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There we go. Yeah. On your back. In the right

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ear only. Mr. Producer, is that little remote

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control there with the lights, would you slip

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that on down to like 80 % or something like that?

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I already did that. Oh, you did? Yeah. Never

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mind. Do you want it down to 20 %? Yeah, we can

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keep it lower. No, I just... What kind of...

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What ambiance do you want here, Sean? Well, scorching

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my corneas, my retinas. I want to reach my hand

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over there and scratch myself whenever I get

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a chance. I thought you guys noticed. Yeah, Sean's

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breath smells like anus right now. Well, who's

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anus? That's your fault, Kip. Why buy that stupid

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shit? Well, I mean, you're the one that bought

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soft -dried durian. It's not a tropical fruit

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that was packaged in a five -pack. And you're

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right, it does. But you know what? It's got a

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very interesting and addictive taste to it. Hold

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on. What is it? Durian. Durian's a fruit. I believe

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it's from Vietnam or Thailand or somewhere over

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there. And it smells like ass. And it smells,

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and I bought this because I was hoping it was

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just going to stink to high health. But when

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we opened it last week, it really didn't. But

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when I walked over there and Sean was chewing

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a piece. He was very suspect. He looked at me

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like, did you just shit a piece? It was bad.

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Yeah, but it makes sense now. Because when you

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brought the bag out, you were like, oh, giddy.

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You know what I mean? It's almost like breaking

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open one of those stink bombs. I knew it. Yes.

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Yeah. I knew it. It smelled like death. I don't

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know. It was bad. Yeah, it smells awful. The

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taste is actually not as bad as the smell. It's

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very unique. I don't know if I've ever tasted

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anything quite like it. So the smell is evidently

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so bad. So if you guys are wondering what durian

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fruit is, it looks like a large elongated AIDS

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spore. You know, it's got these spikes like a

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sea urchin, so to speak. And when you cut these

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things open. The smell is so bad that certain

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communities have banned you from cutting it open

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in public. You have to take it home to eat. Nice.

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You can't eat it in public. It smells so bad.

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It looks like a spiked. What's the thing from

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COVID? A spiked something? Spiked protein? Spiked

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protein. It kind of looks like a small jackfruit.

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Yeah, it's got all these little hairs off of

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it. It kind of spikes all over. Whenever I see

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a jackfruit, I think that's what it is. It's

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like, oh, that's a durian. But no, it's a jackfruit.

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Well, there you go. Yeah, there you go. Okay,

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well. Well, here we are. Yeah, well. Another

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edition. What is today? Today's February 18th.

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It is. Man, lots of things going on today. We

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had Valentine's last Friday. We did. Yes. That

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was a huge love celebration. Was it? No. Nah,

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not really. Did you do some deep impact? There

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was no deep impact. There were no flowers. There

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was no cards. There was no chocolates. There

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were no perfumes. There was no lingerie. I got

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some nice prime steaks from HEB. They're on sale.

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Oh, that's right. I sent you the info. You should

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have gotten them. And I grilled those. Are you

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good, Sean? You don't bring me flowers anymore?

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You know, that was a song. It's Neil Diamond

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and Barbra Streisand. Of course. It kind of captures

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the moment of the way relationships can be for

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some people. They lose that magic touch. They

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lose the essence of romance. But not on the commercial

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day of Valentine's. I mean, it's just a commercial

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day. I'm so glad that my wife and I have agreed

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we're not doing shit anymore. I learned how to

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laugh, and I learned how to cry. Anyways, Dudes

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Like Us, February 18th. Thank you, Mr. Producer.

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It's the first half of our podcast, Dudes Like

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Us. I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff. Check us

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out on Dudes Like Us on Instagram and Facebook.

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We're there. We're also on the rss .com feed.

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Everywhere. You can hear us on most all the platforms.

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Just look at Dudes Like Us. Be careful, because

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if you walk away from this conversation, what

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was the guy's name? What's the dude's name? And

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you type in guys like us, it's going to take

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you to a very nefarious website. Do not click

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on that. Don't do that. If there's any dudes

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with any kind of rainbow onesie on, that is not

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Jeff. As much as you picture that when he talks,

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that is not him. Yes, it's me. It isn't. It's

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nudes of Sean. Nice. Okay. So no video then?

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We'll never do video? No. Okay, that was an ender

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then. Well, you know, we've got new tools for

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manscaping. Are we going to talk about manscaping?

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Apparently. It came out of nowhere. When did

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the manscaping tools kind of come on? Is that

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when the whole metrosexual thing started? How

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is the tool any different than the regular shaver?

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I don't know. It's more gentle on the scrote.

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You know, manscaping includes the man - It gets

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all tight. And you're like, ah! Maybe on Jeff's

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stalks he's got all over his body. He's built

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like a freaking Bigfoot Yeti. And your wife comes

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running in, what's wrong? It's all jammed in

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there. My clipper's all in uproar. It's pulling.

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It's overheating. My clipper got jammed. It's

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pulling. But you know, that's a big deal. As

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a man, you not necessarily need to manicure and

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shave yourself. I mean, it's recommended that

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you keep it down to, you know, as far as your

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hairs. You don't want three -inch hairs all over

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your body. You don't want a standard. Outside

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of that, you're brushing your teeth and manicuring

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your fingernails is important. I mean, I think

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it's important. When I look at somebody, they

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don't have to have a dashing smile, but they

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need to look like they just didn't eat pasta

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or macaroni and cheese. Or broccoli. Yeah. That's

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a broccoli. But it's just look nice. Dress for

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success. Cut your nails. Trim them. I don't need

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to see dirty fingernails. Poopy nails or whatever.

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Women don't like that. Maybe some do. Well, the

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women have nice long fingernails that are still

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poopy. Yeah. But they paint them so you can't

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see the color coming through. That was a meme.

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That was a meme someone sent. This woman with

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short fingernails versus a woman with long fingernails.

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And one says, poopy? Not poopy. Because a woman

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with long fingernails isn't able to get up there.

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It is gross. How do they wipe their stuff off

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down there? That's why we need a bidet or you

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need some flushable wet wipes that you can wad

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up and throw in the wastebasket, I guess. Are

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the flushable ones really flushable? They are

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not. Well, I mean, according to some, yes. According

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to people like Chuck, no. They are not. I had

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to pay a plumber to unclog my pipes. Oh, who's

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pipes? Well, no, not just like real pipes. You

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didn't just have a third partner? You just have

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a colonoscopy, though, didn't you? Well, I'm

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trying to - Well, Shelley, I'd like to introduce

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you to David. PVC pipes. He's a Sagittarius.

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Under the house. He likes bourbon, and he's going

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to unplug your pipes. Okay. Anyway, yes, it does

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clog up your pipes. So don't believe that it's

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flushable. I recommend you roll it up in toilet

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paper and throw it in the trash can. It doesn't

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stink. It's great. Anyhow. What if you're just

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like a super mess? You're just like, God. It

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might be a three wiper. You know, I think it

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has something to do with the size of the flushable

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wipes. They make flushable wipes that are large,

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like 10, 12, 14 inches. Those, yeah, not so much.

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First of all, they're like for old folks. There's

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a neighbor that lives by me. He sells stuff to

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old folks home, and one of the things he had

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was an oversized wet wipe to clean yourself.

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It could be a bath, like a towelette. It's a

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large towelette. This thing was like... 16 by

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16. It was large. Oh, wow. I was kind of like,

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wow, I can get like 20 wipes out of this one

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thing. Definitely don't flush that thing. Yeah,

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well, it was, you know, that would get clogged

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huge, huh? Yeah, for sure. I didn't use that

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one, but I just thought it should. They're out

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there. Hmm. In case you're wondering. It's a

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body wipe. You know, I can't help. To smell my

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own breath now from this soft -dried durian exotic

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tropical fruit, that is really gross. Yeah, how

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do you think I feel? Well, I'm reminded. It is.

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I'm going to have to take a dip into this specialty

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whiskey that we're not going to talk about yet.

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We're also going to have to throw away the microphone.

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Well, I'm the one that you, well, I'm not the

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only one, evidently. Next time Logan says so,

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he's like, yeah. He's like, did Sean die? Next

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time, I don't want him in here. Is he decaying?

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Somebody shoved this up their ass. God knows.

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I've seen Stephen hit the back of his throat

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with that microphone. I don't want to know what

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happens on my microphone. I'll just pretend like

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it never happened. That may have been the previous

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microphone. Wow. None of these topics were on

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the board. It's amazing how that works. They

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were not. Yeah, but it's February 18th, and we

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did have a wild Valentine's. I think we had a

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post -Valentine's excursion, didn't we? We went

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to - I forget. We didn't do anything on Saturday.

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No, but on Friday, we went to Holy Grail. Oh,

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that's right. That was actually fun. That was

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a fun, unique experience. In fact, I encourage

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that to happen more often. I think that maybe

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having candles everywhere is not a good idea

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for fire hazard. But they had the fake candles.

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It was nice. But it was nice. It looked like

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a nice, authentic. That's what they used to do

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in the 1600s, 1500s, whatever, that they had

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a couple of lights out there. They were drinking.

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We had a fireplace crackling. It was very romantic.

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Very romantic. toothless speaker. On a fireplace

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with a phone? And the crackling was over the

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top. Oh, it was. There's too much crackling.

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I think we did a live stream through Instagram

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on that. Oh, yeah. Thanks to Jether. Yeah, because

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we were clubbing. Paul was beatboxing or something.

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Yeah, that was weird. Why? I didn't like that.

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I'm looking at it from the phone, and Paul's

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kind of like, what's going on over there? What's

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he doing? He's got his light going like this.

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It was fun. We were killing it. Oh, maybe it

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was just me. That was all going on in your head.

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It really was. No, it was good. The staff was,

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they were. Yeah, they were troopers. They're

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troopers of tennis. Shout out to the Holy Grail,

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even though they're liberal as fuck. Shout out

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to them. Now there was nobody else in there but

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us, I think. Yeah, because they all were like,

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well, we have no power, so we can't serve you.

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And they were like, but they served us. They

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kept giving us beer. I mean, I don't know. We

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paid cash. Oh, that's why. No, she brought the

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machine over. They were able to take the card

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from us. Oh, that's right. I paid. I paid. I

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paid at the end. And what's funny is they were

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getting ready to, they were like, I'm sorry,

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we've got to, now we have to shut down. And then

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they were getting ready to shut down and boom,

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the power came on. Well, they had a, they had

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what, 40 reservations or something crazy? Oh

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yeah, Friday was very, it was Valentine's Day.

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It was Valentine's on Friday. So they had, you

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know, and they were, they were kind of freaking

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out themselves. They lost a lot of money then.

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They could have. They could have. Well, it came

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back on. Well, yeah, but did those people cancel

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the reservation? Well, did they know that the,

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Power was off. They probably didn't even know.

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They probably showed up like business as normal.

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Perfect. I want to give a shout out to Scott

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and Larry for joining us out there. That was

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good times. Yes, it was. We got to do that up.

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Larry mentioned he wants to take the Endeavor

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over to your house, perhaps. Yeah. Maybe do a

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round somewhere and then just go or maybe hit

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total line and then we head straight over there.

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I don't know. We'll see what happens. The only

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problem I have with that, and this is going to

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be stupid and bullshit, is that I'm going to

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get probably more inclined to get blown up at

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your house. But I'm thinking. I'm going to get

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blown up anyways. What the hell? I was going

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to say, it doesn't matter where you're at. Yeah,

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that's true. Yeah, and that gives me an excuse

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to kind of clean up that room. It's been neglected

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for way too long, so maybe I'll spend some time

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kind of getting it. It frustrates the hell out

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of me, the condition of our house right now.

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Right. I mean, I looked at that floor as you

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walk in. It's just dusty, muddy, and I'm like,

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I'm going to clean this. I'm like, it's going

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to get just as nasty, if not more. when they're

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doing their shit, and they're going to have a

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professional cleaner come out and clean them

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anyway. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but I mean,

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you know, there are things throughout your house,

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like little... divots in the walls or scrapes

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or, you know, cracks. And then you know there's

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things that you want to do, but you back burner

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them and they just kind of never get done because

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it's not a priority, right? Right. And that's

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kind of what my game room looks like. There's

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splotches on the walls and there's scrapes and

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shit. I need to rehang some stuff and, you know,

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all that kind of stuff. So that would be a good

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reason to do that. Well, you know, there's a

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ton of painters out there. Yeah. You do it yourself?

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I hate painting. I won't do it. I mean, it is

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easy to do it, but at the same time, there's

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a lot of prep to it, and I don't like to be crawling

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on my hands and knees, putting the tape down.

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I hate it. Well, didn't the boys do a whole house

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that they prepped really good? Dude, it was a

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fucking train wreck. I spent more money fixing

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their problems than they made. That's what I'm

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saying. And even when you put down the tape and

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everything, it bleeds through the tape. And I'll

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tell you, for those folks out there that want

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to do it yourself, If you haven't painted your

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walls in 15 years, those things have dried out,

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and it's going to take at least two coats, especially

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if you change the color. Plus, there's dust that

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settles on your little texture and shit. It's

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going to soak up the paint, and that's part of

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it, too. It's actually a lot of it. So what those

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boys did, one of them, Cody, went into one of

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the rooms and drew on the wall a large penis.

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Oh, no. So the room was white. I don't recall.

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It was off -white, whatever. Drew a large penis,

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this big phallic symbol right in the middle of

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the wall. Then paints over it and shines right

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through. And so now there's this glowing ghost

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penis behind the wall. There's a penis on there.

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And they painted that wall like three times and

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it still showed up. Did the owner see it? I don't

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know. They kicked him out. And they never even

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really paid him. Yep. Oh, this is not your house.

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No, no. This was some. I have no idea who this

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guy was. There was a girl that the boys went

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to school with. It was her parents. And one of

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the kids had autism pretty bad where they had

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to lock the doors from the inside. There were

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special locks. And it was a big deal for them

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to move out and get all this work done. Sure.

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But at the same time, and then they turn around

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and contract our boys to do the work. And in

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fact, Jeff, you were there with me when that

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dude showed up. He was kind of a dick. Yeah,

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he was. So your son and your son together with

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another. And another boy. Cody. I think it was

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Cody, right? And Josh. Josh. Yeah. Yeah. And

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so it didn't go well, huh? I mean, the boys worked

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hard. They really did to their credit. They didn't

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get paid. I don't know exactly what they got

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paid. They didn't get paid near enough because

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part of it was taken off a bunch of. And if you

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haven't taken off wallpaper before, wallpaper

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can be pretty difficult to take off unless you

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know what you're doing. And even when you do

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know what you're doing, sometimes that shit just

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doesn't come off. Something always goes wrong.

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And there are processes to do to be able to get

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past that. With wallpaper, you want to perforate

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it with this little tiger's paw, they call it,

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and you roll it all over the board, makes tiny

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incisions all over it, and then you wet the whole

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thing down. Let it sit. You get like a little

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bug sprayer or what is it? What is the weed little

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pump thing? Right, yeah. Fill it up with hot

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water and then you spray your walls with hot

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water. To get it off. To get it off. And you

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let it sit. Don't fuck with it because if you

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start fucking with it, you're just going to keep

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soaking it two or three times. So, you know,

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peel the wallpaper. It's just a little heat and

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you're done. Whatever. I mean, for those people

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out there that want to take off wallpaper, I

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don't recommend it. Just get someone else to

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do it. But if you want to, that's the way to

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do it. Who sold? this family on doing. The boys.

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I have no idea. The boys. It was Stephen. They

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just went door to door. Hey, we'll paint your

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house. No, no, no. There was this common friend

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they had. She was a senior. They were a senior.

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Everyone was a senior. And Preston was like,

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well, my dad's a contractor. We can do it. And

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then, you know, of course, you know, the boys,

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they were kind of like, we can do anything. Dad,

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you're stupid. You don't know what you're talking

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about. It's like, no, man, you need to do this,

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this, and this. And you need to have everything,

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all your stuff done. They didn't do any of it.

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None of it. They didn't protect the floors. They

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destroyed that fucking house, man. So did you

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try to fix some stuff? Jeff and I went over there.

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I don't recall exactly what we did over there,

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but I know we spent some time over there trying

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to fix things. And I was like, why didn't you?

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cover this with plastic you know we a carpet

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got dripped on and also it was just kind of a

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wreck but in in the owner of the house he was

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kind of like i i don't understand his mentality

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it's kind of like what do you expect you hired

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a bunch of 18 and 17 year olds yes it's like

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what do you think is going to happen this is

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just a cheap motherfucker out there and look

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i get it Not everyone has money. I fucking don't

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have money. Yeah. But at the same time, it's

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irresponsible to do something like that. Now,

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if you want to go over there and hire some kids

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and then you manage them. Right, because you

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know what you're doing. Because they're just

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simple labor. Yeah, and you're going to guide

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them the whole time. But don't sit there and

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just relinquish your house to a bunch of kids

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that are idiots. They did for like a week, didn't

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they? They moved out. Yeah, they moved out. That

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sounds awful. And they had to do the entire house.

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Every room. And it was a disaster. Oh, yes. Oh,

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no. Yes. So they had to do it all over again

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and pay somebody. I don't know. Professional.

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Maybe. I exited stage left. I attempted. The

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guy stiffed him and in return stiffed me because

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I was out a couple hundred bucks. You know, I

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mean, it wasn't a lot, but it's still a couple

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hundred bucks. You know, because I went out there

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and paid for supplies. You know, and the boys

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just, I don't know what they did, man. That's

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crazy. Still a little irritating. Yeah, it was.

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It was not a good scene. All right, so Friday,

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yes, that was Valentine's Day. Yeah, did your

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steak? Your steak turned out good? Well, they

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were perfect medium. Perfect medium, yeah. All

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right, and then Saturday, I did my firewood thing.

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What did you guys do on Saturday? Anything? Just

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kind of chilled? We didn't do anything. I didn't

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do anything Saturday. I just took it easy, I

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think. Yeah. What day did we do pasta? That was

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Saturday night. Saturday night? Okay. So Saturday

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during the day, I wrote a report. I worked. Oh,

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you worked a little bit. Yeah, I worked a little

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bit. And of course, Tara, she's clean mode. Good

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Lord. When she cleans, I don't know how many

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women out there, how many dudes like us out there

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have to experience their significant other, whether

00:18:14.660 --> 00:18:16.400
you're female or female. When they're in clean

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mode, just get out of their way. Don't try to

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help them. When Julie gets like that, I'm just

00:18:20.819 --> 00:18:23.670
like. She gets very focused, and if I'm not helping

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in any way, she's like. You're either part of

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the solution or the problem. And even if you

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are part of the solution, you're still part of

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the problem because it's there. You're not doing

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it right. It's there, and she shouldn't be having

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to do that in the first place. Therefore, you're

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at fault. I think what we do, we have separation

00:18:40.150 --> 00:18:43.569
of duties, right? So I don't try to help her

00:18:43.569 --> 00:18:45.210
with what she's doing. She doesn't try to help

00:18:45.210 --> 00:18:47.490
me with what I'm doing. And we have an even split

00:18:47.490 --> 00:18:49.240
of. You know what I mean? She's doing her shit.

00:18:49.259 --> 00:18:50.940
I'm doing my shit. And mine's usually outside,

00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:52.839
right? Outside. She's got inside. I've got outside.

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And then some other things we kind of, you know,

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do whatever. That's fair. Yeah, we have a good

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balanced. Yeah, we do. You know, I probably should

00:19:02.460 --> 00:19:04.420
take on some of that. I mean, I went outside

00:19:04.420 --> 00:19:06.839
this week and embarrassingly took down my Christmas

00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:13.880
lights. I got a today. Because Julie had a snowman

00:19:13.880 --> 00:19:16.079
wreath on the front. She's like, snowmen are

00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:18.579
wintertime. Not necessarily Christmas, so it's

00:19:18.579 --> 00:19:20.279
winter. That works. I'm going to keep it up for

00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:21.500
a little bit. She took all the Christmas stuff

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down. We got a letter from the HOA saying, you

00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:28.980
have holiday decorations up past the allotted

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time. You need to take it down. Snowman is a

00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:34.220
holiday? Yeah. I didn't think snowmen were holidays.

00:19:34.779 --> 00:19:37.200
Apparently it is. That's funny. That's due to

00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:39.400
interpretation. I would contest that. Chuck,

00:19:39.819 --> 00:19:43.519
I need you to weigh in. I don't weigh in on stuff

00:19:43.519 --> 00:19:46.940
like that. Well, you can give us an unbiased

00:19:46.940 --> 00:19:49.099
opinion right now. Actually, it's unbiased. My

00:19:49.099 --> 00:19:51.440
holiday lights were up until February 8th or

00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:55.079
something like that, so I'm lax in that. So you're

00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:56.420
the worst offender and you're the president.

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There's still one with lights up down the street,

00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:03.640
but I was second to last. Just from an HOA, Homeowners

00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:06.099
Association perspective, I mean, I could see

00:20:06.099 --> 00:20:10.200
having a Santa Claus or... One of those scenes,

00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:12.980
nativity scenes. Yeah, that's clearly. But a

00:20:12.980 --> 00:20:15.960
snowman isn't around to Christmas. It's a winter

00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:18.279
time. It's a winter thing. So we also have a

00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:21.420
house on our street that is lined all the way

00:20:21.420 --> 00:20:23.759
around the top of the house, you know, but it's

00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:27.529
all white lights. Is that? Are they on all the

00:20:27.529 --> 00:20:30.069
time? All every night. Well, make those fish

00:20:30.069 --> 00:20:32.509
lights. Those jellyfish, those are actually pretty

00:20:32.509 --> 00:20:35.130
nice lights. Yeah, they are. They change for

00:20:35.130 --> 00:20:36.990
every holiday. Change colors, like a little nice

00:20:36.990 --> 00:20:40.250
pink. Yeah, I mean, their house is all lit up.

00:20:40.250 --> 00:20:42.109
It looks nice. I mean, I don't think those are

00:20:42.109 --> 00:20:44.549
holiday lights. Are they LEDs like underneath

00:20:44.549 --> 00:20:46.349
the eve and everything? Yeah. Yeah, those are

00:20:46.349 --> 00:20:48.289
probably the jellyfish lights. Yeah, maybe. They're

00:20:48.289 --> 00:20:51.250
not like the icicles, are they? No. As much money

00:20:51.250 --> 00:20:53.390
as I spent putting up those Christmas lights?

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You want to leave them up there. I should have

00:20:55.089 --> 00:20:57.710
just invested in the damn other ones. Jellyfish?

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Yeah. I have no idea how much those are. I don't

00:21:00.289 --> 00:21:02.009
know yet. That probably would have taken a little

00:21:02.009 --> 00:21:03.589
bit more time, but hell, I think it would have

00:21:03.589 --> 00:21:06.730
been worth it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, so the

00:21:06.730 --> 00:21:09.809
exciting thing we did this weekend was Iron Root.

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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What? What

00:21:11.910 --> 00:21:13.589
the hell, man? What happened? You're just going

00:21:13.589 --> 00:21:16.349
to gloss over our pasta dinner? Oh, it was a

00:21:16.349 --> 00:21:18.150
cool, yeah, it was a cool night. It was, look,

00:21:18.170 --> 00:21:21.509
it's not just that, but it was the whole experience

00:21:21.509 --> 00:21:23.769
for the dudes like us out there that want to

00:21:23.769 --> 00:21:26.769
make their own stuff with Jellyfish. Okay, what

00:21:26.769 --> 00:21:29.730
do we have here? $25 .35 and a fucking $1 ,000

00:21:29.730 --> 00:21:34.990
controller. Per foot. Yeah, I don't know about

00:21:34.990 --> 00:21:39.710
that. That drives me crazy. The incorrect use

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of effect versus affect. Time of year can effect

00:21:43.690 --> 00:21:48.420
pricing. It's affect pricing. What the hell,

00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:51.039
man? How does that happen? How does that happen?

00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:53.759
It's so bad. All right, look, let me go over

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this real quick. We've got a busy schedule. So

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Saturday night, we got Desiree, Shelly, and Tara

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got together. They made their own pastas. We

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made the pastas. Yeah, they wanted the men to

00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:10.720
make them pastas. Yeah, so we got two cups of

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flour. Olive oil? Yeah. A little teaspoon, half

00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:17.440
a teaspoon of olive oil. Is it real olive oil?

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And eggs. Well, it was what was there. I didn't

00:22:20.119 --> 00:22:23.019
think it was real. Was it cloudy? I didn't put

00:22:23.019 --> 00:22:24.740
it in the fridge, but I'm going to probably start

00:22:24.740 --> 00:22:26.539
doing that, probably to give it a little test

00:22:26.539 --> 00:22:29.279
to see what's going on with it. And three eggs.

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So two cups of flour, three eggs, and a half

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a tablespoon. We didn't put any salt in it. No,

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no salt? I didn't. I don't remember. And then

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we just sit there and mix it. You got to take

00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:44.380
the - You need it. You make a little hole in

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the center of the powder, and you put the three

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eggs in there, and you take the outside and flip

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it on top. Take the outside and flip it on top.

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Yeah, you need it. And then you just mix it all

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up and knead it for a long time. You'll knead

00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:55.119
the bread until you just - Did you make like

00:22:55.119 --> 00:22:57.980
cannolis or - Yeah, Terry made some cannolis.

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Some manicottis, raviolis. Yeah, she made, it

00:23:01.519 --> 00:23:03.519
was sweet ricotta cheese with some chocolate

00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:07.400
chips in there. And, you know, we never got to

00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:09.119
that program. I don't know what happened. But,

00:23:09.140 --> 00:23:12.039
you know, we had these little bags filled with

00:23:12.039 --> 00:23:14.460
the, you know, pipe it in there, ready to go.

00:23:14.700 --> 00:23:16.539
I didn't, yeah, I didn't even see that part of

00:23:16.539 --> 00:23:18.819
it. Anyway, so once it's all kneaded up into

00:23:18.819 --> 00:23:21.359
a nice kind of smooth ball, then you, you know,

00:23:21.380 --> 00:23:24.980
you. You roll it out, right? Into a flat. Super

00:23:24.980 --> 00:23:26.819
thin. And then you take the little. Except if

00:23:26.819 --> 00:23:28.480
it's mine. I made mine thick. Yeah, yours were

00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:31.140
thick. And then. Kind of like calamari. I started

00:23:31.140 --> 00:23:33.119
out kind of thick and thinner and then thinner

00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:35.140
and thinner like in my three batches. But anyway,

00:23:35.160 --> 00:23:37.559
then you take a little pizza cutter and you cut

00:23:37.559 --> 00:23:39.920
them into tiny little strips so they become spaghetti

00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:41.960
noodles. Unless you're like Wes. He took the

00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:44.160
pizza cutter and cut so hard I damn near think

00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:46.799
he marred my fucking countertop. I was like,

00:23:46.799 --> 00:23:49.019
dude. What are you doing, man? Well, he definitely

00:23:49.019 --> 00:23:51.410
cut the cutting. paper yeah i don't care about

00:23:51.410 --> 00:23:53.849
that you can hear it too it's because you can

00:23:53.849 --> 00:23:55.650
hear you can hear the little because it's i think

00:23:55.650 --> 00:23:57.829
it's got some metal in there you know uh i don't

00:23:57.829 --> 00:23:59.089
know what it but it was just kind of funny i

00:23:59.089 --> 00:24:00.490
was like wes you know you're going through that

00:24:00.490 --> 00:24:02.210
he was like i don't think so i am and i was like

00:24:02.210 --> 00:24:05.329
dude I could see the veins popping out in your

00:24:05.329 --> 00:24:08.450
forearm as you're pushing it down on there. It's

00:24:08.450 --> 00:24:10.309
like you would just literally shit your pants

00:24:10.309 --> 00:24:13.529
pushing down. Yeah, it was funny, though. It

00:24:13.529 --> 00:24:16.029
wasn't molten metal. I mean, it was just dough.

00:24:16.230 --> 00:24:19.009
All in all, Paul made different ones. Wes made

00:24:19.009 --> 00:24:21.049
different ones. I made mine really thick. They

00:24:21.049 --> 00:24:22.769
were supposed to be fettuccine, but they turned

00:24:22.769 --> 00:24:25.309
out to be, I don't even know what to call them.

00:24:25.589 --> 00:24:28.150
It was neat. It was a good experience. I had

00:24:28.150 --> 00:24:32.430
never made homemade pasta before. Was it? What

00:24:32.430 --> 00:24:36.230
are the bow tie ones? Farfalle or falafel? I

00:24:36.230 --> 00:24:37.970
don't. I know what you're talking about. Yeah,

00:24:37.990 --> 00:24:39.990
we didn't do that, Jeff. We just made little

00:24:39.990 --> 00:24:42.809
strips. Just strips. But we have to make pasta.

00:24:43.450 --> 00:24:46.609
But if you want those, what you do is you make

00:24:46.609 --> 00:24:51.670
a... Ganache. You do a strip of... You make a

00:24:51.670 --> 00:24:53.650
little strip of dough. I have a pasta machine

00:24:53.650 --> 00:24:54.769
downstairs. And then you got a little machine

00:24:54.769 --> 00:24:57.509
and you roll it and it goes... And it makes the

00:24:57.509 --> 00:24:59.329
little thingies. Or you get a pasta machine.

00:24:59.490 --> 00:25:00.769
We got a pasta machine. You put it in there and

00:25:00.769 --> 00:25:03.359
you just turn it. Yeah, we didn't do any of that,

00:25:03.440 --> 00:25:04.900
okay? Well, if you would have called me, you

00:25:04.900 --> 00:25:06.680
could have used it. We made cool little strips.

00:25:06.940 --> 00:25:09.140
I actually have an attachment that fits on the

00:25:09.140 --> 00:25:10.740
side of the KitchenAid. You should have used

00:25:10.740 --> 00:25:13.759
that. Well, I didn't get the authorization to.

00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:17.259
And I brought it up once, and she was like, she

00:25:17.259 --> 00:25:20.279
growled at you. She didn't say anything, but

00:25:20.279 --> 00:25:22.619
it was kind of like, you know, she was like Zool.

00:25:23.740 --> 00:25:27.460
She came out of nowhere. I was like, easy, easy,

00:25:27.640 --> 00:25:29.920
pipe it back there. So then we boiled it, and

00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:32.079
then we put the sauce on it, and we ate it. It

00:25:32.079 --> 00:25:33.740
was good. Did it have meatballs or anything?

00:25:34.119 --> 00:25:35.940
Yeah, we did. Yeah, there was a chicken meatball.

00:25:36.099 --> 00:25:39.200
No, they were turkey meatballs. Turkey meatballs.

00:25:39.279 --> 00:25:41.079
They were large, two and a half inch in diameter.

00:25:41.079 --> 00:25:42.740
They were good. Big boys. Did you just like the

00:25:42.740 --> 00:25:44.660
Market Street or something like that? I don't

00:25:44.660 --> 00:25:46.259
know. She pre -made them. No, she made them.

00:25:46.380 --> 00:25:49.819
She rolled them up and baked them. She loves

00:25:49.819 --> 00:25:52.720
this shit. She's good at it. She really is. She

00:25:52.720 --> 00:25:54.779
is. That's why I don't say shit. I'm just kind

00:25:54.779 --> 00:25:59.509
of like, how can I help? You can get out. I'm

00:25:59.509 --> 00:26:03.430
going over to Jeff's. Well, and then we had some

00:26:03.430 --> 00:26:05.170
bourbon and then we watched the hockey game.

00:26:05.690 --> 00:26:08.569
That was exciting. It was exciting. It was. Wes

00:26:08.569 --> 00:26:11.049
left. He was kind of like, Wes isn't doing well.

00:26:11.250 --> 00:26:14.309
Actually, he's doing okay. He had some sort of

00:26:14.309 --> 00:26:17.750
a heart thing that happened. Damn it, it's happening

00:26:17.750 --> 00:26:20.430
again. The blue screen. I did the destructive

00:26:20.430 --> 00:26:24.720
reboot. It's just whatever. He had something.

00:26:24.779 --> 00:26:27.000
This happens to dudes like us out there. You're

00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:28.960
going, you're going, you're going. Did he have

00:26:28.960 --> 00:26:30.819
AFib or something like that? He had something

00:26:30.819 --> 00:26:33.779
similar to that. He had some sort of heart influx

00:26:33.779 --> 00:26:36.119
or something, palpitation that didn't sit well

00:26:36.119 --> 00:26:37.779
with him, and he went to the doctor to go get

00:26:37.779 --> 00:26:40.359
it checked out. And all in all, everything seems

00:26:40.359 --> 00:26:43.900
to be thumbs up, but it's still a scare. Anytime

00:26:43.900 --> 00:26:46.019
your life flashes before your eyes, you're kind

00:26:46.019 --> 00:26:49.579
of like, I got the insurance. You know what?

00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:51.400
Fuck it. I don't care. I'd have him keep checking

00:26:51.400 --> 00:26:54.940
because when my dad, had his heart attack they

00:26:54.940 --> 00:26:58.019
initially thought that he was having pneumonia

00:26:58.019 --> 00:27:00.740
right as long as he had congested turned into

00:27:00.740 --> 00:27:02.579
congestive he had a heart attack and congestive

00:27:02.579 --> 00:27:04.160
heart failure and his lungs started filling up

00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:06.019
yeah so they thought he was having pneumonia

00:27:06.019 --> 00:27:08.700
well and they missed two or three weeks later

00:27:08.700 --> 00:27:10.519
it was getting worse they went in there like

00:27:10.519 --> 00:27:12.319
then they finally did the test there's a certain

00:27:12.319 --> 00:27:15.420
test they do to tell if you've had a heart attack

00:27:15.420 --> 00:27:18.279
or not yes they're right like oh you had a massive

00:27:18.279 --> 00:27:21.480
heart attack That would piss me off. It was too

00:27:21.480 --> 00:27:24.059
late. The damage was done. That night it happened,

00:27:24.240 --> 00:27:26.039
but it would have been good to actually get him

00:27:26.039 --> 00:27:28.380
well so he didn't have a terrible two or three

00:27:28.380 --> 00:27:31.900
weeks. Absolutely. Have him keep checking, man.

00:27:32.319 --> 00:27:34.119
I'm not saying it was a heart attack. When he

00:27:34.119 --> 00:27:38.220
left, they put a monitor on him that's constantly

00:27:38.220 --> 00:27:40.900
monitoring him 24 hours a day right now. I think

00:27:40.900 --> 00:27:43.890
he was just worn out. Yeah, he's worn out mentally,

00:27:44.269 --> 00:27:46.910
physically. You know, he's making an effort.

00:27:47.009 --> 00:27:49.289
He said, I'm exercising. I'm doing this. So he

00:27:49.289 --> 00:27:50.970
left. He went home, take care of business and

00:27:50.970 --> 00:27:53.130
relax a little bit. And we had the USA versus

00:27:53.130 --> 00:27:56.769
Canada. Canada. It was a great game. I didn't

00:27:56.769 --> 00:27:59.890
even know this was on. Yeah. Walk us through

00:27:59.890 --> 00:28:03.710
this. It's no longer the all -star game. They

00:28:03.710 --> 00:28:05.650
now have this. That's right. The NHL decided.

00:28:05.990 --> 00:28:08.650
All the sports are struggling with their all

00:28:08.650 --> 00:28:11.980
-star, you know. Pro Bowl and the NBA All -Stars.

00:28:12.200 --> 00:28:15.779
So the NHL decided to do a four -nation face

00:28:15.779 --> 00:28:19.019
-off. That's right. So the four nations are Sweden,

00:28:19.140 --> 00:28:22.119
Finland, Canada, and the U .S. And so they had

00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:24.500
pool play for a couple games, and then you got

00:28:24.500 --> 00:28:26.240
a certain number of points, and then the two

00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:29.259
teams with the highest points go to the finals,

00:28:29.279 --> 00:28:31.940
which is on Thursday night. And we played against

00:28:31.940 --> 00:28:33.880
Canada. And Canada is like the favorite, I guess.

00:28:34.099 --> 00:28:37.500
Finland sucks. Look at that. Yeah. Canada was

00:28:37.500 --> 00:28:41.539
the favorite, but the U .S. beat them. And in

00:28:41.539 --> 00:28:44.160
compounding the excitement is that, you know

00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:46.660
how Canada has been booing the U .S. national

00:28:46.660 --> 00:28:49.680
anthem? Oh, so that wasn't a new thing. That's

00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:51.079
been going on for a while? Oh, I didn't know

00:28:51.079 --> 00:28:52.700
about that. That's been happening during some

00:28:52.700 --> 00:28:55.759
of the NHL games. Oh, is that since President

00:28:55.759 --> 00:28:59.200
Trump has taken over? Correct. Okay. The 51st

00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:02.750
state? Well, that and the implication of the

00:29:02.750 --> 00:29:05.130
tariffs. And the threats and the trash talking

00:29:05.130 --> 00:29:07.450
that Trump does. I mean, I get it. I mean, he's

00:29:07.450 --> 00:29:10.009
dogging Canada and dogging their leaders. They

00:29:10.009 --> 00:29:11.829
need to be dogged because they need to get their

00:29:11.829 --> 00:29:13.809
shit in order. I don't disagree. I don't disagree.

00:29:13.970 --> 00:29:15.869
But anyway, that kind of led to it. And then

00:29:15.869 --> 00:29:18.670
when they played each other in the first nine

00:29:18.670 --> 00:29:21.630
seconds, their three fights broke out. That was

00:29:21.630 --> 00:29:23.789
amazing. Yeah, and they were just scrapping.

00:29:23.809 --> 00:29:25.890
Yeah, there we go. We got a video of it. And

00:29:25.890 --> 00:29:28.869
the crowd was... And you know how it is. They

00:29:28.869 --> 00:29:31.049
can't do anything. The refs can't do anything

00:29:31.049 --> 00:29:33.569
until they go to the ice. Right. Because, you

00:29:33.569 --> 00:29:35.490
know, to keep them from getting hurt, right,

00:29:35.549 --> 00:29:39.690
the referees. Yeah, so three different fights

00:29:39.690 --> 00:29:41.849
broke out. Anyway, so it was an intense game.

00:29:42.529 --> 00:29:46.490
And the U .S. won. Yeah, so it was 1 -1, and

00:29:46.490 --> 00:29:51.890
then 2 -1, and then the Canadians pulled their

00:29:51.890 --> 00:29:53.849
goalie, and then it was... Empty netter, man.

00:29:53.970 --> 00:29:56.210
Empty net 3 -1, yeah. So what if some of these

00:29:56.210 --> 00:29:59.049
Canadians and U .S. guys are on the same NHL

00:29:59.049 --> 00:30:01.970
team? So it's interesting you say that because

00:30:01.970 --> 00:30:04.410
two of the U .S. players that got into fights

00:30:04.410 --> 00:30:08.690
are brothers. And the brother of one brother

00:30:08.690 --> 00:30:11.190
was fighting a guy who was on his brother's team.

00:30:11.579 --> 00:30:14.119
Not on his team, but on his brother's team. Right.

00:30:14.460 --> 00:30:16.920
Yeah, that would be interesting. I don't think

00:30:16.920 --> 00:30:19.259
teammates would fight each other. You can't do

00:30:19.259 --> 00:30:22.220
that. That's what I mean. What if it devolved

00:30:22.220 --> 00:30:23.539
into that? You're saying two guys in the U .S.

00:30:23.539 --> 00:30:25.940
fighting each other? No, no, no. He's saying

00:30:25.940 --> 00:30:28.099
two guys from the Pittsburgh Penguins fighting

00:30:28.099 --> 00:30:29.799
each other. Yeah, one was Canadian, one was U

00:30:29.799 --> 00:30:33.599
.S. Correct. Teammates on an NHL team would not

00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:35.200
fight each other unless they didn't like each

00:30:35.200 --> 00:30:37.940
other. No, she didn't. She loved you more. Yeah,

00:30:38.039 --> 00:30:40.240
so anyway, it's going to be exciting Thursday

00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:42.440
night. It's going to be really intense, I think.

00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:45.519
Yeah, I think so, too. And you know what? Shame

00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:49.430
on. Shame on Canada. I mean, when we have – I

00:30:49.430 --> 00:30:51.650
don't know this for a fact, but I don't think

00:30:51.650 --> 00:30:53.970
we boo other countries. And if I do, shame on

00:30:53.970 --> 00:30:57.950
us. We did. So Finland – This last week, right?

00:30:58.029 --> 00:31:00.829
Yes. Canada played Finland in Boston. Like, they

00:31:00.829 --> 00:31:05.029
have multiple sites, right? And the Boston crowd

00:31:05.029 --> 00:31:07.130
booed the Canadian national anthem. So was this

00:31:07.130 --> 00:31:10.089
as a result of – It was. So this was reactionary.

00:31:10.109 --> 00:31:12.470
Reactionary. It was totally reactionary. Well,

00:31:12.589 --> 00:31:15.089
they need to put a post out there to be the bigger

00:31:15.089 --> 00:31:17.710
person. But, you know, at the same time, fuck

00:31:17.710 --> 00:31:23.589
Canada. It's interesting. And they had a crazy

00:31:23.589 --> 00:31:26.259
thing happen. A couple days ago with this plane

00:31:26.259 --> 00:31:29.119
crash in Canada. Actually, fuck the haters. There's

00:31:29.119 --> 00:31:31.299
tons and tons of beautiful people in Canada.

00:31:31.359 --> 00:31:33.759
Of course. Yeah, tons and tons. And most of them

00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:35.819
love America, right? And they're not thrilled

00:31:35.819 --> 00:31:37.680
with their leadership and the censorship and

00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:39.240
the bullshit that they're going through right

00:31:39.240 --> 00:31:40.480
now. And they've got tons and tons of Canadian

00:31:40.480 --> 00:31:41.220
actors. And they're going to make a leadership

00:31:41.220 --> 00:31:43.619
change. They're going to make a leadership change.

00:31:43.900 --> 00:31:46.319
They have to. Yeah. So it's going to be good.

00:31:46.480 --> 00:31:48.859
What was that breaking news with, what was his

00:31:48.859 --> 00:31:51.440
name? That's a guy from the Alex Jones show,

00:31:51.460 --> 00:31:55.059
isn't it? Yeah, Josh or George. What is this?

00:31:55.059 --> 00:31:59.460
Ten minutes. What is his name, though? Owens.

00:32:00.759 --> 00:32:03.579
Yeah, Owens something. Owens Schroyer. Owens

00:32:03.579 --> 00:32:05.339
Schroyer. There you go. Let's see the significance

00:32:05.339 --> 00:32:07.440
of this, though. A response to video shot in

00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:10.000
Austin of deranged goblin creatures attacking

00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:13.119
the press. Okay. Interesting. How long ago was

00:32:13.119 --> 00:32:15.059
that? It was one hour ago. All right, let's watch

00:32:15.059 --> 00:32:19.019
this. airplane that turned over it sure did absolutely

00:32:19.019 --> 00:32:22.000
unbelievable string of aviation incidents tom

00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:25.319
that's interesting this is gonna yet again raise

00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:30.339
the concern about uh faa No. Oh, that's a can

00:32:30.339 --> 00:32:33.079
of dough. So ridiculous. This is a Canadian air

00:32:33.079 --> 00:32:35.400
traffic control tower, and this is under Canadian

00:32:35.400 --> 00:32:37.960
authority once it crosses the border. Well, at

00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:39.099
least it says that. And yet, as you know, there

00:32:39.099 --> 00:32:41.759
has been this talk about maybe staff cuts at

00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:43.940
the FAA. Such bullshit. They have not cut any

00:32:43.940 --> 00:32:48.259
FAA tower personnel. None of those. So I think

00:32:48.259 --> 00:32:54.299
there's 45 ,000 employees for the FAA. And they

00:32:54.299 --> 00:32:56.099
were talking about, what, the 400 or 500 people

00:32:56.099 --> 00:32:58.880
that did get cut were all promoted. probationary,

00:32:58.920 --> 00:33:04.180
and they hadn't even been there for even a year

00:33:04.180 --> 00:33:06.680
yet. In fact, these cutting lines, my daughter

00:33:06.680 --> 00:33:09.339
talked to me today, and she was all up in arms

00:33:09.339 --> 00:33:12.799
about the National Forest Rangers were all getting,

00:33:13.079 --> 00:33:15.839
she was like, Trump's administration just defunded

00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:18.019
all the National Forest Rangers, and they just

00:33:18.019 --> 00:33:19.920
cut all those jobs. And I was like, I don't think

00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:22.000
that's what happened. I think what they did is

00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:25.240
they stopped hiring new ones. And they got rid

00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:27.019
of all the temporary people. They're having an

00:33:27.019 --> 00:33:30.700
hysterical reaction to everything Doge is doing,

00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:32.819
everything Trump is doing. Well, it's all the

00:33:32.819 --> 00:33:35.339
probationary people, like 200 ,000 probationary

00:33:35.339 --> 00:33:40.480
people who don't have that civil employee guarantee

00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:42.779
of a job. Right. It's like if once you become

00:33:42.779 --> 00:33:44.640
an employee, you're guaranteed the job, which

00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:48.319
is ridiculous to me. Ridiculous to me. You can't

00:33:48.319 --> 00:33:50.420
get fired. We've got to revisit all that. And

00:33:50.420 --> 00:33:52.920
they are. So to wrap up this Canadian crash.

00:33:53.180 --> 00:33:57.299
So it's a Delta, right? American plane. But we

00:33:57.299 --> 00:34:00.539
think that there was wind involved, right? And

00:34:00.539 --> 00:34:02.400
it might have been pilot error, maybe not pilot

00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:04.740
error. They don't know yet. But, dude, the fact

00:34:04.740 --> 00:34:07.079
that that thing flips over and there were, what,

00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:09.099
80 people on the plane? Yeah, 87, I think. And

00:34:09.099 --> 00:34:12.219
no one died. That's a miracle. Well, they're

00:34:12.219 --> 00:34:14.340
all wearing a seatbelt, I guess. It's an absolute

00:34:14.340 --> 00:34:16.079
miracle. They said they're, one of the guys,

00:34:16.179 --> 00:34:17.300
people that were out there said they're all hanging

00:34:17.300 --> 00:34:19.659
there like bats. Right. Upside down. Can you

00:34:19.659 --> 00:34:22.480
imagine? So they were also saying, so in those

00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:24.679
smaller planes, there's not a lot of headroom

00:34:24.679 --> 00:34:26.500
up there. It's a regional plane. So when those

00:34:26.500 --> 00:34:28.679
things flipped over, you may have a couple inches.

00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:31.679
So they were able to put their hand and push

00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:33.360
themselves up a little bit to release those belts.

00:34:33.420 --> 00:34:35.460
Had it been like a regular plane, you know, there's

00:34:35.460 --> 00:34:38.639
two, three, four feet between you. You wouldn't

00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:40.320
have been able to do that. And if you do release

00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:42.079
the thing, boom, you freaking break your neck

00:34:42.079 --> 00:34:44.539
or something like that. quick somersault or something.

00:34:44.719 --> 00:34:47.179
I wouldn't do that. And you know most people

00:34:47.179 --> 00:34:50.980
don't have the strength to land gracefully, right?

00:34:51.099 --> 00:34:55.659
No, I would be all contorted, broken arm. Is

00:34:55.659 --> 00:34:59.460
everybody okay? They hear this boom. Oh, it's

00:34:59.460 --> 00:35:02.760
Sean. Sorry, my belt just came off. He blasted

00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:05.500
through the roof. It's an explosion. No, some

00:35:05.500 --> 00:35:07.059
guy just fell. He just fell through the ice.

00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:12.119
But they got the shout out to all the staff that

00:35:12.119 --> 00:35:14.199
were there. They were able to manage it. They

00:35:14.199 --> 00:35:16.679
kept their wits about them. You know, they practice

00:35:16.679 --> 00:35:19.179
how to get people off the plane when it's in

00:35:19.179 --> 00:35:21.260
the upright position. They never practice or

00:35:21.260 --> 00:35:23.940
even figure out how the hell we're going to get

00:35:23.940 --> 00:35:26.639
these people out with being upside down. And,

00:35:26.639 --> 00:35:28.500
you know, it's like the sled's not going to bow.

00:35:28.820 --> 00:35:30.420
What is it? The slide's not going to pull out.

00:35:30.579 --> 00:35:32.000
Yeah, you're right. Well, they just walk off

00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:33.300
of that. Yeah, they just walk out. Well, yeah,

00:35:33.340 --> 00:35:35.679
they did. But, I mean, under normal conditions,

00:35:35.800 --> 00:35:37.900
like, there's a process. And there are people

00:35:37.900 --> 00:35:39.840
who are. like, oh, I need to get my backpack.

00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:42.099
I need to get my phone. No, you don't. No, no,

00:35:42.139 --> 00:35:44.340
no. Get the hell off the plane because you're

00:35:44.340 --> 00:35:46.760
going to fucking die because the fuel is coming

00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:48.639
right out of this thing. And Johnny on the spot

00:35:48.639 --> 00:35:50.539
for the firefighters that went out there. They

00:35:50.539 --> 00:35:52.679
put it out quick. They went out there immediately,

00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:54.940
like within minutes, and started dousing that

00:35:54.940 --> 00:35:56.539
thing. Because that thing was amazing. It was

00:35:56.539 --> 00:35:59.460
a fireball. Yep. I'm amazed the plane didn't

00:35:59.460 --> 00:36:02.260
completely just disintegrate with fire. So that

00:36:02.260 --> 00:36:05.269
was, yeah, it was excellent all around. A very

00:36:05.269 --> 00:36:09.210
exciting story that they didn't die. So anyway,

00:36:09.289 --> 00:36:10.949
that was exciting. I'll wait to hear what the

00:36:10.949 --> 00:36:14.690
final results are of the cause of it. Is it weather

00:36:14.690 --> 00:36:17.329
related? Should they have turned around? Was

00:36:17.329 --> 00:36:19.570
there an issue below that little 500 -foot mark

00:36:19.570 --> 00:36:21.309
where they should have been? Well, it looked

00:36:21.309 --> 00:36:22.829
like it was coming down. It was not video right.

00:36:22.849 --> 00:36:24.389
It looked like it was descending pretty quick.

00:36:24.690 --> 00:36:27.789
It hit hard. Yeah. So I don't know. Again, was

00:36:27.789 --> 00:36:30.840
it pilot? Was it a mixture of all? The above

00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:34.500
kind of thing. Who knows? Do not know. I remember

00:36:34.500 --> 00:36:36.239
I wasn't even down here yet, but there was a

00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:39.900
real bad wreck here at Dallas -Fort Worth by

00:36:39.900 --> 00:36:43.019
a wind shear. Was that the Delta? I don't know

00:36:43.019 --> 00:36:45.480
what plane, but it was back in the 80s maybe.

00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:47.880
That was the Delta airline. Yeah, it was a big

00:36:47.880 --> 00:36:50.739
wind shear and it killed a bunch of folks. And

00:36:50.739 --> 00:36:53.579
they've put in a bunch of wind shear equipment

00:36:53.579 --> 00:36:56.739
to be able to predict that in ground flights.

00:36:56.739 --> 00:37:00.849
It also took out people on the Yeah, it did.

00:37:00.989 --> 00:37:03.969
It hit some cars. Yeah. All the debris. Imagine

00:37:03.969 --> 00:37:06.989
being, just driving in your car. Listen to Journey.

00:37:07.210 --> 00:37:09.309
Yeah, what the hell? Boom. It has to be Journey,

00:37:09.369 --> 00:37:11.369
huh? Wheel in the sky. Wheel in the sky. Wheel

00:37:11.369 --> 00:37:15.610
in the sky. Oh, no. Oh, that's bad. That's a

00:37:15.610 --> 00:37:18.630
bad joke. So I was driving down the road. I didn't

00:37:18.630 --> 00:37:20.610
see the plane parts fall down. Then I get this

00:37:20.610 --> 00:37:23.230
text message from the Total Wine Kevin. Shout

00:37:23.230 --> 00:37:25.070
out to Kevin. Thank you very much, sir. And he's

00:37:25.070 --> 00:37:28.869
like, hey, Sean, how you doing? I'm paraphrasing.

00:37:28.869 --> 00:37:30.769
But he was like, he said, hey, look, we have

00:37:30.769 --> 00:37:35.710
availability for an Iron Root event that's happening.

00:37:36.050 --> 00:37:38.769
And we have three spots available. And immediately

00:37:38.769 --> 00:37:42.980
I'm thinking. Yeah. Chuck is fucked. No, no,

00:37:43.079 --> 00:37:45.760
no. You were thinking Paul is fucked. Oh, I was

00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:48.460
not. It was somebody's fucked. I don't know who

00:37:48.460 --> 00:37:50.340
it was. But, you know, then I was like, are you

00:37:50.340 --> 00:37:55.539
sure that's not four? He was like, well, I talked

00:37:55.539 --> 00:37:57.079
to him, and he was like, well, we'll see. I don't

00:37:57.079 --> 00:37:59.699
know yet. But anyways. There was plenty of time.

00:38:01.019 --> 00:38:03.719
100%. But initially, I thought this was an event

00:38:03.719 --> 00:38:06.449
that was occurring at Total Wine. And so I thought,

00:38:06.530 --> 00:38:08.030
oh, this is really good. And I don't even know

00:38:08.030 --> 00:38:10.389
when it is. I actually learned that it was there.

00:38:10.489 --> 00:38:13.469
It was that Friday. Friday, we were at Total

00:38:13.469 --> 00:38:16.170
Wine. Oh, that's what it was. We were actually

00:38:16.170 --> 00:38:18.190
at Total Wine. And they were like, no, idiots,

00:38:18.329 --> 00:38:21.170
it's out in Denison. And I was thinking, fuck,

00:38:21.489 --> 00:38:24.150
that's a long drive. Because I'm thinking a time

00:38:24.150 --> 00:38:25.809
management. That's why I was asking about a party

00:38:25.809 --> 00:38:28.789
bus or a helicopter, at least. Oh, you thought

00:38:28.789 --> 00:38:31.130
maybe they would have. Yeah. You know, curried

00:38:31.130 --> 00:38:33.329
us up there. Yeah. Yeah. We're from the Dukes

00:38:33.329 --> 00:38:35.210
Like Us podcast. What the hell, man? What's your

00:38:35.210 --> 00:38:36.809
shit together? You got a party bus with a pole

00:38:36.809 --> 00:38:39.389
in the middle. Yeah. Dancers. And a red carpet

00:38:39.389 --> 00:38:41.889
in their parking lot. I went through great lengths

00:38:41.889 --> 00:38:45.909
to try to massage the circumstance a little bit.

00:38:45.969 --> 00:38:48.230
And I was kind of like, are you sure? Then I

00:38:48.230 --> 00:38:50.829
went back to Total Wine. I talked to the manager.

00:38:51.070 --> 00:38:53.610
It was Castle Christie. And then there was another

00:38:53.610 --> 00:38:55.650
one. I forget the young lady's name. Damn it,

00:38:55.650 --> 00:38:57.670
I need to remember her name. But she was like,

00:38:57.750 --> 00:38:59.329
I was like, hey, man, we got one or two more.

00:38:59.550 --> 00:39:01.590
I mean, is that crazy to bring them out there?

00:39:01.650 --> 00:39:04.070
She was like, bring them. It's not a big deal.

00:39:04.230 --> 00:39:07.210
This is an appreciation thing. Just go out there

00:39:07.210 --> 00:39:08.829
and just put our store number on there. There's

00:39:08.829 --> 00:39:10.269
plenty of people that aren't going that were

00:39:10.269 --> 00:39:12.670
invited. Just go. Just put guest on there. You're

00:39:12.670 --> 00:39:14.329
going to be fine. So I give Chuck the thumbs

00:39:14.329 --> 00:39:16.789
up. And then he's like, oh, that sounds great.

00:39:16.949 --> 00:39:18.329
He calls me the next day. I'm like, fuck you.

00:39:18.369 --> 00:39:20.730
I'm not going. Yeah, what's up with that? It's

00:39:20.730 --> 00:39:23.210
quite violent. Direct quote. Yeah, what happened

00:39:23.210 --> 00:39:26.429
there, man? My brother is in town visiting for

00:39:26.429 --> 00:39:29.630
the weekend from Phoenix. Oh. Well, apparently

00:39:29.630 --> 00:39:32.329
he could have come too. Yeah. They were interested

00:39:32.329 --> 00:39:35.250
in watching the NASCAR race. Oh, the NASCAR race.

00:39:35.289 --> 00:39:37.150
But anyway, Iron Root was very, very cool because

00:39:37.150 --> 00:39:39.590
I think everyone thought we were Total Wine employees

00:39:39.590 --> 00:39:41.409
for one thing. No, they did. They 100 % did.

00:39:41.570 --> 00:39:44.269
The whole thing was catered to thanking the Total,

00:39:44.429 --> 00:39:46.989
to informing them more about the Iron Root product.

00:39:46.989 --> 00:39:50.030
On how to sell. It was an appreciation. Yeah,

00:39:50.190 --> 00:39:52.329
absolutely. All of that. So we had, if you go

00:39:52.329 --> 00:39:56.230
to the normal Iron Root presentation, it is a

00:39:56.230 --> 00:39:58.429
lengthy one. It may be an hour, hour and a half.

00:39:58.909 --> 00:40:00.469
It's a good one. It's one of the better ones

00:40:00.469 --> 00:40:02.329
out there. It is good. It's the best I've seen.

00:40:02.409 --> 00:40:06.110
But this one we went to was special. They had

00:40:06.110 --> 00:40:08.210
four different sections where they talked about

00:40:08.210 --> 00:40:11.210
four different aspects of the business and how

00:40:11.210 --> 00:40:14.369
can you do a better job selling their product.

00:40:14.590 --> 00:40:17.789
And knowledge is the core of that. So they started

00:40:17.789 --> 00:40:19.750
off in the – we got lucky because we started

00:40:19.750 --> 00:40:22.929
off in – In the beginning of the process. Yeah,

00:40:22.949 --> 00:40:24.730
the whole process where you have the big vats

00:40:24.730 --> 00:40:26.110
in there, and they go through the whole thing,

00:40:26.150 --> 00:40:29.090
the heads and tails, and all the different variations

00:40:29.090 --> 00:40:32.289
and where they make the St. Alley, the different

00:40:32.289 --> 00:40:34.909
types of corns, which is amazing. They didn't

00:40:34.909 --> 00:40:36.369
get too much into it because they're still limited

00:40:36.369 --> 00:40:40.130
on time, but it was very informative, extremely

00:40:40.130 --> 00:40:42.389
informative. In my opinion, they covered just

00:40:42.389 --> 00:40:45.489
about everything you can cover start to finish.

00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:47.639
Oh, yeah. Of the process. Oh, yeah. I mean, there

00:40:47.639 --> 00:40:50.539
was really no stone unturned. Yeah. Then we moved

00:40:50.539 --> 00:40:53.659
into the barrel aging area. Yep. And that was

00:40:53.659 --> 00:40:55.699
very interesting as well because I didn't realize

00:40:55.699 --> 00:40:58.099
what I thought was interesting is they moved,

00:40:58.159 --> 00:41:00.960
since we're here in Texas, they moved away from

00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:05.000
the 53 -gallon barrels to the 65 -gallon. Right.

00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:08.500
Because it slows down the aging down here just

00:41:08.500 --> 00:41:11.920
enough to where it doesn't get just tree sap

00:41:11.920 --> 00:41:14.219
kind of a thing, right? Yep. So I never even...

00:41:14.670 --> 00:41:17.829
Thought about that, and I wonder if other distilleries

00:41:17.829 --> 00:41:20.349
are playing with that, using the 65 -gallon,

00:41:20.369 --> 00:41:22.550
basically the big wine barrels is what they are.

00:41:22.650 --> 00:41:25.190
Oh, yeah. That they've purchased instead of the

00:41:25.190 --> 00:41:28.550
bourbon barrels. They're big 65 -gallon wine

00:41:28.550 --> 00:41:31.150
barrels, and they're using that to, and that's

00:41:31.150 --> 00:41:32.949
what bulk of their stuff is aging in right now,

00:41:32.949 --> 00:41:34.900
I looked. Right. And it was interesting because

00:41:34.900 --> 00:41:37.519
they do a ton of experimentation. Oh, yeah. Right.

00:41:37.559 --> 00:41:40.719
Not only in their mash bills and in their in

00:41:40.719 --> 00:41:42.860
their, you know, approach to doing the fermentation

00:41:42.860 --> 00:41:45.059
and all this kind of stuff, but also even in

00:41:45.059 --> 00:41:47.099
their barrels like they have. They try all sorts

00:41:47.099 --> 00:41:49.059
of different finishing that they're doing. Right.

00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:51.900
So, yeah, it was that was cool. That was really

00:41:51.900 --> 00:41:54.179
cool. And the other thing I had never seen before

00:41:54.179 --> 00:41:57.440
is what they call it on the inside of the barrel.

00:41:57.500 --> 00:42:00.610
They were grooves. What do they call that? They're

00:42:00.610 --> 00:42:04.610
grooves. I don't know what the official term

00:42:04.610 --> 00:42:07.230
of it. It's kind of like zigzags on the inside

00:42:07.230 --> 00:42:09.389
where there's grooves, not necessarily scored

00:42:09.389 --> 00:42:12.489
into it, but it's created. It looks like fingers

00:42:12.489 --> 00:42:15.530
just scratched down and there were like U's.

00:42:15.670 --> 00:42:18.130
So there's a valley and a peak. And he said the

00:42:18.130 --> 00:42:20.809
reason we do that is the peaks are more charred.

00:42:21.019 --> 00:42:23.420
Than the valleys. So it gives them more variation.

00:42:23.500 --> 00:42:25.840
More variation. Oh, in the barrels. In the barrels.

00:42:25.840 --> 00:42:27.159
I thought you were talking about the metal containers.

00:42:27.199 --> 00:42:29.199
The inside of the barrels, yeah. Yeah, the barrels.

00:42:29.239 --> 00:42:31.380
Plus it also gives just a little bit more surface

00:42:31.380 --> 00:42:34.500
area. Right. Yeah, it was excellent. It really

00:42:34.500 --> 00:42:37.219
was. Yeah. Good stuff. So the surface area is

00:42:37.219 --> 00:42:40.159
one of them, but it was the variation of the

00:42:40.159 --> 00:42:41.940
flavors. Because it was kind of like you get

00:42:41.940 --> 00:42:44.380
inside that char. Let's say it's a char four.

00:42:44.619 --> 00:42:47.380
Well, hell, you can get a char four, three, and

00:42:47.380 --> 00:42:50.710
two, and one in the same barrel. Yeah. Just by

00:42:50.710 --> 00:42:52.570
those grooves being in there because the char

00:42:52.570 --> 00:42:54.650
can't get into every little nook and cranny.

00:42:54.690 --> 00:42:56.730
I thought it was pretty amazing. An interesting

00:42:56.730 --> 00:42:58.849
blend of char. The whole thing about them in

00:42:58.849 --> 00:43:00.889
the grooves, the fact that they mix up species

00:43:00.889 --> 00:43:03.730
of wood. They've got the heads of the barrel

00:43:03.730 --> 00:43:05.670
were made from Europe French oak and they got

00:43:05.670 --> 00:43:08.030
the side barrels with American white oak. That

00:43:08.030 --> 00:43:10.090
I had never heard either. That was new to me.

00:43:10.130 --> 00:43:14.289
I didn't know they had varying wood within the

00:43:14.289 --> 00:43:18.349
same barrel. And it was just the heads. The heads

00:43:18.349 --> 00:43:20.369
was a different wood than, like you said, the

00:43:20.369 --> 00:43:22.329
slats. Right. Or whatever they call them. The

00:43:22.329 --> 00:43:24.889
staves. What do they call the, I guess I don't

00:43:24.889 --> 00:43:26.489
know what they call them. The staves. Spiral

00:43:26.489 --> 00:43:28.809
cut barrel. Okay. That's interesting. So that's

00:43:28.809 --> 00:43:30.730
obviously something they do before they scorch

00:43:30.730 --> 00:43:33.349
it. Correct. Interesting. Yeah. Then the next

00:43:33.349 --> 00:43:35.130
step that we went to, I thought was the best

00:43:35.130 --> 00:43:38.650
part, was the tasting. Where they had all these,

00:43:38.969 --> 00:43:42.570
they had two, they had three of their. They had

00:43:42.570 --> 00:43:45.250
a bourbon, a rye. Actually, they had two bourbons

00:43:45.250 --> 00:43:47.789
and a rye. And they had all these little tasting

00:43:47.789 --> 00:43:50.530
packets. That were child protect locks. Yeah,

00:43:50.590 --> 00:43:53.739
they were incredibly difficult to get into. Not

00:43:53.739 --> 00:43:56.480
for me. Because of that experience, I went on

00:43:56.480 --> 00:43:58.460
Amazon and bought myself another little hand

00:43:58.460 --> 00:44:01.900
pocket. I usually have one all the time, and

00:44:01.900 --> 00:44:03.880
I haven't had one for like a year. And I went

00:44:03.880 --> 00:44:05.659
and I bought one. I got it in today. Here, I'm

00:44:05.659 --> 00:44:08.159
kind of proud of it. I struggled with the first

00:44:08.159 --> 00:44:10.179
one. I think I was the last one. I was just crinkling,

00:44:10.380 --> 00:44:12.000
crinkling, crinkling, crinkling. You start to

00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:15.300
panic. You're falling behind. She's like, okay,

00:44:15.380 --> 00:44:17.039
open that up. And now what you're going to get

00:44:17.039 --> 00:44:19.179
from this and this and that and this is now you

00:44:19.179 --> 00:44:23.469
get the taste. And then you guys are like. And

00:44:23.469 --> 00:44:28.190
then on the second one, Sean's like, even Kevin

00:44:28.190 --> 00:44:31.050
had you hand you his pocket knife. I threw it

00:44:31.050 --> 00:44:33.110
down on the table. I was like, fuck this. Eventually,

00:44:33.369 --> 00:44:34.710
I was like, all right, this one, I'm just going

00:44:34.710 --> 00:44:37.829
to rip so much off. They'd go everywhere. I was

00:44:37.829 --> 00:44:38.809
like, I'm just going to rip it in half. Like

00:44:38.809 --> 00:44:42.369
a bag of Cheetos. I will tell you, it complemented

00:44:42.369 --> 00:44:45.570
the whiskey so well. Well, the first one, it

00:44:45.570 --> 00:44:48.730
was because she said, taste this one first. It's

00:44:48.730 --> 00:44:51.900
a Stroopwafel. Right. And I think it was cinnamon

00:44:51.900 --> 00:44:54.420
or caramel that she wanted you to taste. Yes.

00:44:54.460 --> 00:44:55.920
She goes, after this first sip, you'll taste

00:44:55.920 --> 00:44:59.260
this, this, this, and this. And it did. And that

00:44:59.260 --> 00:45:00.860
was the whole point. It was like you're comparing

00:45:00.860 --> 00:45:02.960
these things that were prepared in these packets

00:45:02.960 --> 00:45:06.960
against the taste that you're sampling. Correct.

00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:10.159
And she's wanting you to find that taste or experience

00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:12.420
that taste. It almost makes me want to have a

00:45:12.420 --> 00:45:16.219
bowl of dehydrated cherries and some nuts and

00:45:16.219 --> 00:45:20.019
Stroopwafel up here. Yeah. Like a little bin.

00:45:20.340 --> 00:45:22.400
Like a little bin. Not to sit here and snack

00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:25.500
on them, but as we taste, we would snack on them.

00:45:25.500 --> 00:45:28.380
Throw some durian in there. Some durian. Durian,

00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:31.300
not gurian. Durian. Durian. I wonder how that

00:45:31.300 --> 00:45:33.219
will enhance the flavor. Sean, how's it enhancing

00:45:33.219 --> 00:45:34.579
the flavor of this drink? I'm sure it's going

00:45:34.579 --> 00:45:36.699
to enhance the flavor of my mattress when I get

00:45:36.699 --> 00:45:39.219
home tonight. We'll be like, God, this bourbon

00:45:39.219 --> 00:45:41.800
tastes like shit. So it was pretty cool because

00:45:41.800 --> 00:45:44.559
we got to try the rye, which isn't even out yet.

00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:50.360
The sleight of hand rye. Yeah. They said it'll

00:45:50.360 --> 00:45:52.340
be out in the stores in two to three weeks. Oh,

00:45:52.340 --> 00:45:54.860
is that what it was? Okay. Oh, the Permithian

00:45:54.860 --> 00:45:58.139
was the one. No, the Apotheosis. The Apotheosis.

00:45:58.340 --> 00:46:01.920
Sleight of hand rye. Yeah, that's not in the

00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:07.380
stores yet. So their cost point on this is getting

00:46:07.380 --> 00:46:10.519
lower and lower, which is... Which is good. I

00:46:10.519 --> 00:46:12.500
don't know what the real deal is with that. Is

00:46:12.500 --> 00:46:14.360
it because they're trying to sell it? Because

00:46:14.360 --> 00:46:16.519
what I understood, and even what Jeff brought

00:46:16.519 --> 00:46:20.880
up, is that as an industry, sales are kind of

00:46:20.880 --> 00:46:23.480
going down across the board. Yeah, but I've never

00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:25.619
heard of people lowering their prices when they

00:46:25.619 --> 00:46:27.760
get a price break. They were able to get their

00:46:27.760 --> 00:46:29.420
corn cheaper, or they were able to get this,

00:46:29.460 --> 00:46:31.219
and so they're able to pass those savings on

00:46:31.219 --> 00:46:33.900
to you. Who does that? No one does that anymore,

00:46:34.019 --> 00:46:36.480
it seems like. I was really kind of, proud is

00:46:36.480 --> 00:46:38.579
not the right word, but I was impressed. that

00:46:38.579 --> 00:46:40.960
they were lowering their prices. Respectful.

00:46:41.000 --> 00:46:44.619
And I'm sure they're trying to position their

00:46:44.619 --> 00:46:47.360
bourbon in a sweet spot, right, in terms of a

00:46:47.360 --> 00:46:48.920
price point. Well, there's a lot of competition

00:46:48.920 --> 00:46:51.380
at this price point. There is. Right? So maybe

00:46:51.380 --> 00:46:52.980
they're trying to lower it just a little bit.

00:46:53.079 --> 00:46:54.820
I mean, there's competition throughout the entire

00:46:54.820 --> 00:46:55.739
price spectrum. Oh, that's what we're getting.

00:46:55.820 --> 00:46:57.739
We're going to get the orange wine, the Apotheosis

00:46:57.739 --> 00:47:01.579
IV orange wine. Yeah, it was good. Yeah, it sure

00:47:01.579 --> 00:47:03.940
was. It was very good. It was really good. Yeah,

00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:05.440
I'm really impressed with their stuff up there.

00:47:05.849 --> 00:47:10.710
And they have a class act presentation. The family

00:47:10.710 --> 00:47:13.869
is really friendly. Robert, Jonathan, and Marsha.

00:47:13.869 --> 00:47:15.530
I don't recall what the father's name is. It

00:47:15.530 --> 00:47:17.949
was Jim, wasn't it, or James? Yep, we met him

00:47:17.949 --> 00:47:22.010
too. Yeah, very, very nice folks. Anyway, I just

00:47:22.010 --> 00:47:24.630
felt guilty multiple times throughout the time

00:47:24.630 --> 00:47:26.369
we were there. They were like, oh, yeah, so what

00:47:26.369 --> 00:47:28.929
location are you at? And we're like, oh, yeah,

00:47:28.969 --> 00:47:32.360
we're from Frisco. They serve booze in Frisco?

00:47:32.900 --> 00:47:36.079
What's funny is every single person we talked

00:47:36.079 --> 00:47:38.320
to in that family thought that we were a total

00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:41.679
wine representative. I didn't. I told them all,

00:47:41.780 --> 00:47:45.000
I was like, we're from a podcast. Oh, did you?

00:47:45.099 --> 00:47:47.659
Yeah. That's funny. Yeah, but of course, some

00:47:47.659 --> 00:47:50.300
of them, like Nellie, knew us. Oh, yeah, yeah,

00:47:50.300 --> 00:47:51.539
yeah. That was the first time I had met her.

00:47:51.619 --> 00:47:54.420
She's really cool. Really? Yeah. Yeah, like Nellie.

00:47:55.679 --> 00:47:57.980
She's very knowledgeable. She's extremely knowledgeable.

00:47:58.119 --> 00:48:00.320
And from what I understood, she's got a huge

00:48:00.320 --> 00:48:03.639
collection of whiskey. And she's their director

00:48:03.639 --> 00:48:07.480
of marketing, right? She should be. I don't know

00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:10.300
what her title is there. In fact, I couldn't

00:48:10.300 --> 00:48:12.239
find it on here. But there were people, shout

00:48:12.239 --> 00:48:13.960
out to Amanda, that showed up with her father.

00:48:14.699 --> 00:48:17.650
Is it Ron? Was it Ron or Jim? I feel bad now

00:48:17.650 --> 00:48:19.289
I forget his name. I think it was Ron. Yeah,

00:48:19.329 --> 00:48:21.369
I forget. And, you know, Kevin was there, of

00:48:21.369 --> 00:48:23.570
course, and we saw some other, I didn't see Peyton

00:48:23.570 --> 00:48:25.570
there, but there was a bunch of Total Wine people

00:48:25.570 --> 00:48:29.269
from all over the region. Yeah, it was really

00:48:29.269 --> 00:48:33.070
neat. They set up a dinner, kind of a... Kind

00:48:33.070 --> 00:48:35.829
of like a little snack bar. Well, I mean, it

00:48:35.829 --> 00:48:38.869
qualifies as a dinner. It had the buffalo chicken

00:48:38.869 --> 00:48:40.809
paste. Oh, that was good. Yeah, but they had

00:48:40.809 --> 00:48:42.710
that ice cream. I don't think they called it

00:48:42.710 --> 00:48:45.489
paste. How about the ice cream where you dump

00:48:45.489 --> 00:48:47.889
the bourbon on top of the ice cream? Dude, was

00:48:47.889 --> 00:48:50.389
that good or what, the ice cream? Oh, it was

00:48:50.389 --> 00:48:53.190
good. That was from downtown McKinney. The creamer.

00:48:53.190 --> 00:48:55.630
I was like, damn it. I missed out. Damn it. That

00:48:55.630 --> 00:48:59.090
buffalo chicken paste? I asked somebody. I was

00:48:59.090 --> 00:49:00.789
like, you need to get us the recipe for that.

00:49:00.849 --> 00:49:03.730
It was the buffalo chicken dip. It was really

00:49:03.730 --> 00:49:06.150
good. Not a paste. Well, it was like a pate.

00:49:06.210 --> 00:49:08.530
They had really ground it down a lot. But it

00:49:08.530 --> 00:49:11.300
was terrific, though. It really was. They wanted

00:49:11.300 --> 00:49:14.480
you to put it on a cracker or a little tostada.

00:49:14.980 --> 00:49:17.699
She wanted us to lose a chip on it, and I was

00:49:17.699 --> 00:49:21.199
like, screw that. I'm usually not a fan of those

00:49:21.199 --> 00:49:23.420
dips, but that was actually excellent. It was

00:49:23.420 --> 00:49:26.340
very thick. And like you mentioned, the ice cream.

00:49:26.460 --> 00:49:29.480
Oh, yeah. They had Prometheus in there. Prometheus

00:49:29.480 --> 00:49:32.820
made ice cream. Yes. It was terrific. I had two

00:49:32.820 --> 00:49:35.500
helpings. I'm sure you did. And I ate it with

00:49:35.500 --> 00:49:38.039
a fork. Yeah, I had a fork as well. I had the

00:49:38.039 --> 00:49:41.980
last bit of it thawed so I could drink it. Drink

00:49:41.980 --> 00:49:44.780
my ice cream. I got another Prometheus shot and

00:49:44.780 --> 00:49:46.880
dumped it in there. I was able to swirl it up

00:49:46.880 --> 00:49:48.599
and get all the last bits. I noticed when I brought

00:49:48.599 --> 00:49:50.760
two back, Sean was like, how come you have two?

00:49:51.119 --> 00:49:55.469
That's exactly what I said. The only thing about

00:49:55.469 --> 00:49:57.610
that whole experience is that you always want

00:49:57.610 --> 00:50:00.369
to set good expectations with your spouse about

00:50:00.369 --> 00:50:04.889
when you're going to leave the house on yet another

00:50:04.889 --> 00:50:09.409
excursion. First of all, whenever we do these

00:50:09.409 --> 00:50:12.050
events, it's difficult to get our wives on board.

00:50:12.409 --> 00:50:14.690
Well, not for me, but for you guys because you're

00:50:14.690 --> 00:50:16.369
like, oh, I just love my wife so much. I want

00:50:16.369 --> 00:50:20.280
to spend so much time with her. Whatever. So,

00:50:20.280 --> 00:50:23.500
you know, it's my time. So, you know, we finally

00:50:23.500 --> 00:50:25.739
get a time. They allocate this. All right, man,

00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:27.519
we got a three hour window. It's a three hour

00:50:27.519 --> 00:50:29.860
window. It starts at one. Starts at one. Oh,

00:50:30.360 --> 00:50:32.639
from one to three. Yeah, one to three, one to

00:50:32.639 --> 00:50:36.570
four. Except it's an hour away. Okay. I already

00:50:36.570 --> 00:50:38.070
get up there. I already get back. Didn't factor

00:50:38.070 --> 00:50:40.090
that in. You guys going to go to Whataburger

00:50:40.090 --> 00:50:42.789
on the way there? So we stop at Whataburger and

00:50:42.789 --> 00:50:45.309
she goes, oh, so one to three? So it's now, what'd

00:50:45.309 --> 00:50:49.010
she say? So now it's 11 to four. And I'm like,

00:50:49.190 --> 00:50:52.469
okay, well, it's okay. And then it became 11

00:50:52.469 --> 00:50:56.969
to six. I didn't get up to like 630. I was like,

00:50:57.010 --> 00:50:59.869
shit, man. It was a long day. I had no idea,

00:50:59.929 --> 00:51:02.449
but they had such an in -depth. It was great.

00:51:02.570 --> 00:51:07.269
It really was great. It was classy. Shout out

00:51:07.269 --> 00:51:09.889
to Iron Root Republic. They did a fantastic job.

00:51:09.969 --> 00:51:11.349
It was outstanding. I'm impressed with their

00:51:11.349 --> 00:51:13.300
operation. I definitely am. And they're bourbon

00:51:13.300 --> 00:51:16.260
shit, man. Yeah, I shared with them, you know,

00:51:16.300 --> 00:51:19.000
like their stuff. I thought their stuff was horrible,

00:51:19.179 --> 00:51:23.019
you know. But I was like, once my palate became

00:51:23.019 --> 00:51:25.599
more refined, I started really appreciating.

00:51:25.639 --> 00:51:27.519
You know, I absolutely 100 % love your stuff.

00:51:27.739 --> 00:51:29.860
Forget who you said. It might have been Robert.

00:51:30.019 --> 00:51:31.920
It was Robert. That you said that to. I was like

00:51:31.920 --> 00:51:34.340
going, oh, no, Sean, what are you saying? You

00:51:34.340 --> 00:51:35.960
got to tell them the truth. Man, when I first

00:51:35.960 --> 00:51:38.139
tried your bottle, I thought it sucked ass. I

00:51:38.139 --> 00:51:40.099
don't think I said that. But, you know, then

00:51:40.099 --> 00:51:41.300
I drank it a little bit more, and I was like,

00:51:41.300 --> 00:51:43.309
eh. I guess it's okay. And you invited us, so

00:51:43.309 --> 00:51:45.550
it's good. No, I did not. And now that we're

00:51:45.550 --> 00:51:48.130
here? None of that happened. And the whole time,

00:51:48.210 --> 00:51:49.989
I'm sure, the whole time he's going, what the

00:51:49.989 --> 00:51:53.239
fuck? We bought the Saints Alley Nobleman. Yeah,

00:51:53.239 --> 00:51:55.260
it was one of the first ones. And that was the

00:51:55.260 --> 00:51:57.880
one we had our first initial experience on. And

00:51:57.880 --> 00:52:00.219
when we were first starting out like that or

00:52:00.219 --> 00:52:02.940
within a year and a half, our palates were nowhere

00:52:02.940 --> 00:52:05.400
near that. We were still hung up on getting the

00:52:05.400 --> 00:52:09.340
easy -to -drink weeded whiskeys. And that's where

00:52:09.340 --> 00:52:11.659
we were at. It was early in the process. Anytime

00:52:11.659 --> 00:52:13.860
we pulled up anything with a little bit of spice

00:52:13.860 --> 00:52:16.019
to it, we're like, what is that? That's horrible.

00:52:16.590 --> 00:52:18.650
I don't remember. Did you remember something

00:52:18.650 --> 00:52:20.989
like that, Jeff? That was 100 % Paul. Maybe that

00:52:20.989 --> 00:52:24.449
was Sean. You absolutely said that. You know,

00:52:24.449 --> 00:52:26.090
it's like, I don't taste, I don't want to drink

00:52:26.090 --> 00:52:29.210
anything with rye. Okay, I never said that. I

00:52:29.210 --> 00:52:31.590
don't like pumpernickel either. I don't remember

00:52:31.590 --> 00:52:33.389
saying any of those things. And I don't like

00:52:33.389 --> 00:52:38.409
women anymore. I'm sorry. Women? I don't know.

00:52:38.969 --> 00:52:40.789
Where'd that come from? I don't know. Actually,

00:52:40.869 --> 00:52:44.130
the Nobleman, this latest release is outstanding.

00:52:45.299 --> 00:52:48.159
Yeah. Excellent. All right. I got to tell you.

00:52:48.219 --> 00:52:56.960
No. My computer, is it a hardware? Because it's

00:52:56.960 --> 00:52:59.019
a hardware issue. It's not a software. Take it

00:52:59.019 --> 00:53:01.599
to Best Buy or somewhere and say, well, how do

00:53:01.599 --> 00:53:04.460
I fix this? I think it's the podcast God saying,

00:53:04.699 --> 00:53:06.460
you don't need a laptop right there. No, it's

00:53:06.460 --> 00:53:08.900
not. And I wish you'd stop saying that. I know

00:53:08.900 --> 00:53:12.420
you do. But I'm not backing down. Me neither.

00:53:12.440 --> 00:53:16.420
You may need to take it to a computer shop. Well,

00:53:16.460 --> 00:53:19.139
whatever. It's just a little frustrating. Anyway,

00:53:20.099 --> 00:53:22.260
I think we should talk about the bourbon we're

00:53:22.260 --> 00:53:26.860
drinking. Ooh, it's time. I think it is. All

00:53:26.860 --> 00:53:29.440
right. Well, it's up on the screen. What is it,

00:53:29.440 --> 00:53:32.559
Mr. Jeff? Well, we're going back to, well, this

00:53:32.559 --> 00:53:34.599
one is readily available on all the shelves.

00:53:34.840 --> 00:53:38.159
This is Knob Creek 9, just a standard Knob Creek.

00:53:38.400 --> 00:53:44.400
Readily available, but. Which is a Jim Beam bourbon.

00:53:44.460 --> 00:53:47.539
It is. But the Knob Creek stuff is good. We have

00:53:47.539 --> 00:53:49.380
this nine. We have the 12 -year. We have the

00:53:49.380 --> 00:53:51.099
nine -year single barrel. I think we have one

00:53:51.099 --> 00:53:54.199
more out there that I can't think of. But this

00:53:54.199 --> 00:53:56.579
nine -year bourbon, what's the proof on this,

00:53:56.619 --> 00:54:00.579
100 proof? This is outstanding. It is very, very

00:54:00.579 --> 00:54:04.639
good. And so this is not the small batch. Oh,

00:54:04.659 --> 00:54:07.960
it is. It says small batch on the bottle. Yeah,

00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:10.539
Knob Creek small batch, which could be, you know,

00:54:10.559 --> 00:54:14.030
10 ,000 bottles that we know of, you know. Small

00:54:14.030 --> 00:54:15.989
batch is kind of arbitrary from what Robert said.

00:54:16.250 --> 00:54:18.789
Depending on the size of the distillery. Correct.

00:54:19.369 --> 00:54:23.570
Small batch could be 10 ,000 barrels. Absolutely.

00:54:23.849 --> 00:54:26.889
Small batch could be five barrels. Yep. Yeah,

00:54:26.929 --> 00:54:29.829
because that's exactly, at 1845, it is literally

00:54:29.829 --> 00:54:32.110
six to eight barrels, I think, is what Bob said.

00:54:32.269 --> 00:54:34.929
Right. Now, what did he say about cast strength?

00:54:36.340 --> 00:54:38.739
Josh was making a point about cast strength.

00:54:38.760 --> 00:54:42.139
Well, he said there's no government law that

00:54:42.139 --> 00:54:44.559
says small batch means this, barrel strength

00:54:44.559 --> 00:54:47.360
means this, cast strength means this, single

00:54:47.360 --> 00:54:50.659
barrel means this. So you could say that it's

00:54:50.659 --> 00:54:52.940
a single barrel and not really be a single barrel

00:54:52.940 --> 00:54:56.179
is what he's saying. But basically everyone follows

00:54:56.179 --> 00:54:59.199
that. actually is just one single barrel. Yeah,

00:54:59.300 --> 00:55:01.780
I think single barrel, I think everybody probably

00:55:01.780 --> 00:55:03.559
follows that one. Well, because we were talking

00:55:03.559 --> 00:55:05.480
about the bottle and bond, we kind of got into

00:55:05.480 --> 00:55:07.679
the small batch talk. He's like, well, there's

00:55:07.679 --> 00:55:10.420
no regulations around that. Right. That dictates

00:55:10.420 --> 00:55:12.440
a small batch is this. Kind of like a gentleman's

00:55:12.440 --> 00:55:14.380
rule type of thing. Right, so he goes, basically

00:55:14.380 --> 00:55:16.500
everyone follows what that is, but the small

00:55:16.500 --> 00:55:20.480
batch is the one that has the most variance to

00:55:20.480 --> 00:55:24.300
it. So my understanding was small batch and cast

00:55:24.300 --> 00:55:27.110
strength. I thought they were synonymous. No.

00:55:27.449 --> 00:55:30.489
So it may not be because small batch, they might

00:55:30.489 --> 00:55:34.449
dilute. Correct. They may take 10 ,000 barrels

00:55:34.449 --> 00:55:36.809
and dilute it with water until it's 100 proof.

00:55:37.010 --> 00:55:39.829
Right. But cast strength means literally whatever

00:55:39.829 --> 00:55:42.610
it's in the barrel, they don't dilute and they

00:55:42.610 --> 00:55:46.289
make it 117 or whatever it's coming out of the

00:55:46.289 --> 00:55:49.489
barrel at. Correct. Right. Yeah. So I guess that's

00:55:49.489 --> 00:55:51.650
Josh's point. There really isn't consistency.

00:55:52.010 --> 00:55:55.539
Different distilleries do different things. Anyway,

00:55:55.539 --> 00:55:57.800
that's interesting. Yeah, do we have any notes

00:55:57.800 --> 00:56:00.880
on this? I mean, this is pretty classic bourbon

00:56:00.880 --> 00:56:02.900
flavors, if you ask me. There's some sweetness

00:56:02.900 --> 00:56:07.260
to it. It's easy to drink. The nose, I think,

00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:11.980
is really good. So, A .I.'s overview, Knob Creek

00:56:11.980 --> 00:56:14.019
Nine -Year Bourbon has tasting notes of vanilla,

00:56:14.199 --> 00:56:17.139
oak, caramel, fruit, and spice. And once you

00:56:17.139 --> 00:56:20.679
say it, it's all there. Pretty typical. It tastes

00:56:20.679 --> 00:56:22.900
rich, sweet. Yeah, definitely pick up the vanilla.

00:56:25.519 --> 00:56:28.400
Yeah, I definitely get some spice. It's full

00:56:28.400 --> 00:56:31.059
body. I get some spice in the nose for sure.

00:56:31.619 --> 00:56:34.199
Roasted nuts. You taste that charred oak in there.

00:56:35.440 --> 00:56:42.420
It's peppery. Spiced kind of builds. It's got

00:56:42.420 --> 00:56:46.480
a peppery finish, no question. Because I wouldn't

00:56:46.480 --> 00:56:49.119
call it a burn. It's just a peppery finish. Right.

00:56:49.260 --> 00:56:51.400
It's got a little dark chocolate and leather

00:56:51.400 --> 00:56:56.630
at the tail end. Hmm. Leather. Leathery. Do we

00:56:56.630 --> 00:56:58.989
eat a lot of leather? Do we eat a lot of leather

00:56:58.989 --> 00:57:01.449
and we know kind of how leather tastes and how

00:57:01.449 --> 00:57:03.670
it finishes? Well, it's what you would think

00:57:03.670 --> 00:57:05.449
it would. Do you ever take your baseball glove

00:57:05.449 --> 00:57:08.210
and... Chew on it. Cover up your face and...

00:57:08.210 --> 00:57:10.150
And cut strips off of it and... Just chew on

00:57:10.150 --> 00:57:12.469
it. Yeah, just kind of... It's cow. You can.

00:57:12.710 --> 00:57:15.230
Yeah, you could. So, in other words, it's like

00:57:15.230 --> 00:57:17.429
a chicharrone? Oh, that's a pig. That's a pig.

00:57:17.670 --> 00:57:21.389
Damn it. A chicharrone? What the hell is that?

00:57:21.829 --> 00:57:26.539
It's pig skin. Oh, really? Yes. You know those

00:57:26.539 --> 00:57:29.699
pig skin, pig pork rinds? So there are other

00:57:29.699 --> 00:57:32.480
notes out there that people have noted regarding

00:57:32.480 --> 00:57:36.780
the notes of melted salty butter on a granary

00:57:36.780 --> 00:57:40.079
toast. Ooh. A touch of rye with caramel sweetness.

00:57:40.719 --> 00:57:45.440
Notes of candy floss and nut oil. What? A light

00:57:45.440 --> 00:57:49.039
spice. What's candy floss? Did you say nut oil?

00:57:49.739 --> 00:57:53.039
Candy floss and nut oil? Okay, you should probably

00:57:53.039 --> 00:57:56.679
skip that one next time. What the hell? I got

00:57:56.679 --> 00:57:59.800
some nut oil. Notes of brown sugar and barrel

00:57:59.800 --> 00:58:04.000
char. And notes of cherry, peanut butter, cinnamon,

00:58:04.159 --> 00:58:07.659
and maple. Yeah. So candy floss is cotton candy.

00:58:07.820 --> 00:58:10.719
Once it's called cotton candy. You know, candy

00:58:10.719 --> 00:58:12.639
floss. I've never heard that term before. I have

00:58:12.639 --> 00:58:15.639
not either. It's kind of gross. Well, because

00:58:15.639 --> 00:58:18.900
they use it in conjunction with nut oil. Well,

00:58:18.920 --> 00:58:21.659
that didn't help. That definitely didn't help.

00:58:23.519 --> 00:58:27.559
There's some candy floss and nut oil. That's

00:58:27.559 --> 00:58:30.300
not something I would put to advertise my bourbon.

00:58:30.820 --> 00:58:33.300
I certainly wouldn't put that on the list. Right

00:58:33.300 --> 00:58:36.010
on the small of your back. Good Lord. Gross.

00:58:36.789 --> 00:58:40.230
Anyways, so we got the Knob Creek 9 -year. And

00:58:40.230 --> 00:58:43.789
for 100 proof, which what this is, let's go ahead

00:58:43.789 --> 00:58:49.750
and grade it. I'd give this a 7 .9. Whoa. Wow.

00:58:50.289 --> 00:58:52.449
It's a solid one. Yeah. I mean, there's nothing

00:58:52.449 --> 00:58:55.929
to hide. This one is something you can have on

00:58:55.929 --> 00:58:58.369
your shelf and you can buy. What is the sticker

00:58:58.369 --> 00:59:00.809
price on this, Mr. Producer? Around 40 bucks

00:59:00.809 --> 00:59:06.269
is my guess. 50 bucks, maybe. That's a really

00:59:06.269 --> 00:59:10.650
strong rating, man. Yeah. Around $50, $60, depending

00:59:10.650 --> 00:59:13.489
on where you're at. What is that one that's $39?

00:59:13.670 --> 00:59:16.530
What is that one? It's probably a $375, maybe.

00:59:16.789 --> 00:59:20.849
Yeah. Well, it's not very expensive. Oh, so the

00:59:20.849 --> 00:59:27.340
$750 is $30. The big -ass 1 .75 is 56. Oh, that's

00:59:27.340 --> 00:59:29.480
a good price point. It is great. You know what?

00:59:29.519 --> 00:59:32.059
I think I might, if it's available, get one because

00:59:32.059 --> 00:59:34.579
it is solid. And you know what else? I like having

00:59:34.579 --> 00:59:37.840
those big tankards. Well, that's a huge one.

00:59:37.920 --> 00:59:40.260
Have you ever seen that? It's like a brick. It's

00:59:40.260 --> 00:59:42.559
like a glass brick. Well, it's a nice, thick

00:59:42.559 --> 00:59:45.400
glass. I think it takes up less real estate on

00:59:45.400 --> 00:59:48.320
my shelves. Oh, it might. Put them all sideways?

00:59:48.619 --> 00:59:51.469
Yeah, there you go. That would work. That would

00:59:51.469 --> 00:59:54.630
work. All right, so Jeff is at 7 -9. Yeah. Paul,

00:59:54.630 --> 00:59:57.489
what say you? No disrespect, but a solid 7 -0.

00:59:58.550 --> 01:00:01.969
All right. I'm going to go right in the middle.

01:00:02.190 --> 01:00:05.030
I kind of want to give it a 7 -9, but I really

01:00:05.030 --> 01:00:08.329
can't, and it's simply because I gave Pinhook

01:00:08.329 --> 01:00:11.750
an 8 -3, and that was a phenomenal one. Is that

01:00:11.750 --> 01:00:14.329
only 100 proof? Oh, this is a 100 proof one.

01:00:14.449 --> 01:00:20.090
Yeah. Noted. Thank you. I'll do a 7 -7, 2 -5.

01:00:20.519 --> 01:00:22.380
It's good stuff. All solid. Yeah, we need to

01:00:22.380 --> 01:00:27.679
try the single barrel out there and the 12 -year.

01:00:27.739 --> 01:00:30.920
We need to put those into the rotation. We have

01:00:30.920 --> 01:00:33.780
tried them before. Yes. Okay, so they're not

01:00:33.780 --> 01:00:36.139
unopened. Okay. Well, actually, the 12 -year

01:00:36.139 --> 01:00:37.940
is a brand new bottle. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay,

01:00:37.940 --> 01:00:39.159
well, that'd be exciting for the next bottle.

01:00:39.179 --> 01:00:40.639
It used to be hard to find. I think it's a little

01:00:40.639 --> 01:00:44.019
bit easier to get now. Okay. Well, good. Good,

01:00:44.039 --> 01:00:45.780
good, good. It's very tasty. Yeah, it is good.

01:00:46.360 --> 01:00:50.119
It is good. All right. Well, today is February

01:00:50.119 --> 01:00:52.119
18th, and I'm going to remind those folks out

01:00:52.119 --> 01:00:53.360
there, if you haven't heard of the Dudes Like

01:00:53.360 --> 01:00:57.099
Us podcast before, it's Sean, Paul, Jeff, and

01:00:57.099 --> 01:00:59.699
our producer Chuck, and we like to come out and

01:00:59.699 --> 01:01:01.940
do this one day a week, and we try to get two

01:01:01.940 --> 01:01:06.219
shows out as soon as possible. We are just regular

01:01:06.219 --> 01:01:09.179
folks that grew up in different regions of the

01:01:09.179 --> 01:01:11.880
world or United States, different mentalities.

01:01:13.779 --> 01:01:16.239
strong points weak points we all kind of collaborate

01:01:16.239 --> 01:01:18.460
together and poke the shit out of each other

01:01:18.460 --> 01:01:20.179
and we love it and we're having fun doing it

01:01:20.179 --> 01:01:22.960
it's a hobby but we'd love for you to jam that

01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:26.500
subscribe button and listen to us we're we're

01:01:26.500 --> 01:01:28.920
here up all the time direct message us if there's

01:01:28.920 --> 01:01:30.599
anything you'd like for us to talk about or tell

01:01:30.599 --> 01:01:32.280
us we're full of shit because nine times out

01:01:32.280 --> 01:01:34.579
of the ten paul is yeah we get a lot of things

01:01:34.579 --> 01:01:38.320
wrong I call this the podcast of incorrect, not

01:01:38.320 --> 01:01:40.159
misinformation, but incorrect information. We

01:01:40.159 --> 01:01:41.539
think we're right. It's just flat out wrong.

01:01:41.579 --> 01:01:43.840
We just think we're right until we fact -checked

01:01:43.840 --> 01:01:46.380
us later on. And I just love the passionate debate

01:01:46.380 --> 01:01:49.639
we have when all three points are wrong. All

01:01:49.639 --> 01:01:52.179
three of them. Yes, we've been there. Yeah. We've

01:01:52.179 --> 01:01:54.059
been there. Yeah. And what's fun about it is

01:01:54.059 --> 01:01:56.480
you go back and edit it and you fact -check it.

01:01:56.480 --> 01:01:58.139
I sit there and I fact -checked. And you're like.

01:01:59.579 --> 01:02:01.920
damn we were all wrong there's a lot of that

01:02:01.920 --> 01:02:05.260
damn i was listening to the uh we did the day

01:02:05.260 --> 01:02:07.260
of uh i forget what day it was we were talking

01:02:07.260 --> 01:02:09.400
about we are the world oh yeah and you put in

01:02:09.400 --> 01:02:13.579
the little soundbite of bruce springsteen i heard

01:02:13.579 --> 01:02:17.929
that today about shit my pants I was like, oh,

01:02:18.030 --> 01:02:21.650
my God. I want to watch that documentary. That's

01:02:21.650 --> 01:02:24.510
good. I need to keep. I brought that up to Shelly,

01:02:24.590 --> 01:02:26.670
and she was like, yeah, no. I was like, hold

01:02:26.670 --> 01:02:29.289
on. It's interesting. The story behind the story.

01:02:29.389 --> 01:02:32.090
And she was like, yeah, no. And I'll convince

01:02:32.090 --> 01:02:35.090
her. She was hoping for something else to watch,

01:02:35.190 --> 01:02:38.250
I guess. I don't know. We could do it nude. Oh,

01:02:38.250 --> 01:02:41.440
wow. Does that help? Sometimes. Huh. I've never

01:02:41.440 --> 01:02:43.840
tried that approach. Do you have a blanket or

01:02:43.840 --> 01:02:45.940
something? Maybe a sheet? No, we sweat on the

01:02:45.940 --> 01:02:48.280
leather sofa down there. Oh, stick to it? Yes.

01:02:49.179 --> 01:02:52.780
Nice. Nice. Let me try that. Shelly, would you

01:02:52.780 --> 01:02:56.059
like to watch The Voice naked tonight? Yeah,

01:02:56.059 --> 01:02:58.079
you know what? When you have dogs like the ones

01:02:58.079 --> 01:03:01.019
that yours, they're just very... We'd be covered

01:03:01.019 --> 01:03:03.559
in dog hair. Well, the crotch is open, and they're

01:03:03.559 --> 01:03:06.599
going to go nosing right in there. Oh, 100%.

01:03:06.599 --> 01:03:09.280
Yes. I don't need that visual. They're your dogs.

01:03:09.480 --> 01:03:13.679
Was that the wet nose of the dog? Flipping the

01:03:13.679 --> 01:03:20.719
nutsack. It'd be like a South Park video game.

01:03:21.889 --> 01:03:24.510
We definitely lock the dogs away whenever that

01:03:24.510 --> 01:03:26.349
kind of stuff's happening. Oh, you do? Yeah,

01:03:26.389 --> 01:03:28.150
we have to. Because like you said, they're sniffing

01:03:28.150 --> 01:03:30.829
around. No eye contact. Being all nosy. Stop

01:03:30.829 --> 01:03:33.409
looking at me. Don't judge me. The buttholes

01:03:33.409 --> 01:03:34.809
are right out in the open. They're like, ooh,

01:03:34.909 --> 01:03:37.769
let me go smell that. Ooh, you got a cold nose.

01:03:38.610 --> 01:03:44.450
Jesus. So at the beginning of Donald's. President

01:03:44.450 --> 01:03:48.170
Trump's presidency, he declared the cartels of

01:03:48.170 --> 01:03:50.449
Mexico as a terrorist organization. He certainly

01:03:50.449 --> 01:03:53.829
did. That was a big one. And as a result, at

01:03:53.829 --> 01:03:56.690
least of effective, I guess today or earlier

01:03:56.690 --> 01:03:59.230
this week, which was today or yesterday, they

01:03:59.230 --> 01:04:01.510
started the drone program where they're starting

01:04:01.510 --> 01:04:06.429
to do some recon. Yeah. So I read that they were

01:04:06.429 --> 01:04:08.969
also doing this during the Biden administration.

01:04:09.090 --> 01:04:12.489
I was like, really? So the CIA was flying Reaper

01:04:12.489 --> 01:04:16.730
drones unarmed, right, just to kind of do reconnaissance

01:04:16.730 --> 01:04:20.570
over the border, right? And now I'm thinking

01:04:20.570 --> 01:04:24.469
they're doing a lot more. They're writing shit

01:04:24.469 --> 01:04:25.909
down. And you know what I think they're doing?

01:04:25.989 --> 01:04:29.369
They're doing target analysis is what I think

01:04:29.369 --> 01:04:31.909
they're doing. You're going to see what you normally

01:04:31.909 --> 01:04:36.329
see over in the Mideast, these gray. of the bomb

01:04:36.329 --> 01:04:39.170
going in and these fentanyl labs just being destroyed.

01:04:39.610 --> 01:04:42.710
Very possible. All Chinese -owned. And if shit

01:04:42.710 --> 01:04:44.250
starts escalating, you're going to start seeing

01:04:44.250 --> 01:04:50.010
cartel leader mansions being kind of blown up.

01:04:50.010 --> 01:04:51.909
Well, I wonder, well, what I'm afraid of is any

01:04:51.909 --> 01:04:54.030
of that spills over into Texas. I mean, we're

01:04:54.030 --> 01:04:55.829
not right next to the border, but we're the state

01:04:55.829 --> 01:04:58.789
right next to it, right? It totally can, but,

01:04:58.889 --> 01:05:03.550
you know, I think what it's going to do ultimately...

01:05:03.849 --> 01:05:06.690
It's going to create an environment over in Mexico

01:05:06.690 --> 01:05:11.510
that's going to be conducive for their politics

01:05:11.510 --> 01:05:14.210
to be able to be more safe. Because if you take

01:05:14.210 --> 01:05:16.130
these cartels out, because right now there's

01:05:16.130 --> 01:05:18.070
a militia. They have all these secret underground

01:05:18.070 --> 01:05:22.289
black ops in Mexico of all these different, it's

01:05:22.289 --> 01:05:24.849
almost kind of like a tribal. You know, you got

01:05:24.849 --> 01:05:28.150
these different areas and you can't get a politician

01:05:28.150 --> 01:05:29.889
out there that's not going to get whacked. Oh,

01:05:29.909 --> 01:05:33.300
dude, so many mayors get killed. One after another,

01:05:33.400 --> 01:05:35.019
I'm just like, damn. It's like, why would anyone

01:05:35.019 --> 01:05:39.340
want to do that? And I think that once you start

01:05:39.340 --> 01:05:41.980
patrolling these areas and taking out some of

01:05:41.980 --> 01:05:45.219
that bad element, I think that's what needs to

01:05:45.219 --> 01:05:48.099
happen. I feel bad saying that, but at the same

01:05:48.099 --> 01:05:50.280
time, you can't go around killing people like

01:05:50.280 --> 01:05:53.300
that. You can't do it. I think they will push

01:05:53.300 --> 01:05:56.159
back, though. The question is how. What are they

01:05:56.159 --> 01:05:57.940
going to do? They're not going to push back very

01:05:57.940 --> 01:06:00.460
hard. Well, keep in mind, there's a lot of Americans

01:06:00.460 --> 01:06:03.960
living in Mexico. A lot. Yeah. So they could

01:06:03.960 --> 01:06:06.760
just start a targeted campaign against expatriates

01:06:06.760 --> 01:06:09.860
that are down there. They could, I guess, you

01:06:09.860 --> 01:06:11.539
know, just kind of. They could come right across

01:06:11.539 --> 01:06:13.880
the border and just do a quick hit and run. They

01:06:13.880 --> 01:06:18.000
can do some October 7th type border killings

01:06:18.000 --> 01:06:20.400
and go back home. Yeah, but that wouldn't be,

01:06:20.659 --> 01:06:23.539
that's not what they're, that's not a good end

01:06:23.539 --> 01:06:25.099
game for them. No, it isn't. Because if they're

01:06:25.099 --> 01:06:28.900
going to do like the October. They're flying,

01:06:29.079 --> 01:06:30.960
whatever. If they get over the border, they're

01:06:30.960 --> 01:06:33.900
going to be killing their own kind because all

01:06:33.900 --> 01:06:37.239
those border cities, they're Mexicans mostly.

01:06:37.239 --> 01:06:41.619
They want the union. They're not against it.

01:06:41.639 --> 01:06:43.440
So it doesn't make sense to go in there. You'd

01:06:43.440 --> 01:06:46.420
want to go to start whacking some of the leaders

01:06:46.420 --> 01:06:48.019
that are having some influence. That's why I'm

01:06:48.019 --> 01:06:50.460
thinking, good Lord, like Elon Musk and Donald

01:06:50.460 --> 01:06:53.219
Trump. Can you just imagine? Not just them, but

01:06:53.219 --> 01:06:55.460
how about the dudes from Doge? Those young kids.

01:06:55.519 --> 01:06:57.420
Can you imagine the security team around them

01:06:57.420 --> 01:06:59.820
24 -7 to keep those boys safe? They need it.

01:06:59.880 --> 01:07:01.679
Because people are losing their fucking minds.

01:07:01.760 --> 01:07:05.099
When you cut a trillion dollars out of a budget.

01:07:05.979 --> 01:07:08.079
And mind you, they don't have the authority to

01:07:08.079 --> 01:07:10.679
cut shit. So let me rephrase that. When you expose

01:07:10.679 --> 01:07:16.280
a trillion dollars of bullshit that someone needs

01:07:16.280 --> 01:07:19.599
to cut, they're going to be like, we don't need

01:07:19.599 --> 01:07:21.360
you checking on that stuff. And you can't check

01:07:21.360 --> 01:07:24.780
on it if you're dead. I'm scared for them. You

01:07:24.780 --> 01:07:26.579
made an interesting point that they don't have

01:07:26.579 --> 01:07:28.460
the authority to cut. So I was researching that

01:07:28.460 --> 01:07:32.679
today. Obviously, the House is the first, and

01:07:32.679 --> 01:07:35.119
then it has to go through Senate approval. But

01:07:35.119 --> 01:07:38.460
the way they do these things is that the agencies,

01:07:38.599 --> 01:07:42.519
the bureaucracies, they submit a budget, and

01:07:42.519 --> 01:07:45.820
that budget is debated on by Congress or by the

01:07:45.820 --> 01:07:49.760
House, and they pass appropriations bills, which

01:07:49.760 --> 01:07:53.500
is a broad amount to give them. They generally,

01:07:53.619 --> 01:07:55.860
for the most part, don't tell them what to spend

01:07:55.860 --> 01:07:59.590
it on unless there's particular earmarks. Or

01:07:59.590 --> 01:08:02.530
if there's particular projects, specific line

01:08:02.530 --> 01:08:05.289
item projects that the House wants to get done.

01:08:05.289 --> 01:08:09.150
So USAID says, I need a budget of, here's my

01:08:09.150 --> 01:08:12.369
budget is $55 billion this year. And then they

01:08:12.369 --> 01:08:14.750
may give a general thing, we're going to use

01:08:14.750 --> 01:08:16.850
it for this and this. But they say, okay, we'll

01:08:16.850 --> 01:08:19.770
give you $50 billion. Yep. But they spend it

01:08:19.770 --> 01:08:21.069
however the hell they want. That's exactly right.

01:08:21.189 --> 01:08:25.029
And because of that, it does give Trump and Doge

01:08:25.029 --> 01:08:29.180
and this team the authority to decide. what to

01:08:29.180 --> 01:08:31.560
spend it on, what to cut, what to increase, what

01:08:31.560 --> 01:08:34.659
to decrease. So they do have the authority to

01:08:34.659 --> 01:08:36.880
do this. One of the arguments I've said is, well,

01:08:36.899 --> 01:08:38.880
this money has already been appropriated. That's

01:08:38.880 --> 01:08:41.979
right. They can impact things going forward,

01:08:42.180 --> 01:08:45.380
but the money's already been appropriated to

01:08:45.380 --> 01:08:48.920
that agency. Yeah, but it doesn't matter. They

01:08:48.920 --> 01:08:50.560
can cut it. I don't know if it's true or not,

01:08:50.600 --> 01:08:52.319
but that's what some of the argument against

01:08:52.319 --> 01:08:54.100
it has. Well, it's already been appropriated.

01:08:54.140 --> 01:08:56.439
Congress has already appropriated this. The president

01:08:56.439 --> 01:08:57.739
can't go in there and say, no, you don't get

01:08:57.739 --> 01:09:00.119
that money now. Well, they can just say, you're

01:09:00.119 --> 01:09:02.460
not going to spend it. How about that? So they're

01:09:02.460 --> 01:09:05.020
going to be under budget. There was an interview

01:09:05.020 --> 01:09:06.800
on Joe Rogan with, I believe, a gentleman named

01:09:06.800 --> 01:09:09.319
Mike Benz. I started watching the Tucker one

01:09:09.319 --> 01:09:14.399
about him. He was talking about how the Doge

01:09:14.399 --> 01:09:16.680
folks know that they just can't go in there and

01:09:16.680 --> 01:09:19.640
start slashing stuff and killing it. Because

01:09:19.640 --> 01:09:22.560
he kind of made an interesting analogy. And he

01:09:22.560 --> 01:09:24.619
was like, look, our government is a breathing

01:09:24.619 --> 01:09:26.930
thing. You know, you can't, it's like a human

01:09:26.930 --> 01:09:29.310
body. You can't go over there and take out the

01:09:29.310 --> 01:09:31.729
liver and expect your body to function normal.

01:09:31.890 --> 01:09:34.989
You have to go in there and surgically do things

01:09:34.989 --> 01:09:37.850
where it's not going to affect things. So, you

01:09:37.850 --> 01:09:43.670
know, today, February 18th, one of the actions

01:09:43.670 --> 01:09:47.159
put out there today by Trump. Reigning independent.

01:09:47.260 --> 01:09:49.319
This was a real quick one, I'll say. Reigning

01:09:49.319 --> 01:09:51.439
independent agencies, so -called dependent agencies

01:09:51.439 --> 01:09:53.640
like the Federal Trade Commission of D .C., the

01:09:53.640 --> 01:09:55.380
Federal Communications Commission of Securities

01:09:55.380 --> 01:09:58.000
and Exchange Commission, have exercised enormous

01:09:58.000 --> 01:10:01.079
power over the American people without presidential

01:10:01.079 --> 01:10:03.300
oversight. Now he's got three bullet points.

01:10:03.359 --> 01:10:07.029
These agencies... These agencies issue rules

01:10:07.029 --> 01:10:08.930
and regulations that cost billions of dollars

01:10:08.930 --> 01:10:11.310
and implicate some of the most controversial

01:10:11.310 --> 01:10:13.829
policy matters that do so without the review

01:10:13.829 --> 01:10:16.649
of the Democratic elected president. And then

01:10:16.649 --> 01:10:18.670
number two, they also spend American tax dollars

01:10:18.670 --> 01:10:20.470
and set priorities without consulting the president

01:10:20.470 --> 01:10:22.710
while selling their own performances. Now they

01:10:22.710 --> 01:10:24.949
will no longer impose rules on the American people

01:10:24.949 --> 01:10:27.989
without oversight or accountability. I guess

01:10:27.989 --> 01:10:31.229
what is the saying on there is that Their free

01:10:31.229 --> 01:10:34.789
reign is gone. Yes. Now it's just like you are

01:10:34.789 --> 01:10:36.590
now a subsidiary of the President of the United

01:10:36.590 --> 01:10:39.149
States. Absolutely. And things need to be, you

01:10:39.149 --> 01:10:40.909
are no longer just going to make decisions on

01:10:40.909 --> 01:10:43.090
your own. Yep. And there's just three other major

01:10:43.090 --> 01:10:44.710
things they were talking about, but we're not

01:10:44.710 --> 01:10:45.890
going to touch them. I mean, that's why it's

01:10:45.890 --> 01:10:49.470
important that the President put in place people

01:10:49.470 --> 01:10:52.250
that are leading these agencies that are cost

01:10:52.250 --> 01:10:55.430
conscientious. Correct. And that's what he's

01:10:55.430 --> 01:10:58.329
done. He has put somebody in charge. Well, you've

01:10:58.329 --> 01:11:00.729
got to get the folks who've been in there for

01:11:00.729 --> 01:11:03.010
years and years and years because you can't fire

01:11:03.010 --> 01:11:05.670
them. Get them out of there and get new folks

01:11:05.670 --> 01:11:08.430
in there. Absolutely. Because this government

01:11:08.430 --> 01:11:11.609
operates under a bloated premise. Yes, yes, yes.

01:11:12.470 --> 01:11:15.930
Jeez. Lots of stuff, man. Yeah. This is very

01:11:15.930 --> 01:11:18.270
interesting times coming up, and I hope it's

01:11:18.270 --> 01:11:20.470
all for the best. Dudes Like Us, thank you, Mr.

01:11:20.569 --> 01:11:23.189
Chuck, for our producer for the first half. It's

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February 18th. I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff.

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Thank you.