We are GoFlight. We are GoFlight Podcast. Push,
push. Push, push, box, box. Push, push, box,
box. We love that show, dude. I just watched
the 2023 season. I'm about to watch the one that
just came out. Paul tried taking my train. I
did not. The one next to me is obviously mine.
It was clearly next to you, and you were trying
to get it. So, are you caught up on F1? The newest
one that just came out, I have not watched it.
That's what we're watching right now. Yeah, we
have not. I just watched the previous season.
Chuck, are you watching F1? No. Have you seen
it? No. Have you seen any of it? No. Do you have
any idea what F1 is? I know what F1 is, but I
don't know what the show is. We did not. It's
really, really good. Like, we knew it was racing.
Like, what's it on? It's on Netflix. Okay. And
we didn't know anything about cars. We knew literally
nothing. We just knew it was racing, and you
said, you've got to watch it. It's cool. It is
super cool. It is. And you get to know about
the drivers and what they're struggling with
and what the cars are struggling with and the
drama behind, you know. All the contracts and
people jumping teams. There's only 20 races,
20 drivers. Chuck. No, 20 teams. There's only
20 teams and there's only like 22 races. I read
somebody wants to add an F1 team. Who is that?
Someone very rich says he wants to start a business.
Saudi Arabia is always a billionaire. Well, you
have to be. How much money do they have dumped
into these things? It's astounding. They have
a team of hundreds of people building this car.
And it's 100%. They even said in the season I
just watched, we are a data -driven business.
100%. Everything is wind tunnels and metrics.
Even when they're on the course or on the track.
They measure everything. Yes. They know tire
thickness. They know vibrations, this, that.
They're like, something's wrong. Yep, retire
the car. Yeah, retire the car. And the driver's
like, what the fuck? What are you talking about?
Retire the car. Like, I'm out of the race? Yes,
come into the box box. You're done. Shut the
car down. Because they're trying to salvage the
car. Otherwise, they're going to damage it so
badly. It's going to blow up or something like
that. So, Sean, have you seen any of this? F1?
No, not at all. I highly recommend it. So it's
on Facebook or Netflix? Yeah. It's called F1
Drive to Survive, I think. All right. Well, check
it out on Facebook and Instagram, dudes like
us. Thanks, Chuck. I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm
Jeff. In Netflix, F1. And if you're not even
into racing, it's fascinating. It really is.
Well, I want to go see a race now. I do, too.
You know what's funny? You can go to COTA. I
watched it on TV. I was super excited. We're
going to watch our first one after. And it was
like. Boring. As hell. Because they dub in all
of that voice work after the fact. Yes. And they
make it sound so exciting. Oh, this drive. Because
they focus on certain teams on each one. Yes.
And it just so happens that. The announcer of
the race is talking specifically about them.
Yes. And they talk about particular things that
happen in the race. Yes. And there's really just
a handful of them. Right. Because the entire
thing about F1 is you maintain your position
based on the qualifying, and you basically do
everything you can to not let somebody pass you.
And if they do, it basically stays that way.
Really? You know what I mean? For the most part.
Well, yeah, there's a lot. The race is nowhere
near as exciting to watch on TV as the show is.
I've watched one. It's like, this is not the
same. Yes, not the same at all. I think live
would be exciting because it'd be like, three
minutes later, they come back around. But people
who know, it is exciting to them. Right. They
could probably listen to, I want to listen to
the Red Bull team. There's a lot of talk going
back and forth. They talk about the driver. They're
like, so -and -so is 0 .4 seconds behind you.
Are you saying that you get an opportunity to
listen to what their comms are saying? Yeah.
As a pedestrian out there or a patron? Somehow.
You can at NASCAR as well. You can buy the headsets.
Yeah, the headsets. You can hear the teams talking
to the drivers, and it's fascinating. Yeah, that's
what I find fascinating. You know, the race is
one thing, but it's all of the analytics and
shit they go through and the amount of money
that is invested in this sport. It's just stunning.
It's astronomical because basically they have
these moving cities to each race. Each team has
this, I don't know how they do it, these buildings
that they construct. I don't know if it's their
big semis that somehow morph into these buildings,
and they're all nice looking. Yeah, they are.
Sliding doors, you know, Star Trek doors. Yeah,
it's all compartmentalized. Yeah. It's kind of
pieced together. Two floors they got. It's a
big deal, man. It's fascinating. And the drivers,
they're all cocky and young. Yes, that's the
other fascinating thing. These same group of,
for the most part, I don't know, 12 out of the
20 of them grew up together as little kids on
little go -karts. And it was serious shit, even
as little kids on podiums. They're all super
competitive, and you're on a team of two. And
what cracks me up is they do this and they fight
against each other and end up wrecking each other.
Because they're competitive as hell, man. And
they're like, let him pass. Like one teammate
passed another teammate. They're like, no, I'm
not going to let him pass. And they're like,
do it for the team. What are you doing? It's
crazy. They end up wrecking each other. Yes,
they do. Highly recommend it. All right. I know
we're losing Chuck and Sean here in this conversation.
Well, I'm just trying to pull it up here. All
right. Yeah, these trucks. I guess they just
travel like that. Drivers, managers, and team
owners live, live life in the fast lane, both
on and off the track during each cut boot season
for a loaner racing. Perfect intro, Sean. Thank
you. Well, it is. And these guys, you know, they
have the cameras like in the seat with them.
Oh, yeah. And you see how they're driving. You're
just like, that's a skill to be able to drive
like that. Because it's not a smooth drive. You're
going like this, and they're going 180 miles
an hour around the turn. Yes, yes. And their
cars are like four inches from each other. Oh,
yeah. When they're making turns. Oh, yeah. I
mean, these cars are so fragile. So fragile.
They just barely touch. It's all fiberglass.
Yeah, they just basically implode. Or they get
a flat tire. Or they eviscerate. It's amazing.
Yeah, you'll see cars explode on this. Oh, yeah.
Guys catching on fire and shit. Yeah, that was
one season. That was really scary. Yeah, I got
to tell you, I'll have to force myself to start
it because I have zero desire to watch that.
As soon as you do, you'll get sucked in. I had
no desire until I watched that first season a
few years ago, and I was like, this is fascinating.
Dude, if Shelly can get pulled into this, I promise
you, you guys can. And now we joke. Box, box,
push, push. Box, box. So I'm going to do a hard
right right now. Actually, it's a left. So there
is something, I think it's RID, some sort of,
it's a satellite imaging. And it's laser, maybe
it's LID. So there is a satellite imaging company
out there. And they specialize in scanning the
earth for things that are in the earth. Underground.
Yeah, using some sort of radar. So it goes underneath
the crust kind of thing. Correct. Well, no, hold
on. How deep are we talking about? Are we looking
for human structures under the ground? Okay,
that's not crust. We're talking... Yeah, it's
not the full crust. Just reading the surface.
Is it the mantle? So they have found... Is it
the mantle? It is a scan of the crust, Jeff.
But you made it sound like a really thick layer
of the earth, okay? We're talking like 100 feet
deep. So this they found in Egypt under the pyramids.
Have you heard the latest findings? Yes, I saw
that where it went down deep. Into the crust?
No. What did you hear? I saw some meme where
they're like, yeah, the pyramids go way down
deep. So this is real. This is 100 % true. So
under one of the pyramids, there are four pairs
of columns that go down 12 stories. Oh, shit.
So this whole thing, the pyramid's built on top
of columns? So they're speculating that this
is some sort of... And they've always thought
this. This has always been something they thought.
It was a power station. And these... Columns
that come down, there is a spiral that goes around
the outside that is a pathway. Like a Tesla coil?
It is a path. It's a stairwell. But they have
copper that goes down. There's a box that they
meet down at the bottom. Not all the details
because it's like hush, hush, top secret. Sure.
But this has been released. Did they have electricity
back then? No. That's a negative. That's not
true either. So they have, look, if you look
at the hieroglyphics, there are large vessels
that are made out of glass, and there is a filament
in there, and reportedly those things were used
to illuminate the bowels of the underside of
the pyramid. Bowels? No. I mean, I think it was.
They were holding the mirrors. It's not the Fifth
Element style. Reflecting the light. Oh, that's
right. Through like seven corridors. I mean,
there's some truth to that, too. But I don't
think this is it. There's a picture Mr. Producer
put up there, to be clear. Oh, my God. That's
what they think it looks like? That is, so they've
got actual pictures there, and they're speculating.
There have been people that actually have gone
down there. So they've extrapolated on the right
from that goo on the left. Yeah, but there's
- That looks like a fish finder. Goo, the goo
on the left. How did they get that? That's not
the only picture that they've got. That's the
picture that they have here. Maybe the whole
thing is a spacecraft. It's not a spacecraft.
What it is, it's an energy thing. How would they
know that? Well, let me go into a little bit
more depth here. So they're talking about how
they manage the Nile River, and the river is
used, and ultimately it's used as an ionizer.
Look how deep it goes. Oh, my. That's insane.
It's amazing. Look how deep that goes down. Look
at the size of the pyramids at the top. Two kilometers
below. So the nine stories I said was completely
wrong. Those are tall stories. Well, look, I
mean, the thing is, it's new. Could it be something
else? Like an anomaly? Like compacted? Maybe
the weight of that has compacted the sand or
something? Maybe it's just a limestone formation.
No, because... You know what? Who am I? I don't
know. But what they're saying is that it's not
an anomaly because they have looked at other
structures like the Sphinx and other heavy stone
structures, and none of this stuff has ever populated
down below. I don't know. This one is. And what
they're saying is that it's some sort of healing
thing. They're using some vibration or some ionizing.
And it's using, at the end of the day, they didn't
fucking know. They have no idea. But they're
speculating, and they've got a lot of smart people
that have thought this through forever. And these
rooms, it's exactly what they thought it was.
Scroll back up real quick, Chuck, to where that
guy was. So, Rod, read some of this. That would
error. The discovery beneath the Giza pyramid
is probably BS. Here's why. The tech used to
scan and produce the heat map image can't penetrate
the ground that deep. Same tech isn't accurate,
unable to show the Giza Pyramid chambers. If
real, those underground towers would be enormous,
taller than most modern skyscrapers. It is known
that there's underground water beneath the pyramids.
Why would anyone build these gigantic structures
in a high flood risk zone? Well, you know, I
mean, that's just one person. Debunked. Yeah.
I mean. I think it's fish. In an underwater Egyptian
ocean. They said there's water. There's flood
tables. No, it's an ocean underneath Egypt. Go
catch some musky. You know what? Whatever. It's
interesting as fuck. It's fascinating. It opens
up another Pandora's box of what's really going
on. And a lot of these people know. Some of those
guys, those Egypt. They know a lot more than
they share. There's tons of stuff going on. Well,
I've always said that just because we think that
this happened thousands of years ago doesn't
mean that they didn't have technology. True.
That would have just died away. Right. And they
could have done something like this. We don't
know. We think people from that age are just
stupid. Yeah, right. Because, oh, they didn't
have computers. Primitive. Yeah, they didn't
have circuit boards. Right. Maybe they had something
else. But I think this could be, I don't want
to say easy to prove, but just. Dig down and
see what's there. There's a lot of red tape.
That's what I mean. Jeff's suggestion is just
to go dig underneath there. That's just it. There's
already that spiral that they're insinuating
that's going down. That's what they're saying
is a pathway. And they said that they have some
people that have gone down there. I don't know
if that's bullshit. Well, how do they know that?
Again, from that image. How do they extrapolate
that? It's really hard to tell. Well, I don't
really... Is that what someone wants? I've seen
some better images than that. We're also not
imaging experts, right? So we have no idea how
to extrapolate that data and that information
and that image into something meaningful. That's
what these people, that's all they do, apparently.
Yeah, I still don't see it. I don't see it either.
It is fascinating. Yeah. I mean, well, there
you go. Oh, well, somebody stuck a camera down
there. Someone up its anus or something. That's
Sean's colonoscopy. That's a giant stone. Well,
look, how'd that get in there? It's interesting.
And what that guy says, that LIDAR, that type
of radar, he's right. It won't penetrate water.
So if there is water and there's a table there,
it's not going to go through it. But he is wrong
about it going beneath the earth. That's not
true. It will absolutely go through. That's how
they do it. That's how they do scans. It's used
in vibrations. It's a seismic type of a laser.
It is true that we are very arrogant to think
that we know. Well, they could do something like
that. Exactly. We're very arrogant to think that
things are impossible. Correct. So that is true.
They had smart people back then. It was just
different. They had different tools. Again, I
think there's technology that has been lost over
the years. Or hidden. Or both. Well, think about
it. Our technology, everything is in the cloud.
Do you think that cloud is going to be around
in a thousand years? It could be lost so fast.
Our technology could be ended and lost so fast.
There are no hard copies left. No. Well, yeah,
because they took all our CDs and records. That's
what I mean. Eventually, there are some Howard
copies. And you guys demonized the hoarders who
have all the filing cabinets. Yes. The retirement
cave. Right. It's on you guys. Oh, can you put
that on a CD or flash drive? Yes. I think it's
fascinating, and I'm trying to dig into some
more of this. And by the way, I'm still jamming
out on my book reading. Did you finish that book
yet? Oh, hell no. Do you like it? Oh, every night.
It's like 15 minutes to 30 minutes. Oh, yeah.
And it really makes me want to fall asleep. Is
this the library thing that you guys have been
doing? Man, I'm telling you, I'm enjoying it.
What are you reading? What are you reading? I
miss books. Miss them. James Rollins. It's the
Sandstorm. It's the first of the Sigma Force
books. That's right. You were talking about that.
I recommend it. Highly recommend it. Some better
than others, but they're all very interesting.
Yeah. Okay. Well, dial me in on this. You guys
went to Little Elm Library without me. That was
cool. That was Frisco. Well, you were traveling.
You were gallivanting. Was I? Yes. Yeah, you
and Shelly were traveling on the motorcycle.
You were riding bitch and she was driving. I
was like, can I hold on to you, Shelly? She's
like, get off me, bitch. And move your hands.
I asked her if she wants to ride her own motorcycle.
She's like, no. Oh my God, no. Crazy. Tara wouldn't
trust me. Yeah, I see couples riding around in
two motorcycles. I think it's kind of cool. Anyway,
Tara wouldn't trust you. She wouldn't trust me
driving. Hell, she doesn't trust anybody driving.
She wouldn't get on a motorcycle. She would barely
get in a God -blessing car. With you driving.
With anyone driving. Yeah, yeah. I'm one of the
few people she quasi -trusts. Yeah, I drove her
out to Lake Dallas once for one of Preston's
games, and she actually did pretty good. I told
her when she got there, I was like, you did really
good. She's like, no, I didn't. I was holding
it in. I was falling apart the whole time. But
she did. I thought she did very well. No, she
internalized it, but she does not hold back with
me. Yes. Right. We've all seen that. She just
needs to take a Benadryl. No, what she needs
to do is get some therapy. Look, my wife has
agoraphobia for those listeners out there that
don't get it. And look, I feel for her because
there are people like her that go into panic
attacks. And I couldn't imagine going through
that. But at the same time, how does a person
allow themselves to be tormented that throughout
their life? You would think, I'm going to...
Dude, I'm going to beat it. I'm going to get
this. I'm going to conquer this. I'm going to
beat this. I'm getting over this. It's done.
I'm done. There's a lot of people that have lots
of different things and they don't. Yeah, but
this one is something that she's like, I'm going
to have this for the rest of my life. I was like,
no, you don't have to. You don't have to. It's
a choice to fight it. It's being scared. I'll
make a little analogy. When I lived in El Paso,
El Taco. They had the three -lane highway, and
the concrete walls were really close because
they were adding onto the highway. So they had
the lanes really crunched. It's like driving
Dallas, South Dallas. They got those lanes really
tight, and you're weaving your way through. It's
scary as a driver. And it's just like, fuck.
And I was having super high anxiety driving it.
And, you know, after a while, you just get used
to it. And that's what she needs to do. I think
that all of them, they need just to exercise
it. You know, you're scared of something, do
it again. If you're scared of flying, get on
a plane and fly. And fly and fly until you're
not fucking afraid anymore. What's your worst
fear? That I'm going to die. Well, you didn't.
Yeah. Do it again. You didn't again. There you
go. You didn't die. What's your worst fear? Right?
Yeah. So. Conquer it. I agree. Mine is my feet
dangling with eight miles of ocean beneath it.
And a big shark coming up and eating me. Okay.
Yes. I'm not a fan of sharks. So I swim the sharks
over and over. Hold on. Is this on a cruise ship?
You won't put your feet over the edge? No, I'm
not a fan of the ocean, getting in the ocean.
At all? No, I don't need to. I see. I see. I'll
visit the ocean. You'll be on a boat. Yeah, I'll
go on a cruise. Okay. I've never been on the
ocean on anything before. Interesting. Interesting.
Interesting. You know, I'd love to go on a cruise.
And it's a shark fear. It's just a shark thing.
Well, it's the feet dangling. Chuck, are we going
on a cruise? No. Unless you want to go on a dolphin
cruise or something like that. I'd go on an Alaskan
cruise. Why would you want to go on a dolphin
cruise? That was amazing. Alaskan cruise was
amazing. Yeah, I'd do an Alaskan cruise. Would
you go on an Alaskan cruise? I got to go by myself.
My wife won't go, so I got to go by myself. I'm
trying to find out. And you're asking Chuck to
go with you. I mean, are you going to go? I wasn't
asked. Were you guys going? Hold on. Were you
asked, Chuck? We just got bypassed. Yeah. Well,
maybe you and I should go on Alaska cruise and
Sean and Chuck can go somewhere else. Fuck them.
We'll do a European river cruise. Exactly. And
you know what? You and I will have a ball. Chuck
and I will share a room. We'll have the blue
Danube. We're going to go to the blue Danube.
We'll have bunk beds and you guys have your own
bunk beds. And we'll go see the Mona Lisa. The
Mona Lisa? Whatever. We'll look at what a Moni
Moni or Mono. What are you? You and I will have
a Billy Idol. Billy Idol. Moni Moni. Okay, so
while you and Chuck are planning your vacation,
Jeff and I are going to do something even better.
All I'm saying is that, well, first of all, it's
very. And you guys know this. Yeah, it's frustrating.
It's frustrating because, I mean, I'm happy you
guys get to do this. At the same time, I'm like,
man, it sucks. Yeah, you can't do a lot. Yeah,
so, I mean, I want to do it. And doing a cruise
is something easy. I mean, it's a guaranteed
six, seven days. You know, you get there. So
many options. It's hard not to find something
that makes you happy. Then you get norovirus
and puke and shit the rest of the time. Well,
some people are into that, Jeff. Well, it's kind
of like dangling your feet in the ocean. You
know, sometimes you just got to do it. I mean,
and look, I have been in the ocean a lot. I've
spent my time in the Mediterranean Sea. You know,
I've been in tons of different oceans. I've never.
Mediterranean Sea is a sea. It's still saltwater.
You know, it's saltwater. And they have animals
in there. But, you know. They do have animals.
They have animals in there. So is the Salt Lake.
So, you know, it's crazy because my nephew, Devin,
you know, they had been to an ocean before and
they showed up to Galveston and they had rented,
they graduated high school and they had rented
a house and there were like eight kids and they
were being chaperoned. And they were out minding
their own business. They weren't being bad. No.
They were in the water. Knee -deep water. Yeah,
just out in the ocean, knee -deep water. And
they stepped on a horseshoe or shoe. A stingray.
Was it a stingray? Yeah. This fucking thing latched
onto his leg and poked him in the front of the
shin. And they had to go to the emergency room.
Yeah, the barb on the end of the stingray, like,
zipped him. It was like. In and out. He was convulsing
almost. Isn't that what got the crocodile hunter?
Yeah. Stabbed him in the heart, though. Through
the heart. Right. One of the big stingrays got
him right in the heart. All those crocodiles
are like, damn it, we missed our shot. Oh, no
shit. So, I mean, I'm pretty sure it was a stingray.
That you guys are talking about. I think it was.
I just don't remember. And it doesn't have like
a poison on the end of it? It had some sort of
toxin on there and they were able to let it relax.
I think it had to do with heat or salt water
or something like that. Did they urinate on it?
I don't know exactly what they did. Did all the
guys hop around and pee on his leg? Is it urinate
or defecate? Well, the defecation spread it.
It's like a salve. Like a salve. Instead of a
tincture. Jesus Christ. Like Schwarzenegger and
Predator. Run! Go! Get to the chopper! It happens
out there. God help us if the four of us are
somewhere and we're coming up with ideas. I would
have peed on it. I would have gulped the shit
on it. I just got stung by a... I got bitten
by a snake. Oh, I'm going to shit on you. No,
we don't shit on you. I spit on it. No, no, no,
no. I think I cum on it. Oh. Oh. I'm almost ready.
Yeah, I'm prepared. He's in the back. I'm getting
ready. Oh, you're going to die. That's nuts.
I shouldn't have said that word. But, you know,
it's like... We're going to have to edit that
out. But it happens. That's the next T -shirt.
I like going into the ocean. But you see these
stories out there that some of the recent ones
where these people are getting attacked in knee
-deep water by some of these sharks. So it's
not that it doesn't. It does happen. It does
happen. It's just extremely rare. It's becoming
less rare. Well, what it is is all the people
going to where the sharks are. The sharks are
where they're supposed to be. Well, actually,
I think they're extending past where their feeding
grounds are because something's changing and
they're looking for food. We're going to call
it Al Gore. It's Al Gore. Or Greta. How dare
you? Al Gore forced the sharks to go closer to
shore. No, seriously, something's happening.
I think there are more, and maybe you could...
confirmed this, Chuck, but I think there are
more attacks than in the past. It could be the
people. Maybe they're attracting. Maybe. Maybe
it's the musk. It could be the musk. It's the
axe. What is the axe spray? It could be the taint
dust that's being washed. Unprovoked shark bites
worldwide. Are they on the uptick or no? The
United States has experienced the most incidences
accounting for 36 cases while shark attacks are.
Rare fatalities are even rare with only 10 deaths
reported globally in 2023. 36 unprovoked attacks.
I think Paul has more than those a year, don't
you? An unprovoked attack. Oh, I get one daily
from Sean. Oh, me? Come on. A daily unprovoked
attack. A safety dome. Yeah, I'll wake up in
the morning and the first text I get is, you're
so ugly, dude. I'm like, wow, that was an unprovoked
attack. Yeah, that's like a preemptive fact.
Yeah, right. All right, so it says the risk of
being attacked by a shark is extremely low, with
experts calculating one in 3 .7 million chances
of dying in a shark attack. But what if you got
like a big just chunk of calf ripped out? What's
that chance gone down to? And what are the trends?
What are the shark attack trends? Maybe that's
the word you should look for. It says it went
from 36 to 47. Well, it went from 69 in 2023
to 47 last year. It's gone down. Oh, it's gone
down. So you're wrong, Paul. Damn it. So it's
not Elon Musk's fault. Now, I would subscribe
to that. There's always something going on. There's
different feeding grounds. There's migration
of different types of animals. Hell, there's
migration of climate. It's not climate change
from the perspective of what these freaking idiots
are thinking, but there is climate migration.
Some places are getting colder. Some places are
getting hotter. Some places are more susceptible
to tornadoes. As I've said all along, there is
no way that Texas used to be an ocean unless
climate changed somehow. Yeah, 100%. Over time.
It's changing naturally, though. Naturally. It'll
take billions and billions of years. So the entire
center of the country used to be ocean. Exactly.
Yeah. I mean, they're finding seashells. Yeah,
yeah. Like, you know, in Kansas. Right. You can
find seashells here. Exactly. So, in other words,
massive climate change happened over a long period
of time, gradually, and, you know, that happened.
It'll happen again. It will happen again. Just
like there's going to be another extinction event.
There's already been, what, five? Yes. There's
going to be another one. What do you mean, five?
There's been five extinction events throughout
the history of Earth. Yes. Some were flora. Some
were fauna. Some were animals and plants. And
for different reasons. And we have no idea because,
look, they've unveiled different types of coal.
They found some sort of... wheel that had to
have been millions of years old in a coal shaft.
They took a picture of it and all of a sudden
fucking men in black came in and it disappeared.
Went away. They've got the there's the something
hammer, the Berlin hammer. Thor's hammer? No,
it's there's a hammer that they found in Iraq
and they're saying it's made out of pure iron
and You said it was Iraq? Like Iraq or in a rock?
In a rock. So this guy was on a rock and a ground.
It was in Texas. The London Hammer, I think is
what it's called. The London Hammer. Then why
would it be the Texas Hammer? Well, it's been
London, Texas, I think. I think they found that.
Get rid of Iraq. It's the Frisco Hammer. Whatever.
Click on that. The London Hammer. All right,
the London Hammer, also known as the London Artifact,
hammer made of iron wood that was found in London,
Texas, 1936. A part of the hammer is embedded
in a limey rock, concretion leading to being
regarded as some of the anomalous artifacts.
So concrete. So someone made concrete and put
a hammer in it. Well, I mean, it's possible,
you know. They said, well, they're going to find
this in 100 years. No, but the thing about the
iron that is in that hammer. They did a test
on that iron, and it is more pure than any iron
that we've ever been able to produce ever. Where
do you get this stuff? You get it from TikTok,
right? Or Instagram. I don't have TikTok. No,
no, I'm being dead serious because I am so unplugged
from any of this type of stuff. I watch a lot
of YouTube videos. YouTube. So I watch a lot
of this. And I'm not suggesting that it's all
garbage, what you're watching. I don't think
it is. I mean, this stuff is super interesting
to me because it's Earth history. And I think
the more we know about where we live, I think
it's awesome. I think it is. And just the fact
that the, you know, because the people are kind
of like, well, that could have been, it could
have been not necessarily a recreation, but it
could have been something more contemporary that
just looks old. And because they have found that
too. They're like, we have no idea. how this
rock accumulated around this so fast. That has
happened. But the difference between that and
this is the level of the iron they found in there.
In fact, it says right there, the middle of the
hammerhead consists of 96 .6 iron, which is unheard
of to have that much iron within that hammer.
Interesting. And that's also found... What's
a normal iron hammer? I don't know. I don't think
they make iron hammers. I think they're steel.
Then what would they compare that to? Why would
it be abnormal? No, they're talking about how
they can come up with iron. They do have iron
products out there. So it's like they have that
in that. In India, they have that iron pole I
was telling you about. You guys made fun of forever.
We still do. And that's okay. But it's like four
to six inches in diameter. And it stands about
20 foot tall. And the iron doesn't rust. And
the iron is similar to that one. And I'm trying
to remember what city it was. What are you guys
talking about? Iron pole? Do I know about this?
What is 96 .6 % iron? Well, that's still a London
hammer. I don't know where we're going with this.
We were talking about cruises and shit. Yeah,
so I would love to go on a cruise. I think it's
fun. I mean, I'd get the drink package. You'd
have to get the drink package, right? Yeah, and
then they cut you off. Yeah, there's been all
kinds of studies. That cuts you off. The drink
package is extremely expensive now, so there's
lots of studies going, is it worth it or just
buy them individually? Well, it all depends on
how ship -faced you're going to get every day.
Correct. Oh, but I understood you could also
buy bottles. Well, I don't know. On one cruise,
I don't know if they allow it anymore, but on
one cruise, once you're in international waters,
you can go buy bottles, like in a custom duty
-free. You can't drink it there. Well, normally
what they do is they hold it until you get off,
right? I bought like rum and shit and I made
drinks in my room and I would go out to wherever
we were and I came back and made more drinks
and went back out. They don't do that anymore.
Right. But, yeah. So I would have an interesting
way to do it is that I would have one of my friends
and we'd have a plastic bag. A plastic bag. And
we'll have, no, we'll put it in the ocean. and
we'll have a tether, and we'll have someone on
the dock, and we'll have a fishing pole, and
we're like, and we attach it to a part of the
boat. So it's getting drug in the water? Yeah.
It's like 30 bottles of Henry McKenna. Whatever.
Whatever it is. It doesn't matter. You're like
pulling it up. Oh, yeah. It's banging against
the side of the bricks. Yeah, like three in the
morning. Yeah. Perfect. And it's swinging out
because you're swaying. And somebody's got like
a pole arm or like one of those things that they
stab a whale with and they're trying to hook
the chain. Yeah, a harpoon. It's like the hook
to get someone off the stage. I don't know. That's
a good idea. That is a great plan. So walk me
through them cutting you off because I haven't
been on a cruise. So they can cut you off? I
mean, obviously if you're fucked up, they'll
cut you off. But I mean, how many trips did they
give you a day? I want to say it was like 15
or 18. It was 15 in an hour. Well, okay. But
if you start... Oh, my God. Like you wake up
and you just wander over to the bar because you're
having a good time and you want to just chill
out. And you have like one drink per hour. There's
no maximum. Oh, yeah. Oh, they'll cut you off.
I'll Google it. But yeah. Oh, that's never happened
to me. At the end of the night, they go, okay,
you got to wait until midnight or the next morning
to get any more on your unlimited drink package.
Oh, shit. That would not make me happy. No. Now,
I did do the deal where I bought the drink package.
That doesn't make sense at all. No, it doesn't.
You can buy more, but they're going to cut you
off of the drink package. So I got the drink.
Okay. I got the drink package, and then Shelly
and I both used it. And then they knew what I
was doing, and the bartender was like, can you
at least wait like 10 minutes before you get
the second drink? You know what I mean? Because
I would get mine and come back and immediately
get the second drink, right? Right. And I was
like, yeah, I can do that. They knew what I was
doing, but now they monitor that very carefully.
On Carnival Cruises, the Cheers drink package
limits alcoholic beverages to a maximum of 15
drinks per person per 24 -hour period, 9 a .m.
to 3 a .m. That's not very many, I'll be honest
with you, because they're not strong. Right,
yeah, it's a shot. It's a shot. In whatever you're
going to drink it with. You can easily do that
in four hours. Then you want to drink a little
vodka tonic. Then you want to drink wine all
day or beer because you know what you're getting.
You're not getting some weak water down. That
is horseshit. Well, hold on. Do you get a limit
on beer? What's it say? Alcoholic beverages.
Doesn't matter. Cocktail, beer, wine, champagne.
So you're saying 15 beers? That's pretty good.
That'd be pretty fucked up on 15 beers. All day
though? Yeah. Are you kidding me? Yeah, I don't
know about all day. That's like a beer an hour.
Yeah, that's pretty bad. One an hour. For experienced,
professional drinkers like us? Exactly. Dude,
we had 15 drinks in an hour at the Whiskey Festival.
How many days in a row can you do that, though?
Seven all day. Well, how long is the cruise?
I couldn't do that seven days in a row. What,
drink 15 beers? Yes. What you do is you scale
back to 14 by the fourth day and 13 by the seventh
day. Yeah, you trim off a couple drinks. When
you're that super hungover, Sean, you're like,
I'm hungover. But you know what? That's what's
crazy about these vacations. You just stay drunk.
I have never been hungover. I pop awake the next
morning ready to just hammer it, like get after
it, have fun. Wake up with some mimosas. It is
somehow a hangover -free week, and I have never
understood that. Did you get back to all hits?
Maybe. Yeah, I go straight to Icy Ice. A little
hair of the dog. You get a little Red Bull vodka.
You get a little Bloody Mary. You're all right.
I've never been on one, so I don't know. You
get 15 drinks. They don't call it unlimited anymore.
They call it, well, at least on this, Cheers.
You get 15 a day. Yeah, for how much, though?
It's expensive. I mean, is it like 100 bucks?
No, it's more than that. So, I mean, you might
as well just pay for it. Oh, dude, it's $500.
Oh, yeah. A day? No, no, no, for the whole cruise.
$500 for a solo, that's like $80. Yeah, I did
the math. Hold on. Cruise vineyard package starting
at $95. Here's the cheers. It's $82 a day. So
if you're going on a five -day cruise, that's
$400. $500. Yeah, that's what I said. So here's
what's crazy. You're going to drink that much
a day? I did the math. Maybe, I don't know. I
will. Here's the problem. It's like challenge
accepted, right? As soon as you get the unlimited,
you're like, I'm going to get my money's worth,
right? And then I did the math, and it was like
15 a day. And sure enough, they're going to lose
money if you go over 15 a day, which means you
might as well, if they're going to do that bullshit,
you might as well just go a la carte. Yeah. The
other thing they do is if you have two drinkers
of age in the room together, you both have to
buy the package. That's correct. Yeah. That's
bullshit. Yeah. Oh, so one person can't get it
anymore. Like if I went, I was like, yeah, I'm
not drinking this round. Yeah, even if your wife's
a teetotaler or whatever, you know. That's bullshit.
Yeah, it is. But they're squeezing every penny
they can get out of people, man. Yeah, it's nickel
and diamond, just like the airlines. And there's
no way to sneak them on board. Oh, did you hear
about Southwest? I did in Alaska. Southwest is
not going to do the bags fly free anymore? Yes.
Why would they do that? Are they losing money?
I don't know. Are they struggling? Are there
other airlines out there that aren't charging?
No. That was the thing about putting up with
the, you know. That was the draw. putting up
with Southwest and the open seating and all that
kind of crap. They're also going to let you buy
your seat, too. I love the open seating. They're
going to make you sign a seat now, too. I know.
I don't get it. I don't get it. I don't care.
I think you should sign seats. I think so, too.
I don't know. Just don't charge me to pick a
seat. It causes problems because you have people
who want to hold seats for their kids or their
wife who's not in their group or something like
that. And then you have these people that want
to spend an extra $20 and they get the preferred
boarding. where they get ahead of everybody.
Oh, the A -lister. Yeah. Or I forgot what they
call that. Early bird? Early bird. Thank you.
I mean, hell, I'd show up there in a fucking
wheelchair. Oh. I mean, imagine that because
there's a wheelchair. You can show up in a wheelchair.
They will you on first. Yeah. No, they don't.
They will you on in between A and B. Southwest,
the American does first. Yeah, I was like in
the United, they went first. I might be wrong
on that. Southwest goes first, yeah. It's families
that go in between A and B. Yeah, something like
that, yeah. It doesn't matter. I don't care where
I sit in one place. And I don't even care about
them charging bags. I mean, it's a nice feature,
but, you know, it's give and take. You know,
everything costs money, and they added all their
shit up, and they're just like, you know what?
It was an executive decision. That's what they
made, and I think just fucking people get over
it. Well, and they're paying out the ass for
jet fuel. You know what I mean? Yeah, they buy
years in advance. I was listening to the radio
and a guy was telling a story because they were
talking about this, the free baggage and how
it's going away and how people are all so upset.
Right. And Amtrak came out with an ad and says,
well, our baggage is still free. So he's like,
okay. So is Greyhound. Yeah. Not doing that.
So he goes, okay. So every weekend he flies eight
hours or he drives eight hours to a city, his
family or something like that. Yeah. and he could
fly it in an hour or something like that, or
he could drive it in eight, or he could take
Amtrak. He goes, it would take 25 hours. Yeah,
exactly. How was that? But your bag's there.
But your bags are free. Right. And it's no cheaper
because, you know, trains are not cheap. So let
me just, I have a personal experience that is
very similar to that. So Shelly had a really,
really good friend. We were going to Florida
to visit my parents. They live in Punta Gorda.
in a retirement type of community. Sandpiper?
No, Fort Myers. Oh, Punta Gorda. No, it wasn't
Sandpiper. They were fully clothed. Anyway, so
she meets her friend, right? They're really good
friends. And she goes, yeah, we're going to visit
our parents. Oh, where are you going? We're going
to Florida. Oh, we're in Florida. Punta Gorda.
Really? We're in Punta Gorda. Her parents and
my parents lived literally in the same subdivision.
And we were going. there at the same time. Were
they swingers? No. So they flew? Get this. This
is the struggle. They flew. We drove. And you
got there at the same time? No. And we were going
to literally the same place. And they're like,
oh, when are you going to be there? Oh, we're
driving. Oh, we're flying. So I'll tell you what.
When you guys get here, let us know. Blah, blah,
blah. Okay. Punta Gorda is like a 20 -something
hour drive. And you think you're close when you
hit Florida? No, you're like halfway there. You're
not even. like and it was we had to spend the
night in mobile alabama which was weird and anyway
it went forever we drove forever i was exhausted
i was pissed off the kids were pissed off everybody
was just angry and frustrated and exhausted we
get there and i'm like unloading the car and
shit and they come through they've been there
for three days or whatever and they stroll up
in a golf cart and they're like all tanned because
they've been laying out hey you guys are here
great i'm like Never fucking again. It's 10 hours
to the panhandle. You've got another eight hours
to Punta Gorda. It was awful. Yeah. I drove straight
through. I went all the way to Marco Island.
Marco's Island. From there at the very eastern
south tip, I drove there, got up at the crack
of ass, and made it to Dallas in 22 hours. No.
Yeah. That was not going to happen with kids.
Anyway. It made it so much worse that they had
driven up probably like they had flown first
class, I'm sure. Right. Right. And I'm just like,
uh -uh. So right there it said 18 hours. 18 hours.
Yeah, it was awful. It was the longest 18 -hour
drive I have ever taken. And I've done longer
drives than that. I mean, not all at once. Did
you go straight through? No, we stopped in Mobile.
Oh, that's right. Alabama. It's Mobile. We call
it Mobile. Mobile. Yeah, well, that's not accurate.
Yeah, well, we like that. Anyway, so yeah. I'll
tell you what. The Muslim -centric epic city
draws Collin County meeting. Overflow. Yeah.
All right. Where is this at? What is this? So
this is. I don't know nothing about this. East
Plano? Yeah. So this is a little bit of a left
turn. But that's okay because this is fresh news.
So Collin County officials on Monday held an
hour -long public hearing on the Epic City development,
which would be located outside of Josephine,
about 40 minutes from downtown Dallas. The development
has ties to the East Plano Islamic Center, one
of the North Texas' largest mosques. Community
Capital Partners. formed by some members of the
East Plano Islamic, hopes to build more than
1 ,000 homes, a K -12 faith -based school, a
mosque, elderly and assisted living, apartments,
clinics, retail shops, community colleges, 402
acres of Sharia law. Well, hold on. All right,
so a little background. This is a master -paying
community, like he said. It's funded by, not
funded by, but influenced by this, the Muslim
culture. Okay. And they are saying that all faiths
are welcome. You know, this is not going to be
a Islamic compound, so to speak, but it is not
being received well at all. Abbott's gotten involved.
The governor has gotten involved. He's wanting
to shut it down. There was, like he said, a city
council meeting. It's in the design stages, the
idea stage. So if they're saying Sharia law,
are they saying we are exempt from federal and
Texas law? So they are not saying Sharia law.
Who is saying Sharia law? Abbott somehow latched
on to Sharia law because people are saying as
soon as they said it was a Muslim compound or
a Muslim city, they said they're going to try
to institute Sharia law. I don't think anyone
has said anything about Sharia law. That's bullshit.
That's 100 % going to do that. 100%. And you've
got to be a fool not to think that. I kind of
think that that would be their motivation. So
the name is Epic City is what they've nicknamed
this thing. And again, it's in the ideation phase.
So it's just they're trying to, like, you know,
get it planned and get it approved and already.
There's been lots of pushback. So Monday's meeting
comes from after Governor Greg Abbott directed
a series of state agencies to investigate the
EPIC and affiliated entities. Abbott announced
Monday he has directed the Texas Rangers, not
the baseball team, the Texas Rangers, to investigate
the mosque and related businesses for potential
criminal activities. At least four other investigations
into the EPIC are being led by the Attorney General
Ken Paxton, Texas Workforce Commission, Texas
state board of securities and the Texas funeral
services, et cetera, et cetera. So here's, here's
what I'll say about it. I know that there is
a phobia, right? There's absolutely a phobia,
right? People don't respond well to, you know,
Islamic influence, Islamic reputation. I get
it. And there's a reason for it. It's because
if you're not a Muslim, you're an infidel. Okay,
I get it. Period. I get that. And there's different
aspects of Islam, right? There's radicals, there's
moderates, there's this, there's that. But it
doesn't matter. That's not radical or other.
No, it does matter. It does matter. Hold on.
It does matter. Muslims... Do not all think the
same. They do not. Yeah, but the Quran says...
It does not. Yes, it does. It does not. 100%.
No, I'm not going to show you because I don't
know where to pick it up. Because I've researched
that because you said it before and it does not
say that. I will research it and I'll produce
it next time. Because it is true. I definitely
know that there's it's definitely a charged thing
because it's based on assumptions. It's based
on some ignorance of what they advocate. And
there's massive degrees of difference within
Islam. In terms of like what you hear on the
news, right? The psychos, the radicals who are
doing this and that. Anyway, so here's what I'm
hoping, right? I'm hoping when Abbott is kind
of going after them with Texas Rangers and stuff
like that, I'm hoping it's based on something
concrete in terms of investigating what they're
saying, corruption, whatever else Sean said.
I'm hoping it's really, really based on that
and it's not based on fear. and assumptions and
prejudice and discrimination. Well, there's large
Muslim communities now in Texas and the Dallas
-Fort Worth region. Yeah, absolutely. A lot.
Now, I don't know what's different about this.
It's hard to find a lot of information on this
because it's so new. It is new. Yeah, like I
said, they're just floating ideas and what they
like to do. So it's a Muslim company who wants
to get into real estate and neighborhood building.
I don't even know if it's a Muslim company. I
think it's the East, whatever he said it was.
It's the mosque that wants to get. It's a mosque.
Yes, it's a mosque that's wanting. A group of
investors. It's wanting, yes. Okay, that's a
little different. It is a little different. So
it definitely has a religious overtone to it,
right? Because they're wanting to build a community
that is probably pretty predominantly Islamic.
Oh, I'm saying 100%. I mean. Yeah. And they said
it was catering to Muslims in an unincorporated
part of the county. Right. Right. So and they
probably do. They probably do want to. OK, listen,
there is a ton of lifestyle, lifestyle, not mandates.
It's not the right word, but influence within
the religion. It almost be like if you're a Christian
and there are things in the Bible on how you
were supposed to live. And there are in the Old
Testament. Of course, you know, we don't do that
now. But, I mean, some do. Some do. Some do.
And they're wanting to live by those rules and
those, you know, whatever. And they're trying
to build a community of like -minded people.
It doesn't mean they're evil. It doesn't mean
they're terrorists. It just means they want to
live in a community that have like -minded and
they live out that lifestyle that is supported
by their book. Okay. Right. But we've seen what
the Sharia law. centers turn into in other parts
of the world. Yes. We don't want that here. Correct.
Correct. I would agree with that. Correct. We
can't have a conflict of what rule of law is
in charge. But I think there's ways to ensure
that doesn't happen as well. You know, just I
don't think they're promoting Sharia law. I think
Abbott brought that into the discussion. I think
he did. Now, if they try to implement some of
this stuff. That's a problem. Well, you still
have police. You still have the Texas Rangers.
National Guard and all that shit. If they incorporate
into a city and become a city council and start
passing what is essentially a Sharia law, what's
going to stop? To his point, Texas legislature
trumps. What happens in a county or state? You
want to get the Texas legislature to agree on
something? Oh, my God. That's a good point. That's
a good point. They can't even agree to meet.
Right. I get the fear of it. I get the nervousness
of it. I just hope it's not, you know. I know
how it looks. It looks incredibly intolerant.
It looks totally racial and prejudicial. How
am I saying it? Prejudicial? prejudicial. It
looks that way. It looks bad. It looks bad. Yes.
It looks bad on both sides. It looks bad that
what they're trying to do and it looks bad on
why they're trying to stop it. Correct. Right.
It's like a no -win situation. Right. Well, we'll
see where it goes. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see
where it goes. Everything cool? Yeah. Okay. All
right. Well, I for one don't want it. I for one
don't think it's healthy. So that concludes our
80s sitcoms segment. Should we go over number
one again? Yeah. Sean, you want to recap? Well,
we do need to talk about our newest bourbon.
We do. Let's do it. Now's a good time. This is...
Where's the bottle at? Oh, there it is up there.
This is one we bought here at Total Wine. Yes.
So this is another Heaven Hill. And readily available.
Yeah, for the most part. It was all over the
place up there in their gift shop. This is the
Heaven Hill Grain to Glass Straight Bourbon Whiskey.
We have the rye version of this, and I think
we really liked it. So it is 107 proof, been
aged for six years. Okay, so the mash bill, release
2024. It's 35 % rye, 52 % corn, and 13 % malt.
35 % rye is pretty high rye. I love this part
of the description. It says, the first edition
of Heaven Hill grain -to -glass Kentucky straight
bourbon aged for six years in the Rickhouse W3.
It's probably one of the ones that you either
visited or saw, at least, on the third, fourth,
and fifth floors. That was the distillery where
they said they had four different or five different
brands of bourbon, and they were all exactly
the same mash bill. and where they put it in
the rickhouse decided what it ended up being.
That is exactly Heaven Hill is where they said
that to me. It was fascinating. Yeah, she didn't
spell that out for me. Yeah, the distillate is
identical. I don't think for all their bourbons.
Maybe there is a batch of them. Well, at least
for four or five of them. Well, the Five Brothers
was a different mash bill than this one. Right,
well, okay, yeah. But you notice how they called
out where? Yes, yes. That was the point they
were making. Well, I tell you what, Chuck pulled
up the tasty notes. I was just going to say,
I was like, the finish, there is some definite
pepper on this. Almost got caught in the throat.
I'm picking it up. It's really good, though.
It is. It's really tasty. I really like it. The
viscosity of this, it's thicker. It's more oily
than the one we had previously. And the proof
may have something to do with that, because this
is what. 17 points more than what we just drank?
Oh, yeah. Way more richness, a lot of richness
compared to what we drank. I wish I could, I
mean, you guys are probably better than I am
at this, but I'm pulling something out of the
nose, and I'm not sure what it is. I get a little
bit of a tart bread, if there is such a thing,
of a tart bread. Tart bread? Yeah. Breadiness?
There is some breadiness, and you know me, I'm
a fan of bread. Especially the giant. Well, based
on AI, primarily walnuts, almonds with notes
of whole bread, wheat bread. No shit. There we
freaking go. I finally got something right. Let
your sommelier know. I am. And thank you for
acknowledging that. As a matter of fact, I'd
like to take over the podcast for the next 45
minutes and describe to you and our listeners
some of the finer points of bourbon genesis and
how to finish them. So if you guys will settle
in, I'll get started. Hello? Go for it. Are we
still having a podcast? I was trying to read.
Well, I mean, Sean flat out fell asleep and you
were looking at the ceiling. I'm not sure what
that was all about. I was reading. I was taking
notes. Yeah. I thought I lost you guys. You guys
okay? Doing well. Good. Good. Right. What's happening
right now? You're looking at me very awkwardly.
Lustfully. That's what I was hoping, but I didn't
want to say it. How much did this cost? Does
anyone know? I want to say... Almost $100. It
was $85 and change. Yeah, I was going to say
it's a little more than normal. Maybe it's our
average these days. I don't know. It kind of
looks like... It's very good. Yeah, what did
it rank? Gosh. We need to have our list up there
of our hundreds to 110s. So we can compare and
remember because I don't remember what we're
talking about. What's our baseline for this stretch
here? I don't know. Let me ask a question. So
I wondered, when we were doing the Whiskey Festival
in Plano, I wondered the farther we got down
the booths and the more we tried, the better
the bourbon got. And I wondered if they had switched
the order of the booths. If it would be the same?
Would it be the same? Would I have thought what
was so good on booth eight, if it were booth
two, would I have been like, wow, that's really.
Well, your palate changes when you drink. It
does, and it gets coated. Yes. And the brain
is triggering happiness. You're getting a dopamine
boost, right, as you're drinking. And I wonder,
for our podcast, is the second bourbon getting
an unfair boost? Well, I think that's why I think
we've been trying to start with a lower proof
up front. Right. Right. So we don't hit it strong
and hard. The first one. Right. Right. So anyway,
it's just an interesting concept that maybe we're.
You know, when I was at Jim Beam, he explained
how we should be tasting bourbon. OK, do share.
He said, you take a little bit, you coat. your
tongue, and keep it on your tongue. Get it all
coated on your tongue. Before you swallow anything.
And then you do the bourbon smack. Ooh. You put
it in there, and he goes, what you do is you
let it roll down the back, and then it helps
bring out the flavors. It aerates it, so you...
Oh, like a cow. Actually, he called it the bourbon
chew. A cow or a buffalo. Maybe a horse. I'm
not sure what you look like right now. Okay,
you guys do it. So he had... 10 people doing
that. Oh, God. That doesn't sound like a pleasure.
Sound like a bunch of chipmunks. Yeah, I think
he did it for fun because he goes, some people
will pick, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
No one may get anything. But that's so they can
room full of people look like idiots. Yeah, that's
great. You got to chew it. That's great. Oh,
okay. Well, let's try it. All right, here we
go. Small sip, small sip. Let it run over the
tongue. Do not swallow it. And then start smacking
your gums like a horse. Okay. Here we go. Wow.
That made me choke on it. Oh, you got to swallow.
Then you do it, whatever's left on the tongue.
You picking up anything else? Yeah, I'm picking
up a little bit of vomit. Maybe a little backwash
saliva. Bile. But I think I did it wrong. When
I choked on it, I think I ruined the whole experience.
It could have been a little bile came up. It
could have been. It could have been. Yeah, that
went bad. Right. All right, but I'll practice
that. I'll practice that. All right, good. All
right, so I guess we're rating. Are we rating?
Sean, have you tried it yet? I did. All right,
and what are we thinking? Are you wanting me
to rate it right now? Yeah, we're getting ready
to rate it. All right, so you want me to go first.
All right, I'm going to give it a 6 .4. All right,
in the 107 range. Okay, I think that's fair.
I think I'm in the high sixes. I'm going to give
it a six, eight. Yeah, I think I'm with Sean.
Maybe six, five. Yeah. Yeah, solid. Again, you
know, we say that's not bad. We reserve the seven
pluses and the eight pluses for really, really
good experiences. And this is not a bad experience.
It's just above average. Yeah, I've got a little,
I'm going to say stone fruit, but it's more blueberry.
No, it is stone fruit, but also. Like cherry
stone fruit. And I taste blueberries. Do you?
Yeah. All right. Let me give you another shot
at blueberries here. So for reference, you guys
had the rye and gave it mid -sevens. Yeah. And
it was like a 110. We really enjoyed the rye.
I think we liked the rye a little bit better
than this. So it's grain to glass, and we never
really touched base on what exactly does that
mean. Grain to glass. What's the appeal with
that? I think they do the whole thing in -house,
I think is what they're... Is that what that
means? I thought so. Let's see. Let's see what
they're... Here we go. So, Heaven Hill, grain
to glass, wheat to bourbon, officers of deep
Auburn color, aromas, walnuts with notes of whole
wheat bread, cedar on the palate, expect toasted
whole wheat bread, peppery spice finished. Oh,
I thought I was going to say something. Click
on that top link. It starts to describe it right
there, Chuck. Right there, yep. Future releases.
Where I was. Yeah, where you were, okay. All
right, well, it talked about where they get the
grains from. Let's see. Let's see here. Come
from longstanding trusted partnerships. Handshakes,
not contracts. All right, keep going. I think
it just means that they source the grain. Yeah,
I think they, yeah, it's uniquely sourced. And
it's important where they come from for many,
many, many, many decades, I'm sure. Let's see.
They have master distillers that pick the different,
evaluate the different corn seed. So the AI overview
for Heaven Hill, grain and glass signifies a
focus of transparency and control over the entire
whiskey production process, from the selection
of a specific corn, seed, varietal, to the final
bottling, emphasizing quality and heritage. Yeah.
It's more detailed explanation is, you know,
you've got transparency and specialty, local
sourcing, unique mash bill, limited production,
partnerships, legacy, heritage, and the non -chilled
filtered. Ooh. I see on the bottle they're actually
calling out the corn. The corn, yeah. The Beck's
6158 is the specific seed corn. Nice. Yeah, so
like you said, transparency. Right. They're really
specifying what it is that goes into their...
Yeah, they picked a special corn for this one,
and they're calling it out, basically. Nice.
That's great. I like it. Yeah, it's solid. Everything
from Heaven Hill has been solid. Yeah, it's been
good. JGS Brown is from home. From Heaven Hill.
And also Elijah Craig, no? Yes, Elijah Craig.
Okay, I thought so. Evan Williams. We like Elijah
Craig. Oh, yeah. A lot. Yes. So, yeah, good stuff,
man. Heaven Hill's got it going on. Yeah, when
I was up there, they said that right now with
their production, they barrel 1 ,500 barrels
a day. Whoa. That's a lot. That's a lot. A day.
A day. When their new still opens up, that will
double to 3 ,000 barrels a day. That's, I mean,
where is there a shortage? I mean, is that demand
there? They don't just do whiskey. They do Deep
Eddie's vodka, or they own it, I should say.
Yeah. They may count some of that into that as
well. Maybe. I don't know. But they have a lot
of. under the Heaven Hill name a lot. Right.
Mr. Producer, are you asking us what the rating
was? Yes. It was 6 -4, 6 -5, and 6, what was
your, you had a high? 6 -8, I think. 6 -8. Yeah.
Yeah, well, pretty much all in the same. All
same ballpark. Same ballpark. And speaking of
ballparks, MLB just opened up. Do we have baseball
fans in the house? This was the first week of
the opening day. I'm a Cincinnati Reds fan. Oh,
they smoked the Rangers last night. They did.
They lost tonight, though. I like the Rangers,
too. Don't get me wrong. But I grew up listening
to the Reds, Big Red Machine and whatnot. So
I'm a Reds fan, and they sucked for a very long
time. Oh, yeah. And I don't know what they're
going to do this year because I don't follow.
baseball that much anymore. It's kind of hard
with 162 games to get excited. I think it's interesting.
You probably get excited in the very beginning.
Baseball's back. Well, what happens with the
Reds is they're usually out of it by the end
of May. Right. So I'm just like, well, I followed
for a couple months and then they're like, yeah,
they're 20 games back. Or more. Yeah, or more.
I'm just like, yeah, it's tough. It's tough.
So they said the White Sox finally went above
500 for the last time. First time in. Two years.
And they're 2 -1? No, they were 1 -0. Oh, that's
awful. That's awful. Oh, they're 2 -2. They're
at 500. That's great. So the scandal, or at least
the buzz around the league, is this torpedo bat.
Chuck, why don't you fill us in on what's going
on with this torpedo bat? The Yankees decided
to kind of switch, and not all of them went on
board of this. to a different design of a bat
that put more of the wood in the strike zone
of the barrel, right? The sweet spot of the barrel
and then taper it at the end so it kind of looks
like a torpedo, right? Taper it at the end. Show
me a picture of this bat. Let me get you the
results. So right now the Yankees are destroying
everybody. Well, they're 3 -1, right? They only
played four games so they're a little bit behind
everybody else but they're destroying... teams
41 to 21 who scored versus runs against, right?
A 20 -point differential over four games. Over
four games, and that's bigger than anybody else
in the entire league who's played more. The tapered
bats that focus on weight to the sweet spot,
potentially enabling bigger hits, made by King
Prusa, based Victus Sports. I don't know what
that is. Dude, I thought there were really tight
restrictions on what they could do. Like, this
seems... Like bending the rules. Yeah, I guess
they're allowed to do it. There it is right there.
Yeah, show me this bat. Okay, yeah. So it narrows
at the very top. Right. And so you get more of
the weight and reflex of the wood in the middle
of the bat. I think all that's going to happen
is pitchers are going to pitch around it. They're
going to pitch. Perhaps. But it's also variable.
So that sweep spot may be different for you than
Jeff or for Jeff than me. So they're all personalized
bats? From what this says here, it's personalized
taper. So it's potentially, you know. I don't
like this. I don't like introducing something
that seems, okay, well, I know a little bit more
about it because Chuck was telling me that not
all teams have it. They can't do it because there's
some sort of patent that's exclusive to New York.
Do share. Yeah, so, I mean, they scored. 15 home
runs in three games. Yeah, but New York is the
only team that's allowed to have it right now?
There's a patent on it, and if you want to develop
it, you can develop your own, but they're not
selling it to the other teams. That's bullshit.
Are the torpedo bats legal? Yes. There's nothing
illegal about using a torpedo bat. According
to the MLB, here's the rule. The bat shall be
smooth, round, stick, not more than 2 .61 inches
in diameter, and the thickest part... And not
more than 42 inches length. That's it. Well,
you know. And they're following the rules. And
if somebody's showing creativity and designing
a new bat, well, more power to them. Did you
say they could have a 42 -inch bat? 42 -inch
in length. Oh, my God. That's like 10 inches
longer than normal. Really? Yeah, that's a...
boat oar right there. Maybe the Reds should develop
a 42 -inch bat. They're standing like three feet
back from the plate. Somehow you have to be in
the box, though. Maybe the sweet spot is closer
to the hands. It's like this bulb and really
skinny. They're smacking it from the dugout.
It's like a sword with a thing that could pommel.
Just make it really thin like a blade except
for this big ball in the middle. It's great for
singles. Dude, I don't know, man. I guess if
it's creating a buzz for the game, I guess that's
not a bad thing. I don't know how MLB is doing.
I know the NBA is struggling, right? They're
down 40 % plus over the last 10 years. Man, I
never liked basketball. I was obsessed with basketball
for 10 straight years, and they lost me big time
during the COVID. putting the messages on the
back of the jersey. In the bubble. In the bubble.
And then what really lost me is when the Bucs
forfeited their game over one of those incidents,
right? It was another black man gets killed by
police, but the reality was the guy pulled out
a knife and was going to stab the cop, and the
cop shot him, and then the Bucs decided to boycott
their game and cancel it. I was like, and this
is after. The bubble after the Floyd. And I said,
done. And I walked away from the game. And it
was huge. I went through 10 years of watching
82 games a year. Did you go through withdrawal?
No. Did you have any urge to turn them on? Not
at all. Well. When that happened. Here's the
other thing. It was a mic drop. I was like, the
NBA is done to me. And Dawson has tried to get
me to come back. He's like, oh, that guy's really
good. Hey, Dad, the Rockets are good now. Yeah,
my kids are really – or at least Austin's really
in the NBA. And he's like, Jokic has unbelievable
numbers. I'm like, sorry, man, I don't care.
I mean, I'll talk with you about it. And it's
crazy, but it's like I used to care. I used to
like the Spurs a lot. But the game has changed.
They just walk down and just jack a three. No
defense. And there's no defense. Every game looks
like an all -star game to me. Yeah. It's bullshit.
Anyway, so it's crazy. And I like to say, I don't
like to say this, but I was like, if they lost
somebody like me who was obsessed, like obsessed
with the NBA. Right. They're in trouble. Right.
I mean. I mean, they apparently have our kids
eyeballs. Well, they do. Because they're betting.
Yes, maybe. Yes, 100%. They all bet. Fucking
sports betting, man, I'm telling you. It's crazy.
Anyway, well, interesting. Maybe this bat will
revolutionize the game a little bit and get some
people excited about it. Maybe there's more home
runs. Well, they made some good changes last
year as well where they sped the game up. They
have the pitch clock, which I think was better.
Didn't they shorten the base? They shorten the
bases again to increase stolen bases. It's 15
feet from home plate to first. 15. It's like
the kids' little minor league. God, they can't
throw anybody out. I don't understand what's
going on right now. It's like softball field.
Well, there's the music. That means the end of
a good time. There you go. But we're going to
be back. I don't think we touched probably any
of these topics up here. Torpedo bat. Final four.
We talked about number two. Yeah, number one.
We talked about Space Express. We talked about
the Anteluna maternity rule. Oh, yeah. Stock
market slide, Hamas and the hoodie trip with
Trump. The Trump third term. I really wanted
to talk about that. Oh, that's so stupid because
it's not true. What is he doing? He's fucking
with them. He's trolling. He's trolling. He's
trolling, but why? Oh my God, he's going to go
for a third term. He said they won't talk about
anything else. He doesn't need to troll like
that. He's just like, dude, just get this shit
done. Anyway. He is getting it done. He is. One
after another. And he's fucking with them all
along the way. He is. All right. What was going
on? Did we talk about Snow White? We didn't.
And that's apparently tanking. Yeah. Well, that's
what happens when you spout your political beliefs.
Sometimes, you know, you've got to be careful
what you're talking about. True. Alright, well,
it is April 1st, April Fool's Day. Tomorrow is
my birthday. Happy birthday to me. Well, that's
right. 55 years old. Look at you. The eve of
your 55th. Very nice. I'll be 55 really soon.
Got a full day tomorrow, full day Thursday. Friday,
are we on board? How are you celebrating your
birthday? I don't know yet. Friday, are we on
board? Yes. I had some plans that were formulating
and I will cancel. Well, we're going to be doing
a birthday celebration probably on the 12th.
It'll be at the Renaissance Festival. That'll
be kind of my little get -together. I've invited
you guys, and we'll see what happens. I know
it's your anniversary coming up. So you guys
can make plans to go out there and eat dinner.
They've got a nice steak and meat and sausage
on the stick. Turkey legs. And you guys can wear
some sexy Renaissance Festival outfits. Check
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Thank you, Chuck. I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm
Jeff.