Yeah, it helps me. What's your clap? Without
the clap, I have to... Your mouth totally doesn't
match. Even though you're saying something, your
lips don't look like you're saying something.
Yeah, you guys are just weird. What is the clap?
I know it's a venereal disease. That's the gonorrhea,
dude. I don't know. Does it affect your urethra?
I think it's gonorrhea. Yeah, but the gonorrhea,
isn't that like a bacteria that affects your
urinary shaft, your urinary tract? It's pronounced
gonorrhea. Gonorrhea. Oh, thank you. All right.
Yeah, so that's what we're jumping out with.
We're going to go over all of the sexually transmitted
diseases that you can get, what it looks like.
We'll show you the pictures of all that. And
we're excited about that. That's not happening.
Oh. The clap is a common slang term for gonorrhea,
as Chuck calls it. Good. Ganoria? Ganoria. Ganoria.
Very common and easily treatable bacterial sexually
transmitted infection spread through oral, annul,
or vaginal sex. Annul. Annul sex. Causing symptoms
like painful pee -pees or discharge. It does
not say pee -pees. It says urination. Nice. I
think it's also called drippy dick. Sounds like
a city in Game of Thrones. How do you say it
again? Drippy dick? Drippy dick. No, not Drippy
Dick. Ganoria or whatever you... That was Chuck.
Ganoria. Ganoria. That's like a city in Game
of Thrones, I think. I thought Anol was. Anol?
Anol, yeah. That one probably is, too. Believe
it or not, folks, this is the first half of the
Dudes Like Us podcast. It's Tuesday, January
13, 2026. Celebrating the first half of the first
two weeks of 2026 is fucking awesome. I know.
Yeah, the first fucking month is half over already.
I know. Yeah, well, you know what? God bless.
We're just getting older. Older and older. Chip,
chip, chip, chip away. Thanks, Chuck. Mr. Producer
over there. What's up, guys? I'm Sean. I'm Paul.
And I'm Jeff. And I need to get amped. I did
a little extra pour, but it was really small.
Thinking it was going to work. I don't know.
Maybe it's work. Maybe it's tired. Did you have
to go to the office today? I did. You said Tuesdays
and Wednesdays are your office days? Tuesdays
and Wednesdays are the office day. We transferred
from a rather large, large office. Everyone had
their own door. You could close it, and it was
excellent. Now it's like, all right, well, we
have like six offices and some cubicles all lined
up. Well, dude, I am like the poster child for
ADD. I... cannot function in a cubicle actually
let me rephrase that i cannot function when there's
stimuli around distractions yeah period you know
it just i i can't and so you know when i so i've
tried to uh commandeer one of the offices so
i have i've taken a nameplate And put my name
on there. I set it on the desk. You've claimed
it. You pee all over the room. And now I brought
in a Star Wars Darth Vader picture today. I was
going to ask you to see if we can't print up
a couple of... A couple Star Wars things I could
take and just put on the wall. Anything. I've
got Boba Fett downstairs you could take. I would
like some Dudes Like Us stuff put up there. I'll
decorate the shit out of the whole office with
Dudes Like Us stuff. You know some regional director
is going to come in one day and you're going
to come into the office and all your shit's going
to be piled up in the hallway and he's going
to be... I think what you should do is get those
blinders horses wear so you're at the desk just
like this. That would be super effective. Maybe
I could put those noise -canceling headphones
on. I wore headphones at work all the time, noise
-canceling. Like, Jeff, do you have a second?
Yeah, we didn't even have cubes. It was a complete
100 % open concept. So you're at a desk, and
you're staring at 15 people, and they're all
having conversations and talking. So I wore...
noise -canceling headphones all day and listen
to radio, unless I needed to talk to somebody
or have a phone call. You didn't even have cubes.
You had bullpens. Correct. You know the problem
with that, for me, personally, because I'm a
barnyard animal, is I fart. You fart and snort
and giggle. There were a couple times where I
got stuck in the cube area. I had gas, and I
was holding it in, and it got to the point where
it made me uncomfortable. You know where a lot
of people go for that kind of stuff? You know
what? I tried. I got up. I went to the bathroom
to expel, but your body's an asshole. Yeah, it
goes up, going back inside. Yeah, isn't that
interesting? It's like now you couldn't at all.
And you're standing there trying to push it out.
Oh, yeah. Did you do jumping jacks in the bathroom?
Oh, like somersaults, like high knees, just break
dancing. Yeah, there's lots of things you can
do. I handstanded all the way to the bathroom.
Handstand. Well, you know, I walked on my hands.
That helps you fart. But it's a carpeted hallway.
But when you get to the bathroom, it's all moist
and my hands start to slip in, you know? Nice.
You need to take your trampoline to work. And
you take it into the bathroom and get it all
out. I may get another trampoline and pop it
in there. There you go. But anyway, so I'm trying
to, you know, this morning, sometimes I take
one of my kids to work in the morning. You know,
they like to ride their bicycle. And when it's
super cold or something like that, they're just
like, Dad, can you please take me? And so she
was like this morning or last night, she was
like, Dad, it's going to be like really cold
tomorrow. Can you take me? So I was like, yeah,
sure. I never had a problem with that. But for
some reason, the last couple of times I had to
take her, it's just like I have this internal
clock, which has never happened before in my
entire life. But I have an internal clock and
it was kind of like waking me up in the middle
of the night. Oh, I need to go now. Oh, I need
to go now. Oh, I need to go now. I don't want
to be late. I don't want to be late. Oh, my God.
I went to bed. Look, I go to bed at midnight.
That's, you know, every night at midnight. Last
night, I went to bed at 11 p .m. You know, because
I was just like, you know, I'm just tired. I
just want to go to bed. You know, I wasn't gaming.
I was just like, you know, I had a long day at
work. Well, yesterday, I had to take CE classes,
which is a whole different animal. You know,
it's just like you take these courses and there's
literally a five -hour course. It's good for
six hours, but you have to sit at, it's one of
those ones where you have to sit at your desk
for at least five hours. Yes. And because I was
at like four hours and 56 minutes, okay? I didn't
understand what was going on because I was like,
the completion said 99%. And I'm like, wait a
minute. I'm clearly done with the test. And it
was at 99%. So I started panicking. And I'm like,
what's going on? I started going back, and then
I started thinking, five hours? Oh, my God, there's
a limit of five hours. I only have five hours
to complete this. Son of a bitch. And so I called
the phone number up, the 1 -800 number, and it's
like 445 or something like that. I saw him like,
oh, my God, these guys aren't going to answer.
They answered. They answered. They're located
in Plano, Texas. They were really nice. They
were just like, yeah, I'm looking at your screen
right now. It's just all you have to do is wait
five hours. And I was like, oh, so time's out
after five. I'm not going to be delinquent. So
it all worked out. But I had that very uncomfortable
feeling that I just wasted half a day doing this.
And then as soon as I was done with that, I started
another one with another five -hour stretch.
This is your required training. Yeah. I don't
think it's required. It's just additional training
that you want, right? No, it's required. Oh,
it's required. To maintain my license. Yeah,
I just push play, and then I work, and it's on
one monitor doing its own thing. You take the
test. And then I take the test, and I fail it,
and then I take it again, and I remember what
the ends are. Get a little closer. And I get
100. Yeah, totally. And mine are probably not
that serious compared to, I guess, what you guys
are doing. And then sometimes I just drag the
bar over. Some of them won't let you do that,
but I just drag it to the end. These classes
are just kind of a pain in the butt, man. Oh,
yeah, totally. But when I started on the second
one, I was kind of like, all right, look, it's
5 o 'clock. All right, this is going to be five
hours, so I'm going to be doing this until, what,
9, 10 o 'clock. So I was like, I'm going to be
done with this in two, three hours. I went ahead
and went for my walk. So, you know, I popped
in the news, got my headphones. I walked right
by your house like, hi, Jeff. Just kept going
and went around the corner, went all the way
up to Coit and went to Shepherd's Hill, went
into the elementary school, went around the track
four times, and then I went back around your
house. Hey, Jeff. And then just went right on
home. And, man, that was about an hour and 15
minutes. It was excellent. Perfect timing. And
the training was going on the whole time? Yeah.
Perfect. No, it was like a five -minute conversation.
And you can forward through all these. You don't
have to sit there and wait. You can forward through
them all. But you still have to do your five
hours. So after it played, the timer's still
going, but it was just on pause. Right. So whatever.
It worked out for me. That reminds me of one
of my favorite Homer Simpson. Simpsons episodes
where he works from home and he has to gain weight.
You have to be over a certain weight to qualify
for work from home. You remember that? So he
eats like I'm just a machine and he thinks he's
just barely gotten there but his whole stomach
is up on the towel rack and then when it falls
down he's like 50 pounds over what he needed
to do and he has to start wearing muumuu's and
he works from home for the first time. And remember
he works for the power plant, the nuclear power
plant. And so All the questions that it asks
him, he figures out are all the Y, Y -E -S, you
know what I mean, or just Y. Right. And so he
buys a little, like a bobbing chicken. Those
little bobbing birds. Yeah, it's a bobbing chicken.
And so he just decides to go to movies, and he
just lets the bobbing chicken answer all of his
questions. Well, he's coming out of the movie
theater or something, and it's melting down,
like the radioactive. Yeah, it's like everything's
falling apart. It's venting. Right. And he comes
home, and the thing had fallen over. Anyway,
it's so funny. He's wearing muumus. Well, I think
that there is a subculture of people that work
from home who do that, who game the system. And
I think those folks have ruined it for a lot
of folks who have the potential to work remote.
And I think there's an expectation now to work
remote as much as possible. During COVID, we
did it, especially the new kids that are coming
in. That's all they've done. So now they're like,
yeah, I was reading a subreddit and she was pissed
off that this new job that she was going to get
requires five days in the office. Right. She's
like, well, that's ridiculous and unfair and
this and that. And I'm just like, no, it's not.
No, it's not. It's not. Even occupational experts
are saying this is catastrophic for the younger
generation. Yes. Because they're not networking.
They're not. Learning extra things just by being
around people who have been around the block,
like picking up knowledge, and they're not collaborating.
They're doing minimal work, horrible work ethic,
all that kind of stuff. Do you know they have
mouse wigglers now? Yep. So they put their mouse
on the thing that jiggles so that it keeps them
constantly active. But now there's software that
detects that. Yes. Yes. Yes. So it's like a game
of chicken and cat and mouse, right? It's so
dumb. So they have these jigglers. Well, now
they've developed software to detect those jigglers
because they actually - I don't like the way
you say jigglers. It's very offensive. Jiggler.
You're a jiggler? So now they actually - Yellow
jiggler. I only want to have a clap. I'm just
a jiggler. They actually - monitor where your
mouse goes and what it actually clicks on to
make sure you're actually doing something. So
we draw at work and back in the day when I was
first starting, we had this old guy next to us
and he was drafting and he'd fall asleep, but
he'd still be clicking all over the screen. So
he would walk by and his screen would just be
like. Random lines all over the screen. To make
it look like he was still working? He looked
like he was still working. Oh, God. Well, I did
both. I think we've all done both. We've all
gone into the office. The bulk of my time was
in the office. Right. And, you know, it was what
it was. You know, it was just that was the job.
Yes. You never choice. There was no option. Well,
I go in five days a week now. And I was full
time from home for years. Yeah. And I was home
before COVID hit. And I've said from the very
beginning that I preferred going in. I didn't
like to drive. I didn't like all that shit, but
I got better work done in the office. There will
be people that will argue that until they're
dead. They're like, no, you get just as good.
Maybe certain ones, like if you're a coder and
all you're doing is coding all day, that may
be one thing. And it depends what you're working
on. Yeah. If you're working on a big group project,
get together and collaborating. in person is
a hell of a lot better than over Zoom, in my
opinion. Even the fact we're all in the office.
All of us are in the office, and when we have
a team meeting, we're all in our cubes on Zoom.
No, go in the other fucking room. Get a conference
room. I know, it's crazy. Your boss. Well, I'm
not the boss for these. But there is a conference
room in ours. We don't have that dynamic in our
office. Everything we do isn't team -oriented.
We're kind of independent. But I think there's
still opportunity for you to learn from other
folks. Sure. Like when you first started, Larry
was there. I agree with you, but not me, but
I'm thinking other people can learn from me.
So I'm not necessarily throwing stones at that,
but there comes a certain point where I think
that I kind of graduated from that program, and
I could be on my own. I could fly away now. But
there's new people that need the help. So I'm
thinking, all right, hey, look. Mr. People, I
think maybe they should offer a program. Hey,
guys, look, if you want to work at home, you
get paid this much. If you want to come to the
office, you get paid this much. At least give
them an opportunity. I disagree with that as
well because people are complaining, well, they
should start paying for my gas then. Right. And
tolls. And the child care. Wearing tear on the
car. Yeah. No. Right. He took the job. It pays
this. Yeah, you're getting paid to do this job.
Yeah, you're not getting paid more because you
have to drive to the office. Yeah, it's created
a whole new level of entitlement. But the training
point, it takes time out of your day to do that.
It does. It's not really germane to your job.
So, I mean, my job isn't to train people. My
job is to do my job. Yours is a little unique.
Yours is a little unique, right, in that regard.
And I think, like I said, I think there's some
jobs that could. be fine working at home right
i think sean's is probably one of them yeah probably
um outside of the training thing and i mean they
want you to probably mentor someone or yeah and
i don't mind doing that but you know be up front
with me just say hey look we want you to come
in the office a couple times a week to mentor
people i'm like all right cool why don't you
pay me more but they didn't give you that give
you that no well no one knows they're not going
to say that They won't pay you more either. At
least any business I was ever in, they're just
like, this is now part of your job. Yeah, but
the problem with that, with me, or maybe with
other jobs like mine, is that my job is salary,
but it's also based on billable hours. What they
should do is allow, if you're in there for four
hours, okay, that doesn't, I don't know how they
would do it. Drop your expectation for billable
hours by four hours. Correct. But they don't.
Well, they don't, no. But also, my bonus is based
on billable hours. Right. So if I'm going to
be available for people... Yeah, they would have
to include your training hours in that calculation.
It sounds kind of shitty because I benefited
from that. So I can't deny that it's not worth
it. And today, I was actually productive. uh
in my office but you know i'm very i'm dude i'm
sean i'm i've got a different mindset i got a
different brain you know when i go in there i
turn the lights off i've got an under the counter
under desk lights very low lighting very warm
lights you know and i have to announce that because
you know you walk into the office it's this 5000
kelvin kelvin hospital light You know, that's
just kind of like very clinical. And it's just
like, I don't, that stuff bothers me. I have
a hard time concentrating. And, you know, that's
just me. And maybe I could get over it, you know,
but. In our situation, we just had to. I mean,
that's what we were told to do. And we did it.
And you know what? I probably would. If they
were to come to me like, dude, you need to shut
the fuck up and work. Right. I'd be like, or
you can just go home and this will be your last
check. Yeah. Find somewhere else to work where
you can work from home. I like working in a cubicle
now. I can do things now. It's a tough love thing,
but I get it. But you know what? At least I only
have to go two days a week. And today was productive.
Again, as long as I have an area where I can
sit and chill. And I don't want to say sit and
chill because that's not what I do. But I just
have to have an area where I can like fart. What
if you went in there and someone was already
in your office working? That happens. That happens.
Because technically it's not my office. You're
like, can you see the name tag? Can you see all
the Star Wars stuff? It's clearly my office,
bro. The Dallas office manager already said,
if I want that office, it's mine. Nice. That's
what he said. Wow. Well, I just haven't officially
said it. You know what? I don't care. Everybody
else is like, I don't get an office. How come
Sean gets an office? What an asshole. Because
I'm seniority. Like I was saying, I just need
the time I spend in that little office. So you
could smell your own farts. Yes. And you know
what? Whatever. Be in your own stench. Because
only you like your own stench. It's immature.
I get it. I recognize it. I own it. Yeah. I'm
a stinky boy. Anyways. All right. Let's move
on. You guys mentioned something about Miracle
Flights on one of the conversations. It's been
on the board for a while. I forgot what the hell
that was all about. Well, it's people taking
advantage of the system is what it is. Right.
Lazy assholes. So what they said, it was jetway
Jesuses and miracle flights. So basically, it's
people who insist on having a wheelchair to board.
Oh, that's right. And they get pre -boarding,
right? But as soon as they get off the flight,
they don't need the wheelchair anymore, and they're
walking down the jetway, and they're healed.
They're cured. It's a miracle. It's people that
take advantage of, like I said, the system. The
same thing happens. I know you've never been
to Disney World, but Six Flags, I'm sure, is
the same way. You can see these people in the
stupid. Scooters. Yeah. And what it is. And they
go right to the front of the line. And they get
to go to the front because they're handicapped
or whatever reason. And then they spring off
the scooter and jump into the ride. Yes. Oh,
my God. And it's ridiculous. It reminds me of
the episode from Philadelphia. It's Always Sunny
in Philadelphia. Danny DeVito. They're at a water
park with Charlie. Danny's walking around. He's
like, I'm handicapped. They're cutting all through
the line. He's like, I have AIDS. I have AIDS.
People are looking at him like, what? He's like,
I have AIDS. Danny's over the top. Then he went
down and got cut up and he was bleeding everywhere.
Hold on. Let's give a little context to that.
Charlie and Danny and what's his name? Frank.
No, is it Frank? Yeah, Charlie and Frank are
going through the water park, and there's a new
ride that's about to open, but it's not quite
open yet. And Charlie's kind of like, ah, fuck
it. He's got the high voice. We can go in there
anyways. We can check it out. Fuck those guys,
Charlie. We can go in there and do this. We don't
need their permission. It's open, right? So they
climb all the way to the top, and it's ready
to roll, but there's no water on there. So there's
no... Lubricant. Lubricant. To ease the friction.
So you see Danny coming down the slide and you
hear this. And you see him, he's like, oh, oh,
oh. And he lands in the water. There's like a
pool of blood that's kind of like forming everywhere.
And the kids are like, oh, what is that? Is that
blood? And Frank comes out of the water, Danny
DeVito. And they're like, oh, my God, that's
the dude that has AIDS. Everybody out of the
water. Oh, my God. Yes. It's always sunny in
Philadelphia. I freaking love that show. Yeah,
I need to pick it back up. I struggled with the
first season. but I want to resume it because
I think it got better as it went along. Yeah,
I think I watched maybe an episode, but yeah,
maybe that's something I need to pick up as well.
It is tough. I'm telling you, when I first watched
it, I was kind of like, what the heck is this?
It had a slow start, huh? It did. The first season,
it was like a little camcorder almost. It's exactly
right, man. They took something and just made
it fun. They're kind of like South Park where
they did everything. They dropped the N -word.
Yeah, no, nothing was off limits. They were just
like, come on, man. We're equal opportunists,
man. We're just going to go after everybody on
there. Yeah. But these Miracle Flights or Gateway
Jesus or whatever you call it really, really
bugs me. Really grinds your gears? It does, because
when I brought my dad here, he had a legitimate
reason to be in a wheelchair. For sure. As did
my parents, yeah. And he was behind, I don't
know, six, seven people. All in wheelchairs?
Yeah. Well, yes. Wow. And they all looked fine.
Well, not all of them, but a couple of them did.
Did you walk up and down and go, what's wrong
with you? I did. What's wrong with you? What
ails you, sir? I was like, I'm paralyzed. Okay.
You're good then. Excuse me, sir. Can you hand
me that bottle opener so I can open this beer?
But that bugs me for that reason alone. It's
not like I did a lot with my dad, but that one
time it kind of bugged. And I noticed folks.
Taking advantage of it. Doing it then. So, I
mean, is it any different than the handicap signs
at the gym or grocery stores? Let's back up a
little bit. So the Miracle Flight, the people
are faking an ailment so they can get on the
flight first. Is this like preferred seating?
Or first come, first serve? They just want to
get assigned so they can put their bag up top.
Yeah, their boarding group, like on Southwest,
their boarding group will be before the A -list.
Everybody else, yeah. They get to go get on the
plane first. The whole thing about getting on
a plane these days is luggage space above. Right.
Everybody tries to get on as early as they can
to make sure they have space for their carry
-on. Right. And they have these people who, what
do they call them, gate leeches or something
like that, who will try to get on earlier. Because
you have these groups, one through nine typically,
right? Yeah, right. And you have these people
that are in group seven, eight, nine who will
try to sneak up into group three and four. Well,
the airlines have finally - Yeah, it beeps at
them. Well, the airlines have finally put a stop
to it, at least some of them have, where it goes
beep and it calls them out. Before it never did
that. And they'll say, no, this is not your group.
Go to the back of the line. Yeah, American does
that. Every flight, somebody gets sent back.
They have to do the walk of shame. Oh, yeah.
That's beautiful. That's beautiful. Yeah, it
is. Shame. Shame. I've never had to deal with
that. I usually get in line where I'm supposed
to be. Oh, yeah, you do, too. I follow the rules.
Me, too. I was like, what the heck? I mean, I
don't get it. With the exception of Southwest,
you have assigned seats anyway, so everything
boils down to not having your bag be checked.
Well, it's also these people who bring these
ridiculous bags onto the flight, and they'll
have their luggage, and they'll have this huge
shopping bag that they'll stick up there or something
like that, even though you're supposed to put
it down underneath your feet. Folks don't. The
next thing you know, all the luggage shits is,
I'll check my bag at the gate. I have no problem
with that. I come in and I've got satchels around
my jacket. I'm loaded. I look like the Pillsbury
Doughboy. I can go in there, people are like,
oh my God, this is happening. I don't recommend
you do that. I don't think that would end well.
You get to the handicap parking. What's hard
is Someone could look extremely healthy, and
you're thinking, why do they have a handicap?
Well, it may be legitimate. They give handicap
parking for heart reasons. Oh, yeah. Right? So
you could have a heart problem, but you could
look completely healthy, and you walk just fine
and everything, and you're thinking, well, why
the fuck do they have a handicap spot? Right.
Kim has that, so not heart problems, but she
has a handicap placard, and I only use it when
she's around. I'm like, hey, do you want to park
up front, or do you feel okay to? Right, to walk.
Yeah, you don't want to walk across an entire
parking lot. It's always up front, but it's always
in my truck. Available to use. So we can use
it whenever you drive to happy hours. Yeah, or
if we go to the Cowboy Stadium. Perfect. Front
row, baby. So you're part of the Miracle Flight?
Yes. Yeah, Miracle Drive. Miracle Walk. I can't
say we're not guilty of that. So it's hard to
call people out. Oh, yeah, you don't want to
do that. You don't want to, unless you know for
a fact that. There's nothing wrong with them.
I don't know how you know it unless you actually
know them. It's tough to know. But sometimes,
though, I'll be at the gym. It'll be early playing
basketball or whatever, and I'll see somebody
zoom up and back into the handicap spot. Do they
have the placard? Yeah, to work out in the gym.
And they've got the placard, and they look fit.
They're wearing tight gym clothes. There's no
limping. There's no cane. There's no walker.
There's no nothing. And they walk their way right
up into the gym. That's cool. No, I'm not going
to do that, but I'm just thinking, really? I
think I would call the non -emergency number
for the local police department, and I'd be like,
hey, look. Sometimes these guys need to be called
out. Now, am I a Karen because I do that? It's
not worth it. Yeah, okay, but am I a Karen for
doing that? You're a Jessica now. I don't know
if I would ever do that, but it's... I never
would, because you never know. You never know.
Yeah, they might have a situation where they
have narcolepsy. Or whatever. They're walking
into the gym and they fall over on the ground,
right? Yeah. There's assholes for doing it. There's
definitely some assholes. I went to, I was somewhere,
a Kroger or something. And some guy gets out
of his car. And he was a black guy. And it was
in a Chrysler 300. And he gets out of the car
and he's looking perfectly fine. And I looked
at him, and he looked at me and says, I get it.
I know. I know. He's like, but I assure you,
I can't walk from all the way over there. I can
make it from here to the store. But once I get
there. Your look made him feel guilty. Yeah.
Wow. And you didn't say a word? I didn't say
a word. Did you stand there with your arms crossed
in the middle? No, I just looked at him. Shame!
Shame! Oh, my God. You walk fine, mister! Did
he get in a cart? No, no, he didn't. But, you
know, whatever. But he made a point to say something,
and I was just kind of like, I don't care. It's
your own consciousness telling you. that something
is wrong here. I think what I'll do is, if I
have that situation where somebody has a tag
and I use it and I get out of the car and people
look at me, I'll immediately drop to the ground
and start crawling into the... I could take two
steps and I'd crawl. And I'll be like, help me,
help me, help me. Happens to work at Troy. Pick
him up, will ya? I think another thing that I
find kind of, I don't know if it's funny, but
I notice when I go to the gym, I park out because
there's not very many spots, but I'll see cars.
Going up and down the aisles looking for the
close spot. I'm thinking, you're going to the
gym to work out. You can't walk another 30 feet
to get to the gym. Why don't you add 80 more
steps to your step tracker? It's your warm -up
before you go into the gym. People are weird
about parking. Just parking in general. I see
people willing to sit there and wait for like...
Probably minutes, which is a long time. And you
go park out and you walk by and you look at them.
Yeah, I do. And they're still sitting there.
Yes. And somebody's slowly, it'd be like a little
old lady putting her groceries into the back
of the car. And they're just sitting there waiting
with their blinker on. And there's spots like,
you know, not that, like what, probably 40 feet
away? Yep. But in general, people are kind of
weird about parking. People are weird. I mean,
like when I go to work, you know, I'm very, I
love, people are creatures of habit. So, you
know, I love to go to the same park. My parking
spot that I pick out where I'm at work is not
even close. To the door. It's around the freaking
corner. I have to walk twice as far. But I don't
care. It's a nice, relaxed spot. Nobody's there.
No one's around the car. It's under a tree. It's
nice and shaded. Nice. Yeah, that works. Yeah,
that's what I do. And I drive that big truck,
so I'm just used to, I can't park close. I'm
going to be out in North Dallas 40. So I park
out far. I'm just like, I need the exercise.
You need the space, yeah. Yeah, I need the space
and the sun. Oh, speaking of your truck, we got
to figure out one more. We got to. Time it to
go to 1845. I don't know what we got going on
this Saturday morning. Do we have anything going
on Saturday morning? Potentially BPA food. Okay.
Remember you felt the last few years? Yeah, it's
always a nice big. I need to find out if that's
actually happening. I have an all weekend excursion.
I'm having to rent a trailer. drive all the way
down to Bryan, pick up my brother, drive all
the way to Houston, load up the refrigerator,
the washer -dryer, some TVs, a chair, drive it
all the way back to Peter's house, spend the
night, and then in the morning on Sunday, drive
all the way back and unload all that shit. Is
that all of Alan's stuff? Yeah. What does he
want to do with it? He just needs it out of the
house, and it's a nice refrigerator, so we'll
take one of those, and Dylan wants the washer
-dryer, so we'll do that. Oh, okay, so Alan doesn't
want to try to get it down there. No. Oh, no.
He doesn't want to keep it. No, no, no. He's
like, hey, you can have it all. I'm going to
just throw it out or let the people, whoever
buys the house, keep it. Right. Okay. So I'm
doing that. That's my all -day, all -weekend
excursion. Yeah. So I'm out. Well, the 1845 deal
is cool because June Pettit from the 1845 Distillery.
Shout out to the 1845 Distillery. Fantastic folks.
We are not drinking their stuff. We drank its
stuff last week. Last week. Double oak. Yeah,
the double oak. Man, that's fantastic. God bless.
I love that stuff. We've got a good relationship
with them, so they have blessed us with a barrel,
too, and we're getting another barrel, and we're
going to put it in the podcast room, probably
right over behind me where that lamp is. I think
it needs to be Paul's chair that he sits on.
Oh, cool. I get to shit on the barrel. So it'll
be really tall. That won't look weird. Your crotch
will be like that. No, I'll just be really high
up and be like, hey, guys. Your crotch is going
to be like right on our face level. Yeah. But
you have to wear lederhosen. Our viewers were
like that too. Yes. You got to wear lederhosen.
I do. Yeah. I'm thinking lederhosen. Yes. Weird.
Okay. Whatever. We'll put it somewhere back here.
I don't know where it's going to go. They're
going to give us a nice beer on. Shout out to
them. Plus, we're going to pick up a couple of
their projects so we can laser them. Yeah. They
have some projects for us to do. It's very exciting.
So 1845, I don't know what we got going on. So,
you know, maybe Friday, Friday night, Friday
afternoon. You do back to five. I don't get back
to after six. Oh. Yeah. What's going on there?
That blows up our whole Friday. Yeah, yes, it
did. He destroyed the dude like us thing. My
route changed, and I don't get back to the stadium
until 545, and I don't get home until after six.
Bummer. Yeah, it'll change again. It's one of
those things, right? Potentially, yeah. You never
know. As kids leave and go. Routes are always
changing. Well, we'll figure it out. I'm kind
of thankful that we kind of figured out some
of the social media videos that we're putting
out there are starting to get a little bit of
attraction. But the Friday night little things
that we got going on, those were fun. I don't
like having fun sampling a bunch of drinks and
getting a little toasty, but it was getting a
lot of toasty. Oh, it was a lot of toast, yeah.
It was. I mean, shit, we'd get back at 6 .30,
7 .30, and I'd be like, holy shit, I'd lay on
the couch and I'd... It was fun, but I was kind
of like, all right, well, I just partied. Oh,
no, Friday night, we just went shopping. No,
you went out and fucking partied. We went on
a run. I'm not even talking to anybody. I'm talking
to myself. Two and a half hour binge is what
it was. Yeah, it was crazy. But it's fun. But
you know what? It was one of those things where
we... probably should have done some videoing
of those events that would go out. And we need
to continue that. Just because you're not there.
That's why I wanted to, Chuck says his son has
one, get one of those gimbals. And I wanted to
test Scott's out to see if it's something we
wanted to look at. Because I think having that,
I mean, you look kind of dorky with it, but I
think it'll add a level of... Authenticity. Or
something. It'll make it look better, I think.
Yeah, professionalism. Yes, professionalism,
yes. Yeah, we were hoping to bring that to Rebel,
remember? Yeah. We were talking about doing that.
Yeah. Well, I mean, Scott had one. He would have
probably brought it. We didn't think about it.
He didn't think about it. Well, it's also a matter
of downloading the app, learning how to use it.
I don't think it's difficult, but there's an
app that goes with it, so it pairs with your
phone. Oh, interesting. Oh. Oh. Yeah. Okay. But
how about that? That's what I was kind of wondering.
Yeah, so folks out there. That was fun. We went
to the Revel this past weekend, and it was the
Dudes Like Us podcast, along with Larry Hokai
and Scott Cash. Shout out to those guys from
JSL. And Cody, Scott Cash's cousin from somewhere
around Abilene, Texas. No, up in Oklahoma. Okay.
He's from up in Oklahoma, I thought. Yeah, he's
a cool guy. He was in Abilene for his son's.
Oh, is that what it was? Kai Jump. What is Bill's
last name? In my phone, it's Bill Whiskey. Was
it Paul Vault? Yeah, Paul Vault. Well, Bill was
there from our whiskey group. Joel? Not Billy
Joel, but Bill. Idol? It was a great excursion.
It was a great night. They had two tribute bands
that were playing. Both were excellent. Bob Seger.
Dude, the Bob Seger band was amazing. I mean,
when you say Bob Seger, I'm like, eh, you know.
He's got a lot of good shit. All right, yeah,
I mean, he does, but at the same time, I'm like,
I don't know if I'd get into it again. You know,
there was a time where I kind of got into it.
I got into all of them. And plus, he was a great
performer. He was good. Like I said, if you closed
your eyes, you would not know it wasn't Bob Seger.
He was that good. It was good. And thanks. Shout
out to Chuck for giving the podcast $20 of cash
so I can lay it up in front of the dude's feet
along with our card. And he was like, I don't
know what he wants me to do with that. And I
was like, read it. Read it. And he was like,
oh, dude's like a spy. He gave us two shout outs.
Two shout outs, yeah. Yeah, that's cool. Anyway,
and then Boston, I didn't think the lead singer,
I mean, it's a tall order, right? It's a tall
order to have someone sound perfect. No one's
going to sound like Boston. Exactly. But I will
say the musician portion of it, they were amazing.
Yeah, the band was really, really good. Oh, they
really were. I think the lead singer, he held
his own. I mean, he has a high -pitched voice,
so that's kind of what you need. But the pitch
and the tone were not on. Yeah, it was a little
off. But overall, man, it was a great night.
Yeah, they did a great job. I think both of them.
We did a lot of sampling that night. I think
you did more than we did. I must have. Yeah.
I think we tried probably most of them, but I
tried little sips. Oh, little tiny things. Yeah.
Well, before we walked out the door, I mean,
I poured myself a very large 12 -year Weller.
Yeah, I didn't have any of that. I was about
to pour some for Chuck. Chuck's like, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't want that much. I was
like. Fucking hand in the ball. Fill your own
glass, bitch. And so he filled the Glencairn
and I'm like, whoa, that is a lot. Yeah. So you
guys showed up like right away and I was like,
holy shit, it's time to go. That's at your house.
So you had to slam it. Oh, yeah. I was like,
glug, glug, glug, bam. And then we picked us
up and I was kind of, then instantly I was like,
I'm drunk. Instantly. Because I hadn't eaten
yet. I hadn't eaten all day. You're like, I had
three hard -boiled eggs. I did. Luckily, that
didn't happen, but I was thinking it was going
to. Yeah, there were some very good, tasty whiskeys
there that night. Yeah, we sampled, was it Tanyard
from Jack Daniels? Jack Daniels Tanyard, the
Jack Daniels 14, the Jack Daniels 12, and there
was something else, I think. Yeah, shout -out
to Bill. Shout -out to Cash. Cash brought some
stuff, too. Yeah. Yeah, it was good stuff. Plus,
I brought a couple of things. Knob Creek 12 and
my old granddad with Amberana in it. Now, of
course, we would never do that in the establishment.
Oh, no. Every time we went outside and we sat
around the car and we did a little sample. In
the handicapped spot. And then we walked all
the way back. We'd never do that inside. Because
that would be wrong. Like a smoke break. Yeah,
yeah. We'll go with that. It's a whiskey break.
You know what's crazy? That Larry drives all
the way out there from Weatherford, and he drives
all the way home. Damn. That's a long way. He
was enjoying himself, though. He was really enjoying
the music. Oh, man. They did such a great job.
I got to tell you, the Revel, it's a great venue
to watch performances like that. The problem
is it's expensive. Yeah, it's not cheap. It's
not cheap. It's expensive. How much do you think
the bill was at the end of the night? Brought
up by guess. I'm going to go with $540. What
do you think, Jeff? $690. Holy shit. I have no
idea. Well, there's food involved as well. $420.
But we didn't drink any. Oh, my God. There was
only food and beer. Because we didn't drink any.
That's true. We didn't order any whiskeys. That's
true. Are you saying it was like $70? It was
$420. Wow. Oh, I overbid. Ding, ding, ding, ding,
ding. And I only said that because he said $690,
and I thought that was funny. So I'm going to
make a $420 joke. Oh, well. I thought maybe you
saw it or something. But no, it's $420, and then
Cash tipped on top of that. So, you know, shout
out to Cash for picking up the tab on that. The
waitress did an excellent job. Oh, I thought
Larry did. Larry didn't pick up the tab? No,
Scott did. I think, well, whatever. Let those
guys work it out. There's some business stuff
going on. That was really nice. That was really
nice of them. I told Larry I appreciate it. See
if you could find on the YouTube the Seeger system.
I may have said something. I don't know. Towards
the end of the night, I was like, Yeah, you were
pretty good. You were sitting next to me. You
were just like, roofied. I did not. I'm going
to roof it again. I actually remember the whole
night. It's just, I don't remember when I got
home. So these guys, was this actually from that
event that night? No, I think it's just a promo
of their band. These guys did great, man. The
Seeger System, the ultimate Bob Seeger tribute
band. These guys are great. The saxophone player,
it's like he whipped that out for that just one
moment. They were kind of like, hey, dude, you
got to learn the saxophone. No, we don't want
you to learn. You don't have to play anything.
Just that one song. Just be really good at that
one song. Right, right. Is that the same guy
singing that? Yeah, he was really good, man.
We enjoyed it. It's a secret system, so. I think,
and I'm kind of torn on, you know, I think next
time. If we get a group like that, we just need
to get two six tops. So the question is, do we
get the traditional six tops where we were 25
feet from the stage and it had the round bar
stools? Or do we get the compact tables that
hold six? Because, frankly, I don't really like
the compact tables. The area was nice where we
were at, but there's people all around us. Well,
I mean, I don't think you're not going to get
away from feeling too crowded. Oh, yeah. Well,
then plus that one guy that kept buying you shots,
and then did he run his hand up the small of
your back? What was going on with that? No, that
didn't happen. No, no, it happened. That was
years and years ago. Okay, so just because it
happened years and years ago, it still happened.
No, no, no, we've all forgotten it, so it didn't
happen anymore. Sean has an elephant memory and
things like that. Really? Only certain things.
No, just that. Nothing else. I can't remember
what shoes I'm wearing right now. We can't remember
what queso is. That gentleman made me extremely
uncomfortable, and I very quickly moved away
from him. Yeah, that was kind of weird. It was
very weird. He was just so toasty. I think he
left his phone there too, right? That would be
you. Oh, that was a different time. Yeah, that
was a different time. I should have taken the
phone. Well, I know Paul was doing an expert.
example of how to sample bourbon. Oh, you posted
one of the videos? His technique of being a lizard?
Yeah, but hold on. I didn't know more context
what's going on because I didn't know he was
sampling bourbon until I watched it a few times
because I didn't understand what was going on.
I'm like, did he just take a bite of a sandwich
or something? And then he's like trying to swallow
it. And then after watching it to their son,
but that is like horrific to watch this so many
times. And then I realized. Oh, he's drinking
the bourbon because I saw someone sample it.
That's the way to sample it. And I was like,
oh, that's first off. I was being a smart ass
and totally overdoing it, not knowing that jackass
over here was filming me and that jackass over
here would be posting it on Instagram instantly.
And we got a lot of hits on Instagram. You know,
me looking like a fool. Well, Larry was next
to me. So he was watching. He was laughing. Mr.
Producer. And he was laughing. He goes, you need
to post that. Right. I was like, OK. Yeah, that's
great. We actually have a couple videos from
that night. I think three. Yeah, you filmed and
posted several of them. I didn't want to do too
many of them, but it's that one there. Nope,
next one. That one there. Great. Yeah, let's
just take a look at this. You got any music with
that? I look like a fat Komodo dragon. See, I
had no intention, and all of a sudden you started
doing this. And I was like, oh. Then he zooms
in. Why are you zooming in on me? Although that's
an attractive face. There's nothing attractive
about that whatsoever. You don't even need audio
to see that part. Clearly, you fucker. Oh, no,
no, no. I don't use profanity. I'm not sure what
I said. That was good stuff. Yeah, it was a good
time. I enjoy doing that. We can only do that
once in a blue moon. I can only do that once
in a blue moon. It had been like over a year.
It had been a while for me. Yeah. And the tickets
were extraordinarily expensive. They were $39.
I don't understand why. I mean, they were very
good bands. $39 .50 a pop. I don't get it, man.
Those are cover bands, and you're spending $20
a pop to see a cover band? Unless they were expensive
bands to get. But that's it. I think they're
landing pretty respectable cover bands, and that's
why. They were able to give them a chunk of change.
They were good. Yeah, they earned it. Whatever
they made that night, they earned it. See, I
would have paid that to go see the Foreigner
cover band that we saw. Like the real cover band?
Yeah, the ones we saw. That was a cover band.
There was zero people from Foreigner on that.
I know, I know. But they are at least... How
much did we actually pay? A hundred bucks. They're
at least all legends in their own right. It's
not like they're people off the street that are
being in a cover band. They're officially the...
But you have to at least acknowledge that those
are some of the Foreigner. There were legends
in that band. From where? Yeah, they're a tribute
band. You knew who they all were. Oh, he played
for Toto. Oh, he played for Kansas. Oh, he played
for blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They're all
session players. They're all session players.
I think they were very good. They sounded great.
I had a problem with zero people from the original
Foreigner being in it for a hundred bucks. I
totally get that. I totally get that. Yeah. Well,
they really need to relabel the tribute band.
I mean, where do you draw the line? What makes
you guys, the Foreigner, if there's not a single
member that's from that original band. There
is the other band that's similar to that, like
the Guess Who. The Guess Who is probably in the
Guinness Book of World Records that has the most
players that have transitioned in and out of
that place. Oh, really? Yeah, so how many would
you say makes it where you can say they're authentic?
One, two, and it doesn't have to be the lead
singer. What if the keyboardist is the original
and none of the other ones are? Like Mick Jones
needs to be in it, or Lou Graham. I get it. Or
the guitarist or something like that. What about
Styx? They had two originals, right? Did they?
No, they have at least three. At least three?
Yeah, they have Tommy Shaw, the tall guitarist,
the drummer. I think maybe, I don't know about
the bassist, but the singer has been with Styx
longer than Dennis DeYoung did. Right. And he
was entertaining. Yeah, he was. He was great.
Was that the piano player? Yeah, wearing the
white pants, shaking his ass. Yeah, he was a
bit much. What is up with that? He was over the
top, had that piano that was like doing circles,
and he was like, dude, are you on coke? Yeah,
he was writhing all over the place, and I was
like, I would love to have that much energy.
How old is he, in the 70s? I don't know. I have
no idea how old he is. But he was. He had energy.
I'll give you that. Tons of energy. I don't want
to say he was all coked up because I'm not saying
that at all. But he had a tremendous amount of
energy. And the girls that were sitting in front
of us were frolicking all over him. And they
were young. And I was kind of like, damn. I need
white leather pants. That's what you're thinking.
I was not thinking that. I thought that was your
statement. Are you sure? No, I'm 100%. I just
heard Jeff say that. Jeff said, I need, he needs.
Okay, so you never thought, I want to be that
guy. I want to wear those white leather pants.
I want the red leather ones just like Loverboy.
Loverboy. You think you could still fit in those?
No. Are there any other questions? That's a quick
no. Yeah, that's like the fastest no I could
get out. Right. So these are all the people that
have been or are in Foreigner? In Foreigner,
yeah. And it's like a rolling cast. I mean, yeah,
there's some ones you know, but there's 16 people
up there. I think that top row is the original,
isn't it? Well, some of them. Bruce Watson's
been there since 2011. Oh, that Kelly. I can't
see it. Kelly Hanson. He's the singer now, isn't
he? He's good. Probably, yeah. I mean, he's good.
They sounded good. If I'm paying to see Foreigner,
I want to see. Foreigner. Yeah, so you'd rather
pay 40 bucks to see a foreign cover band. Yes.
I got you. Yes. But they're playing in big venues.
Yeah, it was a big venue. It was a nice venue.
It was expensive, too, though. I mean, everything
is expensive. Look, everything is expensive.
Everything. Everything. Our rent, where we live,
food, except for gas. Gas isn't expensive. Bourbon's
coming down. Yeah, well, you know, it's because
they have to. You know, it's because it's...
They're actually getting murdered by the tariffs.
The last... Well, the bourbon's not getting murdered
by tariffs. Yeah, they are. How are they getting
murdered by tariffs? First off, they lost all
of Canada. Okay, well, so? And that was huge.
Huge. That doesn't impact our pricing. Yeah.
Tariffs don't impact... Jim Beam has stopped
production. I know, but how does that impact...
My bottle of Jim Beam. Well, I'm just saying.
Everything's made here in the U .S. The tariffs
are really, really hurting. Well, the Supreme
Court was supposed to weigh in on the tariffs
this week. Today, the Supreme Court was weighing
in on the transgender whole thing, which, in
my opinion, is absolutely a waste of time. It
should be simple. It should be nine to zero.
And it's an absolute waste of time. It won't
be 9 -0. Males are males. Females are females.
But it should be. It should be. 100%. It's going
to be split exactly like all the other ones are
split. Conservative and liberal. All these social
bullshit things. Did you see, I guess, one of
the justices, was it Amy Coney Barrett? I don't
remember who it was. I asked one of the lawyers
to define. Or sex or the woman or something like
that. It was Alito. I guess he couldn't do that.
Samuel Alito. He goes, before we can decide classifications
of men and women, we need to define what a man
and woman is. Can you do that? And they struggled
with that. They couldn't do it. I know. It's
so ridiculous. I hate that. So you're saying
that one of the justices couldn't say it? Alito.
No, no, no. Alito was challenging the lawyer
to. to come up with a definition of male and
female so that they could move forward with debating
whether or not classifications were allowed.
Are you talking about the Alan Michael Hurst
lawyer? Because he was the guy that was promoting
getting the transgender shit out. So was there
another lawyer that was representing the left?
Yes. It was a lawyer on the left. So the Contangi
Brown Jackson, in my opinion, She's a fruitcake.
She was the one that couldn't define a woman
when she went through the Senate hearing. Absolutely
bizarre. I don't even know how the hell she made
it. I know how because the Dems had the votes.
They were going to get her in regardless. Yeah,
it was during when they had the Senate majority.
Correct. That's when it happened. It's bizarre.
I mean, the line of questioning that she was
asking was just absolutely, because I listened
to almost the whole thing this today. Oh, really?
Yeah, because I was in the office, and I shut
my door, and I had it on there, and every time
something would happen, I'd hit pause, I'd get
up, and I'd listen to the whole thing. It was
entertaining. Are they saying kind of what they're
thinking it's going to lean to? I mean, is it?
Oh, yeah, for sure. Transgenders will not be
able to play girls' sports, period. So we'll
see how that goes. So what happens if a state
doesn't follow that ruling? They're kicked out.
Of what? What would happen? Of the union. Okay,
gone. Well, hold on. So I don't know if... We'll
have to change all the flags. I don't know if
the states all have to abide by it. It's just
a matter if it goes up to the Supreme Court,
which that's the whole reason that it went up
there is that someone was arguing. And the fact
that it was one particular girl and she was like,
well, if we don't make our decision today, she's
going to graduate before the summer. So are we
going to be able to get this done before that?
And he was just like, excuse me, ma 'am, she's
not going to graduate before summer. Meaning
she didn't pass all her classes or something.
He's insinuating that. So there'll be opportunities
to pick the ball back up because she wants to
continue playing. Yeah, I don't know. I don't
know. Yeah, I don't know how it will affect the
states. I mean, in theory, the whole point of
doing this is so that it puts this to rest. Women
can't play on men's teams and men's can't play
on women's teams, period. But if Frisco's like,
yeah, we're going to allow this, what's going
to stop them from doing it? Ice. No, what's going
to stop them from doing it is folks like us standing
up and saying it's wrong. Well, we do that now.
Yeah. I mean, you could bring another lawsuit,
right? Is there something else that we have to
do? That's what I mean. So the Supreme Court's
going to rule on this and say, you can't do this.
I don't know. When they leave the decree down,
I don't know how. I think Chuck's right. It would
be a lawsuit, and then— Some lower court would
put an injunction on it and refer to the Supreme
Court case on it. That's right. And then— That
would stop. And then the lawsuit would force
the school to kick that man off the women's team.
And if he didn't, what happens? The Junction
Junction. The guillotine. Junction Junction.
Yes. I'm just trying to, I don't know. I mean,
what happens? Death by guillotine. Start chopping
heads off. If they say, I still want him to play
in girls volleyball. I don't know. You know what?
They can go to a school that will accommodate
that. I mean, look. I get that. They're saying
misogyny. And it's like, dude, look, it's not
misogyny because. Girls can play in guy sports.
If you're that good, then jump on in there and
play. In fact, there are certain age brackets
where that could happen. I don't know, man. It
pisses me off. I agree with you 100%. I want
to know that there is a hard stop to this happening,
and I want to know what's the mechanism to stop
it from happening. Why don't you email this link?
Alito? Hey, Sam. I think once they make their
final decisions, that's going to be it. So will
people contest it? Yeah, they'll still send it
to court, but what's going to happen? The Supreme
Court's the final word. It is, but they could
still contest it, but it won't get past a certain
point. I don't know about court, but they could
initially contest it, but it won't get past that.
So switching gears back to the tariff thing,
though, did you see how Trump was like, man,
if the Supreme Court rules against the tariffs,
it's going to be impossible to unwind this. And
I agree how complex it would be to unwind what's
already been done. And I know he's using that
as a leverage, a tactic to make them go, yeah,
he's probably right. Let's not rule against it.
Well, I think we need to have these tariffs.
It would be tricky. Why the heck, I mean, and
we've brought this up in this podcast before,
the fact that the other countries are charging,
they're not charging reciprocally the same. I
mean, come on. It's unfair trade practices. Just
charge the same. Just charge the same. So, I
mean, I don't understand why that's such a, look,
I get it. Some things are more expensive, but
you know what? That's what they are. They're
from another country. If you go and say, oh,
what chocolate is that? It's German chocolate.
Oh, that's German chocolate. It costs a little
bit more. It's a little bit more deluxe. It's
a little bit more refined. They've got all the
good stuff in there. You know, that's what you
pay for. You're paying for a higher caliber product.
It's being imported. There's a tax that's associated
with that import. Shut up. Pay it and move on.
Oh, well, we can't do this anymore because we
can't buy all our shit from China at a nickel.
It's going to cost us eight cents now. Fuck off.
Then you need to start buying your shit here
in the United States. Right. That's the whole
point. And this whole tariff thing has given
the Trump administration massive leverage to
get them to do other things as well. Right. I
mean, not just the trade thing, but they were
like, listen, if you don't get on board, like
what he's doing about Iran. He's saying anybody
who does business with Iran, I'm immediately
putting 25 % tariff on. I mean, it's weird. It's
weirdness because there's no precedent for the
shit he's doing right now. But damn, it's effective
leverage, man. It's effective. And they're like,
whoa, whoa, whoa, don't do that. Nothing hits
them harder than when you hit them in the pocket.
And look, I got a shout out to the citizens of
Iran. There's turmoil over there. And in the
midst of that turmoil, there's a person that
they're about to execute by hanging. Apparently
they have killed up to 12 ,000 people so far.
And I do believe that Trump is going to pull
the trigger on doing some sort of Some military
action. Man, that's a tough call, man. That's
another Afghanistan thing. I don't know if I
want to get involved in that because... No, he'll
just... Bomb a bunch of places. He'll take out
every military site he can think of. Strategic
locations, I think. Strategic locations, and
he'll pound them hard. Kind of like that Venezuelan
thing. Good Lord. Do you hear the stories about
that? Not just what had happened, but the way
they did it with all the drones, and they had
LiDAR. Is that called LiDAR, the sound? No, not
LiDAR. It's a form of it, because it was a sound
thing that kind of blasted out of them, made
their nose bleed and shit. LiDAR is what you
use with your iPad, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
What is it called? It was some shockwave shit.
It was sound is what it was. Yeah, it was crazy.
It made them all sick, puke, and shit themselves.
It incapacitated them. And that person, that
eyewitness was like, man, do not screw around
with the United States because they have some
serious shit. Well, he said that they came down.
Oh, it's Elrad. Elrad. He's never seen someone
outfitted like that. He goes, they were so fast
at shooting. that he thought they were shooting
300 rounds a second. Yeah. Skill and technique
and training. And that's another deterrent, man.
Don't screw around. It's the whole fuck around
and find out. He said that 20 guys took out like
300. Yeah. I wonder if the cartel's butts puckered
a little bit after that. I hope so. This should
be our overwhelming force. Don't ever screw with
the United States or... Or don't ever screw with
things that the United States cares about because
we will destroy you. That's what they need to
include. It's a deterrent. The LRAD. I'm looking
up at the screen Mr. Producer put up there. The
LRAD acoustics. They need to have those attached
to every vehicle where there's an ICE event going
on. Can you imagine clearing out? That would
break up anybody. It would break up everybody.
You could shoot that thing down the street, and
it'll go a couple hundred yards. It'll disperse
everybody. Did everyone shit everywhere? Well,
the problem is... Well, I mean, not to that point,
maybe. I don't know. Have you... I mean, I guess
if you have a large crowd that's gathered, you
know, like hundreds of people, and yeah, you
just kind of point it to them, but if it's just...
Like, these people are following ice around,
and they're in neighborhoods, and there's, like,
people walking around, like... So how are they
going to pick and choose who to shoot it at?
Hey, man, look, if you're in the middle of the
street. Oh, yeah, I get it. Then you know what?
You're susceptible of getting smacked by the
LiDAR acoustic sound wave. And it is what it
is. I'm okay with it. People get out of the way.
And you know what? It doesn't kill them. And
they make them so that you can have controlled
bursts. I think they're very directional as well.
Oh, they're absolutely directional. I mean, they
could shoot it at 10 degrees, and people at 15
won't get hit with it. Right. Because these protesters
in Minneapolis are creating extremely dangerous
situations. We already saw it happen, right?
The one lady gets shot in the head, right? Did
she get shot in the head? Yes, she did. She lurched
forward and bumped the officer. And he instinctively
shot at her and shot her in the head. I'm kind
of taking Greg Gutfeld's thing on this. I'm not
going to comment on... We're not the investigators.
No. We can have an opinion, but we don't know.
They're going to investigate it. It's not our
place to say he did this, she did that. Right.
Whether it was justified or not. Correct. I mean,
what I see, it looks like she... was hitting
it but it's almost like it's like you know that
that meme where it says you see the green dress
or you see the blue dress right it's almost like
that where these liberals are like oh she was
clearly just kind of you're gonna see whatever
you want to do in a 30 point turn to try to get
out of there no whereas we are seeing her rushing
and flooring it to try to hit him he got out
of the way and shot right now does you know but
there are a lot of people that have different
opinions on it but i mean i've got mine i've
seen some memes where they're clearly she gunned
it and it hit him and they were like his foot
slid so it wasn't sliding because he stepped
it was he slid because the car hit him so i don't
know man i know i know she's dead And that's
the thing that sucks. It's like, I don't want
somebody like that to be shot, but she clearly
put herself in harm's way. Well, the only good
thing that came out of it, we realized that white
lives matter now. Right. All right, so we've
got, we're trying something a little bit different,
man. Yeah, this is, I want to have a shout out
to Sandra, the lady I work with bought this,
and she loved the bottle. That's hilarious. Well,
it is a wonderful looking bottle. It's beautiful.
And she bought it for her husband, but her husband
doesn't drink this. So he's like, I won't drink
it. So she knew that we drink whiskey. So she
brought it in. She goes, I just want the bottle
back. And it's Johnny Walker Blue Label. This
is the Texas edition. Yeah, it's Texas. They
got a little rodeo cowboy. It says, I heart Texas
in the stands. Longhorns on the side. Keep walking
ranch. I mean, it's pretty cool. It's got like
sceneries. It's got the west portion of Texas
because it's got the windmills and the oil rigs.
It's cool. And the blue bonnets. And the blue
bonnets, yeah. So I got to tell you, first out
of the bottle, I got to tell you, You take the
bottle. It has a wonderful sound. I know it sounds
crazy, but just the sound itself. Look, I'm going
to open this up. I mean, that is a fantastic
sound. And when you put it back in, it's like.
I mean, look, you get a lot of bottles. You can
probably recreate that sound with a number of
things that we probably don't want to talk about.
I imagine you can, but sticking around. Well,
you know what? It doesn't matter. But right there,
when you open the bottle right before we're pouring
it out there, you get that wonderful sound because
it kind of sets the tone. Okay, well, what are
we getting? Because a lot of these whiskeys that
you get, you're kind of like, oh, it's got a
plastic cork. It's just like, oh, it's a twist
cap. This one has a nice cork. It pops out. It's
a heavy one. It's Johnny Walker. It's Blue Label.
And it's 80 proof. It's 80 proof. It is super
easy to drink. It is. Very nice. Yeah, it is
extremely tasty. This is my first Johnny Walker.
I know this is, I don't think it's their highest,
but I think it's mid -tier. This was about $230,
$250 for this bottle. Amazing. That'd be tough
for me to ever spend something like that. Yeah.
Well, the Johnny Walker Blue, I think. $200 and
something dollars on a bottle like this? Yeah.
80 proof. No way. I mean, a lot of people do.
A lot of people like the Johnny Walker. It tastes
great. I mean, it comes in a family. Because
when I was bartending younger, you had Red Label.
Red Label was supposed to be the starter. You
know, Red Label, I'll take Red and Coke. And
then Black Label, I'll take Black and Soda. And
then they had the green. It was titanium or,
hold on, platinum. Maybe it was platinum. Platinum
was kind of like, oh, my God. And then the blue
label came out. I was like, oh, well, I stopped
drinking it after that point. That was a long
time ago. That was my early 20s. Right. So there
is a slightly smoky finish. A little bit. Slightly.
And now is that peated? Does that mean it's peated
or is it just basically a smoky finish? I don't
know. I'm a scotch noob. Me too. I don't know
too much about scotch. We're going to have to
start. Based on what the Google says, as far
as the taste, key characteristics, smoothness
known for, it's exceptionally smooth, which it
is. It has the traditional single malt taste,
which we've tasted in some of the Texas single
malts, which are fantastic. It does have that
spice, smoke from the initial sweetness, complex
layers. They unfold after every tiny little sip.
I'm kind of curious. Would you drink that stuff?
Does it affect your taste? It cleanses the palate
for me. I'm sure it does impact it some. A blend
of rare hand -selected whiskeys from Exceptional.
Is this a blend? Yeah, it's a blend. So this
is a blend. Okay. A blended scotch whiskey. Look.
It gets better with every sip. Yeah, it's good.
It is really good. And the problem is, it's good.
It's really good. And it's only 80 proof. And
to me, That is crushable. Yeah. To Paul's point,
I don't know if I'd spend $250 on this bottle.
You can get it for $170, $150. Or even still,
I don't know. Again, I don't know what to compare
it to as far as scotches, so I don't know how
it compares to other scotches out there. That
may be just as good for half the price. I don't
know. But this particular one, it's a commemorative
one, and it's got some wonderful artwork on there,
and I don't blame her for wanting that back.
What's she going to do with it? Put a plant in
it? Yes, she said she was going to put a plant
in it. Very cool. Or flowers or something. Yeah,
it's beautiful. All right, let's rate it. Maybe
we ought to have it lasered, put our Dudes Like
Us podcast drink on there. That'd be kind of
funny. Oh, she'd love that. Just burn all those
blues, like sand all that off. No, no, no, no.
We'll take it to an engraver, have them engrave
it. I think that'd be kind of cool. I don't think
she'd like that. She would not like that. Or
maybe she would. I doubt it. So again, I mean.
Comparing this to some other single malts, I
don't know if we can do that. I'm going to compare
it to the Balconia single malts and even the
Wolves. In my opinion, I think those are punchier,
have more depth and taste. This one is produced
on a large scale, and so it's a blend. It's excellent.
Let's start there, but it doesn't have the deep.
rich taste that some of these other american
single malts are producing right now i think
it's very comparative to some of the traditional
scotches out there as opposed to the single malts
scotch is a different animal uh being in the
scotch family we got to separate that then right
so scotch this is our first scotch right uh no
do we have an irish scotch yeah we have a couple
out there we need to try them i'm gonna give
this a seven and a half yeah it's a tough call
I really like it. I think the price brought my
number down some. Yeah. But in terms of a quality
scotch, I would probably go an 8 .1. I mean,
this is excellent. I mean, but again, we'd have
to try. If we tried like 10 other scotches, would
this one blow those away? That's what I mean.
My 7 .5, they'd be low. Yeah. All right. Well,
I'll tell you what. We need to stick a pin in
this because I'm going to say six, nine, six,
eight. And I'm going to stick a pin in this because
I think I'm being unfair and because I have tasted
some other scotches and I know those other scotches
are way worse than this one. So that's kind of
an unfair thing. But as a starting point, I'm
sticking with eight one. I think it's that that
tasty. Tell you what. There's a sweetness that
gets on the lips. Yes. And it's it's. It's not
the finish. But it's on the lips when you're
drinking and you get it. I really like it. It's
really good. Dried fruits. It tastes a little
hazelnut in there. A little dark chocolate. I
don't know. It's hard for me to pick stuff out
of scotch. I guess smoke. Like a cigar or is
this like a barbecue? No, no, no. Very, very
slight, but it's still wonderful. So it's great.
What do you think, Chuck? I'm not a huge fan.
Really? Yeah. I don't think you're a scotch fan
anyway, right? I used to be a big scotch fan,
right? The first couple sips were almost I couldn't
drink it. It got sweeter. It got more mellow
as I had more of it. I still taste the same things
that I got out of the first one. So I'm going
to, you know. six seven six eight it's not interesting
and you and you're a i use i used to and i it's
probably because i'm not used to drinking a lot
of scotch you know anymore but i used to okay
it's because the the fantastic whiskeys we've
been getting has oh dude it's hard to compete
with your palate your palate changes yeah oh
yeah especially lately we've been trying all
these crazy ones since yeah all these buddies
are letting us share. Can you find out how many
bottles they made of this? Because we have bottle
6 ,977. I think they said 10 ,000. No, they chose
one barrel out of 10 ,000 to make this with.
So they specifically selected it for this blend.
But you said 6 ,000 bottles? Well, it says bottle
number 6 ,977 unless that stands for something
other than... Well, you know what? Then maybe
that is... Maybe their barrel is not a barrel.
Maybe it's a cask. You know, those big old metal
ones? Put Texas on there. It has to be a limited
release. It has to be. Yeah. I don't know. I'm
thinking at least... It says, while other Blue
Label limited releases have very low counts,
i .e. 100 bottles, the Texas edition focused
on design... variety rather than extreme scarcity
so who knows i don't know yeah this doesn't really
say no it doesn't all right so ai said johnny
walker blue label text edition offers a mellow
rounded with a dry to smoke raisin sweetness
transitioning by velvety palette vanillas honey
rose petals says the orange hazelnut dark chocolate
finishing long and rich with a signature johnny
walker smokiness capturing the spirit of texas
in its rare blend this is the 2023 Definitely
enjoyable. Yeah, I enjoy it. I'm very glad we
have it. Yeah, I didn't know what to expect.
I know Johnny Walker Blue, a lot of people want
that. But again, I haven't had a lot. That's
the first Johnny Walker I've ever had. I wouldn't
dump $2 .50 on it, but who knows? Maybe after
we drink a couple dozen different scotches. Real
quick, Chuck, can you scroll back down? Keep
going. No, no, on the other way. Other way. At
the top of this one. Oh, I guess you moved away
from it. It had four bottles that were all part
of this Texas. Oh, so different designs. There,
right there. I think those are the four sides.
Oh, it's the same bottle? Yeah, it's just a landscape.
All right, tell your friend to buy all the varieties
so that she can have all the bottles, and then
we'll drink them for her. Yeah. Can you do that?
It's the same bottle. No, but I think there are
other designs. No. There's the train. No, okay.
That's the picture you're looking at. But what
I just read is that they're focusing on making
different design bottles. Oh, yes. This is the
Texas one, and they're maybe like an Australian
one or something. I see what you mean. Yes, that's
what I meant. So have her buy all of those, and
we'll drink them more. All right. Excellent.
Cool. Anything else? I think we're good. Shout
out to anybody? What's her name again? Sandra.
Thank you, Sandra. Thank you very much, Sandra.
Great tasting scotch. The Johnny Walker Blue
Label. Try this out. I'll make a video short
of that. You had like eight pours. Yeah, what
the hell, man? You're on a bad trend of just
kind of overpouring the rare shit. I poured just
a little bit more. It wasn't even an ounce. Oh,
boy. I need to add this to Only Drams. No, there's
no barcode. Must be in the box. First half of
the Dudes Like Us podcast, January 13th, Tuesday.
Dudes Like Us. I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff.