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Houston, we are venting something into space.

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What a great movie. Apollo 13 is one of the best

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movies I've ever seen, to be honest. Classic.

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It is. Absolutely. So underrated. Hey, Chuck,

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you mind pushing Mixbus 3 back up a couple clicks?

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I think my ears have bugged out. Thank you. What,

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your hearing has gotten better? Man, you know

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what? Bourbon increases your hearing? Being in

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Texas, I'm sure it's like this everywhere, but

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my allergies are just off. Dude, I'm dizzy. I

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hate it. My ears are all discombobulated. Horrible.

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I'm coughing, sniffing. Just a barnyard animal

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over here. Drink more bourbon. Yeah, we've had

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a lot of crazy weather. We had 100 degrees last

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week. I think it's the barometric pressure, just

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the shit weather going up and down this time

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of year. Yeah. Causes problems with my brain.

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To hell with it. It might be the estrogen, guys.

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Is that a thing? It's your thing. Why is that?

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Estrogen. Too much estrogen. How's that my thing?

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Because you're female. Well, you know how they

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treat prostate cancer. That's right. They give

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you estrogen. Yes. Do they really? Yes. What?

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I thought they used radiation. Because testosterone

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is a prostate cancer feeder. It's hungry for

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testosterone. So if you get prostate cancer,

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they give you estrogen to stop your testosterone.

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So are they giving that to Joe Biden right now?

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Yes. A ton of estrogen. So does it enhance the

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female characteristics if you do the estrogen?

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It makes you feel pretty. I feel pretty. Good

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Lord. All right, see, second half. Obviously,

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the second half of the Dude's Like Us podcast.

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It's May 20th. We have a special guest tonight.

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We're going to be a little bit off the hook.

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I think we've drank a little bit more than we

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normally do, right? Yeah, a little bit. And we're

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drinking a powerhouse tonight. Ooh, that's all

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right. Tomorrow's going to be a long day. But

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you know what? I'm having fun, and it's great

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conversations. We're all great friends and digging

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the shit out of tonight. Chuck, thank you. Mr.

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Producer, Dude's Like Us. I'm Sean. I'm Paul.

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I am Jeff. I'm Barry. Barry, we have a shitload

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of topics. The first half, we pretty much outlined

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your RD1 spirits. We're going to dive into that.

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I still want to talk a little bit about the history.

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It's so interesting. Yeah. And we're super glad

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that you're on the show. I want to kind of talk

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about you because I think at the very end last

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time we talked about dark tours. Dark tours.

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Yes. Why don't you blend into that real quick

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before we start hitting some of these other ones.

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All right. So I attended the James Beam Institute.

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It's a training session. It's a nerd training

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session. But we had a mortician from Louisville.

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who came and did a talk about dark tours. And

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so what she does, it's very respectful. It's

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not an Instagram, you know, smiley moment. It's

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taking people on a tour and maybe going to a

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cemetery or going to an area that had some strife

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or, you know, some death and touching and feeling

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the tombstone. Or, you know, like for me, William

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Tarr, I've got some of the artifacts of his house.

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So I want to do a tour where I'm talking about

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the history, but then we're touching and feeling

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that gold medal from 1904, or we're touching

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some of the things of the artifacts from William

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Tarr's homestead. Yeah, nice. And what it does

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is it creates this emotional connection, you

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know, this this moment, this memory moment where

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you're putting your emotions into it and really

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creating something that you just can't create

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by just doing a tasting. So they're at the new

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distillery is what you're kind of thinking of

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having it or. Yeah, I'm still this is still in

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development. She's already doing this in Louisville

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and other areas. You're touching something. Yep.

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And is there like a transference of frequency?

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What is this? Is this ether? You know, I'm not

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really one to believe in ghosts, although I do

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believe I am possessed by some distiller from

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the 1800s. I do believe that there has been some

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kind of possession because there's no way that,

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you know, what we've accomplished. that that

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would have happened without supernatural interference.

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Really? You believe that? I believe it. You're

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not kidding around. I'm not. I've said it several

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times. Well, reincarnation can be a real thing.

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It's out there. Yeah. Interesting. There are

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kids that have been interviewed that are five

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or six years old that should not have any knowledge.

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of certain things that they have knowledge of.

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Or they know like a second language. That being

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one of them. It's like, where'd that come from?

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That's weird how the brain works. You also hear

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about these people who get hit in the head, and

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all of a sudden they'll get an accent, like an

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English accent. Because they're dredging up an

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old life. Oh, I don't know. I don't know what

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Cosby said. Give me a bourbon, I'll have a New

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York accent, man. Yes. Give me a couple, I'll

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do Anakin. It's tantalizing. I'll do the guy

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from Star Wars. That's Bill Cosby. Yeah, don't

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be that guy. Oh, no. Don't be either of those.

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If you can choose, don't be either of those.

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All right, so Barry, you were possessed. So,

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no, who's the guy that's possessing you then?

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I'm not sure. It's either William. tar it's mcgibbon

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actually one of my descendants had a gold medal

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that distilled back in the 1800s so i don't know

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i don't know i think that there is some plausibility

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that i could be possessed no yeah that sounds

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very uh that's Influenced. Sounds nefarious.

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How about influenced? How about influenced? Not

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really possessed. Does that mean it's taking

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you over in an evil kind of way? Yeah, and my

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head doesn't rotate, you know. Right, you don't

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vomit on everybody. No, no, no. I might burp,

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but... Okay, well, we all do that. There is no

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Zool here, only Barry. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my

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goodness. Okay, all right, so... Well, I think

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that's very cool because, you know, I've seen

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some things, and I'm not going to say it's the

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same, but I know over in England, they'll have,

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like, the Jack the Ripper tours, where you go

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to where... It's a white chapel where he kind

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of did his thing, and... Oh, that's dark. Yeah,

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they have these tours where all the ladies were

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found and all that stuff. That's so creepy. It

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is. That is really dark. You're celebrating the

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life of a serial killer. I don't know about that.

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But what you're doing is you're experiencing

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something that it's creating this connection,

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this emotional connection. And positive or negative,

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I mean, I think that it's... you're kind of living

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in that moment sure you know so so i think that

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when when you look at enhancing an experience

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and you bring emotion into it all bets are off

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yeah you could you could have some people that

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really connect with that kind of a tour yeah

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so you know for me i think it just adds a whole

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different dimension not everyone's going to want

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to do it you know you're making me think you

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know you know how it's like uh universal studios

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yeah and all those they create They create an

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experience. How could someone like you in your

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distillery create a this is what it was like

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to make bourbon back in 1860? That could definitely

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happen. How could you do that? Man, I'll tell

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you what. How cool would that be? I'm thinking.

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I'm thinking. How cool would that be? Absolutely.

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That would be super, super cool. You'd have to

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get some really good thespians to work and play

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the part of. Wait, wait. No, no. Fezbians. Fezbians.

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Fezbians. Actors. Yeah, actors. Actors, because,

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you know, to sell the story, right? Because even

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the Jack of the Ripper, the footage I see these

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late, these people are very dramatic and telling

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the story and everything. And these people are

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getting all into it. They're wearing the costumes

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and they're acting and they're doing. Like, think

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about that. Would that work? Would that be something

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you could do? One of the things that I'm doing,

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and I'm actually, I've done this already. Y 'all

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have heard of the Whiskey Crusaders here in Dallas.

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It's a social club. that is the only private

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social club that has a liquor license. And it's

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here in Dallas. Last year, I did a repeal day

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event. where we're all dressing up in 1920s garb.

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Dude. Yes. Like Peaky Blinders. Yeah, exactly,

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exactly. But the same thing is we're talking

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about that history of prohibition. We're talking

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about the cocktail culture, how people responded

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differently to underground speakeasies. I'm doing

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the same thing in Atlanta. on june 28th on a

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saturday down in atlanta at the red phone booth

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speakeasy super doing the same thing and so what

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i want to do is i want to do the this this kind

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of dinner theater where we're all kind of in

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character you know we're all in character super

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cool i mean how much fun would it would be cool

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yeah and do a murder mystery same thing yeah

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exactly the the murder of bourbon oh what if

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the alter ego comes out Yeah, William Tarr. Boy,

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I say, boy. Now, boy, I say, boy, that boy's

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about as quick. How nervous is a cat with a 50

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-foot tail and a room full of rocketeers? Pay

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attention when I'm talking to you, boy. I say

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I'm going to take you out to the woods and learn

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you about scouting and woodcraft. Wow. Is that

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Foghorn Leghorn? Yeah, you're leading him away

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from this idea right now. Not even really cool,

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actually. That would be fun. They had a downtown

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Frisco. They had a church that was converted

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to a restaurant, and I don't even know what it

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is. It was called The Loft. It was the restaurant.

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Yeah. They had on Saturdays or Sunday nights,

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they had - Like the Abbey? The Mystery Theater.

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That's what it was, the Abbey. Yes, yes, exactly.

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They had Mystery Theater, and they'd have people

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go in there, and they would act out, and you'd

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have dinner. Mystery Science Theater 3000? No,

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no, no. That's funny. No, what is it when you

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sit and have dinner, and there's people that

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act in front of you? What do they call that?

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Weird. Dinner Theater. Dinner Theater. Dinner

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Theater, whatever. It wasn't like a play. It

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was kind of like something you would participate

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in for a mystery, like a popcorn theater type.

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I don't know. Absolutely. No, I mean, it's like

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a little play. The people that work there have

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their character parts, and they act out a...

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Oh, here we go. This is Whiskey Crusaders. Look

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at that. Yeah. Nice. Why do we not know about

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any of this stuff? You have to know about this.

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There's over, I don't know how many whiskeys

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they have, but all kinds of whiskeys. They probably

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have 4 ,000 or 5 ,000 different whiskeys there.

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We're getting close. Hold on. Go back up. I want

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Monk. Pump your numbers up. I like Monk Whiskey

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Quest. That's what I want. Because it's $20.

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That's not why. But that looks cool. What do

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they do there? As whiskey is not their cup of

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tea. It's for spouses. Who like to attend. Screw

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that. While the real men go and play, that's

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for the spouses. It says right there, for spouses.

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Yeah, never mind. Wow. What a spouse. What a

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spouse. What a spouse. Hey, man. That's funny.

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Just passing it through. All right. So do we

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have the theme for Cheers queued? Yeah, we should.

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We should raise a glass to this gentleman. Yes.

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I'll tell you what. This guy, is it Norm Peterson?

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Is that his name? Norm Peterson. Or is that a

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character? That's his character. Oh, yeah. What's

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his real name? George Wendt. George Wendt. So,

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you know. We all grew up with Cheers, right?

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How about a montage of Norm? Can you find that

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for me? Oh, yeah. I got that, too. Yeah, yeah.

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Look that up. Look at that. Let's do a montage

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of Norm. Let's get the song going here first.

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Okay. Turn that up a little bit. Dude, totally

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remember this song. Cheers, buddy. Cheers. Cheers

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to Norm. To Norm. And Cliff Clavin. Awesome.

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And it pulls the service about 15 years. You

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do that very, very well, by the way. I was listening

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to the last podcast and we were talking about

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Cheers because we were talking about sitcoms.

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God, you got that down. Wow, that's loud. What

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is that noise? That's Chuck. Chuck, stop touching

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yourself. All right, well, that's Norm walking

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in for the 10th time. He's in good shape there.

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Oh, so that's what this is. Yeah, but he always

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had. How's life treating you, Norm? I just ran

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over his dog. Yeah, he always had something.

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Norman? Norman? I didn't realize this was a thing.

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So every time he walks in the bar, he's got a

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different gesture. Yes. He had a one -liner every

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time. I never realized that. Yes. You were 12

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at the time. That was his entrance. His entrance.

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He's getting big. My nipples, it's freezing on

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me. Good night, everybody. Good night. I'll tell

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you what. Cheers to his life and what he did.

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He's a lot of fun. Cheers, guys. Here we go.

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A little bit of a different thing. I don't think

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we've ever cheered. Have we cheered somebody

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on this? I believe we have. I think we have.

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Val Kilmer, maybe? Yeah. Oh, my God. I think

00:15:01.190 --> 00:15:05.649
we did. Please don't jam me. Okay. Wow. Too soon?

00:15:06.049 --> 00:15:09.210
Maybe. You guys are jerks. I don't think it's

00:15:09.210 --> 00:15:11.769
ever not going to be too soon. Yeah. I almost

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didn't put that in. I almost didn't add that.

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But you did. You did. You did. So we were talking

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about Val, and he passed away, and then Jeff.

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Of course. And you know what? That's all right.

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It's all fun. I got to say this. So we listened

00:15:24.889 --> 00:15:27.070
to the last podcast, Shelly and I driving back

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from Austin. Shelly's his wife. Yes. Driving

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back from Austin. And you had a couple nuggets

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in there. And Shelly was like, what did you do?

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She was confused. I was like. Jeff does that

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after the fact, and it's great. And she was like,

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oh, my God, that's funny. Nailed it. It totally,

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yes. So he adds these little snippets after we

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record, and it totally works. It totally works.

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Post -production. You know, we're looking, hopefully,

00:15:56.139 --> 00:15:59.600
we bought cameras. So we're hoping to upgrade

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the podcast. Yes. You have to add cameras. You

00:16:02.860 --> 00:16:06.059
know, I mean, the visual, getting on YouTube,

00:16:06.139 --> 00:16:10.059
I think it enhances what you all do. Right. And,

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I mean, what we're doing right here, looking

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at each other, it's so much fun. Oh, yeah. The

00:16:15.700 --> 00:16:17.559
camera. You got to do the camera. It just adds

00:16:17.559 --> 00:16:19.879
the spirit of what's a little bit more. Well,

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I think it brings in. And we're so good looking.

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We are really good looking. Yeah, studs. I mean,

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the more that we drink, man, you guys are looking

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great. Look at the head on that beer. I'd be

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pissed. Oh, that's a lot of head. And look at

00:16:33.769 --> 00:16:36.450
his face. He's like, what the fuck, man? I'm

00:16:36.450 --> 00:16:41.830
going to drink in this broth. I bet him. So he's

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a good looking older dude, by the way. By the

00:16:43.470 --> 00:16:45.210
way, look at that. That's the older picture of

00:16:45.210 --> 00:16:48.139
him. He looks the same, but gray. Well, I was

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going to say, normally you look at actors or

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actresses and you see their older picture and

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you're like, what the fuck, man? What happened?

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He's a good looking dude. That's pretty cool.

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The final episode of Cheers was 32 years ago

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today. Oh, wow. Holy shit. And he was in the

00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:07.339
final scene. I'm old. When they were closing

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the bar. Wow. That must have been very emotional

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for people who loved that show. We watched it

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all the way to the end. Well, hell, they didn't

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have 5 ,000 networks out there at that time.

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They had, what, the standard three, right? ABC,

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NBC, CBS, PBS. Yeah. Fox started rolling around

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the corner and TNT and then WGN and all the other.

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So his counterpart was a postal worker? Oh, Cliff

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Clavin? I don't think I knew that. Cliff Clavin.

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Oh, Cliff Clavin. Yeah, it's Cliff Clavin. And

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they made him a pollster. He's been in the pollster

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service about 15 years. He's wearing it so well.

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It's creepy. So they make him wear a uniform

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and everything. I don't think I realized that.

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That's crazy. You know, I happen to be an expert

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at the mythology of crystal schools. I bet he

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did. Oh, my gosh. It was weird. I think on one

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of the shows, they called for him and his superior

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knowledge about something. And they were like,

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dude, you're full of shit. And then it turned

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out he wasn't full of shit. He knew exactly what

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he was talking about. But nobody knew until that

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last second. And I wish I watched the entire

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show all the time. You know what show I've been

00:18:23.670 --> 00:18:27.710
watching a lot? I just started binge watching.

00:18:28.130 --> 00:18:30.230
It's always Sunny in Philadelphia. Gilmore Girls.

00:18:30.849 --> 00:18:34.069
No. Yeah, that one was first. It's Always Sunny

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in Philadelphia. I don't know if you guys...

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You've talked about that a lot. That's Danny

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DeVito. I'm telling you, man. I've watched that

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show a ton, but I haven't watched it for five,

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six plus years, whatever. And I popped it in

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there, season one, and it's just so freaking

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funny. And then when Danny DeVito gets in there,

00:18:51.509 --> 00:18:55.259
it just adds a layer of... crackheadness that

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is just hilarious. I laugh at every single show.

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I think we tried to watch it and maybe we stalled

00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:03.859
out in the first episode. It's tough. The first

00:19:03.859 --> 00:19:05.859
season is not as good, I don't think. Is that

00:19:05.859 --> 00:19:07.980
what it is? You just have to fight through it.

00:19:08.299 --> 00:19:10.180
Looks like they're using a camcorder for one

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thing. They are. They still have the short screen.

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They didn't have widescreen when it first started.

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In fact, the widescreen didn't even impact them

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until the fifth season. And so, you know, it's

00:19:22.690 --> 00:19:25.309
hilarious. I freaking love it. And there's such

00:19:25.309 --> 00:19:29.470
pieces of shit, and I fit right in with them.

00:19:29.890 --> 00:19:34.450
Oh, there we go. That's why we figured you. Now

00:19:34.450 --> 00:19:36.450
we know. Right, right. If you want to be like

00:19:36.450 --> 00:19:38.970
Sean, then watch that show. I'm telling you,

00:19:39.009 --> 00:19:42.789
it's a great show. Yeah. I know we're talking

00:19:42.789 --> 00:19:45.890
about death basically norm. The other one is

00:19:45.890 --> 00:19:48.690
he hasn't died yet, but he has predicted himself

00:19:48.690 --> 00:19:54.589
to die by summer. Joe Biden? No. He's not predicting

00:19:54.589 --> 00:19:58.069
it, but he's not long. He's not long. What's

00:19:58.069 --> 00:19:59.869
his name? Scott Adams? Scott Adams, yeah. Yeah,

00:19:59.869 --> 00:20:01.750
he announced, was it yesterday on a podcast,

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that he has the same cancer that Joe Biden does.

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And he basically says, you know, he is expected

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to die this summer. And this is the Dilbert comic

00:20:14.009 --> 00:20:17.500
creator. And he's actually said that. Since he

00:20:17.500 --> 00:20:20.059
lives in California, he's going to take advantage

00:20:20.059 --> 00:20:25.359
of the - Dignified death? Yes. So I think once

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the point where he gets - Oh, I don't know what

00:20:27.220 --> 00:20:29.299
his - You can do that? In California, you can.

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Is that the only state? Probably Washington,

00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:34.089
Oregon, you can, but I don't know. Yeah, no,

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Washington, Oregon, and California, I think,

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are all. Yeah, in fact, he lobbied. He helped

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lobby for it. Is Dr. Kevorkian still alive? No,

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I think this is just a cocktail that they drink.

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No, I mean, but is he still alive? I don't know.

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That's a good question. I don't know. But, yeah,

00:20:49.069 --> 00:20:52.410
he has prostate cancer, and it metastasized,

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and now he's just in pain every day. Yeah, he's

00:20:55.150 --> 00:21:00.349
miserable. Yeah, yeah. And he still does his

00:21:00.349 --> 00:21:03.859
podcast. you know, in the mornings. And he used

00:21:03.859 --> 00:21:06.140
to do one at night, too, called The Man Cave.

00:21:06.339 --> 00:21:08.700
And he's just like, I had to quit because it

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was just so miserable by the end of the day.

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It's got to be tough living in California because

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only in California do you have listed on every

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freaking product it gives cancer. You know, it's

00:21:19.740 --> 00:21:21.480
like, I guess, well, move out of the damn state,

00:21:21.579 --> 00:21:24.220
you know? It's like everything. This gives cancer

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in California. Well, what about the other freaking

00:21:26.119 --> 00:21:28.380
49 states, you know? Have y 'all been out there

00:21:28.380 --> 00:21:31.299
lately? I was out there a couple of years ago.

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Oh, my God. I mean, I, you know, lived in Camp

00:21:36.519 --> 00:21:40.859
Pendleton, San Diego, and just recently last

00:21:40.859 --> 00:21:45.799
year went to L .A. and San Francisco. Doesn't

00:21:45.799 --> 00:21:48.359
even look like the same state. Really? Well,

00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:51.680
it's just it's so crazy. You got people that

00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:54.519
are, you know, homeless. that are walking the

00:21:54.519 --> 00:21:56.980
street. It's like the walking dead. But we have

00:21:56.980 --> 00:21:59.119
that in Texas, too. You know, I mean, Sean and

00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:01.740
I just downtown Austin. Downtown Austin. Austin,

00:22:01.799 --> 00:22:06.500
yes. Not to the impact that California has. But

00:22:06.500 --> 00:22:09.380
they allow it. But there's good parts. You know,

00:22:09.380 --> 00:22:11.559
San Diego, there's some good parts of that. There's

00:22:11.559 --> 00:22:14.359
Silicon Valley is really clean and nice. We went

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out there for a Cowboys game. It was really pretty,

00:22:16.359 --> 00:22:19.279
and I enjoyed it. California's a beautiful state,

00:22:19.359 --> 00:22:23.069
and it's unfortunate that it's run. down to the

00:22:23.069 --> 00:22:26.250
shit and it and it burned to the ground and parts

00:22:26.250 --> 00:22:29.750
you know that was crazy in la yeah um sacramento

00:22:29.750 --> 00:22:33.630
great location love the uh people up there but

00:22:33.630 --> 00:22:36.109
you know i mean you just got to look at the silver

00:22:36.109 --> 00:22:39.049
linings right you know some some places are better

00:22:39.049 --> 00:22:43.730
than others but you know holy crap yeah la is

00:22:43.730 --> 00:22:46.730
a some of those some of those policies have have

00:22:46.730 --> 00:22:50.410
have challenged that state How? My God. If I

00:22:50.410 --> 00:22:52.309
could say it in a very nice way. Yeah, yeah.

00:22:52.349 --> 00:22:54.109
Go ahead. Say it. No, that's what I'm saying.

00:22:54.210 --> 00:22:57.369
That is the nice way. The policies are challenging.

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It's challenging for the people that live there,

00:22:59.829 --> 00:23:01.410
challenging for the people that want to make

00:23:01.410 --> 00:23:04.130
a difference and change the state. They can't.

00:23:04.130 --> 00:23:06.049
They keep voting for it, though. Yes, that's

00:23:06.049 --> 00:23:08.529
what I'm saying. It just keeps happening. They

00:23:08.529 --> 00:23:10.450
complain about it, but they keep voting. It's

00:23:10.450 --> 00:23:13.089
a weird culture. It's weird. It's like a suicidal

00:23:13.089 --> 00:23:16.900
culture. Why wouldn't... Masochism. Yeah, exactly.

00:23:17.140 --> 00:23:20.200
Why wouldn't they... How is it that they don't

00:23:20.200 --> 00:23:24.259
recognize that it's not working? I think they're

00:23:24.259 --> 00:23:29.079
dug in. Is that what it is? I think so. They're

00:23:29.079 --> 00:23:31.779
just dug in. They've made up their mind. Look,

00:23:31.880 --> 00:23:34.019
Gavin Newsom is finally... And they can't be

00:23:34.019 --> 00:23:36.859
wrong? They can't be wrong? It's not working.

00:23:36.920 --> 00:23:41.420
Even the governor is starting to come back and

00:23:41.420 --> 00:23:45.710
re... I wonder why. Well, I mean, he wants to

00:23:45.710 --> 00:23:47.470
run for president. He wants to try to clear his

00:23:47.470 --> 00:23:51.009
slate. But the point is that he's recognizing

00:23:51.009 --> 00:23:53.210
it. He's talking about it. And I think the more

00:23:53.210 --> 00:23:57.269
that we all talk about these things that we have

00:23:57.269 --> 00:24:00.789
in common, because you can't. It's a good thing.

00:24:00.869 --> 00:24:03.849
You can't disagree with certain things. I mean,

00:24:03.890 --> 00:24:08.049
you just have to. I mean, we're Americans. Americans

00:24:08.049 --> 00:24:11.789
should be first. Americans. Americans. Damn it.

00:24:12.130 --> 00:24:18.119
Damn it, Bobby. No, I agree. I agree. It's just,

00:24:18.180 --> 00:24:20.400
you know, I'm trying not to dive into this too

00:24:20.400 --> 00:24:23.660
much. I mean, he was on the Charlie Kirk podcast,

00:24:23.799 --> 00:24:28.039
and he had some fantastic revelations on there.

00:24:28.119 --> 00:24:30.019
You know, just came out and said it. You know,

00:24:30.019 --> 00:24:31.480
and I don't want to bring it up because I don't

00:24:31.480 --> 00:24:33.119
want to make it. That was actually his podcast.

00:24:33.559 --> 00:24:35.680
Yeah, that was his. Oh, that Charlie Kirk was

00:24:35.680 --> 00:24:38.819
on. That's right. And it was a very unusual pairing.

00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:41.549
I mean, you're talking about kind of. I don't

00:24:41.549 --> 00:24:43.390
want to say arch enemies, but you talk about

00:24:43.390 --> 00:24:45.470
far left, far right. They're polarized for sure.

00:24:45.549 --> 00:24:47.809
And those two guys came together and they talked

00:24:47.809 --> 00:24:49.769
about stuff. But Charlie Kirk kept them in check.

00:24:49.890 --> 00:24:51.910
But that's encouraging. He kept them in check

00:24:51.910 --> 00:24:53.630
because he was keeping it real. It was like,

00:24:53.730 --> 00:24:56.529
look, man, you've got to. Well, he kept them

00:24:56.529 --> 00:24:58.470
in check. He got a lot of pushback, too. Gavin

00:24:58.470 --> 00:25:01.730
got a lot of flack for saying those things. Even

00:25:01.730 --> 00:25:04.269
hosting him. Well, even hosting him, but also

00:25:04.269 --> 00:25:07.829
saying the things that. He did. He was being

00:25:07.829 --> 00:25:09.910
somewhat moderate. I think that's important,

00:25:10.150 --> 00:25:12.589
though. I think that it's important that he received

00:25:12.589 --> 00:25:14.849
the flack because you've got to start monitoring

00:25:14.849 --> 00:25:19.450
who is giving him flack. Yeah. Who's actually

00:25:19.450 --> 00:25:22.029
criticizing this? Pick them out. Pick them out

00:25:22.029 --> 00:25:24.950
in the lineup. Start recognizing those folks

00:25:24.950 --> 00:25:28.690
and then call them out. Look, we've got to start

00:25:28.690 --> 00:25:30.950
being more educated. We've got to start learning

00:25:30.950 --> 00:25:35.210
who these bad actors are. I don't know. And voting

00:25:35.210 --> 00:25:37.109
appropriately. Yeah. You got to vote them out.

00:25:37.250 --> 00:25:39.690
You got to start making smart decisions. It's

00:25:39.690 --> 00:25:43.970
about you. It's about your family. It's about

00:25:43.970 --> 00:25:47.990
God. It's about you and your family and the longevity

00:25:47.990 --> 00:25:51.190
of what you got going on. And all this other

00:25:51.190 --> 00:25:53.849
stuff needs to just eviscerate. Just go away.

00:25:54.029 --> 00:25:55.329
Tell you what scares me, though, is we have a

00:25:55.329 --> 00:25:57.869
lot of Californians moving here to Texas. Yeah.

00:25:58.309 --> 00:26:01.410
We do. And I think, and what I've heard, is it's

00:26:01.410 --> 00:26:04.250
a lot of the... uh conservative folks that are

00:26:04.250 --> 00:26:06.730
leaving but i don't think that's a hundred percent

00:26:06.730 --> 00:26:07.990
of the case because you have a lot of corporations

00:26:07.990 --> 00:26:10.670
relocating here as well right which bring the

00:26:10.670 --> 00:26:13.089
people with them which are not always what you

00:26:13.089 --> 00:26:16.890
want but right uh you know i think texas is still

00:26:16.890 --> 00:26:20.490
fairly red but if that keeps happening you're

00:26:20.490 --> 00:26:22.529
going to start seeing some shifts i think he's

00:26:22.529 --> 00:26:25.670
purple well let's let's talk about this so what

00:26:25.670 --> 00:26:30.109
communities are i mean majority red But we can

00:26:30.109 --> 00:26:34.029
say Austin's probably blue. Every big city is

00:26:34.029 --> 00:26:37.410
blue short of Fort Worth. San Antonio, Houston,

00:26:37.730 --> 00:26:40.890
Dallas, and Austin are all staunchly blue. And

00:26:40.890 --> 00:26:43.970
El Paso. Really? Yes. Wow, that's a lot. It's

00:26:43.970 --> 00:26:45.869
just everywhere else is red. The four major cities

00:26:45.869 --> 00:26:48.609
are staunchly blue. Really? And that's because

00:26:48.609 --> 00:26:50.829
they're sucking on the city teat. Correct. The

00:26:50.829 --> 00:26:53.269
state teat. It's just that Texas is so large

00:26:53.269 --> 00:26:55.250
and there's so many people here that it offsets

00:26:55.250 --> 00:26:58.750
those cities. Yeah. Correct. Yeah. And it's the

00:26:58.750 --> 00:27:01.609
standard story, right? You see the map of Republican

00:27:01.609 --> 00:27:03.789
and Democrat of the United States, and it's like

00:27:03.789 --> 00:27:07.190
tons of red, right? All over the place. But then

00:27:07.190 --> 00:27:10.730
you see the blue dots. Little constellations

00:27:10.730 --> 00:27:13.930
everywhere. Same thing for Texas. You see a massive

00:27:13.930 --> 00:27:17.369
red state with blue, blue, blue, blue, blue,

00:27:17.470 --> 00:27:20.269
which is the five metropolitan areas, right?

00:27:20.410 --> 00:27:22.630
Which is where all the people are, which is where

00:27:22.630 --> 00:27:25.069
the majority of the votes come from. Right. So

00:27:25.069 --> 00:27:27.500
that's exactly what California's like. Except

00:27:27.500 --> 00:27:29.980
I think more of their population is along the

00:27:29.980 --> 00:27:33.240
coast where those cities are than here in Texas,

00:27:33.380 --> 00:27:35.160
right? So their population is more condensed

00:27:35.160 --> 00:27:38.240
in those cities than it is here in Texas, I think.

00:27:38.339 --> 00:27:40.519
True. That's the truth. I mean, I don't want

00:27:40.519 --> 00:27:44.200
to throw stones at either party because it's

00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:48.140
yin and yang. You need both. You need both to

00:27:48.140 --> 00:27:50.859
survive because we do need Democrats. Yeah, you

00:27:50.859 --> 00:27:52.920
need balance. And you need Republicans. You need

00:27:52.920 --> 00:27:55.950
them both. But I think the Dems went... too far

00:27:55.950 --> 00:27:59.069
is what happened. They went too far and they

00:27:59.069 --> 00:28:01.250
need to come back. You know what you hear, these

00:28:01.250 --> 00:28:03.170
blue dog Democrats. That's what we want back.

00:28:03.289 --> 00:28:05.170
Yeah, where are they? Where are they? They need

00:28:05.170 --> 00:28:06.950
to get more vocal. Well, they're still out there,

00:28:07.009 --> 00:28:08.950
but the progressive... The blue dog Democrats

00:28:08.950 --> 00:28:12.569
are now the Republican rhinos. You know, that's

00:28:12.569 --> 00:28:14.450
a great statement. That's exactly what it is.

00:28:14.490 --> 00:28:16.569
It seems to be that way. Yeah, the progressives

00:28:16.569 --> 00:28:20.750
took over the Democrat party. So when I say Democrat,

00:28:20.930 --> 00:28:23.390
you're really saying progressives at this point,

00:28:23.430 --> 00:28:25.490
because that's what you hear. I actually believe

00:28:25.490 --> 00:28:27.950
that we're in a state in this country where a

00:28:27.950 --> 00:28:32.210
third party can actually can actually rise. I

00:28:32.210 --> 00:28:35.910
could see some weird Ross Perot. So right now

00:28:35.910 --> 00:28:38.650
we're seeing polarization, a significant polarization,

00:28:38.829 --> 00:28:41.809
right? A drift to far left and a drift to far

00:28:41.809 --> 00:28:45.630
right, where this central, this centrist idea

00:28:45.630 --> 00:28:49.599
of from both parties. can drift into a party

00:28:49.599 --> 00:28:51.819
where it's like, dude, come on, man. I'm in the

00:28:51.819 --> 00:28:55.500
middle. And they can agree. Blue middle, red

00:28:55.500 --> 00:28:59.420
middle. And I can actually see the birth of a

00:28:59.420 --> 00:29:02.460
third party that is something like that. Maybe

00:29:02.460 --> 00:29:05.380
the wigs will make a comeback. The wigs. As long

00:29:05.380 --> 00:29:08.500
as they wear wigs. Yeah. Yes. Are they going

00:29:08.500 --> 00:29:11.460
to wear wigs? Big powdered wig. Yes. All right.

00:29:11.480 --> 00:29:14.599
All right. So that's our foray into politics.

00:29:14.779 --> 00:29:19.029
But let's talk about sports. Sports! Let's talk

00:29:19.029 --> 00:29:28.910
about the Dallas Stars, baby! Oh, that's soccer.

00:29:31.470 --> 00:29:33.589
I'll tell you what, they're kicking butt. Dude,

00:29:33.609 --> 00:29:37.130
they are kicking butt. They won 4 -2 in the second

00:29:37.130 --> 00:29:41.750
round. So they played the Colorado Avalanche

00:29:41.750 --> 00:29:43.309
in the first series. That's right, and they won

00:29:43.309 --> 00:29:46.329
4 -3. In overtime. In overtime. Oh, God. Yeah,

00:29:46.390 --> 00:29:48.750
that was quite the game, too. To go 3 -3 and

00:29:48.750 --> 00:29:50.730
then hit the seventh game and then have him go

00:29:50.730 --> 00:29:52.890
in overtime. It was insane. Yeah. That's always

00:29:52.890 --> 00:29:55.950
great. And then the Winnipeg Jets. Yes. And game

00:29:55.950 --> 00:30:00.269
six was dramatic. It wasn't overtime, though,

00:30:00.309 --> 00:30:02.329
was it? Yeah, it was overtime. Yes, it was overtime.

00:30:02.430 --> 00:30:05.150
I got to tell you, too, on a side note with just

00:30:05.150 --> 00:30:08.809
Canadian teams right now. I mean, look, there's

00:30:08.809 --> 00:30:10.789
some banter going on right now because of the

00:30:10.789 --> 00:30:13.150
bullshit politics going on between Canada and

00:30:13.150 --> 00:30:17.410
America, United States, and just the disrespect

00:30:17.410 --> 00:30:20.069
that they're extending to each other because

00:30:20.069 --> 00:30:23.910
of the tariffs that Trump is imposing. I think

00:30:23.910 --> 00:30:27.450
it's more the 51st state and the governor. The

00:30:27.450 --> 00:30:31.509
whole annexing thing. Well, rightfully so. I

00:30:31.509 --> 00:30:33.750
mean, I don't know. And you know what's so funny

00:30:33.750 --> 00:30:36.710
about this is that So, like, Winnipeg in game

00:30:36.710 --> 00:30:40.089
one, I guess it was Winnipeg, they booed the

00:30:40.089 --> 00:30:43.430
national anthem. Yeah. Not cool, man. Right?

00:30:43.509 --> 00:30:46.150
Not cool. And what's interesting is they have

00:30:46.150 --> 00:30:48.630
a ton of Americans on their team. Wow. Right?

00:30:48.769 --> 00:30:51.250
Because it's a blended, it's a total blending

00:30:51.250 --> 00:30:56.430
melting pot in NHL. Every team has Canadians

00:30:56.430 --> 00:30:59.170
and Finnish and Americans in this. Every single

00:30:59.170 --> 00:31:02.680
team has the best talent that's available. And

00:31:02.680 --> 00:31:06.000
this is not a national thing at all. Now, I get

00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:09.160
the, what they do, it was brilliant what they

00:31:09.160 --> 00:31:12.759
did in the All -Star. They did the four teams.

00:31:12.759 --> 00:31:15.079
Oh, yeah. Are you a hockey fan? Four nations.

00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:20.380
I'm hockey curious. So they did during the All

00:31:20.380 --> 00:31:24.940
-Star game. So let's, the traditional All -Star

00:31:24.940 --> 00:31:28.440
program, that's like football, hockey, whatever

00:31:28.440 --> 00:31:30.880
it is, they pull the players from everywhere.

00:31:31.259 --> 00:31:34.099
And they just make these teams up and they go

00:31:34.099 --> 00:31:37.380
play. This one was so cool because they were

00:31:37.380 --> 00:31:40.359
bringing up, let's do Canada and let's do America.

00:31:40.579 --> 00:31:43.539
It made it like an Olympic -style event. A four

00:31:43.539 --> 00:31:46.880
-nation tournament. So that's our criticism of

00:31:46.880 --> 00:31:49.500
playoffs, of all -star stuff. It's bullshit,

00:31:49.559 --> 00:31:52.680
right? They don't play hard. Think about basketball.

00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:57.640
It's 147 to 141. There's no defense. It's just

00:31:57.640 --> 00:32:00.200
showmanship, and they're bouncing it off the

00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:03.140
backboard and dunking it themselves. It's bullshit,

00:32:03.220 --> 00:32:05.339
right? And I don't think hockey was necessarily

00:32:05.339 --> 00:32:09.410
that way, but still, it wasn't competitive. Yeah.

00:32:09.890 --> 00:32:13.250
So then they moved to this four -nation playoff,

00:32:13.349 --> 00:32:17.089
and it was. It became tribal. Dude. It came off

00:32:17.089 --> 00:32:18.869
the hook. And then all of a sudden it was like,

00:32:18.970 --> 00:32:21.910
oh. And people were into it, and they were like.

00:32:21.910 --> 00:32:24.829
Take off, eh? I'm coming after you, man. Dude.

00:32:25.089 --> 00:32:27.410
Yeah, and they would play different venues. They'd

00:32:27.410 --> 00:32:29.990
go to Canada. They'd go to New York. Yes. It

00:32:29.990 --> 00:32:33.690
was the real deal. So it was actually they scored

00:32:33.690 --> 00:32:36.869
big time in terms of, like, people watching and

00:32:36.869 --> 00:32:39.240
people being. Pumped about it. Scored a lot of

00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:41.700
points. Well, that's when the whole 51st State

00:32:41.700 --> 00:32:44.400
thing happened as well. It did. When that whole

00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:45.960
thing started going down, when he started that,

00:32:46.019 --> 00:32:49.799
because I remember Canada was booing the U .S.

00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:53.880
team when they played. They were. And this is

00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:56.200
one of the moments where I kind of like, there

00:32:56.200 --> 00:32:57.960
are a lot of moments where I'm looking at Trump

00:32:57.960 --> 00:33:00.500
and I'm like, dude. Come on, man. I agree with

00:33:00.500 --> 00:33:03.400
you on this one. Stop. Stop, dude. Do you seriously

00:33:03.400 --> 00:33:06.019
need to piss off Canada? They were like our friends.

00:33:06.279 --> 00:33:08.460
Why would you do that? But at the same time,

00:33:08.519 --> 00:33:11.839
look, their cage needed to be rattled. He was...

00:33:11.839 --> 00:33:14.799
There's some nefarious shit going on up there.

00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:17.940
He was trolling Trudeau more than Canada. And

00:33:17.940 --> 00:33:20.039
Canada just happened to be in the way. But did

00:33:20.039 --> 00:33:24.329
he affect that... in a negative way for us? Possibly

00:33:24.329 --> 00:33:25.950
in a negative way, yeah. I think so. Although

00:33:25.950 --> 00:33:29.589
that guy, Pierre Polivo, didn't help himself.

00:33:29.890 --> 00:33:32.950
Yeah. I'm going to kind of tie it back to bourbon.

00:33:33.009 --> 00:33:34.470
All right, go. Because I remember seeing footage.

00:33:34.569 --> 00:33:37.589
I don't know if RD1's in Canada yet, but I remember

00:33:37.589 --> 00:33:40.109
seeing footage of them. All the liquor stores

00:33:40.109 --> 00:33:42.349
pulling off all the bourbon off the shelves as

00:33:42.349 --> 00:33:45.569
a protest. Did that impact you guys? Well, so

00:33:45.569 --> 00:33:49.349
we're having conversations with Canada, with

00:33:49.349 --> 00:33:54.230
Germany, with China, Japan. Those conversations

00:33:54.230 --> 00:33:58.390
are still happening. No kidding. Yeah. But because

00:33:58.390 --> 00:34:02.349
of tariffs. Because of tariffs, you know, sometimes

00:34:02.349 --> 00:34:05.910
the conversations have kind of stopped, but we're

00:34:05.910 --> 00:34:09.460
reengaging. Um, we're, we're hoping for the best

00:34:09.460 --> 00:34:12.860
planning for the worst. And, uh, you know, I

00:34:12.860 --> 00:34:16.559
mean, we have to continue to trade, you know,

00:34:16.559 --> 00:34:19.079
it's going to come back, you know? So, so for

00:34:19.079 --> 00:34:21.739
those people that are just like putting their

00:34:21.739 --> 00:34:24.719
head in the sand, they're going to do what's

00:34:24.719 --> 00:34:27.519
going to, what, what they're going to do. But,

00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:30.570
um, we're still having those conversations. We'll

00:34:30.570 --> 00:34:33.429
probably do a couple of white labels in Eastern

00:34:33.429 --> 00:34:37.570
Europe. We're still looking at outside the U

00:34:37.570 --> 00:34:40.190
.S. distribution. For sure. Yeah. It's a huge

00:34:40.190 --> 00:34:43.489
market. Canada is not going to go away. Canada

00:34:43.489 --> 00:34:46.730
is a partner. We're going to work with them.

00:34:46.869 --> 00:34:50.030
We're going to have distribution up there. You

00:34:50.030 --> 00:34:53.190
know, I mean. All of this is saber rattling.

00:34:53.429 --> 00:34:56.909
It doesn't. What a great word. So let's just

00:34:56.909 --> 00:34:58.750
think about this. Think about this. In Canada,

00:34:58.949 --> 00:35:02.150
you got dudes like us. Right. Who sit around

00:35:02.150 --> 00:35:05.190
and they're drinking bourbon and they're really

00:35:05.190 --> 00:35:08.170
going to go. fuck america eh right no they're

00:35:08.170 --> 00:35:11.409
not no they're not like like hey we're gonna

00:35:11.409 --> 00:35:14.909
drink this uh canadian club i don't think so

00:35:14.909 --> 00:35:20.550
exactly i mean no hey no no dude i used to bartend

00:35:20.550 --> 00:35:23.409
and i remember this was like in the late 80s

00:35:23.409 --> 00:35:25.610
and they would like hey can i have a cc and coke

00:35:25.610 --> 00:35:29.530
and i'd be like I was going to say it. I almost

00:35:29.530 --> 00:35:31.710
said it. Don't do it. Don't do it. I was going

00:35:31.710 --> 00:35:33.170
to have a CZ and Coke, and I was just like, man,

00:35:33.190 --> 00:35:35.849
I just remember the CNC, the Canadian Club label.

00:35:35.949 --> 00:35:38.889
That is so crazy. Right. And nowadays, I wonder

00:35:38.889 --> 00:35:40.690
what, if I were to have a bottle of that now,

00:35:40.849 --> 00:35:45.110
it would be what you described as the old whiskeys

00:35:45.110 --> 00:35:47.590
that would be more butterscotch and caramelly.

00:35:47.630 --> 00:35:49.690
Dude, it's been around forever, right? I mean,

00:35:49.710 --> 00:35:53.090
that's... It's a staple. There's a market for

00:35:53.090 --> 00:35:55.050
it. I was going to say, everything has its place.

00:35:55.170 --> 00:35:58.010
Right. Right? I mean, who are we to judge if

00:35:58.010 --> 00:36:00.489
somebody, some old dude's hanging out and drinking

00:36:00.489 --> 00:36:05.010
Canadian Club and 7 -Up? Hey, we respect how

00:36:05.010 --> 00:36:07.710
people enjoy their bourbon, enjoy their whiskey,

00:36:07.849 --> 00:36:10.829
enjoy their spirits. We do, right? Well, there's

00:36:10.829 --> 00:36:14.090
a whiskey company, Found North. Have you heard

00:36:14.090 --> 00:36:18.469
of them? It's kind of like the rare character,

00:36:18.530 --> 00:36:21.190
except they look for the exceptional Canadian

00:36:21.190 --> 00:36:25.130
whiskeys. There you go. Wow. And they can't find

00:36:25.130 --> 00:36:29.030
them? Well, no. And I want to find... I joined

00:36:29.030 --> 00:36:32.409
their mailing list because they have lotteries.

00:36:32.769 --> 00:36:37.289
And they're old. You know, 17, 20 plus years

00:36:37.289 --> 00:36:40.570
old stuff. High proof. I've seen some of the

00:36:40.570 --> 00:36:43.230
reviews saying top notch stuff. I don't think

00:36:43.230 --> 00:36:45.489
I've seen a high proof Canadian whiskey. That

00:36:45.489 --> 00:36:48.929
would be great. Unobtainium. Yes. It's a hazmat.

00:36:49.090 --> 00:36:52.309
Yeah. Dude. That's a thing. Yeah. Oh, we have

00:36:52.309 --> 00:36:56.820
to get that. What is it like? What's the hazmat

00:36:56.820 --> 00:37:01.820
set at? Is it 150? 140? 140 and above. But what

00:37:01.820 --> 00:37:07.000
is theirs at? With the Canadian FAA? No, no,

00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:10.119
no. I'm not talking about the system. The rules.

00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:16.559
This is 110 -ish. That's 130 almost. Zoom out

00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:20.960
a little bit, please. Found north, batch 11.

00:37:21.530 --> 00:37:26.170
Aged 18 years. Yeah. And it's stout. It's 120.

00:37:27.409 --> 00:37:32.269
91 % corn, though. Sweet. Interesting. Additives,

00:37:32.289 --> 00:37:35.730
none. I wonder. You know, it's sad that they

00:37:35.730 --> 00:37:39.050
have to say that. Hold on. Hold on. That's significant

00:37:39.050 --> 00:37:41.210
that they have to say that. In Canada, I don't

00:37:41.210 --> 00:37:42.710
think there's any rules for Canadian whiskey.

00:37:42.889 --> 00:37:46.929
Because Crown has additives. Right. Yep. Well,

00:37:47.050 --> 00:37:49.929
I would like to try it. What's the sticker price

00:37:49.929 --> 00:37:51.969
on that, Mr. Producer? I have no idea how much

00:37:51.969 --> 00:37:55.170
it costs. I've never seen one in the wild. Oh,

00:37:55.170 --> 00:37:58.110
so these are the rare... This is like the rare

00:37:58.110 --> 00:38:00.210
character of Canadian whiskey. That is so difficult.

00:38:00.690 --> 00:38:03.769
You know, they even have the same rare character

00:38:03.769 --> 00:38:07.809
kind of tab on the top to peel it off. Is it

00:38:07.809 --> 00:38:12.590
80 pence? Like, what do they... I'm sorry, what

00:38:12.590 --> 00:38:15.570
do they have up there? What do they have up there?

00:38:15.889 --> 00:38:21.219
Loonies. Okay, so it's 40 loonies. By the way,

00:38:21.239 --> 00:38:23.360
we have another rare character bottle. It's sitting

00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:26.519
in a box at my house. Yes, it is. It's very expensive.

00:38:26.559 --> 00:38:27.980
I can't believe we spent that much. We spent

00:38:27.980 --> 00:38:29.880
almost 300 bucks on this stupid bottle. Really?

00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:32.000
Yeah. What was it? I don't even remember what

00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:33.599
the hell it was. It's a single malt, I think,

00:38:33.639 --> 00:38:36.519
isn't it? Yeah. It better be really good. It

00:38:36.519 --> 00:38:39.179
was a weeded whiskey. I remember that. I don't

00:38:39.179 --> 00:38:42.079
remember. I put it in a bag, and I shoved it.

00:38:43.019 --> 00:38:45.000
A couple cases of the San Pellegrino. I shoved

00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:47.780
it in an open case so I don't look at it because

00:38:47.780 --> 00:38:50.460
I don't want to have to drink it. Yeah, you buried

00:38:50.460 --> 00:38:53.900
it in the backyard. Look, guys, we've got to

00:38:53.900 --> 00:38:56.579
settle up on this whiskey thing. We do. So we

00:38:56.579 --> 00:38:59.019
figured out that each of us, oh, I think about

00:38:59.019 --> 00:39:03.340
$13 ,000 each. From Jeff's trip to Kentucky when

00:39:03.340 --> 00:39:06.380
he picked up like 17, 18 bottles. So when he

00:39:06.380 --> 00:39:07.880
comes back, you know, you look at it, you know.

00:39:09.049 --> 00:39:11.489
60 to 100 -something bucks a bottle. And then

00:39:11.489 --> 00:39:13.289
we have all the equipment that we bought for

00:39:13.289 --> 00:39:16.789
the podcast. There's just a bunch. We're trying

00:39:16.789 --> 00:39:18.570
to step it up. We're trying to step it up. We're

00:39:18.570 --> 00:39:22.030
having a good time. We're waiting for an angel

00:39:22.030 --> 00:39:26.369
investor. Not you, not you, but you talked about

00:39:26.369 --> 00:39:28.949
an angel investor. Right, right. That's what

00:39:28.949 --> 00:39:31.829
we're waiting for. You guys need a hookup. We

00:39:31.829 --> 00:39:36.530
need a hookup. You guys need somebody that has

00:39:36.530 --> 00:39:40.380
barrels of bourbon. that are like, we're going

00:39:40.380 --> 00:39:43.340
to sample through each one of these and bring

00:39:43.340 --> 00:39:46.719
special bourbon down to the podcast. I like what

00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:49.679
you're saying. Right? A lot. Yes. I mean, that's

00:39:49.679 --> 00:39:54.039
great. I mean, you know, we're not against paying

00:39:54.039 --> 00:39:57.039
for stuff. We don't want shit for free. We would

00:39:57.039 --> 00:40:00.199
like our podcast to be recognized as for what

00:40:00.199 --> 00:40:03.550
it is. We're original. We're not full of shit.

00:40:03.889 --> 00:40:07.210
No, we are. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. Yep,

00:40:07.210 --> 00:40:11.449
there. Challenge play. He shoots his scars. Challenge

00:40:11.449 --> 00:40:13.610
play. He one -timed that. There it is. There

00:40:13.610 --> 00:40:15.050
it is. That was a great challenge. Thank you,

00:40:15.050 --> 00:40:17.010
Barry. Thank you. Well placed there, sir. And

00:40:17.010 --> 00:40:18.869
by the way, you win that challenge because he

00:40:18.869 --> 00:40:20.789
is full of shit. Yeah, well, you know what? We

00:40:20.789 --> 00:40:22.769
all are full of shit. We all are. We all are.

00:40:22.769 --> 00:40:25.289
In these little areas. But the point is, is that,

00:40:25.349 --> 00:40:28.289
in fact, we have had a podcast where we say something,

00:40:28.369 --> 00:40:30.409
and then 10 minutes later, we do the research,

00:40:30.449 --> 00:40:33.309
and we're like, Completely go back on what we

00:40:33.309 --> 00:40:36.150
said. Wow, Sean's wrong again. But that's the

00:40:36.150 --> 00:40:38.690
whole fun about it is that we want to talk about

00:40:38.690 --> 00:40:41.849
it because if I'm wrong about it, there are millions

00:40:41.849 --> 00:40:43.969
of people that are wrong about it because some

00:40:43.969 --> 00:40:47.489
things make sense and then they don't. So the

00:40:47.489 --> 00:40:50.750
best thing, Barry, we'll get into these deep,

00:40:50.889 --> 00:40:54.239
deep debates. Right? I'll be throwing in stuff.

00:40:54.400 --> 00:40:56.480
Sean's be throwing in stuff. Jeff's throwing

00:40:56.480 --> 00:40:59.079
in stuff. Chuck's piping in. And then we find

00:40:59.079 --> 00:41:01.739
out all of us are wrong. I do that. Because when

00:41:01.739 --> 00:41:03.300
I edit, I'll sit right over there and I'll edit.

00:41:03.500 --> 00:41:06.300
And as I'm listening to it, I'll start researching.

00:41:06.559 --> 00:41:10.719
I'm like, nope, we were all wrong. It's literally

00:41:10.719 --> 00:41:14.079
so bad. And then there's one dude listening in

00:41:14.079 --> 00:41:16.300
his car. Screaming at us. His old Ford truck.

00:41:16.699 --> 00:41:19.199
He's driving down some country road going. Y

00:41:19.199 --> 00:41:23.019
'all a bunch of fucking idiots. Humbled. Yes.

00:41:24.039 --> 00:41:28.099
100%. That podcast is crushable. Yes. But we

00:41:28.099 --> 00:41:30.039
sound good. We think we're right, so we sound

00:41:30.039 --> 00:41:33.840
it. We're confident. Just be confident. As long

00:41:33.840 --> 00:41:36.480
as you're confident. Yeah, it doesn't matter.

00:41:36.719 --> 00:41:39.619
So walk us through. I want to chat a little bit

00:41:39.619 --> 00:41:42.280
about the world of whiskeys. You guys participate

00:41:42.280 --> 00:41:45.380
in that, right? Yeah, so the world of whiskeys,

00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:49.000
I love it. You know, I love having people come

00:41:49.000 --> 00:41:53.000
in from all over the world. But the problem is

00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:56.719
that, you know, when we look at consumerism,

00:41:56.760 --> 00:42:00.460
people are kind of pulling back a little bit.

00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:03.619
And the world of whiskeys is kind of expensive.

00:42:03.900 --> 00:42:09.059
You know, for a brand, it's $2 ,500 minimum just

00:42:09.059 --> 00:42:13.639
to get my brand in there. And the people that

00:42:13.639 --> 00:42:16.820
are attending are kind of waning a little bit.

00:42:17.019 --> 00:42:21.280
I want to go where the people are. And so for

00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:24.840
me, I love the world of whiskeys. I want to support

00:42:24.840 --> 00:42:28.280
it. But the problem is it's kind of expensive.

00:42:28.539 --> 00:42:31.000
Well, I've got another problem. Bang for your

00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:32.639
buck, right? I've got another problem. So we

00:42:32.639 --> 00:42:36.019
went to the one where we met you guys, your team

00:42:36.019 --> 00:42:38.679
out there. And the one that got scheduled this

00:42:38.679 --> 00:42:43.369
year in Dallas. outside in august or july in

00:42:43.369 --> 00:42:47.849
july the worst the worst in july in an outdoor

00:42:47.849 --> 00:42:52.929
venue ouch and on a sunday on a sunday i gotta

00:42:52.929 --> 00:42:55.630
go to work on monday i mean what are these fools

00:42:55.630 --> 00:42:58.590
thinking so yeah so he sent an email did you

00:42:58.590 --> 00:43:00.530
get a response no i didn't get a response no

00:43:00.530 --> 00:43:03.969
no i didn't send just an email I sent texts,

00:43:04.090 --> 00:43:10.190
email, social media, not one single reply. I

00:43:10.190 --> 00:43:13.289
wonder why. Dude, look, I get it. I was a little

00:43:13.289 --> 00:43:17.630
abrasive. But at the same time, it's facts. Imagine

00:43:17.630 --> 00:43:21.090
being a 24 -year -old intern and you're monitoring

00:43:21.090 --> 00:43:23.769
the social media. And here's this dude going.

00:43:24.230 --> 00:43:28.289
dude no outside i was just like in the middle

00:43:28.289 --> 00:43:30.909
of summer this is texas i mean what the hell

00:43:30.909 --> 00:43:36.670
you got a bunch of fat fucking 50 year olds out

00:43:36.670 --> 00:43:39.550
there saucing it up yeah it's like we're all

00:43:39.550 --> 00:43:42.329
gonna die you're gonna need to have some emergency

00:43:43.960 --> 00:43:47.780
Can I get an IV? On a roller so you just walk

00:43:47.780 --> 00:43:50.760
with it? Look, and I got to tell you, the event

00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:54.380
that we went to and we participated was great.

00:43:54.559 --> 00:43:57.079
The actual place fucked up all the food where

00:43:57.079 --> 00:43:59.460
they were bringing all this great food out, but

00:43:59.460 --> 00:44:01.699
they had no utensils and people were like manhandling

00:44:01.699 --> 00:44:04.980
the food and shit. Don't touch my food. Oh my

00:44:04.980 --> 00:44:08.440
God. It was Neanderthal -ic. It was crazy. I

00:44:08.440 --> 00:44:10.260
mean, but it was a great event. I enjoyed being

00:44:10.260 --> 00:44:12.659
there and I'd love to do it again. And I wish

00:44:12.659 --> 00:44:15.659
they... really would hold it at the same place

00:44:15.659 --> 00:44:17.420
again. Just the fact that they did it in downtown

00:44:17.420 --> 00:44:19.920
Dallas at the farmer's market. That's what it

00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:22.539
is. It's a farmer's market. Yeah. I don't know

00:44:22.539 --> 00:44:25.900
what they were thinking. It's a metal pole building

00:44:25.900 --> 00:44:30.000
with open sides. It's basically an awning. I

00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:32.079
wasn't sure if they were trying to downscale

00:44:32.079 --> 00:44:35.820
to where it wasn't so much to host it. Maybe

00:44:35.820 --> 00:44:38.579
it cost too much. Maybe they ran out of time.

00:44:39.210 --> 00:44:41.809
And they didn't. I don't know. I don't know.

00:44:41.889 --> 00:44:44.750
There are so many venues out there. There are

00:44:44.750 --> 00:44:47.369
so many. There are so many opportunities. They

00:44:47.369 --> 00:44:50.070
could have done anything. Read the room. They

00:44:50.070 --> 00:44:52.590
messed up. Read the room. Read the state. Read

00:44:52.590 --> 00:44:56.289
the time. And the fact that they didn't respond,

00:44:56.530 --> 00:44:59.269
even like just a little bullshit, oh, sorry,

00:44:59.469 --> 00:45:01.250
maybe we'll catch you next year at a different

00:45:01.250 --> 00:45:04.650
venue. There was zero response. Right. Nothing.

00:45:04.789 --> 00:45:07.719
Right. So, I mean, look, I get it. The venue

00:45:07.719 --> 00:45:09.599
was expensive for you guys to even participate.

00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:12.880
Right. But to me, it sounds like they don't even

00:45:12.880 --> 00:45:16.039
care. Right. They're just like, let's just pack

00:45:16.039 --> 00:45:18.840
this up in a box and ship it out and see what

00:45:18.840 --> 00:45:21.280
sinks or swims. Well, but you're on the do not

00:45:21.280 --> 00:45:25.880
reply list. Whatever. X'd out. Yeah, I think

00:45:25.880 --> 00:45:27.880
if Jeff had seen it, it might have been different.

00:45:27.880 --> 00:45:31.000
I wasn't that bad. I read to you guys what it

00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:33.099
was. It wasn't too horrible. All I said were

00:45:33.099 --> 00:45:35.280
the facts. Hey, man, is there any room to wiggle?

00:45:36.019 --> 00:45:41.349
Can you enclose it? Is it climatized? Do they

00:45:41.349 --> 00:45:43.469
have defibrillators? I mean, there was these...

00:45:43.469 --> 00:45:47.889
Are there nurses on call? Hey, listen, I have

00:45:47.889 --> 00:45:51.309
a 60 % chance of dying at this event, so help

00:45:51.309 --> 00:45:53.010
me out here. This is like going to a foreigner

00:45:53.010 --> 00:45:55.829
concert in downtown Dallas in the middle of August,

00:45:55.969 --> 00:45:59.829
you know? Jesus, man. We did that, too. August

00:45:59.829 --> 00:46:02.230
15th, what, two years ago, we went to go see

00:46:02.230 --> 00:46:04.769
the foreigner cover band. Oh, my God. And it's

00:46:04.769 --> 00:46:08.489
outdoors. It was so fucking hot. I had to get...

00:46:08.489 --> 00:46:11.550
I got so hot. I had to get up and walk around.

00:46:11.690 --> 00:46:15.250
I was like, I'm going to pass out. Wow. Do you

00:46:15.250 --> 00:46:20.010
do concerts? Do you do old bands, like your nostalgic

00:46:20.010 --> 00:46:24.869
bands? I mean, I'm an old guy, so I love older

00:46:24.869 --> 00:46:31.130
music. Love it, but again, my bedtime is, I'm

00:46:31.130 --> 00:46:34.929
past my bedtime now. Typically 9 o 'clock, I'm

00:46:34.929 --> 00:46:39.619
in bed. Love music. I love going to concerts

00:46:39.619 --> 00:46:44.079
and seeing older bands. Like Fats Domino or something

00:46:44.079 --> 00:46:49.260
like that. Hold on. What does that look like

00:46:49.260 --> 00:46:53.219
in Kentucky, in Lexington? Who comes to Lexington?

00:46:54.519 --> 00:46:57.340
Now, I mean, it's kind of dominated by country

00:46:57.340 --> 00:47:01.900
and western. Of course. Chris Stapleton. Nice.

00:47:02.840 --> 00:47:05.800
You know, I mean, but I'm old school. Tedeschi,

00:47:05.800 --> 00:47:08.420
Martin, and Wood. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Foreigner.

00:47:08.519 --> 00:47:11.619
I mean, you know, Jethro Tull. That was the first

00:47:11.619 --> 00:47:16.980
concert I saw back in the day. I like that guy.

00:47:16.980 --> 00:47:42.750
The rock flautist. I like that guy. No, this

00:47:42.750 --> 00:47:47.170
wasn't preschool. That's a taxi theme. By the

00:47:47.170 --> 00:47:49.989
way, you on the last podcast put in a recorder.

00:47:50.780 --> 00:47:56.019
A recorder recording. No. I was like, dude. That

00:47:56.019 --> 00:47:59.099
did sound like the taxi theme. I busted out when

00:47:59.099 --> 00:48:02.679
you. It was so bad. All right, all right. Move

00:48:02.679 --> 00:48:06.820
on, move on. All right, sorry. Go back. So what's

00:48:06.820 --> 00:48:11.340
the last concert you've been to? Yeah, man, you're

00:48:11.340 --> 00:48:13.440
challenging me. Because you've been on the road

00:48:13.440 --> 00:48:16.559
for it. Yeah, I have no. That's a lot, man. I

00:48:16.559 --> 00:48:20.539
have no life. I mean, I have a great life. But

00:48:20.539 --> 00:48:25.199
it's all bourbon. It's all meeting guys like

00:48:25.199 --> 00:48:28.320
you all and drinking. I mean, here we're on a

00:48:28.320 --> 00:48:30.980
podcast. We're drinking stag. We're drinking

00:48:30.980 --> 00:48:34.559
a barrel pick of stag from Total Wine. He just

00:48:34.559 --> 00:48:37.840
did that. Holy crap. Let's talk about it. I love

00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:40.679
it. Yeah, yeah. Well, we pulled it up. Let's

00:48:40.679 --> 00:48:44.619
do it. Let's talk about it. Let's talk about

00:48:44.619 --> 00:48:48.639
this. What is the proof? It's 133 proof. Damn.

00:48:48.699 --> 00:48:55.380
I've already sampled this twice. It's the bomb.

00:48:55.679 --> 00:48:59.400
This is the shit. It really is. I'll tell you

00:48:59.400 --> 00:49:01.659
what. Jumping from the RD1 to this, they're two

00:49:01.659 --> 00:49:04.239
different animals. Yeah. Completely. And this

00:49:04.239 --> 00:49:08.119
one's got a set of nuts. Yeah. It doesn't taste

00:49:08.119 --> 00:49:12.460
like 133 proof. Dude, I get maple syrup. hardcore

00:49:12.460 --> 00:49:15.780
on this nose. Very sweet. There's a lot of sweetness

00:49:15.780 --> 00:49:19.699
to it. But a lot of ethanol. A lot of proof.

00:49:20.519 --> 00:49:23.800
It's got to breathe a lot. You can feel the proof

00:49:23.800 --> 00:49:25.920
on this one, I think. This one where you may

00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:28.059
want to drop a drop or two of distilled water

00:49:28.059 --> 00:49:30.420
in it to dumb it down a little bit. I wouldn't,

00:49:30.420 --> 00:49:33.900
but some may. I don't like doing that. But if

00:49:33.900 --> 00:49:36.639
people are offended by the ethanol, that is what

00:49:36.639 --> 00:49:39.190
I would... Recommend. Right. Couple drops. Not

00:49:39.190 --> 00:49:41.289
to be manly here, but I didn't even realize.

00:49:41.349 --> 00:49:44.170
I've been drinking it. I've been drinking it.

00:49:44.250 --> 00:49:46.789
I've been sipping it. And I did not realize it

00:49:46.789 --> 00:49:51.260
was a hundred and what? 133. I didn't because

00:49:51.260 --> 00:49:53.579
we are conditioned now. Everything's burned off.

00:49:54.360 --> 00:49:56.659
Everything's burned off from the nostrils down

00:49:56.659 --> 00:50:01.199
to the rectum. We're pros. All the way down,

00:50:02.280 --> 00:50:04.139
man. It's burned off. There's a story there.

00:50:05.239 --> 00:50:08.420
Father Jerry's really reached me out. Exit only.

00:50:08.559 --> 00:50:12.219
Exit only, gentlemen. It's called butt chugging,

00:50:12.219 --> 00:50:15.300
right? No, no, no, no. Is it butt luging? Exit

00:50:15.300 --> 00:50:18.400
only. Let's not get crazy. Anyway, so Stag, it's

00:50:18.400 --> 00:50:23.199
a Stag. Jesus. Uh -oh, we're spitting over here.

00:50:23.519 --> 00:50:25.619
We're good. We're good? We just killed Bird.

00:50:26.760 --> 00:50:30.579
That's funny, though. So the Stag Jr. 133 Proof

00:50:30.579 --> 00:50:32.880
Kentucky Straight Bourbon Barrel boasts a complex

00:50:32.880 --> 00:50:37.099
profile with the tasting notes including sweet

00:50:37.099 --> 00:50:41.170
flavors. Very sweet. Very sweet. Chocolate. tons

00:50:41.170 --> 00:50:43.349
of spice that's crazy how can it be sweet with

00:50:43.349 --> 00:50:46.769
130 something proof come on unfiltered that's

00:50:46.769 --> 00:50:52.090
crazy this is amazing yeah i'm a fan a big fan

00:50:52.090 --> 00:50:55.670
where do we get this bottle by the way i mean

00:50:55.670 --> 00:50:58.710
but well how long ago uh i think someone i think

00:50:58.710 --> 00:51:03.320
this is one where wow hey And I was circling

00:51:03.320 --> 00:51:06.219
Total Wine, and I ran in and got it. So let me

00:51:06.219 --> 00:51:09.940
share with you some of our processes. So we go

00:51:09.940 --> 00:51:12.780
to different liquor stores, and we try to keep

00:51:12.780 --> 00:51:18.539
ourselves acquainted with folks. And so we're

00:51:18.539 --> 00:51:21.900
on a text list. So when something comes in. I'm

00:51:21.900 --> 00:51:24.460
not naming people, but when something comes in,

00:51:24.539 --> 00:51:26.480
they're like, hey, you might want to be here

00:51:26.480 --> 00:51:29.579
in 15 minutes. And so we sent out the bat. Yeah,

00:51:29.639 --> 00:51:32.599
we have an emergency alert. And Jeff's like,

00:51:32.719 --> 00:51:36.119
I'm circling right now. I've been here since

00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:40.219
840. Still waiting. But it's funny because we

00:51:40.219 --> 00:51:42.480
get these alerts sometimes, and then we just

00:51:42.480 --> 00:51:45.480
show up, and it was there, and boom, we're in

00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:48.250
there. That's insane. Like the Coy Hill. The

00:51:48.250 --> 00:51:51.130
Jack Daniels Coil Hill. Love it. Oh, my God.

00:51:51.190 --> 00:51:52.929
That was another one, yeah. I went in there,

00:51:53.050 --> 00:51:57.909
and we got the bad alert. And, you know, Stan,

00:51:58.250 --> 00:52:00.429
shout out to Stan. You know, Stan's the one that

00:52:00.429 --> 00:52:02.429
hooked us up. So we went in there, and he's like,

00:52:02.530 --> 00:52:06.050
he just handed me a box. And there were two of

00:52:06.050 --> 00:52:07.889
the Jack Daniels in there. He said, don't open

00:52:07.889 --> 00:52:10.019
it. Don't even look at it. Just take the box

00:52:10.019 --> 00:52:12.380
to the front, have them check it out, and leave.

00:52:13.679 --> 00:52:16.940
Thank you, Stan. That's what I said. I love the

00:52:16.940 --> 00:52:20.159
alert, Houston, Houston. I love it. Do we have

00:52:20.159 --> 00:52:25.989
any assets in the area over? Assets en route.

00:52:26.130 --> 00:52:29.030
Assets en route. It is funny because that's exactly

00:52:29.030 --> 00:52:32.130
what we are. So shout out to the Total Wine,

00:52:32.250 --> 00:52:35.269
Kevin, and stands up at Sips. And Sips, from

00:52:35.269 --> 00:52:38.070
what I understand, out in McKinney, Texas, they're

00:52:38.070 --> 00:52:42.010
not, how should I say this? Business could be

00:52:42.010 --> 00:52:46.780
better. We haven't visited him in a while. Yeah.

00:52:46.780 --> 00:52:50.039
Well, you know what? It's not near our stomping

00:52:50.039 --> 00:52:53.280
grounds. It isn't. And frankly, they're having

00:52:53.280 --> 00:52:55.139
a hard time. Are you familiar with Sips out there?

00:52:55.360 --> 00:52:59.780
No. So Sips is a mom and pop store. It's around

00:52:59.780 --> 00:53:04.500
Virginia and what? Ridge? Yeah. Virginia and

00:53:04.500 --> 00:53:06.519
Ridge. It's in McKinney. It's in McKinney about

00:53:06.519 --> 00:53:09.840
northeast of here about 20 minutes. Okay. And

00:53:09.840 --> 00:53:12.239
it's a small liquor store. And they sell wine

00:53:12.239 --> 00:53:14.320
and liquor. And the guys there are great. They

00:53:14.320 --> 00:53:16.219
really are great. It's a nice -sized store, too.

00:53:16.300 --> 00:53:19.659
It is nice. It looks like a great location. It's

00:53:19.659 --> 00:53:27.119
a great location. Yeah, sorry. But rent's expensive.

00:53:27.460 --> 00:53:29.059
Yeah, it's a good place. Everything's expensive.

00:53:29.199 --> 00:53:31.519
And they're doing everything they can to stay

00:53:31.519 --> 00:53:34.460
afloat. And it's just one of those things, man.

00:53:34.539 --> 00:53:36.550
They're just kind of... The cards are falling,

00:53:36.710 --> 00:53:39.909
and they're throwing Hill Marys out. And Stan

00:53:39.909 --> 00:53:43.909
shared last night that he doesn't know how much

00:53:43.909 --> 00:53:47.269
longer they're going to be open. Wow. They don't

00:53:47.269 --> 00:53:50.489
have all this. We're trying to get Wild Turkey

00:53:50.489 --> 00:53:53.429
101, and we can't even get that. Oh, damn. Yeah,

00:53:53.469 --> 00:53:55.690
and they do have great product, because we bought

00:53:55.690 --> 00:53:58.570
some product from them. Whatever. Whatever, man.

00:53:58.630 --> 00:54:02.070
I feel bad, but at the same time, it was a great

00:54:02.070 --> 00:54:07.110
venue. Stan is a great person. He's a vault of

00:54:07.110 --> 00:54:09.710
information when it comes to whiskeys, too. You

00:54:09.710 --> 00:54:11.849
could ask that guy anything. Maybe they should

00:54:11.849 --> 00:54:15.849
do those dark erotic tours that Gary was talking

00:54:15.849 --> 00:54:18.510
about. You say erotic? I like erotic. I think

00:54:18.510 --> 00:54:22.210
we've got a new dimension here. Maybe I misunderstood.

00:54:22.630 --> 00:54:26.489
No, no, no. You know what? I'm running with it.

00:54:30.570 --> 00:54:35.070
A little goth erotic. Maybe the thespians will

00:54:35.070 --> 00:54:37.550
be nude as they do their act. They have a bourbon

00:54:37.550 --> 00:54:43.530
spray. Yes. So check us out on dudeslikeus -podcast

00:54:43.530 --> 00:54:47.590
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00:54:47.590 --> 00:54:49.809
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00:54:55.250 --> 00:55:00.300
We have Barry Gruniger. Are we wrapping up right

00:55:00.300 --> 00:55:03.260
now? No, no, no. I just want to say it's in the

00:55:03.260 --> 00:55:04.639
middle. It's in the middle. Okay. And I just

00:55:04.639 --> 00:55:06.559
want to say, you know, Barry's here talking with

00:55:06.559 --> 00:55:08.179
us if you guys don't remember. Dude, and this

00:55:08.179 --> 00:55:10.760
has been a lot of fun. I'm so glad you're on

00:55:10.760 --> 00:55:13.360
the podcast. I mean, how much bourbon have we

00:55:13.360 --> 00:55:17.219
had that is, like, top of the line? My God. I

00:55:17.219 --> 00:55:20.820
need to come back tomorrow. We're pretty spoiled.

00:55:21.969 --> 00:55:25.110
We really do. We pride ourselves. Like what Paul

00:55:25.110 --> 00:55:26.630
was mentioning on the first half of the podcast,

00:55:26.849 --> 00:55:30.650
we'd buy three bottles each. So we got our collection

00:55:30.650 --> 00:55:33.610
by buying a bottle each. And a bottle would be

00:55:33.610 --> 00:55:37.250
$30, $50. Every week. Every week. And it was

00:55:37.250 --> 00:55:39.230
like, boom, boom. And then we started building

00:55:39.230 --> 00:55:41.409
it up. And we got to a point where we started

00:55:41.409 --> 00:55:43.269
the more expensive stuff. I was like, well, you

00:55:43.269 --> 00:55:45.010
know what? I can't afford to buy that every week.

00:55:45.010 --> 00:55:47.619
So we started. like dividing the cost by three

00:55:47.619 --> 00:55:50.559
right so now we're buying a bottle every week

00:55:50.559 --> 00:55:52.139
and we don't care what the price is it could

00:55:52.139 --> 00:55:55.940
be 150 bucks right because 150 bucks is way less

00:55:55.940 --> 00:55:58.599
than what we were paying yeah it gets a little

00:55:58.599 --> 00:56:01.059
ridiculous and it was very much an evolution

00:56:01.059 --> 00:56:05.219
yeah very much you need a backup you know i mean

00:56:05.219 --> 00:56:09.280
one bottle you open it it's gone i mean you gotta

00:56:09.280 --> 00:56:12.570
have a backup Yeah, but it's tough. We don't

00:56:12.570 --> 00:56:14.690
have deep pockets. And, you know, when we get

00:56:14.690 --> 00:56:17.710
sponsors or folks like you that come out. Angel

00:56:17.710 --> 00:56:20.369
investor. We're waiting for angel investors.

00:56:20.750 --> 00:56:23.829
That's the key word. It's baby steps. And, frankly,

00:56:23.909 --> 00:56:27.409
we're kind of stupid when it comes to setting

00:56:27.409 --> 00:56:29.590
ourselves up for success with these types. I

00:56:29.590 --> 00:56:32.130
mean, we want to say that we've got the talent.

00:56:32.329 --> 00:56:35.710
We've got the chemistry. We've got the bodies.

00:56:35.750 --> 00:56:39.449
We've got the bodies in the face. Right. It takes

00:56:39.449 --> 00:56:43.329
more than that. So you need a Mike Tederton that

00:56:43.329 --> 00:56:46.849
says you're not asking for enough money. That's

00:56:46.849 --> 00:56:50.130
what you guys need. That's what we need. And

00:56:50.130 --> 00:56:53.590
then, boom, we're Joe Rogan -esque. Rogan -esque.

00:56:53.590 --> 00:56:57.550
Look, we're just wanting to have fun with this.

00:56:57.630 --> 00:57:02.869
We are. If we can get some compensation, if we

00:57:02.869 --> 00:57:05.730
can get some sort of kickback or something. You

00:57:05.730 --> 00:57:08.860
don't do this for five years. Without getting

00:57:08.860 --> 00:57:11.699
paid, without loving what you do. Right. And

00:57:11.699 --> 00:57:14.699
we do. Right. And this is it. We're hobbying

00:57:14.699 --> 00:57:17.320
this shit to death. Yeah. And we do have. Gotta

00:57:17.320 --> 00:57:20.360
love it. We do have 1 ,000 to 2 ,000 folks who

00:57:20.360 --> 00:57:22.480
listen every month. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome.

00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:25.619
And then we're international now. Yeah, we do.

00:57:25.659 --> 00:57:28.980
We got people in Bulgaria. Yeah. Ireland. Thailand.

00:57:29.340 --> 00:57:32.980
Finland. I don't know. Uzbekistan. Mexico. Kazakhstan.

00:57:33.400 --> 00:57:36.110
We have guys in Canada. I've got a couple guys

00:57:36.110 --> 00:57:39.389
in a video game. Oh, Canada. Absolutely. We love

00:57:39.389 --> 00:57:42.389
Canada. And we got banned in Romania. And for

00:57:42.389 --> 00:57:46.210
some reason... We got banned in Romania? See,

00:57:46.429 --> 00:57:48.610
hey, we're doing something right when we get

00:57:48.610 --> 00:57:51.769
banned in fucking Romania. Romania said you're

00:57:51.769 --> 00:57:55.130
out. Did not pass the smell test. We're like,

00:57:55.230 --> 00:57:57.610
you know what? Romania sucks. Fuck, we got banned.

00:57:59.659 --> 00:58:03.039
It actually had to do with when we post stuff

00:58:03.039 --> 00:58:05.579
on YouTube because we upload our stuff. And when

00:58:05.579 --> 00:58:09.400
it gets sent over to YouTube, YouTube has this

00:58:09.400 --> 00:58:12.960
different network of they groom all your stuff.

00:58:13.039 --> 00:58:16.000
They listen to what you say by these bots. And

00:58:16.000 --> 00:58:18.769
if you say something like. oh, you know, the

00:58:18.769 --> 00:58:21.809
COVID was a farce or whatever that is. They're

00:58:21.809 --> 00:58:24.349
like, oh, you guys broke the rules. Well, we

00:58:24.349 --> 00:58:26.570
actually, for Romania, the specific thing was

00:58:26.570 --> 00:58:28.849
we were doing the top 10 songs. Yeah, Chuck played

00:58:28.849 --> 00:58:31.650
something too long. We were doing the one -hit

00:58:31.650 --> 00:58:34.329
wonders of the 80s or something similar to that.

00:58:34.369 --> 00:58:37.420
No, it was Olivia Newton -John. Oh, my God. I

00:58:37.420 --> 00:58:40.000
love her. We were playing songs. So does Chuck,

00:58:40.179 --> 00:58:42.000
and he played it for like an hour. You want me

00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:43.659
to play it again? No, we were playing songs,

00:58:43.800 --> 00:58:47.920
and if you play a song for a certain time frame,

00:58:48.059 --> 00:58:50.739
they'll flag it, and then you have to have the

00:58:50.739 --> 00:58:53.139
authority to play that song during your thing.

00:58:53.260 --> 00:58:56.000
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Infringement type thing. And

00:58:56.000 --> 00:58:59.719
so Romania complained. Someone there complained.

00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:02.400
Not even Australia. You would think Australia

00:59:02.400 --> 00:59:06.469
would complain. Romania, you suck. Yeah? Great.

00:59:06.610 --> 00:59:08.429
You know what? We just got unblocked. You just

00:59:08.429 --> 00:59:12.030
fucked it up for us. Thanks a lot, Barry. We

00:59:12.030 --> 00:59:14.329
just got unblocked. Three and a half years of

00:59:14.329 --> 00:59:16.769
work. Oh, you're blocked again. That's okay.

00:59:16.909 --> 00:59:19.929
We'll meet with them again. Whatever. It's so

00:59:19.929 --> 00:59:21.909
crazy. Some of these rules that you got to play

00:59:21.909 --> 00:59:24.449
with, it's sort of like RD1 spirits when you're

00:59:24.449 --> 00:59:26.989
trying to follow these rules that the government

00:59:26.989 --> 00:59:30.650
wants you to do and crossing your I's and dotting

00:59:30.650 --> 00:59:32.550
your T's. I know I said that backwards on purpose.

00:59:32.940 --> 00:59:35.559
My point is that even like the color scheme,

00:59:35.719 --> 00:59:39.280
who was here? It was Mike. Mike's Big Sticks.

00:59:39.360 --> 00:59:45.119
Big Stick. Big Stick Whiskey was out here a couple

00:59:45.119 --> 00:59:47.300
weeks ago, and he was saying how difficult it

00:59:47.300 --> 00:59:50.739
is to get some of this literature past. All the

00:59:50.739 --> 00:59:52.380
hoops you have to jump through. The bottles.

00:59:52.599 --> 00:59:54.719
Oh, you can't do that. It looks a certain way.

00:59:54.960 --> 00:59:57.019
The font has to be a certain size. I'm like,

00:59:57.059 --> 01:00:01.079
why the fuck does it matter? Why does it matter?

01:00:02.280 --> 01:00:04.920
Who are you to tell me what I can't put on here?

01:00:05.019 --> 01:00:07.880
How does that offend anybody? Oh, it's got to

01:00:07.880 --> 01:00:11.159
fit a criteria. Why? So did you have to deal

01:00:11.159 --> 01:00:14.000
with all that? The government, I mean, everything

01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:18.559
that we do, it has to pass through TTB. We have

01:00:18.559 --> 01:00:23.320
to submit, and if there's no safety on a wood

01:00:23.320 --> 01:00:26.340
finish, then we have to show them that it's safe

01:00:26.340 --> 01:00:29.380
for consumption. I mean, I get it. You want to

01:00:29.380 --> 01:00:32.969
protect the consumers. How did you get black

01:00:32.969 --> 01:00:35.909
walnut through that? We did not. Black walnut,

01:00:36.030 --> 01:00:41.250
I'm still chewing on it. Somehow you convinced

01:00:41.250 --> 01:00:44.289
them that it was safe. No red dye number 40.

01:00:44.610 --> 01:00:48.429
No, no, no. No maraschino cherries. I'm going

01:00:48.429 --> 01:00:50.489
to ask a really dumb question, but there's so

01:00:50.489 --> 01:00:53.360
much history involved. There's no dumb questions.

01:00:53.719 --> 01:00:56.380
There's only dumb people. I love that. I love

01:00:56.380 --> 01:00:58.000
that. And there are three of them right here.

01:00:58.159 --> 01:01:02.920
Four. Four. Five. Five. Another dumb person.

01:01:03.059 --> 01:01:05.619
That's great. All right. So, so much history.

01:01:05.659 --> 01:01:09.500
Any ghost stories in the bourbon industry? Ghost.

01:01:09.800 --> 01:01:13.579
Yeah. Like spirits? Yeah. Well, you're talking

01:01:13.579 --> 01:01:18.099
about possession. No, really. Do they ever talk

01:01:18.099 --> 01:01:21.320
about haunted this or haunted that? Don't ghost

01:01:21.320 --> 01:01:24.199
stories at all. Anywhere in the bourbon industry.

01:01:24.599 --> 01:01:28.840
Not off the top of my head. No. Because we went

01:01:28.840 --> 01:01:32.269
to Irish bars. Remember that? They came to us.

01:01:32.329 --> 01:01:35.349
The Celt was with us. There were Irish bars that

01:01:35.349 --> 01:01:38.030
had haunted stories, right? Yeah, so there are

01:01:38.030 --> 01:01:43.409
some. Okay, so we had Stan and the other guy

01:01:43.409 --> 01:01:46.570
on from the Celt, downtown McKinney. Nick. We

01:01:46.570 --> 01:01:49.510
had Stan and Nick on. Nick is the manager, head

01:01:49.510 --> 01:01:52.429
bartender, and Stan's the owner of the Celt downtown.

01:01:52.630 --> 01:01:55.170
And they were talking about how they had some

01:01:55.170 --> 01:01:59.690
spiritual sixth sense kind of stuff going on.

01:01:59.710 --> 01:02:02.829
There were glasses. Things were happening. So

01:02:02.829 --> 01:02:05.110
the story is that there was a murder there, or

01:02:05.110 --> 01:02:08.869
a death there. I think it was a murder. Oh, no,

01:02:08.909 --> 01:02:12.610
it was a suicide. That place was a brothel. And

01:02:12.610 --> 01:02:15.599
it was a brothel at one point. It was a brothel

01:02:15.599 --> 01:02:18.519
in the 1800s. Yeah. So there's a lot of history

01:02:18.519 --> 01:02:21.119
going on there. And what the story was is that

01:02:21.119 --> 01:02:24.420
glasses were moving. No, they were flying off

01:02:24.420 --> 01:02:26.420
the shelf. Yeah. Yeah, there's actually, I think

01:02:26.420 --> 01:02:29.300
he had some footage. Video. And they made Ghost

01:02:29.300 --> 01:02:31.760
Hunters, the TV show, I think, one of those Ghost

01:02:31.760 --> 01:02:34.500
Hunters shows. And there's footage of the shit

01:02:34.500 --> 01:02:37.960
flying off like the top shelf where all the booze

01:02:37.960 --> 01:02:41.730
is, the glasses flying off the shelf. So nothing

01:02:41.730 --> 01:02:44.449
that you've ever heard of in the bourbon industry.

01:02:44.650 --> 01:02:48.610
You're connected. Yeah. Really? Yeah. So you're

01:02:48.610 --> 01:02:51.170
referring to like old school bars and some crazy

01:02:51.170 --> 01:02:53.570
stories like that. Everything. Well, that's got

01:02:53.570 --> 01:02:56.449
to be the Celts. I mean, you see the, what is

01:02:56.449 --> 01:02:59.230
that? What did you say? The ghost, not ghostbusters.

01:02:59.869 --> 01:03:03.010
Ghost hunters. The ghost hunters. I mean, I haven't

01:03:03.010 --> 01:03:05.849
seen or heard any bars. I'm really surprised.

01:03:06.610 --> 01:03:08.789
I would think that there's some sort of stories

01:03:08.789 --> 01:03:11.940
here and there. So much histories of the hundreds

01:03:11.940 --> 01:03:15.300
of years of history. No, I mean, you know, off

01:03:15.300 --> 01:03:19.059
the top of my head, there's there's no there's

01:03:19.059 --> 01:03:22.619
nothing possessed. You know, there's no ghost.

01:03:23.840 --> 01:03:27.719
No, no, there's just alcohol. Just alcohol. Yeah,

01:03:27.719 --> 01:03:31.699
there's just distilled spirits. Yeah. There you

01:03:31.699 --> 01:03:34.059
go. There you go. Yeah, that hit the dead end.

01:03:34.179 --> 01:03:38.300
So it did. Hey, you know, but hey. I was fishing.

01:03:38.539 --> 01:03:40.840
Yeah, but it is an interesting story from the

01:03:40.840 --> 01:03:45.460
Celt downtown McKinney of that. Yeah. I think

01:03:45.460 --> 01:03:48.239
that there's some weird... You would love that

01:03:48.239 --> 01:03:53.099
shit. Look, first of all, I don't want to say

01:03:53.099 --> 01:03:54.659
I've had experiences because that's not true,

01:03:54.760 --> 01:04:01.159
but I've woken up feeling influenced by some...

01:04:02.429 --> 01:04:04.690
Weird shit going on around. Like a woman hovering

01:04:04.690 --> 01:04:06.590
over you with a knife? Did you go to the bathroom?

01:04:06.590 --> 01:04:09.269
Only Zool. That would be your wife, by the way.

01:04:09.289 --> 01:04:11.530
Did you go to the bathroom and rip your face

01:04:11.530 --> 01:04:14.769
off? No, it's not like that. You start picking

01:04:14.769 --> 01:04:18.449
at your face. I had some crazy dreams, and I

01:04:18.449 --> 01:04:19.809
don't know what the hell it is. Maybe because

01:04:19.809 --> 01:04:21.969
I couldn't breathe. Maybe because I had a CPAP

01:04:21.969 --> 01:04:24.409
machine. Frankly, I haven't had any of those

01:04:24.409 --> 01:04:28.610
dreams since I've had my CPAP machine. Those

01:04:28.610 --> 01:04:31.070
are probably near -death experiences. That's

01:04:31.070 --> 01:04:33.030
what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking.

01:04:33.110 --> 01:04:35.510
Because my wife came downstairs one time. My

01:04:35.510 --> 01:04:37.250
wife and I, we haven't slept together for like

01:04:37.250 --> 01:04:40.710
a decade. Because I snored so bad. It was pathetic.

01:04:41.579 --> 01:04:43.219
I got a CPAP machine a year and a half, two years

01:04:43.219 --> 01:04:45.380
ago, whatever. And I've been sleeping on my bed

01:04:45.380 --> 01:04:47.900
now and everything's great. But it's just that

01:04:47.900 --> 01:04:51.619
there was a time where I remember waking up and

01:04:51.619 --> 01:04:53.699
I would be like, help me. And I couldn't say

01:04:53.699 --> 01:04:56.199
it. My wife came downstairs and was like, you

01:04:56.199 --> 01:04:58.789
kept saying help you. And I'm like, what the

01:04:58.789 --> 01:05:00.449
fuck are you talking about? Because I remember

01:05:00.449 --> 01:05:03.150
it was just a weird dream, but all that shit

01:05:03.150 --> 01:05:04.489
went away, and it has to do - Were there pygmies

01:05:04.489 --> 01:05:07.150
all over you? No, that was your - And they were

01:05:07.150 --> 01:05:09.590
taking strings and tying you down? What is the

01:05:09.590 --> 01:05:11.570
big giant laying on the ground? It was the Gulliver's

01:05:11.570 --> 01:05:16.610
Trouble. It was Shonovan's Trouble. Let me provide

01:05:16.610 --> 01:05:18.929
some context here to what Paul's referring to.

01:05:19.010 --> 01:05:21.170
So we went out to the Rebel. There's a bar up

01:05:21.170 --> 01:05:23.389
the street, right, where we go and we go and

01:05:23.389 --> 01:05:27.010
listen to 80s tribute bands. It was my 50th birthday.

01:05:27.150 --> 01:05:28.989
It was at his house. It had nothing to do with

01:05:28.989 --> 01:05:30.929
Revel. No, we went out. We ended up at the Revel.

01:05:31.050 --> 01:05:33.289
We went to the Revel. We had a good time. We

01:05:33.289 --> 01:05:37.210
were on our way home, and then you get disgruntled.

01:05:37.550 --> 01:05:40.030
Yes, I did. For whatever, and he decides he's

01:05:40.030 --> 01:05:42.590
going to walk home in a drunken stupor. Because

01:05:42.590 --> 01:05:46.329
I know I'm geographically, you know, I have an

01:05:46.329 --> 01:05:51.989
inside compass. So he lives west. Yeah. He went

01:05:51.989 --> 01:05:57.389
north. No, well, sort of. He shot an azimuth.

01:05:57.510 --> 01:06:00.110
He went 90 degrees to where he should be going.

01:06:00.190 --> 01:06:02.190
Yes. Essentially. I really did. And, you know,

01:06:02.230 --> 01:06:04.389
we've given him such a hard time. He ended up

01:06:04.389 --> 01:06:06.090
in a field, like, rolling around in the mud.

01:06:06.090 --> 01:06:09.070
I went through, like, where animals were. And

01:06:09.070 --> 01:06:11.510
I was falling and climbing over part of the wire.

01:06:11.570 --> 01:06:13.710
He had, like, mud all over his jeans. It was

01:06:13.710 --> 01:06:18.280
a shit show. And I met my shaman. Yeah, we said

01:06:18.280 --> 01:06:22.320
he got lost out there and met his shaman. And

01:06:22.320 --> 01:06:25.500
that's the joke, that I was with the pygmies

01:06:25.500 --> 01:06:30.039
of Frisco, you know, with the shaman. And yeah,

01:06:30.199 --> 01:06:34.420
that was the story. Did you guys hear, was there

01:06:34.420 --> 01:06:38.820
like a jailbreak? What city was that in? New

01:06:38.820 --> 01:06:41.739
Orleans. Was it New Orleans? That's right. He

01:06:41.739 --> 01:06:45.179
went to Bourbon Street. You know, here this guy

01:06:45.179 --> 01:06:47.800
breaks out of jail. He goes to Bourbon Street.

01:06:48.019 --> 01:06:50.280
I mean, I mean, one of the guys that was caught

01:06:50.280 --> 01:06:54.679
was still in his orange jumpsuit. Oh, gosh. Really?

01:06:54.800 --> 01:06:58.440
Are you serious? Can you imagine? I mean, seriously,

01:06:58.639 --> 01:07:00.559
you're going to go to where all the tourists

01:07:00.559 --> 01:07:04.260
are, all the police officers are, and you're

01:07:04.260 --> 01:07:07.219
going to get arrested. Holy shit. So 10 of them

01:07:07.219 --> 01:07:11.760
escaped. And at this point right now. Only four

01:07:11.760 --> 01:07:16.780
have been recaptured. Six are still out there,

01:07:16.900 --> 01:07:20.739
and they're dangerous. Yeah. These aren't like

01:07:20.739 --> 01:07:25.039
misdemeanor people. Well, they only murdered

01:07:25.039 --> 01:07:30.880
one person. These are attempted murderers, like

01:07:30.880 --> 01:07:33.980
bad people. So that's not good. Well, they cut

01:07:33.980 --> 01:07:38.880
a hole in the wall, right? It was an inside job,

01:07:39.099 --> 01:07:42.239
right? Well, yeah, it was. So there was a maintenance

01:07:42.239 --> 01:07:45.579
guy there. And he was arrested. He was arrested,

01:07:45.659 --> 01:07:48.940
but his part was he turned off the plumbing for

01:07:48.940 --> 01:07:51.219
a certain section. And what that allowed them

01:07:51.219 --> 01:07:54.360
to do was to remove a toilet because the toilet

01:07:54.360 --> 01:07:57.460
had the back tank that was against the wall.

01:07:57.559 --> 01:07:59.980
When they removed the toilet, they basically...

01:08:00.670 --> 01:08:03.130
cut the drywall out, and they went right through

01:08:03.130 --> 01:08:05.190
the wall. Because there's a, you know, between

01:08:05.190 --> 01:08:08.230
a wall is 16 inch on center, you have 14 and

01:08:08.230 --> 01:08:11.250
a half inches to crawl through. I wondered that.

01:08:11.449 --> 01:08:14.130
They said he shut off the water, the inside guy.

01:08:14.309 --> 01:08:15.849
I was like, why would that make any difference?

01:08:16.369 --> 01:08:18.779
That's why. That's why. Because they cut through

01:08:18.779 --> 01:08:22.140
pipes, and if the water was on, then that would

01:08:22.140 --> 01:08:23.420
be obvious. It would have spewed everywhere,

01:08:23.600 --> 01:08:26.140
and they made out. And there's no cameras on

01:08:26.140 --> 01:08:27.979
the inside, which kind of brings up some other

01:08:27.979 --> 01:08:30.100
things that they need to take care of. But there

01:08:30.100 --> 01:08:32.479
were cameras on the outside where the ramp was,

01:08:32.579 --> 01:08:35.199
where they exited. You see them all run? Yeah,

01:08:35.260 --> 01:08:37.199
it was just crazy. Well, if you watch the video,

01:08:37.359 --> 01:08:40.539
the outside video, they're scrambling like a...

01:08:40.539 --> 01:08:42.500
You know, that brings up another question, though.

01:08:43.039 --> 01:08:49.500
So, Epstein. Oh, wow. Okay. Well, we're talking

01:08:49.500 --> 01:08:52.140
about in prison and cameras in prison. Well,

01:08:52.159 --> 01:08:56.899
that is kind of curious because Kash Patel and

01:08:56.899 --> 01:08:59.899
Dan Bongino came out. Exactly. And said what,

01:08:59.960 --> 01:09:02.140
Chuck? Well, they basically said there's no evidence

01:09:02.140 --> 01:09:04.939
that he didn't kill himself. That's right. They

01:09:04.939 --> 01:09:07.739
basically, because there was huge conspiracy

01:09:07.739 --> 01:09:11.260
theories about him not killing himself, that

01:09:11.260 --> 01:09:13.640
he was murdered because they turned the cameras

01:09:13.640 --> 01:09:16.000
off. So you're saying there's no evidence that

01:09:16.000 --> 01:09:18.619
he killed himself. That he didn't. They looked.

01:09:18.960 --> 01:09:23.000
That's like a devil. I'm just trying to say there's

01:09:23.000 --> 01:09:25.619
no evidence that there was foul play other than

01:09:25.619 --> 01:09:28.680
he killed himself. Bongino and Cash said clearly

01:09:28.680 --> 01:09:33.100
he killed himself. Okay. Unequivocally. unequivocally

01:09:33.100 --> 01:09:36.909
killed himself. No one else killed him. Well,

01:09:37.010 --> 01:09:38.649
you know what? There you go. So how do we respond

01:09:38.649 --> 01:09:40.869
to that? Because that was a major thing we talked

01:09:40.869 --> 01:09:43.390
about for a long time. Well, because you have

01:09:43.390 --> 01:09:47.649
all this weird shit going on in the Clinton administration.

01:09:47.789 --> 01:09:49.909
I say the Clinton administration, meaning Hillary,

01:09:50.109 --> 01:09:52.229
you know? Well, it was the whole situation, right?

01:09:52.289 --> 01:09:56.109
So the camera got moved. Yes. The prison guards.

01:09:56.109 --> 01:09:58.270
The guy's asleep. Yeah, the prison guards weren't

01:09:58.270 --> 01:10:00.729
watching. He was in the kitchen area making his

01:10:00.729 --> 01:10:05.020
turkey pot pie. Very suspicious. Well, whatever.

01:10:05.180 --> 01:10:07.899
It's over. Done with. But you know what? We've

01:10:07.899 --> 01:10:10.979
got better things to move on to. So we've got

01:10:10.979 --> 01:10:15.460
summertime stuff. Vacation's coming up. We've

01:10:15.460 --> 01:10:17.060
got vacations coming up. So what is the schedule

01:10:17.060 --> 01:10:19.319
for you guys? Somebody has a summer off. Oh,

01:10:19.340 --> 01:10:21.399
yeah. Good for you. Yeah, but what do we got

01:10:21.399 --> 01:10:25.119
going on for the next couple weeks? I've got

01:10:25.119 --> 01:10:28.359
class. I do have class I need at the end of next

01:10:28.359 --> 01:10:30.720
week. Were you in town? Are we leaving? I'll

01:10:30.720 --> 01:10:33.500
be leaving in June, so I'll be gone for a couple

01:10:33.500 --> 01:10:35.399
weeks in June. All right. Like the second week,

01:10:35.460 --> 01:10:37.979
third week? I think around the seventh or eighth

01:10:37.979 --> 01:10:39.819
is when we plan on leaving. Okay. Very good.

01:10:39.920 --> 01:10:41.579
You'll be gone a week or two? I think two weeks.

01:10:41.840 --> 01:10:45.199
Good for you, man. Nice. And I'm going to Nicholasville.

01:10:45.420 --> 01:10:48.279
Are you going? Is that the same time? That's

01:10:48.279 --> 01:10:50.220
what we just talked about. Yes. Is that the same

01:10:50.220 --> 01:10:53.979
time? 18th through the 22nd. Holy crap. So we'll

01:10:53.979 --> 01:10:56.420
be no podcast for three weeks? Dang. No, no,

01:10:56.420 --> 01:11:00.409
no. Mine's a Thursday through Sunday. Oh, okay,

01:11:00.510 --> 01:11:03.949
okay. And Mr. Barry's going to hook me up with

01:11:03.949 --> 01:11:07.550
the greatest dark, dark tour ever. I'm going

01:11:07.550 --> 01:11:09.630
to hook you up. It's going to be so dark. Dr.

01:11:09.689 --> 01:11:13.010
Woods. So dark. Dr. Woods in the house. Are you

01:11:13.010 --> 01:11:15.270
really going to hook me up? You know it. Dude,

01:11:15.270 --> 01:11:17.130
I'm so excited. Make sure you have lots of wood

01:11:17.130 --> 01:11:20.890
jokes. Wow. Knock, knock. Can I be a third wheel?

01:11:21.470 --> 01:11:23.489
Is this going to be like a romantic getaway?

01:11:23.550 --> 01:11:25.529
It's totally romantic. Can I be a third wheel?

01:11:25.630 --> 01:11:27.520
No. I'll have my own room. We're going to be

01:11:27.520 --> 01:11:32.000
so romantic. It's an erotic, dark tour. All nude.

01:11:32.560 --> 01:11:36.380
Wow. Yeah. Anyway. Jeez Louise. That's the music.

01:11:36.840 --> 01:11:38.579
All right. So this is the second half. We're

01:11:38.579 --> 01:11:41.239
supposed to wrap this up. Barry, you didn't talk

01:11:41.239 --> 01:11:43.220
about your summer plans. Do you have summer plans?

01:11:44.199 --> 01:11:48.180
Travel. Travel. And more travel. Sell cases.

01:11:48.800 --> 01:11:52.819
Meet people. Drink bourbon. So when you travel,

01:11:52.899 --> 01:11:57.909
do you travel four days out of the week? I've

01:11:57.909 --> 01:12:00.590
got two weeks straight sometimes. Sometimes it's

01:12:00.590 --> 01:12:03.050
four days out of a week. So you don't go back

01:12:03.050 --> 01:12:05.189
home for the weekend? Sometimes I don't. How

01:12:05.189 --> 01:12:07.770
long have you been doing this? A couple of years

01:12:07.770 --> 01:12:11.189
now. The travel. That's not sustainable. You

01:12:11.189 --> 01:12:13.590
know that, right? I know. I know. My wife is

01:12:13.590 --> 01:12:15.869
like, holy shit. For real? When are you coming

01:12:15.869 --> 01:12:18.750
home? For real. Right. So is there a plan there?

01:12:19.069 --> 01:12:22.739
Yeah. Yeah. We'll see. You got to have a Barry

01:12:22.739 --> 01:12:27.899
Jr. Yeah. Little Barry's coming out. All right.

01:12:28.659 --> 01:12:33.100
We're not that drunk yet. So to wrap this up,

01:12:33.239 --> 01:12:35.920
we are so thrilled that you came on the podcast.

01:12:35.939 --> 01:12:37.979
Thank you. Thank you, guys. Your story is amazing.

01:12:38.140 --> 01:12:41.260
Love it. Your company is amazing. Your product

01:12:41.260 --> 01:12:44.600
is amazing. We love it. Love it. Come see us

01:12:44.600 --> 01:12:49.130
in Kentucky. I am planning on it. Love it. Any

01:12:49.130 --> 01:12:51.930
last comments? No, I think we're good. We're

01:12:51.930 --> 01:12:53.909
good. Well, May 20th, second half of the podcast.

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It's dudeslikeus -podcast or woodcraft. Thank

01:13:00.770 --> 01:13:03.369
you, Chuck, as usual, for staying on top of shit.

01:13:03.470 --> 01:13:06.250
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sir. Woo -hoo! Last challenge.