I have not heard that music in a while. I've
heard it. I've been up here editing, though.
Ah, well, that's not the same thing. No. Well,
I have it on my playlist. Oh, really? I play
it over and over again. That's what he listens
to on his earbuds at night when he sleeps. Nice.
It's on repeat. On loop. Nice. I get really excited
to get myself pumped up for the day. I usually
play the bourbon song. Hey, whatever works. It
does work. Because we did not have a podcast
last week. I forgot. I was in Albuquerque, so
it was my fault. On Tuesday. I know. I was hoping
we would do it Wednesday or Thursday, but that
didn't work out. I guess some other things came
up, but I don't recall. Last week's kind of a
blur for some reason. Well, you know, Friday
night we came up here. It was like two Fridays.
It was two Fridays. We came up here with Chuck's
friend. I forget his name. Dave. Oh, yeah, with
his kids, right? His son and his girlfriend.
His son showed up. That was kind of cool. All
right. Well, here we are. Yeah, well, I'm trying
to get acclimated. If you've got some Android
users out there like myself, I'm trying to. Not
many, though. Whatever. I'm trying to learn.
I don't want an Android. I'm sorry, an iPhone
right now, but I figured I'd try to start the
process a little bit. You're willing to transition
to the Apple world? I'm not necessarily saying
that. What I'm saying is that I want to get used
to using the iStuff. So I got an iPad for both
work and for the podcast. It is different, isn't
it? It is. It's a little quirky. I'm getting
used to it. And as you guys can see, I don't
have my laptop here. I see that. So I'm dependent
on this. I've been using a program for work.
on here for notes writing and for little things
like that. And I made a special one just for
the dudes like us. Very nice. I could write on
it. It's totally gay. I freaking love it. It's
me. So hopefully it'll work. I'm looking forward
to using it because during the week, you know,
we try to always figure out what kind of topics
we're going to talk about. And I'm getting to
the point where I'm just sending them as an email
to myself. And then I just copy and paste the
email straight into here. So I'm totally fagging
out. I love this, man. It's going to be a good
deal. Hopefully it'll work out. Yeah. Anyways,
technology, that could be a topic that we're
going to be discussing tonight. Technology with
maybe some AI chat. Ooh. We did miss last week,
so we did not discuss Trump's, what speech was
that? That was a joint, they didn't call it State
of the Union. They called it that, but it's not
really what it was. It was a joint address to
Congress. Right. It mirrored what a State of
the Union address is, but it wasn't officially
a State of the Union address. Why was that? I
don't know. I think it's because it's early,
perhaps? Yeah. What's that, Chuck? That is correct.
Yeah, because it was too early, right? Yeah,
because Johnson invited him to speak to both
houses, and he accepted the invitation. So I
guess they can do that basically at any time.
So when is the State of the Union typically?
At the same time, it's usually after a year of
a president's term. Trump's been president previous,
but this is his first of the new term. So a new
president doesn't give an initial State of the
Union? Yes. Okay, I don't know if I've paid that
close attention. It's semantics. Otherwise, it
would be what I want the State of the Union to
be. Correct. I think it would be a, this is what
we're going to do. This is my agenda. Right.
which they just got elected, so hopefully you
know what they want to do. Well, we've got lots.
I mean, we talk about a bunch of it. There's
a lot of things going on. There's a lot of...
Great things going on. We're dropping the hammer.
We're eating crow on a few things because, you
know, we're probably a little overzealous with
some of the doge and we're just kind of like,
slash, slash, slash. It's like a Kmart blue light
special, you know, just slash, slash, slash.
And then we're like, yeah, we probably need to
dial that back and review what we just hacked,
you know. It does seem to be a bit chaotic. But,
hey, let's introduce the podcast and let's jump
into it. All right. Well, thank you, Mr. Producer,
Mr. Chuck, behind the scenes right now. Dudes,
I got some Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff. And
here we are. All right. Well, let's jump right
into it. We missed a lot this week. Well, according
to, well, not according to, but I watched the
about half an hour, 40 minutes of the Trump address.
And the Democrats made absolute fools of themselves.
Yeah, they did. It was embarrassing. And I don't
know if they're trying to bait Trump into overreacting
and lashing out, but at least what I saw, he
did not. And so didn't he open, so I missed the
very, very beginning, but didn't he open the
address by saying, I know, I can tell you right
now, there's nothing I can do or say that's going
to make you stand up and clap or clap at all?
He did say that. I don't know exactly when he
said that. Did he say that right in the beginning,
Chuck? Do you remember? Because I actually missed
that. No, it was towards the end. No, no, no,
it was right off the bat. He went, there's nothing
I can say. Well, he repeated it then towards
the end. That will make you stand up or clap,
and I'll show you. Right. Right. Well, because
he knew he knew they were going to be jackasses.
And I mean, but the props, really? The little
signs that said false lies. Elon Musk sucks.
I farted. I saw that on somebody's. Really? Oh,
that would have been good. Oh, yes. Here's the
danger of holding up signs in any scenario, because
somebody. Yes. Here's the danger of holding up
signs in any video or any still, is that somebody
can change what it says. Especially when it's
just like black with generic font on there. So
easy. So easy. What's her name? What's that congresswoman's
name? Yeah, Jayapal? Yeah, she's holding the
sign up, and she's just got this nasty look on
her face that just says, I farted. Yeah. There
should have been way more memes about the different
signs. I'm thankful. Actually, Greg Gutfeld did
it. He actually had a bunch of signs made for
shows. I think he did it two days in a row. I
mean, it was funny, but it kind of... My boyfriends
are all dead. Good Lord. That's to leave, isn't
it? Yeah, but she's wearing the terrorist little
shawl. I know. I mean, that is Hamas shawl. How
could she get away with that? Okay, well, technically
it's Palestinian. Right. So there is some existence
of Palestinian that isn't terrorist, but it's
hard to differentiate. She's from Palestine.
Yes. It is hard to differentiate in this world
right now because, you know, when you talk to
any Palestinian on TV, they say death to the
infidel, death to the Jews. So, I mean, you know,
they all sound like terrorists to me. But, of
course, that's not true. There are people in
there. Actually, it's 100 percent true. They
aren't necessarily all terrorists, but they do
all hate Jews. I wouldn't say all of them, but.
You know, there are some out there that are like,
you know, fuck, man, I just want to go to my
job and take care of my family and, you know,
and hang out with my friends. And fucking Hamas
is fucking it up for everybody. You know what
I mean? I guarantee there's a lot of people in
Gaza that would love for Hamas to be gone. But
they voted them in, dude. Anyway. You think they
really voted, though? Did they? That's a good
point. How much of a vote was it and how accurate
was that count? That's a good point. They might
have had no choice at all. They live in total
oppression, man. They really do. They do. I mean,
by their own leaders, by their own people. But
getting back to when Al Green stood up and was
all defiant. Oh, yeah. And he got tossed. He
did. From the speech. And I heard some comments
today that basically he says, they put me in
the back of the bus. They put me, I had to drink
from the Black's Only Water Fountain. Oh, yeah.
He played the race card. And he big time played
the race card. He's a fool, man. He just is.
Yeah. And nobody's resonating with what he's
saying. No. He looked like an idiot standing
up there. He did. I don't know what point he
was trying to make, but I think it was missed.
And then he was censured. They all broke into
song. What exactly did they censure him from?
Decorum. Yeah, decorum. Bad behavior. So he can't
join Congress or vote or anything like that.
He can vote from home. It's more like a nasty
written letter. Yeah, it's basically you embarrassed
this institution. How about for censure, when
you're censured like - Schiff was censured. Yeah,
but I mean, when you get censured, don't they
remove you from certain committees? I think they
strike your comments or something. They can.
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what
the rules are. So what does it mean when someone
is censured in Congress? I don't understand the...
I mean, it certainly can mean that they are removed,
but the censure itself doesn't mandate that.
You know what I mean? It doesn't mean, okay,
you've been censured, so we have no choice. We're
removing you from, you know, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah. All right, let's see here. It is
a resolution introduced by a member of Congress
outlining the reasons for a censure. It's followed
by debate and a vote. If the resolution passes,
the censure is officially recorded. But what
does it do? It says up there, it says it means
that the body, Congress, has formally expressed
its disappointment of a member's conduct. So
it's just to embarrass them and shame them. It's
a public reprimand. Basically, it's shame, shame,
shame. Searcy. Should we give him the Searcy
treatment? Throw some poop at her? Shame. Shame.
Shame. Yeah, maybe. Whatever. You know what?
I think a lot of the Democrats out there and
a lot of the blue dog Democrats out there, they're
embarrassed about this. Oh, sure. They're making
total... asses in themselves and they're losing
their freaking minds they have no idea what direction
to go they have no idea when you when you've
got people like uh uh oh my god what is the guy
the glasses he'll fart uh i'm a brain who oh
my god do you text the rich who's bernie yeah
bernie sanders jesus christ when you are when
you are looking at bernie sanders as someone
that could represent your party because you've
got nobody else that's sad That's sad. Who else
can represent them? What is going on with my
brain? I don't know. Who's the Pennsylvania senator?
Fetterman. Fetterman? Yeah, Fetterman. Are you
going through the same thing as John Fetterman?
Pardon? Are you going through the same thing
as John Fetterman? I guess so, man. Had a stroke.
I guess so. I started back on my freaking cholesterol
medicine. I think it's giving me some brain fog.
Cholesterol or blood pressure? Both. Both. Maybe
we could get Prevagen as a sponsor. I took a
she legit thinking it was going to warm me up
a little bit. I haven't taken that for a while,
but it hasn't. I guess I haven't kicked in yet.
Bernie Sanders, that's his God blessing name.
You know, they don't know what they're doing.
No, they're lost. They have no leader. They have
no direction. They have no plan of attack. Well,
they're not conveying any message whatsoever,
except Trump sucks balls. Yes, they're complaining.
They're just angry. There's kids on the playground
that are abusing other kids because their parents
beat them. But if this whole thing was a sing
-off or a dance -off kind of battle, they've
got us. Oh, they would definitely win. Yeah,
there's been some hideous... I don't know what
their point in doing this is. I don't know if
they're all just hippies. What was it? Pick your
leader? No, Pick Your Superhero. Oh, Pick Your
Superhero. That was bad, too. Yeah, it was all
the ladies. Oh, it was so bad. They were jumping
down. It was a video game type thing. Yes. This
guy from the NIH, or he was with the NIH, former
director Francis Collins, Frank Collins, broke
into song, and it sounds horrible. It does sound
like a John Denver song. Ow. What the hell is
that? Is that a shot? That's not me. Shot rang
out. He's trying to get everyone to sing, but
no one is. Okay, first off, nobody has any idea
what he's singing. How embarrassing. Oh, my God.
He's like, come on, somebody, anybody, please
help me. Everyone in the back, this guy over
in the bottom left. I look like a fool. Help
me. Yeah. Who are these broads? Who are these?
They want to take away our protection. Why are
they wearing masks? Because they're embarrassed.
Come and take it. Come and take it. We are not.
Leave me. You know what? I'm sick of it. I'm
sick of all this shit. You know? I'm sick of
it. It's silly. It's what they're doing. It's
just silly. And then you have, what's his name?
Jeffrey's in front of the Capitol building by
himself. Yes. Completely by himself. And it looks
so awkward. I know he's the highest Democrat
in the House. He has zero charisma. No, none.
Zero. And evidently, he was in charge of making
that music video for the Dems. It wasn't the
music video. It was the... The super rocket or
the superstar or the... I was under the impression
it was Cory Booker. Cory Booker? Oh, no, it was
Cory Booker. I'm told it wasn't... It was Cory
Booker. Yeah, he's the one that's kind of coordinating
the social media approaches. He's failing. He
needs to... Yeah, they need to fire him immediately.
I know they're probably not getting paid for
that, but, I mean, it's ridiculous. It's horrible.
Well... You know, I don't have a solution for
them, except they need to change. They need to
embrace Trump as much as they hate him. They
need to get off that bandwagon. Yeah, they 100
% will. They won't, though. Yep. They're too
dug in at this point. I think you may see some
folks fracture off, because you remember when
Obama won and the Republican Party, I don't know
if it was this bad, but then you had the Tea
Party kind of rise up and kind of steer things
a certain direction. That fizzled out hard, though.
It fizzled out, but it brought Trump along. Yeah,
I guess it did. I guess it did. And the Democrats
may do some of the thing, because I think at
some point you're going to have a group of Democrats
go, we need something different. And they'll
call it something else. It won't be the Tea Party,
but it'll be something else. It'll gain traction,
and they'll just kind of hopefully leave that
bullshit behind. is what may happen. You know,
I mean, but what's interesting is I'm torn because
the more they do this, the better off. Oh, I
know. I mean, the country is not buying any of
their drama. Again, I think America is better
when there are more than one party. I agree.
So there needs to be a, it's just right now,
one party is just asinine. Well, one's just asinine.
Their ideas are ridiculous. I know. They need
to have, Democrats used to have, you know, it
wasn't like this. It was, uh they for one thing
they used to negotiate back and forth right right
um now it's anything trump like this like the
speech they didn't applaud anything not even
the cancer boy who wants to be the cop right
now right or the parents who've lost the uh the
soldiers and uh the the ladies who were killed
by the illegal immigrants and stuff like that
they sat on their hands and scowled they did
they did how is that going to win over america
it isn't they got they got It just totally destroyed.
They got to get over the whole resist. In fact,
you know, there were some of those little paddle
signs they had and some of them did say resist.
You know, it was a T -shirt. It was a T -shirt.
The lady who left turned her back and said resist
on the back. You know, they just got to they
needed a rebranding. You know, I have a friend
that's in Congress. I don't want to mention his
name right now. I mean, we've spoke about him
in the past, but I spoke with him earlier this
week. And I was asking him, you know, now's the
perfect time for not necessarily for you to jump
ship. I mean, you don't need to jump over to
the Republican side, but you could make a name
for yourself. Right. You know, you could take
a stand that this is enough. Yeah. You need to
be a Democrat. Start forging what the definitions
of a Democrat are. And don't be bound by toting
the line right now of the narrative that they're
pushing. Because it failed. Do your own thing.
Because it failed. It failed. And look, Fetterman
started speaking up. He was on The View, and
he's in the limelight. You know, I made a suggestion.
I said, look, man, you're in South Texas. Jump
over to Austin. go to the joe rogan show i'm
sure he'd love to pick your brain he also explained
uh regarding the bank accounts in china oh really
yeah you guys wanted me to share with you what
he said i do so i was pretty critical of that
yeah you had mentioned it so i'm going to try
to paraphrase as much as this is possible but
long story short he had a law offices across
the united states and one of them was in new
york and uh at the base of the building There
was a bank. It was the closest bank to him. And
he opened up a bank account 10 years, 15 years
before he even ran for Congress. And that was
the Bank of China. And it was in New York. And
that's when he opened up his bank. And he says,
it was just a matter of convenience. I didn't
think about it. And that's where it was at. $100
,000. I didn't even know that China had a bank
in the U .S. He said it was FDIC accredited.
I know, but still, it's still a Chinese bank.
I don't know how that works. I didn't question
him. Maybe it was something he prepared to say,
but it seems fair. If he did have an office and
it was just a matter of convenience. I figured
there was more to it. Otherwise, it would have
become something a lot more than it did. Great.
I think, again, I don't know if it's true or
not, but until proof comes out otherwise, if
it ever does, then you'd have to believe. Well,
I saw that some group is going after AOC because
she used some taxpayer money for dance lessons
and something else. I mean, we weren't talking
about like $850. So, I mean, they're obviously
like picking on her. Yeah, that's a little bit
over the top. Yeah, they're picking on her. Yeah,
that's kind of like you getting your watch paid
for, you know? Right. Right. Well, I mean, that
was totally legal. Well, I mean, somebody else
paid for it. Maybe the dance classes were part
of a program similar to your watch. It's part
of exercise, right? Which the taxpayers paid
for. Yeah. I don't think so. But anyway. It doesn't
matter who pays for it. If it's part of a program
for mental health, physical health. I think it's
the bucket of money that she paid with it for.
Yes, that's what it boiled down to. So was it
like her voting? It was her campaign money. It
was her campaign funds. Interesting. All right,
well, that's a little different. Or something
like that. Anyway, but they were pretty critical
of her response, too. She was like, you know,
she's always snarky. You know what I mean? She's
juggy, though. No, no, no, no. Go slow. Go slow.
Oh, great. Yes. You know, I mean, not to talk.
She is. I think she's actually kind of. I think
she's pretty, and she's well -spoken. She's dumb,
but, I mean, she's well... You know what? She's
dumb, and she's... She's misinformed. Yeah, she's
misinformed, because she speaks well, and I don't...
I mean, she's not dumb, but she says dumb things.
Yeah, it does seem like it. When Tom Holman kind
of schooled her in Congress a couple years ago,
I mean, she just sounded like a fool. And who's
this other, there's some black lady who's, she's.
Jasmine Crockett. Crockett. Who's from Dallas,
by the way. Yeah, she's lost her mind sitting
there saying, well, you know, it's not illegal
for them to cross the border on the south, you
know. No, she said to cross the border illegally.
It's not illegal. Yeah. She literally said that.
It's not illegal for them to cross the border
illegally. What a freaking dean back. Yeah, she
is not, yeah, it's not the sharpest tool in the
shed, but. She's passionate. You know, you got
to give her that. Now, hold on. Who does she
represent? I know she's from Texas. Dallas. She
literally is the representative from Dallas.
Yes. I thought it was Houston. Oh, okay. Well,
there we go. It's not a criminal violation to
enter the country illegal. It's not a crime.
It sure is. It sure is. It's on the books. Yeah.
You go through the port of entry. And she's a
lawyer, too. It's 100 % a crime. Again, this
is a failed effort, and I think what they're
doing is they're pulling up all these C -string
congressfolk to step up. and make fools of themselves.
It's like we need a few patsies to try to take
a fall. Yeah, let's try to see what kind of things
we can jump up. Hey, you know what? Sometimes
there's a diamond in the rough that you don't
know and maybe something sticks. They're sending
them to the front lines to get mowed down, huh?
And they did. I think one of the reasons is because
you have some severely old folks like Pelosi.
Yeah. She looked. really bad sitting there listening
to that. Didn't she break her hip or have some
kind of hip surgery or something like that? I
don't know. But she needs... Looked like she
was shit -faced. She may have been, but... I
would be. If I were her, I'd be fucked up in
there. What are you going to do to me? I'm done
after this. Yeah, I'm a lame duck. There's a
picture. What we're laughing about is they have
a video of her in the State of the Union address
or whatever. Is she crying? And they put a bottle
of Jack Daniels in front of her. Well, she knows
she's probably going to go to jail. Oh, my goodness.
That is funny. Man, I don't know. She's what,
90? What is she? She's in her 90s, right? No,
she's not that old. She's like Biden's age, I
think. So 100 then. Yes. Have we heard anything
from Biden? He's 84. Since he left? 84 years
old. Hell no. I've heard nothing. Biden is exit
stage left. In fact, of that exit, they are now
pulling up all these pardons. And they're recognizing
that. With these executive orders that he's putting
out, they're the auto -sign feature where they're
not even authentic signatures. Oh, really? At
the end of his presidency, he wasn't signing
anything. He was just hitting a button, or somebody
was. Yeah, that's his sit. Somebody was. So how
does that make it legal? So it's like a DocuSign
kind of a thing? Correct. They were saying that
Jill and two people close to him were basically
in charge in the final four years. Yeah. Seriously,
this is not good. So are those legal? Well, that's
the question. So there's two things. Is that
legal for him to hit DocuSign, or do you need
something official? Like when Donald Trump signs
things, he puts his name in build, it's an executive
order, and he makes a big deal about it. It's
really weird, his signature. But with Joe Biden,
it's kind of like, all right, well. X, he just
puts an X. Well, I mean, it's not just the signature.
Let's say he did sign it, but let's say he signed
it. And you have the pardon now. They're thinking
it's unconstitutional for you to pardon somebody
that hasn't done a crime. Preemptive pardon is
what you're talking about. Yeah, exactly. I don't
know how that's legal, personally. Yeah, so you're
pardoned from doing anything. So basically you
can go rob a bank and you're pardoned. Yeah,
exactly. Oh, by the way, I did this and I just
snuffed some girl on Epstein's Island. And they
just found out. But I'm pardoned. Whatever they
find in your past. How is that legal? I don't
know. It can't be. And that's the question. That's
what they're trying to bring up. Is Pam Bondi
getting into that? Well, slowly but surely, they're
starting to pull back the onion layers. And,
you know, slowly but surely, it's like, you know,
you got these USAID factions of it that basically
just disbanded once cash. Patel got into the
FBI's position. They just completely disbanded.
It's like, where'd they go? They were here one
day and now they're gone. Who is this? Some subcommittees
for USAID. You know, they just disappeared. Gone.
Oh, yeah. Everybody's running for the hills.
Yeah. And they're shredding and burning everything?
Yeah. Yep, all the documents, politicals, says
the official team's remaining staffers are shredding
and burning these documents. Pam Bondi was requesting
the Epstein files, and they're dragging their
feet getting them to the manifest for the planes,
et cetera. This is crazy, man. I think Trump
is going after all the lawyers. You know what
I mean? This could be a little bit of a revenge.
He said he wasn't going to do that. But the reality
is he is. He is. He's going after them. But it's
a double edged sword. So he is going to form
revenge, but he's also going from because they
broke the law. Right. You know, they went after
him over bullshit. He's going after the deep
state, you know, entrenched, unelected bureaucrats.
And they happen to be the ones that, you know,
like the 51 who signed on to the bullshit. letter
that said that the Hunter laptop was Russian.
Russian misinformation. It happens to be the
same people, so it looks like revenge, and I'm
sure there's some revenge in there, but the point
is he's weeding out the people that are unlawful.
Yeah, it's this whole unelected bureaucracy that
needs to be disbanded. Absolutely. New folks
get in there, and it is greatly pared down. That's
what they're trying to do, and like you said
earlier, Sean, I think Doge kind of The chainsaw
came out a little early. I think it needs to
be a little more surgical. They need to dial
that back. It was so chaotic. They don't need
the propaganda like that. Just let them do their
jobs, and it doesn't need to be in the spotlight.
And let them sing Kumbaya and whatever the fuck
they want. I heard a judge today said that $2
billion that Doge pulled back from USAID, the
judge says, no, you have to give it back to them
because it's foreign aid. for contracts that
were already bid on and won. Right. Well, no,
it's not just that. It was not they just won
them, but they completed the jobs. Completed
too? Yeah, they were completed jobs, and that's
why they want to refund that money back. And
that makes sense. That makes sense. I did the
work payment kind of a thing. Oh, yeah. No, I
agree with that. Yeah. About $2 billion. I know.
Although, you know, that's a drop in the bucket.
Oh, it is. It is, unfortunately. But yes. I mean,
shit, Stacey Abrams. NGO, on top of NGO, shell
company type of thing. Like six or seven billion
dollars. Well, I thought it was two billion,
but yeah, I mean, it's insane. I think there
was two of them. One got two and one got like
six or seven. Right. And yeah. How much of that
is she funneling away? Right. And they were not
qualified at all to even get that money. Well,
that was at the end when they said, just start.
Passing this money out. Yep. Give it away. Give
it away. Give it away. Because if you don't,
you're not going to be able to keep it. Yeah.
Trump's going to take it away from you. So just
give it away. Insane. Yeah. All right. Well,
look, we'll change some gears here. It was $2
billion. There it is. He's showing it right now.
And she's like, I had some time on my hands,
so I started an NGO. And the whole premise of
it was to give lower income people, poverty people,
green energy appliances, right? I wonder how
many they actually gave out. Crazy. I bet it's
in her pocket. Right? No, it's just a mess. Anyway,
but one thing I was going to talk about was Newsom.
Oh, yeah. So Newsom, desperate to get to the
presidency in 2028. And I think he can smell
that he's being dragged down by the Democrat
Party, right? I think, yeah, I think you're right.
He's trying to distance himself because he's,
as much as I dislike him, he's still a smart
guy. Politically wise, he seems like he could
play the game. So he sat down with Charlie Kirk.
I didn't see that. I saw that he did it, but
I didn't watch it. I saw snippets of it. But
it makes me ill to think about them two. But
he learned from Trump sitting down with Rogan
and other people sitting down with Rogan. He's
learning the game. And then on top of that, he
bucked the trend and he said it's not safe for
men to be playing in women's sports. Correct.
And that made the left lose their shit. It did.
And they're going after him, which is fine. He's
making it. Well, the thing is, if he truly changed
his mind, great. Right. That's great. Oh, he's
just playing the game. Probably. He's going to
pick and choose the issues that are popular with
the American people based on polling. Probably.
And he's going to adopt them. And he's going
to flip -flop. Absolutely. But if he's truly
changed his mind, that's great. But, like you
said, I think he is just a greasy politician.
Absolutely. And he's saying what he thinks is
going to get him elected. Remember also that
there's a ton of people within the Democrat Party
that believe what we believe. You know, they're
moderate, like you were saying earlier, the blue
-dog Democrats, right? They're afraid to say
it. Oh, they would get torched by their own party
if they don't toe the line. Well, he is. Maybe.
And maybe so. Maybe you're right. Maybe he is
being honest about how he really feels. But look
at John Fetterman. I mean, he doesn't give a
fuck. I love it. I love the way he says, hey,
man, look, I'm representing my state. Yes. And
I want my state to win. Yes. And I want to migrate
over to, look, I'm still a Democrat. I got Democrat
values. And I'm going to vote Democrat from what
I see. But some of this stuff is outrageous.
I'm not jumping on board with that. Yeah. And
by the way. I just bought some new Adidas shorts.
What do you think of these guys? What? What Fetterman
would say, because he wears hoodies and shit.
You know, why wasn't he at the State of the Union
address? Or if he was, why? Because there was
a dress code. Are you serious? Are you serious?
I don't know. I mean, this seems reasonable.
I'm laughing because he wasn't there, and if
he was there, I mean, I would have loved to have
seen him in a suit. You know what I mean? Just
to see, oh, hey, okay, he's not in a hoodie for
once. Oh, I've seen him in suits before. They
didn't show him at the State of the Union. Yeah,
he's been in suits. He's just, you know. He looks
like he's just huge. I know. He's probably uncomfortable.
He's a large man. That's what he said. He goes,
you know, I don't know what his region he knows.
He goes, but he's a big man. He likes to be comfortable.
It's just inappropriate, though. It is. You can't
wear hoodies. It's not just extended to John
Fetterman. It's extended to Ilhan Omar. You know,
you're not allowed to have head garbs in there
and anything like that. You can't have hats.
I mean, that was part of the rules. They're bending
it for her. But it's also Ilhan Musk. You know,
he shows up in the Oval Office with his kid.
I know. T -shirt and a ball cap. I know. I mean,
you can bring your kid, and look, I don't want
to disrespect them, but at the same time, dude,
dress for success. Not to mention Zelensky when
he showed up in his little garb. Yeah, he's got
his little pajamas on. Yeah. Well, to be fair,
Donald Trump brings his kids to work all the
time. Well, he lives there. He's a grown. Kidding.
Dude, when I'm at home working, shit, sometimes
I don't even put on pants. Oh. Wait, are you
on video? Well, you can't see it. Oh, you're
like Tuber? No, who's the guy? Jeffrey Toobin.
Who's the one that had the top was work and he
had nothing underneath? Well, Jeffrey Toobin
started to play with himself. Yeah. I know that,
but somebody got all excited. I must have missed
it. Let's talk about it again. It's called tubing
it. No, no, I'm talking about the guy that had
like a jacket and a tie, but then there was a
camera on the side for some reason. Oh, I've
done that. And he was in briefs. Oh, when I worked
downstairs and I had like a formal thing with
the executives and stuff, I'd be, it was funny
because one time I got called out for it. I was
on with my team and the vice president that I
reported to and everything, and I was wearing
a nice colored, it was just a colored shirt.
I had to get up to close the door behind me.
And I was in the wear time. I was wearing my
flannel shirt and pants. So I had to get up and
go close it. And my boss, the VP at the time,
he started laughing. And they all started making
jokes at me. He was like, nice shirt and pants.
Yeah, nice shirt and pants. And then I go, by
the way, 2024. And he's gone. The same thing
happened to Shelly when she was interviewing
for one of her teacher jobs. She had, you know,
like, yeah, she looked business from the top.
I mean, she obviously has clothes on the bottom.
But she was having trouble with. The audio. And
so she got up to come get me because, you know,
she needed my help. And I came over there and
I fixed it and I turned around and I was like,
did you get up and walk away? I go, you're not.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. She's like totally panicking.
But I think I don't know if they made any comments
about it. But, yes, it was pretty funny. Oh,
no, they made the fun out of it. I'm sure they
did. It was good. When she ended up getting hired.
So I guess it didn't matter. Yeah. But anyway.
Could be. Right. You know, she doesn't shave.
We like people like that. Fresh. Cool. All right,
so we were talking about, we mentioned a little
bit at the Whiskey Festival. Yeah. So, Jeff,
for the podcast room, you've got... for those
updates for those folks out there. We've got
some movement, some traction going on with the
construction over at the Jeff House with the
water heater kind of exploding down and everything.
We've got Operation Fix This Place Up, and so
they're doing a lot of drywall repairs. Have
they done painting? It's done. All they left
is carpet. God bless. So they did all the painting.
They replaced the floor decking. this morning.
Yeah, the substrate of the floor has been replaced.
That was a saturating kind of sagging down and
it's kind of, you know, the OSB kind of separates
after when it goes to water like that. You know,
I got to tell you, so I was out walking the dogs
and my neighbor who I got on to the podcast,
I mean, got him turned on to it. He, I was like,
hey, what's going on? He goes, oh, I'm just,
I'm actually listening to your latest podcast
right now. And he goes, I'm hearing about Jeff's
plumbing problem. I was like, sometimes I think
about the shit we talk about. I'm just like,
why are we talking about this? Nobody gives a
shit. And then sure enough, Ben, my neighbor's
like, oh, yeah, plumbing problem. What's going
on with that, man? I was like, oh, that's so
funny. It's kind of exciting because we're getting
some new carpet in here, and it's going to be
fresh and good for us. And plus, we're going
to have to tear down this room. Which is going
to be, you know, it's not difficult to tear down.
Setting up is more of the hassle than tearing
down. But, you know, it's going to give us an
opportunity to groom, manicure the things. I
mean, whatever. I have some plans. I'll talk
about it later. You know, some better wire management
that's a little bit more. Easier, less, it would
be whatever. A little more professional. Just
easier, yeah, for sure. I'm anticipating when
we hook it all back up I'll have music in my
left ear. It all worked. And then I'll only hear
Sean out of my right ear. It's all going to be
just spectacular when I talk. Well, I think it's
important to kind of talk about at least what
I'm going through right now with the house because
it's not abnormal. This happens. It does happen.
This is the danger of having a water heater between
your fucking attic. And that's kind of what I
was driving at because in a perfect world when
you think, all right, well, we have four things
to do. We had a water heater. Water dropped out.
It caused damages. Then you got to dry it out.
And then there's just... There's so much due
process that it's a pain in the ass because it
takes so much time. You're thinking in real time,
all right, guys, we should have this whole thing
turned around in two weeks and be done. I mean,
if you really think about it as a timeline, but
it's just like you've got to go back and forth
with the insurance company. Are they covering
this? Are they not covering this? And then who's
going to pay for it? Then there's some costs.
Well, that carpet's no longer available. This
isn't available. Hey, by the way, that paint's
not going to match anymore, so what the hell?
going to do it's kind of like well and then you
know you got to find out how much you're going
to be given because you know you kind of want
an upgraded carpet because you know you had a
shitty carpet before and so but it does it cover
it no okay am i willing to go over blah blah
and you're already out the pocket the deductible
right so it's just like good well then you're
well then you pick your carpet you think you're
going to get installed one week they come out
and say Oh, that whole line was canceled and
discontinued. We need to pick a new one. It's
going to work out because it's a better carpet.
It's a higher density, a higher weight. The point
is it's a lot of hassle. It is. It's just one
thing after another, and it's just time. The
house is a wreck until now. Seeing the light
at the end of the tunnel. Correct. You know,
just the fact that we came in today and there's,
I mean, I saw, I looked at the paint. I was like,
that's fucking painted. Those holes are patched.
Beautiful. This is an excellent thing. That would
be progress. And when they come in, they waller
out all the carpet and they put in some new stuff.
We'll get a new shine in this room. Are you going
to get a lime green carpet? Shag. Burnt orange.
Perfect. Burnt orange with splotches of something.
Splotches, maybe some gold flecks. Yeah. We're
talking. We've got to jazz this room up. We could
take some new promo. I'll be nude with a Burt
Reynolds on it. You lost me on that last one.
When he did with his Playgirl spread. We are
talking about video. I don't know when we're
going to do it. We got to talk about how we're
going to dress. Just like Fetterman or are we
going to dress like? Oh, no, no. We dress from
the waist up and down below doesn't matter. Neat.
Nice. Yes. And is there an under the table camera
as part of the? On you, on yours, on your junk.
On mine? Just on your junk. This is just staring
at my junk. This is all kind of splayed and smashed.
I don't know if we can afford one of those cameras
that zoom in that close. What do you mean there,
Sean? What do they call? that an electron microscope.
Macro. Hubble. Macro. Hubble. Yes. Turn on the
Hubble. Yes. What is the new Hubble? They replaced
it with one. Yeah, I think they did. Several
years ago. Coming out with much, much better
images now. The James something. Isn't it James?
Taylor? James Flynn. No, seriously. It's the
James something. The James Webb. Dude, check
me out. I get 50 % credit. 50%. Yeah, the James
Webb telescope launched on December 25th, Christmas
2021. Do you remember when they did Hubble? They
put it up there and they screwed up the mirror?
Oh, yeah. And they had to send another mission
up there to give it contacts? I don't remember
that. That's true. Essentially what it was, it
was a contact. So they sent the astronauts out
with a lens. to put in between the mirror and
the camera to make it focus. So one company made
one side of the mirrored lens. Another company
made the other side of the mirrored lens. And
then when you see the laboratory, they're all
wearing like the white, like they're doing surgery,
right? And they're all like, oh, yeah. Anyway,
they fucked it up somehow. And they didn't test
it before they sent them up there. You know,
somebody messed up. Somebody up there was like,
hey, Frank, I told you not to over crank it.
Now it's out of whack. This is a three -time
zoom. I needed the six -time zoom. How much was
the Hubble telescope? It's probably like 600
million or 800 million. Anyway, yes, they screwed
it up. And so they're like, what are we going
to do? They screwed up the mirror, didn't they?
Yes. The initial mirror they put on there? The
grind of the mirror, yes. 16 billion. What? Wow.
I wasn't expecting that. Okay, well, that might
be... Oh, that's adjusted for inflation, but
still. Well, that might be also them operating
it, like the whole thing. I don't know if that
was how much they... Does not include the cost
of the space shuttle. Damn. Okay, well, anyway.
Whatever, man. Anyway, so when the first pictures
came back, they were super excited, right? And
they were all fuzzy. They were. And they were
like, what the hell? What's wrong? And then they
figured it out. Well, then they figured it out,
but then you compare those good Hubble ones with
what the web is producing. And it's night and
day again when you compare the two next to each
other. You mean James Webb is amazing? Yeah,
Hubble versus Webb. I mean, look at that. Technology
differences, man. We don't know. You know what?
We spend money to try to get shit out there.
You buy cars. You buy houses. You buy clothes.
You figure it out. What works, works. And this
is amazing. That James Webb one just sees things.
in focus that's way the hell out there in fact
they they were talking about i'm going to use
the word aliens but i'm not saying there's aliens
what i'm saying is that they are seeing lights
constellations way out there and they're insinuating
that something is moving in front of those constellations
and then moving back out so that there's something
that's blocking it and it's not in a normal rotation.
So they're insinuating that it could be a spacecraft
or something. Well, there's so many unknowns.
It could be anything out there. Oh, yeah. Our
knowledge is orbits. Maybe there's something
else out there that is completely different than
that, that we just haven't come across yet. Because
all we know is what we can see and what we can
theorize. So far out there, maybe there's something
we haven't even thought of yet that can move
around back and forth. A big cloud of plastic
junk. Man, who knows? I mean, because it's actually
infinity. I mean, we have no idea what the fuck.
We live in a vacuum. We have no idea. We shouldn't
even exist. You're so right. I mean, we know
so little about the universe. It's crazy. But
you know, one thing I thought was interesting
is you would think that the James Webb telescope,
seeing as much as they can see, could see some
details on the moon. Like, they were like. It's
probably too close. No, they can't. Like, they
were like. I can't focus that close. They said,
of the six flags that have been planted on the
moon, how many, they wanted to know how many
were still upright. You know what I mean? And
they were like, well, not even the James Webb's
telescope can see that. I was like, how is that
possible? Like, you would think it could. I think.
It's like you could see the atoms on that flag.
Right? That's what I was thinking, too. Maybe
the focal point is so far out. Yeah, and the
moon is too close. They have big telescopes down
here. They could probably see it. It's like me
trying to read my phone with my long -range glasses
on. There you go. It's all fuzzy and shit. I
can't read it. Quad focals. Quad focals. Yes.
Well, maybe that's it. Quad focals? They have
trifocals. Why can't they make quad focals? They
can. God. Can you imagine all these little lines?
I know. You're like, okay, hold on. I want to
look far, so do I need to look up and left, or
do I need to look... I want my junk to look bigger
so you have like a wide lens on the very bottom.
Like a fisheye? Oh, I would just put a magnifying
glass on my junk. So on the space thing, there
was a private company that landed... On the moon.
I know. Put a lander on the moon. That was a
big deal. Didn't it fall over? When did this
happen? No, it did last time. Did last time.
This time, it did not fall over. But I haven't
heard much about it. So what's it doing? Is it
just sitting there? That's all they wanted to
do. That's what I mean. Are they taking core
samples? Yeah, this thing's loaded with experiments.
Yeah, I mean, it does all sorts of shit. So two
private companies have successfully landed spacecraft
on the moon as of March 11, 2025. Intuitive Machines,
which is Houston -based, by the way. Texas, go
Texas. And number two, Firefly Aerospace, based
in Texas as well. They landed the Blue Ghost
spacecraft in 2025, blah, blah, blah. I didn't
even hear about this one. That's what I'm interested
in. Oh, that's the first successful soft landing.
By a private company. It remaining upright and
operational. There we go. Well, it's a hard landing
where it just slams into the boom. Boom! Explodes
into a million pieces, and they're like, yeah!
We successfully hard landed! Just to be clear,
the Firefly Aerospace landed on the moon. Correct.
Yes. And now what? That's a big deal. That's
what I said. What's it doing? They hailed it
as a historic achievement. First commercial lunar
landing without crashing or tipping over. That
just tells you how fucking hard it is, man. But
yeah, I don't know. We did it in the 60s. With
styrofoam and cups. Well, but this was first
private. Styrofoam and cups, huh? Yes. Yeah,
so our lunar lander was like one big solo cup.
Well, you watch Apollo 13 where it was just dumped
out of boxes. This is what they have. Figure
it out. Okay, well, that's a little different.
They were like trying to figure out how to fix
the filter system, filtration system. Not landing
a solo cup on the moon. I just asked AI Overview
about, you know, what is the Firefly doing on
the moon? It says, Firefly's Blue Ghost Lunar
Lander deployed by Firefly Aerospace on March
2nd, 2025 is conducting a 60 -day mission on
the moon's surface collecting data on lunar regolith,
regolith? Regolith. Regolith geophysical characteristics
and... interactions with the solar winds. Which
we go live. While also studying lunar horizon
glow. Is it trying to find out if the moon is
hollow? You know... Asshole. You know... Maybe
the reason why they're - Oh, my God, it's ringing.
Look, this is conspiracy here, but maybe the
reason why they're not looking for those flags,
oh, I can't see the flag, is because maybe the
flags aren't there. They have telescopes down
here that you can see the flags. Some liberal
went around picking them all up. Are you sure?
I haven't seen any. I haven't seen pictures of
it. Do you have a telescope? Oh, you're saying
- No, okay. If you have a telescope and you can
see the flags, why aren't there photos available
through those telescopes? I haven't seen any.
Mr. Producer? Really? To the mat. Really? What,
what, what, what? Have you seen them? You're
suggesting we've never been to the moon. No,
I'm not suggesting that. I'm suggesting that
there's not solid outside of them saying it.
I mean, even you guys just admitted that they
were a bunch of styrofoam paper cups and stuff.
Don't say you guys. He said the solo cup on the
moon thing. I believe it was a very sophisticated
craft that built by very, very smart people.
And that's why I think they landed on the moon.
Did they have red solo cups back then? Red solo
cup. I fill you up. Let's have a party. And you
have Neil Armstrong getting angry for people
calling him out to the point where he's punching
them. I mean, if it really happened, why is he
getting all bent out of shape? Because he's tired
of people calling him a fraud. He was like, fuck
you, bitch. One step for mankind. I'm waiting
for a picture of the moon from Earth. One giant
leap for mankind. Someone says they are no longer
intact as rectal flags exposed to unfiltered
solar radiation for 50 years. There we go. Oh,
what? A load of bullshit. No, it's the same shit
that makes our cars all fade in the paint. Yeah,
you don't believe that? Come on, dude. So you're
saying that the flags have deteriorated. Yes.
Yeah. They're made in China. My flag deteriorates
outside. They're made in China. It's in a vacuum.
They're not built for solar radiation. There's
no atmosphere. So how could they be affected?
Is it dry rotting? Solar radiation. It's like
anything left out in the sun is. Yeah. So it's
just cooking it. Yes. Sure. Radiation. I don't
know, man. Seems highly skeptic. Skeptic. So
you'd rather believe a conspiracy than that?
I'm not believing either of them. All I'm suggesting
is that, what about the pole? I mean, can you
see the pole? You can't see the flag, but they
have a mounting pole. Is that going to deteriorate
by the radiation? Possibly. Damn it, he has us.
All right. No, possibly. How about the footprints?
If they could see the flag, they surely could
see the footprints. The footprints would be there
forever. Or solar winds. No one can see this.
No one. Shit, it blew all my footprints away.
Good Lord. So hold on, hold on, hold on. It took
a brush. It hid their spot. I mean, it would
completely diffuse all these. Well, hold on.
There's something flying around the moon. There's
something orbiting the moon, and it's able to
take pictures of these sites. But the James Webb
Telescope can't see it. But is that true? Can
you look that up? Well, that was a Chinese satellite
that was able to fly back there, and they supposedly,
no one's seen the dark side of the moon, but
supposedly they have, and they've mapped it out.
Are they building a base? So scroll down a little
bit, Chuck. It says, it shows the Apollo landing
sites and flagpole shadows. It says, no Earth
-based or Earth -orbiting telescope has ever
photographed a flag on the moon. The closest
we are. We have our LRO images. I don't know
what that means. LRO. Oh, come on, dude. Really?
LRO. They're called landing rhiopica of oxygen.
But the thing is that... See, it shows the flagpole
shadows, dude. Yeah, but where are the pictures
of those flagpole shadows? That's all I'm saying
is that... Look it up. You know what I mean?
If it's there, why don't they just put it out
there? It's kind of like... It's just like anything.
If it's there, just show us. Just use this. Why
do we have to argue about it? Just show us. Look
up LRO images, which is what we have right now.
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. I was close. Is
it because the Earth is flat, and that's the
reason why? See, that was my point. That was
the thing that was orbiting the moon. It wasn't
coming from Earth. It was something going around
the moon can see that stuff. Yes, would you say
the Earth is flat? No. Yeah, you did. I did say
it. I think it's convex. Convex? Convex. Because
things appear smaller. That's why you can't see
them. Greenland looks bigger. Yes. Okay. All
right. We're getting wheels off here. Yes. All
right. Anyway, so now we know what LRO means.
What did it mean? Lunar? We completely debunked
Sean's theory. Oh, we always do. Yes. I don't
know. I don't think so, because I haven't seen
any pictures. Flagpole shadows. Yeah. Well, they
could say that all day long, just like Joe Biden
was a competent president. They say that. Yeah,
the Dems did. They sure did. Yeah, they did.
Until they didn't. Okay. Wow. Well, I wonder
what they're going to do with Joe Biden. Yeah.
You know what? Speaking of Houston and all the
rockets going out there, the Dallas Cowboys just
sold a few Dallas Cowboy players to Houston.
I didn't hear about this. I know there's a lot
of shit going on in the NFL right now. I'm not
selling. You're making it sound kind of gross.
Some players were traded from the Cowboys to
the Texans? I didn't hear this. All right, here
we go. Here's some pictures Mr. Producer has
up here. I don't see any landing sites with flagpoles.
That's what you were supposed to look up. Nothing?
Nothing? Landing region? It all looks the same.
Looks like skin. Oh, I see what you're showing
us here. Oh, yeah. God, see? Even something orbiting
the moon can't even take a picture close enough.
Well, that's how big the universe is. Look, there's
an arrow pointing to a little dot. Well, there
you go. There's your proof, Sean. What are you
worried about? Whatever. Yeah, there's a picture.
There you go. See, look. It's right there. Right
there. Hold on. Look closely. Did you blink?
It's right there. It's right there. See it? And
you know what the crazy thing is? Is we know
more about the surface of the moon than we do
about the ocean floor. I know. That's crazy.
You know? I know. Well, I mean, it's like miles
down. Well, which one is more high? Which one's
harder to get to? Obviously, the bottom of the
ocean because very few people do it. No, I think
the bottom of the ocean is harder to get to because
of the amount of pressure that's involved. Out
in the universe, out in the space, it's not like
that. I'm going to disagree. I'm going to disagree.
The only reason why we haven't gone down there
is because, yes, it's difficult, just like going
to the moon is difficult, but if there was some
strategic reason or... You know what I mean?
If they really felt like there was a reason to
go down there, it would be easier to go there
than it would be to go to the moon, in my opinion.
And yes, enormous pressure you have to deal with,
but there's no... Dude, just getting terminal
velocity, putting a lunar lander on a freaking
rocket and getting out of the Earth's atmosphere,
much less getting to the moon, is unbelievable.
Oh, I agree. Plus, you can't get out and walk
around down there like you can on the moon. Right.
But, you know, what happened to that, you know,
that submersible, what, three, four years ago
that just instantly imploded? That was awful.
Did you ever hear the audio of that? They said
that it was so fast that the speed was, what,
not even a second? It was like about a quarter
second. The speed of it imploding was so fast,
it created enough friction to ignite the oxygen
in there. But if you slow it down, you can hear
very, very slight, very silently. Oh, shit. No,
you hear, ow. That's all you hear. I don't know
even about that. Just kind of like, I mean, imagine
a quarter second. You wouldn't know. You were
there, then you weren't. I'm being insensitive.
But the fact that when they died, they were like,
do you think they felt anything? No. Absolutely
not. It was as if they had been erased instantaneously.
Yes. They're just a mist. God, this is awful.
And then they show the debris. Did you see the
picture of the debris on the bottom of the floor?
Yeah. Okay. Now, by the way, that was complete
negligence. on the founder of that. Well, he
was in there with them. I know. And he was an
idiot. And apparently they, people were warning
him and they were dropping out of the, out of
the project and out of the company. They were
like, uh, I can't sign onto this. This is dangerous.
What you're doing. There were cracks. They were
saying, dude, I don't, there are cracks here.
Well, he designed that. Unbelievable. The fact
that a billionaire and his son went down there
with him. How many people were there? Four people,
three people. How many people perished in that?
There were like five or six, I think. Yeah, there
was like five or six. There was a father's son.
There was the driver. I thought there were four,
but I don't know. But it doesn't matter. I mean,
is that a picture of it? I thought there was
like nothing left of the thing. No, there were
pieces. Yeah, I would imagine that part of it
imploded and, you know, who knows? It could have
imploded in a section. Right. And went poonk
and just kind of crimped everything. And then
all of a sudden, you know, maybe it didn't crush
them into. Well, the water would end up crushing
them. Maybe it just broke open. Yeah. And then
the water. And then it released everyone in there
a big old bloop. And that's kind of what I think
that the Navy boats heard because the Navy said
that they heard it. Yeah, they heard it. And
they were like, yeah, that sounded like an implosion.
We know what that sound is. And they should have
made that public. You could hear it. So, Stefan
Diggs, they traded to the Houston Texans. Wait.
Trayvon Diggs. I was going to say, Stefan Diggs
is already there. So, the brothers are playing
together? That's right. All right. We need to
discuss our bourbon. We can talk about the Cowboys
and free agency in the second half. What do you
mean? There is no more. What do you mean? We
finished it. Oh. So, where's the bottle at? This
is Willett. No, this is Ezra Brooks 107. Ezra
Brooks Distillers Collection. Charcoal mellowed.
So this is from Ezra Brooks. Who is the distiller
on this? It's Lux Row Distillers. Yeah, Lux Row.
Kentucky. It is 53 .5. So it's a 107 proof. Yeah.
So I like this one. It's easy drinking. I'm breaking
decorum, but give me a slight more, one more
pour so I can - Just lick the cork. Both Chuck
and I are like - What's he doing? That's not
fair. Okay, by the way, you guys drank a bunch
of bourbon when I wasn't here, so - That's not
true. No, it is true. Damn it, Jeff. He seized
a bottle. I saw all the bottles, and one of them
was blue corn or whatever, and I was like, damn,
that's an expensive one. We have blue corn? I
don't remember that. Fuckers. It was on the table.
No, no. Someone brought that. What do you mean
brought that? You pulled it out of the collection.
You guys drank it here. We don't have blue corn.
Not true. We never bought blue corn. True blue.
True blue. Oh, no, no, no, no. No, we didn't.
It was on the table. I didn't drink that. I think
someone else. No, I pulled out the mezcal yellow
rose that you brought. Mm -hmm. You guys broke
the cardinal rule. Anyway. We don't drink all
that unless we're all here. Sean, don't go away.
Something shit happens. All right. So Ezra Brooks,
this is handpicked from Extraordinary Bottles,
barrels. What do we think of this? All right,
here we go. I've been drinking it all night,
but now I'm in evaluation mode. So a detailed
breakdown of the tasting notes. So let's talk
about the notes. Well, we got our... Malt Meridian.
Oh, yeah. Let me get my... Before you read the
AI, let's see if we can come up with anything.
Okay, we got a worksheet. All right, here we
go. Let's see. I think it's kind of on the nose,
kind of sweet. I get some pecan. I get some pecan
in there. It is sweet, like marshmallow sweet.
I'm looking on the chart here. The circle of
life, the whiskey circle. This is the, what do
you call it? Liquor lexicon? Cinnamon. You get
cinnamon? I'm picking up the sweetness. Maybe
nutmeg. Maybe some sorghum. Oh, good one. Where's
that on the wheel of? That's right there. Is
it really? On our flavor atlas? Sorghum is not
on here. Where is that? It's right there next
to buttery. Oh, my God. Okay, you're out of the
game. It's next to mole asses, sorghum, and butter.
Okay, now we're moving on to the... All right,
so the taste... Here we go. I'm picking up some
caramel in this, definitely. So AI brings in
cinnamon, wood sugars, hazelnuts, smoky oak marshmallows,
all charred. We don't care about AI. We want
what we know, what we can pick out. I get nuts.
So far, I'm on... Now that you said all that,
we're going to taste it all. No, so far, I'm
on pecan and nut. Pecan and nut. So I guess I'm
on the tree part, the tree slice. You're picking
up wood? No, I'm picking up nut. I knew that's
why he wasn't here last week. No, I wouldn't
do any wood. All right. Pecan and nut. Okay.
I'm sorry. We're looking at our little chart
here. They have no idea what we're looking at.
So you need to tell them what you're looking
at. That's what I just said. It's a worksheet.
It's a wheel. It's called the Whiskey Ride, the
Taste at Home. Worksheet. So it's a big wheel,
and at the very center of the wheel, they have
a tree, sweet, botanical, grain, and spice. And
it all stems out from each one. The next tier
is rich, aromatic, floral, fruity. You know,
cereal, breads. Paul likes more of that stuff.
Bread. And then it has another tier that breaks
it down even more. You know, butterscotch. A
little more flavors. Caramel. Kind of gets a
little bit more like marshmallow, honey, honeysuckle,
et cetera. And then there's another couple tiers
that are even further out. I can't even read
that. Yeah, I can't read that. Which one? I can
read all of them. Right past citrus on the botanical
food. Oh, I can't read that. Orange, grapefruit,
lemon. Apple pear. I can't read it because there's
no fucking light in here. Anyways, it is a great
wheel to look at if you're trying to figure it
out. So basically it's a worksheet. You take
this and you're kind of like, hey, what do you
guys taste? But we've been doing this so long
and we just kind of shoot from the hip here.
We're pros. This one right here from Lux Rose.
First of all, Lux Rose is a pretty reputable
company that puts out a great product. They do
Rebels. Yeah. Rebel Yell. Yeah, they're good.
Yeah, I'll call it Rebel Yell. In fact, they
got all woke and were like, we're going to remove
the word yell because we don't want people to
think of us as like we're rebel losers and racist
and stuff. I was like, come on. Yeah, I wish
they wouldn't do that. Hold on to heritage, man.
It's heritage, not hate. Actually, this is not
too bad. It's good. It's easy to drink. I like
it. I think the sweetness makes it easy to drink.
What did you say the proof was? Sorry. 107. Oh,
very nice. It's right in that sweet spot. I mean,
for it to be... It doesn't even taste 107. I
was going to say... My wife did not care for
this. It's not harsh. So the palate offers a
sweet experience with caramelized wood sugars,
vanilla cream brulee, and that's just absolutely
dominating. I agree with that. The finish, the
107 proof provides a warm and long finish with
notes of cinnamon and Nutella. Nutella? Yeah.
Hazelnut. It's the hazelnut, yeah. Nutella's
never been thrown out. Some people mention chocolate,
mint, nutmeg. You mentioned nutmeg, right? I
did. This nuts. Thank you. How about that? Slight
peppery spice. I'm picking it up on the, when
you say creme brulee, I think of when you have
a marshmallow over the fire. That's what I'm
thinking of. Yeah. Those s'more type, before
you make them into s'mores, the marshmallows
we have over the fire, they're kind of melty.
Yeah, yeah. That's what I kind of pick up. Nice.
I like it. I like it, too. I won't kick this
out of bed. In fact, this is readily available.
Yeah, well, Ezra Brooks. We're still good. We
got half a bottle. We got enough for another
round. Oh, yeah. No, they have, I mean, but they
have lots of different, they have a mixer, too,
Ezra Brooks. Yeah, they do. Yeah, they have a
whole bunch, right? Yeah, they do. They're not
one of those exclusively high proof, exclusively,
you know, whatever, whatever. They have a whole
range of bourbons out there. Yeah. This is good.
Distillers Collection. This is good. I like it.
It was good. It's tasty. Recommend it. Easy drinker.
You could sip on this. My wife didn't like it.
She said it was too hot, alcohol -wise, for her.
But no, I'm not picking that up on this. It says
it's hand -picked from extraordinary barrels.
Interesting. So if we're wrapped up with that,
did we already talk about how Kentucky's getting
a little nervous about this Canadian tariff?
Well, I've seen all kinds of photos and stuff
where... What happened to your camera? It's all
smeggy again. He's taking a selfie and it's all
smegma. It's got your Vaseline all over it again.
Yeah, it's got sticky stuff on the camera, I
think. What have you been doing with that camera?
Keistering it. But anyway, yeah, I've seen pictures
of the liquor stores pulling all the bourbon
off the shelves. Yeah, that's so extreme. It's
not necessary. But it doesn't fucking matter.
They've already paid for it. Yeah, they paid
for it, so fuck them. And the governor of Kentucky
is like, you know, you guys are disproportionately
being all kind of bent out of shape about this.
But then he kind of took a dig at Trump. He's
like, I don't support this, and tariffs are not
the way to go. There you go. That looks better.
That's much better. All right. We had a selfie.
I'm sending that to Larry Cuvion. He just texted
me. Nice. But yeah, I think they are a little
overreacted. I think they got a little butt hurt.
Well, dude, they're booing our anthem. Every
time they hear our anthem, they're booing our
anthem. So, I mean, what the hell, man? Yeah,
they're taking it to heart. Trump's played hardball
to negotiate. That's what he always does. He
trolls and gets emotions fired up. And they're
going all out on it. Well, Ontario enforced a
25 %... tariff on the electricity that they bring
in, probably for the northeast. Right? Yeah,
sure. So then Trump turned around and says, all
right, we're putting 50 % on your steel. Right.
Yeah, and aluminum. And Ontario, I believe, has
already caved. Good. The whole thing. Okay. Look,
if you're going to put a reciprocal tariff on
somebody, it's stupid at a certain point. Okay,
look, if you're going to charge us 20%, we're
going to charge you 20%. I got an idea. How about
you don't charge us 20 % and we both just drop
down? It just makes sense. Now, I understand
that there needs to be some sort of payment for
some of the processes, maybe 5 % maybe. I don't
know. What's normal? What do we charge China?
For what? For tariffs. I mean, Trump applied
a tariff when he was in office, and they were
just like, I can't believe you applied that tariff
to China. And then when Joe Biden got in office,
he went and didn't do shit. He left the tariff
there. Well, I can tell you that on computers
and shit like that, it was 25%. So let me, okay,
can we dig into this a little bit? Because I
think a lot of people get confused about what
exactly the situation is and why. and why Trump's
doing what he's doing. We have a trade deficit,
a massive trade deficit with many countries in
the world, right? Yeah, they tariff the shit
out of us so our stuff doesn't sell over there.
Okay, all right, so that's what it is. So it's
not that they don't, it's not that they're refusing
to buy our goods. It's just that they've made
our goods too expensive to be competitive in
their market. I believe India has 100 % tariff
on Harleys. fuck me that's crazy yeah see and
that's what so we've been getting just you know
taking it up the butt by the whole world for
so long and trump is like okay enough's enough
right so okay so it is it is a is it a hundred
percent that they are putting tariffs on our
products or are they simply not allowing our
products into their markets yes which one is
it both yes it's so they're they're wanting they're
wanting us to pay extra actually we don't have
to pay the people that are importing our stuff
pay the tax so when someone applies a tariff
to us let's just say you know when it comes to
our our when we import it the importers pay that
tariff So if the importers are in the United
States and we're ordering stuff from China, the
importers pay that. And that gets turned and
the United States citizens have to pay it. Yeah,
they pass it forward. But when you are in the
negotiation phase and you say, all right, well,
that product I'm about to buy from China, product
A, cost $100 and it's going to hit our border.
Now it's $125. I'm not paying that. Why don't
you drop your price to $80 to compensate for
that tariff? And that's kind of what the play
game is. And they don't want to fucking do that
either. All right, well, get with your freaking
country and let's lower the reciprocal tariffs.
It's stupid. Okay, but in a macro level. So the
reality is we're buying way more of the world's
products than they are buying of ours. 100%.
And so that screws our manufacturing. That screws
our job opportunities. Yeah, but are we really
making a bunch of stuff? Well, that's the whole
point. There's no point in making anything here
because you can't sell it anywhere. Well, that's
by design because everything is made in Hong
Kong or China. Everybody wants cheap Chinese
product. Right. That's why Timu is so popular.
They want that cheap Chinese product. Disposable
shit. Oriental trading. Pull up what you had
there. Pull the back up. These are the tariffs
that... Canada has on U .S. products. Okay, let's
hurry up. Is this legitimate? What's the website
here? This is X. Plato's Cave Shadows. All right,
so we don't really know if this is... I don't
know if that's accurate or not. Okay, we don't
know, but let's just read it anyway. Go ahead,
Jeff. It says, so the number one, butter, approximately
298 % tariff on... On American butter. Part of
Canada's supply -managed dairy sector, which
imposes high tariffs to protect domestic production.
Domestic meaning Canadian production. So they're
protecting their own butter makers, right? Their
own dairy farms and stuff like that. And then
milk, approximately 270 % tariff. It's another
supply -managed dairy product with significant
tariffs to limit U .S. imports. Basically, all
of these are to benefit the Canadian. country
which okay i get that uh but then you can't bitch
and turn around when we do a reciprocal yeah
we we want to protect our yeah we want to protect
uh we're not going to take your steel because
we want to protect our steel industry right fair
enough i never i never understood that i i 100
don't understand that we we were charging china
zero Zero. That's crazy. Bring your shit over
here. Let us get all your shit for as cheap as
possible. Right. And they're fucking us when
we try to sell our stuff over there in the United
States. And I guarantee there were people that
made similar products that come out of China.
They made it in the United States, and very quickly
they realized, unless people, you know, hey,
made in America. Buy my product, you're going
to pay about $10 more than you would buying the
shit off of Amazon. But, you know, people don't
care. Well, manufacturers in the United States,
guys that owned companies, would basically, that's
what they were doing. They were subcontracting,
let's just say, TV, whatever. Whatever product
it is, they're like, all right, well, I just
invented this. Let's go ahead and make this.
We want this to be manufactured in China. Well,
China says, all right, well, give us the plans
and we'll do it. And you have to make out a detailed
contract with them about intellectual property
and all that stuff. And no, they steal it anyway.
At the end of the day, they just steal it. They
come up with a phase two or a second generation
one. Sometimes it's fucking better for a fraction
of the cost. They turn around and they sell it
right back without any tariffs. And you'll see
some of these. Because when I was looking at
some T -shirts, I wanted to buy some American.
made t -shirts right so it'll say uh printed
in the u .s but the t -shirts come from china
right so but they're buying all these chinese
t -shirts just go over here with a little silk
screen and print them but again they're trying
to compete yeah they can't compete right Yeah,
because of the tariffs. And we've got unions
and we've got high wages and we've got this and
we've got that and people making shit here just
can't compete. We have OSHA and we have all these
regulations over in China. Let's do what you
want. They're leaping off the buildings. Yeah,
they have workers getting sucked into the t -shirt
machine. Well, that and, you know, they've got
a huge community of people in jail, you know,
wiggers and all kinds of things that are, they've
got all these... That's slave labor. Yeah, just
on top. That's fucked up. But it is what it is.
So I don't blame Trump for wanting to put America
first. That's what he's doing. All right. Well,
it's March 11th. It's the first half of our Dudes
Like Us podcast. The second half, we're going
to be bringing up what happened today in this
year or what happened in this year today. This
day in history. This day in history. We're talking
about the spirits of Texas tasting that's coming
up March 22nd. Dudes Like Us will be out there.
Jeff will be gallivanting, visiting family in
Ohio, right? I'll be in the car on the way back.
Yeah, you'll be recovering. Yes, I will be gallivanting.
We'll talk about that, too. I want to hear about
your trip that you're planning up there. Lots
of stuff to talk about. Dudes Like Us. I'm Sean.
I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff. Thank you, Mr. Producer.
Mr. Chuck.