Not only does it help me, but it looks cool.
We need a direct click. I mean, they make words
that are just skinny. And they sound like that?
Yeah. Just like that. Well, we have a jam -packed
second half of our Dudes Like Us podcast. We've
got our producer, Chuck. What's up, man? Check
us out on dudeslikeus -podcast on Facebook and
Instagram. I don't think we're on anything else.
I think we have accounts like X and... TikTok
and... I don't think we have a TikTok yet. I
think we do. Yeah, we need to do it. We have
it in the count, but... So the latest on TikTok,
pull it up, Chuck. Let's do it. That's supposed
to change hands this month, like really soon,
to majority ownership U .S. owned. I was told
that us getting on TikTok is an absolute must.
Yeah. Yeah. And it is what it is because it's
a very popular app. I've spent January 22nd.
Weeks on it, you know? Back when the time was,
when it was on, I deleted it from my phone. It
was one of those things. Dude's like, I'm Sean.
I'm Paul. Oh, hello, Jeff. That was odd. It was
a little odd, wasn't it? Yes, it was. So January
22nd is when the projected closing is going to
happen. So China is still going to own some of
it, but the majority of it is going to be owned
by U .S. companies. It says Silver Lake. and
MGX and Oracle as some of the... And the motivation
behind this whole thing was that we were being
told that all of our data is being sold. Well,
not just that. Harvested for communist China.
Part of that, but also the algorithm. The programming,
yeah. The algorithm itself is corrupting our
youth, basically. Degenerate. Yeah, just bullshit.
Degenerate programming. So the control of the
algorithm is going to be controlled by U .S.
companies now, from what I read. And they can
push good, wholesome family entertainment, like
dudes like us podcast. Like astronauts. I think
they need to be more stringent or more... On
the amount of time. Actually, I go back. When
I was on TikTok, I recall now, there is a bottom.
You can repeat the bottom, but when you hit the
bottom of the TikTok, it says, hey, man. You've
reached the end. You've been on TikTok for quite
some time. Maybe you ought to go outside and
catch a breath or something. You're a loser.
Hey, loser. You've reached the end of the internet,
sir. Hey, man, you're a fucking loser. Get out
of here. Or the end of Netflix. You've reached
the end of Netflix. Congratulations. And it shuts
off. Yeah. Well, I mean, that was kind of cool
that it did that. I got the, what is this, Joe?
Rogan. No, the little Italian guy, Joe Pesci.
You know, they need to have a little Joe Pesci
voice in there. Hey, you've seen the TikTok or
something kind of crazy like that. Did you say
Utes? Yeah, go Utes. I kind of envisioned that.
But, you know, my point is, is that it's such
a dopamine. It is awful. Man, I had to get rid
of it, so I got rid of it. Yeah, but Instagram's
not any different. It's the same. Yeah, but thanks
to Jeff, we've added the little thing on there
that says, hey, man. After 20 straight hours?
No, it just shuts you off. You get like an hour
a day, you know, or 15, 30 minutes, whatever
it is. I think I put it at 30 minutes. Yeah,
30 minutes a day. Done. There you go. I think
you could blow by that if you wanted to. You
can. Yeah. You can, but then you do it in succession.
So you could say, hey, I want to extend it five
minutes, and then you get off. Nine times out
of ten, I'll just get off of it. You're just
like, oh, fuck. Oh, yeah, I guess you're right.
I need to get the hell off this. What have I
done here? But when you hop back on it, like
you said, you can continue to do it, and then
you'll let you go for another 15 minutes, and
then it turns it off again, or it warns you,
or it lets you know, hey, man, you've been on
this 15 minutes. And this is, man, I know we've
harped on this before. It's like, it's not good
for our kids. It's not. It's not. They're being
robbed of what being a kid is like. And I think
our kids were lucky enough, they were just ahead
of this. They're all on it. They're on it now,
though. They're all on it, but they weren't raised
on it like today's kids. I see these seven, eight,
nine -year -olds, you know. mom and dad give
them the phone because they don't want to deal
with their kids right so they're flipping on
phones yep i mean starting at like three years
old i had middle schoolers who were doing the
whole tiktok thing yep all the way home you know
i'm just like dude you know and one of the questions
i put on the board that i wanted us to talk about
is what what decade would you say was the best
decade to be a kid and i'll tell you i'll tell
you this decade is not it no it's not it at all
I think 70s or 80s, late 70s, 80s. What about
60s? What about 50s? No. No? Because I wasn't
alive. Actually, I was alive in the 60s, but
I was six months old. Yeah? Yeah. I mean, so
the 50s and 60s had their merit. You could play
outside. You could play outside in the 80s. 70s
and 80s, same way, yeah. When I say 70s and 80s,
I think the, well, 50s had some good music, too.
There's some really good music in the 70s and
80s. There was really good... I mean, you could
say there was good music in all of those decades,
but what makes it a good decade to be a kid in?
Not now. Not now. I 100 % agree. So, I mean,
really, when was the... I guess then the next
question should be, when was the cutoff when
this technology started consuming us? And I would
say it's probably the early 90s. I was going
to say 90s probably wasn't all that great either
for kids, was it? I think so. I think you're
right. Maybe 80s. I mean 90s. In 1988 is when
I remember working right out of high school.
I was working at a bar, and some dude had this
large shoe up next to his head. And he was talking
into it. And I was like, what the fuck are you?
I got closer. It was like it was a phone. It
was one of those first phones. And I was like,
dang, that thing is huge. It was huge. That's
when it started. And then what? Five years later,
Nokia came out with a phone from the Scandinavian
area up north in Sweden. A Nokia where you had
the game Snake. That was one of the first things
that captivated you. But even before that, you
can listen to the episodes from Seinfeld, where
Kramer, he's got a pocket organizer. And he had
his, oh, I went to a bank, I opened up a bank
account, and they gave me this organizer. And
he's all animated. Yeah, he's so funny. So he
hands it to the girl. What is the girl's name
on there? Well, whatever. Elena. Elaine. Elaine.
He answered to Elaine, and she was like, oh,
is this the one that has the little beeps? And
I'm like, oh, my God. I just kind of, like, in
my mind, I was kind of like, that was the bonus
to have a beep, you know, where you could turn
the beeps off and on. And it collected all the
data, meaning their phone numbers, their address.
It was an organizer. It was like a Palm Pilot.
Yeah, it was just, I mean, it was so. It was
so – there was nothing to it. There was nothing
to it. And it's like that was the best time because
that's when you had to get the TV guide to find
out what's on TV. Right. That's when you had
to read the newspaper every single day to figure
out what's going on. When we're playing our fantasy
football, you had to wait until the Monday morning
or the Tuesday morning to get all the stats of
all the games. And you sit there and you go through
all the stats, who went over 100 yards, and you
write all the numbers down. Yeah, but we had
the calculator watch. I had a calculator watch
in middle school. Yeah. A little Casio. Yeah.
That was the shit. That was horrible. And I had
one that had a game on it. No, no, it sucked,
but we thought it was awesome. It was very good.
And you always wanted, in those little buttons,
for some reason, you always want to rip the buttons
off. You had to have a toothpick. I mean, how
often do we honestly use it for as a calculator?
Because you would totally get buzzed in the middle
of class. I had it in class. I never did. Jeff,
is that you are using your calculator? I am.
I'm doing my cosines and logarithms. So, I mean,
do we think the 80s was the best decade because
we were kids in the 80s? Of course. So, I mean,
so let's reflect. What about the 40s? What about
the 50s? When I think back then, what was the
state of the nation then? Was it mainly farmland
back then? But there's also another element,
and that's ignorance is bliss. So, you know,
when you're a kid at that time, you know, you
don't know. What was better at the time? My family
was not rich in any sense of the word, but I
didn't know any different. Right. You played
outside. My powdered milk was just perfectly
fine with me. All my handmade down clothes were
perfectly fine. Nothing different. And every
day you ran around with your friends and life
was great. That was great. And it's funny you
mention that because I know we gave you a hard
time. I don't think we gave you a hard time.
Just bust your balls a little bit. But it was
like, you know, the more I thought about it,
we totally had powdered milk living in Germany.
I remember opening up that refrigerator. We didn't
have milk in there. I was like, I remember we
had the carnation box. And I remember mixing
it for my cereals. And I was kind of like, this
is stupid. We had yellow. So I just eat it. Yeah,
we had yellow. I guess they bought a package
where you got the powdered milk, but you came
with two jugs. They were yellow with blue lids
on it. And you'd measure it out, put your water
in there, and you'd shake it, and you'd have
a half gallon of milk. Crazy. So we'd put that
in the fridge, and we'd drink that, and then
we'd make more. And it tasted just like milk?
I have no idea. That's all I had. I don't remember
what it tastes like. It was milk to me. That's
what I use in my cereal and everything. Was it
milk? I mean, I'm a little confused about what
powdered milk is. I think it's milk. It is truly
milk. Remember Tang? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So instead
of Tang orange, it would be milk. I don't know.
What is powdered milk made of? I know. It just
sounds weird to me. It's still, look, I know
very well. It still was watered down. Yeah, there
it is. It's essentially regular milk with most
of its water removed, made by evaporating liquid
milk. It didn't have dry powder. It didn't have
the proteins, the lactic proteins, I hope I'm
saying that correctly, that regular milk has.
All that stuff is gone. It preserved its protein,
lactose, and minerals. Yeah, but it's different.
So, yeah, it's a dehydrated version that doesn't
quite rehydrate once it comes back to milk. It's
still watered. Yeah, you get it, but it's now
in the form of a crystal. Yeah, well, whatever.
I mean, it worked. That's what I lived on. Again,
I didn't know any different. And that's why I
was saying ignorance is bliss because it doesn't
matter what era you live or grow up in, ignorance
is bliss. And now it's just way different, like
you said. I mean, it's just like the kids don't
know any better. But the thing is, I think that
they're missing out on is they don't know what
it's like to go down to the creek and swim with
the snapping turtles. And you're like, oh, that
had snapping turtles in there? Yeah, that had
snapping turtles, you fucking idiot. You know,
it had snakes in there too. But it's not even
experiencing. I mean, experiencing nature is
a huge part of it. But just having friends. that
you bond with that you go do do stuff with in
person in person during the day you're on your
bikes you're experiencing life you're making
memories you're i mean that's what i said i think
our boys were ahead of that so when you say it's
downhill i think the 2010s is where it started
you might be right go downhill because i would
say my kids probably had a good yeah they were
outside president steven all the time they stole
your car a lot Yeah, they did. A lot from what
I understand now. Some stories are leaking out.
Stories are starting to come out. When they're
drinking. You don't know, but. We went driving
a lot. And they love to tell those stories, by
the way. Oh, Dad, you had no idea what we did.
And my wife's like, I don't want to know. I don't
want to know. Yeah, that's exactly right. That's
the whole thing. They don't want to know. I do
want to know. In fact, it pisses me off just
thinking about it. I remember the first time
I saw him. We were in the car. Oh, I was irate.
And you know what? This is the frustrating part.
Just like, you know, Shelly, I don't want to
know. terror it's like they don't want to know
it's that they want to live in their little bubble
and it's like oh my and zero support when i got
angry about that i got i was off i was bitter
and i got no support at home well i think shelly's
angle was you know mamas always want to be in
control right And they were completely out of
control in those. They didn't have, I shouldn't
say they were out of control. They had no control
over what our kids decided to do for the most
part. When they were running around doing the
thing. Right. And so if they don't have control
and they're going to stress about it. So they're
just like, I don't want to know. I don't want
to know. It gives me stress. I can't control
what you guys are doing. I have to hope and pray
that we've raised you right and that you're making
good choices. Yeah, they've got some good memories.
Again, I don't know all the stories. I know some
of the stories. Like they'd go down and they'd
climb onto the roof of Gunstream. Right. And
I remember the cops came, and they all came barreling
into my house. Oh, lovely. Going, just screaming
and yelling and hooting and hollering. I was
like, what's going on? Oh. They've told us because
the cops may have been right on their tail. Right.
So they said, I was like, you guys are fucking
idiots. Now go hide in the closet. Mr. Throwing
corn at windows and being chased by the grown
man. Yes. Well, you have to. provide some discipline.
But in the back of my head, I'm going, yeah,
I know what I did when I was a kid as well. You
know, but, you know, they had a bunch of fireworks
one year. It was before the big one at Sean's
house. They went down. Yeah, you guys were great
role models. They went down to Western and had
a firework fight. And Brandon was holding his
Roman candle backwards. So I shot him in the
belly and he freaked out. They still talk about
that. So, you know, they have good memories and
they did stupid shit and they survived. So that's
the key, I guess. Yeah. And that's what makes
the memories and that's what makes those decades
good. But again, back to what today, it's just
way different. I mean, I look at the kids now
and including Preston and Steven and Austin,
you know, all of them, it's just like they're
on their phone. Right. You know, it's just like,
dude, Just put it down. And then I pick up my
phone to do it. Well, yeah. Go to a doctor's
office or dentist's office or subway, train,
whatever. Look around. Yeah. It's a sign of the
times. 99 % of the people are on their phones.
99%. Again, I've said it before. I read my book
on my phone. Yeah. That's what I do. That's his
angle, Sean. Oh, I'm reading my novel. Well,
what else am I going to do? I'm not going to
do scroll. You're TikTok -ing. No, I don't have
it on my phone. You could be enjoying the weather.
He's Insta -talking. I could. You could be having
fun staring at things. Staring at the person.
You could do your crossword. You could stare
at the person across from me in the doctor's
office. How you doing? Yeah. Sir, you're making
me extremely uncomfortable. Yeah, he's trying
to socialize. That's against the rules these
days. I like your shirt. I like your shirt, young
man. We're all supposed to be on our phone. And
they're texting, some weird dude is talking to
me. I can't get him to stop talking. Yes. Where'd
you buy those pants? That's a really cute hairstyle
you have. Is that your mother? But, you know,
I think the kids these days have a handicap.
Social handicap, I think, in my opinion. Yeah,
and, you know, the social streaming is, you know,
basically their friendship. And I can relate
to some of it from the perspective that I play
video games. And there's a connection that I
have with other people that aren't around me.
You're actually talking to them, though. Yes.
Yeah, well, they're talking, too, doing the streaming
and just whatever. Yeah, so that's a good point.
I mean, they're reaching out to a world. They're
able to reach into or experience a world that
we never could as kids. I mean, we had very limited
world, right? Well, we had ham radios. We had
a couple friends. And we passed notes. Like in
the early 90s. mid to late 90s, there was World
of Warcraft, for example. I was playing with
guys all over the planet, which was cool. 40
-man raids, nerding out, and we're on Ventrilo,
the app, which worked with World of Warcraft.
You can all talk with each other. It was complex.
We went through this. Not only gaming, but they
could see and experience things around the world
that we didn't as kids. Well, that's where it
goes back to you had to get the newspaper to
get the news, right? Right. Everything is instant
these days. And I think that has also hurt the
kids because there's a lack of attention, patience.
I need everything immediately right now. You
know, and if you can't get that. If the internet
goes down for more than 30 minutes, they start
eating each other. Yeah, like, hey, you texted
me two minutes ago. Why didn't you text me back?
Yeah. What's going on? What the hell, man? I
see you read it. Well, yeah, I was taking a shit,
and, you know, I needed to wipe my butthole.
That's when I do all my texting. Yeah, so I wanted
to wash my hands before I text you back kind
of a thing. Well, so you wipe your hands. Well,
he doesn't have a problem with me. When I call
him, he's like, hey, how are you? What's going
on? I'm like, Jeff, are you in the bathroom?
Why is it so echoey? What's the constant flushing?
He's like, how do you know that all the time?
He's like, I barely even said anything. I was
like, dude, I could smell it. There's a digital
smell. My phone just emitted something. Why do
you flush four times every time I'm talking to
you? It's loggy. Loggie? Jesus. Is that an adjective?
A real adjective? Yes. Loggie? To go back with
the best decades to growing up, it's kind of
tough because ignorance is bliss. But I will
tell you that even the kids nowadays will think
that theirs was the best decades. Because I recall
with the Xbox 360s, even with our kids, they
didn't have the phones back then. They started
getting into it. But the video games, that was
fun. They had the band. On Xbox 360. Rock band?
Party band, rock band. Guitar hero and rock band.
Hell, man. Guitar hero. We had the microphone,
the bass, the guitar, and the drums. All four
of them were playing at the same time. And I've
got some video of it. I think it's freaking awesome.
Why did that go away? I thought that was such
a huge hit. I think it got completely saturated.
There were so many guitar heroes. And they tried
to ramp it up every single time. And I think
it just ran its course. I know. But then they
fired all 600 people that were supporting Guitar
Hero. And I was like, just come out with more
songs. Just keep doing this. It's brilliant.
The sales went away and the support went away.
So they couldn't. I think everyone just got.
It was repetitive for one thing. It got very
saturated. I loved it. It was a lot of fun. We'd
be up here for hours, all four of us up here
playing Guitar Hero. Right. And just Stephen
had his favorite. He likes Surrender by Cheap
Trick. He played that a thousand times. And we
heard it the other day. He goes, oh, this is
a good song. I was like, yeah, I know. You played
it a thousand times. Yeah, I do hear a song every
now and then that pops up on the radio, and I'm
like, oh, that reminds me of when the kids were
growing up. You know, a lot of that stuff, you
hear all these different songs. It could be from
when we grow up, too. Just things that, like,
oh, my gosh, that song actually makes me feel
good. We built this city. To hear it. And vice
versa. You hear some songs, you're like, oh,
my God, that gives me anxiety hearing this. Right.
Well, I mean, they're tied to memories, right?
That's 100 % to memories. In certain times of
your life, there are certain times, very specific
windows for me. There's a Spin Doctors song that
whenever I hear it, there's a very specific,
like a six -month window that it makes me think
about. It's before I moved down here, I was...
I'm the one, the one that makes me make you feel...
Spin Doctors. Spin Doctors. Yeah, you probably
gave it your best effort, but I didn't get it.
Yeah. Yeah. But that specific song makes me,
again, it was a short time. And it could be Two
Princes. And it could be Two Princes. That's
what it was. It could be good. It could be bad.
It could be, you know what I mean? It was whatever.
Well, this was a good, I mean. Or it could be
a breakup song. I mean, it could remind you of
a, you know, a tough time, right? I mean, it
was cool. I like that song, Two Princes. It was
good. But yeah, it was very specific, and I have
them specific with my boys as well, specific
time frames with my boys, the ages and stuff
like that. I like Little Miss Can't Be Wrong.
That was a good one. Yeah, they had a couple
good songs. Yeah, they did. They completely went
away. I think they're touring again. Are they
really? Yeah, they're trying to pick up that
check. Another severance package. Reconstituted.
And that's all right, because they weren't horrible,
but they were very generic. Well, apparently
that's how they make their money now, because
they don't make money on their songs on... There's
no album sales anymore. It's all streaming, right?
And they don't make anything off of that. That's
crazy. So they make it off merch, touring, touring
and merch. Yeah, live performance. That's sad.
So they're celebrating 35 years of the pocket
full of kryptonite from the spin doctors. That
is amazing to think that's 35 fucking years ago
that came out. That's supposed to be 1970, right?
That tells you how long I've been down here because
that song was out six months before I moved down
here. That is insane. Yikes. So it was 1985.
Yikes. Is that that old? I did not realize that.
35 years ago was... That was 90. 90. What the
hell just happened to you? You're a mathlete.
I am not a mathlete. So MTV apparently is gone.
Is it official now? January 1st, they shut off
MTV. Chuck, is that what you were saying? I've
got a little more clarification on that. Not
true. Hang on. It's the MTV Music. that got shut
down, right? MTV Music, MTV 80s, 90s Club, MTV,
MTV Live. So MTV is not completely shutting down.
It's a parent company, the Paramount Global.
It closed several of its dedicated 24 -7 music
channels like MTV Music, MTV 80s, 90s Club, MTV,
MTV Live, internationally and at the end of 2025
due to changing viewing habits towards streaming.
So I remember... They're still doing their shows.
When we were in high school, MTV was awesome.
It was just videos. Videos, that's it. Videos
and awesome DJs, right? Yeah, the VJs. And the
MJB News. Martha Quinn. Martha Quinn. I like
Martha Quinn. I did too. And then when we got
out of high school and we started getting into
the 90s, they started doing bullshit game shows.
Well, hold on. During the time they were playing
the music, they did some live events where they
were at, oh, it's springtime. We're down here
and we're doing the spring break here. And that's
about the same time that they had the, what is
it? The girls that would flip the camera. Girls
Gone Wild. The Girls Gone Wild videos were all
coming out, which is kind of crazy. But MTV.
They didn't have that on MTV, but it was just
a parallel event that was happening on. They
have these videos. Get your videos. You're a
30 -minute video of Girls Gone Wild. Can you
imagine if you're the dad and you send your kid
off to spring break? There she is. Isn't it any
different than OnlyFans now? Well, except they're
making money. I heard one of the reasons that
the whole process of MTV morphing into what it
is today. So when this thing launched in 1980,
I think, right? the record companies just let
MTV play all their music no charge for the first
five years. Yeah, because it was advertising.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It got people to go out
and buy their albums. Well, all of a sudden they
turned around and said, okay, let's turn them
into something. You need to start paying us every
time you play a music. So they basically... transitioned
away from all that so they didn't have to pay
all those royalties. Yeah, but VH1 picked it
right up. You know, they carried the torch for
a long while. But they also, they ventured into
also doing comedy. So the MTV had, and VH1, they
started doing, instead of playing songs, they
had little comedy skits and you'd have all these
little comedians that would do a little two and
a half, three minute skit. I get it, but I just
remember being so disappointed that MTV wasn't
the same anymore. It kind of started with remote
control and the real life. Is that what it was?
The first real life? And they did game shows.
I was like, why are you doing game shows? I want
to watch videos. You know, different videos and
stuff. We used to watch Headbangers Ball. In
120 minutes, it was good. Yeah. So the shift
in programming in the 90s and 2000s, diversifications
as internet -based platforms like YouTube made
music videos as easily accessible on demand TV,
gradually scaled back its music. Let me see,
the new genres, the channel began producing reality
shows like the real world documentaries, scripted
comedies, animated shows, which made up the bulk
of the content. RuPaul's Drag Race. While we're
chatting, see if you can find the top 10, best
videos on MTV of all time. I would love to go
through that. I bet you. We haven't done a top
10 in a while. Michael Jackson's Thriller would
be probably one of the. I was about to say that.
Was to be the number one. Yeah, it's probably
going to be number one. Yeah, and it was a lot
of fun. You want to do a top 10 right now? We
haven't done that in a while. Let's do it. We
can. Oh, there you go. Start at number 10. Don't
look at it. It doesn't matter. Let's start with
honorable mentions first. Honorable mentions.
Oh, that aha take on me. Dude. How is that an
honorable mention? That needs to be very high
up. Yes. Tara's favorite song. November Rain.
November Rain. Sean's kryptonite. Yeah. And the
fact is, I like that song, but the fact that
I had to listen to her sing it during karaoke
one time, I was just like, don't leave. And I
was like, oh my gosh. I don't even like the song.
I don't think I've ever seen the video. I'm not
a fan. It's long. Baby One More Time. Baby One
More Time. I watched it over and over. Did you,
like, you know, get your knives out and twirl
them? I keep hoping that those aren't real. That's
all 100 % real. They're real. And I made a video
of it. I mean, we posted that. It was during
Thanksgiving. Put turkey in front of her. It
was hilarious. That was actually a good video.
What is going on with her? I think she's mentally
broken. I think she is broken, too. She's a lovely
lady. I just don't know what's going on with
her. I don't know. She's a lovely lady. All right.
Number 10. Express Yourself by Madonna. Express
yourself. Great video. Is that when she had the
short blonde hair? Yes. She looked good. She
was beautiful back in the day. Yeah, she was
really a hot, hot, hot performer. California
Love by Tupac before he was shot. California
Love. Oh, wait, I know that one. Yeah, that's
the one that goes... Yeah, there you go. Yes.
Okay, well, I'm proud of myself. Addicted to
Love. Robert Palmer. Yeah, with the five ladies.
Yeah, all the slicked back hair, and they're
all doing that little weird little side -to -side
dance. Kind of thrusty dance. Yeah, they were
all voluptuous. Yeah, just kind of voluptuous.
Hold on, that's not. What? Was that not the right
word? No, I was just saying Addicted to Love,
but that was the Huey Lewis version. Hold on.
What are you trying to get? I was trying to figure
out, well, how do you sing the song Addicted
to Love, Robert Palmer? Might as well face it,
you're addicted to love. Yes, yes. There you
go. Okay. Sabotage Beastie Boys. How does that
go? That's a good one. Yeah, it's, well, I can't
do Beastie Boys, but it also plays on the track,
the Star Trek, when one of the first movies came
out. Yeah, the reboots? Yeah, the reboots came
out. It was nice, too, man. It was a perfect
one for what was going on. A lot of chaotic.
But it was a great, great soundtrack. It says
high energy parody of the 70s police. It is.
Directed by Spike Jonze. Yeah, it is. All right.
I used to love this song. This is a beating for
me now. J -O -N -Z -E. Spike Jonze. Jonze. I
know. I'm just making fun of it. You know, first
of all. That's crazy that it came out in 1988.
And you know what? I was never really a hardcore
fan of Guns N' Roses. I loved Guns N' Roses.
Great album, though. They came out when I was
in college. Right. And it was huge. It was a
fantastic debut album. There was a picture of
eight of the most classic albums that we would
love that all came out within 45 days of each
other, like Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana,
Soundgarden Super... What was it? Bad Motor Finger.
Out of the Cellar Rat. Out of the Cellar Rat.
The Sweet Child of Mine. There's just a dozen
albums that all came out that fall of 1990 or
whatever, in 88. Trickster. My favorite song
on that album is actually Mr. Brownstone. Yeah,
that's a good song. That's a great song. From
Guns N' Roses? Yeah, from Guns N' Roses. I like
Rocket Queen as well. Actually, I think the whole
album's good. Anyway, go up. All right. Number
five, Walk This Way. Well, the Run DMC version.
Run DMC Aerosmith. Yeah. So Walk This Way, the
Run DMC version just added an extra little pump
to it, which she told me to. Walk this way. Walk
this way. I think that kind of reinvigorated
Aerosmith's career as well. It might have. No,
it didn't. In 86? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Sorry. Didn't
mean to offend you. It did, bitch. Take a back
seat. I'm the authority on this one. It did,
bitch. Yes. You know what? What is his name?
Steve Perry? Steve... Tyler? Perry Tyler. Steven
Tyler. Joe Perry's the guitarist. Tyler Steve.
I mean, his voice is just... Even today, I mean,
he still has it. Well, amazingly, he can sing
because he completely ruptured his... vocal cords,
apparently. They're doing their final retirement
concert. Again? For the 10th tour. No, I think
this was it. I can't remember what they called
it, but I think on the second or third show,
he completely destroyed it, and he was out for
several years, and he had to get it surgically
repaired and everything. I think now he's singing
again, but he was out for a long time. I thought
they were done because he... Well, he destroyed
his throat during the concert. Yeah, well, I
didn't realize he's better. Are they touring
again? Do you know? I don't know. On some of
those notes that he sings, he has to hit those
real high ones. Dude, when you push your voice,
and he's got that, I'm going to use the word
caustic. When he's got that caustic push to hit
that note, man, that's not normal. It has to
be a very controlled burst, and he just rips
into it. There's no doubt. But he's been doing
it for 40 years. Somehow he pulled him off. 50.
50. All right. They do not have any upcoming
tour dates scheduled for 2026. A full tour is
unlikely due to lead singer's health concerns.
There we go. Yeah, I know. I've seen. So they
need to be a cover band. I've seen him perform
a few songs. I don't think it's a full concert
type of thing. Anyway, go ahead. All right. All
right. Number four. Oh, great one. Peter Gabriel
featuring the groundbreaking stop motion of Claymation
by the art of an anime. The other good one from
him is Big Time. Remember Big Time? Why? Because
of the train going into the mouth? Yes. Or out
the ear or whatever. Big Time also was kind of
a crazy video, right? Peter Gabriel, he's an
excellent musician. He's an excellent singer.
I don't think he... He received the kudos. The
accolades. Yeah, the accolades. He really deserves.
No, I mean, he was in Genesis before then, you
know? I was going to say, he was part of a big
band. I didn't know he was in Genesis. They were
a very progressive band when he was in it. And
when he left, they got more mainstream at that
point. That's when Phil Collins kind of took
over singing. Yeah, I love Sledgehammer's good
and big, big time. Shock the monkey. Red Rain.
Do you know Red Rain? Red Rain? Yeah, Red Rain.
I don't know Red Rain. He's falling down. You
know, that one. No, I don't. The one from where
he's holding... Say Anything? Yeah, Say Anything.
That was an iconic scene. What were you doing?
In your eyes. Why were you... He was holding
the radio up trying to win the girl back. He
was playing In Your Eyes. So again, these are
the top 10 videos of the 80s on MTV. Yes, yes.
Down to number three. Not a Nirvana fan. I'm
sorry. So you want to skip it? Fuck them. It
was everywhere. Hold on. Was there like an experience
that you had? They came out at the very end of
my college career. You were over music? That
didn't impact me. I was done. I was moving on.
Is that the one that goes... Wow. I don't know
what that is. No, this one's like... Okay, I'm
with you. What's the one I'm thinking of? I don't
know. It doesn't matter. Yeah, it was painful.
It was Journey, I think you were doing. It was
not Journey. It was Hang On, Sloopy. Number two.
Vogue. Madonna. U2 from Madonna. That was a good
song. 1990. Vogue, yeah. These are videos. Now,
keep in mind, these are videos. These aren't
the top 10 songs. These are the videos. These
are influential videos. So the director by David
Fincher, this black and white masterpiece brought
voguing and the ball. into the mainstream. That's
where they're doing this fucking thing. It's
where all the gay guys were out there doing their
stuff. And Rita Hayworth gave good face. Rita
Hayworth gave good face. Gave good face. Rita
Hayworth gave good face. Is that symbolism for
something else? I don't know. It's in the lyrics.
She was doing a hat tip to somebody who was brilliant
in the vogue. In the 40s, right? So these are
all runway models, essentially, which is kind
of what I was diving into, the gay culture, where
you have a bunch of these trans kind of dressing,
cross -dressers. Is that what they're called,
cross -dressers? I don't even remember the video.
I remember flashes. It wasn't a drag video. I
don't remember it being a drag video. I thought
they were high -class models, you know, from
the 40s and 50s. There was a lot of metrosexual
stuff going on. I'll have to watch it again.
It may have been 1990, the last time I've seen
it. And the number one video of the 19 years.
I'm tired of that whole song. When it's on, if
it ever comes on, I kind of skip it. Well, I
mean, it's a traditional Halloween song that
populates every year on our Dudes Like Us podcast.
Halloween candy distribution out in the front
of the Murphy House. I know. I know. I get it.
I get it. I think it's a travesty that, uh -huh.
I think that needed to be up there. That was
a brilliant, even today, that's a brilliant video.
Brilliant video. The fact that it's hand -drawn
and then it goes back and forth. They're in a
grocery store and they pop through the cold section
refrigerator door and they're going to a different
third dimension. Yeah, the magazine comes to
life. Fourth dimension, I should say. It's freaking
cool. Yes. That was a good one. What about the
other ones? I brought up Twisted Sister. Those
were very funny. Oh, because the dad getting
his ass kicked. What are you going to do with
your life? We're not going to take it. We're
going to rock! That whole scene, I think, comes
from Animal House. Because that dad is in Animal
House giving a very similar speech to his Rotsy
guys. So they're playing off of that. Yes. This
is so cool. I love this video. The other one,
it's Cyndi Lauper with the Lou Albino. Lou's
Albano. The wrestlers. The wrestlers. They had
a whole brother system set up. But anyways, girls
just want to have fun. That album was kind of,
the video was funny just because they had a bunch.
Cyndi Lauper. I know. Who's Lou Bonner? Lou Albano.
Lou Albano. Is he her dad? No, he's a wrestler.
The WWF. No, but in the video. No, I don't think
so. Oh, you know what? He may have been the father
in the video. Was he in the kitchen? Oh, you
may be right. And he had like. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay. I didn't know he was somebody famous, but
that was... Lou Albano. He was her father in
the video. It's hard to say that. Yeah. And the
Albano brothers. He was telling her to get out
of here because she was dancing around. Well,
there were a lot of good ones, like Jeezy Top
Legs. Oh, great video. Yeah. How about White
Snake with the girl on the top of the car? Tawny
Katane? Why are you trumping? You keep... What's
happening? Why are you getting... That's making
me laugh too hard, man. Yeah, you kind of jumped
at that. Yeah, you really got kind of excited.
Well, you usually say something else like...
Really? Yes. You say something wrong. Yeah, I
wanted to beat you to it. Don't waste my time.
There were so many good ones, though. I mean,
we watched them for hours. Oh, yeah. Hours and
hours. He had like Tone Loke and they had a bunch
of fun songs. Did he do videos though? Yeah,
he did. With the dogs, right? Those are Van Halen
riffs. Oh, you're right. There's a website out
there that you can go to. They have like 30 ,000
MTV videos on there. See if you can't find it,
Chuck. Old time MTV videos or something like
that. And it should take you to it. No copyright
infringement or anything like that? They're considered
classics at this time. They should be giveaways.
Yes. Does that mean we can play them? But they're
still going to bust our balls if we play them
on YouTube. I mean, what's cool is you can go
on YouTube and you can just put in 80s videos.
It's not that one. Keep going down. Because it's
fun to do that. I just put on videos, and instead
of watching news or whatever we're going to do,
I just put that on, and Shelly and I just sit
there and watch these old videos. It's kind of
fun. Yeah, it's not on MTV. Yeah, I like that,
too. I'll have to find it and send it to you
guys. It's a lot of reminiscing. Because he hasn't
broken out by decade. Then he has... And you
can play them from here. It's not just a list.
Yeah, you play them, and it's like from the 80s.
Then you have all of the 120 Minutes. Then you
have all the Headbangers Balls. We need to find
this. I'm interested in finding this. I don't
know if we're going to spend too much time on
it. Anyway, I'll find it and send it to you.
Please do. All right, well, the exciting thing
that's happening every weekend is the NFL playoffs.
Did you guys watch that miserable game last night?
No, I didn't watch any of that. Was that the
Houston Steelers game? So that coach got fired
or he quit? No, he quit. He just resigned. He
resigned. Was that the black coach? Yeah, Mike
Tomlin. Mike Tomlin. You know what? I thought
he was good. He's good. He's Will .i .am from
Black Eyed Peas. So why did he quit? Why did
he quit? I think he had just had enough. He'd
been there 18 years. He's like. I don't want
to rebuild. Was it 18 years? Yeah. God, that's
a long time. Yeah. Talk about a long time to
commit to a coach. Nowadays, it seems to last
like three years and you're out. Yeah, you have
this shorter window to... Well, probably afraid
to fire him. Well, look at... We're down to 18.
Probably call it racism or something stupid like
that. On the AFC side, we have Buffalo and Denver.
We've got Houston and New England. I'm going...
God, I'm going Houston, which I don't really
want to, but I'm going Buffalo against Denver.
But Denver will probably win. What was Pittsburgh's...
Not great. But how many did they... I think they
won. I think they were nine and seven. Eight
and nine, and they barely made the playoffs just
because they beat Baltimore in the last week.
Because these were wild card games, right? Yeah,
they needed help getting into the playoffs. But
they were the division champion, too, of the
AFC North, right? Yeah, and they had a home game,
and they got their ass kicked. That whole division
sucked this year, so that's why they got in.
Okay. So that's not quite... So Houston. Houston
probably has a chance against New England, but
they're playing exceptional football. New England
is. That would be a great game. I was listening
to. In New England. Right. I was listening to
the radio, and they said Houston's defense is
good enough that they. May hold them off, huh?
May get to the Super Bowl just based off their
defense. Yeah, but their offense had three turnovers
that were just ridiculous. Stroud looked awful.
The only person who looked good was Christian
Kirk. Eggie. Yes, he had a hell of a game. He's
one of my players. He pushed me over the top.
That's how I won the fantasy football. Really?
Yesterday. Oh, wow. My team's still playing.
No, the playoffs were well done. All right, so
there we go. That's the AFC. Now, in the NFC,
we've got San Francisco and Seattle. San Francisco's
hurt. They lost Kittle this last week. Oh, yeah.
I don't know their chances in Seattle. I don't
know about their chances in Seattle. I'd like
to see Seattle do it and Chicago. It'd be kind
of neat to see Chicago get to that conference
game. Man, there was all kinds of weird celebrations.
I say weird. When they won, they showed some
Fans that were up in the nudity. Some dude had
a shirt off and he was just like running in circles.
It's like whatever. And some guy was just picking
up chairs, literally picking up chairs and throwing
it straight in the air. No throwing at anybody.
Just throwing it straight up in the air and then
running around. The police came over. They said,
dude, what are you fucking doing? And he was
like, he throws up another chair straight in
the air. And it's like, all right, man. So they
ended up taking him down. They let him go. And
it was like, dude. Well, because they're drunk
out of their minds. I don't understand. I don't
get the tribal shit they got going on when people
win the game or lose. The celebrations where
they end up tipping cars and lighting them on
fire. Yeah, when they win. Yeah, when you win,
this happens. Philadelphia destroys their city.
L .A. destroys their city. It's like stupid,
stupid. Like you said, it's tribal behavior.
Didn't something happen at the Rangers parade?
Didn't someone get shot? The New York Rangers
or the Texas Rangers? No, when the Texas Rangers
won the World Series. Yeah, there was an incident.
Wasn't there a shooting? There was. It was sad.
Yeah. It was two youths. They were young. Two
youths. Youths. Youths. Two youths. Two youths.
Yeah, but it's crazy. So what do you think is
going to happen? I think Samson's going to beat
Seattle. I think the Rams are going to beat Chicago.
And I bet San Francisco gets to the Super Bowl.
And then on the other side, I think New England
beats Houston. Wait, wait. I think Denver beats
Buffalo. I think you're all wrong. Who's on the
NFC side? I think it's Seattle and Chicago. I'm
picking San Francisco and Denver in the Super
Bowl. I don't think San Francisco is going to
make it past Seattle. I think you're wrong. Okay.
They just played a couple weeks ago, and they
stomped them. And it's in Seattle. I want Buffalo
and Chicago. That's exactly what I want. And
they need to play it in one of those stadiums.
Yeah, that's what I want. That's what I want,
but I don't think that's going to happen. But
that would be wonderful. Where's the Super Bowl
this year? Miami or something? It needs to be
in like Buffalo, Chicago. That's very interesting
that you think that. You want a nice bowl. I
do. Green Bay. I wonder why. I totally agree
with you. Because it's classic old school. teams
that are out there. Plus, they haven't won one
in how long? The Chicago Bears were in the 83
when they did the old shuffle. What was it? The
Super Bowl shuffle. Right. And poor Buffalo.
Because they won all the games. 15 -0 or 16 -0,
whatever it is. And poor Buffalo could never
make it past the damn Kansas City Chiefs. The
only thing they can do is score a dude on the...
How many times did they make the Super Bowl back
in the 80s? With Jim Kelly and... Four in a row.
And they lost every single one of them. Scott
Norwood, the kicker. Who was the quarterback
that was on the Wheaties commercial? Jim Kelly?
No, no. Elway? No, for the Buffalo Bills. He
was on the Wheaties. Jim Kelly? Yeah, I think
it was. Was it Jim Kelly? Well, he was a quarterback.
But he's a short dude. Oh, Doug Flutie? Was it
Doug Flutie? You're thinking of Doug Flutie.
Did he play for Buffalo? No. Hold on, man. Let
me fact check this. He came from Boston College.
I know that. Doug? I thought he was with, is
he New Orleans? I thought he said Chargers. Gosh,
we know our Doug Flutie history, don't we? Oh,
he played everywhere. Chicago, the Pats, the
Bears, the Bills, the Chargers. So he got his
start in the USFL? With the New Jersey Generals?
No shit. And then got picked up by the Bears,
Patriots, Bills. Yeah, I guess it was Doug Flutie.
I said Chargers. You heard me say that. So Doug
Flutie, I mean, he was kind of hilarious to watch
him play because he was good, but he was shorter
than the front line. So he would literally have
to jump higher than them. Yeah, he's not a big
dude. Yeah. But you know he's on those Dr. Pepper
commercials, right? Flutie? Fansville? Yeah.
Yeah, he is. With the Boz. Yeah, the Boz. Yeah,
he's in there. It's really funny. Tell you what,
that Boz went to college. He was impressive.
A beast. Oklahoma, right? Yes. Oklahoma was top
notch back in the day, man. And he was smart.
He bailed early so he wouldn't get hurt. Yeah,
but his career was not all that in the NFL. No,
because he bailed early. Now, what's going on
with the college? I mean, I don't even know who's
in the bracket system for college. Well, it's
going to be Miami and Indiana. Now, Miami, they
beat A &M in the first round. Yeah. And then
they beat OSU. Or is that Ohio State? Ohio State.
Miami's making a very impressive run. They beat
A &M, Ohio State, and Ole Miss, and they are
in the national championship now. Oh, and Alabama
got beat. The Crimson Tide. I don't think Alabama
deserved to be there. Yeah, probably not. But,
dude, Indiana is just on a roll. Yeah, that head
coach, Kurt Signetti. Very impressive. Yeah,
he impresses me. He's only been there two years.
The game's next Monday night in Miami at Hard
Rock. Yeah, that's a chance. He said Indiana?
Where's Indiana? It's that fork -looking thing.
So that would have been in Miami regardless?
Yes. And it's a home game. Damn for them. I think
Indiana travels pretty well. They travel pretty
well, yes. Dude, it's going to be a hell of a
game. So it's Monday? Next Monday night? Next
Monday night. Oh, that's a must watch. Yep. Because
Miami, man, what an impressive run they've made.
10th seed. I think I have Monday off. We do,
MLK Day. Yeah, that's right. Oh, really? I have
it off, too. Does your company give you MLK Day
off? No, they're racist. I mean, I think we technically
have it off, but. You know, whatever. I mean,
shit's due, shit's due. My company that I used
to work for didn't give it to us. I plan on day
drinking all day long. When do you want to start?
9 a .m. 9 a .m. We'll make our run. We do Mai
Tais? I like Mai Tais. Mai Tais? Do that. You
should do Hurricanes. You know what I want to
do? Yeah, there we go. We're drinking right now.
I mean, this stuff is fantastic. It is good.
It's a nice segue. I mean, look, seriously. Let's
talk about it. It's a fancy bottle like it always
is. We are drinking Jack Daniels. Yeah, this
is a Jack Daniels single barrel, barrel proof.
And this is a store pick from Total Wine, which
just adds another level of yumminess to it. It's
amazing. Yeah, this is a single barrel, barrel
proof. This is 125 .5 proof. So that's right
in the sweet spot for me. I mean, when you're
talking about a whiskey, That it's got rich flavors.
They're usually in that. Actually, they're all
over the place. But this one just hits home.
It's great. I mean, it's got a deep, rich, raisin,
just fig. It touches you everywhere. Oh, man.
I mean, it just warms my cockle. I'll tell you
what, the price. Your what? Your what? Your cock?
Hold on. No, I did not say that. That's what
I heard. Whoa. I think you're. No, I'm not projecting.
I'm not hoping or projecting. And I tell you
what, for the quality of bourbon, the price on
this is top notch. Is that 50, 60 bucks? 60,
yeah. Really? The store pick may be 65, 70, but
yeah. This is excellent. Can you spin that towards
me again? I want to see the bottle. Okay, yeah,
I can even look at it. So, you know, there was
a time where we were going up to the store, and
I recall us buying a small little bottle. Oh,
yeah. And I don't remember what it was. It was
maybe 120. It was 130, I think. 130. And we were
like, this is crazy. Oh, I can't believe we're
drinking this. And we were like, oh, my God.
It was harsh. It was harsh. Yes, but, I mean,
now it's kind of like, dude, we were living in
the lap of luxury. Had no idea how fantastic
this shit was. Yep. Yep. I think it was a 375
version of that. It was. And we brought it over
to the house, and we're just thinking, I'm going
to fuck these dudes up. I'm going to show up
with this. I don't remember who brought it. But
it was just fun. We'll put that thing out. Well,
it was here for a long time because we drank
it and we were like, God, that's really harsh.
And then we sat and it sat and it sat and it
sat for a long time. So did we pan it? I mean,
were we like, it was like. No, this was before
the podcast. It was not enjoyable for us? No,
this was way before the podcast. Well, I know,
but we bought it as a novelty. Did we drink it
and we were like, God, this is awful. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Really? That's so funny. Yep. And look
at us now. Just like if we recommended that to
some just regular person, they'd be like, that's
disgusting. And they probably would, yeah, they
would now. You know, I got a text message from
Larry Cuvion, who's been on the podcast multiple
times. Yes. And he had texted me regarding the
Penelope, 80 proof Penelope. I don't recall which
one it is, but they don't have many that's 80
proof. So I'm assuming it's just the plain J
bourbon from Penelope. And he said it was not
up to his standards and that he would donate
it to the podcast because he doesn't want anything
to do with it. Wow. And I was like, good. God,
man, who hurt you? I was like, dude, look, first
of all, dial it back. Your tone's a little upsetting.
Pour it in a glass. If you don't like it, put
a couple drops of distilled water in it or put
a little sweetener in there. Make an old -fashioned
out of it. Yeah, make an old -fashioned out of
it. Yeah, that's the key. Sweeten it up a little
bit. You can make something nice with it. Now,
was he complaining that... It was low proof,
and it was not rich, and didn't have any flavor.
He wasn't complaining that it's low proof. He
was complaining that it was toxic. Oh, okay.
He just didn't like it. Yeah, and that kind of
goes back to what we were discussing when it
comes to that original Jack Daniels that we tried.
I remember it being a rye. That was a rye, because
I remember the green lettering in that original.
Not this one, but the original one. I don't remember.
That is interesting that the industry has gone
to a green label for rye. That seems pretty consistent,
isn't it? Seems to be. Yeah. I think it's good.
I think it's important. It is important to differentiate.
That way you can look at it and be like, oh,
that's right. All right, so let's... Okay, I
lost what I was going to say. 125. Yeah, let's
finish this. Jack Daniels Silver Barrel. It's
wonderful. Yeah. It's wonderful. Yeah. So it's
got... Alfred, what are you going to say? Well,
are we... Going straight to rating, or are we
going to kind of do the nose and the finish and
all that? Again, I'm going to try to ask this
every time. Would we replenish this? Yes. 100%.
At that price point? Absolutely. 100%, yes. I'd
buy that again. 100%. Not only a different single
barrel, different proof, but we've had a couple
of these, and they've all been good. Dr. Pepper
is screaming at me right now. Dr. Pepper. You
want to mix it with Dr. Pepper? No, no. It tastes
a little bit like Dr. Pepper. I can taste that.
Pepper, she's a pepper. If you drink Dr. Pepper,
you're a pepper too. Be a pepper. Drink Dr. Pepper.
Be a pepper. I picked up the first pool I took
off of it. I wrote it down. I had to keep stealing
Paul's pen because mine wouldn't work. Oh, my
God. I had coconut. A little Williamsburg stuff
going on there. Yeah. I did. I get a lot of old
Williamsburg. I picked up coconut on that first
pool. Well, AI says Jack Daniel's Single Barrel
Proof 125 .5 offers the bold notes of vanilla,
toasted oak, caramel, brown sugar, balanced with
hints of dark spice, chocolate, and fruit. Banana
forward slash cherry leads to a long, warm finish
with lingering oak and sweetness. The flavors
vary barrel to barrel. Expect a robust yet smooth
profile showcasing the intense flavors. And it
does. Intense. It pops out. It's rich. It's deep.
And what is it? Do you remember commercial Deep,
Dark, and Delicious? Remember that? No. Is that
on RedTube or TubeRed? Wow. Wow. Michael Wood
was the name? Did they make a puzzle out of that?
Do you have that puzzle? Did Bonnie Blue happen
to try some of that? I don't. I don't know where
Sean's going. You know she's British. Yes, we
got comments. You arrogant Americans. She's British
for God's sake. Oh, he did say arrogant, didn't
he? No. Did you say that? He implied it. He's
like, you Americans are all the same or something
like that. That was a 1982 reference that I was
doing. The Dunkin' Dines brownie mix commercial
said deep, dark, and delicious. Yeah. No. Was
that the Pillsbury Doughboy saying that? No,
it was the Duncan Hines brownie mix commercial.
That would be weird. Pull that up real quick.
We got to hear that before we log off. That must
have been the German version. No. Was she nude
up top? Crackin' wagon. Crackin' wagon. Hold
on. Deep, dark, and delicious commercial. McCain's
deep and delicious cakes. It has to be from 1982.
Type in 1982. Are cake mix hacks worth it? That's
a very particular date for you. Well, it says
right here, 1992. Oh, you looked it up. There
it is. Here we go. There it is. Let's see this
here. Inside every Duncan Hines brownie, there's
a deep, dark difference. Sure looks chocolatey.
How's it taste? Deep, dark, and delicious. You
don't remember that? That's disturbing. What
the hell, man? But you don't remember that? No.
I remember that. That's where it came from. Deep,
dark, and delicious. That is awful. Yeah, but
it's relative to what we're doing right now.
One more time. One more time. One more time.
That's just disturbing. No, not the whole thing.
It's just the kid. Do you think she's still alive?
No. It's Mrs. Garrett. Deep, dark, and delicious.
Goodness. Boy, he's got a reverb. Let it keep
going. Let it keep going. I think she does it,
too. Compared to another lady, mixed hours are
chocolatey. Is that dark moisture? Try one. Well.
Deep, dark, delicious. She bilged it. That is
disturbing to me. That's funny, man. I don't
know. It's stuck in my head. We talk about, like,
you know, the best decades. I mean, for me, that
was kind of cool. I remember that shit. We should,
yeah, on the next podcast, we should do our,
what is, like, memorable commercials from our
childhood. Right? Yeah, that sounds... Like life
cereal. I mean, look, there's a time, in fact,
even up to, like, the 2000s. I mean, the big
thing for the Super Bowl was, like, what are
the best commercials to have back then? But,
I mean, this, like, Dennis the Menace would have
a commercial, I'm sorry, have a cartoon on the
Sunday paper, and he was kind of like, hey, man,
name me the product, I'll sing you the commercial.
That was one of the fun things he did. I thought
it was a hilarious statement. Yeah. Name the
product, and I'll sing you the commercial. That's
what the kids were doing. Instead of being on
their phone, they would sit there and watch TV
and learn all the jingles. The commercials were
part of life. That was what was directing us.
Yeah, they mattered. All right, let's skip through
this. I'll give this an eight. Yes. Very nice.
Yes. I could easily go higher. I'm going to go,
I'm telling you. I was going to go 8 .2 or 3.
For what this is, I'm going to go higher. I mean,
for what this is, the cost point, the flavor,
the proof, I'm going to say 8 .5. Damn. This
is fabulous. It's rich, deep, and delicious.
It is. It really is. I'm enjoying a lot of it.
It kind of is. All right. Well, cool. You know,
on that note, you mentioned comic strip. That
made me think of a toast we need to make. Hold
on. Chuck just mentioned we rated this before.
What did we rate it for? So Jeff is exactly the
same at eight. Nice. Bitch. What'd I say? 8 .2?
Paul went 7 .7 up to 8 .2 now. And Sean was an
eight, now 8 .5. Okay. So you like it more. I
appreciate it more. You should get more consistent,
you guys. Making shit up. Yeah, we're making
shit up. Yeah, you know your bourbons, man. Right.
All right, so I was thinking we need to make
a toast to a classy dude that we lost today.
A legend who has passed as of this morning. Yes,
his name is Scott Adams. Mr. Scott Adams. The
brilliant creator of Dilbert comic strip. And
so much more. Yeah, he wrote several books. And
so much more. He wrote several books as well
and had a podcast out. did quite a bit. He got
himself in trouble because he started speaking
his mind. I think he reached the point of, I
don't give a fuck anymore. And I'm going to tell
you what I think. So he got himself in trouble
with all the newspapers and all the libs. And
the ghoulish liberals who were celebrating his
death. Well, it was a case of, oh, we thought
you were on our side. And he's like, I'm not
on anybody's side. I'm on my side and I'm on
my people's side. On my terms. Well, he lived
life on his terms. He was a libertarian minus
the crazy stuff, is what is claimed. Yeah. He
used to say, I'm left of Bernie except I know
math. Right? Yeah. All right. So here's a toast.
Here's a toast to Scott Adams. Absolutely. Scott
Adams. You'll be missed. Rest in peace. Thanks,
sir. Especially by Chuck. Enjoy heaven. Exactly.
So good. And a worthy Jack Daniels to toast him
with. You know what? He quit drinking a long
time ago. One of his famous quotes is, alcohol
is poison. So drink up your poison, boys. There
we go. It is poison. I'll take a poison once
in a while. But what's weird is we're texting
today, and we're trying to figure out what he
passed away from. And I knew he had prostate
cancer, but I used chat GPT. I was like, what
did Scott Adams pass away from? Chat GPT told
me bladder cancer. And you know what? Chat GPT
told me prostate cancer. Fuck. It's such bullshit.
AI is so wrong. Did you hear about Grok getting
fired? Grok. Well, I know they're in trouble
because people are creating some vile images.
So Grok had created some vile images for some
youngsters. and it was not good. It was on X,
because Grok is a subsidiary of X, right? Oh,
so they've been booted from what? They've been
eliminated from the platform right now, and so
they got this thing figured out. Oh, shit. AI
is a danger. Well, I've tried using them the
past two days, and I haven't gotten anything
back. I think the whole thing is shut down. Yeah,
well, you can't be distributing pictures like
that when you're asking innocent questions. Right.
Especially if a minor is susceptible to being
the recipient of it. Yeah. Two days. It gave
me one that says Grok is extremely busy now,
and then just stopped. And then today, it didn't
do anything. So it could have been my connection.
Not giving you any information might be better
than bad information from ChatGPT. It's ridiculous.
Yeah. I hate it, man. I hate it. Well, I mean,
it's very... Opinionated, which is kind of crazy
to say. You know, I go back to, I don't think
this is true AI. I think it's, I don't know what
you want to call it, but. It's some guy in a
basement just typing responses to people. It's
also Indian. I think that there's a lot of it
is a narrative, you know, that. particular folks
that it's a narrative that particular folks that
can afford to provide support for that narrative.
It doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong.
Yeah, perhaps, but it's just, it's, it's, it's
something, Hey man, look, uh, this color is Brown.
Okay. And, uh, you could say it's green, but
we're not going to say it's green, but we will.
If you pay us, we'll say it's green. Colorblind.
Then it's blue. It's blue and a half. That blows
up the whole narrative, doesn't it? But you get
what I'm saying. And that's what it all boils
down to. And there's all kinds of these circle
jerk conversations that some folks will have
when they're trying to deceive the AI by making
them answer certain questions and by saying,
hey, look, I'm going to ask you a series of questions
and you're going to respond yes or no. And if
it's a no, if you can't answer it, instead of
saying yes or no, just say Apple. If you're being
told to say something that's not the answer that
I'm... It's giving you an out. Yeah. You could
just say Apple. Then you don't have to answer
it. And it's just kind of interesting. Without
getting into what the specific questions were,
it's amazing on how many times it kept answering
Apple. And who's controlling you? Apple. And
just like, all right, well... They were talking
about spirits, souls. uh not necessarily god
demons you know and uh political influence and
people that are controlling the narrative in
in chat you know saying that there are spirits
that are controlling it or who are the spirits
are you a spirit no you know are you do you know
spirits apple you know just kind of like oh that's
really weird i mean you know who knows they call
me bullshit but you don't know it sounds suspect
to me but it sounds deep dark and delicious Yeah,
they've also gotten into trouble because there's
a lot of deep fakes out there now. I feel possessed.
After watching the Duncan Hines thing, I feel
possessed. Yes. They've also got pulled down
because it's creating a lot of deep fakes. And
where, is this real? Is Donald Trump actually
saying this kind of a thing? Or is this public
figure actually saying this and you can't tell?
Can't tell. So there's deep fakes out there.
They're trying to figure out how to stop that.
That was a concern of mine all along. That was
Elon Musk's number one thing. He says, guys,
the number one thing we need to be worried about
has nothing to do with Russia or any of this
shit. It has to do with AI. Did you see the one
where they had Donald Trump throwing big chunks
of ice? I sent that to you. Yes, you did. Yes,
you did. Yes, you did. Ice ice baby or something.
So I thought that was real. That shit like that,
I think it's funny. But if he's like standing
in front of the podium and he's trying to say
something. Yeah, like in a real. Press conference
type of thing. And he's saying some crazy bullshit.
You're like, is that real? Because he does say
some crazy bullshit. I mean, sometimes you're
not sure if it's real or not. You have to take
a second guess. You're like, did he just give...
I saw a meme today where he gave some dude the
bird. He did. Did he really? Yeah. No, he did
not. Yes, he did. Oh, shut up. So he was at the
Ford plant. He was a heckler. He was touring
the Ford plant and somebody... Screamed at him
something like, you pedo sympathizer. And he
just pointed at him and gave him the bird. Donald
Trump, the President of the United States, flipped
somebody off. Yes, he's from Queens, for God's
sake. Dude, he is so not a politician. And I
love that about him. I do. I mean, you know,
you got to take the bad with the good. And the
good with the bad. And you kind of have to roll
with it. But damn. That's like the facts of life.
You take the good, you take the bad. And there
you have the facts of life. There are the facts
of life. Oh, my God. So that's real. So that
was real. He really. Wow. But again, you know,
it's like, did he do that? Or was that AI generated?
He's like, hey, go fuck yourself. By the way,
by the way, fuck off. That's where he does it
right there. And now he's like, hey, great. I
didn't see it. That's kind of blurry. So basically,
this guy was saying shit. He was kind of like,
hey, hey, hey. And then he said something. He
was kind of like, fuck you. Where was he? At
the Ford plant. Ford plant. Ford plant. And I
drive a Ford. Damn it. Well, anyway. Definitely
not presidential. No. Some jack off decided to
mouth off to the president and he flipped him
a bird. So what? There you go. Yeah, but you
know, who says that you have to have pomp and
circumstance to be president? I mean, I'm not
saying that you, I mean, yes, there needs to
be some sort of class. There needs to be some
elegance involved in it. But at the same time,
it's like, look, man, he's in the trenches. He
takes so much heat. He's in the trenches. He
is so mistreated. So, I mean, people are allowed
to mistreat the hell out of him, and he's supposed
to just be all perfectly presidential all the
time? No. And he's not a politician, man. He's
a ruthless, cutthroat businessman. Yep, yep.
That's exactly what he is. And he's doing it.
What about the guy that was on the right over
there? He just got accused of... fondling some
young boys. Timothy Bosfeld? Oh, yeah. Oh, is
that Melissa Gilbert's husband? Oh, yeah, there
he is right there. Oh, boy. So, yes, he was accused
by former, what do you call it, people on this
show. Yeah, the Disney or Nickelodeon. Oh, no.
Some show that two kids came forward and says
he. Touched me in my butthole or whatever. Touched
me in my butthole. And gave me inappropriate
hugs or whatever. Like a long time ago? Yeah,
a while ago, right? So this is a retroactive
Me Too moment. Kind of. And so this story broke
like Friday. And then he disappeared, right?
Oh, shit. Oh, the manhunt. Yeah, sort of. They're
like, where is he? And so he showed up today
and turned himself in. Okay. I don't know if
he went on a walkabout or, you know, did some
pay or something. Yeah, but, you know, they're...
He's accused at this point, so I don't know if
he did or didn't. We don't know. Yeah. You know,
this is... He did. You know, he did. So is that
her current husband? Current husband. Look at
Melissa Gilbert. Yeah, Melissa Gilbert. Laura
Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie. How's
that song go? I don't remember. That was Chariots
of Fire. Yeah, Chariots of Fire. What the hell,
man? By Vangelis? Get the little house of death
composer of Michael Landon. Did you get that?
He knows the composer of Chariots of Fire. Who
hurt you when you were a kid? Were you abused?
And if you didn't know this stuff, you got slapped.
I just need to know all this useless knowledge.
If I could make money off of this, I would. Yeah,
well, we aren't. So, thanks. Yeah, Timothy Bussfeld.
He was in West Wing, I think, and a couple other
shows that I've watched. And then the dude. 30
-something. He was on 30 -something. Yes, he
was. And then the dude from Home Alone just got
arrested today. Really? Macaulay Culkin? No,
Daniel Stern. Really? He was arrested for soliciting
a prostitute. Is that illegal? Yeah, what the
hell, man? I mean, where is he illegal? Yeah.
Man, you know what? I don't give a shit about
that. He's probably lonely. He doesn't give a
fuck. Isn't that sad, though? It's like, I mean,
he just, you know. I mean, what is the difference
between going to those little rub and tugs, you
know? I mean, come on. Oh, the massage parlors?
Yeah, it's like, look, there are certain things
you just guys, come on. Is there any victim in
this crime here? I'm not. I'm not advocating
it or saying it's okay necessarily. Well, they
say what? Prostitution is the oldest profession
in the world, right? Right. I mean, she's wanting
to make money and he's a lonely dude. Is there
a crime? The women that hold to high account
their eyelashes. You know those fake eyelashes
they put on there? A prostitute came up with
that. And do you know what she called them? And
this is a fact. You can look it up. Imerkins.
Imerkins. I just beat him. You guys were both
thinking that. That's weird. She called them
cumbrellas. Oh. Oh, to catch all the juices.
She said because it really burns your eyes. Oh,
shut up. With the salt content? I mean, I guess
that's what it is. No, they were not used as
a filtering deflection. Producer, look it up.
No, don't. Type in cumbrellas. We got to do it.
Go to RedTube. Go to RedTube and look it up.
Cumbrellas. Okay. This is how we're ending it.
Really? What else? Why not? Why not? And on a
high note. Yes. A high note. This will be a topic.
Yeah. Combrellas are a slang term for allegedly
by 1882 London prostitute named Gerda Periddle.
1882? Yeah. 1882. I'd say prove this. Yeah. Allegedly.
Yeah. To shield her eyes from semen during sexual
acts. I don't know. Are you making this up? It's
right there. To shield her eyes. Yeah. Our slang
term. From those guys that have impressive throw.
I don't think you need too much of a throw. You're
going to bust right through them. It's about
proximity. If it's coming out fast enough, it's
bursting through. Second half of the Dudes Like
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