It's the little things in life. No, it's not.
Yeah, not really. Are we going to leave the lights
at 100 %? 75? Yeah, I guess we're going to have
to for this one. We're just going to have to
see each other a little more clearly, which upset
me as well. See all of Sean's flaws. Yeah, a
lot of them. Tons. All this emotional baggage
over here. It's a lot. All right, well, I'll
tell you what. I don't even know. It's August
12th. It is the 12th. It's close to the... Mid...
The Ides of August? Is that what you call it?
Yeah. Beware the Ides of August. Right. All I
know is that... Was that Caesar? It's still going
to be, what, another 60 days of ridiculous heat?
Yeah, but it really hasn't been horrible. Oh.
I mean, horrible. Well, I guess hot is hot is
hot, but I mean... There were times here in the
Dallas -Fort Worth area where dudes like us out
there were focusing on 100 days straight of over
100 degrees. Right. We've been nowhere. Maybe
I'm a little adjusted because I've been exposed
to the heat a lot. You do get acclimated to the
heat. Maybe. Yeah, I'm not happy about that.
Yeah, it doesn't mean you don't like it, but
your body does function better in it. I walk
around the house now, and I'm like, what's so
cold in here? Your nuts are all sucked up in
there. Yeah, but your house is like 62 degrees.
Turtling. It is 62 degrees in your house. I think
it's 68. I mean, it's crazy cold. I like to hang
meat. God. We're not even close to that. I'm
usually, during the day, if I'm here, it's at
74. Yeah, it's even colder than our house. I
think we do the lowest is 75 or usually 76. But
you have free electricity. No, not really. It's
solar. Sun, it's all free. Yeah, but I'm getting
screwed on that deal. It's renewable. Oh, really?
I'm paying way more than I would have before.
How'd that happen? It's a deal gone bad. Well,
we got to talk about that in just a second. Well,
Chuck's not here. First of all, we started the
podcast day off today. We selected today to check
out because one of the biggest demands we get
from the thousands of listeners out there is
they want to see some video. Yeah. And we've
been talking about it. And we bought cameras,
these little hoopty things that were like, hey,
this stuff's good. And we're not really sure
how far it is, but we hooked it up and it's doable.
We're going to use Jeff's as the main widescreen
and we'll use some of these other ones. Regardless,
we were here trying to experiment with it. So
the first half of the podcast, in case you guys
are wondering what's going on for the August
12, 2025 Dudes Like Us, I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And
I'm Jeff. Where it's happening, and Chuck's not
here. Yeah, Chuck's there. He's in Destin. He's
in Destin, Florida. Frolicking around. Playing
Beastie Boys. Completely shit -faced. He's playing
with those Beastie Boys. You gotta fight for
your rights. Sounded like he or somebody was
chumming the waters when they were fishing today.
Well, I mean, hell, when you're on a boat and
you're drinking, they did not look happy. Chuck
took a picture. It was an awesome picture. But
behind him were three people sitting in there.
They did not look well. Yeah. They were like,
oh, my God. That's what I'd be afraid of. If
I went deep sea fishing like that on one of those
boats, I'd be like, man, I'd probably be puking
all over the place. I've never. I've done it.
I didn't puke, but I've got seasick once, and
I was on a booze boat in Jamaica. And, man, they
gave me a drink. Hey, man, have some fun. I'm
just kind of relaxed. I don't really want to
get drunk. I know, right? Yeah. What's up with
that? But they gave me this big -ass thing, and
I was like, gulp. Gulp. Gulp. And then it made
it go away? No, that's how I got fucked up. Oh,
it made it worse. Oh, dude, it was horrible after
that. Then I was kind of like, this is not good.
Was it like that humongous drink you got down
at Jake's with like six straws? It was meant
for six people, and you combined all the straws
into one? I thought I was going to have a heart
trip that night. I didn't know what was worse,
the alcohol in it or the caffeine. Oh, yeah.
I don't know. What was it? The high fructose?
There's a lot of sugar in it. It could be any
of those. Yes. So, yeah. You're not allowed to
touch the table. You've got to sleep on the laptop.
All right. So we've got a lot of stuff to talk
about today. We do. We do. And did we miss a
week? Didn't we miss a week? No. I don't think
so. No. We had one last week. Yeah, we had one
last week. I've posted everything except for
last week's. Okay. All right. All right. Yeah.
Yeah, these weeks have been really, really long.
So it's kind of, I keep thinking it's been two,
three weeks and it's only hasn't even been. Why
is that? Have you been traveling or what's the
reason? No, I've just, work has been extremely
detailed. Yeah. So like every day is like feeling
really, really long because I'm jumping from
thing to thing to thing to thing to thing. So
anyway, it's fine. We're really busy at work.
That's a good thing, being busy. It is a good
thing. Although I was busy as well and it didn't
matter. No. It's always there. It doesn't go
away. It's always there. That's why I was like,
whatever I would do on vacation, I'd be like,
the work never got done because I had my work
that I did at my level. Right. Right. That, you
know, I'd hand off some to my managers, but there
were some that they couldn't do. Right. Right.
Because it would take way too long to explain.
You got to do this, this, this, and this. Otherwise,
just call me if something goes sideways and I'll
walk you through it kind of a thing is what would
happen. Yeah. I know. I know. Anyway, it's all
good. It's all good. All right. Well, so we've
got our fantasy football stuff locked in for,
what is it, September 1st? September 1st. Labor
Day morning. Good Lord. That is so retarded.
Who picked that date? Well, that was the only
date that everybody could come up with. It was
crazy. You saw all the chatter going back and
forth. It was ridiculous. Yeah. They were bitching
and moaning at each other. Yep. And I was like,
forget it. I'll host it. We'll make it in the
morning, which everybody can probably go to.
We're going to have eggs and bacon. I can bring
some bacon. Yeah, you do have bacon. I got 10
pounds of bacon. I don't know why you're saying
bacon. Do you have some chickens? Chicken and
bacon. Yeah, and maybe some eggs. Eggs. Well,
I tell you what, though. There's something to
be said about your bacon that you bring out there
because you are becoming quite the meologist
here. Yeah, what the hell, man? You're totally
showing us up. I'm okay with that. You're smoking
shit. You're doing this. You're curing your own
shit. You're slicing. I mean, what? Okay, it's
awesome. You sent a video of you with your meat
slicer. Meat slicer. And part of your finger
was in there as well. I was cleaning it and part
of my finger got left on. None of that got on
the bacon? No, no Jeff meat on the bacon. No
seasoning? No seasoning, no. Okay, well, yeah,
you were slicing all your bacon strips, and I
was like, dude, really? Yeah, Julie was actually
slicing it. She likes to slice it. I made the
bacon, cured it, smoked it, and everything, and
she's like, I'm going to slice it. And I remember
you were talking about this process, but it requires
nitrates. Correct. And everybody says, oh, nitrates
are bad, nitrates are bad. How do you have something,
how do you have bacon without nitrates? You don't,
because when you see nitrate -free or uncured,
They're using celery powder typically or a derivative
of thereof. And when you use that and you look
down at the nuclear level, it's the exact same.
When it doesn't work, it doesn't matter if it
comes from Prague salt or celery salt. The way
it breaks down, you're saying. Yeah. The nitrates
are nitrates. Right. And the purpose of them
is what? Curing. Curing. Cure it so that it lasts
longer, basically. Yeah, application of curing
mixture typically containing salt, sugar, and
nitrates. Or dry rub or brine. So why do they
say that nitrates are bad for you? I don't know.
Just like anything else, if you eat too much
of it, it's bad for you. So if I eat two pounds
of bacon every morning. That'd be bad. Okay.
That's bad. But the thing is, I think the other
stuff, like the fact that you're eating that
fatty meat or whatever would kill you before
the nitrates would. I don't know, man. There's
guys out there that eat bacon, eggs, and smoke
cigarettes every fucking day. And drink a Dr.
Pepper. And they lived to 90 years old. So there's
no straight lines anymore. There's just, I think
it's just all some of the, there's no straight
lines anymore. I know. You don't even know. Well,
like if you go on the carnivore diet, I mean,
you're eating bacon meat. Right? That's basically
what you're eating. Yeah. You know, lots of bacon
and shit. There's a lot of people that say that
the carnivore diet's the way to go. There are
people out there that have had just, I don't
want to say cancer, but they've had all kinds
of ailments, sicknesses that won't go away. And
they're kind of like, sorry, man, you've got
this limited diet and you're just going to die
eventually. And there's Peter Jordan. Is that
his name? He's the psychologist from Canada.
Jordan Peterson. Jordan Peterson. You're close.
He has a daughter, and she had some major issues
with her health. And that was her solution. She
had lost her hip. I mean, she was young. Her
solution was to have the carnivore diet? Correct.
She had so many deficiencies that parts of her
body were shutting down. Was she like a vegetarian
or vegan at one point? I don't think so. I think
that she just got sick. And there's no real rhyme
or reason that I'm aware of. She needed a lot
of protein, I guess. Because that's what that
diet does for you, right? Tons of protein. Correct.
And fats. Specifically her. We need fat. Is what
she said. And a lot of doctors support this.
There's a lot of doctors that don't support it
either. But the reality is that that's all she
eats. And what is her meat of choice? She does
New York strips. And she'll eat that two or three
times a day. Good choice. And that is it. That's
all she eats. Really? I was going to say, that's
not cheap, but you're not buying anything else.
That's it. But wouldn't that get old? I know
you don't have a problem eating the same thing
every day. Well, I mean, for everyone, for a
lot of people, that'd get old. But, I mean, if
it tastes great, who cares? But the point is
that if it's going to keep you alive, it's kind
of a fuck it, man. I mean, imagine if you have
flavored air. I'm just going to breathe the regular
air. They do. They do have those oxygen. Bars.
You ever see those? Why would vegetables not
be okay for her? I don't understand. There's
carbs in some veggies. There's a lot of data
out there that suggests that you don't need vegetables.
You can live off of steak and you don't need
any vegetables. Yeah, period. I should probably
say that the comments or statements made on this
podcast are not endorsed by the FDA in any way,
shape, or form. Well, of course not. The FDAs
are the same folks that turned our food pyramid
upside down. I know. They don't. Fuck those guys.
I don't care about any of those. And I'm a proponent
for that. There's a lot of things to be said
about eating. I mean, we weren't designed for
gatherers. What is it called? Hunter gatherers.
Hunter gatherers. You know what I mean? We weren't
designed to eat three squares a day. You know,
we weren't. Well, they say you're supposed to
eat many small meals throughout the day. That's
right. You're supposed to... It's called noshing.
Not scrounge, but what do you call it? You...
Graze. Graze. Yes, graze. Graze all day. And
that's okay, too. But my point is that we weren't
designed for that. Our bodies weren't... The
influx of food that comes in like that, it's
not supposed to work like that. Because we don't
have four chambers in our stomach? We're not
cows. Yes. Ah, I see. I see. If you were a cow,
then you could put a big hole in the side, and
you could... degas and collect all that. Do you
ever see that where they put the grommet into
the cow's side and they can reach in the gut
and uncompact it? No. I haven't seen that lately.
They've taken some sort of reservoir with a little
stabbing thing and they puncture the side of
a cow and this gas comes out and they catch it
on fire. Can I ask you about the question? Why
the hell would you be seeing this in any way?
Documentaries, nature shows. They showed it on
the one Kevin Costner was on, up there in Montana.
Yeah, Yellowstone. Yellowstone. The cows were
out there grazing, and they were eating hay or
something they weren't supposed to eat. Alfalfa.
Yeah, they were eating alfalfa. They became all
bloated. They were like, well, they're just going
to fucking die. But then the guys were like,
well, let's do something about it. They fucking
took a knife and stabbed them, and air came out,
and they saved the cows. And they stitched them
up. Now they just put a little wound glue on
it. Wound glue. All right. Is that like liquid
skin? Well, that's what he did when he chopped
his finger off. My finger. That doesn't look
good. Why are you giving Sean the finger? I was
looking at my finger. Can't you look at that
without making that obscene gesture? It's the
middle finger. How are you supposed to look at
it? I don't know. Like this? Remember, we're
thinking about doing video. We are doing video.
We're doing video. You're giving him the birdie.
All right. So fascinating. None of that was on
our topic list. That's all right. But we kind
of wanted to jump in a little bit about you and
your whole meat experience. I mean, you've got
to walk us through because there's a lot of dudes
like us out there that want to get involved in
the meats. I mean, you're smoking your stuff.
You've got the pellet thing. You've got everything.
Did you get your little pasta thing for the side
of your? No, I wouldn't use that. You've got
a meat grinder that attaches to the side. No,
I've got a real meat grinder. Did you also have
the attachment, though, as well? I did. I started
with that, but then I outgrew that pretty quick.
All right, so let's walk through some of the
things that you're doing that most guys probably
have not dipped their toes in, right? So you
grind your own meat. I grind my own meat. So
I look like when the briskets are on sale for
$1 .99 a pound. I will get one of those. I'll
trim some fat off to where I want. some fat content,
then I'll cube it, dice it up, and I'll get 10
pounds of ground beef. You've done that with
me. I have. Awesome. That was fun. And you're
paying, well, once you cut the fat off, I mean,
you're probably about three bucks a pound. And
the tricky part was trying to figure out how
much fat to leave in there. Correct. Because,
you know, that's why the whole 80 -20 or 93 -7.
The more you do it, you get better at that. Plus,
every brisket's a little bit different, right?
So you're looking at it, you're like, I don't
know what. So when you cut it apart, you can
see all that fat in there. You're like, holy
shit. You're like, how much am I going to do?
So you also did a loin. I did Canadian bacon.
Yes. I've done regular bacon. This is my third
time making regular bacon. And I got the big
pork belly from Costco. Nice. It was an 11 and
a half pound pork belly. You're saying that's
all the same? Like the bacon comes from that?
Bacon is pork belly. It's pork belly. So it can
be, and Canadian bacon is also? Canadian bacon
can be pork shoulder, a portion of it, or I made
it out of pork loin. Interesting. Yeah. And so,
yeah, Shelly got confused when you gave me Canadian
bacon and I just slapped it on a sandwich. Remember,
I texted you. I was like, can I just slap it
on a sandwich? I mean, why wouldn't I? But most
of the time, people pan fry it. Correct. That's
what I do. With, you know, eggs. Yeah, eggs and
bacon. When you get like an egg McMuffin, that's
got Canadian bacon on it. Right. Yeah, I took
mine and diced it and put it in an omelet. I
ate all of it. There you go. Yeah, you could
do that. I ate all of it, Jeff. That was half
a pound. I ate half a pound of that Canadian
bacon in one sitting. In one sitting? No, it
gets worse. Why? So Alex lives in our house,
and he works at some foo -foo restaurant, comes
home with some stuff, like some eggs. So they
prepare food, and they're kind of like, hey,
we got these egg whites. We're going to use the
yolks only, or sometimes it's vice versa. He
comes home with quarts of eggs, cracked eggs,
and they're already in there. And I dumped like
three, four eggs in there. Because it's in a
quart. You just... Yolk, egg whites, everything?
I mean, yeah, just put it in there, and I freaking
stirred in the Canadian bacon, took a pair of
scissors, I was like, chop, chop, chop, chop,
chop, chop, chop. Yeah. Got that thing going.
So it was like a six -egg omelet with half a
pound of bacon in it. Go on. And you ate it all
in one sitting? Actually, yes. Wow. Yeah. You
know... I'd like to talk my way out of it, but
I think I actually did. Well, eggs are good for
you. I don't know about in that kind of quantity.
Well, nothing in that quantity is healthy for
you. Is four eggs a lot? Four eggs is a lot.
Okay, so when you add four eggs to a half a pound
of bacon. All right, well, hold on. Let's not
talk about the bacon right now. Let's just focus
on the eggs. Let's say we're at a party and they've
got those deviled eggs. I can't stand deviled
eggs. Well, those are halves. So if you have
four of those, that's only two eggs. Yeah. Oh,
God. So if you have eight, you have eight deviled
eggs? Oh, I'm just saying, how easy is it to
eat eight deviled eggs? Oh, it's very easy. Really
hard for me. Oh, I could eat four eggs. I have
no problem doing that. I could have a four -egg
omelet, no problem. Yeah, that's my point. And
that four -egg omelet usually has some chopped
up stuff in it. Yeah. Yeah, like a half a pound
of bacon. Oh, wait, no, no, sorry. We're not
talking about that right now. No, but we... Don't
focus on the eggs. I did add the half pound of
bacon, but I also had... Look, I'm one of these
guys... That I can't stand food to go to waste.
I hear you there. And so when I've got salsa
and stuff like that in there. It's a curse. Man,
I put the eggs in there. I put the Canadian bacon
in there. There was some Tara makes some badass
salsa. So I took the, she makes some of those
little ramekins. Probably, you know, about four,
eight, ten ounces in there. I dumped the whole
thing in there. Just fuck it, man. Just stir
it all up. Well, yeah. How can salsa can't be
bad for you? Well, that's just veggies, right?
Yeah, that's veggies. It's good for you. Salsa's
supposed to be free calories. Yes, it is. Especially
for diabetics. Salsa's supposed to be free calories?
Well, tomatoes have sugar in it. There is sugar
in it. Yeah, so you crushed up a bag of chips
and threw that in there too? Chips are just corn.
Just corn. Well, it's steed oil. It's just corn
oil. Fried. Yes. It's all derivatives of corn.
Corn's not evil. It can be evil. In obscene quantities.
I mean, look, the corn we have nowadays, look,
I get it, whatever. You guys are going to just,
I mean, yes, exactly. It's all fake shit. Carrots
are fucking fake. It's not fake. My carrots aren't
fake. I mean, they're there. They're tangible.
You can touch them. You can taste them. You can
cook them. What's wrong with them? But they're
not real. They're not. What do you mean? They
weren't on, I mean, the carrots now that we have
nowadays that are orange, carrots weren't like
that 100 years ago. How do we know this? How
do we know that? People were alive 100 years
ago. There's documents. Well, there's white carrots.
There's purple carrots. Orange carrots didn't
exist 100 years ago. Well, maybe it was a European
version that came over. I know. They've looked
at cave paintings. My point is. And there's a
lot of carrots. They're black. No, they're not
black. They're orange. We've talked about this
before. It really disgusts me about the way our
farms are set up, the way the government controls
the sale of the seeds. And why is it that we
can't just do what God intended us for us to
do? And that's you have a harvest. It comes.
with seeds. They reuse the seeds to refuel the
farms up to get your next year's harvest. But
now you have to go buy the fucking seeds from
the government every single year because they
made the seeds so that they won't reproduce.
Well, Monsanto makes a lot of the seeds. And
they made the farmers dependent on them. That
happened in India. Have we talked about this
before? Maybe. In India. they exactly what you
were saying that the western companies came in
there and said oh we can like you know you can
get much more yield from your from your land
and we can do this and that and we have a drought
resistant and and um bug resistant and so they
they convinced them not to save the seeds that
they have been farming for six generations they
didn't save their seeds right and so they start
farming with this shit And there are no seeds.
And they have to buy them. They're now dependent
on these Western agricultural companies for the
seeds. And they can't afford them. And they jacked
up the price of them. And they said, oh, if you
want to keep farming and you want these seeds.
And they no longer have their family seeds. Why
did they throw them away? Well, because, I don't
know. That's a good question. I don't know why.
But now they face the humility. I mean, the humiliation,
the absolute devastating humiliation of losing
the family farm because they don't have the seeds
and they kill themselves in droves. Look it up.
It is awful. So farmers are like killing themselves?
Killing themselves out of shame. Now, that was
probably a decade ago. I don't know if they have
fixed that situation since then. I would imagine
they've made it worse. Because the more farmers
become dependent on these, what do you call them?
What kind of seeds? That they don't something.
Well, they don't reproduce. They don't reproduce.
They don't germinate. Yeah, they're sterile seeds.
I don't know. Anyway, so yeah, they have to buy
these seeds. It's sick what they have done in
India. Yeah. I did not hear that. Yeah. It's
true. It's all true. Yeah, it's true, and it
happens here in the United States, and they take
something. Look, the orange carrot came popular
because it just was popular because it was orange,
but it was never designed. And look, I don't
give a fuck at the end of the day, but none of
it's the way it should have been. It's frustrating.
Everything's manipulated, right? It is. It's
all about money. It's all about money and power
and the stupid Democrats. Yeah, I blame them.
Thanks, Obama. And the Democrats. Yeah, the Republicans
had no hand in that. I blame them. Oh, 100%.
Both of them are. I mean, both sides of the aisle
are just big pieces of shit because they vote
on everything. Yes, they do. There is no reason,
none, there's zero reasons why they won't let
them have seeds that reproduced, period. No,
they want them beholden. They want them dependent
on them. Yeah, it's all about profit. Yes. That's
what it is. Profit for who? For these companies.
They got to profit the show, so they hit the
stock market. They make more money. Corporate
America. I saw this on a show somewhere. I'm
trying to remember. There was something about
the story of a lemon farmer. There's a lemon
farmer on both sides of the fence. The lemon
farmer on the west side harvests. Whatever. Every
year. And somehow his has got a very special
lemon because it's an orange lemon. Whatever.
I made that up. Like a buyer's lemon. Sure. But
so slowly but surely, for some reason, the lemons
on the east side of the fence started doing the
same thing. So the guy on the west side sues
the guy on the left side. He's stealing my freaking
seeds. Yeah. My point kind of in a weird way
was that this is all bullshit. Yeah. It's where
they're suing each other over something that
God put on this earth. It's bizarre. Yeah. It's
bizarre. And you know what? Meaning seeds travel
in the wind. Yes. Poland does. Yeah, it's not
his fault. I mean, there's bees that come in
and the birds and they migrate. They shit in
each other's fields. And it's just like that's
how seeds get transferred all over the planet.
I did hear that. Bird shit. Bird shit. Bird shit.
I did hear that the bee population, there's huge
colonies that are dying off. Oh, the what? Bees.
I thought that was an issue a while back, but
it's been - It's always been an issue. It's always
been an issue, and I think they're getting close
to figuring out why. It's a specific pesticide.
Oh, yeah. Usually it is. That is getting into
the hive and killing everything. Unbelievable.
So the huge colonies that were pollinating just
acres and acres and acres of shit are no longer
there. You know what's so funny about bees? It's
like I'm a total sissy when it comes to flying
bugs. You know what I mean? I'll be like walking
along the pool and all of a sudden something
will fly at me and I act like a five -year -old
girl. Well, the wasp and the... What are they?
Not the... The yellow jackets? Yellow jackets.
But they're also called something. Doppel something?
What are they called? They're called something
else. There's another word for them. Anyway,
those... Yeah, those are like... You know, I
go apeshit about them. And Shelly will admonish
me if it's a bee. She'll be like, don't, you
know, because I'll go around trying to slap shit
and kill shit. And she's like, no, no, no, not
the bees, not the bees. You know, we need the
bees. We need the bees. You need all of them,
actually. Well, do we? What's the use of a wasp?
You know what? That's a good question because
we asked, I think we asked ChatGPT, is our wasp
and yellow jackets, are they pollinators? And
it said that they weren't. They weren't pollinators.
Because that's what we're talking about. That's
why bees are so important. Are you sure yellow
jackets aren't? Can we fact check that? I mean,
I don't know the answer to that. Mr. Sean, can
you ask the question? Yeah, you go. Are wasps,
they are important pollinators? Oh, God, don't
tell Shelly that, because I kill wasps all the
time. Son of a bitch has dug in like an Alabama
tit. You're hit. You're bleeding, man. I ain't
got time to bleed. What was the other one? Yellowjacket.
Yellowjacket. So it says, yeah, apparently wasps
are important pollinators. Oh, boy. Oh, AI summary.
Yes. Shit. Oh, they're not primary, though. Yeah,
so anything that's non -primary that can sting
you, kill it. Yeah, well, you know, they sting
me in your backyard. You've never been stung
in my backyard. Are you kidding me? I sat on
one of your chairs and you had to rub one out.
That was a spider. That was not a spider. Are
you being serious right now? Of course. You got
stung by a yellow jacket? I got stung by a flying
animal. Like a squirrel? It was a flying squirrel.
Was it a bat? Like a griffin? It was a griffin.
Holy shit. And you lived to tell the tale? Yeah.
It picked me up a little bit. I tell you what,
don't you do it. Those are fucking enormous,
and I cannot get rid of them. They're all over
my backyard. A little hive of those back there.
Fucking griffins. It stands on the corner of
the building. What do they call those? Those
are ghouls. Gargoyles. Gargoyles. Gargoyles.
I don't have any gargoyles. I have griffins,
though. Wow. No, that's the day I sat in the
chair. It was at nighttime, dinnertime -ish,
and then something bit me on the back, and I
was like, oh, it hurts so bad. And you took your
oil? Yeah, yeah. It gave you purification oil.
And by the way, that was a spider. How do you
know it was a spider? Because we know it. It
was still stuck to you. I thought the thing had
flown off. No. Well, I don't know. Actually,
I don't know. Why am I saying that? I don't know.
I'll tell you what. I dropped my kid off at Austin
at College Station to continue his education.
Yeah, that's super exciting, by the way. It was.
But while I was there, let's see if I can't find
it. A &M. No. Well, he's going to Blinn, but
he has every intention of transferring to Texas
A &M University. He's definitely going to...
He's going to be an Aggie. We're expanding our
influence. What I'm getting at is there was a
fucking big -ass spider that we ran into. Did
you pick it up? No, but you know Brendan? Brendan
fucking picked that up. So there's a board. By
the way, that board is like a 2x6. Just to give
you the gravity of how big that fucking thing
is. That's a two, two and a half inch spider.
That is a huge ass spider. That's scary. What
kind of spider is it? It wasn't one that will
hurt you. I know the iPhone will tell you. I
don't know what it is. Oh, that looks like a
brown widow. A recluse? A black recluse. Dude,
look at those eyeballs. I said that on purpose,
you idiot. Let me see. Let me see the eyeballs.
Is that like a wolf spider? Oh, God. Dude, look
at those. That thing was a big ass spider. Was
that Shalob? Slope? Explain, please. That's the
spider in Lord of the Rings. The big spider?
What's up with you and Griffins and Lord of the
Rings and Game of Thrones? Harry Potter? Are
you on a fantasy trip right now? I guess so.
What's going on with you? What have you been
watching? He's talking about flying animals in
the backyard, biting them. Yeah, well, true.
True. I don't think he was talking about Harry
Potter. He wasn't thinking about Harry Potter
or whatever it is. All right. Anyway, wow. That
was a big spider, though. Yeah, that is healthy
looking. Would you run away screaming? No, because
Brendan was - Yeah, what does that mean? He picked
it up. The board. So the board is probably two
foot long. He was in the garage. It's on the
board, and normal people would have been like,
I'm getting out of the garage. He walks over
there, picks up the board. He's a stud. Looks
at it very closely. Does he jump on his face
like aliens? Like arachnophobia. Starts drilling
at his eyeball. Did you say like aliens? Nice,
yeah. And then his stomach starts going. Yes.
It was crazy. Big spider. I was like, yeah, no,
just go ahead and just do something. So you did
identify it? Was it a wolf spider or was it a
tarantula? It was not a tarantula. And I did
not identify it. Because it's tarantula sex season
right now, mating season. Oh. Yes. And you know
this? I heard on the radio, it's from like August
to October. So they were like, so if you see
a lot of, so tarantulas will become more populous
in the view, you'll be able to see them more
because they're out looking for. Poontang. Tarantula
hive. You need to whip out your phone and pull
some Barry White. Can't get enough of your love,
babe. What's going on with these guys? Interesting.
So do tarantulas lay eggs? Yes. Or do they hump?
I'm going to get, get, get, get you drunk. Get
you love drunk off my hump. My hump, my hump.
My hump, my hump, my hump. They lay... Do they
hump? I mean, how do they fornicate? I mean,
is it... Do they... There's no penetration. Is
it like... I have no idea. I've never actually...
investigated. They didn't cover that on the radio?
Tarantula sex. Well, the male penis goes in two
and then, you know. There's lots of penetration,
both orally and anally. Is it like fish where
you... Into the cochlea. The spider lays a sack
of eggs and then the other spider goes over and
there are pollinates on it? Like just spooges
on a pile of eggs? I don't know. Alright, so
since we're talking about insects, let me tell
you what happened earlier this week. Hold on.
Let's get it. There's a picture of it down there.
We're going to get a definitive answer on how
they have sex, apparently. The courtship males
perform a courtship dance to attract the females.
This includes drumming on the ground, just like
Jeff does, with their legs and displaying their
colors. The male may also approach the female
cautiously to avoid being mistaken as for real
prey. Then the mating process. Once the female
is receptive, the male uses specialized structures
called the penis. To transfer sperm, it's called
pedipalps. No, pedipalps. That's totally different.
Yeah. Pedipalps. The male inserts his huge pedipalp
into the female's reproductive ovum. It's tiny,
actually. And releases his load into her body,
releasing sperm into the body. Dude, seriously.
Oh, God. After mating, the female might eat the
male. Just like a praying mantis. Just like humans,
really. That means it'd be really good sex. To
be the last time you ever did it. I get eaten
right after. It's worth dying to have sex with
you, baby. So the female lays her eggs in a silk
sack, and she guards it until they hatch. Petapalps.
I've never heard the term petapalps. Thanks.
That's great. Yeah. So he inserts the petapalp
in her female organ. It says, here's a look at
the transplant mating, which involves charging
their petapalps with sperm and spinning a sperm
web, dancing, and fang clasping. Wow. Dude, they
know how to get it on. I'll say that at least.
It's very barbaric. Yeah, it's jungle love right
there. There's some good fanage. Oh, darling,
I can't get enough of your love, babe. Well,
you learn something every day. I never knew the
term pedopalp before. Me neither. Yeah. Yeah.
Thanks, Sean. Well, you know, hey, man. Yeah,
still be talking about Architeuthis. Johnny on
the spot. All right, let me share my insect story
from the other night. I'm getting ready for bed.
I'm in my bathroom. I'm brushing my teeth. Are
you nude? I'm not. Okay. I'm in my jammies, and
I look up at the top of the window, and there
are a shit ton of winged insects. Termites? And
little ants with them. They're all running back
and forth. They're running back and forth like
they're literally moving a colony. And I was
like, oh, shit. And my wife's already in bed,
right? And I'm like, oh, God, I'm not going to
freak out about this right now. And I'm like,
we might have a problem. You know, let's talk
about it tomorrow. Did you find the queen? I
didn't do anything, right? No, I left everything
alone. I wake up the next morning, zero evidence
of anything ever having been. No, I took a picture
of it, though. I took a couple pictures. And
so the next morning I called the insect people.
And I'm like, yeah, I think I have termites.
She goes, well, did you by chance take a picture
of it? I said, yeah, I have a couple. And I think
they're pretty good. Like, you know, I zoomed
in on it. And she goes, send those to me. I'll
give you a number to text it to. And she goes,
good news. Those are ants. And I'm like, oh,
thank God. Yeah. Because I thought it was like
a termite spawn. Oh, yeah. Right. And very few
people think about. winged ants right how many
winged ants do do we think of in general oh i've
seen them yeah right but you know what i mean
like most people i think most people would have
thought it's probably a termite well here's the
other problem on the other side of that wall
about five feet to the left is my giant wood
pile So Shelly was like, oh, my God, I told you
not to put the wood pile over there. She's like
all freaking out. Is it next to the house? It
is not. Oh, yeah, you don't want it next to the
house. No, it's not next to the house. It's probably
about two feet away from the house. Yeah. I would
think it's enough, but I don't know. Anyway,
but that didn't help. That didn't help the situation.
You don't vacuum pack your wood? In a condom?
Yeah, it's like this large garbage bag. Just
vacuum pack it, seal it. So did you lay any?
Eggs? Yes. Did you lay any poison down or anything?
Yes. So I have, well, I mean, I have like, you
know, perimeter ant killer spray, right? Borax?
You know what? Boy, you know, you laugh. I looked
up what termite, what do... Oh, no, I did it
in my college. We put borax all around. Did you
sprinkle some in your drink first? Yes, it's
do -it -yourself termite thing. Borax came up.
It didn't say anything about human consumption,
though. But yes, I did spray my... My foundation
with the ant prey. Yeah, we've had some ant problems
in the past. I didn't have them this year. The
last couple years, actually, we've got the little
sugar ants. I think they're called the little
sugar ants. Oh, yeah. And you'll see a trail,
usually to the sink, and I'll see a trail, and
I'll follow it all the way back. It always comes
from the backyard. So I watch it. I can never
find the mound, though. You know what's amazing
is there's a lot of times they come up through,
in the kitchen specifically, well, any plumbing
areas. Right. They'll come up through the plumbing.
Right out of the foundation. Because there's
a tube. The pipes that come through the foundation,
there's a little plastic tube that they run them
through. So that's my problem. I always think
they're literally underneath the house. And I
think they are. They're underneath the house.
So how do you find them out? How do you kill
those little fuckers? Well, what I've done is
I get the ant killer, right? And I spray a barrier
that they will not cross. So if I see them coming
in through the back door, Right, so you just
kind of start eliminating entry points. Yeah,
so I was like, okay, they're there. And if they
find another way, I'll do that one. Then you
get that one. Okay. I've never gone outside looking
for a mound. Okay. Yeah, because I've never.
I tried those little liquid stations. You know
what I mean? Yeah. Did not work at all. Like
literally at all. You can use like eucalyptus
oil, peppermint oil. Yeah. Oh, really? And put
that over the threshold, wherever they're coming
through. Interesting. Yeah, they won't cross
it. Like I said, I use the ant killer, whatever
it's called. Okay. But it doesn't get rid of
them. Well, it causes them to go somewhere else.
Right. And it doesn't get the queen. It doesn't
kill the mound. But the granules will. So the
granules - Yes, you do find them out in the granules.
Yeah, just put the granules down there. Even
if you just put them out there, they'll take
the granules because it's food. Oh, yeah. They'll
take it back to the nest and then - And kill
the queen. So I have the white powder. I have
the triazinone or whatever it is, that white
powder. Triazinone, yes. And it kind of stinks
and I'm glad it does because it's nasty shit.
You want to make sure it's - You don't want your
dogs to eat it. Right, exactly. And so, yeah,
you take a little spoonful and kind of spread
it all over the mound. That shit works. I do
it to fire ants. Yes. And I hate to, I don't,
I don't hate to say this. I go out there and
I enjoy the next morning when you see the ants
and they're all like satisfaction. Oh, they're
jiggling around and they're bumping into each
other and they're like, fucking kill me. Kill
me. I mean, it's very satisfying. Yeah. I like
going out there in a couple of days and the mound
is still there and you kick it. Normally they
come out and just swarm. Nope, nothing. There's
nothing there. Crickets. Score. Yep. Swarm all
over. Kind of like a Washington, D .C. gang beating,
you know? Oh, yeah. Big balls. No, that's what
happens when you don't put the triads on down.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, they just come out of the woodwork.
All these teenagers that don't have any rules
at all, they just come out into the woodwork
and start mugging everybody. But I do kind of,
they had on the news, Trump was with Pam Bondi.
And Kash Patel was just kind of, you know, you're
thinking it's a slippery slope, but I'm kind
of 100 % behind it. You know, if the parents
aren't going to apply the correct discipline
with their children, then I think the parents
should go to jail. And it's not so much the parents.
It's the laws that give them no consequences
as well. The Democrats keep shooting down these
laws. They're creating these new things to give
these... Oh, they're just 16. Slap on the wrist.
He's just 15 years old. Didn't know how a gun
works. Every time I hear that song, I was like,
this guy is such a creep. I want to talk about
that because... Angel. Angel has something to
say about that. Angel, Tara's... She thought
he was sexy? No. Oh, God. So I don't know if
we... Okay, do we want to hard left this? We
can build up this DC thing. Go on. Okay, all
right. So I brought up this whole creepy, and
I said the video, and she agreed the video was
super creepy, but the song itself is very misunderstood.
Okay? And I was like, oh, really? And it had
to do with, God, I wish I could remember exactly
what her argument was. And I actually fact -checked
it in it. And it did have, it had some merit.
It was, damn it. But he's a middle -aged, pedo
-looking guy looking through a window at this
chick. It's the video. That's what I mean. Exactly.
If this song had a different nuance to it, why'd
he make that video? Okay, I'm remembering now.
Angel was saying he didn't want to make the video
like that. It's the record people that made him
do it. So their relationship was purely platonic,
however, as Benny looked at her after Heidi and
her family after her father left. Yes. Yes. That's
what she was saying. It had to do with a girl
that was literally left to be on her own, and
he was taking care of her. Well, that video does
not convey that at all. No. Yeah. Because the
father was there. He was like, get out of here,
you old pervert. Yes. Oh, I got my Def Leppard
shirt on. I got to stay. But the person who wrote
that song, exactly what you just said, it was
a girl who was basically abandoned, and he was
taking care of her, right? And then if you think
about it from that perspective, the lyrics aren't
that bad, but the video's awful. And the record
company made them make that video. I think what
Angel was saying. Did that ruin his career, that
video? Oh, I can't imagine how it didn't. It
was so bad. It was no worse than Billy Squire's
video. Well, that killed his career as well.
It did. Him crawling around in a pink Speedo
or whatever it was. That wasn't a Speedo. He
was wearing some very... I don't know, loose
-fitting shirt. Very 1980s jazzercise. But he
was half -dressed. He was crawling around on
the floor. Yeah. It was bad. Which one was that?
Lonely is the night. Lonely is the night. Lonely
is the night. No, no, not that one. It wasn't
that one. It was rock, rock me. Rock me around.
Rock me the night. That's what it was. Rock it
on air. Want to find me some trouble. Want to
grab my share. Take me to. Is that the right
one? I don't think so. Yes, it is Rock Me Tonight.
Are you sure? Look up what the controversial
Billy Squire video was. Just look up Rock Me
Tonight. Look at that picture of that guy. It
was the video that killed Billy Squire, just
like this dude. Hey, what was the name of this
guy that sang? Billy Mardonas. Oh, poor guy.
Did he write it? I bet you he didn't even write
it. Rock Me Tonight. That's what I said. You
liar. You liar. Was that the one that killed
him? Rock me in a while. That's what people are
thinking. Controversy is Toronto Billy Squire's
music video for Rock Me Tonight. Primarily stems
from its perceived impact on the career of music.
So, flamboyant manner. He's performing. I told
you, he's crawling around in skimpy clothes.
I remember when that came out, I was like. Yeah,
this is not so much. I like the song, but, man,
this video is not good. I mean, because, look,
there were a lot of bands back there. They dressed
in, like, the makeup and the high heels. Oh,
yeah. Totally feminine. I was like, what is going
on here? I never dressed like that. But, you
know, the sad thing is, Billy Squire had some
awesome music, man. Is he touring at all? I totally
thought he was a donut bumper. I did not. I thought
he was totally gay. From that video alone? Well,
I mean, just from that video and just because,
I mean, look, it was a hard time for me because
one of my favorite bands back then was Judas
Priest. I found out Rob Halford was a white smoker.
And I was like, are you kidding me? Rob Halford's
gay? Judas Priest? But does it matter, the music?
It really doesn't matter. Back then, I guess
it did. There was a phobia back then, I guess,
maybe. Not a phobia, a stigma. But there was
an AIDS pandemic that kind of soured things up
a little bit. Because look, one of my best friends
graduating high school is gay. I never cared.
I was around it. People have been around gay
people our entire lives. Yeah, think about the
great rockers, right? We got Elton John, he's
gay. We have the lead singer of Queen. He's gay.
Well, he was kind of, he kind of did everything,
but yes, he was. He was bi. Watermelon. Right?
I mean, we have, what are some really prominent
- George Michael. George, love the guy. Great
music. Yeah. Great music. What other major -
Was Prince gay? I don't think so. I think he
was. He dated lots of - You know what? If I were
to guess, I'd say he swang both ways. He could
be both, but I don't know. I don't know either.
I don't know. Hold on. We'll pull it up here.
You're bringing a prominent gay artist. Is that
our... Freddie Mercury on John David Bowie. I
did not know he was gay. Ricky Martin's gay?
Oh, I knew that. Oh, yeah, he is. I did not know
that David Bowie is gay. Ma Rainey. I don't know
who that is. From 1886 to 1939. That's really
relevant. Thank you. He died in 1939. Okay. Wow.
Whatever. So the 40 best gay singers of all time.
Shall we just open that list and see where it
takes us? That was an interesting top 10, right?
40 best gay singers. All right, here we go. Number
10, Lance Bass. Okay, he's the boy band. NSYNC.
NSYNC, very nice. Melissa Etheridge. Melissa
Etheridge do that. Sam Smith, he is a freakazoid
these days. Hold on, who's Sam Smith? He is the
one who, you'll have to see him. He's overweight
and he wears like. corsets and yanks. I sent
some video where he's just spreading his balls
all over the place. He's dressed in the devil.
There was one time he wanted to do a little crowd
surfing and he's overweight, right? So he looks
like a freaking something off a PBS children's
episode. He's a big dude. He's 6 '2". So he's
fat. He's 6 '2". He's on stage. He jumps in the
middle of the crowd. The crowd's like, fuck that.
They move out of the way. And he lands right
on the floor. Whack! That'd be crazy. Well, I
remember the video you sent me was obscenely
over the top. Oh, yes. And it had, like, half
-dressed girls and pumping everywhere. He performed
that on stage, like on an ABC horse show. Like
at a Grammy or something like that. Ridiculous.
It is ridiculous. And, you know, the kids watch
that. Come on, man. Dress for success for the
success of our country. Look at all the other...
Gay folks out here. No one is doing that except
him. Right. My point in bringing up this list
is that there are a lot of artists that we love
that are gay. Who's Mika? I don't know who Mika
is. Hold on. Let's finish the list. George Michael
is seven. Adam Lambert. Why is Adam Lambert ahead
of George Michael? I don't know. That's ridiculous.
Popularity? I don't know. No. Adam Lambert, he
sings with Queen now. I know. But yeah, he needs
to be down there near the bottom. Yes. Who's
Rob Halford? Rob Halford is the Judas Priest
lead singer. Oh, that's what you were referencing
earlier. Yes. Okay. Who's Mika? Mika, Mika. I
don't know who that is. We don't even know who
that is. Let's look that up real quick. She's
only 16 years old. I see Dolly Parton. She's
not gay. Looks like a dude. Of course it's a
dude. But I see... Actually, why am I saying
that? I see four different people up there. One
of them is Dolly Parton. Okay, the prevailing
thing is a guy, and he is the piano judge? I
don't know what that means. He's got a very good
jawline. Oh. Really? Are you intrigued? No. I
don't even know if this dude sings. I've never
seen this guy before. Actually, yeah, he's a
good -looking dude. All right, move on. I have
no idea who he is, but that's fine. There's Rick
Martin. Yeah, Ricky Martin. All right, Elton
John, Rick Martin, and Freddie Mercury. All right,
well, there's our list. I would think, I understand
Freddie Mercury at the top. I think Elton John
would be either one or two. Oh. I think Ricky
Martin's a little high, Mika's a little high,
Adam's a little high. It should be. It should
be, in my opinion, Elton John, then Freddie Mercury,
then George Michael. Yes. I don't believe that
any of those other people should be ahead of
them. I don't understand the ranking anyway.
Is it by popularity? Is it by gayness? I don't
know. Levels of gayness? Levels of gayness, yeah.
I don't know. Do they have levels of non -gayness,
of straightness? I don't know. You know what?
going to close every single one of these. Yeah,
let's do that. That's on your computer now, Paul.
Oh, that's great. Thank you. The only saving
grace is my personal computer, not my work computer.
That's good. I would not trust me with that one.
Wow, we have gone all over the place. All right,
can we go back to, we left D .C. Did we leave
D .C.? Well, I mean, look, so Donald Trump had
a... News or you had an announcement today that,
you know, he's going balls to the wall. D .C.
going to bring the National Guard in, 800 troops,
you know, Kash Patel and Pam Bondi's out there
just laying it all flay, just laying it all out.
So we're going after him. Was that today or was
that today or yesterday? Judge Jeanine Shapiro,
she was, dude, she was irate. She was like, bring
it. They started asking her questions and she
was like. She does not tolerate shit. I love
that. And I saw her on, they brought her on Fox
News and she was railing, this is before this
happened, and she was railing on the fact that
they release, release, release, no consequences.
They're not teaching these kids anything. And
they're talking about teens. They're releasing,
releasing, releasing. And they're mugging people,
stealing cars, doing all sorts of crazy shit,
man. The law says that if you can't control your
kid, then you're going to go to jail. for their
crimes. It says that? Or is that what you want
it to be? No, that isn't. If I break the law,
I'm sorry, if my kid's underage and he breaks
the law, I mean, look, there are kids out there
that get into, they get a gun out or they do
some sort of nefarious crime, the parents go
to jail. If my kid is truant from school and
it becomes a real big issue, they'll take me
to jail. Correct. I get it. But to me, the solution
is put the kid in jail. That's the problem. They're
not putting the kids in jail. They're letting
them go. It's both. And they're running around
in packs. If mom got thrown in jail because of
that, he'd be like, yes, no one's even. Okay,
I don't disagree, but start with putting the
kid in jail. Oh, yeah, agree. And hold them accountable.
And then if they are like a repeat offender,
put a parent in jail. You know what? Here's my
problem with that. This is something my mom told
me a long time ago that a doctor told her. The
worst kid can make the best parent look bad and
the best kid can make the worst parent look good.
And that's true. That is a true statement. Just
digest that for a second. It doesn't matter how
good a parent you are. If you have a rotten,
I mean, think about how many parents of homeless
people, right? Homeless young men. They're like,
we did everything we possibly could. They just
wouldn't stay straight. They wouldn't do this.
They wouldn't do that. We had to kick them out
of our house. You know what I mean? They did
everything they possibly could. What about Jeffrey
Dahmer's parents? Right. There you go. Were they
evil people? Yeah. I doubt it. I think he just
had screws. So again, the worst kid can make
the best parents look bad. So I don't think that
is effective. They made Jeffrey Dahmer eat liver.
Maybe. So sick of living. Maybe. I don't want
to eat the neighbors tonight, Mom. Yes, you will.
Just the leg. And it's cured. Please, Sue, eat
it for a couple more hours. It's tough. And it's
cured, and there's nitrates. Come on, son, eat
the neighbor. But it's celery nitrates. Holding
them accountable, holding somebody accountable,
you know, look, you have to disrupt the culture.
That is going on. I don't disagree with that.
That's really the bottom line. There's a culture.
Look, black people, white people, Hispanics,
whatever. I'm just saying, when you get these
clans that get animated in the middle of a crazy...
street fight, you know, they start jumping around
and attacking each other. It's kind of a, you
know, it's like they go after somebody, they
target somebody, and then they just, as a group,
they beat them up. It's just, it's inhuman. Yeah,
I don't like it. You know, and it's... Well,
that's what happened to Big Balls. You know,
he stopped a carjacking. Yes. There was like
10 or 12 little, I don't know how little they
were, but... You know, there's some big 13, 14
-year -olds out there, you know. Unbelievable.
I know what my son looked like when he was that
age. He was huge. Unbelievable. But, you know,
there's big kids out there, and you get enough
of them, they're going to cause some damage.
And they probably would have killed him if somebody
hadn't pulled him out. Is that right? I don't
know. Somebody saved him, too. He was getting
his ass beat by 10, 12 people, and the girl got
away. Right. He saved her. Right. And I don't
know. I don't know. I think some people came
by and rescued him. But I don't know. I mean,
it's ridiculous. Ridiculous. It's scary because
it could be you. It could be your kid. Well,
I'm not going to D .C., so yeah. I am. But it
happens everywhere. I'm going to D .C. the end
of October. Hopefully this is settled by then.
But it happens everywhere. I mean, there's tribal
issues everywhere, you know, and you don't know
what's just going to fucking happen. You know
what? You need to. The reality is bear spray,
man. People need to start thinking about self
-defense. You need bear spray. You need, what
is it, taser. What are those things that you,
brass knuckles? Brass knuckles. Brass knuckles
with taser. A lot of that stuff is illegal. With
a taser on it. Yeah, brass knuckles are illegal.
But this one's not brass knuckles, but it's a
taser that you hold. There's another flip side
of that. Yes, the core principle is protect yourself.
So I think it should be paramount that you go
through some sort of self -defense classes as
a kid. In Israel and some of these other countries
out there, it's mandatory for you to join the
military. As soon as you graduate from high school,
you've got to join the military for a while.
I don't know how that's going to extend to self
-defense, but as a parent, You know, you got
to teach your kids. Or bare minimum. Defend yourself.
Don't have a fight. Bare minimum, have something
to protect yourself. Even if you're not trained
in something, which would be even better, right?
But if you have bear spray, I mean, those people
were trying to pull her out of the car. All she
needed to do was go, and that guy's down. Next
guy comes up, they're down. I mean, you know
what I mean? Until they get it and they, you.
Well, okay, but I mean, at least something. And
I agree with you. I mean, I'm the guy that was
trying to figure out how to make a self -defense
system in your car where I spritz the car around
me. If my car were to get stuck in a riot, dude,
I was going to get one of those little mechanisms
where I just spray wasp spray on everybody. You
had to sprinkle on top of the car. No, it's the
big rainbow one. It's real slow. I like Jeff's
better. Oh, the rainbow one? And then everybody's
like, ah, here it comes. It's hot. Oh, it's so
warm. They just keep running. It's like super
slow, though, right? Yes. God, that takes forever.
Well, I mean, so what is the difference? I mean,
you spray some of the can of the wasp spray.
I actually researched that. It actually doesn't
do much. We thought that would be the ultimate
zombie defense. They're like, yeah, no, it doesn't
actually do much. I sprayed the other day, and
the wind grabbed it, and it all blew onto my
face, and I was fine. So, yeah, that doesn't
work. Yeah. Well, the bear spray will. I think
the bear spray is a big deal. When you see the
cops spray that shit, it's like an orange cloud
just going to these people. So, Wes told me that
he bought, like, a 12 -pack and gave it to everybody,
like, everybody, all his family, his daughters
and sons. I'm going to do that. Everybody needs
to be carrying one of those things. Just mace.
Pepper spray. Well, it's the same kind of thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever it is. Some sort of,
you know, some sort of incapacitating gas. I
think the bear spray is just, it shoots like
30 feet. Really? Yeah, it goes far. Oh, nice.
That's a very heavy spray. Dude, I'm in. I'm
in on that. And by the way, when you're walking
around on the country dirt roads of Colorado,
you kind of need to have bear spray there too.
Or at least have a bear horn. My dad used to
bring a gun when he would go hiking in the mountains
because they had bears and cougars where he was.
Right. But he got to the point where he would
carry, he brought the bear spray. Yes. And then
he brought a thing of, because, you know, he
would read all this stuff. The bears are getting
used to this spray or whatever, so you've got
to move to this. Getting used to it? Well, it's
not as effective as you think it is, I guess,
is what the readings were out there. When there's
a 1 ,200 -pound grizzly bear charging you and
you're like... So he was carrying something,
and I was like, he's like, oh, well, they say
it works. It was like ammonia and this and that
and all kinds of stuff. Okay. Yeah, so he would
carry that when he'd go hiking in the mountains.
I like the gun idea for sure. So there's a range
here. So like the pepper, the bear spray can
go up to like 35 feet designed to turn large
predators in wilderness settings. But the pepper
spray, on the other hand, it delivers a concentrated
spray with a shorter range of 12. 10 to 12. 10
to 12 feet. For precise targeting. I think that
would make more sense. Because the bear spray,
I mean, you see that. That's a huge plume of
shit shooting way out. You're going to hit some
unexpected folks that you may not. Oh, good point.
Good point. Whereas this, if someone's coming
to you, you're just like, right in the face.
So if you're in D .C. and there's 8 to 12 teens
that are, like, swarming you, which one? Go.
Gatling gun. Yes. Man, look, I don't really know.
Just a grenade. There comes a certain point where...
No, I mean, really, what would you spray? I think
that the bear spray would probably be more effective
simply by volume. If you're in a large crowd
like that, the pepper spray is, like they say,
it's more precise. It's probably for more one
-on -one, two -on -one kind of thing. Like if
someone comes up and tries to rape you or mug
you or something like that, you're going to shoot
that person right in the face. Yeah, you're going
to blast them right in the face. So I've got
a pepper spray that's a fog. I've got some that
my dad got as well. I've got it downstairs. Is
there a fog? We can try it. We're not trying
shit on my watch. I don't know. I don't know
about you, bro. Hold on. You're right. It's really
effective. Now you try the concentrated stuff.
No, it's a can. It may be bear spray, as a matter
of fact. But I need to get online and buy some
shit. I do for all my boys. It's good to have.
I don't know if it's a sign of the times. I feel
worse for the folks out in Ireland or Great Britain
or UK, Germany. They've got a lot of places out
there where the immigrant population has just
taken over certain regions, and it's unsafe to
go out anywhere, day or night. Unbelievable.
They've got these African... that have come up,
and there was a video I saw today. There's two
guys, and they're on a playground where young
kids are playing, and they're sitting on one
of the playground toys, whatever, a little thing
that springs and bounces back and forth. And
the guy's like, what are you doing here? And
they were like, they were going to take a kid.
Fuck me. I mean, that was the goal. And it's
just, dude, they're belligerent. They don't care
about consequences. What it is is they're desperate.
And they're being told they can make $2 ,000
per kid. So they're like, okay, fuck it. I'll
go get some kids. In my opinion, and this may
seem extreme, anybody who kidnaps a child, death
penalty. I'll write that in there. Death penalty.
Well, not right there. In front of the kid? Boom!
You did this. Come here, little Johnny. See what
we do? No. You do it. I'm serious. If you want
to stop this, and that's the worst thing. Imagine
stealing a child and then putting them in sexual
slavery for the rest of their lives until they
age out and then they kill them. Or they get
them all hopped up on drugs and they die that
way. Right. They die that way. Kill them. I'm
saying death penalty for anybody who kidnaps
a child. Yeah. I have no qualms about that. Agreed.
None. That is the worst thing you can do to a
person. Think about it. Their whole lives. The
parents' lives are ruined. The whole family's
lives are ruined. Look at all the lives that
P. Diddy fucked up. Who's the little young white
boy that was... Justin Bieber? Yeah, Bieber.
I mean, have you seen him lately? No. I mean,
he's just... Is he messed up? He's a... He just
released new music. He's a soulless individual.
He looks soulless when you look at him. It looks
like part of his... Yeah, but he's a born -again
Christian, I thought. Is he not? Yes, he is.
I think that's how he was trying to deal with
some of those. You know what? That's probably
the best way to do it. Well, you know what? I
think that right now, in this world, that's exactly
what we need. Amen. We need a brotherhood of
Christian brothers in this world. There's a civilization
that's taken over. There's no moral. It's not
a religion. There's no code of conduct. There's
no code of moral virtues. Well, I tell you what.
There's a Reddit with Texas teachers, and they
are all so bent out of shape about these news.
Ten Commandments. They are so bent out of shape.
They're calling lawyers. They're going to private
protest. So what's the threat? What's the threat
of the Ten Commandments? Well, they're highly
threat. I don't know. I mean, they were all just
all bent out of shape. That's just so ridiculous
to me. It's just a simple set of good things
to follow as a human being. Yeah. But they get
so wrapped up in, oh, you're trying to force
religion on me. You're trying to force Jesus
and God on me and whatever. But the reality is,
it's just. A good set of moral code that everybody
should live by. Period. Does the Ten Commandments
have the word God in it? I mean, what says love
God with all your heart and soul. I think that's
commandment number one. Yeah. I know we talked
about this. I don't know if I agree with this
one in the schools. Yeah. So I get the whole
church, separation of church and state. And you
can fight that one. But why? What I was reading
was. Why have an issue with. what the commandments
are. A lot of ones I was reading was the, my
whole room is rainbows and LGB and pride and
they want me to take all this stuff down and
put this up and I'm trying to protect all these
children, all the marginalized kids. I'm just
like, I guess they do exist in Texas too. They
do, but I mean, it doesn't. Look, I don't disagree
with Jeff, but I support it 100%. Uh, it's a
slippery slope because where do you draw the
line? You know, if you're going to be saying,
well, it's a freedom of religion. Well, can I
put my religious stuff up there? You know, it
is a, you know, you got like Hindu people, you
got Muslims that, you know, where do you draw
the line? Well, you know, the draw the line on
what does law pass? Will we, we are currently,
currently the law says this is the only thing
that you can, you can hang. It doesn't mean that
can't change. And that's Sean's point. It's like,
well today, but in two, three, five, 10 years,
Does that change? Now we're going to be upset
because suddenly now there's a list of 160 Hindu
virtues. And that's possible. It's possible that
it's going to happen. And they're like, hey,
man, look, you went this direction for so long.
We're going to go this direction. Well, it's
just kind of like. Well, because they took over
the voting, right? They voted and they took over
the blocks. Well, it's kind of like these Democrats
who are so bent out of shape about Texas. gerrymandering
these new districts, and they're like, well,
we're going to go do it as well. Well, they've
already done it. Yeah. They've already gerrymandered
their states so far. They're the ones that came
up with gerrymandering. That's what I mean. They've
already gerrymandered it so far, and that was
all good and done, and they really can't do it
anymore. Now Texas is doing it, and they're all
the - It's ridiculous. And they're bent out of
shape because, well, how dare they play by our
playbook kind of thing. Right, exactly. You know?
It's nauseating. And people eat it up hook, line,
and sinker. They do. Just like Gavin Newsom.
Well, we're going to create five more districts
for the Democrats in California. Well, I think
they're looking at that as simply an excuse.
Well, the census is that they want to include
in the census all the illegal immigrants. Oh,
that was part of the plan from the get -go. That's
what they did on the last one. That's what they're
taking out now. They're like, hey, man, look,
we need to redraw these based on. Legal immigration.
They're not constituents. Is that what Texas
did? Is that how they developed these? I think
that's like in California right now, but it should
be across the board for all things. There's no
reason why we should be counting illegal immigrants
as our citizens in the United States for voting.
Voting members. They're not constituents. I heard
something that Trump is thinking about wanting
to redo the census. to cut out all of the illegals.
That's exactly right. That's what I meant. 100%.
Well, California's not doing that. They won't
want that. Well, they have to. It'll be federal.
Well, they'll have to, but... That's exactly
what should happen. We should not be applying,
appointing, or the number of representatives...
Oh, yeah, I have an issue. When we have... I
mean... We should not be doing it based on illegal
immigrants. ...cities that are 40 %... Republican.
Not cities, but you have states that are 40 %
Republicans, but yet they have zero representation
as far as congressmen goes? Yep. That's gerrymandered.
That's Connecticut. That's Maryland. That's bullshit.
Rhode Island. Rhode Island. It's tons of them.
That's bullshit because then you have like 60
% of the people controlling for everyone. That's
bullshit. That's California. Correct. All right.
Do we want to talk about it? Because I don't
have anything. I'll go get it because we need
the bottle anyway. Oh, yes. That'd be great.
I don't usually do a second pour, but I think
it was really hot and thirsty in here. It's miserable.
Is the fan on? Yeah, so we've got, we pulled
out of the, I mean, I was going to say there's
nothing special about it, but it is special.
I mean, there's no, it's not like a... a unicorn
or something rare, but this one's a good one.
It's a solid one. It's very good. I want to say
nine years. Nine years. Is it nine years? No,
we have a nine year out there. Is that what I
was thinking? I think the standard Knob Creek
is nine years. This is the Knob Creek single
barrel rye, I think, right? Is that what this
is? It is rye. It's rye. It's 115 proof. It's
a single barrel. What the hell, man? Yeah, single
barrel select rye. We got all that on video,
too. I know. So this is a store pick as well.
Total wine store pick. All right. So what are
we thinking? I like this a lot. Oh, I think it's
great. I think it's great. And the price is right.
Oh, man, it tastes like banana and grapes right
up front. Just say, what's the price on that?
That's all $10. Like $60. That's all $10. I was
like, that's not right. All right, let's see
here. That's for a shot. What are we getting
on the nose? Here we go. It stinks because some
dudes like us out there don't have a fantastical
nose. I don't have one. I don't either. I suck
at this, to be honest. I smell mint. Yeah. I
smell something, but I don't know what it is.
You smell something. I smell rye bourbon. That's
rye, vanilla. Sort of like... I'm going to say
dark. I'm going to say like, I don't even know
what that is. Cherry plum. Smell it. You know,
just something. It's asparagus. I smell my pee
with asparagus. My asparagus pee. But it's thick.
It's really good. Yeah, it's nice and oily. It
coats the mouth really good. So this one, you
know, for the price what it is, 60 bucks, Knob
Creek, rye, or the bourbon. Look, Knob Creek
does a good job. It's excellent. It's great.
Knob Creek is a Jim Beam product. What's the
proof? 115. Oh, damn. Very nice. And it's no
burn on the finish. Everybody thinks rye, peppery.
Well, we thought that. We did. We totally did.
We thought that. And this is a very smooth finish.
Yes. This is excellent. How many years? Nine?
I don't know if that says on there. You may want
to put the corkage in there so we don't spill
it. The Knob Creek Single Barrel Select Rye at
115 proof offers a bold, complex tasting experience.
Expect notes of vanilla, oak, rye, space, what?
Six years. Six years. Yes, sir. With hints of
dark fruit, the palate likely to be rich with
a balance of sweet caramel, toffee, alongside
with spicy rhino cinnamon, black pepper, et cetera,
et cetera. I recommend this. We're going to be
great in this, are we? Yeah. Yeah. I think so.
This is 115. We really need to have it up there
so we can see what we're going against. But I'm
thinking I'm getting a 7 .5. I'm with you. I'm
right there. Yeah. This is really, really good.
It's a solid 7. I'll do 7 .4. Probably need to
write that down. You got a notepad right there.
You got a pencil next to that? No. Why don't
you round up to 7 .5 so I can all just have the
same one? What did you call it? Criteria? Everybody
said it. What's the word? Criteria? No, no, no.
What is that? A contrarian. A contrarian. Yes,
you are a contrarian. 100%. I mean, I'm sorry,
99%. I'm Sean. All right, our listeners out there,
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Cool. Chuck, our producer, is not here tonight.
He's in Destin, Florida. Yeah, whatever. Shout
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did. Don't let him have that. Do you need more?
No, I don't. Yeah, he doesn't. You literally
just said that you're shit -faced. You don't
owe me. God. Damn. It's like a gallon. It was
not a gallon. What the fuck, man? This is a good
night, man, for me. This is a single barrel.
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