That was one of the board pieces on risk, right?
Kamchatka. Yeah, Kamchatka. Yeah, so this is
late -breaking news for our second half of the
podcast. There is a tsunami warning, or watch,
I don't know. I don't know if it's a watch or
warning. Tsunami warning for Russia. So, yeah,
there was an 8 .7 on the Richter scale earthquake
right off of Kamchatka. That's tremendously large.
That is a very large earthquake. Because the
numbers aren't... The Richter scale? The Richter
scale, the severity, like 0 .1 when you're down
to 1 .1 is not the same as going from... 8 .1
to 8 .2. Right, it's like... Yeah, it ramps way
up. Yeah, so I think this is... Yeah, this is
breaking stuff. Hopefully, it's not going to
be something like it was. God. It's not a pilot.
What was that, in Thailand or in Indian Ocean?
That was Thailand, yeah. 230 ,000 people. I think
that's wine. Okay. That was terrifying, that...
So, when you're looking at the Richter scale...
Magnitude. So one is common and not felt. Two
is barely felt. Three is minor. It's felt. Moderate
is four. Some property damage. Stuff falls down
is five. Strong property damage and loss of life
is six. Major extreme damage is seven. Eight
massive near total destruction. This was 8 .7.
8 .7. Well, I mean, this isn't, yeah, there's
some broken. 10 is devastating. Broken wine bottles
on the floor. Okay, yeah. I was like, is that
blood? There's blood everywhere. Who's been in
an earthquake? I have. It was very small up in,
when I was in Cincinnati. I think I talked about
this. I was on a weekend, or maybe, I think it
was a weekend. I was laying on my sofa in my
basement. watching the James Bond marathon on
WTBS. Ooh. Man, good memory from all this. And
I was just laying there, all of a sudden, just
started shaking a little bit, and it lasted for
maybe three seconds, and I was like, oh. You're
like, that was weird. Yeah. You're like, hmm,
that was a 3 .3, I think. Yeah, but since then,
it's not known for earthquakes, so. Didn't happen
very often. Yeah. Of course, I've been in several
because... Well, you were in Cambodia for a while,
right? Not really Cambodia. It was Tokyo, Japan.
That's close. Oh. Yeah. It's on the other side
of the map. Yeah, and I mean, they have quite
a few there. They're in the Ring of Fire. That's
right. Ring of Fire, not the Ring of Fire. Shut
the boy. The Ring of Fire. The Ring of Fire.
The Ring of Fire. There were several when I was
there. And actually, we were in the largest earthquake
of 1978. And I think like 12 people ended up
actually perishing. But yeah, that was a crazy
one. Yeah, well, they build, I know down in Mexico
City, they have a lot of earthquakes down there.
Right. And they build the buildings. significantly
different than they do like here in dallas right
yeah they they shake in sections in tokyo yeah
they uh one of my manager told me how it works
that they they swear they do all kinds of crazy
stuff these buildings uh obviously if you get
too big it doesn't matter but right um you know
they'll handle to a certain degree uh but when
you're in the hotels down there All over the
place, you would see earthquake evacuation routes.
Oh, yeah. I think it's kind of fascinating the
way some of the old Asian, I'm going to say Asian
because I don't know if it's Chinese, Japanese,
Durianese, or one of these. It's just the buildings,
how they have their multi -story buildings and
they have that one rod that goes down the center
that creates an equilibrium to keep them from
falling over during an earthquake. Yeah, that's
what I'm saying. Yeah, because they were like,
I haven't. How would they know that stuff? It's
crazy. I mean, I'm telling you, man. Slide rules.
Yeah, slide rules and springs and resonance.
Resonant frequencies. I mean, it's an engineering
thing, right? So you've got to know the inertial
dampers and things like that. Have you disengaged
the external inertial dampener? But back then,
I mean, you know. They knew it back then. That's
my point. It's a shock absorber. That's what
it ends up being. But, I mean, just to come up
with the engineering idea back then. You think
that the people are just ignorant and they don't
know shit. No, man, those guys, you know, they,
I mean, even like the pyramids. I mean, we talked
about some of the past where they've got that
LIDAR scanning that's going down below. There
are more and more and more scans that verify
that there are structures two kilometers below
the pyramids. And it's designed to withstand
earthquakes? I have no idea. What it's designed
for, but they're there. I'm just kidding. There's
cubes down there, rooms. There's rooms down there.
It's the Oak Island treasure. Who knows what
it is, right? They supposedly found the Oak Island
treasure. I saw some headline. Yeah, they found
some stuff. They pulled up a bunch of two -by.
Oak Island Treasure? Yes. Am I the only one that
doesn't know what this is? That was a TV show,
wasn't it? On the History Channel? On the History
Channel. These two brothers, and they had got
the authority from, I want to say Plum Island.
No, it's Oak Island. Oak Island. Yeah, it's Oak
Island. And so, man, it's a fascinating story
because they dug down and they found stuff. They
found a little bit of jewelry. They found some...
carving on a stone which had disappeared, by
the way. It's amazing how when they find artifacts
that they don't have explanations of how it came
about or what's on it, and they just mysteriously
disappear. So Mr. Producer put this video. I
saw this on a meme. It is amazing how the Earth
shifts. So there's a video that was taken on
March 28th, and it's a picture that's from a
camera feed. On a garage, and you see the landscape
in the background clearly shifting like feet.
I mean, that is crazy. Did you guys see it move?
No. I saw it over on the right. Yeah, on the
right. Check out the whole earth moves on the
right. It shifts. The whole field. Watch that.
Oh, damn. The whole thing slid. Yeah. Where was
this? Myanmar. Damn. Yeah, Myanmar. Where's that
at? Asia. Asia. Asia. But, I mean, just the fact
that that whole thing shifted right over. Did
that structure in the far upper right corner?
Yeah, did it? Oh, it went down. It moved along
with it. No, it collapsed. Look. Damn. Dude,
again, I didn't see it collapse. Right behind
the arrow. See that? The tower's right there,
and then it just falls apart. But there it goes.
Hold on. Oh, the arrow on the far left. Okay.
I was looking on the far right. Okay. Do it one
more time. Because I was trying to figure out
where the hell that was. Wow. We're really struggling
here. Okay. Well, yeah. So that's an earthquake,
but that's earth movement. So I don't know if
earthquake is the same thing, I guess. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. That's what counts as air. Normally
the slip is just. Very small, right? This one's
a major... So they said that this is the first
time in history that they've actually captured
this on video. And the shift is obvious. It's...
That's insane. Just to watch that much earth
move, and it was like several feet. It was like
a couple yards, right? You always see it in stupid
movies, though, too, right? You know, those earthquake
movies. Like, what was that, San Andreas? Did
you see that one? With the rock? With the rock.
Yeah. My goodness. Oh, yeah. Look at that. Man.
That's crazy. Well, I wonder which side moves.
The side with the house or the other side? Who
knows? Yeah. One of them did. Or they could have
both. They could have both done it. Yeah. I think
they were both moving. Yeah. That's what they're
showing on the bottom below the arrows. Yeah.
I think they're both moving. Oh, but one's underground.
So, yeah. Maybe not. I don't know. Anyway, it's
fascinating. I mean, it's slightly different.
I mean, there's different type of slip faults.
And some of them are literally waves. The ground
literally moves in a wave motion, and that's
where shit just goes crazy. Did we do our intro?
We did not. I'm Paul. I'm Sean. Check us out
on dudeslikeus -podcast on Facebook or Instagram
if you guys are interested. Who the hell are
these guys? I don't know. They're just talking.
Maybe I need to go first, so they pick my name
up. Well, maybe that's what the deal is. Shit.
Dudes like us. Jeff. They didn't even know. Yeah.
So in the green room, we were messing with Grok
or Gronk or what is it? Grok. And asking them
to describe our podcast. And they said, yes,
it's two guys. And they talk about a lot of things.
And we're like, no, no, no, it's three. And it
was like, no, no, no, I'm pretty sure it's two.
And then we said, well, what are the names? Oh,
well, it's Paul and Paul. Paul and Sean. Yeah.
And we're like, what the fuck happened to Jeff?
Yeah. Maybe Jeff is a guest. Maybe you check
your, you know. Do you have an explicit episode
for me to listen to? All of them? Yes. I'm pretty
sure you're in every single one of them. Yeah.
Yeah. Wow. I guess you're just forgettable. Yeah.
He's like us. Maybe. Yeah. So the tsunami in
Thailand. back in 2003, 4, 5 range. Yeah. I remember
when that happened. Awful. And that was devastating.
Yes. Absolutely devastating. It was slow moving.
People were standing there watching it come in.
Right. And you're like. Yeah, because it sucked
all the water out. And people were walking out.
Yep. They were like, wow, this is all dry. What's
going on? Oh, look, I found my own GoPro. There's
a GoPro. Yeah, here's a watch. Yeah. And then
all of a sudden. It was the day after Christmas,
too. It was Boxing Day. Oh, God. That's right.
And it just came in. And I remember watching
that. Unbelievable. There was no escaping that.
I mean, I don't care how good a swimmer you are.
It's luck to survive that. Yes, 100%. With all
the debris. And tsunamis aren't like whatever
that middle one. looks like. It's not like a
tidal wave coming in. No, it's not tall. It's
just a big, massive water just comes in and takes
everything with it. And it's the constant flow
and it rips through buildings. I mean, I don't
know how some of those hotels stood up against
it. Yeah, true. Yeah, it was just horrible. And
how many people ended up? It's like 230 ,000.
Yeah, it was dramatic. Massive amount of people.
That is insane. Yeah, it was bad. 9 .1 undersea
earthquake. That was a big one, too. So, yeah,
this is 8 .7, so 9 .1. Holy shit. That's a lot.
That says only 400 villagers. There's more than
that. Can't be right. Well, that was in Thailand
only. It was 5 ,500. But remember, it hit. all
sorts of areas all around the Indian Ocean. I
remember it being completely devastating. Why
is it not telling us how many people perished?
I thought it was in Phuket. Fuck it. Fuck it.
All right, let's see here. Damage. Popular Fifi.
This is strange why we can't get a... Yeah, but
I remember back then, unless they found everyone,
but I doubt it. They also made that movie. Did
you watch the movie? I did. Invincible or whatever
they called it? Yes, I saw it. Indestructible
or Invincible, but the family. Yeah, it was like
a young Australian family or something like that.
Australian, yes. And they survived? Yeah. Yeah,
they did. They did. So were they in the water?
Yeah, they were in the water. They all got washed
away. Separated? Yeah, I think the mom ended
up finding the son, the small boy. That was mainly
with her, I think, was the movie, kind of following
her through her travels down the water. So it
was 227 ,000, almost 28 ,000. So, yeah. That's
basically Frisco. God, that is awful. Everyone
in Frisco died. Unbelievable. And I remember
this horrible story where right after it happened,
you know, they're all walking, people are combing
the beach looking for bodies and all sorts of
stuff. And there was some British girl. that
had, you know, survived, obviously. And she went
out onto the beach and laid out on her towel
and started sunbathing. Yeah. And she, do you
remember that story? Well, it came in and got
her. No, no, no, no. This is after the fact.
So while people are going around looking for
bodies and trying to help people who are hurt,
she was just took her towel. She was basically
in shock. She didn't know what to do, where to
go, what to do. So she just went down to the
beach and plopped down there and started sunbathing.
And she got all sorts of grief. I remember that.
Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, she got all sorts
of grief, and I felt bad for her because she
was like, what the fuck is she supposed to do?
She's on vacation. This massive, scariest shit
ever just happened, and she just kind of like,
well, fuck, I guess I'll just go lay down on
the beach. Right. You know what I mean? I felt
bad for her, but they were really dogging her.
I think that's just the bullshit media. The media
is bullshit, according to me. Possibly white.
Manhattan shooter, you know? Well, it is. And
I think if you pay attention, you recognize they
have an agenda. And I think a lot of people have
finally caught on over the last four, five, six
years or so. It's not longer than that. That
they're untrustworthy. Totally. So, you know,
you have Colbert getting canceled because he
didn't make money because no one watched him.
So the ads started the fall, right? You have
people leaving 60 Minutes because... Well, hold
on. But what did they blame it on? They blamed
it on Trump. Oh, they blamed it on Trump. Yeah.
Like, really? Like, he was attacking the media
system. Yeah. Well, and it was the... Settlement.
The settlement. Thank you. 16 million... Well,
I mean, they were trying to influence the election
by, like, fabricating a response from Campbell
Till Harris. I mean, come on. But in his monologue,
Colbert, like... directly does the math. He's
like, I'm not good at math, but if you took how
much money we are making versus what the costs
are, the difference is $16 million. I wonder
why we're getting canceled. Basically blaming
Trump and his settlement. It's just bullshit,
man. It wasn't even a winnable lawsuit on Trump's
part. However, CBS was decided to just... Cut
bait so they didn't have to go through discovery.
Make it go away. Yes, make it go away. Anyway,
you said also the 60 Minutes thing. Well, it's
like 60 Minutes, you have the long -time producer
quitting there because they were basically told
you can't run your bullshit stories anymore.
Right. He threw a temper tantrum. He did and
he quit. Dude, their ratings are dismal. CNN's
ratings are tanked. MSNBC's are terrible. Like
really bad, MSNBC. I know. And NBC. split from
msnbc right nbc news i should say so they're
they are no longer together so yeah i mean the
the legacy media is is becoming irrelevant it
is exactly that's a great word irrelevant irrelevant
people aren't believing anything but they don't
know it yet no they don't they're hanging on
they don't know it yet and npr just got hit Yeah,
they're losing their funding. And now judges
are starting to step in and, no, you can't take
away NPR's funding, and you can't take away Planned
Parenthood funding, and you can't do that. I
mean, they passed a law. You don't control the
budget. Yeah, Congress passed a law to do these
things, and judges are trying to step in and
stop them. It's unbelievable. Are they being
successful? Well, they're doing their injunctions,
which makes everybody have to go through the
process. But ultimately, they haven't been very
successful. They're just stalling. Correct. That's
all they're doing. And it's not an executive
order. No. This is not Trump. Yeah, this was
passed by Senate. This is Congress. This is Congress.
This is the big, beautiful bill. It's insane.
Anyway, back on the tsunami thing, don't forget
about the Japanese one. Fukushima? Yes. Yeah,
that was a bad one, too. That destroyed that
nuclear site up there. Talk about disaster. That
was a nine. Oh, man, that was really bad. And
then everybody was like, why would you ever build
a nuclear reactor on the coast of the ocean where
you can be hit by a tsunami? Well, good question.
It is kind of a good question. Well, okay, so
that's where the water is for the cooling? Yeah,
yeah, no, I get it. But no one thinks that this
could ever happen, right? Right. Well, I remember
when that happened, then you had the big nuclear
blob that was making its way across the ocean.
Remember that? The worry was this huge nuclear
blob was going to, nuclear waste blob was going
to hit the West Coast. Right. Oh, the radioactive
water. And then the West Coast would be uninhabitable
for a while. Where did that nuclear blob go?
I think the fish ate it. I think Godzilla ate
it. Godzilla. Is that why he was like blowing
fire? Right. I think bacteria ended up eating
it probably. You know. That same thing happened,
do you remember, with the BP spill? Oh, yeah.
And they were like, how are we going to clean
this up? Yeah. Oh, it's gone. A massive plume
of microbes designed to eat oil happened. Well,
oil is an organic thing. Yes, it seeps out of
the ocean floor naturally. And when it does,
there are microbes that are like, ooh, oil. Well,
the same thing happened with the big leak, the
big spill. Yep, so you had this big plume, so
you probably had all these fish. That came in.
It was probably good for the environment. Right.
So they're like, we need to leak more oil, more
microplastics. Unbelievable, man. Nature just
has a way of cleaning up shit, doesn't it? That
was the deep water horizon. So what do you think
the largest earthquake in the United States recorded
in the U .S.? Was it the San Francisco earthquake?
San Francisco. Was that during the World Series?
94. That was a big one, but that was like a 74,
I think. 72, I think. I'm thinking more like
in the early 1900s. 1903. That's what I'm thinking,
something like that, because it caused a ginormous
fire. Yeah. All right, so this, not even close,
but that's all right. It's 1964, March 28th.
This was located in Alaska. That was 61 years
away. 9 .2 on the Richter scale. Where was it
at? Prince William Sound, Alaska. We said West
Coast. Oh, yeah. That's West Coast. In 19 -something.
Yeah, 19 -065. Yeah. 1906 -5, yes. Yeah, but
still, I mean, a 9 .2, that's pretty high up
there. That's good shit right there, yeah. That's
a good earthquake. Yeah, we don't want those
small ones here in the U .S. No, we go big. Go
big or go home. I'm waiting for the big one to
hit San Francisco again, or the West Coast. In
1906, it was a 7 -8. It seems to be inevitable,
right? It is. Yeah, that's what I mean. It's
going to happen, but... You know, the challenge
is no one really knows when. Well, and then we
got the Canary Islands. You heard about that,
like, extinction -level event for the East Coast.
That's where there is a massive volcano. Well,
not a massive one, but there's a volcano that
is, like, totally filled with water, and they're
saying that when it erupts, it's going to, half
that mountain or half that volcano is going to
slide into the ocean, and when it does, it's
going to be East Coast wiped out. Like a massive,
massive tsunami. Like North American East Coast?
Yes. So look up Canary Islands. That is what.
The East Coast? Mm -hmm. Because. Where are the
Canary Islands? Right off of, I think it's off
of the, you know, the western edge of Africa.
It's an island. It's a little set of islands,
right? And they think that's going to create
a wave to go all the way across the. Canary Islands,
yeah. To destroy the East Coast? That's been
one of those, you know, one of those doomsday.
Predictions, right? Doomsday fish, the oar fish.
So, anyway. You know, these are shows on discovery.
You know what I mean? And they have these scientists
climbing all over the volcano and they're like...
The Canary Islands, it's a mega tsunami hypothesis.
Yep, there you go. The recent eruption of La
Palma in the Canary Islands has stimulated speculation
that the volcano might collapse. Just like you
said. Is it Like imminent? Like they're thinking
in the next 50 years? Well, they don't know,
right? Is it active? Just like you were saying
with California. We just never know when this
is going to happen. Well, if Yellowstone overblows,
the U .S. is gone. It's a super volcano. That's
right. Yeah. I mean, so is that going to happen?
I don't know. I think it will at some point.
Will it happen while we're visiting it? I'd rather
be there visiting when it goes off. So you just
get vaporized. Is that what it's going to be?
I don't think it's going to vaporize. I think
what it's going to do is it's going to have ash
that's just put all over the United States. I
mean, if you were just there, like in Dallas,
don't visit it. You'd be - Eviscerated. Yeah,
just pieces. Like a fart in the wind. No, really.
How would that impact us here in Dallas? It would
- Yeah. Well, what it'll do is it'll throw up
enough clouds. The impact is death, Paul. Well,
it'll throw up so much shit in the sky that the
sun won't be able to come through. And plus it'll
rain down ash everywhere. So that's a slow death
for us. I get things that will happen that affect
the whole globe, right? It's going to snuff out
the sun. I think Yellowstone would do that. Yeah.
Okay. So would it be the slow death where it
kills all of our crops and we all die of starvation?
Or are we close enough to Yellowstone to where
we literally get like shit falls on us? Yes.
What's the impact of death? The eruption would
entail more than dangerous lava flows and could
be expected to kill as many as 90 ,000 people
immediately and spread a 10 -foot, 3 -meter layer
of molten ash as far as 1 ,000 miles in every
direction. So 10 foot. We're farther than 1 ,000
miles from there, aren't we? No. From Yellowstone?
Yeah, we are. Del Paso is only 1 ,000. Barely
1 ,000. So, good. We're not going to get hit
by lava. We're not going to get hit by ash. Well,
that's 10 foot 1 ,000 miles. I mean, after that,
it's 5 foot. 5 feet. We could survive 5 feet
of ash. It'd be a lot of shoveling. So, we'd
have Lava Creek Ash Bed. Yeah, we're looking
at a picture of who would be affected. So while
the eruption of Yellowstone Supervolcano would
cause widespread devastation and significant
loss of life in the United States, it would not
lead to the extinction of the human race or the
collapse of the country. The immediate area would
experience para... Shit everywhere, a large portion
of the country would be blanketed with ash. I
thought they said shit everywhere. Agriculture,
infrastructure, however, the rest of the world
would less likely be affected. The U .S. would
eventually recover, although it would take a
considerable amount of time. There we go. See,
we'd be fine. Yeah. You just got to, you know,
you got to... I love about fine. ...buy a bunch
of those military rations so that you can survive
for the next... It'd be like Fallout 4. Ready
to eat. Do you guys ever subscribe to that, you
know, buckets from Costco where it's like the...
I haven't. I've thought about it. The emergency
food. But I've never pulled the trigger on it.
Well, there was a... They're expensive. To buy
like a six -month for a family of six is like
$3 ,000. Yeah, it's not jam. I didn't think it
was that bad. It's expensive. Yeah, it's pretty
pricey. You know, I've considered buying, you
know, a month or two. I mean, I'm not against
it. You know, if you're starving... I think that
it might be worth it. I don't know. A doomsday
prepper, people start classifying you. Yeah,
I know. But I find it warranted. We don't know
what's around the corner. It could be anything.
The power going out for an extended period. I
don't know about a year supply or a three -year
supply, but it wouldn't hurt to have a couple
months. I'm thinking 90 days. Well, think of
it as an insurance. policy that you hope you
never use. Absolutely. I'm going to invest two
grand in this, and if it sits there for the rest
of my life, so be it. Yeah, it's insurance, like
you said. Now, I have 1 ,500 cans of Spam, so
I'm covered. I think you would die from just
salt. Yeah. From nitrate exposure. Yes. Maybe.
Yeah. We had Spam the other night, as a matter
of fact. We got the low sodium. I bought that.
That matters. That's what I had for lunch. It
shouldn't say low. It should say lower. That's
what I made. I brought my lunch to work today,
and that's what I cooked up some light sodium
spam. It is dramatically, at least taste -wise,
dramatically less salty because I had the regular
spam, and I was like, wow, I could almost not
eat this. It was so salty. Salty, yeah. The low
-salt one's awesome. I love spam. I literally
made it this morning. Took it to work. It's big
Hawaiian food. I know it is. They even serve
it at McDonald's in Hawaii, right? Yes, they
do. Very cool. That's crazy. I love spam too.
We don't have enough. Tara doesn't buy it. It's
crazy enough. Tara buys all the crazy shit like
sugar everywhere. Cookies, candies, everywhere.
Spam is like... Oh, we can't have spam. Oh, really?
You want to have cocaine sitting on the countertop,
the sugar stuff that's horrible for you. Horrible
for you. I mean, little crackers. Cheese crackers,
peanut butter crackers, that stuff is horrible
for you. It's not real. It's seed oil. And I
keep saying this, and she gets triggered. Oh,
my God. And I'm like, do you not get it? You
are literally giving the kids poison to eat.
It's poison. There is nothing good in there.
The shelf life of that is 10 years. There is
nothing good in that. But they like it. They
make them happy. Yes. They eat it and they're
like, I love you, Mom. I hate you, Dad. Whatever.
You put celery out. Whatever, man. Celery sticks.
I blame her. Part of the reason why I'm so heavy
is because she just buys all this food and I'm
like, I can't let this food go to waste. You
have no willpower. You got to let it go. Let
it die. Let that food go to waste. I can't stand
food going to waste. I'm with you, too. Donate
it. I can't stand wasting my money on food going
to waste. There you go. Yeah, that's better.
Keep rephrasing. Yeah, it's got to fit in the
box. Right. I tell you what, I mean, we had a
slight glimpse of what life could be like when
we had that crazy one -week ice. Not ice, but
cold spell. Yeah, in 2021, December. Yeah, where
you guys didn't have power. I did, of course.
No, Jeff had power. I had power. I had power.
Yeah, you and I had power. Fuck you. Yeah, and
you were over there in your blankets with some
weird hat on, and you're like, oh, my God, we
have no power. Dude, I had a military oversight.
I had a jacket. Dude, it was so cold. I was choked.
Did you have power? No. That's when you had your
pipe burst. All our pipes froze, yeah. And it
was so dumb. I was like, guys, come over. We
have power. Just come over to our house. No,
we're going to stick it. out. Well, we figured
the power would turn on. You always do. You always
think it's one more hour. They sold us out. ERCOT
sold us out. How many days went by that you had
no power? Three to five. I don't know. I'm just
saying we had a slight glimpse of craziness because
we ran out of diesel at our data center and we
had to emergency Try to find. I was even calling
people that I knew that had connections for my
own company's data center going, let me try these
guys. Maybe they have something. Anyway, it was
crazy. And grocery stores were cleared out. Toilet
paper. Yeah, toilet paper was gone. Toilet paper.
I forgot about the toilet paper run. People are
stupid. No, no, no. That was a COVID thing. That
was. No, it was COVID. It's an everything thing.
It's every slight chance of some kind of disaster.
Everyone goes stock up on toilet paper. Yeah,
I remember when there were people waiting in
line at the gas stations to get gas. Yes. Oh,
I got to save that nickel. Really? Have you seen
Costco gas stations lately? That's ridiculous.
They're always like that. Yes. Like the world's
coming to an end. I know. When you look at that
gas station. The gas is five cents more across
the street. You have a 10 -gallon tank. That's
50 cents. Every single time we go to Costco,
Shelly and I have to have the same conversation
over and over and over again when we pass the
gas lines. Why? Like, why? What is wrong with
these people? It's like just a broken record.
I'm surprised because most of the people that
go to Costco over the weekend drive Teslas. Yes,
they do. That's true. That's a very interesting
observation, Sean. And their new student drivers.
A lot of student driver stickers, yeah. Very
interesting. No, I just can't understand it.
I'm with you. What are you saving? Literally,
what are you saving? Two box tops. Yeah. My time
is worth more. Time and aggravation. The lines
are insane. Anyway, I can never get over that.
Anyway. All right. Speaking of skirmishes. Did
we talk about skirmishes? This shit that's going
on in Thailand and Cambodia. Thailand? Well,
we talked about Thailand and the tsunami. Yes.
Maybe it's all related. It is related. No, so
they were, they have like a number of places
in the world where they're fighting over disputed
territory and things that are in that disputed
territory. They apparently, somebody stepped
on a landmine and blew up some Thai soldiers
and then the shit started rolling. Then they
were shooting rockets. Shooting rockets and artillery.
F -16s. Yeah, they were doing - They ramped up
pretty quick. Yeah, they were both sides flying
F -16s and doing strikes, airstrikes. Like napalm.
Yeah, insane. It's pretty tribal. I mean, it's
kind of, I think it's ludicrous. I mean, but
I guess there's been some tension for a very
long time. Long, long time. Anyway, the fascinating
thing about this is it didn't last very long
because Trump stepped in. And he was like, um,
this needs to stop. And I guess he's negotiating.
He's dealing, he's dealing, making trade deals
all over the world. Right. He has his team working
deals with every country. Right. And apparently
he's in the midst of working with both of these
countries. And he said, we're, we're going to,
we're not talking about trade and you're going
to basically get screwed if you don't stop. This
shit that you're doing right now. Well, there's
a lot of stuff made in both of those countries.
Right. Cambodia and Thailand and Vietnam. I don't
know if I've ever seen anything from Laos, but
I've seen them from all those countries. Typically
clothing is what I see, right? Cheap labor. Yeah.
Well, it is. Exactly. Because what people are
doing is they're pulling it out of China and
putting them here. Yep. The factories, right?
Right. So it was going to be a big impact. yeah
so he yeah he threatened to basically stop the
trade discussions and basically if we do that
you're not going to get any you're going to get
the worst deal possible and so they were like
okay okay okay we're going to quit fighting you
know which is awesome i mean he really i know
that people would vomit all over themselves if
they if you know we touted him as the the president
of peace and he should be nominated for Nobel
Peace Prize. I think he should be nominated for
a Nobel Peace Prize because it's not just, you
know, it's the Abraham Accords. I mean, it goes
back, you know, he should have been nominated
for the Nobel Peace Prize then. You know, they
didn't give him, the folks that have the Trump
hatred will not give it to him. They will not
give it to him. No, they won't. No, they won't.
And I don't get it. I mean, granted, he's a child,
but you know what? They are all children. You
know, Barack Obama was a child from the shit
that he's going through. Obviously, he was trying
to sway the election by preparing an environment
for when Trump took office that would go against
him. Right. You know, and Hillary Clinton was
bad. Bill Clinton was getting blowjobs in the
office. I mean, they're all children. I mean,
they're all fucking up. I mean, Trump, the only
thing he does is just say stupid shit sometimes.
I don't care. At the end of the day, fix our
country. And you know what? He is. Yeah. I don't
disagree, but, I mean, this whole Nobel Peace
Prize thing, I mean, I know it's Norway, right?
It's in Oslo. Yeah, so the ceremony's in Oslo.
The ceremony. How does this work? Who decides
who gets a Nobel? I know people nominate people,
right? Right, so I don't know if you need to
be at a certain stature or standing in order
to, like, can I nominate somebody? Yeah, how
does the process work? What's the general process?
Do we know? Is it a head of state that has to
nominate you or someone? I don't know who can
nominate. But it's done every year on December
10th in Oslo. All right, here we go. Let me read
this real quick. It's the Oslo process refers
to a series of secret negotiations and agreements
between... Oh, this is totally not it at all.
Okay, never mind. So the Norwegian Nobel Committee...
Is that what you just read? No. Decides who receives
the Nobel Peace Prize. The five -member committee
is appointed by the Norwegian parliament. Storting.
The committee's composition reflects the political
balance with... I don't know what storting is.
Within the storting. They are responsible for
selecting the Lariat Forum from a pool of nominated
candidates. Scroll up real quick for me. The
nominations. Who can nominate? Okay. A select
group of individuals, members of national governments
and assemblies, members of international courts.
All right. So they kind of go through the list
of who has the prestige. That's what I was getting
at. I think you have to have some kind of prestige
within a certain field or government or something
like that in order to, like, just we can't nominate.
All right. You've got to nominate it by January
31st of each year, blah, blah, blah. It has to
be strict secrecy regarding the nominees and
their nominations. for 50 years after the prize
is awarded. What now? The committee maintains
strict secrecy regarding the nominees and their
nominations for 50 years after the prize is awarded.
Why? I don't know. That makes no sense. Is it
like the JFK files or something? I guess so.
That makes no sense at all. So remember earlier
we were like, well, who's been nominated? They
don't tell you who's been nominated. Interesting.
Just choose one. So while the committee selects
the winner, a wide range of individuals and groups
submit their nominations, including members of
national governments, university professors,
and former winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
So I think I saw somewhere it was a leader of
one of the countries, and he goes, I'm going
to nominate you for Nobel Peace Prize. I think
it was Pakistan. Was it the Pakistan guy? Yeah.
Well, I don't know. I don't know who said it,
but they're in the White House. They're sitting
in one of the rooms and having a meeting. And
he said, yeah, I'm going to nominate you for
your Nobel Peace Prize. Yeah, which is cool.
Anyway, but yeah, he's never going to get it.
But who decides? Like, who is the committee that
awards it? Well, the Nobel Committee, so it's
done by majority. So they have a bunch of people
that make their submissions, and then the Norwegian
Nobel Committee decides who receives the prize.
It's a five -member committee. Five members,
that's it. Appointed by the Norwegian Parliament.
If you get a bunch of TDS folks in there, he's
not kidding. They're all TDS folks in Europe.
Yeah. In all of Europe. So the Norwegian Nobel
Committee reviews the nominations, assesses the
candidates, and ultimately decides who will receive
the prize. I mean, absolutely. You mentioned
the Abraham Accords. He absolutely should have
gotten a Peace Prize for that. By itself. I think
we should start our own award. The Dudes Like
Us collaboration. A Dudes Laureate. Yep. The
Dudes Like Us Peace Award. Yeah. And instead
of getting a million dollars, they'll get a million
pesos. There you go. Or some magnets. Magnets,
yeah. We'll get some refrigerator Dudes Like
Us magnets. As many as they want. So submit your
submissions. And a sample of our infinity bottle.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't know about that. We
have to vote on that. Give us an idea of who's
won this prize. Because there's different prizes,
right? Barack won it. I know, but there's peace
prizes and then there's innovation. They're different
categories, right? Sure. You don't know? I don't
know. Unbelievable, Jeff. I thought you were
the learned one of the group here. Me? Yeah.
Well, I have one. I just can't say anything for
50 years. Okay. Wow. Well, there's only one Nobel
Peace Prize, but it could be awarded to individuals,
organizations, like the Red Cross. Red Cross
got a Nobel Peace Prize. Did you know that? I
did not. All right, hold on. Narjes, Mohamedy,
Nahon, Hedankyo. Okay, yeah, this is all very...
Ailes, Bialatsky. I know all these guys. Who
knows? The one from last year was for its efforts
to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and
for demonstrating through witness testimony that
nuclear weapons must never be used again. What?
How dare you? So Greta Thunberg can win this?
How dare you? No shit. I mean, it's not a very
high bar when you're looking at some of these
winners. I don't know how the hell Barack Obama
got it. I mean, the only reason he got it was
because he was black. Says for his extraordinary
efforts to strengthen international diplomacy
and cooperation between people. This was like
the first year he wasn't even president yet.
And the fact is that he didn't. He made things
worse. He created a race divide. He was the most
divisive president. He started the divide. between
Republicans and Democrats. Yeah, but this is
before he did any of that. Yeah, he didn't do
anything. Yeah. Well, the point is that the reason
he got it was that he was strengthening the peoples
and the diplomacy. But how could he do that?
Crock of shit. I don't think he was president
yet, was he? He wasn't even president yet. He's
just full of shit. It wasn't even him. It was
their image of him. Correct. I mean, he didn't
ask for it. Al Gore got one as well. He should
have declined it if he was smart, but he's just
a fool, so it doesn't matter. Anyway. Well, it
says he called for a new start to relations between
the Muslim world and the West based on a common
interest and mutual understanding and respect.
I don't see how... You know what? I don't want
to get started on that. Yeah. Because I strongly,
strongly disagree that that's even a possibility.
During his first year in power, he showed himself
to be a strong spokesman for human rights and
democracy. Oh, my God. Whatever. Total whatever.
Did you guys see that meme called Comply? It's
this new medicine they gave out. Oh, yeah. There's
a lot of those out there now. Comply. They've
got George Floyd. Oh, I sent that to you. Did
you send that? Oh, yeah. I thought that was fucking
hilarious. Hi, I'm George Floyd, and I endorse
Comply. It's helped me get along with the police
officers. I can breathe now. Oh, wow. That's
not going to ruffle any feathers. Type in George
Floyd. Nobody has a sense of humor anymore, man.
We need to have stuff like this. It's just funny.
Play that one little thing. It's AI, of course.
It's going to be funny. Let's see what it says.
It says to screen grab. Oh, it doesn't have a
video? That's so bad. Yeah, go YouTube all the
way on the left. But then I started taking this
comply. Now I breathe just fine. Side effects
of comply may include dizziness, obedience, improved
breathing during police encounters and sudden
respect for authority. Do not resist while taking
comply. Ask your officer if comply is right for
you. That's freaking genius. It is. I don't even
care if it ruffles feathers. It's a little insensitive,
but hey, it works. But you know what? I don't
care if it's insensitive because I think the
people that aren't complying are insensitive.
You know, they've got, and there's a big deal
with the ICE right now. The left is so up in
arms about them wearing masks, you know, and
they're wanting to get these guys out and expose
them. And it's like, you know, fuck off. You
know, these guys are here illegally. And look,
I feel bad for them. Some of the guys that have
jobs, they've been here for 15, 20 years, they
got families, and all they do is they work and
they provide for the family. Yeah, that sucks.
And I feel for you. Yeah. And I don't know what
to tell you. But the law. Yeah, but is there
someone more important to get out? Probably.
But you're next on the hit list. I can't explain
why you're there. But you're there, and you got
to go. You got to fix it. Yeah. You know, I don't
know. I feel bad, but at the same time, it's
the law. If I have a speeding ticket, I'm going
to go to jail if I don't take care of it. And
if it festers and I've got my kid in the car
and I get pulled over, I'm going to jail anyways,
and someone's going to have to pick up the kid.
Yep. The kid's going to be crying, and there's
going to be all kinds of drama going on. They're
going to go, oh, I'll tell you what, you just
go home now. Just take care of it when you get
a chance. Dude, they don't give a fuck. Give
me my $500 for that speeding violation that you
did back in 2002 that you never took care of.
Right. 23 years later. I know. How long does
that last anyways? What, the statute of limitations
on a speeding ticket? Yeah. There isn't one.
I think it's forever, right? Well, I tell you,
Texas A &M parking tickets has no statute of
limitations either. That $500 is now a $5 million
fine. Shelly could not get her transcript. from
A &M from 1995 because she had an unpaid parking
ticket. That was paper back then. Yes. And we
were like, can you show proof of something? I
mean, shit, we have no idea. And they didn't
add much to it. It's still like 85 bucks or 150
bucks or something. I don't know what it was.
But I was like, are you serious? You're not going
to give her a transcript. We're 30 years on at
this point. Yeah, 30 years later. Insane. That's
good record keeping. It's like having an expired
book from a library for a super long time. Returning
it, yeah, you owe $553 ,000 in late fees, but
we're willing to waive them if you bring the
book back. It was like Blockbuster. If your fees
got so out of control, they would help you out.
Blockbuster was bad. I mean, yeah. There would
be miscommunication between you and your wife.
You thought they were going to return it, and
they thought you were going to return it, and
five days later, now you've paid $35 for the
99 -cent rental that you got. Oh, the worst.
And then they charge you two bucks because you
didn't rewind it. Yeah, be kind, rewind. Oh,
shit, I'm talking about just the DVDs. Well,
I remember we would forget to turn it in, but
you have to have it in by midnight of that night.
11 .55. I was speeding to get there so I could
drop it in the box. You and like 50 other people.
Cranking it in there. You remember how that first.
I've done that a few times. What was it? Red
block. Red box. Red box. I've never used that.
No, no, no. Is that the stuff they mail to your
house? Actually, it was Netflix. Netflix started
it. They started with sending you DVDs to your
house. Correct. That was the best. It was before
streaming. Correct. And then, yeah, you could
keep it as long as you wanted. And then you put
it in the pouch and then you mail it and you
get the new ones. And it's kind of like Columbia
House, remember, with the CDs, all these CDs.
Oh, yeah. Except you own them in that situation.
Right. And then Redbox came out. We used Redbox.
We never did Netflix. We did Redbox. It's gone,
right? It's done? Oh, yeah. I think it's. No,
there's Redbox over at Walgreens. Is there really?
Yeah. I know they've discontinued a lot of them.
There was one at Kroger, too. That's gone. The
one at Kroger's gone? Oh, yeah. Oh, is it? Interesting.
I know, we never even look, right? Because we
do streaming now. Yeah, who does DVDs anymore?
Yeah, when was the last time you watched a DVD?
Do you even have a DVD player? Outside of the
Xbox, no. I do, I still have one. I have one.
It just sits there. In the attic. No, mine just
sits there underneath the receiver. It means,
you know, we don't use it, but it sits there.
If we wanted to, we could watch a DVD. We wouldn't.
Or you just stream it. We stream it. That's what
I'm saying. We stream everything. It's a different
world, man. idea what we dealt with now traveling
back and forth you know I for one of my jobs
I used to have I used to have to the hell I work
for a company Armstrong relocation it's a subsidiary
of United Van Lines my job was to go to these
people's houses and size up what they own so
I would walk in there and if it's a two -bedroom
apartment I'd say when they got a couch check
Table, chairs, check. Go in their bedrooms. You
can anticipate how many wardrobe boxes. You look
on the countertops. You kind of look at everything.
How many boxes are we going to need? They need
a certain amount of space and a truck for this
stuff. Oh, yeah, sure. So I went all over Texas
in this North Texas region. And you have to go
find those places. And back then, shit, they
didn't have Google Maps. No. So we had a Maps
Go. So you have different counties, you know,
and you get the map scale that's germane to that
county. And then you look up the address in the
back of the index. So in the back, it's like
a phone book. You know, they have addresses,
ranges, you know, street names, and then the
range of the numbers. And then because sometimes
if you're on, you know, Main Street, whatever,
Main Street, there's a gazillion. So, you know,
you've got a city. It's, you know, it goes, go
to page 35. Square C number five. Yeah, like
broken into grid. Yeah, you go to that grid and
then you kind of figure out how to get there.
And you're like, all right, well, that's there.
And then you go to another page and it's kind
of a blown up section. All right, well, this
is pages 10 through 16. So you got a six page
blow up. And then you write down directions.
In fact, our workplace used to have, that's what
these girls did. That was their job. is that
they would say, all right, you go to this intersection,
take a left. And they would give you directions
on how to get there. That's crazy. I'd get lost
right now. Yeah, when I was, before I moved down
here, I delivered pizzas for, I don't know, three,
four, five months. And this was in 92, 93. I
moved down here in 93. So it was probably the
beginning of 93. Well, I think it was, I don't
even know who the hell I delivered for. dominoes
or pizza hut um it was pizza hut and on the wall
there's a humongous map street map just humongous
so you can get down to the street in your delivery
area and you're like and you have to find these
addresses on this map and you didn't have a grid
you didn't have a phone book to go through so
you're like that's crazy and sometimes you they
at the time they're like yeah i'm on pike street
and it's off of uh this main road so you okay
okay and you're trying to find it and and you're
sort of you're on a timetable you don't want
the pizza to get cold right so you're doing that
you're doing three or four at a time right so
you're trying to find all these and you're mapping
your your thing out and you're trying to write
this stuff down i have to go here Then I have
to go over here, then here and here, and then
you go. And it's dark. And it's dark. And it's
dark. Yeah, so you have your little notes. And
the struggle was real. It was back then. It was
pain in the ass. Our kids have no concept of
any of this. Yeah. After a while, you'd learn
a lot of these streets because you're driving
them all the fucking time. You'd learn it, and
your dispatcher would kind of know, hey, these
are close to each other, so, you know. Yeah,
they would help you out, and they're better at
it than everybody else. It could be all over
the town or whatever, but I did that in college,
too, at the Pizza Hut on Southgate there. There
you go. And we had all of College Station as
our area. As your delivery area. And we had map
books of every single apartment. you know. Oh,
yeah. Then you think about apartments. You're
right. It's like all the different. Oh, yeah,
the apartments were paying the ass. Oh, man.
Yeah, you come in and you're going to find building
18 and unit 1804. Well, they had a map of that,
you know, treehouse apartments, unit 1804, and
you can figure out where to park. And then you
go up and you maybe get, invade the kegger party
that's going on there. Right. Yeah. Well, now.
Now they have DoorDash for everything. Or no,
Uber Eats. I was with Dylan in his house, in
his new house, and he's like, yeah, I don't have
any beer, Dad, but I ordered some off of Uber
Eats, so it should be here in like 30 minutes.
I'm like, you ordered a 12 -pack of beer from
Uber Eats. Yeah, you can. I know. I'm just like,
what? Why didn't we just go to the store and
buy one? You know what I mean? I'm like, what
the hell, man? It's convenience, I guess. I guess.
My buddy does that for packs of smokes. And I'm
like, are you kidding me? You got a DoorDash
for a pack of smokes? They're already taxed out
the ass on that thing. I know when I was, even
when Julie and I first met, we'd go on road trips.
We'd go back and forth to see my parents up in
Cincinnati. And my parents had AAA at the time.
So we'd call, acted like them, and say, yeah,
I need a trip tick from this address. to this
address and then they're like okay it'll be at
your it'll be at your house in you know three
days uh so what it was it was a i don't know
it's like a pamphlet thing flyer thing uh spiral
bound thing what had your map on it so you'd
had sections of map on the path you needed to
take so you'd have these sections of road it'll
tell you where construction was Oh, wow. At the
time. So it was as accurate as it could be down
to a few days. Sure. It'll tell you where the
rest stops are. It'll tell you. It'll also have
the words written down. So they had the data.
That was just the best way they could present
it. Yeah. So then you'd order this. Then they'd
mail it to you. Right. And print it. Print it.
They would print it out. They'd spiral bind it.
Have you heard of this? What is this called?
A triptych. Triptych. Triptych from AAA. Have
you ever heard of that? No. I wonder if they
have a picture of it up there, if you can find
it. And it's directions on getting from point
A to point B. Yeah, so I would like... And the
map. And the dedicated map. Yeah, it had the
map. And this was back when? Well, I knew Julius,
so probably 96, 95, 96. Yeah, that right there.
100%. How bizarre. Customized. It's customized
for... Every trip, yep. So we would get one every
road trip we went on. I guess that's cool. I've
never heard of it. I haven't at all. It was always
good because each section, each one's a little
different. If you're coming into a city, it would
zoom in so you wouldn't cover as many miles,
but other ones maybe 150 miles long. It was always
exciting when you're like, turn the page. That's
super handy. Turn the page. Wow, you must have
been rich. It was free. So you must have known
a lot of people. It was free. It was free. I
mean, you had to have AAA. Well, you had to have
AAA. That's what we asked. Oh, I see. Yeah, my
parents remember. And that's 6 ,000 a year. I
remember when I was working for that moving company,
I just dawned on me. I missed one of my appointments.
I remember same address. Are they still waiting?
They're still waiting. Different zip code. You
better call them. Different zip code, same address.
Oh. I drove two hours in a different direction.
Oh, no. And, you know, I get this phone call,
and they're like, I'm outside your door. What's
up, man? Were they on the Muppets or something?
It was Beaker. Yeah, it sounded like Beaker.
Beaker's family. I got in trouble for that, too,
and I was just like, really? You're like, dude,
I went to the wrong zip code. What the hell,
man? Do you have one of those big fold -out maps
that you... Rand McNally. Yeah. I mean, just
different times like that. Hell, man, can you
imagine without even getting a map? I mean, look,
it's not just the map. I mean, nowadays, it's
like, I think I'm getting more stupid or I'm
not retaining the information. It's because it's
that dopamine thing. It's the attention span
thing. It's kind of like, well, I need to know.
Like, you guys see it. I need to enter the address
into the car before driving somewhere. And you're
like, Sean's over there. He's like, yeah, I need
to enter it in so I know where I'm going. I need
the fastest way. Well, it's not just that, but
it's just like I'm around a bunch of people that
constantly antagonize me if I take a left instead
of a right. And so, I mean, not just you guys.
I mean, my wife and everyone. It's just like,
fuck. So you're like, I'm just following what
it says. Yes. Get off my back. Yes. So I've gotten
to that point. It's more than that now. It's
kind of like, I don't know how to get from certain
places. I know. It's because I went to lunch
today and they're like, well, where is that?
I was talking about the Horseneck Bourbon Exchange.
Fantastic town. Shout out to the Horseneck guys.
I was like, where was that? It was like, somewhere
around here. Come on. Ask our sons if they know.
I'll say something's at the corner of blah and
blah and they'll be like, okay. Can you send
me the address because I'm going to put it into
Google. Well, Stephen has made comments because
he's actually really good with not using GPS.
He can drive around. He goes, yeah, he goes,
my friends like me to drive because I know where
I'm going. Right. I don't know what he does differently,
but he somehow figured out how to get around
by street names. Well, he grew up there too.
But to your point, when you're not thinking about
your surroundings. and you're not memorizing
street names of where you're going in north and
south, and you're just following a computer telling
you where to go mindlessly, it does make you
dumb. In this general area, yeah, I know where
we're going. It's not a big deal. Of course.
But I go outside my area a lot. Right. Oh, you're
all over the place. So from that point, it's
still frustrating because I'm kind of like, all
right, well, I've been here three times in the
last two years. I should know how to get here.
Why do I need to plug all this shit in? It's
because I don't pay attention. It's on autopilot,
and I just go. 100%. I'm listening to the Dudes
Like Us podcast. Oh, well, that's why you're
getting dumb. Right. 100%. Right. Well, the GPS,
I mean, they're getting a lot better, but I know
when they were fairly new, they would take you
to places that were very incorrect. That happened
to me when we went to Iron Root. Oh, yeah. Remember
when I was late to the tour and you guys, where
are you at? It was right next to where we were.
I was like, dude, the Google took me 10 minutes
south. Well, in all fairness, they had major
construction going on. Yeah. No, it took me to
a fictional place. And it said, you are here.
And I was like, I'm in the field. Right. What
are you talking about? It was the future location.
You were from the future. Oh. Awesome. Sorry,
I interrupted you. Go back to what you were saying.
No, I was just saying that I remember one time
when we went to Colorado Springs and Preston
went with us. And I think one of our luggages,
one of our bags missed the flight and it showed
up later. So I went back to the airport to get
it. And I plugged in, take me back to the Colorado
Springs airport. And it took me to some dead
end road in a field. In Yellowstone? Yeah, in
Yellowstone, and then the volcano erupted. No,
it took me to a dead -end road. I was like, this
is not right. It was pitch black. I was like,
I could see the airport over there. I was just
like, this is not right. I didn't know where
I was at because I'm not familiar with Colorado
Springs. So I was like, well, maybe it's going
to swing around. I was like, no, that's a dead
end. Like I said, it got me probably within three
miles of the airport, but it was way off. Yeah,
you stopped thinking. I mean, you heard about
the elderly couple. that was being told to go
on this overpass that wasn't completed and they
blew past like the warning the warning bridges
and shit i mean the fences and stuff and they
drove off the edge and died When did this happen?
Look it up. It's 100 % true. Is this chips? It's
100 % true. Why chips? They didn't. Poncherelli?
Yeah, but they didn't drive off. Well, they'd
always stop just in time. No, it's not a boat
ramp. Not a boat ramp. No, it was a freeway.
It was an unfinished freeway. Well, it happens.
When I worked at Humperdinck's in Las Colinas,
one of our cocktail waitresses did that. Jody.
I remember Jody. This was in 183 and the George
Bush and how those merge. She drove up on one
of those ramps that was incomplete and drove
right off the edge. What? She was a cocktail
waitress at Humperdinck's in Las Colinas. Is
she okay? Did she die? She died. Yeah. That's
what I'm saying. People just follow Google Maps.
They didn't have Google Maps back then. I don't
know what the deal is. Nobody really knows. Maybe
intoxicated. She wasn't a drinker. I don't know.
Maybe she was, but she was one of the few girls
that didn't drink. She was going to school to
be a nurse. She had her shit together. It's kind
of crazy, but it does happen. People drive it
off on that. It happens. It happens a lot. Maybe
she was drunk. Maybe she just don't. I don't
know. But I do know that that's what happened.
And that was crazy. And I will always remember
that day when I found that out. That was like
right before I met Tara. That doesn't even make
sense because, I mean, it at least makes sense
that somebody is so mindless that they're just
telling, the computer's telling them where to
go. And it thinks it's completed. So they just
kind of blow off the warning signs around them.
And they just drive off the edge. I mean. Yeah.
It's happened. This is a destroyed bridge, so
maybe it was. Inoperative for nine years. Oh,
there you go. Oh, and barricades have been washed
away. There are several stories on there, so
take your pick. Yeah, take your pick. I mean,
people just follow. I always set my GPS to avoid
fairies. I clicked on the don't kill me button.
And so it says, I will reroute you because this
route will kill you. Do you also avoid toll roads?
Dude, I made that mistake. I turned that on.
Oh, that's what we're trying to make it to 1845
that one day. And you had to avoid toll roads.
We're like, what the hell? No, we were going
to an estate sale. Oh, is that what it was? And
we were just talking and talking and talking
and talking. And then I'm like, why are we sitting
on the feeder road? In traffic, when the tollway
is wide open, I kept thinking that we were going
to turn right next. And we just kept going and
going through light after light. I was like,
oh, God, I have the avoid tolls turned on. Anyway,
it was funny. You know, those people driving
off of bridges and they're just not used to it.
I mean, the technology has just become. infused
in our everyday thing. Even the kids, you know,
I mean, the state of it now, they're like, you
should not give your kid a, what's it called,
a phone before the age of 13. Right. You know,
they said, definitely not before the age of 13,
you should give yourself a phone, give them a
phone. And, you know, that's why in schools right
now, Jeff, you mentioned something about the
Frisco Independent School District. Yeah, the
school district, well, it's the state. There
is a new state bill that just passed. There's
some new rules about phones, I think, for sure.
Yeah, state bill. It just passed this last couple
months. And one of the big ones is none of the
students are allowed to have a cell phone powered
on in school. Love it. And that includes smart
watches and any Bluetooth attachment. No non
-school. issued tablets or computers. The kids
are going to struggle. They are. They're going
to struggle at first. Well, they'll get used
to it. They'll get used to it because we did.
We never had it, so we were fine. Yeah, we survived.
And I think the parents are going to have a bigger
issue with it than the kids, to be honest with
you. Not some of them will. Well, I mean, they'll
have it at home. What do you mean have a bigger
issue with it? Why? Oh, because they can't get
a hold of their kids. I need to get a hold of
little Johnny whenever I need to. That's right.
You know? That's right. Some parents are like
that. Yep, they are. So, yeah. So, started the
school year. No cell phones. I love it. No smart
watches. No earbuds. No. And you're saying that's
just Briscoe? No, it's the state. It's statewide.
Okay, statewide. Statewide. Brilliant. The other
one, there were three of them. There's also one.
I don't know how I feel about this one. Now,
each classroom will have the Ten Commandments
posted in it. Oh, I love it. I'm good with that,
too. I don't know how I feel about that. I love
it. Why not? I don't know if it needs to be there.
I think our United States was based on the Ten
Commandments. I think the Constitution should
be in there. I don't know about the Ten Commandments.
In every class. And why? Do you feel like that
would be pushing Christianity on people? No,
I just think that if you want to go to a religious
school, go to a religious school. There's a difference
between going to school. There's no theology
class in Frisco. Right. So I have it on the board.
You think it's an inappropriate mixture of church
and state. I think so. To some degree. Yes. You
know, as a Christian, I'm totally for it. Plus,
I also think it's opening up the door for, it's
a slippery slope, I think, because you have a
lot of other religions. very populous around
here that may have issue with it. Yeah, what
if you Hindu, right? You have some Hindu list
of things. Are we going to be fine with that?
Well, no, we're not. And I think that I'm selfish.
I want the Ten Commandments in every classroom.
So I want it. Our country was based on that.
We created this country based on God and based
on the Ten Commandments, and I think that's a
part of our history, and we should include it.
I don't think it belongs in every classroom,
though. Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm not disagreeing
with that. Well, that's the state law. It's going
to be in every classroom when you walk in, the
Ten Commandments. I mean, look, it's just like
everything else. If it becomes law, then it's
law. It's going to be there. I just disagree
with this one. Yeah, yeah, I hear you. When we
go to, like, I've gone to some of these government
-funded agricultural buildings that, for some
reason, and because it's a state, run place,
they have to have the current president and vice
president in there on the wall. Right. In the
front foyer. To me, that's kind of weird. Why
would you have to have that? And I asked them,
and they were like, well, I had to. We have to.
Because back then it was Obama. I think it was
Obama. Actually, I don't remember who it was.
But they were kind of like, yeah, we have to
have that up there. Otherwise, we would not be
having that up there. So it's just like one of
those things. I mean, they disagreed that it
was there. It was there, though. Because it's
a representation of who's running the country.
I don't know. It is a tricky one. But what is
the slippery slope, though? I mean, I don't get
that part. Well, I mean, because if you're going
to have that, then why wouldn't we have Hindu?
Because the country wasn't based on Hindu. But,
you know, a law can be a law and they could get
in there and they could pass laws and then suddenly
we wouldn't be okay with it. Well, then if they
pass the law, then pass the law. But, you know,
that's not going to happen, at least not with
our, not right now. Well, the population is growing
is what I'm saying. It is. Yeah. I don't know.
Of Hindu? Oh, yeah. How many Indians are living
here? Tons. Tons. More coming. Yeah. Lots. That's
40 % of Frisco right now. Good Lord. So not to
short -circuit this wonderful debate, but we're
running out of time, and we have not talked about
what we're drinking. Well, why don't you call
this one out? I did the last one. All right.
I can do that. All right. So we are talking about
the Whiskey Witch. It's distilled from a wheat
mash. This is the barrel series. It's aged five
years. It is 125 .8 proof. It is a ball slapper.
It is. And it is a, let's see, an Indiana peat
smoked malt. Wheat, Indiana, okay, no, hold on.
Wheat, Indiana peat smoked malt and oats is the
mash bill. It's a small batch. Yeah, it's very
interesting. It's very interesting. It's interesting.
I don't know if it's my favorite, though. I keep
drinking this. It's not bad. It's very unique.
Yeah, it's unique. There's a good unique and
a bad unique. It's not a bad unique. It's a wheat
mash. I find that interesting. It is. That's
a wheat bourbon, though, is it? Or is it a wheat
whiskey? No, it says wheat mash. I don't think
it's a bourbon. It's a wheat whiskey is what
this is. Yeah. Whiskey distilled from a wheat
mash. So it is, I mean, it's very drinkable.
It's just different. The spirits of French Lick
Whiskey Witch, Wicked Witch, we mash. Yeah, we
like several of these French Lick. This one,
again, like I said, it's not bad. I couldn't
do two glasses. No. You know, I think one is
perfect. For sipping, once in a while, it's got
a eucalyptus, kind of licorice, anise kind of
blend to it. God, it's very different. Kind of
a cooling menthol. Menthol is really good. When
I was sitting out there in the green room drinking
it the first sip, I was like, wow, that's menthol
-y. Like wintergreen? Yeah, some Paul Balls or
something. Like a Newport cigar roll? Yeah. Hmm.
A Salem cigarette? I don't have a problem with
wintergreen, but I wasn't expecting it from a
whiskey. This is not one I would have in my personal
collection that I would want to break out and
kind of enjoy on a regular basis. No, not at
all. But I would love to have it because it's
unique. I think it's got a great spin. I think
this one would be great in a cozy... Colorado
cabin with it really cold outside and you've
got a nice hot Earl Grey tea and a little snifter.
Mix a little tea in with your whiskey. No, no,
just have this on the side and kind of go back
and forth, you know. Maybe in a hot toddy. Maybe
we can watch a little YouTube. With plaster penises.
Yeah. Please refer to podcast blah, blah, blah
for context. So, I'm torn on this one, man. That's
what I mean. It's kind of in the middle. It's
unique. It's in the middle for me. It is. And
there's good uniques, which we have a few out
there. It's a specialty, so it doesn't fit in
a specific category. It's going to be hard to
rate. So I think as far as our unique ones go,
this would be near the bottom for me as far as
unique ones. I think the fray is probably at
the top for uniqueness. The buttery one. This
stuff's nasty. Why do you hate so much? It's
got a pepper, too. There's a pepper, strong pepper.
Not white, but black. I may go surprisingly low
on this. I'm going 6 .1. What did you lean over
for? I just had a very spicy belch because of
this. Oh, you were leaning away from the mic.
Yeah, but clearly I saw your right hip go up.
Yes. You were very sensitive to the cheek lift.
I have been in the blast zone before. You are
one to talk, brother. My God. You defined blast
zone. Are you kidding me? Just followers. Especially
a total whine. Oh, Lord. Really? How about going
to an estate sale with both of you when you have
a fart contact? I'm like, what is happening right
now? Yes, yes, yes. Hey, we all do it. What is
your rating? I am at 5 .8. Even lower than mine.
I'm giving it a 6 .9. Damn, what a range. Yeah.
I like it. I would not drink this every week.
I would not drink this every month, but I would
love to have it because every now and then, it's...
I'm just saying, if I'm in the mood for something
different, I'm looking at my collection, I'm
not grabbing this. I don't know. I don't know.
The Spirits of French Lick Whiskey Witch Wicked
Witch Wheat Mash Whiskey offers unique tasting
experience with multi -eucalyptus, wintergreen,
black pepper on the palate, followed by a smooth
lingering finish with hints of peppermint. The
nose is described as sweet and inviting. Hints
of eucalyptus and cooling menthol. I would have
to say it's intriguing. I'll just say that. It's
intriguing. Yeah. Look, I don't. All right. You're
not going to be able to find it. You know, I
don't think it's really available. Is it? We
got this at Liquor King. Yeah. I mean, how does
it fit on the only dreams? It says ultra extreme
unicorn. Well, if you're looking for our content,
we're going to ultimately put it on our Instagram
or Facebook. I'll put a post out there that shows
you where it's at. And plus, we're putting together
the list of our favorites and our scorings. We
need to get those listed up there. If you guys
are interested in more of this stuff or you want
us to talk about specific things, direct message
us on Facebook and or Instagram. We'd love to
hear your input. And anything else? I don't think
so. Did we ever talk about the phones and putting
them in little pockets for the kids? Yeah, we
did. We did. Where the hell was I? Right there.
Yeah. Thanks, Chuck, for staying on top of shit
dudes like us. I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff.
Did you hear that, AI? Jeff.