There you go. You guys are gay. I know, I know.
Are we supposed to be gay or no? Yes. I'm pretty
happy. All right. Pretty happy about this drink.
We're about to drink. Oh, what are we going to
do now? We're going to have to start hiding the
bottle if we're going to have a video. We can't
have it sitting here on the table. They're going
to see it on the video. They're going to know
what it is. They won't know what that is. Turn
the label like that. There you go. Everyone can
tell what that is. No one can tell what that
is. Well, I'll just keep it down here. There
you go. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You know
what we need? You know how there's like a silver
platter when people get like the food? Yeah.
You know what I mean? You need that. Reveal.
It's always off screen that you got to bring
it on. You can just keep it over by me. Bad idea.
It's a great idea because I've got to look it
up. That's a horrible idea. No, no, no. It's
awesome. Best idea ever. He's got a straw over
there. It's one of those 18 -inch straws. All
right. Well, it's the second half of the Dudes
Like Us podcast, October 15th. Dudes Like Us.
I'm Sean. I'm Paul. Ooh. I'm Jeff. Sorry. You
had me mid -pull. Did you get nasal bourbon again?
Thank you, Mr. Producer. We're staying on top
of shit as usual. It's really good. And we've
got a jam -packed... podcasts for you guys. Check
us out on Facebook and Instagram, dudeslikeus
-podcast. That's pretty much it. dudeslikeus
-podcast. I don't know what the deal is. Even
now, if I go to my computer, I've just got a
new work computer, so then, you know, we'll talk
about that. I've got a new work computer, so
you've got to transfer all the data, you know,
and you've got a new experience of entering all
your passwords to various websites that you go
to. I forgot what the hell I was going with that.
I don't know. And you couldn't something. Wow.
Geez. Yeah. Did you take your shillage yet? Pretty
sad. Okay, maybe we'll come back to that. Anyways,
that was a complete farce there. What was going
on? That was just a disconnect. Well, the sad
thing is we don't remember what you were saying
either. You were saying you couldn't find something.
Oh, about the podcast. Oh, that's right. If you're
looking up the podcast, that's the weird thing
is that, thank you. You're welcome. Oh, my God.
You're welcome. Connecting those dots. You know,
that's what happens when you drink a little bit
of alcohol and you're kind of like, it just starts
to dissipate that brain shit. Right. So when
you type in Dudes Like Us podcast, it doesn't
populate. If you do that on Google, it shows
up pretty well. But if you do it like on Amazon
or Spotify or any kind of search engine. within
a music... Nothing comes back. You have to really
dig. Really? If you type in dudes like us, then
you don't see anything. All one word? No. Spaces,
normal stuff, man. And then you go into... I've
tried. I'm just saying, it doesn't automatically
populate. So when people come to me and they're
like, hey, man, we can't find your podcast. I
was like, well, did you do this? Did you do that?
They're like, yeah, we did. It's there. But you
have to hit dudes like us, pack us. You know
how it automatically populates several of the
top lists? None of that populates. Way to go,
Chuck. You did it instantaneously. Instantaneously.
Yeah, he's really smart at technology. Are you
spelling it right, Sean? It's like D -O -O -D
-S. Yeah, yeah. How are you spelling dudes? Is
that Spotify? It's not doads like us. Oh. Yeah.
That's where you're messing up. Yeah. Anyways.
Yeah, we probably need to go back on to RSS,
maybe change that. There's a Dudes on Dudes podcast.
Is there really? Dudes on Dudes? What? I think
I'm going to go into RSS and change our logo
to the new one. Yeah, that's a good idea. It's
the top one that comes up on Amazon. Just dudes
like us, huh? You only have to hit podcast. I
did the same thing. It just didn't work. Maybe
it's an Apple. I just did it on YouTube and dudes
like us did not show up, but if you use it as
one word, dudes like us, we're top of the list
there. I wonder if it's because of the at dudes
like us. I don't know what that 7203 is. I don't
know. Our username? I don't know. That's been
set up so long ago, I have no idea. Well, we
have been doing this for five or six years now.
So check us out on Dudes Like Us. We have over
300 episodes. We are. We're over 300 right now.
Yes. We are. We're legit. Yeah. Hawk tour. I
think we need to like just. That's what we need
to do. We need the trend. Hawk tour. We need
that moment. We need that moment. Yeah, but she's
gone now, right? I don't know. I think she still
has a podcast. Does she not? I mean, she does.
And she was in the top 10, one of her top 10
podcasts. Yeah, but she's not relevant anymore.
If she still has a top 10 podcast. Does she?
That was the last time we did a list. I think
you may be right. We could not believe that she
was in the top 10. Check out. Let's talk to a
girl. How's her podcast right? Just look up the
top 10 podcasts in America right now. Or in the
world. Sorry. Do we do world or do we do US?
Just put top 10 podcasts. That's good. That'll
work. I know the Crime Junkie. So one of my coworkers
is like avid about that. And so we went on a
road trip. And damn, we listened to a lot of.
We listened to a lot of Crime Junkie. And it
was good. The Hawk to a Girl podcast, Talk to
a, is not still in the top 10 podcast. Ah, it
dropped off. The popular, briefly in late 2024,
but stopped releasing new episodes after a controversy
about the cryptocurrency. Oh, yeah. She got mired.
Because she tried to, she released her own Bitcoin.
And she made a shit ton of money. And a ton of
people lost so much. Well, and you know what?
That's bullshit because she got shyster. She
got taken. Yeah. And then she tried. She was
just thinking, she doesn't know. She doesn't
know. I mean, who the hell? I wouldn't know.
Someone just came to her and says, hey, I want
to make you $10 million. Just do this. In five
minutes. Yeah. Well, and that's pretty much what
happened because all these people bought into
the coin. And then so she was just like, she
put in all her money. Everyone put in all her
money. And all of a sudden, because of this influx
of money, bam, the stock rose up. And then she
was like, I'm selling all. Is that what happened?
She sold out instantaneously? Yep. And then it
went to nothing, and everybody lost their money.
That's the danger of cryptocurrency, though.
I think that'd be a pretty poor investment. A
girl that's Hakatua saying, I'm going to do a
cryptocurrency? You never know. She was hot at
the time. But what does she know about it? Nothing.
Exactly. Well, she's being coached. None of the
cryptos are. This is an opportunist, an opportunity.
She's not an opportunist. I'm not talking about
her. I'm talking about people who actually, bought
into it. That's what I'm saying. Oh, yeah. It
soared to nearly $500 million before plummeting
within hours, leaving many investors with significant
losses. And then the accusation was that she
had the pump and dump. Her team had pump and
dumped it, did the rug pull, and yeah. She may
have enough money. She'd be like, yeah, I don't
give a shit. Yeah. They've not sold anything.
She was cleared by the FBI and SEC. That reminds
me. She didn't do anything wrong. No, she was
just like, she was riding the wave of popularity
and her podcast was taking off and she was like,
you need to do a Bitcoin, okay? Wow, this is
all fun. Right. She had no clue. Imagine having
some DLU coin. DLU. DLU coin. How do we market
that? We can't even market our podcast. Deloitte.
Did you guys see that link I sent you to Deloitte?
No, thank you. Did you just send it? No, it was
a couple days ago. So Deloitte had sold a report
to Australia. Oh, I heard about it. And Australia
spent between $400 ,000 and $500 ,000 for this
report. Well, they just nominated some person.
They were just like, hey, Paul, can you be the
professional DocuSign guy and create a report
for this? So, Paul, I'm a fictitional person.
Yeah, fictitional, Paul. So, Paul goes to chat
GBT, and AI writes this elaborate report, and
he's like, holy shit, this is the ding -dong.
Submits it, and there's like a, it doesn't read
all. thousand pages of it and back on the 722nd
page uh they're all the way up to the 850 page
so there's a big old 10 12 percent uh lapse of
correct data on all that paper yeah it's all
bullshit it was total bullshit oh really wrong
quotes uh wrong it's like a ton of fucked up
stuff and deloitte's having to go back and eat
crow on that dude that is huge because when i
was there briefly They they the only reason why
they justified charging absolutely exorbitant,
just in my opinion, criminal rates for what they
produce is because they're the unquestioned gold
standard. Everything they do is produced by the
best experts with, you know, it's back to 100
percent. It's 100 percent not true. I was in
there. I know for a fact this wasn't true because
they made me do shit and I was not an expert.
Anyway, but now that ChatGPT and the other AI
engines make it that much faster and easier to
produce shit, they're doing the same thing like
everybody else. And it's wrong. Well, I mean,
whether it's wrong or right, yes, yes. But my
point is, as soon as AI reaches the point where
it can produce exactly what they produce or better,
the consultants are fucked. Think about it. I
mean, they charge. outrageous rates for what
they do. And if people don't need consultants
anymore because they're just going to ChatGPT
and looking it up. Maybe it'll help the consumer
or the end user. Look at my process and how do
I improve my process. 100%. You can do that right
now. There's a ton of people. I guarantee their
revenue is slowly dwindling as more and more
companies rely on AI instead of them. Me too.
I don't know who owns Deloitte. Is that part
of the BlackRock? It's European. Yeah. No, it's
not BlackRock. It's not Rothschild. Deloitte
is a very large company. Huge. Very large company,
but it's European. It's like 250 ,000 employees.
Yeah, it's huge. BlackRock's like, that's worldwide.
That's not necessarily. Yeah, yeah. I'm not sure
it's owned by, I mean, it says it's a private
company. No, it's no, it's a private company.
No one owns it. No shit. That seems highly suspect.
Not even shares? You don't even have shares on
that? It's not privately owned. No, it's privately
owned. I mean, it's privately owned, so it's
not publicly traded. So privately owned, kind
of like the Nobel Peace Prize folks. Are they
publicly owned? I don't believe they're traded
on the stock market. No, they're not. I mean,
but remember, being private. People attempt to
change the subject. Being private. That is a
huge advantage to a company. Oh, yeah. Because
you don't have to report your revenue. You don't
have to report this. You don't have to report
that. There's a lot of rules that you have to
go. Because when we were purchased by Office
Depot, a lot of our shit had to change. Oh, yeah.
How we reported financially, what we could report.
How we were going public for the first time.
Well, we were part of a public company, right?
For the first time. For the first time. Dude,
it changes everything. It changes your processes.
Oh, it did. Your audit processes. 100%. What
people are respected to. you know, report on,
sorry, didn't mean to, but no, you're right.
Oh, you know, we had to, you know, the socks,
whatever the hell they call it. Uh, and I had
to go in there and readjust a lot of the reports,
how I was pulling them because they needed to
see it a certain way. I mean, dude, once you
just socks in general, once socks gets involved
and you have to produce, you know, uh, audit
reports and do audits based on your processes
and stuff. I'll give you a small example. So
in a private company, you might be the database
administrator, right? So you have access to the
data on the backside. And then also you can access
the system because you know the system really
well. You could go in and you could end to end
if you wanted to. You could enter a fraudulent
purchase order, say it was received, send it
over to AP, tinker with the who gets paid. Close
it out. And close it out and have it, you know,
send you a check, right? Well, SOX, make sure
that nobody has that kind of access for good
reason right right because then you could have
corruption you could have people stealing from
the company and shit and these are shareholders
that would be affected by that it greatly silos
shit absolutely if you have the ability to enter
a purchase order then there's no way you can
enter an invoice if you have the ability to enter
an invoice there's no way you have the ability
and you have to prove and this is something i
have to sign off on in my systems that i support
i have to I get all the reports on who has access
to all these different functions, and I have
to make sure that nobody has, you know, what
it's, I forget what they call it, damn it. But
anyway, you can't have multiple. Proprietary
access? No, it's segregation of duties. It's
called segregation of duties. You cannot have
somebody who has more access than they should
have to be able to do multiple people's jobs.
That's why they have so many teams in place,
right? Yes. Because it's all separation of duty.
This person in sales. should not be entering
the sales order, should not be entering the purchase
order, all the way through. It's all separate.
Yep. All separate. And it's all done to prevent
fraud and corruption. Right. And, by the way,
not only that, but mistakes. That's another thing.
Somebody just did something, and they weren't
supposed to, and they shouldn't have had the
access to do that. I mean, that's another huge
thing about it. We had some pretty deep investigations
on some of this shit. Uh -oh. Can I pause? This
is how immature we are. Chuck from across the
room wants to tell me that the lava lamp looks
like a moose knuckle. Well, or balls. Oh, it
does. It does look like a set of balls up there.
We have a lava lamp in here. Oh, it just... It's
actually picking up speed because it's been on
for a while. It went to a uniball. No, you're
good. Please go back to accounting and all that
other stuff. Ultimately, from a private company
to a public share, it basically turns it into
a political process because you're selling to
the shareholders that the company's doing well.
So you cherry -pick certain that your company's
doing, and you're not really revealing everything.
Like you said, you could doctor certain things,
and it's like, hey, look. Yeah, you have to reveal
all of it. Yeah. It's total transparency is the
idea. Yeah. When you become public, that's yeah.
But you made a statement saying that they don't
want you to run a report on that because it looks
bad on the shareholders. I had to redo it because
the way I was pulling it, the numbers, they were
called different things, and it wasn't the numbers
that they wanted to see to, I can't even remember
what they were, but they're like, We need to
see it like this in order to report it. Yeah,
there's certain requirements. There's SEC requirements.
There's all sorts of reporting requirements.
And then, by the way, so now you're public. You
were private. You go public. All these processes
have changed. Now guess who you're bringing in
to help you make the transition from private
to public? Hookers? Deloitte. Deloitte. KPMG.
All these big accounting firms. No hookers. No
hookers. We use Bain a lot. Right. So you're
using them for that. Do you feel powerful? Right.
Then you're using them for that and they charge
exorbitant rates for that. But then once now
you're public, you have to bring in those people
to audit you every year to make sure that you're
not doing anything. And remember Enron? Oh, yeah.
So that that was the birth of socks. That was
the birth of, you know, mandatory annual audits
where they come in and they. Look over your shoulder
with all the shit that you're doing and all this
kind of stuff. It's a big, big deal. So the fact
that Deloitte is private sounds shady to me.
I got to tell you. Right. Whoa. We'll never get
sponsorship from Deloitte. No, we're not. Fuck
them. I hate Deloitte. Yeah, we're not. We're
small potatoes for them. Yeah. Yeah, well, we
should be able to be funded pretty easily. Now
we got to go get Arthur Anderson or KPMG or somebody.
I don't like any of them, quite honestly. Yeah,
so Hawk to a Girl evidently made a shitload of
money on the whatever that coin is. We need a
Bitcoin. That's our strategy, huh? Yeah. Dude's
coin. Dilu. Dilu coin. Dilu. Dilu. Dilu. Dilu.
When I said Dilu, it reminded me of Deloitte.
You know, that's why it came up. And then I saw
the article about - Talk about squirrel. Well,
you know, it is the truth. But, you know, it's
just the fact that they did it, they sold that
report to Australia. It just, how could you sell
a half a million dollar report and not fucking
proof it? Because they're lazy and they're oversold
as the experts that they are. Anyway. Hey, let's
do a round -robin thing of what's going on in
the world. There's a ton of shit. We are shut
down right now. The Gaza thing's crazy with Trump's
peace thing. We got, you know, what do we got?
What are the major things going on? Hamas, right?
Well, I think the shutdown. We got a lot of things
that we want to just say. We'll just quickly
touch on them because I know we get mired down
in politics. Well, real quick, I think the shutdown,
I know most folks are not going to feel the impact
of this. I think my wife and I are. You're going
to D .C. Yeah, we're going to D .C. for one thing,
but we're having to fly. Right? Yeah. So it may
not, but it may. But that's who TSA and the flight
controllers, air traffic controllers, are impacted
by this. So I had zero impact this past weekend.
That's good. That gives me hope. Yeah. Because
I heard there were some airports where no air
traffic controllers showed up. And I think it's
purely based on their personal decision to say,
well, fuck it. If I'm not getting paid, I'm going
to call in sick. Correct. Right? Correct. Which
is total crap. Because they're going to get paid
retroactively. For every hour they work, they're
going to get paid. They may not get it right
now. Right. Yeah, but it's still fucked up. You
know? Yeah, it is. Right. So anyway, that may
impact us. We may get to the airport super early
because I don't know what TSA is going to look
like here in DFW. It may be fine. And we may
sit there for four hours. Right. I'd rather do
that. Don't you have like the advanced pass to
TSA? TSA, yes. Pre -check? Pre -check. But if
there's no TSA agents or there's just two. and
you're trying to process 10 ,000 people, that
could take a very long time. Yeah, so like I
said, we saw no impacts, but I bet you the national
monuments are going to be impacted. Those are
closed. Right. I'm not going up there to see
that. I'm not going to have time for that. Oh,
okay. Why are you going? Julie's running the
marathon. On the marathon there. Okay, so I'm
not going up there to see any of that. And you're
going to be on, I mean, you're handing out water
or something. You're doing something significant.
Yeah, they call it Sherpa, right? So you're carrying
around foods and nutrition and water and stuff.
Isn't that what they call the guides climbing
Everest? Are you going to have like a little
belt satchel with a variety of whiskeys for yourself?
I'm going to have a big yak skin coat on. Yak
skin? That's what the Sherpas wear, right? I
think you should. And I think you should send
a selfie. Like a yak hat? Oh, with like a wolf
face? Yeah, that's super cool. I have these big
walking sticks. Okay, yeah, I don't understand
that part. Yes. You had me until you had me.
Mountain climbing. You had me until you said
one. I was talking with Brian Shitty from California
in the Navy, and he says he's not getting paid.
Yeah. Well, the armed forces, apparently, they're
diverting. Trump is diverting White House funding
that they control. Never done it yet, though.
Well, also, he said that there is a billionaire
that has offered to pay. Nice. And some judge
will shut it down next week. No shit. Isn't that
ridiculous? Yeah, these activist judges that
are so hell -bent on torpedoing his success,
it's just outrageous. But whatever. Some judge
said, send all the Israeli hostages back to Gaza.
Right. Did they really? No. They have no say
in it. That's a Babylon Bee headline. They have
no say in that. But yeah, the TSA thing. May
be impacted from it. I hope it doesn't. And,
again, I think that's 100 % on the Dems. It is.
Because the Republicans are like, we're just
going to keep it at what we've been running that,
the budget. We're just going to keep it going
as we continue to negotiate. And the Dems are
just like, they're digging in. They're digging
in. Let's Chuck Schumer. This is another losing.
And Hakeem Jeffries. This is another losing side
that they're picking. I know. And they have nothing
else, so they're digging in, and this may last
a long time. Because at this point, now that
they've made themselves look stupid to go this
hardcore with it, if they back out now, they
have really, truly nothing left. Well, this is
going to make them look worse and worse. Yes,
and it's going to last a long time. Now, the
Democrats, the hardcore Democrats, are probably
saying, well, this is the Republicans' fault.
just looking at it because they just had votes.
Yes, let's keep the budget going. Republicans
100%, Dems, no. Yes, no, yes, no. The reason
why we're not passing anything that funds the
government is because the Democrats won't vote
for it in the Senate. Yes. Period. You cannot.
And that is an indisputable fact. And they vote
it every day. Oh, they've done nine of them now.
And there's like three Democrats that will vote
for it, but they can't get to 60, which is the
filibuster rule. Right. It's crazy. Crazy. All
right. So that was one interesting thing. I don't
know. I'm sure we talked about this. This happened
like a week ago. Remember the Hegseth? He pulled
all the generals together. I think it's outstanding.
Yeah. He pulled him in there and basically said,
we're not going to have any fat generals or fat
admirals. Right. They're going to need to pass
some level of fitness test. Yes. I'm sure it's
not the same as the fighting folks. Right. They're
going to have some level of fitness. He's like,
we're not going to have any fat admirals or generals
walking around the Pentagon. He basically said,
everything we do. is going to be geared towards
fighting and winning wars. Correct. Period. We
are the Department of War, and no more bullshit,
no more DEI, no more workness, no soft this,
soft that. I mean, basically, he laid it down
that, you know, and he's doing it at the right
time. There are threats in this world that are
only going to be addressed with overwhelming
strength. Us. Us showing overwhelming resolve
and strength. And right now we don't. Why would
there be pushback against that? Because it goes
against the... It shames fat, out of shape people?
And trans and women. The key points from the
meeting was emphasis on war fighting, except
declared the mission of the newly renamed Department
of War, is a war fighting, preparing for war
and preparing to win. Physical fitness and standards.
He announced stricter fitness and grooming standards,
grooming standards, criticizing fat generals
and admirals and stating that the era of unprofessional
appearance is over. I think the ladies, some
of the ladies are upset they're not going to
be able to wear ponytails anymore or something
like that. Or beards. The warrior ethos, Hexeth
spoke of a reawakening of the warrior spirit
called for and into woke culture, diversity initiatives,
and what he characterized as politically correct
leadership. I think he's 100 % correct. Here
is the standard to join the military. Can you
do it? Yes or no? Yes. I love it. Yes, I can.
You're in. No, I can't. You're not in. Changes
to accountability policies. He criticized the
use of terms like hazing, bullying, and toxic
leadership and announced a review of how they're
supposed to hold leaders accountable. He also
announced into the frivolous complaints. I don't
know. So is he like a Jack Nicholson? You can't
handle the truth type of thing. Bad things need
to happen to build. Did you order the code red?
Yeah. And finally, warning to dissenters. Hank
Seth and President Trump reportedly told military
leaders that if they don't support the new agenda,
they have the option to get the fuck out. Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely. I love it. Yeah, I agree. And.
One thing that just happened is, as we know,
the Texas National Guard was shipped up into
Chicago. Well, apparently, I haven't seen the
picture. Check me on what you're trying to find.
Apparently, there's a picture of like seven or
eight of these guys standing around. I guess
they're extremely out of shape. So someone saw
it and says, yeah, you're going home. Here's
the picture right here. It's not flattering.
I wouldn't say it's like grotesque, but it's
not flattering. And seven of them were sent home.
Yeah, they're sent home because they're just
out of shape. Yeah, they don't look good. Again,
I haven't seen the picture. Zoom in on it. If
you can zoom in on it, you'll see their pudgy
faces, right? It doesn't look good. It is the
National Guard, though, right? Yes, that's a
good point. These are weekend warriors, right?
This is a good point. Yeah, but still. Yeah.
I mean, do you have to? I mean, whatever. You
know what? National Guard, National Guard. But
you still have to be. Yes. You have to toe the
line. You have to be a. Well, the National Guard
is a federal. The Texas National Guard is managed
by both Abbott and Hexeth. So it's both a state
and a federal organization. I do feel bad for
these guys. And those guys could be part of,
you know, data or IT. He's carrying a gun. Maybe
they're a, hold on, maybe they're a sumo team.
You know, they have different sports teams within
the armed forces. Maybe they're a sumo. They're
part of KP. Maybe they're a wrestling team. Really,
I think it's the guy in the middle with that
mustache. He's kind of going, you know. If you
zoom in on him, you know. He kind of looks like
Shane Gillis. Yeah, he does. He does got that
look. And I do feel bad for him. They are being
body shamed, but it's, you know. You know what?
It's not their fault. I mean, look, it's their
fault the way they look, but my point is that
like anybody, but the standard should have been,
they should have never been put in that position.
They should have said, hey, man, look, we have
a criteria. Every year you have to pass this
test. Yes. I know my brother -in -law had to
take a physical test every single year to prove
that he could stay in. Once a year? Once a year.
But they only show up for training once a month,
right? So? Yeah, but you do it on your own. So
if he did his test in February and then let himself
go for... 11 months. Well, you should have some
pride. I agree. I agree. No, I'm not just trying
any of this. If you're going to let yourself
go. I'm like, listen, if you show up looking
like this, I get it. I think there needs to be
a standard. I agree. You got to have that test.
I mean, like Paul, for example, they show naked
pictures from you to some of the soldiers. And
they're kind of like, look, if you get hard,
you're out. And the guys are like, don't get
hard, don't get hard. Open your eyes there, soldier.
Open your eyes. Look at Paul. Look at him. And
then I would feel ashamed, and I would move to
Washington and join the fuckers on the bikes
with the naked people. Oh, my God. I mean, I
feel bad for these guys, because they join, and
this has been acceptable for probably 10 -plus
years. I know. But this is something they can
correct. Especially being in the service, there
are programs that they can do it far easier than
you and I can do, just because it's tough to
lose weight. Well, now you've got Manjaro, and
you've got... What's that? You got all those
GLP -1 shots? That's fake. That's not. What's
fake? That's fake weight loss. What are you talking
about? You have to do that the rest of your life.
I don't think that's true. You do. You stop.
What do you think happens? It all comes back.
When you wake up the next morning, it's a poof.
I feel like the Santa Claus guy. Shit, what happened?
Oh, I missed my shot. I missed my shot. Why do
I have a beard? You gain it back. You won't if
you make lifestyle changes. Why don't you just
make lifestyle changes instead of taking... I
hear you. I hear you. I hear you. But once you
get momentum going and you're seeing the weight
drop off, it motivates you. I think people are
like, oh, this is nice. This is nice. I can eat
a cake. This is nice. This is nice. Okay, I get
it. I know that you're against this. Why were
you aiming at your butt when you were doing that?
I don't know. Yes, that's where you get it, right?
I'm saying it is lots and lots of people are
losing weight. Now, it might be a mirage. It
is. It's fake weight loss. I get it. And I think
it's also, we've talked about drug companies
getting people on drugs for a lifetime. This
is a lifetime type of thing you have to take.
Yeah, kind of could be because people's discipline
is not there to keep it going without it. It's
not. But you know what? It's the same thing.
There are people that do lose the weight the
real way, right? And they lose 60 pounds. They
feel great about themselves. And then they fall
off the routine. Of course. Boom. The 60 pounds
is immediately right back. Of course. It's all
about lifestyles. I don't care who you are, what
sickness you have. It's about your lifestyle.
It's about what you do every single day. Go for
walks. Eat correct. If you want to cheat, cheat.
But make sure you cheat once a week. Or just
get a limit yourself. On Tuesday nights, you
get. Two drinks of bourbon. I think if you want
to use that stuff, you need to be to the, you're
going to die fat. If you don't lose weight, you're
going to die. Take this stuff, you're going to
lose the weight. On top of that, you have to
get capsulated and get good stuff. For me, you,
everyone else, you just need to make a lifestyle
change. Because you're putting this chemical
in your body that fucks up your insides, for
one thing. Your intestinal tract, your gastro
tract, and plus other things. And it's if you
stop. It's the unknown stuff, too, that you don't
know what it's doing. It fucks up your liver.
Yeah. And your liver is like your key component
for fighting cancer. Yeah. But on the flip side,
it's got great benefits for people who have diabetes.
It's a diabetic medicine. It's not a fat medicine.
Okay. I get it. I get it. I'm saying it is. But
they say in micro doses, but that's the next
thing you're going to start hearing about if
you haven't heard about it already. They're talking
about moving this to a micro dose. I'll never
take this stuff. And that's for life. Now like
heart medicine or like taking aspirin every day,
now they're talking about micro doses of this.
You know what they're trying to do? They're trying
to kill the population that's all fat. And I'm
saying, look, there's an ether out there, and
this is just me being critical. What is it? Cynical.
No. Critical thinking. No. Goddamn it. It's a
conspiracy theorist. Oh, counter. I'm just thinking
that some - You should have given us more guests.
There's an ether out there that wants to kill
the American people. And so it's just like -
Ooh, who designed these GLP -1 shots? Dude, I
don't know, but - Was it North Korea? I'm just
saying that we got the COVID, the vaccines. I
mean, look. Forget about the COVID vaccine. How
about the vaccines, period? The vaccines were
worldwide, though. Correct. But, yeah, they were.
But, I mean, most of them were targeted. I mean,
were they that strict overseas on the vaccine?
Of course. Oh, yeah. Sweden was just fine. I'm
not saying every country, but it was worldwide,
that vaccine. Oh, yeah. Because they're stepping
millions of doses. That's kind of the criticism.
Why is Africa getting all these doses? There's
people out there that are just wanting to kill
us. You know, they want to thin out the herd.
You know, the Bill Gates syndrome. You got the
World Health Organization. It's like, you know
what we got to do next? We got to make sure we
get into the water supply and make sure that
that'll really put them in. You know, remember
that conversation that one bitch said? I do,
I do, I do. And she's like, that'll really get
them in, you know, get their attention. Right.
And it's like, who the fuck is this bitch? She's
the first on the list to go. What do they call
it, eugenics? Yes, they do call it eugenics.
Kind of thinning of the herd and strengthening
of the strong. Do I think this is a massive conspiracy
to thin the earth? I don't. The state parks will
be a lot less. Yeah, that's true. Okay, I'm on
board. I think Ozempic is a way to get people
on drugs indefinitely. Yeah, it's another pharmaceutical
thing. Or I should say, clink, clink, clink of
the money. It's just like, hey, man, look, you
guys are taking blood pressure medicine. This
guy's taking cholesterol medicine. We're going
to have these guys on Zip -X for the rest of
their life taking micro doses. It's just like,
you know, if you've got millions of people taking
it, and it's like 20 bucks a dose, God bless.
No, it's more. It's just not cheap. Whatever
it is, it's just like it compounds. It is. Yeah,
I'm not a fan of that whole Olympic thing at
all. All right. I got you. I got you. All right.
So moving on to the next one. All right. So we've
got the Nobel Peace Prize that nowhere, never
seems to be headed Trump's way, even though he
kind of got those surviving. I don't think it
ever will. Hostages out of Gaza. That actually
should have been enough. I don't think it will.
Nobody will ever give it to him. The committee
will never give it to him because they hate him.
Yes. So we were discussing earlier, was it officially
announced? And it said on 2025, October 10th,
they officially announced that there was the
Nobel Peace Prize, the Venezuelan opposition
leader. October what? 10th. Okay, so it was leaked
prior, and so I guess they had to come out and
say, you know, hey. That's crazy, though. So
Maria Karina Moschato, the leader of the Venezuelan
democracy movement, her tireless work promoting
democratic rights for the people of Venezuela
and her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful
transition. Look, this is noble. Yeah, she's
a big deal. She's fighting what, is that his
name, Maduro down there? Yeah, she's the opposition
leader, and she's in hiding because every time
some opposition leader comes up, they end up
disappearing or dying or something, right? So
she's desperately fighting for the freedom of
the people in Venezuela. That is massively noble.
She's in a bunker somewhere. I'm not saying she
is undeserving, but it's interesting that it
keeps coming up. Who are they going to give it
to Trump? Are they going to give it to Trump?
And then they give it to somebody else. But what
did she do? What did she turn around and do when
they announced that she was - She endorsed Trump.
She did. She said he should get this. Something
like that. Or she felt like she was kind of dedicating
it to him or something like that. Did she? Oh,
I don't know. I didn't see her comments. So let's
talk about Venezuela. So right now, we're totally
poking them. Oh, he blew something up the other
day. Yeah, we're blowing up boats. We're blowing
up drug boats that are coming out of their country.
Oh, he was talking about that. Those speed boats
are fast, but you know what? We're faster. You
know, the last one they blew up wasn't even moving.
Did you watch the video of the last one? It was
just sitting there. Not to say that that was
staged. I don't know. But it wasn't zipping through
the water, splashing over waves. It was just
dead stopped. Maybe they were fishing for some
dinner. Maybe they were fishing. How insensitive.
Spear fishing. Or maybe one guy was having to
pee over the edge for a second. Or maybe he got
sick. Jellyfish thing. Yeah, he didn't take my
beef jerky. So they blow the boat up, and then
all of a sudden some scuba diver comes up. He's
like, hey, man, what the hell's going on? What
guy was diving for clams down here? He's like,
where's the boat? That was clamming. Anyway,
yeah, look at that. It wasn't even moving. He's
just sitting there. Maybe they're like, I hear
something. Let's stop. So they can't see us.
Maybe if we don't move. They're like, oh, no,
President's a drone. You know, but Trump had
mentioned something about, he was like, well,
I don't even see fishing boats out there anymore.
I guess there's... So he's totally shutting down
the shipping channel. And you know what? What
is it? Judge Junine was part of a campaign that...
intercepted a shipment from China to Mexico,
almost a billion dollars, $700 million worth
of... Fentanyl. It was drugs to make methamphetamine.
It was a major component of a chemical required
to make methamphetamines. From China into Mexico.
From China. That was headed to Mexico. And they
intercepted it. And she's in the warehouse in
the United States going, yeah, we got them. We
got them in the barrels all around her on pallets.
She's like, yeah, we got these. We intercepted
these. Fuck off. Now, you know what we're going
to do? We're going to make our own methamphetamine
and we're going to sell it to the neighborhoods
like the CIA does. I don't think she said that.
She did not say that, but that's what the CIA
allegedly had not done. So Trump is suggesting
land strikes now? What are land strikes? Going
after their camps and their factories. Oh, in
South America. I mean, he's being serious about
taking on the drug cartels. And do you see how
the drug cartels responded? They put hits on
people. A $50 ,000 bounty on any ICE agent. To
kill. They're going to fight back. You know they're
going to fight back. Yeah, but it's... Dude,
you're going to... They're all going to lose.
Yeah, but they're here. I'm just saying they're
here in this country. Yeah. Well, and their fight
back could look pretty ugly. It could. Yeah,
it could. So, I mean, I'm not saying terrorism.
I'm not. Yeah. I'm not saying we don't poke the
bear because this is something that has been
grossly ignored. It's been mismanaged for sure.
Yeah. I mean, we out of control. I mean, we and
it's killing so many people in this country.
But look, if we don't fight back and if we don't
try to be proactive about this. You're allowing
their actions to be terroristic. Right. You know,
let them, I mean, I don't want them to kill people,
but let them come out and surface. Right. Show
your face, because we'll find them. Dude, I was
surprised. They found in the LA riots, not the
LA riots, the LA fires, they found the piece
of shit dude that fucking burnt. That started
the fire. That is amazing. It was like an Uber
driver or something like that. It was. And he
started it underground or something. It was something
weird. And it rekindled or something like that.
But it's just, it's crazy. How did they find
him? Was he posting something? He was posting
things. They checked his internet and he was
asking very specific questions regarding how
to start the fire. How long is it going to start?
How long is it going to go out? But it's just,
I mean. That's my point is with the whole Venezuelan
terrorist populace is that we're smart. I mean,
there's technology out there. We're tracking
these people right now. At least I hope we are.
They checked in. Thousands and thousands, hundreds
of thousands came across the border unchecked.
But there are a bunch that came right through
the front door and they were given a pass. Hey,
go right on through. A lot of those guys, look,
the terrorists that are sponsored by Venezuela
that are set here to do actual work, they go
right through the gates. There's no reason for
them. Why would they take the long way and go
around the mountains and climb? They go right
through the front door because during the Biden
administration, they let them right on through.
So they're just like, hey man, check in at the
front door, we'll give you an ankle monitor,
move on with life, and then they never show up
again. But did you see that Frisco is installing
the flock cameras? I saw that. What is that?
They record the car type, the car shape, whatever,
and your license plate. So they can track different
cars throughout the country, actually, because
you can tie into the whole network. And they're
doing this to try to chase down a fugitive? Uh,
that's what they say, but it's been abused in
the past by some folks like hunting for like
girlfriends, boyfriends and stuff like that.
And I think she's cheating on me and tracking
her and shit like that. So if you pay them like
$10 ,000. Yeah. So I know it's been abused and
I know the, the, uh, uh, you know, of course
they're like, you know, it's just, we're, we're
looking for bad guys. You know, stuff like that,
right? Well, that's the problem. That balance
between looking for bad guys and infringing on
our rights and privacy is always the tough balance.
Yeah, and the examples they give it, it's these,
well, the ones I read are kind of the one -offs,
right? So there's a, you know, I'm just giving
it a chance. You know, there's a cop up in Michigan
somewhere who was trying to track his girlfriend.
Right. He could be misused like, well, yeah,
I can. Any bad actor. Can use any kind of information.
Right. Anyway, they're getting installed here
in Frisco. More of them, I should say. Great.
Yep. Okay. Well, you know what? You know what
this ends up saying? We say something similar
to this every time. Well, you know what? I don't
do anything wrong, so if they want to look into
all my shit and track all my stuff, you know,
fuck it. I have nothing to hide, so whatever.
I don't care. But, you know, as soon as the government
oversteps, we're screwed. Because we've allowed
all of this to happen. Right. So I don't know.
I don't know where that fine line is. But anyway.
All right. Well, that was a good round robin
of some world events. Oh, one more thing about
the fires. There's some guy that won the billion
dollar. Skyshop. Powerball. Powerball. Right.
Is buying up the fire lots. The Palisades lots?
Yes. Oh. I thought that was strange. He's going
and buying them all up or buying a whole bunch
of them up. I mean, he's going to turn that billion
-dollar win into like $100 billion. But why would...
I mean, wouldn't... I would think that tons of
very ultra -rich people would... They'd already
be on it. Yeah, like vultures. I mean, coming
in there, kind of like the Hawaiian thing. You
know what I mean? All the people with tons of
money came in there and started taking all that
stuff. I don't know if that happened, though.
Oh, I don't know. Actually, I don't know either,
because there was all these conspiracies. Well,
because Oprah bought it all. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was a conspiracy. I don't believe she did.
She bought some. Yeah, look that up. So what
is... Because when I was out there, they were
rebuilding the houses, and they were just houses.
Yeah. They weren't big swaths of land. Okay,
so this guy's name is Edwin Castro, the winner
of the record -breaking 2 .04 billion dot billion.
Damn. Powerball jackpot. Bought a home in Malibu,
later destroyed by the Palisades fire. All right.
And then he bought it. Okay. Blah, blah, blah.
One of several properties he acquired after claiming
his winnings. Oh, wait a second. This was totally
misleading. Yeah. His property was burned in
the fire. This is totally misleading headline.
It made it sound like he was going through buying
up everybody else's properties. Oh, no. But look
at the Altadena lots. Oh, he also bought. Okay,
here it is. Recently been purchasing fire -ravaged
lots in the community. He has spent over $10
million buying at least 15 lots in the area,
which was severely impacted by the Eaton fire.
So he wants to rebuild homes on them. Hold on,
let's back up. 15 lots for $10 million. That's
not a lot. Not a lot? 10 lots for... 15 lots.
15 lots for $10 million? Look, this is just a
lot. In California. Just a lot. Yeah. It's by
the ocean, isn't it? Aren't they close to the
ocean? Well, sort of. Not really. Not oceanfront.
That $10 million investment is going to yield
a hundred times. Well, I don't know what his
motives are, but the next thing down says his
plan is to build a Willy Wonka -esque home, but
he wants to help restore the neighborhood. To
its pre -fire state. It kind of sounds like he
wants to rebuild homes for people. Instead of
what? Them turning them into shopping centers
and stuff? Potentially. Interesting. Who knows?
I don't know. It doesn't really sound fair. I
hope it's for a good cause. Me too. I hope it's
for a noble cause. Me too. Nowadays, I don't
trust anybody. Look at that guy. He's so happy.
That's so crazy. He's a Hawaiian. I'd look like
that too. $2 billion. I'd get hair braids too
if I won $2 billion. He's a little heavy. I wonder
if he's in the National Guard. Maybe. Well, that's
awesome. He's in the industry, too. What industry?
He's an architecture consultant, and his father
worked in construction. Love it. Yeah, do it.
You know what? Let's just hope that the guy's
genuine, and he's really wanting to do it. He's
wanting to give back to the community. Maybe
he'll sell the house back to people. People are
desperate. The ones that have their... $10 million
is not much for him at this point. No. Oh, shit.
He's got $1 ,000 million. No, 2 ,000 millions.
Well, I mean, 2 .05 billion. After taxes, is
that like a billion? Yeah. Which is 100 ,000.
It was 100 million? Crazy, crazy. 1 ,000 million?
1 ,000 million. Anyway, that's pretty cool. Something
like that. Well, I mean, you're looking at 1
% of his budget there. You know, I want to talk
about 1845. We haven't done that. The event we
went to. We went to an event? Oh, you're talking
about the total wine thing. You know what? It
was just a tasting, and we were like, hey, I'm
just going to go and get some tasting. But it
was actually a lot more than that for me. I got
to tell you. It filled in a lot of gaps. Yeah,
because he actually went into and elaborated
a little bit more, more than they typically do
during the tours, which I'll give a shout out
to Miguel. Miguel Perez from 1845. Yeah, he's
a cool dude. But one thing that really surprised
me, I was like, so when you guys make a small
batch, right? Do you just take, you know, six,
eight, you know? And he was like, yeah, you know,
a lot of people don't know this, but it's a blend.
He takes, he makes a blend of every single possible
combination of the barrels that are in the mix.
He tastes every single one of them, but which
one's the best blend? And then he goes with what's
trouble when he likes. Yes. I was like, damn.
I mean, it doesn't, it shouldn't be surprising,
but it was to me. that he literally goes through
every single possible combination and tastes
them all. You know, when they have the caliber
of barrels or the volume of barrels that they
process, it's a little bit easier. Doable. Yeah.
Jim Beam can't do that, I don't think. A small
batch is 10 ,000 to 15 ,000 barrels. They just
taste all those. Yeah, taste every combination.
And you can't wait too long because they're going
to continue to age. But you know what? I think
it's fantastic, and I'm happy for him. It's so
great. I thought it was great. And then he talked
about how their fermenters are different than
what most people do. Those are beer fermenters.
That's right. And then, you know, because if
you've gone to any distilleries and done the
tours. I heard that, but I never knew that, though.
I never understood that. And the difference is
what? They're open air, for one thing. Yeah,
so theirs are 1845s is closed. They're enclosed.
Because he was saying, like, the other tours
that in these other. beer distilleries, people
were going up, yeah, go ahead and taste it. They
stick their fingers down the froth. No, no, no,
in bourbon. I think you meant to say bourbon
distilleries. No, I was saying in the beer. No,
it's bourbon. Because they're using beer. Okay,
so listen, but he was saying they were using,
do they have open distilleries in bourbon? Yes.
Oh, okay. Yeah, they were dipping their finger
in the fatty acid esters. I'll tell you what,
none of them let us do that. None of the distilleries
we went to. Oh, I went to three of them that
let me do that. Yeah, Maker's Mark didn't let
you do it. But they're still open to the elements.
Correct. Yes, and the point was that, you know,
oh my God, people are dipping their fingers in,
that's gross. It wasn't that, because it's distilled
and it's completely purified. But the point is,
when it's open air, it's difficult to control.
You can't control it as much. There's too much
variation. Well, he also said there's bacteria
that gets into it. There's microbes that get
into it, which impact the flavor of it. The flavor.
Yeah, there's flies. Not the safety, the flavor.
Correct. Yes, and they didn't want that. Imagine
the thousands of flies that have been adding
to the taste that we've been drinking. This is
a great single barrel. And larvae. That's because
a hive dropped into it. Huge. And it was a butterfly
larva, by the way. It was very citrusy. Great
single barrel, too. You say stone fruit, I say
butterfly larva. Nice. Nice. Anyway, that was
interesting, too. Which is a moth. I'm sorry.
The moth's more like Fig Newton. Caterpillar.
Raisin. Anyway, he filled in some gaps that I
thought were really interesting. Yeah, he did
a really good job. Yeah, he did. Well, I've got
to poke him a little bit more and impress him.
I know it's going to get a little bit busier
for him for the schedule coming up in the holidays,
but Tuesdays worked good for him. He had mentioned
that during the podcast. I'm sorry, while we
were out there. Did you see the email, their
new experience that they're putting together?
Yeah, you can bottle your own. Yeah. What does
that look like? I didn't read the email. Is it
like you can make your own blend? I don't know
what the total price was. $140, something like
that. $125, I think. $125, and you do the bottle
thing, and if you want a secondary bottle, it's
$90 for every bottle after that. There it is.
Eight seats at the table, and you get to blind
taste test six of them, and then you can bottle
your own. Basically, it's a single barrel. So
it's no blending. You're not doing any blending.
They're not doing any blending. So you're just
bottling it. You're tasting six barrels and picking
one to bottle it. So does the $125... Includes
a bottle of bourbon. Yeah, but does that include
your experience? Yes. Then you cork, sign, and
label it. All right. Well, you know what? There's
something to be said for that. We're spending,
what, $67? Oh, does that include dinner? No.
I don't believe so. But you get a custom bottle
or a gift. The experience. No, additional. Oh,
go again. What else do you get? I think some
corn dogs. There's nothing about corn dogs in
there? I want State Fair corn dogs. No jerky?
Is there jerky? There's some jerky. Okay, there's
nothing in there. You get some Boozy Baker cookies.
There we go. Hey, I'm on the Boozy Baker cookies.
I think they'll do well. They're awesome, man.
I think they'll do well with this because I think
a lot of folks like that because the folks in
the distilleries in Kentucky let you do this.
Yeah, but didn't they feed you? No. No. What?
Oh, I was speaking about Garrison Brothers. I
don't think Garrison Brothers did either. They
let you get shit -faced, though. They might have
had some nuts or something. If you go volunteer...
If you're the waxing. Yeah, if you go do the
waxing and the packaging and that sort of stuff,
they'll feed you, yeah. That's what I thought
I understood. They got you lunch or something
like that. Yeah, they might have done lunch.
But not their experience like this. I don't even
know if they do this. The team that's doing the
waxing and bottling. Anyway, I think it's cool.
It's all about opening up different opportunities,
and if the demand's there, God bless it. I mean,
they're only selling eight per day, and there's
only like three sessions. They got to make their
money. Did you ever go to the Celt to try the
Iron Root Celt bottle? I did. No, I didn't. I
did go to the Celt, and I erroneously went there
for the wrong reason. So I went there thinking
I was going to go taste that sample and super
excited. That is not what happened. And I got
to tell you, I am super disappointed of my experience.
I love the Kelt. I enjoy going out there. The
experience is always great. I love the people
there. This is the McKinney. This is the McKinney
in Kelt. Kelt's a great place. And I love Iron
Root Republic. Okay. They're really good. Yeah.
These guys are fantastic. Both of them together.
Fantastic. Love it. What I didn't like is it
just cost too much. It was over 50 bucks a person.
To do what? Over 50 bucks. You show up and there's
a handful of people, 12, 15, 16, I don't remember
how many. And you're downstairs. It was a great
environment. They give you a huge plate of graham
crackers, some cookies, and some cheese. Corned
beef? No, just stuff that complements the food,
similar to what you would do at the tasting at
Iron Root itself. And they gave you some fried
pickles, some queso and chips, some salsa. Vienna
sausage? No. Spam? No, they didn't give you any
meat. No canned meats at all? This is my point
that I'm getting to, is that it was... It was
poor. The pickles were fucking cold. The queso
was cold. I thought it was complimentary. And
then they slapped a big old fucking label on
top of it of 50, 60 bucks. Oh, really? And I
was like, yeah. I mean, because we can go to
Total Wine and enjoy the same experience with
better food. For $20. Right. Okay, but you sampled
Iron Root. That was the whole point of being
there. Yes, we sampled it, but it was all the
standard stuff. It wasn't the release that I
thought it was going to be. All right? So they
do have it there, though, and I did sample it.
We went up to after. I took Stan. Shout out to
Stan. Not Stan the owner, but I took Stan from,
I don't know where. He's not Sips or Total. Stan,
our buddy. Our buddy, Stan. He and I went. I
picked him up, and we went down there. We went
through the class, and he knows a bunch of people
there. He's connected with the system. And, you
know, look, it was a good experience. Right,
but for 50 bucks. But I was like, dude, this
is too much, because I ended up leaving there
spending 250 bucks. Oh, you're kidding me. Yeah.
Because you bought a bottle. No. Oh. What? I
did not. How'd you spend that much? So that's,
I'm going to give this to you. I mean, the downstairs
was like, you know, 140 bucks after everything
was said and done. Just downstairs. You know,
no drinks, just the food after taxes and tips,
gratuities and stuff that they attach to it.
And then I ended up buying a drink and maybe
a beer upstairs. And I picked the tab up on that.
A drink. No, no. Dude, no. Bullshit. I mean,
not 10, not 15. No, fuck that. Look, I love going
to the Celt, but they run a tight ship. They
don't slide drinks. There's no favoritism. At
least it's not to me. Maybe I'm an asshole or
something. $250. Well, you know, I'll check the
bank account right now. No, no, no. I'm not fact
-checking that. No, I'm kind of curious now,
too, because you know how I like to exaggerate
sometimes. Did you buy other people's? Just Stan
and I's. Oh. Stan and myself. Okay. And he had
10 or 15 drinks. No. What's going on here? Yeah,
that sucks. I got to look at, now I kind of want
to. So you did end up tasting it, was it? It
was great. It was good. Yeah, it was great. I'm
sorry. I'm more stuck on how much I spent. Yeah,
yeah. Don't worry about that. Yeah, it was overpriced
is the bottom line. And I even had a conversation
with the server. I was like, you know, I just
want to share with you. I go to a lot of these
tastings. It was just overpriced. And I was like,
look, I don't mind paying, but, you know, the
quality of the food that you got, I mean, why
would you serve fried fucking pickles for a whiskey
tasting? Right. At 50 bucks a pop. I mean, I
would have, don't do it. Just don't do it. Maybe
charge a little less. But they wanted some money
and they were like, hey, fucking fried pickles,
we'll turn a profit on that. It was unfair. The
guys sitting there, they won't say it. They'll
be like, oh, I'll say it. It was out of control.
And it's just like they gave you a shitload of,
like to chocolate? They had like a fucking Wonka
bars that were huge. Oh, really? And I ate it.
Don't get me wrong. But it was just like weight
in the cheese, too. Love cheese. I ate that,
too. But it was way too much. You're supposed
to have a plate of food to complement with the
shortbread, to complement the whiskeys that we
had. And I'll try on this sample, because they
give you three or four samples. And on this sample,
you're going to try the shortbread. You're not
supposed to be chewing on a log of cheese. Yeah,
they have a lot. And granted, again, I loved
it. Throw in one of those kilt half shirts. Throw
in some apparel. You want Robert to wear a half
shirt? Something like a tube top. A tube top.
A tube top kilt shirt. Those man boobs in there.
You know what? Shout out to Iron Root. Shout
out to the kilt. Look, I love you guys both.
The experience was a lot of fun. It's just like
in a world of infinite anything, you can always
do better. Yes. You gave him feedback, and kudos
to you, because I suck at that. I'm a total wuss
when it comes to being like that. I did. I don't
think he said shit, but you know what? I did
my part. I told him the same way I'm explaining
it here. I was like, look, my experience going
to some of these other places, we did this, this,
and this. Do you guys ever do that? Do you respectfully
say, hey, service wasn't great? Or this or that.
I'll just tip appropriately if it's not good.
I mean, so many times I'll be at lunch with my
coworkers and something will be wrong, right?
And they'll even say, oh, did you not like your
meal? No, no, it was fine. It was good. Oh, I'll
say that if my meal's wrong. While they're at
the table, they're like, oh, my God, this and
this and this. But then they don't say anything.
And I'm not sure. I'm probably the same way.
I probably don't say, oh, the burger was overcooked.
I would probably never order that again. So,
you know what I mean? But, I mean. I was at Kelly's
two nights ago. Yeah. With Tara and Desiree and
Wes. I forget what the deal is. It was Emily's
birthday. And we had dinner there. And there
was this two ladies that come in. We were sitting
on the patio. This was late at night. I think
Saturday or Sunday. I don't know. Fuck off everybody.
And one of the ladies is shit -faced. And she's
older. She's in her late 30s, early 40s. She
comes up to Tara like she fucking knew her. Hey,
big old hug. And I'm like, okay, cool, whatever.
Big hug. And then Tara's like, what the fuck?
And I was like, do you know her? She's like,
no. So she sits down. We're on the patio at Kelly's.
And she sits at the picnic table to another picnic
table right next to us with her friend. And this
guy comes out, he's got like three beers, and
he puts three beers on the table. And the server
comes over to our table, and I'm like, yeah,
hey, man, she's shit -faced, and you guys just
served her another beer. And he was all up in
arms. He was like, well, I didn't serve her.
It's like, it doesn't matter. Oh, you called
him out on that? I did. I said, it doesn't matter.
It's not you, but Kelly is going to get in trouble
for having, because look, and this sucks because,
you know, when someone goes up to the bar and
they order a couple drinks for their friends,
you know, the bartender doesn't know where those
drinks are going. Yeah, they don't know where
it's going. They don't know. They didn't do it.
check at the table. You know, they're leaning
on the components of the arms of the bar, the
servers, to let them know, hey, by the way, someone's
shit -faced on the table. So I just told them,
I was like, look, she hadn't drank it yet, but
you guys need to go fucking take that, because
she's shit -faced. What did the server say? Well,
at first, again, he was a little abrasive, and
I just calmed him. Stay in your lane, pal. Dude,
I redirected that conversation real quick, man,
but look, I was tactful. You know, I was like,
look, it's not you. I'm talking about the end
result. Because the end result is that the TABC
is going to come in here and they're going to
find the fuck out of that bartender. Okay? That's
what they're going to do. The bartender is going
to be liable for it if something bad happens
to her. No, I get it. Because she inadvertently
got a drink. And it's the Kelly's Tavern itself
that's responsible. You're actually trying to
help them help themselves. Were you in your lane?
I don't know. I was. I was. Because I only had
a drink. So I wasn't doing it drunk. No, what
I mean is, was it your job to kind of make sure
they do their job? I don't know. I mean, I think
you were doing the right thing. It should be
the manager's job. It is the manager's job. But
the question that you were posing to Jeff was
that, would you do it? Right. Are you going to
have these conversations with these people? And
I would like to think for myself as I will. You
know, I've got the background where I feel I
can confidently go in there. I mean, what if
this lady gets into a car and kills somebody
on the way home? Yeah. I mean, you were doing
the right thing. There's no question about it.
Yeah, and I don't feel bad about doing it. And
again, the guy got a little abrasive at first,
but I redirected the conversation to put it in
perspective that I'm not beating you up, dude.
I think I used those words. It's not about you.
It's about Kelly's. You know, right now, she's
drunk, she's in Kelly's, and she's got a beer.
So what did he do? Did he bring five more drinks
to her later? Oh, dude, copious. It was like
bourbon. Are you serious? They were doing belly
shots. Oh, shut up. No. But did he take it away?
No, he didn't do anything. He immediately walked
inside, got the manager. Manager came out here
and addressed it. And frankly, I wasn't even
there when that happened because I left Tara
at the table with Emily and Mal and I walked
over to the yogurt place. which is right around
the corner. So we walked over there, grabbed
some yogurts, and came back and brought them
back to the table. I was like, hey, guys, how
you doing? They were still over there, but no
beers. So the manager walked out to the three
ladies and said, hey, I think you guys are fine,
but that guy over there thinks you've had too
many and doesn't want you to have any more. You
know what? Imagine how that goes. Which guy?
Which guy said that? Hey, I would have taken
it. They're going to come back and go, yeah,
well, he just brought food from the outside into
your facility. And he's got a bladder under his...
Under his parka. Yeah, that's whiskey. He's been
pulling out mini after mini after mini. It's
two -sided. I mean, yeah, I can see both sides
of that. But look, man, look, it's... I'm a caring
person. And that was what that was all about.
I care about the industry. I care about the person
sitting there. And I don't think I did anything
wrong. I'm going to sleep good knowing that I
did what I felt was right. Was I out of line?
Was I in my lane? I don't know. Is it a good
Samaritan? Is it a whistleblower in the lane?
I don't know. I don't have an issue with it.
I was just asking the tough question. It is a
tough question. But I'm willing to stomp on those
grounds. See, and I'm the wuss. I'm not going
to say anything or do anything to cause conflict
unless somebody in my party is in danger or severely
made to be uncomfortable. Right. Right? Otherwise,
I'm like, you know, I'm just going to be like,
let's just go. Like, let's just go. You know
what I mean? Yeah, but that's not right either.
Right? There's got to be some balance, right,
in between, I think. You know, speaking of balance.
Yes, let's talk about this. This whiskey that
we are sampling right now, I got to tell you,
it's Frey Ranch. Frey Ranch. Our listeners out
there, this is Frey Ranch. Did you grab the bottle?
I don't have the bottle. And Frey Ranch is out
of Utah, yes? No. It's out of Nevada. Damn it.
It's out of Nevada. Damn it, damn it, damn it.
I can never get that right. Son of a bitch. Why
can't we just say Nevada and Utah is the same
thing? Nuvada. Nuvada, there you go. Thank you.
So I got this. This is before Frey Ranch was
basically anywhere. The only place you could
get it was out there at the time. Right. They
have expanded. Now they've expanded. So we've
had this for a few years, actually. And when
I was out there visiting my dad, I saw this everywhere
out there in Nevada. Frey Ranch, I was like,
what is this? So I got a bottle. It is so unique.
It's really good. And then I... Went back and
that was a standard bottle of, I think the first
bottle was just a standard bourbon. Then I went
back and I got this one, which is a store pick.
Is it cast strength or barrel proof or whatever
they call it? This is barrel strength. Single
barrel. And this is the black label. The black
label. With the yellow lettering. Yeah, and this
is a store pick from Battle Born Wine and...
I think, out there in Gardnerville, Nevada. In
Nevada. So you have three purchases out there
because the other one was 100 % wheat. Yeah,
the other one that I got. That is delicioso.
Yeah, that was a single grain wheat. Is that
the buttery one? Yeah, that's the buttercream
one. Yeah. And this one is, compared to the one
we just had, now this one, what's the proof on
this? 126 or something like that? 127 .8. Yeah,
that's pretty hearty. It is hearty. And it's
got the flavor to. Follow that up. This has richness
start to finish. Oh, yeah. I mean, nothing drops
off anywhere, like anywhere in between. This
is really good. I want to present it. I want
to share with the listeners out there that Frey
Ranch, they make their own distillate. They have
all the tools and materials to make their whiskeys.
Their farm to - What do they say? Grain to glass?
Grain to glass or something like that. Yeah.
They have a huge farm out there in Fallon, Nevada.
It's green to glass. It's about an hour and a
half before my dad left. I almost went out there.
So the flavor is proprietary. The flavor is unique.
I cannot find, I have never tasted the flavor
that I get out of a Frey bottle, regardless whether
it's bourbon or a whiskey, the wheat whiskey
that we tried. They have a very unique flavor,
and I've grown to love it. I did not like it
at first, but I love it now. I think the first
time I had this one, I didn't care for it. And
maybe it was that uniqueness or whatever, right?
Or were we newbies? How early in the process?
This was pretty early. I don't know if it has
a date on it. Because remember, we weren't heavy
-proof drinkers, high -proof drinkers back then.
Yeah. This was bottle 205 out of barrel 1520.
So it doesn't have a year on it that I can find.
And it's a single barrel. And this is... It was
a heavy bottle. It is. Yeah, it's thick glass.
It's well -made, the bottle. It is. And like
I said, they grow everything on their own farm
out there in the middle of Nevada. It is super
desirable. I love the hell out of this. I will
always have. In fact, I have two bottles of Frey
right now, and one of them I just finished a
couple nights ago. Had like four ounces or so
left. I poured two or three ounces in a glass,
and I put the other one, because I have a Finiti
bottle at the house that I'm conveniently dumping
into. This is good. Man, I'm telling you, the
127, that's going to be, it's right up there.
Since it's so unique, I want to say this is an
eight for me. We don't have the mash bill, but
it's a four grain. Oh, it is? It's a four slow
-grown grain. All right. Yeah, it made a four
-gram bourbon. Yeah, sure is. You give it an
eight. I'm probably, I'm going to be about, I'm
going to be in the high sevens probably, like
a seven -six or a seven -seven. I'm seven -eight.
On this. I love this. Good. I'm a huge fan of
Frey, and I tell you, I love this. It's an eight
all day with me with this particular one. And
the uncut versions are even better. I'm enjoying
Frey. I'm a huge shout -out. I ask that question
a lot. What whiskeys do you like? And I'm just
like, fuck, I don't know. And then all of a sudden,
I just shit out a list today. Someone asked me,
I spit out five. Elijah Craig, Frey, Weller,
Antique, I'm specific on Antique 107, Full Proof.
Old Williamsburg. I don't think old Williamsburg
was on that list. Oh, that doesn't roll right
off your tongue at all. I think with the coconut
notes in it. It has lots of coconut. Lots of
coconut. Coconut oil, is that what it was? You
know, one thing we haven't tried from Frey yet,
we've tried multiple bourbons, is the rye. Stag
and rare character. So there's the straight rye
right there. So that's 131 proof, at least in
that picture. I love their bottle. Their bottles
are so stout, man. I know you talked about it
being heavy. Well, that could roll out of the
back of your car and not break. And not break.
Not like the Axe and Oak or Oaks and Eden or
Axe and... It was Axe and Oak. Oak and Axe. We
need to revisit that bottle, see what we think
of it. The one from Colorado. And it smelled
great. Yeah, it smelled good. All those kids
loved it. Mommy, what is that smell? God. Who
were we picking up? Were we picking up Brody?
Dropping off Brody? Something like that. They
were picking up. Why were we at the skate park?
Yeah, but it was crazy because I walk over to
the freaking... the public park and here I have
like six millilite 16 ounce big mouths empty
and I'm walking over to the trash can and you
open the back hatch and we hear this beep beep
beep And it was like, oh, fuck. That was our,
at the time, it was like a $50 bottle. That was
a big bottle back then. Back then it was. The
heavens to market choice. And then we're like,
oh, shit. Remember the two little kids are walking
by with their parents? Mom, that smells wonderful.
I went back and paid for another one. Shut up,
Jimmy. You did. I owned it. You did. Well, I
mean, I didn't blame you for that. Yeah, you
did. Yeah, we did. I mean, I've never liked you
since. You 100 % did. You lost his walnut. Yeah,
that was the day you freaking threw my walnut
away. Yeah, no, I crushed it. That son of a bitch.
And that's probably why you feel so bad. It's
because you feel guilty all these years. You
have no idea how hard I looked for that walnut.
Hell, it probably rolled out at the same time.
It rolled out when you opened the door at a different
time. We'll just go with that. We haven't done
estate sales ever. Like, we stopped doing it.
That's where we met. That's where I met you.
Estate sales. Yeah, we met before that. Did we?
Yes. No. Yes. Part of the Friday afternoon thing.
It may have been the beginning of it. Yeah, the
Friday afternoon thing was like where we started
doing our thing. How come we don't go to estate
sales anymore? We don't have time, I guess. It's
the time. Yeah, well, you know, we got to make
time. So it's tough. I think Jeff's ship has
sailed on that program. I think we can make it.
I can make it. Chuck can make it. Yeah, I don't
get back until, like, I didn't get up until 6
o 'clock tonight. Damn. That's tough. It's starting
to intrude on our lives, which that's not going
to work. Well, we need to move everything because
I have a five -hour break in the middle of the
day. Let's go then. Oh, perfect. I'll go. And
then we'll just get shit -faced and go back to
work. You're not drinking. No, I mean, we can
go to the estate sales. I could do a nude one
with you on Friday. A nude one? We'll do a nude.
A nooner. Nooner, 12 o 'clock. Oh, a nooner.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice try there. All right,
well, guys, it's second half of the Dudes Like
Us podcast. October 15th. We've got Halloween
coming. We're going to look at it. Damn it, I
have to go back to the office November 1st. You're
looking forward to it, aren't you? You've got
to go back to the office. I have an office. Man,
your whole routine is going to be just thrown
out the window. You know how I am. I'm very OCD
with routines. I know. It's not going to be a
good thing. You've got a new shit routine. Chuck,
I am so thankful you're so on top of shit all
the time. It really is a blessing. It really
is. Whenever we need information, you're Johnny
on the spot. Our producer, dudes like us, I'm
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