomb? Bomb. Yes. On the massive explosive
device. I thought you said balm. I thought you
could make hydrogen balm. Oh, we're getting inundated
with hydrogen. Yay. I feel so healthy. Wow. Watch
that fire, Daddy. I don't know, but embrace the
hydrogen. Wow. Walk to the light. Wow. Hey, so
you had that Libran James video. Play that real
quick. I'm curious about if it's a true story
that he skipped over that kid. Yeah, he slighted
him days before the Super Bowl. Oh, it doesn't
have a video? Oh, it is a video of it. Okay.
So he's greeting all these guys. I didn't see
anything there. Okay, it was before that. Well,
you know, I guess there's like 10 people lined
up there, and he just shook the people he knows.
Yeah, he shook person number one, then person
number two. Yeah, but they made it sound like
he stuck his hand out and skipped over him. But
maybe that's what happened prior to him. Yeah,
he didn't skip over him. Hell, he's like third
or fourth down the row. Yeah, but it might have
happened beforehand. I don't know. He might have
shaken the hands of people to the right and skipped
over them. Well, I think the look on his face
was like a hurt child is what they're kind of
calling out. You know, he looks all hopeful.
You know how they always make things be like
clickbait? Yeah, I don't know if I agree with
that one. They try to make a scandal out of everything.
I don't know. So kind of not fair for me to be
dogging him, but I'm not a fan, so whatever.
Well, it'd be nice if he, like, it'd be nice
if Libram James would come to the table and at
least just have a conversation. You know, because
there's a lot of data, there's a lot of things
that he said out there that are the reason why
we feel the way towards the way he is. And if
he would just, like, come out and just say, have
some... I tell you what, there's a lot of people
my age, my generation, that probably are not
watching the NBA, and he... I'm not going to
say he's the reason, but he's not helping. No,
he's not helping. He's not helping. He's not
part of the solution. He's part of the problem.
He probably needs to know that. He probably doesn't
believe that, but he's one of the reasons why
I don't watch. 40 goals at 40 years old? Next
year, I'm going to do 41. Yeah, I don't know.
I don't get it. Was that a good impersonation?
Not really. I don't think he talks like that.
Yeah, not at all. He had a commercial with...
Oh, the little short black guy? Kevin Hart. Yeah.
That actually is a pretty funny commercial. It
is pretty funny. Comes up to his penis. Yeah.
That's a different commercial. Which one did
you watch? Was that the one on OnlyFans? It must
have been on YouTube. What a height difference
was causing. Were there bottles of baby oil in
the background? It was on Pornhub. Did you see,
I heard on the radio today, what Kanye West did
for a Super Bowl? He had in three markets, he
ran a commercial for Yeezy .com. Oh, I heard
about the t -shirt. And so he has a Yeezy .com,
which is a store with all the shoes and apparel
and stuff like that. Well, they ran the commercials
during the Super Bowl, and he had them pull all
the merchandise down and put one thing up. It
was a shirt with a swastika on it. What's wrong
with him? For 20 bucks. Something wrong in the
head. There's something wrong with him. He's
gone down the Nazi line several times. In what?
What's his endgame there? I don't know. I don't
understand him. Yeah, there's some lawsuits out
there. He reminds me of Hillary Clinton. He's
just trying to be relevant. I think he's got
some mental instability. I think he does have
mental instability. Not to say that Hillary doesn't,
but talking about him, he definitely does. Yeah,
I think he does. She's not right. Weird. No,
but anyway, I think that was... Anyway, Shopify
took him offline. There was an interview that
he just did recently where he had a full mask
on his head. Yeah. And his lawyer was telling
him to... You couldn't ask him a question. He
was like, you're telling me I can't fucking ask
my own lawyer a question? And he just got all...
Dude, he is. And then he's on the Grammys, uninvited
to the Grammys. His wife is nude, essentially.
Completely nude, yeah. I mean, she was wearing
like a see -through sock, like a tan -colored
see -through sock, and they asked her, well,
what's your fashion underneath your big robe
thing that you're wearing? And she's like, oh.
She drops it all, and everybody's just like,
really? And she's naked. Naked. 100 % naked.
And you could see, like, hooch, hoochie -hooch.
Yeah. Yeah. And then Kanye just like, yeah, yeah,
that's my naked wife. Was that a good impression?
It was. It was odd because, I mean, after they
asked him to leave and then, you know, she's
like on his back and he's like giving her a piggyback
ride out. Really? Yeah. Wasn't he the one that
also stumbling around the Grammys with a bottle
of Jack and got asked to leave? I don't know.
I didn't hear that about this time. That was
years ago, like a decade ago. I don't know. Is
that when he was like when Beyonce should have
won? No, that was Taylor Swift. He got up there.
Was that Kanye West? That was Kanye West, yes.
So it was him, and he did have a bottle of Jack
stumbling around the arena. This guy, he's not
in good shape. He needs help. Apparently, he
announced the other day that he is, again, a
billionaire. Oh, good for him. Yes. He announced
it. Yes. Well, he was a billionaire. And then
Adidas dropped him, and he lost a lot of his
endorsements, and he lost half of his money.
You did. And then... Well, and he was a huge
Trump supporter at one point. Yeah, that was
weird. And Trump was like, okay. He endorsed
him. He embraced him at first. Right. But then
he was like, yeah, this is probably not good
for me. Yeah. So I guess here, over the last
week, he announced that he's made his money back,
and he's a billionaire again. How did he do that?
What are you making of him? Did he... Stocks.
Dogecoin. Dogecoin. Damn it. I should have bought
it. I knew I should have bought it. All right.
Let's see. I wanted to talk about some things
that we can look forward to. We're kind of in
the dead zone of things. I know we got Valentine's
Day. That's not really a super exciting thing
to look forward to. We got spring break coming
up. We got St. Patrick's Day. We got St. Patty's
Day. I'll tell you what, man. I'm a little disappointed.
It's March. It's at the same time we're supposed
to go to this whiskey festival. So it may impact
me going to the Whiskey Festival. Ooh, yeah.
What is? St. Patty's Day. Oh. Because we have
our annual St. Patty's Day celebration at the
Rarity House. What day is St. Patty's Day this
year? It's the 17th every year, I believe. It's
the 17th? That's a... I don't know. That's a...
It's a Monday. That's a Monday. Yeah. So let
me fact check that. Is it the 15th? 15th is a
Saturday. Which means it shouldn't interfere.
And the whiskey thing you said was on the 15th.
So it's on the 17th. It's on a Monday. So the
wife would want that on the Saturday. Oh, right.
You would want your St. Paddy's party on Saturday.
Did you already buy your tickets? No, I didn't
buy any tickets yet. But that's just it. I'm
a little frustrated because I really want to
go to this event. And I'm really disappointed.
But at the same time, you know. Yeah, I was surprised
that Mark reached out about it. That was kind
of cool. Yeah, well, it was cool. And he wants
to get on the show, too. So we're going to get
him lined up. Who is this? Mark. Mark. We've
had him on before. He's the one that brought
over his. He's never been on the show, but he's
been here. Oh, he wasn't on the show? No. He
just showed up to look at things and to be like,
oh, wow, this is nice. Oh, I thought he was on
the show. He was not. You're 100 % certain? More
than 100. Absolutely. He was not on the show.
He came over here to look at things. Interesting.
Yeah. We were doing something over here because
we were sitting out there for a while, and he
may have come in here and put the headset on.
Okay, that's what I'm remembering. We did not
do a show. He had the headset on. Is this your
ex -brother -in -law? Yes. Okay. Yeah. Good guy.
Very good guy. Yeah. I did a lot of things with
him. In fact, he called me. I talked to him the
other day when we were talking about this whiskey
event. And we were talking about how when we
used to go down to Pottsboro, because he had
that house out there that he would rent out.
I don't think he rented it out, actually. No?
He just flipped it, essentially. And we used
it for five, six years and went out there for
whatever, Getaway and paintball shooting and
stuff. But he and I used to go out there more
often because we did a lot of just honeydews,
shit that needs to get done over there. Wintertime
comes, you've got to prep it, and you've got
to make sure that the mice aren't getting in.
You've got to show up once a month to take care
of business. Right. Cut the grass. It needs to
be taken care of. He had a big tractor, and we
would drive around and do that. But I remember
one year, we got there. It was cold as hell.
And we started a little fire in the back. And
we were taking care of some plumbing issues.
So we were digging around the house. And there
was a sewer line or something like that. And
it was a beast, man. And, you know, he started
the fires. The fire's going. It's a small little
fire, but fuck it. We were trying to get something
going. And I go in the house because. It was
a moment, you know, it was like I go in the house
and I'm like, what can I bring in for a drink
wise? And I'm looking through his cabinet. He
had a bottle of Maker's Mark. And back then we
weren't whiskey. You know, we weren't stewards
at that time, basically. And so I was like, fuck
it, man. So I took the whiskey and I added vodka.
So I got whiskey to the. OK, yeah. Whiskey and
vodka and RC Cola. That doesn't sound bad. I
like RC Cola. I like RC Cola. So I bring these.
16 -ounce tumbler out there. Filled. Without
ice, by the way. And he turned the corner quick.
Man, I'll tell you what. Mark looks at me, and
I'll never forget it. And he won't ever forget
it. He was like, this is the best God -blessed
drink I've ever had in my entire life. It was
because it was super cold outside, and we're
out there in the fire. There's snow flurries
coming down. So it's got a nice little half inch.
The ambiance was nice. Yeah, it was 100 % perfect.
It was a bro moment. Did you snuggle? Oh, we
ensleeved. Oh. Yeah, we ensleeved. Damn. Nice.
By the fire? Well, I ensleeved because I'm circumcised,
so I couldn't do that. Oh, right. You can stretch
around and. Okay. Like Silly Putty? We don't
really know the details. Okay. It was cool. That
property was fun. We had a lot of paintball excursions
out there. Paul, we'd go out there with, what,
a dozen guys? Oh, it was a lot of fun. 14 guys,
big bonfire, something you would have gone, you
would appreciate. Oh, you would have loved it.
You guys would have loved it. Dude, we did the
whole thing. It was the ultimate guy getaway
type of thing. Leave on, I don't know, Saturday
morning at 4 in the morning, something ridiculous
like that. Get out there, take an hour and a
half. And we had one of my wife's uncles, part
owner of a moving company, United Vanizers. One
of your wife's uncles? Yeah. That made it sound
like you had multiple wives. Well, yeah. He's
got a harem. I'm Mormon. He's got a harem of
just women. I'm Mormon. Now, anyway, so we pick
up a bunch of cardboard boxes and we do our paintball
thing. So we got the big... Dish boxes. I'm sorry.
Wardrobe boxes. Those big ones. And they're thick
and beefy. Moving boxes. Yeah. So we set those
up. And I'm telling you, we have a bunch. I mean,
shit. How many do we have? Like 50? I mean, there
were tons of boxes. How did you get them all
up there? We have trucks. Like a big old box
truck or just pickup trucks? No, you flatten
them. Oh, I see. And then you put them together
up there. Oh, yeah. Okay. Exactly. Oh, yeah.
They're super easy because you don't use tape.
You just fold them over each other. And I mean,
it was freaking awesome. Is paintball still a
thing? I mean, it is, right? Yeah, it is. The
kids did just play paintball this past weekend.
Really? Yeah, they went out there. I'm shit.
It's too cold. It's not that cold for me. It's
a matter of just unhealthy, you know? I mean,
I remember one of the times we went out there,
and I was on the far side, okay? And one, two,
three, go. I remember I launched myself step
one, step two. Pulled both my fucking quads.
Boom, boom. Done for the day. Because I was sprinting
towards it. Oh, yeah, because we were acting
all, like, military. Oh, yeah. And we're, like,
you know, running from tree to tree and obstacle
to obstacle. We were wearing flak jackets, you
know? We were thinking we were all, like, Delta
Force. Well, now at this age, you're just like,
I can't do that anymore. I just bow out. I'm
just like, they asked me, hey, Dad, do you want
to go? I'm just like, no. No, not at all. If
I put a scuba outfit on, maybe it's got a half
inch of rubber everywhere so I'm protected. Yeah,
it just bounces off. That, you know, it was so
much fun out there, though. It really was. I
mean, because there was a trailer park with a
barbecue joint that was 100 feet from his property.
Oh, a little shack. Oh, but it had great barbecue.
It did. It really did. We pounded down some barbecue
over there, and they just had some riffraff living
in that trailer park that ventured over. They're
like, hey, boys, what are you doing? Remember
the bus driver? What was she? Yes. Was she looking
for some action? I don't know what she was looking
for. Yeah, we all kind of went, uh. She had like
three teeth. Dude, I found a picture. I got a
picture of her. It was a pretty good picture.
Actually, she's. On some level, she was cute.
All right? When she wasn't smiling. It was after
the Maker's Mark and Vodka and RC Cola. She was
cute. Seven of those. All bullshit put aside,
she had a nice rack. She had a nice butt. She
had beautiful blue eyes. Her hair was long. It's
just when she smiled. Obviously, she's done some
crack at some point in her life. But outside
of that, she was pretty cute. But, you know,
whatever. I don't give a fuck. We're married.
We don't give a shit. But it was just fun. It
was a lot of fun. I think all guys need some
sort of kind of getaway. Some release like that
on Friday afternoons, Jeff. Oh, yeah. Circle
back. Circle back. Yeah. I mean, it's good. It's
good. All right, well, you know, Valentine's
Day, we spoke earlier, is coming up. Are you
guys doing anything special? Yeah, I'm doing
nude grilling. Yeah, we heard you, but I didn't
hear from, thank you, I don't even want to go
with that. You know, I'm not, we're not really
big Valentine's Day people. We don't get each
other gifts. We don't do the card thing. Yeah.
But I should probably do something. The women
like it, whether we think it's a made -up holiday
or not, the women like it. I know. But I always
feel like, you know, you go to Kroger and you
see these guys hustling around with the last
minute flowers and they're like three times the
price that they normally are. And I just look
at them and I'm like, dude, you're a fool. And
then when I do that, I'm a fool. You know what
I mean? I just feel dumb. You walk in, your wife's
like, those are expensive flowers. Right, kind
of. You didn't need, how much did you spend on
that? It was like. Who cares? It hurts me to
say how much I paid for that. You know what?
It was $85, and it's fucking stupid because they're
dead four days later. I'm going to have Jeff
laser something. Yeah. I'm going to have Jeff
laser something. Oh, okay. What is today, the
12th? You've run out of time, bro. You have until
tomorrow. I don't know when it's going to happen.
I don't know. Never mind. That's not happening.
I don't know what you're going to laser anyways.
Oh. You know what? We'll table that. Anyways,
I don't have anything planned either. In fact,
I was thinking about that today. I was thinking,
fuck, man, I need to go pick something up for
her. But at the same time, she doesn't give a
shit. But she does like it, so. I know. I mean,
if I. That's the thing. I think I may call Tiff's
Cookies, Tiff's Treats, Tiff's Treats. Yeah,
Tiff's Treats. You know, I call Tiff's Treats,
and I'll put an order in, have some cookies sent
to her office. All right, well, St. Paddy's Day
is coming up around the corner. We're going to
maybe do the whiskey event. We're not really
sure. I don't know. Jeez, man, I don't really
know what to do about this. Maybe we should,
you know, it was a good one you said about something
at work, right? Whenever you deliver something
to work, are we talking about Valentine's Day?
We kind of derailed. No. Valentine's Day was
over. I was going to deliver to Tip Street. I
immediately jumped over to St. Paddy's Day that's
coming up. That's conflicting with our whiskey
event. Jeff doesn't give a fuck because he's
taking his, God bless him, school spring break.
He's like, check it out, bitches. See ya. Oh,
you have plans during that? Yeah, we're going
to drive up to my sister's and probably hit a
couple of distilleries. Oh, fun. As we're hitting.
Going through Kentucky. I didn't even realize
that's during spring break, that whiskey thing.
Yes. Well, it's the weekend before spring break.
So it's during spring break. Yeah. Yeah. That
might be an issue for me, too. I don't know.
We might be going up to the cabin. I don't know.
And do you have a spring break anymore? What
does that mean? You don't have kids at school
anymore. So I don't know. I mean, Austin and
Preston, but. Oh, that's true. Because I realized
that. I was like, I don't have spring break.
Well, I never did because I was in corporate.
But you still do. Your wife gets it off. So you'll
forever have it off, just like my wife. True.
So you do have a spring break. But you guys could
do a spring break anytime you wanted to. That's
what I mean. You can go on a vacation whenever
you want. Right. Yeah, but I'm screwed. My wife's
never going on vacation. Yeah, we've talked about
that before. We talked about going to Gatlingburg.
I cite information. I know, it was good. There
was no info. I know, we never jump on shit. We
always talk about doing stuff and we never do
it. What's wrong with us? I'm just going to have
to go by myself. That's all there is to it. I'm
going to just do a little vacation by myself.
That's sad. Going on a fucking cruise. By yourself.
Yeah. Play shuffleboard all alone. You should
do like the virgin, do the virgin cruise. Nothing
but adults party all day, apparently. I'm sure
singles. Single people? No. Yeah, I don't...
Couples. I don't know. As much as I would like
to do that, I wouldn't feel... I wouldn't have...
This is going to sound kind of sappy, but I wouldn't
have as much fun with my wife not being there.
No, I get it. No, I understand that 100%. We
totally get that. And it would suck. All right.
Well, speaking of sucking... I've been sucking
this drink down. I wasn't sure where this was
going. No, I mean, we've got our whiskey. And
it is the Rebel. I miss the old phrasing of the
Rebel yell. Where the hell did that go? Well,
they took that off the bottle because it was
deemed racist, apparently. Yep, it was woke.
It was tied to Confederate. Southern Civil War.
I'm like, get the fuck over that. That was what?
How many hundreds of years ago? 180 years ago.
This is the Rebel 10 -year single barrel bourbon.
Tasting notes of, let's get a little. This is
a weeder, by the way. A weeder. I'll tell you
what. I wrote it down because I found it interesting.
On the first taste, I picked up ketchup. It was
kind of a tang, sweet tang. Yeah, I see. I could
see that. I'm thinking that was... Seems like
a generic nose to me. Nothing really jumps out.
Did Logan pick it up and swig out of it? No.
Because that could be his mustache. Gross. Gross.
No, I do not believe so. Yeah, that's a very
generic nose. I get nothing out of the nose.
So from that, that does have an orange kind of
bump to it, which could lead into that ketchup.
Yeah, it's just, you know how ketchup, some of
it has a twang to it. That's what I'm picking
up on it. Then it goes away. But there's a little
more. It's sweet at first. There's quite a bit
more spice to this than the double oak that we
had. Oh, 100%. Like you said, it's because of
the 10 years in the bottle that's been sitting
in. So it's sweet at first, and then it's got
a more robust and oak finish at the end. It's
focused on that end. I mean, like it or hate
it. It definitely has something that lasts a
long time on the finish. We were talking about
how, you know, the Woodford Reserve just dives
on you. Right. This does not. It sticks around
a while. It's better than popcorn. Now, if you
like it, that's great. If you don't, that's not
good. But it does stick around. I'm not a huge
fan of this one. I'm kind of eh. No, I like it.
I like the flavor of the Woodford better. This
is richer or stronger or whatever you want to
call it. Yes. Flavor -wise, but the flavor that
I'm getting, I like the Woodford better. I would
agree. I just wish it lasted. Right. I like it.
I like this one. I'll be scoring this one higher
than I did the Double Oak Woodford. This one,
so the nose is sweet, buttery popcorn, caramel
sauce, apple and lemon. The tastes are told to
be, some people taste vanilla and toffee apples,
baking spices and warm cinnamon, Danish pastries
and Cinnabon, and mellow oak flavors. No, I don't
get any of that. So dumb. The finish is sweet,
soft, and mellow. Well, this is a single barrel.
Yeah, single barrel, aged 10 years. Well, each
single barrel's different. Each single barrel's
different. That's true. So maybe the one that
he's rating had the apples and spices and all
that stuff. This one, I don't. So this one is.
So we got the shitty barrel. This one is the
collective one that some people have tasted syndrome.
Interesting. I do taste the orange. I did taste
it on that last. Maybe the citrus is what the
tang that I'm picking up in the sweetness mixing,
which is giving me that kind of that. Catch a
peep. So some say Rebel 10 -Year Single Biller
is a good whiskey with strong flavors, but others
say it's priced a little too high for what you're
getting. What is the price? I have no idea. It's
almost 80 bucks. Yeah, I struggle with that.
We've had this one for quite a while. Ooh, a
little yawn there. Yes. We've had this one for
a couple years, I believe. This one came out
October 12, 2022. Yeah, are we rating it? Yeah,
I'm going to rate this one a 7 .6. I'm about
a 6 on this one. I'm a 5 .7. Let me look at the
front of that. This was barreled in 2009, so
this is a 2019 bottle because it's aged 10 years.
Is that right? Yeah. Yeah, that sounds right.
Yeah. So this one's labeled a little different
now. So this one actually brings up dark cherry,
which I taste. It didn't say that in the first
one. Finished dark cherry lingers vanilla. So
the first one I mentioned kind of took out. Okay.
So. I just typed in the date on there. So ignore
everything you said. I guess. I'm going to rehash
what this says. Rebel 10 -year single barrel
bourbon is tasting notes of caramel, oak, vanilla,
and cherry. Each bass has a unique flavor profile,
of course. Nose -rich caramel softness, oakiness,
and nutty quality. Taste of dark cherry flavor,
but burnt caramel, buttery vanilla, and oak prominent.
What is oak prominent? Lots of oak on it. Oh,
it's the prominent oak taste? I like dark cherry.
I don't get any of that. I do taste a little
dark cherry thing going on. Does your laptop
just die? Yeah. So the balanced well overall,
enough complexity to keep things interesting,
consistent throughout. Hints of citrus on the
first sips, which could be the ketchup we're
tasting, you're tasting. Right. Velvety oak flavor
and spice, robust rebellious. Belly's Flavors,
huh? Mature finished extra sipping whiskey. Extra
smooth sipping whiskey. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a little
disappointed in this one. I am too. I think when
we first had this two, three years ago, whenever
the hell we got this, I think we were bigger
fans of it, at least for me. I believe I was.
Well, I like it. I like it a lot better than
the last one. I like it a lot. More than Rare
Creek. Or what is it called? Who? Rebecca Creek?
Well, no. Rare Breed? No, no. Not Rare. Not Turkey
Rare Breed. What is Rare Creek? Eagle Rare. Oh,
Eagle Rare. Yeah, I like it a hell of a lot more
than Eagle Rare for being a 10 -year. Well, we
have to try the Eagle Rare again. We do. I need
to try it for the first time. Right. Well, so
what did I say? Seven. You said 7 .6. 7 .6. I
did, really? Okay. I'm going to 6 on this one.
I can scratch it out. No, I think. You're allowed
to change your mind. You know what? Scratch it
out. Make it a 7 .2. Because I think there's
a lot of greater ones that deserve a 7 .6. This
one is a 7 .2. This one was a difficult one to
find. Really? At the time it was. Yeah, I don't
know if it's. I've yet to see it. I have a 10
-year, but it's not a single barrel. Yeah. You
know. Yeah, this one was. How they saw it after.
That's why we got it. Nice. I'm kind of curious
about the story. I know because it's woke, but
did we just guess? I think we just guessed about
that. I wonder what the real story is. About
dropping the yell? Yeah, I'm going to type that
in real quick. Okay. Why did Rebel Yell drop
the yell? So why are you looking that up? Oh,
actually, you're right there on it. All right,
so Rebel dropped a yell label for 2020 to distance
itself from the negative connotations associated
with the Confederate imagery and terminology
implied by the name Rebel Yell, essentially trying
to rebrand and appear less connected to Confederacy.
I hate that. I think of Billy Idol more than
Confederacy. Yeah, me too. I just hate that we're
reframing and being all emotional about the Civil
War. But a rebel yell, I mean, rebel is, I mean,
there are Star Wars rebels. You know what I mean?
A rebel is, you can have a rebel in any country.
It shouldn't be associated with the Civil War
specifically. If you look up in the dictionary
rebel, it doesn't say Civil War. But this bourbon
is from the South. And I'm sure they literally
named it after Civil War reference. I have a
bigger issue with the fact that they're just
demonizing everything about the Civil War. I
mean, the South and the Confederacy. Oh, they
brought Fort Bragg back. They did. Different
Bragg, apparently. Yeah. But I love it. I love
it. The way he's, if you want to call it, getting
around it is... There's a, I don't know the gentleman's
full name, but there's a Bragg in World War II.
I love it. Who won Purple Heart, I think the
Iron Cross or Star or whatever it is. And he
goes, yeah, we're going to rename it after this
gentleman from World War II. That's great. In
other words, Braxton Bragg. Roland Bragg. Roland
Bragg. Silver Star, that's what it was. Originally
named after the Confederate General Braxton Bragg,
it's now Roland. Roland L. Bragg. And you know
it's just a shot. It's just totally a dig. We
can't bitch anymore. Yeah. I love it. We can't
bitch anymore. I love it. You know what? I would
have been fine with him just going, you know,
we're going to revert back to what it's been
called for the last 50 years, which is named
after Braxton Bragg. Bragg. I would have been
okay with that too. Right. Stop trying to revise
history. Yeah, we had the discussion. What do
you do with Fort Hood? Because I believe the
guy they renamed that after is still alive. Do
you go up to him and go, sorry, we're going back
to Hood? Yeah. At that point? Kind of. But whatever.
I don't know. I'm not in charge of the Pentagon.
Because this is like Fort Liberty. That's not
tied to anybody in specific. I'm just amazed
he made it through. Just like McKinley is getting
renamed, right? You're talking about Pete, right?
Yeah, Pegseth. And McKinley? McKinley's getting
renamed from Denali. Denali. Is he going to rename
that? Yeah, it's going back to McKinley. Yeah,
that one, and I think there's three of them he's
doing. I forget the other one. And, of course,
that's not Pegseth. That's Trump. That's Trump
doing that one. Yeah, because it has nothing
to do with the Pentagon. Yeah, forget it. I don't
care. To me, that stuff's low -hanging fruit.
Yeah, seriously. There are so many pops out there
that they're doing. Like the paper straws. Yeah,
all these little tiny things. They're doing like
10 things a day. He reversed the appliance thing
too. Remember? The efficiency faucets. He also
dropped the penny. Well, yes, because it costs
three pennies to make a penny. Yeah, 3 .6 cents
to make a penny. So he's like, we need to do
that. How are they going to work, though? There
are some people who are cash only. Well, they're
going to either have to round up or round down.
It doesn't mean there's not going to be pennies
anymore. I mean, people will have pennies. We
still have a gazillion pennies. And frankly,
nobody... No, he said they're going to take them
all off the market. But we have so many pennies
in circulation right now. And make a big statue
to himself. There are so many pennies in circulation
right now. At some point... They'll eventually
all kind of disappear, but it's going to be years
and years and years before there's a shortage.
Yeah. But at that point, this is 93 cents. Now
we're just going to round it up to 95. Yeah,
that makes sense. Or whatever, right? So there's
some big Senate hearings coming up this week.
So the next time we have a podcast, hopefully
we'll have some words on Gabbard. And RFK Jr.
I thought Tulsi Gabbard is almost sworn in. She's
going to make it. I don't think Vance is going
to be needed. They think they're all going to
make it, but they haven't been on the Senate
vote yet. They've all made it out of committee.
Yeah, made it out of committee. And Pam Bondi
is fully in now, right? She's in. 100%, yeah.
Yep. So the ones that are not are Patel and RFK
Jr. and Gabbard. And, yeah, that's it. Those
are the three big ones. I thought RFK. They haven't
had full votes on them yet. They're all out of
committee. Is Patel out of committee? I'm not
sure he made out of committee yet. And they're
doing this stalling thing. Oh, we want more debate.
30 days of debate. I mean, the Democrats are
just dragging their feet on all of it, and they
know they can't stop any of it. And they're just
trying to convince those fringe Republicans to
not vote for them. Yep. That's what they're doing.
They're stalling to get to those people and say,
hey, we'll do this for you if you vote. Oh, yeah.
Underhanded shit. I think all of them are going
to go. Patel, can you be in? As they should.
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