Man, are we going to... I mean, I don't mind
the lights. We probably should get used to it
anyways, right? Yeah. We probably should. Unless
we're going to do a different lighting scenario.
We'll see. I was thinking maybe some strobe lights.
Maybe like a disco ball? That and those super
bright, bright on your face. Oh, yeah. Just like
right in the eyeballs. Yeah. 32 ,000 lumens.
That'll work. Yeah. People need to see us. We're
beautiful. We would never be able to view the
podcast because our coins would be scorched.
Well, I mean, really, you wouldn't be able to
see it because it would reflect off of my forehead.
And Paul's, what do you call it? Friar tuck.
Excuse me? That's what Sean says. Oh, yeah. Okay,
shots fired. What are you talking about? No,
this podcast just got started. It's going to
be ugly tonight, listeners. Get ready. You can't
control the way you look. I'm the one to talk
shit. I've got a fryer tuck thing going on. I've
had gray hair since I've been in my 30s. Yeah,
there you go. Now, you guys don't understand.
I had them pluck that hair. And if you're saying
it's not a good look, I made a mistake. So you
had them pluck right on the top of your hair.
Is that why you're balding back there? I wanted
them to kill all the hail follicles. Follicles.
It worked. Right here. Yeah, just give it to
the ones that agree. Leave the other ones, though.
And you're saying that's a bad look? Yeah, I
fucked up. Bad business decisions. Is that shit
grow back? That's funny. They got all these supposedly...
ancient cures for hair, but I've never really
seen it work. Nothing works. Eat more watermelon.
Clean your hair with this. Use a hair follicle
cleanser. Well, the only thing that I think that
works is, yeah, jism. What? Did you say jism?
No. A bottle of jism? Why would I say that? That's
weird. I don't bottle mine. Disgusting. Anyway.
I didn't say to bottle my own gizm. What the
hell, man? I think the only thing that works.
Kind of like a mom saves her breast milk. Yeah.
I think the only way that it actually works are
the hair plugs, right? So they take them from
somewhere else in your head and put them on elsewhere.
But have you seen the - That's bizarre. Have
you seen what that looks like? You'd have to
go incognito for - A month. Yeah. Yeah, but what
is the - They surgically remove the whole hair
and follicle that can go back to your head, and
they surgically implant it where your bald, typically
up front, like your forehead. If you want your
hairline back, they could do that for you. It
looks like a cornfield. Yep. Like there are dots,
and there's rows, and it doesn't look good. Yeah,
so that's surgery. I'm with you. I mean, I feel
bad for people that don't have enough self -esteem
to push through that. It's kind of like women
getting breast augmentations or any kind of facelift
or something like that. I mean, look, God loves
you the way you are. And it's the old phrase
that God makes people beautiful. The devil makes
them pretty. Right. Did I say that right? Probably
not. Sure. We're used to it. I've told my wife,
I was like, if I ever go bald or when I go bald,
I'm shaving the head. I'm not doing comb overs.
I'm not doing the whole toilet bowl look or whatever
you want to call that. Well, you just comb over
your back hair. Yeah, I could do that. Here's
my attitude about that. I used to be, you know,
don't be vain. Don't be changing your face. Don't
be changing. Don't be doing all that stuff, right?
But the reality is, if that's something that's
holding you back from being you. You know what
I mean? Like, if you are insecure in public environments,
if you just can't, you can't, you know, won't
turn on your camera at work because you're so
massively insecure about something about yourself,
then fuck it. Change that if you can. Well, if
you have, like, a huge beak of a nose. Whatever.
I understand that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But if you're
a, you know, I'm just taking, like, the Hollywood
actresses. Great. If you're now 55, 60 years.
Half our listeners just quit. 65 -year -old lady.
Because they got large noses. wants to remain
looking young, I think that's the wrong motivation.
I do. If they're trying to stay young so that
they stay relevant in Hollywood, okay. But if
you have a massive insecurity and that's going
to fix it, go ahead, fix it. All right, anyway.
Well, these are things to think about. Dudes
like us, first half of our podcast kind of hit
the ground running here. We did. We got a little
bit of a late start, I guess, didn't we? Not
really. No, just a little bit. We had some technical...
Things we were working through. It was just kind
of discombobulated. If anyone knows about video
and audio regarding HDMI audio and audio analog
going into the same video processor, creating
a buzz, it's weird. All right. Dudes Like Us,
first half of the show. It's September 9th. It's
the first week and a half of 2025, September
9th. It is. We've got what's coming around the
corner. September 11th. Two days from now, right?
Wow. How many years is this now? 24. 24 years.
I am Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff. What the hell?
It's been 24 years? 2025, 2001. Man, you know
what? I was sitting in my bed in Irving, Texas,
Los Colinas, technically living in an apartment,
had two kids and my wife had gone to work and
I was sitting in bed about ready to get to work
and it happened. Yeah. And I was like, what the
hell? And I remember at that time I had like
15 jobs and I remember working the bar because
during the day I had a daytime job and at night.
I was a disc jockey and worked in the entertainment
world, you know, dancing for LaBear. And that
night I showed up for work and the bar was dead.
I think people were, I don't know if they're
respectful, but I think a lot of people got afraid
as well. They're like, what's going on? Yeah,
they just kind of shut down. Because I thought
what was strange was there were no airplanes
flying. and we're right in the path of DFW. We
are. We can't hear them, but there's a huge train
of them coming in from the east that you can
watch. They're still pretty high up, but the
lights, you can see them, and there was nothing.
Yeah, I literally told Shelly, we were taking
a walk right after, we were watching the news,
like everybody else, and I was like, you know
what, let's go walk the dogs and let's just chill.
I literally said that to her. I said, Shelly,
take a look at the sky. You will never see this
again. A complete sky with not one jet trail
or airplane. Yeah, we get a lot of them. Especially
at certain times of night when they come in.
Because, you know, at the dinner time, or through
about 9 o 'clock, there's just a stream coming
over. Again, can't hear them, but I know me and
the boys would sit out there and watch them,
right, and count them when they're younger. Right.
Yeah. That was back before they had cable. It
was weird. Yeah, and they got on the video games.
They said, hey, son, you want to watch the airplanes
with me? Fuck off, Dad. We're on PlayStation.
No, they were like, Dad. Fuck off. I got my Crayolas
over here. They were talking about chemtrails.
They were like, Dad, we need to go inside. They're
spraying us with chemicals, Dad. Don't you understand
that? It is crazy. We had, during that time,
we would go, we went to the Holy Family of Nazareth.
Oh, my God. Holy Family of Nazareth Church. In
Irving, Texas. That's the church we went to.
And in October -ish, maybe the end of September,
they had the Fall Festival. Was Nazareth there?
Yes. Yes, he's playing the guitar. Singing. He?
Is it like Jethro Tull? No, Nazareth. One guy?
What's the name of the song they sing? Nazareth.
Something like a dog, isn't it? Oh, yeah, yeah,
yeah. His voice is real scrankly. Now you're
messing with a son of a bitch. Son of a bitch.
Son of a bitch. Now you're messing with a son
of a bitch. Now you're messing with a son of
a bitch. I love Hurts, too. Love Hurts. Love
Hurts. That's a great one, by the way. Whenever
it comes on my playlist, I jack it up. So I remember
it was Father Jerry who passed away, Monsignor
Father Jerry. He was talking to the public. This
wasn't in the church. This was outside. He had
the microphone, welcomed people there. pulling
raffle tickets out because it's a big fall festival
you know and you show up you donate money and
you got to buy raffle tickets to buy this 19
early 70s Mustang and these guys they refurbish
or what is it when they rebuild them remodel
a car or whatever restore a car and it's usually
a Mustang 68 Mustang 69 or something like that
and he's going over the whole thing and he was
like you know I'd like to You know, as the airplane
flew over, he was like, you know, you got to
kind of think about what has gone on for the
last four or five weeks. You know, just hearing
a plane coming overhead now is kind of a blessing
just because of what happened. You know, it's
just like, you know. I was at JCPenney at the
time. The whole day was lost. Basically, once
you got to work, what did it happen at 8 something?
Early. Basically, everyone went into one of the
conference rooms and we sat there all day and
watched. Yes, we did that too. Zero work got
done. Yeah, but you were at JCPenney. This is
true. I remember I was traveling. I traveled
like two or three weeks later and the airport
was very it was It was interesting because it
was still kind of an unknown on all that shit,
right? Yes. And I know I was looking at everybody.
When I got on, I looked at everybody getting
on and everything, and I had a game plan and
the whole nine yards, whether that would come
to fruition if anything happened. So you were
like, on the airplane, you mean? You were like,
okay, if that guy, I'm going to keep my eye on
that guy. He looks like a box cutter guy. Well,
it just goes to your mind. I know. What would
I do if something like that happened kind of
a thing? You know, it was horrible. The whole,
the day of, like when it was happening, all this,
you know, information was flying at us. Like,
oh, something's happening in Florida. Something's
happening in this. Something's, you know. Oh,
yeah. Right. And my neighbor was from Iran. Nicest
guy. Right. And he was in Florida. on a trip
he was probably stuck down there yes he was and
my thought was oh my god is my neighbor one of
these guys i'm like stop just stop you know it
makes you crazy oh yeah you all these conspiracy
theories and all this crazy information i was
like oh my god he might be one of those guys
and then i was like okay no he's trapped there
he's completely trapped there because he had
been traveling at that moment yeah awful yeah
that was interesting time Like I said, the travel
just a couple weeks after it happened was unnerving
kind of a thing. How long did they ground the
planes? They grounded everything in the continental
United States. A couple days. A couple days.
I don't think it was super long. No, it wasn't
super long because you can't. You can't. Yeah,
that's commerce, right? Right. Because there's
a shit ton that moves outside of people. Yes.
You know, just freight. Yeah, that was nuts.
Two days. And then they, yeah, two days. Okay.
Two days? That's so long. Then they only allowed
single -person Cessnas. Oh, nice. No, I don't
know. They had to get the Arab Emirates out.
Right. Remember that? No. I do. Oh, it's just
part of the conspiracy. No, it's not a conspiracy.
It's not a conspiracy. It really happened. Oh,
boy. Bush says, get the Arabs out of here. The
family. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. I got you. I got
you. This is like for their precaution, for their
safety. Yes. Yeah. You know, it's interesting.
I was at a gas station and I got a text, an alpha
page. You remember alpha pagers? Oh, yeah. And
I worked for Paget at the time, right? So I got
an alpha page from David Bain that said a plane
hit the building. And I was thinking like a Cessna.
I responded back like a Cessna. And he goes,
no, I think it was a 737. Right. And of course,
it ended up being what? A 757? 767? I don't know.
It's big. And I was like, oh, shit. And then
it was unraveling from there. But that was one
of the first alpha pages I got. There's so many
interesting things about it. There are so many
reports, so many deniers, so many off -the -wall
things. And you know what? It's hard to say what's
true and what's not true because when you look
at the facts at certain things and you get a
scientist or a guy that understands. And it's
like, well, you know, the towers should have
been able to hold or withstand the heat, number
one. The two, they're designed to hold two, three,
four times its weight. Well, I think this is
unprecedented. I don't think they designed these
buildings for this to happen, though, did they?
Of course not. So it's an unknown. Yeah. Have
you guys seen? I mean, I watched a documentary
where they said what happened when the plane
hit the inside of the building. It blew off all
of the. the girder fire protection. It just blew
it off. So now you can't say that the building
was built to withstand a certain level of heat
because it now was unprotected from the inside.
So there's other elements. You have both those
towers, but then you have building, was it building
seven? Seven, yeah. Yeah, that's always been
the heart of some conspiracy where why did that
building go down? Yeah, but it's not that it
just went down. It's how it went down. When you
think of a building, it was flashes. That was
suspect by itself. But then it was how it looked
like a controlled demolition. It's just odd when
you see a building like that not fall off center.
If a building's falling, it usually will land
awkward. That one imploded on itself. And who
knows? It's just us. But other factoids involved
is that the people that owned the building, The
Twin Towers? Yeah. They just sold the building.
Like weeks prior to this happening. Is that a
coincidence? That doesn't help. It says here
that it was impacted by a bunch of debris and
it was caught on fire on 10 different floors
and uncontrolled for hours and hours and hours.
Well, that would do it too. Same deal. I mean,
at some point, at some point, if you have an
uncontrolled fire that burns at an unbelievable
heat, it's going to give. ultimately pushed a
critical girder off its seat, leading to the
failure of floors around column 79. Oh, column
79. Oh, yeah. That's just it. You know, there's
so much obfuscation going on. We're never going
to really know. I don't think that's obfuscation.
I think those are facts. That is an engineering
explanation. I think there's conspiracy theories
out there that cloud. Well, there are alternative
facts, too. Well, are there alternative facts
or alternative ideas? Look at that last bullet.
No, they're facts. They're facts that these specific
type of girders do not melt under specific temperatures.
All right, read that last bullet because this
is refuting directly that conspiracy, right,
about controlled demolition theories. The NIST,
what does that stand for? It doesn't really matter,
countered the claims of controlled demolition
by stating that its own modeling showed that
the thermal expansion of steel was at... was
the critical factor in the collapse, not explosive.
The free -fall acceleration observed in video
footage lasted for only about 2 .25 seconds and
was consistent with initial interior collapse.
So, look, I'm not saying that there's something
that happened that is nefarious. I don't know.
The bottom line is that none of us know. We're
just taking all the stuff that we're given that
is told to be facts, and we're just pushing forward
with it. We have to trust that no one's lying.
I don't know if they're lying. You know, there's
just so much bullshit going out there. You don't
know what's right. And it's going to get worse
with AI and how intuitive it is. That is for
sure. Yeah, I didn't believe things on the internet
before. Oh, God, forget it now. Three times that
now. Although I believe the Nancy Pelosi video
you sent out today. I said. Was that you saying
that? Yeah, I believe. That was real, right?
Was that authenticated? It was. I wish we could
play that right now. It was triple checked. Yeah,
it was Nancy Pelosi going, oh, they kicked me
out. I can't do my stocks, my buys. I don't have
my inside information. They won't share shit
with me. And her hair's all fucked up. So all
I do is drink, drink, drink, whatever. That was
clever. That was clever. I love how people can
make funny, funny things with AI. Yeah, some
of the stuff is. It's pretty comical, especially
with her. You know, there was another one. I
don't know if you guys want to jump shark on
this. Well, she fell down. But there was, you
know, the Philly's Karen. Oh, yeah. I saw so,
so much shit about the Philly's Karen. You mean
like... I saw the one turning into Gollum. You
see that one? Okay, you're saying... Yeah, okay.
So people have used AI to turn this into memes
and shit. Oh, it's hilarious. I haven't seen
any of that. So a little background here. The
Philly's... Karen, the incident during the fourth
inning, the outfielder Harrison Bader hit a home
run into the left field stands, and Drew Feltman,
a father attending the game with his young son
Lincoln, celebrating his 10th birthday, the father
got the ball, and he walked over and placed it
in his son's hand. A woman, later dubbed the
Phillies Karen by social media users, he confronted
the father, claiming the ball belonged to her.
It's my ball. It landed near my seat. I'm taking
it. She was wearing a Phillies jersey because
visibly upset, demanding, arguing with Saltwell.
He reluctantly took the ball from her. And he
kind of like gave it back to her. Because you
imagine when he walked up to her. I mean, when
she walked up to him. Oh, yeah. He was like physically
shaking. He was like, what the fuck? I'm about
to kill you. What's going on? Yeah, he was rattled.
And he was like, the only way to defuse this
is just give the damn woman her ball, man. Like,
whatever. If they ever find her. No, dude. I
don't think they've found her yet. They haven't
found her. No, they have not found her yet. They
haven't found her yet. But if they ever do. How
is that possible? They're hunting. They're going
to find her. I mean, usually they find people
within hours. Yeah, that's AI there. And you
know who I feel bad for? Her husband or whomever
that guy is sitting with her. Oh, yeah. Because,
you know, you can see it kind of like, you know,
when she walks over to the New Jersey Jets guy
across the aisle on the other side. That guy,
her husband, he was kind of like looking down
and shaking his head when she went over there.
Yeah, that was not the first time she went and
bitched at someone. Earlier or later, she went
down a couple rows and yelled at somebody. Yeah.
Like got in his face. She's not. Wagging the
finger. Yeah, that's it. Go up a little bit more
on the left. That's right there. That was the
Phillies guy. He was wearing a Phillies jet.
Philadelphia Eagles. I'm sorry. God damn it.
To the Jets. New York Jets? Yeah. Right there.
So he was kind of like, you should have just
given it back. And she was like, it landed in
front of me. I bet she's gotten away acting like
this for years. Yep. And now she's been caught
and busted. So I've been told that she was, I've
been told that they did identify her and that
she has been fired from her job. And I was like,
how do you know this? Who knows really the truth
of anything, right? Right. And that she had had
a prior incident somewhere else. It wasn't the
first time type of thing. And I was like, oh,
God, here we go. That's what I mean. She's acted
like this unchecked probably for a very long
time. Probably. Somebody knows who she is. So
prior to the podcast, there were no reports of
who she was. There were a couple erroneous claims
of these people. And all these companies came
back and said, nah, that's not us. In fact, Paul,
you read something about one of these companies.
And what did they say? Yeah, they said, well,
okay. It was a school district. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The person they said it was, she was like, uh
-uh, I'm a Red Sox fan. And the company she worked
for, was it a school district? It was a school
district. Well, one of them was, yeah. They said,
yeah, it would never be one of our employees.
They would have barehanded it. I was like, nice.
That is funny. Nice. But just look at the whole
family. Look at him hugging him. Like, oh, I
can't believe it. He's like, what? Don't get
away. But the family's chemistry with this in
there, the son, the daughter, the mom, they're
all smiling. They're so sincere and wholesome.
And then right to the very end where the dad
just kind of gives him the ball and then kind
of like, just get the fuck out of here. She's
just prancing away like, my bitchiness won again.
Those four -inch hoops. You know what she used
those for, right? Yeah, I mean, once the ball's
on the ground in nobody's hand, it's fair game,
man. Everybody knows that. It bounces down the
aisle and, okay, they need to find her. Once
you give the ball to a child. Oh, it's over.
It's over. That's it. It's over. That's it. It
belongs to somebody. Have y 'all caught a foul
ball? Any professional game? Never. No, not caught
it. I was given one. Yeah. Like when you were
a kid? No, Preston was in front of me. Oh, okay.
This was, you know. 15 years ago. Yeah. Well,
you guys have seen the video of the guy holding
the baby with the beer. Oh, yeah. That was awesome.
That was me. That was you. I did catch. I barehanded
it. So my story is I caught one with the baby
in the hand. Did you really? Yes. Oh, shut up.
Did you have a beer, though? I can show you the
ball. I did not have a beer. We were in line
for the beer. We were in line for the beer, and
the ball came, and it actually kind of hit the
ground, bounced off of something, and then I
caught it. Really? I had the baby in the hand.
Why are you not on social media? There was no
video cameras then, man. That was before social
media. It was 2007 or something, yeah. 1967.
But good news for the kid that it was his 10th
birthday. Oh, he got all sorts of swag. Because
the fans in the stadium, they booed at the woman
as she walked away. Miami Marlins responded to
the incident by giving Lincoln a gift bag of
team merchandise. And Harrison Bader gave him
a bat. There's a company, Camping World, that's
going to take him to the World Series. Oh, dude,
they scored. And get a free camper. And there's
another company out there that is giving $5 ,000.
Love it. To the woman, if the woman surrenders
the ball, the company will give her $5 ,000.
If she hasn't been outed, there's no way she's
going to out herself now. Oh, no. Not on purpose.
There's no way. I mean, think about the hell
that's going to rain down on her life. And I
don't even think it's fair for that much heat
to go her way. I don't want that on anybody.
We talked about this with the Coldplay thing.
Oh, yeah. I don't want anybody's lives to be...
decimated to that level. She's kind of done it
to herself. I know. I get it. But anyway, what
were you going to say? Like you said earlier,
the people that work with her, her family, her
neighbors, they're probably terrified of her.
That's Barb. And if they out her, they're probably
dead. Yeah. Because she's probably controlled
them and yelled at them so many times. She's
that neighbor. Yeah, she's got a shallow grave
for all of them. Yes. I don't know. Yeah, the...
It's crazy. Oh, but these memes are great. These
memes are great. Oh, I wish I could show these.
But these are... The clever shit that people
come up with is... Go back up. I think that's
the Gollum one. Yeah. Converts her face to...
And she holds it up. The farther she... The farther
she walks away, the more Gollum she becomes.
And then she starts looking at the ball like,
my precious. Well, you know. Okay, that is great.
I'm curious just to, you know, all day today
I was checking. I must have checked five, six
times today. To find out who she was? Yeah, just
say, have you found it out? And they were like,
yes. And then there was like two people I was
like, eh, did you really find out? And they were
like, no. I am amazed because usually they find
this shit out in an hour. It will happen. It
will. Because there's some folks out there who
just. I don't know how they do it, but they access
all kinds of shit. AI, man. And it may take a
week for them to sift through everything. Haven't
you seen the movie Eagle Eye? Oh, yeah. Where
he's running around and every camera picks up
everything they're doing the entire movie? I
think they had Sheila Booth in it. Yeah. I mean,
how can they not use that technology to find
her? I'm sure they are. There we go. This is
something for NSA. That's right. NSA should get
involved and find this woman. Yeah. Anyway. Anyway,
stupid, stupid story. That was very unfortunate.
And then you have the guy that tapped on the
helmets on the Monday night game. It was a Sunday
night game. It was the Ravens. I didn't see this.
What happened there? So apparently the Ravens
were celebrating their touchdown, right? And
you know how they get close to the fans. And
some Bills fan reached out and started tapping
on their helmets. Jackson. And yeah, Lamar Jackson
shoved him back. He shoved him down, I think.
And now apparently he's got a neck brace on and
claiming he's paralyzed. And he's got an arm
brace. So there he is. He's tapping the helmets.
Oh, he pushed that guy's helmet. Oh, he pushed
Lamar's helmet. Look at that. You can see it
over the shoulder. He pushes his helmet back.
And then he shoves him down. I think he showed
up in a neck brace, too. And broke his neck.
Yeah, the kid did. The kid did. You know, and
he's whatever. And that guy was barred from every.
Yeah. So he's been, yes, he's been. He's milking
it. Oh, that's Hopkins. Did you watch the end
of that game? No, I didn't. That was fantastic.
Yeah, the last four minutes. I heard it was amazing.
The last four minutes are on the YouTube, and
I watched it today when I was editing. Yeah.
I didn't watch any NFL. I was so disgruntled
over my fantasy football. Oh, yeah. So who won
this week? Oh, the top points? No, just who won
their game. I lost. I looked like shit. Based
on your question, I'm assuming you did. I did.
Oh. Oh. Oh. Yeah, my reviews. So much for the
draft grades. I had an A -plus, and I got pummeled
by 40 points. You did, too. I got crushed. Yes.
My tight end, IR. Who do you have? Kittle? Kittle.
Yeah. He's out for the season. Yeah, I heard.
Really? This season? His IR? Well, it's at least
four games, right? Damn. Four or seven games.
I heard he got hurt, but I didn't know it was
like serious. Yeah. Oh, that's awful. I'm sorry.
That's at least four games, I think. Sorry, bro.
Not good. I think you had 55 points. That was
rough. Oh. Yeah, he's dead. Who's that guy? Some
dude jumped off a building onto a telephone pole
and hit the wires and... Bam! Yeah, that's not
going to end well. Instant orange afro. He's
dead. And you know what? When people get electrocuted
like that on a major transformer, it's not like
you get a topical burn. You get burnt from inside
out. It blasts parts of your body off. Yes. There's
a guy out in Fort Worth, an electric guy, who
was out working, and he touched it, and it blew
his face off. What? Yeah, that's the thing. He
was one of the face transplant guys. Blew his
face off. I would just kill myself. Oh, don't
say that. It's always a reason to live. Well,
he did it because he ended up having a baby girl
and he didn't want her to grow up without her
dad. Yeah, because he had no face, right? Oh,
grow up with a dad with no face? Yeah, so he
had a face transplant. He has no eyes. So he's
blind. So he's blind? Yeah, he's blind. God.
But, you know, it was... Yeah, so the transformer
behind my house exploded. That's wild. Not the
transformer, but the little... Oh, yeah. The
connectors. Yeah, what are they? They're little
fuses. They're little junctions. They're just
junctions. They're disconnects is what they are.
Anyway, the loud explosion. Boom, right? And
I go outside and there's like, you know, those
little ceramic... little coils right well they
had exploded in shards and they were all over
my backyard and i was like what the fuck i thought
i thought like kids had thrown a firecracker
over my back fence right and so i look and there's
a a squirrel that has no back like there's a
stripe a stripe from its head down to where its
tail should be of just burnt skin no fur And
it's smoking, like, totally smoking. And I was
like, oh, shit. I was like, okay, I guess he
arced, right? He touched one to the other. And
so I scooped it up and threw it in the trash.
Well, then, like, a couple hours later, when
it became nightfall, and there was a utility
truck behind the fence. Right. And they're trying
to figure out because I didn't lose power, but
the whole neighborhood behind me loses power
when that happens. Right. So I go out there and
he's poking around. I was like, yeah, how's it
going? He goes, yeah, we're just trying to figure
out what happened here. And I go, oh, yeah, well,
I think a squirrel blew it up because, you know,
and his face got so excited. He lit up. He goes,
you wouldn't happen to still have the squirrel,
do you? And I was like, what the fuck? Am I going
to eat it? I go, yeah, it's in my trash can.
He goes, do you mind if I come into the backyard
and go look at the squirrel? And I was like,
yeah, that's fine. So he goes over there and
he opens up and he looks at it. And of course,
it's like I said, like scorched. And he's like,
you have no idea how much paperwork you just
saved me. How much time you just saved me. Because
they have to have a reason for why it happened,
right? And so, yeah, he was super excited. So
the little flip you're talking about, it's called
a cutout. I thought you said cunt out. No, no,
cut out. We don't use that. Cut out. C -U -T
-O -U -T. And all it is, it's just this little
arm, and it just disconnects. It looks like a
little fuse, or a big fuse. Well, you know, the
big Transformers, the cans up there, Stephen
said that those are filled with highly toxic
cancerous oils. Oh, lovely. Yes. Cool. It was
seed oil. So don't drink it. It's canola oil.
Vegetable oil. The way he said, he said, yeah,
when those blow up. Oh, my God, it's dripping.
Don't drink it. It's bad. I'm going to cook some
fries. So you want to stay away from those. Give
me that squirrel. That's why they call it canola.
Stay away from Transformers in general. Well,
just if they blow up, you don't want to be near
them because that's going to spew all that shit
everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. Crazy. Yeah. Interesting.
Yeah. Speaking of lightning storms. We had a
vicious one on Friday. Did we? Oh, yeah. You
don't remember all the fucking lightning strikes?
Left and right, kaboom, kaboom. Friday was kind
of a clusterfuck. It was a train wreck. I mean,
all's well that ends well. It didn't start out
bad. It was funny because we were looking at
the radar and it was like, oh, it's all north
of us. Oh, it's all north of us. Don't worry.
We can go to the rail yard. We can go to the
rail yard. We hadn't even made it to, what? We
hadn't made it to Stonebrook. And it was like
downpour. And I was like, I'm pretty sure it's...
I'm pretty sure it's south of where we're headed.
It's north, right? It's way north. Oh, damn.
And it was coming down, and the lightning was
going crazy. And I don't know if you saw the
videos from Anna, Anna, Texas, and Melissa, Texas.
It looked like a freaking tornado. I saw that
one barn that got kind of tore up. Yeah? Yeah.
The one off of Main Street? It was up in Salina
somewhere. It was a shit show, man. It was crazy.
So it's Friday night. We did our Dudes Like Us
excursion. Jeff usually joins us a little right
out. You were not feeling well. No. It was a
bad stomach night. But we were like, hey, let's
kind of push through this and just kind of do
something. I'm not really interested in getting
super hammered or anything like that. I'm kind
of over that a little bit, of course. I did anyways,
but it was just a different kind of night. So
we had some extra people. So we had Stan from
Total Wine that used to be there, then went over
to Sips. And then we had Brian, Brian Shitty,
who was on the podcast once. What's up? Shout
out to Brian. He had to come in town, unfortunately,
because his father was... In intensive care from
some personal stuff, you know, body stuff going
on when you're older. And he was in for a long
extended period, up to a week just now. I think
got out today, but good for him, man. It's tough,
and it's taxing on anybody, his parents that
are in there. His dad was like, hey, go out and
go have fun with your friends for a little bit.
So he and Stan get an Uber, and they meet us
at the rail yard in Frisco, Texas. Was it raining
when you picked them up? Oh, yeah, it was. They
just stayed in there. Well, you know, there was
an overhang. Yeah, they were still open. Band's
playing. The band, they had packed up and left
because, you know, we were all like, it's going
to move a lot. It kind of felt like Bill Murray
on Groundhog Day when he was just like, no, the
storm's going to go a little bit further west.
It's Caddyshack. Caddyshack, yeah. I don't think
the heavy stuff's going to come down for some
time. He also does that on Groundhog Day. While
it's pouring on them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course.
But, you know, so we show up, and Brian and Stan
load in. But prior to that, we had run up to
Total Wine because we're kind of like, well,
what the fuck are we going to do? I had to go
pick up Tara. This turned into a big clusterfuck,
man, because Tara, when she works, she works.
But she had a surgery on her foot, and she's
in her boots still, so you have to pick her up.
And I was like, are you ready? I'm not ready.
Fuck. So now, you know, who's going to pick her
up? Hopefully, Shelly, your wife picked her up.
Yeah. That worked out great. We went to Total
Wine, picked up a 10 -pack of Jack Daniels. Did
you kill them all? No. There's still a couple
in my room. Nice. But Chuck had picked up some
still Austin shots. So we drank those, picked
up Stan and Brian, had another one, I think.
We went to Fanzo's after that. I'm sorry. First,
we went to Barrel House. Right. That's the first
step. And that's when the weather was nice. Yeah,
it was nice. And we were looking out west, and
it looked kind of dark. And we're like, what's
going on out there? It was all right. You know,
Fanzos. And there was our server. Her name was
Haley. She was super cool, by the way. She was.
She was very cool down. Her said that she's been
there for two weeks. The place just opened up,
the Barrow House, Frisco, Texas, on the west
side of the Dallas North Tollway off of, is it
Main Street? It's Main Legacy. Now, do they?
Is it a microbrewery or they just have a shit
ton on tap? They have like 50 beers on tap. Yeah,
yeah. So they don't brew their own shit. No.
Not that I knew. And frankly, as far as atmosphere,
it was okay. It was very loud in there because
they don't have any. They don't have any sound
barriers. There's no breakup. There's no carpet.
It's concrete floors, bare ceilings. Yeah, one
gigantic room, yeah. So it was just really loud.
It was cacophonous. First off, it was so crowded
that we immediately had to sit outside. Yeah,
so we had to sit outside. It was a little warm,
but it wasn't too bad. It wasn't too bad. They
had misters going. Oh. Yeah. So you were moistening?
Oh, yeah. Oh, we were soaked. It was awesome.
Nice. And we managed to get a couple dudes like
us magnets. Strategically placed. To hide the
magnet game, yes. Yes, which is what we do when
we go places. Yeah, we try to put it on something.
So the next time we go there, we have to see
whose magnet is still there. Probably yours.
Where'd you put yours? At the top of that. Was
that a screen? Was that a movie screen or a sunscreen?
What was that big black box? I thought it was
a TV. I don't think it was. I think it was a
shade, a sunshade. Oh, okay. Anyway, I stuck
that at the top of that. But I thought maybe
it was. But is anyone going to be able to see
it? Yeah. If you look at it. I put mine on a
4x4 metal post that was supporting an awning
in between two TVs. Sandwich. And we were sitting
right there. All you got to do is look, and it's
right there. And we had another one we put inside
a little caddy. Yeah. That one's not going to
last the night. We figured that one out. But
then Chuck, on the way out, puts one on the barrel
top. Yeah, right on the barrel outside. I don't
know. We'll see how long that one lasts. I think
you're right. I think mine has the longest chances
of staying power. It wasn't a horrible place.
I was kind of disappointed at the prices. We
ordered some fried pickles. It's happy hour.
It cost $10 for the fried pickles. I'm not against
paying $10 for an appetizer at all. But when
it shows up, you're kind of like, there's like
11. You know? Yeah. It was, yeah. What, 11 pickles?
Yeah, little slices. Yes, it was nuts. I would
have commented, I was like, really? Yeah. No,
it wasn't. It was like a dollar a slice. We were
not impressed. I mean, it may have been more
than 11, but not much more. It was happier. They
were trying to promote them, and I'm like, for
11 pickles, $10? Yeah, it was crazy. Get out
of here. But the beer was half price. Yeah. We
quickly learned that if you're going to buy beer
from there, they've got one that's in a pint
glass, and then you've got one in a beer mug.
Ordered one of the beer mugs. Clearly holds more
beer. Yeah. And they were ignorant. They didn't
even know. They were kind of like, they were
like, it holds the same amount of beer. And I
was like, I don't know. It's so funny. Here are
the three of us, right? And we're like, there's
no way. Because he got the beer mug and he and
I got the pint. And we're both like, what the
fuck, man? That looks like you got a lot more
in there. So then it became a chug the beer,
let's get some water, and let's do an experiment.
And sure enough, there's a good four ounces more
probably. In the mug? Oh, really? It's a stein.
And so the rest of them, we were like, oh, beer
mugs all around. Hayley didn't care. No more
fucking pint glasses. Hayley didn't care. She
hooked us right up. She did. She was awesome.
Yeah, she was sweet. Well, we should go back.
I haven't been there yet. I know it just opened.
We need to try it again. Well, we can go there
Friday. Well, if we can. Actually, I might be
busy Friday. Well, I have to travel Friday. Uh
-oh. So I might not be back until late. If you
leave at 2 a .m., you can probably make it back.
The appointment's at 2 p .m., and it will take
too long of a time. I won't be back until, I
mean, physics won't allow it. I'll be back at
9 p .m. So you never get to choose when these
appointments happen? I mean, I have put in a
request to change it. No, I mean, when they're
scheduled. No, we've got to schedule it, but
I agreed to it. Right, right, right. Look, I
can make it. It's just like anything. the time
clock starts ticking when you have to get these
certain things completed by. Sure. You know,
and I have to get it completed by, and I wasn't
available today, tomorrow, or Thursday, so I
got to do it Friday. I could punt it to Monday,
but I don't like doing things on Monday. But
do you have to schedule these things with the
owner, right? I mean, it's got to line up with
them, right? Yeah, there's a lot of, yes, the
owners, and sometimes they have public adjusters,
sometimes they've got, you know. There's just
several people I have to... And like this particular
one is a tall building. So there's going to...
I need to be able to gain access to it. Yeah.
So that means I'm quite a specific lift. People
are there. Yeah. Because there's no roof access.
Yep. Yeah, they're climbing... This is like a
no -tell motel six. I think it is. I forget what
it is. You can lay in the bed. God. Why would
you want the stuff that comes with it? Isn't
there bugs and shit? No, it's not a motel. Bedbugs?
Yeah. Those are bad. It's technically a hotel.
Yeah, man. They can be. There's been a study
I just saw out not too long ago. The worst places
for bedbugs. I can't remember what they are.
You may want to pull it up, Chuck. The worst
cities for bedbugs. Or cities. Cities. I think
Houston maybe. I was just about to say it's probably
a humid city. I think Houston's one. I can't
remember what some of the other ones are. I don't
think. I think a couple were in Ohio. Chicago,
Cleveland, and L .A. Yeah, a couple of them were
in Ohio. Okay, so is that just a volume thing
then? Those are big cities with a ton of motels.
I mean, I would think it would be like Gulf Coast
and Houston where everything's humid and nasty.
There's a ton of hotels in all these places.
That is crazy. So I entered an AI chat. Chuck
enters it in. Mine says the cities with the worst
problem, according to the pest control companies,
is Chicago, Cleveland, and L .A. And you pull
it up and it says, scroll up there, what does
it say? Chicago, Cleveland, L .A., Philadelphia,
and New York. Yeah. Completely lists here. What
AI did you use? Google. He used Google as well.
Google. He said worst cities for mud bugs in
2025. Well, it's not in Texas, so are they on
the east -west coast? Yeah, so if you get those,
you basically have to throw your mattress away.
Well, you have to kill them. You can't defumigate
it? No. In hotels, they don't throw the mattresses
away. They bug bomb the room. That doesn't work,
though. It does. Not very well. I would think
it would. No, it does. That's what they do. They
bug bomb the room, and they seal it off for like
two, three days, and you're done. And then they
come back. They go in there, clean it, and...
That's so healthy for your respiratory system.
Well, I mean, people don't know. They just kill
the things. I mean, I think there's even a plastic
bag that they zip it up in. Yeah, you put your
mattress in a bag, and you have to let it fumigate
the shit out of it. Let all the carcasses fall
out. But there's all kinds of stuff that's also
going on. Yeah, whatever. Bed bugs are bad. When
we go to the hotel, I look, because you can see
them. If your mattress has it, it looks like
dirt. Underneath your mattress. So I always lift
it up and look. But also, we always put our...
You don't put your luggage on the floor and open
it up. Because then they'll jump in. So we put
it on top of... This is such a gross conversation.
So we always use those luggage... Yeah, the little
racks. Rack or whatever. I put it on the counter.
And I'm always closing it when I'm done. I don't
put... luggage away into the furniture or anything
like that. So when you guys are about to go in
the room and you guys are like all, you know,
are you ready? I'm ready. I'm ready. And you
go in with your hazmat suits. That's why I carry
a sleeping bag when I go traveling. That's for
the sperm. That's right. You want to sleep on
top of the bed. Sperm and vaginal juice. Dallas
is number 24. Did he just say sperm and vaginal
juice? Did I hear that right? Do we need to play
that back? What the hell? Hold on. Are you saying
that's what the bed bugs are for? No, that's
what you get when you sleep in those beds. No,
that's what they feed on. Oh. Because it flakes.
That's why there's such a healthy colony of bed
bugs, because that's what they eat. They're some
of the most resilient pests in the world. Yeah,
but where do they come from? Your anus. So when
people show up, are they outside the hotel? Do
they come in luggage? Yeah, you bring them home
with you. But how do they get into the bed? I
have no idea. I guess people travel. I don't
know. I don't know how you initially get them.
Like, can you all of a sudden have a bed bug
out breaking your house without bringing them
home? You got to bring them from somewhere. So
where do they start? Bed bugs typically enter
hotels by hitchhiking on guest luggage, clothing,
or other belongings. There you go. As they are
primarily hitchhikers rather than foragers. Yeah,
you can bring them from anywhere. So where did
the first bed bug come from and how to get into
a hotel? Ever. Yes. It was the Mayberry or the
Mayflower. It's like the chicken and the egg.
Where'd the first one come from? It came over
from London on the Mayflower. On the Mayflower?
Yes. Along with rats and the plague. Oh, yeah.
And scurvy. And scurvy, yes. Crazy. But where
do they live in the natural habitat? Are they
like on trees? I don't know. That's what I said.
I mean, where do they come from? Do they only
live in mattresses? Well, think about fleas and
lice. Same damn thing, man. I mean, we went to
an Airbnb in Arkansas. and it was a beautiful
Airbnb with wonderful nature -y shit, right?
Well, and the dogs were running all around, and
they had, I pulled 20, I pulled 27 ticks. Ticks
are bad. Yes, I pulled 27 ticks off my dogs.
Did you get all the head and everything? Yeah,
well, first off, they were so early in the process,
they were just crawling around. Oh, okay. I mean,
it started because I was laying on the bed. And
one was crawling on me. Oh, yeah. And I was like,
what the fuck? It says the bed bugs, they originated
from cave -dwelling bugs that started feeding
on bats and then humans as they moved into caves
and later across the world with human migration
and travel. Excellent hitchhikers, but they cannot
fly or jump, so they must rely on people or their
items to transport. So those are probably easier
to kill and control than... Ticks and fleas.
Yeah, ticks. Ticks are bad. Because they jump.
Fleas jump. You know that. Oh, yeah. We can see
them. Oh, yeah. Jumping up on your leg. So they're
tricky to control. Yeah. And ticks, man, they're
everywhere. Yeah, and those carry some bad disease
as well. Yeah, Lyme. The ticks do. Lyme disease.
Yeah, Lyme disease. I'm not sure if it's herpes.
Oh. HIV maybe. Unless you get like a penis tick.
penis tick. What is going on over there? I don't
know. You mean like crap? He was like, where
does it come from? You're 80s. Like, I don't
know what's going on with you right now, but
there's a lot of weird stuff going on. So I guess
the rule of thumb is don't go to hotels ever.
I always look. I don't care how clean the hotel
is, I always look. Sometimes the nicer ones aren't
as, you know, it doesn't matter. You can get
in some of the shittiest hotels and they've got
nice rooms and it's just fine. You go to a really
nice Four Seasons one and you're like, because
I work at the Four Seasons and there's plenty
of times where you get bug bugs. It just happens.
It's just whoever stayed there the night before.
Yeah, they could have brought it from, you know,
Baton Rouge. Some hippie. Some hippie from Florida.
Yeah. Who knows? Yep. Yep. Or Ohio. Or Ohio,
yeah. Or Ohio. Mostly Ohio. So they travel. You
know, people travel. You know, that young lady
traveling on the train. The Ukrainian young lady.
That's a sad story, man. I think they're really
looking into, and I think they should, all the
judges and the DAs who let this guy out. What,
15 times? Unbelievable. Let him out. It's the
same bullshit. Even his mother was begging for
them to put him into prison because she knew
what kind of person he was. Yeah. They just don't
want the liability. They didn't want the... Look,
it's just bullshit. So I saw a portion of this
video, and so he stabs her in the neck, and she
looks up at him. She's in disarray. She doesn't
know what's going on. She doesn't understand
what's just happened. She's just... dying right
now. And yeah, right now she's about to die.
So she's been stabbed in the neck and she's bleeding
out? And she's just sitting there. There she
goes. Yeah, there's blood on the ground there.
Oh my God. Just like that. I've never seen this.
It's sad as hell. Just sitting there minding
her own business and then she's dead. Instant
dead. This guy, you know what? He should get
the death penalty. Period. Yeah, they need to
kill them. And you know what else? I'm disappointed
with all the people around her. Look, I know
it's a culture. I think we may have spoken in
this prior podcast. I know it's a culture whenever
you're traveling to look down, don't get involved
in shit. Man, we're a community. Well, at least
someone should have at least checked on her.
There's nothing they could have done. Nothing.
Nothing they could have done. I mean, she died
in what, 10 seconds? It was quick. And it was
fast. No one even went over and checked on her
at all. They just kind of turned their head.
There was a guy that came later, like a minute
or two later, and tried to help, and there was
somebody with him, too. He even tried to take
a shirt off and wrap her neck and stop the bleeding,
but she was too far gone. He caught the jugular
with that, with the one on the stab. It doesn't
take long. She was not going to be able to be
saved, but that doesn't stop you. From, you know,
doing something. Well, there's somebody sitting
directly next to her across the aisle. And they
just ignored it. They just sat there. That lady
right there. Yeah, this is post, right? Oh, okay,
here they are. They're showing the five people
that were there after she had been stabbed. Okay,
well, first off, it happened so fast, probably
most of them didn't even know what happened.
And then if she slumps over onto the floor and
they had no idea what happened. And they don't
know that he stabbed her in the neck. No, they
don't. Look, and the look on her face. They have
a picture of her when she looks up. She looks
like she's in shock. Yeah, it's sad. It's so
sad. And she's 23, right? 23. She comes from
Ukraine. She's been in the United States for
24 months. Unbelievable. Two years. And, you
know, I'm... It's horrible. People need to be
held accountable for this stuff. That's what
I mean. They need to find out who these judges
and DAs are and call them to the mat and ask,
why did we let him out? What is your reasoning?
100%. This no bail thing has got to stop. And
then you have Brian Stelter saying it's racist.
Oh, shut the fuck up. It has nothing to do with
race. Brian Stelter, he needs to be fired again.
He does. I don't care who was standing there
holding that knife and stabbing that woman. Whatever
they looked like, whatever color they were, whatever
race they were, whatever gender they were, I
don't give a shit. I guarantee it. If that were
a white guy and they stabbed a black woman, they
would be rioting. Oh, it would be a shit show.
It would be rioting and it's disgusting. Unbelievable.
And I guess that's just the difference between
The cultures. She starts like crying. I don't
think she even realizes what's happening. She's
understanding that there's something wrong right
now. She looks down and sees the blood. This
is making me sick to my stomach. Let's not show
that anymore. I'm just kidding. Maybe this will
spur people into action. It won't. We're too
damn passive. And the problem is the damn prosecutors.
They're letting these people out. You know what?
I mean, look at these people. You couldn't have
stopped it. No. It happened so fast. And it was
a pocket knife. Yeah. I mean, it wasn't a gun.
It wasn't a machete. It was a damn little pocket
knife. I mean, unfortunately, it couldn't have
been stopped. Should she have maybe been a little
more aware of her surroundings? Maybe. Now what?
Now you're supposed to avoid anybody you're scared
of? Well, I'll tell you what. On a subway? Well,
if I have to get on a subway, I'm standing someplace
with my back against the wall watching. You shouldn't
have to. It's impossible. The only way to curb
a violent crime is only the intended victim can
do it. Because the felon that does not fear the
police, fears the judge or jury. He has to fear
the victim. That's the only way you're going
to be able to curb this. In that moment, you're
on your own. There's no question about it. It's
awful. I mean, even if she was packing. So to
what Jeff said, I agree. You have to be vigilant.
Yeah, even if she had bear spray, even if she
had a gun, even if she had anything, there was
nothing she could have done. Well, you can read
the room. And you can say, look, I see one, two,
three, four, five people that in my eyes are
suspect. Nobody behind you. So sit in a place
where there's a window behind you only. No one's
ever behind you that you can't see. And you need
to have your hand on your bear mace or your bear
spray. Are you even allowed to have bear mace
or mace period in the city? I don't give a shit.
You have it. You have it. Buy it off of Amazon.
Have it in your hand. And you need to be sitting
in that car expecting somebody to attack you.
You know what would fix this? You fix this is
you give them guns. You give everyone guns and
this shit will go away because you know what?
They're going to start killing each other and
we'll be done. I say they collectively. It still
wouldn't have stopped that. It may not have stopped
it, but it may have deterred it. I don't know.
I think, I don't know. I mean, this guy, what
spurred him to do this? He's fucking mentally
ill. I think he's mentally ill. Nothing would
have stopped it. Now, it wouldn't have stopped
this, but if it was a culture of people carrying
self -defense weapons, then it would stop that
type of stuff. It would stop some of the stuff,
yes. Yeah, well. But the crazy people who don't
care. But, you know, I heard on the radio, they're
like. The guy's not crazy because he was smart
enough to leave, right? If you're crazy, well,
I want you to sit back down. I did nothing wrong.
And he's also a pussy because all the other attacks,
they're all on women. Oh, are they? So he's a
big puswa. So he doesn't, you know, he's got,
you know what? I don't care anymore. All right,
let's move on. Let's talk about college football.
That's always fun. Man, there were some. Week
two is always just a blowout. It is kind of weak.
Well, there was one game. The Ohio State game,
I think, could have been close. Ohio State? 70
-0. Well, I mean, they were making a move, Grambling
State. They were pretty close. What, across the
50? Iowa State -Iowa was a pretty good game,
right? Oh, Iowa State and Iowa. There we go.
16 -13. Battle of Iowa. Yeah, that's a good one.
77 -3. You know what East Texas A &M is? No.
It's Commerce. That's Commerce. Oh, they changed
the name. Yeah, they changed the name. Oh. Well,
that's not improving their basketball program
or their football program. It looks like a basketball.
Why is Florida State a basketball score? I know.
A &M has nowhere to talk, but why is Florida
State playing or inviting East Texas A &M to
come in and just slaughter them 7 -7 -9? So I
had heard that they're going to put a stop. I
don't know how they do this, but they're going
to stop allowing. high -profile teams, like the
high -caliber teams, from playing soft opponents.
These FCS teams? Yeah. Yeah, they're going to
stop allowing them to do that so that they can
fluff their early schedule. But I know why they're
doing it, because they've got to work out some
kinks. You know what I mean? It's like the Texas
-Ohio State game. It's like a preseason game.
Let's imagine that Texas, you know, they struggled.
Manning struggled, right? And let's say three
or four games into the season, now they're humming.
And then they would have said, Oh, man, if we
had played Ohio State in week five instead of
week one. Oh, Ohio State has to do the same thing.
Yes, but you see, I think that's. Each team has
to do the same thing. They're playing their first
game of the year. You're either going to win
or you're going to lose. But I think that's why
they pad. No, I don't think they should. I think
they should. I agree. I don't think they should
either. I don't think they should either, but
I think that's why they do it. Well, I think
they pad it. Because they want to work out the
kinks. Well, that's probably part of it, but
also I think they want to help ensure until they
get into their divisional play. They want to
ensure they don't lose anything. They're undefeated.
Correct. Yeah. Or they don't. Maybe it's not
about getting hurt, too. But these little schools,
they kind of depend on the revenue that they
get. Oh, yeah. They get a bunch of money. That's
true. They get money. Oh, yeah. So Cal Poly,
when they were getting destroyed by Utah, 63
-9, the coach is like, that's okay, guys. We're
getting a lot of money. We got $10 million. We're
getting a lot of money. Oregon scheduled Oklahoma
State. Blew them out. Oh, yeah, look at that
shit. Holy cow. Then you had a couple other ones.
South Florida did beat Florida, right? So that's
a smaller school from Tampa, South Florida. Yeah,
but they're ranked 18th. Well, they're ranked
there now. They weren't last week. Oh, I got
you. Florida was ranked, and South Florida upset
them in whatever they played. And what was the
drama? There was some drama about that game.
Wasn't there? There was some player behavior
that made the news? Maybe I'm not thinking that
one. I don't know about that. Okay. We'll ignore
that. Anyway, yeah, that's college football for
you. I think there's no surprises. I mean, the
Florida one was. The Florida one was a surprise.
Kentucky was holding their own against Ole Miss.
That was a pretty good game, too. Yeah. Georgia.
Who'd Georgia play? Oh, I don't know. Austin
Peay. Austin Peay. Yeah. And that's not as big
of a blowout as you would think, 28 -6. What
about Alabama? Who'd they play? Alabama. Did
they lose again? We can only hope. Oh, no, no,
no. Sorry. Oh, yeah. That's not good. They play
Louisiana Monroe. And you know they probably
were holding back. I know Brandon went there
for a coach's visit, and we visited. La Monroe?
Yeah. Yeah, we drove out there. We went to...
There's two of them real close to each other,
Louisiana Monroe, and there's another one just
down the street. Lafayette? No, that's down south.
I can't remember what it is, but there's one.
Louisiana Tech? They've been historically not
bad. That's down in Lafayette, I believe. La
Tech is down in Lafayette. Anyway, and he went
to both of them, but he did not like either school.
Well, we're not going to see any of the exciting
stuff until. It's Louisiana. Yeah, when the big
teams start playing each other, you know. That
starts this week, right? I mean, A &M goes up
to South Bend and plays Notre Dame. That's not
going to go well. Saturday night, baby. I have
to get into more college. I have not done it.
I have never felt the fever for college. So much.
Better game, in my opinion. Yeah, I agree that
they're more exciting. The rules are a little
different, and, you know, these guys are fighting
for, you know, this is, I agree, the chemistry
is way different. I just, I'm not, I can't get
into it. Well, you need to find a team, whether
it's something here like TCU because it's local
or whatever. I would go with Cal Poly. Yeah.
Or Austin Peay. Well, I mean, now that the boys
are going to be going to A &M, I'll probably,
or East Texas. Yeah, A &M's a good one. Rambling
State, that's another good one. You know what?
That's a good choice. Texas A &M University.
They're going to be solid. Hopefully they'll
break out at some point, but they're always going
to be competitive. And we'll watch it together.
How about that? I'll buy you some Aggie shirts.
I'm a big Aggie fan as well. We can whoop and
holler. We can fanboy together. Anyway, the big
one for me this coming weekend is my two Ohio
teams. The school I went to, Ohio University,
is playing Ohio State. Ohio University, yes.
And I don't think they've ever played from what
I remember. What do you mean? They don't always
play? No. Ohio State does not like playing in
-state teams. And so how is that going to go?
They're probably going to get blasted. They're
going to get destroyed. Well, Ohio University
just beat West Virginia. I'm not saying that's
Ohio State, but they may score. Wow. So you're
saying there's a chance. They may score. But
they're better than some of the ones they played
this week. So anyway. How's Deion Sanders Colorado
doing? They lost their first game. I don't know
what they did week two. They're not ranked anymore,
I don't believe. Yeah, they suck. Yeah, I don't
know. That was a totally overhyped situation.
Yeah, and I'm glad Texas Tech is doing pretty
good. They whomped up on whoever they played
with last week. Yeah, they destroyed somebody.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm a huge college football
fan. I think Steven. You passed it. I think Steven
is coming up. Right there. Kent State. They played
Kent State. Go one more up. 62 -14. Oh, yeah.
Look at that. Jeez. I tell you what, Texas Tech
has had some really good years in the past. It's
been a while. I mean, they've had a lot of quarterbacks.
I mean, A &M has too, but they've had. Pat Mahomes,
they had Baker Mayfield there. He didn't finish
there, though. No, no, no. There's quite a few
that's gotten on to the NFL. Spencer Rattler
went there. Graham Harrell, who was really good
back in the early 2000s, I think. He set a bunch
of records, but he didn't do anything in the
pros. Yeah. There's quite a few Texas Tech. That's
when, who was the coach at the time? What was
his name? Spike Dyke? No. Oh, after that. The
guy who got... In trouble. In trouble for keeping
Craig James' kid in a locker. What was his name?
He's passed away now. Yeah, he passed away. Bob
something. That's Bob Knight. No, not the basketball.
Oh, you're right. The old pirate. Pirate? Yes.
He went on a Mississippi State. All right. Yeah,
I don't know. We'll have to go back to that.
Anyway. I'll get it. All right. Yeah. Speaking
of, you said somebody has passed on. Oh, I did,
yeah. Yeah, we have some celebrity deaths. We
did have a little bit of a celebrity death the
other day. Well, do we have time, or do we need
to? Mike Wright. Do we have time to do this?
Well, now that Sean gave it away, I guess we
do. Damn, the whole thing's blown. What are you
talking about? You just spilled it. Well, the
Mississippi State quarterback, Mike Wright. No,
Mike. It is Mike. He's talking about the quarterback,
not who died. Mike. Oh, God. I don't know. How
much time do we have left, Chuck? About eight
minutes. And we also have to talk about the bourbon.
Yeah, we have to talk about the bourbon. That's
what I'm saying. Let's do that. Let's talk about
the bourbon, and then we'll do celebrity deaths,
and then we'll wrap up. If we have time. If not,
we'll wrap in celebrity deaths next show. Okay.
All right. What are we drinking, gentlemen? Teaser.
That's crazy. We are drinking the Heaven Hill.
Bottle and Bomb. It's a good one. This is aged
seven years. Yes. And this was actually really
hard to find for the longest time, and now it's
on the shelf. It's everywhere. Right. I have
a bottle of this at home. Yeah. And I remember
the first time we got it, I researched it, and
it used to only be available in Kentucky. It's
like 15 bucks. Back in the day. 15, 1 .5? Yes.
Good Lord. So we went through a period when we
were buying it, and I want to say it was $35,
$40. $34 .99. And now what? It's like $60? Yeah,
it's stupid. Yes. They're going to have to correct
that because the market is soft. Oh, yeah. The
market is really soft. Yep. Stuff's coming down.
It's just not coming down fast enough, right?
Because I think the challenge, well, they make
their own stuff, Heaven Hill. That can't be right.
It was $15, and now it's $70? When it was only
in Kentucky. Yeah. Okay, that's just dumb. Yeah,
same shit. Well, you know, whatever. I guess
they were waiting for it to mature. This is a
seven -year, right? No, this is a seven -year.
Seven years. They were waiting for it to get
hot. That's what they do. I guess if everybody
wants it, then they're like, oh, it's all supply
and demand, right? So they stick it in the barrel,
125 proof. It's there for seven years. Mash bill,
78 corn, 10 rye, 12 barley. This is in the Bardstown
region. It says MSRP is around $70, anywhere
from $65 to $75, pending -ish. I don't know what
fair price is. There's paid at $50. I think paid
is probably the MSRP. Right. Fair price, maybe
the aftermarket, secondary, maybe. Yeah, but
you can find it at any... You can now, yeah.
But that's based in August 2023. Oh, okay. Yeah.
Yeah, 50 bucks. It costs 50 bucks now. So you've
been to the distillery. Not the distillery, but
the Rick House. It's only Rick Houses right now.
And I've been to there as well. Yeah. Cool. Oh,
it's huge. Yeah, very much. They have so many
barrels. I know. And they said they do, is it
1 ,500 barrels a day is how much they bottle.
Wow. It's a lot. It's a lot. 1 ,500 barrels?
A day. Yes. I'm sorry. Yeah. No, distilling.
So they're distilling 1 ,500 bottles or barrels
a day. And when they open up their own distillery,
because right now they outsource to Jim Beam
and some other places. Hold on. 1 ,500. Did we
do that right? 1 ,500 barrels. Correct. A day.
A day. They have massive machinery doing this
shit. It is. tremendously large. Wow. It's insane.
Yeah, the amount of barrels they have is just
obscene. This is how people lose barrels in the
system. Like Pappy, you know, you have employees
that are finding these displaced barrels when
you start generating that much. Shelling it out
the back. Yeah. Yeah. How do you manage something
like that? Yeah, look, Heaven Hill, Bernheim
distillery, 400 ,000 barrels a year. So do that
now. Damn. We have an alcohol problem in this
country. And then one just opened, so they're
doing 150 ,000, and it's going to scale up to
400. They're going to do almost 900 ,000 barrels
a year. That's too much. Because the lady who
did the tour says, when our distillery opens
up, or our new one that they're building, it's
going to double to 3 ,000 barrels a day. That's
insane. Well, I mean, if they could sell it.
They do. Now they own a bunch of brands as well.
So this right here, the smell of it, let's get
in here. I'm done. I'm done too. Oh. Did you
do like a third and fourth pour while we weren't
looking? No, I didn't touch it. I really like
this. I mean, it's enjoyable. It's excellent.
It's an outstanding bottle. It's highly crushable.
It is. It's 100 proof. It's bottle and bond,
so it's 100 proof. Heaven and Hill bottle and
bond tasting notes feature a golden amber color
with a nose of vanilla, caramel, honey, and oak.
The palate is smooth and warm, blending sweet
corn and honey with a subtle rice, spice, oak,
and char. It's a no -brainer. Yeah. It's always
a - For 50 bucks. It's a no -brainer. Long, finished,
satisfying, warm linger with notes of caramel
spice and toasted oak. I would buy this again
to replace it. Yeah. Something you have to and
should have in your collection. You really should.
Because this one's an easy one to drink because
it's 100 proof. And honestly, for 100 proof,
it is kind of hot for 100 proof. Well, it's still
smooth, but you can feel a little bit of it.
Yeah, there's a richness to it. Yeah, it's nice.
All right, well, let's wrap up. What are we going
to rank this? I'm going 6 .8. For a 100 proofer,
I'm probably a 7 on this because I really like
it. Yeah, I'm 7 as well. I feel comfortable saying
that. I don't want to jump higher than a 7. I
think 7 is perfect for this. That is what you
gave it last time. Is it really? I think it's
interesting as we review. Did Paul do 6 .8? Everybody
gave it a 7. Oh, I dipped a little. Well, you
know, because I've matured. My taste and my palate
has matured a little bit. I would expect this
to be a 9 year. Well, out there when you're in
the green room, he goes, this is a seven -year,
right? He was tasting it. He's like, this has
been aged seven years. I can't take it. My palate
is so mature. I can't take sometimes Paul serious
when he looks at me and he turns his head to
the side and his headset is flaking and I see
that. Yeah, the wind is blowing the flakes off
my headset. jowls that are... Yeah, I know. 15
bucks a pop, huh? Yeah, we need to buy them.
I'll buy three sets. How is yours, by the way,
Mr. Producer? Is your headset disintegrating
like the rest of us? No, no, no. It's in beautiful
shape. Austin took great care of it for four
years. Okay, all right. I'll get... How's yours?
Mine is yours. Mine started to fray as well.
I wonder if there's a... If you buy... We have
five, six. We have six... Packs. I wonder what
the other ones frame. No, they're good, but I'm
just saying, you know, maybe if there's a bulk
price. I don't think there was. Yeah, I didn't
see one in what I was researching, but I can
buy three for now. I would buy three because
those guarantee we'd lose them. Actually, solid.
Yeah, you know. That's a good point. Mike Leach.
Mike Leach. Who is that? That's the coach of
Texas Tech back in the day. Of the football.
That's when they were. Running gun. Cliff Kingsbury
was the quarterback. Yes. Oh, dude, he was airing
it out. Oh, yeah. Very nice. Yeah. Had some good
receivers, too. And that's when they were. Michael
Crabtree. Yes. They were ranked in the top five,
I think, for a while. They would beat Texas from
every once in a while. Oh, yeah. They beat the
big boys, the Big 12, every now and then. Yeah,
and they made a stink because, you know, it was
always Oklahoma and A &M and Texas, and those
were the ones that were. And then suddenly Texas
Tech is beating people. And they're like, what
the fuck? That's not supposed to be in the equation
here. Well, now that we're in September of 2025,
you know, we've. Got a bunch of Oktoberfest that
are going to start popping up here. And I have
a list. Yeah. And I'm going to, on the second
half of the podcast. Let's do that. We need a
plan. Yeah. We got a plan. I mean, we got to
do. I know McKinney's coming up. I will be out
for that. Frisco. Yeah, we're heading into the
fall, gentlemen. But I want to go. It's right
around the corner. We've never gone to the Frisco
one. At least I haven't. I've never been to the
Frisco one. I've been to the Frisco one. It's
fun. I'd like to go to that one this year. That's
at the Star, isn't it? Yep. I was there last
year. It's fun. Oh. Chicken dances? And what
was cool is that, you know how they have that
big football field? Right. Well, the little football
field. Where all the kids out there play football.
Yes, and that ginormous screen. Well, they had
a little bit of that going on, but they had like
a big tent and all these, you know. Oompa, oompa,
oompa, oompa. Oompa bands. And there was an amazing
game that was on the gigantic screen of a college
football game. It was cool. People bring out
chairs. We got to do it. German food, beer games,
Liederkosen, and a dirndl contest. What contest?
Dirndl. Dirndl. D -I -R -N -H -L. What is that?
Dirndl? It's where you hold the mug up and you
let it just... Oh, yeah, and they're like all
shaking and they're like, Sir, sir, you can't
shake your hand. You're losing all the beer.
Yeah, what if you just shake it and everything
falls out and you just have empty glass? I'm
still holding it. No, they go... Yeah. Well,
tell Julie, the Flying Saucer Drought Emporium
in Fort Worth, they have an event, 5K run, celebration
from raw brews. When? She won't do that. September
13th. She's out of town. She's training for a
marathon. She's not going to run anywhere. What
if you do the 5K 20 times? Go in a circle over
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