Boom, second half of the Dudes Like Us podcast.
It is June 2nd. For those folks out there that
don't know what Dudes Like Us podcast is, we...
Our three guys, great friends. And we've got
four. We've got Chuck. There's four guys. Mr.
Producer, Chuck, thank you for staying on top
of stuff. It's the second half of the podcast.
We just had the first half with the, what was
that, the Hewling, what was the first half, bourbon,
whiskey? I've already forgotten. Yeah, we forgot
already. Wasn't that crazy? It was a train station
or something like that. Hewling Station. Hewling
Station. Old Dominick, very small. Yeah, Old
Dominick, Hewling Station. It's bourbon whiskey.
It was 100 proof. It didn't score very high,
but I wouldn't kick it out of bed. It is what
it is. This second half, we have an advent calendar.
We'll explain a little bit more about that. We've
got tons of stuff to talk about. We do. A lot
of stuff's happening in the world. There's volcanoes
exploding. There's drone strikes happening all
over. People are being attacked by flamethrowers.
People die. There's crazy shit going on today.
Yeah, that is crazy. And we can jump into any
of those. We can. Dudes like us. I'm Sean. I'm
Paul. And I am Jeff. I wasn't sure if we did
that or not. I was kind of like, oh, my God.
That's why you're looking at us funny? Yeah,
I was like, oh, because I thought the first thing
you guys are going to do is give me a hard time.
I was like, we already did that. We just said
that, you stupid idiot. That's the fourth time,
Sean. Loretta Swit looked kind of hot back then,
didn't she? I'll tell you what. We can talk about
her real quick. Yeah, we lost an icon. Yeah,
we had a death in the family. Loretta Swit, otherwise
known as Hot. Lips Houlihan. And maybe this is
just me personally, but I never found her to
be a sexpot for me personally. Oh, I didn't.
At all for me. I mean, yeah. Even back in the
day. She wasn't on the back of the bathroom door.
No. Farrah Fawcett. But she was. Suzanne Somers.
Yeah, she was the hottie. Cheryl Ladd. In the
MASH camp, though. Jacqueline Smith. Jacqueline
Smith, I'm on board with. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
I can go on. But anyway, Loretta Swift, she was
big because a lot of folks, at least our age,
grew up watching MASH. She's older than our folks.
So when we were watching MASH, she was not exactly,
you know. Well, let's say those came out in the,
what, the 70s? Late 70s? Yeah. So let's say 70s.
So she was 40. Right. Essentially. She lived
a long time. And she was also a really cool character
on the show, right? I mean, that was part of
it, too. She was just. She had charisma, right?
Well, she did. That character. Yeah, it's just,
again, maybe it was just me, but I always thought
that they built her up as a sex bot, and I just
never really saw it. I didn't either. You know
she got 10 Emmys? I did not know that. So Alan
Alda said about Loretta's stuff, she deserved
all her 10 Emmy nominations. I'm sorry, I misspoke.
Her 10 Emmy nominations and her two wins. But
more than her acting part, she created it, he
wrote, she worked hard in showing the writing
staff how they could run character from a one
-joke sexist stereotype into a real person with
feelings and ambitions. Interesting. And she
probably, the people that worked with her probably
thought she was a brilliant comedian, right?
I mean, and just a true professional, all that
kind of stuff. I mean, how long did that season
run? Pull up a little audio. I want to see what
she talks, what she looks like. Believe me, soldier,
I deserve better than you. There you go. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, she wasn't ugly. She's kind of
homely, I think. Yeah. How long did that show
run? About five years? Six years? No, it was
longer than that, wasn't it? Was it really? It
ran into the 80s, early 80s. Oh, wow. Yeah. And
the largest TV show ever watched was the finale.
Finale. Of MASH. 11 seasons. There we go. 72
to 83, yeah. Wow. All right. I'll tell you one
of the mash that I remember specifically is when
the first colonel got sent home. Yeah. He did
his tour. Potter? Yeah. Is he the first one?
Not the grumpy old one that came in and replaced
him. I don't like when they do a switch like
that. McClane Stevenson was the actor. Henry
Blake. Henry Blake. Well, he ran his course,
and they're like, yeah, we're sending you home.
And he died. His helicopter was shot down on
his way. That's how they killed off his character?
Yes. Wow. So they were having this celebration.
He was excited. He was in a civilian's suitcase.
He got on his helicopter. They took off. They're
all excited that he got to go home. And news
comes in that they shot down his helicopter.
Everyone's dead. Ouch. Yeah. So it's like, fuck.
Right? It's not exactly a comedy at that point.
No, but you know what it does? It sets in. Yeah,
it made it real. It sets in and it kind of, I
mean, look, I watched MASH. I mean, come on.
I watched MASH living overseas. Yeah. And in
a military environment, you know, I could just,
I mean, I wasn't old enough to really appreciate
it, but I can imagine what the armed forces out
there were going through when they saw that because
that shit's real. And you never know. It's like
being a police officer. You never know when you're
going to come home. There was a statement saying
that one of the fancy things or one of the cool
things to hear when you come home is the sound
of the Velcro. When you take it off your body
armor when you get home as a police officer.
That's the sound you kind of want to hear. I
heard it from someone on TV. I was going to say
that's the thing I think MASH did well. Yes,
it was a comedy, but it added some bits of realism
to it as well. Because they were working on...
these soldiers that were blown to bits. Yeah.
And they died or they're cutting arms off, legs
off and, uh, making jokes at the same time. Yeah.
And you know, they, they showed again, it was
a comedy and they, they tried to work all of
that into the program. I think to show some of
the realities of the Korean war, I believe that
they were in. Right. Right. Some levity, right.
Some levity to the, to, to a, what was a real,
a real deal. I mean, both Vietnam war sucked.
Korean war sucked. I mean, they were, yeah. It
was a real deal. Well, you had that one guy that
would dress up like a female. Yeah, what was
that all about? Clinger. Yeah, Clinger. Why was
he across? He wanted to get sent home. Yeah,
he wanted to be Section 8. He was always coming
up with a reason to be sent home. That's right.
That's why he dressed up as a woman, because
he wanted to get sent home. Yes, that's right.
You know what that show sort of reminds me of?
I know it's not even close, really, but Hogan's
Heroes. Do you remember that one? Yeah, I never
really watched that one. Oh, I loved that show
as a kid. I watched it a few times, being homesick
from school, I'd throw it on, but I never got
into watching it at all. Yeah, Colonel Clink,
remember? Oh, yeah. With the little eye piece,
and it was Sgt. Schultz, I know nothing. Nothing.
Did you guys not watch Hogan's Heroes? Yeah,
I watched it, unfortunately, a lot, too. Oh,
it was great. But didn't that lead actor, didn't
he get busted for porn? Bob Crane? There was
some story that went on. Or he was Colonel Roberts.
Or he was recording his sexcapades or something
like that. Yeah, what was the story behind him?
Yeah, something happened. Yeah, he got busted
for something like, yeah, Bob Crane. Yeah, he
got busted for, I thought he was filming. His
sexcapades or I don't know if he actually made
porns or not. How about Richard Dawson who was
in there? He's a huge perv. You know, he ran
into Family Feud. Remember, he mugged down with
all that. Oh, yeah, he would, too. Yeah, he deep
-throated everybody on that show. You know, he
just smelled like tobacco and whiskey. Oh, I
know he did. You know he did. Nasty tongue. All
right, so let's get close to the loop on this.
What happened to him? Because you're right. Which
one? There was something. Well, he was brutally
murdered, for one thing. Yeah. Beaten to death
while he slept and strangled with an electrical
cord. Okay, yeah, that's what I remembered, is
that he was murdered. Not that he did something
shady. Maybe it was somebody else I was thinking
of, because, yeah, okay, that's true. It says,
you know, Hogan, autofocus, God bless it, looks
at Bob Crane's life in porn. I thought that,
yeah, there was something weird about it. Interesting.
So a lot is out there. Paul Schrader. He was
only 49. When he was murdered? Yes. Wow. So a
lot of radio tapes are available. All those pornographic
movies he made are available. Television shows
like Love Boat, Mary Tyler Moore, game shows,
you can find them all. If you dig it, Schrader,
I'm looking for the porn. I don't believe those
are porn. Love Boat. No. Mary Tyler Moore show
is not porn either. I don't know. And we're talking
about Crane? Or are we talking about the Bob
Crane? Interesting. Yeah. All right. So there
is a little documentary that advertisements keep
popping up. So there's a movie called Autofocus.
Yeah, that's what I was referring to. It's a
dramatized story of actor Bob Crane. Okay. I
wonder if that is that true or is that just I
guess. I don't know, man. Anyone that gets woken
up in the middle of the night and strangled with
a cable and beaten. And beaten? I mean, what's
that all about? I mean, that's kind of like the
vengeance, like a drummer from the Billy Joel
band because he was cut out. Right. That's maybe
something that happened like that. I don't know.
What is the story behind that? I imagine they
tell you in the... I don't know. I may have to
try to track that down and watch it. 2002. It's
interesting. It is interesting. All right. Anyway,
to move on to other deaths, we had another loss.
Yeah, this one I'm not too familiar with because
I didn't watch the program, but Jonathan Joss,
who was a voice on King of the Hill. John Redman.
John Redman. I guess he was a Native American
neighbor. Yeah, he was an Indian. Yeah, he was
sleeping with Dale's wife. Yeah. Again, I never
really watched the show. I never watched it either.
He was like their best friend. Because they were
friends. And there was this subtext of him sleeping
with his wife, though. Apparently he got shot.
John Redcorn got shot in Austin, yes. He was
murdered as well. John Redcorn. Damn. I think
the story is he lost his house to a fire. Yeah,
all his animals. He lost his house, and then
he got shot. Involved in a shooting while checking
the mail at the site of our former home. It was
burned down over two years of threats from people
in the area who repeatedly told us they would
set it on fire. What? Yeah, but why? Was he homosexual,
or did he say some homosexual things? Because
it says the actor's husband. Tristan Kern de
Gonzalez alleged that Joss and him were targeted.
So he was gay. Openly homophobic? Yeah. Much
of the harassment was openly homophobic against
him. Against him. Wow. That's crazy. De Gonzalez
wrote that Joss was murdered by someone who could
not stand the sight of two men loving each other.
I don't know the veracity of that, but let the
law come out and figure it out. We're still kind
of in the fog of war. Yeah, they're kind of flaming
the flame here. That boy ain't right. That's
right. Wow. He's whacking my shirt. But they
are rebooting King of the Hill with older Bobby.
I don't know if they're still in Arlen. Bobby
Hill's voice was originally done by a woman.
Is that right? And they already recorded his
lines for the upcoming revival. Oh, Jonathan
Joss? Yep. Well, there you go. He gets to live
on for a little bit. Yeah, but the storyline
is kind of crazy how he would... What was his
name? Was it Dale? Dale Gribble. Dale Gribble,
he was a pesticide individual. He sold pesticide.
And Hank Hill sold propane. Right. And he would
say... What was the alternative gas? Boom hair?
Yeah. No, the alternate gas. Propane is a bastard
gas. What did we say? I don't remember the other
gas. That is a bastard gas and unsafe for your
environment. You know, the way he would say that.
It's hilarious. But every time Dale Gribble's
wife or he would leave the house. The big Indian
would come in, and he would scoop up the wife,
and they would cheat all the time, and it was
fucking crazy. You haven't watched a whole lot
of it, right? I've never seen any of them. So
it's based loosely on Arlington, right? In Fort
Worth or in between Fort Worth? It's Bedford
or Euless, someone out there. But the premise
is that you've got these three guys that are
standing out there, sometimes four, and they're
like us, and they're standing on the corner,
and they've all got a beer, and they're in their
alley or back fence, and they're like, yep. Like
every episode. That's how the beginning. But
it wasn't the whole show every time with them
standing talking. No, no, no. There was actual
stuff going on. There was one where Hank Hill's
wife, Peggy, learned that her oversized feet
were a desirable thing to have on the Internet.
And she started making all this money with her
doing feet pics. And this is before OnlyFans,
too. It was, actually. I mean, it's just all
they had. What is the daughter of Bobby Hill?
Her last name was Murphy. Brittany Murphy. Brittany
Murphy was Lou Anne Platter. Yeah, it's Louie's.
And she was a very busty daughter of Hank Hill.
She's dead, too. She is dead. How did she die
again? Do you remember? I don't know. She had
an aneurysm or something? She's dead. I don't
know why she died. I thought it was an aneurysm
or something. It was something weird. I don't
know. She was young. She was 32 years old, I
think. Yeah. Whatever. You know, this show's
funny. I enjoyed it. It was fun. And, you know,
that guy had a fun life. Crazy. He got murdered?
Pneumonia. Jonathan Joss? Yeah, he got shot.
Shot dead because he was homosexual, apparently.
That's weird. And that happened in L .A.? That
seems to be a lot. Oh, in Austin. In Austin.
Even in Austin. Austin is so... woke right now.
Brittany Murphy. Damn. She was quite the looker.
She was young. Yes. Oh, and confirmed Bobby Hill
was Pamela Alden who's a character actor and
a voice actor. Kind of like Bart Simpson's got
voiced by a woman. Yeah, Bart's a woman as well.
I got you. That's funny. There's a whole line
of voice actors out there. There's some people
that have some pretty funny voices. It's fun.
You know, Mark Hamill, known for Luke Skywalker.
He does a ton of voice work. Yeah, I think it's
great. He does the Joker. That's one of his biggest
characters is the Joker on Batman. Obviously
an animated series, you're saying. Of course,
yes. Like, there's a new series that has come
out? It's a cartoon or video games. Like a really
old one? I think cartoons, video games. All through
the 90s and on. Oh, okay. Yeah, so he's continuing
to do it. In fact, he's made a ton of, I mean,
he's filthy rich. I'm sure. You know, from Star
Wars. I mean, come on. I had no idea. That's
interesting. All right, well, you know, so that
person died. Jonathan Joss, murdered horrifically.
God, Lord. Yeah, those are the only two we could
come up with this week, which is, I guess that's
a good thing. Yeah, there was another person.
Tara had showed me a picture. I can't remember
who the hell she was. She died yesterday, whoever
it was. Whatever. Well, that's the end of our
death segment. Speaking of deaths of planes,
I guess, we could talk about the Ukraine drone
attack. So Ukraine rallied. Not Bob Crane. No,
not Bob Crane. Different Crane. Ukraine had rallied
the troops together and launched an attack. Was
it an airfield that had a bunch of airplanes?
Yeah, multiple bombers. Yeah, multiple. Five
different airstrips. This was well -coordinated,
well -planned, and it was billions of dollars
that got destroyed. These are their top -notch
bombers. These would be like our B -1, B -2 stealth
bombers. I mean, this is their top -notch bombers.
So how the hell did they get in there so close?
Check this out. So what they did was they smuggled
the drones in. They packed them in like these
wooden crates that were put on top of trucks.
They parked the trucks next to the airfields,
and everything was automated, right? Yep. They
opened up the doors, and these drones came out
of these crates and went straight to the airfield
before anything could happen. There was no surface
-to -air missile opportunities. There was nothing.
The drones just went right in. How big were these
drones? Do we know? No. Are they like the big
globe guys or just like the little shit you get?
The little ones. These are little toy drones.
Yeah, little toy drones. This is a problem. Dude,
40. They took out 40 of these airplanes. Yeah,
unobstructed. That is a problem. It's the future
of warfare, man. It's a problem because this
shit can happen right under our nose. Totally.
Right here. Totally. Right now. Completely. And
it could take out every single freaking house
anywhere around us. Anything. It could take down
water towers. Can you imagine if you had a drone
attack all of our water towers in any area, period?
Yeah. It's problematic. It would stifle us. It's
truly unstoppable. It's currently unstoppable.
I guarantee somewhere someone's trying to figure
how do we stop these things. Maybe part of that
trillion dollar budget that the Pentagon has.
Could be. But they're not going to put that in
neighborhoods. They're going to be around airports.
Oh, military installations. Military. And airports,
yeah, maybe. And shit like that. I'm not talking
about them. I'm talking about the jihadist terrorists
that are populating all over the planet. that
are looking to terrorist period. You know, this
is something that's easy. It could be brought
in anywhere. Like you said, just park a car,
something pops out the top. It could be a single
drone designed to travel 100 yards and do its
deed and that's it. And depend on what kind of,
you know, ordinance they can put on these things.
I mean, obviously they can't be gigantic. It
doesn't require a whole lot for a pound of C4.
A pound of C4 will do some devastation. Depending
on where it's at, it'll definitely render whatever
you're trying to hit inoperable. I mean, you
may blow up 30 % of the airplane, but it's not
going to fly again. You think about not just
Donald Trump, but you think about any politician
that's out there. These drones, they have face
recognition. Yeah, there's footage out there
of that hat working. They have the ability to
go in there, find you, and you do not require
a whole lot of C4 or the explosive, whatever
chemical it is, like a gram. It's just enough
when that thing hits your forehead and it sticks
and it pops. It's kind of like that dude that
took the nine millimeter blank and shot it on
his head and killed himself. Even though it was
a blank and it was a joke, ha ha, he's dead because
of the compression. And that's kind of the spirit
behind it. Those things are so fast. Yeah, they
are. They have drones that have these races.
Oh, it's crazy. They fly through these obstacles.
It is amazing. This was... The technology behind
here. Yes. The agility of these things. And for
Ukraine to pull this off was a massive win for
them. Massive. Yeah, I mean, it's a win, but,
you know, no one died either, right? So, I mean,
that is a success. I'm assuming they didn't kill
anybody other than, you know, just disabling
all these aircraft. So I wonder what that fail
-safe thing is. Is this just like the news helicopter
kind of thing? Yeah. Just bringing video back?
I think that's what this one is. Like a confirmed
kill type of thing? Yeah, kind of a, okay, let's
have a TV monitor. Oh, you know they wanted to
watch this. I mean, of course. Well, and post
it for crying out loud. Yeah, no, I mean, they
were very proud of this attack. I mean, being
able to strike that deep into Russian territory
and hit major airfields. Well, I also heard that
they hit trains and bridges and shit as well.
I don't know if that's the case. I thought I
heard that on the radio today. Yeah, I did hear
that. I don't know. I mean, it was an ingenious
attack, and it also shows the capabilities of
this technology, but it also reveals how scary
this shit is. It's scary, and there's going to
be repercussions. And when you push someone as
nutso as Putin in a corner, there's going to
be some retaliation. And you know what? He's
one of these guys that's going to be all in.
He doesn't care. He is psycho, man. He doesn't
care. He lives in a... He doesn't care. He will
kill every single one of them. He's killing his
own men gratuitously. Yeah, he's just throwing
them into the meat grinder, man. He doesn't give
a fuck about anything. And he's got tons of nuclear
arms, thanks to Hillary Clinton, you know, in
the Congress. You know, passing that, giving
him, Putin, 20 % of our uranium. Right. You know,
15 years ago? Yeah. Was it 15? Jesus, that was
a long time ago. A long time ago. Yes. Trump's
going fast. And nobody ever talks about that.
And they're like, oh, well, you know what? That
was something that was voted by Congress. I was
like, whatever, dude. Yeah, that never really
saw the light of day. Nobody knows anything about
that stuff. It seems like a lot of these things
get passed. It's kind of like they drop a 1 ,000
-page bill on a table, and they're like, hey,
look, we're voting on this in six hours. And
you're like, okay. Well, it's like, who said
it? We have to pass it to know what's in it.
That's Nancy. Was that Nancy Pelosi who said
that? About the Affordable Care Act. Yeah, we
have to pass it so we can figure out what's in
it. Who was the drunk guy at the bar? Paul? Bob?
He was sitting at the bar at the wedding. Oh,
the neighbor. Yeah, the neighbor. He was like,
I'm too drunk to walk 200 feet to my house, so
I'm just going to sit here for a while. Hell,
I'd piss on a spark plug if I knew it'd help.
That Waffle House did me bad. I believe I could
have shit into a Coke bottle across the room.
I just made that up. But you know what he did
tell me? He told me that it was... What was that
from? War Games. Yeah, exactly. I think you were
catching that. He said that he grew up on the
East Coast. He was very good friends or best
friends with the son of one of the mobsters.
He was... Dishing out names left and right. Oh,
yeah. And he shared that Nancy Pelosi is the
daughter of a mobster from the East Coast. Is
that accurate? From Baltimore. Oh, my God. From
Baltimore. Well, I don't know if he was a mobster.
He might have been the mayor who was aligned
with the mob. Then he was a mobster. So there's
a lot of connections here. And he was saying
all kinds of stuff. And this guy's... As a retired
electrician, master electrician. And he was spouting
off some facts. And I was kind of like, actually,
he was spouting off stuff. Right, right, right,
right. And it just caught me off guard because
he was naming names. And I was kind of toasty.
I didn't catch them all. But he was saying, yeah,
this was tied into there. The Democrats paid
for this in Baltimore. And then all of a sudden
they get shipped off to, you know, they were
trying to pass some stuff. And then Nancy moved
over to California and all of a sudden became
a lawmaker and went into the politics. And then
she was part of all of that. So it just, to me,
listening to the whole thing, I was like, all
right, this was by design. Her involvement in
everything. Yeah, the Genovese crime family is
her ancestors. Great. Yeah, so this is part of
the Italian mob. And she's been in Congress for
124 years? It says there from since 1912. Okay,
okay. That's 112 years. Okay, yeah, that makes
a lot of sense. Well, she's done after this one,
though, right? She said she's not running again.
She's not running again. Did she break her hips
or something like that? Well, if she does run,
she'll break her hip. No, didn't she have crutches
or a walker? She's 90 what? What did we say she
was? How old is she? Pretty old. Yeah. She's
in her 80s, I think. So ridiculous. You know,
it's frustrating. It's frustrating as a normal
citizen that makes normal pay, and we're struggling,
and she's built a... empire off of the backs
of the citizens of the United States based on
misinformation. Not misinformation, but private
information or what is it? Insider information.
It's illegal and it pisses me off that she's
not held accountable for it. And then everyone
turns a blind eye to it. And it's just like,
dude. What was her husband? It wasn't her. She
wasn't trading. Oh, really? And she swore she
didn't tell him anything. Shut up. Pinky swear.
She just said, we're going to pass this legislation.
What's going to impact this industry? So, honey.
Yes. Wink, wink. Let's talk about that Boulder
attack today. That wasn't today, was it? That
was yesterday? That was yesterday. Dude. I saw
a couple of videos. I didn't see the video. I
just saw kind of the aftermath. Well, it's an
illegal alien. From Egypt. Egypt, right. And
he had been planning this for a year or more,
he said. And what it is is he waited for his
daughter to graduate college to do this so that
she could get her full degree, college education,
before he. And not be the daughter of a murderer.
Yeah, before he did this. So, yeah. So, apparently
he had his little makeshift. Molotov cocktails
and some kind of flamethrower or torch or something.
And he threw it on a bunch of these protesters
who were just peacefully walking. Yeah, these
are pro -Israeli. And apparently one of them
was a Holocaust survivor from one of the concentration
camps. Look at the carbon stains on the ground.
They were protesting. They were wanting the hostages
back from Gaza. That's what it was. Why is no
one charging his ass? They're not allowed to
have guns there. Just knock his ass down. Shoot
him. Just shoot him. He should have been ventilated
a long time ago. He's holding a Molotov cocktail
in his hands. They should have shot him dead.
Someone go up there and tackle his ass so he
doesn't do it again. Crying out loud. I mean,
the ground is still on fire over there. Ridiculous.
I don't know. But, you know, he's, you know,
who knows what's going to happen to him. But,
you know, I think, unfortunately. He's planning
this for a year. He's planning it for over a
year. Yep. Yeah. Look at the terrorists who burned
six Jewish Americans, including children and
elderly in Boulder, Colorado. U .S. shouting
Palestine is an impossible, possible terror attack
today. I know. It's so stupid. What's interesting
is they're charging him with murder. Nobody has
died from what I understand. They're charging
him with terrorism. Yeah, they said they were
charging him with murder. Now, somebody has to
die for that to happen. So I didn't understand
that article that I read. I don't know. But definitely
terrorism, definitely some other crazy shit,
yes. Yeah, so that's... That's pretty whacked
out, and they're calling him a white man. Yeah,
charged with first -degree murder. White boulder
man. They're calling him a white man. Oh, white
boulder man. Oh, okay. Okay. Interesting. Because
when you're filling out applications, because
I did a shit ton of them last year, white is
North Africa, and parts of the Middle East is
white. Interesting. It's considered white. Okay.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Yes. It's not
sub -Saharan. Yes. Wow. Well, that's just...
But it also makes it sound worse. Oh, this was
a white man who did this. No, it was an illegal
alien from Egypt. So what is the latest in Gaza?
I mean, I know that they were settling on a ceasefire
in a, you know... I don't know. And then Gaza,
the Hamas said they wouldn't go for it or something.
They agreed to release some hostages, but they're
not going to agree to the ceasefire. Aren't they
getting their ass kicked? I mean, aren't they?
When is enough is enough? Like, when do they
just give up? So the latest updates from Gaza.
Israel is blocking all but a trickle of life
-saving aid into Gaza. People are struggling
to access basics like food, water, medicines,
shelter. All of Gaza is at risk of man -made
famine. Starvation is widespread and children
and families are dying. From hunger. Yeah. Bono
had thoughts about that. Yeah, I know they, you
know, it's not a pretty situation. I definitely
know that, you know, innocent Gazans are struggling,
right? I mean, and they're talking about when
food trucks arrive, you know, they mob the food
trucks. I mean, it's a desperate situation in
there. It is. There's no denying that, right?
Damn, I don't know how we unwind from this. How
does Israel unwind from this? I want to know
how it's our fault, how it's our business. I
mean, granted, we stand behind Israel. That's
why. That's why. But how is it our, why do we
need to be instrumental in fixing that? You know,
because this is an ideology. Well, I think. We
can't fix that. Well, I think the Gaza thing
is there's still some U .S. hostages over there.
Yeah. That's why we're involved to a bit. But
I think what I've heard is Trump wants Israel
to take the lead on this, but he doesn't want
it to get out of hand at the same time, right?
I mean, everybody wants, you know, everybody.
All the allies want Israel to meet their objective
with minimal loss of life, right? I mean, but
how do you do that? They have human shields,
and they put all their bases under hospitals
and schools. I mean, I just don't understand
how it's gone on as long as it has without Hamas
being dumb. I don't know. That tells you how
dug in they are. I mean, they are. Well, they're
hidden. They're hidden. And they got miles and
miles and miles of tunnels. Yep. It's amazing.
It's probably all booby trapped. Oh, yeah. All
kinds of shit. I don't know. It's going to get
worse. I'm kind of amazed that the hostages that
they released are still in fairly good condition.
Some were. Of course, some weren't. By that,
you mean living? Right. Any new news on January
6th? No. It was four and a half years ago. Nothing
new. They said there's going to be some bombshell
reporting with the FBI's involvement. I'm wondering.
They're teasing us. It better be good. Well,
and they're doing a full -court press on the
bomber. Oh, yeah, there was a pipe bomber there.
Pipe bomber. Yep. Who planted those fake devices?
They never went off. For what reason? Who they're
connected to? Yeah, they never went off. No,
no, they couldn't have. They were inert. They
were inert. Okay. They were there to cause a
scene. And that was totally not covered by the
mainstream media. There was two of them. And
then they had video of the guy that did it. Placed
them, yeah. I think they had video of him. In
fact, he even went up there and told the police
the one was over there. What in the hell? That's
so weird. And they have the grainiest video,
even though they have high quality cameras all
around that place. They release this grainy,
dumbed down video. You couldn't tell anything.
Who's this guy? Whoa. We can't tell because the
video's grainy. Lovely. Please. All right, let's
jump on the Bono, Bonehead Bono thing. So look
at the little context here. So Bono was on the
Joe Rogan show, and he made some statements that
what we believe is bullshit. There's no support.
You can't say it's bullshit because I haven't
seen what he's referring to. He quotes. but I
don't know. But the spirit of it is that Donald
Trump is to blame because he cut off aid to USAID
and all these people across the planet are dying.
300 ,000 people have died because of that. Just
a recent report. It's not proven, but their surveillance
enough suggests 300 ,000 people have already
died. That makes no sense to me, though. Surveillance
has proved. Of USAID. So there's food rotting
in... Boats in warehouses. This will fuck you
off. You will not be happy. No American will.
But there is, I think it's 50 ,000 tons of food
that are stored in Djibouti, South Africa, Dubai,
and wait for it, Houston, Texas. And that is
rotting, rather than going to Gaza, rather than
going to Sudan, because the people who know the
codes for the warehouse are fired. They're gone.
And so this, I don't know, I just, what do you
think? What is that? That's not America, is it?
Well, they're throwing the baby out with the
bathwater. Right. This is the problem. The problem
is... For sure, there have been a lot of organizations
that do tremendous good all throughout the world.
Also, for sure, it was a money laundering operation.
For sure, there was no oversight. For sure, billions
of dollars are missing. In fact, trillions that
are unaccounted for that were sent off into various...
They don't even know where because there's no
receipt. Yeah, I think he later on calls them
out and says, yeah, those numbers are not verifiable.
No. Right? Somebody made them up. Yeah, so, and
I heard on the radio they were talking about
this, that this is similar to the stat of the
plastic straw. Remember when the whole thing
against the plastic straw came out? Well, apparently
the press got a hold of the stat that a 10 -year
-old made up for a research paper for school.
He goes, And he's later come out and talked about
this and says, yeah, I couldn't find any information
on the plastic straw and how many are used. So
he just made up a number. 500 million straws
or plastic straws are used daily by people in
the U .S. Oh, my God. And the press found that
somewhere. And they ran with it. His project
got posted or something like that, and that's
what they ran with. That's what they ran. That's
how that whole plastic straw, anti -straw thing
came about. Yeah, they found one straw in one
turtle and turned it into you all must have paper
straws. Yep. Yep. Is that his butt? That's his
nostril. That's his nose. Oh. That's his mouth.
That's his eyeball. How the hell did he get a
straw in his nostril? I don't know. He must be
like a coke addict. Maybe he's friends with Hunter
or something. Tell you what, Biden turtle, show
me your friends, I'll show you your future. Says
turtles don't have widespread cocaine problems.
He hung out with the wrong turtles, man. He was
at the White House. This time next week, Jeff,
you'll be in Wyoming. Wyoming, yeah. And walk
us through what you're going to do out there.
We are heading up there to visit some friends
that just got married a couple weeks ago. And
they're moving to, they have a house up there
on a couple acres. And they're outside of Centennial,
Wyoming, which is to the east of Laramie, I believe.
Very nice. There's Laramie. Go to the east a
little bit. You should see – or I'm sorry, to
the west. You should see Centennial. There it
is right there. So we're going to be there. Oh,
my God. I'm sure it's beautiful. Yeah, they're
right in there. And he showed me a video that
he took outside his window, a big -ass – This
humongous moose was walking right by his house.
Wow. He's like, you know, I'm 6 '1". He goes,
you would come up to its shoulder. This thing
was so damn big. So while we're up there, we're
just going to hang out, take it easy. They're
going to take us around, see the sights. Are
these moose aggressive? Oh, yeah. Oh, they can
be. Oh, yeah, big time. He was up there, and
there was a river or a creek or something like
that by their house. And there was also a bunch
of trees. He goes and charged them because there
was a mother and a baby moose down there. And
then the big daddy moose or somebody. But it
couldn't maneuver through the trees because they
had the big, antlers, right? He goes, that's
really the thing that saved me because it couldn't
maneuver through all these trees very well to
get to me. But it was charging them. Yeah, so
anyway, we're going up there. We're going to
spend three, four days there just enjoying the
weather, the atmosphere, just taking it easy.
We're going to hit a distillery up there. It's
a huge ranch. Wyoming Whiskey Distillery? No,
it's Brush Creek. I don't know anything about
them. So they just moved up there? Or they're
from there? They just moved up there. They just
moved up there. Well, they've been working on
it for a while. They did own 35 acres up there,
but I think they were going to build a house
on it. But the house fell through for some reason,
and they were having some troubles getting someone
else to build out there. So they sold that and
bought this already built house on like two or
three acres. Interesting. So, yeah, I mean, unless
you work from home, I don't know how you can
pull off something like that. There's only, I
think, less than 400 ,000 people who live in
the entire state. Yeah. I mean, it's so remote,
which is awesome. Yeah. But you've got to be
able to work from home full time. I mean, you're
not going to get a job up there unless you've
got some crazy skill. Unless you're a rancher.
Yeah, I was going to say, some crazy skill that
is in demand. It's very remote up there. Then
you have Jackson Hole, which is over there on
the west. That, from what I've heard, is actually
beautiful, but it's been... Commercialized. Overrun.
All the Californians. It's Californianized. You
know, the Grand Tetons and all that stuff. So
we're not going to make it there. We had thoughts
of going over to Yellowstone, but you can't find
any lodging there. You have to plan that out
like a year in advance. Right. Because it's so
sought after. Well, it is, and it's remote. Right?
It's not like there's a big city out there with
a bunch of hotels. Right. So you're limited.
to where you can stay out there by the Yosemite.
So we're going to skip that. Then we're going
to drive over to Glenwood Springs, Colorado,
which is west of Denver. How did you choose that?
Julie's cousin lives there. Oh, nice. So there's
Denver. So, yeah, it's right in there. They have
hot springs. And we're going to go visit the
hot springs one day and soak and just take it
easy, man. That sounds wonderful. Yeah, it's
right there. I don't know what river that is,
but it's right there on the river. Colorado River.
It's along the interstate. Yeah. Very nice, man.
And then we're... The Glenwood Hot Springs Mineral
Water. Yep, that's where we're going to go. The
Yampa Spring, which produces 3 .5 million gallons
of water per day. Damn, that's a bunch. Yeah.
So it's just like that spa in the colony. Yeah,
but that's pretty hot. It's at the temperature
of 122 degrees Fahrenheit. Yeah, there's different
pools that you can get in. I think that's the
hottest. It's cooled down to 104. Oh. There's
one that was really hot, and I was like, yeah,
I'm not getting into that. Yeah, that one's fucking
hot. It can get dangerous if you get too hot.
Oh, yeah, for sure. Well, that one's 104 degrees,
but they also have other ones that are 90 to
93 degrees that they dumb down even more. Ah,
that sounds so fun. But your cabin, on our way
back, we're going to actually, one of the routes
had us going through the fucking mountains, and
the other way had us going, actually, I think
we're going close to where your cabin is. Yeah.
Because you're down south a little bit next there
to Colorado Springs in what, was it Fair Play?
Mm -hmm. Yep, near Fair Play. We're not going
to be as high as that because you're at 10 ,000
feet. And I think Glenwood's around 5 ,000. Didn't
something just happen in Colorado Springs? Like
what? Like something good? Something bad? Something
bad. I didn't hear anything. I don't know. Hopefully
it wasn't something super serious. But yeah,
that's a lot of driving you guys are doing. Well,
we did it last year when my dad passed away.
We drove back from... Tahoe via San Diego because
we drove all the way down. That was a long drive
from Tahoe. Because you wanted to see the zoo,
right? Well, we were like, well, I have his car.
I need to get it back. So we're like, let's take
a week or more to just drive it back and see
the sights. I wasn't working at the time. She
was on summer break, so we just made a vacation
of it. So we went down to San Diego because she
wanted to see her aunt in Phoenix. So we were
looking at a couple different routes, going up
through Salt Lake and coming down maybe to Moab
and stuff like that. But she's like, I want to
see my aunt in Phoenix. So we went down to, I
was like, well, I want to see the San Diego Zoo.
We can go zip down to San Diego and just go straight
east at that point, hit Phoenix, stop for a night,
and then, you know. In El Paso County, something
happened. Yeah, then we stopped in El Paso as
well. El Paso County? The city. No, no, no, on
its way back to San Diego. Yeah. That was last
year's trip. That is a butthole drive. Oh, butthole
drive. Oh, it is so bad. I've driven out to Tucson
and back, and it's a beatdown. Well, from basically,
you leave San Diego and you go to the mountains,
and you get to the base of the mountains. Which
is nice. That's a nice drive. That's nice. And
then you get to the base, and then you're in
a desert, like sand dune desert forever. And
once you get past that, then you're in the same,
I mean, they'll have some nice out rock. But
it basically looks the exact same all the way
into - Like plateaus, right? Basically all the
way into fucking Texas, right? So you're just
like, fuck, this sucks, man. It is a beatdown.
Yeah, and it's hot as balls too, man. Oh, there's
a missing Utah girl found in Colorado Springs.
Three facing charges, illegal immigrants. That's
what Robert's talking about. Did you hear what
happened down at Stonebriar at the Don Julio's?
Yes. That's horrible. What? So a seven -year
-old girl, I guess, had wandered away from her
family and for some reason took off her shoes
and got into the pond and drowned. And drowned,
yeah. And they didn't say anything about the
situation. I heard she was autistic or something.
Oh, I hadn't heard. Yeah, I don't know about
that. Yeah, I haven't heard any of that. I mean,
it would be nice to know what the details were.
But those are the kind of restaurants and stuff
where a lot of... families get together after
like sporting events and stuff and they just
kind of let their kids kind of run around yeah
and you know and because this was a retainage
area i don't know i just know that that's well
i don't know if they were they in don julio's
or i know there's a pond next to don julio's
right So I'm speculating. Right. I don't know
where they came from. But it's not unusual. I'm
telling you, it's not unusual for when those
baseball teams get done or basketball teams get
done. Oh, yeah. They all hang out at the restaurant
and the kids kind of just do their own thing.
They're out there just playing, running around.
Yeah, they roam around. And there's like a boardwalk
type of place and it's kind of nice and there's
water. Yeah, but I mean, shit, man. Like in the
detention pond at Uncle Hulu? Yep, that's where
they found her. Yeah. What the hell, man? Yeah.
So I had not heard that it was a... an autistic
girl, but I don't know. We'll have to wait and
hear. I mean, that's deep and there's no fence.
Yeah. She just got in. Yeah, they found her shoes
on the side. Yeah, that's a horrific story. But
you know, a seven -year -old, I mean, a seven
-year -old should know how to swim unless it
was a situation like you described there, Sean.
But I mean, a seven -year -old should know how
to swim. Yeah, it's a nightmare for... Let alone
the parents. Oh, yeah. It's a nightmare. It is.
Who wants that? No one. No one. Awful. Awful
story. And that happened, what, yesterday? Mm
-hmm. This weekend. I think it was Sunday. Or
it may have been yesterday. I don't know. That's
what I saw about it. It was yesterday. I don't
even know what today is. What is it? Today is
Monday. Today is Monday. Yeah, so it was. So,
yeah, it probably was yesterday or Saturday.
That doesn't matter. It's terrible. Terrible.
Terrible. Look at that roof. Sexy. It's funny
what you look at in pictures. You're like, oh,
that's had some hail damage. Yeah, I look at
all kinds of stuff. They've got some drainage
issues I could see. Isn't that brand new, though?
Yeah, it just opened. I thought so. Yeah, it
just opened just a couple months ago. Wow. I
haven't been to it. I went to the one down on
Trinity Mills. Yeah, we did that one. Something
like Brankford or something? Brandon worked out.
Oh, hold on. That's by the mall. Yes, by Stonebriar.
Correct. Oh, my God. I got kicked out of that
one. Of Uncle Randy? I did. Wes and I got kicked
out. Are you serious? Yeah, it was during Christmas
time. I was going to say, we should go sit at
the bar. I guess not now. No, I mean, we can,
but here's the thing. We went to, and look, this
is all on us. We went to the mall at Christmas
time shopping, right? go into the bottom of the
mall. All right? Center, bottom. They sell beer
that you can walk around. Yes. And I was like,
I'm in. And I buy two beers, and we walk to the
left, and we do a circuit. We come back to the
center. I buy another beer. We walk the other
way, do a circuit, come back, buy another beer,
go upstairs, and repeat. We do four beers. Whatever,
how long that took. Just walking around, fucking
around. In the mall. In the mall. Okay. Plus,
we had two beers on the way up there. Right.
All right? So, let's see. 18, 19, 22 beers. So,
you had a 12 -pack in by the time you hit the
Uncle Julio's? Then we went over to Uncle Julio's,
and all I wanted was a steak. It's just like,
I want a steak. And I was trying to ask her,
and there was obviously... A communication barrier.
Because you were like, oh. El Staco. El Staco.
She was such an ass. She recognized that we were
toasty. And it was just like, dude, I just want
a steak. Do you guys have steak? And I was like,
what the fuck are you saying? I don't understand
anything you're saying. And I did not understand
what she was saying. You know? And she said,
you need to leave. No, dude. We had two beers.
And then we did a tequila. Oh, God. And we ordered
chips and queso. And then quesadillas. And then
we were trying to order our dinner. And it was
just like, I don't know. It got ugly. And then,
you know, Wes. And, you know, it just. But the
point is that we were a little toasty. Maybe
that's the reason, but they did kick us. They
were like, well, you guys can leave then. If
you don't like it, if you don't like the fact
that we have to stay, you can just leave. So
we left, whatever. I don't give a shit. They
didn't make us pay for anything, too. I was offered,
too. I was like, look, I'll pay for whatever
I had. And they were like, no, just leave. Just
leave, huh? Just leave. Wow. That doesn't sound
like a good ending. I still don't understand
what the hell she was saying. So moral of the
story is don't drink 20 beers at the mall. Stumble
over to Uncle Julio's. All I wanted was a steak.
That's all I wanted. You sound like Rambo. You
should have gone to the Brazilian Chiriscaria
right next to it. You could have gotten all the
steak you wanted. But they didn't know where
they were. Yeah. While Wes was driving. It's
like right next to it. That's hilarious. I wish
I would have because I would have gone over there.
It's that one right there. EB Steak. Oh, my God.
It's a steak in the name. Right on the other
side of it. Yes. Literally on the other side
of the pond. Yeah. Jeez. You guys would have
waded across the pond and had your steak. Uncle
Hulu should have said, there's a steak place
right next to us. Go over there. We were giddy.
They should have. We were giddy. We were having
a good time. We weren't, you know, I guess when
we get giddy and having a good time, you know,
especially you. I mean, people are kind of like.
Maybe you're getting loud. Can you tell your
friend to please calm down? I'm not. I'm not
here to talk about my transition. I'm here to
kick some f***ing ass. Let me tell you something,
Dingleberry. Really? What's interesting is he
likes to bring up the Kelly story many, many
times. I did bring that up. Never once has he
brought up this Uncle Julio's getting thrown
out of Uncle Julio's. I find that interesting,
Sean. I didn't get thrown out. They asked me
to leave. Isn't it the same thing? Actually,
I volunteered to leave. Yeah, the story's changing.
I know. We were done with our food, so I paid
left. I didn't pay, though. They asked us to
come back for more, and I said no. It's never
a good thing when they ask you to leave. But
we were toasty, and frankly, had they called
the local peace officer, we probably would have
gotten in trouble. Right. So there's that. I
would have Ubered home. That begs the question.
When did I always, when I hear the word peace
officer, when did it change from police officer
to peace officer? It's the same picture. I know,
but has it always been that way? Because I remember
somebody saying peace officer, and I was like,
is that like a, you know how those people drive
around in their neighborhood watch? That's a
neighborhood watch. I know, I know. That's what
I thought a peace officer is when somebody said
they were a peace officer. I was like, what is
a peace officer? I've never heard that. Did you
guys grow up with that always being a thing?
I don't know when it came into the vernacular,
but I always remember it. being interchangeable.
I didn't. Yeah. I thought it maybe was a citizen's...
Historical contact and English common law dating
back to the medieval times. So it's been around
a while. Okay, well, first off, we're not UK.
But it's a broader term that it kind of encompasses
various law enforcement roles as the police have
a very specific type of role. And in 1845 in
New York. Interesting. Adopt the term police
from the French. Say French. French. French fries.
And French dressing. And French bread. And to
drink, ta -da, Peru. Oh, the French. I was like,
what? Anyway, I just thought that raised a question.
I was always kind of curious. No, I've heard
it for a very long time. Again, you know, I usually
just call them police. I don't really say police
officers. Caps the pig. Pig's great. No, I wouldn't
recommend you say that. We've got a lot of respect
for the police. We really do. You know what?
What would we do without them? Huge respect.
Those guys, they run into it. The shit they have
to deal with, like these guys at Uncle Julio's.
Oh, my God. I know. You know what I mean? Yeah.
I volunteered that information. It's not going
back into the bag. That was a mistake. Every
time you throw out kale, it's going to be like,
well, not as bad as Uncle Julio's. Oh, it was
way worse. Oh, my God. I didn't do that. But
I think we bought a bunch of stuff at the mall,
though. It was fun, though. And we did like fucking
8 ,000 steps at the mall at the same time. There
we go. It's a great workout. A lot of people
do that. Offset that step with the beers, though.
That's what a lot of people do. They go to the
mall and they just walk the mall. Oh, yeah. A
lot of people do that. Yeah, it's like an exercise.
I got my mom. When my mom broke her hip with
her cancer, she was housebound for a long time.
And I went up and visited her. I was like, we're
getting you out of the house. And I got her out
of the house, and we went to the mall, and I
pushed her around the mall for a couple hours.
Brilliant. Yeah. So I was like, you got to get
out of this house. Oh, yeah. You know? So we
did. So we did. Yeah, I give my brother credit.
I mean, both of my parents are in the lid, basically.
And he, man, he gets them in wheelchairs, and
he gets them in the van, and takes them to church.
Oh, yeah. I mean, you have to, you know? Yeah.
You know. It's a good thing. Those beers were
expensive at the mall too, by the way. Of course.
Jesus. But I'll tell you one good thing that
came out of it. Damn, we got to talk about this
real quick. We do. Oh, you got to delete. Hey,
Chuck, push back that time. We've got three minutes
left. Let's push back that time. Before we do
that, in the mall, I have the cups. So every
time we went there and got a beer, I took like
an extra six cups. So what I'm going to do now
is I have them in my office right now. I'm going
to take two brand new fresh cups. We could pour
beer in there and just walk around with our beer.
Instead of paying $28. Oh, because it looks like
you bought it from that. Yeah, because it's got
the little logo on there. Anyways, let's talk
about our advent calendar whiskey of the night
for the second half of the podcast. Yeah, this
is... Where's the bottle at? It's a beautiful
bottle. Yeah, it's very stout. It's very thick
glass. It's got a nice wax top with the wax pool
on it. But this is from... Preservation Distillery,
which are the same folks that do, I think, the
old St. Nick whiskeys. It's all pot still up
there, I believe. And this is one that is only
at the distillery. It was a very small batch,
according to what they were saying. And this
is a weeded bourbon. It's aged six to seven years.
It's just called Preservation. a state pot distilled
Kentucky bourbon. 67 years. That's amazing. Yeah,
67 years. It's very dark, very good hue. It's
essentially just solid wood sap. Sorry, six to
seven years. So this is weeded bourbon. Yeah,
this is a weeded bourbon. Proof is 114, 115.
I can't read that. It's a chicken scratch it
in there. Um, but, uh, I had this, I tasted it,
uh, uh, at the, uh, they had a little tasting
bar over there. Right. So I was, I was like,
cause, uh, I was looking at it and it seemed
interesting to me. So I was like, you have this
to sample and he did, he pulled it out and I
really enjoyed it. Yeah. So I, uh, I was like,
all right, I'm getting this bottle and it wasn't,
uh, a lot of their stuff was really expensive
for whatever reason. This one wasn't as expensive.
Uh, it was around a hundred bucks, 110 bucks
or so. I think for this, everything else was
like. $200 at this place. Wow. That's good. Well
worth it. And it was a great purchase. And we're
enjoying the hell out of this. The Preservation
Pot Distilled Weeded Bourbon offers a rich, complex
flavor profile. Notes of, I'll wait. Let's do
this. What are we tasting here? Well, when we
first poured it, the nose was not good. It scared
me. Yeah, it was not good. And when I sat down
here and smelled again, I picked up a lot of
vanilla. Now that it's opened up. A ton of vanilla.
I even wrote it down. Toffee. Yeah, that's another
good one. Got some anise back there. I got to
be honest. It's not an impressive nose, but it
surprises you. It's raisin, kind of figgy nose.
Yeah, I was going to say fig or like prune. Maybe.
But if we can move on, the tasting notes say
baklava. And when I heard that, I said, oh, yeah.
Baklava. Baklava. Have you ever had baklava?
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I could pick that up. So
that's a sweetness. I mean, that's a sweetness
with what? Like brown sugar. Syrupy brown sugar.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. All right. I could get
that. Dark cherry kind of. Like a stone fruit
kind of essence. Weathered cherry. Weathered.
Yeah, cherries that have sat out there for like
a week. They're all desiccated. Actually, I'm
dipping into some wintergreen here. Look, this
is terrific. I'm enjoying this. It's very complex.
Yeah, there's a lot of stuff going on here. It's
not as viscosey. The legs aren't as, believe
it or not, the prior one we had, the first half
was a little bit, had a little bit more viscosey
to it. This is still good. Man, I'm trying to
see that glass a little bit. Why don't you dump
it out? I already did that once today. It's unfiltered,
too. Oh, it is unfiltered. Yeah, this is 114
.7, and it's smooth, but I'm picking up spice
on the back of the throat back there, right?
That kind of lingers. The hot cinnamon kind of
lingering. It goes down. There's no burn on the
tongue or anything like that, but it's like in
the back of the uvula kind of a thing. Way back
in there is where I'm picking it up. Tannins.
It's great. It's really good. Very rich. Very
tasty. It says it's a mild barrel char. Maybe
a two, maybe? Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
It doesn't really say. Actually, they have some
information on the back. It says, tasting notes.
I can't read that because it's ridiculously.
Let's do some light. How's that go? It says,
unique, viscous, one to three barrel batches,
and in caramelized wheat toffee, deep toasted
oat, and honey butter. is with the tasting notes
on this one here. So tasting notes, unique, viscous,
one to three barrel batch. That is crazy. Lot
number five, Merco single batch pot stilled.
Merco. Is that Merco? Is it micro, baby? No,
it's M -I, looks like a V or R, C -O, the distillation
process. So it looks like Merco single batch
pot distilled. Like you said, 114 .4 proof. And
it says Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky. It
was in Bardstown. Preservation is a little southwest
of the city. I mean, it's Bardstown, but it's
a little southwest. It's south of Heaven's Hill.
What made you pick this one? This is kind of
unique. It's like a smaller distillery. We just
went in. We didn't do a tour. I wanted to go
in there, and again, I did research, right? And
they said it's small, it's nice, and they've
got some really interesting things for sale there.
So I went in there. Did you talk about the mash
bill? No, I did not. So the mash bill says local
artisan corn, harvest wheat, dark toast malted
barley. That's the mash bill that's claiming.
It doesn't give you a ratio, though. There's
no percentages. No. Yeah, but when I first walked
in there, I didn't see this one at first. I was
looking at everything, and I was like, God, everything's
really expensive in here. I was like, damn it.
Then I saw this, and I was like, all right, let
me go taste it. At least it's around the $100
range. And I was like, wow, that's really good.
So I was like, Julie gets up and goes over and
grabs it to buy it. Nice. So what was the other
stuff? The $200 stuff? Well, it's like the old
St. Nick, the very old St. Nick, and stuff like
that. The Waddy Boone stuff. Did Scott Cash open
up a bottle of St. Nick at his house when we
were over there? I don't think so. He's got like
two bottles. Interesting. We've got to poke him
on that. We've got to get him to the podcast.
We needed another outing at his house. That was
so much fun. It was like... It was like middle
school night for us. Oh, we're jamming on drums
and we're playing stuff and we're like messing
with stuff. Chuck's going to have to bring his
guitar. Some of these rare perfections were not
cheap. I can tell you that. Interesting. Oh,
wow. Got some high proof there. I like how they
have a sell sheet. All right. Well, you know
what? This is fantastic. Preservation. What are
we going to slap a label on this thing? What
do we want to do? You go ahead and start it off
there. Preservation? Yeah, it's just preservation
is the name of the thing. It's got a big -ass
longhorn on it, on the front. What are we calling
this? As far as rating? How much time we got,
Chuck? I think I would give this a 7 .3 for me,
considering this is around the 114 mark. I'm
about 7 .3, 7 .4 on this. I was going to go 7
.7. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to go 7 .8. I'm enjoying
it. Wow. Enjoying it that much, huh? So much
enjoyment. Good God. I wonder if they got picked
up on the mic. I'll make sure it does. It did.
Yeah, you need to enhance that. I had a chimichanga
with extra beans. Yeah, chimichanga. No, this
is really, really good. Again. If you're up there,
I recommend picking up a bottle. You're not going
to find it down here, unfortunately. And that's
another thing that's kind of neat about these
experiences. Distillery -only picks, right? So
that's another thing. That's what I try to stick
to. There's a couple out there that don't fall
into that category, but I try to get the only
ones that are only Kentucky or only distillery
type of stuff. So some of our listeners that
don't know about what we're doing right this
second, and I probably should have prefaced this,
but... If you listen to us every week, you probably
know that this particular bottle and these are
called the advent calendar, at least for the
next three or four months. Right. So Jeff went
down to Kentucky and he bought a bunch of whiskey
and came back with the whiskey. And we don't
want to know what the whiskey is because I know
as excited as you were. I was even more excited
not knowing. I was ready to pull them all out
and show them to you. And Sean's like, no! Yeah,
wait, wait, wait. There's like Christmas every
single Tuesday podcast. It's like, Jeff Unveils
a new one. And it's so exciting. I'm telling
you. Every time you do it, I'm just like, we
would have wasted all that on the first night.
I mean, it's still exciting to taste it. But
for those folks out there that don't understand,
that's what this is. This is the second half.
And I think we're going to kind of stick to this
to make it the second half. Because it's exciting.
And this one truly is a gem. Period. This one's
great. It's good. Yeah, I've been anxious to
pull this one out. I thought about saving it
for one of the last ones, but I couldn't wait
any longer. You know what's interesting about
this bottle? And I don't know what the, the bottle
itself is. It's got a, it's got, when you lift
the bottle up and you reach underneath it, it
has that, it's a deep well in there. It's like
a wine bottle, right? It's shaped like a wine
bottle, sort of like a Bordeaux bottle, but I'm
kind of like, but what is the, function of that
deep well on the other side. I think it's just
to add weight. The concaveness? I don't know,
but it's a heavy bottle. Especially down at the
bottom. It's good and heavy. That's a good question.
But I don't know what purpose... But that one's
like really deep, isn't it? Really deep, actually.
I was trying to, I was like, why is this so deep?
I didn't get that. Super unique bottle. Paul,
you don't stick your wiener in it. No. God. I
wasn't going to, but now I'm thinking about it.
All right, we got time for one more. We're not
doing, did you guys hear about that Jurassic
World movie that's coming out? No. Apparently
there's a couple good movies coming out soon.
Jurassic World and the F1 one with Brad Pitt,
right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, the F1 looks interesting.
Again, I'm a fan. I should say I'm a fan of the
Netflix show. I don't know if I could sit there
and watch an entire race on TV. It's interesting.
I think I could watch it live. The Netflix show
is awesome. Watching it live is a total disappointment.
It's not as exciting. I'm not going to lie. It's
a total disappointment. Yeah, it's not as exciting.
I've actually been to, in downtown Dallas, they
had a setup. This was like 20 plus years ago.
I sat out there and we watched it. It's amazing
when these cars fly by. Oh, yeah. Of course.
It's crazy. In person, it would be very impressive.
And you got to think about, it's not just, it
is the experience of being there, but it's the
experience of being there, watching the cars.
But, you know, there's also some drinking going
on and some fun. Yeah. You know, it's like in
between, it's kind of, you can hear it coming
around the corner. You know, when you got 50
cars in a lineup and, you know, they're separated
by 30 seconds and all of a sudden you got 10
seconds and then 40 seconds and then 10 seconds.
It's like. Every few moments, there's something
coming by. They're going so fast. It's crazy.
It's insane. To wrap your head around the eye
-to -hand coordination, to be able to move the
steering wheel, to get around into when do you
apply the brakes, when do you not apply them,
how much gas to spin around some of these corners.
Sometimes they strategically will step on the
gas to make them spin out a little bit so they
can get around some of these corners. It is crazy.
These guys are talented. There's no way around
that. Yeah, I know in the Netflix show they show
some of those agility and hand -eye coordination
things that these guys go through. And they have
full, you know, just workouts around that. And
they have these trainers. Have you seen those
in the program? They have these full, it's like
a video game. Except it's this huge cage and
they're actually driving a car, but they're in
a house, like a video game. Right. And they're
getting swung around and everything. I mean,
even when they're in the cars in the show, it
feels like. I mean, it's got this square little
thing that they have. Well, the steering wheel.
Right, and they remove it. It's essentially a
computer. I know. What, the steering wheel is?
Yes. And it seems very video game -y. Right.
It's got all kinds of lights and shit going on
in it. Yes. Buttons and all kinds of stuff. Oh,
so they change gears and everything through the
steering wheel? Everything's up there. Wow. Like
an Xbox controller? Yeah. As a matter of fact,
they were showing what they do in their downtime.
One of them was just hanging out doing F1 on
the PlayStation or whatever it was. Of course,
it's not like what they have in the car, but
it's pretty damn close. Some of those video games
do. The NASCAR folks do it too. They train on
the track they're going to run to get their timing
down. Isn't that crazy? When they need to let
off the gas, when they can go full speed or whatever.
Yeah. I mean, I remember watching a movie that
was based on, they did a contest, video game
people contest, and whoever won in the game.
It was Gran Turismo. Yeah. Yes. I never watched
it, but yeah, Gran Turismo. Actually, it wasn't
bad. Yeah. It was not a bad movie. Gran Turismo,
really? Yeah. And it was apparently based on
a true story. Yeah, it was a true story. Where
the video game guy got into an actual car and
he really struggled at first and there was like
a bad wreck or something like that. But, I mean,
he ended up doing pretty good. Yeah. Well, you
can't account for G -forces when you're sitting
in your house. It's a little different. I'm more
in the style of watching some of these movies,
the Talladega Nights style with Will Ferrell.
Yeah, a little lighter. A little lighter. It's
more fun. I'm going to crawl up on you like a
spider monkey. That's funny. Love that. But those
two actors in there, Will Ferrell and what's
the sidekick's name? John C. Reilly? Yes, that's
him. John C. Reilly. What a frickin' nut. He's
as good as Will Ferrell in that movie. He's awesome.
They also play, what is it, the brothers? Brother
-in -law? Stepbrothers? Stepbrothers. That is
so funny. That's where they stick their nutsack
on his drums. Don't touch my drums. Isn't that
what he said? Yeah, and he puts his nutsack on
them. Right. Of course he did. Of course they
see all the nutsack. Well, look, I'm a little
slurry. Oh, you guys already finished? Yeah,
we're already done. Well, remember, you had an
extra pour because you spilled it in my throat.
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What just happened? Was that me? Ooh, it recycled.
I think that's the extension. Yeah, the music
recycled. God bless. I like that. All right,
Chuck, thank you. This was a great one. Shout
out to these guys. Preservation. Preservation,
thank you. Anything else? That's it. We're not
going to be here next week? Nope. I'll be in
Las Vegas. Are we going to be two weeks out?
I believe so. I should be back by then. Well,
look, I hope you have a good time. We're going
to make sure that we fund whatever you bring
back. And we would fund you from the last trip
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