You said it worked last time, huh? It helped
me. Your gonorrhea? My clap. No, the clap. Shoot,
I forgot to look into that. I was going to get
one of the cinema directors. Oh, yeah, the clacker.
Yeah, you could probably buy one of those. It's
like digital time code and everything. You need
to get one of those with a SMPTE time code so
it ties everything together so when you do it,
it starts the recording and everything. That
would make life easier. I don't know. It's all
about getting easier and getting better. Better
and better, which seems to be what we're doing.
Yeah. I don't know who our video maker is, but
gosh, those are really, really professionally
produced. Interesting. Have you guys seen any
of the videos that we're posting? It's freaking
amazing. Are you walking around the house naked
again? We live them. What? Yes. Good dude. I
don't do new videos. I'm talking about our videos
that I make. What if you accidentally post like
a dick pic video? Good Lord. Have you guys ever
accidentally done that? Accidentally? No. Well,
first of all, before we get into that, it's Tuesday.
That sounds like an omission. Tuesday, January
20th, 2026. What a horrible way to start the
podcast. With Dudes Like Us podcast, we've got
Chuck, our producer. Guys, if you want to check
us out on Facebook or Instagram, it's dudeslikeus
-podcast. We also have a Woodcraft. It's kind
of, you know, needs to get up there a little
bit more. We've got some cool stuff. Jeff's making
it. We've got to get over here and frame it.
That's right. Dudes Like Us, I'm Sean. I'm Paul.
And I'm Jeff. So tell us about these nude pics
you were sending. Yeah, that you accidentally
sent. So it wasn't that I accidentally. I meant
to send them, and I did send them. But it's the
recipient on the other end was around other people.
So, you know, I sent a personal message to my
wife, and I was like, hey. Oh, good. It's your
wife. Okay. Yeah. Just a tip? Well, no. I mean,
we weren't sure. I mean, you didn't kind of,
you know, to your boyfriend or? Oh. Could have
been to your brother. I wouldn't send it. I have
a spot. What do you think? Do you have this on
yours? Yeah, do you think this is a dangerous
spot? Is this hereditary? I mean, I tried to
pop it. I squeezed it. So, you know, it happened
actually on two separate occasions. So the first
occasion was on her cell phone, and her cousin
had opened up the phone and checked. Sean said,
text me, just check it, check my phone. And the
other one was... And she let out this blood -curdling
scream. I don't know. I didn't really... She
went, hey. You know. Yeah, I take a picture in
such a way that it's gratuitous, you know? She's
like, there's a spot. I don't think that's a
healthy spot. Might have to have checked out.
There was another part where... Let me see. I
changed the backdrop on her desktop. To your
balls? It was... That region? Okay, now you're
just aggravating her. Why would you want to harass
her like that? It didn't aggravate her, but it
was like, and then another cousin opened up the
laptop. Here's her laptop background. Everybody's
going to see that. But it was her personal one.
It was at the house. It was just kind of crazy.
It was just two very separate isolated instances.
You tried to be sweet, weren't you? Yeah, it
was. Oh, trying to be like endearing. Thank you,
Jeff. Yeah. I understand. Going out of his way
to show a little extra love. Well, you know,
they say the seven languages to love. That is
the eighth one. I kind of created a paradox there.
Really? Interjected my own. Here's the eighth
one. Whatever that goes through the mind, I'm
like, God, wouldn't it be horrible if I accidentally
tapped like my sister or at the time my parents
were alive. I was like, or you guys. I'd be like,
God. Well, imagine accidentally getting one from
your sister. Exactly. I'd be horrified. Horrifying.
I mean, there are times where I have sent a text
message out. Have you ever sent a text message
to the wrong person? Well, these group chats.
There's like 8 ,000 group chats. I think it's
just the four of us. And then it's like the whole
bourbon group that was on it that one time. I
was like, okay. It wasn't anything bad or anything
like that, but it wasn't meant for them. Yeah.
Whatever, but it's easy to do. I did it with
a client. I had sent, I think I was trying to
reach out to my brother -in -law, Wes, and I
said, hey, man, stop being an asshole. Grab a
six -pack of beer and come over to my house because
he's across the street. But no, no. I spelled
cum, C -U -M. Because you always do. That's one
of your things. Yes. And then I looked down at
my phone, and I was just like, you know how your
stomach hits the ground? No, no, no, no, no.
It's like your click. It's like, that didn't
look right. Yes, it's not right. Then your spidey
sense just blacks out. Does the undo on Microsoft
actually work? Like, recall? Because I'll get
the email. Only if they haven't read it. If they
haven't read it, it will recall it to where they
have never seen it. I don't believe that. I don't
believe that. If somebody reads it. Well, I mean,
that's the way it works at our work. Somebody
tries to recall it, and somebody's like, it's
already been read. Well, we would get them, and
then you get an email above it that says so -and
-so wants to recall the email. And you click
on it, and you read it. I think there can be
a force option, because I know that that's happened
at my company. Right, yeah. So they did not work
at all where we worked. I haven't run into the
issue where I sent the text to a wrong person,
but right before I pressed send, I noticed the
auto -correction. Screwed up something? Oh, yeah.
All the time. Yeah, I know. I said, hey, I missed
you at the party. Right? And then I look down
and it says, hey, I kissed you at the party.
And I'm like, no, that wouldn't go over well.
Right. I'm glad I caught that. That's to my boss.
Right. And I get so pissed off. It was to Barry.
Oh. Right? Oh, my God. I must have been really
drunk. We will miss you. We will kiss you. I'm
like, dude, seriously. Is the K and the M right
next to each other on the keyboard, Chuck? I
think it is. Oh, it is on the phone. It is on
the phone, I think. Is that the same? The K is
above the M. There you go. It's right next to
it. The deaf keyboard? No, I'm just like... Deaf
keyboard. I'm not sure my hearing impairment
has anything to do with whether or not I can
fucking push the right... Dude, I don't know
about you guys, but I lose my shit trying to
type on this damn thing. I do, too. I lose my
shit. I go, then I read it after I send it, and
I'm like, that is not even close to what I was
trying to say. Then I take... Five times to say
the same word. Yes. Fuck. Fuck. Literally, five
times in a row, I type it the exact same way
all five times. Yes. I always blame my fat thumbs.
I'm just like, eh, forget about it. God, it's
so aggravating. And even then, it's like, now
I'm trying to do better by hitting the little
button that allows you to record, not record,
but you can do voice to text. And then that doesn't
work out. I typed in something to my work chat,
and instead of hard, it said heart. And I'm like.
What a fag. Yeah, I hate it. I was done making
a run, and I was parked, and my son Brandon texted
me a question or something like that. And I had
my watch, and my phone's in the thing because
I don't use my phone. So I was like, I can answer
it or text back on my phone. Nice. But I hit
the microphone. Just then, my walkie -talkie
goes off. So I was like, maybe it didn't get
it. And then I say my answer. Then I look at
it. And it's all. Oh, there's all that. Whatever.
Whatever just said was all on there. And then
my answer. I was like, oh, it is what it is.
Sans. No. Backspacing or whatever. No. So it
picked up all this radio chatter. Yeah. I get
frustrated with the talk to text, too, because
I'm like, what am I? Am I? Am I slurring? I mean,
I know I have a lisp and I'm hearing impaired
and stuff, but damn, it's not picking up. shit
from what I'm saying. And I'll ask Shelly, I'll
go, can you understand what I'm saying? I mean,
why can't this not get it? So what does the hearing
impaired have to do with it? Because, you know,
you can have a... Annunciation issues? Annunciation
issues. I have a lisp, and not a slur, but a
lisp, because I can't hear the high pitch of
the sound that my mouth makes. So I tend to slur
and talk like this. I don't have a lisp! I just
have a weird voice. It's not a lisp. So we've
had, what did you guys do on your Martin Luther
King Day celebration? Went to Costco. Oh. Yeah.
Very exciting. Brian had dropped. He had to borrow
one of the cars because he had to haul stuff
like that in Whitney, Texas. Where's that at?
I don't know where Whitney is. I've been there.
He said it was three hours away, but he had to
drive there, so he borrowed our car to haul some
stuff. In the meantime. What's he doing down
there? It was for his fraternity for the chiropractic.
Oh, nice. There's Whitney. All right, zoom out.
Yeah, I have no idea where it's at. Where is
that? That is south. Oh, yeah. That is by Hillsboro.
Yeah, he's like, it's in the middle of nowhere.
It's due south of Fort Worth. Yeah. So anyway,
so he dropped his off and says, hey, can you
take it? See, because one of my tires has a leak
in it, a slow leak. I was like, yeah, I'll take
it by and see what they say. Um, so I did that
and he actually, there's no hole in the tire.
He probably went over a pothole and bent the
wheel. So there's a little, the rim. So there's
a little gap between the tire and the, uh, so
they filled it. They're like, I don't know how
long it'll last. He's going to need to replace
it at some point. So, but anyways, so we drove
down and met him halfway. Uh, and we had lunch
with him and spent some good time with him. Good.
Um, and, uh, did that for a while. Then we, Got
Julia a new phone. Her phone crapped out. Really?
Yeah. These iPhones, actually all phones, eventually
just kind of grind. Why do you think that is,
Jeff? I think money. Yeah, maybe because they
install software that makes the phone slow down
and start having memory issues on purpose. I'm
convinced. As a matter of fact, they admitted
it. Some of the people that worked at Apple actually
admitted it. They were like, yes, that's 100
% true. Not even like, yeah, we might do that.
No, he said it's 100 % true. Because if I remember
correctly, China sued Apple because of that.
Oh, I don't know. But hers wasn't receiving calls,
wasn't receiving texts, wasn't doing all kinds
of stuff. It was really time to - Yeah, and we
went right after the holidays, Christmas, and
everybody was out of the phones. So we had to
wait until they got some back in stock. So we
went yesterday and got her one. Does it have
that new operating system, the iOS 26 on it now?
Yeah, so does mine. Oh, God. Does yours have
that? Yes, I just upgraded, updated it. What's
new about it? It's completely retarded. So it's
slow? No. What's new about it? It's all bubbles
and shit now. It's all cosmetic, basically. It's
called cosmetic. I'm sure there's other things
in there, but it's all cosmetic. You can make
your screen, your home screen, not translucent,
but kind of see -through. So these can be all
one color. Opaque. Yes, they can be opaque to
one degree or another. Yeah, I can't read anything
on my phone anymore now because I've got... The
background comes through the opaqueness. Well,
you turned that off. I couldn't find how to.
They have training on YouTube. Okay, well, good.
Yeah, for seniors. For my boomer, for my boomerness.
Yeah, boomer training. Yeah. I highly recommend
it. All the time. They go really slow, and they
talk really simply. Can they just do it for me?
Yeah, no shit. Yeah. So, yeah, I turned mine
off, so I didn't like it, so I just turned it
off. Nice. Yeah. And then. How long does she
have the phone? It was a 12 and we're on 17,
so what, five years? Oh, is that an annual thing?
Yeah, they pretty much iPhone every year they
release a new one. I just got, like when my kids
get tired of their phone and they get a new phone,
I just get their old phone. Which is basically
every two years or something like that. I mean,
Dylan pays for his own phone. I was like, what's
wrong with your phone? And he's like, I just
want to get the bigger, nicer one. I was like.
Well, it does the same thing, right? I was like,
I'll take your old one. I have a 12. It's funny.
Yeah, that's what Julie had. And hers, like I
said, hers was dropping calls, not even receiving
calls. Andrew would finally call her and get
a hold of her. She goes, I've been texting you
all day. She's like, I got nothing. Wow. So she
was worried about that, especially with her parents.
Oh, yeah. Being able to reach out and stuff like
that. You can't have a phone that doesn't work.
That's not an option. So we did that yesterday,
which it's not an easy or quick process to get
a cell phone. Who's your service? T -Mobile.
T -Mobile. Yeah. You know, I was talking to a
client. I had telephoned them and said, hey,
can you return my call? You telephoned them?
I used my mobile device to conduct a phone call.
Do you know how old that saying is? I telephoned
them. Anyway, sorry. Please continue, Boomer.
The guy's like, you know, I had to listen to
the message. And then I still didn't put two
to two together. And then I was like, what are
you talking about? I was like, well, you were
calling from Dudes Like Us Productions. Oh. I'm
like, how did my phone number get associated
with Dudes Like Us Productions? But it's a thing.
It's out there. I don't know how that happened.
Interesting. Well, I mean, you have that as your
Google. Yeah, are you signed in on your phone?
What? Are you signed in to dudes like us on your
phone? I mean, it shouldn't matter. That's caller
ID. Why would my phone? That's directed to T
-Mobile. T -Mobile is disconnected from that
kind of stuff. I have no idea. Maybe it's not.
I don't know, but it was just kind of like, and
then I paused for a second when he said that.
I was like, well, first of all, that's kind of
cool, and that's kind of cool, but at the same
time, no, that is me, and I didn't bring up the
podcast or anything because he was. from the
East Coast, and sometimes... They're kind of
Libby. That won't go well. Yeah, there are a
lot of Libby's over there. Hey, I told you, when
I went to my Bronco experience, I was chatting
with people from Maine and Connecticut, and they're
hardcore closet Trump supporters. Yes. They're
out there, man. Yes, yes, yes. And we want to
reach them, Sean. You want to reach them. I try
reaching out to people all the time, and I pass
out those... Magnets? Those coins. The Armor
of God coins. Where are you getting those? I
order them through Amazon. I think it's important.
I meet somebody out there. It doesn't matter
who it is, a contractor, somebody, and we just
start. It's actually a way for me to be able
to create a relationship with them. I mean, I'm
never going to call them again. But it helps
me with my job kind of... Having them remember
you or... Yeah, and not just that, but to be
real with it. Because when part of your job is
assessing the value to something, you want them
to be true. And so if you could say, hey, look,
there's a little... Of course, there's more to
the conversation, but I don't want to talk too
much about it because it's a professional setting.
You're not going to lie to me. You're going to
be honest with me if I hand you this coin. No,
I mean, there's... And you'll be nice to me.
There's a little bit more... Because you've had
some really crappy people. Oh, yeah. There's
tons of... You know, there's crappy people in
everything you do. There is. It doesn't really
matter. But for some reason, for me, there's
more. Well, because it's a testy... Well, I think
it's the... Tension. Not just that, but the industry
that you're in. I think it's fraught with fraud
or the thought of, I'm going to get screwed over.
Type of a thing. Right. Yeah. The anticipation
of fraud is, or I'm sorry, that's probably not,
they're correcting. Well, it's actually on my
behalf, the anticipation of fraud is there because
I'm kind of, these guys are going to be fraudulent.
I just know it. And on their behalf, they're
like, well, the anticipation that this guy is
going to be a jerk and deny us what we should
get. Correct. And get screwed over. Correct.
But I let them know right away. I was like, look,
man, no. I was like, I am super, it doesn't matter
to me which direction this goes because I'm not
in it for the money. You know, I'm in it because
I want to provide a good service for you guys
and give you the best I can. But anyways, my
point is with the phone thing is that, man, you
know, yeah, dudes like us, productions, and then
into the coin thing. I think the coin thing is
kind of cool. It really does help me. How much
are those? They are very cool, by the way. How
much are those things? I don't know. They're
a couple bucks each. Oh, really? Five bucks a
piece. That's cool. You know, and I don't mind
buying them. Do you know what you're talking
about? No. Yeah, okay. He showed me one a while
ago. They're kind of cool looking. I think I've
got one. Hold on. Oh. This is exciting. He's
pulling his penis out. Oh. Another dick pic.
I know. For once, can we have a podcast where
you do not take a picture and send a picture
of your dick? Oh, these are... Yeah, I've seen
these. These... Not the challenge coins, but
the... Yeah, I've seen these. Not this specific
one. Well, that one's the... Hold it up to the
camera real close. Yeah. There you go. Can you
read it? No, no. That's not fast. I think they're
cool. First of all, I think they're cool. And
I love giving them to people, even that I know,
like some of my coworkers, once I get to know
them. And look, it's not a matter of me being
a real religious person, because it doesn't have
anything for me to do with religion. Maybe a
little bit, it's an underlining theme there.
But moreover, it's a way for me to convey that.
I try to walk under these guidelines of the armor
of God. You know, just kind of like, you know,
be good. What would Jesus do kind of stuff? It's
a nice icebreaker. It's a great icebreaker. I
think it is. Yeah. And it kind of like says,
hey, look, I just want to do what's right. You
know, I don't want to be a jerk about anything.
It just needs to be right. Right. You know, and
it's with everything. And I give it to some of
my coworkers because, you know, they are more
religious than I am, and it kind of helps kind
of hopefully create a bond between us. I don't
know. After you hand it to them, do you say,
Are you committing fraud here? No, I never. Look,
I don't ever get into that. If I honestly think
someone's doing that, I just hire someone smarter
than me to kind of contest things. All right,
so this is put on the whole armor of God commemorative
collection challenge coins. Oh, you said challenge
coins. Yeah, challenge coins. Yeah, okay, good.
Those are big in the military. Yeah. Typically
the military, you get those and you'll give them
to people for special occasions or whatever.
Right. And this is a famous scripture, right?
Ephesians 6, 11 through 18. It's Ephesians 6,
chapters 10 through 18, verses 10 through 18.
Girt with truth. Yeah, right there on the coin.
That's wrong. There's actually, it starts at
10. Verse 10 starts with, finally, my brethren.
Well, I know it's on there, but it's wrong. Well,
maybe I'm wrong. No, I know. But I've always
quoted 10 through 18. I don't know why it says
11. That's funny. Probably it starts listing
them at 11. Yes, yes. That's probably exactly
right. Anyway, they're cool looking. Well, I
also went online. I should say, but this is going
to be a surprise for you guys. Don't tell us
that. And no pictures for me. So excited. Surprises.
No pictures. So, Martin Luther King, what did
we do on our day off? I went to Costco, and then
we had the championship game, right? The college
playoff game. I didn't watch it. Dude, I didn't
watch any of the games at all. I didn't watch
college. I didn't watch NFL. I didn't watch anything.
Why? Are you not a football fan? I love football,
but you know what? I'm just kind of disconnected.
Plus, man, as busy as I am not with work, I still
have demanding things that are pending. I get
it. day off, I basically worked and just kind
of pummeled through it. Now, granted, I'm going
to be able to have a light workload during the
week because I could transfer some of the time
I spent on Martin Luther King. What else do I
do? Tara is working her butt off right now. Tax
season, right? Yeah, and I was asking her about
that. She's so lippy right now. I was like, damn
it, woman. You know, it's just like there's no
such thing as a casual conversation. It's just
like, you know, you're in her face. You're in
her face. You know, and I get it. She's wound
tight right now just because of the dynamics
at work because there's a person, one of her
key players that helps her through these tax
seasons is hurt, ill. Sick. Oh, wow. Had something
happen. She's down a man, huh? She's down. And
so Tara literally has been working seven days
a week. Oh, damn. Seven days a week. And I asked
her this morning, and I was like, how long are
you going to keep up this trend of working seven
days a week? She's like, what are you talking
about? There's no Tara here. Only Zool. Right.
Oh, God. And you know what, though? She's really
good at what she does. She has no bedside manner.
Man, it's a lot of work. It's a lot of work.
Tech stuff is crazy. So I did watch. I watched
both. I watched some NFL and most of the Indiana
game. I didn't finish it because I was getting
too late. I was like, fuck it. I'm going to bed.
Yeah, the Bills and Broncos game was a good game.
It was. And what's crazy is Bo Nix got hurt on
the kneel -down play before the game -winning
field goal. Is that when he got hurt? That's
when he did it. I knew that he got hurt in the
end, and I didn't even see him limping. And I
was like, he never got hurt. Well, when he did
it, I was like, that was weird. I don't know
if someone stepped on him, but I was like, that's
weird. And the look on his face and the way he
kind of walked, I was like, did he hurt himself?
He broke his ankle or something like that. Can
you find that, Chuck? It was very subtle. Let's
see if we can find that play. What is that his
name? Bo Nix. Bo Nix. Yeah, it was very subtle.
And I was like, that didn't look quite right.
And they're saying he did it. Maybe he did before
in the kneel. They said that it was on the second
to last play. Oh, so. Suffering a right ankle
fracture when he planted his foot to change direction.
And was tackled. All right. So it was that play
then that we were just seeing. Yeah. So when
they said second to last play, well, the last
play was the kick. So the second to last play
was him. When him kneeling. Him kneeling. Yes.
Okay. Okay. But why you saw him looking awkward
is because it had happened on the true play before
that. Right. All right. So there he is. He tries
to slip by him. And then, yes, he gets tackled.
He's barely limping. He springs right up. Look
at that. He just gets right up, starts walking.
That's because he's tough. He is tough. He's
like 35. Sometimes you don't even really feel
it until... He had the adrenaline going, I'm
sure. He's like, this is a game -winning drive.
Potentially, I need to see this through. Before
the season -ending diagnosis, injury happened
on the third to... Third to last play. Third
to last play. But Nix managed the next play and
even post -game interview before his ankle was
confirmed broken. That's crazy. So, it's the
backup quarterback. I don't even remember his
name. Stidham. He's from Baylor. Stidham? Stidham.
Stidham. He was good at Baylor. Right. Well,
I mean, obviously he's good somewhere if he's
in the NFL. I don't care if you're a backup.
You're still good. Oh, so this is the Denver
Broncos? Yes. Oh, my God. Aren't they into the
Super Bowl? Championship. AMC Championship. Oh,
okay. So I'm going to watch those this weekend.
Well, it's the backup quarterback now, so they're
saying that it looks like New England has the
edge. Do you have the over -under on that game?
I think it's New England by three. It is New
England now. Okay. And it should still be at
home for Denver. I was going to say, is it a
Denver game then? Yeah, it has to be. I tell
you what, I was impressed. Not impressed, but
I was surprised Los Angeles beat Chicago. Yeah,
that was another good game. Yeah, and... That
one I missed. I watched it just because of the...
potential for bad weather. I mean, it was cold
as shit. Yeah, those two games on Sunday were
great with the bad weather in New England and
Chicago. Yeah, but it wasn't like all snowy like
I was hoping it was going to be. There was a
little snow, but it was more just cold, right?
Yes, it was. It is kind of cool when you see
they pan out for the play and they're all frost
breath that you're talking about. That's super
cool. Yeah, it's still not even close to the
coldest games in the NFL. I'm sure it sucked.
Yeah. I think either the Dallas game up at Green
Bay or the Cincinnati -San Diego game. The Ice
Bowl. For the AFC Championship game. That may
have been the coldest. Yes. I looked it up. I
actually looked it up after watching the Chicago.
We had it on, and yes, it was the Ice Bowl game.
The Cincinnati Bowl? Yes. The Cincinnati game?
The one they say Ice Bowl. Hold on. That's Dallas.
Which was the Dallas Cowboys? That's Dallas.
Yeah. Well, I think, yeah. So it's between the
two because I think maybe the wind chill was
actually colder at the Cincinnati game. That's
what I keep thinking. Yeah. That was brutal.
I remember that winter. Well, I was at the one.
I think we've said this, but I mean, I was at
the one, the Dallas game. No, that was at Green
Bay. That was at Green Bay. Well, there was a
Dallas one at the Dallas Texas Stadium in Irving,
Texas. That was called the Ice Bowl. And it was
a cold one as well. That was a cold one, but
nothing near what those two games were. Yeah,
not the record -breaking one. Yeah. What was
it called? I don't even think you were born yet.
67. It was the one in the 1990s. It was 1995.
It was a cold one. It was three or four, yeah,
with Leon Lett scooching the ball. Yeah. In your
cowboy boots. Yeah, I was wearing my ostrich
skin cowboy boots like a freaking ding dong.
How cold was it? Minus 13? Yes. What was the
Cincinnati Charger game? I think it was 1980,
81 time frame. It may have been minus nine. But
the wind chill was ridiculous. The freezer bowl.
The freezer bowl. Nine with a negative 59 wind
chill. It was fucking ridiculous. Good Lord.
Yeah. The coldest in NFL history by wind chill.
Yep. Yeah. Dude, that's dangerous. That's dangerous.
And you can't throw it. I can't imagine. I can't
imagine. I mean, that will create frostbite within.
As a matter of fact, I think I read that some
players had frostbite. It could be. From either
this game or the other one. Because they were
playing the San Diego Chargers. So all of the
Cincinnati Bengals, I think they all do it now,
but they came out short sleeves. The Bengals
did. To intimidate the Chargers, and it worked.
Damn. That's crazy. Yeah, I remember watching
that game. I was 13. Yeah, 12 -13. But did you
watch the Bills and Broncos game? Did you see
the play where the Bills, the guy caught it,
and they said it was an interception? Yes. It's
a bullshit call. That happened in the Chicago
game as well. The same thing happened. Or in
the Pats game or something like that. In the
Pats game, yeah. And that was a rule to catch.
Unbelievable. That basically screwed the Bills.
Yeah. Because they would have won it with a field
goal right there. Yep. Yep. And then the coach
for the Bills gets fired. Yeah, he got fired.
He sure did. I'm like, dude, how is that his
fault? They had 10 coaches that are no longer
head coaches in the NFL right now. And you know
what? They're going to turn around and get another
job. They're going to take a year off, chill
out. Is this the play right here? Yeah, he has
got it, and he is down. And then he rips it out
of his hands. That was bullshit. Clearly a catch,
and it would have ended the game, and the Bills
would have won. Look at this. It's a catch. And
then he pulls it out of his hands. That's what
you think is to fix in or something like that.
Did they even review it? They didn't even review
it, I don't think. Was it the last couple minutes
within the two minutes of the game? Yeah. It
was at the very end. That's automatic review
under two minutes. They looked at it. Did they
look at it? I don't remember there being a break
to look at it. I'd like to hear the analysis
of why they decided to go that route. You never
really hear that. It's kind of like, hey, man,
why did you guys decide to do that? You mean
like the call, the officiating crew? I mean,
it wasn't necessarily officiating folks because
they try their best. They try to see what they
see. Sure. But when it goes into review, it's
kind of like, well, how did that happen? He's
down. He's down by contact. His back hit the
ground. The ball was in his hand. When he rolled,
it was when he took it out. It doesn't make sense.
He was down. It was outrageous. I was losing
my shit, and I'm not even a Bills fan. I was
like, come on, guys. I very much wanted the Bills
to win. I wanted the Bills in Chicago. I was
rooting for them. No question. Because I like
Josh Allen. I think he's the ultimate competitor.
Until he cried at the end. I was like, come on.
Did he cry? Yeah, he cried during the interview.
He's married to a hot wife, though. No, no, no.
Go on. I would cry if I was super, super crazy
supermodel hot wife. Well, she was kind of like,
if you win today, I'm going to do that special
thing you like. And he was like, this was my
one chance. Yes. Interesting. I like how Mr.
Producer jumps right up on that and tries to
say, let's get to figure out who she is. She
was in a couple movies. Haley Steinfeld. Yes,
Haley Steinfeld. She is really pretty. Can she
throw a football? She can throw something. Oh,
she's pregnant. Is she really? Oh, yeah. Well,
she's on her belly at least. Or she just came
from a buffet. She has some sort of... Or that
was from her first marriage. She has an abdomen
obstruction. Or pregnant. She swallowed a football.
Either one. It's one or the other. They look
the same. Yes. Yeah. He's kind of dorky looking,
but... He's not dorky looking. He was not dorky.
Well, look at that. Oh, wow. Okay. We're getting
sidetracked. Yes, that's a nice picture. Put
in nude. Put in nude? Oh, my God. You know what?
This is fun. Put in nude. No, no, not Josh Allen
nude. The other one. Correct. Anyway, so I thought
that was bullshit. And then the Seahawks destroyed,
absolutely annihilated. San Francisco. The 49ers.
The 49ers look like shit. Like shit, shit. So
I know they were missing a lot of people, apparently.
They had a lot of injuries, right? Uh -huh, yeah.
But come on. Yeah, but Brock Perry did not look
good at all. Yeah. Anyway, all right, so what
do we got? So the finals now, the championships
are New England and Denver and the Rams and the
Seahawks. So I don't know how that's going to
go. I'd like to see the Seahawks and I'd like
to see Denver, but I don't know if that's going
to happen now. It's probably going to be the
Seahawks, so I don't see anybody stopping them.
I think I want Denver and the Rams. That would
be my preference. I know I hate. New England,
and I'm indifferent about it. You hate New England.
I hate them because of Vrabel. It's going to
piss me off that Vrabel goes to New England in
his first year and suddenly, oh, yeah, he's the
difference maker. Oh, they make it all the way
to the Super Bowl. Oh, yeah. He was with us for
six years and didn't do shit. The dynasty is
back. And then suddenly now, yeah. I'm like,
give me a fucking break. The New England dynasty
is back now with Drake May and Vrabel. Mr. I
don't know how to manage the clock. I don't know
how to challenge correctly. Blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah. He made a mistake after a fucking
mistake. Maybe he learned from his mistakes.
Did he? Yes. Apparently. No, he has a quarterback
who's playing lights out. Well, they had Ryan
Tannehill. And we did okay, but. And Derrick
Henry at the time. I don't know. Derrick Henry
is a beast. Yeah. Well, I wonder how much longer
he's got because he gets the shit beat off of
him. He's had some big monster games, but he's
fallen off. The San Francisco tight end. I don't
know who that monster is. George Kill. Yeah,
he's an animal. He got hurt. He didn't play last
game. Oh, yeah. He shredded his knee. Oh, no,
it's Achilles popped. It's Achilles popped. That's
a tough one to come back from, too. You know,
I know. You remember Mark Levinka? I do. He was
playing co -ed soccer. Did he pop his Achilles?
I don't think it was him. He either did it or
he was telling me. I think someone else did it.
And someone was running down the field, and he
said he heard it. Yeah. It made a loud, audible
noise. And it's not pleasant. We had on the basketball
court, somebody popped his Achilles and no one
was around him. And he tumbled to the ground
and he wheeled around on the ground. He was like,
who kicked me? And we're all like, dude, nobody
kicked you, dude. Nobody touched you. He's like,
bullshit, somebody kicked me. He's like in major
pain. My brother's had it twice. And he's like,
yeah. The second time I knew exactly what would
happen because I felt it the first time. And
it felt like somebody kicked me or shot me in
the leg. Yeah. So does it, like, pull up into
your calf? Yeah, it can roll up. It literally
can roll up the back of a calf. Yeah. So you've
got a good -looking calf for a while. Kind of
like your bicep. Dude, you've really been doing
the leg presses. Let's go compete real quick.
One calf only. Yeah. I don't think it gives you
more strength. Yeah, Paul, can you rub oil all
over my calf, please? Yeah, I don't. I'm not
really into that. Can you go up the thigh a little
higher, please? A little higher. A little higher.
A little higher. Wow. All right, I'm done. Yeah,
yeah. Whenever you're injured, I'm not getting
anywhere near you. All right, well, there's the
NFL playoffs. That should be exciting. That's
next weekend. Which is going to be, by the way,
freaking cold as shit here. Hold on. Is it going
to be next weekend? Yeah. So the AFC is this
week. Then they take a break. So it's going to
be two weekends. No. Both these games. Both next
weekend. Both are Sunday. Then they take a break.
And then the Super Bowl. Oh, these games are.
I should have said the Super Bowl is next. No.
So, I mean, this weekend is supposed to be unpleasant
for us. It's supposed to be icy all day on Saturday,
which means Sunday is going to be a shit show.
I don't care. It'll be perfect for football.
I'm curious to see what's going on Friday. Like
if I wake up Friday. It's all rain. When's it
supposed to freeze? Overnight, Friday to Saturday
is the latest word I saw. I can deal with that.
As long as it's gone by Monday. It's supposed
to be 90 on Sunday night. Awesome. So it'll be
humid as fuck. But shit's like steamy. It's really
foggy. Yes. No, even Sunday's supposed to be
snow and then sunny on Monday, but. The high
is 32. I don't know if it's going to thaw. No,
it won't. It may not. Damn. So we're not going
to have to go to work on Monday or Tuesday? That's
the thing. I have to go unless they cancel school.
They probably will if it's shitty. Well, Saturday,
it's going to be the 20s. Look at that. Nine
degrees. Yeah, this is the first real. Is this
the 100 -year freeze? Sunday will be cold as
all. Yeah. And Monday continues. It's going to
be the 20th of Monday. And then Tuesday it starts
to come up a little bit to just over freezing.
I find funny. It's just like the heat in the
summer. People freak out. They're like, this
happens every year. Every year. Every year. Not
many days during winter, but it happens every
winter. Yeah, it happens every winter. This is
nothing new. Just like the heat. Oh, it's hot.
It's always hot in Dallas in the summer. It's
just now we have 24 -7 news who likes to sensationalize
things. Unprecedented 100 -year tornado vortex.
Well, how about the time we had the week of like
seven degrees all week, right? Two years ago,
three years ago? That was all right. That was...
That was sensational. Actually, that was longer
than that. It was crazy. Was it 21? 21, yeah.
21, yeah. 21 what days? No, 2021, December. Oh.
That did kill people. It did. It's scary. You
talk about what happens when power goes out.
Yeah. That's what happens. Yeah. People start
eating each other. People die. I mean, you're
sending your pictures of you all huddled up in
your blankets and shit. I'm like, dude, I have
power. Man, you know what I did when I didn't
have power? I dressed in warm clothes, and I
helped a few neighbors that had pipe bursts.
Including me. Including you. I don't recall tearing
open your wall, though. But that shit didn't
happen until... Did I open up your wall? After
it thawed. No, it was the PVC pipe that was coming
in the garage. Oh. Yeah, I had a neighbor up
my street. Their pipe burst, and the water was
turned off, and she called me. She's a doctor,
a pediatrician or something. I forget. I went
over there and I was like, it's obvious where
it was because there's a fucking hole in the
wall, you know, blasting through there. So, you
know, I just cut a two foot rectangle and went
to Home Depot and bought, you know, those shark
bites. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And boom. I mean, hell,
Jeff, you had a plumbing issue. When we first
met. Yeah, that was probably 15 years ago, maybe.
Wow, that was a long time ago. That was a long
time ago. The shark bite's still on there. And
I don't recall, do you push it in every now and
then? No, never touched it. Yeah, I would give
it a little push once in a while. That was an
emergency repair that you left in place for 15
years? I mean, those things are, those shark
bites. Yeah, but they're permanent fixes. Yeah,
I mean, you can use a shark bite and close up
a wall, so as far as I'm concerned, you know.
You still have the hole in the wall? No, it was
stubbed out. It's like an emergency fix and it
stays that way. The walls all torn apart for
20 years. Just draft. Coming in. Yeah, but you
know, I mean, look, of all the trades in the
construction world, plumbing is the one I fear
the most. I fear the most. I can do it. I don't
want to say it's the easiest. It's easy to do,
but if you do it wrong, it yields the biggest
headache. It has the most liability. If you're
a professional plumber, it yields the biggest
liability because if you fail, shit. You have
to have heavy insurance, I guess, as a plumber.
Water damage? I would imagine just like any other
trade because I would think most of the jobs
that I've ever done, there's never really ever
been an issue, but it's that one time. I mean,
there was a time I was working with this one
person. And I went up in the attic and we remodeled
the bathroom and we were distributing some water
lines and I made a two -way. And I just happened
to go up in the attic to run some electrical
right by that plumbing pipe I did. And I reached
down there. This was like a week later. I reached
down there and the insulation around that pipe.
I'm sorry. Let me rephrase that. Not the insulation
around the pipe. The insulation sitting under
the pipe. that sits on top of the ceiling was
wet. So it had a micro little leak. And so, man,
I just immediately freaking just stopped what
I was doing. Because I remember I had to sweat
that thing off three times to get it to work.
And it was in the dark. It was fucking hot. And
I was like, you know what? Fuck this. I called
the plumber. Get over here and fix this. I'm
done. All of us reach the point on some job,
on some project, Where we know we can do it ourselves,
but the pain and suffering involved in it. Well,
I mean, imagine the alternative would be having
to pay your deductible for all the repairs. So,
I mean, it's way less than the deductible to
have some guy go over there and you just charge
$300, $500. It's going to take him, shit, turn
off the water. You know, it took him three minutes.
Right. I know it. But, I mean, that is sweating
on using a torch and fire. You know, the metal
sealant stuff. But it's like, you know, nowadays
they have compression tools. It's kind of like
shark bite stuff. Right. You know, you're just
like, it's done instantly. Anyways, I don't know.
How did we get distracted on that? Plumbing.
Oh, the winter. That's the way we are. The winter,
the cold that's coming. Yes. We've got to be
ready. Yeah, I'll be pulling in some firewood.
Yeah, during that whole thing, when you were
shivering in your room, we actually, we have
heat lamps, and we heated the pool, and we were
having. Yeah, we had it so hot in here, we were
just walking around. I know, we were just swimming,
and we were like, come on, come on over, guys,
come on over. And I was like, no, it's okay,
the power's going to turn on shortly, and we'll
be okay. It's okay. It was so stupid. Two days
later, you're still doing it. I know, I told
him, I told him, come over. We're fine, we're
fine, we're fine, just send us food. I was like,
what the fuck, man? And you did. You stuck it
out the whole time. You never came over. And
you did not have, you'd had power. Oh, we had
power. We never lost power. And we never lost
power. You lost power. How is it, how is the
grid designed? I don't know. Because we're not
very far from Sean. No, you're right down the
street. Yeah. And he's in between you and I.
For the most part. I don't know. It doesn't make
any sense. One theory I have is I think we here
at this house may be on the same grid as the
hospital down there. Maybe that gets precedent
because we rarely lose power. I mean, it may
be like a real quick brownout and then back on.
That's the most we've ever really done. Yeah,
I have no idea what grid I'm attached to. Maybe
it's the Kroger grid. I don't know. Or the church.
I don't know. The church behind us. You can never
cut the power to a church. No. No way. Even when
no one's there. How's that church doing? It's
taking a hit. If I were to guess, I'd say it's
probably 30%. Minus 30 % or minus 70? 30 % attendance.
Attendance. Yeah, it's taking a hit. They need
to hurry up and find a new pastor because this
whole guest pastor is making people just move
on or just stop going. But you know what? These
pastors are proud, and they're probably wanting
to charge a shitload of money. My attitude was,
I mean, we have really good. campus pastors,
right? There's like four different campuses,
right? And there's a campus pastor for each one,
and then there was the head pastor. Some of them
are very talented, man. Let them run the church
for six months. See how it goes. Right. Some
of them are really talented. Anyway, but they
said, no, they will not hire within. They're
absolutely going to hire outside. So, whatever.
I just hope they do it quickly. So, anyway. Shoot,
man. I know we're not going to talk about the
whiskey right now, but man, this is good. We
can. No, wait a little bit longer. Okay, we can
do that. I mean, what else do we got on the board
here? Well, speaking of churches, did you guys
hear about... No, no. Did you hear about in Minnesota?
Oh, yeah, the church mob. They stormed the church
and had a protest inside the church. Yeah, they're
going to get in trouble with that, too. Well,
and what's his name? Don Lamont. Don Lamont.
He may be in trouble as well. He apparently knew
about it, and they claimed that he was coordinating
with them. And went in to film it. Well, even
I didn't even know it was going to happen. But,
you know, I was up here just doing, you know,
reporter work. And I was there at the right time.
And I just decided to work. He's such a liar.
Anyway, so I don't know. Their DOJ is threatening
to throw the book at these guys. They need to.
There needs to be repercussions. Imagine if protesters
stormed a mosque and did that. Oh, yeah. How
would that go in Minnesota? Let's say the people
of the church stormed a drag show and threw a
big protest inside. Yeah, how would that go?
Or in the library during drag hour. Right. How
would that go over? Not well. It's one thing
if it's a public place, but the church is actually
protected by law. That's right. It's got extra
protection. Yeah, I think that's where they're
going to get them. The freedom of access to the
clinic entrance. The FACE Act. The FACE Act,
yeah. Disordered contact, disruption of religious
meeting service, intimidation and harassment,
unlawful entry trespass, discretion of a house
worship, child endangerment. What is the FACE
Act? I've seen that. I don't know what it is.
FACE Act is the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances
Act. This federal law prohibits the use of force,
threat of force, or physical obstruction to injure,
intimidate, to interfere with any person lawfully
exercising the First Amendment rights of religious
freedom. It's interesting that they call it clinic
entrances, but yeah, so it's access to reproductive
health services or religious freedom. I think
it's also like... Planned Parenthood and stuff
like that. Well, yeah. There's been grannies
who prayed at clinics who got thrown in the slammer.
Oh, yeah. This is ridiculous. You know, I'll
tell you one thing about Don Lamont when he was
interviewing that pastor. And good for that pastor
for keeping a level head and not just bitch slapping
the shit out of that stupid wannabe journalist
loser. You know, but... Let it all out. Don Lamont,
well, look... I get it. He is a piece of shit.
He's a piece of shit. He's a racist. He was saying
it was white supremacist just to even have the,
just because the church existed there and the
people that were there, just a bunch of white
folks. Did he say that, really? Not that night,
but in a follow -up when he was posting or streaming,
he said some really condemning things. I think
people who are in religious groups like that,
it's not the type of Christianity that I practice,
but I think that they're entitled, and that entitlement
comes from a supremacy, a white supremacy. But
while he was there, and he had his little microphone,
the pastor, I guess, you know how you read people's
body language? Yeah, sure. Yeah, Don Lamond,
the jack wagon, leaning into the pastor. Okay,
you see the pastor is leaning away from him.
And Don Lamont's like, hey, don't push. Don't
touch me. Don't push me. Don't push on me like
that. He's getting into his private space, personal
space. Yeah, Don Lamont was getting into his
private space, but then he was turning around
saying, don't push on me. Oh. Oh, yeah. So he's
trying to create. Oh, dude. He's trying to create
clicks. That's where I would have lost my shit.
He was creating clicks. That's it. I would have
taken a 12 gauge out. That's not true. He'd just
walk away and just like, yeah, I'm not bothering
with you. You don't represent anyone. They were
so aggressive. How long did it last, this protest?
I don't know. In the middle of a service. Long
enough for people to go home. Long enough for
people to just say, I'm getting tired of this
shit. And it didn't get ugly at all? Like nobody
tried to push and shove? Man, there were a lot
of people there, and I got to give them credit.
A lot of people there just kind of stopped, closed
their eyes, put their hand in the air, and they
prayed. Really? Yeah. That probably just riled
them even more. Yeah. Probably. And there's a
few people, look, they're going to be found out.
I mean, those people that were there, look, I'm
telling you, I'm frustrated as equally as they
are frustrated, I say they, as the protesters
are extremely frustrated with ICE and what they're
doing out there. Yeah. And I get a small... portion
of their frustration because you have this entity
that's going in there and they're ripping people
out of the cars. But they're there for a reason.
They're there for a reason and they're not acknowledging
that reason. But whatever. They're upset and
maybe there is a better way because there's always
a better way to do anything. I don't know what
it is, but just the fact that they're... I kind
of lost my train of thought, but what was I going
to say? About the protesters, the church people
being frustrated with the protesters? Yeah, it
was more the, God damn it. I think the lack of
repercussions. There's no consequences to what
these guys are doing. It's like, that's kind
of what I was diving into. I was like, why hasn't
Trump infiltrated these folks? Instead of sending,
I would send 100 ,000 fucking troops in that
place. And I would nail it down. And I would
start to do, I would start to figure out who
these people are. I mean, slowly but surely,
we're figuring out who they are. You mean like
the professional protesters that they keep going
around every protest? They pointed them out.
They know who they are. Fuck, one of the ladies
there was part of the Black Lives Matter protest.
Oh, yeah. Technically, again, you have to remember,
there's nothing against the law about protesting.
Well, what they did was illegal. Yes. If they
go to different, I don't care if it's the same
group of people that are getting paid, that's
fine, and they go to protest throughout the country
and they protest peacefully, that's fine. Whatever.
There's nothing against the law for that. Isn't
that a conspiracy? But if they start doing shit
like going into churches and start impeding the
ICE officers from doing their jobs, that's not
the same thing. Shooting off fireworks. Yep.
That's not the same thing. No. It's not. It's
not. Anyway. Well, I think... It's frustrating.
It is frustrating. You know, there's an article.
I haven't gotten through it yet, but it's on
The Federalist. It's about why are the... Not
all, but the majority of these people are white
women. Right. And... I saw something. Go ahead.
And it's getting to... Again, I've just started
the article. I haven't read it all, but I'll
send it to you guys. But basically, they're getting
down to... They had... The theory is there are
some... something happened when they were a child
and they're basically still acting like a toddler.
So they're having these tantrums and there's
no repercussions so they just keep having tantrums
and tantrums and tantrums. That's crazy. And
until there's a repercussion, you know, that
lady found out what the repercussion was when
she got killed, right? Put yourself in harm's
way. Yeah. Against, by the way, twitchy, twitchy
officers that have been getting shit from them.
all day long. What you don't see is they've been
following them around all day, harassing them
at every stop they make, blowing whistles, honking
horns, causing problems and beating them. At
three hours of that shit or four hours of that
shit, any human being would have their blood
pressure skyrocketed and that's why they're going
up to the car and saying, get the fuck out of
the car. Get the fuck out of the car. They're
losing their minds because they've been harassed
the whole time, which is what their goal is,
is to harass them and make them go away. Well,
they're not going to go away. They have their
job to do, and they're going to do it. And by
the way, when you keep doing that shit, you're
putting yourself in danger because these people
are going to snap. You know, there was a stat
put out where they were saying, do you realize,
you all right? Yeah. I think I know how they
feel now. It's 100 % true. I mean, you just rattle
these, and that's what they're doing. They're
looking for a gotcha moment. That's what they're
all doing. They're looking for a gotcha moment
where someone's going to drop their guard and
something's going to happen. And then they'll
be like, see, we told you it was going to happen.
Is Mac, the evil people paying these, like the
Soroses and all the people who are paying these
protesters, they probably deep down want that
shit to happen. They want that shit to happen
because they want this shit to blow up in ICE's
face. I don't know if it was you guys that told
me this or maybe the lady I work with. They found
out where some of these donations are coming
from. And I think 900 ,000 came from George Bush.
That can't be. I really hope that's not true.
I was surprised. So we need to research that.
Yeah, we need to fact check that because that
would be extremely disappointing. There was an
interesting stat or interesting little story
that said, what would happen, because you brought
up the dynamic with the women and how they fall
into that rut, some of them. If women didn't
vote. Oh, boy. If women didn't vote, we would
have like 47 states. Period. Okay, hold on. Where
are you going with this? No, that's where I'm
going. If women didn't vote, 47 of the 50 states...
Which ones would not be states? Which ones wouldn't...
You're saying three of them would not have...
Three of them would still be Democrat. And all
the remainder would be Republican. If women didn't
vote. Oh. All right, yeah, you didn't explain
that very well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's like
New Mexico... Delaware and another northeast
state. Oh, here we go. Here's what you're looking
at. 2020 U .S. election, if only men versus women
voted. Yeah, well. That's more than three. Well,
that's the 2020. I was looking at the 2020. But
that's the premise, the premise of it. I mean,
you know, what you're saying is women are pushing
it more liberal. 100%. And repeat what you said,
Jeff, regarding the women and the reason why
they're so woke, some of them, and react the
way they are. The toddler syndrome. Yeah, the
toddlers. Well, yeah, again, I haven't finished
the Federalist paper, but they were saying basically
it's something happened and they weren't able
to progress out of the, or they've regressed
to the toddler mindset, where I'm just going
to throw a fit until I get my way. Right. I don't
like what you're doing. Someone threw a fit.
That's why they're out there screaming and yelling
and having a tantrum. Yeah. It's essentially
a tantrum that they're having. You know what?
That's an interesting question, though. So I
thought that women weren't allowed to vote for
the longest time simply because it was a male
-dominated, that's what men do. Men are the ones
that are in power and in control and stuff like
that. I thought it was like a, what do you call
it? A masculine. Misogynist? Misogynist? Is that
the word? Sure. I thought it was more of a misogynist
type of historical precedent. But if you're telling
me that maybe the reason why they didn't want
women to vote is because it would push the power,
like they would be voting for more liberal causes
or they would be voting more Democrat, then that
would explain a very different reason why they
were suppressing the female vote. Did you guys
listen to a word I said? Yeah. No, you didn't.
You were playing on your phone. You were playing
on your phone. My phone was not even on. Unbelievable.
Yeah, but I'm thinking that the money that was
coming from these folks for the protesters, I
believe a lot of that money was traced to the
NGOs. that were dumped. Do you recall? Oh, the
U .S. aid, non -government. So do you recall
towards the end, I mean, this was in Congress
at the beginning of Trump's, they were trying
to find out where a ridiculous amount of money
went to, like $100 billion disappeared between
the time frame where Trump got elected and got
out of office. money just started vanishing.
Boom, boom, boom. I want to say the Department
of Energy. I don't know. I forget which one it
was, but it was a ridiculous amount. Don't quote
me on the $100 billion, but it was something
ridiculous like that. It's just like, well, where's
the money at? Where's the money at? Well, did
you see the story I sent you on Paul's employer?
I read it. I thought it was... Was that your
employer? My former employer. Yes. I thought
it was, it's a massive organization that has
like 250 ,000 employees. So it's easy to find
in that situation, easy to find something that
looks like a dominant pattern. But I'm not, I
mean, you saw how critical I was of them, right?
But I'm not so sure it's as. As dramatic as that
guy made, he kind of laid it out. Well, I think
what he was saying is they've developed these
programs that have lost billions of dollars in
fraud. Wouldn't surprise me. So these are the
programs they developed that have been completely
defrauded. I'm not saying that they defrauded,
but the systems that they built were extremely
poor or ill thought out that it was so easy to
defraud the government out of. Yes. the people
i worked with i mean they they did care and they
did try but it doesn't mean they're successful
right right uh and these are massive very difficult
projects government projects and massive government
agency uh systems that they design and build
are very they are very complicated but um it
doesn't excuse them to have failure after failure
after failure and continue to get multi -billion
dollar contracts there's no excuse for that that
to me is just a uh a symptom of You know, they're
the gold standard. No one's better than them.
Bullshit. They've always done it, so they're
just going to keep doing it. They're just going
to keep doing it. Because there's no alternative
that is considered the gold standard. And that's
crap, in my opinion. Yeah, no kidding. But anyway,
there you go. Corruption. Yeah. Yeah. Is that
what it is? Is that what Deloitte is? Is there
going to be corrupt? I mean, it was corrupt when
they sent the Australian. that they sent out
for what, $600 ,000? Yeah, there's no question
that there is. I mean, humans, I don't care what
organizations humans are in. Corruption is a
possibility, right? And it's so competitive that
they would definitely bend rules. Any consulting
company would bend rules to get that next, to
win that next job. You know what I mean? Do consulting
companies need to go away? Consulting companies?
I mean, they do serve a purpose. What? I mean,
when you are faced with a challenge, your senior
leadership comes to you and they say, we have
to have a system that does this. And you're like,
shit, I don't know how to do that. I see what
you're saying. Yeah, I don't have any. I have
no expertise. And in -house, we have no expertise.
We've got to rely on somebody who are the experts,
right, that have industry experience. They've
done this before. You've got to have help. I
think where I'm coming from is my experience
with consultants where they come in to evaluate
your work processes and everything, and every
single time was, you need to cut 30 people. You
just need to cut 30 people. Because that's what
the senior leadership bring them in to have them
tell them. Does that make sense? That's what
I mean. I mean, why do they need them? Do they
just need a justification? Oh, well, they told
me, so I got to do it. 100%. Got to do it. There
it is right there. That justification, when the
gold standard consulting company comes in and
says, oh, you guys have horribly inefficient
processes. You overhired for this and that and
this and that. Then they're like, ah, so I'm
not an evil manager. I'm not an evil senior VP
or CIO. This is what the experts are telling
me. So board, HR. You know, this is what we have
to do. And they're like, okay, that sounds great
because that's going to save $120 million a year.
Yeah. We're going to get, you know, we're going
to ask 20 % of your employees. Correct. And then
two years later, they're going, well, how come
we can't service our customers? Well, because
we don't have the people to service our customers.
We have to cut quarters. Yeah. We got to get
these bean counters out of there. I mean, bean
counters are good for what they are, but God
bless. I mean, they ruin everything. They do.
Along with HR. I think HR needs to be severely
pulled back. HR is the worst. I think HR needs
to go away. Those people are usually liberal
hacks. Anyway, let's talk about a bourbon. That's
more fun to talk about. Yes. All right, what's
this one? Go ahead. This is an old one. This
is one we've had probably for three years. Really?
I guess, yeah. Oh, yeah. So it's aged longer.
It has. It's aged very well in that glass. Yes.
It's pulling in a lot from that glass. And this
one is a heavy one. It's a private stock Wyoming
whiskey. It's 59 .2 alcohol volume content, 118
.4 proof. It's private stock. The whiskey is
Serengeti. Barrel 8393 if you guys are interested
in that. It's a single barrel Wyoming? The name
of it's Wyoming whiskey. Nice. Where is this?
It's a bottle of Bond. Where is this? based out
of in wyoming because i was just up there um
so it's in wyoming it doesn't say herbie This
private stock single barrel, this bottle and
bond, by the way. It can't be. It's not bottle
and bond. Oh, I'm sorry. What the hell? It's
118. Oh, it was the other. There's another bottle
after this, a bottle and bond. The private stock
single barrel of bourbon was chosen for you because
of its unique character, left an impression on
all who have sampled it. Ancient limestone water,
high prairie grains, and at least five years
in the best chart American oak made this bourbon
what it is. It is a bottle that can't be found
anywhere else. And this bottle is ours. Private
stock bourbon whiskey required. Bottled by Wyoming
whiskey. Still doesn't say. That's literally
in the middle of fucking nowhere. Made sure in
charred white. Now, keep in mind, in Wyoming,
there is a shitload of middle of nowhere. I was.
Yeah, there is. Man, that is literally. It's
close to the Tetons, I guess, if you're going
that way. But I was down there about 40 minutes
from Laramie. And I was thinking, maybe that's
why I didn't go, because I looked to see. I was
down in Centennial, Wyoming. If you keep zooming
in, I think it's out. Good Lord, that's two hours
out. Yeah. Two hours out. Yeah. You literally
have to have a small airplane to go anywhere.
Yeah, Centennial is where I was at. So I was
there, and I think I actually looked to see where
it was at. I was like, yeah, that's way too far.
You're talking about this distillery. Yeah. It's
way north. Yeah, because we have two or three
of the Wyoming's, and I think we liked them.
So I was like, yeah, I'm not doing that. Yeah,
that's crazy. And those aren't highways you're
driving on. Yeah, that's the other thing. Those
are mountain roads. I know, you look at the proximity.
That's a big problem in Colorado. I look at the
map and I'm like, oh, it's not far from there
at all. And then when you look at the route,
it's like this. Yeah, it's through the mountains.
Okay, why is it seven hours? I just went up and
down like 10 ,000 feet, up 1 ,000, down 2 ,000,
up 3 ,000, down 2 ,000, totally. Well, when we
were up in Wyoming, we looked at going to Yellowstone,
which is in the top left corner up there, and
it was still. It was a long drive. It was like
10 hours to get up there. And I was like, why?
You're in the same damn state. And Wyoming's
not big in retrospect, like Texas or something
like that. Corner to corner it is. But the path
you have to take and the mountain roads and shit
like that. I bet it's beautiful, though. Oh,
it is. It's stunning. Look at that windy route
in the middle. That would be probably beautiful.
And then you got the mountains, the Laramie Mountains
on the right. Yeah, there's mountains down there
as well. And they get tall. They're up there
high. That's probably super, super gorgeous.
It is. Why'd you go up there again? We have some
friends that live up there. Is that where you
were showing this rushing water and you're holding
your little glass over the glass and we're like,
fine, large glass. Yes. Yeah, that's exactly
where it was at. I was not appreciating your
fancy picture with your bourbon. I did. I thought
it was awesome. If I would have done that today,
you would have been like, that's AI. Well, that's
the birth of the Pegasus behind you, Lord. Yes,
yes. So the Wyoming, that's good. So they make
their own shit. So this one is the Whiskey Serengeti.
What does that mean? So selected and exclusively
for Whiskey Serengeti. I don't know what that
is. I guess it's perhaps. Well, Serengeti is
from Africa. The African planes. Thank you, Jeff.
Yes. That's very exciting. I mean, it says the
Whiskey Serengeti. Maybe it's the name of a distributor
or, you know. Selected by. Is that a bourbon
club? I bet it's a bourbon club. Yeah, sounds
like it. Perhaps. I mean, it's got a sticker
on there, and those are usually barrel selects.
I tried looking it up. There's nothing that shows
up Serengeti on the web. Oh, like the bourbon
club Serengeti? No. I wonder if this was a pick
by this whiskey group, but they just never picked
it up, so Liquor King's like, I'll take it. Happens.
And the labels were already printed. Yeah, it's
written on there. Looks like it's handwritten.
Maybe they went bottoms up and they couldn't
buy the barrel or the bottles. Oh, yeah. It is
handwritten. Selected. For what it is. And it's
exclusively for Whiskey Serengeti. This is absolutely
like some sort of whiskey club. Yeah. A whiskey
group. And it sounds like... And we've had it
for three years. Oh, yeah. And they failed on
it. You know what? We have it now. And I'll tell
you what. My first taste of this was not... I
did not appreciate it. No. I was sitting out
there and I took it. I was like, this is bad.
Yeah. That first pool, I was like, wow, that's
really... Like tonight? Oh, tonight. Tonight.
I was like, that's really harsh. Yeah. And the
more I started... Drink it. It's like honeysuckle
rose. It's kind of grew on it. It's not floral
from that point, but it's got some honey. I mean,
on here it says, from Jeff, he'd appreciate this,
a creamy and sweet mouthful featuring layers
of toffee, dark honey, rich and well -integrated
oak. The high proof brings forth spices like
black pepper, cinnamon, cardamom, and nutmeg.
I think the ethanol, as it rested, it got better.
But that first one that I took, I didn't know
if I was going to be able to finish it because
I was just like, wow, this is really harsh. Like
really harsh. I would have helped you. It's rich.
I would have finished it. It is rich. No question
about it. I mean, it's got a growl to it for
sure. I don't think it's bad at all, though.
I'm not having any trouble drinking this. Right
now, no. Ever since it's, like I said, it's been
sitting for an hour or at least. Breathe a little
bit. It's gotten quite a bit better. Yeah. All
right, so let's get to the nutsack of this. It
doesn't say what it is. Is it a rye? It's a bourbon.
It's a bourbon, but is it a whiskey bourbon or
rye bourbon? It would say weeded on there probably
if it was a weeded. Right. That's a standard
bourbon with a rye probably. There's no mash
bill listed on here. All right. Well, you know
what? It's 118 .4 proof. So it's right in the
sweet spot where we like it. I mean, from there.
Yeah, sure. I enjoy it. How much is this thing?
How much is the cost? It was around $60 to $80,
depends. So, again, the question, would we buy
this again? I mean, this is a single barrel,
right? You're not going to find that, but yes.
If they had that out there for $60, $80, I think
I'd get it. I think so as well. So, I don't know
if it's on our list of magic moments over there,
but I would give this one, I would give this
one, based on 118, I don't want to disrespect
it, but at the same time, it's got to follow
suit. I would say 7 .8. I'm about 6 .8. on this
one. Damn, you guys are higher than me. I was
going to say 6 '3", and I enjoyed it. So maybe
I should bump that to 6 '6", 6 '7". I don't know.
Yeah. Well, like I said, I'm enjoying it now.
I mean, it's not bad. It's not great. That first
one took me back. I was like, this is not good.
Yeah, you guys are a lot higher than I was expecting.
It's got a lot of legs. Look at this guy. stick
it to the glass, very viscous -y. Actually, it's
not that viscous -y. Yeah, see, they scored a
6 out of 10 as well, so Paul and I are in line
with that. Well, this is personal preference,
so I'm in line with that. No, we all have the
same palate. Yeah, I was going to say, I'll make
mine 6 .5. All right, well, yeah, so that's the
official. What did I say? Seven, eight? Seven,
eight. That's pretty high. Yeah. Well, I'm enjoying
it. I'm enjoying it. I would get this. I'm really
enjoying this. I mean, the honey part, I said
honeysuckle, but that honey and the dark cherry
thing going on there, I'm a sucker. Yeah, it's
not bad. Not bad at all. Plus, I haven't eaten
today. Oh, there you go. I had three hard -boiled
eggs. I didn't even have hard -boiled eggs. I'm
getting a lot of hamburger in this. Maybe even
a little brisket? Maybe a little sausage? Do
you guys get any sausage in this? Is it Italian?
Good Lord. Yeah, tomorrow is what? It's just
kind of cold. Actually, the weather is fine today.
I'm enjoying it. Tomorrow is supposed to be warmer.
Is it really? Yeah. Well, that's kind of cool.
I've got to go to the office tomorrow. I'll go
five days away. Look at me. Yeah. I've got to
go to the office tomorrow. Sorry. One of our
bosses is coming into town. I'm actually working
from home tomorrow because I have furniture being
delivered that I ordered in November. What did
you do with the furniture you brought back from
Houston? It's a washer -dryer, a refrigerator,
a chair, and a very large TV that is currently
set up in my family room. Oh. Very nice. Sit
right there? No. I think it's 75 inches. Nice.
And Shelly was like, it's too big. It's going
to make me dizzy. No, it's not. Shut up, bitch.
Get back to the kitchen. Why are you out of the
kitchen? Mine's 85 downstairs. Mine's 85 downstairs.
Oh. It's bullshit. No, it's 85. He got it. Damn.
I think mine's, it's got to be 75 or 65. The
one I have is 55, so it's probably bigger than
that. Anyway, we already have it set up. We watched
the game on it last night. Nice. Super exciting,
huh? Yeah, it's cool. And we have some sofa loveseat
coming tomorrow. You getting rid of the sectional?
We are, and I think I'm going to donate it. What
do you do with that shit? Donate it. Do you donate
it? We're going to burn it? It'd be a lot to
burn. We already got cancer. You guys have seen
it. So I guess donate. And they come and take
it away? There's a chunk of junk coming up in
Frisco. Well, that's throwing it away. I want
to give it away, right? Yeah, I don't know, man.
You've got a bunch of dogs, and it's, what, 15
years old? 20 years old. I don't know how old
it is. That's a good question. I don't know how
old it is. Probably sex juice all over it. Yeah,
it's probably got all kinds of juices. Oh, there's
body fluids and love juice. Dude, I can show
you exactly where they are, too. First half of
Dudes Like Us podcast is January 20th. So many
good memories on every spot on that couch. Thank
you, Mr. Producer, for staying on top of this
stuff. Oh, I'm discovering another one. On the
edge of it. Oh, it was such a good night. Nice.
A little stain. Lots of stains. It's like when
you sit on it, you actually give yourself a little
scuff from some sort of scab. Whatever you do,
do not smell it. Oh, God. Dudes Like Us, I'm
Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff.