Shoot. Second half. It is the second half. Don't
we just love the second half, don't we? We're
usually quite seasoned. We're amped. We're seasoned
professionals. What do you mean? Although the
last episode launched kind of out of the box.
Yeah, we did. Talking about Sean. Asshole. What?
We weren't talking about my bum. We were talking
about your hemorrhoid and your suppository. That
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like a little teenage kid that did a voice job.
I sound sexy and raspy. Is that what you mean?
No, it's not quite what I was getting at. Did
you smoke a pack of cigarettes a day? My name
is Marge. What's going on, guys? All right. Is
that what you mean? That's not what I meant at
all. Yeah, you're off the mark there. All right.
Well, welcome to the podcast. We had a fantastic
day today. If you missed the first half and you're
just joining us, Paul and I went over to the
blendery, whiskey blendery. Yes, we did. And
a little sampling over there, judging, which
was kind of cool. That's right. Shout out to
the Whiskey Blendery and Andy Ziegler. Yes. He's
going to be on the podcast. We're going to talk
more about that, I think, maybe in a future podcast
as well. Yes, 100%. Yeah, because we just barely
kind of scratched the surface of kind of the
stuff they're doing there. Yep, yep. And it's
really unique. So, anyway. Well, we went out
there today and we were judges, which was kind
of exciting. And what is today? Today's only
Tuesday. Got a big week set up for me, man. Technically,
I put on my email for work. I'll be back Monday,
which is kind of weird because it's Tuesday.
Why'd you do that? To get people to stop emailing
you? I'm going to be gone tomorrow. I travel.
Thursday, I travel. And then Friday, I took off
because I'm taking the ex -producer for four
years, my son, Austin. Oh, that's right. He's
moving out. He's going to Texas A &M University.
Whoop. Yeah, well, he'll be starting off at Blinn.
Oh, that's right. And then he's going to transfer
over to A &M as soon as possible. He's going
to be living with his brother, Preston. Excellent.
And Kara, Preston's girlfriend. That will be
a good adulting experience. Will Preston get
along? Yeah, Preston's looking forward to it.
They do get along. I know brothers sometimes,
at least mine, when they were growing up, they
were fighting like dogs. But now I think they're
really, really good friends. Isn't that cool?
You mean your sons? Oh, yeah. Yeah, when they
go through that transition of – Did you have
a brother? Me? No. Yeah, okay. Did I say my brothers?
Yeah. I meant my sons. Right. You know what?
When they were younger, I used to fight, and
they used to fight, and I would tell them – I
deliberately said this. I said, you guys – I'd
be all angry. I'd go, you guys are teammates
for life. You've got to figure this out. I said
that. I would say that over and over again. Your
teammates for life. Isn't that a cool thing?
I don't know why. I didn't get that from anywhere.
It just kind of crept into my head that they
got there at some point. It does. I wanted them
to have that kind of relationship and I want
to ingrain and drill into them that they've got
to be close brothers, man. It's important. You
know? You can't always control that. It is important
because You know, I've got a brother and a sister,
and I love them both. And my chair just fell
down. Oh, boy. Here we go again. That's weird,
man. We're going to have to get stronger chairs.
My fat ass just pushing it down. I got to tell
you, you know, and it kind of stinks to even
admit this, but, you know, I love my sister,
but I don't like her. Well, I mean, you can always
have family differences, but I know what you
mean. Well, I just disagree with her lifestyle.
I disagree with things that she does. I just
disagree with what she's doing in life. Yeah.
And I don't want to get too much into it, but
it would hurt me to know that my kids would have
that experience between them. Right. Period.
That would be hurtful for me as a dad. I'd be
like, you guys got to work this out. Yeah. You
know, but at the same time, you know, whatever.
I hope that never happens to the kids. Yeah,
I mean, but we, you know, we grow up and adults
change, right? A lot of times there's still children
acting as adults, right? I mean, and, you know,
you go different directions. I mean, I hear lots
of stories of grown siblings that don't get along
and prefer not to talk. You know, sometimes a
lot of it has to do with money. So if your parents
pass away and there's an inheritance or something
like that, money gets in the way and becomes
really problematic. Yeah. Luckily, me and my
sister, we get along really good, and we had
a game plan and everything, and it worked out.
It was great. Good. Right? No issues. But I know
there's – I've had some friends and some coworkers
who have family who don't speak to each other
anymore because one person was the executor and
decided to keep everything. Right? And not give
their brothers and sisters, even though it was
their mother's or father's wish. How does that
happen? I mean, if the will specifies that things
are split evenly four ways for four children,
the executor can't trump that. He can't overrule
that. I think a lot of it was the house. Well,
the person just moved in and kind of consumed
it, right? Took it over. Okay. Kind of a thing.
And everyone else was like, well, let's sell
it. The land, everything. We could get, I don't
know, several hundred thousand dollars for it.
The person's like, no. I'm keeping it. I think
I was under the impression that if the will specifies
everything to the T, and maybe a situation is
where it doesn't. I don't know. Maybe it didn't
specify, but I know it was problematic, and he
was dealing with a lot of drama. That is very
typical. It was on his wife's side. He was dealing
with a lot of drama of that. Even when there
is a really explicit will, it seems like there
still is drama. Right. Like, they still fight
over it, and they go to court. It's like, but
it was clear. Right. I don't understand it. Well,
I knew what, both my sister and I knew what my
dad's wishes were. Right. His main goal in his
life was to be a success so he could take care
of his family when he passed on. Oh, that's nice.
He did it. That was his main goal. He told me
that, and he did it. And he lived, you know,
he had a nice house. He had everything. You know,
if he wanted something, he'd go buy cash for
it. He lived a fairly frugal life. Right. Right?
Just well within his means. You would never know
that he was a millionaire plus. And he wore the
rattiest clothes. You know, he drove a base car.
Right. And everything, right? It was paid off.
It was brand new, but it was paid off. It wasn't
the fancy one or anything like that. Yeah. It
just worked. That's all he needed. He goes, I
just need to get to the store and back. My dad's
the same way. When he was promoted to chief geologist
of Amoco, and I'm not saying there's just one,
but we lived in Houston. And he buys himself
a new car when the car was a total piece. He
bought a new car. He bought a hatchback Toyota
Corolla with the manual windows. Yeah, that's
what my dad did. I'm like, Dad, you're an executive.
You've done it. You're at the pinnacle of your
career. What are you doing? And he's like, a
car is to get you from point A to point B. That's
what my dad said. He bought a used postal service.
Chevy Cavalier. It had no air conditioning. It
was an AM radio and self -crank thing and no
power steering. That is amazing. Oh, self -crank
windows. Yeah. No power steering. Yeah, manual
windows. Yeah, because I know when I would drive
it, because all the cars had power steering when
I was growing up. Oh, that would suck for you.
And then I'd get in his car and I was like, fuck.
You're like cranking this car. Yeah, and his
was manual. His was, of course, manual because
it was cheaper. Yep, yep, yep. So it's a mindset,
I guess, you know, and the family dynamic can
change. And luckily, I think all our kids get
along with each other, so that's a benefit. Yeah,
for the most part. Yeah, and they have their
differences. Oh, they have fights and arguments,
but as all people do. So I think Austin's going
to do well in College Station. How is the rest
of the family coping with it? I mean, everyone
seems to be fine with it. Are they good with
it? You know, they're all kind of self -absorbed,
you know. I don't know. I think my wife is having
a hard time with it. She may not admit it, but
she's being, you know, there's an emotional climate
in the house. There's some civil unrest. How's
it going to feel to be the only wiener in the
house? Oh, boy. Well, Alex is there, you know.
Bronco's there. Bronco's there. That doesn't
count. Oh, it doesn't? I forgot about Alex. Yeah,
I mean, look, I want my kids to move the fuck
out. I love them being there, and I think about
it sometimes because today I'm getting up, I'm
working. Madeline lives above the garage, so
I can't even fucking hear them over there. And
Emily, they all have their stuff going on. And
so Tara's at work, and I'm thinking, golly, man,
what's it going to be like when I'm alone? And
I got to be honest, Kind of giddy. Not so bad.
Yeah, I mean, because look, if I go to the garage
and I grab a screwdriver and I leave the drawer
open, when I go back out to the garage, I'll
be like, oh, I forgot to close that drawer. You
know, right now, if I go out to the garage. You
blame someone else. No. I do. The garage is turned
upside down. Oh, right. I mean, it's like I give
up. Even though you just straightened it, it's
still turned right back upside down. Yeah, it's
just like, you know, I just give up because I
am so frustrated with the lack of responsibility
that these kids have nowadays. I don't know if
it's just my kids or it's across the board. You
know, maybe it was me also growing up because
I remember my dad was like, dude, I just want
you to empty the garbage. Dude, I can never empty
the garbage. Piece of shit, man. You know what?
It was just I didn't think about it. I know.
It wasn't on your radar. And I use that as a
thought when I tell my kids, you know, and I
ask Austin, hey, Austin, I need you to go do
something. It's kind of like Austin's leaving
Friday, right? I said, well, today's Monday,
and you need to get two new tires in your car.
All right, well, today's Tuesday now, and I don't
even know if he got the – I know he got up early.
I don't know if he went to get two new tires,
so that's kind of curious. And then tomorrow's
going to be Wednesday. Right. And I would be
like, look, bitch, I mean. Did you get your tires?
Right. I'm going to sound like I'm hassling him,
and that's not my intention at all. It's like,
dude, I don't want to fuck around with this.
Right. Come Friday, I don't want to sit here
until noon while you get tires. Well, look, I
told him I want this shit done before Thursday
ends. Because he's going to pack his van up.
Yeah, I want the van packed. Look, Friday morning,
I want to drive out there, and I want to come
straight back. You know, my intention, yeah,
my intention is not to, because look, when I
drop him off, he's going to want to do his thing.
I don't need to get in the middle of that. You
know, he needs to figure out how he's going to
set up his room, whatever. I don't need to be
a part of that. All I want to do is make sure
that he has the means to be successful. Set him
up for success. So I'm going to go down there.
I'm going to go to the grocery store. buy both
sons groceries, take them out to lunch forward
slash dinner, and fucking drive back home. Right.
And be done. Let them figure it out. Because
what am I going to do? Go in there and, I mean.
You don't want to do it for them. No. They got
to figure it out. That's the big part of it.
You want them to figure it out themselves. And
he's in College Station right now. So I was like,
look, dude, if you need a desk, you're in College
Station, go on Facebook Marketplace. They're
selling desks. Like crazy. Yeah, it's everywhere.
You can buy something for nothing, basically.
And just buy it. Just get it. Be done with it.
If you need a shelf, Facebook Marketplace and
College Station, you're going to get a fucking
shelf. And plus, you're crafty. They're building
houses where Preston lives right now. And they're
popping them up. When you're building these houses,
you've got these offcuts. That's my phone dinging.
I apologize. Oh, okay. You've got these houses
that are popping up. When they do that, they've
got a... A makeshift garbage dumpster in the
front. You and I have dumpster dived in those.
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that. You're
getting scrap wood, right? Yeah. Exactly. As
long as it's clearly been thrown away. Yes. They've
got these 2x10s that start off 12 foot long.
I don't think it's fucking fair, man. They start
off at 12 foot long. You've got a foot shorter.
Syracuse fallen, damn it. They cut off 8 foot
and leave 4 foot, so you have now a 2x10 that's
there that's 4 foot. That could potentially be
a shelf. I know I'm kind of being... I don't
know. I think outside the box when it comes to
stuff like that. I love building things like
that. They want new things. No, no. I was going
to ask, are they complaining that you're being
cheap? Oh, no. Preston and Austin love it. They're
looking forward to it. They like the challenge,
right? Because they saw what I did in their rooms.
Austin wanted shelves up on his wall. I was like,
fuck, I went to Home Depot, bought some 2x8s,
and I painted them black. I ripped them down,
sanded them, made them look nice. But you're
not planning on doing all that kind of stuff
with them. No, they're going to do it. They saw
me do it for their room. Do they have the tools
to do all that down there? Yes. We've been building
their tools up. drills. They've got routers.
They've got screwdrivers, screws, skill saws.
I think I'm going to buy them a miter saw, perhaps.
A chop saw, in other words. Just as a gift. That
might be something I might do. I might do a little
Amazon package in the mail. That'd be fun. Give
them your Milwaukee and then you can upgrade.
Damn, I thought Milwaukee was an upgrade. They
have DeWalt. His is old. No, but they have DeWalt.
DeWalt's a different brand. So you got to stick
with that because they have the batteries. Yeah.
Yeah. I've got the Milwaukee. They've got the
DeWalt. And frankly, I don't want to mix them
up because my shit will start disappearing. Oh,
yeah. Oh, yeah. No kidding. That's true. No,
no. I don't want to mix that up. Even my shit's
missing right now. I had to go out and buy new
electrical stuff. I was doing electrical out
in the front. And I had to go buy new side cutters
and strippers. It was just, this chair sucks.
Is it going down? What the fuck is going on with
this thing, man? You're being pranked. I don't
think so. I think there's probably a little knob
of tighten up, right? Could be. I don't know.
We'll take a look at it. Well, whatever. So I'm
excited about letting him go. I'm excited for
Austin because I am depressed, though, about
it. It's tough when your kids move on and out.
He's the youngest, so it's a little bit different.
And I know Emily, she feels... She feels the
urge to move on? Oh, she definitely wants to
move the fuck out because she gets frustrated.
She's got her own lifestyle going on, which I
don't necessarily approve of, but yet we allow
it to happen because we allow her to do that
there than somewhere else. So we're like, fuck
it, just whatever. But she was like, I just can't
wait to have my own place. I was like... Amen,
sister. You can do it now. If you have the means,
just do it. But look, it's tough for kids, not
just mine. It's tough for all the kids. It's
tough to be able to afford an apartment. Does
she have any friends that she can move in with?
Who? Emily. That's the key. They've got to get
roommates. They cannot afford rent right now.
The problem with some of the kids out there is
that you are the people who you hang out with.
And it's like you got to start picking your friends
out better. You can't hang out with losers. When
you hang out with losers and you room with losers,
you're going to have loser thing happen to you.
Hold on. I'm writing this down. No, you're 100
% correct. You're living it. I'm living it. But
it's just like you are who you hang out with.
Birds of a feather flock together. It's like
just for success. If you want to emulate being
successful, you need to. Dress like it. That's
why I tell them, always dress nice, and you've
got to live the lifestyle. You've got to try.
At least fake it. What about her friend that
had the limp? Who? She, like, Middle Eastern
young lady? I don't know where she's at. She
was a sweet young lady. I don't think she's in
Emily's life anymore. I don't know any other
friends of Emily besides that girl. I don't even
know the one with the limp. I don't think I've
seen her for years, though. Yeah, she hasn't
been around for years. Look, all the kids have
their own different things that they've got going
on. Emily, Madeline has the same thing, my oldest.
She's 28. Looks like she's fucking 19. Trips
me out every time. I know. She's smart, and she's
super talented. When it comes to artistic things,
she's meticulous. She's a problem solver. Some
people are content being satisfactory, and it's
tough for me to wrap my head around that. And
I feel like I failed pushing them harder. You
know, should I push them harder? You know, it's
just like, you know, because the boys want to
go to school, but the girls didn't want to go
to school. Was that a failure on me? Because
they didn't go. I know it's not. I don't think
so. But it's just but still it's there. You know,
did I fail? I don't think so. I think it's who
knows, you know, the life of a child. You know,
I know when I was going to school, I was not
a good student. at all right you know and i had
my core little set of friends and you know and
i had no direction you know i was just like okay
college is next i don't know what i want to do
i went to i went to college and i bounced around
on a couple different majors and i finally found
something i liked right it takes time you know
and i always had in my mind that i was like i'll
deal with that tomorrow I'll deal with that tomorrow.
I don't want to think about the future. I'll
deal with it tomorrow. Well, eventually that
tomorrow came. Right. And I had to make a decision.
Okay, I need to pick a path here that I need
to go with. You weren't ready to adult yet. I
wasn't. And I don't know what finally made it.
Probably the timeline that says, okay, you need
to pick a fucking major. Yeah. Because I got
these many hours. Now you need to figure it out.
Right. And stick with it. So I did. I found something
I really liked and enjoyed. Was the media stuff?
Yeah, the media stuff. Walk us through your whole,
your during. college you were actually exercising
some of your media stuff you were part of the
radio i was a radio station i was in college
i was in the radio in high school being a couple
buddies we did radio in high school so that's
where i think i got the bug right we sit up there
yeah that's very cool for a couple hours we had
a we had a fm's channel you know public range
ranked 87 point something sure so it's you know
low but i know my parents would listen and uh
i remember i was reading a psa i think because
we had to read psa's once an hour or something
like that right And I didn't know what the word
hors d 'oeuvres was. Okay. Spelled out. Right.
So I was reading this. Like hors d 'oeuvres.
I was like, hors d 'oeuvres. And I was writing.
And when I get home, my dad gave me so much shit.
Oh, I bet. He was laughing. My mom was laughing.
And I was like, I'd never seen that word before.
And I'd heard it before, but I was like, what
the hell is a hors d 'oeuvres? Oh, yeah. And
so that's how I said it in the PSA. And they
made fun of me. So yeah, so I went to college.
And again, the freshman year, I wanted to be
in computer science. I wanted to be a computer
programmer. And I started down that path. And
then taking the calculus and the upper level
math. And I was like, I looked at the path. I
was like, I don't want to do this. I hear you.
I do not want to take stats. I don't want to
take all these upper level math classes. I don't
want to do it. So I dropped that. And I went
into marine biology shortly. Because I enjoyed
that. Because I took, as a freshman, you take
all these kind of classes. Oh, sure. Basically,
right? So I took some zoology and biology class.
I was like, all right, this is interesting. So
I did that. I didn't do it, but I thought about
it for a while. And then I started getting into
the communication classes and the radio production
and audio production. I worked at the WOUB, which
was the big radio station there. You did bounce
around a lot, man. Yeah, downloading. I downloaded
off the satellite. the news program so we'd get
feeds from like washington dc right and you'd
you read the news so no i download them on carts
hi this is jeff with the kc uh ticker and uh
we're talking extra loud uh was it russ martin
or russ martin uh and so i did that for for a
few semesters and then uh me and my buddies howard
stern got onto there's a uh radio station that
we got on. The three of us were called the Triple
Climax. Oh, wow. Triple Climax. Triple Climax.
We would create our own promos and edit all these
crazy things. You could have been the next Howard
Stern. We could have. We took requests. We had
people calling in, taking requests. That's actually
how we met the three ladies we lived with. Me
and Tim, who was one of the DJs with me, we roomed
with three of the girls that were calling in
because they'd call in and request music and
everything so they could listen to it uh but
we all had three specifically different tastes
in music yeah so and we could play whatever we
wanted and we had all these records all around
you kind of rotate oh yeah i'd play a song then
rob would play a song tim would play he was all
into the uh uh i called him art bag music the
the dead kennedys the cure all that kind of stuff
right so he was into that kind of stuff uh where
i was into the you know the bostons the lead
zeppelins and and uh rob was into the thrash
metal like anthrax and metallica at the time
quite a diversity there and uh you know slayer
so we we played all that stuff plus all kinds
of other shit we'd find a random thing we'd ever
heard of we'd throw it on and play it right like
we don't know what this is right that's cool
that's how i found dean the weenies Jerry Rafferty
and Baker Street. There you go. Yeah, I don't
think we found that. But anyway, so that was
kind of, we did that and then just went down
the path. And I had full intentions on getting
into audio production or radio production of
some sort, but it just didn't pan out. It didn't
pan out. I mean, most of the time, I think what
people go to college for. they don't end up doing
in their careers. Yeah, but you're doing a podcast
now. Yes, you are. You're finally coming back
to what your true intent is. Oh, I love it. You
know, I announced a bunch of football games for
Brandon and Steven. Yeah, that's fun. And track
meets. That was fun, too. So the producer just
put up there, Howard Stern's contract just ended.
$100 million contract set to end this year. So
when is the last time you guys have listened
to a Howard Stern show? I never have. Never.
I used to. I used to listen to a Howard Stern
show every day. It used to be every day in the
90s. Yeah. Right before Russ Martin took off
when he went off in 97 and won the Eagle here
in the Dallas -Fort Worth area. I will say that
on YouTube he has some really good bands in the
studio. Oh, yeah. I'll watch those videos because
he doesn't really talk. He'll kind of ask a couple
questions of the band. They play live. He's a
great interviewer. And he'll interview them and
then... They'll play, and I'll watch the band.
Back in the mid-'90s, late-'90s, even with Robin,
they had the movie. Well, Robin's still there.
Yeah, but when they had the movie, you saw how
they began, but when I was watching Howard Stern
in the early-'90s, he had some of these videos,
like the Butt Bongo show. Do you recall that?
I remember he did that on the Grammys or the
Oscars or something, didn't he, where he flew
in on Buttman? That is something different. Butt
bongos is where they have women wearing a thong,
and they would sit over his lap, and he would
play the bongos on their bottom. Nice. Oh, nice.
What is that? Is that a minute? Was that it right
there? The butt bongo fiesta? That was something
else. $100 million. That's an hour and 24 minutes.
Yeah, that's a lot. Yeah, it's a lot. But look
at the graphic on there. It's like... I think
I saw some nipples. I don't know if they show
nipples on this or not. See if you can find a
little spot in there somewhere. I'll tell you
what. He has become what he was against back
in that day. Yeah, he sure has. He is the establishment
100%. Back then, he was anti -establishment,
doing anything that would annoy you. And today,
he is what he fought against. In what way? I'm
not familiar enough with him to comment. They
were playing the butt. Really? That looks like
the Betty Hill show. There's a couple different
versions of this. Oh, it's not even him doing
it. It's some guy. There's more versions of this.
Oh, and they're like tonguing each other. Oh,
come on. That's just gross. What? Really? Yeah,
this is stupid. You're just saving that for the
novelty. No, I'm not. So what do those two ladies
look like today? You think they're proud of this?
No. You think they're grandparents now? Grandparents
now, yeah. Yeah. You think, hey, look at this.
There I am. Look at that. And you know that bonger
player's just living it up. Ah, whatever. I mean,
that was a side of the times. It was Howard Stern's
show. And you know what? Back then, he wasn't
such a muckster. Now he's kind of like just...
Yeah, go back to your comment, Jeff. You said
he's now establishment or exactly what he wasn't
before. Well, he plays it safe, right? So he
doesn't want to call the politicians out like
he used to. He doesn't want to call these people
out. There's no shock in his jock anymore. There
is not anymore. He has become part of the clique.
Well, he's older. I mean, he's older. He's bought.
He's been paid for. He says what they tell him
to say. Just the whole COVID thing and his passion
about the hate of Trump and the hate of the right.
See what it says there. It says the irony is
that the new school, the Howard of today would
cancel the old school Howard. Yeah, and he's
a COVID just idiot. I know. He's a germaphobe.
He's a COVID -iot. Yeah, he's an idiot when it
came to that whole thing. But maybe that's what
he really believed. I mean, obviously. I don't
know. I think he evolved. I mean, I think he.
Yeah, he's older. We change, right? I mean, I'm
not defending him. Don't get me wrong. I think
he's a douchebag from beginning to end. But,
I mean, you know. I thought he was a douchebag
back then. I think he's a huge, just a different
kind of douchebag now. Yeah. Yeah, he kind of
exploited people further. I was going to say
stupidity, but it wasn't. For people that had
mental health issues, they were on the show,
and he would just make fun of them. Yeah, make
fun of them. It's just like, dude, that's just
not. And frankly, it was funny, and I watched
it, and I laughed. But looking back at it, it's
like, yeah, that's kind of shitty. Right. And
that shit wouldn't fly nowadays. No. That may
be why he switched again. He's like, yeah, I
don't want to get canceled. by these yahoos so
he's become one of those yahoos has he been canceled
is this a true story that his contract is not
going to be renewed or is this kind of the whole
colbert thing where i'm not making money because
my subscriptions are down dude if there's paying
him 100 million dollars and they're only getting
75 million dollars in advertising they got to
cut them loose you're talking about who you talking
about stern i'm talking about stern stern no
is that what it said they're losing 10 minute
10 mil a year on his show and yeah On Stern's.
On Stern's show, yeah. See, that's ridiculous.
Yeah. And, you know, I guess the thing is, I
mean, is SiriusXM even that popular anymore?
No. You know, is it the show 100 million or is
it he is 100 million? He is 100 million. I don't
know if he pays them out of his. See, that to
me, I'd be like, hey, look, you know, when is
enough? When is it enough? 100 million a year.
I think he could take a. $10 million a year pay
cut and just do this show. Dude, you could do
like a million a year and you'd still be, I mean.
He's probably a billionaire. How many times,
he's been doing this for what, 20 years? Yeah.
No, he's absolutely a billionaire. Yeah, he's
probably a billionaire at this point. He's in
deep with them. All he needs is 10 of them and
he's a billionaire. Yeah, well, that's why he's
getting paid. He's a mouthpiece. He's the power
of suggestion. And, you know, when people have
a narrative that they want to push, they go to
the people that are trusted. So five -year deal.
That's 2004. Yeah, five -year deal for $500 million.
In 2004. So 2009, he did another one. I guarantee
he's worth a billion. Oh, yeah. It's estimated
at $650 million. But it could be up to $800 million.
So, yeah, almost a billion. Crazy. He could just
be like, yeah. Good for him, man. Oh, it is.
If you do it, you do it. But at this point, you're
going to cancel it. All right, I'm out. I'll
go do America's Got Talent. There you go. Yeah,
he does that too. Yeah. He could do a game show.
He probably could. He actually would be a really
good game show host. He does have a good voice.
He has an excellent radio voice. Bongo bingo.
Yeah, bongo bingo. Hey, look, there were a lot
of funny things. There were a lot of people that
went through the Howard Stern show that became
successful. Right. Yeah, that's why they were
willing to probably be ridiculed or whatever
because they're 15 seconds of fame, right? Yeah.
I don't know. A lot of porn stuff. Whatever.
I don't care. And what's his name? Rogan is the
king now, right? Yeah, he is actually. Is he
still the king? Somebody passed him. Yeah, it
was a religious one, wasn't it? I don't know.
Was that the farting priest? The farting minister?
No. I thought it was a... Remember that guy?
No. We looked at this once before. Are you kidding
me? You don't remember that? Oh, yeah. Tipton
was his last name. Do not doubt, but believe
and act upon the prophetic prophesied word for
ordaining a blessing in your life this day, saith
the Lord. Thank you, Jesus. See, according to
1 Corinthians 12, that was the gift of tongues,
interpretation of tongues with prophecy mixed
in there. Thank you, Lord. Somebody passed. in
terms of number of listens or listeners. He may
be the highest paid, but I don't know with the
number one. According to this. Crime Junkie's
getting up there. That might be the one that
passed him at some point, is Crime Junkie. We
listened to that all the way back from Colorado.
Crime Junkie? Yeah. It's pretty good. It's pretty
good. Is it about crime? It is. They would bring
up cold cases and kind of walk through, and then
they would revisit it. And they would provide
new information if people, after they revisited
it, shared more information. And they have a
good way of presenting it. Is Dudes Like Us listed
on that top 10? We're in the top 50, baby. It
should be. Yeah, it should be. Well, we have
the LOL podcast. It's got to be in there somewhere.
With Cash Maverick, Kate Harper, and Kenzie.
Talk Tush with Hayley Welch. Talk Tua. As in
Hawk Tua? Oh. Okay, if we can't beat Hawk Tua,
girl, we suck, guys. Dude, she's freaking on
there. Are you kidding me? The Talk Tua with
Hayley Welch. What is she talking about? I think
she's cute. Well. Yeah, but that's not the point.
That doesn't matter. We're talented. She's a
train wreck. And we talk about really deep shit.
How are we not on that list? Well. What's fucking
wrong with our listeners? Listeners, why are
you not telling everybody about us and telling
all your neighbors and your friends and getting
more people to listen so we show up on this fucking
list? Because we need to do something outrageous.
Because there's five million podcasts out there.
I'm thinking. Oh, damn it. I'm thinking. Is that
it? We need to strut Jeff around naked and film
it and put it on our social media. Just helicoptering?
No, we'll block that part out. So that's your
strategy, huh? Wow, thank you, Jeff. So I'm worried.
I'm worried about our strategy here. I've got
to be honest. I don't think we've got that sort
of advertising mind. I mean, we have Jeff being
naked in his helicopter. That's our two top ideas.
Yes. I don't think that's going to get it. I
don't think so either. I think we do need. You
know what I would love to do is our top ten.
We haven't done a top ten in a while. Oh, this
is right. Can we do that? Well, it's like. Like
Arnold Schwarzenegger doing this, what is it?
I just lost that whole thing. All right, so we're
going to do the list of top 10 iconic movie quotes.
All right, and we have to guess. And I think
Chuck's going to try to do this so we can, I'm
sure we're going to be able to get these if they're
that iconic. Oh, gee, what's that top one? May
the force be with you. That's not number one.
Are we going from one ten to one? I guess I can
try to get you to ten first. Oh, shit, man. We
just saw everything. All right, well, we'll skip
that. We'll just talk about them. So the number
ten, I guess, is Why So Serious. Why So Serious.
I don't think I would have gotten that one. Oh,
I wouldn't have. That's from The Dark Knight.
That's Heath Ledger's Joker. Why so serious?
Why so serious? It's not Stimpy. It's Stimpy.
You idiot. You idiot. What's with you, man? Pull
yourself together. Okay. Maybe better. Yeah,
I don't know what happened. Is that how he sounded?
He's a chihuahua. He turned into a Mexican. Heath
Ledger sounded just like that for that line?
Yes. All right, so why so serious? All right,
so that's from... The Dark Knight. Do we have
a soundbite that goes with that? I'm Batman.
Why so serious? I'm Batman. I'm Batman. Well,
that one's easy. All right, so why so serious?
Why so serious? What's the next one? All right.
How are we going to muscle through this? My precious.
Well, that's... There we go. That's an easy one.
That's Gollum from The Lord of the Rings, The
Two Towers. Precious. You know what? That was
creepy. A little side note on that. When I was
watching that Becoming Led Zeppelin thing, I
think I knew that they had a song that referenced
Lord of the Rings. Yeah, Ramblin'. Yes, Ramblin'.
But he talks about Gollum. Correct. And Mordor.
Yeah. And I was like, I think I always knew it,
but I kind of never rationalized it. You know
what I mean? Does that make sense? Yeah. I don't
think I realized it when I was 12. Right. But
once I really, as an adult, sat and listened
to the music and lyrics, I picked up on it. Yeah.
Yeah. Back then, I was like - On what? Led Zeppelin's
song. In the Ramblin' song, he talks about, in
the darkest depths of Mordor, there was something
so fine. And then he goes, yeah, he talks about
Gollum. Yeah. In the Ramblin' song. It's a second
or third verse. He's totally referencing Tolkien's,
you know, Tolkien's. I didn't know that. Yes.
Okay, so he's got the lyrics up. Where is that?
It's near the end of the song. Yeah, it is. Let's
see here. There it is. Twas in the darkest depths
of Mordor, I met a girl so fair, but Gollum,
Gollum and the evil one. crept up and slipped
away with her. Her, her, her, her, her, yeah.
Oh, great. Now we've just been blocked by YouTube.
Well, yeah. Oh, because I sound exactly like
Robert Plant? Yes, yes, yes. Damn it. Sorry.
Just in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a
girl so fair. But Gotham and the evil war crept
up and slipped away. Yeah, anyway, interesting.
All right, go back to the top five. It references
Lord of the Rings a little bit, but the song's
not completely about it. No, but that's cool.
Yeah, it's not about. No, not at all, but it's
just kind of neat. The next one is also from
Star Wars. I took a peek. Oh, great. But it is
not May the Force Be With You. Oh. All right,
so what's the next one? Scroll up for us. Let's
go suck it. You don't want to guess? I am your
father. There you go. There you go. Oh, look
at that. I am your father. Empire. When Darth
Vader's shocking revelation to Luke Skywalker.
Search your feelings. No. You know it to be true.
No, it's not true. You can't be my father. Oh,
God. He was, though. He was. He's kind of...
kind of wimpy in that scene. Son, you get your
shit together. I'm going to take your hand off.
How about see if you could tell us what the movie
is and see if we can't guess it. He was just
a stern father. What was the big deal? Hey, man,
I told you to pick it up or I'm cutting the handle.
Yeah, start adulting, Luke. So tell us what the
movie is. Clean your fucking room. We're not
allowed to look. Well, the next one is from Wizard
of Oz. Wizard of Oz. We're not in Kansas anymore.
The Wicked Witch is dead. I have a feeling we're
not in Kansas anymore. Really? Not close. No.
Really? Close, but no cigar. No place like home.
There's no place like home. There's no place
like home with red ruby shoes. She repeats it
over and over again. No place like Kansas? Really?
Come on. I tell you what, with the flying monkey
scene, when you're a kid watching that movie
and the flying monkeys were - That was creepy.
Oh, yeah, it was. That was terrifying. Yes. It
was kind of scary. I wonder if they remade that
today, if they would actually hire - short people,
midgets from the Munchkins. No, because what's
his name? Fuck it. Actually, I'll tell you what.
Peter Dinklage. In the movie Wicked, the Munchkins
are normal people. Is that because of Peter Dinklage?
I don't know. Say that again. In the movie Wicked?
Yes. That just came out? Oh, yeah, they're normal
people. Yes, we've talked about this. They're
normal people. We've talked about this. He, Dinklage,
or Dinkler, he said, why do you have to cast
them? In that role. Because they're called munchkins.
Right. And remember, I know we've talked about
this because we were dogging on him because he
got his millions from Game of Thrones and suddenly
now he screws the other little people actors
from having a role, a classic role. Right. I
like Peter Dinklage. I think he's a good actor,
but I think he's a complete shitbag. That was
a shithead move. Yeah. He's got a movie coming
out, Toxic Avenger. Looks interesting. Okay.
I think it was better in Elf. He's in a new series?
Did I see? There's a movie out with him in it.
So the decision to portray Munchkins in a different
manner in Wicked stems from several reasons.
Addressing controversial stereotypes, the portrayal
of Munchkins are exclusively little people in
The Wizard of Oz. Alignment with the original
book, and the original book, The Wonderful Wizard
of Oz, the Munchkins are described as being about
the same height as Dorothy, who's a child. Reinventing
the concept of a Munchkins. Director John M.
Chu and the creative team behind Wicked aimed
to redefine what a Munchkin represents, moving
away from a singular focus on the physical stature
and towards a cultural or social identity. Bullshit.
Yeah, but no reference to Dinkler? No, not on
these. They listed the top three. Instead of
the size, the Wicked film focuses on munchkins
as a group with shared characteristics such as
red hair and fair complexion and emphasizes their
joyful and innocent nature as people who harvest
the joy and color of all Oz. Oh, it's the trolls.
Yeah. Whatever. That's just retarded. It is.
Well, it's that Dorothy's a kid, a child, child
or short, right? Yeah, they're small. I distinctly
remember him being very vocal about it. He was,
100%. And that torpedoed it. I'm sure that's
what it was. And they're not even talking about
it in there. Yeah, and this brings back the whole
thing about Google. I'm not saying they're doing
it or not doing it, but sometimes I think when
you do these search engines, I think AI goes
in there and kind of scrambles some stuff up
there. We're not going to share that. There's
a total bias. All right, next one. There's a
bias, and also it hallucinates, right? I mean,
it just flat out is wrong, and then you tell
it, no, you're not right. That's not what happened.
And they go, oh, yeah, you're right. Sorry about
that. That's really the way you said it. It's
like, oh, I'm sorry. You were correct. All right,
next one is from Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump.
Hi, Lieutenant Dan. How about Life is Like a
Box of Chocolates? I love you, Jenny. Yeah, Life
is Like a Box of Chocolates. That's my vote.
There you go. There it is. You never know what
you're going to get. Yes. I watched that movie
once. Ron Forrest, Ron. It's a good movie. I
don't really want to watch it again. It was good,
but it got silly. Like when he was running around
and he wiped his face and it was a smiley face.
I was like, come on. They don't have to be silly
with this. It was a little funny. It was. They
just got silly. I thought it was a good movie.
They jumbled it up. I thought it was a good movie.
They just went a little overboard with it. And
then they, you know, Lieutenant Dan, or was it
the Bubba Gump shrimp, you know? Yeah, Bubba
Shrimp. They gave his mom the check, you know?
I don't remember that. So the Bubba Gump family
was, they were shrimp harvesters, and I think
Bubba. he went out there, Forrest Gump went out
there and made the harvest. Took Dan out there
and came back with a bunch of shrimp or something.
Yes. And he sold them and he made all that money
and the mom passed out. Yes. What happened to
Bubba Gump? Did he die or something? I forget.
Was he an actor? No, I mean, in the movie, the
character, I think he died in the war, right?
No. I couldn't tell you. No, he didn't because
he came back and did the shrimping with him after
the war. Are you sure? I thought he died in the
war. No, remember, because they were... He dies
in Vietnam during combat. He did? Yeah. Oh, and
he's prompting force to fulfill their shared
dream of opening a shrimp business. Yeah, good
memory. Because he was going to say... Lieutenant
Dan lived, but not... And he was angry at him
for saving him, remember? He didn't have any
legs. Yes. Yeah, he was mad because all of his
family had died in wars, and he wanted to die
in a war. That's right. He's like, put me down.
Put me down. All right. The next one is a famous
Schwarzenegger quote. Get to the chopper. I'll
be back. Bigger than that. I'll be back. I'll
be back. I'll be back. That was good. I liked
the original Terminator. It was good. It was
well done. The second one was great, too. Yeah,
the second one was good. With the molten metal
guy. Yeah, that was good. And then it just started
getting cheesy. What was the third one about?
Dude, it fell apart after. And there's been three
after that, right? There's been quite a few of
them after that. At least three. Kevin Conner,
you are my mother. Yeah, there's TV shows. I
think that's a spin on Star Wars changing the
names. Are there really? How many are there?
All right, here we go. Terminator, Terminator
2, and then Terminator 3, Rise of the Machines,
Terminator Salvation, Terminator Genesis. Terminator
Dark Fate. That's six. Yeah, I don't recall seeing
a lot of those. I've seen all those. That was
a good one. The second one was great. Yeah, it
was good. I don't remember Rise of the Chief.
Oh, I do. It's Claire Danes and She Cries. Yeah,
it was stupid. Like she does in every movie.
That wasn't very good. That had Kristana Loken
in it. That's right. She was the Terminator.
Go to the next one. Okay. Terminator Salvation.
Christian Bale. I don't think I ever saw it.
I never saw it. I've seen that. Is it good? No.
I mean, for a Terminator movie, you know, it's...
I never saw it. That's sad. All right, next one.
Terminator Genisys. I didn't... That wasn't that
great. Jason Clark was in it. That's in 2015.
That had... Emilia Clarke. That had Daenerys
in it. Daenerys, yeah. Emilia Clarke. Yeah. Okay.
Well, that'd be worth seeing just for her. I
did see the last one, which is Linda Hamilton
again. Yeah. Right. That's Carol O 'Connor. And
that wasn't bad. And that's like they're hanging
out in the cabin or something. It wasn't bad,
but it wasn't that great. Well, the Terminator
is still alive, living in the cabin with the
family. Yeah. Terminator? Yeah. Arnold Terminator.
Was he aged? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he was old. Yeah,
because he has to, because it's 2019. Yeah, but
he's 40 years after the original. But he's synthetic.
That's what I'm saying. He can't age. Well, no.
He had an organic body around him. Oh. That's
how he passed through the time thing. Oh, he
had a bio -sleeve there. Right. Sleeve. Yes.
An organic sleeve wrapped around his little skeleton.
He was ensleeved with himself. Is that our favorite
line from Arnie movies, though? Ensleevement?
No. No, no, no. Not enslavement. I'll Be Back
is not my favorite Arnie movie. Get to the chopper.
Get to the chopper. It's got to be a classic
one. Stick around. I think I'll Be Back is more
known. Yeah. Stick pin somebody to the wall.
Stick around. Stick around. Hasta la vista. That's
another one. Hasta la vista, baby. That's a good
one. That was from the second one. Yeah, I have
to think about that to come up with my favorite.
So I understood that he made up a lot of these
just on... A whim. Yeah, he's kind of winging
it. Well, I know in his new TV show, Foo Bar,
which is just Oscar -worthy. Sure it is. Based
on the name. His character comes up with stupid
one -liners. Oh, of course. Yes. That's his thing.
As a satire. Yes. Yes, okay. All right, next
one. I wonder if he still has a relationship
with his maid. Well, they share a kid together.
Yeah, he does. Maybe a mama. Is he still married?
No, not to Maria. He was married to Maria Shriver.
Maria was not happy about that relationship.
You think? And then the baby's born and it's
like, hmm, that looks a lot like my husband.
I wonder what a Czechoslovakian Hispanic kid
looks like. You can bring him up. He's a real
person. Kind of like Herman Munster. I don't
know. Got a big forehead. Wasn't he a bodybuilder?
Schwarzenegger? No, his son. Oh, I don't know.
Something, I thought he was trying, yes. Joseph
Bonilla. Oh, it is, I'm right, right? Is he trying
to follow in his father's footsteps with being
a bodybuilder? Yes. I don't know, but he's in
shape. Yeah, good for him. He's not nearly as
big. He's got the genes for it, for crying out
loud. Yeah, it's pretty obvious. He's got a mouth
full of teeth, too. Look at that, those apple
choppers. Yeah, those are. Yeah, that's his son.
Ear corn are safe with him. All right, next one.
The next one is from A Few Good Men. A Few Good
Men. You can't handle the truth. There you go.
Son, we were born on walls, and those are guarded
by guns. I want the truth. You can't handle the
truth. Jack Nicholson. Boy, I'll tell you what.
He really showed his true colors. Not Jack Nicholson's
true colors. Jack Nicholson is a fantastic actor.
He is. But it just kind of really. puts a pin
in what really does happen behind the scenes
and how the mentality of some of these soldiers
gets. It's kind of very autocratic. And by design,
it's not supposed to be like that. Jack Nicholson
got stuck in a war. So when you're in a war,
you're kind of under military rule. What do they
call that? Martial law, so to speak. Martial
law, yeah. Under circumstances like that, I get
it, but you're never supposed to. What do they
call that? Red something? Code red. Code red.
Is that what they call it? Did you order the
code? You got that right, I did. You sleep at
night. I mean, Tom Cruise did a great job in
this movie, too. It was a great movie. And had
Demi Moore as well. I think where you're headed
with that is that in that scene where they catch
him, Saying that he ordered the code red. Yeah.
You also agree with him. Yeah. Like, you're like,
you know, I, you know, I was, you know, making
sure that these soldiers are ready for war and,
and they can't be, you know, the weakest link.
They can't be, there cannot be weak links. Right.
Yeah. And he's like, he's all you do was, you
know, weak in a country. I was like, they kind
of did. What the fuck, man? And nowadays, and
it kind of was, it makes a statement of that's
kind of how it is nowadays. And the military.
has taken a hit because of it. Not because of
that movie, because of lowering the bar across
the board. They're making a reversal. Hegseth,
man. Hegseth's coming back. Well, he pulled back.
He goes, there is no female entrance. There is
no male. There is one entrance. If you pass it,
you're in. Amen. We're training a lethal fighting
force. Yes. I know where you're going with this,
Mr. Producer. Yes. Talk about this drill team
in the opening of this movie. The opening credits
features a drill team drilling on the quad. Yes,
they do. And guess where they are from. Where
are they from, Chuck? Any guesses? I am thinking
Frisco. No. I mean, maybe. College Station? College
Station. Yes, sir. Texas A &M University drill
team. Yes, sir. One, two, three. I didn't know
that. Yeah, this is them. Why aren't they wearing
their cadet stuff? Because they're acting like
Marines. That's not real. They're acting. It's
a cool scene, too, though. What movie is that?
Fugue Man. Oh, okay. I was like, God, that looks
familiar. I wonder how many times they have to
do it. I have a couple buddies that were in it.
Not the movie, but on the fish drill team. Yeah.
Yeah, they're a bunch of fuck -ups now, but that's
okay. We love them. Well, you know, hey, as long
as they can twirl. Not really fuck -ups. Just
twirl or wipe them. As long as they listen to
the podcast. Yeah, okay. They can definitely
do that. All right, so the next one is from The
Godfather. Godfather. We're at number three,
by the way. Number three. Tell me, Tony. What's
going on? I want the pasta with Lamborghini sauce.
This is overcooked. You guys really know The
Godfather well. I'm not sure I've seen the whole
movie, to be honest. And I certainly haven't
seen two and three. Yeah, I saw the first one
a very long time ago. I'm going to make you an
offer you can't refuse. There you go. Nice one,
Sean. Good for you. I think he has it in front
of him. Okay, first off, you got it wrong. You
got it wrong. I'm going to make him an offer
he can't refuse. I had a list pulled up, but
they were old movies. You said you and I, which
is wrong. There's a couple scenes I remember
from this when the guy wakes up with a horse
head in his bed. Oh, yeah. Remember that? That
was kind of interesting. And when one of the
boys just gets, one of his sons, I think, gets
riddled with bullets with a Tommy gun. Yep, on
the street. Yeah. Good Lord. I mean, you know,
it's pretty good Lording. It's just the violence.
I don't like... When there's war movies out,
I can handle war movies, but I don't like...
You don't like mafia movies? I don't like mafia
movies because... It's too real. Too close to
home. It's too close to home. What about Halloween?
It's like when we were at the... Oh, that's different.
When we were at the pool, fake shit. We're at
the pool. Mafia movies are real. Scarface, you
don't like that? Dude, I... Okay, I was just
about to say, the worst scene I've seen in any
of those mafia movies is in Scarface. when they're
trying to get the dude to talk and they have
a chainsaw and they're cutting the dude's leg
off in the, in the tub. My brother and I were
watching it on cable and we both were scrambling
for the remote to turn it off because they show
the first, they cut the leg off and hear this
of it falling into the tub. And he's like screaming
his head off. And then the next scene is he's
like, he starts cutting into his face and you
see the chainsaw start to pull the eyeball. And
we're both like, Oh no, no, no, no, no, no. And
we, Turned it off and both like... It's the worst
scene of any movie I've ever seen. Seriously.
Have you seen it since? No. Do you know the scene
I'm talking about? Yeah, I know what it is. Was
it not awful? Well, I watched it like yesterday.
It wasn't that bad. Every morning? It's part
of your morning routine? I think there's a fairly
bad scene in Reservoir Dogs, too. Oh, yeah. I
was going to bring that up. Yeah, where they
saw the guy's ear off and then pour gasoline
on it. It was a little rough. Yeah, I don't like
stuff like that. That doesn't sound good, either.
Spoiler alert. Yeah, what's the quote in that
scene? Too soon? Ow! Okay. He said, I don't tip
the waitress. No, that was... Okay, the next
one is from Casablanca. Oh. Here's looking at
you, kid, or something like that. No, it's frankly,
my dear. I don't... That's gone with the wind.
I don't give a damn. That's gone with the wind.
Oh, that was my guess. Although that should be
on the list, don't you think? I don't know. Is
it not on the list? So Casablanca... Have you
guys seen Casablanca? I haven't. I have. And
I haven't seen Gone with the Wind. I haven't
seen Gone with the Wind either. That's got Bogart
in it and Bacall. Did I say Franklin, my dear?
I don't give a damn. I'm going to make him. I
don't know. Here's looking at you, kid. Did I
say that? You did. You did say that. Did I not?
So have you seen the movie or you just know the
quote? I just know the quote. He saw the movie.
I've seen the scene because he's on a plane or
she's on a plane and one of them's leaving. And
he goes, here's looking at you, kid. Looking
at you, kid. Humphrey Bogart. Is that the way
he talks? I don't know. I've never seen it. I
saw Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen. I saw
that. With Catherine Hepburn in it. Yes. Good
movie. Before she got all Parkinson -y. Wow.
So insensitive. Is that an adjective? I thought
she was awesome until the bitch got Parkinson
-y. Before she went full Aussie. Yes. God, Jeff.
Before her voice kind of got all kind of. Got
all Michael J. Foxy. That's totally insensitive.
Let's move on. That was two. You know one. What's
the next one? May the force be with you. May
the force be with you. Spoken by General Dodonna
and others. I was going to say, why'd you pick
that general? Everyone says that. I was going
to say, they say it a million times in that movie.
Spock says that for crying out loud. General
Dodonna. Really? Yeah, he doesn't get credit
for that. Why not Admiral Ackbar? Yeah. No, it's
a trap. It's a trap. It's a trap. General Fisher.
We're so stupid. We are so stupid. Okay, are
we done? Are we done with the top ten? Yes. That
was underwhelming, actually, a little bit. Yeah.
I'm not blaming you. You pulled a list. I just
grokked it, so I don't. Yeah, you're going to
have to do more obscure lines. What's the most
obscure line in movies? Yeah, do that. Obscure.
Obscure, but known lines. What is he holding
there? Like a sash? Maybe a lyre? Looks like
a mini harp. It's a billiard rack. Okay, I said
mini harp. You said billiard rack. What'd you
go with, Jeff? I said a sash. Okay. Oh, it's
a necklace. Is it a metal? We don't know what
it is. It's a metal. It's a metal. It's I win.
It's a belt. It's clearly a harp. It's the metal
from the scene at the end. Yeah. That's where
Han Solo, Luke, and Chewbacca. This is why we're
going to do video. I had no idea there was an
action figure for that guy. And we're going to
feed that into the video stream so that people
will laugh their asses off that we're fighting
over what that is. That's got to be worth some
money, that action figure. I mean, I've never
seen that before in my life. Yeah, I've never.
I've had. almost all the action figures. I wish...
All the action figures got stolen. Oh, yes. They
got stolen from the boat from traveling from
Germany back over to the United States. They
just disappeared. I had an entire box, the linoleum
falcon. I had everything. That's tragic. I had
a ton of stuff. Did you have a general? He doesn't
have a sash there. I didn't have that one. The
one with the sash is worth more. Yeah. I mean
the harp. Is a sash considered? No, I thought
a sash just comes from the shoulder down. Yeah,
exactly. Oh, he's got a gun on that one. It's
clearly not a sash. Yeah, it's a necklace. No,
it's a harp. All right, let's move on. Speaking
of space type stuff, isn't SpaceX going to ISS?
Is that coming this week? That was supposed to
be Thursday last week, I thought. Are they just
sending up some supplies? Is that what they're
doing? Yeah, what are they doing up there? They
kind of make a big deal out of it, but I don't
remember why. Does he just do a flyby and flip
him the bird? I wouldn't think so. What's the
reason? Can you look that up? Is it just a supply
run? Did SpaceX make a new... They didn't send
some astronauts up there. SpaceX recently launched
its crew 11 mission to the International Space
Station on a Falcon 9 rocket. The mission, which
departed from NASA Kennedy Station in Florida,
delivered four astronauts, including the NASA
astronaut Zena, Mike... Princess Warrior? Jack's...
Whatever. What was the date of that? Well, I
didn't say the date, but it was last week. Four
days ago. Yeah. August 1. There was no news about
that. It's Elon. It happens all the time. Yeah,
it's just common sense. But it's still not...
It's so hard. It's so hard to do this. The Crew
Dragon capsule named Endeavor was successfully
docked with the ISIS. With the ISS. The ISIS.
They're making this so routine, but that is not...
Cool. It's not like it's the Australians trying
to get there. They tried. Now we're looking at
the video of how the Australians did with their
rocket. Oh, yeah, that did not go well. Yeah,
this doesn't look good. It started off so great,
so promising. Smokes? Well, first off, it's leaning.
You see that? Yeah, look at the bottom. It kind
of goes. Let's recondruct. No, no, no. The one
is just kind of. It was leaning from the get
-go, by the way. I think the videographer had
a little more hope. That's the Australian one.
This is straight out of Naked Gun, isn't it?
For one thing, it's going the wrong direction.
It's going down. Well, the thing about mistakes
like this. Am I dreaming? Is it leaning? Because
the first thing it tries to do is correct. Watch
this. It drifts to the left right after takeoff.
What is this, from Australia? See that, how it
drifts left? And it tries to compensate right
there. Yes. Well, one of the things is it's going
to fart. as you can see it. Yeah, one of those
is not working. I'm sorry, Sean, what were you
going to say? I was like, where is this? Is this
Australia? Australia. So the first Australian
made rocket crash after 14 seconds. I think a
better one would be like after 20 feet off the
ground. Well, the thing about these failures
is that it really... sets the bar. So you're
able to learn a lot. I mean, Elon Musk was saying,
hey, man, he loves failures because there's a
lot of data to be collected on failures, on why
it didn't correct. And this one, you know, you
would think that, look at that. Oh, that's a
different one. That's the same one. Oh, it's
the same one? That one put it out. It's kind
of like the ignition failed somehow, you know,
on some of that. I don't know. I mean, you see,
like, all of them aren't lighting up. You think
the cheering just kind of quit once it got right
about there? It's not firing on four cylinders.
It's not going very high. What do you think?
And it looked like it blew an O -ring at the
end. No, I don't think that was high enough.
Hey, mate, you need to talk a little bit. It's
not a rocket. It's a rocket. Crikey. Get that
flame over here. Let's fry up these shrimps on
the barbie. Let's get some Foster's lager. That's
not a knife. Jesus Christ. All right. You're
racist. Oh, boy. We're so dumb. Well, speaking
of dumb, we've got the Frisco Independent School
District, which might be kind of a cool thing
where it popped up. Jeff, you had brought up.
We tried talking about a little bit about last.
Well, we talked about one of them last time.
And the other one, which I think is potentially
even bigger, is SB 31 or 21 or whatever the state
bill just passed. now bans all electronic devices
from school. So the kids cannot use their phones.
They cannot use their smart watches. They're
going to collect them. They cannot. Well, the
guidelines are they keep them turned off in their
bags. And if they are heard or seen, they are
collected and taken to the office. And what are
they doing about the watches? Same thing. Watches
have to come off. Earbuds have to come off. No
Bluetooth. Anything. Love it. I think it's the
right answer. No personal computers, no Google
eyeglasses, none of that shit. That would kind
of stink because I have my watch. It's not allowed.
Take it off. I wonder if I were to say, hey,
man, look, I discontinued my Bluetooth and this
was. Nope. Sorry. As a matter of fact, I say
we do the same rules at podcast. It's got to
be in your knapsack. Got to put it in your knapsack.
I solided mine. So I agree with it 100%. And
my wife is a teacher. She goes, this is nothing
new for me, outside of the watches and the headphones.
Oh, because she was already. She already had
cubbies up front, and all her kids would put
their phones up. Nice. I like that. The thing
is that, first of all, it's a distraction, number
one. That's foremost the biggest thing. But it's
also a tool to cheat. It's so easy to have. I
agree. Basically, you can ask them anything,
and you can pop up the answer just like that.
You can fill out math equations. I mean, it's
very intuitive. Just be like, chat GPT. You have
your little Bluetooth headphones on and talk
to your phone, chat GPT. Totally. You could probably
take a picture of it and go Google what's this.
I do it all the time. Yeah. I do that on chat
GPT. I take a picture of my monitor. So I'm 100
% on board with that. And I ask chat GPT. How
to fix that or what this is. Yeah. And on their
website, they have... They frequently ask questions
that they're getting from some of the parents,
and some of them are just ridiculous. Well, can
my child, when they use the restroom, take their
phone with them for a just -in -case scenario?
Oh, yeah, it's the parents. You're right. The
parents are going to have the problem. Yeah,
the parents are going to have the problem. Well,
the kids are going to have an adjustment as well,
but the parents are going to have a huge problem
because they want to get a hold of little Johnny
whenever they want. Well, then you just simply
have a panic button. Yeah. Well, are they allowed
to use it if they're at the nurse's office? No,
they cannot use the Nerf itself. It's during
regular school hours. They can use the phone
that's in there. They can call the school. Well,
what if there's an update to an athletic event?
The children will be notified and we'll be sending
out notifications. Love it. Go back to the old
days. What if there's a crisis or whatever? Well,
there's going to be a burst notification to all
parents from the school instead of your kids.
Right. And what if we run out of bourbon? Yeah,
exactly. Exactly. So I'm 100 % on board with
this. I have a lot of my bourbon. And the other
one, real quick, is you have to get parent approval
to join any extracurricular group now. And there
are no groups that are gender -based or sex -based
groups anymore. So you can't have your LGBT groups.
You can't have your pedo groups or whatever these
weird ones were that were out there. Love it.
Pretend to be a cat group. Yeah. Furries. Those
no longer exist. They're shitting all over the
furries? Yes. And you have to get parent approval
before you can join any club. They get fed to
lions in Finland. Exactly. Yeah. There you go.
Good idea. All right. We need to talk about our
bourbon. Yep. All right. Well, we picked up the
spot. I don't even know where we got it. Where
did we get this? I think Total Wine. So this
is a new Riff single barrel bourbon bottled at
112 .9 proof. This is, it's, I think it's a little
hot for 112. And I don't know if it's hot or
it's just peppery up front. It's spicy. It is.
Definitely. It's a high ride. I think it's the
spice that you're getting. It's a pretty intense
flavor. It is. There's a lot of flavor in this.
Highly recommend it. It's aged at least four
years. It says it is barrel -proof without chill
filtration. Without chill filtration. All the
traditional words. It's got a cherry kind of,
extremely cherry. It says cherry blossom, but
when you taste it, it's got a very sweet cherry.
There's some sweetness in the front. And I think
on the side of the tongue, that's where I'm picking
up a lot of the pepper. I have something crazy
on the nose. You guys are going to laugh at me.
You know how you light a match and you blow it
out and there's just that puff of smoke? That's
exactly what I smell on the nose. A little sulfur?
A little bit of sulfur. We have to do that every
time Jeff comes in the room because he farts
when I have to light a match. Where do you get
a twinge of match smoke? I don't know. It doesn't
taste smoky. That usually tells people they're
having a heart attack. I think this is another
one. Is that what it is? Just like the Maker's
Mark we had, I think this finish is long. There's
a lot going on in the finish where you can sit
down with a dram of this and just sip on it for
a long time and enjoy it. That really separates
the big boys from the little boys is the fact
that you can drink something and the taste is
going to just punch through. And it's going to
last a while. And it's going to taste good. Extremely
lasting. And it bores. You know, you taste certain
things as it progresses, and other things will
come out of it the longer it sits there. This
is a rye, correct? Yes. Well, I mean, it's a
high rye bourbon. It says up here 65 % corn,
30 % rye, and 5 % malted barley. This is really
good. The hue is very nice. And this is made,
I'm not going to say Cincinnati, but it's made
just across the river, like in Newport or Covington
or something like that. Basically a suburb of
Cincinnati. So it's up. Are you sure? Yes, because
we were going to hit it when we were up there.
Yeah, Newport, Kentucky. And that's where my
mother was born and grew up in Newport. And we
were going to hit it on the way up to, because
we did all the tours, we were going to hit it
on the way up to visit my sister. Okay. But we
got a late start, and we missed it. Yeah, so
it does say distilled, aged, and bottled by New
Rip Distilling in Newport, Kentucky. Yeah. They
did a good job with this. I'd be proud of this.
This is really, really good. It's got a great
bottle look. It's got the Bordeaux -shaped bottle.
It's embossed. It looks like it's been dipped
or sprayed on the top side. It's black. The bottom
is clear. Nice label on the bottom with great
print. It's a very nice presentation. I'll agree.
Yeah. You know, it says a lot. This one, the
high mash bill, it's – I'm going to vote. That
pepper kind of hit on the back end. Man. But
it's not too much. Very leather, clovey kind
of baseball mitt kind of stuff going on. But
it's not too much. That's what I'm saying. I
actually like this a lot. Yeah. And the price
range, I think, isn't that bad. It's like 50
bucks, isn't it? Yeah. It's like, yeah. It's
a little, it's 52 bucks. Shit, that may push
it up for me, this rating. Because I do care
about the price. If something's $120 versus $50.
You've got to factor that into the value of this
thing. AI overview. Expect notes of vanilla,
butterscotch, oak, and spice with high rye mash
bill contributing to a distinct savory and spicy
character. Savory. That's good. The finish is
long in rye lead with hints of red and black
fruits, white pepper, clove. Individual barriers
will vary, but common tasting notes include baked
fruit, cinnamon, pepper, and vanilla cake. Excellent.
And it's crazy when you read an assessment like
that. And then you suddenly get it. Yeah, it's
the power of suggestion. It's like, oh, my God,
that is what it is. The spice is there, man.
Yeah, if you like a spicy bourbon, this is a
good one to pick up. No, this is a single barrel,
right? Is it a single barrel? It is a single
barrel. Single barrel proof, yes. So the next
single barrel may not be like this. Your results
may vary. Yeah, and that's what it says. It says
it'll vary between different barrels. All right,
how are we reading this, guys? Pretty tasty.
I'll go first. I'll give it a 7 .8. That's right
where I was going to be, 7 .8. Yeah. I'm going
to echo that. It's excellent. 7 .8 across the
board. I like the maker's mark. I think this
one is... It is flavor -wise more enjoyable.
It's much richer. Yes, that's a great word. You
know? It's rich, lasts longer. It's got a little
more viscosity to it. No, it's slightly higher
proof. I don't know if that's playing into it,
but I think the mash bulb is playing a lot into
it. I am a big fan. Yeah, it's tasty. I would
definitely replace this. Once it's empty, how
much is left? I have a bottle. We have plenty.
Yep. We will enjoy this again on another night.
Good podcast, gentlemen. Yep. Cheers, guys. We
covered a lot of topics. Yes. How about a ding
ding? Jeff started back up at school, so now
he's working. Yes, that's right. Yep. And my
wife as well. She's excited to be back in action.
Yes. So we'll see how this new rule goes with
the taking away the phones. I'm eager to hear
how that goes. What do you guys got going on
this weekend? I do not have anything. I don't
know. I think there's something. I'll have to
find out. Dylan's coming over on Saturday. I
think we're going to make some wings. I'm going
to do some... Paul McCarty? I'm doing some frying.
Like actual wings or nuggets? Well, they're nuggets.
Frying up some nuggets. You're not going to bake
them? No, I do that. I pull out the fryers. You
seed oil? I use a shit ton of seed oil. I de
-seed it, though. August 5th, second half of
the Dudes Like Us podcast. If you like what we're
doing, if you want us to talk about specific
topics, just DM us, direct message us through
Facebook or Instagram, dudeslikeusnashpodcast.
Chuck, thank you for staying on top of stuff.
Shout out to New Riff. Excellent. Thank you,
Makers Mark, for the first half of whiskey. Dudes
Like Us, I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff. Thank
you.