There we go. All right. Is there like a digital
thing we could do? Just like... No. Clink. No,
we're going old school. Oh, we got to hit reset
on that. God damn it. We're doing old school
with everything. I don't think that ever got
turned off last time. Yeah, it ran forever. It
was on a week. Shut up. Did you just say 99?
Yeah, so for those podcast listeners out there,
we got a little timer in the studio for letting
us know how long we're talking just so that we
can maintain what's going on. Hey, guys. How
you doing? Hello. It is a freaking crazy week
for at least me and you. You said you had like
seven hours of unexpected work today. Yeah, we
have this thing where we're supposed to track
our time, and I haven't been doing it, but they
wanted us to clearly track unplanned time. Oh.
And I was thinking today. It was all but 15 minutes
of it. It was unplanned. Is this because you're
getting bought out? Or you got bought out? No,
I think they want to... You part hub in the bathroom?
No, I think they just want to know how much of
our work just pops up. What are they going to
do with that? I have no idea. That's the thing.
I don't know. Is that AI -driven? You think they're
going to try to... No, it's the PMO team. They're
trying to just get their fingers in everything.
There's a ton of AI -driven stuff going on. We
had a meeting today about AI stuff, how it's
going to assist us. And you're like, no, it's
not. Well, I've been telling you for a year to
use chat GPT for your reports. Are they finally
telling you to do that? No, we're not allowed
to do that. Really? Yeah, that's not what they're
saying. What they're saying is that there are
things that on the, there's AI that they're going
to. put in a program within our company that's
going to help do things. We just have to interpret
these data points and they'll repopulate in the
reports. I'm not a huge fan of that, but it doesn't
matter. It's going to start blackmailing you.
You know what we need? There needs to be an apparatus.
Because it's wrong sometimes. There needs to
be an apparatus that we sit in and then the AI
controls, moves our arms and clicks on it. You
know what I mean? That way we don't have to think
or do anything. It's just, you're supposed to
do this today. All right, Wally. Yeah, I was
thinking the same thing. Wally. It just moves
us. That's the way Wally is. Remember the guys
were all fat and gelatinous? Well, I know, but
the machine moves us. Yeah, they were in a chair
that took them everywhere and that fed them and
everything. Jeez, you know what? I don't want
to get fat. Scooped out their shit. I don't want
to get fat. It's February 25th, 2026, and my
wife's birthday is tomorrow. That's funny. One
of my close co -workers' birthday is tomorrow.
And you know what's a crazy coincidence? My brother's
birthday. He was born one year apart from my
wife on February 26th. On the same day? The same
day your brother and wife had the same birthday.
That's right. So your parents and her parents
were knocking boots close to the same time of
year. I guess so. Let's think of it that way.
Or maybe they were doing it a solid week. Like
every day, up two days before, three days after,
all at the same time. But not together. I'm sure
it was a sexual onslaught. It was a Bonnie Blue
moment. It was back in the late 60s. Everything
was... That's cool. I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff. Thank
you, Mr. Producer, for taking care of stuff.
All right, dudes and guys, I'm Sean, Paul, and
Jeff. We're all here to let's entertain you.
So we have a lot of... jam -packed stuff going
on, check us out on dudeslikeus -podcast, on
Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, TikToker,
what are the rest of them? Yeah, I'll get some
more since you've uploaded them all to the drive,
right? I did. Okay. I'll get some more TikTokians.
Slowly but surely, we're just kind of like just
doing it. Hey, man, you know what? This is one
of the things that I enjoy throughout the week.
You know, you've got sleep. You've got the inevitable
work that you've got to do, and you have your
time off, and your friends, your companionship,
things that really matter. And this Tuesday night,
or today's Wednesday, but our podcast night is
fantastic for me personally. I enjoy coming out
here regardless. And we get to drink excellent
bourbon. It is excellent. Let's do a cheers.
Yeah. Cheers, bitches. Chuck, our producer, cheers,
cheers. Here, here. Cheers. Hold on. Is someone
drinking lipstick on this? What is that? That's
you. I don't wear chapstick. You've got greasy,
gross fingers. But the reason why we're doing
it on Wednesday— I think Jeff had this, because
I recall him buying—he had a little tube of Astroglide.
I did. How'd that get on here? I put it on my
asshole. Oh. Okay. Why don't we go to the board?
All right. Anyway, we're having it on Wednesday,
because Tuesday was a special event. Did you
guys watch it? State of the Union with Mr. Donald
Trump, right? Of course I watched it. I got to
about 9 .30 and I was like, I got to go to bed
because he was really going. And I recorded it
to watch it, but then I heard all the highlights.
I cut the bulk of it. I didn't see the very end
of it. I'd encourage you to watch it. Not just
the highlights, just because... I did watch it.
Oh, so you went to the last... Well, everybody
to watch it because it's important. it's important
to see how the other side reacts to different
things. That's really why we watch it. We know
what he's going to say. They all say the same
kind of crap. But you want to see the contorted
faces of the other side. I want to find out what,
you know, these guys hold a public seat. And,
you know, they were elected. They need to follow
suit. They need to represent. They need to show
up. You can't have 70 people absent. 70 of them
didn't show up. That's ridiculous. It's just
like, come on, represent. You need to be there.
There was a time where these folks were all showing
up. And then there was something that occurred
back in the Reagan era. And I want to say his
name was Nessie. Pilot or something. Or someone
that saved somebody from drowning. And I heard
this on a news feed. And President Reagan was
kind of like, you know what? That is an excellent
story. You went in and saved this person from
drowning. And he recognized this person. I think
his name was Nessie. Nellie. I think his name
was Nellie or Nessie or something like that.
And that was kind of like the start of bringing
people in and showing appreciation in the public
forum for these people coming in. Oh, really?
That was the start of it, huh? That was the start
of it, at least as far as the historical point,
based on what these news feeds were suggesting.
And it just seems like every year after that...
It gets bigger and bigger and bigger. It got
bigger and bigger and bigger in both sides. Of
the aisle. We're appreciating what the other
one was saying. Regardless of how you feel about
the politics going on. Yeah, it's usually a great
American story, right? Yes. Of a hero or somebody
who went through amazing trials and tribulations
and came out. Or a little girl gets hit by an
illegal alien, hit by a semi. Right. And almost
dies. And they don't want to show appreciation
for that. Or a little kid, last year, a little
kid that had cancer and he loved the police and
he got a little honorary secret service pin.
And then one of them says, I hope he doesn't
live long enough to be able to become a police
officer or something like that. I know. It's
tragic. But it all boils down. No, they said
it's good for him that he won't live long enough
to be a policeman. Right. And, you know, it was
during the fuck the police. Oh, yeah. Unbelievable.
But the point by bringing this up, is that it
has nothing to do with the tradition. It has
everything to do with the folks that hate Donald
Trump. I know. Correct. When are they going to
grow up? They can't get over it. They can't.
They cannot get past this. I mean, there was
vitriol in the eyes of, who was that one that
did the fuck ice thing next to Elon? Tlaib. Yeah,
that's Tlaib. She looked, I mean, both of them
looked - Possessed. Possessed, but the Tlaib
chick. There's something wrong with her. I remember
a couple years ago, somebody, wasn't it, what
was her name, Marjorie whatever? Marjorie Taylor
Greene. Yeah, she yelled out something at Obama,
right? No, it was Biden. It was Biden. And it
was say her name for Lake and Riley. Yeah. Because
he started to talk, Biden brought it up. He started
talking about illegals killing citizens and how
bad that was. And she goes, say her name. He
hadn't even brought it up before. And she was
completely chastised for being obedient. Decorum,
and that's how dare you say that. How dare you.
And now - Ilhan Omar. Those people were going
nuts and yelling at him, screaming at him. Ilhan
Omar, she was a thug. Yeah, she was a shit. She
was a thug, and they were a Tlaib, Big Hands
Tlaib. That's what we're going to call her from
now on. Big Hands Tlaib. Have you seen her hands?
Oh, they're very masculine. Oh, dude. She's the
one that, remember the Seinfeld show? She was
the one that was cutting the steak. Those were
her hands. The man hands. There was the man hands
episode from the Seinfeld. Tlaib and Ilhan Omar,
they're un -American. I mean, okay, so Trump
was... He called out people directly. He was
hit hard. Past presidents have not done that.
They haven't made it personal. And he is all
about making things personal. He called out the
Somali pirates. And I even told DeShelly, I was
like, that was unnecessary. He didn't need to
call them Somali pirates. But, you know, what
he brought to the table, and it was unorthodox,
but what he did bring to the table was the fact
that... the folks that went to Minnesota from
Somalia brought their politics with them. Not
necessarily what they believe in, but the way
they handle politics. Politics are corrupt over
there. And it's like, look, Ben, we are corrupt
over here, but we're not supposed to be corrupt
over here. And we try not to, but it is what
it is. We just hide it better. Yes, I guess.
Yeah, but when it's caught, it's caught, right?
Own it. Yeah. Well, they don't own it, but they
do punish it. As opposed to expect it. You can
see the fury on her face. Oh, she was apoplectic.
She didn't know what to do. She was just like...
Yeah, she was yelling and screaming, and they
were chanting, USA, USA. You couldn't hear her.
All you heard was this little chirping in the
background, and Trump was getting louder to drown
her out. Right. I was just like, this is great.
By the way, that microphone was out of control.
Yeah, the sound guy needs to get fired. The sound
guy needs to get fired for that. I didn't catch
that. It was way over... Modulated. Oh, yeah.
He was driving too hard. Yeah. Interesting. The
gain was set too high. The gain was set too high,
yeah. Right. It started peaking. Interesting.
Yeah, it's - Unlike us. Little things like that.
We're professionals. We're excellent. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, we're - We're the greatest. Oh, dude,
we have the best producer in the world. He's
on top of shit over there. Absolutely. What the
hell are you talking about? Right. Maybe not
the world, but... Anyway, I thought Trump's...
On the block. I thought Trump's direct attacks
were a little over the top, but you know what?
We've come to expect that from him. He's not
a politician. You've got to make a point, man.
He's not a politician. He is going to tell you
how he feels. Yeah. And he's going to call out
something directly. Somebody said, he's going
to tell you how he feels, and then he's going
to tell you how you feel, and then he's going
to tell you how he feels about what you feel.
Exactly. Now, he's not shy about that. And that's
his style. And that's the way he's run his businesses.
And that's the way he runs his life. Who's the
one that had the bingo? Who sent that? Oh, that
was Chuck. That was funny. Did we get a bingo?
I was drinking no matter what. It looked a little
funny. Like they were trying to make jokes. The
State of the Union bingo. I was like 20 minutes
late to the meeting. Goddamn, whatever his name
is. His speech, yeah. I was 20 minutes late because
I was watching Fox News, but I guess I was watching
a prerecorded something, and I was just like,
oh, just wait until it comes on. And then Preston
calls my son, and he was like, oh, yeah, this
is on. I was like, what do you mean it's on?
I'm watching it right now. It's not on. Fucking
had a meltdown. You're a mess. Did you see some
of the people that he honored, though? I mean,
outside of the hockey team? Did you make it all
the way to the end? That was the end, yeah. He
had honored the hockey team. He had honored a
woman that was trying to get pregnant or something
like that. Yeah, IFV, yeah. And he honored, of
course, Charlie Kirk's wife. And he honored the
parents of the young lady that was murdered,
the Ukrainian young lady. But, I mean, he did
misspeak. Some of the people will say that, oh,
he lied. He all right lied. That was not an illegal
immigrant that killed that Ukrainian little girl.
He was a United States citizen. He's a homeless
dude. He's a homegrown psycho. Right. But it's
like, okay, is that the hill you're going to
die on, to clarify that? You know, it kind of
caught my ear when he said it at first, and then
I think he said it correctly later, that that
was just someone who had been let out of jail.
That was the whole spirit of it, is that these
people are not held accountable for anything
that they do, and not only the illegal aliens,
but everybody across the floor. Yeah, the DAs
aren't prosecuting them, the judges are giving
them light sentences or letting them off with...
probation or whatever and they go back out and
they repeat offend yeah and that's what the fbi
has been cracking down on is getting these people
off the streets the broken windows policy that
you know yikes uh clean this thing up this is
all the uh the one percent that yeah the source
da's will do that the one percent that commits
these crimes means a 90 reduction in crime uh
in the community right you pull those people
out and you that is huge throw them away I think
I'm the most excited about is J .D. Vance being
the fraud czar. Hold on, I missed that. What's
this about? Oh, he's going after all the fraud,
like Minnesota. So J .D. Vance has been named
the czar of fraud. When did that happen? Last
night at the State of the Union. Oh, how did
I miss that? I thought I heard that before. Did
you watch all of it? I did, but, you know, I'm
hearing impaired. Oh, you didn't have captions
on? How convenient. You didn't have your caption
machine on? I'm sorry. I didn't hear that the
last call was already called. I'm hearing impaired.
How convenient. Some of the other people that
he recognized last night, though, one of them
was the pilot of the helicopter that led the
Maduro raid that got shot four times. And he
told the story of it. And that guy is standing
there. He's got to use a brace to steady himself.
And he stood there. Man, that dude's a rock.
Dude, he's tall, too. That dude is out of central
casting for what you want your military guy to
be. And then at the end, right at the end, I
don't know if you saw this part, Jeff, he honored
a Korean vet who downed four MiGs single -handedly.
That's right. Yeah. Got the Medal of Honor. So,
yeah, which one got the Purple Heart? Purple
Heart was the guy that got shot in the head along
with Young Lee that passed away. Correct, correct.
Yeah. That's correct. There were two guards,
I guess, that some, again, illegal alien came
up. National Guard. Yeah, National Guard. And
shot both of them, and he survived. Outside the
White House. That was in D .C., yeah. That was
just six months ago, so not too long ago. It's
amazing he's alive, but you could tell he wasn't
okay. Yeah. He was not. But he is alive. Happy
to be alive, you know. Yeah. But that was kind
of sad. He'll get through that. You know, I'll
tell you what. While they were passing out that
award, I could not not think about your father
-in -law. Right. Your father -in -law is highly
decorated. He's got three purple hearts. Yeah,
that is amazing. And also a silver star, right?
I don't know about the silver star. He's got
more than three purple hearts. I think he's got
a silver star as well. Interesting. Was it a
bronze star? No, it's silver. I'll need to ask
because I don't recall that. Well, regardless,
that's what I thought I heard him say that night
when he was sharing his experience in Vietnam.
But just having three Purple Hearts, that's incredible.
Yeah, it is. To have two, to have one is incredible.
You don't want a Purple Heart. No, you don't.
You really don't want one. No. That means something
went sideways a little bit. So how did you guys
feel about the hockey team? being introduced
at the State of the Union? Oh, I think that was
fine. I don't think they quite knew what to do
when they were up there holding their medals
up. They looked kind of out of place and uncomfortable.
I like that Trump was going to give him the civilian
honor or whatever. Yeah, the coley. The hellebuck.
Yeah, I think that's cool. They're going to make
him the Secretary of Defense or something. It
was funny that he said, I would only give this
to him if it was a unanimous vote. I did not
see. I didn't watch the game. And I'm frankly
disappointed that I missed the game. But I've
watched a bunch of the highlights of most of
the game. And the highlights they had pointed
out were obvious. These guys played their asses
off. But there were so many. there were so many
small little circumstances that could have changed
the way that everything went. Dude, some of the
lucky saves that we had. Oh, my God. There was
a guy standing in the goalie box. Hit him in
the stomach. Hit him, and he grabs him. He's
like, oh, there's the puck. And he throws it
back down, and they get it. They scoot it out.
Had he not been there? Yes. And then when the
goalie was laying on his... Yes. And he puts
a stick behind his back. This guy goes like this.
He grabs the stick. He doesn't poke the puck.
But what he does is he takes his stick, his goalie
stick, and he prevents. It just happens to hit
the stick and hit the post. And they have it
right here. No, that's one. Yes. But there's
one where he's laying on his face and he prevents
the guy from being able to swing and hit the
puck. Right. He holds it back and restrains it.
It was a legendary. That one right there. Legendary
stop. I mean, there are so many crazy stops in
this game. Wide open. And all he had to do was
lift it maybe a half an inch and it would have
deflected off the stick and gone over it. Look
at this. That's so crazy. Oh, it was amazing.
Have you seen, did you see this play with, it's
not Dolby. The guy that... Thomas Dolby? Dolby
Atmos. He flipped it up into the air and poked
it forward. Can you find that from Harry Potter?
It was one of the most incredible moves I've
seen in hockey. I've actually never seen it before.
Master gave Dolby a sock. Wow. Which one is that?
He split the defenders, flipped the puck up in
the air so they couldn't put their stick on it.
And then poked it in the air to get past the
second defender. Check it out. Find that one
for us. Because that was amazing. Well, the hockey
game was incredible. You know, I'm kind of disappointed
that I opted to do whatever the hell I did. It
was on at 8 a .m. on Saturday or something like
that, right? 7. 7 a .m. 7 on Sunday. Oh, yeah,
I missed it. Yeah, poor Shelly. I was out there
going, oh, oh, oh, fuck, fuck, oh, oh. I mean,
I would just. Oh, yeah. In his usual mode already?
Oh, he's masturbating already? It's the 7th.
No, that's not. He's been going out for like
three 60 -minute periods. Oh, my gosh. Sections
with a break in between. Knock it off, honey!
Not again. Make sure you clean it up! It's on
my new couch. Okay. Wow, you guys are so gross.
Oh, you got your new sofa? Yeah. Yeah. Any crusts
on it yet? Wow. Stiff sections? A lot. It won't
come off either. We're trying to get some sort
of leather cleaner. Okay. Damn it. All right.
I don't know if you're going to find it. You're
going to find it? Well, Jack Hughes, he got,
what, two, three teeth knocked out during the
game? Yeah, he got a stick to the face, I think.
That was a four -minute major, and we still didn't
score. I'll tell you what. Some teams are better
when they're shorthanded. I can't explain it.
There it is right there. Watch this. He flips
it up and then hits it again to get past the
second guy's stick. He flubs it. Scores. I could
do that. I mean, if you watch it in slow motion,
he lifts it and then pokes it. Some of the things
people can do with pucks are unbelievable. Unbelievable.
They defy gravity. Like Wayne Gretzky. They don't
even have that many playbacks of Wayne Gretzky,
but they should. Because he was truly the greatest.
They call him the great one. He was on Letter
Kenny the other day. No, Shorzy. By the way,
the new Shorzy season dropped. So, season five.
Fucking awful tonight, Shorzy. Keep working hard,
Corey. You can be just like me. Oh, yeah. I remember
laying in bed as a kid dreaming about reffing
high school hockey on a Friday night. I remember
laying in bed dreaming about the time your mom
tongued my butthole so good I put her in my phone
and just rolled up the rim to win. You're not
interested, are you? No, I do. I am, but what
I'm thinking is like, holy shit, I wish they
would have... The new season dropped, so they're
not going to be able to have a response to this
defeat. No, yeah. Although they're all... It's
kind of funny, the... premise of this season
is shorzy is retired but there's a european team
now that's come over and dominating all the other
teams so shorzy putting together an all -star
team of the the no show to go play them they're
gonna fuck them up well i think uh what was kind
of funny is some of these memes that were coming
out When they won, I think the White House submitted,
I think I said it to you, a bald eagle eating
a Canadian goose. So over the top. From the White
House. Yes. That was great. I'm sure there's
a bunch more out there as well. And I was reading
some of the comments below that, and they're
just, they're so, just the vitriol is just. It's
unacceptable. Yeah. That's not presidential.
Yeah, they're just being so ugly about it. So
Canada, right, so that's their sport, right?
They've dominated for years and years and years
and years. Right, right. And I guess the captain
said that they was coming up with excuses like
they had Indian food the night before and they
think they got some food poisoning. Did you hear
about that shit? No. Yeah, he was coming up with
excuses about why they lost. You just accept
a loss. You just accept a loss. I know it. They
beat us. They were better than us that day. Unbelievable.
Or they got lucky. Well, then they say, I think
everybody knows who the better team was. That
night. It doesn't matter who won. I know. Scoreboard.
I was like, who is scoreboard? That was Theo
Fleury that said that, and I'm disappointed because
I thought he was like a conservative guy. Right.
But apparently he's, you know, he's just rotten.
He's a Canadian. Yeah. Well, I mean, we look
at Buster Douglas beat the shit out of Tyson.
Right. Anything can happen. They've been calling
them snow Mexicans, but everybody says, no, they
need to be called Serapians. For like Syrup Europeans?
Syrupians. Syrupians. Yeah, and that makes sense.
More like Middle Eastern, but, you know, or not
Middle Eastern, even like even further to China.
There's like more Asian folk there. So the next
time they do the NHL, what is it? The round robin?
Four continents, whatever they call it. Yeah,
the four country thing. Four nation. Are they
going to do that every year as part of the NHL
All -Star? They didn't do it this year because
of the Olympics. Oh. Right. So they're not going
to do it. Correct. Right. Because their All -Star
already happened, right? Because the playoffs
are... I don't know. When is the All -Star? No,
no. I don't... I mean, they're relatively early
in the... Oh, no, they're not. I don't know.
No, they're not. Yeah, this would normally be
the All -Star break. That's what I thought. So
they didn't have it. They had the Olympics instead.
Yeah, the Olympics instead. I'll tell you what.
The next time... So next season... Oh, Canada's
going to be... Dude, you already know what happened
the last time. They all threw their gloves down
and immediately started fighting before they
did it. Yes. Because they booed the national
anthem. Right. And it was in Canada. So the Americans
started beating the shit out of the Canadians,
and they all went after it. Well, I'm curious
to see how some of these, because all these guys
are on the same teams. Oh, my God. Right? How
are they going to - They got Trump playing hockey?
Yeah. That's so great. So crazy. I wonder how
the teams are going to gel again. I'm sure they
will. but I'm sure there's some hard feelings
out there. I don't know. I don't think it's a
big deal. Oh, you mean how they're teammates
on their NHL teams? Correct. Yeah, I don't think
so. They came back together last year after that
Four Nations tournament. I would think, I'd like
to think not, but I mean, I hear what you're
saying, and I would also agree with you, but
I think at some professional level, they don't
give a fuck. They're like, dude, I'm getting
paid. Getting paid. This is true. And as long
as I take a backseat on a lot of stuff, which
probably, I'm thankful that they took that tone
going in there. You didn't see MAGA hats in the
White House. You didn't see any biasness. They
were in there as USA, as a proponent of a USA
Olympic champion, and I thought that was awesome.
As any sports team does. As they should. I think
the ladies team is going to be there soon as
well from what he said last night. They're going
to the White House, yep. Is that for certain?
Yeah, he said it last night. They clearly said
they weren't going to. And I thought that was
another. Well, Trump said last night. I know
he did. I thought it was another Trump troll.
The correction on that is they couldn't because
they had obligations. They couldn't go directly
like the men's team. So hopefully they will go
visit. They will. I hope they do. That would
be smart. Some of them are in school. Some of
them in college. They have class. They have other.
teams, you know, or other, you know, they got
to go back to play their college games. Well,
they're women. They don't have the NHL behind
them. There is a professional women's hockey
league. Whatever. Is that real? It's like the
WNBA. Okay. It's real, but, you know. That is
so real. Is it real, real? Yeah. Yeah, because
Caitlin Clark is on the hockey team, too, isn't
she? Yeah, she's powerful, yeah. She's gully.
Anyway, what other highlights? Anything else
from the State Union? I think we kind of beat
that to death, right? Which one? The Olympics?
No. Well, yeah. The Olympics. We can go to the
Olympics. We can talk about. That's all done,
right? Yeah. Yeah, they wrapped up Sunday. It
was not my bag of tea. Did you watch closing
ceremonies? I didn't. Or the openings. Lots of
opera. Yeah. Yes, a lot of that. Wow. And, you
know, Italian classic stuff and Italian music.
But that's their culture, right? Oh, I know,
but it's, you know. But you hate Italy? I did.
Is Andre Bocelli there? No, he was not there.
Andre Bocelli? No. Oh, Andre Bocelli. Yeah, and
nobody knows that? Oh. He sounds just like him.
Exactly. No, I mean, it was good. It was interesting,
but it just wasn't my bag of tea or whatever
you want of cookies or whatever the fuck that
saying is. A bag of tea leaves? Yeah, it's not
my box of cookies. It's not my bag. It's not
my pallet of brick. It's not my sack of nuts.
Okay. Oh, boy. Anyway, yeah, so I wish I had
seen more of the Olympics. I usually love it,
but... I watched a lot of it. My wife and I,
we watched it every single night. I wish we did.
Because they had a program that was like four
hours every night. Right. And they give you all
the highlights? It was all the highlights. So
if you read the news, you kind of knew what was
coming, but we didn't look at that shit. Yeah,
there's always spoilers. I can't wait for my
kids to do whatever the hell they're going to
do so my wife and I can have fun like that. Just
focus on the more important things. You can plant
your ass on the couch and watch the Olympics
every night. Give me a break. I can. Oh, you
mean do something together. Correct. Does she
like the Olympics? I'm not sure what she likes.
The hell, she barely likes me. I was going to
say, does she like you? I mean, it might be a
show that you both like, but if she doesn't like
you, she's not going to sit with you. You know
what? Everyone's got their thing. I don't know
if the Olympics is her thing. Yeah, no, even
we've watched it as a family growing up. The
kids would watch it. We'd all watch it. So, yeah,
it's always been big. Same with me growing up,
you know. Of course, we only had, what, three
channels back in the day. So when the Olympics
were on, that's what you watched like all day.
Well, we had the dial that was underneath the
other dial. The UHF? Yeah, the UHF and then UHF.
Four channels. Well, I mean, just don't forget
that dial. There was more stuff. Not much. Yeah.
It was like Bozo the Clown. I was delayed getting
here. to our start time today and bringing up
the dial thing. My dad, they had some sort of
water issue claim and they're getting some stuff
done at their house. Flooring and there's a fence
in the back. They had a tree removed. Damn. Two
big, large trees. And then they had to, in the
process, it was required to replace the fence.
because it got mutilated. But whatever. So I
showed up, and my dad, he's in the process of
getting ready because part of the flooring in
the family room in the office are going to come
out. But he comes out. He's got all these boxes
of, not boxes, but little plastic bins he's putting
stuff in. He's organizing it. I was like, look,
Dad, look. He's like, I'm tired. You know what,
Dad, look. You're 84 years old right now. Right.
Don't overdo it. Well, I mean. Don't overdo it,
but at the same time, continue to do it. Because,
you know. You still want to sit there. Yeah,
you need to be busy. Oh, yeah, yeah. Keep yourself
busy. Stay active. Yeah, just do what you got
to do. Build a fence. He's not building a fence.
I may have known that one. I was like, you're
not building a fence. Dig a big hole and put
a new tree in. Get the hell out of here, man.
Get a post hole digger. What could go wrong?
And he absolutely would. And he's got the mentality.
Well, I mean, he has what it takes to do it,
but he's also in a place where his brain isn't
quite the same as it used to be five years ago.
His body's not either. His body's not. He's got
hip issues. But set aside from that, what I want
to point is that he is organizing his stuff in
his office because this stuff in his office is
a compilation of, hoarding and just collections
of stuff, layers on layers and layers. It happens.
Hey, this was a scanner I had in 98, and it works
great. I didn't use it, but I bought it, and
now it's sitting here. It's got the PS2 connection.
I was like, Dad, I don't want a fucking RS232
hookup pin, 9 -pin hookup. Right. To the modem.
Yeah, whatever it is. It does like one page a
minute. It takes like forever. It's like, who
the hell has an AOL account? My dad does. Okay,
whatever. So he's got a bunch of stuff that's
laid out. It's like little three and a half inch
TVs. He's got two boxes, brand new. Little CRT
TVs. Little LED. CRT. cathode ray tv no no it
was the led but it's you know and what and what
is it again it's it's a it's a tv that is a three
and a half inch screen and it it does antenna
that's it oh i see so it's just it's an antenna
tv that's all and you you I haven't opened the
box yet. He was like, look, they're brand new.
I just bought them. I just bought them? He just
bought them like, I don't know, a decade ago,
whatever it was. And it's got little rabbit ears?
Again, I haven't opened it. I have no idea. I'm
assuming there's some sort of antenna that you
got to hook it up to. Well, my dad was big. It's
a 3 .5 inch little monitor thing. Like for security?
No. It's for when you're on the go and you want
to watch some sort of antenna TV and you got
it in your back pocket. I guess, yeah. I was
like, Dad, they have like, the fucking phones
are bringing that thing right now. Right. I know
when I was cleaning out my dad's stuff, he had
radios, like transistor radios. Yeah. That's
how he listened to shit. That's awesome. He'd
sit there. Actually, I brought a couple of them
home. Good. And one's just a little thing, big
old fucking antenna on it. It sounds actually
pretty good. It's not like the old transistor
radios, but it's a little black thing and he'd
sit there and he'd listen to his news and his
Rush Limbaugh and shit like that. I don't know.
There's nothing wrong with that. That's what
he did. I mean, radio is starting to get phased
out simply because we don't access the technology
that we care about it. And frankly, it is a bad
call because we... There's a lot of good programming
on that shit, man. Okay, I'm not saying that
from that side of stuff. What I'm saying is that,
you know, it's a technology that if we forget
about it and we don't use it anymore, it's going
to go away. And, you know, there may come a point
where, you know, we may have to go back to that.
I don't know. I mean, we have phones. Technology
is great, et cetera, et cetera. But at the same
time. You know what? These things go out, there's
no communication. If something happens, we're
going to need these things set up and put into
place, and we're going to be fucking idiots.
Beep, beep, beep. You're talking yourself into
a ham radio. I mean, look, I'm going to dig up
something from a couple podcasts ago where they're
finding aluminum gears in the ground in 500 million
year. I'm just saying. Here we go. The earth.
We've done this before. I don't know the extent
of it. Whatever. I'm just saying shit happens.
We got to start charging our crystal skulls because
I don't know how long they last. I'm telling
you, you got to rub them. You got to rub those
skulls. I think so. It's friction. It's sweat
and tears. I'm not sure what that was. We do
have a camera on that, right? Yeah, it's not
a pocket pussy. I don't know what you're doing
over there. What? What? What is that? What are
you saying? I don't know. Anyways, so I was at
my dad's house. I got these little TVs. I just
thought it was an interesting little segue. You
may have to edit that. Did you say pocket pussy?
Sean, what are you saying? He's got a flashlight.
Oh, God. You guys are so gross. I can't believe
you'd say that. Do they make burping noises when
you use them? Oh, boy. That's what I understood.
I don't know. I've never used one. I don't need
one, actually. So I want to do a shout out to
Empire Liquor in McKinney. Is this the proper
place to put this? It's the perfect place to
insert Empire Liquor McKinney. Make your way
down to Empire Liquor. You got to go talk to
John, Matt, or Josh from Empire Liquor. It is
in McKinney. And let me see if I can't pull up
that ad. This sex toy segment is brought to you
by. I'm sure they don't. They're not proponents
of this sex place or things. But you know what?
But they are in charge of things that may get
you in the correct mood to be able to anticipate
or be able to be part of a proponent of being
in that mood. We need to get some of that. of
that Sagamore. What is that? It's a rye. Oh,
the Sagamore. Oh, yeah. We need to get some of
those. There's several of them. Plus the price
of rye. It's like 40, 50 bucks, right? Yeah.
It was out of reach when we first started doing
this, collecting these. It was at the high end
of our budget, so we never got one. And then
we just kind of leapfrogged it really quick and
never went back to it. So, the little background
story. One of our best friends is a huge proponent
of this place. He lives nearby. Mr. Scott Cash.
Yeah, he goes here all the time. They help him
out with allocated... Allocated stuff. But anyway,
look at the background in that picture. There's
like comfy leather sofas. They've got like a
hangout in their little - Is that like a cigar
lounge? I don't know. That picture in the far
background, is that Empire Liquor right there?
Yeah. I think so. Or is it at someone's house?
They bought that at Empire Liquor. I don't know.
Let's see. That's Empire Liquor. Get in there.
Check out some pictures. Look at the floor. They
got a little Crown Royal. Look at it. They got
an assembly, a little table. That's part of their
pictures. There you go. Look at that. Four matches.
Whip shots. Whip shots? What the hell are whip
shots? It's like alcoholic whipped cream. Oh,
really? Yes. Well, what's the proof on that?
20. I think so. Sean died of whip shots the other
night. Had 100 of them in an hour. I mean, it's
kind of like one of your July 4th parties with
Shelly and her Jell -O shots. I must have had
50 of them that night. Well, yeah, she's walking
around with a tray of them every three minutes.
I'm like, let's let it digest. I'll have another
one. Everyone's like puke and purple. Can I get
a red one? She makes like 120 of them. I ate
50 of them. Yeah. And I was in the pool and I
was like, hi, guys. I'm just bouncing around
on your little floaty device. Were there Jell
-O cubes floating in the pool? This may be the
first year in a while we haven't had a July 4th
party. You're not going to be here. I'm going
to be in Italy. He's not going to be here. Oh,
well, we can still have a July 4th party at your
house. No, we're closing down the pool. I'll
be out as well. My son's getting married the
next day. We're going to have to do a July 10th
party or whatever that date is. The weekend after.
Are you back the weekend after? I'm not going
anywhere. His wedding is here. Oh, nice. All
right, so looking at the calendar, let's look
at that real quick. Let's have it on July 11th.
I'm out. This is the... What the fuck? He's like,
I'm out for you. What an asshole. Totally shitting
all over my July party. All right, well, I'm
having one without you then, and we're going
to have 300 Jell -O shots. I think... I'd like
to tell you, Jeff and I are going to go celebrate
our post -design party somewhere else. Dude,
we're missing a big one. It's the big 250. Oh,
the 250 year. And we're not even going to be
in the country. I will be. Way to celebrate the
birth of the nation by being in Europe. We want
to watch it from afar. Being over in Germany.
Italy. You're going to go hang out at the Eleni
Tower of Pisa? I don't think so. You're going
to go to Florence? We are. You're going to see
the Statue of David and his junk? That was top
on my list, yes. Nice. They do have lots of porcelain
penises over there. Great. Tried not to sit on
them. God. I know it's like a moth to a flame,
but keep your butthole away from those things.
He's going to be listening to the carpenters
while he's looking at all those marble penises.
Whatever. Batman sitting on the statue. Oh, gross.
Jesus. We have another one. Well, I did read
over there. There's a famous fountain over there.
Is this the second half? I don't know. There's
a famous fountain over there that has lots of
characters and everything like that, but it was
a famous place where people go to take pictures.
It got so busy, now they're charging people to
go up there to be able to take pictures. God.
Well, you know, there's like a million, like
us, there's going to be a million cruise ships
that stop, and they all go to the same damn places.
It's like the Disney cruise ships at Epstein
Island. Exactly. It was that one there. Yep.
It's unfortunate. Where is that? That's in Rome.
I've seen that one, I think. I go back. The architecture
out there is amazing. You think about who built
it and how did they build it. It's kind of like
the pyramids. It's like, God bless it. How the
hell do they do that kind of stuff? A plaster
mold. They've got these carvings of these elegant
carvings of women that have these blouses or
you can see some nippage shawls whatever you
can see stuff underneath like you were like oh
my god you could totally tell that there's stuff
underneath there or nippage fingers arms whatever
it's just amazing meaning they could do 3d sculpting
well yeah sort of sure yeah you could see something
behind like see -through marble no it's not trans
lucifer transparent that way i'm just saying
it's like it's like someone takes a cloth that
puts it over somebody you could it's with the
folds and the yes yes all that stuff is is and
you can see the fabric you know and the thread
count and i'm like dude that thread counts impressive
it is very impressive percale yeah i wonder where
they procured their silk Was it the same guy
that in the United States that was shunned for
supporting Trump that sells the pillows? Mike?
Mike Lindell. Mike Lindell. What's his last name?
Lindell. Mike Lindell. Is he running for president?
What's he doing? I thought he was doing something.
I don't think he's. He's basically fighting all
these lawsuits and trying not to go bankrupt.
Yeah, there's the David Penis. Oh, nice. So Mike
Lindell's fighting a bunch of lawsuits? What
for? He had a lot of stuff against Dominion,
didn't he? Yeah, he said a lot of shit and he
got sued for it. And he lost. Yeah, but it's
true. But he lost. So apparently they couldn't
find any evidence that he was correct. So they're
going scorched earth on him. I heard that Dominion
got sold to a conservative company. Can't Trump
go back in there and What is it called when he...
Audit? Yeah. No, when he forgives somebody. Oh,
pardon? Did he pardon them? He could. Well, no,
that doesn't exempt you from lawsuits. Oh, wait
a second. There's some updates here. It says,
prove Mike wrong, victory, in a major legal win
for Lindell. A federal appeals court in July
2025 vacated a $5 million arbitration award previously
granted to software engineer... Robert Zeitman.
So, okay, they reversed it then. All right, and
then there's a more recent one. The defamation.
The $1 .3 billion defamation lawsuit. Yeah, the
$5 billion one was like, yeah, you're never going
to see this. We're just going to waive it. So
the $2 .3 million defamation verdict in June
2025, they found him liable. Okay. Yeah. He was
ordered to pay $2 .3 million in damages that
he has vowed to appeal. And what's the most recent
one? September 2025, a federal judge ruled that
he defamed an election technology company with
51 false statements. However, they deferred the
decision on damages, noting that Smartmatic must
still prove actual malice in future proceedings.
So he's mired in this shit right now. Yeah, he
needs help. Meaning, you know, I think somebody
should help. If they've got the money, they need
to fund that because this whole thing was bullshit.
Everybody knows it. Everybody knows it. And the
people that don't know it were sitting in the
- Yeah, but nobody can prove it. That's the problem.
I don't know if it's - Nobody can prove it either
way. I don't know if it's - I think it's more
of these ballot stacking than the Dominion machines
changing shit. I think it was more of these huge
ballot dumps. Yeah. Absentee ballots. Yeah, that
they booted people out, all the observers that
weren't - In on the loop. I think that's where
most of this shit came from. I think it's amazing.
So the FBI raided the Fulton election office
recently. Yeah, they did. And so they're going
through all that shit. So we may find, I mean,
in a couple months, they may announce that there
was massive fraud. I hope they figure it out.
I hope they figure it out a better way. There's
always going to be fraud. But you know what?
You can always help try to prevent some of this
fraud by limiting the mail -in ballots. Well,
he said that on the State of the Union address
last night. I mean, because the spirit of the
mail -in ballots was for folks that couldn't
be there. Well, I mean, then it was. That's what
it was back in the day. Yeah, but there's a lot
of states that either have it or want to go to
it. Because it's easy to cheat. Yeah, well, the
COVID moved a lot of them into it, and they're
not moving back. Of course not. Right. The rank
voting is another thing. That's bullshit as well.
But the mail -in ballot was not designed for
the COVID or any of that stuff. It was designed
for soldiers that were overseas. Correct. And
that's it. And expatriates working overseas as
well. Correct. And people who can't get out of
the house. Right. And he said that last night.
He said it should be for people who live overseas,
people who are disabled. Disabled. And, I mean,
that was it. But these folks that are showing
up at these ballot... They harvest them. And
just drop in a gazillion that are all the same.
Yeah, they have the same smudge. It's been photocopied
over and over. And then you've got these reports
that you've got China that is printing these
voting ballot sheets up, and they're showing
up in millions. Look, I don't understand what
the delay is on this. They should look at these
things and just make a decision. Of course. Pass
the SAVE Act, right, which is requiring voter
ID. Requiring voter ID. Federally. So let's go
over that because there's some misconceptions
because I've heard a couple different things.
From what I understood, you have to have a voter's
registration, right? Voter registration card
or be registered to vote. That is true pretty
much everywhere, I think. So what are the qualifications
for that? Because they're saying - Yes, but how
do you prove you're a citizen? Your Social Security
card or birth certificate, right? So how do you
do that? So you get your voter registration card
or your application, and you put your Social
Security card and your name, et cetera, and you
submit it. Now you have your register to vote.
Correct. So when you go register to vote, you
no longer need those other credentials, right?
Correct. So all you need, because what they're
saying - You need to bring it every single time?
What they're saying is that to go vote, you need
to bring a birth certificate? No. And that's
the argument, which is bullshit. So that's a
good question. So for the people that don't require
photo ID when you vote, do they even require
for you to register? To me, they probably don't.
They just let anybody walk up and place a vote.
I think that's part of the problem, right? Here
in Texas, you show your driver's license. They
take your driver's license and they scan it into
their system. Right. Why can't everyone do that?
Right. But there are states out there that don't
do that. Yeah, true. But even so, you still have
to be registered as well. Right? No, you do.
Okay. So in order to use your driver's license,
you have to be registered to vote. Right. Because
your registration voter ID is directly connected
to your driver's license. Backwards. No, it's
not. No, no, you said that to get your driver's
license, you have to be registered to vote. That's
not true. No, no, that's not what I said. I didn't
mean to say that. What I'm saying is that you
have to have a voter's registration card. So
you need to get that, but you don't need to bring
that to go vote. Your voter registration card
is connected to your driver's license. So the
argument that these Democrats are saying is that,
okay, so in order to vote, you have to bring
several forms of ID. To make it even more funny,
we'll talk about the mayor of New York City.
Where he's going, hey, you want to go shovel
snow? We're going to require a couple IDs. Five.
There was five forms of ID. What a ding dong.
Two passport pictures. Who has those hanging
around? How does that even make sense? Why would
you have anybody require anything to shovel snow?
That is fucking racist. Because you have to sign
up. You're now an employee. To get paid. Right,
to get paid. Five forms of ID. He reduced it
to two, but still, you need an ID. And Trump
called it out last night. I thought it was fantastic.
It was fantastic. Good stuff, man, because that's
what it all boils down to. He's trying to control
the voting. He doesn't want these illegal shit
coming in. We want a real election. We want the
true Americans to get out there and vote. And
right now, let's say we eliminate all the illegal
immigration voting going on. We still don't have
a great response from voting. You go out, I mean,
look at here in Frisco. Five to 10%. It's ridiculous.
We got a primary right now. And no one's going
out there and showing face. And what are we going
to do to... to stress on people how important
it is to vote. I'll tell you what you don't do.
As Jeff mentioned earlier, all these random people
texting you. Yeah. Hey, vote for me. My dick's
bigger. No, dude. I don't want to hear about
you. I don't care who it's from. I immediately
block it, then report it as spam. I don't know
if that does anything, but I block it, then report
it as spam. Blocking will do something. Reporting
is spam. Questionable. Yeah, I don't know if
I delete the report. I just block. But then they
know there's somebody there interacting with
their text, and they just create a new text number,
then they spam you out of that. They're like,
wow, this is a valid person. Yeah, and whatever.
Now, what you can do, though, is go vote, and
then that you voted is now registered in their
system, and then they'll take you out of the...
Like it's too late. They don't bother you anymore.
Don't bother me anymore. That's not the case
because my wife was bombarded during the presidential
election and she was bombarded. The election
came and they kept going because now it was support.
this, support that, that kind of thing. Then
you got on a list. It just changed. Well, Kamala
Harris was in debt. She needed to pay for that.
No, it was all from the conservative side. And
she was getting pissed off, and she's like, these
people are going to make me change because they
need to stop. And it was almost threatening.
Like, we know that you're not doing this, and
you're not doing this. And it was like, this
is odd. My poor dad. was inundated with junk
mail and he went through all of it right and
he separated everything you know how they give
you two dollar bills and they give you these
little indian dream uh basket things or notepads
or calendars or he had boxes and boxes and boxes
of all of this stuff that he you know collected
from from these junk mail right and they were
so pushy and so made you feel guilty like You
know, we're not going to be able to save the
country unless you donate. Oh, yeah, that's what
these texts were. He completely internalized
all of that. And he was like, he was yelling.
I was at his house helping him. I was like, Dad,
what are you doing? He was like, they just want
me to keep more and more. And they tell me, you
know, we're going to lose the country. And I
was like, Dad, you've done your part. Right.
Leave it to the next generation. Hold on. You've
done your part. What did Paul say to his dad?
He was like, you ruined my whole life. AI. I
wish you had never showed me this. That was AI.
I go, dad, this is all fake. Look at that. He's
like, what? You ruined my whole life. It's ridiculous.
But you know, and what a crazy statement. And
I apologize. I didn't mean to offend you if it
did. But it was a funny moment. Oh, yeah. No,
he was. I sent it to my family. I was like, you're
not going to believe what dad just said to me.
Anyway, but my point is they harass you. And
the poor elderly people, they internalize all
of it. They got nothing else going on. I think
that's generational because I think when I get
older, I'm just going to be the same way. I'm
like, yeah, fuck this. Yeah. Delete. Absolutely.
Well, you hope you are. Well, it's going to change.
I had a conversation with my dad over the weekend
about setting a fucking attachment to an email.
And he was like, I don't remember how to do this.
I used to do this all the time. I can't do it
anymore. Well, no, that's memory. But I'm talking
being harassed. I'm not going to go and go, okay,
I need to give them a bunch of money now. You
should have seen the list. I don't have any money.
He had a list of like 60 different organizations
and politicians that he would give. And he kept
it on a piece of paper that he wrote down. A
little ledger. $10, $20, $5, $20, $5. And I was
like, Dad. And then he added it all up. And we
were like, you know how much you're giving? And
he's like, whoa. $222. Whoa. I'm saving the nation.
Yeah. And I tried to. I mean, eventually, we
just took everything away from him type of thing.
Right. But he wasn't going to stop. So Mr. Producer
put on all 10 propositions at a glance. Now,
this is for what? This is for Texas. This is
for Texas. And it's only a Republican platform
type of a thing. We've already gone through something
like this. I think if it gets enough votes, it'll
go on in November, right? Is that how this works?
We did have constitutional amendments. last fall
yeah we did something like this already uh these
are more platform hey this is the things that
we want you republicans to to to focus on in
the next legislative session which is not until
next year Right. So if you call yourself a Republican,
you're going to buy into these things. You're
going to eliminate property taxes. I don't like
it when they say things like that. What I really
want them to do is just lay it out for it, which
they have here. Mr. Producer, if you could scroll
down. Property taxes, voter approval for property
tax increase, public school curriculum. Hold
on. Let's talk about some of these. Yeah. Number
one, eliminate property taxes over six years.
Like literally getting rid of the property tax
system. There are states that do that. Well,
I read, because I talked to the lady I work with,
and I was like, well, how are they going to do
this? And I was reading, I started reading, and
Texas has such a huge surplus. They're like,
we don't need taxes. That's crazy. Specifically,
the school property tax. And I was like, well,
who's going to fund the schools? Well, the state
would start funding the schools, which could
be problematic. Why? Because they're going to
have control over what is being taught to the
kids? Or just control in general. Or, yeah, let's
say. Influencing control. Yeah, so you're going
to have these mega districts, you know, like
Frisco and McKinney and Prosper, these big ones
you want to do these things. And, you know, this
is what we're spending. And are they going to
be held back by the state saying, no, you have
enough. Some of these other school districts
need it. I don't know. We just don't want the
state to be in control of that. Well, hold on.
I'm not. I agree with part of that, but I do
agree with the state funding it. So if there
is an equation that says, hey, man, we have a
million students in Collin County. Made that
number up. And we're going to allocate X amount
of dollars. Here's your money. They already do
that. Well, my point is. The state doesn't have
control. Meaning no strings attached. Correct.
So the state doesn't have control what the county
does. They're not going to do that. They're not
going to do that. There's going to be all kinds
of strings. Okay. That's part of the problem.
That's what I'm saying is that we can eliminate
strings. That's my point. That sounds easy. That's
not going to happen, though. You're saying to
a politician, you're not going to have control.
Right. That's not going to happen. And by the
way, as soon as you give up control, you never
get it back. Yeah. Well, I mean, you say that.
And I don't necessarily disagree with it because
I kind of agree with you. But what I'm saying
is that we could set things up to where that
doesn't happen. Well, that'd be nice. No, I agree.
I hear you. I agree. But again, you go back to
how is the money going to be divvied up? I mean,
if you say you have 20 ,000 students, we need
to build a new school. Is that going to be enough
to pay the teachers? We need to attract the highest.
talent, you know, and stuff like that. Everyone's
going to be on the same playing field, so you're
like, where do I want to work kind of a thing.
Well, then you've got school vouchers. I mean,
it gets complicated. I think that's going to
be kind of tied into how all of this is going
to work, right? I think he, because Abbott's
a huge thing on school vouchers. I'm all in for
taking away the property tax. If we have such
a big surplus every year that it will make up
that shortfall of no property tax. Right. Because
we get it from everywhere else. Corporate taxes,
sales taxes, and all that other shit. So number
one, eliminate property taxes over six years.
I'm all for that. So do we have no debt? No.
Texas? No. No. We are like billions in surplus.
So we literally have, I mean, because you know,
like California has like $240 million of debt.
If not more. Texas has literally zero dollars
in debt. It's one thing to have a surplus in
your budget. but having no debt is different.
Can we verify that? I think we have debt, but
it's probably not much at all. I don't think
we do. The amount of the population... We do.
Significant debt. $500 billion? Yeah, but they're
talking state and local debt. Frisco has $100
million in debt because of the schools and things
like that. State only. Just the state of Texas.
That's what he asked. Does the state of Texas
have any debt? Yeah, but tell it to exclude county
and local or whatever. Excluding local. You don't
have to yell at the computer. You can do low
caps. Use some exclamation points. Yeah, you're
being very aggressive. And by the way, you get
slower. Tell me how to type. You get slower answers.
You don't know me. All right, here we go. Still
significant. 2024, $73 billion. All right, so
we're not... Oh, they're bonds and shit like
that, though. Right. And that's the kind of things
that... See, this is what they need to teach
people. Because we don't know. And when we're
starting to vote for stuff, and they're kind
of like, eh, you know what? We're going to do
this. But you know what? On the back end, we've
got to pay this bond, and we've got to do this.
Right. And when you're saying we have a surplus,
I'm like... Well, we shouldn't have any surplus
at all. Fucking pay off our debt. So then it's
a budget surplus every year. So our budget's
$500 billion. We have $600 billion of income
coming in. Right. This is the definition of obfuscation.
Right. It truly is. And they should be paying
down the debt. Maybe they are. I don't know.
That's the thing. What the fuck? But they're
not. Why is it so difficult to find this shit
out, right? Because it's kludgy because they
don't want you to know. They're trying to keep
the people stupid. Jeff, do you need a water
or something? You drank your drink pretty quick.
It was pretty good. It's like tea. It is. Let's
go through these real quick because then we need
to get to the bourbon. Yes, we do. Proposition
1, we knocked out the hell. Voter approval for
property tax increase. Require voter approval
for tax increases. That would never get voted
on. Well, I mean, you're eliminating it, and
now you're asking for increases. Well, I think
what it is, if we can't eliminate it, then the
voters have to vote if there's ever an increase.
That's how I take it. No, it says it allows the
local governments to raise taxes without voter
approval. I would vote yes on that. They do it
anyway. Well, that's what they do now. Well,
they're all worded to be yes. Right. They're
trying to make it obvious that everything should
be yes. Because when you get to the actual ballot,
it's going to be worded so stupidly. Not these.
Legalese. No. Some of them are. These are not
intended to trick. Healthcare vaccination status.
This should be 10 for 10, yes. Prevent denial
of care based solely on vaccination. Of course.
Right. Prop 4. Public school curriculum. Require
schools to teach life begins at fertilization.
No, does not require this instruction. Again,
these are not, these are platform. Republican
Party issues. Platform planks. Yes. So number
five. School -based clinics and services prohibits
gender, sexuality, and reproductive clinics in
K -12. Yes. You don't want that shit. No. No,
that's just... Kids got to figure this shit out.
Like we did for hundreds and hundreds of years.
People learn, oh, you know what? That guy is
super hot. And then they turn gay. Or that chick
is a... That stuff is developing. You may at
some point be like, oh, that guy's super hot.
And you'll be like, yeah, that was just a passing
thought. I don't know what I was thinking. I
had a broke back moment. Life changes. It evolves.
And you're still not. You still haven't figured
it out. I mean, at one point you made like root
beer candies and the next you'll be like, ah,
I'm more into sweet tarts. I don't know what
happened during that root beer candy thing, but
I'm back into sweet tarts. Good thing we have
both. Wow. Number six. Prop six. Perfect analogy.
Term limits. Set term limits for elected officials.
100 % yes. For me, anyway. Term limits? Oh, automatic.
At every level. Yes. Now, this is an interesting
one. Texas water sales and export prohibits large
-scale sales and export of Texas water. What,
like Ozarka? No. No, like groundwater that comes
out of the earth through lakes and stuff. Are
we going to send our water to California? What
about the Red River? I think we are today. Does
Oklahoma get half of that? Well, just everywhere.
So, here's the premise of that. We do a very
good job. We have done a very good job historically
making sure that we have enough water, enough
man -made lakes to service growth. Correct. Right.
Other states did a fucking piss poor job of it.
However. And they're running out of water. However,
we have an influx of people coming in from. I
know. I know. There are communities of illegal
immigrants that have populated the entire. Agreed,
but the point is they're trying to protect our
water source and make sure that nobody comes
in and exports it to other states that fucked
up their water control. I think that we should
not be doing that. No. Let them all die of thirst.
Proposition 8, public service and illegal immigration.
Yes, it reduces certain public services for illegal
immigrants. Like free healthcare and free schooling
and shit like that. Yeah, like free emergency
room services and things like that. Yeah, free
credit card to be able to live. All right, so
let's dive into that a little bit. Let's get
to the bourbon, would you? You know what? I can
stretch this out. It's cool. At some point, you
can't let somebody who's dying of a stab wound.
No. Not be treated at a hospital. That excludes
medical. We're talking about support. We're talking
about support from a week -to -week, a day -to
-day thing, you know, sending them to school,
give them the clothes. If we want to scratch
the surface on that and start them off, hey,
look, you're here now. We're going to try to
figure shit out, but you're going to be leaving.
So, by the way, you're going to be leaving, so
you're only going to be here for two, three weeks
until we process you, and then you're going to
get a little ticket, and then when you... I get
it. So, you know what I think? I think... That
should be handled by a co -op of churches and
private donations. Sure. That should all be charities.
That's not paid by my taxes. Charities and churches,
not the state. Go. All right. I don't know about
that. Number nine, legislative leadership positions.
Basically, what happens today is a bunch of Dems
hold leadership roles in the state legislature.
And we have the majority. Correct. How does that
fucking make sense? How does that make sense?
I don't know. So in the last legislative session
and in previous ones too, what'll happen is there'll
be maybe two, we'll have a Republican -run Congress,
right? State House. And there'll be two people
up for Speaker of the House. And one of them
will cut a deal with the Democrats. Oh, wow.
Because they're so desperate for power. And the
squirmy rhinos. And they'll get the majority,
and the Dems and the Squishy Rhinos will elect
that person over the more... Majority representative.
Yeah, the more that represents the people of
Texas. That's so shady. And it happens so many
times, I'm sick of it, right? And that's because
they're so obsessed with power that they're going
to... legislative commissions, right? And I'm
like, why are they putting in co -chairs in here?
Yeah, we're getting a second sample. Yeah, we're
starting to panic here. I know, I am too. He's
breaking all sorts of decorum here. It's like
I pop open the bourbon. What, and you have to
have another one? And it's like groundhogs popping
up. What the hell? You already have a full glass.
You don't have to have another one. Shut up,
Paul. You don't owe me. That's like a whole other
two ounces. That's good. God. Anyway, yeah. Anyway,
so the last prop is prohibit recognition of Sharia
law in Texas courts. Yeah. 100%. Poor Chuck.
He doesn't want it. 100%. He doesn't want to
help. Oh, yeah. 100%. There should be nothing
that competes with Texas law. All right. Number
nine? We've gone through all of them. Oh, we
did Sharia law, right? Yes. Oh, what the hell?
Hold on. Number nine, legislative leadership
restricts leadership roles to Republican members.
We already did that one. We just talked about
that. Yeah, but here, so what does that mean?
Oh, God. We have to start all over again. Chuck
just had like a five -minute thing. He went on
like a 20 -minute explanation. And the Sharia
law prohibits, oh, that's 100%. You gave me the
hurry it up, Chuck. The Sharia law, to me, is
like the number one thing across the planet.
The entire world needs to shun. Fucking Sharia
law. And limit it to the areas where it thrives.
Correct. Wherever it's at. Jeff, if you wouldn't
mind passing me the corn. Of course. Okay. Speak.
Oh, you gave it away, Chuck. Oh, way to go. All
right. Let's talk about this. Let's talk about
this bourbon. All right. From Still Austin. So
I was, was it I? I think I was. I think I randomly,
who was with me? I think I might have been there.
Yeah. I think it was Chuck and I. We were just
randomly walking into Total Wine. Okay. And I
think it was during our Friday excursion doing
something. Nobody was available. So Chuck and
I were like, let's just do it. We pull up and
they're like, Kevin was kind of like, hey man,
there's two blue corns over there. Or one blue
corn. Yeah, because if it was two, Chuck and
I would have fucking... Yeah, that's what happens.
You walk in, and then Kevin looks at you, and
he keeps, he's like... Yeah, he goes, come here.
Come with me. Come hither. And then Sean's like,
oh, my God. Oh, my God. Full erect. Oh, my God.
He was like, come with me. Let us see. Your dick.
Ooh. Wow. Anyway, so he brought us around the
corner, and we saw the still Austin blue corn.
I'm not sure where he was going with that. I
don't know. I don't know what that's called.
You were going with it. I was like, what the
hell? It was your kind of weird pedo song. So
this is the blue corn bourbon whiskey. What that
means is there's two different types of corn
in this. Okay. Obviously a blue corn. We'll say
26 % blue corn, 25 % white corn. Blue corn. What
say you, Jeff? I didn't realize there was blue
corn. Purple corn, too, and red corn. There's
red, purple, orange. There's a whole kaleidoscope
spectrum of cornucopia. I'm just saying, there's
a lot of people out there that don't realize
the corn is not yellow, all of them. There's
only one corn that's yellow. There's so many
other different colors. White. White. Very true.
Black. And then 41 % rye, which is a high rye.
This is actually very high rye. You don't taste
it, though. And then 5 % malted barley. Chuck
doesn't like this. I didn't realize it was high
rye. I didn't say I didn't like it. I just said
it's smooth. It is extremely smooth. So it's
definitely not a bourbon. I love it. This is
absolutely terrific. It can't be a bourbon. Go
back to that. It is a bourbon. It's 51 % corn.
Yeah. Six year is 26 % white corn. Oh, a combination.
25 % white corn. It's 44 % rye. It's bourbon.
And it's dark. Six year. It's dark. It's sweet.
It's very sweet. It's got a very corny flavor.
No pun intended. Have we ever seen a bourbon
that has more than one type of corn to make up
the 51 %? I'm sure there's some iron root out
there. Right. But that's unique. Iron root's
like the master at producing some of these multi
-corn stuff. Yeah, experimentation. Yeah, they
really are. That's up to them. Okay, so let's
finish this out. It's super sweet. Still Austin.
Blue corn. It's, what is this? Four years or
six years? Six years. Bottled and bond. To me,
it's got this dessert taste to it. It's got a
very, I'll say, icing kind of flavor. Marshmallow?
Marshmallow. It's got some sort of top cake kind
of like. It's on the front end, though. If you
get some on your lips and you lick your lips,
you could definitely taste it. But then I think
it moves into some. I mean, there's a lot of
rye. God bless. It's not a real spicy rye. It's
not. It's a smooth rye. I am really, really digging
this. The more I drink it, the more I'm loving
it. Wow. It does taste like a very rich dessert.
Very rich, though. I mean, it's got like, I don't
know. It does have cinnamon. A little strawberry
jam. It's almost like a, what's the pastry that
you - Tres leches? The pastry you have in the
morning. Cinnamon, not cinnamon. A croissant?
A bear claw? Danish? Three really good guesses
and none of them are right. Cinnamon roll. A
cinnamon roll. God. You had excellent guesses,
guys. I like mine the best. All three different,
by the way. I like the bear claw the best. We're
talking about jumping on it. Okay. This is excellent.
You love donuts. I'm going to rate it. All right.
Go. 7 .6. Really? Really? You know what? What
just happened? That's a really high rating for
me. All right. We'll sit on that. For 100 proof,
blue corn still Austin. I'm going to revise that.
3 .9. No. Sean's going to say, I'm going to say
an 8 .3 for a blue corn 100 proof. This ranks
next to the 10 -year micture, in my opinion.
No, not my opinion. Not my opinion. For what
it is. Okay, so what? I said 7 .6, right? Yes.
And he's what, 8 '3"? I know, and I don't understand
why I got shit on. I'm not sure what happened.
What are you then? I'm not as high as Paul. He's
like a 14 '2". No. I'm probably about 7 '3 on
this for me. Wow. Really? Yeah. So why did you
both say really when I said 7 .6? Were you just
giving me shit? Yes. Oh, okay. No, I got 8 '3".
I love the hell out of this. No, this is really
good. This is dark. This is really good. It's
got a very rich color. The rye on it, it's impeccable.
Honestly, it's like a Danish muffin. Everyone
has their own palate, but frankly, I'm a little
disappointed of both yours rating on it. Well,
we're disappointed in you all the time. That's
really high for me. 7 .6. I mean, it is yours,
but I'm just like, maybe disappointed is not
the right word, but I'm surprised is probably
better. I'm surprised because I'm just like finding
this. Well, I'm surprised you compare it to Victor's.
Dude, it's rich. The rye is like popping. For
me. We may not even have a second half. There's
too much tension here. It's just going, man.
God bless. Blue Corn's still Austin. The Blue
Corn Bourbon Whiskey. It's all because of you
and your 7 '6". I don't understand what happened.
I triggered both of you. I tell you what, the
Empire Liquor McKinney features this Blue Corn
whenever it's available. Check it out at 4200.
Highly recommended. What is it, about 80 bucks?
4200 El Dorado. It was 100. I think after 80.
It says there, but when I purchased it, it was
like 100 bucks. A total wine? Yeah, a total wine.
You know, I'll double check, but I think it was
around $100 after tax. The color is dark copper.
Yeah, it's got a good color. I'll tell you what,
when I was pouring this, it was very aromatic.
Yes. For $100 proof. Lots of floral. Very erotic.
Very botanical, floral. Did you say erotic? I
highly recommend the Still Awesome Blue Corn
if you can find it. Holy shit. We had an explosive
first half of the Dudes Like Us podcast on the
February 25th. On a Wednesday. It is a Wednesday.
It's a bottle of Bond as well. It is a bottle
of Bond. Really? Yes. Wow. I love the little
blue crow they have on there. A little half -slip
moon. Is that a waning moon? What is that? Waxing
gibbous? That is waxing. A waxing crescent. We'll
have to go over that at some point. What the
heck that means. I have no idea what that means.
You guys are retarded. A little bit. Dudes Like
Us. Thank you, Chuck, for staying on top of stuff.
Our Chuck, our producer. We have a second half
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Is that it? We're on everything. On everything.
We haven't done Twitch yet. We're not on Twitch.
Is Twitch still a thing? Son of a bitch. Actually,
it is. Is it? Let's check out the dangling hemorrhoids
on our lava lamp. All right. Do you think that's
all, Sean? I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff.