Sounds better now. A little OCD on that. It's
Friday night. Oh, it is. It is a Friday night.
It's Friday night. So, Friday night. I just got
a flashback of like the late 70s, early 80s.
Friday night double features. Friday night. Like
a monster movie double feature. Like on the TV,
they would have a, you know, what were the Friday
night stuff? Freaky. It was usually horror movies,
monster movies, what I remember anyway. Jump
out on TV, obviously. Yeah. Friday night. The
double feature. And that's when the rural people
went out to the drive -in movies. It is. I like
going to the drive -in movies. It was fun. Yeah.
You can still go to them. Here, there's one down
in Ennis. Yeah, in Ennis. They got the little
speaker that fits on your window. You hear Herb
Albert. They have a bunch of them, like eight
screens maybe. I don't know. They haven't upgraded
that audio processing yet. No, it's all mono.
It's real tinny. Are you asking? No, it is surely
better. No, they wouldn't have a Bluetooth to
your car. No, they probably got a radio frequency
they put out. Well, they do, but that means your
batteries would die if you're sitting there with
your car turned on for two hours. Everybody has
their cars running. Just exhaust everywhere.
The exhaust just fills up the entire area. Every
day the paramedics come, we have carbon dioxide
poisoning. They lose a couple customers a night.
It's fine. That's all right. Well, it's August
22nd, 2025. It is a Friday night. It's Dudes
Like Us. Chuck, the producer's back from vacation.
What's up, sir? Howdy. I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And
I'm Jeff. And this is Dudes Like Us. Check us
out on Facebook and Instagram. DudesLikeUs -podcast.
DudesLikeUs -woodcraft. Is that the other one?
Yes. Woodcrafting galore. Chuck's all bronzed.
He showed us his bikini tan lines earlier. Oh,
really? Copper toned up. I must have missed that.
I did, too. I'm okay with that, though. Well,
he can pull his shirt down. He can see his bikini
top. Oh, beautiful. You wore a bikini? Uh -oh.
What's going on? I don't know. She says something
landed. Oh, Stephen landed. Him and Cameron came
back from Croatia. Oh. They just landed. Ooh.
Oh, that's exciting. Yes. Yeah, it was actually
very, very nice over there. I sent him pictures.
Yeah. That's the former Yugoslavia. Correct.
And I was there when it was Yugoslavia. That's
when Sarajevo. I was just a kid. That's where
all the Serbian war was. Yes. Croatia. Which
was nasty. Serbia. And there's one other one,
Montenegro. Well, they went to Montenegro. I
think there's four countries that are made up
of it now. Yeah, what a mess. Bosnia. Bosnia.
I forgot about Bosnia. Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Croatia. And they're all tiny, right? Yeah, Serbia.
They're all like super tiny little countries.
The Serbs. Well, it's funny, or I don't know
if it's funny, but Croatia has all of that coastline.
Bosnia has like a little bit of finger that sticks
out right there. They're like, yeah, you get
this. No, it's right there. It's like a little
penis. That's so you can get your fishing boats
in the water. Yeah, they have one little thing.
Yep. Got that little penis sticking out there.
And you know that the ultra -rich Bosnians got
the oceanfront property. Right. That's the Adriatic,
right? Adriatic Sea. Yeah, they went swimming
in that. Very nice. Yeah, they sent pictures.
That's where I think it was in Croatia is where
Game of Thrones was filmed. And he called me
one day. He FaceTimed me. He goes, yeah, we sat
on the steps of the shame, shame, shame. Shame.
Shame. Where she walked down those steps. Oh,
cool. So they had a picnic on that. They had
a bottle of wine. Was Stephen naked? Did they
recreate the scene? That's what I asked. That's
what I asked. I was like, did you strip down
and walk it nude? And people were throwing. Candid
was naked and Stephen was throwing shit at her.
Shame. I said that. I was like, no, it was Candid.
That's so fun though, right? I was like, no,
Camden did. I was like, so you just throw a pile
of shit at her? Mm -hmm. I think they were throwing
more than that at her. I think some semen went
in. Eggs. I think there was. Oh, they went Migs?
I think they did, dude. Yeah, because there was
some guy just pummeling his wiener. It was like
the silence of a lamb. He was? Oh, yeah. Go back
and watch it. Oh, jeez. I guess I chose to ignore
that. I watched Game of Thrones four times because
I watch it myself. Then I watched it with Brandon.
Then I watched it with, actually, three times.
Then I watched it with my wife, so I saw it.
three times. I've only seen it once. I would
love to see it again. Yeah. I would too. It was
well done. Anyway, so that's where they were.
Except for one of the last season where the dark
episode. That was stupid. That fell apart. No,
just the way they ended it fell apart. They lost
directive. They forgot what the frick they're
doing. They didn't follow the storyline. There
was a bunch of weird shit going on. There was
no storyline. The books quit. Yeah, that's the
problem. Well, that's my point is that there
was nothing there. Yeah, but why they should
have consulted Mr. Martin. And he should have
told him how to end this thing. I think I read
somewhere some guy just sued Martin and is trying
to force him to have someone else finish the
books. Because he wants to finish the story.
That is derangement. Yeah. He's like, I'm going
to sue you, so you hand it off to another. He
even named the author. He goes, you need to give
it to this person so he can finish it. Oh, my
God. Because you're not going to do it. That's
so funny. You know what? Fuck him. Because what
if he goes back and, you know what? I'm going
to finish it. I'm going to finish it on my own
terms and on my own time. I think what everyone's
afraid of, whether he finishes it or not, I don't
give a shit. I'll read it if it comes out. They
think he's going to die. But yeah, they're like,
oh, he's going to die before it comes out. He's
not young. No, he's not in good shape either.
Right. Or he's not healthy looking. How do you
know? He may have already written it. He could
have. He's probably like, yeah, bitches, when
I die, I'll release it. I guess he's being kind
of coy about it because I think he clearly has
said he's not done with it. So there are writers,
artists out there that... have a stockpile of
work in their safes. You know, like Prince's.
Prince had a shit ton of music. When he passed
away, they found all kinds of music in his safe
or somewhere. I mean, it's no different than
songwriters, right? Songwriters that are hugely
successful have thousands of songs that they've
never, that no one's ever. Never see the light
of day. Well, just like the Beatles released
a new song, what, a few years ago? Remember that?
They had AI finish it, and I don't think it was
very good. I'll tell you, AI is, I saw a meme
on, it was not a meme, it was on YouTube. It
can be considered a meme, whatever. And they
had one of these YouTube guys, an older guy,
he's a musician, he's an expert guitarist, and
he played. One of these guys that plays just
about every instrument. And he's like, you know
what I found out? And I've been working with
this for the last month. He's like, I figured
out that AI or ChatGPT or one of these programs,
they can create albums just by telling AI what
to do. And he sat there and described a girl,
young, gave her some influence from where she
came from. And she's writing, I want you to create
an album that envelops this type of music with
this style of... Correct. And, dude, it whipped
out. Not only did it whip out a full album, but
the first three songs that he went through were
good. Great harmonizing. Wow. I mean, it was.
That's going to destroy the creative industry.
That's why a lot of folks, especially with that.
Remember the writer's strike last year, a couple
years ago? That's what they're afraid of. They're
like, look, AI is going to come along. I have
to do this puppet idea. Boom, our jobs are gone.
Yeah, and it saves the people that are paying
them so much money. Yeah, so that's what the
whole writer's, well, the big chunk of what the
writer's writing about. Yeah, I remember. I mean,
but if AI is doing a better job. I don't know.
I mean, hell, that could take over my job eventually.
Well, the thing is, right now, typically, chat,
GPT, Grok, all of these, you could tell when
it's an AI response. When someone copies and
pastes, like, a comment in a... on a news story
or something like that. It's all formatted and
it's worded. The way these things word it is
not natural yet. You can tell that it's an AI.
The way it lays it out and everything. I've been
told that stuff that's generated creatively,
like songs or that kind of stuff, it lacks a
human element to it as well, where there's no
soul to it. You know what I mean? and rhyming,
and it's kind of dumb. Well, the thing is with
music, I think today's music is so overproduced.
Right. When you listen to it, everything's auto
-tuned. All the voices are perfect, auto -tuned.
That's perfect for AI then. On timing, they have
everything timed correctly, and you go back,
the music we listen to, Boston Journey, Doobie
Brothers, all that, that was all natural, actually
playing the music. right so if you sang in the
studio like brad delp he hit all those notes
naturally right right uh you if he was today
they'd be trying to correct everything you know
he's close he probably wasn't perfect to have
some auto -tune going on yeah and that's bullshit
you know and yeah and i think auto -tune and
all these new techniques take the i don't know
the warmth the natural or whatever humanity out
of the music itself so i don't think the music
today i'm saying there's some music that i like
today but it's not as good as it I think, you
know, this is going to be a while. I think we're
going to go through a period where it becomes
nostalgic to go back to the way it was. Think
of LPs, right? That's making a huge comeback.
What does LP mean? Long play. Oh. You know what
I mean? But that's making those records, like
records are, are making a comeback, right? Because
they, yeah, vinyl, they think it's, you know,
sounds better and it's just kind of cool. And
so I can see that coming full circle with AI,
you know, with, with songwriting and, and it's
going to be, it's going to have more something
if it's naturally written. We'll see. I think,
look, money is the root of all evil. For sure.
Money is the root of all evil forever. And the
motivation for it. And I think that once, if
they find some sort of way that they can not
pay, they're going to do it. Yeah. And that's
the new new. That's what's going to happen from
moving forward. And it's sad. And it may... A
lot of people are going to lose their jobs. A
lot. Yeah. Well, it's already starting to happen,
especially in some of these big corporations,
you know, the FANG groups, right? Yep. All the
IT folks are getting let go because you got,
especially the entry -level folks, because that's
basic shit where you can have the AI do it. Yep.
Right? So I'm reading on some of these subreddits,
especially IT. All these guys get out there and
they bitch when they get laid off. And it's always
AI. Or H -1Bs is another one. Right. Where they
said AI actually stands for actually India. Right.
Whatever. These H -1B guys need to go back to
where they came from anyways. And the United
States needs to stop paying for that kind of
stuff. It's absolutely stealing from our hemorrhaging
from these programs. Well, I heard today. that,
you know, the big nasty semi -truck crash down
there in Florida? Oh, yeah, that dude. Yeah,
they just today announced that they are no longer
allowing visas for foreigners to become truckers.
In California? Everywhere. I thought that was
already in place. Well, it's federal law now.
That was California who issued it to the illegal
alien. And apparently he couldn't even read.
He couldn't read the signs. Oh, lovely. So he
did a, did you see the wreck? Killed a couple
of folks. In a minivan, right? Yeah. So this
gentleman comes into the United States seven
years ago and somehow gets his trucker's license.
I don't see how. And the license allows him to
travel across state line and deliver across the
United States. And he makes this U -turn, Paul.
Can you imagine those U -turns in the middle
of the highway that are designed for the police
or something like that to do a U -turn? He takes
his truck, slows down, and does a U -turn. And
someone just rams in doing 70, 65, whatever it
is. Instant death. Yeah. Killed two people, I
think. Total of three. I don't know where the
third one. I don't know if it was from another
car or the same bar. I don't know. One of them
died later in the hospital. But look at this,
Paul. No, I don't know if this is it, but that's
something similar. But that's kind of what he
did right there. And the minivan went straight
in the middle of the trail. Here's the actual
footage here. You got this dude. Boom. And he
didn't seem to give a shit. Oh, dude. I mean,
look at that. He's just like, oh, shit. Oh, my
God. Did you see what just happened? Yeah, he
didn't react at all. I think that is probably
the biggest. Look. There's a lot of problems
here. But the fact that he didn't have any emotion
about it, if he would have had some remorse or
something that was like, oh, my God. I know.
That was a huge fuck up. I just fucked up. But
it was nothing. In fact, there's another picture
of him where he's out of the truck. Look at him.
He's standing walking around. He's like, damn
it. And he's like, fuck, now I'm going to be
late. Doesn't even care. Yeah, that's awful.
He sees it and he's like, oh, okay, well, let
me just hit my cab. I guess that's going to be
a problem. Well, I think what's bad is California
allowed him to get his driver's license. Again,
I have my CDL, and it's not the Class A, it's
the Class B. And it's intense, so it's a lot
of tests and everything. He can't even read the
signs. My question is, how did he actually get
this? Because they... It was a program where.
They memorize them. So they already know what
the tests are, and they memorize the questions
and the answers to say it in English. Yeah, but
I think. I wasn't given the exam. But I think
California. To memorize. I think California.
I mean, they had. I think California's deliberately
passing them because they want to give them an
opportunity because they're here illegally, which.
Correct. You know, that way they can work. Correct.
It has to do with the company they're working
for, too. Specifically, you know, giving them
the test ahead of time so that they can. Well,
the state issues the CDL. The company doesn't.
So what's interesting. The company prepares it
for it. Yeah. So the company basically gives
them the cliff notes to the test that's going
to be happening so that they can prepare for
it. I see what you're saying. So there are truck
drivers. There are memes out there. And this
happened prior to this incident that just happened.
In Arkansas, there's truck drivers that are getting
pulled over. And all it is. is they give them
a test. Hey, look, can you read English? Yes,
I can. Can you please read this? And you have
to read it. Right. And I think that's crazy.
And at first, you're kind of like, why the fuck
are they fucking with these guys? Right. At first,
that's what I was thinking. Seriously, less than
a month ago, I was like, why are you fucking
with these guys? And then this happens. And I
was like, that's why they're fucking with these
guys. Because that's what they're dealing with.
Because they can't read a sign. Yeah, they can't
read. Yeah, but he knew very well that was an
illegal turn. I mean, he knew very well. It wasn't
a matter of not being able to read a sign. That's
not about reading. That's about aptitude. That's
about caring. That's about, you know, I need
to turn around, so I'm just going to do it. Yeah,
he didn't. Anyway, but the thing is, I wonder
if there's going to be any repercussions because
if he got his CDL in California to whatever program
he got it, he should have been limited to only
driving California. So the governor, Gavin Newsom,
he puts out on X and he was. Did he support the
guy? What he said was, oh, well, that happened
on Trump's watch, you know, and this happened
and this happened. Oh, 100%. And he was like,
they're the ones that passed us and made this
happen. And what a genius. And then I forget
the attorney general or something. She has a
response right back to him. It says Donald Trump.
turned down his license they they denied it and
then biden's administration came back and approved
it three years later really and that's how he
got his newsome come back with any oh he didn't
say shit after that and then at the very end
she was like signed genius It's frustrating.
It is frustrating because it's this tit -for
-tat with the left and right going back and forth,
back and forth. And none of them are serious.
The gerrymandering going on in the courts and
the Democrats finally showed up. That all passed,
didn't it? I think it did. Did Crockett lose
her job now? Is she out? No. She has to get voted
out. Well, I thought that if her seat disappears,
she disappears. No, no, no. It's not the way
it works. What they're doing is basically setting
up for the next election. Yeah, the next election.
2026. November. Right. I just trip out on these
Democrats and how they're coming back and they're
complaining about the gerrymandering when they're
the ones that created it in the first place.
Right. You know, and even like my friend, my
good friend, Vincente Gonzalez down in South
Texas is complaining. He was just like, you know,
he's like up in arms about it. I'm like, dude,
you were in District 15, 15 or 17, I forget what
it was. You were in District 15. Now you're in
District 34. Why? It's because District 15 turned
Republican. and they gerrymandered a way for
you to maintain your job. I didn't say that to
them, but I'm thinking, it's like, what the heck,
man? That's the way it works. It's like tit for
tat. That's why we have it, and there should
be gerrymandering anyways. I think that they
should just have zones, and that's the way it
is. Yeah, it's a mess. Yep. And by the way, this
happens all the time. The Republicans do it,
the Democrats do it in every state. But I think
where the difference is, is the Democrats are
clutching their pearls so badly about this, but
when you look and see what they did in other
states, it's like in, is it Connecticut, where
100 % of the representation is Democrat, yet
there's... 30 % Republicans in the state or something
like that? 34, 40 % almost. Yeah, or Republicans
in the state, but there are zero Republicans
being represented in the House. Right. So it's,
you know, California is just like that. Illinois
is like that. There's a slew of them that are
like that. Yeah, but when Texas does it, you
know, they get all. Butthurt about it. Well,
and then California's strategy on countering
that. They've already gerrymandered the shit
out of California. They have already done that.
And they're like, oh, okay, well, if Texas is
going to do that and you guys are going to try
to gain five or six seats, we're just going to
redraw the map. Well, you've already done it.
And they're going to do it even more to where
it's like Rhode Island, I guess. I mean, it's
all a joke, man. These people are a joke. They're
non -serious. But an independent party will draw
it. So if an independent party, they could probably
look at it and go, Wow, this is gerrymandered
to shit. We should put it back to where it actually
represents instead of this, all right, now you're
100 % Democrat now. Right. That's not independent
then. No. Of course not. Oh, they're bought.
Yeah, that's what he's saying. There it is. What's
he saying? Based on the 2020 House results, here
are the deltas for the 10 states with the most
districts. I don't know what that's really telling
us. Well, I mean, there's - This one says how
many - How many people voted Republican versus
how many they actually have in the House? Ultimately,
what really should happen is we just need to
have a more broad education of how government
works. When I went to school, gerrymandering
was a definition that we had to learn. It's been
around forever. They did teach it, but I think
that they need to do a better job. They need
to do a better job in these schools. Yeah, definitely
across the board. Financing for, you know, personal
financing. They don't teach jack shit because
they want you to be broke. Well, you know Frisco
passed that. In order to graduate, you have to
take a personal finance class now. Well, that's
excellent. They need to. That's important. I'm
glad they did that. They should do a home repair
one, too. That starts this year. What do they
call that? It's in the same category as auto
repair or shop. It's like a former shop. Frisco
has that. Yeah, home repair, handyman stuff.
They have shop and all kinds of stuff at the
K that you can do. That's excellent. I didn't
know that. It's just the kids need to take it.
You know, back to your point, Sean, about having
education about the way our government works.
I would say most people don't even understand
that there's a state government. I mean, we're
talking about real basic shit. They don't know
that there's a state government, a federal government.
They don't know that there's a county part of
that and then a city part of that. They have
no idea. I mean, my wife grew up in Irving, Texas
here, and she does not know how it works. Right.
And she's not alone at all. Yeah, that's my point.
And I'm not throwing stones at her. Yeah. Because
it's what... And look, I'm not... No one's the
expert at it, really. There's only a few people
that really understand it. And when you understand
it, you get up in arms because you're kind of
like, I can't believe it. Because if more people
understood it, the silent majority would stand
up and go and vote because these people, the
citizens. If they knew how important it was to
vote, they would be out at every single function
and reading the criteria to every one of these
bullet points to go and vote because it's important.
Well, you saw the runoff we just had here. I
think, what, 6 ,000 people voted or something
ridiculous like that out of 250 ,000? Now, those
aren't all voting age. I think everybody, I mean,
deliberately disillusioned, right? They want
them to be ignorant. You know what I mean? Well,
they do. And that is very successful. I think
most people, like, don't want to get involved
in politics, don't really want to understand,
don't really want to vote because they're like,
what's the point? My vote doesn't really matter.
You know, it's... Yeah, there you go. They're
disillusioned. 13 ,000 people voted. Wow. It
does matter. 225 ,000? Yeah. Residents, not all
of those are registered. Hey, the ones we wanted
are in. That's great. Yeah, but, you know, it's
just, you know, I don't know how to convey to
the general population how important it is because
I think the more people that got involved in
it, the more we'd really squash this. undercurrent
that's pulling us down. It's got to be yin -yang.
I get it. Yeah, I think a lot of it starts at
the school board level, at the city council level,
because a lot of this craziness that you see
on these school boards is you get these very
activist people who were really involved, who
run for these school boards, and then enforce
their whacked -out ideas. Right. And then people
are surprised that, wow. How did that happen?
How did that happen? Well, they were involved,
and they probably saw, you know what, I could
run, and I could probably try to, and I'll get
my buddies to run. Like putting prayer rooms
in schools and hanging gay flags in classrooms.
Well, not just that, but just, you know, the
whole gender thing, letting the guys play with
the girls. Yeah, and having them go in the women's
bathroom. And stuff like that. Yeah, so that
at the end. And tampons in the boys' bathroom?
Yeah, and the school boards drive that. Thanks,
Obama. You know, you'll have the majority of
people in the crowd going, this is ridiculous,
this is ridiculous. Then I'm like, well, then
you should run and overturn all this shit and
get these people out of there. Right. I don't
have time for that. Yeah, they got voted in.
I'll make time for that. I mean, maybe you don't
have time, but you all don't have connections,
you know. You got to know the right people. Want
to get in office? Oh, for sure. For anything.
You got to get backing. I would get involved.
I mean, I spent, I mean, it's just the HOA, but
I mean, I'd get involved in it. I wouldn't feel,
I'd go in, I'd rattle the cage like a crazy man.
I'm telling you, I'd be strutting around. Oh,
there goes that Sean again, freaking narcissist.
Swinging his dick. At least he's got his thong
on today. He was naked yesterday. I don't know
if you can see on the Texas map, our new district
four. Kind of goes up between the tollway and
Preston Road here, all along Collin County line,
and then goes all the way out east past, you
know, almost to Texarkana. So we have that Red
River area and a finger that sticks down. And
a finger that sticks down Preston Road to the
Dallas County line. And then we have three that
goes. What would be the rationale behind that?
Five, six counties wide. Why would they do that?
I don't know. Why wouldn't the blue just go all
the way over to the county and the green come
over to the county? I don't know. So we could
protect from Oklahoma. They're trying, you know,
they're gerrymandering. And look how it's a squiggly
line, too. It's not even a straight line. No.
I mean, so they're literally picking and choosing
which subdivision. Like, this neighborhood sucks,
right? That's right. That's right. That's what
they're doing. This is the hood. They do. They
get down to that granular level. That might even
be City Hall right there. Now you zoom in on
those pictures and you can pixelate, and then
you turn on all the pixels on and off. That's
exactly what they do, down to the freaking subdivision
level. That's crazy. I know when they redistrict
for schools, they do that. District 15 goes all
the way from the Rio Grande all the way to freaking
almost Austin. Oh, yeah. So what district is
McAllen? Oh, it's 34. So I guess the prior one
was 15. I did say that correctly. Right. Yeah.
They got a little zoom in. So this is the proposed?
This is the proposed that passed, yes. So what
was it before? Do we have a before and after?
Because I'm curious to see how, because that
looks more, at least down at the bottom, it's
very. block. You see all the stuff in West Texas.
It's 100 % blocks. Because nobody lives there.
Yeah, nobody's there and it doesn't matter. It's
not going to affect anything. So just leave it
as a block. For our listeners out there, we're
looking at voting lines. He'll be able to show
it on the video. District boundaries. Give me
a sec. I know there's some gerrymandering. I
know I saw Dan Crenshaw's once and he always
gets questioned out. Why does your district look
like a fucking... squirrel you know it's like
this going through downtown houston or something
like that they like deliberately weeded out every
single possible because we got a band of my good
old boys the from neighborhood or neighborhood
we're gonna build up all my buddies yeah they
eliminated all left -leaning areas hey bob you
think you can stretch that line over our hoa
yeah right there it's close yeah uh speaking
of crunch i like you know the cities kind of
have squirrely ones where they grab one neighborhood
and not one neighborhood and crenshaw's that
way you know the top five uh most gerrymandered
districts too were in texas i mean yeah so we're
not immune to it we're definitely um oh we absolutely
do it just like everybody else yeah 100 because
that's how you get elected right and that's how
you keep a party in power that's why they do
it and it's a texas house it's not right but
So I'm wondering, these congressmen that failed
to show up, I mean, are there going to be repercussions
for them delaying things? They were fined $9
,000. Right. Is that what the repercussion is?
Probably. For now, yeah. Probably, yeah. They
threatened them with a felony. So I'm thinking
that, you know, there needs to be some language
put in, and this should be adopted by both sides.
I mean, there's, look, you can, what is it called?
Will you filibuster? I mean, is this a form of
filibustering? Sort of. I guess sort of. But
there's rules around, Phillip. You have to stand
there at the podium and you cannot leave. Yeah,
this is breaking quorum. Yeah, that's what I'm
saying. In my opinion, they should install some
rules that say, look, man, if you run, you get
kicked out. Well, not just that. And the governor,
I get to appoint your replacement. If you don't
show up for your job. you know, and to make quorum,
then you need to have an alternate. And if your
alternate can't make it, well, then, you know.
Well, that's what they had, and they were threatening
that. They were like, okay, well, if you're not
back by a certain day, we're going to vacate
these positions. Yeah, but that day came and
went. What is it called when you have that document
that this person's voting for me? Proxy. Yeah,
proxy. Then it should automatically go to a proxy.
Right. You know, and then you're done. But to
your point, it was just another strategy to disrupt
the proceedings. Yeah, it's immature. But there's
a lot at stake, right? They know they're going
to lose a bunch of seats. Well, they want exposure.
It's not a guarantee that we're going to win
five. No, it isn't. It's not. It's stacking the
deck, but it's not a guarantee. Right, but they
pretty much know it is, I think. And that's why
they're so passionate about it. But what's the
other angle on that? From what I understood,
they're like, well, it's okay that they did this,
but why do they choose now? Is it uncharacteristic?
Yes, because you do it at the beginning of the
census, mid -census. Because we're doing it,
what, five years in? You don't do it mid -stream.
Right. I didn't hear that. But there was a court
order that said we needed to do it. Because the
old one was, there was something wrong with the
old one. Oh, was there? There was a... priority
to go do this and to do it now. It looks bad
because it's mid stream of the census when you
normally do it. So who did the court order? Was
that done in the Biden era? I mean, because that's
something that had to have been down the pipe
for a while. That just doesn't happen overnight.
But if you're going to look at it from that angle,
it's probably a Republican judge. So, I mean,
that's what they'll claim. Yeah, we don't. But
it's just odd. Yeah, I didn't hear about the
judge ordering us to do this. Yeah, I didn't
hear that either. Because I'd figure that even
the news radio would have said something about
that. But I know all the Dems, all the talking
heads on the TV are all up in arms that they're
doing it midstream. Or whatever they call it.
Midterm or whatever. Yeah, they're going to jump
on anything. You can't do that. You do it at
the beginning of it. They want to make every
single little thing divisive. Anything. Are we
going to be able to find that, Mr. Producer?
Yeah. Don't worry about it. We'll figure it out.
But I was going to jump ship here on these, God
bless it, these Democrat cities where you have
these Ubers that are driving from point A to
point B, and they are reporting. The passengers
are reporting assault from these Uber drivers
to the passengers. No. No, not necessarily. Is
it the other way around? Assaults that happen
in an Uber. Regardless. Regardless of whether
it's the driver or not. Yes. And it's not just
Democrat cities. It's Uber in general. Uber in
general. In the entire country. I was trying
to segue there. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so
there have been, I guess since the beginning
of Uber, or was it in just one year? I didn't
give any context there. I think it was one year.
This past year. 400 ,000 incidents of reported
sexual assault. Well, I wonder how many rides
they do a year. I don't think that's one year.
It can't be, right? How many rides? I thought
it was like 130. I thought it was 130 ,000. So
it's got to be from the beginning of Uber, I
guess. How many rides a year does Uber perform?
I don't know. Is it 10 million? Again, 400 ,000
is a lot. But what percentage of the riots? It
was a shock. That's a good point. You know? Right.
If there's like 35 million Uber rides. 0 .1%.
Right. It's still a lot, a big number, but. That's
a good point. Percentage -wise of the riots.
So it says between 2017 and 22, more than 400
,000. So that's. Oh, damn. Look at the numbers.
So how many total riots? Oh, God. Six. billion
trips all right in 2021 7 billion in 22 that's
a low percentage do that tiny do that math oh
that is a tiny percentage it's okay then all
right well i think the way you could use that
though is go uber is very safe is go what is
my chances of being sexually assaulted well it's
0 .05 percent of a chance well i mean yeah i
think it's less than that I just threw something
out there. That's like the senator during the
debate with Vice President. What's his name?
J .D. Vance. She was just like, well, there's
only a handful of these apartment complexes that
are being taken over. There's only a handful
of these. There's still assaults. They're still
taking over. This is the United States of America.
What the hell? How about Hillary Clinton and
the Benghazi thing? What difference does it make?
Oh, God. What a butt muffin. You know what? There's
a reason why she didn't run again. Maybe. Well,
I think they realized that she had run her course.
Yeah, well, she's toxic. And you know what? I
heard something very interesting. Trump said
in some conversation over the past week, he said,
I'm not going to throw Hillary Clinton in jail.
Why would I throw an ex -president's ex -wife
in jail? Right. Well, that would be smart. Hold
on. Did you hear what I just said? Ex -wife.
Are they divorced? No. They wouldn't get divorced
at this point. But I'm like, why would he say
that? I don't know. I never heard it. Maybe he
got confused. I mean, it's possible. Was it AI
that said that? I mean, no. I mean, it's possible.
You never know nowadays. I know. But it's just
kind of an interesting thing that, you know what?
You don't know anymore, man. He also pokes. He
also pokes. I mean, he's a troll, you know, at
the heart of it. It's possible. He is awful.
Did you see the hat he was wearing when he was
giving his press conference today? No. Instead
of the Make America Great hat, it was Trump was
right about everything. He is so obnoxious. And
he was just, you know, it was a big red hat.
Fuck it, man. You know what? Give it to him.
I mean, look, the thing is. I can get behind
him 100%. The only thing I can't get behind is
listening to him. I almost turned him out. Yeah,
there he is. Trump is right about everything.
Oh, God. Oh, yeah, the FIFA thing. When he talks,
what the hell? God, he looks like an old lady
there. That's not him. There's something going
on there. Looks like he's got an earring on.
No, there's some influence there from something.
But there's a... That's funny. Yeah. I will tell
you, man. I mean, so what? His approval rating
is, what, 43%, right? I think is what the last
number was. And we already know that half the
country hates him, right? Right. Half the country
loves him. Half the country hates him. And I'm
out in Albuquerque on a trip earlier this week.
And I'm in a room full of, you know, coworkers.
And somehow Trump came up. And I was jokingly
saying, oh, well, you know, Trump's all this
and all that, right? You know, of course we all
love him. And it was basically me. Everybody
hated him. Everybody in New Mexico was like,
you know, just try not to like come out of their
skin. Really? I mean, but it's still in a joking
way because I was being super joking about it.
I don't get it. I don't get it. They can't stand
him. Yeah, but. To me, it's a level of immaturity.
Look, even when Obama, even when Biden was in
there, it's not like I hated Biden. We sat there
and we talked about the policies that Biden was
pumping out. And look, it spoke for itself. Everything
spoke for itself. We don't care. Trump is doing
what he said he's going to do. He said he was
going to do it, and he's doing it. Again, the
only thing I can't stand is listening to him.
I know sometimes when he's on the news and he'll
have a press conference, I can get in maybe two
minutes and I'm like, I'm out. Yeah. And just
the way he talks, it just goes like this all
over the place. I don't need you planting a garden.
I don't need you, you know. Yes. And all of his
tweets and all of his texts and all of his announcements
on what's his Trump world or whatever his. Whatever
our stock platform is. You can see that he lost
New Mexico, so. Oh, yeah, for sure. 52 to 46.
I wonder why. Who's Chase? Free New Mexico. They
got, well, liberal? Isn't Chase Oliver, isn't
he a libertarian? I have no idea. Yeah, I think
he's a libertarian. So I had a very interesting
conversation with one of my coworkers this week.
She was asking, how can you possibly support
a man who is just an absolutely miserable human
being? And I think a lot of these people feel
that way, right? So when you explain the derangement
syndrome, right? Did you ask what makes you think
he's miserable? Well, yeah. I mean, he had all
these... 20, 20 sexual assault claims against
him. And, you know, he, he's already convicted
for the bullshit stuff in New York. I just got
overturned. I know, I know. So I knew all of
this and, you know, and I have to just tread
lightly to make it not, I don't seem like this,
you know, uh, blind zealot, you know what I mean?
But I'm like, you know, so I'm trying to, you
know, counter these things. And I'm like, listen,
listen, listen, bitch. And let me just be here.
Let me lay it out for you. No, I mean, it was,
it, the bottom line was, The person is never
going to be perfect, and I don't care that they're
not perfect. It is the policies, like we've always
talked about. Right. It's 100 % the policies.
Now, we always talked about, I like Trump without
the tweets, right? I like Trump without the texts,
right? And I think we would all agree with, you
know, just at some level, he is an immature.
12 -year -old bully, and I know we've had some
differences on that. No, he kind of is. Yeah,
I mean, he trolls and he trolls and he trolls,
and there's a level of immaturity there that's
just strange to me. But I don't care because
he is doing the right thing for the country.
He's doing the right thing for the world right
now. It's the policies that I care about. He's
extinguishing wars that have been going on for
decades. So did you ask him to go? So you're
against some of the really good things he's done.
So you're against him. ending this war in Syria.
You're against whatever the things he's done
here recently. They're good things, right? Do
you agree that they're good things? It's interesting
because I did. I tried to break it down to an
issue level or a plank of the platform level.
And then, of course, what was being regurgitated
is the stuff that comes from CNN and MSNBC. And
I'm like, no, that's not true. That's not true.
They don't hear it. They don't hear it, though.
then that's where the derangement syndrome comes
in. When you hate the person that much, you are
not going to accept any good deed or smart decision
or rationale that seems well thought out. You're
just not. You're just not. You're not going to
accept it. So there's not much you can do. TDS
is an absolutely real thing. It is. I never thought
it could possibly happen where people are that
much out of their minds. The anger is real. And
the funny thing is they think we're out of our
minds. Right. Completely out of our minds. Correct.
To just blindly follow this absolute despicable,
deplorable human being. I read some of my friends
I grew up with on Facebook and Instagram and
stuff, and they're saying stuff like, he is so
gross. Right. I cannot believe what he's doing
now. right you know whatever it is whatever it
is it's it's a common denominator you know it
just he could be gross whatever man like him
going into he's orange so let's talk about yeah
yeah orange is in now yeah uh let's talk about
dc all right so dc had a serious crime problem
even the police chief was you know they were
cooking the books on how bad the crime actually
really was yep they were under reporting crime
or something so it was and they were like oh
well crime has gone down and i'm like Crime being
down from an absolutely astronomical, scary,
unsafe level is still not a win. You know what
I mean? Oh, it's down 13%. Yeah, but... All right,
so instead of 50 ,000 people being murdered last
year, it's only 45 ,000. Right. All right, there
you go. Yeah, so I was like... We're down 10%.
Yeah, I was like, no, you can't argue that point.
You have to argue, is the city safe, right? And
people living there would tell you, no, it's
not, right? And so, boom, Trump brought in the...
The military and whatever else. Well, what he
did is, and that was the National Guard. That's
what they were saying. They were saying, well,
you brought in the military. No, what he did
was, while these folks are out there doing the
cleaning, like Mr. British just had on that X
video, where people were in, down. D .C., and
they were pulling these tents, camp cities, and
kind of pulling them and putting them in the
dumpsters. Yeah, they're breaking up homeless
encampments. The National Guard was there to
provide support for that so it wouldn't bog down.
The city infrastructure. They wouldn't be attacked
by the homeless people. And I'm actually very
pleased with this because I want to be in D .C.
the end of October. Oh, it was all about Jeff's
trip. For three or four days. Screw all those
homeless people and all those. Well, it is. I'm
going to be down there. That's going to affect
your bringing your tent. You want to get out
outside of the Lincoln Tower. I was going to
be right by the reflecting pool. Take a shit
in it. Oh, wow. This isn't the Million Man March.
What the hell's going on? You really have a different
vacation plan. Well, no, I'm glad because, you
know, my wife's going to be running the marathon,
the Marine Corps marathon. And I'm like, you
know, D .C. has gone downhill over the last several
years. And, you know, she'd be out there. Granted,
there's going to be security out the wazoo while
this thing's going on. There's going to be a
ton of people. But still, you know, and I'm going
to be roaming around trying to hook up with her.
You're going to be wearing your Trump shirt and
your Trump hat and your red, white, and blue
shoes. I want to buy one of those Trump was right
about everything hat. Brilliant. I will tell
you this. But I'm excited that it's going to
be in better shape. Yeah, and if you factor in
TDS, right, and the fact that they hate him about
everything, now the optics of this is, oh, my
God, he's declared martial law in D .C., and
he's bringing in the military, and he's, you
know, just basically squashing all of their rights.
He's actually allowed to do this. I know, but
you see my point. Oh, I know. The optics of this
don't look good. But they said that he's got
the authority to do it for 30 days. 30 days is
the limit. So I'm kind of wondering. They can
extend it. Well, that's the whole thing. Who
has the authority to extend it and for what purposes?
Take a day off and do it another 30 days. Is
that what it is? I don't know. Well, that's what
I'm trying to get at. You can just do things.
Who does know? Because, I mean, D .C. is a district
of Columbia. It is a federal district. It's not
a state. There's no governor is what the key
is. That's my point is that if there's no governor,
then you technically don't really have the law
force that's there. It's not a state, so it's
federally funded. Correct. I think that factors
into why he's able to do this. Right. And they
also cut a billion dollars out of the D .C. budget.
Oh, the local city council? No, the federal government.
Oh. Doge cut a billion dollars. Oh, so just general
waste and waste. Well, no. Well, some of it,
but some of it was for the police force and a
bunch of things. So that's what some of them
were kind of griping about. So they're going
to. Oh, so you created this situation by cutting
the funding. Well, some of it. So I think I saw
that they're going to start offering funds again.
There's nothing wrong with the National Guard
stepping up. making a presence there. There's
nothing wrong with that, considering it's the
district. It's our capital, and there are visitors
there, and we want to dress for success. That's
what he wants. He's like, we're going to get
rid of the graffiti. We're going to fix your
roads. We're going to fix your overpasses. Come
on, man. Unwokified. Are you going to bring back
the Giants? Then they're all bent out of shape
going, Why is he concerned about the Smithsonian,
and why is he concerned about who's in the Kennedy?
He should be focused on larger things. That's
not his job to be into that minutia. I tell you
what, he seems to have— As he's extinguishing
issues all over across the planet. Shut up. I'm
amazed that he seems to have the bandwidth to
tackle— To put teams on all of this. All of them.
I've never seen anything like this. This is incredible.
He's had four years to stew. He's had four years
of working with very, very smart people that
have worked far in advance to figure out, to
grab hold, have this bullet point list. These
are the things we're going to tackle. But even
the stuff he didn't plan on. He can move so quickly.
He doesn't care. Also, he's got political capital
to do it now because next year there'll be midterms.
Who knows if he's going to have the people behind
him to do it anymore. Right. Get it done now.
You know, the things that are happening this
year with the tariffs, with the countries that
we're negotiating with to stop the wars, you
know, I mean, one of the big questions is like,
what's going to happen when you are no longer
in office? I mean, are you going to have some
schmo come in here and just dissolve what you've
done just because they hate you? Oh, that's what
always happens. Potentially. They're going to
pass. 200 to 300 executive orders to undo everything
he did. That's exactly what Biden did. There
needs to be a point where that needs to... Is
there a person in there? No. There's just belongings
in there. But there needs to come a point where
we need to figure out how to not do that. I mean,
if they want to go in there and change direction
on something moving forward... Well, Biden did
it last time. Yep. That's what he did. He did
that 100 plus executive. He didn't even know
what he was fucking signing. Oh, yeah. He did
undid the border, the fence, or the wall. What
about the oil? The pipeline? The pipeline. That
was day one. And think about how difficult that
is for companies to figure out what they're going
to endorse. Yeah, he limited LNG exports, and
he didn't even know he did it. Right, he didn't
even know it. Oh, that's when Mike Johnson was
in the... Yeah, Mike Johnson was in there. Why'd
you do this, sir? And he goes, what do you mean?
He was in the Oval Office, and he was like, I
didn't do that. That's crazy. But think about
this. If a company is going to invest $100 billion
or whatever they invest in these projects just
to have the next Democratic president or Republican
president totally reverse course, they're going
to be like, yeah, fuck it. taken the chance that's
something that takes longer than four years to
do right i mean that's devastating for for big
big you know infrastructure projects right i
wonder uh i wonder again we're still three years
away but uh isn't that amazing how much he's
got done it is such a short nine months is dizzying
three years five months left it is dizzying well
how much he's doing well the next presidential
election you know The Democrats are in disarray.
Someone will step up. Someone we don't realize
yet is going to step up, I think. But as far
as Republicans... It could be someone like Tulsi
Gabbard. Well, does J .D. Vance get the shoe
in? Trump has said, I don't know. We'll have
to find out. I wouldn't read anything into that.
Yeah, I think a Vance Rubio ticket would be nice.
I kind of like the senator from South Texas.
The Cruz, Ted Cruz. I think the clear front runner
is going to be J .D. Vance. Right. I mean, he's
going to try to position him for this. And he
has been putting him front and center. Do you
remember? We talked about this years ago. We
were like, whatever he does, he's got to put
J .D. Vance. Don't hide him. Right. You know
what I mean? Well, he hasn't. Because we want
another eight years after he's done here. J .D.
Vance, he's doing his own thing. But, you know,
for the first. two months, J .D. Vance was doing
a lot of talking. I mean, he's still doing talking,
but it's different now. It's good. No, we want
him. We want him present center. Well, kind of
like when the first time the Ukrainian president,
Zelensky, was in there, fucking J .D. Vance was
like, look, bitch. Yeah, he went off. He fucking
called him out in front of Trump. He was like,
you're not going to talk to my homie like that.
Right. I'll take you a little. Yeah, he was the
first one to jump on it, and then Trump jumped
on it after that. I think J .D. Vance forced
Trump's hand. Once J .D. Vance kind of lit him
up, he was like, I think Trump was like, okay,
I guess we got to go there. Here we go. Let's
go, bitch. He pulled the pin. Let's go. Exactly.
It was a pin pulling moment by J .D. Vance. I
really believe that. Right. Well, it was needed.
It was needed. He showed up with fucking sweatshirt
and jeans. And he was being a little bitch because
the Democrats were still giving him a shit ton
of money. Yes, but I think they were frustrated
because the first thing out of his mouth was,
I'm not giving up any land, and nothing's changed,
guys. Nothing's changed. Zelensky and Ukraine
does not want to give up any land in this war.
So this peace that they're trying to work out
is not going to stick. Well, the thing is, Zelensky's
like, all right, well, we're going to stop giving
you our stuff, and they're going to take all
of it. Well, as soon as Putin and Zelensky left
this past week, I mean, fucking Putin that night
just rattled off 250 rockets. Yeah. Boom. Putin's
playing. You can't trust this guy at all. Right.
And he's maybe talking out of one side of his
mouth, and he's doing shit. It's crazy. I don't
think it's going to. I don't think this. Look
at that knuckle. What is this? Is this Caroline
Levitt? Yeah, I know. So we're looking at a picture.
She's got one of these TikTok stretchy thingies
on, tops and bottoms, and you can see everything,
basically, form -fitting. You said moose knuckle?
Looks like she's got a pack on the right there.
Yeah, it looks like it. She's scoring. She's
got a pack and a Copenhagen can over there. She's
only, what, 28, 29? Yeah, she's young, but she
has kids, too, and married. She's a pretty lady.
She's a really pretty lady. Yeah, she's a try.
She's smart as shit, too. She is so witty. I'll
tell you. Witty, witty, witty. Not witty. She
can think on her feet like, bam. Fuck is that?
Okay, I don't know what's going on. It's J .D.
Vance waiting for Zelensky to show it. But, you
know, seriously, what do you guys expect Zelensky
to do? I mean, the only way this war ends is
if Putin gets what he wants, which is a land
path, right, a land route down to Crimea. He
gets Crimea. He gets the path down to Crimea,
which is Donbass and all those other border things
that he currently is occupying. he's in power
until this war ends. Yeah, because he declared,
like, no elections. No, that's in the Constitution
of Ukraine. Right. He didn't come up with that.
Yeah, well, he's already extended his time. That's
in the Constitution. When you're at war, there
are no elections. Yeah, that's what I meant.
So as soon as this war's over, you're right.
He didn't do it because he's not very liked by
the folks, I think, of Ukraine. No, because he's
a freaking, he's a putz. Yeah. He's a putz. He
is a putz. I mean, I think he cares about his
country. Everyone should care for their country.
You don't get props for that. I think he's corrupt,
just like a lot of folks over there. You think
so? Yes. 100%. Homeboy's got so much money in
the bank. But I think he's done everything he
can to try to stop this Russian invasion. You
know what I mean? So you've got to give him props
for that. No, I do. You need him to roll over.
But I don't think he's as nice guy as I think
he is. I get it. I hear what you're saying, Paul.
He's doing what he can, but at the same time,
they tried to overthrow him. And they wanted
other people in place. Zelensky is an extension
of what Biden left there. Correct. He's the shit
that was on the toilet paper when Biden was done.
And he needs to go away. Yeah, we'll see. Piece
of shit. Speaking of piece of shit. Yeah. Oh,
sorry. Go ahead. Oh. Well, that's an interesting
segue. I'm eager to hear what you're about to
say. Well, I was thinking of pieces of shit.
I think Paul picked this one. Oh. I picked what?
Oh, we're talking about the bourbon? I was trying
to get another segue in there. Are you talking
about the bourbon? That was the? Yeah. Oh, good
Lord. This was the 1920s? No, this is your standard
Old Forrester, hunter -proof rye. Straight rye.
It's not bad. Yeah, it's not bad at all. It's
very easy to drink. The color is chestnut. Oh,
I saw that too. I saw that. The hue is chestnut.
Wow, I don't think we've ever, ever seen that.
Well, that's really fancy. He's such a fag. What
happened? Look, honestly, the way... Jeff's voice
is great, okay? He's got a great voice, but he's
just... It's like... That caught me off guard.
I'm sorry. But this is actually... It is. This
is actually not bad. I mean, it's... What did
it say? 23 bucks? But look, this is... Look.
Is it really? That's what it said, 23 bucks.
This is one of the ones that we first bought.
I don't know who picked it, actually, but it
doesn't matter. This is one of the first ones
we picked, and it was a rye, and we did not like
it because it was a rye. Probably. You're probably
right. But we were like, fuck it. Let's give
it a shot. It's because we bought one that's
a bourbon and one that's a rye. They're both
100 proof. Yeah. Nothing wrong with it. Yeah,
well, now that our taste buds have matured and
we've become more of a steward, sommelier, or
whatever you want to call it. Right. So this
is good. I mean, this is super easy to drink.
If you're looking to get into a rye, this would
be a good one to get into. Oh, yeah. It's not
spicy. I think there's some sweetness on it.
The first taste, I had a lot of tobacco. Oh,
now it's just nothing but. Just sweet candy.
Old Forrester 100 proof Kentucky straight bourbon
known for the flavor profile featuring spicy
rye, bacon, spices like cinnamon, cloves, sweet
roots, brown sugar, and ripe apple with hints
of citrus, herbal spice, and a warm, dry, slightly
peppery finish. Wow. I don't know where that
accent came from. That was your... Yeah, thank
you. I said damn it. Scroll back up. The mash
bill is what? 65 % rye, 15 % corn? Oh, there
it is right there. 20 % barley. Okay, gotcha.
Interesting. Oh, there you go. Bananas. Super
easy to drink. Very fun. Would not kick this
out of bed. And, moreover, I don't think I would
mix this with anything. No. I mean, there's no
sodas, no club soda, no water. Not even a cube.
You could put a good... This would make a good
Manhattan. Yeah, yes. Maybe. Yeah, but... I mean,
if you were to put a freaking ice cube in this,
you might as well put it in a huge -ass... Because,
I mean, a big gulp is what I was trying to reach
for. Because it's so easy to drink. Yeah. There's
no alcohol burden at all on this. For me, anyway.
Yeah. And that's... It's 100 proof. No, but that's
kind of a problem, too. You know? It is. I do
like the burn a little bit. And... Well, it just
means you just can't chug it like you can this
shit. It's not as crushable. This is crushable.
Well, it says the finish, right? It lacks the
depth otherwise found on the nose and palate.
It's just not depth in the finish, which is kind
of what you were saying, Sean. It's like there's
an issue with the fact that it just, there's
no burn. There's no nothing. Yeah. Once you throw
it back, you've got like five seconds of enjoyment
and it falls off. Right. You're good. It leaves
a little resonance back. I like the little sweet,
like caramelly apple in the back end, brown sugar,
a little molasses, but it's very subtle, and
it ends. Yeah. I think we need to dive more into
these Old Forester because they make some really
good stuff, and we don't have a lot of it out
there. There's a lot of options on the shelf.
For some reason, we really haven't gotten into
the Old Forester game yet. Yeah. We need to buy
some more. I think we have the 1910 or 20 out
there. But they have several of them that...
Well, we need to get through the... There's a
whole bunch. There's like eight or ten of them.
Yeah, there's a bunch of them we need to... We
have like... How many bottles do you have in
your advent calendar? Left -ish. Not many, maybe.
Like over five? No. Four or five, maybe. Four
or five? I have five or six bottles. Yeah. So
we're still good for three months. Right. For
sure. But you're right. I'd like to... Chuck.
Didn't you get an Old Forester for the pick for
the... Yeah, I got the Prohibition. He drank
it. You drank it? I still got it. Son of a bitch.
He drank it that night. Yeah, on the way home.
He butt -losed it. No, but the Old Forester stuff,
we've always liked. I think we have a... Did
we ever get the King Ranch? I don't think we
did. I think we have the Statesman out there.
I think we have either the 1910 or the 20 out
there, and that's about it. Yeah, I went to the
distillery and I got the birthday cake and you
guys didn't want it. So I just drank it. Oh,
is that what happened? So say I've got four of
these bottles. No, give me that vampire one instead.
Oh, that's what it was. Yeah, that's exactly
what it was. The brothers one. Brothers Bond.
Yeah, give me that. Give me the vampire one instead
of this, you know, unicorn. Give me the one that
was authored by Anne Rice. Yeah, it's the kind
of situation where you go to the. The distillery,
right? And you ask the guy, yeah, do you have
any of the birthday one? And they just kind of
look at you. They just roll your eye. Like, are
you serious? Because once a month, they have
a lottery system where they give out one bottle
to whoever's literally there. I mean, it's just
so dumb. It's so dumb. It is. It is. Anyway.
It's a nice bottle. There it is. Old Forestry
Birthday Bourbon. It's not even priced. Very
squatty. Looks like one of those colonial 13th
Colony bottles. Kind of like you'd sit on it.
Is that the way they do it over here? That's
what you see when you look at these things. It's
well tapered. Wow. It won't get sucked in. You
really thought through this. That's great. You're
like, oh wow, that's a nice bottle. I have to
include that in my downstairs collection. Alrighty.
All right, what do we got going on? So we did
talk about the Uber drivers, right? We did. Yeah,
but we never got into exactly what types of assaults
they were. Anything in the car. I would take
a lot of Uber when I was on business travel.
They didn't want you renting a car. They had
a deal, and I had the app, and I logged in. It
would just automatically charge. And you were
with your coworker. Yeah. And he just reaches
over and gropes you. He did. And then, boom,
that's a sexual assault. Oh, there's 400 ,000.
There you go. Like over and over and over again.
But the Uber app has something that allows your
friends to track you. I can't remember what it's
called. It's a good safety feature. Obviously,
it won't stop anything from happening, but if
you're like, you know, they took an Uber to the
mall. And I see that they're over here in McKinney
instead. Something's wrong. And the car's not
moving. Yeah. And they're in the mall parking
lot after it's closed. Right. You race over there.
As a matter of fact, there's a story just like
that. Follow my ride is what they call it. Yeah,
so I never used it, but I saw it up there. It
said you want to use the follow my ride. That's
a great idea. My brain immediately goes to this
is a great idea, but there's consequences for
sharing your information like that. So it opens
you up to more accessibility of people taking
over your phone, taking over your credentials
by sharing. Well, you're sharing it with your
wife or something like that. Or your parents.
Yeah, I guess like at Life360. That's kind of
the same thought process. You're not sharing
it with just everybody. Here, look at me. But
yeah, you're sharing it with specific people.
Yeah. Yeah, because there's a lot of... A lot
of people out there. They have, what was the
brothers that murdered their parents? Menendez?
Yeah, the Menendez brothers. Didn't they just,
one of them came up for trial? I think both of
them came up. I think both of them, there was
a judge out there or an attorney general wanted
to re -look at their sentence and was going to
potentially let them out. But then he got voted
out. So there's a couple things. You have the
Menendez brothers. All right. They failed to
get out because they were kind of like, yeah,
you guys are still kind of screwy, so we're going
to leave you in there. But also the court hearing
for the guy that murdered three or four people
in Colorado, was it? I don't know. Yeah, we do.
You talking about Idaho? Idaho. Was it Idaho?
The college students he killed? Oh, yeah. He's
in jail now. Yeah, he is in jail. But they released
a lot of the documents of their investigation.
And it turns out that he was being looked at.
He was identified as serial killer type. There
has been some stalking charges from the... I
think, was he like a... He was a student. He
was studying criminology. Yeah. He was a student.
So he was stalking people in the school, and
people pointed him out and reported him. He was
a weirdo, in other words. Well, he went to University
of Washington in Pullman, which is very close
to the Idaho College. It's like 30 miles away
or something like that. Okay. So I think he'd
go over there and do his little stalking, and
that's where he killed all those folks was in
Idaho. Yep. Right? And I think it had to do with,
you know, he was weird. He was obsessed with
kind of crime and serial killers. And if you
watch the documentary. He did poor because they
caught him pretty quick, actually. Yeah. Oh,
no. Well, he left the damn sheath of the knife.
Sheath. Yes. Yeah, that's how they caught him.
Anyway, but my point is, I think he just, he
was so fascinated with researching and studying
these serial killers, he wanted to feel it. Hold
on, hold on. He wanted to feel what it was like.
Can you pause for a second? Yes. Did you say
sheath? That's what I said, yeah, sheath. You
repeated it, but I was like, okay, I missed that
for a second. My wife had texted me, and I responded
back, and then I heard sheath, and then I heard
it repeated by you. What was the context of that?
So the knife. Oh, okay, okay. I'm back. He was
talking about his penis. Yeah, yeah. No, it wasn't
an African penis sheath. That was fewer. Yeah.
Like the pointy, the long pointy things when
they... You know, what are you talking about?
So would you hear what's going on with him in
prison right now? Yeah, so... Is he getting well
-known by the other men? They're targeting him.
Yeah. 100%. Like for sexual assault or for...
He's being... Yes, he's being... He's being groomed,
huh? No. Is he getting passed around or is he
like for death? It hasn't gone well for him.
That's all I know. And I think he was requesting,
was it requesting a move? Or was he? Like solitary
confinement kind of a thing? He's being taunted.
Yeah, he's being taunted, which means they're
starting to target him, is what I'm saying. Sorry.
They're starting to make life miserable for him.
Oh, oh. Yeah. Sorry. Oh, they've been heckling
him through air vents day and night. Oh. Poor
guy. He's confined. Look, I don't want to. He
made his own bed. Sorry. Yeah, I don't want to
support him, but I don't support things like
that. Oh, I do. Why not? Oh, he's getting his,
man. They're all bad guys in there. I agree.
He should face the death penalty. Maybe don't
murder. Yeah, he created his own destiny. No
one else did. He did. Oh, 100%. I think it's
great. I don't care if they're heckling him.
As long as they don't physically do things to
him. I'd be okay with that, too. They will. Well,
I'm just thinking that we're in the United States,
and I think that when you get away with stuff
like that, then it's fucked up. Even guys like
him need to be protected. He's a piece of shit.
They should have just fried his ass. If we go
to prison, we're going to get stuff. Done to
us. I'll go all obscene on myself. Especially
if we kill children, right? And I know those
weren't technically children, but they're being...
You know how it happens. If you're a child molester
or you kill children, the prison people don't
like it. Yeah, there's a weird code. There really
is. And I think they're applying it to this guy.
Right. Well, whatever. And I understand what
you mean, Sean. It's almost like when we were
doing the waterboarding of the terrorists. Like,
we should have a code of ethics. There's a Geneva
Code somewhere in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I
understand what you're saying. We should be better
than that, I guess. Well, these guys are in prison
for a reason, for doing dastardly things. They're
just doing it to another bad guy. Right. You're
not going to reason with it and go, well, you
shouldn't be doing that. They're like, fuck you.
I'm in here for life. I want to have some fun.
What's the consequence for it? Yeah, what are
you going to do to me? It's whatever. Are you
going to keep me in here for an extra day, extra
week, month, year? I don't care. I personally
think it's justice for him to be treated very
poorly in the prison. Well, I think of it as
a deterrent. Prison is a deterrent for me. It
should be. I don't want to go, so I'm not going
to do anything intentionally. to get me to go.
That's a good point because I was thinking about
it and now I don't think I will. Well, he thought
about it. He's like, I'm going to go murder these
people. I was really thinking about it. You know
what? Yeah, I was like, well, we're in prison
now. But it never goes through his head. If I
get caught, I'm going to prison and my butthole
is going to be like really extended. Is that
a thing though? I think so. I mean, I'm kind
of curious. What's the percentage of people being...
Anally seduced. I think a lot. Can we ask ChatGPT
that question? How many male inmates? How many
men are raped every year in prison? Are you guaranteed
to get butt raped if you're going to jail? I
mean, is that a thing? I think it can be a thing.
I mean, of course it can be. Shows widespread
prison rape. Oh, wow. And that's just the ones
you hear about. Widespread. That's just the ones
you hear about, because think about it. If that
happened to you, would that be the first thing
you would point? Suggests that in one year alone,
more than 70 ,000 prisoners were sexually assaulted
or abused. Wow. Yeah, but isn't there like...
One in 20. Being raped or sexually abused. You're
saying there's a chance I won't. It's a big number.
It's a very small chance. You want to play those
odds? No. Yeah, no. Yeah, me neither. I'll play
the lottery first. Those are horrible odds. I
will not play those odds. That scared me straight.
Yeah, I'm not going to. I'm not going to do it
because I actually heard someone. I mean, I don't
know if it's good or bad because, well, you know,
women are like, well, we get raped. You don't
know what it feels like. It's like, well, do
you know how many men get raped every year? Right.
You know, a lot. But it's in prison. Yeah, but
they usually have ditty parties. It's in prison.
You still get raped. Like baby oil ditty. I'm
not saying one's better than the other. It's
all bad. It's not gender specific. I'll tell
you what that haunts me. Correct. Is that audio
clip of... Diddy, Sean Puffy Combs, Diddy, whatever
the hell his name is, where he's doing something
to somebody and they're crying. And he was like,
no, just take it all. He's like, get it all out.
Get it all out. And they're just crying. And
I'm just like, God, damn. Were we supposed to
rate the Old Forester? Oh, yeah, we did do that.
100 proof Old Forester. I'm giving this a four
and a half. Really? Yeah. Below average. Yeah.
It didn't mark very high for me just because
it doesn't taste bad. It just didn't taste enough.
I would give it slightly above average, so I'll
go 5 .5. Yeah. I was right there. I'm around
the 5 .5 mark. Yeah. What did I say? 4 .5? Yeah.
I'm going to stick with that. Go for it. Yeah.
Well, at least it's not as bad as your 3 .2 Eagle
Rare. It's a 3 .8. So you like this better than
Eagle Rare? Yeah. I do, actually. I do, honestly.
All right. Well, there you have it. Well, we're
in on time. Yeah. You know what? I do like it.
I did rate it a low, but you know what? It deserves
it because it falls off really quick. I'm stuck
with it. Stick with it. So it's our Friday night.
Our next bourbon, actually it's not a bourbon,
it has a set of nuts on it, so that'll be interesting.
Nice. I'll be looking forward. I am looking forward
to that. You're looking forward to a set of nuts?
So what do you think about doing a Friday night
like once a month? Do you think this is all right?
How's this sit with you? Once a month is a little
too often. Once a quarter? Every one, five days.
Hey, I like once a quarter. Like quarter of a
month? No, quarter of a year. I don't know. We'll
see. We'll play it by ear. Are you serious? No,
I'm not. The reason why we did it this week is
because I was traveling and we were like, what
if we try to reschedule this to the Friday? So
I think we just continue to play it by ear. I'm
not opposed to Fridays as long as there's not
something going on. It's kind of fun. There's
nothing wrong with that. Turn it up a notch.
Make the second half of the podcast a little
bit different. But you know what? I think...
I mean, I don't want to go back to the times
where we're just getting fucking blown up. Right.
But. But we will. Sometimes, you know, I think
it's warranted that we have one or two podcasts
every other month. We just have to get a little
loose. And there can't be repercussions in the
morning because we've got responsibilities. Right.
Yeah, we do. So, you know, that's what I'm saying.
I hear you. Chuck, thank you for staying on Top
of Shit. It is August 22nd, the first half of
our Dudes Like Us podcast. I'm Sean. I'm Paul.
And I'm Jeff.