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Oh, no. I left my drink over there. You want

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to hit the timer? Yeah, hit the timer. We'll

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not know anything that's going on. We need to

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get like a pointer. Beautiful. Or we can move

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it closer. I don't know if this... Is the cord

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too short? That's fine. I don't care. It's been

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two weeks? We didn't meet last week, did we?

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Well, it was the holidays. It was the holidays.

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And now we're in the new year. That's right.

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Very exciting. That's right, because I had to

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cancel last Tuesday. Is this the first? Oh, what'd

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you end up doing? I had dinner with Brandon and

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Yasmin. Actually, my wife and I did. Nice. So

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they called and said, let's get together for

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dinner. I was like, score. Hell yeah. You gotta

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spend time with family. Yeah. This is the first

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Tuesday of the new year, right? The very first

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Tuesday. Yeah, okay. Yeah, our listeners, if

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you can see that, I'm like jostling a bunch of

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little token circles for our Dudes Like Us podcast

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magnets, officials. Kind of feels like a scrotum.

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Are they condoms? I don't think my scrotum feels

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like a bag of nickels. Don't they look like a

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condom package? We have dude like us condom package.

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Maybe we need to market that. It is. It's the

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first Tuesday of 2026. Congratulations for everybody

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being able to survive another year listening

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to us. We know it's been awesome. This one will

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be officially season seven. Wow. Very nice. Lucky

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seven. Getting closer to double digits. It's

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exciting because I think that our podcast is

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more becoming like people just can't wait for

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the next release. It's kind of like the land

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man, you know? Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's interesting.

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People are getting frustrated when we have a

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podcast. They're like, I can't wait. I can't

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stand this. Well, it's the first half of Dudes

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Like Us podcast, January 6th. We got our producer

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Chuck back in town. Welcome back, sir. Dudes

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Like Us. I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff. Yeah,

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you went on a binge for a few days, I believe

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it looked like anyway. Yeah. Drinking binge?

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Well, yeah, Chuck did. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah,

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yeah. He had to detox when we were over drinking.

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Did you really? A little bit, yeah. I'm like,

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oh, my God. Yeah. And you went to multiple distilleries?

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We went to Rebecca Creek. We went to - All of

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them. Real Ale. Real Ale. Did you go to Andalusia?

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Did not go to Andalusia. Did not make it to Garrison

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Brothers. They were booked. Oh, yeah. Holiday

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week for sure. And then we went fishing and drank

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beer. Did you catch anything? Yeah. Did you pick

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up any nuggets from Rebecca Creek? Oh, you did?

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Hold on. Did you say you caught trout? Trout,

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yeah. They stock trout. Oh, they stock trout.

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Yeah. I was going to say, I didn't think trout

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was a natural species here in Texas. In certain

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places where the water's cold enough, yes. What

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about alligator gar? No. No gar. Pike? Gar. That's

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northern. Rainbow fish. Rainbow trout, yeah.

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Oh. Yeah, rainbow trout is - I was thinking the

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one with the little light in front of it with

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the big teeth. Oh, like in - Was that emo? Finding

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emo? That's the lantern fish. Yes. Do they have

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those in Texas? No. We didn't get any arcotuthis.

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No deep sea fishing. How disappointing. It's

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exciting, though, getting out there like that,

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visiting the distilleries, going for a manly

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fishing expedition. Would you went with your

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brother and friends? Yeah, four brothers. So

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we kind of took over the - Four brothers? Yeah.

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I think we've met like one or two. Mike. Probably

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met Paul. Why don't you be a fly on the wall

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for that program? I'm kidding. Are you the youngest

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or oldest? Where are you? I'm the oldest. You're

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the oldest, so you find all of them annoying.

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Oh, God, yeah. Interesting. Yeah, and they're

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listening. Hey, shout out, brothers. Hey, do

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they all listen, really? I said, you got to listen.

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Do they have no idea, or you have been telling

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them, and they just haven't been making time

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for it? Yeah, they just haven't followed up.

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Okay, well, this might be the first one they're

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listening to. There you go. Welcome, Chuck Brothers.

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Yeah. I have a question in regard. He brought

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up Architeuthis. Yes. What's plural? Architeeth?

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Architeuthi? Architeuthethis. I think it's Architeeth.

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That's Architeuth. No. Why am I saying no? I

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have no idea. You know what I really appreciate?

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Yes? The level of lifestyle for Jeff where that's

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what he's concerned about. You know, I sat around

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all day today. All day thinking, what's the plural

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of Architeuthis? Well, maybe we can solve that

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burning question for you. Well, you have one

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tooth and you have a mouth full of teeth. I don't

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think it's tooth. It's not arc -a -tooth. Is

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it? I don't know. I don't even know how you spell

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it. Okay, well, he's looking it up for us. I

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can't spell it. This is like the most important

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thing right out of the gate. Let's talk about

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it. But I will tell you, it's the first week,

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it's the first full week of official work for

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those folks that... I don't want to complain

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because I'm not complaining because Christmas

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and New Year's Eve, they're perfectly a week

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apart. And I always hate it. It really grinds

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my gears when you have Christmas like on a Friday

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or a Saturday. Friday's not bad, but a Saturday,

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you're kind of like, come on. Why are you wasting

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a day? But this year was perfect. Both of them

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were on Thursdays. Right. And they were cool

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because you didn't work Friday or if you did

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go to work, you didn't really do anything. And

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then the two Wednesdays before were both early

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releases. These were two perfect weeks. Do you

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think that was Jesus' goal to be exactly one

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week early? Yes. For 2025? No, just to say I

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want to be born exactly one week prior to the

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new year. God moved around. I don't think he

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had any concept of that. God moved galaxies and

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suns and all sorts of shit to make that happen.

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Was it a planned C -section? Wow. Wow. No. Trading

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on thin ice over there, brother. I have a coworker

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that's like, it's not even December 25th. He

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wasn't born. He was born probably during the

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summer. I guess she's been watching these podcasts

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where they're kind of trying to. make it a science

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to figure out when actually during the year he

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would have been born. I was like, it doesn't

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matter. This is when we celebrate the birth of

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Christ. This is all that matters. You don't need

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to get all wrapped up in, is it scientifically

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founded? Who cares? And then it also turns into

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a point where it's not a matter of, it's a matter

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of celebration. It's a matter of tradition. It's

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a matter, it's more of a symbol. than it is something

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scientific like that. It's the spirit of giving

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and everybody's happy. The other symbol of the

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antithesis of that, which was awesome, is the

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negative side of that, which is the first week

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going back to work. It's just different. It's

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like this holiday letdown. Today was my first

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day back. It sucked. Gloom and doom. Not me.

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Get that theme music playing. Not me. I rolled

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into yesterday being like, you know what? I'm

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going to start out productive, focused. I'm going

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to suck down on energy drinks super fast. And

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I'll tell you what. I kicked ass yesterday, and

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I stayed focused today. I can figure the music

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going in Paul's mind when he's going to work.

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Hey, guys. It's usually ABBA that I'm playing.

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It's like the Muppet Show or something. I'm just

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a little super trooper. Yeah, that's one of the

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80s songs they have, yes. Seriously, I've been

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hammering ABBA. Listeners, if you have not listened

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to ABBA, truly get past the five or six songs

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that everybody knows about. It's some good shit.

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Oh, my gosh. I'll tell you what. I did go somewhere

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today. In the background, they're playing ABBA.

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Really? They were playing the whole God Blessing

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album. Good. People are getting on board. I was

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sitting in the waiting room where I was at. I

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was like, this is fantastic. This is an ABBA

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revolution. I'm on board. They're getting on

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board. Finally. After 50 years. Uh -huh. There

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is nothing we can do. There's so many good songs,

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really. Anyway, and they have longevity. They

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had like nine albums. You know what doesn't have

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longevity? What's that? Our freaking eyeballs.

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No, you're coming to the realization you needed

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glasses. Man, I made an appointment. So first

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of all, I have a good friend. His name is Stephen

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McDaniel, and I'll say his first and last name

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because whatever. Is he an ortho? Is it eye doctor?

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Ophthalmologist? Yeah, what do you call it? Is

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it ophthalmologist? Eye doctor. Hey, look, Mr.

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I have all the words for every moment is coming

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up short today. Is it optometrist? I'm thinking,

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well, I already said that. No, you said ophthalmologist.

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I did not. I said ophthalmologist. He said that.

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You know, it doesn't matter. But I went to, I

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needed glasses. You guys know this. And so I

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was like, you know what? I don't want to go to

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just any doctor because I can. I can go to any

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doctor. Anyone you want. They'll spit one out.

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It's not a big deal. You know, I haven't seen

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my friend in a long time. You know, and we were

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really close. And this guy I've known since 1989.

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How about that shit? Hold on. You have not seen

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him since then? No, no. I've seen him. But we've

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been friends. We've been friends since 1989.

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Very nice. And we moved up to Dallas here together.

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I mean, holding hands. Like in the same car?

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Yeah. We drove up here together in the same bus,

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van, whatever you want to call it. With your

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hand on his knee? Junk. Yeah, a little bit like

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that. Did you say junk? I said junk. Not that

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kind of ride. You know, life happens. And we

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got kind of separated. And, you know, I got married.

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And he went off and got married and went to school

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to be an eye doctor. And, you know, we kind of

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say hi every now and then. We talk on the phone

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once a year maybe. And, you know, I just called

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him up and said, hey, man, I need my eyes looked

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at. And I need to take care of this. I just need

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your opinion on some things. And we just went

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over there today. And I bought two pairs of glasses.

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Glasses are fucking expensive. Yes, they are.

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Did he give you a friend discount? You know,

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he did. Nice. And I'm thankful. So, you know,

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but still, even with a friend discount. Oh, yeah.

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Oh, it's painful. It's still. The frames, the

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lenses. The lenses are the expensive part. Yeah,

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and then they talk you into doing the anti -scratch

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and the automatic sun thing and this and that

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and then like all this. And while you're making

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these decisions, do you want to back rub? But

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they should at least do that. Happy ending. Oh,

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wow. Yeah. I wouldn't have mind that with the

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staff he has working there. So it's a massage

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slash eye doctor. Did you get the computer glasses,

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the polarized? Yeah, I got a little. Actually,

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I did not do the blue. Yeah, but it's not that

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big of a deal. I don't. I mean, I get it. You'll

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be surprised. They can help. But there's stuff

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that you could do to your actual monitors to

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cover it. Just buy glasses. I did get them. I

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totally forgot to. So I got two pairs. I got

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readers. Okay. Readers are good. And I got the

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progressive lens. Those are fancy. I said no

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to those. I did too. Why? Well, no. Based on

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what? From getting them and going, I do not like

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these because - Oh, well, there you go. Yeah.

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Because I got them, and I think they may have

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been trifocals, and you have to look down. to

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read up close, and you look straight, and you

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can't look side to side like that. You have to

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turn your head. So hold on. So when I drive.

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Trifocals and progressive are two different things.

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What are progressives? Progressives are there's

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no lines at all. Well, it's still a different

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thing. Yes. There's no lines at all, but it is

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even a different experience than the trifocals.

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Like you have to, even more so in my opinion,

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you've got to find the sweet spot in everywhere

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you're trying to look. It's essentially the same.

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It is. Actually, what I had were bifocals. They

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said, you have to turn your head so don't look

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like this. And I was getting horrible headaches.

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And I was just like, fuck that. Because I drive

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with my eyes. I'm not like flipping my head left

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and right everywhere when I turn. Well, when

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you have long hair like you used to. Yeah. I

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didn't have a mullet for a while. You have to

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shake your head. Hi, guys. I never did that.

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Did you wear glasses while you were high, guys?

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No, I didn't need glasses back there in my life.

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You just didn't. I didn't need glasses until

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I turned 40. Yeah. That's normal. In fact, that

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seems to be the age that Dr. McDaniel pointed

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out. He said once you turn 40, certain things

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have a tendency to go downhill. He said I have

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astigmatism. 0 .75 to 2 .0 for my up -close reading.

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Yeah, yours are worse than mine. I don't have

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problems with up -close. Yeah. Did you end up

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getting the progressive then? Yeah. I got two

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pairs. Hopefully they work for you. I couldn't

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do it. I didn't want them. The up -close, the

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readers, I mean, they truly are fantastic. I

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mean, but you cannot, I mean, you cannot see

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10 feet out in front of you. Right. It's crazy.

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I don't know how I feel about that, but I'm going

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to end up getting, I could never maintain glasses,

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sunglasses specifically. I've never had glasses,

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so I don't know what to anticipate. So I think

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what I'm going to end up doing is getting those

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little necklace thingies that attach to my glasses

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and putting some sort of Bluetooth chip or some

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Wi -Fi chip on there. Might be the church lady.

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Yeah, somewhat. Just like tape like a big AirPod

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on it. Yeah. No, do the ones with the little

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beads. Looks like a buoy that floats in the water.

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They have those. Whatever. I just need something

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because I'm Sean, so I'm going to put my shit

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down. Who knows where it's going to be? But I

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got the readers. The readers already came out

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already. I got them. They're at the house. I

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kind of forgot them. And when I arrived here,

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Mr. Larry Hokai had these readers, and I left

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them here. I was wondering where the hell I left

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them. But they're great. So you haven't tried

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the progressive yet? I have not. I have not.

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I'm interested to see how well you respond. He

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had a little simulation of one, and you're right.

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It's going to... It's going to take some getting

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used to, but I feel that with my type of personality

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and the way I am, I feel like I can become resilient

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to these kind of things. Hell, if I could sleep

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with a CPAP machine on and learn how to just

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kind of work through it, mind over matter kind

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of stuff, I feel confident I can get through

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it. I have to because I really want to see it.

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It affects everything. I was asking about the

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LASIK. I wish the information was readily available

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online. You just can't find it. I was kind of

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like, really? Go talk to her. I talked to the

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doctor about it. He was like, yeah, LASIK is

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great for those people that are under 40. What

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was the rationale there? I would think it'd be

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for anybody. But the difference is that why are

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you getting LASIK? You're getting LASIK so you

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don't have to wear glasses. But you're almost

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guaranteed to have to wear glasses if you get

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LASIK. So if you get LASIK - Your eyes continue

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to go bad. Yeah. Like Julie's wearing glasses

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again because your eyes continually to age. Oh,

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I see. So all it does is kind of delay things.

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That's true too. Yes. But the upfront part that

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Dr. McDaniel was sharing was that when you get

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the LASIK done, your up -close reading will automatically

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start to fill pretty quick. So you got to wear

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the readers no matter what. She was fine. She

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didn't wear glasses probably for 15 years. Like

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any kind of glasses. Up close, far away, nothing.

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Oh, I'm sorry. I'm misspeaking. The LASIK is

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specifically really for distance. They don't

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have LASIK for readers. No, I don't know. That's

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what I meant to say. I misspoke there. So when

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you do the LASIK, it's specifically for seeing

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distances. Yeah, it'll correct it, but it's not

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going to correct your... I totally misspoke there.

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The thing that Julie struggles with, and it's

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still to this day, that a lot of people don't

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know if it's an automatic thing, is she has a

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hard time driving at night because of the starbursts.

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Yeah, yeah. The halo around all the lights. It's

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really bad for LASIK. I don't know if they've

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adjusted the technique in the 20 years, 25 years

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since she's had it. Really, LASIK makes that

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worse. Correct. The night vision. There is another

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generation of LASIK coming out, but it's all

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the same. You know, they basically cut the top

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layer of your eyeball. I was in there when she

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had it done. That sounds so gross. They let it

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heal, and that's it. Yep. There's no magic to

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it. Isn't it like a super fast, like zip, zip?

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Well, what they do is they put this thing, because

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I was in there. He goes, you want to come in

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and watch? I was like, sure. I would not watch.

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So, you know, the proper eyeball. Jeff, you put

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your pants on, please. This isn't that complex.

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And it's got a blade on it, and they lower it.

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You know, they're taking measurements, and they

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have a big mic. microscope type of thing to get

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in there closer. They could tell how deep they

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need to get. Is she out? No, she's awake. Damn.

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What happens if she blinks? I know. They hold

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her eye open. Yeah, but what if she moves her

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eye? Like, ow, or something. Well, they numb

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the eye. Who will hold the eye open? Oh, they

00:16:36.470 --> 00:16:38.149
deaden the eye. Yeah, they put drops in, so they

00:16:38.149 --> 00:16:40.610
deaden it. That makes sense. And then they have

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this little thing. Back then, it was... They

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just moved a little. We're coming up with every

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horrific scenario we can think of. Well, she

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burps her fart during the procedure. This is

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how every horror film starts. And then they just

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moved this little thing. And it has a little

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circular blade thing. A blade. I thought they

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went to laser. Nope. Then they lift it up. That's

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the second version. And then they shoot your

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laser in there. See, that's just. I'm a baby

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about eyes. So that's just gross to me. I couldn't.

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There's no way. Did you watch it close enough

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to where you saw the. Oh, yeah. Are you kidding

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me? Jeff's into that kind of stuff. Seriously,

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what are you, Dexter? Yeah, I am. Then I sliced

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her up. It aroused you, so you just sliced her

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to pieces. Nice, nice, lovely. That's not really

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my wife out there. Jeff has a secret room under

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his stairs. Keeps his Iron Maiden there. Yeah,

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I wouldn't do that. I would continue to wear

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glasses. I wouldn't. It was a great service going

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out to the clinic there. It's in Dallas. I'll

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do a shout out to Stephen McDaniel. It's called

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the Glass Optical. It's 833 West Davis Street

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in downtown, not downtown, but Dallas, Texas,

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75208. Stephen McDaniel. It's Glass Optical.

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It was fun. And they have all the technology

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there. I mean, look, it's taken a quantum leap.

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It was fun? Yeah. I mean, it was kind of cool

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because you go up to these different machines.

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Do they have a jumpy house? They kind of did.

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It's an emotional one, but it was sitting there.

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You know, you sit in this chair and this thing

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comes up to it and it's blasting lights in there.

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And then there's one thing where there's like,

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here, take a look at my earlobe and air pops

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in there. And I'm like, will you stop doing that?

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She did it like three times. It's like, do you

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feel this? Do you feel that? Did they dilate

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your eyeballs? No, they didn't. Because you did

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the digital opto -map or something. Yeah, it

00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:38.240
was - That's what I do, too. No -brainer. Don't

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do the drops where they dilate your eyes. Do

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the digital opto -map. It's like 30 bucks. Oh,

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yeah. And they see much better, and they have

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a history of your eye. Yep. And I got to tell

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you - That's so much smarter. You know, in retrospect,

00:18:51.940 --> 00:18:54.019
for the amount of money, I don't know exactly

00:18:54.019 --> 00:18:59.119
how much I pay in insurance for eye care. But

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for the amount of money that I had to spend on

00:19:02.339 --> 00:19:04.400
everything there, why the fuck do we even have

00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:07.940
insurance? Vision Insurance, at least ours as

00:19:07.940 --> 00:19:09.039
well. I don't know if you have it through the

00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:13.039
school, but it sucks. I have it through my company.

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I mean, you have it, but they give you like a

00:19:14.819 --> 00:19:18.420
hundred. It was a fraction of the cost. 10 %

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perhaps of the total cost of everything. And

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I'm like. Oh, that they covered, you mean? Yeah,

00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:25.599
it's just kind of ridiculous. I mean, I'm out

00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:29.210
of pocket. I mean, look. He took care of me,

00:19:29.289 --> 00:19:32.890
but imagine if he didn't. For the normal person

00:19:32.890 --> 00:19:35.609
that goes in there, you're going to drop anywhere

00:19:35.609 --> 00:19:42.670
from five on the low end to $3 ,000 to get some

00:19:42.670 --> 00:19:43.990
up -to -date glasses. I've never heard of that.

00:19:44.190 --> 00:19:49.069
Usually the frames, again, I guess I have good

00:19:49.069 --> 00:19:52.109
insurance. There's new progressive lenses. Lenses

00:19:52.109 --> 00:19:54.809
are expensive depending on what they are. Go

00:19:54.809 --> 00:19:57.529
to Costco. Yeah, well, I mean, that is an option,

00:19:57.589 --> 00:20:01.049
too. Once you know what your, what is it called?

00:20:01.130 --> 00:20:03.390
Your diagnosis? Prescription. Yeah, once you

00:20:03.390 --> 00:20:05.410
get your prescription, you take it to Costco

00:20:05.410 --> 00:20:07.670
and say, I need glasses. There you go. And it's

00:20:07.670 --> 00:20:09.470
usually two for one or something like that. Yeah,

00:20:09.470 --> 00:20:11.990
well, that's if you have a flat -out regular

00:20:11.990 --> 00:20:16.289
prescription. But if you've got the progressive

00:20:16.289 --> 00:20:17.849
ones, I think those are. They do progressives.

00:20:18.269 --> 00:20:20.430
So how do they do that, though? Yeah, they do

00:20:20.430 --> 00:20:22.869
everything. They just send it off to a lens.

00:20:23.450 --> 00:20:25.750
A lens making... Yeah, but the progressive ones,

00:20:25.970 --> 00:20:27.529
there's kind of like, they have to measure your

00:20:27.529 --> 00:20:30.549
eyeballs and that kind of stuff. So I'm assuming

00:20:30.549 --> 00:20:32.269
they do that there too, right? Yeah, they have

00:20:32.269 --> 00:20:34.450
the shit there and everything. Well, why do you

00:20:34.450 --> 00:20:37.250
want to, like, stomp on my friend's eye doctor

00:20:37.250 --> 00:20:39.430
place? Fuck Costco. Well, you're the one who's

00:20:39.430 --> 00:20:41.069
saying it's fucking expensive. Glass optical.

00:20:41.190 --> 00:20:43.630
Well, it's not as fun. Yeah, it's not as fun.

00:20:43.750 --> 00:20:46.029
Yeah, Costco's nowhere near as fun. Oh, no. They

00:20:46.029 --> 00:20:47.250
don't have, like, the balloons. Lots of families

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in your way. Yeah, they don't have big carts.

00:20:50.130 --> 00:20:53.009
Oh, everywhere. Hey, there's a little sticker.

00:20:53.329 --> 00:20:55.589
What is it called? The little new driver stickers

00:20:55.589 --> 00:20:58.690
on those Costco carts? I don't think they do

00:20:58.690 --> 00:21:01.839
that on the carts. But, you know, you were talking

00:21:01.839 --> 00:21:04.019
about things that happen to us when we get old.

00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:09.460
I mean, do we have any fears of getting old?

00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:12.980
Like, other than, like, worried about dementia.

00:21:13.779 --> 00:21:16.019
I'm worried. And maybe falling down. I don't

00:21:16.019 --> 00:21:18.730
know. Like, what? I worry more about losing my

00:21:18.730 --> 00:21:21.390
brain. I have memory issues right now. The other

00:21:21.390 --> 00:21:23.250
day, I was sitting in the kitchen, and I'm like,

00:21:23.410 --> 00:21:26.269
hey, are we going to keep this? And I'm pointing

00:21:26.269 --> 00:21:28.289
at the bowl, and it's cheese in it. And you're

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just not talking. And it's fucking queso. I couldn't

00:21:30.130 --> 00:21:31.890
come up with the word queso. I know. And I was

00:21:31.890 --> 00:21:33.549
looking at it. I'm like, this is right here.

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This cheese in this white bowl is cheese. And

00:21:36.230 --> 00:21:38.369
you're getting more and more frustrated. And

00:21:38.369 --> 00:21:40.049
they were like, you have the queso, Dad? And

00:21:40.049 --> 00:21:41.630
I was like, yeah, the queso. And you're like.

00:21:44.029 --> 00:21:47.829
Yes, I am concerned. It scares me because I tell

00:21:47.829 --> 00:21:51.549
you, I'm not normal. You guys know that. I will

00:21:51.549 --> 00:21:56.269
go on a walkabout once I find myself. If I can't

00:21:56.269 --> 00:21:59.130
take care of myself, that's it. I'm done. At

00:21:59.130 --> 00:22:01.450
that point, you may not realize that you can't

00:22:01.450 --> 00:22:03.890
take care of yourself. That's how that happens.

00:22:04.250 --> 00:22:07.130
You don't realize it. The day that you would,

00:22:07.250 --> 00:22:10.619
you forgot that you wanted to. That's the problem.

00:22:10.759 --> 00:22:12.880
But we'll take you off and shoot you in the head.

00:22:12.980 --> 00:22:15.259
Yeah. Because as long as it's fast, who cares?

00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:17.640
Let's grind you real slow. Dude, just a little

00:22:17.640 --> 00:22:20.519
bullet to the hair. What are you guys doing?

00:22:20.700 --> 00:22:24.019
He said the day this happens, we need to off

00:22:24.019 --> 00:22:26.000
him. That's it. That's all we're doing. Feet

00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:29.599
first. Yeah. Slow. Do the grinder. But I wanted

00:22:29.599 --> 00:22:31.619
to burn the top half. He wanted to grind the

00:22:31.619 --> 00:22:33.539
bottom half. I wanted to burn the top half. So

00:22:33.539 --> 00:22:36.720
we're both doing it. It's no big deal. Burn your

00:22:36.720 --> 00:22:41.509
candle at both ends. Yeah, age, I mean, I know

00:22:41.509 --> 00:22:45.789
me, I know Paul has as well, that when both my

00:22:45.789 --> 00:22:47.789
parents finally passed away, especially my dad,

00:22:47.930 --> 00:22:53.509
the mortality aspect has kicked in. And that's

00:22:53.509 --> 00:22:56.089
what I was struggling with last year. And I was

00:22:56.089 --> 00:22:57.970
trying to get across to you guys on what I was

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dealing with, and one of the reasons I retired

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from the corporate and all that stuff, because

00:23:02.490 --> 00:23:04.440
I was like... I'm not going to screw around.

00:23:04.579 --> 00:23:05.700
I'm not going to fuck around. I don't need to.

00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:06.859
I'm not going to screw around with that bullshit

00:23:06.859 --> 00:23:08.720
anymore. Right. I don't need to stress. I don't

00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:10.240
need to stress because. Because we don't have

00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:11.819
as much time as we think we do. I theoretically

00:23:11.819 --> 00:23:14.859
have 18 years left. Right. If I die at the average.

00:23:15.240 --> 00:23:17.420
Right. Lifespan of it. And I want to sit around

00:23:17.420 --> 00:23:19.519
wondering what the plural of Architeuthis is.

00:23:19.539 --> 00:23:22.660
Yes. Exactly. For 18 years. Exactly. So, you

00:23:22.660 --> 00:23:27.059
know, I've, now, I'm through that process. But,

00:23:27.099 --> 00:23:28.180
you know, it's still in the back of your head

00:23:28.180 --> 00:23:31.190
a little bit. But, you know, just. You know,

00:23:31.269 --> 00:23:33.150
of course, everyone thinks of dementia and stuff

00:23:33.150 --> 00:23:36.049
like that because you don't really realize it's

00:23:36.049 --> 00:23:39.230
happening to you. Right. More and more. And it

00:23:39.230 --> 00:23:42.230
just kind of all of a sudden happens. But, you

00:23:42.230 --> 00:23:45.250
know, the falls. And time is flying. I mean,

00:23:45.309 --> 00:23:47.589
it doesn't help that, you know, I was talking

00:23:47.589 --> 00:23:50.849
with my friend Steve today, and we were talking

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about my firstborn, whose birthday is tomorrow,

00:23:53.769 --> 00:23:58.829
and she turns 29. Damn. Damn. That's crazy. Holy

00:23:58.829 --> 00:24:01.299
shnikes. Yeah. You probably remember when you

00:24:01.299 --> 00:24:02.700
were 29. You were probably married with kids

00:24:02.700 --> 00:24:07.619
at 29. Yeah, I guess so. I mean, but you're right.

00:24:07.660 --> 00:24:10.819
The passage of time, it does just fly by. And

00:24:10.819 --> 00:24:14.480
then you wake up one morning and go like, all

00:24:14.480 --> 00:24:16.299
the things that you said, yeah, I'll do that

00:24:16.299 --> 00:24:20.210
someday. I'll get into that someday. I'll learn

00:24:20.210 --> 00:24:23.650
Spanish someday. I'll go skydiving or scuba diving

00:24:23.650 --> 00:24:26.630
someday. I mean, when I have time. That kind

00:24:26.630 --> 00:24:28.470
of stinks because we're running out of time.

00:24:28.529 --> 00:24:31.650
I feel like that ship has, I've missed that ship.

00:24:31.849 --> 00:24:33.609
No, you haven't. You really haven't. You haven't.

00:24:33.750 --> 00:24:37.049
If you spend 10 ,000 hours, you'll be an expert.

00:24:37.289 --> 00:24:40.869
You have to make the time. You do. And the decision

00:24:40.869 --> 00:24:42.990
to do it without your wife, if that's what it

00:24:42.990 --> 00:24:45.150
is. That's the sucky part. And even more now

00:24:45.150 --> 00:24:46.890
than ever because we're running out of time.

00:24:47.160 --> 00:24:52.480
It's just so much guilt. But to do what? To whatever,

00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:57.859
man. I was born a military brat. Change, movement.

00:24:57.859 --> 00:25:02.119
My dad went on four tours over to Europe. We

00:25:02.119 --> 00:25:04.720
were constantly moving, constantly sightseeing,

00:25:04.839 --> 00:25:09.519
constantly seeing new shit. Man, I get here.

00:25:09.779 --> 00:25:13.279
Hell, even living in southwest Texas in El fucking

00:25:13.279 --> 00:25:16.720
Paso. That was like a different country. Yeah.

00:25:16.759 --> 00:25:18.880
You know, but it's just like, now I'm kind of

00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:21.480
like, I went from that to this. And my wife,

00:25:21.519 --> 00:25:22.640
she's kind of like, well, you can leave me anytime.

00:25:24.440 --> 00:25:28.039
She's just like. So she's supportive. Yeah. But

00:25:28.039 --> 00:25:29.980
my point is. To leave on vacation is what you're

00:25:29.980 --> 00:25:32.299
saying. That's not what she was saying. Well,

00:25:32.460 --> 00:25:34.299
in my opinion, you have to make the decision

00:25:34.299 --> 00:25:37.539
because you're right. You're either, I'm out

00:25:37.539 --> 00:25:39.720
of time and this is what it is. And I'm giving

00:25:39.720 --> 00:25:45.779
up. Or you're like, screw it. want to do this,

00:25:45.819 --> 00:25:47.640
I would like you to go. But if not, I'm going

00:25:47.640 --> 00:25:50.440
to go. Right. Well, I mean, or I could just do

00:25:50.440 --> 00:25:52.839
some things that are mainly things that I want

00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:55.180
to do. I mean, of course, I want to travel and

00:25:55.180 --> 00:25:58.220
see these amazing things in the world that I'm

00:25:58.220 --> 00:26:00.440
totally interested in, you know, but I could

00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:04.200
settle for driving to Amarillo to. the caverns,

00:26:04.200 --> 00:26:05.920
not the caverns, but the canyon, the Palo Duro

00:26:05.920 --> 00:26:08.700
Canyon, and doing some camping out there. I'd

00:26:08.700 --> 00:26:10.359
love to, and this is the time of year to do it.

00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:11.720
What about taking one of your daughters or one

00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:14.000
of your sons with you on a trip? You did that

00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:16.500
with us. Yeah, well, I mean, the option's all

00:26:16.500 --> 00:26:19.140
there. You know, I mean, just, you know, got

00:26:19.140 --> 00:26:21.339
to rally the troops and kind of time it with

00:26:21.339 --> 00:26:22.000
everybody. See if Emily wants to go to Australia.

00:26:22.700 --> 00:26:26.700
Yeah. I'm not going there. See if Emily wants

00:26:26.700 --> 00:26:30.460
to go to Australia. Yeah, she would. I'd like

00:26:30.460 --> 00:26:33.799
to go back to the Northeast and visit up there

00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:35.460
with some of the family members up there. I wouldn't

00:26:35.460 --> 00:26:37.660
mind doing that. See if Preston wants to go or

00:26:37.660 --> 00:26:40.279
Austin. Well, those guys would have to focus

00:26:40.279 --> 00:26:42.319
on school. If I took anyone, I'd probably take

00:26:42.319 --> 00:26:45.720
both my girls. Take the girls up there. The question

00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:48.000
is, why not at this point? But if it makes you

00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:50.960
feel any better, like Shelly doesn't have any

00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:55.839
sort of phobia or anything like that, and we

00:26:55.839 --> 00:26:58.289
haven't gone anywhere. We've been to Mexico a

00:26:58.289 --> 00:27:00.430
couple times, right? To Cancun. We're going to

00:27:00.430 --> 00:27:02.109
the Mediterranean next year. We are. So that's

00:27:02.109 --> 00:27:03.990
a big trip next year, right? You've got a couple

00:27:03.990 --> 00:27:08.490
cruises. Yeah, true. But it's not like we've

00:27:08.490 --> 00:27:11.130
been, you know what I'm saying? I'm still in

00:27:11.130 --> 00:27:12.990
the same boat of, like, if we want to go see

00:27:12.990 --> 00:27:15.490
this or that or that, we've got to do it. Like,

00:27:15.509 --> 00:27:17.759
you've got to do it. You've got to make these

00:27:17.759 --> 00:27:19.640
cognitive choices. Yeah, we don't have to be

00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:21.940
crazy and take off four months of unpaid leave

00:27:21.940 --> 00:27:24.359
and get it all knocked out. Just plan a trip

00:27:24.359 --> 00:27:27.579
a year or every other year. No, I'm planning

00:27:27.579 --> 00:27:30.319
the year. Once I reach full retirement and Julie's

00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:32.400
there, like every year I'm going to be going

00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:34.559
on a big trip. Right. Probably for a month or

00:27:34.559 --> 00:27:36.299
more, something like that. Right. Just gone.

00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:40.240
Right. You know? Well, what about podcast? Well,

00:27:40.339 --> 00:27:42.880
we'll take a break. We'll go with you. Well,

00:27:42.900 --> 00:27:45.279
this is not for another. 10 years. Oh, okay.

00:27:46.140 --> 00:27:49.400
Right when we hit our peak. We'll be in season

00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:53.359
17 at that point. Okay, okay, okay. I'm sorry.

00:27:53.500 --> 00:27:56.859
I had a little panic moment. We'll have 200 listeners.

00:27:56.960 --> 00:28:00.779
You know, that's the goal. We're up to 220. Exponential,

00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:03.559
baby. But, you know, that's the goal. We're going

00:28:03.559 --> 00:28:06.420
to take a big old trip every year. And, you know,

00:28:06.460 --> 00:28:08.519
I talked to the financial guy because he's asking,

00:28:08.599 --> 00:28:11.029
what are your goals? These are my goals, or one

00:28:11.029 --> 00:28:12.750
of them anyway. And then you need to put aside

00:28:12.750 --> 00:28:16.190
this amount of money, save it up, and make a

00:28:16.190 --> 00:28:19.049
trip. Doable. You just plan for it, and you pull

00:28:19.049 --> 00:28:21.789
it out as needed, and you're good to go. The

00:28:21.789 --> 00:28:23.690
key is doing the planning, being intentional,

00:28:23.869 --> 00:28:26.450
making it happen. And I want to do it, like I

00:28:26.450 --> 00:28:29.089
said, start doing that within the next 10 years,

00:28:29.210 --> 00:28:34.710
because that puts me at 67. Right. Health starts

00:28:34.710 --> 00:28:38.009
going downhill exponentially at that point. Yeah.

00:28:38.490 --> 00:28:41.970
And your ability to go on long walks and shit

00:28:41.970 --> 00:28:44.069
like that. Walks in some fancy city, right? Correct.

00:28:44.150 --> 00:28:47.029
And I want to be able to do that while I'm still

00:28:47.029 --> 00:28:49.190
able to do that. Because it comes to the point,

00:28:49.269 --> 00:28:51.650
you hear people waiting until they're 70 to retire.

00:28:52.369 --> 00:28:54.150
Well, now they're too old to fucking do anything.

00:28:54.349 --> 00:28:57.670
Either physically or just energy -wise. Correct.

00:28:58.029 --> 00:28:59.490
You know what I mean? Correct. What about Segway?

00:28:59.930 --> 00:29:02.930
God, could you imagine a 70 -year -old on a Segway?

00:29:03.109 --> 00:29:05.250
Don't you just lean forward like the mall cop?

00:29:05.289 --> 00:29:07.970
Because they have the best balance as it is.

00:29:08.329 --> 00:29:10.589
That's a good point. Battery -powered tricycle.

00:29:10.910 --> 00:29:14.049
Yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, that's... His and hers.

00:29:14.210 --> 00:29:15.950
They'll probably have hoverboards by the time

00:29:15.950 --> 00:29:19.410
we're retiring. Just teleportation. Ooh, we could

00:29:19.410 --> 00:29:22.650
better. Problem solved. Then you turn into the

00:29:22.650 --> 00:29:23.809
fly. Especially your wife. She doesn't want to

00:29:23.809 --> 00:29:27.690
travel. Oops. She's out of there. That works.

00:29:27.910 --> 00:29:29.890
Here, get into this machine that's going to molecularly

00:29:29.890 --> 00:29:32.430
destroy you and then re -put you... Shit, there

00:29:32.430 --> 00:29:35.529
was a fly in there. Sorry, Tara. Do you ever

00:29:35.529 --> 00:29:37.730
watch that movie? Oh, it's freaky, man. Do you

00:29:37.730 --> 00:29:41.650
ever watch the original? Was it like where string

00:29:41.650 --> 00:29:44.809
flies on a string? No, I think it was Black and

00:29:44.809 --> 00:29:46.710
White, but he had a fly head. It wasn't good,

00:29:46.809 --> 00:29:50.670
but the remake by, I think, Cronenberg made it

00:29:50.670 --> 00:29:56.970
with Jeff Goldblum. It was colored. Yeah, Jeff

00:29:56.970 --> 00:30:00.269
Goldblum had it. See the picture of the fly.

00:30:00.369 --> 00:30:03.799
He's got a fly head. Yeah, it's pretty bad. Back

00:30:03.799 --> 00:30:05.779
in that day, it was probably pretty good. There

00:30:05.779 --> 00:30:09.380
he is. He's got like clothes on. He's got a claw.

00:30:10.259 --> 00:30:13.740
But anyway, the one with Jeff Goldblum was disturbing.

00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:16.779
Yeah, especially when they were doing the testing

00:30:16.779 --> 00:30:19.519
it and the animals all destroyed and inside out.

00:30:19.819 --> 00:30:22.759
Well, he was jarring up his pieces and he jarred

00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:25.480
up his penis. Did you notice that? No. Yeah,

00:30:25.539 --> 00:30:28.059
he was keeping the vials of his body parts as

00:30:28.059 --> 00:30:30.980
they fell off in his medicine cabinet. And one

00:30:30.980 --> 00:30:35.009
of them was his. Cool. This is Johnson. It's

00:30:35.009 --> 00:30:37.809
neat that you noticed that. I think you told

00:30:37.809 --> 00:30:40.789
me about it. Like one of the first times we met.

00:30:40.890 --> 00:30:44.950
Hey. Did you see that jar of formaldehyde in

00:30:44.950 --> 00:30:47.410
there with the penis in it? Yeah. What the hell?

00:30:47.490 --> 00:30:48.789
That would be the first thing I'd have looked

00:30:48.789 --> 00:30:51.029
at. That was our first conversation. Wow. Okay.

00:30:51.430 --> 00:30:53.150
Anyway, why did we get on teleportation? Oh,

00:30:53.190 --> 00:30:55.009
a better way to travel. Traveling. Yeah, who

00:30:55.009 --> 00:30:58.589
knows? Who knows what it'll be like when we...

00:30:59.079 --> 00:31:01.240
Well, the older we get, the more intentional

00:31:01.240 --> 00:31:03.920
we need to get with everything. We do. And you

00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:07.180
know what? It starts with a list. Turn your phone

00:31:07.180 --> 00:31:10.079
off. Turn the TV off. Sit down with a piece of

00:31:10.079 --> 00:31:13.880
paper and a pencil and just, even if it's stupid

00:31:13.880 --> 00:31:17.720
stuff, just start, just unload everything that

00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:19.799
you wish you did as a kid or you wish you did

00:31:19.799 --> 00:31:23.500
now or you wish you knew how to do, you know,

00:31:23.500 --> 00:31:25.599
and a lot of it you'll just be like, okay, I'm

00:31:25.599 --> 00:31:27.220
never going to learn to play the mandolin, okay?

00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:30.799
So just move on. Or the oboe. So let's just skip

00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:33.400
those. What about the pan flute? Pan flute you

00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:35.680
need to keep on the list. That's an everybody

00:31:35.680 --> 00:31:38.359
thing, I think. But you see what I mean? I mean,

00:31:38.380 --> 00:31:40.480
just start making a list. And then after you

00:31:40.480 --> 00:31:42.599
have a list, you scratch off the things that

00:31:42.599 --> 00:31:45.140
are stupid. You look at the ones that you really

00:31:45.140 --> 00:31:48.140
kind of zone in on and think are important, prioritize

00:31:48.140 --> 00:31:51.619
them, and then make a plan for one at a time.

00:31:51.720 --> 00:31:53.599
I think you have to be intentional, though. You

00:31:53.599 --> 00:31:55.759
actually have to fucking do it. Again, that's

00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:57.200
kind of where we're at. I mean, this year is

00:31:57.200 --> 00:32:00.119
going to be crazy travel -wise for my wife and

00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:02.859
I, Julie and I. Yeah. Crazy as in you're going

00:32:02.859 --> 00:32:05.400
to do it or not do it. You already have plans.

00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:07.680
You guys are going to one of them, right? Yeah.

00:32:08.339 --> 00:32:10.660
Steven's wedding. Right. How far in advance do

00:32:10.660 --> 00:32:12.079
we need to buy tickets for that? You could buy

00:32:12.079 --> 00:32:14.720
tickets now. I was wondering. I need to do that

00:32:14.720 --> 00:32:17.079
now. What would be the responsible amount of

00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:19.440
time to buy those tickets? Probably more than

00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:22.079
a month out. And it's in May? No, it's in June.

00:32:22.339 --> 00:32:25.000
It's in June. It's on June 14th. It's a Sunday.

00:32:25.539 --> 00:32:27.359
So keep that in mind. I was going to ask you

00:32:27.359 --> 00:32:29.359
guys, like, when are you going out so that we

00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:32.059
can, you know, coordinate maybe? Well, I'm going

00:32:32.059 --> 00:32:33.660
to say you guys need that because I want to be

00:32:33.660 --> 00:32:36.220
fucking stupid crazy with family shit. Oh, yeah.

00:32:36.259 --> 00:32:40.400
So if we can hook up, we can hook up. So don't

00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:42.700
count on me. You guys need to plan. Is Shelly

00:32:42.700 --> 00:32:46.900
going? Of course. Oh, and Dawson. Yeah. I recommend

00:32:46.900 --> 00:32:48.720
hitting wineries while you're out there. You're

00:32:48.720 --> 00:32:49.980
going to be in fucking wine country. Of course.

00:32:49.980 --> 00:32:52.680
That's the whole point. You know. And go online

00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:56.200
and book your tours early. Yeah. And it's fucking

00:32:56.200 --> 00:32:57.400
expensive, man. Yeah, it's going to be expensive.

00:32:58.119 --> 00:32:59.960
But maybe we just stop buying rare characters

00:32:59.960 --> 00:33:03.559
and we save money for Napa. We could. Wouldn't

00:33:03.559 --> 00:33:05.000
that be smart? But, you know, then after that,

00:33:05.140 --> 00:33:07.480
I've got Brandon's wedding. I just did that,

00:33:07.500 --> 00:33:10.319
by the way. Three weeks later, no travel with

00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:14.619
that. And then two weeks after that, we're going

00:33:14.619 --> 00:33:18.599
to Cabo for a friend's wedding. Oh, wow. That'll

00:33:18.599 --> 00:33:22.130
be fun. Yeah, that'll be fun. Cool. So, you know,

00:33:22.130 --> 00:33:25.890
summertime is going to be kind of crazy. The

00:33:25.890 --> 00:33:27.690
same thing goes for you, Sean, man. Make a list

00:33:27.690 --> 00:33:30.029
and then kind of, you know, and if you can't

00:33:30.029 --> 00:33:32.609
do it with, you know, if Tara's not willing to

00:33:32.609 --> 00:33:35.910
travel, then, you know, we can make. I have a

00:33:35.910 --> 00:33:39.869
very small list. You know, I do my little things

00:33:39.869 --> 00:33:43.690
in my house, you know, just like travel from

00:33:43.690 --> 00:33:46.130
one room to the other. Doing my office and kind

00:33:46.130 --> 00:33:48.750
of buying little knickknacks that I like. That's

00:33:48.750 --> 00:33:52.640
kind of it. That's all I got right now. I hear

00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:53.599
you. I'm going to focus on that. But you did

00:33:53.599 --> 00:33:57.539
some cool stuff. You got me on this whole metal

00:33:57.539 --> 00:34:00.410
detector thing. I actually put that on my list.

00:34:00.450 --> 00:34:01.849
I was like, I want to buy a metal detector, and

00:34:01.849 --> 00:34:03.950
I want to go somewhere where I can hunt for something.

00:34:04.490 --> 00:34:06.930
Your front yard. You don't have to go anywhere.

00:34:07.049 --> 00:34:08.130
Hey, man, you'd be surprised what's out there.

00:34:08.849 --> 00:34:12.489
Perfect. Honey, I think these are from the Aztec

00:34:12.489 --> 00:34:16.230
times. There are people that out in Mobile, Alabama,

00:34:16.409 --> 00:34:18.769
when I went out there on one of my job ventures,

00:34:18.989 --> 00:34:22.110
there were people that had the Civil War broke

00:34:22.110 --> 00:34:23.769
out. Yeah, that's cool. And there are people

00:34:23.769 --> 00:34:26.369
with their metal detectors. People have to like...

00:34:27.210 --> 00:34:29.369
will come up to these residential properties

00:34:29.369 --> 00:34:31.630
and they'll kind of sneak over the fence and

00:34:31.630 --> 00:34:32.889
they'll be out there in the middle of the night

00:34:32.889 --> 00:34:34.929
with metal detectors. Oh, that's not good. Unbeknownst

00:34:34.929 --> 00:34:36.349
to people. And you're like, what the fuck are

00:34:36.349 --> 00:34:38.190
you doing? Yeah. And it's just like. Then you

00:34:38.190 --> 00:34:39.670
came out the next day and your yard's dug up.

00:34:39.750 --> 00:34:41.690
Yeah, a bunch of holes everywhere. Well, I think

00:34:41.690 --> 00:34:43.889
that they're, well, whatever. It doesn't matter.

00:34:44.050 --> 00:34:46.349
It's inappropriate. My point is, is that these

00:34:46.349 --> 00:34:49.230
metal detectors are cool for fighting stuff like

00:34:49.230 --> 00:34:50.650
that because you never know what's going on.

00:34:50.789 --> 00:34:52.809
That's how they found the London Hammer. We've

00:34:52.809 --> 00:34:55.280
talked about that. You know, the. Hammer that

00:34:55.280 --> 00:34:59.800
was from London. It was, they're saying, I forget

00:34:59.800 --> 00:35:02.800
how old it was, but it was, I want to say 50

00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:05.159
,000 years. I was going to say 50 years. Good

00:35:05.159 --> 00:35:09.300
guess. Yeah. Was London around 50 ,000 years

00:35:09.300 --> 00:35:12.119
ago? No, they're projecting the, so they said

00:35:12.119 --> 00:35:13.760
the London Hammer is a controversial artifact

00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:17.199
found in London, Texas. Found where London is.

00:35:17.340 --> 00:35:19.179
They're saying it's millions of years old. I

00:35:19.179 --> 00:35:21.539
was going to say that, but I was like, but you

00:35:21.539 --> 00:35:24.159
didn't want to be wrong. Well. I was going to

00:35:24.159 --> 00:35:27.539
be wrong no matter what. It was found in 1936.

00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:31.119
What's significant about it? It's a hammer. It's

00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:33.980
a tool. It's a tool that's millions of years

00:35:33.980 --> 00:35:37.780
old. How the hell did they do that? How would

00:35:37.780 --> 00:35:39.840
they even do that? Again, we talk about lost

00:35:39.840 --> 00:35:43.360
knowledge. They had knowledge back then. We just

00:35:43.360 --> 00:35:45.480
don't know how they did it. We know how we would

00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:48.739
do it. They obviously were able to do it. The

00:35:48.739 --> 00:35:57.329
cool thing about that, the hammer point is some

00:35:57.329 --> 00:35:59.329
of the purest iron they have found in anything.

00:35:59.610 --> 00:36:02.409
Right. That was before man polluted everything.

00:36:02.809 --> 00:36:09.250
Yes. Was it from like a meteorite? It was, what

00:36:09.250 --> 00:36:11.559
are you talking about? Like iron came from space

00:36:11.559 --> 00:36:13.599
and crashed? Oh, I don't know. I mean, it could

00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:16.420
be. Who knows? So it wasn't spoiled. In Cambodia,

00:36:16.739 --> 00:36:18.699
we've talked about this on one of the prior podcasts.

00:36:18.880 --> 00:36:22.119
In Cambodia, there is a seven -inch diameter

00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:24.860
pole that comes out of the ground, and it's about

00:36:24.860 --> 00:36:29.420
30 feet tall. Pole. P -O -L -E. Yes. Okay. And

00:36:29.420 --> 00:36:32.320
it's pure iron. And, you know, iron will rust.

00:36:32.860 --> 00:36:35.739
It should. It should. But this one doesn't rust.

00:36:35.980 --> 00:36:38.559
Does it have electric running through it? I don't

00:36:38.559 --> 00:36:40.570
know what it is. Some kind of current? No, but

00:36:40.570 --> 00:36:43.730
it's interesting as fuck. Interesting. Are you

00:36:43.730 --> 00:36:45.349
looking up the Cambodia Iron Pole? It's that

00:36:45.349 --> 00:36:48.469
orange thing right there. Oh, that's a construction

00:36:48.469 --> 00:36:51.110
sign. Those barrels. You got to put maybe ancient

00:36:51.110 --> 00:36:56.329
in there. Ancient aliens? Ancient Cambodian Iron

00:36:56.329 --> 00:37:02.130
Pole. All that stuff to me is interesting. I

00:37:02.130 --> 00:37:05.510
mean, to me, it'd be worth a trip out there to

00:37:05.510 --> 00:37:07.170
look at stuff like that. There you go. Put that

00:37:07.170 --> 00:37:11.320
on your list. I'd love to. Jesus. I would love...

00:37:11.320 --> 00:37:16.280
There's like palaces from Chinese emperors that

00:37:16.280 --> 00:37:18.980
no one's allowed to enter. And they've got a

00:37:18.980 --> 00:37:25.320
seal on them. You want to break in? No, but that's

00:37:25.320 --> 00:37:27.639
the kind of stuff that I'm like, why can't they

00:37:27.639 --> 00:37:29.679
just break the rules? See what's in there. What

00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:31.219
if you flew a little drone in there and see what's

00:37:31.219 --> 00:37:32.980
in there? I'm sure they've come up with all kinds

00:37:32.980 --> 00:37:34.659
of things they could do, and I'm sure people

00:37:34.659 --> 00:37:36.820
have seen it before. I don't know why it's not

00:37:36.820 --> 00:37:39.679
pulling up, but it's basically this pull that

00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:41.400
comes out. It may not be Cambodia. It may be

00:37:41.400 --> 00:37:46.719
Tibet or just an ancient iron pull. There it

00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:47.960
is right there. That's exactly it right there.

00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:50.360
Oh, you know what? I remember you talking about

00:37:50.360 --> 00:37:54.559
this. This is in Delhi. Is it iron or copper?

00:37:55.769 --> 00:37:58.250
It is iron. It says iron pillar. It looks like

00:37:58.250 --> 00:38:01.130
brass, almost. Well, that's my point, is that

00:38:01.130 --> 00:38:05.769
they say it's like some of the purest iron out

00:38:05.769 --> 00:38:08.650
there. It kind of trips me up. Where did this

00:38:08.650 --> 00:38:10.289
pole come from? What are they saying about this

00:38:10.289 --> 00:38:12.429
pole? Why is it silver on one and brass on another?

00:38:12.849 --> 00:38:15.789
I'm sure it's the sunset or something. I mean,

00:38:15.809 --> 00:38:19.449
that era of time where they were doing stuff

00:38:19.449 --> 00:38:25.320
like this, I mean, the things that they... envision

00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:28.280
and and they produce like in these cambodian

00:38:28.280 --> 00:38:32.860
uh temples that they have uh they have these

00:38:32.860 --> 00:38:36.059
tiles on the ceiling that are in the formation

00:38:36.059 --> 00:38:42.239
of a 3d rendering of what a sound is like do

00:38:42.239 --> 00:38:46.500
re mi la di do whatever uh they have those what

00:38:46.500 --> 00:38:49.400
the signature looks like but it's in a 3d form

00:38:49.400 --> 00:38:51.559
and it's in rock and people look up and they're

00:38:51.559 --> 00:38:53.739
like no one knows what that is And actually,

00:38:53.780 --> 00:38:55.739
no one did know what it was for a very, very,

00:38:55.780 --> 00:38:58.139
very long time until recently, the last five

00:38:58.139 --> 00:39:01.900
years. People were like, dude, that's sound.

00:39:02.119 --> 00:39:04.360
Like the whole... Like frequencies. There are

00:39:04.360 --> 00:39:06.880
different frequencies. And even though it was

00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:09.719
a Tesla that came up, if you understand the power

00:39:09.719 --> 00:39:11.800
of frequencies, you understand just about everything.

00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:15.900
But Nikola Tesla. Yeah. That stuff fascinates

00:39:15.900 --> 00:39:19.719
me. And I kind of... We talk about having regrets

00:39:19.719 --> 00:39:24.219
in life. I regret not knowing and learning more

00:39:24.219 --> 00:39:27.320
about this stuff because it fascinates me. Yeah.

00:39:27.380 --> 00:39:31.659
Keep reading those books. Yeah. We got to do

00:39:31.659 --> 00:39:33.880
that. You do it because there's all kinds of

00:39:33.880 --> 00:39:37.500
shit like that in those books. When you say those

00:39:37.500 --> 00:39:41.699
books. The James Rollins Sigma Force books. Ah,

00:39:41.699 --> 00:39:45.159
yes. All of them have shit to do like that. Is

00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:48.119
it all nonfiction or is it fictional books built

00:39:48.119 --> 00:39:51.260
around? Those mysteries. Yes. Gotcha. So it's

00:39:51.260 --> 00:39:55.519
a mix of real science and a fictional team that

00:39:55.519 --> 00:39:58.079
kind of travels around, right? Yeah. On one of

00:39:58.079 --> 00:39:59.960
the last podcasts, you guys were talking about

00:39:59.960 --> 00:40:01.800
your library thing, and I was like, man, I really

00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:04.059
need to do that. Oh, the Frisco Library. I have

00:40:04.059 --> 00:40:06.460
yet to do that. I need to do that. Well, let's

00:40:06.460 --> 00:40:08.980
put that on the list. Put it on your list. Before

00:40:08.980 --> 00:40:11.360
I die, I want to sign up for the Frisco Library.

00:40:11.719 --> 00:40:12.940
Paul, you're one of these people that I've got

00:40:12.940 --> 00:40:16.690
to tell you. I am envious of your lists that

00:40:16.690 --> 00:40:18.949
you do. I mean, you've got a things to do list,

00:40:19.030 --> 00:40:22.190
and I need to do that. Every now and then, actually,

00:40:22.289 --> 00:40:23.969
you know what exactly happened? I had a list.

00:40:24.530 --> 00:40:28.150
I kept it in my office, and my wife saw the list.

00:40:28.789 --> 00:40:31.949
Uh -oh. Uh -oh. And she had expectations? She

00:40:31.949 --> 00:40:33.150
was kind of like, oh, I want you to do number

00:40:33.150 --> 00:40:36.030
seven on that list. You're like, uh -uh. It's

00:40:36.030 --> 00:40:38.690
my list. I choose the order of it. That's what

00:40:38.690 --> 00:40:41.280
it kind of was. It squashed it. Right then and

00:40:41.280 --> 00:40:42.719
there, it squashed it. So then you crumpled up

00:40:42.719 --> 00:40:44.280
the list. I don't know what happened to it, but

00:40:44.280 --> 00:40:46.420
I was kind of like, I think I just discarded

00:40:46.420 --> 00:40:48.800
it after that. Because it was kind of like, you

00:40:48.800 --> 00:40:50.760
know, that was my little private thing, and it

00:40:50.760 --> 00:40:52.639
was something I wanted to work at, and then someone

00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:54.639
would come in over me. It was your personal diary.

00:40:54.980 --> 00:40:56.840
I would start ordering you around that it's her

00:40:56.840 --> 00:40:59.579
list. Why don't you take care of one of those

00:40:59.579 --> 00:41:01.900
things on your list? Yeah. Wow, that's a big

00:41:01.900 --> 00:41:03.780
list of things you've never done before. Yeah.

00:41:05.460 --> 00:41:08.159
I got a list for you. Why don't you try traveling?

00:41:09.639 --> 00:41:14.260
I'll have one item. I think we've talked about

00:41:14.260 --> 00:41:16.480
this before, but in terms of why I do the list,

00:41:16.579 --> 00:41:19.420
I like to be productive. I like to feel productive.

00:41:19.599 --> 00:41:23.360
I hate going through a day that is not set aside

00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:26.480
for total leisure, like New Year's Day. So you

00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:29.579
would never read? No. Because that is pure leisure.

00:41:29.980 --> 00:41:32.039
No, no, no. I like that. No, I like that. But

00:41:32.039 --> 00:41:34.420
New Year's Day, I was like, I'm not doing anything

00:41:34.420 --> 00:41:37.119
today. I'm not fixing anything. I'm not cleaning

00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:39.260
anything. I'm watching football. It's a leisure

00:41:39.260 --> 00:41:42.039
day, right? I mean, and sometimes you're supposed

00:41:42.039 --> 00:41:45.800
to make Sundays your kind of leisure meditation,

00:41:46.340 --> 00:41:49.280
you know, tune out the world and just kind of

00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:51.360
mentally focused day, right? And maybe that's

00:41:51.360 --> 00:41:53.659
one of those days. But on the days I'm supposed

00:41:53.659 --> 00:41:55.519
to be productive and I need to get shit knocked

00:41:55.519 --> 00:41:57.539
out, it's like, you know, Saturday, right? So

00:41:57.539 --> 00:41:59.989
I roll into Saturday already having... What I

00:41:59.989 --> 00:42:01.429
want to get, I mean, I want to start at like

00:42:01.429 --> 00:42:04.090
830. I'm going to fix the freezer. That's cool.

00:42:04.130 --> 00:42:06.110
I want to fix the freezer. I want to clean the

00:42:06.110 --> 00:42:08.110
pool. I need to pick up all the poop in the backyard.

00:42:08.230 --> 00:42:09.849
And I write all these stupid little things down,

00:42:09.929 --> 00:42:12.690
but then I'm crossing them off. And it makes

00:42:12.690 --> 00:42:14.909
me feel productive. Correct. You know what I

00:42:14.909 --> 00:42:17.269
mean? I mean, sometimes this is really stupid,

00:42:17.349 --> 00:42:19.789
but I do something that wasn't on the list. I

00:42:19.789 --> 00:42:23.309
write it on the list and I cross it out. So it's

00:42:23.309 --> 00:42:26.030
a mental, it's like an OCD thing. No, I think

00:42:26.030 --> 00:42:29.150
it's great. Anyway, it helps me. That way, if

00:42:29.150 --> 00:42:31.630
anyone says, hey, what did you do today? You'd

00:42:31.630 --> 00:42:34.869
be like, here's my scroll, just in this little

00:42:34.869 --> 00:42:37.989
scroll, the naughty list. Yeah, suck it. Yes.

00:42:38.190 --> 00:42:42.170
No, I mean, wow, look at that. No, I mean, suck

00:42:42.170 --> 00:42:44.630
it. But yeah, just stick with it. Yeah, that's

00:42:44.630 --> 00:42:50.320
a train wreck. All right, well, we... What else

00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:53.039
we got? We got New Year's Eve. This last weekend.

00:42:53.039 --> 00:42:54.820
Yeah, let's talk about what we did during the

00:42:54.820 --> 00:42:58.039
holiday. We went over to Scott Cash's. Shout

00:42:58.039 --> 00:43:01.719
out to Scott Cash. So for those listeners out

00:43:01.719 --> 00:43:05.599
there, we have kind of fallen into this new routine.

00:43:05.860 --> 00:43:10.679
It's becoming more and more of a thing where

00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:12.960
we're sampling. Like on tonight's podcast, we'll

00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:15.139
sample whiskey in the first half. We'll sample

00:43:15.139 --> 00:43:18.420
one on the second half. Scott Cash has been on

00:43:18.420 --> 00:43:22.860
the podcast a couple times. He has started the

00:43:22.860 --> 00:43:26.420
very impressive collection. Yeah, he's procured

00:43:26.420 --> 00:43:30.000
tons of really fantastical stuff. Yeah, he does.

00:43:30.139 --> 00:43:33.559
And he is the most sharing, giving guy ever.

00:43:33.739 --> 00:43:36.980
And he loves it. So we go over to his house,

00:43:37.059 --> 00:43:39.219
because he invites us. He's going, hey, and there's

00:43:39.219 --> 00:43:40.940
a group of guys, and they're all whiskey lovers.

00:43:41.099 --> 00:43:43.420
And we all sit around, and that's what we did

00:43:43.420 --> 00:43:46.829
this past week. We all dork out. Oh, my gosh.

00:43:47.469 --> 00:43:51.730
So I'm going to, let me pull up the list. I have

00:43:51.730 --> 00:43:55.949
them saved. I called it. I actually made a new

00:43:55.949 --> 00:44:00.409
category in my library of pictures. Of just booze.

00:44:00.570 --> 00:44:03.469
Well, we're over at Scott's house. So I'm going

00:44:03.469 --> 00:44:06.329
to, I mean, look. So we have these little small

00:44:06.329 --> 00:44:08.769
glasses. We're evolving. We're evolving the process

00:44:08.769 --> 00:44:11.119
because you can't. We're having so many samples.

00:44:11.239 --> 00:44:13.039
We've got to do it responsibly. Yeah, because

00:44:13.039 --> 00:44:15.440
we want to taste it. We want to have a good time.

00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:17.340
We want to appreciate it. And we want to be like,

00:44:17.400 --> 00:44:18.920
I'm going to hunt this down. I really like it.

00:44:18.960 --> 00:44:20.260
And frankly, that's kind of what we did from

00:44:20.260 --> 00:44:21.199
one of the things that we had. That happened

00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:24.019
today, yeah. But you guys count them as I'm reading

00:44:24.019 --> 00:44:25.300
them off, you know, because you've got the Murray

00:44:25.300 --> 00:44:27.179
Hill Club. One. There's two. There's Special

00:44:27.179 --> 00:44:29.659
Reserve and Bourbon Whiskey. All right? Then

00:44:29.659 --> 00:44:33.199
we did, there's a Patron. I didn't do that one.

00:44:33.380 --> 00:44:36.320
Well, the Patron is a 10 -year. Patron. Is that

00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:38.760
the smoke one? Oh, yeah. That you were like,

00:44:38.880 --> 00:44:42.039
this is disgusting. Well, I didn't do any tequila.

00:44:42.039 --> 00:44:43.599
You're like, this is not my. You told Scott.

00:44:44.760 --> 00:44:46.860
You didn't have to say that. Oh, now we should

00:44:46.860 --> 00:44:48.480
catch up. We don't have to like everything. All

00:44:48.480 --> 00:44:51.400
right. Well, the next one was the Tequila Patron

00:44:51.400 --> 00:44:56.000
Ahumada Silver. How do you say it? Ahumado Silver.

00:44:57.599 --> 00:45:00.000
Agave cooked over charcoal for a smoke. You know

00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.280
what? Moving on. So another tequila. And there's

00:45:02.280 --> 00:45:04.920
another tequila, the Grand Patron. Didn't do

00:45:04.920 --> 00:45:06.519
any tequilas. Hold on. You're saying you tried

00:45:06.519 --> 00:45:08.460
all of those tequilas? All of them. Oh, I didn't

00:45:08.460 --> 00:45:10.300
try any. That's why your blood alcohol was 3

00:45:10.300 --> 00:45:13.199
.8. It might have been. Or .38. .38. That was

00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:14.360
ridiculous. We'll talk about that in a second.

00:45:14.380 --> 00:45:17.539
Really? Yes. Good lord. We did the 1845, the

00:45:17.539 --> 00:45:21.019
Panhandle Proud. 1845. Shout out to 1845 Distillery.

00:45:21.059 --> 00:45:23.920
We did the Heaven Hill Grain to Glass. Yeah,

00:45:23.980 --> 00:45:26.840
we've got that. Excellent. The Fox's Bow Irish

00:45:26.840 --> 00:45:32.840
Whiskey. Did not do that. The 10 -Year Sagamore

00:45:32.840 --> 00:45:35.059
Rye. Did that. That's very good. Very good. We

00:45:35.059 --> 00:45:36.340
need to get the Sagamore rye and add it to the

00:45:36.340 --> 00:45:37.619
collection. I've been saying we need Sagamores.

00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:39.980
We need to get some Sagamores. Yeah. Highly recommend

00:45:39.980 --> 00:45:44.079
it. We did the single barrel Hancock President's

00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:46.820
Reserve. Not impressed with that. No one was

00:45:46.820 --> 00:45:50.199
really impressed with that. Another tequila.

00:45:50.239 --> 00:45:52.840
I can't remember. The 15th. Yeah. We all did

00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:54.360
the Hancock. That was before Sean got there,

00:45:54.420 --> 00:45:57.320
and everyone was kind of like, yes. We probably

00:45:57.320 --> 00:45:58.960
followed something that was amazing, though.

00:45:59.230 --> 00:46:01.150
So that doesn't help. I don't think, I don't,

00:46:01.150 --> 00:46:02.889
doesn't matter. It's crazy. I showed up an hour

00:46:02.889 --> 00:46:05.449
and a half, two hours after you guys, and I still

00:46:05.449 --> 00:46:08.210
got. Dude, you bypassed it. You just surpassed

00:46:08.210 --> 00:46:10.369
us. Yeah, but you started power sampling. Yes.

00:46:10.630 --> 00:46:14.650
We were like, oh, this is relaxing. We were drinking,

00:46:14.869 --> 00:46:17.429
I was drinking less than like a little half ounce

00:46:17.429 --> 00:46:19.489
of them. I wasn't, I didn't have a full glass.

00:46:19.489 --> 00:46:21.389
You had like two glasses in front of you. You

00:46:21.389 --> 00:46:23.469
had a large Glencairn, and I had this little

00:46:23.469 --> 00:46:26.610
thimble. Yeah, no, but that's what we had the

00:46:26.610 --> 00:46:31.190
whole time. So Barrel puts out a seagrass. Barrel

00:46:31.190 --> 00:46:33.789
products, seagrass. Yeah, this one was a rye

00:46:33.789 --> 00:46:37.369
whiskey finished in rum, apricot brandy barrels.

00:46:37.949 --> 00:46:40.530
It's fantastic. You know what was cool that night?

00:46:40.630 --> 00:46:43.889
We did the whole progression of Knob Creek. That

00:46:43.889 --> 00:46:47.900
was neat. I'll get there. Barrel Dovetail. The

00:46:47.900 --> 00:46:50.340
new riff, The Red Turkey Wheat, which I had not

00:46:50.340 --> 00:46:52.739
had before. That's good. Yeah, that was at a

00:46:52.739 --> 00:46:54.400
Bottle and Bond, and I got to do a shout -out

00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:55.960
to Bottle and Bond because normally I'm kind

00:46:55.960 --> 00:46:59.179
of like, eee, hunter -proof, loser. But this

00:46:59.179 --> 00:47:01.659
one was good. Yes. Enjoyed it. It was good. The

00:47:01.659 --> 00:47:06.000
Van Winkle, 12 -year -old, lore. Yep. God, the

00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:08.039
glasses. Hold on a second. It was smooth, but

00:47:08.039 --> 00:47:11.059
it was 90 -proof. I was very nonplussed about

00:47:11.059 --> 00:47:12.579
that. Yeah, well, that's the thing. I expected

00:47:12.579 --> 00:47:15.949
more. The lot B. Kentucky Straight, Bergman,

00:47:15.949 --> 00:47:17.829
Van Winkle. Yeah, I agree. That's just kind of

00:47:17.829 --> 00:47:21.789
meh to me. It was meh. I liked it. You like everything.

00:47:22.150 --> 00:47:25.849
I did like it, though. Well, look, I wouldn't

00:47:25.849 --> 00:47:27.489
kick it out of bed. Well, no. If I'm going to

00:47:27.489 --> 00:47:28.710
compare it to something. But I'm not going to

00:47:28.710 --> 00:47:30.969
spend a grand to buy the bottle. Oh, my God.

00:47:31.070 --> 00:47:33.170
How does it cost? Yeah, we talked about that.

00:47:33.210 --> 00:47:36.110
It's like the hype. The hype affects our opinion

00:47:36.110 --> 00:47:38.489
of it. Correct. Every time. I was expecting so

00:47:38.489 --> 00:47:40.329
much more out of it. Of course. Because everybody's

00:47:40.329 --> 00:47:42.630
like, ooh. Like, even on shows, they'll show,

00:47:42.710 --> 00:47:44.829
like, a bottle of it in the background to, like,

00:47:44.849 --> 00:47:46.989
impress people. And it's like, hmm. So there

00:47:46.989 --> 00:47:48.750
were. Not all that. There were two other. There

00:47:48.750 --> 00:47:50.969
was another brand. And I don't think we have

00:47:50.969 --> 00:47:53.230
this one. Lucky Seven? Do we have this in our

00:47:53.230 --> 00:47:55.280
collection? We've seen it. multiple times when

00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:57.699
we talked about it. I remember trying those.

00:47:57.780 --> 00:47:59.320
I did one of them. I don't know what the other

00:47:59.320 --> 00:48:01.460
one was like. This one's Trade 7 Marked, Lucky

00:48:01.460 --> 00:48:04.820
7. It's Curators of Fine Spirits. We tried a

00:48:04.820 --> 00:48:06.860
Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, which was

00:48:06.860 --> 00:48:10.179
113 proof. Then they had the sister of it, which

00:48:10.179 --> 00:48:13.000
was a seasonal one. This one is a Holiday Toast,

00:48:13.059 --> 00:48:18.719
Lucky 7. That was 115. I think we did try that

00:48:18.719 --> 00:48:22.250
one. I enjoyed it. I don't remember it. I'm not

00:48:22.250 --> 00:48:24.949
going to mention the next one just because it's

00:48:24.949 --> 00:48:29.139
by Short Barrel. It is on the list of whiskeys

00:48:29.139 --> 00:48:34.099
that was supposed to be disposed of by a liquor

00:48:34.099 --> 00:48:36.820
vendor, and they were like, well, we're not allowed

00:48:36.820 --> 00:48:39.400
to sell these, but we acquired one, and then

00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:40.940
we acquired another case. I thought that was

00:48:40.940 --> 00:48:42.460
the secret you weren't supposed to tell. Yeah,

00:48:42.460 --> 00:48:43.380
you just talked about it. Yeah, but I didn't

00:48:43.380 --> 00:48:45.840
say who or anything like that, so we'll just

00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:49.579
let it go. We have a George T. Stagg, Kentucky

00:48:49.579 --> 00:48:52.920
Stripper. This one is $138 .2. Was that in the

00:48:52.920 --> 00:48:54.820
tiny little bottle? No, this is the big boy.

00:48:55.400 --> 00:48:58.440
The big boy. Yeah, the George T. Stagg, the big.

00:48:59.199 --> 00:49:01.719
Did I have one of those? Yes. I don't remember.

00:49:01.800 --> 00:49:03.139
We actually had two samples. Is that when I blacked

00:49:03.139 --> 00:49:04.619
out? We actually had two of those. I don't know

00:49:04.619 --> 00:49:06.340
if you tried the other one. There were two George

00:49:06.340 --> 00:49:09.579
T. Staggs. One was in the sampler bottle. That

00:49:09.579 --> 00:49:13.280
was a 2024. I did not. And I think the big bottle

00:49:13.280 --> 00:49:16.539
was a 25. I don't remember the big bottle. I

00:49:16.539 --> 00:49:18.550
remember the little sampler. Yeah, we tried them.

00:49:18.630 --> 00:49:21.190
So we had a 13 -year Penelope, the estate collection,

00:49:21.369 --> 00:49:25.230
the Penelope 13 -year, 121 proof. That's with

00:49:25.230 --> 00:49:28.590
the embossed P, I believe. Yeah. So, I mean,

00:49:28.610 --> 00:49:32.929
what are we looking at? Like 15, 20? 30? We did

00:49:32.929 --> 00:49:35.789
30 samples? At least. Okay, the OKI double -oaked

00:49:35.789 --> 00:49:40.090
10 -barrel, the double -oaked 10 -OKI. You guys

00:49:40.090 --> 00:49:42.349
heard of that? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ohio, Kentucky,

00:49:42.449 --> 00:49:45.230
Indiana. I didn't do that one. And then the Knob

00:49:45.230 --> 00:49:47.269
Creek. Let's roll into the Knob Creek. At some

00:49:47.269 --> 00:49:49.550
point, you drink so many, it's like, how do you

00:49:49.550 --> 00:49:51.469
remember? We were done at that point, and that's

00:49:51.469 --> 00:49:53.530
when Sean was doing it. That's when you got all

00:49:53.530 --> 00:49:57.130
your tequilas as well. Yeah, I had to slow the

00:49:57.130 --> 00:50:00.610
roll. I was like, I went and played Galaga. For

00:50:00.610 --> 00:50:02.869
an hour. We heard you bitching. Dude, I suck.

00:50:03.230 --> 00:50:04.650
You know what's even funnier than that? Before

00:50:04.650 --> 00:50:06.449
you took off, you were kind of like, I need a

00:50:06.449 --> 00:50:08.610
break. And you just like, you get up and you

00:50:08.610 --> 00:50:10.030
go to the bathroom. You come right back. You

00:50:10.030 --> 00:50:11.769
start pouring again. I was like, nice break.

00:50:12.190 --> 00:50:15.230
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it was a shit break. All right.

00:50:15.230 --> 00:50:16.929
Like you said, we rolled it to the Knob Creek.

00:50:17.030 --> 00:50:20.369
So we got the 12 year, the 15, the 18, and the

00:50:20.369 --> 00:50:23.130
21 year. All of them different. You could tell.

00:50:23.190 --> 00:50:25.690
Yeah, they were. How they all kind of. Some were

00:50:25.690 --> 00:50:28.449
related, but they were different. I think we

00:50:28.449 --> 00:50:32.000
like. the 18 at least paul and i like the 18

00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:35.059
the most but in all honesty i would rather just

00:50:35.059 --> 00:50:39.159
go for the 12 because it's so much cheaper based

00:50:39.159 --> 00:50:42.320
off of price the quality of stuff that you can

00:50:43.289 --> 00:50:45.530
The 12 is really, really good. Yeah. And it's

00:50:45.530 --> 00:50:47.449
all the same proof. It's all the same proof.

00:50:47.550 --> 00:50:48.909
It's all the same shit. It's just aged a little

00:50:48.909 --> 00:50:51.489
bit different. The 21 year for me was the one

00:50:51.489 --> 00:50:53.230
that was the best. I agree with the 12 year.

00:50:53.329 --> 00:50:55.730
That was the biggest bang for the buck. The 15

00:50:55.730 --> 00:50:58.769
was a little hot, tasted good. The 18 tasted

00:50:58.769 --> 00:51:02.289
really good, wasn't hot. And 21 had it all. Yeah.

00:51:02.369 --> 00:51:04.610
I mean, it really did. I liked the 21 as well,

00:51:04.710 --> 00:51:07.710
but I was just like, for the $250, $300 I'm going

00:51:07.710 --> 00:51:10.019
to spend on that, I can get, you know. four bottles

00:51:10.019 --> 00:51:12.059
or five bottles of the other one. Which you'll

00:51:12.059 --> 00:51:15.860
100 % enjoy just as much. So the A. Smith Bowman,

00:51:15.980 --> 00:51:20.179
that was the cask strength, 139 .7, 10 years.

00:51:20.360 --> 00:51:23.679
That was very good. Terrific. Then the rare character,

00:51:23.860 --> 00:51:25.900
the American Light Whiskey. That was a ball buster.

00:51:25.940 --> 00:51:28.639
That was good shit. This one is officially a

00:51:28.639 --> 00:51:33.659
hazmat, 140 .1 proof, 20 -year -old, eight -month

00:51:33.659 --> 00:51:35.260
barrel. They had to add that extra eight months

00:51:35.260 --> 00:51:37.000
in there. That's the one from today, right? Correct.

00:51:37.099 --> 00:51:39.420
That's supposedly, yeah. I'm excited. That one

00:51:39.420 --> 00:51:42.840
is about $140 for that bottle. I've never done

00:51:42.840 --> 00:51:45.079
that, to buy one for my own collection. That's

00:51:45.079 --> 00:51:49.619
crazy. We did a Bardstown. Hold on. Is that right?

00:51:49.800 --> 00:51:51.400
I didn't do a Bardstown. I didn't do a Bardstown.

00:51:51.599 --> 00:51:55.900
Oh. Okay. Let me just close this. Anyway, so

00:51:55.900 --> 00:51:58.019
- It was fun. It was a fun experience. It was

00:51:58.019 --> 00:52:00.960
fun, and I ended up drinking like 30 ounces,

00:52:01.159 --> 00:52:05.099
30 ounces -ish. We're getting better at it. We're

00:52:05.099 --> 00:52:08.639
evolving in the process to where it - Doesn't

00:52:08.639 --> 00:52:10.940
need to turn into like a, you know, like a B

00:52:10.940 --> 00:52:11.980
shit face. Yeah, we're not going to get shit

00:52:11.980 --> 00:52:14.599
faced. I mean. Right. We need to stick to those

00:52:14.599 --> 00:52:17.079
little glasses. The problem I have with those,

00:52:17.199 --> 00:52:19.559
I think I'd rather maybe pour it in there and

00:52:19.559 --> 00:52:21.039
then pour it into a Glencairn because you can't

00:52:21.039 --> 00:52:23.019
get any kind of nose out of those things. Oh.

00:52:23.099 --> 00:52:25.320
That's true. I'd rather just. Measure it with

00:52:25.320 --> 00:52:27.019
that and then dump it in one of these. Nothing

00:52:27.019 --> 00:52:28.500
wrong with that. And then you can smell it. There

00:52:28.500 --> 00:52:30.920
you go. All these things have really good noses,

00:52:30.920 --> 00:52:33.619
I'm sure. Yeah. Weird thing about the tail end

00:52:33.619 --> 00:52:37.780
of the sampling, Scott had whipped out the blood

00:52:37.780 --> 00:52:42.820
alcohol content meter. And we were taking turns

00:52:42.820 --> 00:52:48.659
blowing in that thing. And the thing is, people

00:52:48.659 --> 00:52:52.610
out there, let's say you're at a bar. And you

00:52:52.610 --> 00:52:54.190
have two beers. And you've been there for four

00:52:54.190 --> 00:52:56.829
hours. You're not going to be drunk. You're completely

00:52:56.829 --> 00:53:00.590
fine. Hey, before you leave, do a shot of tequila

00:53:00.590 --> 00:53:02.889
with me. And I'm like, you know what? I've been

00:53:02.889 --> 00:53:04.449
chill all night. I'll do a shot, and then I'm

00:53:04.449 --> 00:53:07.110
going to go home. Guess what? If you do that

00:53:07.110 --> 00:53:09.550
shot of tequila. Oh, it'll blow up your mouth.

00:53:09.590 --> 00:53:12.929
You go out to the car, and you drive home. You

00:53:12.929 --> 00:53:15.630
get pulled over. It doesn't matter. It's in your

00:53:15.630 --> 00:53:19.690
mouth. Before you drive, coach, coach out there.

00:53:19.750 --> 00:53:22.000
I'm coaching you guys. Before you drive. Rinse

00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:23.960
your mouth out. Have a nice big glass of water,

00:53:24.059 --> 00:53:25.960
swoosh it, spit it out, swallow it, whatever.

00:53:26.699 --> 00:53:29.360
Rinse your mouth out and wait 15, 20 minutes

00:53:29.360 --> 00:53:32.480
before you leave. Let your mouth aerate enough

00:53:32.480 --> 00:53:36.280
to get rid of that alcohol because I blew a .38.

00:53:37.119 --> 00:53:40.119
Right. Legally, I'd be dead. I mean, really.

00:53:40.340 --> 00:53:41.800
Yeah, because it was literally right in your

00:53:41.800 --> 00:53:46.010
mouth. And Jeff blew a .04. I did. Twice. And

00:53:46.010 --> 00:53:47.909
you had had 30 samples. Yeah, you didn't believe

00:53:47.909 --> 00:53:50.809
me. I was like, what the hell? He drank way more

00:53:50.809 --> 00:53:52.809
than I did. And I was, because I was catching

00:53:52.809 --> 00:53:55.730
up. And I was like, how in the hell? So that

00:53:55.730 --> 00:53:58.570
makes you wonder, how accurate really are these

00:53:58.570 --> 00:54:01.289
things? Like, it's not measuring, unless you're

00:54:01.289 --> 00:54:04.250
pulling blood out of your arm. You know what

00:54:04.250 --> 00:54:05.869
I mean? Unless you're measuring blood or testing

00:54:05.869 --> 00:54:09.170
blood, it's probably not accurate. Yeah. I don't

00:54:09.170 --> 00:54:11.329
know. I don't know. But yeah, I was 0 .04 and

00:54:11.329 --> 00:54:13.449
Sean was beside himself for like 10 minutes.

00:54:13.469 --> 00:54:16.130
Do it again. Well, I was just kind of curious

00:54:16.130 --> 00:54:18.590
how it was because I was blowing a 1 .6. Yeah.

00:54:18.710 --> 00:54:23.170
Or a .16. A .16. And then I did a .13 after that.

00:54:23.349 --> 00:54:25.989
But still, I was kind of, what in the hell? But

00:54:25.989 --> 00:54:27.889
obviously, I also had some stuff going on. I

00:54:27.889 --> 00:54:32.050
also wonder if bodies metabolize alcohol differently.

00:54:32.309 --> 00:54:36.449
Totally do. So, you know, my .04 and Sean's,

00:54:36.449 --> 00:54:39.510
whatever he was, .16, even though we are similar

00:54:39.510 --> 00:54:42.599
in booze. I don't know, maybe the... Your liver

00:54:42.599 --> 00:54:44.900
is very efficient, and John's is not. Because

00:54:44.900 --> 00:54:47.380
I guess my liver sucks. I guess so. It's all

00:54:47.380 --> 00:54:51.360
clogged up, and it's just pooling all right now.

00:54:51.400 --> 00:54:53.739
I don't know. I don't know what contributes that

00:54:53.739 --> 00:54:56.380
impact, because we're about the same weight,

00:54:56.539 --> 00:54:59.679
so that's not really playing into it. So I don't

00:54:59.679 --> 00:55:02.179
know. I don't know what... Well, it is what it

00:55:02.179 --> 00:55:04.239
is. I didn't play that game, so I don't... I

00:55:04.239 --> 00:55:05.980
mean, I didn't know you guys were doing that

00:55:05.980 --> 00:55:08.860
while I was struggling with Gallagher. You were

00:55:08.860 --> 00:55:12.159
out there just frustrated. Then we bring it out

00:55:12.159 --> 00:55:14.420
there and you blow like a three. And then Scott

00:55:14.420 --> 00:55:17.119
sends me a picture today and he's like, yeah,

00:55:17.280 --> 00:55:21.360
133 ,000 points and I couldn't get over 32 ,000.

00:55:21.679 --> 00:55:23.400
And he was like, hey, this is what I did today.

00:55:23.519 --> 00:55:29.360
I was like, I suck. 133 ,000? Yeah. And I was

00:55:29.360 --> 00:55:31.900
like, dude. Now, I never play it, right? I only

00:55:31.900 --> 00:55:34.179
play it when I'm over there, but still. He sat

00:55:34.179 --> 00:55:36.420
there for eight hours and got that. I sat there

00:55:36.420 --> 00:55:38.420
for almost an hour playing that game over and

00:55:38.420 --> 00:55:40.320
over and over. So for those folks that don't

00:55:40.320 --> 00:55:42.599
know what's going on, over at Scott Cash's house,

00:55:42.679 --> 00:55:45.239
when we do the sampling, Scott has an amusement

00:55:45.239 --> 00:55:49.280
park -style house with music, instruments everywhere,

00:55:49.679 --> 00:55:53.059
drum sets, guitars, bass, amps, microphones.

00:55:53.619 --> 00:55:56.559
Neon signs. Yeah, it's just really, it's a man's

00:55:56.559 --> 00:55:58.760
man's house. It's really cool. And in the middle

00:55:58.760 --> 00:56:02.059
of one of these little areas is an arcade game

00:56:02.059 --> 00:56:05.820
that has 500 games. I think, somewhere out there.

00:56:06.219 --> 00:56:08.920
It's got a bunch of games on the arcade. You

00:56:08.920 --> 00:56:12.380
go in there and you push down on the little throttle

00:56:12.380 --> 00:56:16.599
and it'll cycle through the games. It brought

00:56:16.599 --> 00:56:19.079
back some memories for me because I recall playing

00:56:19.079 --> 00:56:23.340
Mr. Do growing up in 1984. Oh, my God. They're

00:56:23.340 --> 00:56:25.260
the official games, man. Yeah, they were Mr.

00:56:25.440 --> 00:56:27.659
Do. Gosh, that was such a great game back then.

00:56:28.360 --> 00:56:31.800
Kind of jumped right back into it. Yeah. Loved

00:56:31.800 --> 00:56:33.239
it. Yeah, it was cool. I love hanging out at

00:56:33.239 --> 00:56:36.099
his house. It's fun. Yeah, well, he's got some

00:56:36.099 --> 00:56:38.139
new stuff coming out. I'm pretty excited. But

00:56:38.139 --> 00:56:41.380
God bless, I need to, you know, I am not Scott.

00:56:41.500 --> 00:56:43.599
I can't afford this shit. And, you know, I'm

00:56:43.599 --> 00:56:45.059
going to tell them, they may take me off that

00:56:45.059 --> 00:56:47.340
fucking list of every time you're passing out

00:56:47.340 --> 00:56:48.940
stuff because I can't buy that. Because you're

00:56:48.940 --> 00:56:50.260
just like, man, I want it. Yeah, you're like,

00:56:50.300 --> 00:56:53.739
in, in, yes, yes, in, in. Look, the thing is,

00:56:53.760 --> 00:56:55.980
like, most, look, this is what we've been wanting.

00:56:56.380 --> 00:56:58.820
We've been wanting to be part of this culture

00:56:58.820 --> 00:57:02.960
of these guys that are able to obtain these hard

00:57:02.960 --> 00:57:05.460
-to -get whiskeys. We've been wanting this. And

00:57:05.460 --> 00:57:10.059
before we were all on it, I was on it. And that's

00:57:10.059 --> 00:57:12.420
how I kind of got to some of these other whiskeys

00:57:12.420 --> 00:57:14.179
because I'm kind of like, jeez. But it's a dangerous

00:57:14.179 --> 00:57:16.699
hobby, man. It's a dangerous hobby unless you're

00:57:16.699 --> 00:57:20.840
a doctor or like a lawyer or some high -profile

00:57:20.840 --> 00:57:24.039
money -making. I feel bad because I think I started

00:57:24.039 --> 00:57:26.380
it all. I got you guys on Collected Bourbon.

00:57:26.679 --> 00:57:28.920
Well, whatever. Because I had the 15, and you

00:57:28.920 --> 00:57:32.260
guys were like, I want to join in on that. That's

00:57:32.260 --> 00:57:34.059
how that happened out there. Yeah, you can get

00:57:34.059 --> 00:57:38.199
sucked into this club. How many years were we

00:57:38.199 --> 00:57:42.559
buying three a week? Yeah, that's true, though.

00:57:42.699 --> 00:57:46.400
I mean, I don't mind. I mean, as long as we pay

00:57:46.400 --> 00:57:48.840
for, you know, we've got a system set up, which

00:57:48.840 --> 00:57:52.579
I'm liking. You know, right now, I'm about $1

00:57:52.579 --> 00:57:55.960
,000 out of pocket. And I'm not going to bring

00:57:55.960 --> 00:57:57.239
them over to the house. First of all, we've got

00:57:57.239 --> 00:57:59.940
to agree to them. Because if you guys don't want

00:57:59.940 --> 00:58:01.739
them, I'm going to drink them. They'll be in

00:58:01.739 --> 00:58:03.340
my collection. So it's not a big deal. Well,

00:58:03.340 --> 00:58:07.300
I think we need to be selective in what we get

00:58:07.300 --> 00:58:10.400
at this point. Because we've got 250 out there.

00:58:11.480 --> 00:58:14.019
I don't understand. And we'll never get through

00:58:14.019 --> 00:58:15.239
them. Are we running out of them? We'll never

00:58:15.239 --> 00:58:16.699
get through them all. No, we'll never get through

00:58:16.699 --> 00:58:20.690
them. I don't think we need to jump at every

00:58:20.690 --> 00:58:22.170
bottle that comes our way. That's what I'm saying.

00:58:22.949 --> 00:58:24.769
There's a lot of good bourbons out there. We

00:58:24.769 --> 00:58:27.130
don't have to buy every single time. There's

00:58:27.130 --> 00:58:28.429
another one going to come along that we're going

00:58:28.429 --> 00:58:29.969
to be like, all right, now I'm ready. Let's get

00:58:29.969 --> 00:58:34.989
this one. Maybe we just set a budget. I was like,

00:58:35.070 --> 00:58:36.210
I can't afford it. That's why I didn't respond.

00:58:36.369 --> 00:58:38.889
I was like, I don't need them. We have really

00:58:38.889 --> 00:58:41.650
good bourbons here. Yeah, but the thing is, in

00:58:41.650 --> 00:58:44.170
the podcast, we do one new whiskey a week and

00:58:44.170 --> 00:58:47.329
one old one. Well, we have been. We don't have

00:58:47.329 --> 00:58:49.730
to. Are we changing that? Well, we can go back

00:58:49.730 --> 00:58:52.469
to the well and do two that we haven't tried

00:58:52.469 --> 00:58:54.349
in a long time. Yeah, we could do that, too.

00:58:54.710 --> 00:58:56.170
But we still have several dudes. It becomes a

00:58:56.170 --> 00:58:57.469
money thing. As soon as we hit it big, we can

00:58:57.469 --> 00:58:59.570
get all the bourbon we want. No. Well, right

00:58:59.570 --> 00:59:03.590
now, we've got, what, two more out there? Two

00:59:03.590 --> 00:59:05.210
or three more out there? Three more out there.

00:59:05.329 --> 00:59:08.269
Yeah, and I've got seven at the house plus two

00:59:08.269 --> 00:59:09.570
I just picked up today. I think once we get to

00:59:09.570 --> 00:59:11.710
these three, then we talk and say, okay, what

00:59:11.710 --> 00:59:13.579
do you have, Sean? Let's bring this one over,

00:59:13.679 --> 00:59:15.360
or I'm not interested in this one, or whatever.

00:59:15.579 --> 00:59:17.780
Right. I think that's what we do. Because you

00:59:17.780 --> 00:59:19.039
may like some things. That's what I'm planning

00:59:19.039 --> 00:59:21.019
on. I think you may like some things that we

00:59:21.019 --> 00:59:24.199
may not necessarily like, and vice versa. We

00:59:24.199 --> 00:59:25.780
may find something. What do you guys think of

00:59:25.780 --> 00:59:30.079
this one? I picked this one out specifically

00:59:30.079 --> 00:59:32.619
because I enjoyed it. We weren't doing single

00:59:32.619 --> 00:59:35.019
malts when I bought this. I'll tell you what.

00:59:35.079 --> 00:59:38.320
I'll tell you what. The first pool was horrendous

00:59:38.320 --> 00:59:40.329
for me. I did not like it at all. I didn't like

00:59:40.329 --> 00:59:44.369
it at all. But now that it's opened up, I like

00:59:44.369 --> 00:59:50.190
it a lot. Yeah, the single malt is like a stone

00:59:50.190 --> 00:59:54.429
fruit pear. And I'm not saying that just to be

00:59:54.429 --> 00:59:59.489
cliche, but it's so fruity. This one, I don't

00:59:59.489 --> 01:00:01.889
know where they distill it. St. George Distillery

01:00:01.889 --> 01:00:05.789
is the one place that it comes from. It is California.

01:00:06.730 --> 01:00:09.909
California, American single malt. So, yeah, it's

01:00:09.909 --> 01:00:12.909
an American single malt baller. And it's made,

01:00:13.010 --> 01:00:19.590
it's Umeshu cast finished. It's like honey. It's

01:00:19.590 --> 01:00:21.989
a mixture of honey. Oh, it's sweet. Yeah, it's

01:00:21.989 --> 01:00:26.809
- Lots of sweetness. That first pool, I picked

01:00:26.809 --> 01:00:29.909
up, I don't know if it's peated or not, but that

01:00:29.909 --> 01:00:32.530
first pool, because all the subsequent stuff

01:00:32.530 --> 01:00:34.110
doesn't taste like it's peated, but that first

01:00:34.110 --> 01:00:38.279
pool gave me a lot. It felt like it anyway. That

01:00:38.279 --> 01:00:42.599
typical malt, single malt flavor was very, very

01:00:42.599 --> 01:00:44.739
strong in that first pool for me. And I'm starting

01:00:44.739 --> 01:00:47.900
to like the malts more and more. I mean, at my

01:00:47.900 --> 01:00:52.679
house, I'm starting to pick up some more scotches,

01:00:52.699 --> 01:00:54.780
you know? I'd like to get into some more scotches,

01:00:54.780 --> 01:00:58.300
but maybe not start with the smoked. Or the peated

01:00:58.300 --> 01:01:00.800
stuff, we'll start with regular non -peated stuff,

01:01:00.860 --> 01:01:03.260
and then we work our way into lightly peated.

01:01:03.260 --> 01:01:06.559
That may be the same process moving from the

01:01:06.559 --> 01:01:10.219
weeded whiskeys to the rye whiskeys, where the

01:01:10.219 --> 01:01:13.400
non -peated stuff is just easier. It is, really.

01:01:13.639 --> 01:01:16.400
All right, so real quick. It is California -made

01:01:16.400 --> 01:01:19.900
single malt that is aged in used bourbon and

01:01:19.900 --> 01:01:22.500
French oak wine casks and then finished in the

01:01:22.500 --> 01:01:26.800
Umezu casks. Japanese style of plum liquor. It

01:01:26.800 --> 01:01:29.000
was also made by this distillery in California,

01:01:29.079 --> 01:01:33.159
grown ume fruit. Ume fruit? What is that? I don't

01:01:33.159 --> 01:01:37.199
know. Which is in the plum apricot family. Interesting.

01:01:37.260 --> 01:01:40.679
Yeah, it's a Japanese whiskey. Yeah. Umishu.

01:01:40.980 --> 01:01:44.219
Umishu. It's a plum liqueur. Yeah, I mean, you

01:01:44.219 --> 01:01:47.150
can definitely taste the fruity. Oh, yeah. The

01:01:47.150 --> 01:01:49.010
fruitiness of it. Oh, that's an interesting looking

01:01:49.010 --> 01:01:51.449
fruit. It's got a very interesting taste. And

01:01:51.449 --> 01:01:54.510
it's Baller, B -A -L -L -E -R, American Single

01:01:54.510 --> 01:01:57.730
Malt, Emushu Cask Finishes. It's whiskey. It's

01:01:57.730 --> 01:02:00.929
made in California from the St. George Distillery.

01:02:01.449 --> 01:02:03.789
It was 60 bucks, 65 bucks. That's what it says

01:02:03.789 --> 01:02:06.250
there. I don't recall how much it was. It was

01:02:06.250 --> 01:02:08.269
something like that. Yeah. And where'd you find

01:02:08.269 --> 01:02:10.630
this? At Sips? Yep. It was at Sips. And frankly,

01:02:10.730 --> 01:02:14.380
I can't find it anymore. Because I ran out. This

01:02:14.380 --> 01:02:16.139
is one I'd like to keep on my shelf for the price.

01:02:17.019 --> 01:02:19.679
50, 60 bucks all day long. Yeah, it's good. And

01:02:19.679 --> 01:02:23.420
I brought over that Swift to Scott's, knowing

01:02:23.420 --> 01:02:27.179
full well that it was not really comparable price

01:02:27.179 --> 01:02:30.179
-wise to a lot of the ones he had. But we really

01:02:30.179 --> 01:02:32.480
liked it. It was unique. It was unique. That

01:02:32.480 --> 01:02:34.340
was the only single malt I think that was over

01:02:34.340 --> 01:02:36.659
there. And the folks that tasted it really, really

01:02:36.659 --> 01:02:39.969
liked it. Yeah. Single malts have a place in

01:02:39.969 --> 01:02:42.690
whiskey lovers' hearts, and I think that they

01:02:42.690 --> 01:02:45.829
get a bad rep for some of the bourbon whiskey

01:02:45.829 --> 01:02:49.329
lovers out there because it's a single malt.

01:02:49.409 --> 01:02:51.309
Oh, it's a scotch. I don't get it. It's a scotch.

01:02:51.710 --> 01:02:53.789
But you know what? Single malts are becoming

01:02:53.789 --> 01:02:55.849
more and more popular to the United States. They

01:02:55.849 --> 01:02:58.730
created a new category, the American single malt.

01:02:59.250 --> 01:03:03.190
Balcones, they're into single malts. The Iron

01:03:03.190 --> 01:03:06.070
Root Distillery, the Iron Root Republic out there

01:03:06.070 --> 01:03:08.019
in Denison. Texas? You know what's neat about

01:03:08.019 --> 01:03:10.159
it? It's so different, right? So different from

01:03:10.159 --> 01:03:12.599
bourbon. And it's something that is kind of a

01:03:12.599 --> 01:03:15.260
nice break. Right. A nice break from bourbons

01:03:15.260 --> 01:03:18.780
because, you know, I don't want to say they can

01:03:18.780 --> 01:03:21.019
all be the same, but they all have, they're all

01:03:21.019 --> 01:03:22.780
part of the same family. This is such a departure.

01:03:23.099 --> 01:03:25.000
And you can get into it. It's an American whiskey,

01:03:25.099 --> 01:03:27.059
right? It's light and it's very easy to drink.

01:03:27.119 --> 01:03:29.659
Yeah. It's what, 94 proof? Is that what it is?

01:03:30.820 --> 01:03:33.380
47%, yeah. So 94 proof. 94 proof. Nothing wrong

01:03:33.380 --> 01:03:35.539
with that. Yeah, I could sit there and sip on

01:03:35.539 --> 01:03:39.039
this. No problem. I'm not sure how we rate this.

01:03:39.719 --> 01:03:41.480
Well, it needs its own category. It's a single

01:03:41.480 --> 01:03:43.800
malt, and we'll probably need to put the... I'll

01:03:43.800 --> 01:03:45.880
tell you what's going to... The rare characters

01:03:45.880 --> 01:03:48.380
are single malts. It's going to be kind of tough.

01:03:48.539 --> 01:03:51.940
Those are 130 proof, though. Well, it's a different

01:03:51.940 --> 01:03:55.880
category. Well, not all of them. Well, the first

01:03:55.880 --> 01:03:59.059
two. The first one I got was like 130, and I

01:03:59.059 --> 01:04:02.300
think the second one was right there with it.

01:04:02.989 --> 01:04:05.550
Well, the rare character, you know, I texted

01:04:05.550 --> 01:04:09.309
a buddy I work with, Chris Van Rees, and shared

01:04:09.309 --> 01:04:11.510
with him the opportunity to pick up some of the

01:04:11.510 --> 01:04:14.630
rare characters. And he said that he's not into

01:04:14.630 --> 01:04:17.590
the light whiskey. That's not all white and light.

01:04:17.690 --> 01:04:20.369
Oh, that particular one was. He's not into that

01:04:20.369 --> 01:04:24.250
label. And I'm like, huh. And, you know, immediately

01:04:24.250 --> 01:04:25.789
I want to fire back, but I was kind of like.

01:04:26.579 --> 01:04:28.059
Oh, everybody's tastes are different. Yeah, it's

01:04:28.059 --> 01:04:30.719
like, why do I give a fuck? I mean, that's the

01:04:30.719 --> 01:04:32.380
way he is. I mean, if he doesn't like it, he

01:04:32.380 --> 01:04:34.960
doesn't like it. What are you, crazy? That goes

01:04:34.960 --> 01:04:37.260
for anything we try. Yeah, that's the glory of

01:04:37.260 --> 01:04:40.239
it is my palate is my palate. What I like, like

01:04:40.239 --> 01:04:42.980
I said, what I like, you guys may not. Like the

01:04:42.980 --> 01:04:44.679
really smoky stuff, I have a really hard time

01:04:44.679 --> 01:04:47.420
with. Right. So when I fart and you think it

01:04:47.420 --> 01:04:49.579
stinks and I don't, then that's okay. Yes, it's

01:04:49.579 --> 01:04:53.380
terroir. No, my farts don't stink. They smell

01:04:53.380 --> 01:04:55.619
okay. No. I always think mine smell like popcorn.

01:04:56.849 --> 01:05:00.250
I think basically all farts. Maybe some rancid

01:05:00.250 --> 01:05:02.369
popcorn that's been sitting. There's some vegetal

01:05:02.369 --> 01:05:04.969
ones that come out. Are we rating this? Are we

01:05:04.969 --> 01:05:08.909
rating this? All right. Let's see here. This

01:05:08.909 --> 01:05:11.230
is hard for me to rate it because I'm kind of

01:05:11.230 --> 01:05:14.010
comparing it to my enjoyment of a good bourbon.

01:05:15.769 --> 01:05:21.010
You know what? I'm going to give it a 6 .9. I

01:05:21.010 --> 01:05:23.389
was actually going to say 6 .8. I think we're

01:05:23.389 --> 01:05:26.409
on the same path here. I wasn't in the 7s. I

01:05:26.409 --> 01:05:28.909
think 6 .8 is good for me as well. It may be

01:05:28.909 --> 01:05:33.010
something we're going to have to revisit after

01:05:33.010 --> 01:05:35.949
we cycle through a few of these single malts

01:05:35.949 --> 01:05:37.309
and have a little bit more. Because we don't

01:05:37.309 --> 01:05:38.909
do it very often, right? Again, what I wanted

01:05:38.909 --> 01:05:44.849
to start doing is we have several single malts

01:05:44.849 --> 01:05:47.179
out there now. Blind taste. I want to blind them.

01:05:47.280 --> 01:05:50.219
There you go. And we could score them at that

01:05:50.219 --> 01:05:53.219
point. I've got the Scheinerbach Balcones version

01:05:53.219 --> 01:05:56.039
of the single malt. I'm about a half a bottle

01:05:56.039 --> 01:05:58.579
into this thing. Even if you want to bring over

01:05:58.579 --> 01:06:02.039
a sample or bottle, we can include it. It's up

01:06:02.039 --> 01:06:05.199
to you. But do we include the rare character

01:06:05.199 --> 01:06:08.420
at 130 proof against this? No. I don't know.

01:06:08.539 --> 01:06:10.380
I don't know how you can. Well, you can't because

01:06:10.380 --> 01:06:12.519
I thought we're separating them by proof. Well,

01:06:12.619 --> 01:06:15.369
we have been, yes. I think it would be fair.

01:06:15.449 --> 01:06:17.550
I think that's a fair because – But like we have

01:06:17.550 --> 01:06:19.269
the two – well, we don't have the two Swifts.

01:06:19.269 --> 01:06:21.690
The one's over at Scott's still. We are not going

01:06:21.690 --> 01:06:23.769
to – I'm sorry. I was going to say we have the

01:06:23.769 --> 01:06:26.250
Baller. We had those two Swifts, and I think

01:06:26.250 --> 01:06:28.309
we have some other ones out there. The Balcona

01:06:28.309 --> 01:06:30.329
is, I think, maybe a single malt. We could do

01:06:30.329 --> 01:06:33.329
three to four samples. It'd be fun. Of, you know,

01:06:33.329 --> 01:06:35.929
four -ounce samples each, right? Yeah. So a good

01:06:35.929 --> 01:06:39.610
16 -ounce. I'd be okay with it. Yeah, so I want

01:06:39.610 --> 01:06:41.190
to start doing that because we have enough of

01:06:41.190 --> 01:06:42.510
them out there that we could start doing this.

01:06:42.670 --> 01:06:44.630
It'd be fun. Yeah, we got to get the little small

01:06:44.630 --> 01:06:47.389
glasses, though. No, I want to get the small

01:06:47.389 --> 01:06:49.130
ones. Like the small Glencairns you have? No,

01:06:49.130 --> 01:06:50.869
I'm talking about the small Glencairns. The mini

01:06:50.869 --> 01:06:53.110
Glencairns. The ones we found at 1845 Distillery.

01:06:53.250 --> 01:06:56.409
Those are excellent. I've got two, maybe four

01:06:56.409 --> 01:07:00.230
downstairs. I have another six -pack at the house

01:07:00.230 --> 01:07:03.110
I can bring over. It's a box of them. That's

01:07:03.110 --> 01:07:04.449
eight to ten. You talking about those little

01:07:04.449 --> 01:07:07.469
plastic ones? No. Oh. They're like this, but

01:07:07.469 --> 01:07:10.360
they're... So I use them right now. I take the

01:07:10.360 --> 01:07:13.699
small one and I turn it upside down and I cover

01:07:13.699 --> 01:07:15.860
my big Glencairn glass. It's a little cap. I

01:07:15.860 --> 01:07:17.739
love it, man, because if I want to smell it,

01:07:17.760 --> 01:07:20.199
excuse me, if I want to smell it, I take the

01:07:20.199 --> 01:07:22.900
small Glencairn off and I give it a nice thick

01:07:22.900 --> 01:07:25.059
whiff there. Yeah. You know, I am picking up

01:07:25.059 --> 01:07:29.239
a lot of tobacco with this. Interesting. So hold

01:07:29.239 --> 01:07:32.519
on. Mr. Producer, we'll go back up there. You

01:07:32.519 --> 01:07:34.780
said there are two stories to tell when it comes

01:07:34.780 --> 01:07:37.500
to the St. George Baller. One's about the distillery

01:07:37.500 --> 01:07:39.739
and the other is about the product they shamelessly

01:07:39.739 --> 01:07:43.260
and thankfully trying to ape. What is that term?

01:07:43.260 --> 01:07:44.960
I don't know what that means. The first story

01:07:44.960 --> 01:07:48.519
I've written about a few of their offerings over

01:07:48.519 --> 01:07:51.559
the years, including a gin and vodka, though

01:07:51.559 --> 01:07:54.289
they have three. Other gin varieties and two

01:07:54.289 --> 01:07:56.389
other vodkas have yet to come. St. George makes

01:07:56.389 --> 01:07:59.230
liqueurs, brandies, California shaku, a well

01:07:59.230 --> 01:08:01.369
-regarded bourbon, and even did a rum on one

01:08:01.369 --> 01:08:04.150
point. A person would be forgiven for thinking

01:08:04.150 --> 01:08:07.630
is jack of all trades, master of none, kind of

01:08:07.630 --> 01:08:09.429
a situation, but the baffling reality is that

01:08:09.429 --> 01:08:11.869
just about everything they do is pretty good,

01:08:11.909 --> 01:08:14.070
including the bottle, which is take on the Japanese

01:08:14.070 --> 01:08:16.279
whiskey. So they do a lot of different things.

01:08:16.279 --> 01:08:18.100
Oh, there's some Japanese single malts as well.

01:08:18.260 --> 01:08:20.560
Yeah. I've had some of the expensive ones, and

01:08:20.560 --> 01:08:22.539
I'm just kind of, I think you have one. I'm just

01:08:22.539 --> 01:08:23.840
kind of like. Well, I mean, that's what they're

01:08:23.840 --> 01:08:25.399
trying to copy here. I mean, they're making it

01:08:25.399 --> 01:08:27.420
clear that there's a Japanese style of single

01:08:27.420 --> 01:08:29.640
malt. Well, here, this one. But the expensive

01:08:29.640 --> 01:08:32.520
one you have, I was just kind of mad. Well, I

01:08:32.520 --> 01:08:34.800
think you should probably revisit them. They're

01:08:34.800 --> 01:08:37.479
about 200 bucks a pop, but they're more of an

01:08:37.479 --> 01:08:40.079
apple crisp kind of taste to them, you know,

01:08:40.100 --> 01:08:42.239
that's real light. Right. And, you know, I think

01:08:42.239 --> 01:08:44.939
it. It's almost in this ballpark here. I think

01:08:44.939 --> 01:08:46.779
we should probably revisit all those because

01:08:46.779 --> 01:08:50.380
we're ever evolving, these little taste palettes

01:08:50.380 --> 01:08:54.159
that we have. I really want to do the tastings,

01:08:54.159 --> 01:08:57.699
the blinds. Be fun. See where we land at. You

01:08:57.699 --> 01:09:01.300
guys actually made a quick trip out to 1845 on

01:09:01.300 --> 01:09:05.220
Saturday. We had a pickup. We had a pickup. Your

01:09:05.220 --> 01:09:06.380
bottle's downstairs. You need to make sure you

01:09:06.380 --> 01:09:08.739
take it with you. Thank you. We had a pickup.

01:09:08.840 --> 01:09:11.500
So I had bought some different bottles, and I've

01:09:11.500 --> 01:09:14.739
got a friend out in Arizona. Shout out to Greg.

01:09:16.380 --> 01:09:18.920
And how's the family out there? Out there in

01:09:18.920 --> 01:09:25.520
1845? June. Bob. Okay. Ben is doing great. They

01:09:25.520 --> 01:09:28.760
want us to do a few 1845 box lids, so we need

01:09:28.760 --> 01:09:30.500
to go back out there and pick those up. Plus,

01:09:30.500 --> 01:09:33.060
we need to pick up another whiskey barrel that

01:09:33.060 --> 01:09:37.300
they've set aside for us. This one has some stuff

01:09:37.300 --> 01:09:39.819
to look at because we want to put it in the background

01:09:39.819 --> 01:09:43.119
here. Yeah, yeah. No, cool. Very cool. That can

01:09:43.119 --> 01:09:46.119
move. We'll figure that out. There's a lot of

01:09:46.119 --> 01:09:48.960
stuff that has to do with it. We're excited,

01:09:49.060 --> 01:09:50.600
though. Yeah, so we went down there, talked to

01:09:50.600 --> 01:09:54.789
June for a long time. Had her dog pass away over

01:09:54.789 --> 01:09:58.130
the last couple months, a new dog. So she went

01:09:58.130 --> 01:10:01.229
out and bought a new dog. And this is a cute

01:10:01.229 --> 01:10:03.689
little whatever snapper thing it is. It was in

01:10:03.689 --> 01:10:06.350
an email. We got an email. She sent it out. This

01:10:06.350 --> 01:10:08.670
is our new mascot. It's cute as hell. Oh, that's

01:10:08.670 --> 01:10:11.569
funny. Yeah. That's funny. But they started something

01:10:11.569 --> 01:10:14.449
kind of cool at 1845 Distillery where you can

01:10:14.449 --> 01:10:18.220
go there. You take a little class. Dipping it

01:10:18.220 --> 01:10:21.500
or blending their own? You get to pick your own

01:10:21.500 --> 01:10:23.880
single barrel and then you pour your own. You

01:10:23.880 --> 01:10:26.539
can blend as well as what it sounds like. But

01:10:26.539 --> 01:10:28.399
you pour your own bottle out of the barrel you

01:10:28.399 --> 01:10:30.739
pick and you label it yourself and all that stuff.

01:10:30.920 --> 01:10:32.819
That's kind of cool. Yeah. I wonder how much

01:10:32.819 --> 01:10:36.100
that costs. I think it's $130. $130, huh? Does

01:10:36.100 --> 01:10:39.640
it come with a steak? A steak? I don't know.

01:10:39.739 --> 01:10:43.899
You know, when I was down in Houston, they had

01:10:43.899 --> 01:10:46.279
the Yellow Rose Distillery, and they had a program

01:10:46.279 --> 01:10:48.399
set up, and they sold steaks. That's why I said

01:10:48.399 --> 01:10:50.720
that. They did something similar, and part of

01:10:50.720 --> 01:10:52.279
the tour, they had a little steak dinner at the

01:10:52.279 --> 01:10:54.220
end. It was kind of fun. I don't think they had

01:10:54.220 --> 01:10:56.079
the setup like that in 1845, but it was kind

01:10:56.079 --> 01:10:58.460
of cool, and plus she has said they had pulled

01:10:58.460 --> 01:11:01.000
a barrel aside from us. Yes, she did. So we've

01:11:01.000 --> 01:11:02.380
got to go up there maybe this weekend or not.

01:11:02.619 --> 01:11:06.060
This weekend at the, what's it called, the Rebel?

01:11:06.970 --> 01:11:10.210
We've got Boston. I believe so. It's January

01:11:10.210 --> 01:11:14.409
11th, I believe, right? Hey, I'm in. That's coming

01:11:14.409 --> 01:11:17.010
up. That'd be fun. I may be misspeaking. I don't

01:11:17.010 --> 01:11:18.130
know when it is. Let me look at the calendar.

01:11:18.430 --> 01:11:20.630
We'll have to check that out. But it's Boston.

01:11:20.869 --> 01:11:25.289
And what's the other one? Bob Seger. 11th is

01:11:25.289 --> 01:11:27.949
a Sunday. So you have to took it to tickets.

01:11:28.010 --> 01:11:29.869
I don't remember. Probably the 10th or something

01:11:29.869 --> 01:11:31.810
like that. First half of the Dudes Like Us podcast

01:11:31.810 --> 01:11:34.590
is January 6th. Thanks, Chuck. All fresh and

01:11:34.590 --> 01:11:38.210
crisp. First day. I was going to go on the Bill

01:11:38.210 --> 01:11:40.729
Cosby spew there, but I can't help it. This is

01:11:40.729 --> 01:11:44.449
Bob Dudes Like Us. I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm

01:11:44.449 --> 01:11:44.590
Jeff.