It's Monday night. Monday night. That's right.
Are the lights a little too bright there? They're
brighter than normal. It's too pretty to see.
Yeah, I don't want to see you either, so let's
dim those. Let's dim those a little bit. Makes
a huge difference. Yeah, good luck with that.
I don't even know what's going on. It's the 25
% or it should be, but you have to hit it 300
times to get it to work. I had to lay on my stomach
and do the worm crawl last time to get that thing
to work. Interesting. Is that when you called
for help? Yeah. Help, I fall and I can't get
up. Yeah. Yeah, when I come up to edit, I turn
those on and I sit there. It takes like seven,
eight, nine times sometimes. I don't smash it.
The remote control looks like it works. You see
the little red LED light there? Oh, then we got
some action there. I don't know what's going
on with that. I don't know. Dudes like us out
there have issues with some remote controls.
They're just finicky. I don't know what the deal
is. They're solid Chinese technology. Well built.
I don't understand how you're having any problems
with that. I don't know. Well, I'll tell you
what, man. We've had a... Jam -packed weekend.
I mean, we're doing this on... We got a busy
week, so we're going to do it Monday night. Dudes
Like Us taking off. It is... What is it? It's
June 2nd? We are six months into the year. We
are. Outstanding. It's crazy. Got a new Advent
whiskey to introduce on the second half. Yeah.
Super excited. And we dug one out of the shelf.
It's an oldie but goodie. We'll see if this one
holds up to it. We took a few sipples of it.
Yeah, I don't remember anything about it. Neither
do I, but we bought the pair. I don't even remember
having it. Yeah. Like owning it. Smells good.
Give it a little shot here. All right, well,
we've got a full schedule of topics to talk about,
and we're going to shoot from the hip here. Dudes
Like Us. I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff. And
thank you, Mr. Producer Chuck, behind the scenes,
pulling up all the nasty materials for us to
refer to because we are idiots and liars, and
we do fact check constantly. Well, we do. Liars.
Well, yeah. We try to tell the truth. We've had
guests the last two episodes. We had RD1 and
then we had Horse Neck last week. That's right.
RD1 Spirits, Barry Brinegar, and then it was
Bob and Darren from Horse Neck. Jim. What the
hell did Bob come from? I don't know. Yeah, Jim
and Darren. Yeah, so if you haven't listened
to that podcast, it's a good one. Yeah, both
are excellent. Yeah. Excellent podcast. So we
have a couple of topics, is what I'm going to
say, that have been on the board for a couple
of days. They may be a little dated, but I think
it's still something that, at least interesting
to us, that's why we kept them on the board,
right? Yes. Specifically, we could talk, I think,
that's probably old news here in the Dallas -Fort
Worth area, but the Stars got basically routed
and moved to that. They got railed. Pretty well
balanced, yeah. Yeah, they just got thrown out
with bathwater. And you know what? I have watched
a lot of hockey in my life. I haven't watched
as much in the last five, six years, probably,
just because I'm kind of disconnected with life.
But I know a good -ass weapon when I see it.
And the Stars just weren't there. They were absent
the entire time. Yeah. Edmonton looked good as
well, I thought. Yeah. I mean, they had moments
where they... They controlled the puck. They
had flurries. They just couldn't get anything
past that goalie. That's like someone with dementia.
They're lucid for a short amount of time. But
that goalie outplayed ours. I mean, that's really
kind of the bottom line. And you know what's
particularly painful is Edmonton beat us last
year in basically the same spot in the playoffs.
Yeah, I heard some stat where we've met Edmonton
in the finals. of the Western Conference Finals
like seven of the last nine years or something
ridiculous like that. And you just can't get
by them. Can't get by them. Yeah, that's frustrating.
Yeah. But, you know, I think they played their
hearts out and they did the best they could.
We were just outmatched. So, anyway. It happens.
It does. It does. Let's see. What else happened
in a couple last weeks? We had the, oh, let me
see here. We had the, well, we just jumped. Well,
you know what? We had that Mexican, that Mexican
naval ship hit that bridge. Did you guys see
the footage of that? Yes. Yes. First off, I thought
it was a wedding celebration. No, no, no. It
was just a training ship. It was like an old
-fashioned sailboat. That's what threw me off.
They said it was a training naval vessel. There
were people standing on where the sails were.
Yes. It was a celebration. Yeah, I read it was
a wedding event that was on the boat, and they
were up there doing their celebration thing.
Oh, I didn't hear that at all. I don't know if
it's a wedding. I thought it was just some kind
of celebration. Well, regardless, I mean, you
would think. Now, were those people on there
when it knocked over? No. Well, no, they were
on there, as is. So what had happened is that
there was an outage. What a nightmare. A navigation
outage within the equipment somewhere. And they
were dead in the water. And it was just cruising.
So they couldn't stop it from going. And those
guys were struggling at the last second. So there
are people still on the mass. Yeah, there are
two or three people that passed that died from
that incident. How did more not die? 18, 19,
and 20 years old. Yeah, that's tough. How did
more not die? Are they still on the rails after
it? I mean, look at that. There's still people
there, even though it's after the fact, right?
Well, yeah, you can see them standing there with
their arms out still. Yes. No one's yelling yet
going, jump into the water. Oh, what a nightmare.
I think I would have. I've never seen that footage.
That's awful. Yep. That's bad. How did it only
kill two people? That's amazing. Well, hopefully
those folks can swim real well. Yeah, unless
you got smashed by the beam, right? Got knocked
out, fell in the water, just got pulverized.
Here's another shot. Here's another angle. Okay,
so yeah, it lost control. So that tugboat was
trying to get around it maybe? The tugboat was
there the whole time. It just couldn't control
it. Yeah. I think they called it in as a last
-ditch effort to try to help manage the direction
in which it was going. Yeah, I saw something
where someone was trying to blame Trump for all
the FAA or the firings. Not FAA, but the transportation
and all that shit. Blaming him for it. Because
there's a Marine, just like aircraft, there's
a Marine, you know. And it was up and running.
There were no problems with it. It was not understaffed.
They tried to blame him anyway. Anyway, I'm glad
we actually talked about this because I had not
seen that footage. That's kind of disturbing.
Yeah. And extremely unfortunate. Let's see if
it was a wedding. I'm kind of curious. See if
my little... So they said it was a naval training
vessel. And I thought it was like an actual ship,
like a modern ship. Yeah, so it makes sense.
It was a Saturday evening. It was a celebration.
I read it was a... Well, it doesn't matter. We
can't see it. You can see the people falling
off. Yeah, that's pretty bad. You would think
that I would have probably stayed up there and
tried to jump onto the bridge at that point.
It looked like they were hiding. They got lost
on the bridge. Oh, you mean the bridge they hit.
They just kind of calmly walk off. Dude, if they
pull that off, they're Tom Cruise if they can
do that. There's no way anybody would be able
to do that. That's crazy. I don't know. That's
another angle of it. Oh, my God. Yeah, that's
horrific. So it's a beautiful boat. Yeah, I got
nothing. Okay. Anyway, haven't got no real story
on that either. You would think you have some
sort of audio clip. Yeah, no. It's two killed,
19 injured. Yeah, it's crazy. That's incredible
that more people didn't die. Let me see. What
was it, though? I want to see if Mayor Eric Adams
said early Sunday two people died on the crash.
Two others remained in critical condition. Whatever.
Oh, the National Transportation Safety Board
is sending a GO team. Well, you've got to make
sure that bridge is safe, too. Anytime you get
an impact like that, there's all kinds of...
Man, you've got to cover your ass. It's all about
covering your butt, and especially with the times.
Look at that dude just hanging there. Well, they're
probably... I wonder if they're strapped in by
the safety harnesses, right? So they probably
got knocked off, and maybe they're all just kind
of dangling there. Which actually saved them.
Probably. Yeah, probably that. Except for the
two unlucky ones who maybe took a direct impact
into the bridge, maybe. Or right where the mast
broke, maybe. Sad deal. Yeah, it's sad. I'm super
sad any time something like that happens to anybody.
All right, a little left turn here, but I think
the biggest story, at least that I know of right
now, is this Autopen scandal. I think we should
jump into this. Because they're saying now that
these people... I mean, Biden had no idea what
he was, quote, signing. Right. And they were
trying to cram through executive orders that
were related to climate action, right? Climate
change stuff and energy, right? And they were,
you know, I don't know if he would have signed
it anyway. I mean, I guess that's the question,
right? Well, I know early on the questions came
up about the auto pen and about the pardons.
Oh, that was the other thing. And I think didn't
a court already come out and say that's not,
or maybe a bunch of lawyers came out and said
that's not challengeable. We really don't know
if he did or didn't. Oh, yeah, they can't prove
it. Yeah, but you, okay. So the argument is there
are certain, well, that is the argument. What,
is it constitutional for them to auto -pen certain
things like that? Well, yeah, he's not the only
president who used the auto -pen for, Multiple
documents, right? I mean, all Biden has to say.
I mean, he's obviously still alive and he's,
you know. If he goes out and says, yes, I did
all of it. Then it all goes away. Unless there's
some kind of proof somewhere that proves otherwise.
So really, you're right. It's a nothing murder.
It's a he said, she said type of thing. Because
it doesn't matter. He's going to back him. Right.
I mean, even if he didn't know who he pardoned
and they pardoned their friends, right? And they
were just kind of taking advantage of, I mean,
really the sad part of the whole story is that
it was total elderly abuse. Well, it was. 100%.
100%. It says here, the individuals facing scrutiny
as represent Comer has expressed his intention
to subpoena former Biden aides Annie Tomasini.
Oh, I don't know. I don't know. Good question.
Annie Tomasini, Anthony Bernal, Ashley Williams,
who he claims ran interference and may have overseen
the auto pen use. Damn. Anthony Bernal is also
described as a confidant of a former First Lady
Joe Biden. Okay, so if they subpoena texts and
emails and they say stuff like, you know, how
are we going to do this? You know, he doesn't,
you know, let's just do it anyway. You know what
I mean? If they can find a smoking gun. That's
what I mean. Unless there's proof that this actually
happened. Somehow they find this proof. And Biden
comes out and says, no, I signed everything.
I remember it. I just don't think. I don't know.
It's the proof. It's the conspiracy. The conspiracy
that they find is what happened. Whatever it
is, it is. You can't go back and change what
they allow to be legitimate or not. But it does
kind of set the groundwork for what should be
legitimate moving forward. Well, also, I think
it lends itself to the behavior of the Democratic
Party during that time. Yeah. They were doing
anything and everything to stay in control. Yep.
And Biden wasn't coherent enough to do some of
this shit. So they're just like, oh, well, we're.
We have this agenda, this, you know, and, you
know, Sean, you talk about it, this. Blank check.
Just this shadow government or whatever. I think
there was a little one within the White House
and this administration that did all this shit.
Yeah. Where was Anne Rice? Not Anne Rice. The
vampire author. Ah, ah, ah. Who is, what is it?
Something, Janet Rice? Susan. Susan Rice. Yeah.
She used to be the defense secretary. Susan Rice?
Secretary of State. Secretary of Defense. Was
it Defense? I don't know. She was one of those.
I don't think so. I think it was State. But I
don't know. Well, I mean, I thought she was.
She was NSA. I thought she was smack dab in the
middle of that stuff. And I actually kind of
liked her. Well, this. This, currently. Like,
she was there a lot. I'm kind of wondering. Oh,
dude. There's so many unknowns. Who knows? You
know, you got that. It's just terrifying, to
be honest, that we could have a president that
was not in control. And the thing is, you would
expect something like this to happen in some
other country 15, 20 years ago. You wouldn't
expect this to happen less than six months ago,
that they pulled the wool over everybody's eyes.
They didn't, but they did. I mean, not us. And
he got away with it. You go back and listen to
our podcast. We were saying he is not in control.
Jill is probably calling all the shots. We called
elder abuse. Four years ago. Yeah, we called
it out a while ago. Yeah, this is just like Woodrow
Wilson, because he had a stroke. And his wife
kept him shut on the way, and she ran the country
for a while. Wow. Unbeknownst to anybody else.
Seriously, it's like the movie Dave. Remember?
Remember the movie Dave, where the president
was sitting in a room in some dungeon somewhere,
and this actor that they were running the country?
Yes. Insane. Dave's not here. Yeah, crazy. So
I'll tell you what, I don't know what they're
going to do. I'm kind of curious how this is
all going to play out. And frankly, I don't have
a lot of confidence in our system. I can hope.
I don't think anything will happen. I can hope.
Yeah, we can hope. But just like throughout the
years where they had all these things, you know,
Clinton bleaching her server. The whole Benghazi
thing. No accountability. Nothing. Nothing ever
happens. Well, even now with Pash Patel that
is taking over for the FBI, he even puts things
out there with Joe Bongino or Dan Bongino saying
that this is coming out. This is being looked
at. This is being looked at. All these things
are being looked at, but I don't see. The finality
of it. Well, they also said it takes time. They
said, you got to be patient. This is not something
we could turn. Because I heard, I think it may
have been Bongino, and he's like, yeah, we're
looking at all this, but it takes time. We can't
turn it as fast as a lot of people want. They
did make an announcement that they thought for
sure Epstein did truly kill himself, and that
they have the receipts to prove it. So that's
interesting. Yeah, but that's made a lot of people,
I know, it's made a lot of people skeptical.
Go ahead and show those receipts. Yeah, I don't
think that's exactly what they said. I think
what they said was that there wasn't evidence
that... It couldn't prove that he didn't. Yeah,
that's what it was, but still. There's the fact
that the bunk beds are five feet off the ground.
That's what somebody else was saying. I mean,
come on. I mean, yeah, he may have hung himself,
but they're going in there. You had two paramedics
go in there, Jimmy and John the Fish, and they
make it happen. They put a noose around his neck,
make it... It's paper -thin freaking sheets.
wrapped around his neck, string it up, whatever,
man. I mean, I don't know either way. I wasn't
there, but there's just a whole lot of bullshit.
Well, they said they have the video. They're
going to release the video. That's what they're
saying right there. The video that they claim
that they had based on what I heard shows nothing.
All it shows is two people going in there and
two people coming out, and it doesn't show anything
else. Well, it shows, well. I don't know. Actually,
two people going in there, the paramedics, and
then coming out with the body. They said the
video, Epstein is in there. He's the only one
that goes in or out, and no one else goes in
there. And then the paramedics show up. Man,
look. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I don't
believe it. Well, I mean, like you said, these
things do take time. I mean, there were some
people that were criticizing Pam Bondi because
it's like, no one's being arrested. You know
how long it takes to build a case? I mean, look
at JFK. Look at the JFK assassination. Well,
he also said, you know, they've covered this
up for so many years. We have to undo all of
this. All of the political bullshit that they
put on top of this stuff, they're having to undo
all of that. Yeah, it's going to take time. Buried
shit. Yeah, you got to give them some grace.
It's never fast enough, but, you know. I just
want them to finish up. Just do your jobs. Figure
it out. Let's pick up these loose. I mean, he's
only six months in, five months in. Exactly.
God, doesn't it seem longer than that? I mean,
there's been such a flurry of news every single
day. It was like nuts. Speaking of nuts. Oh,
God. What a horrible segue. Oh, wow. Do we want
to talk about our weekend excursion? Yeah, sure.
Why not? That was fun. Your broke back moment.
I wish I knew how to quit you. Yeah. Well, so
my wife has a friend and she's getting married
and they got married about four hours away from
where we currently live in Texas. So they live
in South Texas, Brenham, Texas. And we traveled.
We were traveling as a group because we had three,
what was it? Six people. Paul and his wife, Shelly,
and then me and my wife, Tara, and then Desiree,
Tara's sister, and then my daughter, Emily. And
the girls all rode in one car, and Paul and I
were in the other car, and I was thinking, hell
yeah, that's exactly the way I want this to go
down. And I'll give you guys a little bit of
background without... without saying too many
things, but my wife has what they call agoraphobia.
So she has a very, very difficult time traveling.
So that was part of the reason why we separated
because it may be a little bit easier for her
to ride with her sister and with girls. Did she
do okay? She did. She did pretty good getting
up there. There was a little bit of drama, but
she did well. And coming back, there was, I mean,
dude, we took, so to get from College Station
back to Dallas, what, three hours? Three hours.
Three hours, 20 minutes at the most. Six hours.
Yikes. So you stopped a lot. So you stopped a
lot, huh? Oh, yeah. That's what it was. No. You
go into the Google Maps and you select avoid
tolls, avoid highways, and go. Avoid paved roads?
No. A little horseback, yeah. Whatever. The Amish
way. It was, frankly, I like, whenever I travel,
I like taking the road less traveled, really.
I love going out and going to the country. To
me, it's a beautiful thing. I'm enjoying it.
To me, it wasn't a big deal. You know, it is
frustrating sometimes when, first of all, it's
frustrating to have anyone say, oh, slow down.
Oh, you're going to hit that car. And they're
freaking out. You're like, please, you know,
chill. But at the same time. My wife is tripping.
You know, she can't control the way she feels.
And so I can imagine how she feels because I'm
sure she doesn't want to be a burden, you know,
and she kind of harbors some. But she did well.
All in all, she did well. It was a very long
trip back. Yeah. It was a very long trip back.
But, you know, we're back now. The wedding. So
we go out there, and our function at the wedding
was to participate, have fun with our friends.
Well, at first, you guys decided to do a pit
stop. We did on the way up there. So on the way
up there, we went to the Balcones Distillery.
Balcones. And I was rather surprised at some
of the stuff they had there. First of all, they've
got beer. Did not know that. Yeah, I noticed
that. You were at Balcones, but you had a flight
of beer. I was like, that doesn't make sense
to me. They do. Yeah. So they had beer and they
had rum that they don't sell in the stores, but
they sell there. And they're rum. Yeah, 140 proof.
Yeah, the rum is rather ballsy. Yeah, it was
a hazmat. But it was. It wasn't. It was just
kind of meh. I mean, it had a little bit of a
fruit kind of. Just more of a burn than anything.
No, no. It wasn't bad. No, it was actually good.
In the rum world, I think it was a good one.
You know, I'm not a huge rum person. But, you
know, I think for the set of nuts it was. I mean,
we've had. How much was a bottle of it? 60 bucks.
Yeah. Yeah. That was tough. But we had Tom. I
want to say Tom Parker, I think, from Total Wine.
I recall him, the guy that's a doctor. Oh, yeah.
So Tom had, he whipped out some rum for us in
the past, right? Yeah, because we were. It was
called Firewater. Yeah, that was ridiculous.
We were like, you know, rums are pretty low proof.
He's like, hey, you guys want to try some rum
out? And you guys are like, oh, yeah. Well, no,
it was a challenge, right? Because I was dogging
rum for not being high proof. And he was like,
oh, really? Step this way. Walk this way. This
way. Yeah, exactly. That's the stuff that makes
your teeth fall out. It was awful. Yeah, it was
like you could run your car on it. Yeah, it was
bad. I mean, it was gross. We tried to track
Sean down. You got to try this. Oh, yeah. It
was so good, Sean. Take a big, big, big, big
drink. Yeah, you know what? I think that's one
of the first time I declined. I smelled it and
was like, no. No. Yeah, that's kind of how it
was. Because I didn't smell actually what was
in the mix. I smelled the nose hairs actually.
Kind of sin? Yeah, they kind of. So they didn't
have anything specific whiskey -wise that you
could have gotten there? No, they had lineage.
It was good stuff. Look, Balcones isn't bad.
I'll tell you one thing I do like about them,
and I think that we should draw more attention
to, which I think we should. We have a lot of
whiskeys out there from your trip, but there's
a couple I'd like to start bringing into the
light. Those are the single malts. They have
some single malt whiskeys that are not Scotches
because it's not in Scotland, but they're made
in the same. ways that the scotch is made. And
they have at least three single malts. And all
three were fantastic. Do we have one out there?
I don't know if we have the single malt. I don't
know. We'll have to look. They have a very unique,
and what makes it even more fun, on the way there,
we were listening to, not chat GPT, but it was
an AI. Maya. It was Maya. And we may have done
her on the podcast before. Everyone was watching.
Yes. But it was like, I mean, listening. You
know, it was like, you know, because look, you
can have full -blown conversations with her.
Yeah. And there's none of this typing. And, you
know, and her responses are being giddy. They're
so realistic. Thinking about things. They're
so realistic. Taking a deep sigh. Yeah, she takes
a breath before she talks. I mean, you cannot
tell it's not a person. It's crazy. And so we
were asking her about the Balcones and giving
a brief history. And she said she was talking
about fire and how it broke out in some part
of the building. And Paul, the barkeep, he was
like, I'm not really sure about Paul with the
white fingernails. I'm not really sure that I
know about a fire. This is, you know, we. This
building can't catch fire, but whatever. Yeah,
he did not know of any fire that ever had burned
at that thing. And so, you know, it makes you
wonder if Maya was, you know, mistaken. Right.
But she was right. Did you? I know, Sean. You
asked about Rumble? Yeah. Yes, they did. They
actually had Rumble there. Rumble's not available
anymore. So they had Rumble there, but it's only
for sampling until it's gone. And they said the
reason why is because it just didn't fit into
a category. that they thought they could sell.
I didn't understand that answer. But did it sell?
I thought it did. Well, did it sell? Obviously,
it didn't. But you just couldn't categorize it?
What was that category? Because it says it's
not quite a scotch. I'm sorry. It's made out
of figs and herbs and shit. It's got a lot of
weird shit going on. We liked it, though, didn't
we? Yeah, we did. I still have the hazmat. I
think we still have some out there as well. Yeah.
Well, you know, we ought to jump on that sometime.
You know, it's good. I don't know if ours is
as bad. It's high. It's not that. Icarus is $139.
Well, it's still up, but still, $139 is good.
Oh, yeah. So you mentioned the single malt. So,
Chuck, can you go back down to that timeline
real quick and click on the 2025? This was something
that was really interesting, and I think you
were kind of talking a little bit about that.
American single malt is not scotch, like you
said. Correct. And it didn't really have a category
because there was no category for something that
was a single malt that's not scotch. Well, it
is now. They just created it. Yes. In January
of this year, I don't know what organization
did that. Is it say on there? It became an official.
An official whiskey category after nearly a decade
of dedication by the American Single Malt Whiskey
Commission. It's the 4 -H Club that did it. The
4 -H Club. Yes. Or the FFA. The FFA. Yeah. Anyway,
that's huge, right? Because I think those distillers
have always been fighting for some respect as
a single malt maker, but it's not scotch. Or
it can't be called scotch. And it's interesting
because they take some of the barrels and casks
from overseas. And they're bringing them over.
Like Wolves. Wolves is fantastic. Single malt.
Well, the rare characters are single malts that
we have. Right. All of them? The two of them
are. The two first ones are. Wow. So they can
officially be called American single malts as
a category. Yeah, obviously it's not on their
bottle, but we can now. Yeah, we can now. But
they're called single malts. They're good. They're
desirable. I've got one called Ballers. It's
either Baller or Ballers. It's got an Asian kind
of background to it. It's good. It's great. And
it's $40, $50. It's like $45, $48. Nice. Anyway,
I just thought that was good for American single
malt makers, right? They have a little bit of
credibility. Yeah, I see a big future in the
single malts. I mean, in Texas, I think, California
has a big jump on this. I don't know what they're
doing in Kentucky. About the single malts. Do
they have a lot of Kentucky single malts? Well,
I didn't notice any up there when I was up there.
Doesn't mean they're not there. Yeah. So we hit
the distillery. We had three samples of their
spirits and then the four beer flights. Yeah,
we went there. Crazy long time. No, we poked
around. I got a business card, and I left my
name and email address with our intention. And,
you know, I think you just got to keep pounding
them a little bit. And really, I don't think
we've seen these guys at any local. Tastings.
Yeah. Don't see them out and about. They don't
really do a lot of marketing from what I understand.
We did. Actually, when we were at Total Wine,
there was a gentleman there from Balcones that
was doing a tasting. Because I know we tried
the, I don't know how you say it, the Cataleja
or whatever. They had that there and the Mirador.
Because I was not a fan of one of those. I couldn't
remember. You didn't like the Brimstone. Well,
that. I think it was either that one or the other
one that I didn't care for. But he was like,
this is great. And I didn't care for it. We're
going to have to redress that. I don't remember
which one it was, though. Is everything they
do a single malt? Or do they have a bourbon?
Do they? Now I'm confused. Baby Blue is a single
malt. That's one of their top sellers. What's
Brimstone? That's a corn whiskey. Smoked whiskey.
That's not a bourbon. Not a bourbon. They got
a rye. So in lineage is what? Single malt. Single
malt. Well, it says, you know, Texas does, they
do make bourbon. Texas pot still bourbon. Is
that Texas one? Um, well, no, that's all single
malt. Weird. Well, I mean, they may, they might
have a different section of their website because
they're just showing all their whiskey. No, it's,
there's a corner. It says Texas, uh, pot still
bourbon. That's what it is. It may not be there,
but they sell, they sell it currently at total
one. Okay. All right. Well, interesting. Anyway,
so I'm carrying on with the story. So we did
something Friday night first. Well, hold on.
So, yeah, we get there, and mind you, you know,
Paul and I, God bless, you know, we got a little
buzz going, you know, so we end up going back
to the hotel. What, going to sleep? We stopped
at that little diner. Oh, yeah, we stopped. So,
I mean, the girls are, like, they're moving along
swimmingly. They were an hour ahead of us, apparently.
Yeah. So, anyways, we end up stopping at the
diner, which is kind of cool. I love these little
dive shacks. We really got a taste of rural.
Like, the people that are coming in for Friday
dinner, all these old folks that work the farms
in the area, right? Look at those city folks
over there. Totally. I mean, they were 100%.
Looking at you? No. Sizing you up, going, what
are these? Oh, yeah. There was a little bit of
that. Yeah. These city folk. Oh, dude, when we
were sending pictures, you said, like, send a
picture of a couple women or the women folk up
here. Dude, I sent you. Well, that's where the
ladies are. I bet your wives. Oh. Not the ladies
where you are. That's hilarious. So we showed
you. That's what I said. It looks like you're
branching out some. Right. I mean, and even the
place we went to later that night was another
taste of rural. Diabetes convention. Old. I mean,
no, they were old couples that, you know. Did
you get some chicken fried steak? I think...
Some grits and some greens. I forgot what we
got. I don't know what I got. Did you get a nice
dessert? Coconut cream pie? No. Apparently, we
didn't have the experience that you were expecting
at this diner. You're throwing out all sorts
of expectations. You're thinking all these country
diners. That's what I'm thinking of. What was
cool about it was the entire place was lined
with little pictures of veterans. So they had
a massive kind of into... What was the name of
the place? Do you remember? 77... 77 or 77 Diner.
I don't know. Something like that. Where at?
Off of Highway 77. That's the best. That's literally
the best I can do. Yeah. It's by Rosebud, Texas.
Oh, there we go. Rosebud. So they did have tons
and tons of pictures of dudes on the wall. The
veterans. Yes. I mean, like a crazy amount of
them. Yeah, and they're labeled, so they have,
like, names or numbers under them, and you refer
to that number in a three -ring binder, and it
tells you their story. Yeah, I asked for the
binder, and I was kind of looking through, and,
yeah, they were – I mean, it was mainly just
where they served and what their names were,
but it's just a total, like, a memorial diner.
I mean, really, it was crazy. It was really cool,
though. But then later we went to the – Tanny
Market? Candy Market? Candy Store? So, yeah,
we get back to the hotel, and we get there around
2 -ish, right? 2, 3, 4? We get there around 4
-ish. I took a nap. Yeah, he took a nap, and...
That's what we do now. Well, hell, I took a nap,
too. Dude, I got back to the hotel, and I laid
my... Sleeping bag out, of course, you know,
and got all my accoutrements set up. He put his
full body condom. Dude, man, I got in my sleeping
bag, and I put my CPAP machine on, put the sleeping
bag over my eyes. For your nap? Yes. You use
a CPAP machine for your nap? Every time I sleep,
I put that thing on. Oh, gosh, that's funny.
So he's all wrapped up in this, and he's got
his little. Oh, man. I was out. I was out for
a good healthy hour, hour and 15 minutes. It
was awesome. And I wake up fantastic. And I'm
just like, oh, let's get going. Let's get rolling.
And Paul goes over to Paul's room and knock on
the door. And Shelly's like, she's talking in
a low voice, trying to fuck with me a little
bit. I thought it was Paul. And then so she opens
up the door. She's brushing her teeth. And I'm
like, oh, I'll go fuck with Paul. And Paul's
over there. And I thought he was acting like
he was asleep. I passed out. I'm having a wonderful
nap. Oh, he comes laying on you. Oh, dude. He
assaulted me. I crawl up behind him and start
spooning him. I think I felt a poke. I don't
know what the hell was going on. I was like,
what? Who's on top of me right now? He thought
it was Shelly. Oh, she's got her strap on. Wow,
you've gained some weight, Shelly. Again. Whatever.
Anyway. So we go to this place called Kenny's
Store, the Kenny's Store, and it's south of Branham,
Texas, in about 15, 20 minutes. It's an outdoor
venue. All these old couples. It was so cool.
But it's a nice place. In fact, it's so nice.
You know who was playing there Saturday night?
Ted Nugent. Isn't that crazy? I was going to
say George Strait. Ted fucking Nugent was playing
there Saturday night. Yes. How crazy is that?
That is crazy. I highly recommend it. They had
a good band playing. They had some good food.
I ordered some giblets, I think it's called.
It was like a ribeye that was cut. It's fantastic,
man. It's cool. The band was really good. There's
country music and all the... I actually danced
with Tara, but we got a little bit toasty. Yeah,
the next day he's like, Kenny? He's like, oh,
my God, I'm so hungover. I was hungover, dude.
I was hungover, which kind of leads into this
next conversation. So the next day I have a responsibility.
I told the bride, hey, look, she was like, Sean,
can you bring some of your speakers over and
set it up for the DJ? And I was like, I'll bring
some stuff over. So I bring it over, and I talk
to Cody, who is the groom. And he's like, oh,
yeah, he's got a pretty big speaker. It's a JBL,
and it's designed for it to do this. I was like,
all right, cool. So speakers like that talk to
each other. Pro audio speakers talk to each other.
XLRs, quarter -inch, you can daisy -chain them
to infinity. Actually, that's not true. It's
like 220, but that doesn't matter. He has the
residential version. So it has... All the hookups,
except for XLR and quarter inch. So, you know,
all I needed was a little tiny adapter. All right?
So it's like what we use for our headsets. And
Brenham is just not the IT technical. Not at
all. We get every radio shack they had. We went
to Walmart, and I ended up buying some liquid
IV. Yep. And Paul kind of spilled it all over
my car and managed to get some in the bottle.
Because he's like, turning here, turning here,
switching lanes. I mean, going over bumps and
shit. That's not true at all. We were still.
We weren't even moving when he did that. Yes.
We used high stepping. Yeah. No, no. I wasn't
doing that. So I slammed the liquid IV, all right?
And I shit you not, five minutes later, my brain
fog kind of clears, and I'm like, Adapters are
in my bag. Okay, hold on. This is after we went
to Lowe's, Walmart, HEB, some little cell phone
store. We stopped some people in the parking
lot and talked to them and asked them if they
knew anywhere. I called a place called Dream
Studio. Yeah, it's a recording studio. Yeah.
Do you have any adapters? He's like, I'm in Nashville.
I can't help you right now. But man, yeah, sure.
I was there. I was like, anyway, it was crazy.
Just give me the code to your door. Come on.
So we finally are leaving the last place. And
I was like, man, we gave it our best effort.
And here's genius IV, liquid IV man. Wait a second.
I think I've got one. Yeah. Dude, that's a testimony
to liquid IV, man. As soon as I did it, the fog
was out. So he goes to the back. I'm sitting
in the passenger seat. And he comes back. And
he's like, look. And I'm like, fuck you. It was
a good experience, though. Oh, we know every
inch of Brenham now. Oh, yeah. We're 40s now.
And all the stores are just talking, you know,
did you get those two gays? Yeah. What's up with
those two gay people from the city? I'm looking
for that damn adapter. So we went over there,
turned it up. All in all, everything was successful.
I think prior to the wedding, we actually went
back out, didn't we? Yeah, we went downtown,
had a couple beers. So we went down to Brenham,
Texas, and we hit a liquor store down there.
Anything exciting in there? They actually had
some. They had Buffalo Trace, Weller's, Green
Label. They had actually a pretty complete selection.
Yeah, for what it is. No unicorns, but a complete
selection of just about all the stuff that we
would say, oh, that's good. That's good stuff.
Yeah. But they were wanting a little bit too
much for it. What was the name of it? Do you
recall? I think it was 1844 Liquor Mart. That's
it. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. That's exactly it.
And that dude was talking to me. I think you
could tell he was like, no one ever talks to
him maybe. Yeah. About bourbon or just in general?
In general. In general. And we were poking all
the right buttons. You know, it was... Did he
samples for you? We didn't really ask for any.
Dude, we didn't really need any, honestly. Did
they sell like lotions as well? I don't think
that was a lotion. What was that you're looking
at? Looks like some lotions or something. No,
no. Not right there. Oh, actually, that... I
don't know if that's... I never saw that. That
wasn't there when we were there. Yeah, there's
no shampoo there. Sean went in the back room
for a long time with this guy. It rubs the lotion
on its skin. It does this whenever it's told.
I don't know. I don't know what they were doing
back there, but they were washing their hands.
They came out and they smelled like lavender.
I would tell you. Sean was all sweaty. Downtown
was kind of cool. It was like a typical eclectic...
Old school country Texas town. You know, the
four square, you know what I mean? Right next
to the liquor store, like on the other side of
that brick wall, there was, what was it called?
The water place? Oh, that little park that had
a aquifer? Not an aquifer. What do you call a,
where you capture rainwater? Rainwater capture?
No, that's not it. Any other guesses? A rainwater
capture... Like a rain garden? No. No. That's
it right there. What is that little... It's a
fountain. No, no. It was a big... It's deep.
It's like a well. And what they do is they capture
water from all these places and they funnel it
into this thing. It's called a well. Oh, my God.
No, it wasn't. A cistern. Thank you. It's called
a cistern. We don't use that word anymore. I
know. That's old. So what it says is water conservation
is a growing concern today, especially in Texas
with droughts and long, hot summers. With ever
-increasing populations and decreasing water
resources, it makes perfect sense to look to
the skies for help. the centuries -old practice
of harvesting rainwater. It's why it's spread
around the world. Essentially, what they've done
is they harvest the rainwater from all the rooftops.
It hits this thing, and that thing goes underground.
There's a pump that's constantly running, and
it was kind of cool. I don't know why more towns
don't do that. Yeah, they should all do that.
Capture all of that. Well, part of it is some
of they, you know, they're like. big cities and
everything, some of this is used to fill up the
reservoirs. So if you're trying to capture all
this water, it could impact your reservoirs if
you do it at a big scale, I guess. On the left
of the cistern, if you move over just a little
bit, there's a little bench right there. On that
little bench, I had a little Jack Daniels mini.
Yeah, so we picked up, I picked up a six -pack
of Jack Daniels minis there. It was open carry,
open carry everywhere in this downtown area.
Oh, and we had a couple pray, we had some people
pray for us. Yes, they did. That was really odd.
Because you're drinking with the cistern? No,
they saw Paul. They were like, oh, my God, this
guy needs some fucking help. I was getting a
little nervous because I wasn't sure what Sean
was going to be Sean and say something that would
offend them. I did, too. But they were opening
up a new church. I'm not really sure. And they
were walking around the square trying to get
people enticed to share what's going on. And
the lady asked, like you said, it takes balls
to do that kind of stuff. and they prayed for
us. It was fun. She said, do you mind if I try
to dispel the demon from you, Sean? She knew
his name. Knew his name. Yeah, we end up... God,
man, we got a lot to go through here. So they
prayed for us. They did. She was like, there's
no Sean here. Only dickhead. So we end up going
to this steakhouse of all places because we were
looking for a beer. We just got done drinking,
you know, the... banana -tasting Jack Daniels
in the mini, and we need something to eat. Let's
go in a beer. So we hit this one place, and we
see a couple that is in the wedding party. So
I'm like, oh, shit. Hey, how you guys doing?
We sat there, had a drink, and then we looked
at the prices of the food, and they were like,
yeah, it's fucking ridiculous. I'm not paying
you. So we went up the street, and we had TJ's?
Lone Star Steakhouse. Yeah, it was nice. We ate
a steak. And cheese sandwich. It was honestly
one of the best Philly cheesesteaks or cheesesteaks
I have ever had. It was tremendous. Did it have
like Cheez Whiz on it? I don't think it was Cheez
Whiz. That's what Philadelphia uses. No, it was
not. Cheez Whiz? Yeah. Do they really? Yeah.
That's gross. It is. That is kind of gross. It
was outstanding. Yeah, it was good. If anybody's
ever at the Lone Star, is it? I thought it was
Lone Star Steakhouse. Did I get that wrong? I
thought it was JT's. It's Lone Star Southern
Grill. No, it's something steakhouse. in the
downtown area. How many Lone Star Steakhouse?
I thought that was TJ's or LT's. It might have
been Longhorn Steakhouse. Well, they have those
here. Yeah, there is Longhorn Steakhouse. Brenham,
there it is. We went in there. We had a couple
beers. We had a steak sandwich. And then we start
looking over at his whiskey selection. And we're
just like, no, we don't want any. We just want
to kind of look at it, see what you got, and
kind of ask the bartender how he felt about it
and just kind of explain it. And then Paul sees
the 10 -year. Eagle Rare. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's
where the text came from? Yeah, and I was like,
oh, fuck Eagle Rare. It's overrated. I rated
it a 3 .9. It's a 3 .8. I rated it a 3 .8. That's
so ridiculous. But I did. I did. I rated it a
3 .8. I wasn't impressed with it. I'm still not
impressed with it. The guy gave us a sample for
free. I said, you know what? I'll raise it to
a 5 .2. but not a penny higher. I don't know
why. I think you're emotionally involved on that
one. No, why would I be? I know what you said
because I'm... You're contrarian. Yeah, I'm contrarian,
but that's not the case at all, man. Look, we
all have our opinions on how we feel about different
whiskeys. They're the ones I don't like. Maybe
he doesn't like that one for whatever reason.
Maybe there's something weird in it that he doesn't
like. Yeah, I don't know. Like this one here.
This one's got some weird juice going on here.
I finished mine. Oh, well, look at you, Mr. Not
Working Tomorrow Morning. Yeah, I'm not working
tomorrow morning. Good for you, man. Oh, Jesus,
man. So, all right, we had steak there. We went
to the wedding that night. Wedding was a blast,
a success. DJ, the dude that was DJing, you know,
the DJ out there, he was kind of a, I don't know
how old he was. I think he was a little bit older
than us, maybe a generation, because the type
of music he was playing is probably a generation
after. Or before I was DJing. Like a Burt Bacharach
type of music. It was just a different era. Before
they had video. Yeah. But he was picking good,
solid music. I'm not throwing stones at him at
all. The whole night was great. I mean, I chose
not to. Oh, my God. Paul was drunk. I'm sorry.
Actually, I wasn't. Wow. I wasn't. I believe
you. I had absolutely no hangover the next day,
so explain that if I was shit -faced drunk. I
think that you're an excellent drinker. Interesting.
Dude, you were drinking a lot. Dude, I was toasty,
and I waited to the very end of the night to
drink. And I had like three drinks, three gallons
of drinks. Because he was inside in the air conditioning
the whole time. I was struggling. He got you.
Yeah, it was hot out there. It was hot. And I'm
just, I can't handle it, man. I went inside.
I can't handle the heat, man. Well, Julie showed
me her weather app. It was 88 out. Feels like
104. Yeah, it was hot. Nailed it. And if they
had just waited one hour. I mean, the sun was
beating down from 6 to 7, pretty fierce. If they
had just waited until 7 and started the wedding
then, it would have been, I think, much better.
But everybody was just like. And you're in a
suit? Drenched. No, it was casual. So you could
wear shorts? No, I mean, I had slacks on and
a golf shirt or something like that. But still,
when it's hot out, you don't want to be in slacks.
Yeah. Well, whatever. It was a lot of fun, though.
All in all, yeah. That's good. It was a good
visit, good friends, good times. Now, do they
live down there now? They will. He lives there.
Okay. Yeah, he's been there for 12 years or something
like that. I think that's the plan. She's going
to move down there at some point. I don't know
when. So, scroll out somewhere. I want to see
where Brenham is in relation to anything else.
So, Brenham is about 45 minutes south of College
Station. Almost due south, yeah. And about an
hour from Houston. Yep. Hour 15 minutes, actually,
from Houston. All right. All right. Got it. Cool.
Yeah, it was fun. And then you came back, what,
Sunday? Yeah, we were back Sunday by like...
You know, late afternoon. I imagine you visited
Preston and then came back. Yeah, we went to
go see Preston, hung out with him, you know,
watched movies all night. By the way, we watched
a movie called Mickey 17. Oh, where the guy keeps
dying. I watched that. Oh, is it good? Not good.
Painful. So it's bad. Is it like a comedy? It's
supposed to be a comedy. I recommend you watch
it just for the experience, but it did not sit
well with me. I was just kind of like, this is.
So he just died over and over and over again?
I don't want to... Yes. You get that from the
previews. That's all I know about it. So he's
what they call... They have a job. He's an expendable,
right? Yeah, he's called an expendable. But it
goes a little bit deeper than that. These guys
go on Earth. I believe it's on Earth. He and
another guy get money from some dude, and they
open up a restaurant. The restaurant doesn't
make it, and they owe this guy lots of money.
And they're like, fuck it up, we're leaving.
And so they jump the planet, they get on this
thing. What? They jump the planet, okay. Yeah,
they get off the planet and they try to get away
from this guy so that they can skip out on their
money, paying him back. And that was the reason
why they got on there. And they were trying to
get on there and he was like, I'll just be an
expendable. I guess he really didn't understand
what it was about because they were like, you
did read. Through the brochure, right, what the
expendable is. And that's just basically what
his job is. So, for example, if they land on
a planet, he goes down there in his suit, and
they're like, okay, now take off your mask and
breathe air in it. Let us know how you feel.
So he dies, and they retrieve his body. They
figure out why he died and what's going on with
the air down there and kind of reverse engineer.
appropriate vaccines, et cetera. And that happened
16, 15, 16, 17 times. So he's a lab rat that
they can bring back to life. Yeah, well, they
reprint him, essentially. Like a 3D printer.
Correct. Yeah, and implant his memories. Yeah.
At least the last time they downloaded it. Interesting.
Okay, all right. Yeah, it's bizarre. Part of
it was kind of cool, but it just... It does look
kind of funny. It does get to a point where you're...
And they had the Hulk, the guy, David Banner
from... They had him on there. It was bad. Yeah,
he was so just awful. Oh, the acting was bad?
What's his name? You're saying the acting was
bad? No, the actor himself. Mark Ruffalo. Yeah,
he's a big liberal. I don't like him at all.
He's a huge hack. Yeah, I struggle with even
looking at him in a movie, to be honest. Yeah,
he's an idiot. But you know what? For the experience
of the movie Mickey 17, yeah, go ahead and watch
it. But to me, it was a waste of time. It even
got worse because they find a planet and he lands
in this pit because he's got a little flamethrower
after walking out there. The fucking earth opens
up or the planet opens up or the ice that he
falls through hits this little ledge and then
hits all the way to the bottom. And, you know,
he's hurt and he's probably going to die, but
he didn't die right away. But he was just hurt.
And that's the whole kind of part of the show
of kind of where it started. It gives you the
lead up to it and then after that. Because when
he was laying down there, they thought he was
dead. So they printed another body. So there
were two of them walking around. That's the whole
problem with the movie. They're like, oh, now
I'm not going to get much more into that and
ruin it for you. But that's kind of where shit
started going sideways because they have huge
rules. There's no doubles. There can't be more
than one. There can't be more than one. There's
no doubles because you don't have a soul and
all that other stuff. Just like Highlander. It
can be only one. It can only be one. Okay. So
basically it's Highlander part two. Yeah. This
rate's about as high as the Eagle Rare. You know,
it's just not very good. Yeah, I can't. Honestly,
I can't stomach Mark Ruffalo. Yeah, he's hard
to watch. He's on my De Niro. Like Bob De Niro.
You will have a very difficult time. Then I won't
watch it. He is horrible in this movie. I will
not watch it. He is horrible. His whole mannerisms.
He's a douchebag. Well, he's playing this cult
leader who's leading this pilgrimage to this
other planet of true believers in him. He's a
failed politician and basically still has his
core group. right, his base supporters, and they
all go try to recolonize this other planet, and
he's got ideas about who should go, right? And
replicants are, like, low down on that list of
people who should be gone. So he's even more
nauseated. And especially not duplicated replicants.
They're out, right? And so he has his big project.
So he's got all the hot chicks there. I don't
know, Jeff. Are we going to watch it? I'm not
going to watch it. I thought when I saw the previews,
it looked interesting, the concept. It is. It
is. I mean. I'm not a Ruffalo. I can't stand
him at all. He's bad. But, you know, whatever.
I will watch Mission Impossible when that comes
out, though. I like Milo James. Which one is
that one? I don't know. Young Mickey? Yeah, Young
Mickey. But no, seriously, Mission Impossible
looks like it might... Is it the last one? Did
they say it's going to be the last one? At least
the one that he's in, right? Is this the final,
final record? It came out last week or two weeks
ago. Oh, well, what's the rating on it? I don't
know. He's looking older, too, by the way. Oh,
yeah. He's in his 60s. Yeah, you can't hide it.
I mean, he does all of his, you know, does all
the stunts. I wonder if part of that is because
he's getting older and he's like, yeah, I can't
do this for much longer. No. You know? He's lucky
to be doing it for the last 10 years. Yeah. And
he's made bank on it. Look at that. 7 .5. Love
it. Now, it's also a cult following, right? I
like the Mission Impossible movies. I liked all
of them. Really. Some were better than others,
but. I mean, he was a true jackass, and we've
talked about this in the past. We don't need
to rehash it, but whatever. At the end of the
day, he's a freaking actor. I don't give a shit
what he says. I support him in his endeavor to,
when he got mad at somebody because they took
the mask off during COVID, because the film industry
had put conditions on, if you're going to do
this, you have to do it this way. or you're not
going to be able to move it. He's spending all
this extra money to get this movie made, and
these guys are taking off the mask, and he loses
his shit, and some smart -ass, snotty bastard
is videoing him. While he's having a tantrum.
I don't blame him. These are $300, $400 million
movies. And they're going to delay by eight weeks
because somebody took their mask off? I also
saw a recent interview of him where the interviewer
tried to pull him into the politics of the tariffs.
Because his films were made outside of the U
.S., right? So they asked him the question of
all the tariffs and all that and this and that.
So he paused. Tried to get him to bite on it.
And he goes. We're here to discuss the movie
and the making of this movie. Good for him. I've
never heard him unload on politics one way or
the other. And I respect that. Because you know
what? That's not their role. No, it's not. They
can have an opinion, but nobody needs to listen
to it. And so he didn't give it, and I respect
that. My chair is having some issues over here.
You're about to collapse. The back is kind of
moving around. But there's some other... Well,
the other one I think that came out that actually
I think is doing really well is the remake of
Lilo and Stitch, which my kids were small when
that movie came out. It was one of my favorite
Disney ones, Lilo and Stitch. I thought it was
funny. I have never seen it. And it's good. And
actually, that's done better than Mission Impossible,
I think. That's amazing. And I've heard that.
You know all these remakes that Disney's doing,
these live -action versions like Snow White,
that bomb. Yes. Beauty and the Beast. There's
several of these. This one is apparently one
of the better ones, if not the best transition
into it. It's actually doing quite a bit better
than Mission Impossible. That is really surprising.
Yeah. Well, I mean, there's a lot of kids and
parents that'll go see that. So it's getting
people like Jeff to go out there and see it,
and it's getting the kids of nowadays to go see
it, and it's getting the kids from the earlier
years to come. You know? Yeah, and maybe there
hasn't been a good kids movie in a while, huh?
Yeah, two weeks. Look at that. It's already made
$278, almost $280 million compared to $120. I
mean, it's doubling the per screen average. Yeah,
it's got some more theaters, but not that much
more theaters. How much did it cost to make,
does it say? I don't know. But I also heard,
but well. These things cost so much money. I
guarantee Tom Cruise is not making a lot of money
off of Mission Impossible right now because it
costs so much money to make. And if he's flipping
the bill for it, or a lot of it, it's hard to
make money off these movies unless you're breaching
over a billion dollars. And you said this one
was a live action mix between. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You talking about Lilo or? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, Stitch is the computer, but everyone else
is an alien, and the aliens are a computer, right?
But it's real people. Right, right. But I heard
that Disney just canned a bunch of folks today
from their entertainment division. Really? Because
of movie performances. I mean, sooner or later,
they can't keep losing $200 million every time
they make a movie. Oh, I know. I mean, you know,
I know you were saying the park subsidized a
lot of that, but I mean, come on. There's only
so much you can do. Well, the park attendance,
I believe, has been down. So, you know, when
that happens and they keep launching these bombs,
I'm not saying Lilo and Stitcher is going to
be a bomb, but they've had a lot of bombs. Is
it true that the park is property of the queen?
Did I read that right? Like Disney World? Correct.
I don't believe so. I've never heard that. Like,
it may be bullshit again. This is like a meme
or something, but I heard something where they
said that where Ron DeSantis was like, you guys
are no longer tax exempt. Right. That was the
read. I think they called it. I don't think I
had anything to do with the queen, but they were
in a certain. Unincorporated. Unincorporated
area. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where they weren't taxed,
but Disney maintained all the roads. They maintained
all the fire stations. I'm trying to figure out
where that came from. I guess that's just a bunch
of bullshit. Oh, I don't know. Yeah, I've never
heard any connection to the UK. Are you talking
about the Queen of England? I mean, it said the
Queensland. I don't know what that would be referencing.
But, I mean, yeah, they essentially were self
-governed. That was the bottom line. They were
self -governing all the area around the Disney
world. And they were being given these ridiculous
tax exempts. And DeSantis was like... So Disney
blocks Ron DeSantis with the... This was in 2023,
by the way. This is right at the time. And we
did talk about this. But they blocked the DeSantis
with the King Charles Clause. That was the part
I didn't understand. Well, I think Dizzy ended
up ultimately losing that. They did. Yeah. So
now they're being taxed. And that was DeSantis'
point. He was like, you guys have this unbelievable
exemption and all these privileges and all this
self -governing, and you guys are being shitty.
Right. They're being all woke, and they're being
all this and being all that. You're not being
a good partner. No, and they were putting out
material that's not safe for kids and all this
kind of stuff. And he was like, we're done. Well,
I think where he was getting some pushback is
there are actually people who live in Reedy Creek
as well that were going to. Oh, really? Yeah.
So now they're going to be taxed, whereas before,
I don't know exactly how that was going to be.
Oh, well. Sorry. Everybody pays taxes. Yeah.
So I don't know if it applied to everybody or
maybe theirs was reduced. But I know there was
some pushback. Well, now we're going to have
to take care of our own roads. Fund our own police
station and fire stations and shit. I thought,
like, Las Colinas, Irving, Texas was similar.
That may be wrong on that. Isn't Las Colinas
part of Irving? Yeah, it's a special district
of Irving, yes. Yeah, but, I mean, do they take
care of their own roads? Is it similar? I don't
know. I think it's just kind of, like, if they
want to build that monorail, they can do it themselves.
They have their own review process, maybe. But
there's no city of Las Colinas, right? If you
want to get something done, you've got to get
it through the city of Irving. So I remember
there was the president of Las Colinas Association,
Heinz Simon. Heinz. Heinz Simon. And he brought
up, I brought him actually to my college history
class, bring someone to work day or something
like that. He went there and spoke, and he's
such a slimeball. Would I be the president of
the Los Clementes Association when you could
be king? I'll never forget when he said that.
He says, no, I'm not elected. This is my position.
Is this a piece of shit? Yeah, what a slime ball.
Yeah, and he said that because he was a member
at the Four Seasons when I used to work there.
And he sat up at the bar lot. That's how I got
him in there. And I ended up getting an A in
the class because I scored pretty good with him.
Speaking of scoring pretty good with them, look,
we've got something to score right now. Let's
check out this whiskey. Do you guys want to grab
that bottle and pour a little bit more? Did you
want a little bit more? Yeah, I'll have a little
bit. I mean, I need to kind of think about it
as I'm trying it as opposed to just drinking
it. Yeah, it went down awfully smooth for me
tonight. Is that enough for you? Yeah, that's
good. Thank you. So we're tasting, we got Old
Dominic Hewling Station Straight Bourbon. Now,
I don't think they distill this. They're probably
getting – because on the back it says it's crafted
and bottled, which tells me that they – So it's
MGP juice? Well, I'm looking to see if they –
oh, yeah. Distilled in Lawrence – yes. Lawrenceburg,
Indiana. So, yeah, MGP. MGP. All right. Well,
this is probably one of our – I don't even know
when we got this. You know, but it's probably
one of our newer bottles. We bought the his and
her. We got the straight, and then we got also
the small batch. So we picked up two. Yeah, there's
a blue label out there. So this one. I mean,
it's a good. Oh, they changed their bottles,
it looks like. I mean, this is good. I wrote
down one word, thin. Thin. Yeah, nailed it. Yeah,
it's thin. It's 100 proof. I was expecting more.
But it goes away really fast. It tastes good,
what you get. Yeah. But it goes away really fast.
I do taste raisin, cherry, figs, and tobacco.
Like a catcher's mitt. Yeah, there's a lot of
those dark fruits like that. And it has quite
the legs. Yeah, it's a nice color. Yeah, but
you're right. It just disappears quick. Yeah.
I mean, there's a little bit on the lips, but.
Like the palate, the mid palate, there's almost
nothing there for me. And then you get a little
bit on the finish, and then it just goes away
for me. It's like Paul in the 20s. It just doesn't
last very long. So, I mean, it's interesting
that I think this could be an easier drinker
for people that, you know, that are used to 90s.
Actually, that's true. Yeah, that's true. You
know what I mean? There's no harshness to it
at all. No, not at all. It's smooth, 400 proof.
Super easy. Yeah, very easy. So it might be a
hit with that class of people. So if someone
asked for 100 proof, you could direct them to
this. Yeah, 100 proof that's easy to drink, I
would direct them to this. The only thing I don't
like about it, it has the bitter tobacco aftertaste
that doesn't disappear for me. It lingers. And
I do like the upfront in your face stone fruit
kind of the cherries. It's got a nice fruit flavor
up front, but on the tail end, that disappears
quick, and it leaves that bitter shit at the
end that I don't really enjoy. Yeah. I don't
find it unpleasant, but I, you know. It's not
bad. No, it's just kind of. I'd give this a five,
right in the middle. It's not good. It's not
bad. It's like just, if it was stronger, flavor
-wise, maybe there's more. flavor to it that
would last longer it'd be a higher higher rating
for me because it doesn't taste bad it's just
there's not much there you know you nailed it
i i don't i don't want to give it less than a
five but it doesn't deserve more than a five
right so i'm with you right on the dot five yeah
i could be fine with that i mean i could go you
know five one five two but i wouldn't go higher
than that right so again it's a good like when
that's gone do we buy another bottle i don't
think so No way. No. No way. I mean, I would
imagine that this will be on your shelf for a
very long time. And we'll just keep it there.
That actually is a really good criteria you just
threw out. Because you know how sometimes we
have one for the podcast and we're like, dude,
I need this for my private collection. Right.
There hasn't been a lot of those. No. I mean,
that should be a question we ask every time.
Like, do you like this enough? Would you buy
a bottle of this to have at your house? No. All
right. Let's add that. Let's make that a criteria.
Is this going to be on my shelf? Right. The answer
is no. Yeah, no. However, we do want it on our
shelf, and we're proud to have it. And we enjoy
it. I mean, it's not like we're not enjoying
it. Oh, no. Yeah, this is good. We're enjoying
it. Remember, there's thousands of bourbons out
there, guys. I mean, you know? I mean, you've
got to be selective. Well, you do. It's okay
to be selective, right? Old Dominic. Hewling
Station Hunter Proof Bourbon features a mix of
sweet and spicy notes. The nose offers hints
of stone fruit, dark cherries, creamy vanilla,
creamy vanilla with a touch of rye spice. Palate
shows notes of cinnamon, rich caramel along with
subtle tobacco and velvety dark chocolate. Overall
impression is a rich balance and long lasting
finish, which it does last a long time, but not
in a good way. So what are those little icons?
I see cherry. I don't know what that is. What
is that, like a wombat cube poop? It is. It's
a cube? You nailed it. It's a wombat. That's
dropping cheese. I don't know. Is that caramel?
I see cherry. It's rye spice. Maybe. And then
sticks or a cigarette. Is that a cigarette? That
could be the spice there. Is that a cigarette?
What the hell is going on? Cigar. Cigar. So there
are little, so there's chocolate, cherries. Oh,
that's an ashtray. Really? I don't know. All
right. Well, you know what? It could be cinnamon.
Oh, there's cinnamon roll -ups. That's cinnamon
sticks. Yes, yes, yes. That's what I meant. Yes.
Is that anise? What is that? The second I read
that, what is that? Is that anise? That could
be. Yeah, I don't know. So they got these little
pictures. We definitely see what cherries are.
What's the one with the little swirl? That's
chocolate. I think caramel. I think caramel.
I think chocolate's right. Oh, it might be caramel.
Yeah. Oh, is it caramel or caramel? Depends where
you're from, I think. Caramel. Oh, my gosh. I
say caramel. Do you? That's a unique way to say
it. No, I say caramel. I say caramel. I say caramel.
Caramel. You're contrarian. See? There's two.
I started mine. I'm just kidding. There we go.
I'm just kidding. All right, cool. How much time
do we have before we are shutting this down?
We have some other things to talk about. I don't
want to squeeze them in too quickly. We've got
about four minutes. Four minutes? Well, you want
to hit the... I was thinking the Olympics. Which
one? The flag football. You brought up last week,
you're like, how do we feel about when they finally
switched from... Amateurs to professionals. How
did we feel about that? I am against that. I
am too. Did it start with the basketball, the
dream team basketball? Well, that's because I
think there was another country that was, who
beat us in basketball? Someone beat, someone
was potential. Yeah, the college kids. Remember?
We had a college, that's what they did. They
took the best college kids in basketball. Right.
And we never, ever, ever lost. Right? And then
we did. And then went. The moment we lost. Oh,
we could never have that happen again. Oh, here
we go. Has to be proved. But I think it's wrong.
I think that professionals need to stay in the
professional limelight for a couple of reasons.
First of all, they're professionals because it's
not the spirit of what it is. And if I'm the
owner of that professional, I don't want my players
joining the Olympics and getting themselves hurt.
I've got a $50 million player. Why the fuck would
I want him going out there playing? Two things.
And ultimately, come on, man. It's about the
kids. It's about the 16 -year -olds, 17 -year
-olds, 15 -year -olds that have trained from
the time they were six and seven years old to
get up to that performance level. I mean, are
there professional gymnasts out there? There
are professional track stars because there is
a whole circuit of track that they get paid for.
I'm not sure I need that. It's like worldwide.
Yeah, there's professional track runners. I don't
like it. I don't like it. My dad would watch
the shit out of those. He'd record them all the
time. This is kind of off the subject, and we
probably need to address this in a future one,
but I was informed that there is a new strain
of Olympics that's coming out, not to be associated
with the current Olympic program, completely
separate, where you get all the guys that are
doing steroids and drug -enhanced... Supplements.
And the goal is to beat the world record. It's
not to win. It's to beat the old record. They
don't get any recognition. There's no recognition.
So these guys are going to be just completely
jacked and juiced. They may be. I don't know.
Just like die at the finish line. I'm not sure
that's a good message for athletes. To juice
themselves. Well, no. It's not necessarily saying
take steroids, but they take. You know, performance
enhancing drugs. Whatever that is. I don't know
what that is. But that was the buzz. But they
don't get the world record then. They do not.
But there's a purse that they win. So it's not
a matter of first, second, and third, which there
will be first, second, and third. But the goal
is to beat the world record. Right. And to see
if it's true. They want to know. Is it true?
This is what before, this is after. I don't know.
Preston brought that up to me. Well, I know a
couple years ago there was, I think it was a
Nike event where they tried to beat the two -hour
marathon time limit. And I think he did it, but
they got disqualified because the shoe he had,
they determined was giving him some. Spring.
Yes. So I think they disqualified him. And they
had it all down where they're, you know. They
were drafting. He was doing all this shit. And
then I think he ended up beating the two -hour
mark. But they didn't count it because it was
unofficial and all that shit, right? So going
back to the basketball, Chuck put this up on
the screen. So in 1988, we got the bronze medal.
Correct. With college kids. With college kids.
Now, a lot of those college kids went to the
pros, but, I mean, those are not names that you
– So there's two Charles Smiths on that team.
Yeah, there's two Charles Smiths. How about that?
I mean, Mitch Richmond, Bimbo Coles was in the
NBA. Willie Anderson, Stacey Ogden, Dan Marley,
Thunder Dan, right? They were all in the NBA.
Dan Robinson, really? Hershey Hawkins? I mean,
that was a... Okay, so that was... Why'd they
lose? Well, look, they had Bimbo Coles. No, I
mean, they're good. They're pretty much almost.
All those guys are good. Stacey Ogman? Yeah,
but they were kids. I mean, they lost to some
big -name NBA players from the Soviet Union and
Yugoslavia. And you nailed it. They were kids
playing grown -ass men. Yeah, I think so. And
then it turned to next. Vlade Divac? Vlade Divac.
Oh, yeah. And then the next time was Charles
Barkley, Larry Bird, Clyde Drake, Patrick Ewing,
Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan. Oh, yeah. They
included one college kid, Christian Laidner.
Christian Laidner. Yep. Oh, look. There's Larry
Hokai. Scotty Pippen. I'm just joking. Interesting.
David Robertson was back -to -back, 88 and 92.
Interesting. Anyway, I don't like it. I think
it was kind of immature for the United States
to launch that pro program. I mean, talk about
giving up. Although it was neat to see these
dream teams play. Yeah. But it was kind of stupid.
It was silly. But now it's just kind of like,
eh. It was a novelty, and I think it was wrong.
But you know what? Whatever. I think it's...
Oh, they got third place. Oh, that's the 2004
they got bronze as well. Yeah. Oh, that was with
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