Oh, the lava lamp is off. It is. We need to fix
that so it's a little bit easier to turn on.
Yeah. Low voltage trigger. Alexa, turn on lava
lamp. It looks really boring to look at right
now. It's got this, like a ball sack hanging
from the top. Doing nothing. Lord, your ball
sack looks like that. You screwed up. Something
about lava lamps when you first turn them on.
They're just so. Oh, just one side. Not worth.
All right, well, look, it's the first half. It
is freaking the middle of July. It is. It is.
Beware the Ides of July. Oh, my Lord. I can't
get anything to work. Screw it. So we got a special
guest today. We got a jam -packed Dude Psychos
podcast. We're so excited. We took a week off.
I think Paul went to Colorado, right? I did.
Yes. And while he was gone, while the cat's away,
they might as well play. And we did that. We
did a couple events without Paul, and, you know,
it was difficult. You know, we went through it.
A couple of events? Really. It was difficult
for you to do it without me, huh? It was. I felt
empty. We tried to wait for you, but you just
left it a day too late. It was difficult only
because you were, like, barraging me with pictures
of what I was missing. We wanted to share with
you the wonderful experience that we were having.
Yes. It was. It was nice. I've never been to
this. We'll talk about it. I guess we can talk
about it right now if you want. Well, check us
out on Facebook or Instagram. It's dudeslikeus
-podcast or dudeslikeus -footcraft. You know
what? We've got a special guest, dudeslikeus.
I'm Sean. I'm Paul. I am Jeff. And I'm the special
guest. I'm Larry. Yes. Is your microphone working
good for you? It seems to be. Sounds good to
me. It's a little low. It's kind of aiming at
your boobie. How's that? That's a lot better.
Are you pleased now? Well, one of our pod was
kind of a pod. We got to start working on our
microphone etiquette. We can't hear us. I can't
be talking over here. Hey, guys. See, I didn't
hear you. I barely heard you. Right there. Yeah,
right there in the middle. Yeah, right there
in the middle. So this is not your first time
on the podcast. It is not. I'm thinking this
is number four, five. Wow, that many times? At
least four. I was thinking the third time, but
excellent. No, I think this was number four.
I think you're right, yeah. You know, yeah, regardless,
I mean, you were one of the pioneers when we
were doing this from five years ago. Well, he
was the first guest, I think. Oh, wow. How was
back when we had the big ivory green, was it
green, the big old couch that was in here? No,
we never had that in here. What? The big green
couch? We had a big -ass couch. What color was
it? Big sectional? It wasn't in here when we
were doing the podcast. No, we had it in here.
There's no way. That took up the entire room.
Yes, I have a picture of Austin sitting here.
Oh, I think you're right. And he had the X -32
almost in his god -blessed lap. You are correct.
It was a burgundy. I forgot about that. He was
sitting on it, and it was sitting next to him.
And that was back when we hadn't hit the big
time yet. Now look at us. We are huge. We're
like 15 listeners now. Wow. Man, I mean, that's
800 % increase in listenership. Thanks, Mom and
Dad and all my relatives on the East Coast. Well,
it's exciting. We got a lot of good topics coming
up. Larry, you've got something. I don't even
know if we talked about this last time, but you're
retired. I am a retired gentleman. Yes, that's
true. And I was like, hey, we got some job opportunities
here. And you were like, no. Fuck no. It wasn't
just no. I think there was a word in front of
that. As of the first of this year. That's right.
And I got to tell you, boys, it is greatness.
It is so great. That's not fair. I'm about 60
% there. Maybe 70 % there. Wow. Almost there.
Because I'm out of the corporate world, so I
consider myself semi -retired. I'm done with
corporate. So I'm driving special needs kids
on school buses now. Oh, nice. So I consider
myself retired from corporate, put it that way.
It's a career change for sure. Oh, yeah. I've
made some interesting observations now that I'm
a retired gentleman, if I may. Please. No more
booby bars? Oh, yeah. It's rampant. More of them,
right? You know, as retirement was approaching,
like anybody does, I started thinking about it.
Like, what am I going to do when I'm retired?
Were you freaking out a little bit? Kind of the
empty feeling or scared feeling? I don't know
that I was freaking out, but I was just wondering,
what is it going to be like? Because for 40 years,
you are trained to get up, Go to work. Come home.
Get up. Go to work. Come home. For 40 years.
I know. That's a long time. Yeah. And I thought
to myself, is that a hard habit to break for
doing that for so long? Son, I can tell you it
is not a hard habit to break. I do not miss working
one bit. That's hilarious. Now, don't get me
wrong. I enjoyed my career. Sean and I worked
together at a company a few years ago as adjusters.
It was a career that suited me. I enjoyed it.
It was a little bit inside, a little bit outside.
Traveled all over the place looking at different
storms and things like this. It was a good career.
I enjoyed it. Right. But I am so done. I do not
miss working one day. So what do you find yourself
doing? Is it always unscheduled, unplanned? Crossword
puzzles, whatever he wants. Hide the meat sticks.
That's exactly my answer. No, I mean, really.
So is your day just kind of, you know, whatever
comes to you that day? Or is there any plan at
all? Another observation that I have made is,
you know, when you're working and, you know,
Maybe on Tuesday, I have a meeting with somebody.
And on Wednesday, I have this call that I have
to make. And then I have this on Thursday. So
you have all of these appointments in mind that
you have in your brain and you know you've got
to make them. And I don't know about you guys,
but with me, that would always be a source of
a certain level of anxiety. You're afraid you're
going to forget it or you're going to miss it.
Always in the back of your mind. But you can't
miss that appointment because it's important.
Right. Well, when not working, of course, now
I don't have these appointments or inspections
or meetings or any of that stuff. Blood pressure
is great now. Now it's stupid stuff like an appointment
to come here this evening to meet with you guys.
Oh, that's really stupid. An appointment to go
to the doctor or a lunch date with somebody.
But the funny thing is, it seems as though. The
level of anxiety with those appointments, whether
it's a work meeting or a Zoom call or something,
that is so dumb. But that level of anxiety is
still the same with the doctor's appointment
and going to this and going to that. On Wednesday,
the tree trimmer's coming. I got to go get a
haircut. I got to make sure that I'm home for
the tree trimmer. I'm getting my toenails painted.
I mean, it's stupid stuff. I got to take the
dog to the groomer. But like you said, it's just
as anxious. And I don't mean to... imply that
it's like a very high level of anxiety it's not
it's the bars just dropped yeah you know it's
like at about a three maybe but you know it's
still there but these stupid appointments that
i have to do the doctor and take the dog to the
groomer and things like that that level of anxiety
is still there with those i will see it as because
i was i was not working all last year i will
saw it as an inconvenience To have to do something
somewhere? To do something that I didn't want
to do. So I'd have these appointments where my
wife would be like, hey, you need to go do this,
do that. I saw it as an inconvenience because
I wanted to do what I wanted to do. Whether that
was look for a job or go work out in the garage
on some wood stuff or do whatever the hell I
wanted. And you asked, I was like, is your day
planned out? No, I never had a planned day. Whatever
came to me that day, whatever I wanted to do,
I did. I don't know if it'll always be that way.
But I know last year that's the way it was. You
know, it's interesting. You called it anxiety
and stress. I always try to steer away from those
two words, you know, because my wife is like,
what are you so stressed about? I'm like, I'm
not really stressed. It's just intensity. It's
an intensity. It's not a stress. Because, you
know, I think of stress as like, oh, my God,
we're going to die. Or anxiety is like, oh, my
God, oh, my God, oh, my God. It isn't that. It's
like, okay. It's an intensity. I've got to get
this done. I've got to get that done. I've got
to get that done before I get that done. So it
isn't like a negative thing. It's just a, you
know what I mean? It's like a keep the ball moving,
right? The train is rolling. I see when you retire,
Paul, you're going to have a list every day.
I am. I'm a list guy. And I love, I feel so accomplished
when I am productive. But when you have 200 days
in a row of that, that list gets worked. Right,
and then you have nothing. What happens after
that? I think it's a question because you're
like, all right, I've done this list. I've gone
back and done it three more times. Now what am
I going to do? That's what I was starting to
struggle with. I was like, okay, I've done this,
I've done this, I've done this, done this. Now
what? I think I just get more granular. Like
I saw an ant on the driveway. I'm going to go
get him. I'm going to sit out and wait for that
ant. Wait for him to come back out. Yeah, come
back out. I've got my magnifying glass ready
to go, man. And I think that's where some folks
have trouble retiring. Because in the beginning,
you're like, okay, I've got all this stuff I
can do. Boom, boom, boom. Well, now they're all
complete. I'm three months into this. Now what?
What now? Right? Well, then you start watching
The View. Oh, God. So, right. Is that correct,
Larry? Is that what you're doing? Yeah. Any TV
watching? The news. I watch a lot of news. Yeah.
Yeah. Just constant. Another thing that I've
noticed, remember, I don't know. 10 or 15 years
ago, maybe you run into an old friend of yours
that's a retired person. You go, well, hey, what
have you been doing? And the old person would
say, oh, gosh, I am so busy. Is your friend gay?
I am so busy now. I have to go to the pharmacy.
I have to stop at my sister's house. I have to
do this. I don't think there's anything wrong
with that. All of these kind of mundane sounding
things. And 10 years ago, you're kind of comparing
his. quote -unquote busy yeah you're real life
busy of the stresses of your job and responsibilities
and you're thinking to yourself dude you ain't
busy yeah it's like seriously This is what you
have to deal with? I had to fold my socks. Okay,
so I am now that old guy. That guy. There you
go. I'm that guy now. And by the way, it's going
to get worse. Well, that's what I mean. I'm so
busy. I have to go to the grocery store. I got
to go to the post office. I think that's important,
though. I think it will increase the longevity
of your life, your daily. Oh, yeah. That's what
I was getting at. I was like, you need to. Find
something to fill the time. Otherwise, you're
just going to sit on the sofa staring at the
TV watching The View. Yeah, you got to be engaged.
You got to keep your brain engaged. Correct.
And, you know, I know when my parents retired,
my dad specifically, his was fixing his house,
right? He moved out. He had a couple acres. So
his job, what he turned into was basically a
big -ass landscaper. for around his house it
took him years oh yeah well i mean that's like
a hobby right yeah people do gardening and people
do he finally got the moat completed with the
drawbridge he did you know he installed all kinds
of like drip lines and all kinds of stuff you
know so it took him years and uh you know and
eventually and taking care of my mom for one
thing and then it was done and then he i don't
know what he did after that what about shoveled
snow yeah for the neighbors yeah so what about
um visiting art or museums or you go to sporting
events. I mean, do you find yourself doing more
getting out and about or are they just really
mundane everyday tasks? To that point, you know,
used to be I would work for the weekends, right?
Because that's when you would go out and do stuff.
Your free time. On Friday nights, Saturdays,
maybe Sundays. Well, now weekends mean nothing.
It's always a weekend. So if you want to stay
out until 3 o 'clock in the morning on a Tuesday,
cool. Let's do it. But that's... I mean, my bedtime
really is 9 o 'clock, so that doesn't really
matter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're talking all
sorts of shit over there, Larry. The reality
is you're asleep by 8 .30 probably. But that's
all right. You're up for a certain amount of
time, especially in the state of Texas as hot
as it is in the summer. God bless. Go to bed
early. But my point is now the wife and I are
free to jump in the car on Wednesday and go someplace
for two days if we want to. And we have. Yeah.
But no local visits and stuff. You know what
I mean? Like going around town and seeing this
and seeing that. Stuff you never got to see before.
Like the Perot Museum? Yeah. I went to the National
Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington on Sunday.
That's kind of cool. Yeah. That was kind of cool.
What's that all about then? How long were you
there? I didn't even know that was out there.
Yeah, I didn't either. It's kind of new. It's
less than a year. It's over by the stadiums.
So it's a biography of every single recipient?
Actually, a prior work colleague of mine that
lives in New Jersey, he contacted me some weeks
ago and said that he was coming to Dallas for
some meeting or something. And he was going to
fly in on Sunday morning. And we agreed I was
going to pick him up at the airport at DFW. We
would go get a hamburger someplace and then go
to this museum. And actually, it was his idea.
I guess he'd saw it on the news or something.
So, okay, and we got our tickets, which are $30.
Is that a lot? I thought that was kind of high.
That seems kind of high for it. Well, it depends.
I mean, if you look at the facility, it's really
nice. They got to pay for that shit, right? So
the Sunday, it was last Sunday, and I texted
him in the morning. I said, okay, today's the
day. And he texted me back, and he goes, well,
I got bad news. My flight is delayed five hours
because of mechanical issues. Now my landing
time is 4 .30 p .m. And the museum closes at
5, so he was not able to go. Right. As I said,
we had already bought these tickets online. So
he sent me his e -ticket. He said, you know,
give this to somebody if you can find somebody.
I asked my wife if she wanted to go, and she's
like, I am a hard no. I'd rather stick needles
in my eyes. I have no interest in this whatsoever.
So I contacted a handful of other guys. Sean
being one of them, he wasn't able to go. And
nobody could go on this short notice. So I went
by myself. Nothing wrong with that. Yeah. It
takes a special person to be able to do stuff
like that. Go by yourself and enjoy eating by
yourself. That's good. That's confidence. That's
what you need to do. You know, I kind of actually
liked going to this museum by myself. You could
spend as much time as you wanted to. I could
wander around and go see what I wanted to see.
Are you like Jeff? Linger and not have to wait
for some other hanger on. You could even go out
of order. I was there for two and a half hours.
Oh, damn. Two and a half hours. Very nice. What's
a normal time? I don't know. I've never been
there before. A couple hours, I guess. I mean,
because you and I were in Alabama. for our jobs,
and we decided to rendezvous at the USS Alabama.
That was so fun. In the bay. I want to say we
were there four to five hours. It was a long
time. We were there for a very long time, and
it was probably one of the funnest things I've
done. in a very, very long time. That was very,
very interesting. That was very cool. It's easy
to do. Go ahead. From the museum outside the
ship, you know, walking, seeing all the MASH
-style cars from the shows, you know, and the
vehicles, the tanks, the airplanes, and then
you... I mean, the airplanes by themselves. You
can't fathom how... big these things are you
know it's just like holy crap that thing's huge
and you go up to its nose and you you take your
finger and you you put it right on the pointy
and it's sharp oh no you don't touch you don't
touch the aircraft and they got the missiles
that are on there that were you know larry kept
trying to jar one loose i don't know what the
story was there was a submarine that we went
in a sub freaking marine the workmanship that
in the 40s. The workmanship that occurred. All
the little rivets everywhere. It was amazing.
Rosie did it. Rosie the riveter. I'm telling
you, man. I was in awe. The technology they used
back there, they made shit work. Oh, yeah, they
did. The boat itself, when you get onto it, the
projectiles that they shoot across. Gigantic.
Oh, my God, they're four foot tall, and they
show these guys. The torpedoes? No, the projectiles
that fit in the big cannons. The battleship.
Oh, the battleship. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, but
even the torpedoes, you know, they weren't as
massive. I mean, actually, they were big vessels,
but they weren't like, they were just different.
You know, they were designed to go through the
walls. Well, I always found it impressive when
you see this film of these battleships just shooting
their cannons at the island or whatever they're
shooting, and it's... I couldn't imagine being
on that ship. Didn't it rock the ship every time
the battleships would fire? Yeah, I would imagine.
I don't care how good your sound dampening headgear
is. That's going to destroy your ears. You don't
think those are earplugs? You just went like
this, stuck your finger in your ears? The boat
itself, when they would fire those cannons off,
when the boat is traveling and it's from point
A to point whatever, trying to go on a straight
line, When those cannons fire, they veer the
boat off course. That's what I'm saying. What
they have to do is they get a blank and put it
on the opposite side. Because when they fire
one, they fire another at the same time to create
that reverse effect. So they fire them in different
directions. There's a blank on this side, but
there's a real one on this side. And just the
whole... turret itself is like three stories.
It's amazing. It's amazing. The first story,
they're loading these large pucks. When I say
large pucks, imagine a wheel of cheese of gunpowder.
And how far do we want to take it? This one needs
to go about 22 miles. It's going to take about
two and a quarter pucks. You got some guy over
there. He's working it out. He's doing the math
real quick. And then you got this guy that's
shaped like a gnome that's four foot from...
The Ring of... What is that movie? The Lord of
the Rings? And he's got this projectile and it's
the size that he is. He's got it by the top and
he's spinning this thing and he's rolling it.
This guy was massive. It's a floating city. I
remember when you and I were touring that thing
with you and me in our modern computer age minds.
We were trying to Go back into a 1940s mind.
No computer, right? It's slide rules and blueprints,
right? Yeah. And I remember you and I were astonished.
How in the world were they able to engineer something
as magnificent as this? I think we talk about
this thing when we even talk about ancient civilizations.
They're like aliens. Ancient civilizations are
like, well, how did they build this? I mean,
they were smart people back then, too. They were
smart people. The pyramids, the people who built
the shit way back then, they were extremely smart,
and they had techniques that have been potentially
lost, but they had their ways. And since then,
it's like the movie Idiocracy. It is. Get me
in the balls. It's embarrassing. We've become
stupid. Well, it's because they dump things down,
though, the way they... And this is done by design.
It's two things. I don't know if it's done by
design to keep us dumb, but they try to make
things easier. It's kind of like repairing a
Xerox photocopy machine. I'm going to use this
as an example. From the 80s, they were like,
oh, you got to go in there and you got to fix
this one little part. And then you have to have
a specialized person go in there and figure out
what that part is. Nowadays, it's kind of like...
It's in this region. And they're like, oh, that's
region five. And they take the whole region five
out, and they put a whole new region five in,
and then they leave. Done. It works. So that
way they don't have to have somebody go in there
and tinker it. Then they take that module back
to the office, and they have someone smart looking
at it. It's fast repair. It's done. People just
aren't – they don't put people like that. They
don't have the education. Like, Jeff, your dad,
he gave you – you got these books out there for
calculations. Right. We have smart – scientific
calculators that do those calculations now by
the click of a button. But those books out there
and the what is the little God bless it. Slide
rule. There's a slide rule but I'm thinking of
the little Chinese abacus style. It was just
rudimentary. It was old school. It was a floating
city. Dentist. doctor's office, you know. Huge
kitchen, dining, galley, whatever they call it.
You should go visit one of the, if you think
that's big, go visit one of the aircraft carriers.
Like four times that size. I will take all day
to do that. Yeah. The technology room, the communications
room. They had all these transistor tubes. Dude,
it is insane. Because you've got to imagine,
if you're in the front of the ship and you've
got a gun pointed at something, there are several
quarter -inch plugs, all right? And they're three
-conductor, meaning that you've got a microphone
and headphones. So you can hear someone talking
to you and you have a voice going out. So they've
got those wires that are running a half a mile
to the center of that ship where you've got...
the person up there, the operator, that takes
another plug and connects you to the captain
or whoever's coordinating it to tell you where
to shoot. Right. Well, even think about the old
telephone lines where you had the operators changing
all the fucking plugs. That was even farther
distance, and you had these huge banks of plugs.
The rooms were super hot. Then you got Betty
in the corner. She's like, hey, did you hear
about Joseph? I was overhearing the phone call.
He's messing around with his wife again. Those
old operas, they get the eavesdrop. So to the
listeners who are listening, if you happen to
be driving through Mobile, Alabama, and you have
about, oh, I don't know, four or five hours to
kill, do stop by the Battleship Alabama and have
a look. It was less than $30, I think, wasn't
it? It was way less than that. It was a terrific
time. It was a good time. And I think we ended
it by going to the all Apex, all tech. What is
the? There's the oyster restaurant. After your
tour of the Battleship Alabama, do go to the
Acme Oyster Bar. There you go. Acme. Right down
from... Wile E. Coyote. What was that? Zulu's
or Zaney's or someplace there on that... Canal?
Felix's Camp House Fish Stop. I don't remember.
Be sure and get a dozen broiled oysters. You'll
be glad you did. Yeah. It was fantastic. Well,
I'll tell you another museum I think everyone
should go to is the Air Force Museum at Wright
-Patterson Air Force Base. You talked about airplanes,
seeing on the ships and stuff like that. The
museum in Wright -Patterson, it's the U .S. Air
Force Museum. They take you from... the Wright
Brothers all the way to space, and they have
the actual planes there. They have, I think,
three or four. Do you get to fly them? Humongous,
all of them. You get to fly all of them. Where
is this? It's in Dayton, Ohio, Wright -Patterson
Air Force Base. Nice. And it's free. It doesn't
cost a dime to get in there. And you could spend
easily two full days in there, easy. That's what
I think people don't realize, that they think.
Maybe a couple hours. No. Same thing happened
to me when I went to the Pacific War Museum,
the Nimitz one in Fredericksburg. Oh, yeah. It's
awesome. And I walked in, and there was a very
nice veteran that was greeting people. How much
time do you have? And I was like, oh, I think
we've got two hours. And he goes, well, this
is a two -day museum. Dope. Just like. And he
goes, since you're only going to be here two
hours, he had a map already drawn out for the
people that are like. Losers. Losers. Yeah, seriously.
Because I had no idea. I was like, what do you
need to do? Two hours should be plenty. Two days
is what it takes to go through the whole thing
if you're going to do it right. Have you guys
been to the World War II Museum in New Orleans?
Not yet. I want to do it. That would be awesome.
That one is really good. These are things that
I would love to go. So, Larry, if you want to
spearhead a campaign to go do something like
that, we could pick it day out of the week. We'll
put it on the calendar, and collectively, we'll
make our calendars work and do that. Larry's
pretty busy. You know what's kind of cool about
this is they have Air Force One there, the one
that LBJ flew on back from the Kennedy assassination.
No way. So that's it right there. He had a picture
of it. You get to walk through it, and... And
that's the plane where he was sworn in as president.
Correct. And they show you where he was. They
have stuff kind of plexiglassed off the seats
and stuff like that. Like some hail exposure
on there. Wasn't Jackie Onassis there with blood
on her? Yeah. I think they have signs, you know,
Jackie was sitting here. LBJ was here. Unbelievable.
And they have different things like that. But
that's really cool. You walk in one end and you
go out the other. Not big. It's not like today's
Air Force One, right? It's pretty small and tight
and cramped in there. It's still nice for the
time, but very cool. And they have a Valkyrie
there. And they only made two. The Valkyrie?
The Valkyrie. And it is a tremendously large
jet. And they have one that takes up almost the
entire fucking hangar. And it's huge. It's like
a military cargo plane? No. What is it? It's
a... Actually, my dad was telling me about it.
That's it right there, the XB -70 Valkyrie. Oh,
yeah. That's not a cargo plane. No. And... What
the hell is that thing? Look how wide that thing
is. Anyway, there it is in the... Is it a bomber?
I don't know. They made two. One of them crashed,
and then they parked the other one at the Air
Force Museum. It's the plant of... It is. ...nuclear
-armed, deep -penetration, supersonic, strategic
bomber. It is a bomber. But that is... That is
very cool to see. A deep penetrator. But it never
was used in action, of course. Oh, he never nuclear
bombed somebody. Well, he can drop normal bombs,
conventional bombs. Speaking of, they have Boxcar
there, which is the plane that dropped Nagasaki.
Ooh. So they also have a Fatboy and Little Man
bomb there. So you could stand next to the atom
bombs, so you could see how large they were.
They're huge. And those were dropped by the...
The B -52? Yeah, I think the B -52. The big silver
nose, right? You know what I'm talking about?
It had all the windows. What did it look like?
Yeah, it was a B -52 bomber. What did it look
like, Mr. Producer? The plane that dropped the
little boy. Well, it was a boxcar. Boxcar did...
Enola Gay, there it is. Enola Gay did the Hiroshima.
Boxcar did... B -29. The Nagasaki. And that's
actually at the museum right there. Yeah, the
B -52s were these huge bombers that they had
these turrets all over it. Those things could
fly through anything. They could be shot to hell
and still make it. They still use them. Yeah.
They're still in use. That's crazy, isn't it?
Believe it or not, yes. The B -52. Some of the
technology they have is just... Stratofortress.
I have a general question about museums for you
boys. Okay. Shoot. And I'll tell you why I'm
asking this. At the Medal of Honor Museum in
Arlington, Texas, there were displays of, I guess,
about 25 guys that had won the... Not won, but
had earned... Awarded. Had earned the Medal of
Honor. Sure. Right. By the way, there's about
4 ,000 medalists and about half of those are
Civil War guys. I read about some of these Civil
War guys and a lot of them, they got the Medal
of Honor for picking up the flag after the flag
bearer got shot and dropped the flag and the
other guy picked it up and continued charging.
So he got the Medal of Honor for this. A lot
of the World War II guys and Vietnam guys got
the Medal of Honor for jumping on live grenades.
Damn. I think I'd rather pick up the flag, right?
Right. But that was pretty much a death sentence.
If you picked up the flag and you were at the
front of the line. Yeah, you're taken out. Yeah,
to drop your weapon and do that. The Medal of
Honor was new then. So I think the 1800s. The
military kind of gave it out a little more freely
than they were saying. They were participation
awards. Well, I don't know if I call them that,
but that may have been a little easier to obtain
back then is what you're saying, right? That's
what I'm saying. Or the threshold wasn't as high
as it is now. That's right. So was that the point
you were kind of driving towards? Is it a different
criteria back then than it is now? I don't know
what their criteria was then. I don't know what
the criteria is now. I know a bunch of paperwork
has to be filled out, but I think it was different
when they first had this metal versus now. Yeah,
I would have to imagine that. So at this museum,
there was a lot of pictures, photographs of...
things of interest and little plaques to read.
There was a lot of reading. When I go to a museum,
I like to see like the real artifact from back
when, you know what I'm saying? Sure. I don't
want to see a picture of an artifact. At least
a replica. I want to see what the real thing
was. Right. Uh, so I was a little disappointed
in that and I don't mean to poopoo this museum
cause it's, it's very interesting. Uh, so my
question is when you guys go to any kind of a
museum, what, what do you have in your mind that
you hope it to be? I think that's what you said.
You want to see a lot of practical stuff to look
at. Some fresh popcorn. When you go to the Air
Force Museum, all you look at are planes. There's
a lot of reading as well, but they actually have
the plane to accompany it that you're going to
read about. Or you go to a natural history museum,
you see the dinosaurs or the mammoths or the
bones and stuff like that to look at. There's
a picture of it up there. That's kind of what
I think. A representation where, You can touch
it. You can get into the seats. Like at the Alabama
thing, I sat down in a gunner seat. Larry laid
down on one of the cots, tried to go to sleep
in the quarters where the men. Did you guys happen
to step over a velvet rope when you did this?
No. Oh, okay. They encouraged it. You can go
anywhere. They're just like, come on, Sean, spoon
with me. I was like, no, no, no, no, no. This
isn't like the real thing. They're like, Sarah,
can you get off the cot, please? it was amazing
for example i went to the uh president george
bush presidential library on smu camp have you
guys been i want to go to that too it's kind
of disappointing because it's it's not like okay
something famous happened and here's an art you
know there's an artifact that's involved with
this famous thing yeah We don't have it here,
but here's a giant picture of it. Right. What?
I can get this on Wikipedia. What are you talking
about? That's kind of a bum deal there. Sure.
I mean, a lot of times they have, especially
for the World War II stuff, they have the movies,
right? You all sit down in the theater and they
kind of walk through the battle of the Solomons
or whatever, and they have footage of that kind
of shit. So that's cool when they have footage.
That's kind of like going to a bakery. And they're
going, yeah, we got all these wonderful cakes.
And instead of being able to sample a cake, they
give you a little scratch and sniff. Here, this
is what it could smell like. This is what it
smells like. Scratch and sniff. Well, I downloaded
some different lists of museums. I've downloaded
the top 10 in the world, top 10 in the United
States, and the top 10 of Texas. I don't think
I'm going to go through all the top 10 of the
world or Texas. I think what I want to do is
for our dudes like us listeners out there, all
over, is kind of point out the top 10 in the
United States. Because look, if you know, you
know. And we don't know. There's a lot of museums.
There's a lot of stuff going on out there that
we just don't know. So I'm going to start with
the top, the number 10, and I'm going to go down
the list. And Mr. Producer, I think you have
a copy over there. Number 10 is the Kennedy Space
Center Visitor Complex, Merritt Island, Florida.
I've been there. An exciting destination for
space enthusiasts offering a glimpse to the world
of space exploration. Number nine is the Philadelphia
Museum of Art. Famous for architecture and the
Rocky Steps. The museum houses a diverse collection
of arts and artifacts. Number eight, Museum of
Modern Art in New York City. The MoMA houses
are renowned. That's the Museum of Modern Art,
MoMA. It houses a renowned collection of modern
and contemporary art, including masterpieces
like the Van Gogh's Starry Night. Number seven,
the J. Paul Getty Museum in LA. Number six, the
National World War II Museum in New Orleans.
Is that what you were referring to? That's so
good. That just opened not too long ago. I think
Tom Hanks was a big push on trying to get that
done. Well, it's been there for about 10 years.
It started off as the... Higgins Boat Museum
because those landing craft where the front crashes
down. There was a guy named Higgins that built
those in New Orleans. It started as that but
then evolved into the World War II. Back to PI
kind of a thing? Higgins? No. There's a lot of
real life artifacts that you can look at. Is
New Orleans about five hours away? Five and a
half hours? No. About eight to ten. Eight to
ten? I forget. All right, so number five, the
American Museum of Natural History in New York
City. I'd like to go to that one. That's where
Night at the Museum takes place with Ben Stiller.
There you go. I'd like to go to that one. Do
they come alive at night? They do. Explore the
wonders of the natural world from dinosaurs to
the cosmos with engaging exhibits and planetariums.
I love planetariums. I enjoy planetariums. I
used to love that as a kid, man. Which brings
up the chasm that I want to talk about in a little
bit. Number four, the National Gallery of Art
in D .C. D .C. hosts many festivals. different
museums. So that's one of them. The National
Gallery of Art. The Smithsonian. So when you
say art, is it always... I know it's not always
paintings, but... Sculptures. That's a big part
of it, right? Sculptures and paintings. Gallery
features a comprehensive collection of paintings,
sculptures, decorative arts, and more displayed
in a beautiful setting. I know sometimes you'll
see these traveling things, like you'll have
King Tut down at the Dallas Art Museum. Nice.
I'd like that one. That'd be cool. Yeah. He was
in town a few years ago, I think, on a tour.
The Titanic thing. Yeah, the Titanic. Is that
still going on? Titanic. Yeah, that still makes
the rounds. I don't know if it's still around
here locally, but yeah. It's like the Steve Martin
song. Had a condom made of stoner. King Tut.
Exactly. What? Do you guys don't remember that
song from that song? Yes, we do. What's wrong
with you guys? Yes, we do. Where do I start?
Number three, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
Chicago. Yeah, celebrated for its impressionist
and post -impressionist collection of art, the
Institute also boasts a wide range of art from
various periods of culture, poet periods and
cultures. Okay. Number two, the Metropolitan
Museum of Arts in New York City, known as the
Met, one of the world's largest and finest art
museums. That is a really great museum. I have
been to that. It is enormous. Is that the spiral
one? No, no. And here's a tip for you guys as
well as the listeners. If you happen to go to
the Met in New York City. You walk up to the
ticket booth, and there's a sign up there that
says, suggested price, $25 a head. Keyword, suggested.
So everybody assumes, oh, okay, the entry fee
must be $25 for me to get in here. The fact is,
it's free. Or you can just, if you want to pay
$5, you pay $5. You don't have to pay anything.
So you go up and you go, I'll have two tickets,
please, and they'll give them to you? Yeah. Yeah.
And then there's this awkward, like. No, it wasn't.
Did you have to pay anything to me? No, it really
wasn't. I gave $5 a head, but I was with four
people. Right. And she's like, okay, here you
go. Nice. Okay, makes sense. And that is another
sculpture painting. Oh, my God. Pottery. Just
tell them to sell one of the paintings if they
need some money. There you go. Over 2 million
works spanning 5 ,000 years of art. That'd probably
take a couple hours to get through. Oh, easy.
The coolest thing that I remember in there is
that giant painting of George Washington crossing
the Delaware where he's kind of, you know, with
his fist. That did really good on that wall there.
That painting is enormous. It's probably. 30
by 20. Did you see the picture of our grandfathers
here? That's nice. And the number one, and we
all know what this one is, right? From Washington,
D .C.? Oh, yeah. The Smithsonian Institution.
Well, they need to narrow that down. Oh, yeah.
The granddaddy of them all. I've actually been
to that one. Well, the Smithsonian is about six
or seven different. Right. It's a vast complex
of museums and research centers. The Smithsonian
offers something for everyone with a diverse
collection. All right. A little technical glitch
there. We'll fix that. All right. So you were
talking about the Louvre. Your Louvre. The Louvre
in Paris, France. It's like a little K -Y jelly
middle. It's a famous art museum. Oh. You heathen.
Maybe you've heard of this. My bad. Sorry. Yes.
But no, I was just going to comment that I've
been to a number of... art museums before and
after about 15 minutes okay i'm done well i've
also i think there's there's some very impressive
things but then you know like like the mona lisa
you know my wife went there and she goes yeah
the thing is actually very small for one thing
and you got a thousand people around it that
want to look at it and you're like okay were
they trying to glue their hands to it well they're
trying to take pictures of it i'm like just look
at it online are you ever going to look at it
on your phone You're not allowed to, I don't
think. You're not allowed to take your phone
out and take pictures of it. They don't want
flashes of it. I don't know. You can take a picture
of it. You just can't use a flash. Yeah. I guess
I don't have much of... Appreciation. An education
on art and an appreciation of art. So, you know.
I don't know anything about it. I know the standard,
you know. The first painting looks like the 50th
one. You know, the Monet, the Van Gogh. I know
some of those. I'd like to see him look at it.
Look, there are masterpieces, some of them. Sure.
I mean, when you go and look. You can get really
close. I kind of get caught up in the Ferris
Bueller days where they're at the museum out
there in Chicago, and they're zooming in really
close to this picture. I don't know if you recall
which one I'm referring to. But it's just like
they're so talented, those artists. It's just
crazy. You have to have an appreciation for it,
for sure. I don't necessarily have an appreciation
for it, but I would like to see if I did. I'd
like to go there and see if I can get bored.
I know if I was younger, I probably wouldn't
have it. But now? We need to put this on the
bucket list. Yeah, where is Michelangelo's David?
I'd like to see that. That is in Florence, Italy.
Is that where that's at? Okay. I think that'd
be, I think the sculptures. That's quite a stretch
for our podcast. Yeah. Excursion. Although if
any of our listeners wants to sponsor. Because
I find it outside of the penis. I find it interesting
how by hand they can carve that out of marble.
Did you just say penis? Yeah, there's a penis
hanging right there. You used the P word. We
don't use the P word. But the attention, okay,
prick. You're saying the details going into the
carving the veins on the penis. Well, I'm not
going to call that out. Please don't show me.
The amount of detail that some of these sculptors
could get. With their hand and a chisel. He's
got quite the merkin. And out of marble. It's
amazing, yes. It's amazing. You know, and I've
seen even more detailed. I mean, look at the
hands. I mean, how long did it take him to get
that detail? Pretty damn real looking. So if
you take your pinky and you raise it up, okay,
and specifically your pinky, it makes a little
string of muscle that pops out on the back of
your forearm. They capture that. I mean, it's
just, it's an incredible talent to be able to
do that and to know it's there, you know, and
to capture all the veins going in the feet. And
imagine when they are crafting these blankets
or these silk covers over people where you could
see the feature under it. Oh, yeah, yes. That's
amazing. I think as art goes, I'm with you, Jay.
It seems like being a sculptor would be way more
difficult than being a painter. I would agree.
I would think because if you fuck God, like shit,
his head just fell off. I didn't realize how
big it is. Hold on. There's a woman like reaching
over to do something. I had no idea it was that
big. It's huge. It is ginormous. And it's everything's
in proportion. He's hung. In proportion. You
know, the head, the torso. I thought the testes
were a little small. You guys are focused on
the pain, just like you were when you looked
at the Carpenters video. I took an art appreciation
class in college, and the only thing that I remember
from it was the guy said, when you're looking
at a painting, and of course, if it is of a person,
look at the person's hands. Look at that. If
somehow the artist... tries to hide the person's
hand by tucking it under a blanket or in a coat
or something like that. Typically, that painter
is not very skilled because painting human hands
is the most difficult part of the portrait. Can
you imagine carving it? Did you see the close
-up that he just had on there of the hands? It's
perfect. Yeah, that's amazing. They got the vein
going and the tendons. The fingernail, I don't
know. I find that, I find sculpture. Cartilage
in the knuckles. Yeah, I find sculpture more
interesting than the actual paintings, to me
anyway. Yeah, I'm with you on that. I read that
the model stood motionless for four years while
he was there. Well, he also did, Michael Edgewood
also did the Sistine Chapel, the ceiling, right?
I have seen that, and it is unbelievable. Yeah,
I couldn't imagine. It is unbelievable. Laying
on his back for years. Yep. Up there, like. Suspended
or on this... He was on scaffolding, I think.
Crickety scaffold. I think he had balloons. Just
kind of helium balloons. Very nice. That was...
Who did that? Same guy? Is that... Michelangelo.
No, who did the balloon? Who's the guy that dropped
the feathers off the Ling Tower pizza? Galileo.
Did Galileo come up with the balloons? Who invented
the balloons? What are you talking about? Da
Vinci? Was it Da Vinci that did the hot air balloons?
Yeah. Yeah, Da Vinci was another one. He was
even before this. He did all sorts of stuff.
Yeah, he was an inventor, and he studied the
human body. He had the Vitruvian man, the famous
one that he made, and he studied the anatomy
and everything, so he could get his paintings
right. Is that the guy in the circle? Yeah, with
all the arms and the legs and everything, the
Vitruvian man. Jeff, I think your lava lamp is
taking quite some time. Your scrotum fell. Yeah,
my scrotum dropped. Is that what just happened?
Yeah, the scrotum dropped. It's more of a butt
plug. I mean, I've never really seen one. Only
in videos. Very short videos. 15 seconds. I always
want to see a real butt plug. I don't want to
see pictures of a butt plug. Yeah, same deal.
Sean will bring one next time. That's what you
look at. I have a very small butthole. I don't
think it would take a whole lot. What the hell,
man? I mean... We go from Mona Lisa to your butthole?
How did that happen? God bless. I'll probably
edit that one out. I have a very small butt.
Yes. You know, speaking of places where, you
know, buttholes can be in danger, how about the
alligator alcatraz? What is your thoughts on
that? You know what? I'm not exactly sure what
the deal is on that. I mean, so they built it
in the middle of nowhere, and the idea was if
you even escape from this thing, you're going
to be obviously eaten by alligators because it's
like swamp land for miles and miles and miles.
What's the story behind it? I think this is a
detention center where they're going to put people
until they have their due process, right, and
before they're deported. That's what they're
going to do with it. But it was an airport. It
was a training airport. Yeah. So there was an
existing runway and a few little rickety. You
can pull it up on Google Maps or Google Earth
or whatever, and you can see it's about 50 miles
west of Miami. So this thing is a temporary.
It's a tent. Interesting. Okay. It's a canvas
tent with cages inside. Okay. All right. So this
was temporary housing. that DeSantis said, you
know, hey, you can keep these guys here. Yeah,
it's in the middle of nowhere. We're surrounded
by alligators and the Everglades, and it's nasty,
and there's miles and miles and miles. If anyone
escapes, they're probably not going to make it.
It almost seems like another PR move, right?
You know how when they were sending people to
El Salvador and they showed this beautiful, massive,
scary -looking detention center, right? And so
this is just another one of those. It's a big
detention center. Look, they wanted a place to
put people. It was on the list. Hey, let's figure
this out. They had a property, and they just
repurposed it. It's like, why not? Let's put
them out there. I think they were shipped into
Guantanamo, and they were all up in arms about
that. Right. So now they're like, all right,
well, we're going to do this. Keep them here
locally in a place that is, you know, if they
escape, it's going to be problematic. They're
not going to be there for years. No. It's going
to be, you know, short term. They're in a room
with, you know, bunk beds and, you know, the
Debbie, what's her name? Wasserman. Wasserman,
whatever the fuck her name is, is just trying
to make this thing, you know, a human rights.
And I'm thinking, well, what do you think a jail
should be? Right? Well, they have these little
toilets that are part of a sink and they brush
their teeth. Well, yes, that's what a jail is.
And I brush my teeth next to where I poop. Yeah,
everybody does. Everybody does that. Unless you're
a bazillionaire. Yeah, and that's what you do.
And she's trying to make this thing sound. way
worse way worse than it is debbie schultz was
was making it sound way oh yes she was trying
to all the democrats are freaking they're all
taking whatever opportunity they can to make
it look like it's the most inhumane well asc
you know ever i mean look there they are right
there it's a it's a column sitting off the side
of the wall it's got a shitter on the bottom
and a sink on the top it's functional i think
it's convenient you can pee while you're while
you're flossing yes and you're not drinking your
shit water I think that's what they're trying
to. Or out of the toilet. Yeah, you're not. I
mean, it's clean water coming in. Just like you
could drink the water out of the tank of your
toilet if you really wanted to. Yeah, it all
comes from the same pipe that comes into your
house. My dog does it. Yeah, I mean, you can
out of the tank. Once it hits the bowl, you know,
it's problematic. But, you know, the question
needs to go, okay, Debbie, what do you think
a prison should look like? What should a jail
look like? What amenities should they have? They're
just taking a shot at trying to make the Trump
administration seem savage. Well, they are, but
I think it's actually... helping deter some of
these people to self -deport because she's saying
how bad and terrible this place is. And people
are going, maybe I don't want to be sent to this
place. Maybe I do need to self -deport. I have
a cousin that works for a company that does some
kind of building material. I'm not entirely clear
of what it is. So I can buy that from my house.
And he went there. He went to Alligator Alcatraz.
And I asked him, I said, well, how was it? He
goes, man. It is really hot and there's a lot
of mosquitoes. And he said they're not going
to make a fence around the compound like a typical
prison would have with the coiled barbed wire
at the top. Yeah. They're not putting a fence
because, dude, they know where to go. Yeah. You
choose to escape. You're on your own. There's
one road in and one road out. Why was your friend
there? It was my cousin. He works for a company
that was doing something with the construction
or I'm not entirely sure. What his company is
doing. Chuck, go back down the street view. He
went there. That sign said something. Great dude.
And it is literally in the middle of nowhere.
Yeah, I mean, that's the point. They're a Dade
Collier. That's the point. You know, if they
happen to get out of there, they're either taking
the road, which I'm sure there's checkpoints,
or they're trying to cross swampland for miles.
Extra convenience, there is an airstrip right
there, so they can be deported or brought in
very conveniently. I don't know. I don't see
what the hubbub is out. Who cares? It's just
a prison. Alcatraz was kind of similar. They
didn't do shit about that. I wouldn't even consider
this a prison. This is a detainment center just
like they have down in South Texas where they
have these big buildings where they house 20
people to a big room. It's the same thing. He
just got all sorts of hubbub in the news. It
doesn't mean that AOC isn't going to go cry there
at the fence. I think the fact that Trump did
it and the name they're giving it, alligator,
Alcatraz. Oh, it sounds so fantastic. Trump is
just pushing their buttons and they are biting
at it. And like you said, he's trying to drum
up. People being scared to be sent there. Yeah.
Scared straight, right? Self -deport. You won't
go there. Self -deport. You won't have to experience
this. Well, I'm not super, I mean, I'm happy
with this, but I'm not happy with some of the
other stuff that's going on with us bombing Iran
and building bases in Israel. I mean, I didn't
vote for any of that stuff. You know, I thought
we were going to stop all this war shit. You
know? I have my opinions about what we should
be focusing on. I don't want to talk about it
right now, but we need to make our country good.
I don't want to be bombing them. Why did we need
to bomb Iran? To keep them from developing a
nuclear weapon. Yeah. That's problematic. That's
problematic. Yeah, but why did we have to do
it? Because nobody else has those bombs. That's
right. We are the only ones who had them. The
bunker buster bombs, yes. I don't know, man.
Iran having a nuclear weapon and potentially
using it in the future would disrupt the entire
Middle East. And when that happens, oil gets
off. screwed up. I agree. That's what it's all
about. They don't need Iran having the bomb,
but I just didn't want us to do it. I let somebody
else do it. I'm tired of fighting other people's
wars. I'm tired of paying money to do that kind
of stuff. Let's stay the hell out of... We're
going to go to arms with Ukraine right now. We're
with Ukraine. We're about to join in with them
to prevent Putin. I think we're selling them
weapons. Wait a minute. Trump is selling weapons
to nato so we get revenue from those sales and
nato is going to give this to ukraine and you're
only starking it yeah and he's good it's tony
starking it and he's telling and he's telling
europe you need to do this so we don't have to
and you're starting to step up it's in your backyard
And Europe is agreeing with them at this point.
He's actually getting them to do what they should
be doing, which is building up their defense,
spending more money on their defense, and being
ready for war as a deterrent. This is all a deterrent.
We've got some stuff that we've built up with
Ukraine as far as one of the agreements that
we have with their precious metals and some of
their natural minerals that they have there.
And so, yeah, we have an invested interest that
we want to protect. So, yeah, with that, maybe
we ought to... I don't know. Are you going to
have boots on the ground to protect those areas?
Or are we just going to take their overall proceeds
of what they're selling their ship for? I don't
think that was Trump's motivation. I mean, yes,
he wants the precious metals simply because he
wants some sort of compensation for everything
we've given to them. Got to have a deal. Yeah,
he needs some deal to like it. We're giving him
billions in weaponry, right? So he's like, okay,
well, then we should get some of your precious
metals, which is a contentious issue with China
right now. I think the biggest thing is he's
trying to get Putin to stop. The aggression,
right? And Putin is playing him. I think Putin
realizes he's near the end of his life and this
is his legacy. And if he backed off now, he'd
be seen. It's going to look bad. In Russia, he'd
be seen as a big P. Yep. He'd be weak. I don't
think so. That may be his thought process. In
his mind, it might be right. But I think that
the people in Russia probably don't agree with
that. I think the people there would be like,
hallelujah, he's done. Correct. I think you may
be right, but him and probably a lot of his senior
military folks, you know, the hardcore Russian
folks are in on this. I would agree. I think
it's split. It's probably split in that country.
They see him as strong, and they love the fact
that he wants to reunite the mother country and,
you know, Russia, Russia, Russia, right? One
thing I saw, because, you know, Russia just obliterated.
some Ukraine with 700 drones, right? Right. And
I heard on the radio today, there was a guy who,
he's over there on the ground, and these drones,
and the guy asks, he goes, well, don't they have,
you know, radio jammers to make these so they
can lose control? He's like, yeah, well, while
they've gotten around that, it's fiber optics.
What they're doing is they're tying a fiber optic
to all of these drones, and they have spools
of miles of fiber optics, and they can go 20
kilometers trailing this fiber optic as this
guy is connected to it and going straight in.
So they bypass any radio jammers. There's no
RF frequency at all. Yeah, so there's no RF frequency,
and he goes, so what's happening is you have
miles of fiber optic. and you have these huge
spools, it's actually creating an environmental
problem. I bet. Because you have all of this
fiber optic cable laying everywhere. Millions
of miles. Like spider webs laying all over the
place. Yeah, like fishing line everywhere. It's
a temporary, it's a one -use deal, basically.
I mean, you go out 15, 20 miles, and you have
all this shit just laying there. Oh, my gosh.
I didn't even realize that. I didn't think it
was practical for them to be able to do that.
Yep, they're doing it. That's how they're getting
around the jammers. And the wires everywhere,
fiber optic cable everywhere. Yeah. I also saw
something today that the U .S. military has a
new weapon to combat that. It's a big, humongous
microwave. It looks like a big square thing,
and it shoots out this huge thing of microwaves
that fries the electrical. components of incoming
drones. Where the hell are you going to get one
of those? It's not like you have a pocket microwave.
No, the company makes them. My point is, you've
got hundreds of miles of stuff. You're going
to need hundreds of those, thousands of those.
They're on ships. They're at key locations. Yes,
it doesn't help you or me. They're protecting
particular... So the military has them. They're
not consumer where you can put one in your house
in case someone decides to, you know, there it
is right there. Unbelievable. Yeah, that thing
right there, and it shoots out this huge microwave
thing that just fries, you know, if there's 100
of them coming, and if it's in their way, it
kills them right there. We are, there's going
to be a lot of. What is it called? The damage
on the side. Because imagine all the electronics
that aren't involved in that. You're sitting
there with your cell phone. All of a sudden,
oh, you just fried my freaking cell phone. It's
better than getting a bomb in the face. We are
experiencing an acceleration of military weaponry
and technology. I mean, this Ukrainian -Russian
war is a glimpse into the future. I think drone
warfare is the key. Do you think Putin knows?
how funny sounding his last name is. It may not
sound funny in Russian. Maybe it sounds cool.
What are you doing? I'm Putin. In Russia, it's
Putin. Let's not do that. Probably not. If he
was in middle school in the United States, he
would have got teased all day long. When you
say you thought he was close to end of life,
there's rumors that he has cancer. There's rumors
that he has kidney failure. He's just age. Oh,
okay. So he's probably within five, ten years
of his... Because there is rumors that he is
like... you know, has some disease or something.
I wasn't sure if you had read something about
that recently. I'm just thinking age. And they
wouldn't release that anyway. No, they wouldn't.
Hell, he's got doubles. He lives in like these
lavish bunkers everywhere. It's just crazy. You
know what I saw when you were talking about that
microwave thing? Unrelated, but related. I saw
these advertisements for these. that shoots mosquitoes
in your backyard. I saw that. I want one of those.
I saw it too. I was like, I don't care how much
that costs. I want one. It shoots lasers in your
backyard. Yes. I forgot what it was. Is it shaped
like a pistol kind of thing? I don't remember.
It was this little turret that sits on a thing.
That sounds safe to you guys? Hey, man, these
things don't require a whole lot of power to
kill a mosquito. So if you stand in front of
it, it's not going to go. Or right into your
eyeball. Yeah. What if you're out there playing
cornhole or something? And then suddenly somebody
turns on this thing and you're blind and you're
impotent. So it's a tabletop. that obviously
sits on a table, and it somehow senses where
a mosquito is. Mosquito laser defense system.
And can recognize the mosquito, and the technology
knows where it is, and it lasers it out of the
air. It differentiates between you and the dog,
and it knows what it's looking at. So it's a
mosquito iron dome. Look at that. That's exactly
what it is. That is amazing. I wonder how fast
it could go because sometimes we have lots of
mosquitoes out there. Is it going to rapid fire?
It could be going crazy. Can you imagine that?
That would be... I thought that was incredible.
I'm calling bullshit to some level here. It's
probably... It's probably like really, really
inefficient. It's probably one out of 100 that
it actually hits. I mean, it'll get better. It'll
get better, I'm sure. How much are these things?
Do you find it on, what is it, Amazon? It's at
Costco, $69 .99. That's $10. Yeah. I think it's
just an experiment. Yeah, they may not be ready.
It's got to be an experiment. Well, we need to
get to our bourbon that our guest Larry actually
brought. All right. This is, well, you brought
it, Larry. Do you want to kind of mention what
this is? Yeah, what led you to this buy? Well,
first of all, as we said at the beginning of
this segment, this is my fourth or fifth visit
with you guys, and you have been very generous
in the past with sharing your bourbons with the
tastings that we had, and I started to feel like
a little bit of a mooch. So I thought it's time
for me to pony up. So I brought along this bourbon.
It's called Bank Street. Sean had sent me a list
of the 248 bourbons that you guys have tested
in the past because I didn't want to bring one
that you had already tried. I wanted to bring
a new one. So it was a bit of a struggle to kind
of cross -reference the liquor store list versus
what you had on your list. And I found this one,
Bank Street Bourbon. It is advertised as a Kentucky
straight bourbon whiskey. Okay. Now, on the label,
it says Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey. But
after some research that we did on this, we find
that it's made in New Jersey. Well, it's bottled
in New Jersey. Bottled in New Jersey. So the
juice was made in Kentucky. They bought it from
somebody, like Bartstown or someone like that.
So it's distilled in Kentucky. I don't know what
the rules and regulations are to be able to label
something as Kentucky bourbon. I leave that to
you. Yeah, it has to be. It's distilled in Kentucky.
I don't know. And barreled. And barreled, but
it's usually, it could be aged a little bit in
New Jersey, but it's typically bottled. There's
a company in New Jersey who bought some barrels
from some Kentucky distillery, and they went
and probably picked them and says, these are
fantastic. I want to bottle this. And they could
buy them and they call it whatever they want.
So I pulled it up on the internet and there were
quite a few reviews and it was reviewed quite
highly. So I thought, okay, I'll give it a go.
There you go. So I stopped by the liquor store
this morning and this bottle of bourbon is $32.
Okay. So not super expensive, but not the...
Bottom of the barrel, no pun intended. Yeah,
no. And I would imagine, back to that, I would
imagine a lot of people, it's distilled, it's
probably barreled, it's probably fully aged,
like 100 % of that process in Kentucky. And I
bet you they put it on trucks, they ship it to
New Jersey, and then the only thing they have
there is the bottling facility. That would be
what I would guess. I would bet you they would
never age it. Where's Regent Distillers Products
Company from? So Regent Distillers Products Company
is supposedly a distiller. It's in New Jersey.
It's down at the bottom. So these guys, this
has aged for five years. It's got, it's light.
It's 80 proof. Scobieville. For our palate, it's
super, super easy to drink. It's tasty. It's
light. Lots of vanilla. It's sweet. It's very
smooth. Yeah, it's very smooth. It's very sweet.
There's some sweetness. There's some vanilla.
The caramel is, it's a very, very. I think it
works well. Stereotypical bourbon. Crushable?
Yeah, crushable. Yeah, it's crushable. Something
you could put in an old -fashioned or a Manhattan.
It's probably perfect. It's one of those that
is actually the perfect juice for an old -fashioned
or Manhattan. Yeah. I'm getting some chocolate
flavor out of this. I like this a lot. I like
it. For an 80 proof, it's been a long time. We
had an 80 proof not too long ago. The Gentleman
Jack. 1922. Yeah. No, we had the Gentleman Jack,
I think, is 80, isn't it? No, it might be. I
don't know. It's kind of crazy, Larry. We're
snobs. Yeah, I know you are. It was a challenge.
Well, I mean, 80 proof is kind of outside the
scope, so it's kind of refreshing when we get
to sample something like this. It's very, as
Chuck said, from the horse neck guys, they say
it's crushable, meaning you can drink it. Right.
And we can drink this. Like a lot of it. We could
kill that bottle. Like, yeah, easily. Oh, yeah.
We already drank half of it, almost. Anyways,
it's great. Thank you for bringing it. I think
it is, too. You are more than welcome. Yeah,
it's actually very good. I would recommend this
bourbon. Definitely. So Bank Street Bourbon,
aged for at least five years, offers a complex
flavors profile with notes of charred oak, vanilla,
brown sugar, and hints of caramel. It's Kentucky
straight bourbon, crafted with a mashed bowl
of corn, rye, barley, and malt. Smooth finish
with a mix of enjoyable neat on the rocks, cocktails
like old -fashioned and or Manhattans. Yeah,
and it's aged of a minimum five years, so that's
not... It's not too bad. I will say this. So
a lot of times we've tried an 80 proof, and we
really didn't get much of anything from it. But
I got to give this some credit. There is flavor
on the front end. On the front and on the back.
So, I mean, you know, and you got to give it
the five -year. The five -year age is what brings
to that. Well, you had about half that bottle.
You did. He was like, oh, my God. This is so
crushable. Glug, glug, glug, glug, glug, glug,
glug, glug. I think I saw one of their ads when
I was researching them. I think I saw one of
their ads, and I'm paraphrasing here, but it
basically said, okay, we get it. We're in New
Jersey, and this is a Kentucky bourbon, and New
Jersey is not exactly known in the bourbon world.
Give us a try, and we think you'll be happy.
Is New Jersey known for any kind of alcohol?
Not that I know of, but I'm sure it has some
local stuff. Illegal alcohol. I don't think a
lot of states. I mean, Kentucky's known for bourbon.
I can't think of really any other state that's
known, hey, vodka's really good out of Tennessee
or whatever. Montana vodka. Yeah. And I'll say
also it's a good price point. I mean, if this
bourbon were in the $50, $60 range, I'd be like,
for $50, $60, you can get something way better.
But for $30, it's good. It's a good bourbon.
Yeah, it is. Yeah, yeah. I would agree with that.
Oh, cool. Thanks again for bringing it. Well,
I'm glad you guys liked it. Yeah, I'm enjoying
it. And again, thank you for inviting me here,
and this is a lot of fun. Cool. So New Jersey
is home to growing a number of distillers producing
a variety of spirits, vodka, gin, blah, blah,
blah. Award -winning like Jersey Apple, Hooch.
Hooch. High Point Rye Whiskey. We've heard High
Point. No, we have High West. Shit. I don't think
we've tried High Point. Other notable distilleries.
Asbury Park. I grew up right there. Asbury Park
right out in the east. It's the greatest place
in the world. It is. God's country. Isn't the
Northeast better known for like ciders and things
like that? Like beers and ciders probably. Yeah.
Jersey Spirits Distilling. And cheese. Asbury's
Cheese. Claremont Distilling. And Architeuthis.
Yes. The Pine Tavern Distillery. Milk street
distillery? That sounds kind of good. I bet you
now that there's been an explosion of whiskeys,
I bet you every state is. Kind of like Texas,
right? There's a lot of NDPs because that's what
the bourbon industry kind of turned into. Everyone
was buying barrels from either MGP or Bardstown.
That's the fastest way to get into it. Well,
it is, and bourbon was huge. I mean, it still
is, but... It was huge all through COVID, and
so you had all these people going, let's start
our own. We can buy barrels and just, you know,
name it what we want. Rare Character is a great
example, but I think they're on the cusp of jumping
the shark. Could be. You know, and I hate to
say it, Rare Character, you're on the cusp of
jumping the shark because a lot of stuff you're
coming out with is just, it's still, we haven't
opened that bottle. Right. And we've got a couple
bottles to open them. I have two. So probably
need to bring those over. It did come to mind
as I was walking through the bourbon aisle at
the liquor store today. My God, there's a lot
of bourbons. That's what I'm saying. That's what
it is. It's saturated for sure. I think it's
oversaturated. It's kind of like I think the
beer industry, the craft beer industry got. And
it's ridiculous how many different little breweries.
types of beer out there it i think it got oversaturated
it did for me anyway i i tried everything that
was around at the time and i got tired of it
yeah well you and i that was the hunt yeah what
the hell are we gonna drink next i want the highest
proofed Proof. I think we settled on, what, Bigfoot,
which was a malt barley or malt. It was a malt
wine, a barley wine. Barley wine. It's barley
wine. Yeah, that. And there was some Firestone
stuff that was pretty hearty. The Velvet Merkin.
Oh, yeah. Ooh. What a great name, though. Velvet
Merkin. Now that I know, you know. Well, I will
say this. Like you said, it's saturated. There's
so many on the shelves. But you know there's
hundreds that are out there that are not. That
are not on the shelf. That are not even on the
shelf. Meaning they can't even get to the distributor.
Correct. Larry had to jump out and get his bird
dog peanut butter whiskey. Yeah, as I was shopping
around, I found this little airplane size. It's
a bourbon called Bird Dog, and it's peanut butter
flavored. And, Sean, you tell me that you guys
have already sampled some peanut butter bourbon
before. Oh, yeah. I'd never heard of it, and
I took a hit out of it. I got to tell you, I
kind of like it. It's tasty. It's pretty good.
It is fun. Yeah, when you want to get blown up
quickly, and it's very... Let me tell you something.
We had a choice of this, and he was going to
bring something called Buzz Balls. I didn't know
what this was. It's like diabetes in a can. Those
little Buzz Balls. They're good, though. All
right. Well, the first half of the Dudes Like
Us podcast, it's July 15, 2025. Thank you, Chuck.
Mr. Producer, stay on top of shit as you normally
do. Our first half guest, Mr. Larry, welcome
back. Thank you very much. Thank you, guys. Fourth
or fifth tour, I don't even know, but it's fun
every single time you're here. Thank you. It
is. Dudes Like Us, I'm Sean. I'm Paul. I'm Jeff.
I'm Larry.