Nice. We got the video going too? Yes, sir. Awesome.
Tell you what. I'm so relaxed right this second.
I'm kind of half asleep. Did you take a lude?
Are ludes still things kids take? I don't know.
What is the chemical composition of a lude? Because
they may. It's a quaalude, right? Those are lude.
L -U -D -E. That was acid? It's a barbiturate,
I believe. I think it's a downer. Did anybody
see Wolf of Wall Street? Yeah, he was on lewds.
Yeah. Nice. So I don't know what it's made out
of, but Quaaludes was, oh, there it is up there.
Popular sedative hypnotic prescription medications
in the mid -20th century. Yeah, they were, for
whatever reason, popular in my middle school,
of all things. Really? You had kids on lewds?
Yeah, because I remember coming out of my seventh
grade. language arts class and kid I know holds
out his hand and goes hey man I was about to
do a lewd I'll break I'll split it with you if
you want and you're like okay and I was like
no thanks I'm good he's like alright boom and
he there's the water fountain right there because
I was in line for the water fountain And then
he acted like a maniac. Dude, that could have
changed the course of your entire life. Yeah,
you could be a druggie right now. Well, not just
that. Imagine like nowadays, I mean, kids pop
one of those, hey, whatever the fuck it is, and
they're dead. Fentanyl. Well, that's how that
happens. But no, the fentanyl thing wasn't around
back then, at least that I was aware of. Back
in our day, we could just pop a pill that somebody
handed to us and we'd be A -OK. Well, back in
those days, everything was different. I mean,
the marijuana wasn't as potent. It was a plant
came right out. It wasn't this high - Drugs were
safe. Hydroponic. Safe and fun. All right, this
is the second half of the Dudes Like Us podcast.
We're just jumping into this. January 6th, it's
the first second half podcast of the year. It
is. It is. It's so exciting. It is exciting.
The first half, we got a shout out to the baller,
single American malt. Single American malt. American
single malt. Okay, I'm done. I'm done. Jesus.
Chuck's on. We need a remote for that timer,
don't we? Yeah, I'll reach over there and get
it. Dudes Like Us, I'm Sean. I am Paul. And I'm
Jeff. And we are started. Lewd culture became
synonymous with recreational drug use, especially
in the 70s and 80s. That's exactly when I was
offered one. So what, they just kind of skimmed
them off their parents? Like your buddy just
went into the medicine cabinet? I don't think
parents had that kind of stuff. It wasn't something
your parents, well, maybe your, maybe some wives
did. How old were you? Seventh grade, so I don't
know. Twelve years old? Eleven, twelve, thirteen.
Damn. So, no, I don't think Quaaludes is something
that were prescribed, were they? I think it was
just like a street drug, like pot. I don't know.
Or cocaine and shit like that. It makes you wonder,
where does the market for these drugs come from?
I mean, let's just do any of it. I mean, marijuana,
cocaine, fentanyl. I mean, what's the push? Like
who are the consumers? Who's pushing this stuff?
It's all Venezuela. purposely was dumping drugs
on the black communities. Correct. And where
else are they doing this? I mean, the CIA was
bringing drugs in. I mean, look, the United States
is one of the best countries on the planet, period.
But we're also the biggest piece of shit, period.
Dark history, huge mistakes. And it's forever
going. I mean, including all the fraud going
on, not just in Minnesota. Minnesota's the tip
of the iceberg that we just saw. Now, we're going
to start unveiling all these different things.
He says that California is going to be even bigger.
It's endless, guys. I mean, come on. What do
we spend? A trillion dollars in deficit. A trillion
dollar deficit. And we spend, what, four or five
trillion every year? I saw a meme. I mean, so
where do you think that goes? Come on. I saw
a meme. A ton of fraud. I saw a meme. I don't
know if it's true or not, but it broke it down.
But Elon Musk even responded to it, and he says,
uh agree or something like that we tax our taxable
how much the government gets is like 2 .8 trillion
dollars in taxes every right uh and it said 1
.5 trillion is fraud so the remainder i can't
remember whatever the math is 800 billion dollars
900 billion dollars is really what needs to be
taxed wow and he goes and and that says like
Basically, everyone who makes less than $500
,000 could pay zero taxes. If we implemented
that. If we get rid of the fraud, the true taxes
that need to be pooled would be $900 billion.
Meaning this is truly how much it takes to run
the country. Right. Because you can ignore the
shit that people are just stealing from us. Correct.
This is how much it takes to run the country.
I got you. You know, and we really genuinely
walk around with blinders on. And we're so forgiving.
I mean, you've got – we're so forgiving. I mean,
you've got the CNN – Well, I think that's starting
to – What's his name? Dick? Who? The guy that
was masturbating. Tubin. Jeffrey Tubin. He's
Tubin. I bring that up. It's funny, but at the
same time, my point is that we're so forgiving.
I mean, we don't care. It's just like, all right,
yeah, he just whacked off in front of a bunch
of people. We'll just let him back into the CNN
program. Why would they do something like that?
It's just like we're always forgiving these people.
No. You know, I mean, would they forgive me at
work if I did something like that? No, they terminate
you. You're fucking gone. Right. You know, nobody
cares about you. Nobody cares about you. So why
do we care about them? The status shit that they
got going on. The pop stars, you know, just like,
you know, these people doing drugs and, you know,
the Diddy program. Oh, well, Diddy can get out.
He's going to get out. Yep. He's not even going
to be held accountable for all the shit he did.
And you know damn well that he's got a factory
of euthanizing victims. I think it also depends
on what the crime or what the offense is, right?
I mean, sexual assault is on the top of the list.
Yeah. I think pedophilia is at the top of the
list. It's top of the list. And you know what
another one is? It's animal abuse. People freak
out about animal abuse. Yeah. Like what happened
to Michael Vick, right? Oh, yeah. They lost their
shit. He still came back? He did. He still played
for another. Yeah, he did his time. He spent
three years in jail for running his dog crime
or dog fighting ring. But my point is, I think
there are some things that people don't forgive
and the things that they do, or they just turn
to look the other way. Is fraud one of them?
I mean, do we not care about fraud? I do. That's
taxpayer's money. That's my money. I think fraud
is seen as a victimless crime. How is it impacting
me? Well, we pay less taxes exponentially. Yeah,
we would pay less taxes if these fuckers didn't.
How do you visualize that? How do you get that
across, though? Hey, if this $18 billion wasn't
fraud, you would have saved $300 a year. Oh,
I have a spreadsheet. that i go into and i start
putting into perspective you've got things like
all right well look my kids go to high school
and i they my kid goes to band and i just had
to dump fifteen hundred dollars into the school
system uh to pay for all the equipment regardless
whether it's band football soccer traveling expenses
for it's it's little things like that it's it's
the taxes for the road are our roads going to
get better some of the roads around The United
States is like a third world country. Some of
the airports are such in a disarray and dysfunction.
It's like a third world country. I mean, that's
where that money goes to. Well, you asked why
is fraud kind of seen as something different.
I think it's because of that. You don't. It's
not personally. It's not personally. It doesn't
hurt me. Yes, financially. But I think it's not
like. where you're like, wow, that's really,
really bad. Why do you care? It's not your money.
That's what they said. Well, it is your money.
It is. But I think that's kind of why. It's kind
of a, this money is out there. It's not the ether.
People are stealing it. It's not attached to
anybody. But I tell you what, this Minnesota
fraud thing, it crawled all over me. It's disgusting.
Billions of dollars from this. It's not just
the fact that, you know, everybody's probably.
Every state in the nation is probably doing this
daycare fraud thing, right? But the point is,
it was committed in mass by this Somali population.
They knew about it, and they turned and looked
the other way because they need the vote of the
Somali population to stay in power. It's the
whole thing that just is sick to the core. Well,
I also have to tell you that I was listening
to the radio, and they said there are other groups.
that are committing just as much if not more
fraud than that right the russian mob the italian
mob the jews this group this group so there's
these groups that are able to it's it's a nefarious
thing and it's billions of dollars right not
just the somalis they got caught right and it's
medicaid fraud and it's uh you know it's the
daycare fraud it's every welfare program you
can think of right right i mean are we going
to be as upset With the group of people on the
next one, if it's a bunch of white Italians.
We need to be, man. Come on. This is crazy. Yeah,
no, no. I don't care. I don't care that they
were Somalis. I don't care either. Fraud is fraud.
What bothered me the most is that they had a
big enough pull in their nefarious thing that
they were doing to have elected officials look
the other way. Oh, yeah. That right there is
what just totally crawls all over me. They knew
it was happening. Whistleblowers were telling
them, and they were like, yeah, but we're going
to lose the Somali vote, and it's 280 ,000 votes.
And that's going to keep me from getting elected,
so fuck it. I got to do what I got to do to stay
in power. You know, it's not all Democrats, because
you know who was involved in developing the Somali
voter pact in Minnesota? I can't exactly know
what it's called. It was, who's our majority
whip in Congress? Is it Emmer? Is that his name?
He was the co -sponsor with the Democrat Minnesota
senator at the time, or congressman, to introduce
the, back, I don't know, 10, 15, 20 years ago,
the Somali, I can't exactly know what it is,
but it's a specific thing with the Somalis that
gave them power. Political power. And he was
half of the creation. See, to me, in my mind,
I kind of didn't, you know, we've always said
that, you know, both parties are corrupt, right?
We know that they, you know, they get kickbacks
and they this and they that and nobody leaves
Congress without being a millionaire, right?
We know all that stuff. But I didn't think about
segments of the population that are stealing
our money and getting away with it because elected
officials need their votes. That just makes me
sick. Yeah. Emmer founded the Congressional Somalia
Caucus with Keith Ellison. With Keith Ellison.
Yeah. Yeah. And Keith Ellison's in the thick
of this. He's the AG of Minnesota that's in charge
of prosecuting all this shit. Unbelievable. Dude,
this is, it's sickening. What year was this?
2015 is when he created it. So 10 years ago.
And now he's like, and he was saying that they're
the most easily assimilated group. And now he's
saying, let's get rid of them all. Oh, yeah.
Where were you for the last 10 years? He was
probably making some bank. Yeah, they all are.
They're all making bank. All of these are politicians.
So that's why I think, you know, all of politicians,
the Democrats up there right now are getting
the brunt of it, but the Republicans were, at
least this guy, was involved as well. Did we
talk about the ex -TSA agent that was watching
the money go through? Yeah, we did. Through the
airport? Yep. She said on her watch, easily a
billion dollars in cash, in briefcases of just
stacks and stacks, millions of dollars. And they
stopped them, and they were like, what are you
doing here? And they're like, well, this is legitimate.
This is going to the motherland. Speaking of
the motherland, you know she whistled on it.
You know she blew the whistle. But you have Ilhan
Omar, who's one of the ringleaders. She's probably
not the ringleader, but she's one of them. She's
making money. And she's saying publicly how she
represents Somalia. Right. And how the people
in Somalia says that's our Somalian princess.
Right. So did you see that she came over here,
she didn't have a job, so she became, I don't
know what she did before the Congress, so she
makes, what, $140 ,000? Right. She's been in
there for, what, five, six, seven years? Right.
She's worth $30 million now? Exactly. How the
fuck does that happen? Dude, that's just the
money you see. No, she married a... Her brother
was rich when she married him. Well, okay. No,
she married a hedge fund manager. And he is,
you know... So is it his worth or is it her worth?
I think it's their worth. And she has to report
it. Okay, well, that makes sense if that's his.
Because what I was seeing was they were showing
half the side. Which, again, you have to be careful.
You're reading these things that... these memes
and stuff, and you're like, how does that happen?
Well, she married into it. Oh, yeah. It could
be legit. They left that part out. I mean, if
she's getting kickbacks under the table in cash
from the Somalian group, she's not going to report
that. You're not going to see any of that money
on her income sheet. That's going to show up
in the form of vacations. Cars. It's going to
show up in an offshore account that's got $180
million in it. Bitcoin. I mean, come on. It's
crazy. It just crawls all over me, man. It does.
And then how'd that go with Waltz? Oh, he quit.
Not quit, but he dropped out. Oh, he's such a
putz. Yeah, he's a piece of shit. I think they're
going to make him quit. He's got another year
left, right? Well, he was like, over my dead
body. Oh, yeah. He was talking all sorts of shit
today, wasn't he? Elections this fall. So almost
a year. I love the way they just love spinning
this thing to turn it on Trump. And it's like,
dude, come on, man. Why don't you just own it?
He's an easy target. They don't ever turn it
on themselves. I fucked up and there was all
kinds of fraud. And you know what? I should have
seen it coming. And maybe I saw it. I turned
a blind eye to it because this donor A over here
donated $15 million to my campaign while I was
running for vice president. So I just decided
to let it go. It's not that I wasn't going to
investigate it. I just put it on the back burner
until I had time to do it. I mean, when high
-profile whistleblowers talk to, you know, whoever
that gets to the AG, you know that his inside
people have to tell him, listen, we're running
a risk here. If this gets out, this is going
to look really bad. What do you want to do? No,
let's just roll with it. You know that that's
what they're doing. What's the chance that this
is going to get out? We'll just spit in this
racism. Yeah, if it does, exactly. That's exactly
what they did. What are they going to do with
California? Are they going to call us being racist
going after Gavin Newsom? They got to prove the
fraud first. How much money went into that rail
system? Tens of billions. They didn't lay a single
track. Where's the money? I know some of that,
almost all of that, has to do with the fact that
they had these contractors. Was it you that was
telling me this? Was that you? Maybe. They have
these contractors that they wrote into the contract
that they're going to get paid no matter what
for the time that they have spent waiting for
all these things to be approved. And that is
what has happened. And the permitting. These
contractors are getting paid. To sit on their
ass. To sit on their ass in queue ready to work.
And it's just something that it was just they
were sitting there for free like the Somali kinder
care people. Just making money. And then you
know the people responsible for the permitting
are like, yeah, I can speed this along if you...
No, no, no, no. No, that's okay. We have some
stuff to do to clear up before you come in here
and inspect us to make sure that the permits
are good. So slow that down a little bit. And
just give me a little cut of it and we'll make
sure everybody's happy. A cut of it? What are
you talking about? Oh, I don't know what I'm
saying. Oh, okay. Yeah, no, it's crazy. Well,
plus the... They lost, what, $28 billion on the
homeless over the last three years or something
like that? And had nothing to show for it. Yes.
No improvement in the situation. Where'd that
money go? Where'd that money go? I mean, it just
goes on and on. So, look. It's an endless crazy
train. We've got to get a grip on it. Or the
$2 million toilet. They have to expose it. I
mean, they just have to, one at a time, just
expose it. You know, and they have to course
correct it. They're not going to be able to go
back in time and fix everything that they fucked
up. But they can make amends to it and say, hey,
look, shame on me once. Yeah. You're not getting
the money back. That's gone. But, gosh, how about
the power of the one journalist? Nick Shirley.
Yeah. Was he an independent? He's 23. Yeah. So
he's a young whippersnapper. And you know what's
kind of crazy is that. And I saw one of the folks
on Facebook saying that this guy was not a reputable
journalist and that he should be reprimanded
for, not necessarily for his work done, but for
people, when I say reprimanded, he should be
questioned, you know, because he didn't have
the correct tact to do it. And I'm like, dude,
what the fuck are you talking about? These people,
these guys on the social media are just crazy.
He exposed some good shit. Yeah, they don't want
to be showed up. But even before this, he's got
a history of exposing stuff. You know, pickpocketers
over in Europe. You know, he did a little routine
where he was exposing a pickpocket, pickpocket,
and then trying to pick out all these. What are
they? Gypsies? Whatever the fuck they call them.
But they're everywhere. It's not a matter of
gypsies, races, black, white, whatever. It's
a group of people that are just dark. And he's
pointing out a problem. Yes, and he's pointing
it out. People are getting mad. People are following
him, chasing him, trying to hurt him. One of
his bodyguards got damn near killed. I just find
it amazing that his one video suddenly ripped.
Rip the Band -Aid off on this whole thing. I
mean, it was a slow news week and everybody's
sitting at home and all of a sudden it starts
showing up on your X -Feed. Yeah. And then everybody
goes, whoa, check this out. But that scandal's
been around for years. For years. And it's just
been suppressed. But you know what was so...
Nobody wants to report on the Learing Center.
But you know what... The Learing Center. Right,
right. Well, I was just about to say, that's
what put the whole thing together. They couldn't...
Learing? They couldn't fucking even spell the
sign right. They misspelled Learing, but they've
also misspelled the address on the sign. You
know, the Nicholas Street. And then what? I don't
think it was the same place, but another one,
or maybe it was the same place, said that they
were burglarized and somebody came in and stole
all of their kids' records. Stole all the records
and the documents. Turns out that the police
came back and reported that they did break him.
Supposedly. Reportedly they broke him, but there
was nothing stolen. Oh, I read that the police
said that there was no police report filed. There
was no police report. In retrospect, they said
they went after, when they said that someone
had broken in, the police were notified at that
time. And then they went out there and checked
and they were like, what will they take? They're
like, well, did they get in this tour? Right.
Where was the stuff at? They said that they just
said nothing was stolen. Right. So it was a farce.
Well, the whole thing was a farce. I mean, who
would want to break in and steal the records
anyway? That's the MO, though, right? That's
how they do it, right? The minute you uncover
something and unearth something, they go. oh,
it's racism, or oh, they're vandalizing the child
care centers now, and they deflect, right? Oh,
yeah. So you all of a sudden become the bad guy
when you're trying to be the good guy and expose
the stuff. They just throw you, you're immediately
thrown under the bus. They're trying to, Nick
Shirley, they're trying to make him out to be
this stupid YouTuber. Yeah, rogue. It's laughable.
It even says up there, who is Nick Shirley, the
23 -year -old MAGA journalist? Yeah, MAGA journalist.
Really? Yeah, they just throw him out. They'd
throw the guy under the bus. Slap some labels
on him and discredit him. Rather than celebrate
the guy, maybe give him an award. Kind of like
that young kid defending himself. Kyle Rittenhouse.
Kyle Rittenhouse defending himself. Nick Sandman
was a racist because he was making fun of the...
The Native American. Oh, yeah. Banging the drum
in his face. He wasn't making fun of him. He
was just standing there. Right. But they slammed
him. They did. They slandered him as that. He
won a big loss. He did. He won a lot of money.
$30 million. And he was going to keep going.
I remember he won two big settlements, and then
he said, we're just getting started. But I never
heard anything after that. Yeah. I don't know.
I wonder if he kept going. I don't know. He probably
just let it go. I mean, at a certain point, just
kind of like, all right, I've won. Right. I made
my point. Or the other one is just finally like,
all right, we'll just pay you before it gets
any bigger. Yeah, we don't want discovery on
this. You know what I found interesting? I was
watching Fox News while I'm driving today. That's
a healthy thing to do. During the break of Fox
News, they had some fun advertisements. Like
dudes like us? They were talking about some sitcoms,
some comedians. And whatever. It was fun. Regular
programming. Nice commercials. Stuff that we
actually like listening to. You know, commercials.
Regardless of what the hell they're at. They're
not like, hey, buy your soap here. Hey, buy the
cigarettes. How about that pillow? I got stuff
going. My pillow. My point is, Fox News was doing
advertisements for like CBS and ABC. I thought
that was kind of strange. That is strange. That's
like a competitor. But is it? Is it? Is it? That's
where I'm going to. That's where I'm going to.
I'm just kind of like, you know, we always joke
around. Even on the podcast. What's his name?
Joe Rogan. Oh, that Rogan guy. He's small beans.
Something like that. There was a guest on his
show and they brought up the concept of you have
every... journalists, or not journalists, but
the reporters, the anchors in the news stations,
that all are saying the same exact thing. They're
reciting something. Yeah, they get the script.
Yeah, so it's like, and you play all hundred
of them at the same time, and it's all the same
thing. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
I mean, bringing this up, it's just this unison.
Somebody owns everything. And it's just like,
why would Fox News do that? I don't know if they
own everything. I think when that happens, I
think there is a democratic leadership. Kind
of a thing that sends out the memos. Yeah, the
talking points. But the same thing happens on
the Republican side. I mean, both parties send
out talking points. It's just not as big. They
used to have this thing called the journalist.
And it would be the talking points that they
would send out to all the journalists about what
the story of the day was and what you have to
talk about, how you have to refute what's going
on. The points you need to hit. The key words
that you need to hit. So did you hear about the
National Public Radio? They disbanded. That's
right. And PR was like the parent company. No,
the Center for Public Broadcasting. Yeah, but
that's the parent company of those other two
things, right? They're the ones that disperse
the money to PBS and whatever. And so the big,
beautiful bill took out the funding for them
because it was so left -leaning, it was disgusting.
Correct. And so they were like, instead of trying
to claw money from wherever we can, we decided
the best thing to do was just shut down. and
hope that the next Congress, which they're hoping
is Democrat, are going to bring them back and
give them more funding. So does that mean PBS
is going off the air sometime soon, potentially?
Not necessarily. I don't know. The Center for
Public Broadcasting has a pool of money, but
there's also private donations and whatnot that
PBS uses, right? Yeah. What's the percentage
of funding coming from the government? I think
I heard something that was actually pretty small.
Oh, at PBS? Yeah, well, yes, public radio, NPR,
all that stuff. I think the government portion
of that. Well, then why would they be shutting
down? Not the PBS. At least the parent company.
The Center for Public Broadcasting is shut down,
not PBS. So they provide roughly 15 % of PBS
total revenue. So the other 85 is coming from
private donations. Right, interesting. So they
can still do it. Cut some costs. So we can still
watch I'm Just a Bill on Capitol Hill. That wasn't
on PBS, man. That was Schoolhouse Rock. Yeah,
that was Schoolhouse Rock. Oh, how about... Conjunction,
junction, what's your function? Hooking up words
and phrases and clauses. How about... 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Electric Company
was great. Five. Five. That's the number they
featured that day. That was the number, yeah.
Five. And then everything was five cookies. Or
H. Horror. Horror. Kind of those type of things.
Whoa. I thought that was W. Oh, with the two
faces? Yes. It. Shit. That was Electric Company.
Oh, it was. You know, the black guy on that show
was Data from Star Trek. No. He was on Reading
Rainbow. It was Morgan Freeman. Well, Morgan
Freeman also was on there. I love Jeff. No. I'm
so disgusted. Your fact check approach is very
abrasive. No. No bedside manner. It even enveloped
the body language. He almost fell out of the
goddamn chair. All the things that were unsaid,
you're a fucking moron. Actually, the electric
company, there was another show. Reading Rainbow.
Was that what it was? That was Reading Rainbow.
But that was not data, but that was... Geordie
LaForge. What the fuck is wrong? Are you looking
up this shit? Is it on a chip inside of his head
or something? Does not compute. Does not compute.
He needs to have the data thing around his eyes,
I think. Crazy. That was Geordie LaForge. All
right, good. Yes, I'm glad we know who that is
now. Okay. Anyway, shit, we were talking about,
yes, the National Public Radio. Okay, so they're
not going anywhere. So they can still talk about
sweaty balls? Well, I mean, but the thing is,
is that they may not, they, who's funding them?
85 % is from private funding, but is that private
funding still to go now that we've cut the USAID
and Doge has come in and sliced and cut all that
shit? Well, that's, I mean, USAID is one more
telethon. Yeah, just one more telethon. Well,
no, USAID is government money, not private money.
NGOs, non -government organizations. No, but
they get their funding from USAID, right? That's
what I'm saying is that you've got all these
nondescript. So you're saying that the private
donations were somehow funneling through all
these things to PBS. Yes, they're being cycled
through there. Of course. I mean, look, you've
got to run this campaign somehow, and they've
got to get their money from somewhere. And you
really think that these private Democrats out
there are funding NPR? Who the fuck listens to
NPR? Democrats. Who listens to it, though? Where?
What do they listen to it on? The radio. Like
the AM station? Yes. So they go in their car.
Hold on a second. I don't have an AM radio. I
mean, is it on the radio? Can I go to a website
and listen to it? Yes, you can. Is it in stereo
now? I have no idea. When you're on the internet,
is it still mono? I don't know. But I know Dana
Perino listens to it every day, she said. I mean,
there's nothing wrong with... I mean, I've been
on road trips where we listen to NPR because
that's all we could get. And we listen to the
news briefs. And they weren't like disgustingly
left or anything like that. I'm sure the shows
were, I'm assuming. I don't know. I never really
watched it that much. So I don't know. They am
radio station. I hope they don't get rid of that
stuff. But it's all... But my point about bringing
up the Fox and the CBS is there seems to be an
effort to merge and combine efforts. And there
is. There's a global effort on controlling everything
we're listening to. But remember, the AM, I think
you were about to say this, Jeff, AM radio is
a conservative bastion of talk radio. The car
industry, I don't know if they're being pressured,
but they were going to phase. AM radio out. Ford
was, and they got a massive backlash. I think
it was more than just Ford. And they were like,
all right, no, no, no, we'll keep AM radio. Sorry,
sorry. But then remember, Soros bought a bunch
of radio stations, and they're shutting them
down so that they don't broadcast AM conservative
radio like Rush Limbaugh type shows, right? Right,
yeah. I mean, I don't know. And we just let that
shit happen. Well, because we don't pay attention
to it. We're ignorant of it. We don't really
understand how that stuff works. We're just kind
of like, you know, it's like sitting in there
hoping something's going to work. We're like,
oh, it's not working anymore. Well, why not?
Well, we told you we were going to get rid of
it. I don't really remember that. What happened
to all the conservative radio shows? It was on
the 25th page of the New York Times. You didn't
see that? The very bottom small print that we're
getting rid of this? It's kind of like signing
up for some of these votes. And, you know, people
just need to wise up. And I recommend our listeners
out there, we've got an upcoming vote for you
guys to take here in Frisco, Texas. Yeah. Also,
we did mention, if we didn't mention, if you're
going to listen to the, we're going to the Rebel
this Friday, this Saturday. We're going to watch
Bob Seger in Boston. It's Bob Seger? Did I say
that right? Yes. Oh, nice. I didn't know. You
said Boston. I didn't hear the other half of
it. Bob Seger in Boston. Yeah, but they Bob Seger
fan. And it actually. Bob Feger fan. Bob Feger
fan. Well, that's going to be us at the end of
the day, end of the night at the Rebel because
we always get roofied, right? Yeah, we're never.
I am not driving. Sean gets roofied every time
I go there. Yeah, we're like we pregame because
we're not going to drink there. I think we're
getting better. We are getting better, but I'm
still smuggling in the case. Yeah. A case. I
got a 10 -pack of whatever comes in a bag. And
look, those little Jack Daniels are fantastic.
You know what's crazy? On the Instagram page,
you and I are at the rail yard, and we were watching
a band. And you and I, we take a selfie of each
other, and we have a Jack Daniels mini. I know.
And a police officer makes a little comment.
He goes, oh, nice. Nice. Did he really? Yep.
Huh. So now they're tracking you guys. That's
great. You know, whatever, whatever. But it was
just kind of funny. Here we are in a, you know,
Texas. Flaunting that you're sneaking shit in.
Flaunting. Flaunting. Yes. It was empty. It was
actually tea inside the Jack Daniels glasses.
There wasn't actually Jack Daniels. When you
found it on the ground anyway. Yeah, we picked
it up. It wasn't even yours. We were just throwing
it away. Yeah, that's right. We were anti -littering.
We took a picture of it before we trashed it.
There you go. Responsibly. Well, hopefully, yeah.
So the Boston Tribute Dallas Boston Experience
and Bob Seger Tribute Seger System is kind of
interesting. Oh, look at that. From $23 .43 all
the way up to the $39 where I have our tickets
at. I don't know why they were that much. I don't
know. So see the purple on the left, on the right
side, the purple there. Yeah, we're the front
purple on the little six pack on the top right.
Of the purple section. I see that. Is that the
non -flammable section? Well, actually, they're
not purple there. They're not flammable. We're
right underneath that speaker. Right underneath
the non -flammable speakers. Okay. Good. Good.
So our listeners out there that don't know what
we're talking about, we went to the Revel in
Frisco and was watching Metallica. And what was
it before that? ACDC, right? No, we watched Metallica,
and then ACDC was the second band. Yeah. So Hell's
Bells started coming out. Started coming on.
All of a sudden, we kind of look up there. Oh,
look at that speaker. It's got some nice lights
going on. And then all of a sudden, it was a
little bit brighter. We're like, wait a minute.
That speaker's on fire. Why is that glowing?
Even the lead singer looked up and was like,
oh, shit. That speaker's on fire. We're out.
Yep, we're done. And then this guy scrambles
out with a fire -retardant fire extinguisher.
It's called a fire extinguisher. Yeah. Anyway,
he sprays it, and it was an ender. It was. That
shit was everywhere. Yeah. It was. We kept drinking,
though. Yeah, we went out. Yes. We went to the
back. We went to the back, and we're like, it's
better than getting great whited, you know? Oh,
shit. Oh, wow. No, I was seriously worried about
it. I was looking at the speaker, and I was seeing
it licking this, you know, close to the ceiling,
and I told them. They couldn't hear me, but I
was like, guys, get ready to move. And you guys
were like, what? No, we went to the kitchen and
told them. Yeah, I ran into the kitchen and told
them to call 911. Call 911, get the... Yeah,
yeah. Because you scrambled away. Yeah, that's
right. Well, dude. Yeah, no. You're probably
drunk. You went back and went... Yeah, I probably,
in my mind, I was like, oh, coherent. And I went
back there and I was like... What's that, Timmy?
The speaker's on fire? And they're like, oh,
my God, this guy's retarded. Well, it took a
little convincing. They were like, what's going
on? I was like, there's a fire on the stage.
You need to call the fire department. Yeah. And
they were just like, oh, what's going on? And
then they poked out there and said, oh, my God,
you're right. And they ran to the back and they
did it. And the shit show was like none of the
bills had been paid. Everybody just left. Oh,
yeah. They were handing out. Oh, yeah. They got
paid. I paid for it. Yeah, but they were handing
out like the free tickets to go to the next show.
I still have mine, by the way. Did we ever use
those? I wonder if we could use them at this
show. I wonder. It's been like two years. They
applied it to your account. No. They applied
it to my account. No, no. These were passes to
get into a future show for free. But they give
you a tangible ticket. Yes. Yeah. I didn't get
one. Yeah, I got some. I got like 40 of them.
Oh. There was like a giant stack of them on my
desk. Did you tell them that we were... Oh, I've
been going every weekend. You guys haven't been...
I don't understand. You're going to the karaoke
show with Shoji Shinoda? I'm going to everything.
Shoji Shinoda! Wow. Hey, he's a fantastic karaoke
host, man. That's good. He used to work for you,
apparently, right? I worked for him for a while.
Excellent singer, too. The guy sings excellent
90s rock. He's got an excellent voice. So things
that they have in the future is a bunch of watch
parties, a bunch of NFL watch parties. Let's
talk about it. The playoffs are on. So the playoffs
are set. And by the way, did you guys by chance
watch the Steelers? And Carolina game. No, Ravens.
Ravens. Ravens, yes. Steelers and Ravens. Did
you watch the game? Is that the one where some
priest or something blessed the field before
the game? And the guy missed the field goal anyways?
What a loser. So I didn't see that part. I just
watched the last, like, two minutes. And it was
this epic, you know, Steelers were trailing.
Aaron Rodgers had to go down and score. It was
like a scramble. He had to take two timeouts
because his headset wasn't working on his helmet.
And they're getting all super frustrated. They
score the touchdown. The Steelers go crazy. Lamar
Jackson, three plays later, gets in the end zone
and scores a touchdown. And then it was crazy.
It was crazy. And then it went back, Steelers.
Well, the Steelers missed the extra point. And
they missed the extra point. Missed the extra
point. And then the Ravens. It was actually blocked.
But yeah. Yeah. Then all the Ravens need to do
is kick a field goal to win it. and they go down
to the 20 -yard line of the Steelers and miss
the field goal to end the game. Yep, shanked
it. I mean, it was crazy. It was like 11 o 'clock
at night, and I was in bed playing it on my phone,
and Shelly was trying to sleep, but she wanted
to see the end of the game. It was crazy. And
remember, whoever wins that game goes to the
playoffs. Whoever doesn't goes home. Goes home,
yeah. And they fired the coach. And they fired
the coach. It was crazy. They fired the Pittsburgh
Steelers coach? No, the Ravens coach. No, because
they got in. Jim Harbaugh. They got in. Justin
Tucker was a kicker for the Ravens for forever.
Yeah. And then he got in that Rub and Tug scandal,
right? Yes. And they let him go. And they brought
in this rookie. And the rookie is the one that
shanked him. I know it. And now they're not in
the playoffs. And their coach got fired. Hold
on. What's wrong with the Rub and Tug? Well,
apparently they don't like it. You know, it was
pretty low key. I say low -key because I didn't
even hear about it. But Tucker is one of the
most accurate kickers in NFL history. And they
had to can him because he... Even more than Aubrey?
It was some... Yeah. In history. Because it was
some pedophilia? I don't know. That's a little
bit different. What happened? I don't know what
happened. She was 17 and a half? No, really.
What happened? I don't know. I don't even know
the details on why Tucker got booted. But it
was some questionable... Moment. I don't know.
We'll have to see what it was here. He's from
the Texas Longhorns as well, I believe. All right,
here we go. Characterizing the decision as a
football decision following the offseason of
mounting sexual misconduct allegations and a
career -low performance in the 2024 season. But,
yeah, but what was the misconduct? He was doing
a Deshaun Watson. 16 massage therapists accused
him of inappropriate sex. So it wasn't pedophilia.
So that's better. I mean, not as bad. So, yeah,
he was frequenting massage therapy. Is he playing
for anyone else or did he call it a day? He's
a free agent. Well, didn't the owner craft? Didn't
he get caught going to massage parlors? Did he
get? No, they kind of reprimanded him a little
bit. They kind of like went away. That's weird.
Deshaun Watson, he got suspended for a whole
year. Right. And then he came back and made a
shit ton of money. That's so stupid. And he got
injured. And he's. He's injured. Worthless. Yeah,
he got traded and then injured. And then. He's
actually worth $260 ,000. And now we have shitters.
Well, I mean, he's worthless to the Browns. Correct.
Hey, you know, I'd like to take a second and
chat about the major news topics in Frisco, Texas.
Oh. I'm just going to spout out four of these
little events, and we'll just kind of see where
they go. Local news. Let's see. Public safety
and community. Pursuit prevention technology.
Frisco police have recently implemented the grappler
tool. Oh, yes. A front -mounted device used to
safely stop fleeing vehicles. Grappler. The grappler.
It shoots out and grabs the tire. Are you serious?
Oh, yeah. The next one, the recent standoff in
arrest of a 42 -year -old suspect was arrested
on New Year's Eve after a stolen vehicle chase
led to a multi -hour SWAT team. Is that what
you were talking about? The freaking helicopter
was circling and bothering the shit out of me
while I was trying to work from home. This one
really bothered me. The homestead exemption increase.
Homeowners begin seeing a 20 % homestead exemption
increase from 15 % on their city property tax
bill starting this month. That's good, though.
That's a good thing. Oh, I read that wrong. Yeah,
that is a good thing. Yeah. Why is it grinding
your gears? I thought it was the other one. That's
bullshit. I love that. I'm going back. And then
finally, the prescribed burn. So the Frisco Fire
Department and the wildland firefighting team
is scheduled to conduct controlled burns at two
city parks in early 2026 to promote prairie restoration.
I'm kind of involved in that tangentially, right?
You going to light it? No, but we'll probably
go plant afterwards or something like that. We'll
probably go back to that park once it's burned.
What parks are they doing it to? Doesn't say.
Doesn't say. And you'll what, test? I mean, what
are you going to do? Because you're part of this
wildlife thing. Yeah. So what they'll probably
do is go back and plant afterwards because it'll
be, you know, all the non -native grasses will
be gone and then you can go back and... plant
seed balls and get nice flowers and grasses and
stuff like that. I think what we should do is
I'll grab like these big sacks of like wildflower
seeds and just go out there and sprinkle them
everywhere. And ruin the whole thing. Nice. I
love that. They're like, what are all these flowers?
Some totally invasive Chinese plant. Some vines.
That's what we should do. Vines seeds. Yeah,
just bring some kudzu. Just make it look like
Houston. You know, you were talking about the
stolen car event. You called it something, Flock?
Flock. Flock. The Flock cameras. Flock cameras.
I didn't know about this. What is the Flock camera?
Yeah, so it is reading license plates, and if
one comes up that there's a stolen vehicle, boom.
That's how they got this guy. I don't have a
problem with that. No, I think it's cool. I think
people are having a problem with it because it's
being abused. It's surveillance. Yeah, it's a
surveillance, and there's been some folks that
have abused it. One guy, I think they have him
up in Chicago somewhere up north, and he was
trying to track his girlfriend. Oh, boy. So he
was stalking his girlfriend through these flock
cameras. And he was a policeman, or he's part
of that system, the flock system? I think he
was a policeman. Did they have smods? Yeah, but
I mean, so what? What was the end result there?
So he was tracking where she was going? I mean,
was there something bad that happened? He was
just abused. It was abuse, yeah. You shouldn't
be able to do that. Right. So these systems are
built to really not identify who's driving the
car. It's not supposed to tell you so -and -so's
driving the car, but it's just a license plate.
But what's happened a few times is people have
used these for nefarious reasons. Right. You
know what's crazy about that story is that several
weeks earlier, Brody came home from the Nissan
dealership where he works, right? And he's like,
man, you're not going to believe this, but a
car was stolen from our dealership and we're
in deep shit because that should never have been
able to happen. They're trying to figure out
how did that even get stolen from the back of
the dealership and all that. It was that one.
Oh, really? That car. that I was being annoyed
by the helicopter and stuff. The chase? Because
then the next couple days later, Brody comes
back. He's like, you're not going to believe
this. That car that you were talking to me about,
that's the one that was stolen from our dealership.
Can you imagine dropping your car off as a customer
and then getting the phone call? Yeah, I would
like to get a status on my car. Yeah, it's been
stolen. Paul, you'd have to have a car worth
stealing, though. Oh, I don't, personally, no.
No, I don't have to worry about that. Oh, my
God. I had such a hard time getting your damn
car in reverse today. Oh, it's hard to find.
I couldn't figure it out. Is it down, up? It's
up and left. Yeah. I mean, I figured it out.
It's weird because, like, 15 people just happened
to be walking. You know, they were, like, seeing
me, like, forward a little bit. Looking like
an idiot. I didn't grind it at all. You could
tell, but it's just. The car kept nudging forward
an inch, and I was like, fuck, that's the wrong
one. Second, third, push down. That's not it.
Push down. Fuck it. Finally, I got it. Well,
the top thing has popped up a long time ago.
I think this thing is 2006. Dude, man, love the
hell out of it. I love that Volkswagen. Yeah,
it gets 40 miles per gallon still. Gotta love
it. Diesel. Regarding as of January 6, 2026,
the following... are the top news topics and
major stories shaping Texas. And the only...
We haven't even talked about Maduro. Oh, did
you want to jump on that? I mean, that is the
biggest news story of the week. I get it, but...
Are you already tired of it? Well, yeah, I absolutely
am because that's all they fucking talk about.
But there's not really a whole lot to talk about.
We got them. Yeah, but I mean, the fact that
they did a Delta Force operation with 150 planes
and all sorts of crazy shit to swoop into a country
and kidnap the president and his wife of that
country. Venezuela is a hub of a bunch of. terroristic
shit going on. You've got China, Iran, you've
got Cuba, you've got Hamas, you've got all kinds
of terrorist shit going on there. And so I'm
hoping, I'm not 100 % sure, but we'll probably
find out eventually. I'm hoping that when they
went in there and did what they did and pulled
his ass out, I'm hoping that they hit 15, 20,
30 spots. in Venezuela that are all these little
nesting areas, these camps, these cells. Well,
Cuba admitted that 32 of their soldiers had been
killed in the raid. That's his personal bodyguard,
too. And what the hell are Cuban soldiers doing
in Venezuela? Because they're buddies. I know
that. They're cousins. I know. Dude, there's
so much nefarious shit going on in there. Is
this any different than them going to get Noriega
out of Panama? No, no, it's actually identical.
I mean, it's the same. 30 years later. Yeah.
It's the same thing 30 years later. It's the
exact same thing. Now, the problem is, I know
all the Venezuelans are excited because they
think they're going to get freedom and stuff,
but dude, they have a hardened apparatus in place
that is totally going to keep the same thing
going. The military has already backed the vice
president who has been with Maduro for freaking
20 years, 30 years. I mean, so they have... You
know what I mean? Well, when you say they backed
him, give us a little bit more context there.
What do you mean? The VP? You just said that
the military for Venezuela is backing the VP.
Yep. They publicly said they support, because
she was sworn in right now that Maduro's gone,
and the military publicly said - So who's protecting
her? Yeah, the military. The military is. Well,
I mean, her military, or do we have - No, no,
no. Venezuelan military. So we don't have any
boots on the ground currently in there. So we
went in there, did our shit, and bailed. I was
thinking that we would have an infrastructure
there after taking him out. Nope. No. This was
a law enforcement operation. They wanted to go
in and arrest him and pull him out. Now, I mean,
I know, like I said, everybody's getting excited
because they think we brought freedom to Venezuela.
But you know what? They got to figure it out.
You know what? They have to figure it out. They
got to, like, do an assessment, figure out what
the people want, have a fair vote, and, you know,
don't the Dominion voting machines come from
Venezuela? Yeah, I don't know. I'm just like,
I was skeptical that we're really going to see
any changes, but we'll see. I think we will because
I think the vice president initially said some
things, nothing's going to change. I think there
are some threats, but she's come out and says,
okay, we're going to start playing nice. Well,
Trump has made a few, I mean, did you hear anything
he said today? He talked for a very long time
today. Yeah, just talking all sorts of shit.
Dude, he is, I don't give a shit. He is hilarious.
I mean, he was, it was actually, I had a lot
of fun listening to him today because he was
having fun, you could tell it, and he wasn't
being the traditional Trump. He was to a certain
point, but he, It was actually kind of fun listening
to him. He was just talking about all the people
in the room because he had some sort of all his
supporters over the years that provided money
to support for him. What do they call that? Donations,
you know, the first campaign. They were in this
room and he was talking to them. He's like, I
didn't like you too much, but I like you now.
He's like, you know, we didn't always get along.
And he went over the whole room and just started
talking about January 6th. He started talking
about the prior elections. And it was like, you
know what? You guys thought I was wrong about
all this stuff. They were coming after me for
this. It turns out I was right about this, this,
this. It was just, and granted, it gets nauseating
hearing him say it over and over. It can be,
yes. But it's... The fact is that he's right.
Yeah. And until the... I'm almost sure if they
just acknowledge on the left that he was right
about something, he'll shut up. But it's just
that they won't do it. They won't give him anything.
Forever trolling them. Fucking Chuck Schumer.
The next State of the Union is going to be pretty
lit, isn't it? It's going to be fun. But the
thing about the whole Maduro and going in and
getting him and Chuck Schumer being the piece
of shit that he is, he sat there and gave Trump
such a hard time in the first term regarding
not going in there and getting him. Why don't
you do something about this? Why don't you do
that? Maduro's still in power. Biden put a $25
million bounty on his head. Right? Or, you know,
for capture. Sure. And that was a talking point
for them. Right. And then he finally did it.
Where's his $25 million? Who's paying that? We
should send that to the Delta Force. Obviously,
they were on board with it. You know, the fact
that he is a menace and he needs to be taken
care of. And then he takes care of him. And then
suddenly they're like, oh, this is illegal. This
is outrageous. It's crazy. That's why I'm sick
of talking about it. They're not serious. They're
unserious people. They really are. And it makes
me just nauseous. And it's transparent that their
message is just anti -anything Trump, no matter
what it is. That's why I just don't care. I just
don't care because they're not going to give
him anything. Nope. And it's fine. I get it.
Don't give him anything. What do you guys think
is going to happen in the midterms? I think it's
going to be close. It's going to be close. Yeah,
I'm a little nervous about it. We just said one
of them died. They need to pass that SAVE Act.
I mean, what is Thune doing? Just sitting on
his ass. Who's who doing? The House passed the
SAVE Act, which is requiring ID to vote. An actual
ID in all states at all times. That's huge. It
passed the House. And it's sitting on the Senate
in some committee and it's never... It hasn't
been brought up for a vote yet. Oh, boy. And
even if it gets voted down. So they're stalling.
At least they're on record saying this. But four
Democrats voted for the SAVE Act in the House.
What do you think they're going to do when they
get pressure in the Senate? Right. You think
they'll cave and vote for it? Maybe. Yeah. But
they haven't even brought it up. Thune has not
brought it up. If you don't, just the notion
that you don't support showing an ID to vote.
To vote. You support corruption. Yeah. There's
no reason why you shouldn't. I 100 % agree. Did
you see, I think it said Minnesota, that you
can vouch for someone? Up to eight other people.
Yeah, you can vouch for them. Unless you're a
state employee, then you can vouch for unlimited.
Unlimited. Whoa. What kind of bullshit is that?
Yeah. Yes. Ah, neat. Oh, that's such bullshit.
What are we doing? Why is so obviously fraud?
Yes. Okay. I just had an aneurysm. Oh, my God.
Okay. And that's why Tim Walls is where he's
at and out the freaking door sooner than later.
Happy feet. All right. Let's get into our second
half bourbon. wonderful. This is distinctly different
than what we had in the first half. Yeah, the
first half was a single malt baller from California.
This one is a ball buster. Just delicious. It's
a double oak. Brilliant. Yeah, brilliant. I mean,
the flavor is just so much more intense. At least
it is for me. This is the 1845. It's been a while
since we've done one of these. It's a five year.
1845 preemption double oak. This was their first
Double oak experience. And he says it's five
years? 51 months. Not quite five years. So, you
know, but the thing about 51 months, it's way
different in Texas. It is. So when we sit there
and we look at a weller, that 12 -year -old weller,
you know, it's kind of like, yeah, I get it.
But this is different. This is in Texas. It's
a different animal. It ages faster. It goes so
much longer. This is a can of cherry cola. I'm
getting a light chocolate. I can get that. I
can get both of those. Yeah. You did not or did?
I did. I could get both of those. You know what?
I get a cherry, a light chocolate cherry. It's
absolutely terrific. Oh, yeah. Probably one of
the better double oaks that I have ever had.
We've had a few. I think the Woodford Reserve
Double Oak is good. I don't think it's as good
as this. I don't think it's as... I approve,
so that's not as intense as this, but that's
a good bourbon as well. This has one of the longest
lasting finishes of anything I've ever had. It's
so rich. It just stays there forever. I can compare
it to a cowboy... Hold on, let me rephrase that.
I can compare it... The longevity of the taste
is punchy like the cowboy from Garrison Brothers.
Yeah, it just hangs. It hangs there and hangs
there in a good way. That's what the uncut, unfiltered
cowboy did. It just was there. So it won something,
yeah? It's in your mouth. It won some award,
I think. They're very proud of all the awards
they've won, and I don't blame them, of course.
I think it was a silver. Silver? Okay. I don't
know. I'm surprised it didn't, because usually
they're like talking about double gold and this
and that and all these awards that they're winning.
The judges at the San Francisco World Spirits
Competition noted its sweetness balanced by spice,
distinctive text character from the use of local
grains like elbin rye, resulting in complex and
award -winning bourbon. I thought it was going
to say what they won, so. Not if they said it
was a world whiskey silver. Silver. Okay. There
you go. All right. Well, it's excellent. Yeah,
I would recommend this, and I have many, many
times when I'm in there, and I hear someone go,
hey, I'm looking for a Texas bourbon. Hey, I
take it right to 1845. There are a lot of listeners
out there that are from Texas, and you're kind
of like, well, I can't go to Kentucky, or I'm
not going to be able to get. Dude, there are
so many. right here in Texas. It's good. Right
around the freaking corner. And this is located
in Lowry Crossing, Texas. 1845 Distillery. Fantastic
family. June, Bob, Ben, Miguel, the distiller.
Those guys are fantastic. They're an excellent
family. Very giving. Sweet people. Such a small
operation. And very successful. Humble, too.
They're very humble. Just east of McKinney. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, if you live here in the Dallas -Fort
Worth area, it's just northeast of Dallas. Just
north of Plano East. It's right there. Yeah.
Right off of 75. Yeah. It takes us 20 minutes
to get there. Take Highway 5 a little bit out
there. Yeah. And they just redid the road out
there, which was a huge pain in the ass before
they fixed it. But now it's fixed. It's easy
to go to. They have the tours that they scheduled.
Oh, it's not a dirt road anymore? No. No. They
switched it out. It's paved. Nice black top.
Yeah, it's a nice black top. Man, I haven't been
there in a while. Also, they started a new program
where it's like mix your own whiskey that Ben
is pushing out there. Yeah. And, you know, it's
$130, $140 a pop to get in there. I think so.
That'd be fun. $1845. Highly recommended. This
shit right here is going to score really high
for me. Small batch cast strength. I'm trying
to find something else on here, but I can't.
And it's $113 .8. Does this taste hotter? No,
it does not. It does not hot to me. It's not
hot, but it tastes hotter than the $113 .8. 113
.8. Oh, okay. Yeah. Man, this is really difficult.
It's rich, but not being hot. What category do
we put this in? Does it have a bottle number
on there? Yes. 24 of 69. Okay. No, batch 24,
bottle 69. Bottle 69. So you guys have rated
this before. Yeah. Yes. Oh, yeah. We've had this
before. Oh, so you know what we rated. Yes, I
do. So we can see if we're consistent. Okay.
Well, let's see how close you are. What do you
say? Man, I tell you, I'm enjoying this. And
as much as I'm a little leery giving it over
an eight, I'm going to give it an 8 .0 because
I'm really enjoying this. I would buy this. It's
sweet. It's cherry cola. You ever know every
now and then you just have a hankering for a
flavor. of a Coca -Cola or something that you
just, oh my gosh, I don't drink it, but you know
what? I really want it. This is that. It quenches
that thirst, and I'm going to give it an eight.
I'm at seven, eight. I was actually going to
do seven, nine. So let's see what our original
ratings were. Sean, eight, two. Paul, seven,
nine. Same. Jeff, eight, one. Look at me. I'm
consistent. So we're very close to where we were.
Well, I'm dead on. You suck. Within a couple
of tenths, yeah. You were watching Chuck. He
was like, seven, nine. Yeah. Could, like, do
sign language. Oh, yeah. That's so racist. Seven,
nine. That's so racist. Seven of them are racist.
Yes. How much time do we have? A couple minutes.
A couple minutes? All right. What are we going
to do? We're going to hit Maduro. What are we
talking about? I want to talk about something
interesting. I read an article today about an
AI. A city was testing a new AI program out to
write police reports. And it was being tested.
I don't know if they were monitoring it. I don't
know if the news. I guess the news was involved.
I don't recommend that. And the AI changed the
police officer to a frog in the report. And they
were having all kinds of problems with accuracy,
and it changed it to a frog, the police officer,
because, I guess, in the background, it said
that someone had the princess and the frog Disney
movie playing. So, yeah, it just kind of pulled
in whatever it thought was... Whatever environmentally...
So, this brings up the idea that... Utah. Anytime
you go on a website... And it says, hey, look,
we want to make sure you're not a bot. Please
take this circle and put it where it should go.
Right. It's the same shit. I mean, can AI recognize
that you can click and drag a circle into a circle?
I mean, is it that smart? I think so. I would
think so, too. But what's the context? The context
is that if the general websites out there think
that AI is not that smart, it's not that smart.
It's not. And maybe it will get to that point
someday, but right now it's far away. I don't
think it's ever going to get there. I just think
it's too unstable to trust it for anything. Well,
look, they are doing AI for our company. Right.
And it turns out they're quote -unquote vendors.
I found that out this morning. That help with
this product, this process that we do. So I write
my reports. And I'm very particular with the
way my stuff goes out. I want it to look good.
It's my product. And when I push a report to
a client and the AI will gather the report, it'll
groom it and it won't change the words in it,
but it may move indexing and reformat, bold,
underline. It may do some stuff. I'm not a huge
fan of that at all. Because what it did is it
makes mistakes. So if I have a parent caption
and I've got bullet points under that caption
that I'm trying to highlight, and they make the
subtopics the same as the parent topic, well,
that fucking ruins the whole report. Right. It
makes it not make sense. Yeah. So I'm just kind
of like, dude. And so I saw it went out. It happened
several times. And so I fired off an email to
say, hey, look, this happened just FYI. Is it
optional that you use it? Or they have told you
run every report through this thing? I don't
use it. I don't do it. Oh, you don't have to
use it at all. No, I don't. My admin will send
it through this. It's a process. I don't send
anything out to anybody. I send it to my admin.
She sends it. So she wraps it up. She makes it
look all whatever. And then she punts it. And
before it gets punted, it's sent to the AI. AI
will grab it and it'll pop it out. That's scary.
It's scary because they send... It's similar.
I mean, the word frog doesn't show up, but...
It's similar stupid shit. But you're liable for
the accuracy of that report. Yeah, well, the
letter... I hope it's being reviewed by you before
it goes out. No, it's not. That's crazy. It's
not. So it doesn't change the words, but again,
it changes some of the way it's set up. And the
fact that it was set up wrong kind of... It just
looks unprofessional. So when I get it and I
look at it after it got sent out, I'm like, well,
I didn't fucking write it like that. Why is that
paragraph out of whack like that? It's all out
of order. I think AI is going to hit a roadblock
here, if it already hasn't, because of power
requirements. I read an article that Grok, the
center that all the servers, hundreds of servers,
is outside of Memphis, is where this is. And
the amount of power that it requires, they had
to install, I think, 50 big diesel generators.
Because of all the bikinis they were putting
on people? Yeah, there you go. That's good for
the environment. All these diesel generators
are running and polluting Memphis. So all this
exhaust is, like, destroying the air in Memphis.
Nice. And they're like, you know. I love it.
It's ridiculous. Unintended consequences of things
that we just think is so important. So how are
we going to dial it back? Well, it's power. I
mean, China is, I think, way ahead. They're building
coal plants left and right. They're building
what? Coal plants. Coal plants. Yeah. Well, what
about - We can't. Well, we've always discussed
having alternative fuel options. I mean, where
are we at with fusion? I mean, we still need
to address that. No. We just need to do the gyms.
Yeah, the gyms with the bikes. Gyms with the
bikes all around the data center. That's right.
Biking. You know what? And very aggressive bikers.
Yes. You know what I mean? Like the real serious
people. I would propose that we send folks that
break the law. Convert them to, like, gas? Instead
of them sitting in a quarry with a mallet on
these rocks and smashing them, you put them on
a cycle, and you just, hey, man. And a hand crank,
so they can be doing the hands and the feet at
the same time. Whatever's going to be the most
productive. Is that torture? No, I don't think
so. Exercise? They're going to be healthy. No,
it's Maha. They're going to lose weight? Make
America healthy again. Make prisoners healthy
again. But in all reality, I do think that AI
is going to hit a limit. We may not be there
yet, but it's going to hit a limit because it
requires so much power. And we don't have enough
power. Hey, we got some celebrity deaths to go
over from the last couple of minutes. One big
one. This is a big one here. Sure. We got Buck
Rogers. We lost Buck Rogers. I was a huge Buck
Rogers fan. I watched that every year. Yeah.
Giggity, giggity. Yes. And Wilma Deary. What's
up, Buck? Wilma was hot. Wilma. Oh, dude, she
is. Wilma was hot. She's still kind of hot. Show
me Wilma. I never watched the show. Erin Green.
Erin Gray. Oh, I know who that is. She was also
the Silver Spoons mom. Right. Yes. You know who
does the voice for Ziggy? Twiggy. Twiggy. No.
Is Mel Blanc. Mel Blanc. Oh, nice. Who did Bugs
Bunny and Pokey Pig. Oh, no shit. Who did Mr.
Theolopolis? Oh, that's who they have in the
little circle at the bottom right there. Is that
who that is? Is that Mel Blanc? No, that's Gil,
isn't it? Yeah, that's probably Gil. That's Gil.
That's Buck. That's Gil Gerard. Gerard. Oh, sorry.
Oh, look at that. Gerard. Look at that outfit.
Oh, those are nice outfits. Now, we got to show
that on the podcast short. Yeah, for sure. That
was a great show. Great show. I never watched
it. I was overseas at the time, I think. I like
when he goes through the space, like the stars
are hitting the screen and blowing up. Buck Rogers
in the 25th century. That right there. He died
at the age of 82. That's not how stars work.
Like, at all. Each one of those stars is a massive
sun. That's so silly. I loved this show as a
kid. Yeah. I'm just watching. It's kind of bringing
it back. So how bad would it be if we watched
it now? Like during the podcast? No, I just mean...
I've actually watched one recently. Really? On
like YouTube? No, it's Antenna. We get it. 2004.
It's 2491. In the 25th century. These outfits
are ridiculous. Yeah, it's the same era as Logan's
Run. Yes. I get those two confused, actually.
And the original Battlestar Galactica. What was
the other one? 1999? The original Battlestar
Galactica. Yeah, 1999 was a show by L2. They
had all kinds of fun stuff. They did. Star Trek
was coming out. They did. The original Star Trek.
And the original Battlestar Galactica was awesome.
And that's 1976 is when Star Wars came out, by
the way. 77. Well, I saw it in 76. I thought
it was 78. Oh, you got it. We went to Skywalker
Ranch. Yeah. Early release. I was in Skywalker
Ranch. Supposedly a Star Wars fan. So we also
lost Greg Biffle. Taking his shot. We also lost
Greg Biffle, NASCAR racer. That was kind of.
He died in a plane crash with his family. Yeah.
Tragic. Do they know what caused that? They were
just having engine malfunction. Someone smuggled
a hazmat bottle of booze. They just took off,
and they circled around. They were trying to
land again, and it crashed before landing. They
ran out of, obviously, fuel, but no, because
that thing's raging. So his family, and there
were some other significant people on that. It
was probably leaking fuel. No, it had just taken
off, and they were having trouble. Crazy. We
lost Chris Ray, who... Oh, yeah. Yeah, famous
for the song, I'm Going to Texas, and one called
Driving Home for Christmas. I don't remember
that one, but... That's what they're quoting.
I don't know if I know his Texas song. And then
a great Brigitte Bardot. Dude, she died at 91.
She looked like that when she died? Exactly.
That's Carrie Fisher. You just showed that just
for props? She's not alive either. She's wearing
her Jabba the Hutt outfit. Yeah, Brigitte Bardot.
She kind of left. The whole scene for a while.
She was convicted six times by the French state
between 97 and 2008 for... It was for... Boom,
it's gone. Criticizing mass immigration and extremism.
Yeah, you didn't hear about this? Good for her,
by the way. She's based. She's my new hero. Yeah,
she was like not a fan of the left. Well, dude,
she understands the... She understood the assignment
of... Of the real world. No, I get it. But, you
know, she's like, you know how when people die
on the right or whatever, and they like shit
all over them, she was getting shit on by the
left for her anti -immigration and racist. Oh,
man. I mean, she was pro -French, though. I mean,
she was, you know. No, I get it. What do you
call it? A nationalist, right? Defending the
motherland. Yeah. I hear you. And you can't really,
whatever. I know it. I know it. You know, people
like what they like. Of course, Islam's different.
She was beautiful. Yeah, she was a pretty lady.
There was a lot of hot women back in the day.
There always are, but there were some nice -looking
women that, just because they're 80 and 90 years
old now, I guess when you look at it, you're
like, yeah. Well, there you go. So we're going
to look like that. Jump the shark. We're going
to look just like that? That's a Val Kilmer version.
Remember we talked about fears of getting old?
To look like Bridget Bardot. This is our fear.
Your fear is Bridget Bardot. That's what we're
going to look like. I don't even care. I don't
care about getting old. I can be old as shit
as long as I can function. As long as my brain
works and, you know. As long as I can sit on
a rocking chair on a patio on a wonderful 65
-degree day and sip something like this 1845
Double Oak. Yeah. Shout out to Lowry Crossing
1845. Yeah. Good stuff. Good shit. Texas straight
bourbon whiskey. And we bought this one. This
was last year before the Texian. This is when
the Texian I came out. I believe so, yeah. This
is at least a year old. Do they have at least
a second Double Oak? I just bought two bottles.
One belongs to me, and the other one belongs
to a buddy in Arizona. A double oak? Yeah, a
double oak. I just picked one up this weekend.
So they released another one. I can drink this
one. What was the proof on it again? 113 .8.
Yeah, 113 .8. Excellent. 114. Excellent, excellent.
All right, second half of the Dudes Like Us podcast.
We appreciate you guys checking us out, listening
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We're kind of a big thing. We are. We're huge.
And I've got a couple friends that we might want
to bring on the podcast. So we should talk about
that. Tier ones. Tier ones. I mean, all my friends
are tier ones. Do they own helicopters or boats?
I don't understand. Oh, yeah, you guys are tiered.
You're two, you're three. Hold on. I'll go over
the numbers. I'm moving up. Chuck, thank you
for all staying on top of shit. Good stuff. I'm
a little toasty. I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm
Jeff.