Looks like the corn is winning currently. The
corn is, yes. But these are early votes. So 187
to what? To Paxton's? I can't see it. 153. 153.
That'll be a runoff. Oh, wow. We'll see how it
goes. I don't know. I think Virgil John B. Squamble
may have a chance. Virgil? Or not. Golrez. Gus
Kahn. Peter Schwale. Yeah, that's what I was
referring to, last names, you know. And it may
be wrong, but I'm okay with that. There's a lot
of people in this running in there. No kidding.
For a senator, yeah. Yeah. I mean, to be honest,
if I saw Lavenka on there, I'd be like, I've
been voting for him. That's because it's Halavienkia.
Halavienkia. I'd get my Czech constituents. Yeah.
Dan Crenshaw. Second half of the Dudes Like Us
podcast. It's March 3rd, the first week of March,
and we're having a great time. We have a special
guest with us tonight who brought a plethora
of things for us to sample as a blind test. Excellent
experience for the first time. Thank you, Mark,
for doing that. The $8 bottle won. It won everything.
It came close. So, dudes like us, I'm Sean. I'm
Paul. And I'm Jeff. And I'm Mark. And we're here
to pump you up. No, we're here to have a good
time. Thank you, Chuck, for staying on top of
shit as you do. Our producer, Mr. Chuck, what
have we got going on? We have a lot going on.
You know, I'm going to share one stupid story.
So you know how we have videos now, right? On
YouTube. We do. Is it just YouTube? Yes. It's
just YouTube. We have Facebook and Instagram.
No, no, no. It's on TikTok and Instagram. Yeah,
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Anyway, but that's my first
landing spot. Anyway, so yesterday I was pulling
the things off the hard drive to get it all,
you know, situated. And man, it took me 40, like
40 minutes to try to sync the audio to the video.
And it turns out I was trying to sync the pre
-audio to the post -video. Yeah, that wouldn't
ever really work well. So I'm an expert. I'm
definitely a professional now. Yes. You know
what? These little setbacks, they're worth a
lot in the future. But I've never zoomed on your
mouth trying to understand what you're saying.
It was like you said something like, yeah, what
the water? And I was like looking for an audio
that was like, what the water? And it just never
happened. And then I realized, yeah. Oh, yes.
Okay. Anyway, I just wanted to share that little
story about how difficult it is to be us on this
podcast. Well, it can be. And, you know, we're
working our way to making a better. We are. Every
time. We've got, I don't even know what we're
doing now. Hopefully it's recording. But to figure
it out. You know what? We need money. It's all
recording? Good. We need to get some money on
this goddamn God Blessing podcast, you know?
I agree. Yeah, for all of our loyal listeners.
Where's the money? Show us the money, man. Actually,
we only need like 10 cents. Oh. If we get 10
cents from like a million people, I think we'd
be all right. Didn't you guys say that we made
a dollar on something? We made three bucks on
Rumble. Yeah. Where's the money, Jeff? He's spending
it on a butt plug. Where's the money, Lebowski?
We have to provide all kinds of personal account
information and shit in order to get our three
dollars. Oh. Are we gaining interest on that
while it sits there? Are we up to like three?
Well, the problem is - Two cents? is RSS does
not upload to Rumble, so you have to tie your
YouTube account to Rumble, and I did that. Ooh.
But it stopped updating, so I don't know, like,
three years ago. Well, yeah, we got to jump on
it then. What is Rumble? Isn't that the... Oh,
you've never heard of Rumble? Gay dating? No.
No, that would be Grindr. I figured Paul would
know that one. No, no, no. Sean knows all about
Grindr. Never heard Grindr. No, Rumble's kind
of the alternate YouTube type of thing. Okay.
Right. It happened when somebody came up with
Rumble. Dan Bongino. Dan Bongino. He was the
first big person to go to Rumble. But then he
was like an anti -woke. Yeah. Well, yeah. Oh,
okay. It was Tucker Carlson. YouTube was kicking
people off. Yeah, the de -platform. Oh, that's
right. Yeah, yeah. And it was part of the Trump
campaign. Yeah, especially after Jan 6, they
kicked everybody off of YouTube and X and everywhere.
COVID. Yeah. All the de -platforming. Isn't that
crazy how they were able to do that and get away
with it? What was it? Can't do it now. Parlay.
Parlay, Amazon basically said, get off our platform.
And they took all their... shut down all their
servers. That's ridiculous. They did do that.
They should have got sued. Amazon got sued. 100
% was scary. It was a scary time of censorship.
And that just happened. It did. This is 2023,
2024. How could this happen in these times? But
it did. It did. Hardcore. Was it all COVID? Was
it part of COVID? It was part of COVID because
a lot of folks got kicked off. They used it as
a tool to get rid of these right wing activists.
To silence everybody. I tried to do that to Rogan.
Joe Rogan told them to take a flying hike. That
didn't work. They tried to do it to us. We came
back with a vengeance. We got, what, two strikes?
Yeah. Well, and that's just the whole thing.
The strikes that we've incurred on YouTube are
all oriented around misinformation regarding
the vaccine. You guys? Yes. Really? Oh, is that
right? Yeah. Multiple times. We were telling
people to drink a fishbowl cleaner. So what kind
of things can you not do? I mean, you can't talk
about... medical whatever they deem inappropriate
yeah right whatever they deem inappropriate yeah
there's not like papers please pull up here let's
review your podcast we also we also got flagged
by someone in romania for playing some olivia
newton john song a little bit too long we did
it was one second too long Romania. Are you serious?
On YouTube, you'll get flagged a lot for playing
music. We do some podcasts. Like a copyright
thing? It is a copyright infringement, but YouTube
doesn't give a fuck unless you get reported.
If somebody in Bangladesh or Romania, they're
kind of like, you played about 13 seconds. That's
about a second and a half longer than you should.
They say, hey, man, we reported it. But nothing
comes about of it. It's all water under the bridge.
But yet, they send you the hate mail, and then
you have to... Who's they? YouTube. Oh, YouTube.
YouTube. Then you have to... Because at that
point, you're locked. And then your account gets
frozen, and you're like, all right, well, now
I have to do something to unfreeze it. So you
have to act, and then they review it. Oh, my
God. You're kidding me. We'll let it go. We're
going to remove that particular video of yours.
This is another part I don't get. Because on
the YouTube, they can tell you exactly where
it happened. When did that infraction occur?
They go, you know what? You have 58 minutes and
three seconds in. You played about 13 seconds
of this. I was like, why don't you go in there
with your awesome algorithm, fucking delete it,
just that little section, and move on with life
and stop making everyone's life hard. Right.
Come on. So can anybody flag? I don't know. I
don't know. I don't know. Evidently somebody
can in Romania. Who has enough time to count
how many seconds? I think people build bots and
algorithms to scan all of this shit looking for
their music is what it is. Oh, okay. They have
to. Yeah, they're out there listening and they're
like, here's one, here's one, here's one. They
all get reported. Just to call out to your Romanian
accent though, it was outstanding. Oh, you like
that, huh? Yeah. I've been working on that. We're
pretty big. You sound a lot like New York. Bill
Cosby. Yeah, yeah. Like the blue guy in Star
Wars. Yeah. It's vandalizing. Shout out to all
the Romanians. It wasn't fair. Speaking of Romania,
let's talk about that Polish guitar player. Yeah,
who? Paul's favorite. Well, first off, who sent
it to me? I sent it to you. Okay. Because I saw
it and I thought it was... Well, how? It was
a Polish 26 -year -old guitar master, Marcin
Pasalczyk. Look at you. No, it's not. There's
no check in there. You're so authentic. Mark
is so authentic. I love that. I just want to
throw something in there. Okay, so hold on. What's
the background? Apparently this kid is an amfinato.
What do you call it? A finacciato? He made this
video in a tutorial form showing how he manages
to play so extraordinarily well in response.
And yes, it's played on one guitar. Go ahead
and play on that. All right, let's go. I'm playing
the bass with my left hand, and my right hand
is free. So what I'm going to do to complete
the rhythm section is use my right hand right
now. I mean, he's apparently making all this
noise. Yes. So I'm going to add a snare. Where's
the bass coming from? He's hitting it. He's banging
it. That can't be acoustic. That's an acoustic
guitar, yeah. Oh, my God. But you know, a real
drummer, a real drummer plays way more than this.
Like... Keep that volume up. Harmony. Where is
he getting the bass from? I'm looking for like
a palm to be hitting the guitar. I don't see
it. Harmony is what adds the character to a song.
It fills all the gaps. I'm not seeing it. On
the guitar, Chuck, what are they called? Those
things that hear the sound that they read? The
pickup. He's thumping the pickup. So he's barely
grazing it with his thumb when he goes past it.
It sounds incredible. It does. And if it's real,
which you guys are saying it's real. It's real.
Very impressive. And with one hand, he's making
all that noise, even though he's not strumming
with his right. So I'm not a guitar player, but
how do you make that much noise on an acoustic?
Well, you've got pickups in there, and then basically
what you're doing is you're doing hammer -ons
and pull -offs. So you're hammering your finger
down and getting the sound, and you can pick
it as you're strumming the string on the neck.
You hit the string with your finger, and then
you can pick it as you pick your finger off.
Wow. So you can get a... And it's got the music.
If you see the video, you guys can... I'll put
up the video, but you see the notes, which is
incredible what this guy's doing. You think he
gets laid? Playing like that. Well, with fingers
like that, he could probably lay himself easily.
Yeah, but does he get laid while he's playing?
I don't know. I guess sometimes you're supposed
to play normal, right? It's super, super cool.
It is cool. Very cool. So this guy's from Poland,
right? Poland's got a lot of good stuff going
on. I'm happy for the direction their whole country's
going in. Such as what else? You mean Poland?
Yeah. Oh, dude, they don't have to deal with
all the immigration shit they got going on everywhere
across the planet? That's not Poland. That's
somewhere else. That is Poland and Hungary. Hungary
and Poland. Hungary is who I'm thinking of. Poland's
the same way? Yep. Oh, 100%. They're hammering
down. Yeah, I knew Hungary was like that. They
built a wall. You know, they built a fence. I
pull it as a put -up of shit. It's like, you
can get the fuck out. Yeah, they've been through
that before. Well, I mean, hell, there were books
produced, though. Stupid jocks. Polack jokes.
I mean, how horrible was that? And they're like,
you know what, man? That's when we were growing
up. Who's laughing now? The jokes were the Polack
jokes. Who's the Polack now? They're just still
kind of funny. Well, they are, but, you know.
That's not the point. All right. So, I mean,
are we going to touch on Iran? Because that's
like the biggest foreign policy development in
the last 40 years. So, I mean, for those listeners
out there that haven't heard the news, I mean,
there's obviously... Yeah, you're living under
a rock. I need a little clarification because
I was gaming and I was speaking with Brian. Shout
out to Brian out in California. And I was like,
well, how did this thing start? He was like,
well, they bombed a base in Bahrain. Iran did.
And as a result, we reacted. And I was like,
okay. And now I'm hearing that that, I mean,
I don't know if that's the case. Is that the
case? I don't think that. I know they did bomb
Bahrain, but I don't think that's what started
it. I think that was a response. It was. As far
as I know. That was a response from Iran. I heard
that Trump called the strike and then he went
to Whataburger. Well, he did. He called it on
his way to Corpus Christi. Well, I mean, look,
from what I understood also is that Trump had,
that they were about to unveil something. And
it was like, you know what, dude? If you guys
are about to do this, guess what? We're going
to beat you, and they did. They were voting the
new Ayatollah, and there were 88 people in a
building where they were voting. 88 people that
were voting for the guy that's taking over, and
they fucking smashed that building. I mean, I
shouldn't be happy about that, but it kind of
cracks me up a little bit. Well, they were arrogant,
thinking that Israel, and I think mainly Israel,
because the Mossad, they're not going to strike
during the day. They're not going to strike on
the Sabbath. And that they don't have unbelievable
intelligence. And Ramadan. And during Ramadan.
So you're like, yeah, they're not going to do
this. I mean, first off, they... They had the
intelligence to strike that initial meeting where
Khomeini was there with his 40 senior leadership.
That happened, which was unthinkable in terms
of an intelligence success. And then they think
it's okay to have another meeting with the next
layer of people that are going to vote. And they
get destroyed. I mean, okay. Thank you for making
it easy. Marco Rubio said that this is the tip
of the iceberg. I mean, they have... lined up
some incredible responses that are about to happen
i don't know what that means and maybe they're
trying to make the regime in iran uh uncomfortable
which good well i think the u .s has a lot of
military technology that no one is aware of yep
and they're testing and it's being secret alien
stuff just like i think the way they knocked
out a lot of the uh the the rockets and the missiles
They've used a lot of cyber warfare and space
comm to knock all that communication down. Right.
So. It's impressive shit, man. Mark, weigh in.
You're looking at the. I agree. Oh, yes. He can't
say a word. I tell you what, I saw some footage
that Tel Aviv is getting hammered right now as
well, or they have. I saw some footage where.
There's a lot of missiles left, man. Where. They
have a lot. Yeah. We're probably going to run
out of dome. Yeah. Safety dome. There's some
footage where, I don't know, 15, 20. Just came
raining down in the middle of Tel Aviv just destroying
a bunch of shit. Now, some of that is AI. I fucking
hate AI. I know. But Twitter or X has said, if
you put war footage on there and it's AI and
you're not specifically stating that it's AI,
we will kick you off the platform. So that one
where it looks like he's filming it off the balcony,
this one right here, that's AI. Yeah, that's
all fake. That's got to be. It 100 % looks AI.
Yeah, look at that cloud. Is that really what
a cloud kind of looks like? It's like a whale
tail. I mean, this looks like a Star Wars scene.
Yeah, it's like Missile Command from Atari 2600.
Oh, Tel Aviv is getting hit. Okay. Yeah. So wrong.
And again, people will flag it. People will say,
you know, that's. So that is. Okay, good. But
if they leave that up there. I fell for it. Yeah.
But not that bombs aren't hitting places, but
not to that extent. Well, like I said, you know,
that's fucking AI is problematic. It is problematic.
I mean, it's just going to get worse, too. We've
said that many, many times now. Anyway, we don't
know what's real anymore. Right? That's the problem.
It's fog of war. Is that really my wife's hand
on me? I don't know. Is it AI? What is that all
about? Okay, that's real. That's AI. Is she naked?
Top naked. Are they allowed to show that? They
are now. What do you mean they? They show like
full on penetration on Twitter, dude. I mean,
on Twitter, they don't. Twitter has no parental
guidance. No, there's nothing, man. There's like
full butthole. Oh, I'm not. Did you say full
butthole? Oh, yeah. I don't prove. That's not
in my feed. Full butthole. Well, actually it
was because I had to say butthole. But I was
on Twitter reading the news and I went down to
the comments. It was like the second picture
was. This chick getting banged. And I was sitting
there next to my wife. And I was like, this just
came up on my Twitter feed. She was like, shocked.
And you're like, do you want to watch it together?
Is Sean sharing that account? I'm sure it's a
log. That's what I say. That's my cover. She
got bad. Fucking Sean sent it. She's like, why
is it on? I was like, I didn't ask for that.
I scrolled down one comment, and there it was.
Is this a promotional opportunity? Do we want
to say who this segment was brought to you by?
This segment was brought by Empire of... I don't
know. I mean, it's the empire out there in the
Iran, you know? The Iranian empire. Okay, so
was that AI, do we think? Whatever that... Fireworks.
The red city? So the question is what now? What
now? What's the plan now? I mean, you've got
a lot of people, 80 % of the people in Iran,
from what I understand. You've got 20 % in control
and 80%. A lot of these guys are Christian. Iran
wasn't what it used to be. They were like 70
% Christian. The theocracy is unpopular. Nobody
wants a regime in there. It's still Sharia law
within their community. There might be Christians
there. There might be a ton of Muslims there.
Predominantly Muslims, but they're not on board
with this hardline Sharia law theocracy. In my
naive mind, I thought if you live in an Islamic
state, you are on board with all of it. I always
thought everybody in Iran is a very radicalized
Muslim. No. That's not the case. Not the case
at all. Not even close. Hey, oppression is oppression.
Yeah. Tyranny is tyranny. Right. And people don't
dig tyranny. I mean, I love the videos. I love
the videos of them in the street just going crazy.
Even the Iranians here in the U .S. doing the
same thing. I mean, why can't we just have, and
I've brought this up before, why can't we have
a Quran 2 .0? You know? That just kind of eliminates
certain things. I mean, we did it with our Bible.
I mean, we kind of cherry picked some great stuff.
I'm not even familiar with that one. Well, Quran
1 .0 is instilling Sharia law by the action of
jihadists taking over the world. You know, there's
two parts of the world that the Muslim's Islamist
regime is. It's basically you have the world
with Islam and you have the world without Islam.
Yes. And so the goal of the... the Quran is to
convert everyone to either Islam or they can
be, you can either kill them or they can be your
slave. Or you pay taxes. That's where the Islamic
state is. I don't think the majority of the Muslims
are like that. I agree with that too. But that's
what the Quran says to do. Show Sean that. I
don't want to see it. Speaking of buttholes.
I don't want to see it. You can radicalize any
group. I'm Catholic. Think about what happened
during the Ireland? No, not the Renaissance,
but what am I saying? The Crusades. The Crusades,
yeah. But the Crusades were a result of the Muslims.
The Crusades were the Christians trying to take
out the Muslims. The Muslims, correct. But I
mean, think of everything that they were doing.
They were trying to instill their belief, their
religion. and saying our religion is better.
I get what you're saying. That was a little different
though. It was an action because the Muslims
were moving in and they were just... It was contested
holy land in Israel. Contested holy land. The
Islamic people said it was holy to them. The
Christians said it was holy to them. It was always
been contested. Pilgrims, Christian pilgrims,
were making the pilgrimage to the Holy Land,
and they were being slaughtered by Muslims. So
the king of whatever, the king of England, I
guess, or whoever, or the pope. It was the king
of England. The pope was involved, too. It was
definitely a papal. Yeah, the pope was involved
because he said, the pilgrims need to be protected.
And this is what a piece of shit that the king
of England was. So he hired these Christians.
The Templar. Right. Nice Templar. Nice Templar.
And to go out there and slaughter these guys,
take them off because all they're doing is killing
the Christians. And then when they came back
to England to get paid, the King of England was
like, yeah. Not so much. So anyways. Oh, look,
guys, look, they just made fun of me. Kill them
all. Kill them all. And so he put out an order
to kill the King's Templar. Isn't that just fucked
up? Yeah, but the challenge of all this is. They
want to pay him. The challenge of the Crusades
is that in the quest to protect all the pilgrimage,
the pilgrims, they committed horrendous atrocities.
Sure. Yeah, yeah. Right? They were probably killing
women and children in villages, killing as many
Muslims as they possibly could. Right. You know,
under the guise of— It was a purge. Yeah. I mean,
and that's not okay. Under the guise of a religious
belief, right? Yes, protecting the pilgrims.
Yeah. I mean, so both sides can say that they
were both horrible to each other. Right? I mean,
so, yeah. Yeah, but still, one was the reaction
of the other. One was the aggressor, so to speak.
Yeah, so, I mean, yeah, it wasn't good, but war's
not good. It doesn't matter what side of the
field you're on. War is bad. I mean, and what
is the other story which occurred in Iran? The
buzz is that we hit a base where there was a
school over it, and we killed 250 kids. Is that
real or fake? So, here's what I heard about that,
was that it was a... an Iranian missile that
went astray. That's what I heard. But, I mean,
how do you... It depends on who you ask. Exactly.
How do you validate either one of those things?
Unless there's footage of someone filming it.
There it goes. Right. Yes, exactly. And I will
tell you... He said, she said type of thing.
Hamas, Hezbollah, Iraq, back when it had Saddam
Hussein, and Iran have a history of zero credibility
when it comes to... That kind of stuff. Absolutely.
Yeah. So in my opinion, the first thing I think
is they're inflating their numbers. Yes. It wasn't
even either didn't get hit or it was by your
own missile. Right. Exactly. That's my default.
Yeah. Now you have to convince me otherwise because
of their history, because of their lack of credibility.
Again, show me a video. Right. And I'll and at
that point, what kind of is that? Oh, yeah. We'll
just go to go to AI and make one. Right. Well,
there's lots of. kind of videos up there. I know.
It's awful. It's ridiculous. You can't trust
shit these days, man. I know. So what are the
next... Okay, so they are basically... Because
they have so many missiles and so many mobile
launchers and so many hidden launchers and all
that kind of stuff, that's why it wasn't 100
% where they could stop every missile. But they
are showing that it's going gradually lower,
lower, lower, lower, lower, lower. Eventually,
at some point... They're going to run out. They're
going to run out or they're going to kill...
They're just going to blow up every launcher
they can. Right. And there will be none left
to launch. Okay. Right. So then at that point,
you know, then the tensions settle down. Because
remember, these missiles are hitting neighboring
Islamic countries. Yeah, they're shooting over
Qatar. Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE. Yep,
all of them. And they're like, what the fuck?
And they're talking about retaliation. No, they
are requesting that their warplanes contribute
to the bombing and the attacks. That's how pissed
off they are. Yeah. And by the way, they've been
pissed off at Iran forever. But you know what?
They can never say anything. They live right
next to him. Yes. And Iran is a massive menace.
Right. Everybody is going to cheer when this
theocracy is toppled and they are not an absolute
menace to the rest of the world, especially the
Middle East. Everyone is going to be happy. Yeah.
No, I agree. Now you have Afghanistan and Pakistan
getting into it as well. Yeah. Well, the Taliban
are fucking with Pakistan and they don't like
it. Yep. Well, they have all that military equipment
that Joe Biden left behind. You know what? They
do. But they don't have the keys. Not true. Not
true. See if you can look up something for me.
They were talking about how Afghanistan soldiers
were using, they were touting that they had laser
something. And I'm like, that's the fucking equipment
that we left behind. Yes, it is. They called
it laser something. They probably called it.
We've got some laser or something. Yes. I'm not
kidding. They don't even know what it is. Even
when I read it, I chuckled because I was like,
they don't even know that it's like night vision
something or other. They're LGB. Oh, yeah. So
one question that I've had for years is countries
like Iran. Do they have the technology to build
all this stuff themselves? Yeah, they build a
shit ton of drones for Russia right now. So one
of the side effects of all this, if Iran falls,
Russia's really going to struggle because their
drone supply is going to fail. China's not going
to get their oil. That's a big part of it. Yeah,
so there's a big part of that. Germany's not
going to get their oil. Well, who buys, does
Germany buy oil from Iran? I guess so, because
they're kind of heated. They buy from Russia.
Yeah, they buy from Russia. They buy from Russia.
So the drones come from Iran for... 80 % from
Russia. Yeah, from Russia. So, you know, that's
going to impact that. So check this. This is
a crazy story. So, yes, Russia, I mean, Iran
makes very effective drones, right? Very inexpensive,
massively produced. Like it's so fast to make
them. Right. And we've been criticized for every
time we're knocking something out of the sky
or it's a million dollar missile. Right. Right.
And we're going to run out of that shit. Right.
They reversed engineered Iranian drones. Who's
they? We did. We did. Yeah. The United States
reverse engineered the Iranian drones, linked
it to Starlink. And now it's a vicious, absolutely
vicious drone. American drones. American drones
that are copies. of the Iranian drones. So I
wonder why we would have to, why would we have
to reverse engineer Iranian drones? I was shocked
too. But apparently, they just found a fast,
they're not stupid people. They're not. No. They
have nuclear engineers and they're smart people.
And so they developed something that the United
States was like, you know what? Statistically,
they're one of the smartest people on the planet.
Right. And so they, well, they don't live in
my neighborhood. I said planet. Did they go to
Frisco schools? I don't think so. Anyway, that's
a crazy story. So how scary are the drones? I
mean, there is... Well, if it's going to kill
you, we could pretty scary. No, what I'm saying,
how they're extremely scary. I mean, you strap
a bomb to it and you can navigate it from a bunker.
I don't even know how... Far away you have to
be from a drone to control it, but how scary
is that? Well, Russia is, because they built
these machines to screw up the controls of the
drones. Jam them. So what's going on now, now
they attach fiber optic. So now you've got miles
and miles and miles of fiber optic cable. All
over the place. Between the drone and the controller.
Oh, wow, yeah. And that's what Russia's doing.
So now over Ukraine is all the... All this fiber
optic cable. Yeah, it looks like spider web.
Yeah, just laying there, just miles and miles
of it. And they're used to remotely control these
drones? Yep. They shoot off. They can't be jammed.
Yeah, so they can't be jammed. So it's hardwired.
Jeez. It's just this little thread of fiber optic.
Oh, my God. Crazy. That is crazy. When this war
does finally end at some point, it's going to
be a massive cleanup operation. And we'll probably
have to fund that. I mean, do you think it's
going to end? I really don't. I don't think it's
going to end. It has to at some point. No. The
only way to end it, in my opinion, truly, is
to come up with the Quran New Testament. What,
Ukraine and Russia? Is that what you're talking
about? Yeah. Okay. No, I'm not talking about
that. Yeah, yeah. No, we're talking about Ukraine
and Russia. It absolutely has to come to an end.
Oh, Ukraine and Russia. No, I was talking about...
Putin needs to... Oh, this one? The Iranian.
The only way to do it. Well, that one, they...
They've got to alter their religion because this
is an ideology, which is never going to happen.
That's my point. I disagree, though. I disagree
with that as well. I disagree. They do not have
to change their religion. They have to not allow
a theocracy, a hardline Sharia law theocracy
to run that country. The people need to have
freedom. But it's part of the Koran. But they
all don't follow that. No, they don't. I agree
with you on that. They don't. The majority don't.
But the Koran demands it. But if you don't follow
it, it doesn't matter. That's why I'm saying
come up with another 2 .0 that doesn't include
that, and let's start following that one. Not
everybody follows everything in the Bible either.
There are dozens and dozens of Islamic countries.
There are dozens and dozens of Islamic countries
that are peaceful. They're not run by a hardline
theocracy like the Taliban. the dead Khomeini
now right you know what I mean so I understand
what you're saying there is a there is a core
fundamental conflict between Christianity and
Islam that's why I'm so excited about you know
this opportunity where if there are aliens again
this is a repeat conversation if there are aliens
that are out there fucking land Let's get this
over with. And let's just say, hey, man, by the
way, we goofed. There's no such thing as this
and this and that. And it kind of dissolves that
whole program. And they tell us who the creator
of the universe is. They'll be like, hey, you
know what? It was fucking Joey over here. This
little alien comes out of the spaceship. He goes.
It's me. I created the universe, guys. See that
thing on the wall over there? That was me. I'm
just saying that I don't know what kind of solution.
To me, that's really the only solution is really
to have some sort of higher power that comes
and poses on us. Who knows, man? I mean, it's
been around for a long time. We have no idea.
I will say the only thing that could probably
ever unite humans, despite all of our unbelievable
differences, is if aliens do attack the Earth.
That's right. And we all have to. We don't have
a choice. Come together. It's either us or the
creepy aliens. I don't know. I mean, any time
that you try to get someone or make someone believe
what you believe, that's the problem. That's
the problem. I mean, I don't care what it is
that you're trying to. make them believe. Trying
to get them to believe something's a little bit
different from just an argument standpoint. That's
what social media is all about in our news. That's
why I dropped Facebook in 2015 because I was
tired of people trying to tell me that I need
to think like a Democrat and them not listening
to my counterpoint. I was just like, fuck it,
I'm out. I haven't been back. God, nothing makes
my... blood boil more than reading the comments
of social media. And then I have to stop. I have
to stop. You never read the comments. It's so
viral. I'm over it now, though. I like to troll
every now and then, but it's just like, I'll
just do a couple statements. Go on Reddit. You
will vomit when you read all that. Every single
fucking thread on there is just a liberal bastion
of shit. Well, that's because they kick off all
the conservatives. Oh, it is fucking ridiculous.
How bad it is. You can't say a conservative thing
on Reddit. Yeah, even because I read it for certain
things, like grilling meat or something like
that. Right. And then you're going to. And they're
like, you like meat? Yes. Yeah, right. Fucking
conservative. Fascist. You maggot piece of shit.
You're a fascist. Well, my meat trumps your chicken.
Yeah. Oh, did you say Trump? Oh, my God. Kick
him off. It is ridiculous how it is. It's irrational.
I've almost stopped going on there. I was like,
I don't even want to look at the two or three
that I actually look at. It makes your blood
boil. I know. It's like, fuck it, man. You guys
are losers. Man, I saw a video and it was from
a Smoothie King. And it was this girl that worked
at Smoothie King. Was she hot? No, not even close.
She was videoing herself and then the customers
were videoing it as well. So you kind of have
both angles. Two angles, yeah. And it was a...
A black couple that walked in, and he was wearing
a, I didn't see it, but it was either a MAGA
hat or a Trump t -shirt or something. Okay. And
the girl behind the counter said, I refuse service
to you. And she made it a big thing. She was
videoing herself. She was showing herself denying
them service. 100%. Well, that's a good idea.
And the customers were like, what are you doing
this for? Well, you obviously support Trump,
and we can refuse service to anybody. And it
turned into a, you know, a big back and forth.
And, you know, all the comments were completely
out of control. Oh, yeah. And I'm like, that
drives me crazy. The fastest way to get fired.
Drives me crazy. Do you have any audio of that?
So this is the fastest way to get fired from
your job. Yeah, it was. I don't know if that
was the girl. It looked like the girl, though.
I think that's it. Yeah. Oh, my God. And it was
all because, yeah, so this is the customer. Yeah,
we're at Smoothie King, and they're discriminating
and saying we cannot get service because Jake
has a Trump service on. Well, maybe they're not
African American. I thought they were black.
I think that's Smoothie King. Yeah, the server
is. You're Persian. You literally looked at us,
and I asked you if everything was okay. You said
we don't feel comfortable serving you because
of my husband's hoodie. That is discrimination.
That is illegal. So this is a privately owned
Smoothie King, and basically Smoothie King kind
of backed off and said, yeah, we don't do that.
Of course not. No business can do that. I mean,
it's not going to end well. Privately owned.
I would think if you are the... If it's your
own company, privately owned, you can do what
you want. But even if it's a franchise, you have
standards that you have to appease. Correct.
It's just never going to end well. Does that
person lose their job, or they just got told,
oh, you know. You have to help them, serve them.
Right. Unbelievable. Two employees involved are
no longer with the business. There we go. They're
going to go work somewhere else. It is silly,
because at the end of the day, who gives a shit?
Just give them a damn smoothie and be... No.
I'm so over it. Yeah. Smooth on. Again, every
time I see something... I'm very selective on
what... I hardly ever do it. Sometimes I just
like to poke the bear, and I don't ever respond
a second time. You know, I read it. I'm like,
and then it's kind of like turn it off and just
walk away from it. So you're like the dry as
fuck guy. Yeah, I guess. I got trolled. All right.
Give a little context. I got trolled. And it
worked. It did. Oh, he did. You got all bent
out of shape. We had an event over at Paul's
house and it involved Paul making a brisket.
And we're videotaping it. It got a lot of hits.
And someone responded, dry AF. So here's the
thing. Here's the thing. Hold on. Hold on. People
you know are just some random dude. Some random
dude. Anyway, so here's the thing. That was awesome.
Here's the thing. It's always been a thing. It's
like, okay, this brisket's going to be good.
Make your tweaks. And it's like a man thing.
Who's going to have a really good brisket? Who's
going to make one that's really juicy and yummy?
A bunch of guys all around, knives swirling,
getting cut. Jeff's like, I have no problem.
No one's ever said dry as fuck to me. Asshole.
Anyway, so I was happy with it. And then I was
cutting it and it was kind of juicy and looking
good. I was like, yeah, this is a good one. Dry
AF. And I was like, ugh. And I go, And then they
told me, don't respond. Don't let them win. He
responded. And I did. And I was like, all right,
show me yours. Show me yours. Let me see yours.
Let me see your meat. Yeah, let me see yours.
Let me see your meat. All I said is, let me see
yours. And then he sent a junk pic. And I was
like, ooh, I like it. Juicy. Look at that. So
girthy. Anyway, he didn't respond after that.
But he probably was like, I got him. He did.
Good stuff. He did get me, but not anymore. Did
you guys see any of the interview, or I shouldn't
say the interview, it was an interview with Hillary
and Bill with regard to this scene? Yeah. She
apparently walked out. She got up. She slammed
the table and says, I'm not going to do it. Because
I think Warren Boebert took a picture of her.
Yes. Yeah, but that's not why she got mad. She
didn't know about that. Well, that was one of
the times. She did that? She was getting grilled,
yeah. Yeah, Boebert did that. Oh, shit. She goes,
yeah, I did it. That's awesome. Yeah. But my
point is that they did the interview. They're
asking her questions. And she got all, Hillary
got all bent out of shape. I haven't seen, outside
of that, her slamming the table, I haven't seen
any of the footage. Oh, there's a bunch. There's
a bunch. It's all public. And they're asking
bizarre questions. They are trying to break her.
I mean, the ones that I saw were really all about
Bill. It was like, can you explain this? And
you said this back in 2000 and such and such.
Does that still apply today? So they're just
grilling her. You can tell it's starting to step
up. She loses it. Oh, you know, a decade ago,
she was like, I hate you. Yes. Bill keeps sabotaging
her. You don't know, but your man, you sleep
with him every night, and you weren't concerned
about that? Your man is on a private island sitting
in a hot tub with two other women with girls
giving him a back rub, and you're okay with that?
No. It was a marriage of convenience. It was
a marriage of convenience for both of them to...
Politically have. Yes. And they brought up, which
I've never heard. I'm sure this has happened
before, but they brought up Monica Lewinsky and
said something about, paraphrasing, but basically,
you know, you were okay with, you were aware
that there was infidelity with your husband and
Monica Lewinsky. Oh, no. Yes. I mean, that may
not be the exact. It had nothing to do with Epstein.
It was basically building layers of. You were
okay with what happened. What about Wanda Broderick?
I don't know. And she got a check. She was like,
hey guys, I got paid. Remember that? She got
a check. It was so dumb. And they got away with
it. It was like the Westinghouse check. She was
all showing it, showboating it. Ridiculous. Are
there any new updates on the percentages of the...
Did Yasmin... Lose? Oh, yeah. She is getting
pretty well trounced in the early vote. So, yeah.
Who is? Crockett? Yasmeen. Yes. So, what? Jazzy
Jazz. Down by 10%. 10 % is pretty big. So, what
does she do when she loses? Does she have a job
waiting for her? She's still in the Congress.
She's still in Congress. She's still in Congress.
Until the election, I guess, in January next
year when they get sworn in. Crazy. What percent
of the vote is in? Did it say anywhere? It's
really just early right now. At seven, they released
early votes. They haven't really had too many
precincts report fully in. So, mostly Republicans
will early vote based on the trends. Oh, it's
only 11 % of the precincts. Democrats will usually
start pounding in later. Yeah. I'm starting to
see Tallarico signs around, so. So, he is apparently
the better for them. Well, he's a Christian.
Yeah, the better candidate. He's a religious
fellow who's happened to be a progressive. Yeah.
Can you hear it? Hey, it's not my fault. I'm
amazed you're still sitting in it. That thing
hasn't collapsed to the ground. Yeah, that's
an old one. Sticky. Oh, yeah, that's the chair
that... Never mind. We don't talk about that.
It was quite the taco dinner that night, too,
by the way. All right. How about... We're talking
about the election right now. I know that. But
how about a quick shout out to Empire Liquor?
Yeah. Well, Empire Liquor. Well, first of all,
Nesh, shout out to you. Shout out to all the
guys. Matt, we had such a great... They showed
up at a few of these tastings out there where
we go over to Scott Cash's house. Hell, we went
over to Bill's house one time and they show up
and they bring a... They bring a... A collection
of drinks. Are you okay, Jeff? Are you hyperventilating
over there? He decided to blow into his glove.
It's Empire Liquor in McKinney, Texas. It's a
well -regarded liquor store known for its diverse
selection of spirits, craft beers, and wines,
including unique store picks and limited editions.
The customers, including us, praise the store
for its friendly and knowledgeable staff. Shout
out to... This one's located where? In McKinney.
In McKinney. That's on El Dorado. It's at 4200
El Dorado Parkway in McKinney. Shout out to them.
God bless them. Because you know what? They always
have good stuff. It went up. But Scott goes there
a lot. And they treat him right. And he was kind
of like, man, you know, he gets all of the allocated
stuff there. And they just treat him right. Anyway,
so he made a point to talk about Empire Liquor.
Are you looking for the cups? Oh, no, I got them
here. Yeah, I moved them over there, Chucky.
I think we need to add the Empire to our routine
instead of maybe skipping the other one, maybe
going up there. I think we should. Yeah, we can
head up to the tailgaters. That was kind of an
interesting ensemble there that was working last
time. It was kind of a Jamaican style. Did you
know there's a tailgaters down there by the Toyota
Park? The soccer field. Oh, like downtown. No,
that's Green Gator. No, that's Tailgaters. It's
on the Toll Frontage Road. It's almost by Rudy's.
Well, I know. Oh, down by Blue Goose. Yes. I
got you. There's a Tailgaters over there, huh?
Yep, sure is. I went by it yesterday. There it
is. Tailgaters Snooker. Interesting. They're
just gobbling up all those little bars, aren't
they? It might be the same owner. You know, it
used to be Snooker. It used to be Snooker. It
was a pool hall, but the tailgater kind of. I
guess they bought it. You know, those folks.
They got some nice beer on tap, it looked like.
Yes. Right there. You know, we've had fun over
at tailgaters, and the food was not horrible.
I mean, we went to. Well, it's bar food. Yeah.
Where's that at? I feel like I've seen that.
That's on the toll road. Tailgaters is like everywhere.
By the soccer field. There's one by your house
close to my Home Depot. Yeah, Home Depot. That's
not there anymore. Yeah, that's gone. They changed
that one? It's just a little northwest. That's
not there. We also got to fit in the Frisco bar
because we went out to the Frisco bar and talked
about John Rodriguez and the band. What was it
called? Flight Line? Fine Line? Fine Line. Fine
Line, yeah. Fine Line. We had a great time out
there at the Frisco bar. Tony's awesome out there.
Tony's the owner for slash general manager of
the place. Very cool, dude. Yo, Tony. Yeah, the
place is awesome. I mean, every time we go out
there, it's always a good time. The place has
always got great energy. And, you know, of course.
Honestly, they have great service, too. They
really do. They must have swung by asking, you
know how many times we've been to bars going,
where is our server? Like, what's going on here?
I was shocked about that. They are swinging by.
Like, I had to tell them no like a half a billion
times, and it was never irritating. No, because
they're grounded. You good? You good? The staff
there, they're very grounded. They're very knowledgeable,
and they, whatever. I mean, I don't want to toot
their horn too much, but God bless it. It was
a good experience. Did you eat food there this
time? Chuck and I did. We both ordered, yeah,
we ordered a patty melt, and we ordered fried
pickles and onion rings. Was it good? Yeah. Yeah,
I mean, I do want to, you know, the fried pickles
were really good until they weren't. So there's
a sweet spot. There's a sweet spot for certain
fried foods, and you got to eat them when they're
supernova style or if you miss that window. After
the 280th fried pickle, that's when you went,
ooh. Not good, maybe too much. They were room
temperature by then, and by then you're like,
ooh. A little soggy. That coagulation of grease
kind of coags. I'm glad that John's band decided
to play there because it's a cool gig to hang
out at. It was fun. I wonder where they're going
to go next. I don't think they have a next date
yet. I think in Jerry World. Oh, wow. They're
doing very well. Windstar. Ladies and gentlemen,
gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen,
gentlemen. I don't know. I mean, they've got
a pretty big band. I mean, there's a lot of people
there. There's a lot of moving parts. So, I mean,
they were actually kind of jam -packed there
at the Frisco Bar on that stage. But it did sound
good. It sounded good. And I just love their
song selection. It's atypical shit. You know,
I'm looking forward to is our concert coming
up. It's a long way away. In October, yeah. I'm
really looking forward to that. We're going to
go see Snarky Puppy. That's right. If you guys
don't know what that is, look it up, Snarky Puppy.
And you might be able to get tickets right now.
But if you like jazz, new age jazz. I don't even
know if I classify it as, I guess it's a type
of jazz. I don't know. I don't really know how
they classify it. It's not normal music. No,
it's not. Play a short little snippet for our
audience. While he's looking that up, these guys...
They're regional, right? So they started out
in Denton, Texas. UNT, yeah. So they were at
UNT, and I think part of them were at another
band called Soul Kitchen, S -O -L Kitchen. And
they kind of jumped ship and jumped over and
created the Snarky Puppy. But they're like revolving
university musicians, right? Yes. Well, revolving?
Yeah, like Come Go and... Do they play together?
Yeah, there's some. But, I mean, I can't answer
that. I'm sure they have guys that are session
players that will come in and pick up and play.
But these guys have been in with the group. The
core group have been there for a while. Man,
anytime you have brass in a band, I'm in. I love
it. I mean, these guys have two drum sets, percussions.
There's like 15 people up on stage playing at
a time, and they kind of rotate. There's a core,
like you said, a core set. Yes. But they have
other players come in as well. When you go to
these concerts, they may not have it where we're
going to be, but they all have headphones out
there. So these are studio -produced concerts.
So that's their concert? They're going to be
like that? I don't know. No, I've seen their
concerts on YouTube. That's like an orchestra.
This is when they recorded the album. This is
how they recorded the album. Oh, is that what
it was? They had a live concert recording it?
Yeah, this is when they recorded the album. I
see. Nice. I dig that. That's cool. But they
go all over the place. I mean, they venture from
the piano to the organ, guitars, bass. They hit
all the instruments, and they have some sort
of spotlighted singer that's not normally with
the group sometimes, and it could be some black
lady that can belt it out like a motherfucker.
They can have some mandolin -playing individual.
It's just all over the place, and it's so unique,
and they're so perfect. The word is perfect.
The timing is impeccable with these guys. So
where are y 'all seeing them at? The Granada
Theater in Dallas. Oh, Granada, yeah. That's
good. Yeah, Granada Theater. And I encourage
you, if you guys want to join us, we'll be in
general admission. It's like $60, $70 a ticket.
I don't do that. Oh. I don't do jazz. Well, we're
going to be sneaking in a few samples of stuff.
So speaking of local bands that have a horn section,
back in our day, we used to go see, particular
band that had horns a lot. As a matter of fact,
they played at your wedding. Oh, yes. Come on.
Emerald City. Emerald City. Yes, that's right.
Dude, I'm telling you, I love them and just that
overall sound. Emerald City is such an interesting
band. First of all, they're fantastic. They're
an excellent band, but they have built, they
have created an industry where they're... What
is the word? They could bring in different players,
and they've got a bunch of different bands. It's
almost like a franchise. All players, same thing.
I think so, yeah. They've got these little cookie
-cutter different session players that show up,
and these singers, and they're just like, they
have an excellent product. Yeah, look at their
website. And I always wonder, how do they make
their money? I mean, they obviously do, I haven't
kept up with them, but do they do big events?
I mean, do they do like... They do corporate
and shit like that. A lot of corporate events,
but do they do like... You know, Lava Cantina
kind of thing. Yes, they do. 5 ,000 corporate
events, 4 ,000 weddings. Yeah, they do. So you're
right. They have to have more than just one group.
Oh, tons. And those other bands, they don't get
paid quite as much, but what they are, they're
managed, they're trained. With all the latest
technology, they have play sets. So you go to
some of these venues and you're like, well, I
mean, the... The band was good, but I didn't
really like their selections of songs. These
guys have a set playlist because they know what
works. They know what's successful, and they
create the same play set everywhere. All right,
well, you know what? This new song's coming out.
We want you guys to learn it, and you need to
learn it by next week because you're playing
it, bitch. And you're going to play it on every
set, and they're going to keep it in that mix
until it becomes not popular anymore. So I'll
tell you, when Desiree and I got married, we
had them at our wedding, and we wanted to dance
to a certain song. It was Boogie Shoes. Yes.
And they didn't have it in their playlist, and
we told them, and they learned it, and they played
it, and it was phenomenal. Because there's a
ton of horns in that song. It was really, really
cool. They're awesome. And it was funny because
normally when people do a wedding song, it's
like a big, slow, dramatic. Oh, yeah, yeah. And
then you guys played that and made everybody
get it. Oh, yeah. No, it was great. As a matter
of fact, Tara. coordinated the dance moves to
that song for us. No way. That's pretty cool,
yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah. How cool is that?
It was fun. It was a lot of fun. Yeah, it was
a fun wedding. Yeah, it was cool. Didn't work
out. I was sober. It did work out. Yeah. It lasted.
Hey, you know what? It did work out. I think
she tried. Dude, at least it's not some of these
weddings. I've been to two family weddings now
that lasted, one lasted three months. Oh, good
God. One lasted six months. And they are... Full
-on weddings. One of them was in Colorado where
they had these guys that were fire -breathing.
They went all out with this weird shit. Like
a New Zealand kind of thing? Like a haka. Anyway,
it was crazy. We were like, damn, these people
went all out. Three months later. Oh my gosh.
Divorce. So how much did they dump on that? No
kidding. Imagine the parents. That's a horrible
ROI. You owe me money. Yeah. You're paying me
back. And then another one was almost as bad.
I think it was less than a year, probably maybe
eight months. But she was psycho, and she had
a shopping problem. Oh, no. It's like being a
hoarder. He didn't know this beforehand, I assume.
And she was charging up all the credit cards,
ordering all the shit on Amazon. She was shopping
like... Completely out of control. Like all the
stuff was unopened. Oh, dear. Like boxes and
boxes that you don't even know what she ordered.
Did she hide them? It just went bad quick. And
he tried to get control of it. And he said, that's
it. We're done. So eight months into the wedding.
So a three month wedding. Do you return the gifts?
Oh, no, no. I mean, look, you run to Mexico.
I mean, it's like no return. But it's painful
for all parties. Of course. It's painful for
all parties. These are life lessons. It's unfortunate,
but that's kind of a trend. You know, that's
happening. You know, these kids fall in love
and, you know, it's too much responsibility for
them. Who knows? I don't know. Whatever became
of it. I mean, do they say why did they fall
out of love? I mean, they could have fallen out
of love in three months. So it's based on...
Something big happened. The money thing, cheating,
something like that. You know, and yeah, then
you hear these stories. I've had multiple stories
now that at the wedding... Like at the wedding,
either at the altar or at the wedding at the
reception. With begging the maid of honor? Oh,
yes. They call out. One of them was this guy
calling out his father for sleeping with his
bride. Oh, wow. What? This was last week. I saw
it. And he called it out. Was this at your church?
No. Oh, nice. Low blow. This was at the reception,
I guess. So he went through the wedding? That's
what I'm saying. So hold on. That's almost like
the perfect revenge because I'm sure dad paid
for it all. Your own father. Oh, his own father.
His father. Oh, yeah. Why would it be her father?
That'd be even worse. That would be insane. Holy
crap. Can you imagine? Yeah, but that was a great
point, Jeff. I mean, why would you wait? I mean,
I guess the money spent when you found out. Maybe
you want an audience. And you wanted to humiliate
them. Well, then you do it at the front on the
pulpit. Just turn around and do it there. Before
you actually get married. What a fucked up situation.
I wouldn't want to marry the lady unless you
go straight and go, I want this annulled. Hold
on. Do we have a picture of her? Yeah. Look up
the one. If you can find it. Is she hot? I don't
know. Well, if she's hot, then it's all better
off. No, no, no. Look, this is horrible. This
is horrible for everybody. It's horrible for
the father's wife. Yes. You know, it's horrible
for everyone. What a horrible experience to go
up. Because look, this is your family. All the
people. You immediately become emancipated from
everybody. I mean, that's a wreck. What a fucking
train wreck. Totally. All right, let's see here.
You're actually going to look that up. So I don't
know how much time we have, but I'd love for
you guys to try this whiskey so I can try it.
We have plenty of time to try this whiskey. How
much time do we have left? About 14 minutes.
All right, let's try it. That's what we need
to talk about. So let me explain a little bit
about this whiskey. So I've got a really good
friend. He's a neighbor. This is Gooey again,
my next -door neighbor. He's from Sweden. Went
over to his house. Gooey? Gooey. G -U -E -Y.
Swedish. Yeah, Swedish guy. I've met him once.
He's a really cool guy. He's a big, big whiskey
fan. I went over to his house the other day.
As a matter of fact, I told him I'm coming on
this podcast. I actually did this sample for
him just to test it out. He's like, this is shit.
He said, bring this bottle to the guys. I want
them to try it out. He let me borrow this bottle,
and it's called Floki. And so his son, Gouy's
son, went to Iceland, I think, not for his wedding,
but anyway, he went to Iceland. He brought this
bottle back. So this is an Icelandic whiskey.
Okay. So go ahead and try it while we're discussing.
Well, Floki Icelandic Whiskey is produced in
Einverk Distillery. It's characterized as a young...
Well, hold on, hold on. Don't read. Don't read.
I wasn't going to want the tasting notes. No,
no, no, no. I want to tell you about it first,
and then I want you... You know what's weird
enough is... I don't know if it's real or not,
but I taste fish. Okay. I should have told you
it was from Iceland. See, that's the whole mental
thing. I taste a lot of wheat, and... Grass.
Grass is a better word. Maybe grass is what I'm
picking. I feel like tectonic plate and a lot
of volcanic activity. Volcanic ash. Yeah. So
this whiskey is very similar to a scotch. So
we were talking about scotch earlier and how
scotch is made. I do taste that fish. Scotch
has similar regulations like bourbon does, right?
It has to be... uh, produced in Scotland. It
has to be, I think age three years, you know,
it's, it's got a certain set of standards. And
if it doesn't meet those standards, it's not
Scotch. So, uh, one of the things that they do
with Scotch is it's a, um, it's a, oh my gosh,
the grain. What am I thinking? It's a barley,
barley, malted barley. Yep. And so they, they
bring the barley in and to malt it. I'm sure
you guys are aware, but when you, when you malt
the grain, you actually, to introduce hydration.
So you basically soak the grains in water. And
when you do that, the grains want to start growing.
They want to start germinating. Sprouts, right.
Yes. But you obviously don't want it to start
growing. You want to stop that germination process.
So the germination process will actually produce
a little bit more sugar in each grain. And that's
what you want. You want to get as much sugar
out of each grain as possible. So in order to
stop that germination process, you have to introduce
heat. And so I've never been there, but I've
seen videos of them having these huge warehouses
of malted barley on the floor. And they're raking
it out, and they have basically these vents underneath
the floor that they have some sort of a heat
coming in and stopping it. And so one of the
things that they'll do is they will make that
heat with peat. And peat is basically organic
matter. That has been decomposing in these great
big fields over eons. Or from fish. Could be
from fish. Or dung, apparently. Wow. Did I blow
the surprise? So, anyway. Oh, no. Okay. So, anyway.
I'm feeling nauseous. I'm sorry. So, Pete is
obviously something that they dig out of the
ground, they dry it out, and it... produces the
smokiness or the peatiness that you get in a
lot of scotches. Yes. In Iceland, they don't
have peat, but they have a lot of sheep. Oh.
So this is... That's great. Oh, I get it. So
this is warmed up by... They're using sheep poop,
and that's where the grass is coming from. Not
the grass, just sheep shit. Well, they eat a
lot of grass. But it turns into shit. Yes. Smoke
comes from it. You ever seen cow shit that's
very earthy and grassy? It's the same thing.
90 % grass. Hold on. I'm not going to eat that
and go, it tastes like grass. I thought everyone
did. Hold on. So you're saying sheep droppings,
they are heating the sheep droppings? Yeah, they
catch them on fire or whatever. Does sheep do
solid poops or is it like scat? Instead of using
peat, they use sheep shit. And they burn it.
And they burn it, and it produces the heat to
stop the germination process. Well, I still go
back to I have essence. It's even finer than
that. You know the flaky fish food? Mm -hmm.
How that smells? Fish sticks? Lutefisk? No, not
that. That flaky fish food that you put when
you have an aquarium. Oh, yeah. I pick up an
essence of that in this. Whatever that scent
is. It reminds me of what I taste in here. I
think this is excellent. It actually is really
good, isn't it? I'm not saying I don't like it.
This one's sherry cask finish, though, right?
Mm -hmm. It's excellent, actually. It is good.
But, you know, he was telling me the whole it's
dried with sheep shit. Yeah. But I'm a huge fan
of sheep shit. Exactly. Right. So this is why,
yeah, this is why it's a winner for me. Well,
he has three in the backyard. That's right. And
we collect it and we dry it. Yeah. Right. And
we, yeah, I mean, we use it for everything. Brickettes
and the charcoal. Yeah. Flavoring. Smoker. A
lot of seasoned fries with it. That's why your
brisket was dry as fuck. Low blow. Too soon.
Too soon. It was a sheep shit. I think it's excellent.
I'm kind of curious. It is good. Is it sheep
scat? Yes. So they sprinkle scat out there and
then they heat it. Yes. Well, they don't heat
it, but they leave it on top to absorb the heat.
They would have to dry it. I mean, have you ever
burnt cow patties? I mean, once they dry out,
they're like... I have not. Haven't you burnt
your own shit? Not on purpose. I mean, we all
do that. I think we burnt Mark's shit in a plastic
Home Depot bucket. Yes, we did. No, it was an
igloo cooler. Was it an igloo cooler? Nailed
it. It was your scat in that cooler? Oh, my God.
We didn't have plumbing back then. I fought a
lot of health issues after that. We had a lot
of plumbing, man. Now I know why. See, they're
burning the sheep shit. Oh, yeah. Look at that.
Bro, there's the grass you're talking about.
Isn't that appetizing? All right, well, look,
let's talk about this. I'm not going to look
at my notes or anything, but I'm just like, so
we're just shooting from the hip here. Well,
I gave you a really odd, tasty note that I'm
picking up. Fish. Yeah, because it does. I mean,
you take the classic fish food, and you open
the cap, and it's the flakes, and you smell it,
and yeah, it's got that. That thing going on.
This, it does, I could see how people could fall
in love with it, but there's an initial shock
of when you're tasting it because it has a very
earthy, grassy taste to it. And when you figure
out what they're doing with it, you're like,
oh my God, I probably would not drink it. But
I would because it does have a sweet honey base
to it. It is sweet. And if you can get past that,
we can. We can. We could see the diamond in the
rough with any kind of whiskey that we drink.
I think we could dig in there and be like, you
know what? It's really not for me, but I could
see how a lot of people would like it. I would
like it. I would like to order more of this.
In fact, I've seen they have like five or six
different varieties of this. I don't know if
you can get it here. I'd like to sample it. I
would. Well, we can get Icelandic wine here.
Why can't we get Icelandic whiskey? They don't
have beer. Beer as well? Yes. Iced hot. What?
What are those? Pull them up. Is it a single
malt? Malt, sheep, dung, smoked. They actually
advertise it that way, too. Right. Dung. Yes,
sheep, dung, smoked. Floki Young malt. Oh, my
God. They literally advertise it that way. Are
all of them sheep dung smoked? Or is it just
one of them? That one actually says it on the
box. That's what I mean. Sheep dung. So is this
one not? We may not have that. I didn't. No,
this one definitely. You can taste the grass
because that's where the grass smell is coming
from. The taste is coming from. But there's no
smoke. No, no. I don't get any smoke either.
So where's the grassy taste coming from? It could
be from the grains they're using. It has to be
from the grains. I'd be interested to find out
what that mash pill is. You know what? Maybe
that is. Maybe they only do have one that's smoked
with sheep dung. Well, yeah, what does the bottle
say? It doesn't say anything about sheep or dung.
You know what this tastes like? It tastes like
we have a 100 % wheat. What is the other 100
% wheat we have out there, Jeff? Chuck, it's
the brown label. Show us the brown label. There's
two of them that could be the brown label. Oregon
Spirit. Yeah, that one doesn't say anything.
I think that's the one we're trying. It kind
of reminds me of Oregon Spirit with Oregon Spirit.
That doesn't say anything about cheap dung. Like
grass clippings. Yeah. Let me see the bottle.
I don't think this one was smoked. Yeah, I would
think not either because I don't taste any smoke
anyway. You're 100 % sure this is the sherry
cast. Mark, we have another bottle out there.
It's 100 % wheat. It's Oregon Spirits, and it
tastes a little similar to this. And it's a,
what's the proof on it? Do we ever say what the
proof is? Oh, there it is. 47 % from 94. Yeah,
maybe I just lied to you all. Such a math leap.
Now I want to try the sheep dung smoke. Yeah,
so we don't have that one. Yeah, we need to try
that one. This is really good. I'm enjoying it.
It is good. I do like it. It's very unique. It's
got a hint of sweet. It's got that funk to it,
like I said, that I'm pulling out a lot. Yeah,
and you're not a huge fan of that funk sometimes,
but I think this is a good introductory level
one. This one's quite a bit different than some
of the other funks. I'm enjoying it. Yeah, I
could definitely imagine this is not a total
wine. I can't imagine it would be. Anyway. All
right, let's rate it. Interesting. Rate it. Gosh.
This is unique. It's going to be a different
thing. So it's almost difficult to even rate.
But we'll rate it for what it is. For what it
is, unique as hell. It's a single. Single malt.
Single malt. Well, are you rating it based off
of what you know about it or just based off of
what you taste? Other single malts. Yeah, no,
you can't. Comparable single malt. You can't.
So I'm rating it on how much I enjoyed it in
the experience. I think we rate this as a single
malt because it's a single malt whiskey. Oh,
you have to. It doesn't have sheep dung or anything
like that. It's a single malt whiskey. Yeah,
but it's way different from a, you know. Because
it's made in Iceland. It's the only one you can
compare it to. It's made in Iceland. It's not
a scotch. I'm going to be extremely fair, and
I'm going to rate it a flat seven. I was at six
and a half. I was right at seven, too. I'm going
seven three. Wow. Look at you. I really enjoy
it. Big .3 upper. Yeah. I just thought of sheep
dung in my mouth, even though it's not this,
I know. I would definitely buy this to add to
the collection. For the uniqueness and just the
availability of it, I think. So it's 50 centiliters.
I don't know what that is comparable to our milliliters.
We can't compare. No. Holy shit. Does Empire
Liquor have it? No, they do not. Is that another
plug? I'll dive into this and try to figure this
out because I want the whole collection, honestly.
You just want the people. I wonder how much it
costs. Does it say how much it costs? It's under
$100 up there. I don't know if that's an Icelandic
dollar or U .S. dollar. That's pesos. Floki,
single malt. You know what's interesting? Approximately
$67. You know what's interesting? It is not found
in Only Drams. Bottle not found. In what? In
Only Drams. Only Drams? Have you not heard of
this app? No. That's where you put all your bottles
in the collection. Okay. And it tells you if
it's rare, uncommon. All right. This is not even
found. That's amazing. Interesting. Yeah. Floki
it is. Floki for the win. Floki for the win.
Yeah. It is a win. It is a win for sure. So barrel
number one. So we have a second one. But this
is barrel number one. Bottle 318. These guys
are starters. So they're a new company, it sounds
like. Barrel number one. The date is... Oh, my
God. 2021. 2019. And the distiller is Eole. E
-O -L -E. So this may be the very first barrel
that they ever bottled? It could be. This could
be super rare. This could be their inaugural...
Yes. Literally the first bottle. How interesting.
Thank you for sharing this. Does it say what
bottle? It's the Sherry Cask finish. It's 318.
Bottle 318. So it is the 318th first bottle these
people ever barreled of this line. Correct. Very
cool. And we were here to smell it and taste
it. When did his son go over there? When? Let's
take a road trip. Yep. Let's do it. DFW. We're
going to Iceland, guys. Let's do it. And guess
what? They're picking up the tab. They want us
to come visit. We can't even get over to see
the football team. We have t -shirts for. Do
you think, is that, what's the name of the, is
it Floki is the name of the distillery? No. Yes.
I think it is. I'm Verk. I'm Verk Distillery.
Okay, we've got to reach out to them and ask
them if they would like to have us come over
and do a remote podcast from Iceland. I agree.
I want to fish for cod. I'm Verk Distillery.
Okay. You know what? You can do that. So it says
it's characterized by a young profile due to
its 100 % Icelandic barley and extreme Icelandic
climate. That's basically it. So seriously, though,
I wonder if you guys did something like this,
like what we just talked about, and send them
a clip of it and just say, I don't know. Let's
do it. I want you. I mean, do you ask them for
something? They would love that in an American
podcast. Yes, 100%. Talked about their whiskey.
Yeah. Mark, did you have a good time tonight?
Loved it. Guys, this was so much fun. I had such
a great time. Is this one of those things that
you're like, hey, I want to come back? Yeah.
Tomorrow? Are you all doing this tomorrow? Tuesday.
Oh, okay. I'll probably go out to Scott Cash's
house Friday. You got something going on Friday?
I don't know. I'll have to see. All right. Well,
look up the schedule. We'll kind of figure it
out. Scott has some cool stuff. I'm sure you're
going to enjoy it, but we have to really, really
take it easy because God bless it. It gets rough.
Yeah. When you do 30 samples, you're just like,
it's dumb. Oh, he rips out these super small
little tiny glasses. So little. We have like
100 of them. Yeah, it goes bad. And then Sean
pulls this out. I'm going to fill it. That has
never happened. And then he's going to blow a
.36. That's impossible. That's impossible. That
happened, actually. That's impossible. I am literally
dead. Second half of the Dudes Like Us podcast
ending tonight. A shout out to Mark. Thank you
for coming out tonight. Thank you guys for having
us. Good stuff. Great time. Check us out on all
the social media stuff. Facebook, Instagram,
YouTube. Fucking TikTok. And shout out to who
made those for us again? That would be Alex Grinborg,
the daughter of Gooey Grinborg. Outstanding.
And Andreas Grinborg is the one that brought
us the Floki from Iceland. So the whole Grinborg
family. This is very authentic. She used to be
like enthralled in swords and stuff. She still
is, I think. She played Dungeons and Dragons.
I believe so. Nice. How old is she? 30 -something.
Oh, my God. Time's a lot. I'm one of the little
girls. Yeah. Wow. Thank you, Chuck, for taking
care of us tonight. Dudes Like Us. I'm Sean.
I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff. And I'm Mark. Thank you
very much.