There we go. Yeah. On your back. In the right
ear only. Mr. Producer, is that little remote
control there with the lights, would you slip
that on down to like 80 % or something like that?
I already did that. Oh, you did? Yeah. Never
mind. Do you want it down to 20 %? Yeah, we can
keep it lower. No, I just... What kind of...
What ambiance do you want here, Sean? Well, scorching
my corneas, my retinas. I want to reach my hand
over there and scratch myself whenever I get
a chance. I thought you guys noticed. Yeah, Sean's
breath smells like anus right now. Well, who's
anus? That's your fault, Kip. Why buy that stupid
shit? Well, I mean, you're the one that bought
soft -dried durian. It's not a tropical fruit
that was packaged in a five -pack. And you're
right, it does. But you know what? It's got a
very interesting and addictive taste to it. Hold
on. What is it? Durian. Durian's a fruit. I believe
it's from Vietnam or Thailand or somewhere over
there. And it smells like ass. And it smells,
and I bought this because I was hoping it was
just going to stink to high health. But when
we opened it last week, it really didn't. But
when I walked over there and Sean was chewing
a piece. He was very suspect. He looked at me
like, did you just shit a piece? It was bad.
Yeah, but it makes sense now. Because when you
brought the bag out, you were like, oh, giddy.
You know what I mean? It's almost like breaking
open one of those stink bombs. I knew it. Yes.
Yeah. I knew it. It smelled like death. I don't
know. It was bad. Yeah, it smells awful. The
taste is actually not as bad as the smell. It's
very unique. I don't know if I've ever tasted
anything quite like it. So the smell is evidently
so bad. So if you guys are wondering what durian
fruit is, it looks like a large elongated AIDS
spore. You know, it's got these spikes like a
sea urchin, so to speak. And when you cut these
things open. The smell is so bad that certain
communities have banned you from cutting it open
in public. You have to take it home to eat. Nice.
You can't eat it in public. It smells so bad.
It looks like a spiked. What's the thing from
COVID? A spiked something? Spiked protein? Spiked
protein. It kind of looks like a small jackfruit.
Yeah, it's got all these little hairs off of
it. It kind of spikes all over. Whenever I see
a jackfruit, I think that's what it is. It's
like, oh, that's a durian. But no, it's a jackfruit.
Well, there you go. Yeah, there you go. Okay,
well. Well, here we are. Yeah, well. Another
edition. What is today? Today's February 18th.
It is. Man, lots of things going on today. We
had Valentine's last Friday. We did. Yes. That
was a huge love celebration. Was it? No. Nah,
not really. Did you do some deep impact? There
was no deep impact. There were no flowers. There
was no cards. There was no chocolates. There
were no perfumes. There was no lingerie. I got
some nice prime steaks from HEB. They're on sale.
Oh, that's right. I sent you the info. You should
have gotten them. And I grilled those. Are you
good, Sean? You don't bring me flowers anymore?
You know, that was a song. It's Neil Diamond
and Barbra Streisand. Of course. It kind of captures
the moment of the way relationships can be for
some people. They lose that magic touch. They
lose the essence of romance. But not on the commercial
day of Valentine's. I mean, it's just a commercial
day. I'm so glad that my wife and I have agreed
we're not doing shit anymore. I learned how to
laugh, and I learned how to cry. Anyways, Dudes
Like Us, February 18th. Thank you, Mr. Producer.
It's the first half of our podcast, Dudes Like
Us. I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff. Check us
out on Dudes Like Us on Instagram and Facebook.
We're there. We're also on the rss .com feed.
Everywhere. You can hear us on most all the platforms.
Just look at Dudes Like Us. Be careful, because
if you walk away from this conversation, what
was the guy's name? What's the dude's name? And
you type in guys like us, it's going to take
you to a very nefarious website. Do not click
on that. Don't do that. If there's any dudes
with any kind of rainbow onesie on, that is not
Jeff. As much as you picture that when he talks,
that is not him. Yes, it's me. It isn't. It's
nudes of Sean. Nice. Okay. So no video then?
We'll never do video? No. Okay, that was an ender
then. Well, you know, we've got new tools for
manscaping. Are we going to talk about manscaping?
Apparently. It came out of nowhere. When did
the manscaping tools kind of come on? Is that
when the whole metrosexual thing started? How
is the tool any different than the regular shaver?
I don't know. It's more gentle on the scrote.
You know, manscaping includes the man - It gets
all tight. And you're like, ah! Maybe on Jeff's
stalks he's got all over his body. He's built
like a freaking Bigfoot Yeti. And your wife comes
running in, what's wrong? It's all jammed in
there. My clipper's all in uproar. It's pulling.
It's overheating. My clipper got jammed. It's
pulling. But you know, that's a big deal. As
a man, you not necessarily need to manicure and
shave yourself. I mean, it's recommended that
you keep it down to, you know, as far as your
hairs. You don't want three -inch hairs all over
your body. You don't want a standard. Outside
of that, you're brushing your teeth and manicuring
your fingernails is important. I mean, I think
it's important. When I look at somebody, they
don't have to have a dashing smile, but they
need to look like they just didn't eat pasta
or macaroni and cheese. Or broccoli. Yeah. That's
a broccoli. But it's just look nice. Dress for
success. Cut your nails. Trim them. I don't need
to see dirty fingernails. Poopy nails or whatever.
Women don't like that. Maybe some do. Well, the
women have nice long fingernails that are still
poopy. Yeah. But they paint them so you can't
see the color coming through. That was a meme.
That was a meme someone sent. This woman with
short fingernails versus a woman with long fingernails.
And one says, poopy? Not poopy. Because a woman
with long fingernails isn't able to get up there.
It is gross. How do they wipe their stuff off
down there? That's why we need a bidet or you
need some flushable wet wipes that you can wad
up and throw in the wastebasket, I guess. Are
the flushable ones really flushable? They are
not. Well, I mean, according to some, yes. According
to people like Chuck, no. They are not. I had
to pay a plumber to unclog my pipes. Oh, who's
pipes? Well, no, not just like real pipes. You
didn't just have a third partner? You just have
a colonoscopy, though, didn't you? Well, I'm
trying to - Well, Shelley, I'd like to introduce
you to David. PVC pipes. He's a Sagittarius.
Under the house. He likes bourbon, and he's going
to unplug your pipes. Okay. Anyway, yes, it does
clog up your pipes. So don't believe that it's
flushable. I recommend you roll it up in toilet
paper and throw it in the trash can. It doesn't
stink. It's great. Anyhow. What if you're just
like a super mess? You're just like, God. It
might be a three wiper. You know, I think it
has something to do with the size of the flushable
wipes. They make flushable wipes that are large,
like 10, 12, 14 inches. Those, yeah, not so much.
First of all, they're like for old folks. There's
a neighbor that lives by me. He sells stuff to
old folks home, and one of the things he had
was an oversized wet wipe to clean yourself.
It could be a bath, like a towelette. It's a
large towelette. This thing was like... 16 by
16. It was large. Oh, wow. I was kind of like,
wow, I can get like 20 wipes out of this one
thing. Definitely don't flush that thing. Yeah,
well, it was, you know, that would get clogged
huge, huh? Yeah, for sure. I didn't use that
one, but I just thought it should. They're out
there. Hmm. In case you're wondering. It's a
body wipe. You know, I can't help. To smell my
own breath now from this soft -dried durian exotic
tropical fruit, that is really gross. Yeah, how
do you think I feel? Well, I'm reminded. It is.
I'm going to have to take a dip into this specialty
whiskey that we're not going to talk about yet.
We're also going to have to throw away the microphone.
Well, I'm the one that you, well, I'm not the
only one, evidently. Next time Logan says so,
he's like, yeah. He's like, did Sean die? Next
time, I don't want him in here. Is he decaying?
Somebody shoved this up their ass. God knows.
I've seen Stephen hit the back of his throat
with that microphone. I don't want to know what
happens on my microphone. I'll just pretend like
it never happened. That may have been the previous
microphone. Wow. None of these topics were on
the board. It's amazing how that works. They
were not. Yeah, but it's February 18th, and we
did have a wild Valentine's. I think we had a
post -Valentine's excursion, didn't we? We went
to - I forget. We didn't do anything on Saturday.
No, but on Friday, we went to Holy Grail. Oh,
that's right. That was actually fun. That was
a fun, unique experience. In fact, I encourage
that to happen more often. I think that maybe
having candles everywhere is not a good idea
for fire hazard. But they had the fake candles.
It was nice. But it was nice. It looked like
a nice, authentic. That's what they used to do
in the 1600s, 1500s, whatever, that they had
a couple of lights out there. They were drinking.
We had a fireplace crackling. It was very romantic.
Very romantic. toothless speaker. On a fireplace
with a phone? And the crackling was over the
top. Oh, it was. There's too much crackling.
I think we did a live stream through Instagram
on that. Oh, yeah. Thanks to Jether. Yeah, because
we were clubbing. Paul was beatboxing or something.
Yeah, that was weird. Why? I didn't like that.
I'm looking at it from the phone, and Paul's
kind of like, what's going on over there? What's
he doing? He's got his light going like this.
It was fun. We were killing it. Oh, maybe it
was just me. That was all going on in your head.
It really was. No, it was good. The staff was,
they were. Yeah, they were troopers. They're
troopers of tennis. Shout out to the Holy Grail,
even though they're liberal as fuck. Shout out
to them. Now there was nobody else in there but
us, I think. Yeah, because they all were like,
well, we have no power, so we can't serve you.
And they were like, but they served us. They
kept giving us beer. I mean, I don't know. We
paid cash. Oh, that's why. No, she brought the
machine over. They were able to take the card
from us. Oh, that's right. I paid. I paid. I
paid at the end. And what's funny is they were
getting ready to, they were like, I'm sorry,
we've got to, now we have to shut down. And then
they were getting ready to shut down and boom,
the power came on. Well, they had a, they had
what, 40 reservations or something crazy? Oh
yeah, Friday was very, it was Valentine's Day.
It was Valentine's on Friday. So they had, you
know, and they were, they were kind of freaking
out themselves. They lost a lot of money then.
They could have. They could have. Well, it came
back on. Well, yeah, but did those people cancel
the reservation? Well, did they know that the,
Power was off. They probably didn't even know.
They probably showed up like business as normal.
Perfect. I want to give a shout out to Scott
and Larry for joining us out there. That was
good times. Yes, it was. We got to do that up.
Larry mentioned he wants to take the Endeavor
over to your house, perhaps. Yeah. Maybe do a
round somewhere and then just go or maybe hit
total line and then we head straight over there.
I don't know. We'll see what happens. The only
problem I have with that, and this is going to
be stupid and bullshit, is that I'm going to
get probably more inclined to get blown up at
your house. But I'm thinking. I'm going to get
blown up anyways. What the hell? I was going
to say, it doesn't matter where you're at. Yeah,
that's true. Yeah, and that gives me an excuse
to kind of clean up that room. It's been neglected
for way too long, so maybe I'll spend some time
kind of getting it. It frustrates the hell out
of me, the condition of our house right now.
Right. I mean, I looked at that floor as you
walk in. It's just dusty, muddy, and I'm like,
I'm going to clean this. I'm like, it's going
to get just as nasty, if not more. when they're
doing their shit, and they're going to have a
professional cleaner come out and clean them
anyway. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but I mean,
you know, there are things throughout your house,
like little... divots in the walls or scrapes
or, you know, cracks. And then you know there's
things that you want to do, but you back burner
them and they just kind of never get done because
it's not a priority, right? Right. And that's
kind of what my game room looks like. There's
splotches on the walls and there's scrapes and
shit. I need to rehang some stuff and, you know,
all that kind of stuff. So that would be a good
reason to do that. Well, you know, there's a
ton of painters out there. Yeah. You do it yourself?
I hate painting. I won't do it. I mean, it is
easy to do it, but at the same time, there's
a lot of prep to it, and I don't like to be crawling
on my hands and knees, putting the tape down.
I hate it. Well, didn't the boys do a whole house
that they prepped really good? Dude, it was a
fucking train wreck. I spent more money fixing
their problems than they made. That's what I'm
saying. And even when you put down the tape and
everything, it bleeds through the tape. And I'll
tell you, for those folks out there that want
to do it yourself, If you haven't painted your
walls in 15 years, those things have dried out,
and it's going to take at least two coats, especially
if you change the color. Plus, there's dust that
settles on your little texture and shit. It's
going to soak up the paint, and that's part of
it, too. It's actually a lot of it. So what those
boys did, one of them, Cody, went into one of
the rooms and drew on the wall a large penis.
Oh, no. So the room was white. I don't recall.
It was off -white, whatever. Drew a large penis,
this big phallic symbol right in the middle of
the wall. Then paints over it and shines right
through. And so now there's this glowing ghost
penis behind the wall. There's a penis on there.
And they painted that wall like three times and
it still showed up. Did the owner see it? I don't
know. They kicked him out. And they never even
really paid him. Yep. Oh, this is not your house.
No, no. This was some. I have no idea who this
guy was. There was a girl that the boys went
to school with. It was her parents. And one of
the kids had autism pretty bad where they had
to lock the doors from the inside. There were
special locks. And it was a big deal for them
to move out and get all this work done. Sure.
But at the same time, and then they turn around
and contract our boys to do the work. And in
fact, Jeff, you were there with me when that
dude showed up. He was kind of a dick. Yeah,
he was. So your son and your son together with
another. And another boy. Cody. I think it was
Cody, right? And Josh. Josh. Yeah. Yeah. And
so it didn't go well, huh? I mean, the boys worked
hard. They really did to their credit. They didn't
get paid. I don't know exactly what they got
paid. They didn't get paid near enough because
part of it was taken off a bunch of. And if you
haven't taken off wallpaper before, wallpaper
can be pretty difficult to take off unless you
know what you're doing. And even when you do
know what you're doing, sometimes that shit just
doesn't come off. Something always goes wrong.
And there are processes to do to be able to get
past that. With wallpaper, you want to perforate
it with this little tiger's paw, they call it,
and you roll it all over the board, makes tiny
incisions all over it, and then you wet the whole
thing down. Let it sit. You get like a little
bug sprayer or what is it? What is the weed little
pump thing? Right, yeah. Fill it up with hot
water and then you spray your walls with hot
water. To get it off. To get it off. And you
let it sit. Don't fuck with it because if you
start fucking with it, you're just going to keep
soaking it two or three times. So, you know,
peel the wallpaper. It's just a little heat and
you're done. Whatever. I mean, for those people
out there that want to take off wallpaper, I
don't recommend it. Just get someone else to
do it. But if you want to, that's the way to
do it. Who sold? this family on doing. The boys.
I have no idea. The boys. It was Stephen. They
just went door to door. Hey, we'll paint your
house. No, no, no. There was this common friend
they had. She was a senior. They were a senior.
Everyone was a senior. And Preston was like,
well, my dad's a contractor. We can do it. And
then, you know, of course, you know, the boys,
they were kind of like, we can do anything. Dad,
you're stupid. You don't know what you're talking
about. It's like, no, man, you need to do this,
this, and this. And you need to have everything,
all your stuff done. They didn't do any of it.
None of it. They didn't protect the floors. They
destroyed that fucking house, man. So did you
try to fix some stuff? Jeff and I went over there.
I don't recall exactly what we did over there,
but I know we spent some time over there trying
to fix things. And I was like, why didn't you?
cover this with plastic you know we a carpet
got dripped on and also it was just kind of a
wreck but in in the owner of the house he was
kind of like i i don't understand his mentality
it's kind of like what do you expect you hired
a bunch of 18 and 17 year olds yes it's like
what do you think is going to happen this is
just a cheap motherfucker out there and look
i get it Not everyone has money. I fucking don't
have money. Yeah. But at the same time, it's
irresponsible to do something like that. Now,
if you want to go over there and hire some kids
and then you manage them. Right, because you
know what you're doing. Because they're just
simple labor. Yeah, and you're going to guide
them the whole time. But don't sit there and
just relinquish your house to a bunch of kids
that are idiots. They did for like a week, didn't
they? They moved out. Yeah, they moved out. That
sounds awful. And they had to do the entire house.
Every room. And it was a disaster. Oh, yes. Oh,
no. Yes. So they had to do it all over again
and pay somebody. I don't know. Professional.
Maybe. I exited stage left. I attempted. The
guy stiffed him and in return stiffed me because
I was out a couple hundred bucks. You know, I
mean, it wasn't a lot, but it's still a couple
hundred bucks. You know, because I went out there
and paid for supplies. You know, and the boys
just, I don't know what they did, man. That's
crazy. Still a little irritating. Yeah, it was.
It was not a good scene. All right, so Friday,
yes, that was Valentine's Day. Yeah, did your
steak? Your steak turned out good? Well, they
were perfect medium. Perfect medium, yeah. All
right, and then Saturday, I did my firewood thing.
What did you guys do on Saturday? Anything? Just
kind of chilled? We didn't do anything. I didn't
do anything Saturday. I just took it easy, I
think. Yeah. What day did we do pasta? That was
Saturday night. Saturday night? Okay. So Saturday
during the day, I wrote a report. I worked. Oh,
you worked a little bit. Yeah, I worked a little
bit. And of course, Tara, she's clean mode. Good
Lord. When she cleans, I don't know how many
women out there, how many dudes like us out there
have to experience their significant other, whether
you're female or female. When they're in clean
mode, just get out of their way. Don't try to
help them. When Julie gets like that, I'm just
like. She gets very focused, and if I'm not helping
in any way, she's like. You're either part of
the solution or the problem. And even if you
are part of the solution, you're still part of
the problem because it's there. You're not doing
it right. It's there, and she shouldn't be having
to do that in the first place. Therefore, you're
at fault. I think what we do, we have separation
of duties, right? So I don't try to help her
with what she's doing. She doesn't try to help
me with what I'm doing. And we have an even split
of. You know what I mean? She's doing her shit.
I'm doing my shit. And mine's usually outside,
right? Outside. She's got inside. I've got outside.
And then some other things we kind of, you know,
do whatever. That's fair. Yeah, we have a good
balanced. Yeah, we do. You know, I probably should
take on some of that. I mean, I went outside
this week and embarrassingly took down my Christmas
lights. I got a today. Because Julie had a snowman
wreath on the front. She's like, snowmen are
wintertime. Not necessarily Christmas, so it's
winter. That works. I'm going to keep it up for
a little bit. She took all the Christmas stuff
down. We got a letter from the HOA saying, you
have holiday decorations up past the allotted
time. You need to take it down. Snowman is a
holiday? Yeah. I didn't think snowmen were holidays.
Apparently it is. That's funny. That's due to
interpretation. I would contest that. Chuck,
I need you to weigh in. I don't weigh in on stuff
like that. Well, you can give us an unbiased
opinion right now. Actually, it's unbiased. My
holiday lights were up until February 8th or
something like that, so I'm lax in that. So you're
the worst offender and you're the president.
There's still one with lights up down the street,
but I was second to last. Just from an HOA, Homeowners
Association perspective, I mean, I could see
having a Santa Claus or... One of those scenes,
nativity scenes. Yeah, that's clearly. But a
snowman isn't around to Christmas. It's a winter
time. It's a winter thing. So we also have a
house on our street that is lined all the way
around the top of the house, you know, but it's
all white lights. Is that? Are they on all the
time? All every night. Well, make those fish
lights. Those jellyfish, those are actually pretty
nice lights. Yeah, they are. They change for
every holiday. Change colors, like a little nice
pink. Yeah, I mean, their house is all lit up.
It looks nice. I mean, I don't think those are
holiday lights. Are they LEDs like underneath
the eve and everything? Yeah. Yeah, those are
probably the jellyfish lights. Yeah, maybe. They're
not like the icicles, are they? No. As much money
as I spent putting up those Christmas lights?
You want to leave them up there. I should have
just invested in the damn other ones. Jellyfish?
Yeah. I have no idea how much those are. I don't
know yet. That probably would have taken a little
bit more time, but hell, I think it would have
been worth it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, so the
exciting thing we did this weekend was Iron Root.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What? What
the hell, man? What happened? You're just going
to gloss over our pasta dinner? Oh, it was a
cool, yeah, it was a cool night. It was, look,
it's not just that, but it was the whole experience
for the dudes like us out there that want to
make their own stuff with Jellyfish. Okay, what
do we have here? $25 .35 and a fucking $1 ,000
controller. Per foot. Yeah, I don't know about
that. That drives me crazy. The incorrect use
of effect versus affect. Time of year can effect
pricing. It's affect pricing. What the hell,
man? How does that happen? How does that happen?
It's so bad. All right, look, let me go over
this real quick. We've got a busy schedule. So
Saturday night, we got Desiree, Shelly, and Tara
got together. They made their own pastas. We
made the pastas. Yeah, they wanted the men to
make them pastas. Yeah, so we got two cups of
flour. Olive oil? Yeah. A little teaspoon, half
a teaspoon of olive oil. Is it real olive oil?
And eggs. Well, it was what was there. I didn't
think it was real. Was it cloudy? I didn't put
it in the fridge, but I'm going to probably start
doing that, probably to give it a little test
to see what's going on with it. And three eggs.
So two cups of flour, three eggs, and a half
a tablespoon. We didn't put any salt in it. No,
no salt? I didn't. I don't remember. And then
we just sit there and mix it. You got to take
the - You need it. You make a little hole in
the center of the powder, and you put the three
eggs in there, and you take the outside and flip
it on top. Take the outside and flip it on top.
Yeah, you need it. And then you just mix it all
up and knead it for a long time. You'll knead
the bread until you just - Did you make like
cannolis or - Yeah, Terry made some cannolis.
Some manicottis, raviolis. Yeah, she made, it
was sweet ricotta cheese with some chocolate
chips in there. And, you know, we never got to
that program. I don't know what happened. But,
you know, we had these little bags filled with
the, you know, pipe it in there, ready to go.
I didn't, yeah, I didn't even see that part of
it. Anyway, so once it's all kneaded up into
a nice kind of smooth ball, then you, you know,
you. You roll it out, right? Into a flat. Super
thin. And then you take the little. Except if
it's mine. I made mine thick. Yeah, yours were
thick. And then. Kind of like calamari. I started
out kind of thick and thinner and then thinner
and thinner like in my three batches. But anyway,
then you take a little pizza cutter and you cut
them into tiny little strips so they become spaghetti
noodles. Unless you're like Wes. He took the
pizza cutter and cut so hard I damn near think
he marred my fucking countertop. I was like,
dude. What are you doing, man? Well, he definitely
cut the cutting. paper yeah i don't care about
that you can hear it too it's because you can
hear you can hear the little because it's i think
it's got some metal in there you know uh i don't
know what it but it was just kind of funny i
was like wes you know you're going through that
he was like i don't think so i am and i was like
dude I could see the veins popping out in your
forearm as you're pushing it down on there. It's
like you would just literally shit your pants
pushing down. Yeah, it was funny, though. It
wasn't molten metal. I mean, it was just dough.
All in all, Paul made different ones. Wes made
different ones. I made mine really thick. They
were supposed to be fettuccine, but they turned
out to be, I don't even know what to call them.
It was neat. It was a good experience. I had
never made homemade pasta before. Was it? What
are the bow tie ones? Farfalle or falafel? I
don't. I know what you're talking about. Yeah,
we didn't do that, Jeff. We just made little
strips. Just strips. But we have to make pasta.
But if you want those, what you do is you make
a... Ganache. You do a strip of... You make a
little strip of dough. I have a pasta machine
downstairs. And then you got a little machine
and you roll it and it goes... And it makes the
little thingies. Or you get a pasta machine.
We got a pasta machine. You put it in there and
you just turn it. Yeah, we didn't do any of that,
okay? Well, if you would have called me, you
could have used it. We made cool little strips.
I actually have an attachment that fits on the
side of the KitchenAid. You should have used
that. Well, I didn't get the authorization to.
And I brought it up once, and she was like, she
growled at you. She didn't say anything, but
it was kind of like, you know, she was like Zool.
She came out of nowhere. I was like, easy, easy,
pipe it back there. So then we boiled it, and
then we put the sauce on it, and we ate it. It
was good. Did it have meatballs or anything?
Yeah, we did. Yeah, there was a chicken meatball.
No, they were turkey meatballs. Turkey meatballs.
They were large, two and a half inch in diameter.
They were good. Big boys. Did you just like the
Market Street or something like that? I don't
know. She pre -made them. No, she made them.
She rolled them up and baked them. She loves
this shit. She's good at it. She really is. She
is. That's why I don't say shit. I'm just kind
of like, how can I help? You can get out. I'm
going over to Jeff's. Well, and then we had some
bourbon and then we watched the hockey game.
That was exciting. It was exciting. It was. Wes
left. He was kind of like, Wes isn't doing well.
Actually, he's doing okay. He had some sort of
a heart thing that happened. Damn it, it's happening
again. The blue screen. I did the destructive
reboot. It's just whatever. He had something.
This happens to dudes like us out there. You're
going, you're going, you're going. Did he have
AFib or something like that? He had something
similar to that. He had some sort of heart influx
or something, palpitation that didn't sit well
with him, and he went to the doctor to go get
it checked out. And all in all, everything seems
to be thumbs up, but it's still a scare. Anytime
your life flashes before your eyes, you're kind
of like, I got the insurance. You know what?
Fuck it. I don't care. I'd have him keep checking
because when my dad, had his heart attack they
initially thought that he was having pneumonia
right as long as he had congested turned into
congestive he had a heart attack and congestive
heart failure and his lungs started filling up
yeah so they thought he was having pneumonia
well and they missed two or three weeks later
it was getting worse they went in there like
then they finally did the test there's a certain
test they do to tell if you've had a heart attack
or not yes they're right like oh you had a massive
heart attack That would piss me off. It was too
late. The damage was done. That night it happened,
but it would have been good to actually get him
well so he didn't have a terrible two or three
weeks. Absolutely. Have him keep checking, man.
I'm not saying it was a heart attack. When he
left, they put a monitor on him that's constantly
monitoring him 24 hours a day right now. I think
he was just worn out. Yeah, he's worn out mentally,
physically. You know, he's making an effort.
He said, I'm exercising. I'm doing this. So he
left. He went home, take care of business and
relax a little bit. And we had the USA versus
Canada. Canada. It was a great game. I didn't
even know this was on. Yeah. Walk us through
this. It's no longer the all -star game. They
now have this. That's right. The NHL decided.
All the sports are struggling with their all
-star, you know. Pro Bowl and the NBA All -Stars.
So the NHL decided to do a four -nation face
-off. That's right. So the four nations are Sweden,
Finland, Canada, and the U .S. And so they had
pool play for a couple games, and then you got
a certain number of points, and then the two
teams with the highest points go to the finals,
which is on Thursday night. And we played against
Canada. And Canada is like the favorite, I guess.
Finland sucks. Look at that. Yeah. Canada was
the favorite, but the U .S. beat them. And in
compounding the excitement is that, you know
how Canada has been booing the U .S. national
anthem? Oh, so that wasn't a new thing. That's
been going on for a while? Oh, I didn't know
about that. That's been happening during some
of the NHL games. Oh, is that since President
Trump has taken over? Correct. Okay. The 51st
state? Well, that and the implication of the
tariffs. And the threats and the trash talking
that Trump does. I mean, I get it. I mean, he's
dogging Canada and dogging their leaders. They
need to be dogged because they need to get their
shit in order. I don't disagree. I don't disagree.
But anyway, that kind of led to it. And then
when they played each other in the first nine
seconds, their three fights broke out. That was
amazing. Yeah, and they were just scrapping.
Yeah, there we go. We got a video of it. And
the crowd was... And you know how it is. They
can't do anything. The refs can't do anything
until they go to the ice. Right. Because, you
know, to keep them from getting hurt, right,
the referees. Yeah, so three different fights
broke out. Anyway, so it was an intense game.
And the U .S. won. Yeah, so it was 1 -1, and
then 2 -1, and then the Canadians pulled their
goalie, and then it was... Empty netter, man.
Empty net 3 -1, yeah. So what if some of these
Canadians and U .S. guys are on the same NHL
team? So it's interesting you say that because
two of the U .S. players that got into fights
are brothers. And the brother of one brother
was fighting a guy who was on his brother's team.
Not on his team, but on his brother's team. Right.
Yeah, that would be interesting. I don't think
teammates would fight each other. You can't do
that. That's what I mean. What if it devolved
into that? You're saying two guys in the U .S.
fighting each other? No, no, no. He's saying
two guys from the Pittsburgh Penguins fighting
each other. Yeah, one was Canadian, one was U
.S. Correct. Teammates on an NHL team would not
fight each other unless they didn't like each
other. No, she didn't. She loved you more. Yeah,
so anyway, it's going to be exciting Thursday
night. It's going to be really intense, I think.
Yeah, I think so, too. And you know what? Shame
on. Shame on Canada. I mean, when we have – I
don't know this for a fact, but I don't think
we boo other countries. And if I do, shame on
us. We did. So Finland – This last week, right?
Yes. Canada played Finland in Boston. Like, they
have multiple sites, right? And the Boston crowd
booed the Canadian national anthem. So was this
as a result of – It was. So this was reactionary.
Reactionary. It was totally reactionary. Well,
they need to put a post out there to be the bigger
person. But, you know, at the same time, fuck
Canada. It's interesting. And they had a crazy
thing happen. A couple days ago with this plane
crash in Canada. Actually, fuck the haters. There's
tons and tons of beautiful people in Canada.
Of course. Yeah, tons and tons. And most of them
love America, right? And they're not thrilled
with their leadership and the censorship and
the bullshit that they're going through right
now. And they've got tons and tons of Canadian
actors. And they're going to make a leadership
change. They're going to make a leadership change.
They have to. Yeah. So it's going to be good.
What was that breaking news with, what was his
name? That's a guy from the Alex Jones show,
isn't it? Yeah, Josh or George. What is this?
Ten minutes. What is his name, though? Owens.
Yeah, Owens something. Owens Schroyer. Owens
Schroyer. There you go. Let's see the significance
of this, though. A response to video shot in
Austin of deranged goblin creatures attacking
the press. Okay. Interesting. How long ago was
that? It was one hour ago. All right, let's watch
this. airplane that turned over it sure did absolutely
unbelievable string of aviation incidents tom
that's interesting this is gonna yet again raise
the concern about uh faa No. Oh, that's a can
of dough. So ridiculous. This is a Canadian air
traffic control tower, and this is under Canadian
authority once it crosses the border. Well, at
least it says that. And yet, as you know, there
has been this talk about maybe staff cuts at
the FAA. Such bullshit. They have not cut any
FAA tower personnel. None of those. So I think
there's 45 ,000 employees for the FAA. And they
were talking about, what, the 400 or 500 people
that did get cut were all promoted. probationary,
and they hadn't even been there for even a year
yet. In fact, these cutting lines, my daughter
talked to me today, and she was all up in arms
about the National Forest Rangers were all getting,
she was like, Trump's administration just defunded
all the National Forest Rangers, and they just
cut all those jobs. And I was like, I don't think
that's what happened. I think what they did is
they stopped hiring new ones. And they got rid
of all the temporary people. They're having an
hysterical reaction to everything Doge is doing,
everything Trump is doing. Well, it's all the
probationary people, like 200 ,000 probationary
people who don't have that civil employee guarantee
of a job. Right. It's like if once you become
an employee, you're guaranteed the job, which
is ridiculous to me. Ridiculous to me. You can't
get fired. We've got to revisit all that. And
they are. So to wrap up this Canadian crash.
So it's a Delta, right? American plane. But we
think that there was wind involved, right? And
it might have been pilot error, maybe not pilot
error. They don't know yet. But, dude, the fact
that that thing flips over and there were, what,
80 people on the plane? Yeah, 87, I think. And
no one died. That's a miracle. Well, they're
all wearing a seatbelt, I guess. It's an absolute
miracle. They said they're, one of the guys,
people that were out there said they're all hanging
there like bats. Right. Upside down. Can you
imagine? So they were also saying, so in those
smaller planes, there's not a lot of headroom
up there. It's a regional plane. So when those
things flipped over, you may have a couple inches.
So they were able to put their hand and push
themselves up a little bit to release those belts.
Had it been like a regular plane, you know, there's
two, three, four feet between you. You wouldn't
have been able to do that. And if you do release
the thing, boom, you freaking break your neck
or something like that. quick somersault or something.
I wouldn't do that. And you know most people
don't have the strength to land gracefully, right?
No, I would be all contorted, broken arm. Is
everybody okay? They hear this boom. Oh, it's
Sean. Sorry, my belt just came off. He blasted
through the roof. It's an explosion. No, some
guy just fell. He just fell through the ice.
But they got the shout out to all the staff that
were there. They were able to manage it. They
kept their wits about them. You know, they practice
how to get people off the plane when it's in
the upright position. They never practice or
even figure out how the hell we're going to get
these people out with being upside down. And,
you know, it's like the sled's not going to bow.
What is it? The slide's not going to pull out.
Yeah, you're right. Well, they just walk off
of that. Yeah, they just walk out. Well, yeah,
they did. But, I mean, under normal conditions,
like, there's a process. And there are people
who are. like, oh, I need to get my backpack.
I need to get my phone. No, you don't. No, no,
no. Get the hell off the plane because you're
going to fucking die because the fuel is coming
right out of this thing. And Johnny on the spot
for the firefighters that went out there. They
put it out quick. They went out there immediately,
like within minutes, and started dousing that
thing. Because that thing was amazing. It was
a fireball. Yep. I'm amazed the plane didn't
completely just disintegrate with fire. So that
was, yeah, it was excellent all around. A very
exciting story that they didn't die. So anyway,
that was exciting. I'll wait to hear what the
final results are of the cause of it. Is it weather
related? Should they have turned around? Was
there an issue below that little 500 -foot mark
where they should have been? Well, it looked
like it was coming down. It was not video right.
It looked like it was descending pretty quick.
It hit hard. Yeah. So I don't know. Again, was
it pilot? Was it a mixture of all? The above
kind of thing. Who knows? Do not know. I remember
I wasn't even down here yet, but there was a
real bad wreck here at Dallas -Fort Worth by
a wind shear. Was that the Delta? I don't know
what plane, but it was back in the 80s maybe.
That was the Delta airline. Yeah, it was a big
wind shear and it killed a bunch of folks. And
they've put in a bunch of wind shear equipment
to be able to predict that in ground flights.
It also took out people on the Yeah, it did.
It hit some cars. Yeah. All the debris. Imagine
being, just driving in your car. Listen to Journey.
Yeah, what the hell? Boom. It has to be Journey,
huh? Wheel in the sky. Wheel in the sky. Wheel
in the sky. Oh, no. Oh, that's bad. That's a
bad joke. So I was driving down the road. I didn't
see the plane parts fall down. Then I get this
text message from the Total Wine Kevin. Shout
out to Kevin. Thank you very much, sir. And he's
like, hey, Sean, how you doing? I'm paraphrasing.
But he was like, he said, hey, look, we have
availability for an Iron Root event that's happening.
And we have three spots available. And immediately
I'm thinking. Yeah. Chuck is fucked. No, no,
no. You were thinking Paul is fucked. Oh, I was
not. It was somebody's fucked. I don't know who
it was. But, you know, then I was like, are you
sure that's not four? He was like, well, I talked
to him, and he was like, well, we'll see. I don't
know yet. But anyways. There was plenty of time.
100%. But initially, I thought this was an event
that was occurring at Total Wine. And so I thought,
oh, this is really good. And I don't even know
when it is. I actually learned that it was there.
It was that Friday. Friday, we were at Total
Wine. Oh, that's what it was. We were actually
at Total Wine. And they were like, no, idiots,
it's out in Denison. And I was thinking, fuck,
that's a long drive. Because I'm thinking a time
management. That's why I was asking about a party
bus or a helicopter, at least. Oh, you thought
maybe they would have. Yeah. You know, curried
us up there. Yeah. Yeah. We're from the Dukes
Like Us podcast. What the hell, man? What's your
shit together? You got a party bus with a pole
in the middle. Yeah. Dancers. And a red carpet
in their parking lot. I went through great lengths
to try to massage the circumstance a little bit.
And I was kind of like, are you sure? Then I
went back to Total Wine. I talked to the manager.
It was Castle Christie. And then there was another
one. I forget the young lady's name. Damn it,
I need to remember her name. But she was like,
I was like, hey, man, we got one or two more.
I mean, is that crazy to bring them out there?
She was like, bring them. It's not a big deal.
This is an appreciation thing. Just go out there
and just put our store number on there. There's
plenty of people that aren't going that were
invited. Just go. Just put guest on there. You're
going to be fine. So I give Chuck the thumbs
up. And then he's like, oh, that sounds great.
He calls me the next day. I'm like, fuck you.
I'm not going. Yeah, what's up with that? It's
quite violent. Direct quote. Yeah, what happened
there, man? My brother is in town visiting for
the weekend from Phoenix. Oh. Well, apparently
he could have come too. Yeah. They were interested
in watching the NASCAR race. Oh, the NASCAR race.
But anyway, Iron Root was very, very cool because
I think everyone thought we were Total Wine employees
for one thing. No, they did. They 100 % did.
The whole thing was catered to thanking the Total,
to informing them more about the Iron Root product.
On how to sell. It was an appreciation. Yeah,
absolutely. All of that. So we had, if you go
to the normal Iron Root presentation, it is a
lengthy one. It may be an hour, hour and a half.
It's a good one. It's one of the better ones
out there. It is good. It's the best I've seen.
But this one we went to was special. They had
four different sections where they talked about
four different aspects of the business and how
can you do a better job selling their product.
And knowledge is the core of that. So they started
off in the – we got lucky because we started
off in – In the beginning of the process. Yeah,
the whole process where you have the big vats
in there, and they go through the whole thing,
the heads and tails, and all the different variations
and where they make the St. Alley, the different
types of corns, which is amazing. They didn't
get too much into it because they're still limited
on time, but it was very informative, extremely
informative. In my opinion, they covered just
about everything you can cover start to finish.
Oh, yeah. Of the process. Oh, yeah. I mean, there
was really no stone unturned. Yeah. Then we moved
into the barrel aging area. Yep. And that was
very interesting as well because I didn't realize
what I thought was interesting is they moved,
since we're here in Texas, they moved away from
the 53 -gallon barrels to the 65 -gallon. Right.
Because it slows down the aging down here just
enough to where it doesn't get just tree sap
kind of a thing, right? Yep. So I never even...
Thought about that, and I wonder if other distilleries
are playing with that, using the 65 -gallon,
basically the big wine barrels is what they are.
Oh, yeah. That they've purchased instead of the
bourbon barrels. They're big 65 -gallon wine
barrels, and they're using that to, and that's
what bulk of their stuff is aging in right now,
I looked. Right. And it was interesting because
they do a ton of experimentation. Oh, yeah. Right.
Not only in their mash bills and in their in
their, you know, approach to doing the fermentation
and all this kind of stuff, but also even in
their barrels like they have. They try all sorts
of different finishing that they're doing. Right.
So, yeah, it was that was cool. That was really
cool. And the other thing I had never seen before
is what they call it on the inside of the barrel.
They were grooves. What do they call that? They're
grooves. I don't know what the official term
of it. It's kind of like zigzags on the inside
where there's grooves, not necessarily scored
into it, but it's created. It looks like fingers
just scratched down and there were like U's.
So there's a valley and a peak. And he said the
reason we do that is the peaks are more charred.
Than the valleys. So it gives them more variation.
More variation. Oh, in the barrels. In the barrels.
I thought you were talking about the metal containers.
The inside of the barrels, yeah. Yeah, the barrels.
Plus it also gives just a little bit more surface
area. Right. Yeah, it was excellent. It really
was. Yeah. Good stuff. So the surface area is
one of them, but it was the variation of the
flavors. Because it was kind of like you get
inside that char. Let's say it's a char four.
Well, hell, you can get a char four, three, and
two, and one in the same barrel. Yeah. Just by
those grooves being in there because the char
can't get into every little nook and cranny.
I thought it was pretty amazing. An interesting
blend of char. The whole thing about them in
the grooves, the fact that they mix up species
of wood. They've got the heads of the barrel
were made from Europe French oak and they got
the side barrels with American white oak. That
I had never heard either. That was new to me.
I didn't know they had varying wood within the
same barrel. And it was just the heads. The heads
was a different wood than, like you said, the
slats. Right. Or whatever they call them. The
staves. What do they call the, I guess I don't
know what they call them. The staves. Spiral
cut barrel. Okay. That's interesting. So that's
obviously something they do before they scorch
it. Correct. Interesting. Yeah. Then the next
step that we went to, I thought was the best
part, was the tasting. Where they had all these,
they had two, they had three of their. They had
a bourbon, a rye. Actually, they had two bourbons
and a rye. And they had all these little tasting
packets. That were child protect locks. Yeah,
they were incredibly difficult to get into. Not
for me. Because of that experience, I went on
Amazon and bought myself another little hand
pocket. I usually have one all the time, and
I haven't had one for like a year. And I went
and I bought one. I got it in today. Here, I'm
kind of proud of it. I struggled with the first
one. I think I was the last one. I was just crinkling,
crinkling, crinkling, crinkling. You start to
panic. You're falling behind. She's like, okay,
open that up. And now what you're going to get
from this and this and that and this is now you
get the taste. And then you guys are like. And
then on the second one, Sean's like, even Kevin
had you hand you his pocket knife. I threw it
down on the table. I was like, fuck this. Eventually,
I was like, all right, this one, I'm just going
to rip so much off. They'd go everywhere. I was
like, I'm just going to rip it in half. Like
a bag of Cheetos. I will tell you, it complemented
the whiskey so well. Well, the first one, it
was because she said, taste this one first. It's
a Stroopwafel. Right. And I think it was cinnamon
or caramel that she wanted you to taste. Yes.
She goes, after this first sip, you'll taste
this, this, this, and this. And it did. And that
was the whole point. It was like you're comparing
these things that were prepared in these packets
against the taste that you're sampling. Correct.
And she's wanting you to find that taste or experience
that taste. It almost makes me want to have a
bowl of dehydrated cherries and some nuts and
Stroopwafel up here. Yeah. Like a little bin.
Like a little bin. Not to sit here and snack
on them, but as we taste, we would snack on them.
Throw some durian in there. Some durian. Durian,
not gurian. Durian. Durian. I wonder how that
will enhance the flavor. Sean, how's it enhancing
the flavor of this drink? I'm sure it's going
to enhance the flavor of my mattress when I get
home tonight. We'll be like, God, this bourbon
tastes like shit. So it was pretty cool because
we got to try the rye, which isn't even out yet.
The sleight of hand rye. Yeah. They said it'll
be out in the stores in two to three weeks. Oh,
is that what it was? Okay. Oh, the Permithian
was the one. No, the Apotheosis. The Apotheosis.
Sleight of hand rye. Yeah, that's not in the
stores yet. So their cost point on this is getting
lower and lower, which is... Which is good. I
don't know what the real deal is with that. Is
it because they're trying to sell it? Because
what I understood, and even what Jeff brought
up, is that as an industry, sales are kind of
going down across the board. Yeah, but I've never
heard of people lowering their prices when they
get a price break. They were able to get their
corn cheaper, or they were able to get this,
and so they're able to pass those savings on
to you. Who does that? No one does that anymore,
it seems like. I was really kind of, proud is
not the right word, but I was impressed. that
they were lowering their prices. Respectful.
And I'm sure they're trying to position their
bourbon in a sweet spot, right, in terms of a
price point. Well, there's a lot of competition
at this price point. There is. Right? So maybe
they're trying to lower it just a little bit.
I mean, there's competition throughout the entire
price spectrum. Oh, that's what we're getting.
We're going to get the orange wine, the Apotheosis
IV orange wine. Yeah, it was good. Yeah, it sure
was. It was very good. It was really good. Yeah,
I'm really impressed with their stuff up there.
And they have a class act presentation. The family
is really friendly. Robert, Jonathan, and Marsha.
I don't recall what the father's name is. It
was Jim, wasn't it, or James? Yep, we met him
too. Yeah, very, very nice folks. Anyway, I just
felt guilty multiple times throughout the time
we were there. They were like, oh, yeah, so what
location are you at? And we're like, oh, yeah,
we're from Frisco. They serve booze in Frisco?
What's funny is every single person we talked
to in that family thought that we were a total
wine representative. I didn't. I told them all,
I was like, we're from a podcast. Oh, did you?
Yeah. That's funny. Yeah, but of course, some
of them, like Nellie, knew us. Oh, yeah, yeah,
yeah. That was the first time I had met her.
She's really cool. Really? Yeah. Yeah, like Nellie.
She's very knowledgeable. She's extremely knowledgeable.
And from what I understood, she's got a huge
collection of whiskey. And she's their director
of marketing, right? She should be. I don't know
what her title is there. In fact, I couldn't
find it on here. But there were people, shout
out to Amanda, that showed up with her father.
Is it Ron? Was it Ron or Jim? I feel bad now
I forget his name. I think it was Ron. Yeah,
I forget. And, you know, Kevin was there, of
course, and we saw some other, I didn't see Peyton
there, but there was a bunch of Total Wine people
from all over the region. Yeah, it was really
neat. They set up a dinner, kind of a... Kind
of like a little snack bar. Well, I mean, it
qualifies as a dinner. It had the buffalo chicken
paste. Oh, that was good. Yeah, but they had
that ice cream. I don't think they called it
paste. How about the ice cream where you dump
the bourbon on top of the ice cream? Dude, was
that good or what, the ice cream? Oh, it was
good. That was from downtown McKinney. The creamer.
I was like, damn it. I missed out. Damn it. That
buffalo chicken paste? I asked somebody. I was
like, you need to get us the recipe for that.
It was the buffalo chicken dip. It was really
good. Not a paste. Well, it was like a pate.
They had really ground it down a lot. But it
was terrific, though. It really was. They wanted
you to put it on a cracker or a little tostada.
She wanted us to lose a chip on it, and I was
like, screw that. I'm usually not a fan of those
dips, but that was actually excellent. It was
very thick. And like you mentioned, the ice cream.
Oh, yeah. They had Prometheus in there. Prometheus
made ice cream. Yes. It was terrific. I had two
helpings. I'm sure you did. And I ate it with
a fork. Yeah, I had a fork as well. I had the
last bit of it thawed so I could drink it. Drink
my ice cream. I got another Prometheus shot and
dumped it in there. I was able to swirl it up
and get all the last bits. I noticed when I brought
two back, Sean was like, how come you have two?
That's exactly what I said. The only thing about
that whole experience is that you always want
to set good expectations with your spouse about
when you're going to leave the house on yet another
excursion. First of all, whenever we do these
events, it's difficult to get our wives on board.
Well, not for me, but for you guys because you're
like, oh, I just love my wife so much. I want
to spend so much time with her. Whatever. So,
you know, it's my time. So, you know, we finally
get a time. They allocate this. All right, man,
we got a three hour window. It's a three hour
window. It starts at one. Starts at one. Oh,
from one to three. Yeah, one to three, one to
four. Except it's an hour away. Okay. I already
get up there. I already get back. Didn't factor
that in. You guys going to go to Whataburger
on the way there? So we stop at Whataburger and
she goes, oh, so one to three? So it's now, what'd
she say? So now it's 11 to four. And I'm like,
okay, well, it's okay. And then it became 11
to six. I didn't get up to like 630. I was like,
shit, man. It was a long day. I had no idea,
but they had such an in -depth. It was great.
It really was great. It was classy. Shout out
to Iron Root Republic. They did a fantastic job.
It was outstanding. I'm impressed with their
operation. I definitely am. And they're bourbon
shit, man. Yeah, I shared with them, you know,
like their stuff. I thought their stuff was horrible,
you know. But I was like, once my palate became
more refined, I started really appreciating.
You know, I absolutely 100 % love your stuff.
Forget who you said. It might have been Robert.
It was Robert. That you said that to. I was like
going, oh, no, Sean, what are you saying? You
got to tell them the truth. Man, when I first
tried your bottle, I thought it sucked ass. I
don't think I said that. But, you know, then
I drank it a little bit more, and I was like,
eh. I guess it's okay. And you invited us, so
it's good. No, I did not. And now that we're
here? None of that happened. And the whole time,
I'm sure, the whole time he's going, what the
fuck? We bought the Saints Alley Nobleman. Yeah,
it was one of the first ones. And that was the
one we had our first initial experience on. And
when we were first starting out like that or
within a year and a half, our palates were nowhere
near that. We were still hung up on getting the
easy -to -drink weeded whiskeys. And that's where
we were at. It was early in the process. Anytime
we pulled up anything with a little bit of spice
to it, we're like, what is that? That's horrible.
I don't remember. Did you remember something
like that, Jeff? That was 100 % Paul. Maybe that
was Sean. You absolutely said that. You know,
it's like, I don't taste, I don't want to drink
anything with rye. Okay, I never said that. I
don't like pumpernickel either. I don't remember
saying any of those things. And I don't like
women anymore. I'm sorry. Women? I don't know.
Where'd that come from? I don't know. Actually,
the Nobleman, this latest release is outstanding.
Yeah. Excellent. All right. I got to tell you.
No. My computer, is it a hardware? Because it's
a hardware issue. It's not a software. Take it
to Best Buy or somewhere and say, well, how do
I fix this? I think it's the podcast God saying,
you don't need a laptop right there. No, it's
not. And I wish you'd stop saying that. I know
you do. But I'm not backing down. Me neither.
You may need to take it to a computer shop. Well,
whatever. It's just a little frustrating. Anyway,
I think we should talk about the bourbon we're
drinking. Ooh, it's time. I think it is. All
right. Well, it's up on the screen. What is it,
Mr. Jeff? Well, we're going back to, well, this
one is readily available on all the shelves.
This is Knob Creek 9, just a standard Knob Creek.
Readily available, but. Which is a Jim Beam bourbon.
It is. But the Knob Creek stuff is good. We have
this nine. We have the 12 -year. We have the
nine -year single barrel. I think we have one
more out there that I can't think of. But this
nine -year bourbon, what's the proof on this,
100 proof? This is outstanding. It is very, very
good. And so this is not the small batch. Oh,
it is. It says small batch on the bottle. Yeah,
Knob Creek small batch, which could be, you know,
10 ,000 bottles that we know of, you know. Small
batch is kind of arbitrary from what Robert said.
Depending on the size of the distillery. Correct.
Small batch could be 10 ,000 barrels. Absolutely.
Small batch could be five barrels. Yep. Yeah,
because that's exactly, at 1845, it is literally
six to eight barrels, I think, is what Bob said.
Right. Now, what did he say about cast strength?
Josh was making a point about cast strength.
Well, he said there's no government law that
says small batch means this, barrel strength
means this, cast strength means this, single
barrel means this. So you could say that it's
a single barrel and not really be a single barrel
is what he's saying. But basically everyone follows
that. actually is just one single barrel. Yeah,
I think single barrel, I think everybody probably
follows that one. Well, because we were talking
about the bottle and bond, we kind of got into
the small batch talk. He's like, well, there's
no regulations around that. Right. That dictates
a small batch is this. Kind of like a gentleman's
rule type of thing. Right, so he goes, basically
everyone follows what that is, but the small
batch is the one that has the most variance to
it. So my understanding was small batch and cast
strength. I thought they were synonymous. No.
So it may not be because small batch, they might
dilute. Correct. They may take 10 ,000 barrels
and dilute it with water until it's 100 proof.
Right. But cast strength means literally whatever
it's in the barrel, they don't dilute and they
make it 117 or whatever it's coming out of the
barrel at. Correct. Right. Yeah. So I guess that's
Josh's point. There really isn't consistency.
Different distilleries do different things. Anyway,
that's interesting. Yeah, do we have any notes
on this? I mean, this is pretty classic bourbon
flavors, if you ask me. There's some sweetness
to it. It's easy to drink. The nose, I think,
is really good. So, A .I.'s overview, Knob Creek
Nine -Year Bourbon has tasting notes of vanilla,
oak, caramel, fruit, and spice. And once you
say it, it's all there. Pretty typical. It tastes
rich, sweet. Yeah, definitely pick up the vanilla.
Yeah, I definitely get some spice. It's full
body. I get some spice in the nose for sure.
Roasted nuts. You taste that charred oak in there.
It's peppery. Spiced kind of builds. It's got
a peppery finish, no question. Because I wouldn't
call it a burn. It's just a peppery finish. Right.
It's got a little dark chocolate and leather
at the tail end. Hmm. Leather. Leathery. Do we
eat a lot of leather? Do we eat a lot of leather
and we know kind of how leather tastes and how
it finishes? Well, it's what you would think
it would. Do you ever take your baseball glove
and... Chew on it. Cover up your face and...
And cut strips off of it and... Just chew on
it. Yeah, just kind of... It's cow. You can.
Yeah, you could. So, in other words, it's like
a chicharrone? Oh, that's a pig. That's a pig.
Damn it. A chicharrone? What the hell is that?
It's pig skin. Oh, really? Yes. You know those
pig skin, pig pork rinds? So there are other
notes out there that people have noted regarding
the notes of melted salty butter on a granary
toast. Ooh. A touch of rye with caramel sweetness.
Notes of candy floss and nut oil. What? A light
spice. What's candy floss? Did you say nut oil?
Candy floss and nut oil? Okay, you should probably
skip that one next time. What the hell? I got
some nut oil. Notes of brown sugar and barrel
char. And notes of cherry, peanut butter, cinnamon,
and maple. Yeah. So candy floss is cotton candy.
Once it's called cotton candy. You know, candy
floss. I've never heard that term before. I have
not either. It's kind of gross. Well, because
they use it in conjunction with nut oil. Well,
that didn't help. That definitely didn't help.
There's some candy floss and nut oil. That's
not something I would put to advertise my bourbon.
I certainly wouldn't put that on the list. Right
on the small of your back. Good Lord. Gross.
Anyways, so we got the Knob Creek 9 -year. And
for 100 proof, which what this is, let's go ahead
and grade it. I'd give this a 7 .9. Whoa. Wow.
It's a solid one. Yeah. I mean, there's nothing
to hide. This one is something you can have on
your shelf and you can buy. What is the sticker
price on this, Mr. Producer? Around 40 bucks
is my guess. 50 bucks, maybe. That's a really
strong rating, man. Yeah. Around $50, $60, depending
on where you're at. What is that one that's $39?
What is that one? It's probably a $375, maybe.
Yeah. Well, it's not very expensive. Oh, so the
$750 is $30. The big -ass 1 .75 is 56. Oh, that's
a good price point. It is great. You know what?
I think I might, if it's available, get one because
it is solid. And you know what else? I like having
those big tankards. Well, that's a huge one.
Have you ever seen that? It's like a brick. It's
like a glass brick. Well, it's a nice, thick
glass. I think it takes up less real estate on
my shelves. Oh, it might. Put them all sideways?
Yeah, there you go. That would work. That would
work. All right, so Jeff is at 7 -9. Yeah. Paul,
what say you? No disrespect, but a solid 7 -0.
All right. I'm going to go right in the middle.
I kind of want to give it a 7 -9, but I really
can't, and it's simply because I gave Pinhook
an 8 -3, and that was a phenomenal one. Is that
only 100 proof? Oh, this is a 100 proof one.
Yeah. Noted. Thank you. I'll do a 7 -7, 2 -5.
It's good stuff. All solid. Yeah, we need to
try the single barrel out there and the 12 -year.
We need to put those into the rotation. We have
tried them before. Yes. Okay, so they're not
unopened. Okay. Well, actually, the 12 -year
is a brand new bottle. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay,
well, that'd be exciting for the next bottle.
It used to be hard to find. I think it's a little
bit easier to get now. Okay. Well, good. Good,
good, good. It's very tasty. Yeah, it is good.
It is good. All right. Well, today is February
18th, and I'm going to remind those folks out
there, if you haven't heard of the Dudes Like
Us podcast before, it's Sean, Paul, Jeff, and
our producer Chuck, and we like to come out and
do this one day a week, and we try to get two
shows out as soon as possible. We are just regular
folks that grew up in different regions of the
world or United States, different mentalities.
strong points weak points we all kind of collaborate
together and poke the shit out of each other
and we love it and we're having fun doing it
it's a hobby but we'd love for you to jam that
subscribe button and listen to us we're we're
here up all the time direct message us if there's
anything you'd like for us to talk about or tell
us we're full of shit because nine times out
of the ten paul is yeah we get a lot of things
wrong I call this the podcast of incorrect, not
misinformation, but incorrect information. We
think we're right. It's just flat out wrong.
We just think we're right until we fact -checked
us later on. And I just love the passionate debate
we have when all three points are wrong. All
three of them. Yes, we've been there. Yeah. We've
been there. Yeah. And what's fun about it is
you go back and edit it and you fact -check it.
I sit there and I fact -checked. And you're like.
damn we were all wrong there's a lot of that
damn i was listening to the uh we did the day
of uh i forget what day it was we were talking
about we are the world oh yeah and you put in
the little soundbite of bruce springsteen i heard
that today about shit my pants I was like, oh,
my God. I want to watch that documentary. That's
good. I need to keep. I brought that up to Shelly,
and she was like, yeah, no. I was like, hold
on. It's interesting. The story behind the story.
And she was like, yeah, no. And I'll convince
her. She was hoping for something else to watch,
I guess. I don't know. We could do it nude. Oh,
wow. Does that help? Sometimes. Huh. I've never
tried that approach. Do you have a blanket or
something? Maybe a sheet? No, we sweat on the
leather sofa down there. Oh, stick to it? Yes.
Nice. Nice. Let me try that. Shelly, would you
like to watch The Voice naked tonight? Yeah,
you know what? When you have dogs like the ones
that yours, they're just very... We'd be covered
in dog hair. Well, the crotch is open, and they're
going to go nosing right in there. Oh, 100%.
Yes. I don't need that visual. They're your dogs.
Was that the wet nose of the dog? Flipping the
nutsack. It'd be like a South Park video game.
We definitely lock the dogs away whenever that
kind of stuff's happening. Oh, you do? Yeah,
we have to. Because like you said, they're sniffing
around. No eye contact. Being all nosy. Stop
looking at me. Don't judge me. The buttholes
are right out in the open. They're like, ooh,
let me go smell that. Ooh, you got a cold nose.
Jesus. So at the beginning of Donald's. President
Trump's presidency, he declared the cartels of
Mexico as a terrorist organization. He certainly
did. That was a big one. And as a result, at
least of effective, I guess today or earlier
this week, which was today or yesterday, they
started the drone program where they're starting
to do some recon. Yeah. So I read that they were
also doing this during the Biden administration.
I was like, really? So the CIA was flying Reaper
drones unarmed, right, just to kind of do reconnaissance
over the border, right? And now I'm thinking
they're doing a lot more. They're writing shit
down. And you know what I think they're doing?
They're doing target analysis is what I think
they're doing. You're going to see what you normally
see over in the Mideast, these gray. of the bomb
going in and these fentanyl labs just being destroyed.
Very possible. All Chinese -owned. And if shit
starts escalating, you're going to start seeing
cartel leader mansions being kind of blown up.
Well, I wonder, well, what I'm afraid of is any
of that spills over into Texas. I mean, we're
not right next to the border, but we're the state
right next to it, right? It totally can, but,
you know, I think what it's going to do ultimately...
It's going to create an environment over in Mexico
that's going to be conducive for their politics
to be able to be more safe. Because if you take
these cartels out, because right now there's
a militia. They have all these secret underground
black ops in Mexico of all these different, it's
almost kind of like a tribal. You know, you got
these different areas and you can't get a politician
out there that's not going to get whacked. Oh,
dude, so many mayors get killed. One after another,
I'm just like, damn. It's like, why would anyone
want to do that? And I think that once you start
patrolling these areas and taking out some of
that bad element, I think that's what needs to
happen. I feel bad saying that, but at the same
time, you can't go around killing people like
that. You can't do it. I think they will push
back, though. The question is how. What are they
going to do? They're not going to push back very
hard. Well, keep in mind, there's a lot of Americans
living in Mexico. A lot. Yeah. So they could
just start a targeted campaign against expatriates
that are down there. They could, I guess, you
know, just kind of. They could come right across
the border and just do a quick hit and run. They
can do some October 7th type border killings
and go back home. Yeah, but that wouldn't be,
that's not what they're, that's not a good end
game for them. No, it isn't. Because if they're
going to do like the October. They're flying,
whatever. If they get over the border, they're
going to be killing their own kind because all
those border cities, they're Mexicans mostly.
They want the union. They're not against it.
So it doesn't make sense to go in there. You'd
want to go to start whacking some of the leaders
that are having some influence. That's why I'm
thinking, good Lord, like Elon Musk and Donald
Trump. Can you just imagine? Not just them, but
how about the dudes from Doge? Those young kids.
Can you imagine the security team around them
24 -7 to keep those boys safe? They need it.
Because people are losing their fucking minds.
When you cut a trillion dollars out of a budget.
And mind you, they don't have the authority to
cut shit. So let me rephrase that. When you expose
a trillion dollars of bullshit that someone needs
to cut, they're going to be like, we don't need
you checking on that stuff. And you can't check
on it if you're dead. I'm scared for them. You
made an interesting point that they don't have
the authority to cut. So I was researching that
today. Obviously, the House is the first, and
then it has to go through Senate approval. But
the way they do these things is that the agencies,
the bureaucracies, they submit a budget, and
that budget is debated on by Congress or by the
House, and they pass appropriations bills, which
is a broad amount to give them. They generally,
for the most part, don't tell them what to spend
it on unless there's particular earmarks. Or
if there's particular projects, specific line
item projects that the House wants to get done.
So USAID says, I need a budget of, here's my
budget is $55 billion this year. And then they
may give a general thing, we're going to use
it for this and this. But they say, okay, we'll
give you $50 billion. Yep. But they spend it
however the hell they want. That's exactly right.
And because of that, it does give Trump and Doge
and this team the authority to decide. what to
spend it on, what to cut, what to increase, what
to decrease. So they do have the authority to
do this. One of the arguments I've said is, well,
this money has already been appropriated. That's
right. They can impact things going forward,
but the money's already been appropriated to
that agency. Yeah, but it doesn't matter. They
can cut it. I don't know if it's true or not,
but that's what some of the argument against
it has. Well, it's already been appropriated.
Congress has already appropriated this. The president
can't go in there and say, no, you don't get
that money now. Well, they can just say, you're
not going to spend it. How about that? So they're
going to be under budget. There was an interview
on Joe Rogan with, I believe, a gentleman named
Mike Benz. I started watching the Tucker one
about him. He was talking about how the Doge
folks know that they just can't go in there and
start slashing stuff and killing it. Because
he kind of made an interesting analogy. And he
was like, look, our government is a breathing
thing. You know, you can't, it's like a human
body. You can't go over there and take out the
liver and expect your body to function normal.
You have to go in there and surgically do things
where it's not going to affect things. So, you
know, today, February 18th, one of the actions
put out there today by Trump. Reigning independent.
This was a real quick one, I'll say. Reigning
independent agencies, so -called dependent agencies
like the Federal Trade Commission of D .C., the
Federal Communications Commission of Securities
and Exchange Commission, have exercised enormous
power over the American people without presidential
oversight. Now he's got three bullet points.
These agencies... These agencies issue rules
and regulations that cost billions of dollars
and implicate some of the most controversial
policy matters that do so without the review
of the Democratic elected president. And then
number two, they also spend American tax dollars
and set priorities without consulting the president
while selling their own performances. Now they
will no longer impose rules on the American people
without oversight or accountability. I guess
what is the saying on there is that Their free
reign is gone. Yes. Now it's just like you are
now a subsidiary of the President of the United
States. Absolutely. And things need to be, you
are no longer just going to make decisions on
your own. Yep. And there's just three other major
things they were talking about, but we're not
going to touch them. I mean, that's why it's
important that the President put in place people
that are leading these agencies that are cost
conscientious. Correct. And that's what he's
done. He has put somebody in charge. Well, you've
got to get the folks who've been in there for
years and years and years because you can't fire
them. Get them out of there and get new folks
in there. Absolutely. Because this government
operates under a bloated premise. Yes, yes, yes.
Jeez. Lots of stuff, man. Yeah. This is very
interesting times coming up, and I hope it's
all for the best. Dudes Like Us, thank you, Mr.
Chuck, for our producer for the first half. It's
February 18th. I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff.
Thank you.