Man, hearing that little jazz interlude, I'm
thinking, God, man, we really need to pump up
our intro. That's some good shit, man. He gets
a good stank face listening to that. There's
no way I'd change this up, though. It's good
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two of them. Dudes .us. I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And
I'm Jeff. I actually just posted something to
our podcast. I should have. If it posts to our
podcast, it posts to the woodwork as well. You
have to tell it to. I do that. I finished a project
for somebody and posted it. Oh, I saw that. The
Aggie one? Yeah. I need to take Instagram training.
Is that on YouTube? I'm sure it is. Well, it's
not hard. It just takes a little diligence. It's
kind of bittersweet because I find myself falling
into that freaking rabbit hole sometimes. It's
very, very frustrating. Do you get doom scrolling?
Yes. The vortex? Yes. I don't like it. I catch
myself pretty quick, but there are some times
where I might be there for 20 minutes, and then
all of a sudden I'm like, God. Damn it, Archer.
And you'll send, like, two or three little things,
and then it gets me going. I'll send two or three
things. I'm just like, fuck, I've got to get
out of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think maybe
once in my life have I got barely sucked into
the vortex. I'm just not on that stuff, ever.
Well, usually Sean will send something, then
I'll scroll to the next one. I'm like, oh, that's
stupid as well. I need to send it back. Right.
Yeah, you're trying to one -up each other. Yeah,
but that dopamine thing, I mean, it extends beyond
just the social medias. I mean, it goes to the
news things that you look at. I mean, it's not
just the social media. It's picking up your phone.
I think it's the phone. It's the phone. I mean,
the social media makes it bad or worse and it's
harder, but it's just picking up the phone. It's
an extension of the body. It's the source of
everything. And you're like, why do I have to
pay so much for this phone? It's kind of like,
why do I spend $1 ,500 on a phone? Well, you
spend $1 ,500 on your phone because it's an extension
of you. Yep. And you want it to perform the best
that it can. And it manages everything. But I'd
love to go back to a time before it. Me too.
I would, but it's too late. It is. It's too late.
But we managed just fine without it. And outside
of playing stupid games, I use the maps a lot.
Yeah. But, you know, I don't need it for work
anymore. How do you, you just like surf the maps?
Sometimes. Or do you like, is it for driving?
For driving. Oh, all right. I thought you liked
searching Google Earth. He liked checking out
all the Greenland. Yeah, he looked at Crystal
Skulls. He looks at Greenland and Antarctica.
I do too. I enjoy that. And the Arctic Circle.
I'll zoom into some odd Czechoslovakian town
and go through the streets and stuff. I will
do that. You do? Yeah. Because you're like, okay.
Go to the Luxembourg red light district. What's
it look like in Minsk? You know? You know, the
only time I ever did that is when I was riding
my stationary bike and I fit. The Peloton? No.
Well, yeah, basically. It was a Nordic track.
But, yes, so here's what I would do. And nobody
lives there. Look at that. In the iFit software,
you could plan a map, right? It linked into Google
Maps, and I could do exactly what you guys are
saying, which is I could go to, I could just
pick a city, a little village. So turn around,
Chuck. That little sign there, it's in English.
This is the middle of Russia or Turkey. What
is that? No, it's Belarus. Belarus. It's in English,
Modern Art Gallery. Turkomeg. Interesting. Well,
it's all... I guess that's Russian up there.
That's lots of consonants. Yeah, it's got to
be some sort of influence of Russian. Anyway,
yeah, you could map out the entire, you know,
your route, your biking route, and then you push
play, and then you, on the screen... No, you're
riding through the town. Does it go faster if
you pedal faster? Yeah. If you do a really good
job and you, like... drive past a bar will there
be like certain people on the outside cat calling
you as you're going by no it's just those stills
oh just like you guys were like yeah that's not
brave yeah no it isn't but it's interesting because
all the faces are blurred out and the license
plates are blurred out and you know you can blur
your house different different shits it should
blur it out you could submit on google that i
want my house blurred out yeah that's so weird
i guess if you're Really private. And sometimes
there's weird shit that you see. There used to
be a time where Frisco, the intersection of El
Dorado and Preston. Look, there's one right there.
It's blurred out. How'd you find that so fast?
I used to live there. Oh, what, you blurred your
own house out? No, the new people did. Yeah,
you could do that for some reason. Oh, that's
so bizarre. Because if someone wants to find
it, okay, it's in between that house, in between
that house. That is weird. So you can go up the
street no matter what, it's blurred out, huh?
Yeah. Yeah. It looks like a big foggy house.
Anyway, the intersection of El Dorado and Preston
had, if you zoomed in, there was a plane flying
to DFW. And there was a huge 747 or something
just right over that intersection. You're looking
right down on the top of it. Oh, that's funny.
So it was pretty cool. Interesting. I don't think
it's there anymore because they update those
pictures periodically. It was really interesting,
though, because I was going all through South
America. Every time I did a ride, I would pick
a city in Bolivia, a city in Peru, a city in
whatever, and they started to all look the same.
Every little village, every little town were
literally identical. And the thing that you could
see most of, that's where it came from, Coca
-Cola. Look at the penis. That's where all the
pygmies got to know you. No, they didn't. They
started chasing you down. Oh. Oh. Okay, that's
creepy. That is our shaman. What is that? Those
are pigeons. Pigeon heads. What are they doing?
Once upon a time, a man in Ontario was rummaging
through the backseat of a white car, and wives
looked for him, but one day he would become known
as the Tripod Man. Tripod Man. I also have heard
that on Google Maps, they were able to solve
a murder. No, it's farther down. Because they...
They're a tripod man. How did they solve a murder?
Because they saw a car in a lake. Oh. Someone
zoomed in and found a car that had been pushed
into a lake. Oh, wow. So someone called it in
and says, I think I know whose car that is, and
they went and looked, and there was a dead body
in it. Well, sometimes they ask people to get
on... They call them internet sleuths, right?
They ask them to get on Google Maps and look
for something. You know what I mean? And they'll
do it for hours. And they'll talk to each other
about which grids they checked for this and that
and this and that. So there's a YouTube gentleman
that goes by Trek Planner, T -R -E -K Planner
or something like that. I think that's what it
is. He spends hours on Google Earth, Google Maps
out in the desert and in the southeast, southwest.
And he's looking for... He's looking for old
Indian sites because just things hidden out in
the middle of nowhere. Yeah, that's him right
there. And it doesn't look like an archaeological
site. No, you've got to really look for it. And
there's like stacked rocks. And he looks for
abnormalities. And when he goes out there, because
sometimes there's miles and miles out there,
so he'll park as close as he can. And he's got
this little battery -powered little... two -wheeler
and then he'll take it as far as he can to make
you know to safely get back he takes all these
fantastic pictures and uh uh what is the little
flying thing the uh drone yeah little drone photos
of pictographs and you know he's got this software
enhancement um stuff that will show the pictographs
where you know what they are and it's it's it's
interesting and he was like describing uh how
people need to respect some of these sites. Because
people will go in there, they'll rummage through
it, they'll break the... Oh, yeah. You find beer
cans. Yeah, like that little hole there. I mean,
there are granaries he's finding. He finds all
kinds of stuff. And that's his dig, his little
shtick. I watch him. I watch every episode that
comes out because I love that stuff. Yeah, and
it's all prehistoric human development stuff.
Yeah, it's stuff that happened, you know, 500,
1 ,000. 2 ,500 years ago. That's cool. And he
kind of says, yeah, I could tell by the degradation
of this particular area, you know, because the
way the rocks had fallen all down. You see pottery,
small chunks, quarter inch by quarter inch. And
you could tell it's pottery because, you know,
the different colors on it. And, you know, it's
just like, yeah, they used to have stuff here.
There used to be a roof, but all the wood is
rotted. You know, that's all gone. The stones
are left here after, you know, a thousand years.
Yep. You know, how long we've been here? For
250, 300 years? You know, as far as our civilization?
For the country, yeah. Yeah, but prior to that,
I mean, you know, the Puebloans and, you know,
there's just... Oh, yeah. It's really unfair
to... Puebloans? How do you say it? Pueblonians?
Is that how you say it? Puebloites? I don't know,
Paul. What is it? It's Puebloan. Pueblonians?
I don't know. Sorry. I'm not a... Puebloid. Puebloids?
What would I say? Puebloids? That's like a pepper,
isn't it? Puebloids. Puebloid tribe. There you
go. That's close. It's Puebloid. Puebloid. I'd
like to. Yeah, play the pronunciation. Puebloid.
Puebloid. Puebloid. Say how to say Puebloid.
Or is it Puebloids? Puebloid. Puebloid. I think
it's Puebloid. It looks like pube. Puebloid me.
Puebloid me. See Puebloid. We suck at pronouncing
things, just so you know. What is Austin? Oh,
there you go. Scroll down. Is this going to work
here? I was dead. I was right. That's what I
said. I know. You nailed it, too. I think it's
Pwee -blown. Pwee -blown. Pwee -blown. Pwee -blown.
Pwee -blown. Whatever. So they found all kinds
of different native, and I don't want to call
them Indians because, you know, they're just
natives. And it's not even natives because it's
so argumentative. You know, which came first?
There was a native before the native. Yeah, it's
this recycling of territory. I know. And it's
just nonstop, and it carries on all over the
earth. I know. Including Ukraine and Russia,
which is the big debate right now. That's kind
of what Russia wants. I am still confused exactly
why Russia invaded Ukraine. Do we know definitively
why Putin did it? They want their land back.
But I think it's more than that. They were threatening
to join NATO, and Putin was like, oh, hell no,
I'm not going to have NATO on my doorstep. Well,
so there's some thoughts that he's trying to
just cause unsettledness, right, in the region.
That wouldn't make sense either. Well, so I think
some of it has to deal with money. And because
the gas pipelines run through Ukraine. So the
Russian gas. Well, Nord Stream is in the ocean.
Correct. But to get to Germany, you have to go
through Ukraine. And that was kind of the plan,
and then Biden poo -pooed on it. Didn't he blow
up that freaking pipeline? Okay, so hold on.
So Russian gas was being supplied to Europe through
pipelines in Ukraine, and then maybe at some
point they were threatening to shut off the gas,
and so maybe Putin was like, yeah, tell you what,
I'll just take over Ukraine, and then you can't
threaten that. That's kind of the whiff I got
out of my understanding of what was going on.
It was kind of a dick measuring contest. And
that's kind of what I think. I also heard, and
again, I thought you mentioned it, Sean, but
it may have been on the radio today, that when
Ukraine and when Russia fell apart, or USSR fell
apart, the Soviet Union, right? And Ukraine finally
became its own country, that there was a section
of land. Disputed territory. Disputed territory
that was never solved, and Ukraine just kind
of absorbed it. Well, Putin has gone in there
and says, okay, we want this section back. Yeah,
that's right. But he also used some Nazi, neo
-Nazi claim that, you know, we've got to take
this back because neo -Nazism is on the rise
in eastern Ukraine. That was another thing that
was brought up. As what? The Azov Battalion is
Nazi. And that's in eastern Ukraine? Yes. And
that's a real thing? Yeah, they're like freedom
fighters. Oh, okay. So it's almost like how Turkey
is going after the Kurds in Iraq. Northern Iraq.
Yeah, northern Iraq. And they were always battling
them because they wanted independence from Turkey.
Or maybe, yeah, maybe this is the, whatever you
said, whatever. Well, I also think it's, again,
who really knows, but this disputed land that
was, you know, way back, when did that happen?
In the late 80s? 90? Or 1990 -ish? When did the
Soviet Union fall? But that disputed land, and
they just... It never was resolved, and he went
back there and was trying to claim it back. And
said, I'm taking it back. Right. And maybe it
was all these things, right? I mean, I don't
know. What I understood also is that Zelensky
asked for help. He didn't know. I mean, let's
face it. I don't want to say he's an idiot, but
he wasn't. He was. He was a stand -up comedian,
wasn't he? He was a stand -up comedian. Yeah,
he's not a general or anything like that. He's
not a polished. military man general he's not
a polished politician he's just a public figure
that people he kind of I don't know how the fuck
he fell on he fell on it because of money you
know but he uh he was asking for help and then
Biden and I you had mentioned it blinking but
there was someone else that went over there I
don't remember the name of it but someone else
went over there and told uh Zelensky no you're
not to work with um with Putin you're gonna tell
him to fuck off and which was started the whole
thing and I almost think that the reason why,
and it may be reaching here, but we had over
30 bio labs in Ukraine. Right. And they were,
what is the word, off the record? Covert. Yeah.
And they're doing nefarious things in there.
See, and to me, that's just an indication of
Ukraine getting too cozy with the West. So not
only... Not only are we on the doorstep of Russia's
western edge, but here we are talking about them
joining NATO. Here we are about them developing
bioweapon labs in Ukraine. Here we are being
really cozy, right, with Ukraine. And that's
making Putin, that's like, it's like the Cuban
Missile Crisis. Right. Russia putting nukes on
the Cuban islands right south of the United States.
The United States is like, fuck no, you're not
doing that. Or someone started screwing around
with Mexico. Right. Or Canada. Well, that's what
they're doing. Like the Chinese wanted to take
over the Panama Canal. Fuck no, you're not doing
that. Right. And Chinese are moving into Mexico,
wanted to put their factories there so that they
can produce their products and push them into
the United States. Fuck no. Yeah. So I think
it's a perfect storm of all that shit. And it
didn't help that they took Crimea and Obama did
nothing. Right. Right. And that was access to
a warm water year -round port. Was that Black
Sea? Yes. With the Black Sea? I believe so. Anyway,
just a mess, though, dude. I mean, they're saying
over a million people have died. I mean, we're
talking... Just the Ukrainians, I believe, was
a million people. I don't know, but it's... Russia's
running out of soldiers as well. Russia, I think
the ratio is a third to one for... I think Russia's
two -thirds more. I mean, I would say Russia's
over a million, and Ukraine's probably around
300 ,000. Russia's just throwing bodies at it.
I mean, they have shitty weapons. They have shitty
armor. They're throwing bodies at it. Now they're
throwing North Korean bodies at it. I mean, it's
unbelievable. I mean, they just don't even care
about their people. Well, I mean, I think there's
also an element of there are so many, the population,
and look, this is a communistic thought, line
of thought, is that Putin is thinking, fuck it,
man, I don't care. Because if we kill these people,
all it does is open up more property for me to
absorb. It owned. Right. You know, maybe there's
so many people it doesn't matter. So how many
does it say? Well, it's all over the place in
terms of. I see 850 and I see 31 ,000 and 70
,000, 80 ,000. Yeah. Who knows? I mean, it's
a lot. And that's just soldiers, not civilians,
too. Yeah. And I just watched the Stalingrad
episode on the World War II one. Oh, yeah. I
didn't know the whole story around that. That's
fascinating. Is that where they were under siege?
Well, Stalingrad was under siege, and Hitler
and the Germans were just cocky as shit. Oh,
yeah. Right? And then winter came. The winter
came, and the Russians outsmarted them. And they
snuck in a million soldiers somehow and surrounded
them and came around and basically cut them off
from all their supplies. Damn. And the Germans
were stuck in Stalingrad. during the winter,
and they froze to death, they starved to death,
or they got shot. Unbelievable. And I think they
said 50 ,000 of the 300 ,000 people that started
there survived. That's unbelievable. Yeah. World
War II was brutal. Yeah. And you would think
that... Numbers like that can't repeat themselves,
and they are. Well, they are right now. In Russia
and Ukraine, they are. So Trump wants it to end.
He just wants it to end. Well, it kind of sounds
like they're very close. Yeah, they're bitching
about this, and they're bitching about that,
and he's just like, fucking, let's just, you
know, yes, Ukraine, you're going to lose some
land, and Putin, you may not get whatever, but
he's trying to get this thing to end. Right.
And I respect that. 100%. But people are like,
you know, saying, we're turning our backs on
Ukraine, and you're expecting them to just give
up the farm and, you know. Well, they're going
to lose. At one point, Ukraine's going to lose.
They are. If we don't keep pouring hundreds of
billions of dollars in weapons and bullshit,
and which, by the way, is just drawing us closer
to war. Yeah. So we should be strong -arming
Ukraine. Both. Because we're the ones ponying
up for this war. We're paying for it. Yeah. We
have leverage. I mean, we haven't shed any blood
yet. But I also think we're obligated. too because
of those i'm going to say those secret labs over
there i'm i'm thinking that there's a lot of
things that are in ukraine that we're doing that
nobody knows about and nobody they don't want
us to know and they're shady yeah and i don't
know what those are and i'm making that all up
but you know it's weird when uh during um Shoot.
When the war first started out, they were talking
about the bio labs and there was a lady and I
wrote down her name and I even said it on the
podcast. Yeah, you did. Is that the person? And
so she was talking about all the labs and made
it record. This was in C -SPAN and they archive
all those records. Right. And then they have
available on the .org or the .gov that video,
but they've... Played the whole video. It's like
a three -hour session, right? But during her
testimony, it's blacked out. That's crazy. So
they completely... So in other words, it was
classified information that she was sharing,
so they had to... They redacted the whole thing.
And it's just bullshit because you can hear it
live when she's saying it, but they redacted
the whole thing. So it's just kind of like she
admits that we had labs there and counts them
all and says what we were doing. Is that her?
I only have a minute left. Let me ask you. Does
Ukraine have chemical or biological weapons?
Ukraine has biological research facilities. which,
in fact, we are now quite concerned Russian troops,
Russian forces may be seeking to gain control
of. So we are working with the Ukrainians on
how they can prevent any of those research materials
from falling into the hands of Russian forces
should they approach. I'm sure you're aware that
the Russian propaganda... Groups are already
putting out there all kinds of information about
how they've uncovered a plot by the Ukrainians
to release biological weapons in the country
and with NATO's coordination. This is Marco Rubio
talking. Is it a biological or chemical weapon
incident or a attack inside of Ukraine? I have
no doubt that there's obviously something nefarious
going on there, which is why we have a footprint
there, why we have interest there. So here along
comes Trump. Trump's a businessman. We're throwing
a lot. I'm getting nothing for it. And so he's
like, well, fuck that. We're not going to keep
doing this. We've already given you $180 billion.
We've got nothing for it. We're going to get
something for it. We need rare earth metals.
Right. And you've got a lot of them. So we're
going to work out a deal. And apparently today
they did. I don't know what the details are.
I think it was 50%. Who said that? Was it Chuck?
50 % profits, the money. As Ukraine sells, we'll
get 50 % of the profits. Yeah, that's the mineral
rights, but they're also talking about Russia
selling us rare earth minerals. Yeah, because
I think Putin's coming and says, Siberia's full
of them. Come side with us. We have a bunch of...
Okay, so how does this work? So basically, he's
dangling a carrot of, we'll buy your precious
metals, and we'll give you a lot of money for
them, both sides, if you guys can stop doing
this. Stop fighting. Is that what Trump's doing
here? Well, I think it's amazing. Because you
know what? There's something that we need. And
that's those precious metals. Because what we
want to do is we want to harvest that stuff,
bring it to the United States, and start making
our own medicine, and start making our own products,
and start buying from ourselves so that we can
stop buying from China. Yeah, I get that. I find
it interesting that, you know. I can understand
why we would want to buy the rare earth minerals
from Ukraine because that's our way of getting
something for what we've already paid them. But
Russia? Okay, so the rare earth minerals are
in the Donbass region, which Russia is going
to control. The disputed area. Yeah. Now there's
other minerals in Ukraine that we're going to
get part of the profits, part of the royalty.
From that, as a payback for the money that we
spent. Right. And that seems fair. Okay. And
there's some, the Democrats are now up in arms,
kind of like, oh, look at Trump. He's working
with communists. It's like, you stupid motherfuckers.
You buy from China every day. Right. What the
hell? That just makes no sense. Wow, they're
so stupid sometimes. I know. Well, they just
hate him. They're irrational. They're too emotional
to think of anything that he's doing. as something
that could be a positive thing. But anyway, okay,
well, interesting. So I don't know. Hopefully
Trump will. I know there was a whole bunch of
fuss about we were negotiating directly with
Russia. We left Ukraine out of it, and I can't
believe we're disrespecting Ukraine like that.
It's like, wait a second. He knows if he gets
Russia and Ukraine in the same room when trying
to begin the art of the deal, right, to begin
the negotiations, it's going to just devolve
into shit. So it'll turn into a pissing match.
Right. It's like you guys are fighting, and you
just won't even talk to each other. You hate
each other's guts. And I would spend time with
you, and I'd be like, listen, what's the problem?
Why, blah, blah, blah. And you'd be like, oh,
what's your problem, blah, blah, blah. So I would
talk to you independently, and then I'd go, okay,
listen, I know a solution. And I'd tell you what
the solution is, and you're like, okay, fine,
I'll talk to him. And then, okay, I'll talk to
him. And then, boom, then you bring them together.
What the fuck, man? Why is everybody just so...
They hate Trump so much. They hate him so much.
And the Democrats are in really bad shape. And
one of our favorite news anchors just got canned.
Joy, joy, joy. Joy to the world. Joy to the read.
Joy to the world. I wonder what she's going to
do with all those extra wigs. She's got millions
and tens of millions of dollars. I bet she starts
a podcast. and we'll see how popular she really
is. She'll have more listeners than we do. Well,
she probably will. Doesn't that make you sick?
Yes, it does. Oh, there we are. That's what I
saw. Look at this. This is what you're going
to see of her now. Yep. Is she crying? Oh, poor
thing. She's a racist piece of poo -poo. I know.
I apologize. And then it mattered. I see Karen
is there, and she's been texting me as well.
And so what I will just say is, That in the end,
thank you, where I land is that the moment of
guilt that I felt that I went hard on so many
issues, whether it was the Black Lives Matter
issues of a young baby or a mom or dad that was
killed. She is a racist. She's 100 % a racist.
People's eyes to the fact that Asian Americans
were being targeted and not just black folks.
Yeah, she's backpedaling there. You know what?
Don't even play her. Good riddance. Good riddance.
You know, she was a part of the problem and not
the solution. I've always said I'm surprised
she's lasted as long as she did. Me too. After
some of the rants we've watched her have. Oh,
yeah. It was bad. I mean, it's so toxic for the
network. I wonder how much they had to pay out
from all the bullshit she said as far as lawsuits.
Who knows, man? It's crazy. It was a lot. Look
at that. But she's got the Trump hair there.
Yes, she does. So do you think Rachel Maddow's
next? She went off and totally trashed her network
and trashed her senior people. Mad Cow? Yes.
Oh, I didn't see that. Like recently? Just the
day that she got let go. She was defending Joy.
And she totally trashed her network. Is this
the rant right here? All right, let's see. And
even bigger programming change is at 7 p .m.,
7 p .m. Eastern, where Joy Reid's show, The Readout,
ended tonight. And Joy is not taking a different
job in the network. She is leaving the network
altogether. And that is very, very, very hard
to take. I am 51 years old. I have been gainfully
employed since I was 12. And I have had so many
different kinds of jobs, you wouldn't believe
me if I told you. That was a whore. In all of
the years I have been alive, there is no calling
for her. I was a corksulker. I have had more
affection and more respect than Joy Reid. I love
everything about her. That's terrifying. Look
at that. Yeah. That's a great place to pause.
I wish we had video for that one. And I'm crazy.
Look at me. She does have crazy eyes. That's
crazy face. All right. Anyway, it doesn't matter.
You know the weird thing is - But she ends up
trashing her. There was a time where I liked
Rachel Maddow. I know. I never did. Like 10 years
ago, I liked - Dude, she speaks eloquently, and
when things weren't so barbaric, she actually
had a good point. Right. There were good points
to have. She was rational back then. It wasn't
as bad. Now it's so polarizing. Yeah, her TDS
took over, huh? I don't know what MSNBC is going
to do. You know, nobody knows what they're going
to do. The Democrats are freaking out. Well,
Comcast is dumping them. They're trying to sell
them. Because it's toxic. It's a losing product.
And. It loses money. And. NBC split away from
them. They are no longer associated together.
So MSNBC and NBC are two different news organizations.
Yeah. Because they don't want to be associated
with that. No, it's toxic. Yeah. And it loses
money. All right. Anyway. And plus she's making
a ton of money. I mean, when she went from $30
million down to $25 million. Rachel Maddow working
one night a week. Right. $25 million. What the
fuck? How do we get that gig? Yeah, no shit.
I don't know. Yeah, crazy. Lots of leather cherry.
By any chance, producer... Leathered cherry.
Wow. By any chance, do you have anything queued
up about this day in history? Maybe you can work
on that while we discuss some other things, but
I wasn't sure if you have something lined up
already. Yeah, that's my fault. Man, I drove...
Took Greenville back today. When I got home,
I took a nap, and then I woke up, and then Paul
was kind of like, I'm outside waiting. And I'm
like, ah, ah. I need to shit in the shower. Yeah,
except, but 20 minutes earlier, you were like,
ready. And I'm like, hmm. He texted me, Jeff,
are you ready? I was like, yes. I should have
said, ready for what? Yeah, but I laid back on
the couch, and I was like, argh. And then I get
the message from Paul, and I was like, fuck.
I'm ready to think about getting ready. Yes.
It's tough, man. I tell you, it's tough. It's
getting harder and harder, not just to be me,
but just in general. I don't know. When I travel
and I come back and you have to drive for extended
periods, when I get back, I'm fatigued. Oh, for
sure. I'm just tired. I took a little nap, and
next thing you know, I'm like, I drooled down
the side of my mouth. You got to put your dentures
back in. Yeah, put my dentures back in. I'm not
finding much on this day in history except that
Cassius Clay became world champ on this day.
There's Cassius. Then known as. So it's Muhammad
Ali, then known as Cassius Clay. It's Cassius.
Cassius Clay. Yes. All right. Became the world
heavyweight champion by defeating who? Muhammad
Ali. Sonny Liston. Sonny Liston. In seven rounds.
Very nice. So in February. In 1991, saw the public
presentation of the world's first web browser.
Went all downhill from there. World Wide Web,
later named to Nexus. World Wide Web. Hold on.
It says Young Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston.
That's right. Yes. That began his legendary boxing
career. He changed his name. Yes, he did. Awesome.
My bad. Yes. Very cool. So, also in 1940. The
first NHL game was televised in the U .S. for
the first time. In 1940? In 1940. On this day,
February 25th, 1940. I'm actually excited about
getting ready for the NHL playoffs. I don't know.
I think it's probably a couple months away, though,
actually. Was it in May or June? I think it's
May. I think it's May. It might be May. I know
they're two weeks earlier than the NBA, but I
stopped watching the NBA. I don't remember now,
but I want to get back into it. Dude, I freaking
love that four -country tournament. Yeah, that
was good. Dude, that was fucking awesome. And
I want to get back into watching the Stars. There
it goes. The playoffs, the regular season ends
April 17th. Okay, there you go. So, yeah, okay.
So, it's not too far away. So, May is when the
finals would be, I would imagine. Yeah, that's
exciting. The problem is it's not on my radar.
So what happens is it's like, oh, I didn't know.
I didn't pay attention to that because I just,
you know, not on my radar. Hey, what was that
Asian person that had all the shoes, the prime
minister? Marcos? Marcos. Imelda Marcos. Is that
the female? Imelda, yes. What? In this, huh?
Who is this? She's the, her, well, her, further
than Marcos was, I believe her husband was the.
President of Philippines. Yeah, so it was...
And he got chased out of town. In this day in
history, he was chased out of town. Yeah. I can't
find it on here, but I read about it earlier.
Why would all three of you know who the lady
is who has a bunch of shoes and she lived in
the Philippines? It was a big deal. Did you live
there? I live in the Philippines. God, aren't
you Indonesian? What's your dad, a geologist
there? Aren't you a Filipino? What's your dad,
a shoemaker there? God, what the fuck? He made
her shoes. Why don't you know, Paul? You live
there. What are you, stupid? You're a shoe salesman.
I'm looking at you guys like, how do we know
this? What's happening right now? Where was I?
The lady that had a big shoe collection. Oh,
Marcos. Marcos. Marcos. Marcos. I think it was
further than Marcos. Whatever. Okay. Well, interesting.
Yeah, he got booed. There was a coop. A coop.
Yeah. Yeah. Like a chicken. Yeah. Full of chickens.
Yes. That's the British version of it. Oh, is
it? Yeah. In the United States, they say coop.
There wasn't a lot going on in 1986. Yeah, apparently
not. Yeah, there's a lot of silent letters in
the United States. It's like herbification and
then coop. Coop. So 1987, the NCAA suspends the
SMU football program for the 1987 season. Do
you remember that? Oh, yeah. That was big. That
was. The death penalty. And they said they would
never do it again because of what it did. did
to them they're still struggling trying to struggle
their way out of it but they did okay this year
they've had a few good years recently so yeah
they were in the top 25 years ago yeah no it
destroyed them forever that was eric dickerson
yep and craig james and craig james yeah and
what's crazy is what they got nailed for is like
has happened so many times yeah but it wasn't
everybody but it wasn't in dallas right where
all the news people are i guess okay all right
Because it happens in College Station, nobody
cares. And SMU was - Yeah, but what happened?
It's encouraged. It's encouraged. What happened?
They were paying Eric Dickerson money. Yeah,
they were paying the players under the table,
which happened at every major. They got caught.
They got caught. Bad. Is that the one where they
were providing hookers and stuff as well? I think
Eric Dickerson got a Corvette. There was a documentary
on it I saw. They would be given cush jobs that
they didn't really work for. Right. And they
were getting paid and, you know, all sorts of
shit. Like I said, that happened to every major.
Boosters did all that for major programs on a
consistent basis. Yeah. And they just got nuked
on it. That was 87, huh? Yeah, Eric Dickerson,
he was good too, man. It says that the car was
paid for by Texas A &M, but he drove it to SMU.
He was going to go to A &M, and then SMU slid
him more money. They had already bought him a
Corvette. Trans Am. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Trans Am
rumored to have been paid for by a Texas A &M
booster. Oh, I bet you that guy was pissed off.
Yeah, no kidding. It's like, dude, I'm going
to buy you a Trans Am. Fuck it, I'm going to
SMU. Damn. Interesting. Oh, no, I got that from
my grandma. Crazy. Let me see. The first African
-American congresswoman sworn in in 1870. Was
that Maxwell? Maxwell? Maxine Waters. Maxine
Waters. Oh, okay. Yes. Well, she's old enough
for that to be possible. So, yeah. In 1867, the
first Reconstruction Act was passed by Congress,
dividing the South into five military districts,
blah, blah, blah. Where's your name? Republican
Party. Actually, I don't know where it's at now.
Oh, I thought you said 1870. I did. It was a
joke. She came into office in 1870 because she's
so fucking old that she's still in office. Maxine
Waters. Maxine Waters. Maxine Waters. Okay. Actually,
the first African -American woman elected to
the Congress was 69 to 83. Shirley Chisholm.
Chisholm. Well, what the hell am I? The first
African -American congressman. Oh, first congressman.
Did I say lady? You did. I did say lady. It clearly
doesn't say lady here. It says congressman. Yeah.
I misspoke. Okay, I apologize. That matters.
Ooh, that's a good name. Hiram. But it's even
more funny when he smacks in waters. Hiram, Hiram.
I know a Hiram. It goes to my church. I was like,
that's a strange name. Hiram Rhodes Revels. Or
maybe he has the bar up the street. Stand up
for him. Revels? Revels? No, his name's Hiram,
not Revels. Well, his last name. I don't know
what his last name is. It's not Hiram Rebels.
Yes, it is. It says right there. No, no. I'm
talking about my friend. My friend's name is
Hiram. Oh, his last name is not Rebels. I thought
you were talking about this guy. I was like,
you're reading it right there. What are you,
stupid? Yeah, I was like, I said Rebels. Aren't
you from the Philippines? God. Well, I tell you
what. I'm not over that yet. We all got busy
schedules, and we've got spring break popping
up. You're going to be going out of town. You're
going to head out to visit the whiskeys and distilleries.
But I don't know what I've got going on. I probably
don't have anything going on. But come summer,
do we have any plans, any forecasting, things
other than the concerts? I have a couple things.
In July, remember how my brother takes care of
my parents? He basically is running his own nursing
home, quite honestly. And he is going to a conference.
And for like two weeks or 10 days. And when he
does that, the whole family has to get together
and say, okay, who's going to be watching the
parents while he's doing this? Is it a conference
on nursing homes? No, it's a young living. He's
into essential oils. Yeah, yeah. And so what
we did last year is we had to break it up. So
like Shelly and I took the first week and my
sister and brother took the other week. And so
we have to do that again. Isn't that usually
sponsored by P. Diddy? None of it's P. Diddy.
The P. Diddy essential oils? Oh, yeah, no, no.
These are like healthy oils. And they're herbs.
They're herbaceous? Yeah, they're herbaceous.
So are you going to go down there for that period?
Yeah, for like, it's not really a vacation or
anything, but that's something I'm doing in July.
And then check this. This is crazy. My dad, he's,
you know, what, 80, shit, I don't know, 85 now.
And my mom is 90. And my dad keeps saying, I
want to go to the cabin. It's like, dude, it's
not easy to get you to the cabin. You're doing
dialysis, and my mom is nonverbal, nonmobile,
and we need to sling. And so we're trying to
work it out. We're going to take them up to the
cabin in August. They're going to fly. Peter's
going to fly with them. We're going to pick them
up in the wheelchair van. We're going to take
the lift up to the cabin. I mean, it's an operation.
It's a full -blown operation, and we're going
to do it because, you know, my dad has earned
it. He deserves it. If he wants to go to the
cabin one more time, God bless. We're going to
freaking make it happen. Good for you. Yeah,
so that's going to be a week in August. I did
that with my dad one of the last times I was
out there, and he was still walking. I was like,
do you want to go hiking over at Tahoe one last
time? Yeah. And he did, you know, and we did
the easy one. We did it. It's the easy one where
we saw the... uh, the salmon and everything.
And, uh, you know, he had his two walking sticks
and he was struggling, you know, walking it and
everything, but he enjoyed it. And, uh, but it
was one of those things that I wanted to do for
him. And I know he wanted to do it one last time.
Yep. Uh, cause he hadn't gone over to Tahoe in
a few years because he just couldn't do it. Yeah.
So it's, it's, you want to do those last things
with your parents when they ask. Absolutely.
You know, you know, try to make it happen. So
we'll see how that goes. Yeah. That'll be tough.
Yeah. That'll be tough. Does that cabin have
air conditioning? You don't need it. We've never
needed it in the summertime. You just open up
the windows. It's nice. It's nice. Well, I felt
that. I was told the same thing on Shebig Island
in Maine, and not so much. But he's at 10 ,000
feet, though. 10 ,000 feet. Yeah, that's true.
That's true. I mean, up until this point, we've
never needed it. I mean, we have fans, right?
I mean, we can circulate air. But no, it doesn't
have central heat and air. It's got those floor
heaters, right? And that furnace that's freaking
amazing. Yeah. That place keeps warm, for sure.
Oh, yeah. That night that I turned the heat on,
it got so hot, I started puking everywhere. I
don't think that was the reason you were puking.
No, it wasn't. But that contributed to the just...
Feeling like shit. So hold on. It wasn't the
altitude? No, it was. You put your room on 177?
I was just vomiting. And almost killed yourself?
No, that just added to it. Because then I got
up. I was like, it's so hot. You woke up naked.
I was sweating. And I had the cold sweats. So
I went to the bathroom and peed. So I was like,
I need to turn down this thing. And I just felt
like shit, man. Yeah, I know you did. You needed
the oxygen. And that's the other thing. We're
going to take oxygen bottles up there. You could
buy a can. Yeah. How's that go? Are you sure
we want to do video? It almost seems worth it
to buy the thing that Jeff has, the oxygen eater.
You know, one that pulls the oxygen. It's an
oxygen concentrator. Yeah. And you have one.
I have one, yeah. Yeah. How much? It'll cost
$3 ,000. What do you want for it? $8 ,000. And
you buy it for $3 ,000. No. You didn't buy it.
Talk about art of the deal. That's right, man.
I'll take it. So you start out high and then
you come back down. Yeah, but it's used. Trump,
he used it for two weeks. Oh, so it's used. Very
used. Hey, you drive a car off a lot, boom. It
does. 80%. It is. It depreciates by 80%. Yeah.
80, wow. It's worth a nickel. Yeah, these boost
oxygens. You just need to stock up on those things.
There you go. How much is that thing? It's 10
bucks a pop. How much do you get? Does it last
a long time? Hold on, go back up. What does that
say? There's menthol eucalyptus? Breathe menthol
eucalyptus. Is that healthy? Five liters. It
sounds like a vape. Five L. Five liters? And
you spray it into your mouth. You breathe it.
Okay, yeah. It's got a little cup and you breathe
it in. That's the gayest thing I think I've ever
seen. Well, I mean. It'd help. I've used them.
Click. Does it work? Hey, click on the review.
Did you say yes? Yeah. i'd use it i'd smell that
um let's see if you're at altitude and you need
and you're you know struggling to breathe well
yeah and how i mean how many socks do you get
out of it yeah that's kind of what it was you
know it was quite a few i mean it was a good
size tank right when we did our climb up that
mountain there'd be littered with these things
just like just These cans all the way up there.
Yes. Oh. Well, I mean, that's just what I'm saying.
You'd be pulling a wagon of them. It'd be like
the popcorn trail. Let's just follow the cans
back down. Yeah, the Hans and Gretel. Hans and
Gretel following the breadcrumbs. And then if
you ran out, there'd be two bodies laying there
next to the cans. Good Lord. It very well could
have been. I mean, that was crazy. But, I mean,
back to the point. I mean, yeah, those things
are cool. They're $10 a pop. How long does it
last? Like, how many of those would we have needed
to climb that Lake Tahoe thing? I have no idea.
I would say one apiece. It says 11 liters, 220
breaths per canister. Oh, that's good. Yeah,
you take a breath, you know, every minute or
so. Right. You'll go, it's not like you're snuffing
or anything, you know, doing whippets. Yeah,
but here's Sean getting out of the car. Slow
down, Sean. You only get 220 of these. He throws
it down. He had pops. I'd have a six -pack. Why
does he have to throw it down? He's not Jeff.
That's you. That's another one up. God. I mean,
that's all right. I mean, you know, we would
have definitely. benefited from that climbing
up that because you and i were walking we were
literally walking 15 feet 15 feet and stopping
oh yeah maybe 15 yards but i mean it doesn't
matter it wasn't very far because it was literally
straight up it was 30 degrees straight up well
we were swollen and in colorado when you were
struggling if you had if you had three of these
things and you were sucking on them until your
body acclimated yes acclimated perfect word then
you might have been fine for the rest of the
trip. It's not like you would have needed him
the whole time, potentially. No, because your
body does acclimate eventually. Well, yeah, and
that's the whole thing. You have to go down to
a lower elevation until you do, and then you
go back up, right? So, damn, had we known that,
that he's very fragile. Fragile. Fragile. You
know what? I could have benefited from that as
well. It didn't affect me as bad, but it did
affect me. Like, when I was going outside, I
mean, I couldn't walk very far. It was kind of
like being in Lake Tahoe. So had I known that
was even available, I would have definitely get
that. Oh, yeah. No, that's kind of a no -brainer
now. Anyway, so, yeah, I'll give all that some
serious thought when we take the parents up there.
Party. Mitigate the effects of consuming booze
and to clear the morning fog. So basically it
says it fixes your hangover. It's a hangover
cure. Interesting. What? It's an after -morning
revel cure. Now, wait a minute. It says energy
plus recovery. Does that have, like, caffeine
in it or something? No, it's just oxygen. It
says energy plus recovery. Well, that one's $102.
What's that? Or for six -pack. Six -pack. Oh,
six -pack. Yeah, but still for $10. Yeah. It
was $10 .99 for that other one. It says... So
nootropics, mental focus, breathe better, detoxify,
feel better, showing slower aging. Slower aging.
So, I mean, where is this machine that you have
currently? It's downstairs. So, I mean, you may
benefit from, you know, maybe turning that thing
on every now and then, maybe when you go to sleep
at night. Yeah, you don't have to be an elderly
person that barely can breathe. I mean, just
experiment with it. Yeah. Well, you need a cannula.
I don't have that right now. You need a what?
Cannula. Is that the thing that goes around your
neck and in your nose? Yeah, I don't have those.
I threw my dad's away because he was using them.
Interesting. So we need to buy more of those.
Maybe it's kind of like a hookah. Maybe we need
to bring it up during the podcast and we're all
sucking on oxygen. We have a hookah. And we're
all like super smart and we're like saying like
non -incorrect things. Again. Right? Again. I
don't know. Maybe there's some real potential
this podcast could take off if we're on oxygen.
Well, look, I guess we're bringing up the summer
thing. I would love to go back out to Colorado.
I would love to. Let's plan on it. Yeah, I would
love to. I'd love for you to go. Chuck, wind
it up. There's plenty of room. He's got a large
loft, and it's got a piano up there. I'm sorry,
an actual organ. Organ. What size? And we watch
cool YouTube videos. Yeah, no shit. It's got
the foot pedals and everything. It's the full
-blown deal. It is. I was going to turn it on,
but I'd try to break it, and I'd never hear the
end of it. It just gets stuck on, played a note.
Turn it off again, again. It's stuck. It's got
a proton battery. You're ruining my trip. Well,
the last time we went up there, well, obviously,
Jeff had to come home. So we got up to the cabin,
got stuck in the snow, When we first arrived.
There was a lot of snow. It was a challenge.
The whole thing was fun as hell. I wouldn't change
any of it except for you leaving. But then you
had to leave because of altitude sickness. And
then had we known, God bless. That would have
been a game changer. I didn't know these oxygen
cans existed. Well, we didn't even know you were
going to have altitude sickness. Right. Well,
you know what? This is good to know. Good to
know. I think that little thing right there,
getting a six -pack of that, would clearly get
you over the hump. It won't help anybody because
it could impact anybody at any time. It impacted
me. I mean, going back and forth, bringing the
luggage up to the cabin. Well, being out of breath
is one thing. What I went through is different
than what you had. Yeah, it wasn't exertion.
It wasn't exertion. You were just sitting there.
Yeah, you were just living. It felt like I had
the flu. That's what it felt like. That's horrible.
Yeah, it was bad. We had to evac you. We had
to take you down to Denver. It did. And it was
immediate. As soon as we got down to Denver,
I felt fine. I know. You were taking pictures
at the bar in the hospital. No, the hotel. No,
the airport. You were like, look at me. I was
like, let's go back. And we're like, he's fine.
I was. As soon as I got down to Denver, I was
like, all right, well, maybe we can go back.
No. Well, we had fun. We went back up and I was
enjoying my hot tea and whiskey. Your best drink
ever. Best drink ever. I'm going to drink this
all the time. It was tasty. I enjoyed it. It's
never happened since. Paul and I went on, no,
I've had it before. I've had it at my house.
I drink hot tea all the time. With whiskey. With
bourbon. Well, I mean, not all the time. That,
but I drink, you know, sometimes I throw a little
bit on there. And then Paul and I got up on,
what was the name of that rock? Paul's Rock?
Sarah and Don's Rock. Butt Lover's Rock. Sarah
and Don's Rock. I think I renamed it. With the
Sean and Paul rock? Paul and Sean. What, he was
sick? Well, yeah. Did they have sex on there
or something? They did, yes. My parents? No,
that's my aunt and uncle. Oh, okay. They were
up there getting frisky, and I say neighborhood
kid. It's kind of hard to imagine that there's
a neighborhood kid up there, but yes, there's
a cabin on the other side of that rock, and the
kid was there for the weekend, and he climbed
up there and caught them. Full beaving it. Full
beaving it. Yeah, they were doing it. And I'm
sure he's in it. I was going to say, could you
imagine back then? What was that, the 80s? No,
it was not that long ago. Oh, never mind then.
Yeah, and he's probably been in therapy ever
since. Poor kid. Probably saw that Chewbacca.
Pelt? Anyways, pelt. So, you know, Paul and I
were climbing up there. Hey, we got some nice
album cover pictures, you know? He said pelt?
Yeah, he did. What the fuck? They're not wild
animals. She said, hold on, let me take the merkin
off. It's Velcro. It's Velcro. Okay. Wow. Anyway.
But it was fun. I enjoyed going all the way up
there. It was a challenge. I got all the way
up there with my bourbon glass. Yeah, you did.
And it had bourbon in it. Paul's was like, empty.
Go figure. Well, he probably was like, screw
it. Yeah, he drank the whole thing. You know,
Paul's just. Did we take bourbon to the top of
that rock? I did. You drank yours. On the way
there? And then he looked at yours and goes.
He did. Are you going to share? What am I, St.
Bernard? Did I really drink? What do you mean
I drank mine on the way up? You don't climb a
rock while undrinking bourbon on the way up.
You drink it at the top. Did I not bring any
with me? You brought a glass of bourbon, and
I brought a glass of bourbon. We walked to the
rock. You drank yours before we got to the rock.
I finished mine on top of the rock. Oh, okay.
Well, there you go. It was amazing. We got amazing
pictures. Oh, it's beautiful up there. I had
such a good time, and now that we know that these
little oxygen tanks exist, it's going to be that
much better. Oh, yeah. Because now I'll be able
to frolic further. I'll be able to go farther.
Boy, it was a challenge, and I'm so thankful
I had that jacket. Because I bought that damn
thing at Kohl's, and it was like, oh, this jacket's
$400, $500. You can get it now for $220. I was
like, oh. I'm going to need this someday. And
that was the day. Yeah, and your wife was like,
you're an idiot. Yeah. But I tell you what, it's
probably the first and only time I've ever used
it was taking it to Colorado, but I was warm
up there. It was cold up there. It was chilly.
I was in my sweatshirt. Yeah, you were. In the
fire department. Pulled the car out. Oh, man.
So we were stuck, and we didn't know what to
do, frankly. And you know what? All in all, we
probably would have had to call emergency services
to take you home. had we not been able to get
out. But all we really had to do was just wait
for the Sonoma melt, because it did melt before
we left. It did? Yes. Well, I mean, not 100%,
but it melted enough to where we could have backed
up the car. I don't think so. We could have dug
it out eventually. Yeah, but I couldn't get to
the damn shovels, because the shed was frozen.
It was like over an inch thick of ice was blocking
the door. We would have had to basically cut
through the shed door. With a saw or like a blowtorch.
Which we didn't have either of them because they're
in the shed. We could have driven to the hardware
store and bought one. We were stuck. Damn. Maybe
an extension cord with a hair dryer. There you
go. Maybe. Just urinate on it. Ooh, I tried that.
That's a lot of urine. I got stuck. That'd be
a lot of bourbon with a lot of urine. Challenge
accepted. Yeah, I was on that. It was fun. We
had a good time. We got to try it again. Yeah,
I love to do it when we had a really good time
doing it. So what are we sampling here? The first
half we had Yellowstone. Yellowstone. And the
Tennessee Whiskey Bourbon, and it was so light.
And then when I – no, no, no, Kentucky. It was
Kentucky. What did I say? Tennessee Whiskey Bourbon.
Oh, yeah, I meant to say Kentucky. And then when
I dug into this, I was kind of like, now this
has substance. Oh, yeah. Yeah, this is quite
a bit meatier. All right, so what is it, gentlemen?
This is Chattanooga whiskey. Is this a single
barrel? Is that what we're having, the single
barrel? Yeah, it's a single barrel, 118 .6 proof.
Oh, this is Tennessee. I didn't realize that.
Yes. Okay. You all right? Was that a burp or
was that a hiccup? It was a hiccup. It's kind
of chunks on your mic. Oh, no, that was there
before. That's from Steven. That's so gross.
Yeah, this is much heartier than the last one.
Much more. So just shoot from the hip here. Let's
go with this. It's 110 proof. It's 118 .6 proof.
Oh, damn. I'm way off. 118. Wow. That's packed
a punch. All right, here we go. I'm tasting lots
of spices. Yeah. Lots of spices. Lots of holiday
spices, I think, is what I've got. Orange peel.
Are we talking about the nose? The nose, I got
some cinnamon. Cinnamon. Rich aroma of caramel,
vanilla, toasted oak. Do you guys smell the orange
peel? No. Like a Grand Marnier kind of essence?
No, I do not pick that up. Like a floral vanilla.
That's a wonderful nose, though. It does smell
good. I do pick up the vanillas. A blooming coffee.
That's such a thing. Blooming? What does that
mean? It means it's a cherry of coffee. Just
a... That opens up and just invites you in. That's
the aroma I'm talking about. Oh. The aroma. So
when you get past that, you're into the taste.
It's got like a sweet malt and cornmeal. It's
kind of... Kind of gets in there like an old
piece of cornbread you dug out. I pick up a lot
of spice. Like I said, a ton of spice. There's
a little bit of sweetness. Maybe some clove,
pepper, and licorice. Maybe some bitter chocolate.
I taste some raisins. Could be. Some of those
dark fruits. Some molasses sweetness. It's like
a dark raisin or like a gold. No, no, no. Dark
herbal fruit. I'm sorry, dark herbal fruit. Super
dark raisin. What a prune. Prune. It's good.
Well, let me see here. Clove, pepper, licorice,
smoked raisins, and cocoa powder. Oh, there we
go. Smoked raisins. Did I actually nail one for
one? You said dark raisins. We'll go with smoked
to dark. Well, that works. Damn. Maple wood and
toasted oak sugary caramel. Vanilla cream pie
toasted. What's brioche? brioche brioche what
is that it's a bread toasted brioche fresh figs
it's so dumb a dried orange peel with a hint
of black pepper and the finish lingers with a
baking chocolate dried cherry oh there's brioche
and dried cherry is that the same thing as a
leather cherry leathered Leathered cherry. Long
finish with smoked raisins and cocoa powder.
So, Paul, you nailed it. I mean, as far as the
raisins go. The cocoa powder. Because cocoa powder
is bitter. I'm thinking of bitter chocolate.
Yeah, like an unsweetened. Yeah, unsweetened.
It says dark chocolate, which dark chocolate
can be bitter as well. But I think the cocoa
powder is more accurate. Yeah, you know how when
you're a kid and you get into the cocoa powder
and you're like, yeah, you're like, damn. You
dive into it and you're like, eh, eh. It's nasty.
You get a spoon and you're like, mama, I can't
tell mama. And you grab it and you're like, fuck.
It's so nasty, so bad. It did. It was awful.
And you spit it out. I'm going to poop tonight.
And we're comparing that to what we're drinking.
So how does that go? So Chattanooga Whiskey Single
Barrel 118 .6 is a Green River, Kentucky straight
weeded single barrel bourbon. So Green River
distills this. I mean, I don't want to dog on
Green River, but we have been not impressed in
the past for something we've tried. We only have
one bottle of Green River. And it's their standard
bourbon. It's not their single barrel. It's not
their cast strength. It's none of that. Maybe
they're weeded. It might be. But we weren't a
fan at the time. We weren't. But they've got
a couple more out there. But Green River, they
supply a lot of distillate to a lot of places.
Well, this one, case in point. Yeah. So hold
on. Read that again. What's the connection to
Green River? Read that again for me. So this
one says the Chattanooga whiskey single barrel
118 .6 is a Green River, Kentucky straight weeded
single barrel bourbon. That's not Green River
distilling then. That's what AI produced. Okay.
Because there is a Green River distilling and
it's not from Kentucky though. It's from New
England. Chattanooga whiskey is from the Chattanooga
distillery. What are you reading? I'm reading
AI. You got AI'd again. Well, you know, it does
that. Riverfront the story. I have found that
AI is not the most accurate. It can be wrong.
Quite a bit. It can absolutely be wrong. That
pulled something off the whiskey consensus. All
right, well, the rest of it seems to be right
on. Great, so you're saying my raisin thing was
wrong. No, it was 100 % right. That is just a
link at the very bottom that it pulled off. I
just got punked by Sean. Craft produced, yes,
they distill their own shit. Yeah, there we go.
That's good. We've liked all their stuff. There
was one that we didn't like. Chattanooga? Yeah,
there was one. I want to say it was the Bottle
and Bond, but I can't remember. You got the 111?
that you have a rating on, but you gave it mid
-sixes to a seven. Okay, maybe it was that one.
There was one we weren't a huge fan of. Well,
again, we've got to go back and revisit all these
because our palates are ever -changing. Yeah,
we're grown men now. Well, we're grown for sure.
I don't know if it's men. I was on some place
today talking to an engineer. He was a little
bit younger, a lot younger. And I was telling
him, because we're talking about the same goofy
games, you know, Pokemon on your phone and playing
video games on Xbox. And I was just like, you
know, I play these games, first of all, because
I like them. But second of all, it makes me feel
younger when I play these games. And also, I
like the dexterity. The eye -to -hand coordination,
being able to stay on top of it, but in reality...
Pokemon Go has that? No. No, that doesn't. What
did you ask? Pokemon Go has dexterity and hand
-eye coordination. Not so much that, but some
of the other games, too. Well, I mean, Pokemon
Go is just an immature child's game, but I play
it because the kids play it, and I want to try
to feel younger. You know, that was kind of that.
And you burn calories and sweat like a... You
can. You can because you walk on it. You're supposed
to walk when you're playing Pokemon. Do you do
any of that? So they're rated for this bourbon.
Around buildings. Or this whiskey. What do we
get it? All right. So this one is for 118 .6
proof category. So, man, it's tough because,
you know, we got to... I always go straight to
pin... Pin hook. Pin hook. And it's because...
I rated them so low. This one would rate high.
I enjoy it, but I feel comfortable making this,
for me, a 7 .8. 7 .8. That seems really high
to me. I think I'm right around the 7 .1 on this.
I was going to say 6 .8, and I'm not dogging
it. It's solid, but at 118, we've had some that
are like, knock your socks off. This doesn't
knock my socks off, but I mean, I really am enjoying
it. Yeah, the rating is really tough. It doesn't
hit into the eights for sure, but it definitely
hits in the sevens. So I feel comfortable saying
that. It's not a six for me. It's not in the
sixes. It's definitely in the sevens. Interesting.
Okay. Yeah, I'm right around the seven, seven,
one range for me on this one. I think the spice
is, the bitterness is almost too much. On some
of it. Not a fan of that. Too much unsweetened
chocolate. Or cocoa. There you go. Is it cocoa?
There you go. It's actually cocoa, right? Yeah,
cocoa powder. God, that stuff's nasty. Yeah.
You think it's like Ovaltine? Not Ovaltine, but
what's it? Quick? Nesquik. Nesquik? That stuff's
awesome. Oh, yeah. And it's solid sugar, right?
You can just eat spoonfuls of that. You know
what? Spoonfuls of Trump. That's gross. Trump
is dealing out spoonfuls of all these jobs being
filled. He just deputized Dan Bongino to the
deputy director of FBI. Correctamuno. Under Kash
Patel then. Did he quit his radio show then?
No, he's got to unwind his businesses, so he's
got to go another month. And then he'll... Yeah,
but he's out. He is quitting. He hasn't quit
yet. Finally, that was the one thing holding
us back. What do you mean? Now that Dan Bongino's
out, we're going to get everybody, all of his
followers. Maybe that's it. That probably will
happen. I mean, we've got to be positive about
this. They've got to go somewhere. Well, he's
part owner of Rumble as well. So I wonder if
he's got to cash in those, whatever. If Nancy
Pelosi doesn't have to cash in, he's sure the
fuck. No shit. He'll have to divest, but maybe
to his wife or something like that. Right. But
it was an excellent pick, and it's well -deserved.
It's a guy that has lived the life in that world.
You know, being in the Secret Service. His heart
is in the right place. He's so passionate. He's
a cancer survivor. He was also a New York policeman
for over a decade, I think. And, dude, he's all
about serving. He's all about serving. Yeah.
And military, right? Well, he doesn't put up
with bullshit either. And he's wrote so many
books, and they're so good, too. And they're
footnoted, and they're great. Is he ex -military?
No. Okay, so he was Secret Service. No, he was
a cop, New York City cop. New York City cop and
Secret Service. And he went to Secret Service.
Right. For Clinton, Obama, and Bush. Yeah. Nice.
He was on the advance team, I think, where he'd
go over and scout. From what I've heard on the
one I've talked to him, yeah. So would he have
found the guy on the roof that took a shot at
Trump? He was like, they should have checked
this, this, this, this, and this. Yeah, of course.
Well, that was just a fuck -up, man. But, you
know, there was other fuck -ups, too. You mentioned
something about some protest today. Someone had
mentioned it was a Soros -funded protest. What
was that? As these congressmen go out and talk
to their constituents at these town halls, you
have these protesters popping up, bad -mouthing
Elon Musk and Doge. And these are GOP town halls.
GOP town halls. And it's making them nervous.
Yeah, so they're getting lots of flack, so they're
giving Elon Musk flack. Well, it turns out...
that these are all organized protests and plants
in these town halls. Yeah, so what they're trying
to do is erode the confidence of the GOP senators
and House members in Trump's plan. Right. And
Elon's aggressive... Well, it's worked on a couple
of them. Yeah, it has. Because they've come out
and said that he needs to slow down and be a
little more organized and this and that, and
we're all for cutting and getting efficiencies,
but... You know what? I can't disagree, though.
So the groups, both of which have received funding,
generous funding from the George Soros over the
years, were at the center of these demonstrations.
Right. In other words, they're sham protests.
The Free Beacon's Colin Anderson reports. They
are professional protesters, just like during
Black Lives Matter, just like during all the
bullshit protests every time there was... Are
these part of the Antifa programs? Yes, thank
you, Antifa. Yes, yes. Same type of people. It's
these people who have, you know, where you see
them show up with these big box trucks and unload
these professionally made signs and shit like
that. Or they'll have these big... 100%. Or the
big pallets of bricks during that whole Black
Lives Matter thing. You'd see people... Remember
around here, they said, if you see the pallets
of bricks show up, expect a fucking riot. It
was crazy. Yeah. Everybody was... On edge. They
were like, well, there's a pile of bricks down
there. I pressed it in 121. Blowing it up on
social media, and everybody was freaking out.
Yeah, it was a little over the top, but you know
what? When it comes to my life, your life, and
my family's life, no. There's no wiggle room
there. There's a fight or flight, and I'm not
flying. Right. I'm standing my ground, and it's
nuts. Yeah, that's the way we were. I mean, we
were hearing about all these Antifa, this and
this, right? And all these things that were just
happening. The cops weren't doing anything. And
then we're like, I'll be damned if that's coming
to my town. Like, if it's coming to Texas, if
it's coming to Frisco, I mean, we're not just
going to take it lying down. It happened in Preston
121 on the Plano side. That didn't go very well
for those folks. No, it didn't. There were a
couple people that got arrested trying to break
up the protest. Yes. But they got so much pushback,
they were kind of like, yeah, that's kind of
dangerous. I don't think I'd be doing that in
fucking Texas. Yeah, no shit. No shit. Anyway,
back to Elon. I was going to say, I understand
what he's trying to do. I understand he's passionate.
I understand he wants to get after it. I mean,
these emails. There needs to be some bedside
manner. Well, he needs to stop tweeting some
of the shit he's tweeting. Yes, he's calling
people parasites, and he's jumping the gun on
making conclusions on the data. I mean, we don't
know. Well, he's also contradicting, not contradicting,
but the message he's providing and what Trump
are providing are slightly different. Right.
I just feel like he's gone a little bit rogue.
You know what I mean? And Trump needs to rein
him in. I think so. And he needs to have a more
orderly, you know, here's what he doesn't need
to do. Professional. He needs to be professional.
And he's not being professional. Yes. And he
doesn't need to give the left ammunition. Right.
He's giving them ammunition. With all these crazy
sensationalism, you know. I think it's a chess
game. I think he's poking them. And even though
I agree with you 100%. I think it's a game. It
is. I think it's all smoke and mirrors, and they
want you, hey, look over here. I'm going to talk
about this. I'm going to get you guys all riled
up, and that way they're not looking at the real
stuff. I hope that's what it is. Look at the
video we're watching right now. He's up on the
stage with the chainsaw and some picture of himself.
I feel like he's... Just a narcissist. Being
paraded around as some sort of rock star. We
don't need a flashy rock star. We need somebody
who's really, and I'm not saying he's not, getting
in and looking at the waist and looking for abuse.
Just be humble. Yes. Be humble. Dial it down.
You nailed it down with professional. Yeah. He's
not professional. Do your job. Just dial it back.
Chuck, what are you going to say? He owns Twitter.
So fuck it. He can do whatever he wants. He owns
Twitter. All right. What a great podcast. I had
fun tonight. It was great. Oh, you drank your
drink off. Oh. I spilled it. I spilled it too.
All right, well, look, thank you, Chuck. Staying
on top of shit makes a huge difference. Huge
difference. Thank you very much, Chuck. Dudes
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