I was a little late. It was very late. We have
to start over. It's going to be way off. Dang
it. We have all kinds of new toys. We do. It's
overwhelming. I know. I'm sure I'd turn my phone
off. I guarantee nothing's going to work. Chuck
has everything under control. I do not. Did he
even say we were going to go for a podcast? Yes.
I did. He did. And here we are. We are going.
We are going in podcast. Giving yourself cranial
damage by banging your headphones against it.
Yes. Did you see that? We did. Everyone's going
to see it now. What's a little knot? There is
a red mark on your forehead. Stretch that thing
out. All right. Well, look. Thanksgiving just
happened. It did. It did. Yeah. So we're going
to talk about that. We got Jeff Lynn on the...
On another excursion. Another. Yes, another.
You kind of remind me of some of these engineers.
Shout out to JSL, David Jimenez. I know he doesn't
listen to the podcast, so it doesn't matter anyways,
but he's always going on vacation. Always. Always.
It's the next month. I think I'm going on vacation
again. And good for him, because you know what?
He's younger. He can't. He doesn't have any kids.
You, semi -retired rap bastard, he's going on
all these little excursions. It's good times.
You can talk about that, too, going out to Fredericksburg.
Down to Fredericksburg, yeah. The whole week,
right? Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. We drove back
on actually Wednesday evening. Oh, okay. Because
Julie wanted to ride the... Run the... Wanted
to ride the Barker Express. She wanted to run
the Turkey Trot. So we did that Thursday. Nice.
Okay, we're good. All right, we are back. It's
December 2nd. It's December 2nd. You know what,
man? December 2nd is a bad day. And I'll talk
about that because I just saw the date and I
was kind of like, oh my God, it reminds me. December
2nd, 1985. Remind me. I'll bring this up. December
2nd, 2025. We got a huge podcast set up for you
listeners out there. I don't know. I kind of
lost my track. Dudes Like Us. I'm Sean. I'm Paul.
And I'm Jeff. And Mr. Producer, Mr. Chuck back
there. At the helm, taking on more... Yeah, I
was going to say, this may be our first video
podcast. If everything works out, you may see
these beautiful mugs on YouTube. In its entirety?
Like the whole podcast? Why not? Why not? Whoa,
this is okay. It's very exciting. Jeff's got
his like Steven Seagal black shirt on. I do,
and my flannels. Yeah. No, we can see the flannels.
That's good. Well, now we have to think about
that. I'm not wearing anything. Yeah, we have
to think about that stuff. We have to, I don't
know how we're going to do it. Do I have to wear
like makeup now? I'm going to wear like a tube
top. Nice. Hey, guys. Maybe just like flower.
What do they put on for makeup? What is that?
Is it? It's like dusting powder. Pancake. Is
it pancake that was Bisquick? To fill in all
the lines and pores and shit so they look smooth.
It's like those politicians back in the 1800s
or 1700s with the powdered wigs and the white
face. That's what we need to do. Do you like
that sound? Not really. Not at all. You can hear
it, too. It just went right through the mic.
All right. Well, look. So Thanksgiving happened.
It did. And we can talk a little bit about that.
We want to start off with your Fredericksburg.
Why did you go to Fredericksburg? And explain,
not necessarily Fredericksburg, but why did you
go out of town as opposed to, because this is
the dudes like us thing. It happens. Well, it's
different for us this year. We're empty nesters
now, and both our boys have fiancés, so which
come with fiancés are different families. Yeah.
And different expectations. Especially the fact
that you have boys that are going to spend time
with their fiancés' families. Right, right. So
my oldest and his fiance went out of town for
her birthday. Her birthday is on Thanksgiving,
depending on how it falls, right? So he took
her out to celebrate her birthday. They went
out of town to some Airbnb or something like
that. Cool. The end of the week. So he wasn't
able to make it. They weren't able to make it.
And Steven and his fiance had a gathering on
her side of the family on Thursday. Right. So
we're like, no problem. We'll do ours on Friday.
So we're like. Maybe we go out of town. We were
looking at New York for a little while because
she had a business trip that was originally supposed
to go to New York City. So she's like, well,
let's go up there and we could spend the week.
And they were like, then we're going to have
to deal with Macy Day Parade bullshit and the
increased prices that that brings. And we're
like, no, we're not going to do that. So I was
like, well, let's drive down to Fredericksburg.
We love going down there. But you ever been to
the Macy's Parade? No. I mean, I don't have any
desire to go to either, but can you imagine being
out there and you could volunteer? Hey, I'm here.
My name's Jeff. I'm here for the dudes like us.
I'm volunteering to hold one of the balloons
down. They give you a little tether. Like Garfield?
Yeah, but then you'd be that guy that gets pulled
up in the air. No, to get flinging around. Did
you ever see that one where they lost control
of it and they had to gut it? Like a pink panther
or something. Yeah, they had to gut it and kill
it and bring it down. Was it like a pinata with
entrails falling out? No. Well, this year they
had Door of the Explorer. They had all kinds
of stuff going on, but Door of the Explorer was
going down the, I don't know what street they
go down in front of Macy's in New York City,
but they're going down the street. They got Door
of the Explorer. Guess what's behind Door of
the Explorer? They got a balloon that's the ice
agent, and it's going after door, and it's bouncing
up and down. Nice. I think that was AI. I'm not
quite sure. What they go through, like the level
of effort and planning and execution of that
is actually pretty impressive. And the dancers,
like the Broadway dancers and the shows that
they put on, like outside in the street. I mean,
it's pretty intense, man. I've watched snippets
of the Macy's Day Parade, but that was never
a thing in my family, at least to watch every
Thanksgiving. So I would tune them in and there'd
be some. There it is. Oh, that's okay. That's
AI for sure. Oh, 100%. They would never do that.
Yeah, but it's still funny. I mean, it is what
it isn't. That's great. How do we know it's not
real? So, unusual entertainment and odd choices
for the Macy's Parade. So, first of all, you
had Shaggy. First of all, the performers, they
did well. I mean, they're amazingly talented.
Well, the dancers, you know, but everyone was
lip syncing. Correct. Which is fine. I mean,
it'd be kind of cool if it was live, but there
are things that you just get over. But they had
Shaggy. Are you guys familiar with the singer,
Shaggy? Yes. One of the songs. Where you got
top banging the next door neighbor. It wasn't
me. So it wasn't me. The early 2000 hits about
a man cheating on his partner with the neighbor
was performed in front of the children. Oh, nice.
On the Jenny O Big Turkey spectacular float.
Banging on the bathroom floor. That was like
one big hit. Or biggest hit, I should say. Why
would you... It's an inappropriate song. It's
highly inappropriate. And look, it's... Does
anything shock you anymore? I think it even says
banging on the bathroom floor. This song's explicitly
adult theme led many viewers to question the
choice for the performance. He does have some
other songs. You know, at least one more. I mean...
Lil Jon performed Turn Down for What. And it
sounded great. They were out there dancing. It
was classy, high energy. A fake celebrity performed
evidently. Many viewers were confused by the
appearance of Mr. Fantasy, a pirate costume performer
who some correctly speculated was actor KJ Apa.
I don't know who that is. I have no idea who
that is. And you're saying it should have been
somebody else and it was like a stand -in for
him or something? I guess so. I mean, if you're
lip -syncing, what difference does it make, right?
I mean, you can put anybody up there. You could
put Vanilla Ill... No, Vanilla... Milly Vanilly.
Vanilla Illy? Vanilla Illy Vanilly. Vanilla Illy.
Is that the white version of Milly Vanilly? Vanilla
Illy? It is Vanilla Vanilly. So lip -syncing
and tech issues. There were some technical issues,
too. Viewers complained online about the parade's
poor broadcast quality on NBC and Peacock, citing
lagging video audio synchronization issues and
singers obviously lip -syncing. John Legend defended
the lip -syncing on ex -formerly ex -Twitter,
noting that the floats can't support the technical
equipment needed for live performances. Whatever.
It's a parade. Yes, I mean, it's about... being
outside and having fun and all that kind of stuff.
I don't know. There is an element to having a
live performance, you know, and I understand
that there's a lot that goes into it, you know,
but at the same time, forget about it. Yeah.
I'm not in there for 20 seconds. I'm not in there.
It doesn't do much for me. I actually, I mean,
we had it on. It wasn't like we were like, it's
a tradition. No, we got up in the morning and
just the two of us were there. Yeah. Shelly's
like, we'll put the parade on. I was like, though,
parade okay yeah julie washes it so that's how
i've seen it because i think she watched it growing
up so i'd plug it in while she cooked or something
i've never really been a look i haven't been
a fan of it but i haven't been against it i don't
like oh yeah let's turn on the parade because
my wife tara she she loves to watch it she puts
it on and it was crazy time because we get up
we got up early for some reason and we turn it
on and it like immediately started it was like
we turned it on and hey we're live now we're
starting up that i was like oh my god this is
perfect timing We actually watched it for a little
bit. That's what I'm saying. It's not a priority
for you, but when it's on, hey, why not? It's
kind of cool to watch. I'm going to tell you,
this year is a little bit kind of weird. Hold
on. That weird is not the correct word. This
Christmas, Thanksgiving, it's odd. I'll say odd.
It's odd in a good way. It's odd because when
we come over here to Jeff's house, I think last
week or the week before, whenever that was. It's
been a couple weeks since we had a podcast. And
Julie had already put up the Christmas tree.
Yeah. She was early. It's not just you. There
are several people that I've met that I spoke
with, and all of them did the same thing. And
it's usually, you know. I don't know. People
are stressed and oh my gosh, we got to get this.
It was kind of refreshing to see it all out early.
Lights up around the neighborhood early. No rushing
around. I'm starting to get into the Christmas
spirit now. I got lights up at our house. We're
in Christmas mode. The wife, up in the attic.
This is the dudes like us thing. Getting down
Christmas ornaments out of the attic. It's a
pain in the ass. Huge pain in the ass. My wife's
like, all right, you want to take the crates
back upstairs? I'm like, No, I'm going to put
them in the study because otherwise I'm just
bringing them right back downstairs in 30 days.
Right. So they're in my study. Well, see, I got
a pass this year because I had my knee surgery.
Yeah, and I was like - You didn't make Shelly
go up there and get it? No, Shelly was going
to, but Dylan and Brody and Dawson all just -
It's good. Yeah, they went up there and brought
everything down. I was like - That's why we have
boys. Exactly. My girls did a lot. Yeah. I went
ahead - I didn't want to bring it back up in
the attic. So instead of putting him, I don't
have anywhere else to put him. So I went out
to Costco and I bought some shelves and the big
old industrial size one. I got two sets. The
big metal ones. Yeah, the big metal ones. I got
two. For the garage. For the garage. And I constructed
a wooden wheel system for it. So now it rolls.
So now I got two and I'm like. So it's not attached
to the ceiling. You're saying you have it on
the ground and you're rolling it around. If need
be. Where are you going to roll it to? Back and
forth in the garage. If I need to sweep behind
it, perhaps. Interesting. Really? I don't know.
The thing is that I want to be able to move stuff
around. Whatever. Is it like little plastic casters
or big knobby tires? They're not knobby, but
they're the industrial -sized rubber. So you
had like eight inches to the height of this thing?
It's roughly about five. Jeff, have you met Sean?
Do you not know he over -engineers and plans
for any possible need for this rolling? You guys
also know that I constructed the wooden colossal
in the garage right now. reclaimed wood. Not
reclaimed, but just wood laying around in my
garage. And I put together a shelf system. And
I'm about to deconstruct it. And I'm going to
go buy three more shelf units. Nice. And construct
more wheeled items. I'm going to do the hanging
platform. You push the button and it lowers?
Just not get crazy. How much space is between
the garage door and the ceiling when it's up?
Wheel. Mine, there's quite a bit. So I have the
extended garage, right? Mine is, yes, mine's
six feet. Not wider, just longer. So I've got,
yes, I've got like six feet. So not as girthy.
It's not as girthy. It's like long and skinny.
Like a boar. Yeah, what do they call that? A
chode. It's a cheed. Oh, my God. It's a cheed,
not a chode. Anyway, so I don't know. I have
the hanging one, so I think that's going to be
my plan. You know, those work for taller garages.
If you've got a taller garage, those are fantastic
because it's up in the air. It's out of the way.
You know, I've got like a regular nine -foot
garage thing. I did a claim today. I did my job
today, and I had to go to a building. They sold
workout equipment. saunas uh cold plunges uh
stuff like that uh but they also had flooring
so they had the mats the rubber mats used in
gymnasiums and they were two foot by two foot
and they were the thick Half inch. Like the jigsaw
puzzle thing? Yes. Yeah. And they were super
heavy duty. And I was like, well, I mean, can
I roll things across this pretty easy? I have
a weight system that rolls on wheels. He says,
oh, yeah, these are super dense. I was like,
well, how much is it for a two foot by two foot
little carpet pad? Each square, yeah. 15 bucks.
One five. For one square. For one square. And
you only need 400 of them. I mean, you need some,
but I mean, look, the alternative for me was
I was going to epoxy the floor, have Wes go in
there and buff that whole thing down. I would
love that, by the way. And just because I really,
that's another reason why I want to get rid of
that wooden shelf unit I put in there, because
I really want to kind of like turn the garage
into something a little bit less, you know, just
because, I mean, the kids go out there to. smoke
their reefer whatever the hell they're doing
and their friends are all out there but whatever
i mean i joke about that sort of but you know
but i mean i want to be able to go out there
and do something and have like a kind of a an
area where to do it but whatever i would like
flowing in the garage as well so i mean are you
saying that that flowing might work in the garage
absolutely really absolutely park a car on it
oh yeah easily this thing is super heavy duty
it's designed For weights? For heavy -duty weights.
Dropping them, bam, on the floor, you know? Wow.
I've got them. I don't have the heavy -duty ones.
I've got a, I don't know, maybe a 15 by 15 foot
square downstairs. Really? Underneath, yeah,
the work area there. It's nice. Interesting.
Yeah, and they have to look at it. I don't have
the heavy -duty ones, but I've got, they're about
an inch thick maybe. Interesting. And it's nice
to work on. Yeah, it's better for your feet and
your back and your, you know. Well, Jeff likes
to lay down out there sometimes. I do. Oh. Because
when we're lasering stuff, it's kind of like,
eh, it's not going to be ready for 15 minutes.
He's like, Julie's in the shower, taking a nap.
But why are you always nude? You said nude again.
Did you say nude? He did. He did. You're sweating
out there. Oh. So the shelf units, I'm excited
about it because I'm going to take those totes
and I'm going to put them in the garage and file
them away. And then now, me being OCD and Sean,
God, you know how... frustrating it is to be
Sean sometimes. You're going to have to get all
matching totes. I did. I went to Amazon and I
ordered 16 totes. 58 quart totes. These are just
bins. Yep. Plastic bins. Yep. For the garage.
Transparent ones. Are you going to label them?
No, that's why I got the transparent one so we
can see what's in it. I will probably label them.
Oh, you've got to have labels. Yeah. Come on.
What are you thinking? I'll do some dry erase
marker. You have to itemize what everything's
in there. Hey, man, I was excited. Like I was
putting stuff up and I've got these Ziploc bags
and they, you know, you got like the little ones
for sandwiches. You got the gallon one. I've
got like four gallon Ziploc bags. I mean, they're
ridiculous. And I was putting Christmas shit
in there, organizing stuff, just having a. A
blast. I have so much to do in my garage. It's
unorganized. When I look for tools, I get all
pissed off because it's not where it's supposed
to be. And I don't want to blame my son, but
every single time he goes in there, he tries
to clean up and he puts stuff all over the place
and it's really frustrating. Well, part of it's
my boys, but most of it's me because I'll...
I'll go down there and I'll get something. And
then when I'm done, I won't necessarily put it
exactly back. You have to. So I'll take ownership
of that. And it drives me fucking nuts. I hate
it. I'll go out there and I'll be looking for
my drill. I'm like, where did I put it? Right.
Where did I set it down? Right. You know? I know
it. It could be anywhere in there. Yeah, because
I had to fix my furnace over Thanksgiving weekend.
Oh, really? It wasn't getting gas or something?
It would glow and fire up and then shut off.
My downstairs one's broken right now. I got a
part on order. Yeah. So I had to do some troubleshooting
and I checked the glow stick. I checked the flame
sensor and it ended up being the pressure sensor.
And I replaced it and vroom. And you know how
much that would have cost if I called an HVAC
guy? 20 bucks? No, Jeff. Pretty sure it would
have been a lot more. Most of the time they tell
you you need a whole new unit, right? Oh, this
one's 20 years old and the coils are shot. It's
going to be 10 grand. You know how often that
happens to people who have no idea what's going
on? And even if they replace that part, just
the $30 part, it would have taken me 10 minutes
if I knew exactly what it was to begin with.
They have to charge, what, like four hours worth
of labor and overcharge for the price. It would
have been $1 ,000 at least to have it fixed.
Mine has the fuel valve is sticking, so he had
to order a new one. It's a known - For the gas?
For the gas. See, I don't mess with the gas.
That's where I was like, yeah, so - I'll do electrical
components. I don't do gas all that often. Yeah,
it's the gas line. And it's sticking shut. It
won't open. So it's stuck shut. So he ordered
a new one. And it's not in yet. So we're dealing
with space heaters downstairs right now. And
the part was covered. It's only going to cost
me a couple hundred bucks for him to change.
Oh, nice. Oh, because do you have the home shield?
No, the unit was new enough where the part was
covered. He's like, it's not going to take long
to replace. Beautiful. So it's like 200 bucks.
I had to pay 50 % already. So I was like, hey,
that's not bad. Yeah. That's worth it. Especially
when you start dealing with gas. I'm like, that's
when you start screwing around with things that
can kill you in the middle of the night. Yeah,
carbon monoxide poisoning or something. Yeah,
now I hear you. All right, so let's get back
to Fredericksburg. So you... Yeah, my wife and
I go down there. We went down there, like I said,
we went down there. We left Monday morning, like
at 8 .30, 9 o 'clock, so we could get down there.
It's about a four and a half hour drive. Yeah.
But you didn't go down there to see anything
in particular, right? No. Just go down there
and chill and visit some things and relax? Yeah,
without going down there, it's known for wineries
down there. Yes. There's a couple breweries down
there. And distilleries. Garrison Brothers is
down there, and there's a couple others. We went
to 1693, which had some decent juice, and I sent
a picture of it. You did. Actually, we have it
out there. Again, lots of pictures of you drinking
alcohol. Did you catch that, John? It was two.
I mean, he had one glass of whiskey, and there
were some odd people dancing in the background.
I'm not sure. That was all. Oh, yeah. Did you
see those nice, beautiful women dancing? No.
Yes. That was fake. How do we know this? Because
it's you. It's online. It's because you do this
with grok or gronk or whatever it is. Right.
So, yeah, we went down there. We like going down
there. We go down there every. A couple years,
a year and a half or something like that. And
we had our first anniversary down there. That's
when we first went down there. We really enjoyed
it. Anyway, there's probably 100 wineries down
there. I don't know if there's that many, but
that's wine country for Texas. For sure. And
it's nice. And it wasn't busy at all. So we were
able to walk into these places and not have a
problem. So we hit several. We joined a couple
of wine clubs. They don't cost you anything except
for the cost of the wine. Nice. And they ship
it for free. So it's like. We're going to buy
wine anyway, so might as well just buy some of
this. Yeah, local wines, right? Yeah, so exactly
right. And a lot of it's grown up, a lot of the
grapes are grown up by Lubbock. I didn't know
that. Yeah, that's where a lot of the grapes
are grown here in Texas. I would think that's
dry and dusty out in Lubbock. It's at altitude,
and the climate is good for grapes apparently.
I had no idea. Yeah, it's out there by Lubbock.
Very cool. Yeah. So we went down there. We got
there Monday. We went to one or two wineries
when we first got down there. Did you do an Airbnb?
Yeah, we did an Airbnb. There's hundreds of them
down there. I know, a lot. We probably got a
pretty good deal. We did, yeah. A lot of vacancy.
Yeah, there was a ton. Nobody's doing what you
did during Thanksgiving, right? Yeah, there was
some folks down there, but it was not busy at
all. It gets crazy down there in the spring and
the summertime. It gets really packed. So go
in the off -season or during the week. We went
to that Signore Vineyards. Very nice. Okay. That's
one of our favorites. We went there. That's nice.
And the weather was perfect. Oh, it was beautiful.
It was absolutely perfect. Nice. And, you know,
that's what we did. You know, we went out. We
had a nice dinner Monday night, Tuesday night,
and went to a wine bar. Actually, a wine bar
that Monday night. So we just had, like, little
finger foods and shit like that. They have a
main street that's a bunch of shops, kind of
like, you know, downtown McKinney, except it's
one big long strip. Yeah. So they got all the
knacky things. I mean, you could see it there
in the picture. Oh, yeah. Right? And what they
have out there, and I have yet to do this, is
the World War II Naval Museum. I spent maybe
an hour there. It's like a two -day thing. And
I maybe spent one or two hours there. And it's
not enough time. And it's a really good one.
It's the Pacific War. Well, that used to be Admiral
Nimitz's house. That's correct. That's where
he's from. So it's his house that they've converted
into a big museum. It's very nice. But you did
not get a chance to go in there. No, we've never
stopped. Every time we go down there, we're like,
we need to do this. We need to do this. Yeah,
you should. And we have yet to do it. So we need
to do that because I'm a big... especially the
Pacific, actually both theaters, but I like watching
and learning about that kind of stuff. For sure.
Cool. Well, that was all Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
so that wasn't even Thanksgiving. Yeah, so Wednesday
we drove back and she wanted to hit the silos,
the Magnolia silos at Waco. Oh, I don't know
what that is. You know the TV show Fixer Upper?
Ah, yes, yes. That couple, I can't remember their
name. They're super famous. Yeah, well. Are they
still doing it? Are they still doing those shows?
I have no idea. Me neither. I watched a bunch
of them, but that was a decade ago, right? Yeah.
So I don't know if they're still doing them or
not. But anyway, she wanted to stop there, so
we stopped there on the way back. She picked
up an ornament or two, and then everything's
overpriced there. Of course. It's ridiculous.
Yeah, that's them right there. They've done an
excellent job, that whole location. They had
to dump a shit ton of money in that, I bet. And
it's all just celebrating the show. It's her
decorations. The Gaines's? Yes. Chip and Joanna
Gaines. And they're still relevant, huh? I guess.
It was crowded. And I think it's a destination.
Sure. Of all places in Waco. Well, it looks pretty
cool. They've actually done a really, really
nice job. And it's a big area. So they sunk a
ton of money in this area. Nice. It looks really
cool. Built it back up. I mean, look at all that.
I know. The grounds are really nicely done. Yeah,
that's fake grass. It's thick or fake? It's fake.
It's turf. Oh, fake grass. Yeah, it's turf. I
mean, it's nice turf. Yeah, it looks cool. So
anyway, we did that. Then we came home Wednesday.
And then Julie started her cooking. And then
we cooked all day. Julie ran the turkey trot.
Thursday. I went with her because they're early
morning. Yeah. We had drinks after the race.
Oh, imagine that. Yes. More alcoholic consumption.
More booze. Wow. Yeah. So we came back and cooked
and then we had Thanksgiving on Friday. There
you go. Yeah. We had steak. I grilled steaks
on Thursday for us. Nice. Yeah. It worked out.
It was perfect. Yeah. Yeah. We had a, we had
a low key. Just our family. Dylan actually was
off with Lauren's family, kind of like what you
were talking about. Yeah. And Lily and Dawson's
girlfriend went down to Louisiana. Does Shelly
get upset with that? No. No. I mean, we just
kind of knew that was the case. You know what
we actually did? Dylan came back later that night,
and we all went to go see Zootopia in the movie
theater. I haven't been. What is that movie about?
Zootopia or Zootopia, whatever. That's the new
Disney cartoon movie. It is. I like the first
one. It is hilarious. We had a great time. And
I haven't been to a movie theater probably since
you guys poisoned me. No, we saw Top Gun in the
theater. Oh, did you? All of us. Oh, we did?
Yeah. Oh, that might have been my last movie.
That was one of the last times I went as well.
I don't, I rarely ever go anymore. But it's really,
really good. That's because you were embarrassed
because you jumped up in the middle of the movie.
No, I didn't. I stepped in. I really didn't.
That was not me. Kylie. Anyway, celebrating Pearl
Harbor. Yeah, no, I don't think it was that.
What was it anyway? What was that movie? Was
it Midway? It was Midway. Midway. Yeah, it was
the remake of Midway. That's right. Anyway, this
is really well done. Zootopia. I enjoyed it.
A lot of adult humor in there. Some. Pretty funny.
And really just, it's like mental stimulus overload.
All the colors and everything. Oh, the colors
and the graphics and the nonstop action. I mean,
it's just crazy. But anyway, that was pretty
cool. I thought we hadn't really done that before.
You know, Patrick Warburton, his voice, he was,
I remember him first from Seinfeld, right? Right.
Then he was on. He was the tick. He was the tick.
What's the tick? Well, since when do you need
a warrant to take a nuclear bomb, anthrax, and
very strong rope out of the trunk of a villain?
That was a TV show. It was based off a comic
strip called The Tick. Oh, I don't know about
that. The Tick and the Moth. He has some commercials,
too. But his voice. It's awesome. He is hilarious
in this movie. He was also Gronk in The Llamas.
Emperor's New Clothes. Emperor's New Groove.
New Groove, yeah, the tick there is. Oh, yeah,
okay. Yeah, I think I've seen that. He's awesome
in Emperor's New Groove, by the way. Yeah, he's
such an idiot. He plays, and in this show, he's
the mayor who's a big horse. Right. And he's
hilarious. Yeah. Yeah. He's got a good voice.
He does. Very distinctive. It's really funny.
Get him on the podcast. I know it. He would be
awesome. His voice is amazing. Anyway, that was
Thursday. Yeah, we haven't gone to a movie before.
And then on Friday, we just, you know, it was
football. I don't know. We watched the Aggies,
and that was awful. That was terrible. Terrible.
Yeah, so everyone stayed, and we watched the
Aggie game. And lots of yelling, lots of screaming,
and then it got really quiet. Oh, yeah. It's
just like, fuck. Yeah. And then folks left early
because they're like, screw it. We're going home.
Yeah. Well, it's even worse. So we were at Boomer
Jack's all day watching football. Right. And
then we come home for the game and Dylan invites
his buddy and his buddy's dad, which I've known
him for a long time. And I'm like, yeah, I'm
like, sure. Come on over. Well, they're A &M
haters. Poor Chuck. I stepped into a firing range.
He really did. And I even apologized while you
were walking out. I was like, I'm sorry for the
hostile environment. We were already pissed off
about the game, but we didn't need Dylan and
his buddy and his buddy's dad laughing. Like
the heckling crew behind us just laughing the
entire game. Yeah, and Shelly was getting pissed
off. She goes, you guys are being disrespectful
and blah, blah. And I was like, okay, this is
ruining the whole thing. Yeah, it became a really
tense, non -fun kind of experience, right? Right.
So, yeah. And I was like, you went to Arkansas.
Right. Where do you get off? Where's your hate
come from? Oh, I hate all the ACC. Anyway, I
got pissed off at him. So we're not talking.
Say it's not so. I'm kidding. We're not talking
now. Yeah. Anyway, so that was a disaster. Yeah,
that was a tough game to watch. We actually didn't
even watch the last few minutes. Everyone got
up and was like, they left. So I was like, I
turned it off and went to bed. Really? Yeah.
Regarding NFL, I mean, the Cincinnati Bengals
won. Oh, how about that? Yeah, I didn't watch
that game. It was a good game. Joe Burrow was
back. He's back. Back in form, huh? Their defense
actually performed. It was good. Is it too late?
No, they are now qualified in the hunt. They're
in the hunt. Yes. All right. They dipped their
little toes into the in the hunt column. Yeah,
the Titans were 1 -10 before this last game.
and they were not mathematically eliminated,
which I thought was hilarious. How can you be
1 -10 and not mathematically eliminated? That
means the rest of your division is sucked. Then
they became 1 -11, and then they got the little
Z next to them where they were eliminated from
the playoffs. And I was making jokes with Dawson.
I was like, hey, we're still in the hunt. We're
not mathematically eliminated. Well, in fantasy
football, you, Jeff. You and Paul are first and
second seed. First and second. Yeah, I've struggled
the last three weeks. Paul beat me. I'm on a
roll right now. Yeah, Paul's on a roll. I won
last week with 69 points. And I lost this week
to Barry, I think. And I had like 77 points.
I was doing good, and then everything just stopped.
You never know. It's all luck. It is. Me, I play
Paul this week. So for those listeners out there,
we got a 12 -man fantasy league, 12 -team fantasy
league. Jeff and Paul are in first and second
place. I was in last place for a long portion
of the season. You're like eighth place now,
aren't you? No, I'm at tenth place. Ooh, you
need to win bad then. I'm playing you. You're
not going to win. Hey, man, I've been scoring
pretty high points the last two, three weeks.
I hit a good string of lots of high points. I
have to win. I'm low. I have to win, and then
I have to have the guys below me lose, and then
I can be bumped into the eighth seat, in which
I'll make the playoffs. And this is it. This
is the last push for the season. Is this the
last week? No, it's not the last week. It is.
You sure? 100 % sure? Well, I mean, I'm pretty
sure. I think there's two weeks left. But I may
not be. I'm not certain. Because this matters
because it means the point total. Do they take
the point total at the end of the regular season
or through the playoffs? I think it is. I don't
know. I've managed to crawl into the third place
for points. I'm on a tear right now. You passed
me. Because like I said, my last three games,
my point total has been. Yeah, dismal. It's so
frustrating. And I was at 130, 140 for weeks.
I thought there was no way to catch you. What
the hell? Yeah, it's crazy. So what is the schedule?
League announcements, commissioners, playoffs.
There you go. Playoffs. We're week 14 and they
go to 18. Go to week 14. The quarterfinals start
next week. There you go. So this is the last
week. This is the last week. Quarterfinal start.
So there's three weeks of playoffs. That means
there's no way I'll catch. There's two people
ahead of me, Scott and Barry on points, and I'm
down. I trail them by 40 and 50 points. Well,
unless they struggle. I won't catch them, but
hopefully I'll cement myself in third place,
which would be good for points. Anyway, it's
been crazy. We'll see what happens. Yeah. Well,
you know, I'm in ninth place. But you can make
it in with a win? If I win. Who's above you?
Ligers, and I just beat them last week. What's
their record? Five and eight, so they're tied
with me. They have no points. How far ahead are
they in points? They do, they do. Oh, they're
120. Ligers is like one of the highest in the
league. They are. He's 1320. Hawks is first.
Hawks is 1331. Ligers is 1320. I'm 1201, surprisingly.
Yeah, you crept back up. Can you imagine being
second in the league in points? Five and eight.
I've had those seasons. And possibly bounced
out of the playoffs. I've had those where I've
been almost last, but my points are high. Because
remember when I was bitching one year? I was
like, everyone careers against me. Yes. I was
getting 120, 130, but someone was getting 145.
I was like, fuck. Really? It's insane. Well,
look, if... Oh, funny. If Ligers lose... Who
are they playing? I don't know. I didn't even
check. I don't even know who I'm playing. The
bottom line is I have to beat you, Paul. You
do. So that's it. That's the bottom line. I got
to beat you. See, and it means nothing for me.
I got to make sure my guys are motivated because
this game means nothing for us. We have actually
zero to do with this. Once you pick them. What
do you mean? We don't have much. Do you not have
weekly calls with your players? Yeah. I got them
on. I got like a group chat. Yeah. I play the
Beavers. Teams meaning? You play with who's Beaver?
Nice Beaver. Zabivas. Oh, Jerry. So Bengals are
now 10th or 12th best in the league, huh? What
is that, 2 %? Is that the probable chance of
a playoff is 2 %? You're saying there's a chance?
Really? And you were really excited there, Jeff.
Well, it's better than zero. Mine's zero. Dolphins
are. So what about the Chiefs? They may not make
the playoffs. I'm okay with that. Isn't that
wonderful? Dude, the Cowboys, I got to tell you,
man, they've been so disappointing. But they
beat the Eagles and the Chiefs, the two Super
Bowl contenders. They may beat the Lions. They
have a 17 % chance of making the playoffs. Is
that what I mean? They may beat the Lions because
Amon Ross, St. Brown may not play. And they're
big -ass. cornerback or safety just got disqualified
or he's on IR or something. Just looking at that
screen right there, the Texans, the Lions, the
Chiefs, the Steelers, and the Cowboys all have
– well, actually, the Texans look good simply
because of the damn division is really weak.
But the Lions only 43 % chance of making the
playoffs? That's crazy. Weren't they like – they
were massive last year. Well, the Bears and the
Packers are also good, so they'd have to qualify
for a wild card. Who's number one? The Bears.
Yeah, but they still have a lot more. You still
have a lot more game to play. Yeah, true. Oh,
that's AFC and NFC. Okay. Yeah, it's great. There
are some teams that we haven't seen at the top.
The Broncos, really? I like this. I love it,
though. It's cool. Broncos are locked in. Look
at the Jaguars. Yeah. Screw. Fuck them. And the
Ravens after starting so bad. are in the fourth
spot right now. That's amazing. Only because
they have the Bengals and the Browns. Well, that
AFC Central division is log jammed. That's the
only reason why the Bengals have a chance because
I think the Ravens are 6 -6 and the Steelers
are what? 6 -6. The Bengals are 4 -8. Yeah, that's
how you get in, right? You win the division.
And they have to play the Steelers and the Ravens
again. And you're on a roll, and you got Burrow.
Yeah, we got Burrow back. Can you imagine just
squeaking into the playoffs, and you guys make
this crazy deep run, and you make it all the
way to the Super Bowl? It's happened. It's happened,
yeah, and Burrow's healthy, so that makes all
the difference. And that can happen with my fantasy
football team. It could. That absolutely cannot
happen. Actually, it's more feasible for a fantasy
football team to do that than other. I mean,
you have to beat me. I mean, look. Dude, I'm
numero uno. I'm the head honcho in the league.
It happens. He didn't want to hear it when I
was number one for, what, 10 straight weeks?
Yeah, you were obnoxious. I'm being less obnoxious
right now. Who wants to talk about fantasy? It
wasn't even spoken about for 10 weeks. Not in
my presence. That absolutely did not happen.
Every time it came up, it was like, let's change
the subject. Yeah, I don't want to talk about
it. Lying, lying, lying, lying. Anyway, I'm excited.
Football is kind of fun to watch right now. I
know the Titans drive me crazy. You should get
a good draft pick again. Well, really? I mean,
how many draft picks do you need to turn a team
around? Who was your coach? Right now, it's the
interim coach. Who got canned? Brian Callahan
got canned. He lasted, what, two years? Not even
a year in it. When did Vrabel go? When did he
go? That was last year, yeah. Last year. He's
Pats, isn't he? Yeah, and look at them. This
is his first year with the Pats? Yes. Isn't that
nauseating? Yeah, it just makes me vomit. So
you know who took over the LSU head coach? Yeah,
the Ole Miss. Lane Kiffin. Lane Kiffin, is that
his name? Yes. So look, and I don't know that
much about college football, but for some reason
I know about him. There's been all sorts of drama
about this. Who knows if he's going to do good
or not? He's got the experience, but he also
has baggage. I think a lot of it comes from loyalty
and just bouncing around. What is the drama?
There's no loyalty with Ole Miss because he's
abandoning them. First of all, this is like his
eighth or ninth coaching job. Correct. And they're
all failures. You know, all of them. I mean,
they're pretty much, you know, he got booted
from most of them. How can that be if LSU is
wanting him? That's a big program. He did Tennessee
for one year, and he left for USC, I think, which
was a bigger fish in the pond, and then he left
there. My point is that he's had a bad track
record. He may have had some trickles of good
luck, but most of them are bad luck. You know,
in fact, he for L .A. UCLA, they fired him on
the fucking tarmac. They fired him on the field
after the game. They were like, dude, you're
fucking fired. And, I mean, that was embarrassing.
Wow. You know, so my point for bringing this
up is imagine being divorced eight times. Right.
And then you're going to get into a marriage
the ninth time. And you're kind of like, is this
going to be successful? And furthermore, it's
kind of like. They keep hiring him, so they must
see something. Yeah. Well, I mean, good luck
to them. You know, I'm a little salty over the
whole. football, the college football stuff,
just for how much money these guys make. It's
absurd. Yeah, the NIL thing. It's absolutely
absurd. And now this guy, Lane Kiffin, I think
he's got... He's getting $12 million a year.
Yeah. That's tremendous, but for what? A decade?
Something like that? Yeah. Seven years. What
I don't like and what needs to change is the
timing of all of this. I think because he went
back to Ole Miss and said... I would like to
coach Ole Miss in the playoffs. Yeah, they said
no. And they were like, no, because on the downtime,
you're going to be recruiting for LSU. Oh. So
they're like, no, we're cutting ties. So I think
what needs to happen is, and it's up to the NCAA,
they need to move the portal timeline. They need
to move the National Signing Day timeline and
when coaches can talk to other teams. Just like
the NFL. Until after the season. Until after
the season. Just like the NFL. Yeah, don't cause
any distractions with all that. Yeah, that screws
over the players more than anybody. Yeah, because
it changes their decision if they're going to
be playing for a new coach. It changes their
decision on whether or not they're going to transfer
or whether they're going to – I mean, everything
is all – Oh, yeah. So this quarterback at Ole
Miss is probably thinking, I'm going to go to
LSU now and play because I got recruited here
by Lane and I like him and I'm going to go to
LSU and do this. So he's like – Do I need to
play in the playoffs now? Right. Or should I
just transfer now? They're talking about not
bringing Ole Miss, maybe despite their good record,
into the playoffs because of that reason. Because
they don't have a coaching staff and their kids
might sit. Yeah. And they don't have the same
team anymore. Yeah. But they're going to make
the playoffs. Yeah, but they don't have to make.
It's a selection. I know, but. They didn't qualify.
They were a good team. They're not an automatic
qualifier, so it's subjective to the government.
Yeah, but they were 11 -1. I get it. Well, so
was Florida State a couple years ago. And then
their quarterback got hurt. And they kicked them
out. Yeah, and they didn't bring Florida State
in. Because they're like, well, you're not the
same team anymore. That's so unfair to the fans.
I mean, are you telling me they're good enough
to make the playoffs? But, oh, okay, we're going
to boot them because of this bullshit. The coaches
and the players. They can. That's awful. That
is awful. So I think they need to move the entire
timeline. It's up to the NCAA. They've got to
make changes for sure. They shit the bed so bad
on this thing that they need to do it. That's
such a strange phrase. They shit the bed so bad.
They did. Seriously. They can't get out of their
own way. Did they ever admit that men can't be
women? How long did they? Fight that. Right.
You know, they could get out of their own way
on that one. They're not going to be able to
solve this anytime soon, but they need to move
all those timelines to end of January or February
or whatever makes sense. Yep. You're not going
to lose any time. Yeah. Well, they're still going
to play footsie with them, though, you know,
go behind their back. Well, you need to ride
it in just like the NFL. You have to ask permission,
and there's fines involved if it gets found out
that you talked to my coach. They need to work
in all those rules that says, if you reach out
to my coach before the end of the year, you're
going to be fined whatever it is. That's what
happens in the NFL. You can't talk to my coach
without my permission. You have to ask for permission
before the end of the year. And if you do it
behind my back, we find out, then there's a huge
fine. Well, and then there's weirdness with the
whole Aggie thing, right? So now A &M is not.
They can't even compete for the SEC championship,
but they're technically already in the national
championship playoffs, which actually, if you
think about it, benefits them. They have one
less game to play. They have a bye this week
instead of having to play for the SEC championship.
So less players get hurt, whatever, and they
get to rest. So my question is, Texas A &M is
11 -1. Yes. Alabama is 10 -2. Why are they in
the SEC championship game? Oh. They both have
one SEC loss, right? One SEC loss. That's right.
And then there's a tiebreaker. What's the tiebreaker?
It's like common opponents. Shouldn't it be like
overall record? So they have multiple levels,
right? It is conference record, right? And then
it's head -to -head, and they did not play each
other this year. And it came all the way down.
I don't know how many levels of tiebreakers it
came down to, but it came down to strength of
schedule. That's all subjective. Well, A &M had
a really weak schedule compared to Ole Miss and
Alabama. And so both of them had the tiebreaker
over A &M to go to the SEC Championship. I think
it's still bullshit. I know. My overall record
is better than yours. Right. Well, they don't
go by that. Why not? That should be like the
second tiebreaker. SEC record, overall record.
Why isn't that like that? I don't know. It isn't.
It should be. But isn't that crazy? A &M gets
a bye. That's not a bad thing. Jeff, you're so
passionate. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't
make sense. I mean, obviously, I couldn't give
a shit about the SEC championship when it comes
to – I know, Chuck, you were saying, it does
matter. It didn't matter to me. I want them to
win the national championship. As long as they
get into the playoffs and they play well and
they make it all the way, I couldn't give a shit
about the SEC championship. Well, that's what
happened to Ohio State last year. They didn't
make it to the – actually, they did make it to
the – To their own conference final? They lost
it. And then they – And they made it to the playoffs.
Anyway. Anyway, and they won the national championship.
See, I mean – Okay, it makes silly. That's all
silly to me. Anyway, all right, we can get off
of this. Well, I think they lost to Michigan.
I can't remember. But something happened where
maybe they weren't in the conference final, and
they ended up winning it. Yeah. You know what
we have not talked about is the Frisco Bar experience.
Remember the event we went to? Remember John's
band? Oh, yes. At the Frisco Bar? Yeah, so John
Rodriguez, what's the name of the band? Fine
Line? Fine line? Sounds right. Fine line. So
we were at the Frisco Bar in, is it Plano, Texas,
technically? No, it's Frisco. Oh, Frisco Bar.
Duh. Frisco, Texas. So we're at the Frisco Bar.
Shout out to Tony from the Frisco Bar. We went
out there to see John and the Fine Lines. That
was the debut of their band. They'd been practicing
for months and months and months, and they said,
this is it. We're doing it. And they were good.
Basically, yeah, they're female lead vocals.
Yeah, they were good. And you had the keytar.
Is that right? Yes. Keytar. guitars and a bass
and john was playing the drums yeah and it sounded
great uh for being the first time they had you
know there were some little things that they
could kind of iron out but sure all in all man
i would give them i i give them an a yeah they're
playing a lot of songs we knew but they were
not the typical the typical hits i know yeah
so but tuesday voices carry and he and he put
a lot of he was really big on song selection
to differentiate their band, and I thought they
did a great job of it. Yeah, they really did.
They played Heart. Those female singers are great.
Oh, they were. Yeah, they were good. It was a
nice combo. I'd like to get in there and work
on the EQ a little bit, kind of tighten them
up. I really wanted to jump on the soundboard.
Why don't you go talk to them? Can I? Take a
punch at it. You're like, step aside, newbie.
I got this. Who's this bald dude? Get the fuck
out of here. You're holding your bourbon, just
swirling it. Yeah. Hey, shout out to Tony, too,
man. We posted something on Instagram. This is
so cool. It was kind of cool, man. We pointed
something out. You did a little video. Video,
and it was looking at our Dudes Like Us sticker,
and then the Frisco bar menu, and then we went
up and gave us a little surround sound, and then
went up to the thing, and then boom, we posted
it, and a couple minutes later, somebody, hey,
this is for the Dudes Like Us podcast, guys.
And I was like, are you fucking kidding me? They
brought over free drinks. Yes. And it was literally
minutes after you posted that. The power of social
media became... starkingly real for me in that
moment. That's right. I was shocked. Paul wasn't
drinking, supposedly, but I have video proof
of him drinking. I tried to find that, by the
way. I tried to find that and show Shelly. I
sent it to you. Oh, the one with me drinking?
Oh, yeah, I did show her. And I was like, look
at this. This is Jeff Buckingham with me making
an AI like I was drinking. I did the opposite.
I looked at Tara. I was like, look, Tara, Paul's
sneaking a drink. Right? Oh, it's amazing what
AI can do. That's amazing. Because it looked
just like you were like totally drinking. I know
it did. It looked real as hell. Anyway, it's
only going to get better and more creepy. We're
not going to know what is real anymore. I mean,
this is the common denominator for every conversation
we have in these podcasts. I question everything
now. I know. It's just going to get more. So
John was saying that the bar owner was thrilled
because he said on a Friday night before. holiday
week, they're dead. And he said, for the people
that did come in, they stayed and then more people
came in and stayed and they don't normally have
a crowd like that. And he totally attributed
it to John's band. Well, they were great. We
enjoyed it. They were great. The people that
were there, I mean, the... couple that was frolicking
all over each other and she was like i mean they
were super pretty people you know and you would
think that these guys were in love and it turns
out she didn't even know the guy yeah you were
like you heard her say so where do you live again
Yeah, exactly. On the way out. Yeah, and I'm
like, oh my God, she didn't even know him. And
then here's Jeff over here. Those two are ridiculous.
Oh my God. Get a room. They're right next to
us just like writhing and groaning. Jeff, why
are you videoing them then? God. When you guys
were facing them, Paul's like, I'd like to watch
the band, but these people are in front of me.
They were literally in my eyesight. And she's
wearing some little leather outfit and he kept
putting his hand on her ass and she kept moving
his hand off her ass. Now you know why. Well,
yeah. And I was like - Was that time of month?
You were right, though. You were like, it's so
over the top. It was. I was like, get out of
here. And they were our age. Yes. At least our
age. But you know what? They were having a good
time. They were. And everyone there was having
a good time. It was fun. It was funny because
there was a couple in front of us, and I recognized
them from the rail yard on one of the Friday
nights that Chuck and I went out there one time.
The goofy little dude? Well, I don't want to
reframe it like that, but yes. The guy, I mean,
he loves getting out there and dancing, and he's
very - Animated. Boisterous. You know, whatever.
They have a good time. And I just thought it
was kind of funny. The whole experience was good.
It was a good one. I can't wait for the next
time they play. I'm going to be there. And it
was really awesome seeing all of John's family.
All of them came. His kids came. His ex -wife
came. His neighbors came over there. And I got
to see them all. Are they planning another gig
anywhere soon? He told me it's in early... July?
No, no. It might be this coming weekend or the
weekend after. So hopefully, yeah, you're on
the website right now. Maybe we can see. He said
he was trying to line up a mid -December gig.
November 20th. That's the one we saw. That's
the one we saw. Okay, yeah. Then no. Then nothing
else is scheduled. Oh, nothing on the timeline,
huh? That's surprising. Okay. That's all right.
It was a lot of fun. We need to go to that Instagram.
So for our Instagram followers out there, go
to FineLine. Fine Line, F -I -N -E -L -I -N -E.
It is a band that is fantastic 80s, 90s, 70s.
Yeah. They did a little Journey. They did some
Journey. Yeah. I was impressed. Stone in Love,
right? Stone in Love. And I'll tell you what,
it's very difficult to get a guy that can sing
those lines. But when you have a woman in the
forefront, their voice is automatically attuned
to that. They do. So it's just like, and we all
love it. Oh my gosh, that's great. For sure.
It was good. Yeah, that was a fun experience.
I want to do that again. And thanks again for
Tony from the Frisco Bar. Great place. They were
at another location and then they moved over
there. We've been to both locations a couple
times. It's not really... It feels like such
a homebody. It's kind of outside. Your circle
of comfort? Yeah, of areas west of the tollway.
Not very far west of the tollway. Yeah, I know.
And it's in a weird kind of commercial office
building district. Yes. It's a little odd. It
is kind of strange, yes. Yeah, but it works.
I mean, it's not a large place, but it's a cool
setup. And they're friendly there. I'd recommend
some acoustic panels in the place. They need
a little low end as well. Baffles. Yeah, put
a little subwoofer in there. All right. Because,
you know, when you're talking and you're like,
hello, hello, hello. Yeah, it was kind of. Let's
check out those band members there. So who was
the keytar? I think the guy on the left. Oh,
there he is. What the hell, man? That is the
cliche 80s rock there. It's not a mullet. What
is that? That's bald with long hair on the back.
He's a balding Danny Dickinson. Not Danny Dickinson.
What's Dickinson? Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden.
You know what's funny? They all look so different.
So different. This is the most eclectic band
members I've ever seen. Whatever. Yeah, but check
out the lady in the front. That's crazy. All
right. Anyway. Yeah, it was great. No, they sounded
great. I highly recommend it. They sounded great.
Super impressed. I'll tell you what. Let's chat
about our whiskey that we're sampling right now.
Oh, yes. Oh, the time. All right. I don't know
what we're going to make of the time. This is
the... We haven't had this one for quite a while.
We bought this... It was probably two, three
years ago at least. Really? Yeah. It was a while.
So this is a Balcones product. Balcones, if you're
not familiar with it, these guys are from Texas.
From Waco. From Waco. And we made a pit stop
there. We did. We made a pit stop there. We went
to the Balcones place and to the distillery.
And we never did get a follow -up from them.
But they produce a good product. They're all
pretty much single malts, aren't they? Yeah.
I think they are now. And some rums. And some
rums they have. Yeah, they got rid of the one
we really liked. Well. The hazmat. Yeah, the
hazmat one, which was the rumble. What was that
called? Rumble, yeah. Yeah, the rumble was great.
And he's just like, well, we're never bringing
that back because for some reason it was. Well,
they said they just didn't, that it wasn't their
clientele or something. It wasn't a big seller,
but for us, we loved it. Yeah. It was a 130 -something
proof, right? Yeah, it was 139. Yeah, it was
a heavy hitter. Yeah, we liked it. It was rich.
It was yummy. But, you know, I'm kind of enjoying
the single malts. You know, it's got that little
rubbery, buttery kind of bump. You know, it's
got the cliche, classic single malt. I don't
really know how to describe it. You know, let
me take a poll here. So this is 106 proof. I'll
tell you what, the first pool I had off of this,
it felt much hotter than 106 to me. Yeah, it's
got a bite. It's got a bite to it. I asked Sean,
I was like, what's the proof on this thing? And
it's 106. Which is not crazy. And Julie took
it downstairs, and she didn't care for it. She
goes, it's really hot, really spicy. Oh, it is.
It's very spicy. Yeah. It's interesting. You
would almost think it's a rye. Yeah. Our perception
of what a rye was, which we were totally wrong,
by the way. Right. We should make a little box
so it gets up a little bit for the camera. Yeah,
for the camera. We got to think about cameras
now. A little stand with some nice finials. Maybe
a Lazy Susan. Oh, yeah, very nice. Turn it. So
anyway, single malts have a distinctive taste
to them, I think. There's an underlying thing
to single malts. This one is faint to me. This
is a little more on the whiskey side than a single
malt side. The taste is there for me. It's rich.
Yeah, it's rich. There's some sweetness. There's
a bite to it. But there's an underlying single
malt, whatever it is, that maltiness, that flavor
that you get that is in there. But it's not as
strong as some of the other ones we have. True.
True. I've got hints of stone fruit, dark cherry
kind of style. It's spicy. Cinnamon. It is definitely
spicy. Roasted, warm spice. Well, this up here
says that it has a hint of Italian sausage. Oh,
wow. I don't know if I picked that up. I'm not
sure. What is that? Wedding soup? What is that
called? Yeah, the wedding soup. Is that called
wedding soup? It's got that type of sausage in
there? Interesting. I don't smell Italian sausage.
I have not heard of wedding soup. They have it
at... What's Olive Garden? They have it where?
At Olive Garden. It's a German cookie cake thing
that they serve at holidays. You're talking about
pasta fagioli? Pasta fagioli? Kind of like a
white bread. Olive Garden? Yeah, the pasta fagioli.
It's the beef. I just trolled. Yeah, awesome.
It's literally dripping off your microphone.
Oh, don't do that. We have video now, Sean. Oh.
He's licking his microphone. I didn't really
lick it. That's going to be a short. It is. Oh,
great. Oh, let me write down the time. Yes, perfect.
I'll write down the time for the video short.
Excellent, excellent. All right, so the nose,
ripe buttered stone fruit, banana, pears, honey,
rose water, delicate citrus accents, toffee,
overripe roots, dried figs, caramel, sugar, nutmeg,
and cinnamon. That's just the nose. That's just
the nose. That's too much. There's not that much
in a nose. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. But
the palate, they're kind of silky and full -bodied,
lightly toasted bread, fresh butter, and marmalade.
Roasted nut sack, caramel, dark fruit, warm spice,
hint cinnamon, salted pear. Did you say roasted
nut sack? Yeah, I kind of added the sack part.
You like hold a candle underneath? Kind of singe
it a little. That's a little waft. Wow. Baked
pears and apples. The finish is long and lingering
with notes of burnt sugar, malt, and wood flavors.
A drying finish with subtle roasted hazelnut
flavor. We got to give this a different category
also. So this is a single malt category. We do
need to give it a - Well, then Rare Character
goes in that. That's true. Well, if it's a single
malt. Sure. Yeah, not all rare characters, but
the first two rare characters we have are single
malts. I don't know. I mean, do we do it? I mean,
are we separating the rye from the bourbons?
No, we're not. So maybe we don't. I don't know.
Well, it's all whiskey. It's all whiskey. There
you go. It is whiskey. So knowing what this is,
you know. The more I think about the, what do
they call it, a flash of heat at the end of it,
I think it said on the taste, on the finish.
It's a lot. It's a lot. This is not my favorite.
I was going to say, and it's probably that heat
that keeps me from being like, this is great.
Right. Now, this isn't a single barrel, is it?
No. So would I get this again? Would we get this
again? I would. I would like to, yes, I would.
I want to get more single malts, personally.
I am personally going to get more single malts
for my collection. Let's put it that way. You
know, I'm kind of liking them more and more.
Did we get a replacement for this? I don't know.
There's enough here for another round if we want
to do this in the future. I mean, I'll drink
it again, no question. I'm not going to turn
it down. Yeah, I mean, if you brought a bottle
of this over and you're like, we're drinking
this, I'm like, all right, I'd have no problem
with that. Right. All of it. But it's a matter
of do you want to drop another $60, $70 on this?
Because that's right where it's at. It's around
$50, $60. And I would say also, I would need
to try more. If we're going to get this on a
single malt competition type of thing, I would
need to try a lot of other single malts before
I gave this one props. Well, it's not empty.
We still have another one. I mean, look, as a
rating, I'm going to give this a 6 .2. I was
right at 6. I was going to say 6 .1. We're all
on the same page. There you go. Average out at
6 .1. Yeah. That's good. It's not kicking out
of bed. So we had the Swift single malt. I think
I like the Swift single malt better than this.
Yeah. NVU with the Swift single malt, they had
two. Is that correct? They had two single malts?
They were two, yes. And both of those were terrific.
This is good. It's respectable. I mean, I wonder
if we should ever do, you know how they have
like a flight, right? They have a flight of single
malts. We need to do a blind. one of these times.
It wouldn't be a bad idea for us to do three
smaller pours of three different single malts.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Three strong pours
of three single malts. Six ouches. Perfect. That's
a Friday night podcast. Yeah, what could possibly
go wrong with that idea? It would be bad for
a Friday night podcast. I go to work drunk. Yeah,
perfect. Yeah. Great. All right, well, there
you have it. So one more time, what's the full
name of it? The shout out to the Balcones, the
Texas single malt whiskey, the pot distilled,
53 .5, 33%, the original Texas whiskey. I think
they call it the Balcones One. The Balcones One?
Yeah. That's the official name of it? Yeah. I
need glasses. But there you go. It's kind of
like hinted in the background. And Balcones,
we would love for another sample. If you bring,
send a bottle our way, and we would love to.
Partake and give our opinions. Even a half bottle.
I don't even care. Whatever. I went to a place
today. I think I said this on the podcast. There
was three liquor stores right by my claim. Right.
Is that right? Did I say it on the podcast? I
don't know. You did not. They had three liquor
stores right next door. I mean, they're only
within 20 miles each. But they had a large selection
of Balcones, and I was so tempted to get one,
but I was like, no, I'm not buying anything.
Actually, that's not true. I went to Total Wine
and bought two more Old Scouts rye whiskey. Old
Scout rye whiskey. Normally like 50, 60 bucks,
right? $26. Yeah, prices are falling. $26. So
I bought two bottles. Oh, wow. Come on, man.
Where are you going to find a great rye whiskey?
What do you think the proof is? $119. You didn't
give us the time? Because it's fruitless. We
would have got there eventually. That would have
been a fun game. That would have been a really
fun game. Hot, warm, hot, cold. For $26. Is it
good stuff? I enjoy the hell out of it. This
is bottle three and four that I purchased. I
already drank a bottle. I brought a bottle over
to Paul's house. He finished it. Okay, so I actually
didn't. So I don't know. I did not. I did not.
So now, if the boys did, Dawson did, but that's
not what he does. He doesn't drink it straight.
I honestly think it was consumed the night you
brought it over. It wasn't me, and it wasn't
Dawson. So who else? Shelly. My wife is doing
midnight drinking. Is she a big rye fan? No.
No. Rye and Cokes? No. No. Actually, I don't
even care. I'd be completely honest. I'm having
more fun. I know. I didn't drink it. I haven't
had more fun watching you squirm, but the reality
is I brought it over to your house brand new.
No squirming. Look at me. There's no shivering,
no squirming. Oh. Yeah. Because we pounded it
that night. That's why. No, we did not. Oh, my
goodness. Crazy. All right. Or the only other
thing is while we were gone, right? We went down
to Brian Cole Station. If Brody had a party.
That is highly possible. It's highly possible.
I don't even care. Like I said, they were on
sale because I bought the first round. They were
$32 the first time and now they're $26. I'm like,
what the hell is going on? This is terrific stuff.
But you know when you have a party and then,
well, you don't have a party. You come back and
you're looking at your collection and all of
them are curiously towards the bottom of the
bottle but not empty. You're like, I don't think
I drank that much. And they're all like the same
level. Do you know what I'm talking about? It's
like before you go to Ted, you go take a picture
of it. I need to because I was like, that's just
so strange. Every single one of them, I was like,
man, I don't remember being on the verge. Then
you go, hey, Brody, come here. Let's look at
this for a second. Right. That looks different.
Yes. What do you think looks different about
this picture? Take two pictures and go, circle
the differences. Where's Waldo? Where's the alcohol?
Make it fun. Right. As he incriminates himself.
You know what? That might be what happened. I
don't know. So I want to bring up some politics
just because this is specifically talking about
the controversial naval strikes. Oh, the narco
-terrorists. Yeah, they're like, so we have our
own country. I mean, it's different when you
have another country that's coming to us and
they're kind of like, hey, we think you guys,
this is a war crime. But when you have your...
Own country throwing stones at its own administration
that they're conducting war crimes. Of course.
And I'm like, get out of here. Because they're
looking for anything to punish Trump and his
cabinet. Correct. It's extreme Trump derangement
syndrome. And they're looking for any excuse
to make us look bad. We have quite the setup
in the ocean out there. God damn it. Where is
it at? In the Caribbean? They've also done the
no -fly zone over Venezuela, so their whole airspace
is empty. So did they, did all airlines adhere
to it? Yep. Do you know that for a fact? Well,
I saw some map, and there's... Oh, great. Okay,
well, yeah, because Trump said, I am declaring
their airspace closed. Yeah, there was a map
of all the planes. Venezuela and the seas around
it were empty. Damn. Which means he's close to
launching land strikes against the cartels. Well,
he's got that new naval ship that's off in the
Caribbean out there? Dude, they're about to go.
I mean, I've talked to some folks that I game
with and they say, yeah, we're prepping. We're
heading that way. How do we feel about this?
Well, Maduro, from what I've heard, didn't technically
win the election, but he is still in power. But
I don't think that's why we're doing this. We're
doing this because he is so closely tied to the
cartels that he's basically the cartel leader.
Correct. That's why Trump's going after him,
not for regime change, not because of the illegitimate
election. It's because we are not going to stem
the flow of drugs from and through Venezuela
with him in power. That's a fact. So Venezuela,
a lot of it comes through Mexico as well. Are
they next? I don't know. I don't think Mexico
has an infrastructure to control anything. I
think that they're just allowing shit to happen.
Well, the cartels are. That's what I mean. Are
we going to go in and bomb the cartels in Mexico?
Yes. Because that's what they're planning on
doing. I don't know. Bombing. I don't think.
I'm not sure. I don't think they're going to.
They're bombing. They're going to use drone strikes.
And they're going to do surgical drone strikes
from afar. And it's essentially the same. I mean,
what you're asking is, are they going to do the
same type of drone strikes in Mexico? And I would
say no. Venezuela is not the only country sending
drugs this way. No. Colombia, too. Are they next?
Yes. That's what I mean. Because the leader of
Colombia is in the same category as Maduro, which
is he's in bed with the cartels. What about Honduras,
Nicaragua, El Salvador, all of them? I think.
Belize? I think what Trump's doing. Trump's going
to make an example. out of Venezuela and possibly
Colombia, and I think he's hoping that the rest
of these countries are going to be like, oh,
shit, okay, we've got to make some changes here.
We're going to get fucked up if we don't. What
I'm afraid of is Colombia has lots of jungles
like Vietnam, right? I don't want to see us get
mired down into something like that. That's the
risk. Because jungles, you know, airstrikes are
not as easy with that. Can't we just do Agent
Orange like we did in Vietnam? That's what I
mean. Just a little napalm. I think technology
has taken a quantum leap with satellite imaging
and just the drone efforts that they have. And
thermals. Yeah, just across the board. Can you
ID 100 % with a thermal yellow blob? There are
people down there right now. Well, I know, but
it'll be a ground thing. What I don't want it
to turn into is another Vietnam thing. Yeah,
you don't want boots on the ground. Jungle. I
agree. I don't either, but I don't want boots
on the ground. I don't think. We already have
boots on the ground. Yeah, but it's more reconnaissance.
But it's not the same kind of boots on the ground.
It's not boots on the ground as far as infantry.
It's reconnaissance. So we've got guys there
that are scoping it out. So your concern is that
you don't want to be killing the wrong people.
And that's fair. Kind of like those boats that
are being, they're saying there's martyrs on
that boat. Well, not just that, but getting mired
down into a jungle battle. Yeah, we don't want
our troops killed. Correct. I hope we don't put
ourselves in that business. I don't think we
are. I think that we're going to do this smartly.
We're going to do it from afar. And, yeah, we'll
have some surgical teams that go in there, you
know, kind of like just like anything else. I
don't think it's going to be like Iraq or Kuwait
or any of those kind of. Well, those are like
nice open deserts, so you can like zoom in on
them. So that's why. What's your name? M .J.
Marjorie Taylor? Yes. That's why that started
her big rift with Trump. She's like, we don't
need to get involved in regime change and getting
boots on the ground and foreign conflicts. And
you said you wouldn't do that. And that's, I
think, what started their rift. And I understand
what she's saying. Yeah. I don't know how I feel.
We don't have enough time to talk about her because
I really don't. I knew there was some drama going
on or some friction going on between the two.
And I know Trump said some shitty things. He
did. And she said some shitty things. But you
know what? That's how you get shit to work is
that you poke each other and you talk about it.
She didn't like it and she quit. Shit. Good for
her. You know? I think it... Well, it's because
Trump said he was not going to support her re
-election campaign and actually put all of his
weight behind the person challenging her. So
she was like, you know what, fuck it, I'm out.
That's too bad. Yeah, we can talk about that
some more in the second half. Happy Thanksgiving
for those listeners out there. Hope you guys
had a great Thanksgiving. Yeah, for sure. Turkey,
turkey, gobble, gobble. Dudes Like Us, it's December
2nd. Ooh, 2025. Good. Yeah, you're killing it.
Is that your third pour? No, it's my first one.
You go down an ounce, man. Anyways, dudes, I
guess I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff. Thanks,
Chuck.