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I don't think it did. There you go. Nope, we

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didn't start a thing. There we go. All right.

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Sheesh. All right, man. It was a flurry. Crash

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and burn. I didn't realize what the time was.

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We were out there having a podcast in the green

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room. We're working. We're diligent. We got a

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lot of stuff going on. We start at 7. What time

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do we start? 5. Oh. Wow. Okay. Yeah, we overshot

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a little bit. I thought we started like at quarter

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till. I could be wrong. No, we jumped around

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with the time a lot. 6 .30, 6 .45. But the goal

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was to start a little bit earlier because Jeff

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wakes up at like 1 in the morning. Yeah, it's

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ridiculous. Which I have to talk really quickly.

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All right, well, check it out, guys. It's December

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9th, 2025. It's a Dudes Like Us podcast. We have

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a producer, Mr. Chuck, behind the helm over there

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taking care of business. Dudes Like Us, I am

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Sean. I'm Paul. And I am Jeff. We are here to

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God bless it. It's our poker night, and it's

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dudes like us. What do we got? We got a jam -packed

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show today. We got a ton of stuff. We got a full

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board. We'll see if we get to any of it. Yeah,

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the board is overflowing with exciting. I'll

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tell you what. I'll start with some somber news.

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First of all, it started fucking Thursday night.

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With the Detroit Lions and your fantasy football

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fucking running back, scoring as many points

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as he did. I was like, well, there goes my freaking

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game. There's no way. Did you have Jameer Gibbs

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or something? Gibbs had 29. And I knew I was

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off to a good start. Just a commanding lead from

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there. Whatever. It was kind of like my chances

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of making the playoffs was similar to the Dallas

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Cowboys' chances of making the playoffs right

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before they slapped a big fat one with whom were

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they playing? The Chiefs? The Lions. Oh, that

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was the Lions that did that. Duh. That's why

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Paul's running back. It was a double whammy for

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me. But he's doing really well no matter kind

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of who he plays. Yeah, he's good. He's good,

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man. You know, he's extremely athletic. I was

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tripping out on the way he moves. He reminds

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me of a larger Barry Sanders. Right. Yeah, is

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he real shifty? Yeah. Dude, he just – He's fast.

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He'd stop on a dime. He's fast, too. Yeah. Yeah,

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that game was – I expected more out of the Cowboys.

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I thought they had a chance of winning, but –

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You expected more out of them. Yeah, I did. Well,

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their Lions – I didn't think Lions – I wouldn't

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say Brown was going to play, but he ended up

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playing. Right. And he actually had a decent,

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good game. So that was part of it, plus Jameer

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Gibbs. And the Cowboys suck nuts. And then my

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Bengals, I think their chances are done at this

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point as far as playoffs. It was a long shot

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to begin with, but you're in a weak division,

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and there was a mathematical chance. Correct,

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correct. And it was an outstanding game. I love

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watching games like that. They were in Buffalo.

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It was snowing. Yes, it was tons of snow. Tons

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of snow. I love watching games like that. And

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I think Buffalo is building a new stadium. Hopefully

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it's not a dome. But it was a great game, and

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the Bengals had it in the bag. and then Joe Burrow

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threw potentially one of the worst interceptions

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I've seen, and that pretty much sealed it at

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that point. Was that the one where he was really

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short? It was really short. I don't even think

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it was tipped. So are you for domes? It sounds

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like you're against domes, right? Is that because

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of the snow? Yeah, I don't like domes at all.

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Maybe down here in the heat, but up north where

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you get weather. So you're for snow? Oh, yeah,

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100%. Those are fun. Those are fun games. Oh,

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yeah, like the Buffalo Bills game. And whomever

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they play, that was a wonderful game. Yeah, you'll

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get it in Green Bay, Chicago, Bills, Cincinnati,

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Pittsburgh. Is Baltimore outside? Or do they

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have a dome? I think they're outside. I think

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they are outside, yeah. I think just Minnesota

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has a dome. Yeah, they do. They do, for sure.

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The Saints have a dome. Usually they're an Astrodome.

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Detroit has a dome. I love that game because

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you're sitting there watching the corners, and

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the corners are trying to be all careful. When

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they're coming up to make a tackle, they're trying

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not to fall down. I mean, it's just hilarious.

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It changes everything. It does, and I understand

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why some areas have domes, like Dallas, like

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Phoenix. It's 120 degrees down here. It's miserable.

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And the weather doesn't really change much down

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here. I love it when it's in the elements and

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it's natural grass or it's a torrential downpour

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and it's a mud pit out there. Yeah, it's just

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great. It's a big old mosh pit. One of the games

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was a downpour. This past week? Yeah. I didn't

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see it. I mean, they were all soaked. But I loved

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it. I remember sometimes watching the Chicago

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game. They had so much fog come in. You couldn't

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even see the field. I remember that game. So

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they were announcing the game, but you could

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see the end zone. That's about it. This was years

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ago? It was about a decade ago, maybe. Was it

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longer than that? Yeah, it was. This huge fog

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just rolled through, and you couldn't see anything.

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That's hilarious. Yeah, but how about the game

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last night? There was nine turnovers. Yeah, Philadelphia.

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Actually, the Cowboys still have a chance. If

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the Eagles. crapped themselves enough times,

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Cowboys still have a chance. So there was four

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interceptions and I think five fumbles. It was

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nuts. A three -on -one play. Yeah, Jalen Hurts.

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Yeah, I saw that. That was awesome. Jalen Hurts

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is the first and only person to have two turnovers

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in the same play. He threw the interception.

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Is that for real? Yes. He threw the interception.

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The guy who caught it fumbled it. Jalen Hurts

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picked it up, got hit, fumbled it, and the other

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team got it. So he had two. Two turnovers. Oh,

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my gosh. That's funny. The only one to ever do

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that. So, yeah, we're headed into the fantasy

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football. Oh, did you like my little dig? Yeah.

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I mean, if I made the playoffs, I'd probably

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be doing the same thing. And look, I don't want

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to give a shit. I know. We don't control any

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of it. But I really kind of wanted to at least

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make the playoffs kind of extended a little bit.

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You never know. You could pick the best team.

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I mean, hell. I mean. I thought my team was going

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to suck ass this year. You did really well. Yeah,

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and it's done well. Anyway, my text for our listeners

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is, hey, are we doing a podcast tonight? Because

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if not, Jeff and I can probably start planning

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our strategy for the playoffs. Knowing full well

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that Sean is not in the playoffs. I almost tucked

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it back here. I was like, yeah, I'm sending all

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my players to Cabo for the week. Oh, man. But

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how about the Beavers, man? Dead last. Ouch.

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Oh, yeah. He's lucky. Saving grace. Yeah, Jerry's

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lucky that we don't do, like, some leagues, if

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you're dead last, you have to, like, stand topless

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at a major intersection. Oh, yeah. Oh, he'd like

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that, though. And wearing, like, a big pink hat

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or something crazy, or you have to be on a tricycle,

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or they make you do crazy shit in some leagues.

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Well, I've come in last before, so I'm glad we

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didn't do that. Well, we'd make him perform a

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movie with that chick that went to India and

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did a movie and got sent to jail, almost prison,

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I think she's going to go to. What is the...

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What? Some chick does porn? Is this a segue?

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Oh, he's talking about Bonnie Blue or whatever

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her name is. Yeah, what is that? Is she the one

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who screwed a thousand dudes in a day? Yeah.

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Well, she went to somewhere. I think it was India

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or Indonesia. I think it was. And she, they had

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set up. Oh, Bali. It is. Indonesia. Bali, Indonesia.

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So they had set up. Camera crews and everything,

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and there are a bunch of guys over there. It's

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not good, dude. She's going to go to prison.

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They're strict. They're really strict over there.

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When you go to a different country, you have

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to understand their laws, their cultures, their

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regulations. You're not in the U .S. anymore.

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She's 27 -ish years old. She looks like she's

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fucking 40 because she's been rode hard and hung

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dry. But she's going to be 27. She'll be 37 before

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she gets out. If they do it. I mean, she's in

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another world. I mean, they're going to send

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her to fucking prison over there. I wonder if

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Trump will get her out. Man, I don't think he

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should. I agree with that. I don't think she

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should either. I mean, she's a degenerate. But

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does 10 years, does that equate to what she did?

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Well, Americans get arrested all the time in

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other countries, right? Yeah. What makes her

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special? She screwed a thousand guys. Right.

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Is that special? Yeah. Well, I mean, remember

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the whole Brittany Griner thing? Well, the whole

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Brittany Griner. Yeah, we could trade some arms

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dealer for her. Yeah, the most evil man on the

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planet for Brittany Griner. Yeah, I remember

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reading something about when she screwed those

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thousand guys. I think it was in 24 hours. They

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said the camera guys had stunk so bad in there.

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Oh, God. And the guy was gagging and puking.

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Because by the end, it smelled so bad. I mean,

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you get like a garden hose and just wash them

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off. I mean, it's got to be a cesspool, literally.

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Could you imagine the last guy? I can't imagine

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the second guy. Oh, I know. Come on. I don't

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know, man. I don't know. Well, and then, apparently,

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she filmed all this in an Airbnb. She did that

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stunt in an Airbnb, and the people that, of course,

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own the Airbnb had no idea. Oh. And so they had

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to, yeah, there was a cleanup. They had to get

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one of those. Hasmat restoration services. Yeah,

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the Hasmat companies. They put a big tent over

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it or something. Yeah. Well, you have to change

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the entire. Like an ET. Well, you have to change

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the colors. You'd have to almost like remodel

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that because people will recognize that. The

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degenerates that watch it. They're like, oh,

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I want to stay there. Well, they may want to.

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It may be an attraction. Exactly. I want to sleep

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in the bed that Bonnie made. A thousand guys

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in. Just leave the stench there. So gross. No,

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don't leave it the way it is. Just go walk in

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there and sniff. Okay. Well, that went south.

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Just crotch and jeez. You started it. But you

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know what? It was a noble topic because it's

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a sign of the times. It's these streamers. It's

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these kids that are. Itching to make a life out

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of streaming. They're trying to have an easy

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life and something that fits in the box for them

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as far as what they are capable of doing. Instead

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of going to school, instead of doing things that

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you're supposed to do in normal life. This is

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their go long, make it big opportunity. It may

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work for some people, but look, even for those

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people that they do get successful, let's say

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they do hit it. It's not going to last long.

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I mean, there's only a few. And then what? They

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have $50 million. They can do what they want.

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I was going to say, some of these girls make

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a shit ton of money. Yeah, there's some 18 -year

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-old who is the top grocer on OnlyFans. I can't

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remember what her name is. I'm not talking about

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the sexual places. She makes so much money. And

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she's not doing sex stuff. I'm talking about

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just regular streaming in general. Oh, yeah.

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You also have to be careful about foreign laws

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and stuff like you guys were saying. Who are

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the two guys that went over to... Not Ukraine.

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Like the Tate brothers? Andrew Tate. Yes. And

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Tristan. What is the deal on that thing? They're

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being accused of human trafficking or girls?

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Yeah, but so. Was it stunt type stuff like that?

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No, not at all. These guys, that was all BS.

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Really? Yeah. So Andrew Tate was speaking up

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during COVID and they were going after him because

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of that. It was bald basically because he was

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calling the left out. Pardon? In Romania. Yes,

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he was in Romania. Yeah, but they're still going

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after him. They have it, but there hasn't been

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a single thing that's been filed against him.

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He's not been, what is it called? Charged. He

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hasn't been charged with anything. Really? It

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goes to court and it gets dismissed. You know,

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it's all because he was standing up for the United

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States citizens and he was standing up against

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COVID and he's standing up against this malarkey

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bullshit that's going on across the planet. He

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was sitting there saying, hey, guess what, guys?

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I'm in Sweden right now. You know what I'm doing?

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I'm having a good time. I'm going to a coffee

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store. I don't have a mask on. And he was filming

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it and it was going public. So what about the

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girls? Where'd the girls come into play? You're

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saying they just fabricated that? Not exactly.

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There's a little bit more to the story. He was

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recruiting girls of their free will to be camera

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girls, right? The cam girls. And he was hosting

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the studio where they'd be cam girls and he was

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siphoning. rent off of the girls in Romania being

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on camera. In other words, he's trying to get

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eye candy to his show. He was hosting the OnlyFans

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in Romania. So he flew them in and they were

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insinuating. And look, the whole thing started

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because one of the girls that was there had a

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boyfriend. And the boyfriend Called the authorities

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saying that he was holding those girls against

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their will. Right. And that's where the allegations

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come from. Yeah. And when they showed up, the

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authorities showed up, they were kind of like,

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yeah, there's nothing going on here. There's

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nothing going on here. And then all of a sudden,

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you know, Andrew was like, I can't believe they're

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doing this stuff. And look, Andrew is a guy's

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guy. I mean, granted, his tone. I don't agree

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with 100 % of what he says. I don't know anything

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about him. Does he run a political show? What

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is he known for? Well, you can pull it up. He's

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kind of brash. He says what he wants. He's a

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kickboxer. He's super healthy. But does he have

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a show? He used to. I don't know if it's around

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anymore. Well, not anymore. He used to be public

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a lot on social media. But they've really beaten

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him up. I mean, he had a plethora of luxury cars,

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and they took them all. And he got most of them

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back, but it took a lot of money to do it. And

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he was like, I have a private plane. And he says,

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it's less expensive for me just to fly from point

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A to point B. He's still out there doing stuff.

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Yeah, and look, I don't agree with his lifestyle.

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I mean, he says a lot of good stuff, meaning

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he talks about men being men and women being

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women. Everyone's got a place. But at the same

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time, he doesn't degradate them. He doesn't put

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them down. It's just like men have to stand up.

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Stop being a pussy. If someone says something

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like that, you need to stand up. No. And you

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know you have to have two friends and you have

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to have a wife that respects you. And if you

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don't, then you need to get rid of her. And he

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talks about all kinds of things like that. Pretty

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blunt stuff, I guess. It is blunt, hard lessons

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that maybe your dad missed out on teaching you.

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Yeah. Right. And from that perspective, I kind

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of like him. But he is obnoxious. And abrasive.

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He's too much because he's kind of conceited.

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Yeah. No, he's not kind of. He is conceited.

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You know what? That's actually a perfect segue

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to one of the things we have on the board, which

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is if you could go back and tell your 18 -year

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-old self something important. Like stock buys

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kind of a thing? That comes up every time. No,

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it's not buying Apple stock, because we'd all

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say that, or Amazon stock. No, I mean, it's like

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character stuff, or confidence stuff, or self

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-security stuff, or like... maybe getting a different

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degree. I mean, I don't know. I mean, it's kind

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of tough because there's all kinds of easy, general

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things that you could tell yourself to do. You

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know, don't move there, you know, or don't have

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four kids. Well, I mean, yeah. Well, yeah, it

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would be things that you think about your own

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life, right? Your life, you're talking about

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your own life, and you say, man, if I could do

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something differently, if I didn't do that, if

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I didn't make that mistake. What would you tell

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your 18 -year -old self? I think a big one for

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me is visit the parents more often. Oh, that's

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a big one. Because my parents moved 3 ,000 miles

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away, and money was tight, and that was my excuse

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that I can't afford it. Well, they're gone, and

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I wish I would have gone. I could have afforded

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it. Yep. Go visit them and go have meaningful

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conversations with them. Yeah, and visit more

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often. Yeah, that's a big one. And I kick myself

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because... I see our boys. They're moving on

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with life. You don't see them all the time. You

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may miss a holiday. I look back at what I did

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to my parents. I moved down here. They didn't

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have cell phones. I didn't call them. They didn't

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hear from me for months. I didn't go back for

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Thanksgiving or Christmas or anything like that.

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That's crazy. I kicked myself for doing that.

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I would have told myself, don't be a dick. You

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know, if you can't afford it, drive up there,

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spend the two days or whatever it is, spend some

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time with them and come back. And that's a message

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for your boys now. I tell my boys, I have no

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idea what I'm going to be like in 10 years. Right.

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I mean, I could be like Bruce Willis. Any of

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us could be like Bruce Willis. Right. So, like,

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you know, make time to have meaningful conversations.

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Yeah. Then my mom got sick and she passed away

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when I was 36. Right. Right. And you always think

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you have time. Yeah. When you're in your mid

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-30s, you're like, oh, they'll be around. My

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mom was sick for a long time, so I knew that

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she didn't have long. But money was tight. And

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I wish, even if it was just me, not the whole

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family, just going out there more to see her.

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I don't know. I kind of kick myself. I still

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think about that today. Yeah. No, I mean, dude,

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if I could have one more conversation with my

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mom, because she started tanking, I don't know.

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10 years ago, five years ago. I don't know when

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it was, but I even have dreams, right? I'll have

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a dream where I'm talking to my mom and I'm like,

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in my dream, I'm shocked. I'm like, oh my God,

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an opportunity to talk to her. How awesome. But

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yeah, man, you never know. Let's see. What about

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you? What about you, Sean? What would you tell

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your 18 -year -old self? I would say love myself

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more, appreciate, educate myself more. I'd say...

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Love myself before I love other people. I try

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to pump the brakes on getting involved with,

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I would travel more, I would take care of me

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more. Selfish things that you want to do in the

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forefront. If you don't have time to be selfish

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when you're growing up, you're going to miss

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out because you're going to try to do that on

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the back end and it's not going to work very

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good. It's not conducive for relationships to

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be selfish with your time. So travel, just do

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the things that you want to do. Take chances.

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If you're young, as long as you're taking care

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of business, whether it's school or as long as

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you have a plan, but have a plan. That's a big

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one. My whole life I've operated without a plan.

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You know what I mean? I just let the river of

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life just kind of sweep me down, right? A diary.

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A plan is huge. Don't worry about dating. I tell

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my boys that. Have a five -year plan. Have a

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10 -year plan. Well, it's also about being flexible.

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You can have your plan, and then shit happens,

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and that plan is not going to happen. Of course.

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So I think flexibility is into that as well.

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I mean, you can have this plan on, I want to

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be a whatever, a doctor, and then all of a sudden

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life changes. Life changes. You're in a car wreck

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or whatever the scenario, right? You're like,

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oh, I can't go to med school for another three

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years because I need to learn how to walk again

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or whatever the scenario. Whatever, yeah. And

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that changes your perspective on things, and

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maybe you want to, be something else. Right.

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So, uh, having a plan, I never had a plan. Uh,

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I have a plan now. Yeah. Right. Of, uh, retirement.

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I've had that for a while, but, uh, I had no

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plan on what I wanted to be, what I wanted to

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do, where I was going to live or anything. Even

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when I went from job to job, it was because I

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got laid off and I needed a job and, and go get,

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I went and got that job. You know what I mean?

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There was never a plan. It was just like reacting

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in the moment, reacting in the moment. I think

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a lot of people live that way. Of course. I don't

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know if it's necessarily bad. Unless when you

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reach our age and you feel unfulfilled or you

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wish you had made your mark on the world. I had

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times of feeling that way when I was stuck at

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a corporate job that I was not happy with. I

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was like, I'm mid -40s or whatever, however old

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I was at the time. I'm like, I've got responsibilities.

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I've got a horse payment. I've got kids going

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into college. I've got this. Yeah, you couldn't

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take a lot of risks. I was like, I can't quit.

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I can't start something new that interests me

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a little bit more, start at the bottom again.

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I have requirements and shit that I'm responsible

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for and responsibilities. So I felt stuck. Not

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all the time, but when you have these bad stretches

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in your job. Oh, yeah. You're just like, fuck,

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I don't want to do this anymore. But I have no

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choice. Correct. What else am I going to do?

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Correct. Well, I finally got to that point, and

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I was like, fuck it. I don't need to do it anymore.

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Right. Right. So I finally got to that point

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where I was like, I don't have to anymore. Right.

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So I don't. There you go. And now it's podcast

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24 -7. Podcast 24 -7. Yeah, baby. This is going

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to be our big break. You know what I would tell

00:21:23.930 --> 00:21:27.609
my 18 -year -old self? Do not watch the Oilers.

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Don't get sucked into them. Because the Oilers

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become the Titans, and they will never go anywhere.

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Or the Rockets. Well, the Rockets. No, no, no.

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The Rockets won two championships. Would you

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say don't invest all that money into the NBA

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for 30 years? I don't want to talk about that.

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That's a sore subject. I'm not ready yet. It's

00:21:47.089 --> 00:21:51.319
too soon. What's that, Chuck? The Titans went

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to the Super Bowl in 99 with Steve A. McNair.

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2000, yes, they did. Okay, whatever. One yard

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short, Kevin Dyson, yes. And we got our revenge

00:22:00.039 --> 00:22:02.720
on the, you know, with the Buffalo Bills, with

00:22:02.720 --> 00:22:05.140
the Music City Miracle. We've had some fun moments,

00:22:05.220 --> 00:22:10.160
but dude, come on. Unbelievable. We need some

00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:12.319
success. And right now, I think we're right there.

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Like, I think we're, oh, no, we're 2 -13. You're

00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:19.400
right there to be the first pick. Well, we may

00:22:19.400 --> 00:22:22.539
have blown it. We won our game. Yeah, that was

00:22:22.539 --> 00:22:26.400
– was it the defense? We beat the Browns. Yeah,

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was it the defense that was so good? It was –

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It was a running back or something, right? Yeah,

00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:33.240
some – well, yeah. What's his name? Pollard went

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nuts. That's right, Pollard. Pollard had two

00:22:35.079 --> 00:22:37.799
touchdowns and 160 yards, something crazy. Right.

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But what's his name? Sanders, right? Shitter

00:22:41.660 --> 00:22:44.200
Sanders? Yeah, he had four touchdowns and almost

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400 yards. And Dawson and I were both like, we

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cannot be the team that makes him look good.

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And we did. He looked good until, you know, he

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threw a couple of picks. Right. And then, God,

00:22:54.440 --> 00:22:56.559
when they, I didn't know, I didn't know that

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his signature move was his whole. Show me the

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Rolex. Yeah, show me the Rolex. I guess that's

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what it is. Right. And so they picked him off

00:23:03.700 --> 00:23:07.299
and the entire defense was in the end zone. all

00:23:07.299 --> 00:23:09.420
doing this to the fans. And I was like, what

00:23:09.420 --> 00:23:11.599
are they doing? I didn't understand at all, and

00:23:11.599 --> 00:23:13.200
I had to ask Dawson. He's like, well, that's

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Sanders' signature move. I was like, oh, God,

00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:17.720
okay. Kind of like Johnny Manzo. What was he?

00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:23.279
The money thing. Anyway. That just means that

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you're big enough for them to make fun of you.

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Yes. So he should feel good about that. Kind

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of. You know, they're making fun of me. They

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know my move. Okay, do you remember when they

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were talking about him being drafted, and they

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said his... A huge problem he's going to have

00:23:38.119 --> 00:23:40.539
in the NFL is that he pats the ball. Did you

00:23:40.539 --> 00:23:42.259
guys remember that discussion? Yes, sure. Because

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as soon as he decides that he's going to throw

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to somebody, he pats it. And so defenses, when

00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:52.059
he got drafted, different defensive players were

00:23:52.059 --> 00:23:53.940
getting on Twitter and saying, can't wait to

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play you. I'm going to torch you. That hurt him

00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:00.859
in our game. The commentator said, man, he's

00:24:00.859 --> 00:24:03.539
got to fix that because linebackers know they

00:24:03.539 --> 00:24:05.420
can take the chance. You know what I mean? They

00:24:05.420 --> 00:24:08.240
can take the chance to start making their break

00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:11.380
because he's patting the ball. He's just right

00:24:11.380 --> 00:24:13.359
around patting the ball like this at all times.

00:24:14.140 --> 00:24:17.160
Oh, so that they throw off the defense? Yeah,

00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:19.019
so they're like, is he going to throw it? That

00:24:19.019 --> 00:24:20.900
wouldn't look stupid or anything either, I don't

00:24:20.900 --> 00:24:23.059
think. I think that would actually be a smart

00:24:23.059 --> 00:24:26.980
idea. Anyway, but I didn't understand it during

00:24:26.980 --> 00:24:28.880
the draft. And when they were talking about it

00:24:28.880 --> 00:24:30.099
during the game, I was watching. I was like,

00:24:30.200 --> 00:24:32.559
oh, that makes total sense now because he's basically,

00:24:32.740 --> 00:24:34.920
what do you call it? Telegram. Telegraphing.

00:24:34.920 --> 00:24:36.819
Thank you. He's completely telegraphing whether

00:24:36.819 --> 00:24:38.700
or not he's willing to make a throw. And why

00:24:38.700 --> 00:24:41.779
is he playing and not the Dylan Gabriel? Got

00:24:41.779 --> 00:24:45.380
hurt. Yeah. Well, okay. Everybody's hurt on the

00:24:45.380 --> 00:24:48.420
Browns. And he's not playing. I mean, I'll tell

00:24:48.420 --> 00:24:51.319
you what. He had better numbers and some better

00:24:51.319 --> 00:24:54.119
throws than freaking Cam Ward did. Cam Ward had

00:24:54.119 --> 00:24:56.299
horrible numbers for that game. Cam Ward was

00:24:56.299 --> 00:24:59.059
what pick? Number one pick. What was Shadur?

00:24:59.180 --> 00:25:01.920
Like 300? Yeah. I think, was he fifth round?

00:25:02.119 --> 00:25:04.960
Fifth round. Damn, that is crazy how far he fell.

00:25:05.799 --> 00:25:08.980
Unbelievable. All right, anyway, back to the,

00:25:09.019 --> 00:25:10.960
we talked about what you tell our 18 -year -old

00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:12.599
self. This kind of leads into the other one.

00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:17.039
What makes a man's life meaningful? Because obviously

00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:18.319
that's one of the things you want to tell your

00:25:18.319 --> 00:25:19.940
eight -year -old self, right? Your nut size.

00:25:21.669 --> 00:25:23.609
Okay, I didn't... Just one of them? Like your

00:25:23.609 --> 00:25:25.970
testicle size? Or are you talking about like

00:25:25.970 --> 00:25:27.710
the... Are you growing acorns or something? Yeah,

00:25:27.730 --> 00:25:29.970
just... I didn't see that one coming. Okay. So

00:25:29.970 --> 00:25:33.670
that's what makes life meaningful. So basically,

00:25:33.670 --> 00:25:35.529
if you're born with small nuts, get that fixed

00:25:35.529 --> 00:25:38.089
at an early age. No, meaningful is family for

00:25:38.089 --> 00:25:41.329
me. Implants. I'm huge on family. Family. Yep.

00:25:41.630 --> 00:25:44.069
Absolutely. It's got to be the number one answer.

00:25:44.509 --> 00:25:47.420
Ding! What's the question again? The question

00:25:47.420 --> 00:25:50.960
was, what makes a man's life meaningful? What

00:25:50.960 --> 00:25:54.099
makes a man's life meaningful? I would say family,

00:25:54.200 --> 00:25:56.380
but a legacy. I guess that's enveloped in the

00:25:56.380 --> 00:25:58.680
family. Yeah. You know, your legacy. I would

00:25:58.680 --> 00:26:03.740
love to have whatever we are doing as men be

00:26:03.740 --> 00:26:07.059
remembered. Yeah, reflect. I'd like to be a staple.

00:26:07.119 --> 00:26:09.500
Reflect positively. Yes. I'd like to leave a

00:26:09.500 --> 00:26:11.299
trail of people be like, you know what, ma 'am?

00:26:12.200 --> 00:26:15.799
I really liked what Sean did. He had big nuts.

00:26:16.759 --> 00:26:20.759
He sits on them. We talked about that last time.

00:26:20.920 --> 00:26:24.859
Everywhere he sits. Dude, he's got big nuts.

00:26:24.980 --> 00:26:27.400
Slips right up his ass. Very tight underwear.

00:26:28.119 --> 00:26:30.259
I'm sorry I said that, Sean. That's my fault.

00:26:31.299 --> 00:26:36.579
This is on me, guys. Sorry, viewers. I think

00:26:36.579 --> 00:26:42.440
we're at an age where I think we can reflect

00:26:42.440 --> 00:26:44.480
properly on what's meaningful, but What about

00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:47.019
these young guys, right? It's all about money,

00:26:47.160 --> 00:26:50.819
prestige. I think some of them are lost. Big,

00:26:50.819 --> 00:26:53.180
big time paying job. It's all about money. Well,

00:26:53.319 --> 00:26:58.500
when we were their age, 22, 24, 25, that's what

00:26:58.500 --> 00:26:59.819
we were thinking about. Yeah, it's all about

00:26:59.819 --> 00:27:02.279
money. It's all about, I want my first job so

00:27:02.279 --> 00:27:06.279
I can get me a nicer apartment, a new car, take

00:27:06.279 --> 00:27:09.140
my date out. I want to do things. That was the

00:27:09.140 --> 00:27:10.880
focus back then. That was the meaning of life.

00:27:11.470 --> 00:27:13.410
And then you start settling down and having the

00:27:13.410 --> 00:27:15.450
kids and the family. Yeah, but even then, the

00:27:15.450 --> 00:27:18.349
money thing carries on and on. And a bigger house,

00:27:18.490 --> 00:27:20.630
bigger car. Yeah, but I think the money thing

00:27:20.630 --> 00:27:23.250
is different. I mean, the cost of living has

00:27:23.250 --> 00:27:27.569
superseded economics. It superseded the growth

00:27:27.569 --> 00:27:29.849
of how much money we're making. I think it's

00:27:29.849 --> 00:27:33.369
the cost of houses that's the problem right now.

00:27:34.430 --> 00:27:37.289
Just living. Yeah. I mean, the cost of buying

00:27:37.289 --> 00:27:39.799
a house and renting. I don't disagree, but it

00:27:39.799 --> 00:27:42.059
comes back to what we consider meaningful, what

00:27:42.059 --> 00:27:44.480
we consider important, right? I mean, I think

00:27:44.480 --> 00:27:46.880
we're just getting caught up in worldly things

00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:50.640
and keeping up with the Joneses and needing that

00:27:50.640 --> 00:27:52.940
bigger house, which comes with a bigger mortgage.

00:27:53.480 --> 00:27:57.440
I mean, when you look back at it, is that meaningful?

00:27:59.039 --> 00:28:02.579
No. In other words, what did we sacrifice in

00:28:02.579 --> 00:28:05.079
that chase for meaningful things that we thought

00:28:05.079 --> 00:28:08.240
was meaningful? What would we sacrifice? You

00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:09.500
know what I mean? I don't think I sacrificed

00:28:09.500 --> 00:28:11.519
anything because we never had a lot of money.

00:28:11.859 --> 00:28:14.880
No. No. You know, we were able to get into this

00:28:14.880 --> 00:28:17.059
house because my wife was making bank at IBM.

00:28:17.640 --> 00:28:20.720
Right? Right. And then she got let go and then

00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:23.640
it got really tight. Right. For a long time.

00:28:24.259 --> 00:28:29.079
So, you know, we were never extravagant. We got

00:28:29.079 --> 00:28:32.180
the bigger house, yes. But here in Texas, it

00:28:32.180 --> 00:28:34.339
was affordable. Yeah. In my opinion. Bigger houses

00:28:34.339 --> 00:28:38.220
are... Not an anomaly. This house in LA would

00:28:38.220 --> 00:28:41.279
be millions probably. Yeah, but our property

00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:44.660
has gone up 25 % in the last five years, ten

00:28:44.660 --> 00:28:48.500
years. It's gone crazy. That's ridiculous. It's

00:28:48.500 --> 00:28:50.559
come back down in the last couple years, some.

00:28:51.359 --> 00:28:54.420
If you get your taxes. A little bit of correction.

00:28:54.460 --> 00:28:56.640
I know mine's been corrected, which actually

00:28:56.640 --> 00:28:58.420
I'm okay with because I'm not selling right now.

00:28:58.559 --> 00:29:02.559
It'll just lower my tax bill. So that's all I'm

00:29:02.559 --> 00:29:09.250
concerned with. It goes back to home tax or property

00:29:09.250 --> 00:29:13.569
tax is what I'm thinking of. I don't know why

00:29:13.569 --> 00:29:15.490
it works like this, but maybe someone can explain

00:29:15.490 --> 00:29:17.549
it to me. You buy your house for, let's say,

00:29:17.569 --> 00:29:21.069
$100 ,000. Why aren't you taxed on that $100

00:29:21.069 --> 00:29:25.789
,000? Because that's unrealized, right? It's

00:29:25.789 --> 00:29:28.750
a perceived value that you're being taxed on.

00:29:28.849 --> 00:29:31.470
Well, I paid $100 ,000 for it. I should be taxed

00:29:31.470 --> 00:29:35.410
on $100 ,000. a perceived 500 now when i sell

00:29:35.410 --> 00:29:38.250
my house tax me on the 500 000 or whatever it

00:29:38.250 --> 00:29:41.650
is right i think the capital gains uh and i think

00:29:41.650 --> 00:29:43.890
if you pay your house off i think your property

00:29:43.890 --> 00:29:47.529
taxes should go away you never really own your

00:29:47.529 --> 00:29:49.910
house right because if you stop paying those

00:29:49.910 --> 00:29:52.869
property taxes they'll take your house i mean

00:29:52.869 --> 00:29:54.750
even though you've paid it off but you know the

00:29:54.750 --> 00:29:57.869
answer to this right i mean they they're going

00:29:57.869 --> 00:30:00.130
to structure the tax that they're going to make

00:30:00.130 --> 00:30:02.619
the tax structure beneficial to where they're

00:30:02.619 --> 00:30:05.220
always, if everyone does well and the home's

00:30:05.220 --> 00:30:07.059
appreciated value, they're going to get as much

00:30:07.059 --> 00:30:10.079
money as they possibly can. What are your taxes

00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:11.940
on that you're paying on this house right now?

00:30:12.059 --> 00:30:15.640
It's ISD, city, community college, and county.

00:30:16.240 --> 00:30:18.019
It's not even the state of Texas that sets the

00:30:18.019 --> 00:30:20.980
tax rate. It's the ISD that does it. So what

00:30:20.980 --> 00:30:24.180
you're doing is you're really buying services

00:30:24.180 --> 00:30:27.140
from the city, the county. The community college,

00:30:27.259 --> 00:30:29.059
you got a little tax for that, and then for the

00:30:29.059 --> 00:30:31.220
ISD especially. It does take money to run that

00:30:31.220 --> 00:30:35.819
shit. Your kids went to school here. That's fine,

00:30:35.940 --> 00:30:38.440
but it should be on what I pay for my house,

00:30:38.539 --> 00:30:41.400
not a perceived value until you sell the house.

00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:45.200
Who's to say that I could make whatever the value

00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:47.900
of this house is? The home appreciation, though,

00:30:47.920 --> 00:30:50.240
doesn't go to the... The state to redistribute

00:30:50.240 --> 00:30:52.700
to the ISDs. But my taxes, I don't care where

00:30:52.700 --> 00:30:55.319
it goes. My taxes are going up. Taxes are going

00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:57.720
up. My taxes are going up. Whoever's giving them

00:30:57.720 --> 00:31:00.039
to me, my taxes are going up based off of the

00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:04.039
value of my house. Perceived value. Not what

00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:06.859
I paid for it. Yeah, and you got to contest it

00:31:06.859 --> 00:31:09.200
every year. You got to go there. But the thing

00:31:09.200 --> 00:31:11.779
is, is that the valuations, the system's broke.

00:31:13.269 --> 00:31:16.130
Period. Oh, you mean how they value the properties,

00:31:16.250 --> 00:31:18.809
you mean? Yes. The system's broke. It's all about

00:31:18.809 --> 00:31:23.170
getting the taxes. It's frustrating because it's

00:31:23.170 --> 00:31:26.210
like the kids nowadays aren't going to be able

00:31:26.210 --> 00:31:30.009
to buy a house. Period. It's too expensive. It's

00:31:30.009 --> 00:31:31.910
really tough. It's not the same. I think they

00:31:31.910 --> 00:31:33.990
will be able to. I think what needs to happen

00:31:33.990 --> 00:31:35.789
is I think builders need to stop building big

00:31:35.789 --> 00:31:38.289
-ass homes like this. They don't make starter

00:31:38.289 --> 00:31:41.319
homes anymore. They don't. I think part of the

00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:42.180
problem, at least in Frisco. Because they're

00:31:42.180 --> 00:31:44.460
trying to maximize their profit, not in Frisco.

00:31:44.559 --> 00:31:47.000
Well, I think part of the problem in Frisco is

00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:48.420
the land is too expensive. They have to put a

00:31:48.420 --> 00:31:50.039
big house on it to charge a lot of money. Correct.

00:31:50.279 --> 00:31:52.799
You can't put a $120 ,000 house on it because

00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:55.880
the land was so expensive. But if I was a builder,

00:31:55.960 --> 00:31:57.920
I'd be looking out in these suburbs out here

00:31:57.920 --> 00:31:59.619
and say, I want to do a suburb of starter homes.

00:31:59.619 --> 00:32:00.960
There's a lot of them doing it. Well, there are,

00:32:01.019 --> 00:32:03.519
yeah. Trust me on that. But when we moved to

00:32:03.519 --> 00:32:06.480
Frisco 20 years ago, it was starter homes, right?

00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:08.940
Correct, yeah. Because the land value wasn't

00:32:08.940 --> 00:32:11.000
where it's at now. Right. They didn't have to

00:32:11.000 --> 00:32:13.279
put a half -million -dollar house on it to try

00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:15.779
to recoup some costs and make their profits.

00:32:16.019 --> 00:32:19.380
I think our house, when we bought it, was $225

00:32:19.380 --> 00:32:22.579
,000. Right. Right. It's ridiculous. I know.

00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:25.660
I know. It is absolutely bizarre on how much

00:32:25.660 --> 00:32:28.940
that it's valued. It's bizarre. And who the fuck's

00:32:28.940 --> 00:32:32.000
going to pay that? A lot of people. Yeah. Hey,

00:32:32.700 --> 00:32:34.579
people who can sell their house. Where are these

00:32:34.579 --> 00:32:37.119
people coming from? And then leverage that money

00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:38.740
into the next house. California, India, China.

00:32:39.389 --> 00:32:41.970
Yeah. Or your neighbors who are looking for an

00:32:41.970 --> 00:32:44.970
upgrade. Yeah. I mean, there's people in, like

00:32:44.970 --> 00:32:47.529
our first house was just down the street. We

00:32:47.529 --> 00:32:50.470
paid $110 ,000 for it or something like that.

00:32:50.509 --> 00:32:54.009
And now it's going for $400 ,000. Insane. So

00:32:54.009 --> 00:32:56.230
they're going to sell that, move into my house

00:32:56.230 --> 00:32:59.130
when I sell it. Right. Whatever my house is valued

00:32:59.130 --> 00:33:00.950
now, which is more than the four, right? Because

00:33:00.950 --> 00:33:02.490
it's a hell of a lot bigger house. Which is what,

00:33:02.509 --> 00:33:04.950
$12 .2 million? Yeah, it's an $80 million house

00:33:04.950 --> 00:33:07.569
now. Oh, $80 million. Wow. God, man, you've done

00:33:07.569 --> 00:33:10.430
really well. You've done well. And if you add

00:33:10.430 --> 00:33:13.589
this media room podcast. It's all based on this

00:33:13.589 --> 00:33:17.210
podcast. Yeah. Holy cow. The experience. That's

00:33:17.210 --> 00:33:22.309
incredible. Wow. Anyway, but you know, so we're

00:33:22.309 --> 00:33:23.990
very fortunate we don't have a state income tax,

00:33:24.109 --> 00:33:27.099
right? Property tax is a bitch. Right. Property

00:33:27.099 --> 00:33:29.960
tax is a bitch. But I mean, the advantage we

00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:33.480
have over so many states is huge. I think if

00:33:33.480 --> 00:33:36.359
you take the combination of the two, other states

00:33:36.359 --> 00:33:39.160
have lower property taxes, but they also have

00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:41.359
an income tax. And then we have higher property

00:33:41.359 --> 00:33:43.279
taxes, but no income tax. Right. Correct. And

00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:45.000
if you kind of average amount, it's the cost

00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:47.740
of doing government and all the money they siphon

00:33:47.740 --> 00:33:50.700
off of it. Right. Yeah. But another thing just.

00:33:50.920 --> 00:33:52.799
to think about, and I was, you know, when we

00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:54.420
were looking for our first house and we were

00:33:54.420 --> 00:33:56.220
like, we had put, you know, earnest money down

00:33:56.220 --> 00:33:58.380
on a lot in Allen. And then we were looking over

00:33:58.380 --> 00:34:01.539
in Frisco and we were, and then I started, you

00:34:01.539 --> 00:34:03.700
know, you learn stuff, right? I mean, I, my parents

00:34:03.700 --> 00:34:05.440
won't tell me anything. I was like, Oh, property

00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:08.780
taxes. I was at Frisco ISD. And then I was looking

00:34:08.780 --> 00:34:10.400
at the numbers. I was like, this is a whole percentage

00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:13.860
point more in Allen. Yeah. And I was like, um,

00:34:13.980 --> 00:34:16.000
and I, I started doing the numbers and I was

00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:17.500
like, uh, that's an extra, you know, whatever,

00:34:17.559 --> 00:34:20.510
extra 300 bucks a month. Right. For the same

00:34:20.510 --> 00:34:23.710
house. I was like, we're not doing that. We're

00:34:23.710 --> 00:34:25.449
going to Frisco. Right. You know what I mean?

00:34:25.510 --> 00:34:28.570
I mean, so, I mean, it all matters. It does.

00:34:28.730 --> 00:34:32.130
You know? It does. And I think once the percentage

00:34:32.130 --> 00:34:35.250
rates come down throughout the next year, I think

00:34:35.250 --> 00:34:37.570
you're going to see the market heat back up because

00:34:37.570 --> 00:34:41.409
a percentage point on your mortgage is huge per

00:34:41.409 --> 00:34:45.329
year. And if you can now get into this house

00:34:45.329 --> 00:34:50.780
and your mortgage is $1 ,800 less a month. it's

00:34:50.780 --> 00:34:52.920
going to open it up and the value of our houses

00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:54.300
are just going to keep going up at that point.

00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:56.460
They stagnated and they've gone back down some.

00:34:56.599 --> 00:34:59.920
Not a lot, but I anticipate over the next couple

00:34:59.920 --> 00:35:03.280
of years they're going to go back up. Well, right

00:35:03.280 --> 00:35:07.380
now what's keeping the market housing market

00:35:07.380 --> 00:35:11.480
stalled is that the interest rates. Correct.

00:35:12.280 --> 00:35:16.519
Nobody's buying. It's just 7 % or 6 % is just

00:35:16.519 --> 00:35:20.719
stalled. I was going to get last time I was talking

00:35:20.719 --> 00:35:23.760
about the houses, that's part of it too, is that

00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:28.059
there's a campaign, there's something out there,

00:35:28.159 --> 00:35:31.380
a group out there, Rothschild or someone, someone's

00:35:31.380 --> 00:35:33.139
gobbling up all these houses. No, there's a lot

00:35:33.139 --> 00:35:35.619
of corporations doing it. BlackRockZillow is

00:35:35.619 --> 00:35:38.460
buying a lot. They just want to lease to you.

00:35:39.820 --> 00:35:44.300
What's the other big mutual, Vanguard? They're

00:35:44.300 --> 00:35:46.800
another one that's buying a bunch of them. Well,

00:35:46.840 --> 00:35:49.039
actually, We might have talked about this, and

00:35:49.039 --> 00:35:50.739
I think this is where you're going. They want

00:35:50.739 --> 00:35:53.940
to get America out of the model of home ownership,

00:35:54.079 --> 00:35:56.559
period. Yeah. They want to go into the rent model.

00:35:56.699 --> 00:35:59.659
Yeah. They want to constantly keep us under their

00:35:59.659 --> 00:36:03.980
thumb. It's a subscription model. You never own

00:36:03.980 --> 00:36:05.739
it. Never own it. So you're going to pay on it

00:36:05.739 --> 00:36:09.019
forever. And then die. Yeah. So you never own

00:36:09.019 --> 00:36:12.980
it. And the American dream is built on home ownership

00:36:12.980 --> 00:36:17.099
and equity, right? The value of our houses have

00:36:17.099 --> 00:36:21.480
gone way up, and that allows us to eventually

00:36:21.480 --> 00:36:24.380
sell if we want or pass them down to our kids,

00:36:24.500 --> 00:36:25.860
and they're going to be able to sell it and make

00:36:25.860 --> 00:36:28.559
a shit ton of money. Right. Right. So that's

00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:31.519
how you build this wealth. Generational wealth

00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:33.699
to some degree. To some degree, right? It's not

00:36:33.699 --> 00:36:35.400
really - Not really generational. But it allows,

00:36:35.739 --> 00:36:37.340
like when we sell this house, we're going to

00:36:37.340 --> 00:36:39.139
be able to pay cash for whatever the smaller

00:36:39.139 --> 00:36:41.179
house we get into. Right. And not even have a

00:36:41.179 --> 00:36:43.829
mortgage. Right. That's the goal, right? That

00:36:43.829 --> 00:36:46.570
should be everyone's goal. Correct. Yeah, this

00:36:46.570 --> 00:36:49.110
house we paid off. That's why you get a loan,

00:36:49.190 --> 00:36:51.289
and you own it, and then you pay off your loan,

00:36:51.389 --> 00:36:52.670
and you know what I mean? Correct. You've got

00:36:52.670 --> 00:36:54.809
equity. Yep. This house should be paid off in

00:36:54.809 --> 00:36:57.409
about eight years. At that time, we're going

00:36:57.409 --> 00:37:00.110
to do the full, Julie will be done teaching and

00:37:00.110 --> 00:37:02.409
everything, and then the goal is, like I said,

00:37:02.469 --> 00:37:05.010
when we're ready, sell the place, and then go

00:37:05.010 --> 00:37:08.010
buy some land, some house on it somewhere. Like

00:37:08.010 --> 00:37:11.960
on a volcano rim. It is, yeah. Awesome. What

00:37:11.960 --> 00:37:17.199
the fuck else was I going to say? Wow. Damn.

00:37:17.360 --> 00:37:20.829
That just completely exited my brain. Yeah. Well,

00:37:20.889 --> 00:37:22.869
did you finish your thought about... I mean,

00:37:22.889 --> 00:37:24.590
that was your point, though. I mean, that we're

00:37:24.590 --> 00:37:26.889
moving to a subscription model. Yeah, basically,

00:37:26.929 --> 00:37:28.989
that's what it is. And that's kind of frustrating.

00:37:29.710 --> 00:37:31.530
That's what I was alluding to. It's anti -American.

00:37:31.710 --> 00:37:35.309
Yeah, it is. And these things are happening,

00:37:35.429 --> 00:37:38.110
and it's not just with that. It's across the

00:37:38.110 --> 00:37:40.210
board on everything. You know, I'm so sick of

00:37:40.210 --> 00:37:45.019
the food and just... Every time we do anything

00:37:45.019 --> 00:37:46.940
in our life, it just seems like we get kicked

00:37:46.940 --> 00:37:49.199
in the nuts. Yeah. And it's frustrating. We've

00:37:49.199 --> 00:37:51.300
got to get the right folks in office to vote

00:37:51.300 --> 00:37:54.840
the correct way. And we've got people that just

00:37:54.840 --> 00:37:58.159
sandbag. And we've got illegal voting going on.

00:37:58.260 --> 00:38:01.579
Yeah. You know, like in Minnesota. Minnesota's

00:38:01.579 --> 00:38:04.369
a mess. You know, they've got that Tim Walls

00:38:04.369 --> 00:38:06.429
fraud stuff that's going on. I think we talked

00:38:06.429 --> 00:38:08.030
about it last week. We did talk about it last

00:38:08.030 --> 00:38:09.949
week. He looked the other way. But there's more

00:38:09.949 --> 00:38:14.750
to it. I mean, is Ilhan Omar, I mean, why isn't

00:38:14.750 --> 00:38:18.650
she held accountable for the fraudulent things

00:38:18.650 --> 00:38:21.050
that she did to get her brother into the United

00:38:21.050 --> 00:38:22.570
States? I don't know. Well, I mean, obviously,

00:38:22.650 --> 00:38:24.389
they're not willing to look at it because Minnesota,

00:38:24.530 --> 00:38:26.929
well, no, I mean, that should be a DOJ thing,

00:38:27.050 --> 00:38:28.989
right? Is that a federal? But in addition, you

00:38:28.989 --> 00:38:31.090
know, Barack Obama. You're very at the state

00:38:31.090 --> 00:38:36.030
level, aren't you? Barack Obama dropped 100 ,000

00:38:36.030 --> 00:38:39.269
Somalians into the middle of Minnesota. Unbelievable.

00:38:39.550 --> 00:38:42.349
And that's how she got voted into office anyways.

00:38:43.309 --> 00:38:44.949
It's just like, what are you going to do? A bird

00:38:44.949 --> 00:38:47.110
of a feather flock together. And it's just like,

00:38:47.150 --> 00:38:48.869
look, when you come to the United States, you

00:38:48.869 --> 00:38:52.389
need to assimilate. You are an American. Be an

00:38:52.389 --> 00:38:55.550
American. If you want some culture. Make a stew

00:38:55.550 --> 00:38:58.329
from your country. Don't instill your own rules.

00:38:58.750 --> 00:39:02.349
Well, there's all these cultures. You still have

00:39:02.349 --> 00:39:05.769
Chinatown. You'll have Vietnamese town. Yeah,

00:39:05.789 --> 00:39:09.250
but those are for restaurants. They have whole

00:39:09.250 --> 00:39:13.289
markets. That's what I mean. Your culture, like

00:39:13.289 --> 00:39:14.969
around here, we're getting a lot of Indian stuff.

00:39:15.210 --> 00:39:17.550
Tons. Right? So we're going to have Little India

00:39:17.550 --> 00:39:24.510
here soon. But if they assimilate into the American

00:39:24.510 --> 00:39:28.590
way, they could have their, like I said, little

00:39:28.590 --> 00:39:30.329
China or Chinatown or whatever. A lot of these

00:39:30.329 --> 00:39:32.090
big cities have Chinatown. Yeah, I was going

00:39:32.090 --> 00:39:34.570
to say. So San Francisco's got them. New York's

00:39:34.570 --> 00:39:37.750
got them. So are they. So there's something different

00:39:37.750 --> 00:39:41.769
about their Chinatowns versus little Mogadishu

00:39:41.769 --> 00:39:45.090
in Minnesota. Like, what's the difference? Like,

00:39:45.150 --> 00:39:49.960
how has Chinatown in New York City? assimilated

00:39:49.960 --> 00:39:52.980
and adopted American culture, but little Mogadishu

00:39:52.980 --> 00:39:56.719
has not. And I'm not challenging it. I'm simply

00:39:56.719 --> 00:39:59.300
asking, is there something different here? Because

00:39:59.300 --> 00:40:02.639
that's always happened. Little Italy, I mean,

00:40:02.679 --> 00:40:05.320
like you said, birds of a feather flock together,

00:40:05.539 --> 00:40:09.039
right? So every group that has come over from

00:40:09.039 --> 00:40:11.800
Europe, from Asia, from Africa, whatever, they

00:40:11.800 --> 00:40:16.079
seek out their people. The guys that worked for

00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:18.519
me in Mexico City said that a lot of Americans

00:40:18.519 --> 00:40:23.099
were moving to Mexico City. Yes. And the locals

00:40:23.099 --> 00:40:25.880
are upset because they're congregated in a specific

00:40:25.880 --> 00:40:31.059
neighborhood in Mexico City, and they are opening

00:40:31.059 --> 00:40:33.039
cities. Americanizing it. Yes, they're Americanizing

00:40:33.039 --> 00:40:34.619
it. Yep, they're opening up McDonald's and this

00:40:34.619 --> 00:40:37.139
and that. And locals were like, get out. Correct.

00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:39.559
And I was like, wait a second. That's the same

00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:42.079
reaction? you know, a lot of us are having. They're

00:40:42.079 --> 00:40:44.019
really mad at the Applebee's moving in. Yeah,

00:40:44.019 --> 00:40:46.559
but the difference is I would respect that. Right.

00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:48.099
I'd be like, yeah, you know what? You're right.

00:40:49.019 --> 00:40:51.840
Right. Instead of demanding. That's an excellent

00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:54.059
point. When I read that story, I didn't go. What

00:40:54.059 --> 00:40:55.940
a bunch of racist Mexicans. They don't want these

00:40:55.940 --> 00:40:58.619
yuppies who can work from anywhere in the world

00:40:58.619 --> 00:41:00.920
because they're allowed to work from home, settling

00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:03.179
where it's a lot cheaper for them and Americanizing

00:41:03.179 --> 00:41:05.440
their country. I didn't judge them for that.

00:41:05.559 --> 00:41:07.460
I was like, hey, I get it. There's nothing wrong

00:41:07.460 --> 00:41:11.199
with us wanting to preserve the country that

00:41:11.199 --> 00:41:15.940
we built on what we built. And if you got a bunch

00:41:15.940 --> 00:41:18.480
of immigrants that are coming in, I don't care.

00:41:19.179 --> 00:41:22.679
Bring it. Have fun. Live your life. Be successful

00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:26.079
and happy. But simulate, simulate. Right. You

00:41:26.079 --> 00:41:28.519
know, mesh with everybody. You can't come in

00:41:28.519 --> 00:41:32.920
here and start, you know, have the call to prayer

00:41:32.920 --> 00:41:35.300
five times a day. Yeah. You can't expect that

00:41:35.300 --> 00:41:38.280
to work. And that's a slippery slope, man. Like,

00:41:38.340 --> 00:41:40.739
how do you decide what's a simulation and what

00:41:40.739 --> 00:41:44.380
isn't, right? Like, it's just tricky. Dude, that

00:41:44.380 --> 00:41:47.900
trips me out, man. In some cities where they

00:41:47.900 --> 00:41:49.960
have the call to prayer. Dearborn. Yeah, Dearborn,

00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:53.610
Michigan. That is bizarre. Yeah. that they allow

00:41:53.610 --> 00:42:00.610
that. It's bizarre. It should be outlawed. Speaking

00:42:00.610 --> 00:42:04.230
of things being outlawed, did you hear the latest

00:42:04.230 --> 00:42:07.389
in Australia about the social media ban for kids

00:42:07.389 --> 00:42:09.949
under the age of what? It was at 16 you said,

00:42:09.989 --> 00:42:16.309
right? Is it 16? I support that. I do too. I

00:42:16.309 --> 00:42:18.989
don't think it's healthy. Social media does nothing

00:42:18.989 --> 00:42:21.940
but tear down... Insecure kids. Yeah, if we could

00:42:21.940 --> 00:42:25.940
do away with social media, you can't. If we could

00:42:25.940 --> 00:42:28.219
do away, I'd be okay with that. I see really,

00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:30.000
I mean, I know a lot of people make money off

00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:34.039
of it, but I think it's a brain rot and a culture

00:42:34.039 --> 00:42:38.480
rot. and a society rot. So Australia has implemented

00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:41.460
a world first law effective December 10th, 2025

00:42:41.460 --> 00:42:43.920
banning social media for anyone under 16 requiring

00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:47.059
platforms like TikTok, Meta, Facebook and Instagram

00:42:47.059 --> 00:42:52.530
X, YouTube to block or remove accounts. of Australian

00:42:52.530 --> 00:42:55.730
users under the age aiming to protect children

00:42:55.730 --> 00:42:57.789
from cyberbullying and harmful other content

00:42:57.789 --> 00:43:00.090
through high -tech companies. And some critics

00:43:00.090 --> 00:43:03.030
worry about the privacy and driving kids to darker

00:43:03.030 --> 00:43:06.170
web corners. That's from the BBC and New York

00:43:06.170 --> 00:43:09.969
Times. They're going to find their ways to chat

00:43:09.969 --> 00:43:11.889
with each other. And it might be, like you said,

00:43:12.010 --> 00:43:15.030
dark stuff. Discord, whatever. You know what?

00:43:15.309 --> 00:43:18.050
Maybe not. You know, Charlie Kirk, right before

00:43:18.050 --> 00:43:24.800
he died, was writing a book. And one of the things

00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:28.239
in the book that he was talking about was putting

00:43:28.239 --> 00:43:31.460
your phone down as much as possible. In fact,

00:43:31.480 --> 00:43:34.920
he's saying, you know, be in the moment, but,

00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:38.460
you know, have a Sabbath day or something. You

00:43:38.460 --> 00:43:41.519
can call it what you want. But the idea is that

00:43:41.519 --> 00:43:44.820
once you're around, turn it off, put it in a

00:43:44.820 --> 00:43:48.920
junk drawer, and you disconnect. But it's so

00:43:48.920 --> 00:43:53.079
difficult to. Yeah, think about it. Every time,

00:43:53.159 --> 00:43:55.760
and I'm so guilty of this, we'll be watching

00:43:55.760 --> 00:43:59.099
Netflix, right? And now all of those damn shows

00:43:59.099 --> 00:44:02.300
have commercials. Oh, yeah. Right? And so we

00:44:02.300 --> 00:44:04.159
mute the commercial, and the first thing... You

00:44:04.159 --> 00:44:07.900
pick up your phones. Instantaneously. Yeah. Immediately

00:44:07.900 --> 00:44:10.619
pick up our phones to continue to get... Well,

00:44:10.639 --> 00:44:13.079
maybe we do an experiment with ourselves and

00:44:13.079 --> 00:44:17.280
say, okay, when we come home from work, put your

00:44:17.280 --> 00:44:20.119
phone in a drawer. I usually leave mine in my

00:44:20.119 --> 00:44:22.659
office. On this day, don't text each other. Don't

00:44:22.659 --> 00:44:24.719
do this. Don't do that. And just put it in there.

00:44:24.760 --> 00:44:26.880
And if someone does text you, you'll get to it

00:44:26.880 --> 00:44:28.519
right before you get to bed or something like

00:44:28.519 --> 00:44:32.019
that. What if we have the walkie -talkies? I

00:44:32.019 --> 00:44:34.820
don't mind putting my phone in the office and

00:44:34.820 --> 00:44:37.659
shutting the door and having my watch. My watch

00:44:37.659 --> 00:44:40.559
isn't as elaborate as yours. So if you get a

00:44:40.559 --> 00:44:43.019
911 from your kids, you can see it? Yes. All

00:44:43.019 --> 00:44:44.659
right. Let me go take care of it. Yeah. But you

00:44:44.659 --> 00:44:47.039
can't. do all your shit yeah there's no social

00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:49.260
media shit that you it's just kind of like yeah

00:44:49.260 --> 00:44:51.400
okay yeah i'll call them back you know in in

00:44:51.400 --> 00:44:53.900
you know i don't know i'm all for it yeah but

00:44:53.900 --> 00:44:59.920
but you have to you have to deny the i just got

00:44:59.920 --> 00:45:02.739
a text i have to read it dopamine fix because

00:45:02.739 --> 00:45:06.519
you know when you hear that bing or that vibrate

00:45:06.519 --> 00:45:10.679
i need to go look immediately oh it's it's programmed.

00:45:10.840 --> 00:45:13.980
Yeah. So maybe it's something we try over this

00:45:13.980 --> 00:45:16.280
next week so we can report on it next week and

00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:20.420
say, okay, on next Monday or tomorrow or whatever,

00:45:20.599 --> 00:45:25.019
we're putting our phone in the whatever, other

00:45:25.019 --> 00:45:26.599
room or whatever, and we're not going to touch

00:45:26.599 --> 00:45:29.079
it until we go to bed. I can see it now. I'll

00:45:29.079 --> 00:45:32.199
be in my house. No, the doorbell goes off. You

00:45:32.199 --> 00:45:33.800
know what's interesting? Paul, what the hell,

00:45:33.800 --> 00:45:35.079
man? We haven't heard from you in seven weeks.

00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:38.760
So regarding this Australian band. There's key

00:45:38.760 --> 00:45:41.260
aspects of this ban. I'm going down this list

00:45:41.260 --> 00:45:42.900
here. It says, who does it affect? Obviously,

00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:47.300
it affects the kids. Platforms covered. Of course,

00:45:47.380 --> 00:45:50.860
all the major social media ones. What does it

00:45:50.860 --> 00:45:54.900
do? Tech companies must prevent under -16s from

00:45:54.900 --> 00:45:57.320
creating these accounts and removing the existing

00:45:57.320 --> 00:46:01.460
ones. Age verification, exemptions, no penalties

00:46:01.460 --> 00:46:04.159
for the kids. The law targets the companies.

00:46:04.949 --> 00:46:07.710
not the children or the parents. Of course. Yeah,

00:46:07.750 --> 00:46:09.590
that's the way to go. You think they'll start

00:46:09.590 --> 00:46:13.510
getting fake IDs? Maybe. Right. And then, yeah,

00:46:13.630 --> 00:46:15.070
how are they going to know? How is the company

00:46:15.070 --> 00:46:18.949
going to know if a kid, how old a kid is? Well,

00:46:18.969 --> 00:46:22.349
there's, I mean, I think it's. Now you're talking

00:46:22.349 --> 00:46:25.650
about government overreach. To provide the information

00:46:25.650 --> 00:46:28.909
about everybody to everybody. Well, I don't know,

00:46:28.949 --> 00:46:31.570
because there's websites here that you have to

00:46:31.570 --> 00:46:35.909
validate your age, right? Like OnlyFans or Porn.

00:46:35.989 --> 00:46:40.130
There's others that you have to, like, there's

00:46:40.130 --> 00:46:43.309
companies that will validate your age, right,

00:46:43.429 --> 00:46:48.269
for these websites. Grindr. Yeah, Grindr is what

00:46:48.269 --> 00:46:51.230
you said? Grindr. Yeah, you give a sperm sample.

00:46:52.849 --> 00:46:56.429
Ew. Jesus. Wow. What, they test it and they know

00:46:56.429 --> 00:46:59.150
how old you are? I stopped. What is this, fresh?

00:47:00.289 --> 00:47:02.909
With fresh, what do you mean? What is not fresh?

00:47:03.030 --> 00:47:05.369
Freshly grown, like you had just had sex. Like

00:47:05.369 --> 00:47:09.530
freshly waxed? The next batch is only an hour

00:47:09.530 --> 00:47:14.230
old. This is only two days old. Jesus. Okay,

00:47:14.349 --> 00:47:17.150
yeah, that got weird. All right, sorry. Who bought

00:47:17.150 --> 00:47:21.420
a grinder? I brought it up as a way for checking

00:47:21.420 --> 00:47:25.780
age. How do you verify age? Not in Grindr. So

00:47:25.780 --> 00:47:28.659
they don't verify age on Grindr? They're letting

00:47:28.659 --> 00:47:31.159
little kids just go out there? Like I said, there's

00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:33.880
companies out there that do it. I think you do

00:47:33.880 --> 00:47:35.059
have to give them some personal information.

00:47:35.679 --> 00:47:38.239
So how do you do it? I've never run through the

00:47:38.239 --> 00:47:40.639
process because I don't join Grindr. I don't

00:47:40.639 --> 00:47:43.559
know. Yeah, Jeff. Tell us. When you opened up

00:47:43.559 --> 00:47:45.219
your Grindr account. Do it real quick. No, no.

00:47:45.300 --> 00:47:47.739
I mean, not necessarily for Grindr. Do it really

00:47:47.739 --> 00:47:50.280
quick. But for any social media, how are they

00:47:50.280 --> 00:47:52.280
going to do it? How are they going to know for

00:47:52.280 --> 00:47:54.599
sure? Because if you're 16, you're technically

00:47:54.599 --> 00:47:56.960
still a minor. So does that mean your parent

00:47:56.960 --> 00:47:59.360
needs to sign on? It's as good as the information

00:47:59.360 --> 00:48:03.079
you type in. So I got to tell you, when - And

00:48:03.079 --> 00:48:05.239
you know there's going to be parents that let

00:48:05.239 --> 00:48:08.639
their kids on their accounts. When I was on Xbox,

00:48:09.019 --> 00:48:11.480
well, I still am on Xbox, but when you're on

00:48:11.480 --> 00:48:14.500
Xbox and you set up a family plan with your Xbox,

00:48:14.820 --> 00:48:18.400
you have on there who the family members are

00:48:18.400 --> 00:48:20.400
and you name them. You don't have to give all

00:48:20.400 --> 00:48:22.619
their information. You name them and you give

00:48:22.619 --> 00:48:24.900
them an age and their birth date. And that way,

00:48:24.940 --> 00:48:27.500
when they log on to their account, their account

00:48:27.500 --> 00:48:31.840
- It's restricted based on age. Yeah, but it's

00:48:31.840 --> 00:48:34.739
set up by the parents. So you have an authority

00:48:34.739 --> 00:48:37.500
that goes in there with a credit card or whatever,

00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:39.460
and they're the one that dictate it. So that's

00:48:39.460 --> 00:48:41.480
what I'm thinking it could be. So it says up

00:48:41.480 --> 00:48:44.159
here, photo ID checks, users upload official

00:48:44.159 --> 00:48:46.280
documents, driver's license, passport, stuff

00:48:46.280 --> 00:48:49.500
like that, maybe a birth certificate if you don't

00:48:49.500 --> 00:48:53.599
have any of those. Facial age estimation. So

00:48:53.599 --> 00:48:57.119
they take a selfie, and then AI will scan it

00:48:57.119 --> 00:48:59.559
and go, You're five. You're five years old now.

00:48:59.800 --> 00:49:01.980
Yeah, what if you're like a really young -looking

00:49:01.980 --> 00:49:04.920
dude? Yeah, what if you're 15? Like, Steven had

00:49:04.920 --> 00:49:07.320
a full beard at 13. I mean, people constantly

00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:11.880
think I'm 17, even now. Wow. What? With those

00:49:11.880 --> 00:49:15.380
knees. Knees? You went with the knees first?

00:49:15.760 --> 00:49:19.619
Did 17 -year -olds have a lot of gray? Small

00:49:19.619 --> 00:49:21.760
junk. And they have generally a lot of teeth.

00:49:22.059 --> 00:49:25.119
And it says parental vouching. Parents are part

00:49:25.119 --> 00:49:27.420
of the problem. Oh, that is going to be the problem.

00:49:27.519 --> 00:49:29.380
Parents are going to cave. Credit card checks.

00:49:29.420 --> 00:49:30.599
And they're going to let their kids use their

00:49:30.599 --> 00:49:33.519
account. So, you know, credit card. You need

00:49:33.519 --> 00:49:35.920
to put in a credit card because I don't know

00:49:35.920 --> 00:49:40.400
if companies, like if you get your kid at 15

00:49:40.400 --> 00:49:42.340
a credit card, I think there's an age tied to

00:49:42.340 --> 00:49:43.739
that, isn't there? Like it's a youth account.

00:49:43.980 --> 00:49:48.119
Right. Here's my concern. This is a good idea.

00:49:48.619 --> 00:49:51.880
But to really make it bulletproof, they're going

00:49:51.880 --> 00:49:55.760
to have to overreach and become big brother like

00:49:55.760 --> 00:49:58.059
you would not believe. And they already are.

00:49:58.219 --> 00:50:00.239
Yeah, they really are. And they kind of already

00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:03.579
are. And so anybody that's headed this direction,

00:50:03.719 --> 00:50:05.320
if the United States wants to do something like

00:50:05.320 --> 00:50:09.920
this, I see that being a problem. Texas has thought

00:50:09.920 --> 00:50:15.539
of this to not allow, I think it was under 16

00:50:15.539 --> 00:50:17.599
-year -olds on social media. I know it was mentioned.

00:50:18.159 --> 00:50:20.579
that they want to do it. See, to me, this falls

00:50:20.579 --> 00:50:22.679
into the category of unintended consequences,

00:50:22.980 --> 00:50:25.380
right? I think they're huge pluses. They're not

00:50:25.380 --> 00:50:26.780
going to be able to push it through because they

00:50:26.780 --> 00:50:30.199
don't have a backbone. Yeah, but to me, it's

00:50:30.199 --> 00:50:32.739
not about that. It's about... Is it privacy?

00:50:33.659 --> 00:50:35.800
Something, you know? They have good intentions

00:50:35.800 --> 00:50:38.800
and unintended consequences are going to make

00:50:38.800 --> 00:50:42.940
this a nightmare. Yeah. You know? Yeah. I don't

00:50:42.940 --> 00:50:43.940
know. I don't know. I don't know how they're

00:50:43.940 --> 00:50:45.179
going to do it. But it's a good idea because

00:50:45.179 --> 00:50:47.909
I think we all agree social media is not... It's

00:50:47.909 --> 00:50:50.190
not a positive thing. No, it is not. In general.

00:50:50.349 --> 00:50:54.989
It's not. Well, I mean, it can be, but it's good

00:50:54.989 --> 00:50:57.969
for killing time, but man, I tell you what, it's

00:50:57.969 --> 00:51:00.909
killing too much time. We have a limited time

00:51:00.909 --> 00:51:04.909
on this planet, and it stinks to know the amount

00:51:04.909 --> 00:51:06.849
of time I've spent on these doom scrolls. What

00:51:06.849 --> 00:51:08.530
do they call them? Death scrolls? Doom scroll.

00:51:08.750 --> 00:51:11.030
Yeah, doom scroll. That works. Yeah, but whatever.

00:51:11.230 --> 00:51:13.769
Anyhow, I'm doing better at it. Like I said,

00:51:13.929 --> 00:51:16.030
I start to leave my phone in the office, so when

00:51:16.030 --> 00:51:18.159
I walk out, it's there. And if I need it, you

00:51:18.159 --> 00:51:20.699
know, something. You know what? I don't do it

00:51:20.699 --> 00:51:23.559
very often. But when I do, my feed is all about

00:51:23.559 --> 00:51:26.480
things that just make me laugh my ass off. And

00:51:26.480 --> 00:51:29.400
that's technically not a bad thing. You know

00:51:29.400 --> 00:51:31.139
what I mean? If you need an escape from what

00:51:31.139 --> 00:51:33.260
you're doing at the moment and something's really,

00:51:33.340 --> 00:51:34.719
really funny and you just laugh and laugh and

00:51:34.719 --> 00:51:37.159
laugh and laugh, that's not a bad thing. If you're

00:51:37.159 --> 00:51:39.820
just mindlessly wasting time for hours and hours,

00:51:39.900 --> 00:51:42.139
I get it. You know what I mean? Like I'm watching

00:51:42.139 --> 00:51:46.019
funny animal bullshit. Well, that's what a lot

00:51:46.019 --> 00:51:48.369
of these kids do. Well, and parents. They'll

00:51:48.369 --> 00:51:52.789
just scroll, and it's stupid videos. Right. Right?

00:51:52.849 --> 00:51:56.010
But they're funny? That's bad? I don't know.

00:51:56.010 --> 00:52:02.030
No, but look, it is funny, but it's... This is

00:52:02.030 --> 00:52:04.849
the part that's confusing for me. Is it making

00:52:04.849 --> 00:52:09.170
us dumb? Because they're saying, well, it's conducive

00:52:09.170 --> 00:52:12.670
to creating a short attention span. Is that accurate?

00:52:12.829 --> 00:52:14.809
That's for sure. I agree with that. Is it? Yes.

00:52:15.609 --> 00:52:21.309
So, you know, if that's the case, then it's a

00:52:21.309 --> 00:52:25.210
drug that we need to enforce. And I would say

00:52:25.210 --> 00:52:27.130
it depends on how much you're abusing it, right?

00:52:27.269 --> 00:52:32.909
If you're doing one doom scroll a day for, doesn't

00:52:32.909 --> 00:52:35.969
it cut you off? Eight hours? Yeah. Eight hours?

00:52:36.369 --> 00:52:38.610
Seven and a half. No, but doesn't it cut you

00:52:38.610 --> 00:52:40.190
off? No, you have to turn that on. It cuts you

00:52:40.190 --> 00:52:42.809
off. You have to turn that on. Oh, okay. So if

00:52:42.809 --> 00:52:44.550
you don't turn that on, like Sean was getting

00:52:44.550 --> 00:52:47.880
caught with it. So I was like, let's try a time.

00:52:48.559 --> 00:52:51.239
Yeah, I could see 20, 30 minutes being like a

00:52:51.239 --> 00:52:52.900
– because you're supposed to take 15 -minute

00:52:52.900 --> 00:52:55.199
breaks from whatever you're working on. What

00:52:55.199 --> 00:52:57.280
did we used to do for those 15 -minute breaks?

00:52:58.219 --> 00:53:02.059
Smoke. Would that work? I never smoked. I don't

00:53:02.059 --> 00:53:03.719
take breaks. Actually, that's not true. Actually,

00:53:03.800 --> 00:53:04.780
you know what I would do? I'd murder people.

00:53:04.900 --> 00:53:07.599
I'd get up and I – Oh, you'd play video games?

00:53:07.880 --> 00:53:10.380
Oh, yeah, you'd play video games. So I'd get

00:53:10.380 --> 00:53:12.000
up. We had to clarify that. I'd get up and I'd

00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:17.059
go visit someone. At work. I'd go over and I'd

00:53:17.059 --> 00:53:18.699
mention work a little bit, then we'd sit and

00:53:18.699 --> 00:53:21.599
visit for 10 minutes. That's what I did. I wouldn't

00:53:21.599 --> 00:53:23.500
get on my phone. Or if I had a paperback book,

00:53:23.639 --> 00:53:28.079
I'd read it. That's actually probably the best

00:53:28.079 --> 00:53:29.900
answer right there. That's good for your brain.

00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:33.400
I need to read books. Did you ever finish that

00:53:33.400 --> 00:53:37.300
book I gave you? No. Oh, which one? Sandstorm.

00:53:38.519 --> 00:53:40.460
You mean the one on the tablet? That was a quick

00:53:40.460 --> 00:53:42.500
answer, wasn't it? No. No, the answer is no.

00:53:42.639 --> 00:53:44.679
I mean, no. Oh, yeah, you downloaded it, right?

00:53:44.800 --> 00:53:46.760
Yeah, I downloaded it. And it's just, I don't

00:53:46.760 --> 00:53:48.860
think about it. And now that you reminded me,

00:53:48.940 --> 00:53:51.320
I'll make a point to read it tomorrow. All right.

00:53:51.400 --> 00:53:53.300
You know, I just forget, honestly. Can I join

00:53:53.300 --> 00:53:55.800
this cool kid book club that you guys do? All

00:53:55.800 --> 00:53:59.360
it is is we, so look, for those readers out there,

00:53:59.500 --> 00:54:02.760
which I am traditionally not, but I love reading

00:54:02.760 --> 00:54:05.900
because when I do it, I love it. It's rewarding.

00:54:05.940 --> 00:54:09.260
I'm enjoying it. You know, people are like, well,

00:54:09.320 --> 00:54:10.519
you know, I've got to go out there and buy the

00:54:10.519 --> 00:54:12.360
books, go to the library, pick them up. No, man,

00:54:12.500 --> 00:54:15.239
it's even easier than that. You can go to your

00:54:15.239 --> 00:54:17.679
public library, like down in Frisco, and you

00:54:17.679 --> 00:54:21.400
get set up and you can go to your computer, phone,

00:54:21.719 --> 00:54:26.300
tablet, iPad, and you create an account for the

00:54:26.300 --> 00:54:30.880
library. And then you go on to your Amazon. Well,

00:54:30.880 --> 00:54:33.219
you go into it, you find your book, you check

00:54:33.219 --> 00:54:36.030
it out. Yeah. As a Kindle. Yeah, there you go.

00:54:36.030 --> 00:54:38.489
It's Kindle. I have a Kindle rotting in my drawer.

00:54:38.570 --> 00:54:41.570
There it is right there. Sandstorm. So, I mean,

00:54:41.610 --> 00:54:44.829
really, I just check it out, and then it automatically

00:54:44.829 --> 00:54:46.750
populates on – well, it doesn't automatically.

00:54:46.750 --> 00:54:48.469
You've got to do some stuff, and frankly, I forget

00:54:48.469 --> 00:54:49.949
every fucking time. Well, yeah, it takes you

00:54:49.949 --> 00:54:53.519
to Amazon, and you click. uh, checkout book or

00:54:53.519 --> 00:54:55.659
something like that. Read now. And it loads it

00:54:55.659 --> 00:54:57.480
onto your Kindle. Yep. And you have it for like,

00:54:57.559 --> 00:54:59.780
you have it for like two, three weeks and you

00:54:59.780 --> 00:55:01.719
can read it. And man, I'll tell you what, there

00:55:01.719 --> 00:55:03.719
was a time, uh, right now I go to bed at midnight

00:55:03.719 --> 00:55:05.800
because I'm, there's a new video game out and

00:55:05.800 --> 00:55:08.000
I'm fricking all into it right now. But I mean,

00:55:08.019 --> 00:55:09.679
before that, you know, I was just going to bed

00:55:09.679 --> 00:55:11.860
about an hour earlier and I'd read the book.

00:55:12.699 --> 00:55:15.360
Right. You know, and I sit there and read it,

00:55:15.380 --> 00:55:17.400
tears in bed and you could switch the pages from

00:55:17.400 --> 00:55:20.460
white to black and then white color letters.

00:55:20.780 --> 00:55:24.039
So it's, it's not as bright and you know, it's,

00:55:24.139 --> 00:55:26.739
I enjoy it. And the thing about it is your brain

00:55:26.739 --> 00:55:30.199
is amazing, you know, because I could pick up,

00:55:30.199 --> 00:55:32.920
I go back a couple of pages and then I could,

00:55:32.960 --> 00:55:35.400
it's like, you can remember, you get reengaged

00:55:35.400 --> 00:55:37.360
in it and you're right exactly where you're at,

00:55:37.360 --> 00:55:39.440
where you left off. It's at least, you know.

00:55:39.679 --> 00:55:41.920
Right now, I can't. As into it as you were when

00:55:41.920 --> 00:55:44.340
you left off. Yes. I hear you. And then I'm addicted

00:55:44.340 --> 00:55:47.300
to it, and I start pounding down the pages, and

00:55:47.300 --> 00:55:49.800
then I do it for a couple days, and then I kind

00:55:49.800 --> 00:55:52.280
of blow it off, and I forget about it. I do need

00:55:52.280 --> 00:55:55.239
it. I'm glad you brought that up. I want to do

00:55:55.239 --> 00:55:57.559
that. I'm going to sign up for this Frisco library.

00:55:57.780 --> 00:56:01.460
Do you have a library card or an ID? No. You

00:56:01.460 --> 00:56:02.619
can just go down there. That's what Sean had

00:56:02.619 --> 00:56:04.539
to do. Actually, you lost yours. They found it,

00:56:04.559 --> 00:56:07.429
right? Yeah, I've got one of the only, I think

00:56:07.429 --> 00:56:10.469
you may have one as well, but my ID number has

00:56:10.469 --> 00:56:14.380
five digits. Yeah, so does mine. Meaning it's

00:56:14.380 --> 00:56:16.380
really old? Yes. We've got it for a very long

00:56:16.380 --> 00:56:20.119
time. It's the original. And he was like, that's

00:56:20.119 --> 00:56:22.980
only five digits. Something's wrong. What's going

00:56:22.980 --> 00:56:25.920
on here? And I was like, that's it. Five digits.

00:56:27.159 --> 00:56:30.659
That's funny. But I have to go to the library

00:56:30.659 --> 00:56:32.599
to get a card, get an ID. You may be able to

00:56:32.599 --> 00:56:36.599
do it online. But they have to validate that

00:56:36.599 --> 00:56:39.780
you're a Frisco citizen. I have to do a selfie?

00:56:40.819 --> 00:56:42.460
Siemens sample. I would just go down there. I

00:56:42.460 --> 00:56:44.019
have to give a sample. Look, I have to give a

00:56:44.019 --> 00:56:45.579
sample. He's already given one. I would take

00:56:45.579 --> 00:56:48.440
the time to go down there because there is so

00:56:48.440 --> 00:56:51.440
much more that is available. At the library.

00:56:51.619 --> 00:56:54.219
At the library. You can go to school for free

00:56:54.219 --> 00:56:57.280
at the library. There are degrees that you can

00:56:57.280 --> 00:57:02.880
get at the library. Seriously. Hey, cool. There

00:57:02.880 --> 00:57:04.300
are certifications you can get. Remember what

00:57:04.300 --> 00:57:06.500
you were asking. What do my tax money go to?

00:57:06.539 --> 00:57:09.179
What's it for? There you go. A dinosaur at the

00:57:09.179 --> 00:57:11.619
library. It is a cool dinosaur. We have a badass

00:57:11.619 --> 00:57:14.739
library. We do, but you know what really trips

00:57:14.739 --> 00:57:17.780
me out? Is it like the animatronic one? Yes.

00:57:18.400 --> 00:57:20.860
Or is it like a skeleton? It's a T -Rex, I think.

00:57:21.059 --> 00:57:23.480
Is it skeleton, though? Yeah, it's bone. No,

00:57:23.639 --> 00:57:28.420
it's got flesh and blood. No. I mean, is it like

00:57:28.420 --> 00:57:31.820
animatronic? I don't know. It's very friendly,

00:57:31.920 --> 00:57:37.000
actually. Oh, it's like Barney. No, that's Winnie

00:57:37.000 --> 00:57:39.820
the Pooh. Wasn't there some sort of... Wasn't

00:57:39.820 --> 00:57:43.239
there like a topic where they were saying that

00:57:43.239 --> 00:57:46.300
the Tyrannosaurus Rex at one point had feathers?

00:57:46.920 --> 00:57:53.460
Yes. It evolved into... Birds are from lizards.

00:57:53.460 --> 00:57:58.760
Right. Yes. So, I mean, the... The Jurassic Park

00:57:58.760 --> 00:58:01.679
does not have feathers. The Velociraptor doesn't

00:58:01.679 --> 00:58:04.019
have feathers. But they're insinuating that it's

00:58:04.019 --> 00:58:08.519
similar to a chicken. So I'm like, can you imagine?

00:58:09.000 --> 00:58:12.960
Eat that drumstick? Well, no. I can't visualize

00:58:12.960 --> 00:58:17.039
a Velociraptor with freaking chicken. With feathers.

00:58:17.099 --> 00:58:19.239
That's what I'm trying to say. There's a show

00:58:19.239 --> 00:58:23.380
on Apple that talks prehistoric world or something

00:58:23.380 --> 00:58:25.059
like that. And they showed a Velociraptor to

00:58:25.059 --> 00:58:30.030
the head. quasi wings with feathers yeah i mean

00:58:30.030 --> 00:58:32.269
keep in mind we're talking about you know 300

00:58:32.269 --> 00:58:36.610
million years of evolution going on here so yeah

00:58:36.610 --> 00:58:40.170
depending on what uh mammals i mean what uh fossils

00:58:40.170 --> 00:58:43.269
they found uh they kind of are linking them together

00:58:43.269 --> 00:58:45.570
and it went from this to that to this and that

00:58:45.570 --> 00:58:47.309
and somewhere they got wings and somehow they

00:58:47.309 --> 00:58:50.210
got feathers and yeah stegosaurs badass stuff

00:58:50.210 --> 00:58:54.559
in there right there triceratops You know what?

00:58:55.300 --> 00:59:00.860
The Five Trails Blended Whiskey. This is Paul's

00:59:00.860 --> 00:59:04.500
pick. Where did you get this thing? You brought

00:59:04.500 --> 00:59:09.900
it back with you. I think Colorado. I'm really

00:59:09.900 --> 00:59:14.159
giving this the benefit of the doubt. It has

00:59:14.159 --> 00:59:17.699
a lot of history. It says a lot. It comes from

00:59:17.699 --> 00:59:20.920
Bardstown. I think they sent it off. And let

00:59:20.920 --> 00:59:23.440
me pull something up here. I don't think it's

00:59:23.440 --> 00:59:26.940
great. Yeah, I agree with that. There's some

00:59:26.940 --> 00:59:28.699
sweetness to it. I know my first draw tastes

00:59:28.699 --> 00:59:31.400
like I chewed on a cigarette. Yeah. And intentionally

00:59:31.400 --> 00:59:35.760
blended American whiskey, a harmony of aged Colorado

00:59:35.760 --> 00:59:38.980
single malt and three bourbons proofed with Rocky

00:59:38.980 --> 00:59:42.340
Mountain water. Rocky Mountain water, two row

00:59:42.340 --> 00:59:46.570
barley malt. So also. This is the Made Within

00:59:46.570 --> 00:59:49.630
Unbroken Spirit. Founded in the unbroken spirit

00:59:49.630 --> 00:59:51.769
of Blazing Trails through the collaboration,

00:59:52.210 --> 00:59:55.389
Five Trail is a new approach to American whiskey

00:59:55.389 --> 00:59:57.949
born in the Centennial State and produced in

00:59:57.949 --> 01:00:01.050
Bardstown, Kentucky. Our blend brings together

01:00:01.050 --> 01:00:03.849
five incredible ingredients that speak to this

01:00:03.849 --> 01:00:06.550
of bourbon in this country with a unique twist.

01:00:06.929 --> 01:00:09.409
Well, that's all well and good, but I tell you

01:00:09.409 --> 01:00:13.030
what, the finish on this tastes like I've been

01:00:13.030 --> 01:00:15.989
smoking. Nice. Well, that's written all nice

01:00:15.989 --> 01:00:20.030
and all, but it's all bullshit. That's good marketing

01:00:20.030 --> 01:00:22.349
that they just put on there. Okay, so this is

01:00:22.349 --> 01:00:24.550
a blend from stuff from Kentucky, from Indiana,

01:00:24.710 --> 01:00:28.250
and from Golden, Colorado. Yeah, five -trail

01:00:28.250 --> 01:00:30.809
blender from Coors Whiskey Company offers notes

01:00:30.809 --> 01:00:32.429
of, I'll tell you about that in a minute. But

01:00:32.429 --> 01:00:33.969
remember, it's from the purest. It's a cigarette.

01:00:34.030 --> 01:00:36.190
The purest water in America. You've seen the

01:00:36.190 --> 01:00:38.449
Coors beers commercial? Yeah, with all the. With

01:00:38.449 --> 01:00:43.550
the mountain river. The moose that are pooping

01:00:43.550 --> 01:00:46.110
and peeing in it with their little scats. And

01:00:46.110 --> 01:00:48.550
they're dying in it and the rot. Oh, I didn't

01:00:48.550 --> 01:00:52.170
see all that. So that's all in this bottle? I

01:00:52.170 --> 01:00:54.369
taste a little bit of that, actually. It's unfiltered.

01:00:56.289 --> 01:01:00.650
This is... Yeah, it's not great. The longer it's

01:01:00.650 --> 01:01:02.989
been out, like right now, it's on the tail end

01:01:02.989 --> 01:01:04.829
of this. It's starting to get a little sweet.

01:01:04.909 --> 01:01:08.230
It's less tobacco -y. Correct. It is less. I

01:01:08.230 --> 01:01:10.860
pick up the tobacco on the finish now. When you're

01:01:10.860 --> 01:01:13.260
sitting there, you're like... Yeah. Like you've

01:01:13.260 --> 01:01:15.800
been smoking a weak cigar or something like that,

01:01:15.840 --> 01:01:17.820
that flavor you get in your mouth. That's what

01:01:17.820 --> 01:01:20.239
I have right now. It's light. It's very light

01:01:20.239 --> 01:01:23.639
cinnamon. Very light. Like apple cinnamon. Very

01:01:23.639 --> 01:01:26.440
light. I'm starting to taste it now. It's like...

01:01:26.440 --> 01:01:29.199
It's got like... But it's harsh. It's got like

01:01:29.199 --> 01:01:33.300
the base of what we would want in a bourbon,

01:01:33.380 --> 01:01:36.599
but nothing comes out of it. You know what I

01:01:36.599 --> 01:01:39.460
mean? Except cigarette. You know what I mean?

01:01:39.480 --> 01:01:40.940
What's the age on this? It seems like it's got,

01:01:41.019 --> 01:01:44.320
I don't know, four months. It's a blend, so it's

01:01:44.320 --> 01:01:47.219
like four -year, five -year stuff. Oh, yeah,

01:01:47.260 --> 01:01:49.420
four -year, four -year, four -year. It's 95 proof.

01:01:49.579 --> 01:01:51.619
You asked that earlier. Did it say 13 -year?

01:01:51.760 --> 01:01:56.960
5 % of it is, yeah. Right, there you go. So Bardstown

01:01:56.960 --> 01:01:59.880
pieced this together. Well, I think... Well,

01:01:59.880 --> 01:02:01.940
they blended it, so they had some kind of blender.

01:02:02.460 --> 01:02:08.550
Coors hired their distiller, their blender. I

01:02:08.550 --> 01:02:11.829
think. They released the iconic Molson Coors

01:02:11.829 --> 01:02:15.550
beverage company containing unique flavor. Yeah,

01:02:15.570 --> 01:02:20.789
I'm not. Look, this one, it's not even a mixer,

01:02:20.889 --> 01:02:23.170
you know, because it's too good to be a mixer,

01:02:23.269 --> 01:02:25.670
and it's just god -awful. It's right in between.

01:02:26.030 --> 01:02:29.190
Yeah, I don't want to say god -awful because

01:02:29.190 --> 01:02:32.630
I feel like a piece of shit doing it, but, you

01:02:32.630 --> 01:02:34.610
know. I think a question we should ask every

01:02:34.610 --> 01:02:37.400
time is, would we buy this again? That's a no

01:02:37.400 --> 01:02:40.199
for me. For $60. $60? That's what it says up

01:02:40.199 --> 01:02:41.900
there. That's a no. That's a hard no. I'd say

01:02:41.900 --> 01:02:46.079
no. Yeah, I agree. For $60, there's so much more.

01:02:46.219 --> 01:02:48.400
Yeah. I don't know if it's... How old is that

01:02:48.400 --> 01:02:50.500
story up there? I don't know if it's still...

01:02:50.500 --> 01:02:57.219
Maybe it's 55 now or 50, but still. Yeah. Release

01:02:57.219 --> 01:03:01.320
date. October 21. So this was in 2022 was when

01:03:01.320 --> 01:03:05.000
it was $60. So it may be... I don't think it's

01:03:05.000 --> 01:03:07.159
more than that. Now it's $100. I know I say this

01:03:07.159 --> 01:03:09.219
every single time, but if you're at a friend's

01:03:09.219 --> 01:03:10.940
house and they offer this, you're going to drink

01:03:10.940 --> 01:03:12.280
it. Of course. It's not like you're going to

01:03:12.280 --> 01:03:13.980
go, dude, this is so bad, I'm not drinking it.

01:03:14.420 --> 01:03:17.179
But, oh, it's $80 now? Did I see that right?

01:03:17.239 --> 01:03:21.659
Well, look, so that's... $50 now. $50. I mean,

01:03:21.679 --> 01:03:24.619
I'm taking more pulls of it. It's just like the

01:03:24.619 --> 01:03:27.579
longer it's out... It's not horrible, no. It's

01:03:27.579 --> 01:03:29.760
getting sweeter and lighter. I think it's getting

01:03:29.760 --> 01:03:32.210
sweeter. Yeah, it's getting sweeter for me. Well,

01:03:32.210 --> 01:03:35.829
and I think that's the 10 -year. The 15 or 13.

01:03:36.010 --> 01:03:38.949
Yeah, it was something that was 74 % corn. But

01:03:38.949 --> 01:03:41.050
I can't get over the finish because - It's rough.

01:03:41.369 --> 01:03:44.650
For me, it is. All right. I bet it'd make a good

01:03:44.650 --> 01:03:47.170
old -fashioned Manhattan. Maybe that's its angle.

01:03:47.429 --> 01:03:52.309
Maybe. I think the sweetness would turn that

01:03:52.309 --> 01:03:56.510
frown upside down. Maybe. I didn't know you were

01:03:56.510 --> 01:03:58.449
going to say that. All right. I'm going to rate

01:03:58.449 --> 01:04:01.599
it. I'm going to go with a 5 .2. I'm at a four.

01:04:02.900 --> 01:04:06.260
I'm at a four, two. Really? You really liked

01:04:06.260 --> 01:04:08.860
it, Paul. No, five is... I've never been that

01:04:08.860 --> 01:04:11.639
low. I've never been that low. And I wouldn't

01:04:11.639 --> 01:04:16.159
go fours because four is like you literally push

01:04:16.159 --> 01:04:20.659
the bottle away. You can't label that. You can't

01:04:20.659 --> 01:04:23.559
express that. You can't dictate how we perceive

01:04:23.559 --> 01:04:28.380
a four to be. Oh, yeah, I can. Yeah, I would

01:04:28.380 --> 01:04:33.530
say... Yeah, 5 .2 is a harsh rating for me. Yeah,

01:04:33.550 --> 01:04:36.309
this is not better than average for me. It is

01:04:36.309 --> 01:04:39.789
below average for me. That's why I did a 4. Maybe

01:04:39.789 --> 01:04:42.349
4 .5, whatever. Somewhere in there. It's not

01:04:42.349 --> 01:04:45.750
better than half of the bourbons we got out there.

01:04:45.929 --> 01:04:48.630
Yeah, but I don't perceive 5 to be that. But

01:04:48.630 --> 01:04:52.849
you're right. If 5 is the average, because I

01:04:52.849 --> 01:04:58.969
think more like 6. You know, 5 .5 to 6? is like

01:04:58.969 --> 01:05:01.449
the average kind of thing. Because based on our

01:05:01.449 --> 01:05:04.849
ratings, right, we never go lower than, you know

01:05:04.849 --> 01:05:06.429
what I mean? Unless it's Eagle Rare or Five Trail.

01:05:06.929 --> 01:05:11.170
Right. Well, then it's a 3 -1. You know what

01:05:11.170 --> 01:05:13.469
I mean? I mean, we don't do any ones, twos, or

01:05:13.469 --> 01:05:17.190
threes. We have not. So when you consider one,

01:05:17.309 --> 01:05:19.929
twos, and threes out of the mix, then really

01:05:19.929 --> 01:05:21.349
the average is... Yeah, we need to go find one.

01:05:21.449 --> 01:05:24.289
If we... Be a unicorn. If we've never reviewed

01:05:24.289 --> 01:05:27.309
Hell House, that could be our first one or two.

01:05:29.019 --> 01:05:31.639
Right. It could be. It could be. There's some

01:05:31.639 --> 01:05:33.400
out there that are going to be there, but we

01:05:33.400 --> 01:05:35.360
just haven't come across. I think that one may

01:05:35.360 --> 01:05:38.239
be. It might be. It might be. Okay. Well, the

01:05:38.239 --> 01:05:41.559
five trails. Not great. Not horrible. Not great.

01:05:41.699 --> 01:05:44.780
The Coors Whiskey Company five trails blended

01:05:44.780 --> 01:05:48.699
from notes of vanilla, honey, caramel, toasted

01:05:48.699 --> 01:05:51.059
oak, which they claim it, malt on the nose with

01:05:51.059 --> 01:05:53.960
a palate featuring apple, toffee nuts, bacon

01:05:53.960 --> 01:05:56.119
spice. I can taste the bacon spice on there.

01:05:56.730 --> 01:06:01.449
Yeah, no, I'm not a huge fan of this. Yeah, yeah.

01:06:02.190 --> 01:06:05.750
But I'm glad we sampled it because now I'm going

01:06:05.750 --> 01:06:10.409
to know Colorado and Five Trail that it's okay.

01:06:11.289 --> 01:06:13.829
Furthermore, I'd be curious to what this would

01:06:13.829 --> 01:06:16.170
taste like with an old Manhattan or an old -fashioned.

01:06:16.369 --> 01:06:20.269
Right. Because I think that syrup at the end

01:06:20.269 --> 01:06:21.710
of it would probably tie it in. Which, by the

01:06:21.710 --> 01:06:26.000
way, Shelly bought me that kit, right? Where

01:06:26.000 --> 01:06:28.860
you smoke it. Yeah, you smoke it. It's like a

01:06:28.860 --> 01:06:33.320
hookah. And I made with Buffalo Trace. I made

01:06:33.320 --> 01:06:38.380
it with McKenna. McKenna. And I made it with

01:06:38.380 --> 01:06:43.019
one other one. Damn it. Woodford Reserve. And

01:06:43.019 --> 01:06:45.840
shockingly different. Yeah, we talked about that

01:06:45.840 --> 01:06:48.280
last podcast. And you said the McKenna was actually

01:06:48.280 --> 01:06:51.400
the best. McKenna was great. Yeah. I mean, so.

01:06:53.899 --> 01:06:56.320
What was that? Pete smoked? No. Is that what

01:06:56.320 --> 01:06:58.920
you said? Well, I know the last smoked Old Fashioned.

01:06:59.079 --> 01:07:01.880
No, I'm sorry. You said, did you smoke it with

01:07:01.880 --> 01:07:04.659
your kit? Yes. The Kenna. The Kenna. Yes. And

01:07:04.659 --> 01:07:05.860
you know, you got to consider that too, right?

01:07:05.920 --> 01:07:08.699
Because there's cherry and there's maple. Was

01:07:08.699 --> 01:07:11.519
it like that one that I got at the event where

01:07:11.519 --> 01:07:13.719
we're at where the smoke just, you said you saw

01:07:13.719 --> 01:07:16.079
it and it just went. Yeah, yeah. No, I mean.

01:07:16.659 --> 01:07:18.260
Yeah, every single time we were doing it, the

01:07:18.260 --> 01:07:20.380
smoke was, I mean, Chuck, I guess you weren't

01:07:20.380 --> 01:07:23.159
partaking at that time. But yeah, the smoke was,

01:07:23.300 --> 01:07:25.300
there was a lot of smoke. I don't know what they

01:07:25.300 --> 01:07:28.280
did to mine that one time. And it wasn't horrible.

01:07:28.500 --> 01:07:31.179
I mean, they were all great. By the way, I have

01:07:31.179 --> 01:07:33.039
your bitters, your orange bitters. Oh, okay.

01:07:33.139 --> 01:07:35.480
I need to bring that to you. Where do you have

01:07:35.480 --> 01:07:38.440
it? It's in my pantry. It's keistered in its

01:07:38.440 --> 01:07:42.440
pants. Yeah, it's sitting up my rectum at the

01:07:42.440 --> 01:07:44.280
moment. It's a very large bottle. Really? Yes.

01:07:44.889 --> 01:07:47.829
Still in the wrapper. Nice. All right. Well,

01:07:47.869 --> 01:07:49.989
we did talk a little bit about the Somalia stuff

01:07:49.989 --> 01:07:54.650
and the fraud with Elon Omar. Some big numbers

01:07:54.650 --> 01:07:56.690
on that fraud, man. A billion bucks. They're

01:07:56.690 --> 01:07:58.989
even saying north of a billion, like maybe closer

01:07:58.989 --> 01:08:01.550
to two billion is the latest estimate. And there

01:08:01.550 --> 01:08:03.889
was a ton of whistleblowers. Well, I think the

01:08:03.889 --> 01:08:05.750
attorney general, I think it's the attorney general

01:08:05.750 --> 01:08:08.409
up there, is like a right dab in the middle.

01:08:08.449 --> 01:08:13.050
They have emails of him saying he was getting

01:08:13.050 --> 01:08:15.849
emails going. What if we get found out in these

01:08:15.849 --> 01:08:17.569
whistleblowers, do the, I don't know the exact

01:08:17.569 --> 01:08:20.130
phrasing, and his response was, I'll take care

01:08:20.130 --> 01:08:22.489
of that if that happens. Something of those regards.

01:08:22.489 --> 01:08:26.550
So, you know, once you get the vote of a large

01:08:26.550 --> 01:08:31.810
demographic that all votes the same way, you

01:08:31.810 --> 01:08:34.310
have corruption. Oh, yeah. Just think about it.

01:08:34.569 --> 01:08:36.689
They're going to cater to the Somali guys, and

01:08:36.689 --> 01:08:38.130
they're going to be like, okay, I'm going to

01:08:38.130 --> 01:08:41.899
turn, they either were in on it. Or they turned

01:08:41.899 --> 01:08:43.800
a blind eye because they said, okay, I'm going

01:08:43.800 --> 01:08:46.140
to turn a blind eye here, but all of you, all

01:08:46.140 --> 01:08:49.979
280 ,000 of you Somalians are going to vote for

01:08:49.979 --> 01:08:52.680
me, right? And we got you. Yeah, I heard on the

01:08:52.680 --> 01:08:56.220
radio that this is kind of opened the eyes and

01:08:56.220 --> 01:08:58.659
the investigation into a lot more fraud around

01:08:58.659 --> 01:09:02.960
the country. That a lot of these hospice companies,

01:09:03.239 --> 01:09:07.539
the in -home care, you know, these traveling

01:09:07.539 --> 01:09:11.670
nurses. EPT, food stamps. Yeah, that. It is rife

01:09:11.670 --> 01:09:17.250
with fraud because Medicare pays for it. Dude,

01:09:17.630 --> 01:09:22.229
all government programs are just easy pickings.

01:09:22.250 --> 01:09:24.329
And they're saying, yeah, the Somalis were big

01:09:24.329 --> 01:09:27.810
on this, but the Russian mob is big, I guess,

01:09:27.829 --> 01:09:31.710
in the hospice thing. Of course. This other mob

01:09:31.710 --> 01:09:34.810
was big in this one. It's not just that, but

01:09:34.810 --> 01:09:38.640
it's... It's nationwide. Yep. And all these nefarious

01:09:38.640 --> 01:09:42.619
groups are taking advantage of the lackadaisical

01:09:42.619 --> 01:09:46.039
eyesight. Yeah, the oversight of these things.

01:09:46.359 --> 01:09:49.739
It's lost. Or not even lackadaisical. This is

01:09:49.739 --> 01:09:51.899
corruption, guys. So like the food stamps, for

01:09:51.899 --> 01:09:54.340
example, I don't even know how much money the

01:09:54.340 --> 01:09:56.979
United States citizens pay for food stamps, but

01:09:56.979 --> 01:10:02.260
almost half is fraudulent. Almost half. That

01:10:02.260 --> 01:10:05.619
does not surprise me. And the half that is fraudulent

01:10:05.619 --> 01:10:09.479
are all immigrants. 100%. Well, I don't know

01:10:09.479 --> 01:10:11.779
100%, but most of them are immigrants. Right.

01:10:11.859 --> 01:10:13.239
You know, they're saying like... You mean illegal.

01:10:13.880 --> 01:10:15.680
Illegal immigrants. And they're saying, well,

01:10:15.779 --> 01:10:19.260
not just illegal, but the legal ones too. So

01:10:19.260 --> 01:10:22.699
they say that the... I'm not making these numbers

01:10:22.699 --> 01:10:24.680
up, but it's like Afghanistan. I'm kind of fudging

01:10:24.680 --> 01:10:26.479
them. I think they said Afghanistan, there was

01:10:26.479 --> 01:10:30.920
like 45 % Afghanistan was... Were fraudulent.

01:10:31.479 --> 01:10:37.000
Of them, 45 % was fraudulent. The Mexicans and

01:10:37.000 --> 01:10:42.420
the Somalians, there was like 22%. But fraud

01:10:42.420 --> 01:10:45.000
is fraud. I don't care if it's 1%. You know what?

01:10:45.039 --> 01:10:46.699
Those guys need to be held accountable and kick

01:10:46.699 --> 01:10:48.899
them out. Yep. What the hell, man? You can't

01:10:48.899 --> 01:10:51.960
do this. And the politicians that are lining

01:10:51.960 --> 01:10:54.340
the pockets of these people for votes. Benefited,

01:10:54.359 --> 01:10:57.159
yeah. Yep. Got it. You got to charge them. Got

01:10:57.159 --> 01:11:00.100
to put them in jail. God bless. All right. Well,

01:11:00.140 --> 01:11:01.659
it's the first half of our Dudes Like Us podcast.

01:11:02.039 --> 01:11:05.079
It's the second. We're into the second. No, we're

01:11:05.079 --> 01:11:08.539
not. It's the middle of the second week of December.

01:11:08.800 --> 01:11:11.119
It happened quick, though, man. Yeah. God bless.

01:11:11.140 --> 01:11:13.239
Less than 10 days before Christmas, right? No,

01:11:13.260 --> 01:11:16.020
no. 14. Two weeks. Yeah, 14 days. Yeah, 14 days.

01:11:16.319 --> 01:11:19.100
Good grief, man. And I haven't even started my

01:11:19.100 --> 01:11:20.979
Christmas shopping. I'm not doing it. I'm just

01:11:20.979 --> 01:11:24.390
going to give him cash. Fuck him. Yeah. Well,

01:11:24.550 --> 01:11:26.329
I mean. Fuck them. I don't know. I mean, I may

01:11:26.329 --> 01:11:28.609
do some last second stuff. I don't know. We'll

01:11:28.609 --> 01:11:30.050
see what happens. All right. Let's talk about

01:11:30.050 --> 01:11:31.770
that on the second half. Yes. Because my coworkers

01:11:31.770 --> 01:11:34.250
were hammering the commercialization. And I know

01:11:34.250 --> 01:11:36.430
we've talked about it, but I want to talk about

01:11:36.430 --> 01:11:38.350
that some more. All right. Really? Dude. Thanks,

01:11:38.390 --> 01:11:40.270
Chuck. First half. Dudes Like Us. I'm Sean. I'm

01:11:40.270 --> 01:11:40.989
Paul. And I'm Jeff.