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Boom, boom, boom. Good music. Great music. Love

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it, man. Second half music. Well, it's the first

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half as well. Yeah, I was going to say we heard

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the first half too. We considered changing it,

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but, you know, it's not an original. There's

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a lot of industries and businesses that use this

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one because this was like a free one. Well, there

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you go. Yeah, we picked it up because we weren't

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going to get, like, busted by YouTube when we

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post this shit. Ding. Jesus. And because it's

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cool. It is cool. Yeah, we got dinged by Romania.

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Yeah, we get dinged. Romania. So when we post

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shit on YouTube, we will... You guys are famous

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worldwide. They hit us everywhere uniformly.

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Unless they're looking for a husband, you're

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going to be a Romanian. They want some Romanian

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brides, right? There you go. Right. Pretty much.

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So the thought around that whole thing was that

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every time we do like some skits where we have

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80s music, 60s, 50s, whatever it is, and we do

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the top hits or top videos or whatever, we play

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these sound bites and we upload it to YouTube.

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And the YouTube, if it's over like 5, 10 seconds,

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they're coming. They're like, oh, my God, you

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just played ABBA. You guys are assholes, and

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we're going to hurt you. Oh, yeah, they researched

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that against their catalog, and there's artificial

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intelligence that looks at the rhythm. Oh, AI

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is all over all that crap. We even got flagged

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for COVID disinformation. Which was probably

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true. It was 100 % true. I don't think they're

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doing that anymore. Yeah, I wonder why. Well,

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maybe I should contest it at this point and get

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those other podcasts. We had two strikes. We

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allowed three strikes. I think we had two strikes,

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didn't we? Well, I don't even know. YouTube still

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dropped. These other guys were on TV the other

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day, and they did a podcast with Donald Trump,

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and they came out with a hard seltzer. Yeah.

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Because YouTube, the very next day, they had

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like three million views on YouTube. The next

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day, they got dropped. Because they talked about

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a hard seltzer? Trump was on there. They interviewed

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Trump along with their hard seltzer. It's so

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much bullshit. For five or ten minutes. Trump

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actually showed up. That is outrageous. For their

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podcast. Yeah, I heard about that. It happens

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all the time. So they didn't discuss anything

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that violated rules. They just don't like Trump,

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so they dropped him. Yeah. Recently. In the last

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year. They have the power to do it. And you know

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what? The thing is that I hope that our administration

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is looking into all these weird -ass, loopholes

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that these cocksuckers are throwing at us. But

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look, it's April 8th. It's the second half of

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the Dudes Like Us podcast. Chuck, our producer,

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is on board here. We have a special guest tonight.

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Dudes Like Us. I'm Sean. I'm Paul. I am Jeff.

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And Mike. And Mike. Mike is here. And Mike, you're

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from Katy, Texas originally. Where do you currently

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live? Oh, Katy, Texas. Yeah. You still live there?

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Yeah. You're from New York. I grew up in New

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York. Yeah. Yeah. Fled as quick as I could. Yeah.

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There you go. Well, you know, I... Was born in

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Maryland. I'm a military brat, so I moved a lot.

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But I guess it's set aside from being here in

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Texas. I was from Jersey a lot. We've got a lot

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of family in Connecticut. God's country. Yeah.

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Yeah. I want to retire and die there. Yeah. Yeah.

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Well, he took a trip to New Jersey and he was

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like, oh my God, it's so beautiful. Dude, it's

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called the Garden State for a reason. Parts of

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Jersey are absolutely gorgeous and parts of upstate

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New York are phenomenally gorgeous. He was a

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Newark. I was not fucking Newark, you cock. He

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was like, I don't ever want to come home. I love

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it here. There's so many Irish bars. I grew up

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in the city. McSorley's Bar, downtown New York

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City. I grew up in the city and it's just coming

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to Texas, having the elbow room. And the ability

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to buy a gun and shoot it and nobody complain.

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You don't go deer hunting in New York. Not very

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much anyway. Even outside of the big cities,

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you can't go. You can, yeah. Upstate New York,

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yeah. Yeah, but you travel a little bit further.

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Like in Connecticut, you can't even have, I mean,

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you travel with bullets, you get in trouble.

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Well, see, I, you know, during, remember the

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Obama years when they were trying to outlaw AR

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-15s? Oh, yeah. Well, my cousin is a police officer,

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right? He just recently got elected county sheriff,

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another story. But so he's been in criminal justice,

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police officer, all his life. And so during that

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time. The average gun, the rifle, AR -15s, et

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cetera, went from like 700 bucks to $2 ,000,

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$2 ,500. Right. And he calls me up one day and

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said, hey, man, what's going on? He goes, do

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you want my rifle? I built an AR -15. You know,

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I can't keep it anymore. It's like, what do you

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mean you can't keep it? He said, it's a new law

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in New York State. He said, so you're a police

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officer and you have an FFL. Right. And he said,

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yeah, the law changed. So what happened is I'm

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a police officer. I have my FFL. If I clock out

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and I'm still in my squad car and I still have

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my uniform on, I cannot have the AR -15 in my

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trunk, even if it's under lock and key, because

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I'm no longer on the clock as a uniformed police

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officer. He's off duty. He's off duty. So he

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said, I'll give it to you for like 700 bucks.

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I said, sold. No kidding. And I had to go find

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somebody so he could transport it. But at the

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time, I could have resold it for two grand. Sure.

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I said, no, I want one. Oh, absolutely. It's

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like, hell yeah, I want one. They're fun. Yeah.

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It's great. It's just an adult toy. It is. It

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really is. It's just plinking. It's like, okay,

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fine. It's fun to shoot. And I'm not paying two

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grand for something I know is worth 700. Right.

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So, yeah. Yeah. Super cool. As a police officer

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in a uniform, he's not allowed to have it, even

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if he had his FFL. He said, so I'm giving up

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my FFL. I'm getting out of the business. I think

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they've reversed some of that language in the

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policies. That's how it worked recently. Yes,

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even New York. Really? Yep. Is he still in the

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force? So he wants it back. So did he go? And

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you're like, sorry. Was he in New York City?

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No, upstate New York. County sheriff. He's one

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of the county sheriffs. Okay, so did he catch

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any of that defund the police and all that protesting

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against the police? Did he experience any of

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that? I don't know. He doesn't talk about it

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much. I know how he feels about it. Sure. Right?

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But I don't think not near as much. The New York

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City cops, God bless them. That's right. I mean,

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it's like, whoa. Yeah. And they're short -staffed.

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And they're short -staffed. Right. It's horrible.

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And they're not appreciated. Yeah, and they're

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not appreciated. That's changing. I do feel that's

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changing. The tide has turned. People are starting

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to realize, wow, they prefer law and order as

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opposed to crime. I hope so. I hope so. Even

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most of the folks back then did. The normal people

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that you would talk to in neighborhoods, no,

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we want the police because the violence goes

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down when they're walking the streets. Oh, yeah,

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absolutely. Absolutely. When the social worker

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walks down the street, they don't care. Yeah,

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they're like, hey, don't do that. Yeah, it used

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to be like when I was a teenager, you mouthed

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off to a cop, you got the baton on the side of

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your head. If you're lucky, that's all you got.

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Right. They didn't beat the crap out of you,

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and then you went home and told your parents,

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then they beat the crap out of you. Right. So

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you don't do that. You don't do that anymore.

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It's like, who beat you up? Some strange kid.

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Not a police officer. That was warranted, though.

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I mean, look, it was just like sometimes your

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parents didn't want to beat you, so they're like,

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all right, well, we'll let somebody else do it.

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And it worked. Hey, look, I've had some friends

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that needed it. I mean, some guys that were just

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off the hook, you're kind of like, yeah. You

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know why you got beat up by the cops? Because

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you deserved it. Oh. I don't know. What's going

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on? Well, I know I told all my boys' teachers

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that if you need to spank my boys, you have my

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permission. I'll put it in writing if you need

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it. They can't even do that anymore. But still,

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I was like, if they do it. The paddle is our

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friend. Yeah, that's what I said. I was like,

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you know, the paddle was big in my school growing

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up, and nobody wanted it. So you behave yourself.

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Have you gotten paddled? I never got paddled.

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Oh, bullshit. What about you? Oh, yeah. Did you

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really? No, no, no. I'm talking in school. Oh,

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yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Not in the bedroom. No,

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no. I went to private Catholic school when I

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was younger. Oh, now the plot thickens. Not Sister

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Mary Elephant, Irish Christian Brothers. And

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so they would, remember in the adult school,

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they used to have like the four inch tall rubber

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molding on the bottom of the floor. Yeah. They

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just rip that stuff off the floor and start hitting

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you with it. Okay. And so you gotta hold out

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your hand. right and you get like three whacks

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if you pull your hand back you got another three

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yeah you got like double so it's like you just

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take your medicine your hand was like beet red

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and it's like no it's just yeah they didn't screw

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around just suck it up i had a co -worker that

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told me when she was a school girl the nuns would

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walk around and if and if they with the ruler

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yeah with the ruler oh yeah like writing something

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incorrectly anything if they were left -handed

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anything writing with their left hand you know

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i mean just like anything and don't say a word

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yeah Thank you. May I have another? Just don't

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say a word. Yeah, you're not allowed to complain

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about it. No, we need that. Let's go back to

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that. Let's bring it back. Corporal punishment

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in the schools. So I remember when I lived in

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New Jersey and my dad got restationed to the

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United States Army Sergeant Majors Academy in

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El Paso, Texas. And we moved down there in the

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first school I went to. The Hispanics, let's

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be honest, on average, they're shorter than I

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am. So I was out on the basketball court, and

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I was playing basketball because I played a lot

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when I was in New Jersey. And I'm throwing around,

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doing my thing, and all these guys are so much.

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I'm just trouncing on them. So I grabbed the

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net because I'm not that big because I'm normal.

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But they're not normal. So I grab the net. I'm

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like, I pull myself up, and I grab the net. I

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slam it. You're showing off. Oh, just being a

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dumbass. So this coach, I'll never forget him.

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This black coach. I don't remember his name,

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though. But he says, hey, come on over here.

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And I was thinking, oh, he's going to ask me

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to be on the team. Absolutely. This is good.

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You look that good. Oh, why don't you come over

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to my office here? He takes me. Put your hands

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right there. And I was like, oh, what's going

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on over here? Open up a drawer. And he was like...

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You're not allowed to be grabbing the net like

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that. And as a punishment, you know, just go

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ahead and leave your hands there for a second.

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Whack! And I was like, broke all your fingers?

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No, he hit my ass. Oh. He hit my ass. And I was

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like, are you fucking kidding me? So you didn't

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even see it coming? No, not at all. Which was

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actually kind of a blessing because, you know,

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the fear of - No, no, no. You'd have clenched?

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Oh, I would have clenched. It would have been

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horrible. Yeah. But I was just thinking - The

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clench? The aftermath. That's a thing? The clench?

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The clench. It's just like the fact that the

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audacity of that teacher to react like that.

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Right. And take it upon himself. self to to do

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that to me now now did it teach me yes was it

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wrong for him in retrospect i'm thinking yeah

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there's probably should have been a little due

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process probably you know i think that was that

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was uncool did he get his point across yeah i

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fucking never touched another net again yeah

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well no the good thing is you never play basketball

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again oh yeah and that's good the world needed

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that yeah well he asked me to actually play after

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that i told him really And I was like, no, man,

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I'm not playing for you. You lost your star player,

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coach. So now we can't even jump to grab the

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net. Come on. Well, you got that little trampoline.

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You can scoot that under the rim. For our listeners

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that don't know what he's talking about, I bought

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myself a, is it a Bellatone? I bought myself

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a little trampoline. It's a very expensive exercise

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trampoline. It's a Jazzercise trampoline. Yeah,

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man, I got one. And you know what? It works.

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It has tightened up my core strength, and I'm

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super excited about that because it has done

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nothing for my weight, but it has done everything

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for my core strength. Now you're country. strong

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oh dude i could like i could just sit ups all

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day like well you can carry you can carry like

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like eight drywall drywall boards but with one

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arm what i could do is i could jump around like

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i'm on the trampoline so if i need to get up

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and you know but what it does it tones my or

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your polka dancing mckinney yeah that too oh

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you were jumping so high it's the core strength

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i'm telling you it's the core strength and it

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really doesn't work because at the end of the

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day uh guys our age We have to maintain that

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core strength. We should be doing something.

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We should be doing something. If you're getting

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up like Paul sometimes at 4 fucking 45 in the

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morning, you idiot, and you go play basketball,

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that's one thing. That's a little extreme. The

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exercise to go to the bathroom at 445. Yeah.

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There you go. There's a difference. I don't like

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to get up that early, though, frankly. I got

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my routine thing. My point is exercise. For guys

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like us, you got to do it. The core strength

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thing is awesome. It is. It's important. Yeah,

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walks. I don't do those, but I rationalize that.

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You heard that they're good? Well, I mean, that's

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what my doctor says. Hey, go for a walk. Did

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you buy some rollerblades? I did. That was a

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noble effort. That was kind of like... Cut down

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trees. Cut down trees. Use my chainsaw. No, no,

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with a hatchet. I was a human rollerblade enthusiast

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in the early 90s. I rollerbladed off the frickin'

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hook. I was a freak. You know, I mean, I'd go

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down big here. Oh, yeah. What I would do is I'd

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have a backpack on with water and Gatorade and

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snacks and like a half pound of pot. And I was

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like going to these woody forested areas. And

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your shorts were this big? Oh, with the tall

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socks, go fast stripes and just like flying through

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there. And the chicks were like, that's a bad

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look. But I didn't care. I had my little, I had

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my cassette player with headset on and I was

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just like cruising. Your Sony Walkman? Dude,

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I'm telling you. I'm telling you, I could go

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for 20 miles on rollerblades. Sounds like a hot

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tub time machine. Yeah, that's kind of what the

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deal was. You're scaring me. Well, it's true,

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though. But my point is that I wanted to get

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back to some of that because I enjoyed it. Because

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I could rollerblade forever and ever and ever.

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You could just diet. That ship has sailed. It's

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not about dieting and losing weight. I actually

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enjoyed the rollerblading. It was a lot of fun.

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Oh, yeah. I mean, it is fun. Because you're going

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super fast. I mean, you're going down these trails

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and stuff. That's you right there. Look at you

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jumping over. Jumping over little... Actually,

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that's 100 % me. I really enjoy doing that, and

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I did it when it wasn't even cool. It's much

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more strenuous if you do it in rush hour traffic.

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Yes, and jump over cars and shit. Yeah, yeah.

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Well, I didn't do it on the streets like that.

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I lived in Las Colinas, Texas, Irving, Texas,

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and we hit a lot of parking garages at night,

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like 11 o 'clock at night. And scraped up all

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the railings and scraped up all the stuff. No,

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no, parking garages. So we go, this is what,

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we take an elevator all the way to the top. I'm

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watching and I'm thinking organ donor. I'm sorry.

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Right? Well, there's a video of these guys. But,

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you know. He's a hot shot. But I wouldn't jump

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up on stuff like that. It was mostly just, it

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was pure fun. It really was. I enjoyed it and

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I encourage people to do it. Well, it's great

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for de -stressing, right? That ship has sailed.

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We all have something different. But yes, I did

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buy some rollerblades. Yeah. Did you at least

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try it? Oh, yeah. Put the rollerblades on, and

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I went down the street, and I was like, fuck.

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I'm done. I can't do it anymore. I got to go

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back now. And you walked back? No, I really played

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it back. Take him off and walk back. I got a

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bunion. This was a bad idea. No, well, I mean,

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I could probably do it. I just don't make time

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for it. Oh, Lord. Look at this. That's Sean now.

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No, that is. There we go. We're watching a few

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train wrecks here. Stop at the brick wall, please.

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Yes, yes. Oh, that was horrible. All right, so

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de -stressing. Mike, what's your de -stressing

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go -to? Cut down trees. Seriously? Yeah, with

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the chainsaw, yeah. He uses his new patented

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chainsaw. Yeah. Do you have a lot of trees on

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your land or anything like that? Well, enough

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to use a chainsaw, yeah. I would love to do more

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deer hunting if anybody knows any deer hunting

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places to go, but yeah. So you have land in South

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Houston? No, no, just a couple acres. Oh, okay.

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Just enough. Yeah, we're on the outskirts of

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the city. It's just enough. You know, trees in

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Houston are subtropical, so trees grow where

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you don't want them to. Right. You know, and

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if I don't take care of it this year, I'll get

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it next year, but the tree is 10 feet taller

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next year. Yeah. Literally, so yeah. Yeah, and

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you mentioned it's a cherry. What was the name

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of the tree that's very invasive? Oh yeah, the

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Chinese tile. Chinese tile. And then bamboo's

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the same way, isn't it? Very invasive. Bamboo's

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a grass, but yeah, technically it's a grass.

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It's the biggest grass you ever saw. That's almost

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impossible to get rid of. That's got a couple...

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A couple species of bamboo. There is a bamboo

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grass. There's a bamboo freaking chute, too,

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that comes out like 8, 10, 12, 15, 16 feet in

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the air. That's a grass, and yet it's like a

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freaking stalk. Oh, it's a spear. It is. It's

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a javelin. It's crazy. It's like Jeff's nose

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hairs. It is. You don't want to put that in your

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yard, either, because it spreads. It'll spread

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to your neighbors and their neighbors. It's crazy.

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It's crazy. It's bad. I read stories. You garden

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with Roundup. You have to kill it. You can't

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cut it down. I wouldn't want to use Roundup with

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all the lawsuits and chemicals. Send my kid out

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there. Let him do it. Send your kid out there

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to Roundup. Just burn it. Just burn it. I guess.

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I don't know. Speaking of burning, what do we

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got going on this weekend? It's my anniversary

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this weekend. Oh, April 12th is your anniversary?

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April 12th, 28 years. Yeah, 28 years. We were

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going to head to the Scarborough Fair. We may

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still go, but I'm kind of on the fence. I may

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not go. We usually go to the Renaissance Fair.

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Oh, that's nice. We being the family, the kids

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and I, and my kid being the youngest is 22. Oh,

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so you can drink with them. That's good. Have

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some mead or something. That's fun. It is fun.

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And they all get dressed up. Yeah, we get up.

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I wear a kilt. My son dresses up like a pirate.

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You want to wear funny clothes and you want to

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drink mead and have a sword because you got to

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have alcohol with something sharp in your hand.

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They sell all those swords that are real. They're

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dangerous. Yeah, sure. There's a couple of swords.

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Battle axes. Perfect. Not the wife. There's a

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lot of people that have that kind of stuff. They're

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dressed up like it's the Game of Thrones kind

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of program. Also, like last year, I saw some

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guys dressed up like Star Trek. I thought it

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was freaking hilarious. If I went, I'd wear my

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flamingo joust. Perfect for Halloween. I still

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have the jousting things. That's kind of cool.

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So for those dudes like us listeners out there

00:19:03.740 --> 00:19:04.960
that don't know what we're talking about, Jeff

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arrived at my Halloween party, which he seldom

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does, dressed. He shows up at the Halloween party,

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but he never shows up dressed up. In costume,

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yeah. This time it's one of those little blow

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-up things. You step into it. It's got those

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little 2D batteries. This thing blows up. It

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is dressed up like the arcade game. I don't know

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if you know what that is. It's like some sort

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of bird. I've got a Gandalf costume, so that's

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not so bad. That would work. That's like a gray

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wolf robe. It's pretty cool. That would work

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for the Renaissance Festival. Does it come with

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a beard? Yeah. I made an even bigger stick to

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take with me. You bring that. There you go. That's

00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:44.640
perfect. Your little onesie and a thong. There

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you go. And you have the Renaissance Festival

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in Magnolia. Yes, sir. Actually, that one's a

00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:51.359
pretty big one. Have you been? That's a huge,

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oh yeah, several times. Oh, you've been? Oh yeah,

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many, many, many, many times, yeah. Nice. It's

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actually, yeah, it's pretty cool. No, it's actually

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in Plannersville. It's not in, it's just north.

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Well, true, yeah, right. It's north. Just north

00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:03.900
of Magnolia, yeah. Really? I used to, so I lived

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in Cyprus. It's a production. It's a big deal.

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Oh yeah. So I lived in Cyprus and then I went

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to A &M, right? Right, okay. And so I took that

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back road through Magnolia, 249, and I used to

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go right past that Plannersville. You can't believe

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all the homes now? It's insane. I mean, it's

00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:22.779
crazy. Are they actual homes for residents? Are

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the communities they set up for all the... Well,

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million -dollar homes. I thought you were referring

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to the... The starter homes, 500K. No, no, no.

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Immigrants. No, no. You know what he's talking

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about, right? They built some sort of migrant

00:20:36.019 --> 00:20:39.559
master plan community somewhere. No, well, there's

00:20:39.559 --> 00:20:42.200
one colony there that everybody looked the other

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way, and they've been decimated now because of...

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The INS has come into town. Oh, have they cleaned

00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:50.019
it out? Yeah, so they're starting to clean it

00:20:50.019 --> 00:20:52.519
out, yeah. Nice. Well, Colony Ridge, I think

00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:55.079
it's called. Yes. But some of the developers

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took advantage of people, you know, and they

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made them sign leases or contracts. And that's

00:21:00.059 --> 00:21:02.259
not right. No, that's not right. And they knew

00:21:02.259 --> 00:21:04.160
they could because they had them by the balls.

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Yeah, because they're undocumented. Right, and

00:21:06.579 --> 00:21:07.880
they're like, okay, when you take this deal,

00:21:07.900 --> 00:21:09.880
we'll kind of rat it right now. Right, and so

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it was just a mess. You know, the whole thing

00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:13.799
is a mess because the developers took advantage

00:21:13.799 --> 00:21:16.680
of people. Right. Well, you know, the roads aren't

00:21:16.680 --> 00:21:19.140
up to code. Yeah. Which came right. Yeah. It

00:21:19.140 --> 00:21:20.700
becomes like another egg. And it's just like,

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dude, the poor people or the, all the developers

00:21:22.740 --> 00:21:24.500
that took advantage of them. Right. So it's nuts.

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And then ultimately it becomes a no go zone like

00:21:26.500 --> 00:21:28.559
in Europe. Yeah. It's yeah. Well, that shit's

00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:30.720
not going to fly. Yeah. I mean, that's exactly

00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:33.519
why we were talking about the, uh, what is it?

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That city in Plano. Totally different. We're

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not going to dive too much into it, but you know,

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it's just simply like that. You don't want to

00:21:39.299 --> 00:21:41.210
create communities that. That had the potential

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to be nefarious. Well, so, you know, the history

00:21:42.809 --> 00:21:45.750
lesson is my grandparents, one set was Irish,

00:21:45.809 --> 00:21:48.289
one set was Italian. They came over. Actually,

00:21:48.390 --> 00:21:51.089
they met. Both of them met while they were here.

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Yeah. And they all came through Ellis Island

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with these certificates, and you had to do a

00:21:55.690 --> 00:21:57.410
couple things. You had to swear that you weren't

00:21:57.410 --> 00:21:59.890
sick, first of all, so you weren't a drain on

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society. But you also had a financial sponsor.

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So my grandmother was sponsored by my aunt, right?

00:22:06.269 --> 00:22:09.069
So my aunt came over first, got a job, and then...

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One by one, yes, it's like chain migration, but

00:22:11.819 --> 00:22:14.319
there was no welfare. So if you came over and

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you had a relative, you had to live with them.

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They were supported. And they had to support

00:22:18.099 --> 00:22:19.799
you and you got a job, great, you could stay.

00:22:20.180 --> 00:22:22.640
If you couldn't, eventually they'd say, you know,

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if you can't find a job, get the hell out and

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go back home. That's the whole point. And that's

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how it worked. Now, not so much. Now it's we

00:22:30.660 --> 00:22:33.240
just give you money and debit cards. There was

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no cell phone. There's no cell phone. There's

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nothing. It'd stay at the Ritz -Carlton Hotel.

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Yeah, no. It'd cost 500 bucks a night. Insane.

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So my Italian grandfather was very skilled at

00:22:44.099 --> 00:22:46.380
carpentry, and we still have furniture in our

00:22:46.380 --> 00:22:48.700
house that was made by him. Yeah. Over 100 years

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old. Because it actually is built to last. But

00:22:51.339 --> 00:22:54.519
you can't buy this anymore. It would cost a fortune

00:22:54.519 --> 00:22:56.700
if you could even get stuff like this. Sure.

00:22:57.180 --> 00:23:00.819
Handmade walnut that's curved and bowed. It's

00:23:00.819 --> 00:23:02.900
just amazing. But didn't you build all that for

00:23:02.900 --> 00:23:05.450
your wife? Well, whatever I didn't have from

00:23:05.450 --> 00:23:08.130
my grandparents. He commandeered it. He purposed

00:23:08.130 --> 00:23:11.349
it. I'm a Frank Lloyd Wright guy. I like Frank

00:23:11.349 --> 00:23:14.309
Lloyd Wright architecture, so I build the oak

00:23:14.309 --> 00:23:16.369
out of that, and that's what I do. So that's

00:23:16.369 --> 00:23:18.769
kind of my specialty, yeah. But how do you have

00:23:18.769 --> 00:23:22.470
time to do that? Woodworking is very time -consuming.

00:23:22.630 --> 00:23:25.049
Yeah, I know. I guess I don't sleep. I don't

00:23:25.049 --> 00:23:29.490
know. Are you one of those? You operate on three

00:23:29.490 --> 00:23:32.029
hours of sleep every day? No, five or six probably.

00:23:32.539 --> 00:23:35.140
Yeah. You know, but yeah, it just, it comes and

00:23:35.140 --> 00:23:37.500
goes sometimes a lot, a lot more and a lot less.

00:23:37.579 --> 00:23:40.660
Yeah. Yeah. It's, I think differently. I just

00:23:40.660 --> 00:23:43.079
don't know. I just think differently. I'm on

00:23:43.079 --> 00:23:44.200
a different schedule. You've got your hand in

00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:46.380
so many things that it's like, yeah, you're,

00:23:46.380 --> 00:23:48.460
you're kind of all over the place, which is great.

00:23:49.079 --> 00:23:50.839
I mean, you got a creative mind and it's great

00:23:50.839 --> 00:23:52.960
for ADD. It keeps you going. Yeah. Just kind

00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:55.160
of keep moving. I'm either ADD or a genius is

00:23:55.160 --> 00:23:57.940
one of the two. Well, you said that you were

00:23:57.940 --> 00:24:01.519
a rocket scientist and I know that, uh, SpaceX

00:24:01.519 --> 00:24:03.799
just had a big old thing a couple weeks ago.

00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:07.009
Big deal. Where they went up there and... Rescued

00:24:07.009 --> 00:24:09.569
the guys. Boeing. Those two folks. The Boeing

00:24:09.569 --> 00:24:12.769
Starliner astronauts. The proper word is rescued.

00:24:13.049 --> 00:24:16.170
They were rescued, 100%. But, you know, there's

00:24:16.170 --> 00:24:18.210
so much going on there. I mean, set aside for

00:24:18.210 --> 00:24:21.950
the politics, you know, of the fact that Biden

00:24:21.950 --> 00:24:25.450
stunted the process getting them for whatever

00:24:25.450 --> 00:24:27.910
reasons, for political gain. Forget that part.

00:24:28.009 --> 00:24:30.670
But let's slide over to the other side where

00:24:30.670 --> 00:24:32.690
you've got these two astronauts that are stuck

00:24:32.690 --> 00:24:36.609
up in space. Almost there for the longest period

00:24:36.609 --> 00:24:38.250
of time for any astronaut to be in the United

00:24:38.250 --> 00:24:39.789
States. They almost beat that record. They were

00:24:39.789 --> 00:24:41.410
supposed to be there for, what, eight days? Yeah,

00:24:41.410 --> 00:24:43.269
maybe they extended for, what, nine months. Nine

00:24:43.269 --> 00:24:46.009
months. A long time. And did you see the interview

00:24:46.009 --> 00:24:49.369
they had? I did, but what I was getting at was

00:24:49.369 --> 00:24:53.809
that the effects of being in zero gravity. I

00:24:53.809 --> 00:24:56.769
was afraid for them coming back that their recuperation

00:24:56.769 --> 00:24:57.750
would be too long. What it's going to do on their

00:24:57.750 --> 00:25:01.890
body, because your body just starts. Your muscles

00:25:01.890 --> 00:25:04.390
atrophy. Your body metabolizes different in zero

00:25:04.390 --> 00:25:07.390
gravity. And just because they have, is it anaerobic

00:25:07.390 --> 00:25:09.349
with the stretchy shit, you know? Just because

00:25:09.349 --> 00:25:11.609
they have that type of exercise. Gravity is everything.

00:25:11.869 --> 00:25:14.289
It's different. Well, your bones get weaker.

00:25:14.430 --> 00:25:16.829
Yeah. Potentially smaller. Your muscles get smaller.

00:25:16.970 --> 00:25:19.849
Do your organs? It's because there's no gravity.

00:25:19.890 --> 00:25:21.150
I don't know. I don't know how that works. Yeah,

00:25:21.329 --> 00:25:23.690
your digestion. They move around. They move around.

00:25:23.769 --> 00:25:25.829
They move around. Your heart goes down into your,

00:25:25.849 --> 00:25:30.990
you know, your abdomen. It does it. So it doesn't

00:25:30.990 --> 00:25:33.269
that they... I like it. I like how you go into

00:25:33.269 --> 00:25:37.410
space. You turn into some sort of... Blob. Yeah,

00:25:37.809 --> 00:25:40.450
you'd want to form because it's natural for your

00:25:40.450 --> 00:25:42.809
body to be able to form into itself, into its

00:25:42.809 --> 00:25:46.430
own personal little gravitational pull. And,

00:25:46.430 --> 00:25:49.029
you know, that's what their body's doing. Slow

00:25:49.029 --> 00:25:51.430
decomposition, so to speak. So I'm kind of wondering

00:25:51.430 --> 00:25:53.789
from a person that's in space for an extended

00:25:53.789 --> 00:25:55.829
period like that, when they get down to Earth,

00:25:55.950 --> 00:25:59.930
I am super interested in the science that goes

00:25:59.930 --> 00:26:04.730
behind it. What kind of changes were made from

00:26:04.730 --> 00:26:07.390
their cells? And my question is, do they prep

00:26:07.390 --> 00:26:09.809
for that? How can you prep for that? Well, that's

00:26:09.809 --> 00:26:11.829
what I'm wondering. You can't live in a vacuum.

00:26:11.869 --> 00:26:14.589
So they have the treadmills, and the treadmills,

00:26:14.609 --> 00:26:16.759
they have rubber bands on their shoulders. So

00:26:16.759 --> 00:26:18.539
when you jump up and down, the treadmill with

00:26:18.539 --> 00:26:21.319
the rubber bands forces you back down. It's fake

00:26:21.319 --> 00:26:23.940
gravity, right? Right. Because you're under stress

00:26:23.940 --> 00:26:25.900
of rubber bands. Yeah. It's still not the same.

00:26:25.960 --> 00:26:29.000
But it's not the gravity. Yeah. My point is they

00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:30.859
were planning on being there for eight days.

00:26:31.019 --> 00:26:32.920
Right. They have astronauts that are planning

00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:35.359
to be there for six months. Right. Do they train

00:26:35.359 --> 00:26:39.559
differently to try to condition the body to be

00:26:39.559 --> 00:26:42.200
less effective? All you can do is be in the best

00:26:42.200 --> 00:26:44.809
shape possible when you lift off. Right. That's

00:26:44.809 --> 00:26:47.509
all you can do. After you get there, there's

00:26:47.509 --> 00:26:51.490
this same amount of exercises. Something's happening.

00:26:51.529 --> 00:26:54.529
We're hearing noises. No, it's gone now. Feedback.

00:26:54.630 --> 00:26:58.230
So all you can do is the exercises that you're

00:26:58.230 --> 00:27:00.630
given are the same for everybody. Right. All

00:27:00.630 --> 00:27:03.430
you can do, you can do more of them. Right. I

00:27:03.430 --> 00:27:05.009
just wondered that. You know what I'm saying,

00:27:05.029 --> 00:27:06.950
though? It's like maybe they were less prepared

00:27:06.950 --> 00:27:13.150
for their return because they... Oh, shoot. There's

00:27:13.150 --> 00:27:15.869
a buzz. There's a feedback. That's interesting.

00:27:16.069 --> 00:27:19.329
It's not doing it now. I'm thinking, is... Your

00:27:19.329 --> 00:27:22.109
electricity has done a weird number on this room

00:27:22.109 --> 00:27:24.990
today, Mike. Yeah, why are you charging us? Weird

00:27:24.990 --> 00:27:27.109
shit's going on right now. Well, I was going

00:27:27.109 --> 00:27:28.869
to say, is there phantom power put into your

00:27:28.869 --> 00:27:30.490
microphone, but it's not lit up back there, so

00:27:30.490 --> 00:27:33.970
that's weird. Well, you know, if they've been

00:27:33.970 --> 00:27:37.410
up there for nine months, and I know the want

00:27:37.410 --> 00:27:41.099
is to go to Mars. How long of a trip is that?

00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:43.000
And what is that going to do to the body? Or

00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:45.339
are they accounting to try to do? Because, you

00:27:45.339 --> 00:27:46.940
know, you see these movies where they have the

00:27:46.940 --> 00:27:50.000
spinning things to create. That's the centrifugal

00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:53.460
force is probably the only way that I would see

00:27:53.460 --> 00:27:55.180
that. It's not real, though, I don't think. I

00:27:55.180 --> 00:27:59.200
think Mars is six to nine months. But once you

00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:01.359
leave the atmosphere of the Earth, you've also

00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:03.920
got the magnetic radiation of the Earth that

00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:06.220
shields you. From the solar radiation and the

00:28:06.220 --> 00:28:08.420
gamma rays, you no longer have that when you

00:28:08.420 --> 00:28:10.500
leave the sanctity of the Earth. There's no protection.

00:28:10.660 --> 00:28:12.339
There's no protection, so they've got to have

00:28:12.339 --> 00:28:13.779
extra shielding. You lose that once you leave

00:28:13.779 --> 00:28:17.279
orbit anyways? Well, yeah. When you get into

00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:19.259
orbit, you lose that, right? They went to the

00:28:19.259 --> 00:28:21.960
moon for seven days, though, not seven months.

00:28:21.960 --> 00:28:25.000
Right. Yeah, yeah. That's what it is. That's

00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:28.660
what I thought, too. So that is real. That is

00:28:28.660 --> 00:28:30.880
awesome. But the radiation from space comes from

00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:33.680
all directions, not just from the sun. So, yeah.

00:28:34.119 --> 00:28:36.460
You get gamma rays from everywhere. And that's

00:28:36.460 --> 00:28:38.319
why we have great bourbon. That's right. Because

00:28:38.319 --> 00:28:41.099
the gamma rays. That's what it is. And the, yes,

00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:43.519
we never can't. So that was my thought with the

00:28:43.519 --> 00:28:45.319
Mars is because I know there's a big push, you

00:28:45.319 --> 00:28:47.660
know, Elon Musk wants to do it. Well, what's,

00:28:47.660 --> 00:28:52.380
I guess I haven't seen, what is his solution

00:28:52.380 --> 00:28:56.400
for all the gamma rays, the radiation and the.

00:28:56.500 --> 00:28:58.059
The body falling apart. Yeah, the body just.

00:28:59.319 --> 00:29:01.660
deteriorating on that six to nine month trip

00:29:01.660 --> 00:29:06.299
out there. There is no good solution. No. There's

00:29:06.299 --> 00:29:09.900
accommodation. You can go there and then you

00:29:09.900 --> 00:29:14.579
can come back, hopefully. No shit. That's what

00:29:14.579 --> 00:29:15.980
I was talking about with the interview with these

00:29:15.980 --> 00:29:18.380
astronauts that were trapped up there. They started

00:29:18.380 --> 00:29:20.299
to talk about what happened when they were getting

00:29:20.299 --> 00:29:25.759
ready to dock. And the thrusters They were not

00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:28.180
working. They could not control the vehicle,

00:29:28.420 --> 00:29:30.680
and they were worried that they were not going

00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:32.920
to be able to dock with the space station. If

00:29:32.920 --> 00:29:34.220
they couldn't have, they're saying they would

00:29:34.220 --> 00:29:36.319
have died. Like they would have just gone out

00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:38.799
into space? Because they would not have been

00:29:38.799 --> 00:29:41.420
able to return to Earth, and they would not have

00:29:41.420 --> 00:29:42.920
been able to steer the vehicle, they would have

00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:44.759
died. Because they didn't have any thrusters.

00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:47.319
And they were terrified. They didn't have any

00:29:47.319 --> 00:29:49.180
suits that they could have just walked over to

00:29:49.180 --> 00:29:52.789
the other ship? No. There's no exterior. Really?

00:29:52.789 --> 00:29:56.190
Can't you just hold your breath? Yes. Well, haven't

00:29:56.190 --> 00:29:57.769
you guys seen Guardians of the Galaxy? Remember,

00:29:57.849 --> 00:30:00.190
he's going, and he gets all crystallized. Well,

00:30:00.230 --> 00:30:02.009
I was thinking, like, Princess Leia. Yeah, Princess

00:30:02.009 --> 00:30:04.670
Leia did that, too. Oh, her shoe, yeah. But they

00:30:04.670 --> 00:30:08.289
didn't have spacesuits? I mean, they... They

00:30:08.289 --> 00:30:10.069
were up to for eight days. They weren't going

00:30:10.069 --> 00:30:13.069
spacewalks. Even if they... You would think you

00:30:13.069 --> 00:30:14.769
would have, like... It's kind of like when you're

00:30:14.769 --> 00:30:17.009
in a boat. You need to have a life jacket, you

00:30:17.009 --> 00:30:20.829
know? I don't think we appreciate how much is...

00:30:21.450 --> 00:30:24.269
at risk and the planning that goes into it. Well,

00:30:24.269 --> 00:30:26.869
they had enough to make sure that they had enough

00:30:26.869 --> 00:30:29.910
food. Well, yeah, but that's on the space station

00:30:29.910 --> 00:30:32.849
itself. They could not dock with it. And so what

00:30:32.849 --> 00:30:35.930
happened was they had to reboot it and hope that

00:30:35.930 --> 00:30:37.890
the thrusters came back. And they did this remotely.

00:30:38.190 --> 00:30:40.869
And they did. And they were able to control it

00:30:40.869 --> 00:30:45.150
and dock. And it was dicey. You know, the government

00:30:45.150 --> 00:30:47.329
has these funny programs where once you get into

00:30:47.329 --> 00:30:50.309
the process and you get in the groove, You go

00:30:50.309 --> 00:30:53.390
with that groove and that groove for space is

00:30:53.390 --> 00:30:57.250
a five or 10 year cycle. So it, it wasn't uncommon.

00:30:57.470 --> 00:30:59.309
If you remember the Intel processors, you know,

00:30:59.329 --> 00:31:01.490
we started with like, if you remember the 80,

00:31:01.509 --> 00:31:04.170
86 years ago, I'm dating myself. One of the first

00:31:04.170 --> 00:31:06.250
Intel processors. Then you had the two 86, the

00:31:06.250 --> 00:31:09.470
three 86, the four 86, the Itaniums and all.

00:31:09.549 --> 00:31:12.210
Right. So I remember the two 80s member of all

00:31:12.210 --> 00:31:14.930
that stuff. Right. So if you think about it,

00:31:15.230 --> 00:31:18.190
By the time NASA was deploying the equivalent

00:31:18.190 --> 00:31:21.930
of the 286 processor on Earth, we had the 486.

00:31:22.109 --> 00:31:24.869
Right. Because we're two generations ahead. And

00:31:24.869 --> 00:31:27.250
for them to switch that would probably take another

00:31:27.250 --> 00:31:31.450
two, three years. So they probably, that's why

00:31:31.450 --> 00:31:33.890
Elon Musk is so successful because he says, just

00:31:33.890 --> 00:31:36.009
throw that crap out and use something new. Right.

00:31:36.450 --> 00:31:40.569
And then it's cheaper to just buy new crap, retest

00:31:40.569 --> 00:31:44.500
it, and recertify it than it is to just. go through

00:31:44.500 --> 00:31:48.319
these 20 meticulous steps because they're all

00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:51.839
so programmatic because they're so afraid of

00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:55.319
making a mistake. It can ruin your career if

00:31:55.319 --> 00:31:59.559
you make a mistake. And the build it, test it,

00:31:59.619 --> 00:32:02.680
break it, and fix it, and then go on is not a

00:32:02.680 --> 00:32:05.019
mentality that's common in the government. In

00:32:05.019 --> 00:32:07.400
the government, it's never make a mistake, never

00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:10.839
fail. Well, if you never fail, you've got to

00:32:10.839 --> 00:32:14.640
spend 10 times more effort. just to get to where

00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:16.420
you would be if you just tried stuff and broke

00:32:16.420 --> 00:32:18.240
it and fixed it and then moved on. You learn

00:32:18.240 --> 00:32:20.660
something from your mistakes, right? Absolutely.

00:32:21.319 --> 00:32:24.380
Sometimes it's not worth rehashing and bringing

00:32:24.380 --> 00:32:27.180
something back to life. It's just better to scrap

00:32:27.180 --> 00:32:30.640
it and move on. I wonder, so what is the future

00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:33.259
of the Boeing Starliner program? I mean, they

00:32:33.259 --> 00:32:35.900
got into massive screaming arguments, NASA and

00:32:35.900 --> 00:32:37.400
the Boeing officials, because they were like

00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:41.079
wanting to, Boeing wanted to bring the astronauts

00:32:41.079 --> 00:32:43.960
home. Right. And they were like, we can't, we

00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:45.500
have no confidence that the vehicle is going

00:32:45.500 --> 00:32:48.059
to, and it did. It came home safely. Right. And

00:32:48.059 --> 00:32:50.940
it would have been fine. But they got into screaming

00:32:50.940 --> 00:32:52.940
matches about it, probably because, you know,

00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:55.720
they knew they were going to be up there. Who

00:32:55.720 --> 00:32:57.460
knew how long they were going to be up there?

00:32:57.519 --> 00:33:00.329
And it was a huge black eye for Boeing. Well,

00:33:00.349 --> 00:33:02.549
it's a black eye for everybody, right? I mean,

00:33:02.589 --> 00:33:04.529
you know, but there's always one guy that's more

00:33:04.529 --> 00:33:06.890
of a black eye than the other. Yeah, sure. But

00:33:06.890 --> 00:33:09.150
I wonder, what's the future of the Starliner

00:33:09.150 --> 00:33:11.470
program? Well, it says it's as of the 8th, which

00:33:11.470 --> 00:33:15.109
is today, it is uncertain. No shit, and they've

00:33:15.109 --> 00:33:18.390
invested, God, probably a billion dollars. Well,

00:33:18.410 --> 00:33:20.269
I'll tell you what, Boeing's had several missteps

00:33:20.269 --> 00:33:22.849
over the last 10 years. They're struggling. If

00:33:22.849 --> 00:33:26.009
you know anything about Boeing, a lot of great

00:33:26.009 --> 00:33:28.130
engineers, like I said, a lot of great people,

00:33:28.230 --> 00:33:31.539
but... It's a top -down system. Shitty management.

00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:35.299
And their culture is like from the 1960s. It's

00:33:35.299 --> 00:33:39.400
like Mad Men. Well, it's a company that merged

00:33:39.400 --> 00:33:41.559
with them. McDonnell Douglas. McDonnell Douglas.

00:33:41.599 --> 00:33:43.779
And I watched that documentary. You told me to,

00:33:43.819 --> 00:33:46.119
and it was great. That's when the culture changed,

00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:48.220
when McDonnell Douglas came on board. They were

00:33:48.220 --> 00:33:52.160
all about shareholders and stock price and cutting

00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:57.910
corners and punishing whistleblowers. Well, and

00:33:57.910 --> 00:34:00.109
again, you know, at the end of the day, something

00:34:00.109 --> 00:34:02.069
has to work. If you have a jet and it takes off

00:34:02.069 --> 00:34:04.589
and the door pops off. Yeah. Bad things happen.

00:34:04.789 --> 00:34:07.490
You know, it's like, did you not check the bolts?

00:34:07.630 --> 00:34:10.110
I mean, of all things. By the way, there's eight

00:34:10.110 --> 00:34:14.469
out of, you know, 20 missing. So did you think

00:34:14.469 --> 00:34:16.329
that's a good idea? Nothing on an aircraft is

00:34:16.329 --> 00:34:20.010
ever, always has a redundant system. And that

00:34:20.010 --> 00:34:24.730
air sensor that caused the 737 MAX. Well, you

00:34:24.730 --> 00:34:27.429
know, years ago, like when I was in IT, you know,

00:34:27.449 --> 00:34:30.610
I was a CIO, but everybody, the CEO and the CFOs

00:34:30.610 --> 00:34:32.690
were all pushing me. Yes. Hey, do your software

00:34:32.690 --> 00:34:35.250
development overseas. It was like, oh God, I

00:34:35.250 --> 00:34:37.409
really don't want to do that. I really don't

00:34:37.409 --> 00:34:39.329
want to do that. I'd rather hire two or three

00:34:39.329 --> 00:34:42.510
really good American programmers than 20 people

00:34:42.510 --> 00:34:46.369
from overseas. You know, and I've actually been

00:34:46.369 --> 00:34:47.949
in board meetings and I've told people, listen,

00:34:48.150 --> 00:34:50.750
this is my favorite saying for all you guys out

00:34:50.750 --> 00:34:53.710
there in the IT world. I said. Here's what you

00:34:53.710 --> 00:34:55.730
want to do. You want to hire an American. And

00:34:55.730 --> 00:34:57.849
here's why. Not because I'm particularly in love

00:34:57.849 --> 00:34:59.969
with Americans, but it's just common sense, right?

00:35:00.110 --> 00:35:05.150
Right. A good IT person will cost you a lot of

00:35:05.150 --> 00:35:08.889
money. Right. A bad IT person will cost you millions.

00:35:09.150 --> 00:35:11.849
Right. Even more money. Way more money. So, yeah.

00:35:12.130 --> 00:35:13.750
That's a good point. You know, I mean, because

00:35:13.750 --> 00:35:15.429
they don't pay attention to coding. They don't

00:35:15.429 --> 00:35:17.570
pay attention to viruses. Yep. They don't pay

00:35:17.570 --> 00:35:19.889
attention to, you know, gate checks and on and

00:35:19.889 --> 00:35:22.039
on and on. And you have downtime. And you have

00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:25.539
critical business function going, you know, being

00:35:25.539 --> 00:35:29.500
down. And so you need that maturity and the command

00:35:29.500 --> 00:35:32.679
of the English language about how you design

00:35:32.679 --> 00:35:35.900
software to do certain things. And when you say

00:35:35.900 --> 00:35:38.179
something, what you really mean behind the language

00:35:38.179 --> 00:35:40.920
is very important because English is not an easy

00:35:40.920 --> 00:35:44.300
language. No, it's not. You know, and it really

00:35:44.300 --> 00:35:46.179
does make a difference. It really does make a

00:35:46.179 --> 00:35:48.849
difference. Agreed. Agreed. And so I'd rather

00:35:48.849 --> 00:35:51.650
hire three or four people that are highly, highly

00:35:51.650 --> 00:35:55.250
skilled than 100 people that are not. Going back

00:35:55.250 --> 00:35:57.590
to the whole SpaceX, what were your thoughts

00:35:57.590 --> 00:36:00.750
when you saw that he was landing the booster

00:36:00.750 --> 00:36:03.949
rocket? Oh, cool as hell. Chopsticks. That's

00:36:03.949 --> 00:36:06.269
cool as hell. Chopsticks. Chopsticks. It was

00:36:06.269 --> 00:36:09.670
like great. Unbelievable. Yeah. Well, the government's

00:36:09.670 --> 00:36:12.909
incentivized, like I said, to not break anything.

00:36:13.190 --> 00:36:15.130
Right. But it's okay if you throw stuff out.

00:36:15.659 --> 00:36:18.320
it just didn't break so if the booster lands

00:36:18.320 --> 00:36:20.460
in the ocean who gives a damn it worked right

00:36:20.460 --> 00:36:23.780
it worked once we're good you know and elon's

00:36:23.780 --> 00:36:27.019
like well wait a minute you know for 10 more

00:36:27.019 --> 00:36:30.039
i can reuse that and save some money right the

00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:32.139
government doesn't think like that see i you

00:36:32.139 --> 00:36:35.239
know and again you know okay another favorite

00:36:35.239 --> 00:36:38.260
saying of mine is what's the definition of an

00:36:38.260 --> 00:36:41.610
elephant That's a mouse designed to government

00:36:41.610 --> 00:36:46.289
specifications. Right? And so that's exactly

00:36:46.289 --> 00:36:48.590
what happens. They say, oh, if we can do it for

00:36:48.590 --> 00:36:50.510
a billion dollars, what can we do for 10 billion?

00:36:50.750 --> 00:36:52.929
Right. It's like, what's wrong with just spending

00:36:52.929 --> 00:36:56.869
the one? Right. Not the 10. Oh, because that

00:36:56.869 --> 00:36:59.710
way we get more people because I expand my empire.

00:37:00.130 --> 00:37:02.789
Yeah. In my fiefdom and I get more colleagues

00:37:02.789 --> 00:37:05.369
and I get more direct reports and then I get

00:37:05.369 --> 00:37:09.760
more lobbyists. Yeah. So their whole goal. is

00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:12.599
to be a cancer on America, is to grow the government

00:37:12.599 --> 00:37:15.719
because that's how they get more of everything.

00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:18.800
Yes, agreed. Instead of just doing the damn job.

00:37:19.260 --> 00:37:23.260
You know, speaking of Elon and bringing up Doge,

00:37:23.260 --> 00:37:27.039
kind of doing a little twist here. So when Elon

00:37:27.039 --> 00:37:31.480
signed up for Doge, he anticipated a, I don't

00:37:31.480 --> 00:37:33.179
think he came up with a six -month contract,

00:37:33.260 --> 00:37:35.639
but he said, you know, I don't think it's going

00:37:35.639 --> 00:37:39.000
to take more than six months. So, you know, they've

00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:42.900
got all these people that are hyping in, what

00:37:42.900 --> 00:37:45.320
do they call it? Trump came up with a new word.

00:37:46.119 --> 00:37:49.780
Panicking. Yeah, panicking. So what Elon didn't

00:37:49.780 --> 00:37:52.820
know is he didn't know how to spell cobalt. Cobalt?

00:37:53.179 --> 00:37:56.980
Cobalt. Cobalt, which is a program from the 1980s.

00:37:57.139 --> 00:37:59.219
He said, oh my God, you still use that in the

00:37:59.219 --> 00:38:01.820
SSA? Yeah, social security. And the databases

00:38:01.820 --> 00:38:03.780
don't talk to one another? It's like, how many

00:38:03.780 --> 00:38:06.000
databases do you have? Oh, maybe 300. It's like,

00:38:06.059 --> 00:38:08.909
what? Insane. You have no checks on how many

00:38:08.909 --> 00:38:10.809
people are past a certain age because one database

00:38:10.809 --> 00:38:13.550
doesn't talk to the other. So yeah, you might

00:38:13.550 --> 00:38:15.889
be deceased and you're 150 years old in Social

00:38:15.889 --> 00:38:18.869
Security. They never told Medicare. So there's

00:38:18.869 --> 00:38:21.110
somebody out there with an illegal Social Security

00:38:21.110 --> 00:38:23.289
number of the dead person and they're getting

00:38:23.289 --> 00:38:25.550
Medicare or Medicaid. I've read a report that

00:38:25.550 --> 00:38:28.909
AOC's great -grandmother or grandmother still

00:38:28.909 --> 00:38:32.369
gets a check and her family was cashing in. No.

00:38:32.369 --> 00:38:34.889
I don't know how true that is. Well, I don't

00:38:34.889 --> 00:38:36.989
know either. But Mr. Producer, see if you can

00:38:36.989 --> 00:38:39.309
pull that up. AOC. Grandmother check. When we

00:38:39.309 --> 00:38:41.989
were talking about the people that are 115, 120,

00:38:41.989 --> 00:38:44.750
the greatest joke was the Highlanders. They're

00:38:44.750 --> 00:38:46.170
all Highlanders. They're all Highlanders, yeah.

00:38:47.050 --> 00:38:51.199
Right. There can be only one. Now, well, years

00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:55.000
ago, and I worked for Compaq, and I was the equivalent

00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:57.659
of the healthcare director for IT. And I'd go

00:38:57.659 --> 00:38:59.219
down to the hospital. I'd go all over the country

00:38:59.219 --> 00:39:01.739
to visit hospitals. And every hospital at the

00:39:01.739 --> 00:39:04.179
border, the border towns, they're full in the

00:39:04.179 --> 00:39:07.539
ERs. And everybody's got the same last name and

00:39:07.539 --> 00:39:10.000
the same driver's license. Sure. Oh, wow. Because

00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:12.920
legally and morally, you have to treat somebody

00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:15.320
if they're sick. Absolutely. And I agree with

00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:17.960
that. And I'm Catholic. You help somebody when

00:39:17.960 --> 00:39:19.920
you help somebody. Whether or not their ID is

00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:22.719
valid is like you got to help them. And if they

00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:24.320
stop bleeding, then you worry about the rest

00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:26.579
of it. Yep. And so all these hospitals at the

00:39:26.579 --> 00:39:29.480
border, they're going broke. Right. Because somebody's

00:39:29.480 --> 00:39:31.519
got to pay for that. Yep. And who pays for that

00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:34.139
is they raise the taxes on the people for trash

00:39:34.139 --> 00:39:36.960
collection. And they raise it for, you know,

00:39:36.980 --> 00:39:38.320
your driver's license. They're going to get their

00:39:38.320 --> 00:39:40.000
money somehow. You got to get the money somewhere.

00:39:40.260 --> 00:39:43.280
So sales tax, you know, the local municipality

00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:45.780
can raise their sales tax. Somebody's got to

00:39:45.780 --> 00:39:47.539
pay for the hospital. If not, they go out of

00:39:47.539 --> 00:39:53.369
business. Yep. And then it got kind of, what

00:39:53.369 --> 00:39:56.130
do you call it, bastardized, I guess, because

00:39:56.130 --> 00:39:58.869
then the trial lawyer started going there and

00:39:58.869 --> 00:40:00.329
said, well, you're not giving them the same standard

00:40:00.329 --> 00:40:03.849
of care. And you should have taken an x -ray

00:40:03.849 --> 00:40:06.809
and an MRI. And the x -ray is $20 and the MRI

00:40:06.809 --> 00:40:09.730
is $1 ,000. Right. It's like, he's got a broken

00:40:09.730 --> 00:40:11.949
bone. An x -ray ought to do. I gave him a cast.

00:40:13.250 --> 00:40:15.329
No, they want to look at it from a different

00:40:15.329 --> 00:40:18.719
angle. yeah that's ridiculous so the medical

00:40:18.719 --> 00:40:20.960
malpractice got out of hand too and so it's like

00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:23.800
everything you know the what's the scam the doctors

00:40:23.800 --> 00:40:26.119
are all caught in the middle yeah it goes you

00:40:26.119 --> 00:40:29.320
know right it's a big big big scam and it extends

00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:32.119
across the board within so that's what i was

00:40:32.119 --> 00:40:34.300
talking about before cali means is one of the

00:40:34.300 --> 00:40:38.739
new guys with trump he's works for rfk i saw

00:40:38.739 --> 00:40:41.619
a podcast about him he's a bloody genius you

00:40:41.619 --> 00:40:43.840
know and he talked about We're not cutting Medicare.

00:40:43.860 --> 00:40:45.619
We're not cutting benefits, but we're going to

00:40:45.619 --> 00:40:49.059
look at a way to re -engineer the system. We're

00:40:49.059 --> 00:40:50.699
going to look at, because right now it's all

00:40:50.699 --> 00:40:53.659
episodic care. Yeah. You know, I'm sick. You

00:40:53.659 --> 00:40:55.699
give me a pill, right? And everybody's pushing

00:40:55.699 --> 00:40:57.219
this because the drug companies make money on

00:40:57.219 --> 00:40:59.400
pills. Oh, man. They don't make money on curing

00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:01.260
you. They have a stranglehold. They make money

00:41:01.260 --> 00:41:05.039
on treating you. On treating you, right? So it's

00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:08.260
like, so I'm naive. I didn't know this, but like,

00:41:08.300 --> 00:41:10.909
why did it take 40 years for us? to get rid of

00:41:10.909 --> 00:41:15.030
red dye number two. Right. Canada's, and we knew

00:41:15.030 --> 00:41:17.590
it was a carcinogenic ingredient 40 years ago.

00:41:18.010 --> 00:41:19.829
We're just now thinking about getting rid of

00:41:19.829 --> 00:41:22.130
it. It's like, really? We researched that and

00:41:22.130 --> 00:41:24.670
it's that cherry that you put into old fashioned.

00:41:24.750 --> 00:41:26.389
The maraschino cherry. The maraschino cherry.

00:41:26.429 --> 00:41:28.769
They lobbied because they knew it would kill

00:41:28.769 --> 00:41:31.489
them if they banned that red dye. Well, the red

00:41:31.489 --> 00:41:33.389
dye they use in Canada apparently is beet. You

00:41:33.389 --> 00:41:36.630
can use beet juice or carrot juice. And because

00:41:36.630 --> 00:41:39.269
it's a natural organic substance, you know, it's

00:41:39.269 --> 00:41:42.780
like. Maybe it's not as red. Right. Yeah, but

00:41:42.780 --> 00:41:45.079
nobody wants a not as red. Yeah, but who gives

00:41:45.079 --> 00:41:46.840
a shit about that? Who gives a... I care more

00:41:46.840 --> 00:41:48.340
about the... I don't want a not as red Skittle.

00:41:48.400 --> 00:41:50.480
I care more about the bourbon. You should eat

00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:51.539
Skittles anyways, man. Skittles are horrible

00:41:51.539 --> 00:41:53.800
for you. What? It's like the worst... I eat organic

00:41:53.800 --> 00:41:56.360
Skittles. Look it up, man. There you go. It's

00:41:56.360 --> 00:41:59.420
horrible for you. Of course. Of course. Now,

00:41:59.420 --> 00:42:01.719
give me those red M &Ms. I'm all in. Throw out

00:42:01.719 --> 00:42:03.900
the cherry and just drink the bourbon. I also...

00:42:03.900 --> 00:42:07.260
Promise off. I also read that PepsiCo and one

00:42:07.260 --> 00:42:10.349
of their potato chips. one of their flaming hot

00:42:10.349 --> 00:42:12.409
ones, they're having to completely reformulate

00:42:12.409 --> 00:42:15.429
to pull out the red dyes. And they're trying

00:42:15.429 --> 00:42:17.309
to, you know, like, well, it won't be quite as

00:42:17.309 --> 00:42:19.550
vibrant because we're using, you know, beets

00:42:19.550 --> 00:42:23.050
and this and that. Instead of uranium, it doesn't

00:42:23.050 --> 00:42:24.809
glow in the dark, right? People aren't going

00:42:24.809 --> 00:42:27.590
to understand how hot it's going to be, how spicy

00:42:27.590 --> 00:42:31.000
it is. That's what the red conveys. I see. Right?

00:42:31.099 --> 00:42:34.500
No. I mean, you know, they do their market research.

00:42:34.760 --> 00:42:37.480
They understand how people connect with food.

00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:40.059
You can put a number. Red number two is not in

00:42:40.059 --> 00:42:43.219
anything we currently eat in the United States.

00:42:43.300 --> 00:42:45.820
It was banned in the FDA in 1976 due to concerns

00:42:45.820 --> 00:42:48.500
or potential carcinogenity. What? It was red

00:42:48.500 --> 00:42:52.420
three. Red three? Red three is the colored. Yes.

00:42:52.659 --> 00:42:54.659
It's most likely, if you're eating something

00:42:54.659 --> 00:42:59.110
that's red, it's either 40. Red 40 or Red 3.

00:42:59.710 --> 00:43:02.429
It's either a strawberry or a beet or you shouldn't

00:43:02.429 --> 00:43:05.829
eat it. Yeah. That's my attitude. There you go.

00:43:07.690 --> 00:43:11.630
100%. And good riddance because it doesn't stop

00:43:11.630 --> 00:43:14.250
there. We're going to branch into seed oils.

00:43:14.510 --> 00:43:16.889
We're going to branch into... Well, potato chips.

00:43:17.010 --> 00:43:19.909
Potato chips have 16 different chemicals in them.

00:43:20.030 --> 00:43:22.380
I didn't know that. I love McDonald's. Well,

00:43:22.380 --> 00:43:25.679
hell, I mean, look at the - I could break McDonald's

00:43:25.679 --> 00:43:27.380
hamburgers for lunch with Trump all day long.

00:43:27.440 --> 00:43:29.039
It's cool. Well, people think, well, I'm not

00:43:29.039 --> 00:43:32.460
going to go to McDonald's. I'm going to try to

00:43:32.460 --> 00:43:34.340
eat healthy. I'm going to go Chick -fil -A. Well,

00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:38.559
Chick -fil -A has 42 chemicals in their chicken

00:43:38.559 --> 00:43:42.500
sandwich. No, ingredients, not chemicals. They're

00:43:42.500 --> 00:43:45.079
what? Ingredients, not chemicals. Well, I mean

00:43:45.079 --> 00:43:47.420
- Okay. So chicken, peanut oil. Some of those

00:43:47.420 --> 00:43:49.340
ingredients are chemicals. There were two that

00:43:49.340 --> 00:43:50.980
were, because I looked at that, there were two

00:43:50.980 --> 00:43:55.320
that were on the bad list of those 37. And the

00:43:55.320 --> 00:43:58.320
other 37 are super healthy. I don't know about

00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:00.559
that. All organic, super healthy. It's not the

00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:02.880
chemicals, put it that way. Right. So what is

00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:05.300
the bad thing about it then? There were two chemicals.

00:44:05.679 --> 00:44:08.239
There's fake butter in the bun. Probably, yeah.

00:44:08.969 --> 00:44:11.269
Flavoring agents or some sort of preservative.

00:44:12.070 --> 00:44:14.610
100%. So my point is that it doesn't require.

00:44:14.889 --> 00:44:16.469
I mean, when you're cooking chicken, I mean,

00:44:16.489 --> 00:44:19.550
it's seasoning. I mean, come on. Right. Agreed.

00:44:19.570 --> 00:44:22.909
So, I mean, in your bread, I mean, in your breads,

00:44:22.909 --> 00:44:24.750
including Subway sandwiches, I mean, they've

00:44:24.750 --> 00:44:28.170
got the same thing in the Subway bread that you

00:44:28.170 --> 00:44:31.590
put in yoga mats to the uniformity of the spacious

00:44:31.590 --> 00:44:34.510
of the bubbles inside. I went to a sandwich shop

00:44:34.510 --> 00:44:37.980
for lunch. You know, for the chili sauce, they

00:44:37.980 --> 00:44:40.639
label their chilies or their hot pepper sauce

00:44:40.639 --> 00:44:43.719
from one to ten. Right. From one is mild to ten

00:44:43.719 --> 00:44:46.659
is really like flaming hot. Pick a number. You

00:44:46.659 --> 00:44:49.119
don't need a color. Right. You know, I pick number

00:44:49.119 --> 00:44:51.559
three or four. I'm not picking number ten. I

00:44:51.559 --> 00:44:53.539
get to drive to Dallas for four hours. It's like,

00:44:53.539 --> 00:44:56.360
no way. Right. Right. And don't associate a color

00:44:56.360 --> 00:44:59.719
with it. You don't need to artificially, you

00:44:59.719 --> 00:45:02.119
know. But again, they do the research. They know

00:45:02.119 --> 00:45:05.300
how people respond to food. and perception, and

00:45:05.300 --> 00:45:07.579
that's what they're catering to, right or wrong.

00:45:07.659 --> 00:45:09.760
That's what they've catered to for decades and

00:45:09.760 --> 00:45:12.119
decades. We've got to get out of that mindset.

00:45:12.380 --> 00:45:15.579
Health is more important than how a food looks.

00:45:15.860 --> 00:45:18.679
Well, that's why I'm excited with RFK jumping

00:45:18.679 --> 00:45:20.880
in the bandwagon and starting to knock out some

00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:22.820
things. I haven't seen a whole lot of movement.

00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:26.699
I was excited about the fluoride in Utah. You

00:45:26.699 --> 00:45:28.840
said they removed it or they're starting to?

00:45:29.039 --> 00:45:32.889
They passed it. They passed it where I think

00:45:32.889 --> 00:45:35.010
they're going to limit the amount of fluoride

00:45:35.010 --> 00:45:36.949
in it. I don't know exactly how far they're going

00:45:36.949 --> 00:45:39.429
to take it, but he's kind of like, you know,

00:45:39.530 --> 00:45:42.010
hold on. I was going to try to make it sound

00:45:42.010 --> 00:45:45.750
like I was RFK. Oh, good luck with that. How's

00:45:45.750 --> 00:45:48.130
he doing? Wow. I can't do it. Jeff, what are

00:45:48.130 --> 00:45:49.710
you doing over there? That's like your first

00:45:49.710 --> 00:45:52.929
girlfriend. That did not sound like him at all.

00:45:53.429 --> 00:45:55.829
And the face you made was not necessary. Yeah,

00:45:55.829 --> 00:45:59.050
that's another reason 522 why we don't have cameras.

00:45:59.050 --> 00:46:01.130
That's why we don't do video. Right there, because

00:46:01.130 --> 00:46:04.309
of Jeff. But, you know, the thing is, is that,

00:46:04.349 --> 00:46:06.969
look, I'm glad. I want him to beat this down.

00:46:07.130 --> 00:46:10.349
You know, I'm kind of disappointed. I don't know

00:46:10.349 --> 00:46:12.960
what's going on behind the scenes. I'm hoping

00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:15.059
that he's moving forward. From what I understood,

00:46:15.139 --> 00:46:17.579
that they're starting to dive into the kids'

00:46:17.679 --> 00:46:21.219
lunches and restructure what we're feeding our

00:46:21.219 --> 00:46:23.599
kids every single day in the schools. Right.

00:46:23.659 --> 00:46:26.579
That's great. They're reversing all the Michelle

00:46:26.579 --> 00:46:29.599
Obama rules. Yeah. She tried to make it healthier,

00:46:29.699 --> 00:46:32.980
actually. Well, she did and she didn't. I mean,

00:46:33.000 --> 00:46:35.679
she made it seem like it was, but at the same

00:46:35.679 --> 00:46:39.530
time endorsed the rest of it by - I don't know

00:46:39.530 --> 00:46:42.530
what the term is called when you approve a block

00:46:42.530 --> 00:46:47.210
of, you know. Whatever it was, the result was

00:46:47.210 --> 00:46:49.750
kids stopped eating. Yeah, it didn't help. If

00:46:49.750 --> 00:46:50.949
you give them healthy food and they don't eat

00:46:50.949 --> 00:46:53.050
it, it's kind of. They stopped eating. Defeats

00:46:53.050 --> 00:46:55.949
the purpose. Right. It wasn't a good thing. Right.

00:46:56.599 --> 00:46:59.920
Well, whatever. Kids need calories. They do.

00:47:00.039 --> 00:47:02.699
You want them to come from good sources, but

00:47:02.699 --> 00:47:05.860
they need calories. They burn energy. See, part

00:47:05.860 --> 00:47:07.360
of the research that they're going to change,

00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:10.139
fundamental research that they're changing, is

00:47:10.139 --> 00:47:12.579
that... For the last 23 years, they have not

00:47:12.579 --> 00:47:15.420
been doing fundamental scientific research on

00:47:15.420 --> 00:47:17.360
these different chemicals. Right. That's because

00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:19.900
our food pyramid was upside down and you have

00:47:19.900 --> 00:47:23.059
the FDA and you've got these people that are

00:47:23.059 --> 00:47:25.199
dictating what's healthy and what's not healthy

00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:28.000
based on bullshit, based on profit. Based on

00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:31.360
money, yeah. Well, you know, if you're overweight,

00:47:31.599 --> 00:47:33.840
they give you Ozempic, right? Well, Callie means

00:47:33.840 --> 00:47:36.500
you said that like twice as many 12 -year -olds

00:47:36.500 --> 00:47:40.099
are on SSRIs now. Right. Then the last couple

00:47:40.099 --> 00:47:41.880
of years, it's like, what are 12 -year -olds

00:47:41.880 --> 00:47:44.579
doing on Prozac? I mean, for real. Are we serious?

00:47:44.820 --> 00:47:48.739
Because we live in a world where kids are being

00:47:48.739 --> 00:47:50.440
stressed out at a way earlier age. Have we thought

00:47:50.440 --> 00:47:53.320
about taking away the iPad and sending them out

00:47:53.320 --> 00:47:55.599
to play basketball in the schoolyard? Yes, 100%.

00:47:55.599 --> 00:47:58.380
You know? I mean, it's not hard. Social media

00:47:58.380 --> 00:48:00.900
creates stress. Being online creates stress.

00:48:00.900 --> 00:48:02.860
Texas is thinking about banning cell phones in

00:48:02.860 --> 00:48:05.460
schools. Yep. That's probably going to make our

00:48:05.460 --> 00:48:07.550
kids healthier. That's a good start. You know,

00:48:07.630 --> 00:48:09.789
there is a cause and effect. Well, you're going

00:48:09.789 --> 00:48:12.889
to have a lot of parents instead of the kids

00:48:12.889 --> 00:48:15.250
complaining about that because my wife's a teacher

00:48:15.250 --> 00:48:18.869
and she has a rule. Your phones are not allowed

00:48:18.869 --> 00:48:20.809
out. So when she takes them up because a kid

00:48:20.809 --> 00:48:23.110
takes them out, a parent complains. I need to

00:48:23.110 --> 00:48:25.429
be able to get a hold of them whenever I need.

00:48:25.590 --> 00:48:29.550
Oh, boy. Well, then you give them a phone. I'm

00:48:29.550 --> 00:48:32.960
sorry. You give them a watch. or something that

00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:38.860
gives them a minimal communication that is from

00:48:38.860 --> 00:48:42.400
a specific parent, and you have means to communicate

00:48:42.400 --> 00:48:44.360
with them. I mean, number one reason you want

00:48:44.360 --> 00:48:46.079
to know about it, because look, my parents didn't

00:48:46.079 --> 00:48:47.940
have fucking any of that stuff. Our parents didn't

00:48:47.940 --> 00:48:49.219
have any of that shit. They were like, he's at

00:48:49.219 --> 00:48:51.800
fucking school. He should be there. Of course,

00:48:51.860 --> 00:48:54.340
I skip school a lot, but it doesn't matter. They

00:48:54.340 --> 00:48:57.920
thought I was there. That's what counts. You

00:48:57.920 --> 00:48:59.420
want to make sure your kid is safe. Perception

00:48:59.420 --> 00:49:01.550
is reality. percent you want to make sure your

00:49:01.550 --> 00:49:04.090
kids are safe i mean i get that i get it and

00:49:04.090 --> 00:49:06.349
i do but that's why you you give them a watch

00:49:06.349 --> 00:49:08.050
or something like that like the heart's beating

00:49:08.050 --> 00:49:10.250
and it's at normal rate so they're therefore

00:49:10.250 --> 00:49:11.909
they must be healthy and they're not under stress

00:49:11.909 --> 00:49:15.030
and and the teachers can have guns and be trained

00:49:15.030 --> 00:49:18.849
in chl or one thousand percent you know you know

00:49:18.849 --> 00:49:21.989
and the the teacher look there's a lot of uh

00:49:21.989 --> 00:49:25.710
teachers out there that disagree with that strange

00:49:25.710 --> 00:49:29.059
enough and sheer ignorance and No, I mean, they

00:49:29.059 --> 00:49:30.860
don't believe that guns should be around kids.

00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:34.679
I get that, but I know I get it. I get it on

00:49:34.679 --> 00:49:37.280
both sides of the aisle, but you want to protect

00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:39.739
the kids. So what are you going to do? You're

00:49:39.739 --> 00:49:42.590
going to let some... Well, we used to have...

00:49:42.590 --> 00:49:44.369
Venezuelan mob come in? You know, when my kids

00:49:44.369 --> 00:49:46.449
were younger at the YMCA, we used to have these

00:49:46.449 --> 00:49:48.170
outings. You go camping for the weekend. Like

00:49:48.170 --> 00:49:51.010
a brothel? And they've had archery. Now, archery...

00:49:51.010 --> 00:49:53.110
Oh, you were close. You were really close. Him

00:49:53.110 --> 00:49:54.590
and Archer. Close. Yeah, really, really close.

00:49:54.590 --> 00:49:56.610
Or the .22 rifles. You take the kids out, let

00:49:56.610 --> 00:49:58.750
them fire a bunch of .22 rifles at a target.

00:49:58.869 --> 00:50:01.130
Fun. Go shoot some metal targets. 100%. Let them

00:50:01.130 --> 00:50:03.250
get used to it. And they're eight years old.

00:50:03.329 --> 00:50:05.829
They know how to use a .22 rifle. And you teach

00:50:05.829 --> 00:50:08.630
them gun safety. And so it's not a big deal anymore.

00:50:09.070 --> 00:50:10.690
Now they come home and they say, I'd rather just

00:50:10.690 --> 00:50:12.869
play basketball. It's okay, cool. They'll never

00:50:12.869 --> 00:50:15.489
touch my rifle again. They'd rather play basketball.

00:50:15.710 --> 00:50:19.289
Knock yourself out, kid. It's important for them

00:50:19.289 --> 00:50:21.849
to do all that stuff. Archery and shooting a

00:50:21.849 --> 00:50:27.980
gun. I wish more kids would take that up. Kids

00:50:27.980 --> 00:50:31.639
are now, they're so estranged from these weapons,

00:50:31.820 --> 00:50:34.679
they don't know, they're fascinated by it. You've

00:50:34.679 --> 00:50:37.659
got this kid from a high school right here in

00:50:37.659 --> 00:50:41.119
Frisco that, you know, he had some issue and

00:50:41.119 --> 00:50:43.340
he thought it was necessary to carry a Rambo

00:50:43.340 --> 00:50:45.059
fucking knife in his gym bag. Yeah, it's sad.

00:50:45.179 --> 00:50:47.260
So sad. Where someone confronted him, he felt

00:50:47.260 --> 00:50:49.579
it was okay to pull this Rambo knife and stab

00:50:49.579 --> 00:50:51.739
this. Was it a Rambo knife? I thought it was

00:50:51.739 --> 00:50:54.059
a little pocket knife. Doesn't much matter. It

00:50:54.059 --> 00:50:57.159
was a big blade. I heard it was a kitchen knife.

00:50:57.000 --> 00:51:02.380
knife. Oh, no. I don't know. I will tell you

00:51:02.380 --> 00:51:04.139
this, if that's true, because they're talking,

00:51:04.239 --> 00:51:06.519
this is, he was charged with murder one. Sure.

00:51:07.019 --> 00:51:09.920
Premeditated murder. If he had a knife that is

00:51:09.920 --> 00:51:13.599
not a normal knife to carry, like you carry pocket

00:51:13.599 --> 00:51:16.619
knives, right? You can get away with that. But

00:51:16.619 --> 00:51:19.079
if he's putting a knife in his bag that is clearly

00:51:19.079 --> 00:51:23.860
meant to do something with, he's fucked. I hate

00:51:23.860 --> 00:51:26.099
to say it, it's immaterial. When I was younger,

00:51:26.510 --> 00:51:28.429
We couldn't do that in New York when I'd travel

00:51:28.429 --> 00:51:31.670
the train like 10 years old. Say, carry a screwdriver

00:51:31.670 --> 00:51:34.369
in your pocket. Right. Police officer's not going

00:51:34.369 --> 00:51:36.710
to take away a screwdriver. Right. But you could

00:51:36.710 --> 00:51:39.489
use a screwdriver for self -defense. 100%. Yeah.

00:51:39.550 --> 00:51:42.469
So it doesn't matter. It's like, what's wrong

00:51:42.469 --> 00:51:45.090
with people fighting instead of just... Using

00:51:45.090 --> 00:51:47.070
the middle finger. I'm okay with that. There's

00:51:47.070 --> 00:51:49.250
new information about the investigation into

00:51:49.250 --> 00:51:50.989
the stabbing death of the 17 -year -old Frisco

00:51:50.989 --> 00:51:54.110
student athlete. CBS News Texas has learned from

00:51:54.110 --> 00:51:56.210
law enforcement sources involved in the investigation

00:51:56.210 --> 00:51:58.809
that 17 -year -old Carmelo Anthony pictured,

00:51:58.929 --> 00:52:01.889
whatever, the suspect to the murder of 17 -year

00:52:01.889 --> 00:52:04.349
-old Austin Metcalf. Horrible, by the way. His

00:52:04.349 --> 00:52:08.539
twin brother just watching him. pass away in

00:52:08.539 --> 00:52:10.739
his arms, just pushing down the blood, trying

00:52:10.739 --> 00:52:12.940
to keep it from coming. Had previously been suspended

00:52:12.940 --> 00:52:15.559
for bringing a knife to school. Previously been

00:52:15.559 --> 00:52:18.380
suspended. Wow. And law enforcement tells us

00:52:18.380 --> 00:52:20.739
the 17 -year -old kid should have been in class

00:52:20.739 --> 00:52:23.000
at the Centennial High School, was skipping school,

00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:27.000
and allegedly stabbed Metcalf following an altercation.

00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:31.880
So he wasn't even a track runner? I don't know.

00:52:31.900 --> 00:52:33.480
He was skipping school and he just went to the

00:52:33.480 --> 00:52:37.079
meet to watch? Yep. Which means he had a reason

00:52:37.079 --> 00:52:40.739
to be there. And what was that reason? Premeditated.

00:52:41.059 --> 00:52:45.360
Was that the knife right there? Oh, okay. So

00:52:45.360 --> 00:52:47.280
for our international listeners who have no idea,

00:52:47.420 --> 00:52:50.099
we had a very, it's national news now, a very

00:52:50.099 --> 00:52:53.820
local story. We have a track meet, a local track

00:52:53.820 --> 00:52:57.320
meet. It was district. A district track meet.

00:52:57.420 --> 00:53:00.239
So we had a kid that went to my kid's high school

00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:02.679
and a kid that went to Memorial High School.

00:53:03.579 --> 00:53:06.139
I think they had a beef before this happened.

00:53:06.239 --> 00:53:08.099
If that's going to come out, I'm pretty sure

00:53:08.099 --> 00:53:11.420
it will. And they got into an altercation in

00:53:11.420 --> 00:53:14.159
the bleachers. One thing led to another, and

00:53:14.159 --> 00:53:16.219
one kid stabbed the other one in the heart, and

00:53:16.219 --> 00:53:19.019
he ended up dying. So it is a big thing in our

00:53:19.019 --> 00:53:21.119
town right now, because first off, the one who

00:53:21.119 --> 00:53:24.480
stabbed the victim is, you know, not to like

00:53:24.480 --> 00:53:27.480
is black. Yep. Is black. And the victim was white.

00:53:27.500 --> 00:53:30.179
And so now we have a racial thing that's going

00:53:30.179 --> 00:53:33.519
on in our town, in our city. We have a, you know.

00:53:33.960 --> 00:53:37.219
He's a good kid, but he was defending himself

00:53:37.219 --> 00:53:39.639
because he was being bullied, and so this is

00:53:39.639 --> 00:53:43.420
unfair for him to be attacked for this. And then

00:53:43.420 --> 00:53:46.280
we have the twin brother. I mean, this is a mess

00:53:46.280 --> 00:53:49.199
in our town. And talk about hitting close to

00:53:49.199 --> 00:53:53.300
home. Yeah, but outside the school, there are

00:53:53.300 --> 00:53:56.699
signs out there to support the gentleman that

00:53:56.699 --> 00:54:01.500
stabbed him. Yes. Hey, what are they saying exactly?

00:54:02.210 --> 00:54:04.849
What is the verbiage they say on those signs?

00:54:05.650 --> 00:54:08.690
I only saw justice for Austin Matthews. There

00:54:08.690 --> 00:54:10.769
you go. Justice. No, no, no. That was for the

00:54:10.769 --> 00:54:13.949
victim. Metcalf is the victim. Correct. Justice

00:54:13.949 --> 00:54:17.309
for Austin Metcalf. Oh, my bad. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

00:54:17.349 --> 00:54:20.429
That is way better. Well, the thing is, the group

00:54:20.429 --> 00:54:23.409
that did that is, you don't want it from that

00:54:23.409 --> 00:54:26.670
group. That's a fascist, neo -fascist group,

00:54:26.849 --> 00:54:29.469
white supremacist group. Oh, great. That posted

00:54:29.469 --> 00:54:31.960
that. Oh, I didn't even catch that. Yeah, that's

00:54:31.960 --> 00:54:36.199
why I sent that to you. I'm too busy working

00:54:36.199 --> 00:54:39.199
to know about all this stuff. It's like I made

00:54:39.199 --> 00:54:42.340
sure my kids were school. They had homework.

00:54:42.900 --> 00:54:45.980
They had mandatory in our house. They had to

00:54:45.980 --> 00:54:48.760
belong to a sport or the band or something or

00:54:48.760 --> 00:54:51.579
after school activity. They came home and they

00:54:51.579 --> 00:54:53.840
were too damn tired to fight with anybody. Well,

00:54:53.860 --> 00:54:56.780
both of these kids are in football. Really? Yeah.

00:54:56.900 --> 00:55:01.630
I mean, they weren't. This is not an idle teenage

00:55:01.630 --> 00:55:05.429
problem. This was a beef that turned into teenagers

00:55:05.429 --> 00:55:07.670
not knowing how to solve problems. Apparently.

00:55:07.789 --> 00:55:10.829
Or thinking that you live in a world where there's

00:55:10.829 --> 00:55:13.489
no consequences. I mean, if you make a bad decision,

00:55:13.690 --> 00:55:16.409
there is a consequence to that. I mean, and,

00:55:16.469 --> 00:55:18.809
you know, there's no getting around it. And I

00:55:18.809 --> 00:55:21.610
feel horrible for all parties. I do, too. I mean,

00:55:21.610 --> 00:55:24.610
the Metcalf father just got over cancer months

00:55:24.610 --> 00:55:28.539
prior, you know, and it's just... It's tough.

00:55:28.719 --> 00:55:31.500
It's a mess. I feel bad for the black kid's parents

00:55:31.500 --> 00:55:33.059
and his family because they're kind of like,

00:55:33.099 --> 00:55:35.679
oh, my God. They have lost their kid, too, because

00:55:35.679 --> 00:55:39.559
their kid was an idiot. Is it because they did

00:55:39.559 --> 00:55:43.300
poor parenting? Right. Yes. At the end of the

00:55:43.300 --> 00:55:46.179
day, how is it that your kid had a freaking knife

00:55:46.179 --> 00:55:48.300
in there that stabbed some other? You need to

00:55:48.300 --> 00:55:49.699
be connected more. Well, who felt that was the

00:55:49.699 --> 00:55:52.340
solution? How do you get to that point where

00:55:52.340 --> 00:55:54.130
you're like, I'm just going to stab you? and

00:55:54.130 --> 00:55:56.429
kill you. Even if you're being bullied. I'm going

00:55:56.429 --> 00:55:58.510
to meet you at the track meet the next day because

00:55:58.510 --> 00:56:01.469
you broke my phone at a party last weekend and

00:56:01.469 --> 00:56:03.429
I'm going to bring this knife and I'm going to

00:56:03.429 --> 00:56:06.210
force you to put your hands... That's why he

00:56:06.210 --> 00:56:10.050
is in serious trouble with his argument. He was

00:56:10.050 --> 00:56:13.789
asking the guy to punch him. Put your hands on

00:56:13.789 --> 00:56:15.949
me. Put your hands on me and punch me and see

00:56:15.949 --> 00:56:18.710
what happens. As soon as the guy touched him,

00:56:18.809 --> 00:56:23.210
he stabbed him. So he was saying I was... This

00:56:23.210 --> 00:56:26.630
is self -defense. He even asked the policeman

00:56:26.630 --> 00:56:28.670
when he was being led to the car, he goes, do

00:56:28.670 --> 00:56:32.690
you think that that was self -defense? He asked

00:56:32.690 --> 00:56:34.750
the cop that. Not a good time to ask the question

00:56:34.750 --> 00:56:37.269
after the fact. No. No. I mean, he was basically

00:56:37.269 --> 00:56:39.030
saying, you know, shit, am I in trouble here?

00:56:39.190 --> 00:56:42.650
Or am I legit in my self -defense thing? Bullshit.

00:56:42.690 --> 00:56:46.269
It was premeditated. He was asking him to put

00:56:46.269 --> 00:56:49.010
hands on him so that he had a reason to stab

00:56:49.010 --> 00:56:51.590
him. And he brought the knife for the purpose.

00:56:51.670 --> 00:56:54.409
The kid's in serious trouble. That's all I think.

00:56:54.590 --> 00:56:59.349
Yeah, I agree. Yeah, so at this time, I want

00:56:59.349 --> 00:57:02.889
to take a little pinhook break and dive into

00:57:02.889 --> 00:57:06.889
our drink of the week. Oh, yeah, very nice. It's

00:57:06.889 --> 00:57:09.570
a collaboration series number two from Pinhook.

00:57:09.590 --> 00:57:13.900
This is based out of... It's still Austin. No,

00:57:13.980 --> 00:57:17.000
no. Pinhook is not. The juice inside is from

00:57:17.000 --> 00:57:19.360
still Austin. I didn't know that. So they buy

00:57:19.360 --> 00:57:22.260
the juice from still Austin and then they create

00:57:22.260 --> 00:57:24.300
it themselves. For these collaborations they

00:57:24.300 --> 00:57:26.719
do, yeah. So is this similar to rare character

00:57:26.719 --> 00:57:29.159
kind of stuff? Is it a blend? Yeah. Is it a blend?

00:57:29.360 --> 00:57:32.579
What is this? It's a straight bourbon whiskey.

00:57:32.659 --> 00:57:34.159
It doesn't say blend on it. It's called collaboration.

00:57:35.360 --> 00:57:37.670
No, this one's straight bourbon. I think it's

00:57:37.670 --> 00:57:39.030
just straight bourbon, so it's been there for

00:57:39.030 --> 00:57:40.969
at least two years based on everything we had

00:57:40.969 --> 00:57:43.329
said, right? Yep. But look, the taste on this.

00:57:43.389 --> 00:57:45.570
Look, so we had this probably a year and a half

00:57:45.570 --> 00:57:49.670
ago, and I fell in love with this. I absolutely

00:57:49.670 --> 00:57:53.190
loved it. It's super rich. What is the proof

00:57:53.190 --> 00:57:59.349
on this? 118. 118 .9. So it is pretty hot, but

00:57:59.349 --> 00:58:01.949
it doesn't taste that hot. At least it doesn't

00:58:01.949 --> 00:58:07.550
to me. It's got a very rich taste. Like, you

00:58:07.550 --> 00:58:11.409
know, deep notes of vanilla, banana bread, or

00:58:11.409 --> 00:58:13.210
just kind of caramel. It's got a lot of flavor.

00:58:14.010 --> 00:58:16.449
Caramel. Caramel. It's got some dark stuff going

00:58:16.449 --> 00:58:19.409
on there. So, Sean, this says blended and proofed

00:58:19.409 --> 00:58:22.110
from 20 pinhooked barrels out of Still Austin.

00:58:22.670 --> 00:58:26.610
Okay. 20 different barrels? Yeah. So they blended

00:58:26.610 --> 00:58:30.670
it, okay. And proofed. Yep, sure is. Age for

00:58:30.670 --> 00:58:32.989
four years in the Texas heat. That's one thing

00:58:32.989 --> 00:58:35.409
that we've been talking about a lot is Texas

00:58:35.409 --> 00:58:39.550
distilleries are benefiting from the huge variation

00:58:39.550 --> 00:58:43.030
in climate in Texas in terms of the aging in

00:58:43.030 --> 00:58:44.929
the barrels. I think what it allows you to do

00:58:44.929 --> 00:58:49.230
is you can get older tasting whiskey sooner than

00:58:49.230 --> 00:58:52.289
you can elsewhere. Age four years is the equivalent

00:58:52.289 --> 00:58:56.929
of six or eight in Kentucky, right? It has the

00:58:56.929 --> 00:58:59.750
possibility. It depends on how hot. Any given

00:58:59.750 --> 00:59:03.050
summer. Because the humidity in the air is different.

00:59:03.289 --> 00:59:06.349
So it theoretically would evaporate less with

00:59:06.349 --> 00:59:08.969
the high humidity. Whereas in Kentucky, if it's

00:59:08.969 --> 00:59:11.369
drier, you'd probably lose more of the angel's

00:59:11.369 --> 00:59:16.030
share. But it would take longer. So it's a possibility.

00:59:16.030 --> 00:59:19.070
It's like everything else. It's chemical. There's

00:59:19.070 --> 00:59:20.610
a lot of stuff going on. It's chemical. It's

00:59:20.610 --> 00:59:24.670
environmental. I'm enjoying the competition between

00:59:24.670 --> 00:59:29.639
Texas. Yeah, me too. 100%. And I'm rooting for

00:59:29.639 --> 00:59:31.699
Texas. Kentucky is not enjoying the competition.

00:59:31.960 --> 00:59:35.780
I'll tell you that. No, man. Not at all. We're

00:59:35.780 --> 00:59:37.840
coming running. We've mentioned before about

00:59:37.840 --> 00:59:41.920
Lowry Crossings 1845 Distillery. I highly recommend

00:59:41.920 --> 00:59:46.659
their products. Their juice is fantastic. Pinhook,

00:59:46.760 --> 00:59:49.980
I like their juice. I'm enjoying their juice.

00:59:50.340 --> 00:59:53.940
I'm not happy with the ethics, the DEI crap they

00:59:53.940 --> 00:59:56.929
got going on. I'll let that go, and I'll just

00:59:56.929 --> 00:59:59.809
stick with the juice itself. And this is very

00:59:59.809 --> 01:00:03.809
flavorful for me. I'm enjoying it. So when I

01:00:03.809 --> 01:00:08.050
taste it first, I get sweet on the front. On

01:00:08.050 --> 01:00:11.170
the sides of my tongue, I get sweet. It's hotter

01:00:11.170 --> 01:00:13.190
than I like, obviously, for me. I said I'm not

01:00:13.190 --> 01:00:15.809
a big fan of the high proof. And then on the

01:00:15.809 --> 01:00:19.449
back, I get the richer caramel. So it's two distinct,

01:00:19.630 --> 01:00:22.929
very different flavors. Yeah. I get that, too.

01:00:23.050 --> 01:00:26.130
It's like two different bourbons, almost. Yeah.

01:00:26.130 --> 01:00:29.469
I enjoy this. Like I shared, this was one of

01:00:29.469 --> 01:00:31.989
my favorite picks that we accidentally fell on.

01:00:32.050 --> 01:00:35.710
How did we get that second bottle? We saw it

01:00:35.710 --> 01:00:38.170
at Specs and we bought it. That's all it was?

01:00:38.349 --> 01:00:41.289
Yeah. God bless. I'm so glad. We're like, they're

01:00:41.289 --> 01:00:44.250
not making this anymore. I'm so glad we picked

01:00:44.250 --> 01:00:46.630
up that bottle. And we picked it up. Yeah, so

01:00:46.630 --> 01:00:48.449
we have a full bottle of this stuff just sitting

01:00:48.449 --> 01:00:51.530
up there. And yeah, whatever. I'm enjoying it.

01:00:51.989 --> 01:00:54.269
It's interesting because there's two things that

01:00:54.269 --> 01:00:57.639
we... we pointed out tonight that we always harp

01:00:57.639 --> 01:01:00.639
on right when we have a higher proof bourbon

01:01:00.639 --> 01:01:04.380
that doesn't burn and doesn't is smooth and it's

01:01:04.380 --> 01:01:08.239
rich and it's flavorful and then a lower bourbon

01:01:08.239 --> 01:01:10.860
like big stick has the flavor like whenever we

01:01:10.860 --> 01:01:13.280
see a lower one that has the flavor that matches

01:01:13.280 --> 01:01:17.400
one that's a high proof It's great. We're bringing

01:01:17.400 --> 01:01:20.500
out two very important things tonight in bourbons

01:01:20.500 --> 01:01:23.400
that we're trying. Flavor is everything, and

01:01:23.400 --> 01:01:26.460
that's one of the biggest downfalls of some of

01:01:26.460 --> 01:01:30.679
these lower -proofed bourbons is that they've

01:01:30.679 --> 01:01:33.840
got a great taste, but it's kind of like you've

01:01:33.840 --> 01:01:36.519
got to put a bunch in your mouth and swish it

01:01:36.519 --> 01:01:41.360
to taste that taste, and it eviscerates right

01:01:41.360 --> 01:01:43.030
away. It just disappears. Yeah, it doesn't last

01:01:43.030 --> 01:01:46.429
very long. But this stuff, it lasts long. The

01:01:46.429 --> 01:01:50.050
big stick lasts a long time, and it's got that

01:01:50.050 --> 01:01:52.550
white peppery finish at the end, which is different

01:01:52.550 --> 01:01:55.110
from a regular peppery because it just continues

01:01:55.110 --> 01:01:58.650
to have that tingle at the end, and that's enjoyable

01:01:58.650 --> 01:02:01.170
for me. Yeah, well, like I said, the angel's

01:02:01.170 --> 01:02:03.150
share isn't just the angel's share. It's the

01:02:03.150 --> 01:02:05.670
fact that it's brand new wood, so it's got brand

01:02:05.670 --> 01:02:08.989
new resin in it. Yep. So the resin all by itself.

01:02:09.550 --> 01:02:11.550
I mean, if you think about it, it's like a Chardonnay

01:02:11.550 --> 01:02:14.750
with the buttery feel. I mean, not just the flavor,

01:02:14.789 --> 01:02:17.610
but it's the mouthfeel itself will last a long

01:02:17.610 --> 01:02:20.389
time. Viscousy. So the viscousness holds the

01:02:20.389 --> 01:02:23.030
flavor longer on your palate. Yeah, that was

01:02:23.030 --> 01:02:27.429
for you, Larry. Where do you procure the oak?

01:02:28.949 --> 01:02:32.309
It's actually a furniture -grade millwork shop

01:02:32.309 --> 01:02:35.489
in Houston. So you're breaking down old furniture

01:02:35.489 --> 01:02:38.909
couches? So yeah. Roadside couches. Brand new.

01:02:38.949 --> 01:02:42.409
Brand new. You're varnishing off the stain. The

01:02:42.409 --> 01:02:44.650
cabinets at my bar are made out of the exact

01:02:44.650 --> 01:02:48.989
same wood. Brand new. That's great. That's great.

01:02:49.230 --> 01:02:51.849
I don't mind the rust or the staples. Untarnished,

01:02:51.849 --> 01:02:54.849
unvarnished. Yeah, nothing. Just literally make

01:02:54.849 --> 01:02:57.250
cabinets out of it if you choose to. All natural

01:02:57.250 --> 01:03:02.250
oak. It's amazing. I enjoy our sampling. I enjoy

01:03:02.250 --> 01:03:04.750
this every week. But your barrels. Yeah. You

01:03:04.750 --> 01:03:06.210
were talking about your staves. What about your

01:03:06.210 --> 01:03:09.289
barrels? Traditional. Okay. What is your cooperage?

01:03:09.789 --> 01:03:14.369
The barrels come from Kentucky. Okay. Yeah. A

01:03:14.369 --> 01:03:18.030
cooperage in Kentucky. Okay. Okay. Cool. Actually,

01:03:18.230 --> 01:03:20.409
that was one thing I learned. Pretty traditional.

01:03:20.429 --> 01:03:24.489
When we did tours up there, we were doing distillery

01:03:24.489 --> 01:03:25.730
tours and all this kind of stuff, and then we

01:03:25.730 --> 01:03:28.239
drove by a cooperage. Right. And we were like,

01:03:28.260 --> 01:03:30.659
let's just stop in there. And they didn't have

01:03:30.659 --> 01:03:32.199
any tours or anything. They were just a dude

01:03:32.199 --> 01:03:34.019
that was working behind the desk. And we were

01:03:34.019 --> 01:03:36.099
like, I just wanted to kind of see what you guys

01:03:36.099 --> 01:03:38.260
do here. And they had the whole setup of, you

01:03:38.260 --> 01:03:39.840
know, what they do when they build the barrels

01:03:39.840 --> 01:03:42.059
and they burn them and all this kind of shit.

01:03:42.099 --> 01:03:45.780
It was fascinating what what goes into that and

01:03:45.780 --> 01:03:50.519
how few cooperages supply so many. They've all

01:03:50.519 --> 01:03:53.900
turned into high -volume places. It's turned

01:03:53.900 --> 01:03:56.519
into a science. But there's not that many of

01:03:56.519 --> 01:03:58.420
them is what I'm saying. No, actually, no. So

01:03:58.420 --> 01:04:00.460
like if a cooperage went down, suppose they had

01:04:00.460 --> 01:04:01.500
some sort of fire or something. It would be bad.

01:04:01.639 --> 01:04:03.519
It would be really bad. It would be really bad.

01:04:04.239 --> 01:04:05.760
Interesting. You'd have to start buying European

01:04:05.760 --> 01:04:08.119
oaks. I guess. Well, that was kind of what I

01:04:08.119 --> 01:04:10.500
was about to chat about. Well, again, because

01:04:10.500 --> 01:04:13.320
COVID messed up everybody in the supply chain,

01:04:13.400 --> 01:04:15.699
which is why some of them are going to the 25

01:04:15.699 --> 01:04:18.699
-gallon barrels. Yes. Or the European barrels,

01:04:18.920 --> 01:04:20.519
you know, which are slightly larger. Because

01:04:20.519 --> 01:04:21.860
they couldn't get? We're going to skip that.

01:04:22.000 --> 01:04:24.739
Because they couldn't, yeah. But again, all that

01:04:24.739 --> 01:04:27.539
changes your ratio, it changes your flavor, changes

01:04:27.539 --> 01:04:30.280
your aging profile. So it's like, again, I'm

01:04:30.280 --> 01:04:31.659
not saying it's bad, I'm just saying it's different.

01:04:31.719 --> 01:04:35.420
You've got to re -engineer your whole flavor

01:04:35.420 --> 01:04:39.159
process. Well, I know we were up in Iron Root,

01:04:39.159 --> 01:04:43.960
up in Denison. And they started... Yeah, without

01:04:43.960 --> 01:04:45.800
Paul. They've started using... They don't invite

01:04:45.800 --> 01:04:49.380
me to those things. What was the size? Because

01:04:49.380 --> 01:04:51.699
the standard bourbon... It's 55 -gallon. 53.

01:04:51.920 --> 01:04:54.059
Well, 53 is standard, but they were using, what,

01:04:54.099 --> 01:04:56.320
60 -gallon? Oh, they had a couple bigger ones.

01:04:56.420 --> 01:04:59.099
They had their... And that's what... Well, they

01:04:59.099 --> 01:05:01.539
called them wine barrels. Yeah, they were bigger.

01:05:02.059 --> 01:05:04.800
They were bigger, and what they've discovered

01:05:04.800 --> 01:05:08.460
is it slows down the aging process in the heat.

01:05:08.960 --> 01:05:11.760
So they're not just blasting through stuff so

01:05:11.760 --> 01:05:14.880
fast. They want to keep it in the barrel a little

01:05:14.880 --> 01:05:17.119
bit longer. It's a little more controlled. It's

01:05:17.119 --> 01:05:19.360
a little more controlled. It's mad. Probably

01:05:19.360 --> 01:05:22.719
a 10 % larger barrel probably slows down the

01:05:22.719 --> 01:05:25.840
aging process by 20%. Right. Because the surface

01:05:25.840 --> 01:05:27.179
area ratio is different. So that's what they're

01:05:27.179 --> 01:05:30.280
doing up there. When I was looking at all their

01:05:30.280 --> 01:05:33.320
barrels, a big chunk of them were the new big

01:05:33.320 --> 01:05:36.579
barrels that they're using. You know, I'm curious.

01:05:36.719 --> 01:05:39.159
You had brought up in the first half of the podcast

01:05:39.159 --> 01:05:44.719
regarding your consistency using the American

01:05:44.719 --> 01:05:48.619
white oak. Right. Are you going to come up with

01:05:48.619 --> 01:05:51.400
some, you know, not necessarily French oak, but

01:05:51.400 --> 01:05:54.880
more about the, what is the RD1 spirits? Amberano.

01:05:55.619 --> 01:05:59.929
Amberano. I would really. I would encourage a

01:05:59.929 --> 01:06:03.309
sample of the Ambarano and see what that does

01:06:03.309 --> 01:06:09.250
because we have done the RD1 Spirits, and I personally,

01:06:09.369 --> 01:06:12.769
I love their Ambarano version. It's so different.

01:06:12.969 --> 01:06:17.480
It's a Nestle. It's like a dessert. kind of whiskey

01:06:17.480 --> 01:06:20.420
okay and it's still strong it has all the the

01:06:20.420 --> 01:06:23.000
the faculties of a normal whiskey but it's got

01:06:23.000 --> 01:06:25.880
this hint of oh my god it's cinnamon toast crunch

01:06:25.880 --> 01:06:29.519
it's crazy it's at 100 and and i'm not a huge

01:06:29.519 --> 01:06:31.880
fan of that across the board with all whiskeys

01:06:31.880 --> 01:06:33.900
right i'm just kind of curious what your juice

01:06:33.900 --> 01:06:36.440
would taste with that influence i'll try some

01:06:36.440 --> 01:06:39.210
i yeah sure That would be really cool. Because

01:06:39.210 --> 01:06:40.630
like the iron root, you mentioned iron root.

01:06:40.690 --> 01:06:44.949
Iron root is unique because they use all types

01:06:44.949 --> 01:06:47.150
of different corns that they procure from the

01:06:47.150 --> 01:06:49.409
region. Red, orange, green, purple, all kinds

01:06:49.409 --> 01:06:52.210
of bullshit. Amazing stuff they put in. And they

01:06:52.210 --> 01:06:55.309
also fuck around with the barrels. I mean, not

01:06:55.309 --> 01:06:57.730
just the sizes, but they use French oak lids

01:06:57.730 --> 01:07:01.090
and white American oak sides. And they just fuck

01:07:01.090 --> 01:07:03.789
around with everything and try to make it. To

01:07:03.789 --> 01:07:09.340
me, that's fascinating. I do like consistency,

01:07:09.599 --> 01:07:13.059
but at the same time, I do like to dive in and

01:07:13.059 --> 01:07:14.780
have a sweet every now and then. See, I really

01:07:14.780 --> 01:07:17.019
thought it'd be cool. I was first talking about,

01:07:17.179 --> 01:07:20.699
you know, we built our own distillery. I wanted

01:07:20.699 --> 01:07:23.920
to have one with a climate -controlled rack house.

01:07:24.260 --> 01:07:28.260
So you could dial up your temperature high or

01:07:28.260 --> 01:07:30.719
low. Make your own variation. Make your own variation

01:07:30.719 --> 01:07:35.150
based on your thermostat. Go cold, go hot, go

01:07:35.150 --> 01:07:36.590
cold, go hot. So you have 100 % control at that

01:07:36.590 --> 01:07:38.449
point. Hey, that's right. Dutch oven in there.

01:07:38.909 --> 01:07:42.269
That's actually not a bad idea. So I'm sure it'd

01:07:42.269 --> 01:07:44.710
take a lot of money. Oh, yeah. I wonder if you

01:07:44.710 --> 01:07:48.250
can cook brisket in the same room. You got to

01:07:48.250 --> 01:07:54.929
get up to about 250 for that. 220. If you sous

01:07:54.929 --> 01:07:58.150
vide a brisket, you have to be at 165 degrees.

01:07:58.690 --> 01:08:02.929
Yes. So there's that. Put it over the plastic.

01:08:03.150 --> 01:08:05.449
Then you're infusing. You've got to make sure

01:08:05.449 --> 01:08:08.550
the smoke gets through. In other words, it's

01:08:08.550 --> 01:08:14.550
a normal Texas warehouse. 165 degrees. 165 is

01:08:14.550 --> 01:08:18.109
what was suggested to cook a brisket in a plastic

01:08:18.109 --> 01:08:20.329
bag. Do you know what sous vide is? Yeah, yeah.

01:08:20.449 --> 01:08:25.649
To cook a brisket in a plastic bag at 165 degrees

01:08:25.649 --> 01:08:29.619
for... Two and a half days. A long time. Yeah,

01:08:29.640 --> 01:08:31.720
65 hours. That's a long time. 65 to 68 hours.

01:08:31.800 --> 01:08:35.100
I did that. And folks out there, I encourage

01:08:35.100 --> 01:08:37.319
you to do not do that. I mean, first of all,

01:08:37.340 --> 01:08:40.680
one, it tastes great. So from that perspective,

01:08:40.939 --> 01:08:45.100
100 % do it. The bad part is... Dude, the amount

01:08:45.100 --> 01:08:49.520
of microplastics that degrade straight into that.

01:08:49.539 --> 01:08:52.300
And the reason why I say that isn't because I'm

01:08:52.300 --> 01:08:53.819
like, oh, look at me. I'm being self -conscious.

01:08:53.979 --> 01:08:56.859
No, man. When you pick up that fucking bag and

01:08:56.859 --> 01:08:59.699
it deteriorates. Oh, my God. It's like there's

01:08:59.699 --> 01:09:01.739
shit going on. You set it down and you've got

01:09:01.739 --> 01:09:04.140
these granules on your hands. You can feel it.

01:09:04.159 --> 01:09:06.140
And you're like, oh, my God, I'm going to ingest

01:09:06.140 --> 01:09:08.880
that. And I'm like. I'm going to ingest that.

01:09:08.880 --> 01:09:10.619
So I ate the whole fucking thing, but still.

01:09:10.760 --> 01:09:13.140
So you do understand when you cook meat over

01:09:13.140 --> 01:09:16.600
an open flame, the very charring process is carcinogenic.

01:09:16.619 --> 01:09:19.779
Oh, it's carcinogenic. Right, right. Dr. Berg,

01:09:20.119 --> 01:09:23.260
is that his? You listen to him? Well, you're.

01:09:23.529 --> 01:09:25.989
I'm no, but I've, I've read the scientific journals.

01:09:26.029 --> 01:09:28.229
I mean, it is what it is, right? Yep. So it's

01:09:28.229 --> 01:09:30.109
either that or eat tofu, you know, so I'm going

01:09:30.109 --> 01:09:32.050
to stick with the hamburger. I'll stick with

01:09:32.050 --> 01:09:33.810
brisket. Yeah. Right. I'll stick with brisket.

01:09:33.810 --> 01:09:36.350
I'll take my chances. You just got to eat. The

01:09:36.350 --> 01:09:38.289
COVID shot was more dangerous for me than the

01:09:38.289 --> 01:09:40.689
damn brisket will ever be. Absolutely. I'm on

01:09:40.689 --> 01:09:43.050
board with both of them. Well, look, uh, I'm,

01:09:43.050 --> 01:09:45.710
I'm super thankful that you took the time to,

01:09:45.750 --> 01:09:48.609
to come up and see us today. And, and, uh, I

01:09:48.609 --> 01:09:50.229
mean, what does the rest of your week look like?

01:09:50.699 --> 01:09:53.279
Oh, so while I'm doing tastings at some Total

01:09:53.279 --> 01:09:55.399
Wines here in the area for Thursday, Friday,

01:09:55.500 --> 01:09:58.180
Saturday, heading back. Where are you going to

01:09:58.180 --> 01:10:01.560
be on Friday? Let me get my list. Well, let's

01:10:01.560 --> 01:10:03.619
check it out. Yeah. Check our Dudes Like Us listeners

01:10:03.619 --> 01:10:06.779
out there, because we might have to crash your

01:10:06.779 --> 01:10:09.920
party. We may show up, bring you a sack lunch

01:10:09.920 --> 01:10:12.479
or something. Oh, that'll be fun. Bring you a

01:10:12.479 --> 01:10:15.380
burrito. Yeah, bring you a Subway sandwich with

01:10:15.380 --> 01:10:20.539
chemicals in the bread. Yeah. Here we go. I got

01:10:20.539 --> 01:10:22.319
all kinds of stuff going on. Are you going to

01:10:22.319 --> 01:10:26.619
be hanging out at the Plano 121 Total Wine area?

01:10:26.859 --> 01:10:30.680
There's Plano and West Plano. So let's see. Thursday

01:10:30.680 --> 01:10:33.380
is Fort Worth in the morning, Louisville in the

01:10:33.380 --> 01:10:38.500
afternoon. Friday, Arlington in the morning,

01:10:38.579 --> 01:10:43.229
Total Wine Arlington. And then let's see. Ooh,

01:10:43.350 --> 01:10:45.670
it's lining up pretty well. Denton, Friday, Denton,

01:10:45.689 --> 01:10:47.890
3 to 6 p .m. in the afternoon. That's the other

01:10:47.890 --> 01:10:51.729
one. Saturday is West Plano. West Plano, Saturday

01:10:51.729 --> 01:10:54.229
morning. All right, well, that's West Plano.

01:10:54.710 --> 01:10:56.489
That's store number five, I think. That's us.

01:10:57.149 --> 01:11:00.510
West Plano, Saturday morning. Is it a paid tasting,

01:11:01.310 --> 01:11:04.590
or is it just a... No, they don't pay me. No,

01:11:04.609 --> 01:11:07.689
I mean... I show up and... It's not a class,

01:11:07.710 --> 01:11:09.130
in other words. Free samples. No, it's free samples.

01:11:09.170 --> 01:11:11.069
So are you going to do a class for Total Wine

01:11:11.069 --> 01:11:13.340
at all? I've done some of the bourbon classes.

01:11:13.579 --> 01:11:15.760
Yeah, from time to time, they invite me to come

01:11:15.760 --> 01:11:19.659
in and do it. I've got a whole 45 -minute presentation

01:11:19.659 --> 01:11:22.140
on the history of spirits. Well, I would love

01:11:22.140 --> 01:11:23.739
to participate in that. Whiskey, the settlers.

01:11:23.960 --> 01:11:27.159
But we can join him on Saturday. Well, we can.

01:11:27.399 --> 01:11:29.659
Are you going to be there Wednesday? Saturday.

01:11:29.899 --> 01:11:32.720
I'm sorry, Saturday? What the hell? Saturday,

01:11:32.840 --> 01:11:35.300
yeah. Okay. Well, that's the total wine that

01:11:35.300 --> 01:11:37.699
we crash every Friday. The West Plano? Yes. All

01:11:37.699 --> 01:11:41.260
right. So we just might have to crash your party.

01:11:41.300 --> 01:11:43.640
There you go. Well, I'm super thankful you came

01:11:43.640 --> 01:11:46.439
out tonight. Did you have fun tonight? That was

01:11:46.439 --> 01:11:49.340
great. You guys are awesome. We should do this

01:11:49.340 --> 01:11:51.899
again. I hope so. I'm looking forward to it.

01:11:52.020 --> 01:11:55.460
I'll bring the 116. I got the 116 proof for the

01:11:55.460 --> 01:11:58.220
R &D. I'm super excited. What's the timeline

01:11:58.220 --> 01:12:01.319
on that? When I get back here, it'll be a month

01:12:01.319 --> 01:12:06.680
or two. We'll be here. Let's do it. Alright,

01:12:06.720 --> 01:12:08.600
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01:12:27.899 --> 01:12:31.699
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01:12:31.699 --> 01:12:33.619
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01:12:33.619 --> 01:12:37.630
real. He just said vaccines aren't real. We're

01:12:37.630 --> 01:12:39.550
definitely getting careful. All right. Well,

01:12:39.569 --> 01:12:41.149
dudes, thank you, Chuck, for staying on top of

01:12:41.149 --> 01:12:42.909
shit. Thank you, Mike. Dudes, I got some Sean.

01:12:43.090 --> 01:12:45.689
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01:12:45.829 --> 01:12:47.649
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