Well, you know, being a public servant, I guess there's a lot of like, I've been in
the HOA and that's free, of course, right on the board.
It takes your time up and I can only imagine being on a city, how much more time it would
take.
Yeah, you got to get paid.
So we're jumping right into it.
But the topic is, hey, it's dudes, I guess I'm Sean.
I'm Paul.
I'm Jeff.
And we're jumping right into what we think the city council people.
Well, do we want to get to our, I think our new favorite bourbon?
Yeah, Brothers Bond.
Paul's new favorite.
Straight bourbon whiskey.
It's actually not.
All right, so I'll give you the background story here in a little bit.
But this is Brothers Bond, which is a straight bourbon whiskey hand selected.
And yes.
Oh, you would give me.
Oh, OK.
Brothers Bond.
And apparently these are the guys, the actors who vampire diaries.
That's what you said.
Yeah.
All right.
So I don't know who those people are, but I think the younger generation would be like,
oh my God, yeah, that's like Tom and Frank.
It's probably like Blaine and like Nina Dobrev and the summer holiday Paul King.
Oh, yeah.
I said Ethan, but I was.
Oh, you were so close.
Oh, you're wrong.
Anyway, so he's wrong.
Oh, yeah, because he was close, though.
We have no idea.
Close counts.
But that that fuck with his percentage.
We need to keep track of this.
OK, so this is aged four years.
I don't believe it.
It's sixty five percent corn, twenty two percent rye, undisclosed amounts of wheat and barley.
It's the barrels themselves on the staves.
It's of number four char and on the heads.
It's a number two chart, which is interesting because we I don't think of all the bourbons
we've ever read the description of.
We've never known the char level of the barrels.
I do find that I do find that commendable that they disclose that information.
When I tasted it downstairs, it was I didn't like it.
I still don't, but I mean, I'm not a fan.
It tastes better right now.
I kind of like it's a lot of spice, but it ends kind of bitter.
It's a strong spice open, but it's very bitter, almost like something's rotting kind of taste.
Wow.
Rotting.
Yeah, that's a little harsh.
Well, that's kind of the end of it.
That's the palate afterwards.
Well, to tell you how much I enjoyed it, I had to add water to it.
Yeah, I would I would not put this on the recommend list.
I added a Capri Sun.
This is a mixer list.
I added the Coke.
Yeah.
Well, and and you know what?
So I did.
Well, I'll give you the background of why I bought it.
But after I bought it, I was I went and I got stuck with it.
I did research it and there was some guy that gave it a three and a half stars.
So I was like, OK, well, then obviously it's not that bad.
It's OK.
I mean, it's not bad.
Maybe he was referring to the Brothers Bond series.
Maybe.
It's definitely not good, but it's not bad.
It's just kind of very middle of the road to low end of the road.
Just meh.
Yeah, it's totally meh.
The color of it's very like I said downstairs, it's like a heavy night of drinking and you
didn't have enough to drink.
Your urine is that dark.
Yeah, I'm not sure my urine's ever been this dark, but it is definitely for a bourbon,
not very light.
Yeah.
All right.
So here's how I got stuck with it.
I was in I was in Montrose and the gang of hunters.
I mean, Montrose.
Yeah, well, I'm an elk hunter.
I'm an elk hunter, guys.
I don't know if you knew that.
No, you're not.
So I they are naturists.
You just sit there with a gun.
Yeah, whatever.
I have a loaded weapon.
And if there is a brown thing that walks in front of me that's not human, I will shoot
it.
Great.
Wow.
Like a bear, like a bear.
How racist was that?
Well, wow.
I didn't mean to make it sound.
Jesus.
I knew you guys were going to go there.
I was going to say if anything brown shows up, you can be like, oh, my God, you would
shoot.
Wow.
Chill out there.
I don't believe we went there.
You did.
You were going to.
No, we wouldn't do that.
Anyway, so the guy said, hey, pick up a bottle of TX whiskey.
And I'm like, OK, I'm in Montrose.
I'm in Montrose, Colorado.
I'm pretty sure I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to find it or not.
Right.
So we stopped it.
Two different two different.
So you're in Colorado looking for TX whiskey.
Correct.
Is that something that you would typically find in Colorado?
I wouldn't.
That's what I'm saying.
I wouldn't think so.
So we stopped it to alcohol stores and and no, neither one had it.
And I was like, OK, I'm not going to go to a third one.
You know, Google.
So I'm just going to.
What does that mean?
I mean, you can Google TX whiskey availability in Colorado.
We don't use Google anymore.
Oh, really?
And it's going to tell me the exact liquor store in Montrose.
Shopping.
Where's the nearest location?
OK, well, we could have gotten the Colonel E.H.
Taylor like you said you're going to.
Yeah.
You saw it.
It's not my.
I was going to get three of them.
So get this.
I couldn't get TX whiskey, so I grabbed this.
I grabbed a brother's bond, right?
And I was underwhelmed with it, but I was like, you know what?
It's 80 proof.
They probably want something like it.
I looked up the review and it said three point five.
You know, it was that's his exit strategy out of what?
Hey guys, look, I looked up the review.
I looked up the review for them, not for I didn't want this bottle.
They didn't want to.
So they guess what?
They go, oh, well, we want to whiskey.
I was like, well, I stopped at two of them and they don't have it.
So then they stop at a third one and they have it.
And I'm like, OK, thanks, guys.
So I just bought this bottle for you and you don't want it.
So now I'm going to have to take it back to podcast and get shit for it and get shit for
it.
Yeah.
So here we are drinking brother's bond, which is really not good.
No.
And yeah, and I had to pay for it.
So it's like one of those things that you get, you know, hey, thanks for coming to the
movie.
Here's a bottle of booze.
Yeah, I guess so.
Well, to make it work.
Well, to make it worse is the point you were making.
She brings out a bottle from the back that's in a box.
And I was like, what is this?
He what?
E.H. Taylor, E.H.
Taylor.
And apparently that's a unicorn.
Yep.
And so I was like, oh, I was texting you guys.
Tell me about E.H. Taylor, because it's like, get three of them.
Well, and I was like, well, shit, I already bought this brother's bond.
Whatever.
Let's just get this.
Just go.
And I didn't buy it.
How much was it?
Forty two bucks.
No, forty nine bucks for the Taylor.
Yeah, dude.
I know.
I was going to make you drive back up there and get it.
It's a tragedy.
And I ended up with this brother's bond instead of E.H.
Taylor.
You know, I could make a phone call.
Do you know anybody up there?
Am I on Tros?
I don't.
Is E.H.
Taylor difficult to find, period?
I don't find it.
Yes, it's very hard to find.
OK, apparently it is.
Yes.
All right.
Well, so yes, it's a tragedy.
I haven't called her after I left.
I was like, you should have returned that and got the damn thing.
I was going to do that.
And then the day got crazy.
We were shopping and got this and that and stopping a million places.
I was like, you know what?
I'm not going to make them go back.
Yeah.
You know, just own it.
So we weren't on your mind.
I bought a shitty bourbon.
Yeah.
I owned it.
Well, seems to be a trend.
Colonel E.H.
Taylor right there.
That's it.
And it was in a, oh, not a box.
It was in a, yeah, like a cylinder looking thing.
Like a tube.
A tube.
Yeah.
Look how beautiful that is.
Syndrillical.
Look how long.
Look how elongated that cork is.
Syndrillical.
Nice.
Yeah.
You like that?
Yes.
Tubular.
Totally.
What is going on?
I don't know.
Anyway, that's our bourbon.
That's seriously.
Look at the cork on that.
Eat the Taylor bottle.
But you know what?
Here's the reality.
We're starting to become.
That's three inches long.
We're so snobbish.
Yeah, we are.
We're so snobbish.
I mean, look at this.
No, it's not.
This is like the fucking.
We're drinking.
It's not eating.
We're drinking.
I know.
We had good bourbons now.
I know.
So now everything tastes like shit if it's not.
This is like.
This is like like Bush.
Bush beer.
Or what is that?
The horse.
What's the horse?
The Montauk.
Montauk.
The Montauk.
Montauk.
That's not.
It's 8% alcohol.
But it is better than your Float beer.
It's false advertising.
It is false advertising.
It's actually advertising.
They give 8% of their proceeds to charities, but right there on the box it says 8%.
And it makes you go, whoa, this is the strongest beer I've ever had before my life.
And it's like four.
And it's like really weak.
Yeah.
It says mixed with bourbon on the side.
Yeah.
It's a mixer.
Anyway.
All right.
So back to the topic we started with.
We were talking about.
Oh, yeah.
Jeff was was challenging us and saying, how much do you think elected city council officials
make?
All right.
Well, give me a city.
All right.
Let's go with a big city.
We'll go with the big city.
OK, the mayor of Dallas.
Mayor, the mayor, the head honcho.
Mayor of Dallas.
I would say 60, I'd say $85,000.
I'm going to go with $130,000.
Sean wins $80,000 a year.
Well, that's not very much.
Not for the headache he has to deal with.
Yeah.
Well, that's what I mean.
That's exactly what I mean.
I don't mean that that's not a lot of money.
That's not a lot for probably what he deals with.
Right.
Council members.
OK, well, I got to go everything lower than 80.
Right.
So I'm going to go with $55,000.
But where?
Dallas.
$55,000.
Geez.
Council members.
I'd say $62,000.
$60,000.
So you overbid.
I win.
I said $55,000.
So that's the highest.
No, that's the rule.
That's not pricing right.
We're not playing prices right.
We're doing prices right.
The bump marker is not here.
$1.
I am closer.
You were off by five.
I was closer by two.
Everyone overbid.
$1.
OK, thanks.
$1,001.
All right.
So the mayor of Fort Worth.
Another big city.
OK.
Well, you said.
I heard it.
I'm going to go less than Dallas.
I'm going to say $70,000.
All right.
Hold on.
What was it?
I missed it.
I was playing.
Fort Worth.
The mayor of Fort Worth.
Actually, I would say Fort Worth might get more.
Oh, I'd say they they get I'd say they get 65.
That's not more.
It was 60.
Was it with the mayor of Dallas was Mayor Mayor the mayor.
Oh, I apologize.
I thought you're about the city council.
The mayor of Fort Worth.
I would say I'd say 95, $1,000, $29,000 a year.
I win.
Wow.
That that's that's it.
Well, what would you say the mayor of Dallas was 80?
The mayor of nine versus 80.
Correct.
Why do you think that is?
Do you think they have less people there?
It is.
It's a smart city.
But still, to be the mayor of a city like that only bring in I mean, you can't have
that as your regular job.
It's a it's a it's a side job.
It's a side job to be mayor.
Lord, a big city like that.
Fort Worth.
I am mayor of Fort Worth.
I'm rich.
I'm below the poverty line.
Yeah.
That's insane.
I got a blueberry.
All right.
So give me San Francisco mayor.
I don't have I just have the North.
Look it up.
Mayor of San Francisco.
How much they make salary mayor San Francisco.
All right.
Anyway, we'll go to the council member for Fort Worth.
Oh, well, then it's 15, $25,000.
Oh, wow.
Just as much as the mayor almost about.
All right.
So all right.
So here we go.
The Frisco mayor.
How much you think the mayor Frisco the town?
Now I have no clue.
I'm going to say 58,000 for the mayor and Frisco mayor Frisco.
Oh, yeah.
Fifty two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars a month.
I can't afford my rent.
We've met them.
Well, I had the mayor eight hundred and fifty bucks a month is the mayor of.
OK.
So they're clearly stepping stone position.
I wouldn't expect these are people that are padding their resume for something bigger
and better, like the million dollar payoff at the eight hundred fifty bucks a month.
That's what Congress that what?
Ten grand.
That's it's eight eighty five, 17 plus eighty five is 90.
That's ten thousand.
It's that's eleven thousand dollars.
Yeah.
I don't look at the screen.
Don't look at the screen.
Damn it, man.
I don't look at it.
Don't look at it.
I already looked.
What do you think the mayor of San Francisco?
Probably two hundred thousand one hundred and eighty six thousand.
The cost of living is more, though.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Considered twenty nine thousand versus one hundred and eighty six thousand.
But of that eighty six thousand two hundred eighty eight dollars a year, how much that
goes to cleaning up the human fecal matter?
I swear they are raping Californians with taxes.
So city council members for Frisco, you know, to be on a city council.
A hundred bucks a month.
Seven hundred a month.
Almost.
Wow.
Almost the same.
That seems to me like a better position.
You know what that is, though?
That's a new Tacoma.
I'm just saying.
Well, that's before taxes.
Well, I mean, it's actually I mean, look, to have the council member, I could buy myself
a Tacoma.
I'm just saying if you were but to have some influence in the city and some to pave the
way for whatever we're going, because right now, you know, there are some some who knows
in my belief.
I think I'm a conspiracy kind of theorist.
I'm thinking, you know, the people are trying is coming.
California is coming and they know how to to to weave themselves into the fabric of
our society and fuck us.
Right.
All right.
I don't disagree.
So I've got I've got two more.
So the Garland, the mayor of Garland.
All right.
So I'm going with a bigger city.
Yeah, but it's a ritzy city.
Garland is I'd say one hundred and ten thousand.
What?
The mayor?
Yeah.
More than Dallas.
That's what I'm that's my guess.
What's wrong with you?
Forty seven thousand five hundred seventy five dollars a month.
OK, we're grossly overbidding every single time.
All right.
So I get the gist of it.
One dollar from now on.
Right.
The city council, they make two hundred eighty eight dollars a month a month plus seventy
two dollars for each working session.
Well, no wonder.
Hold on.
That can add up.
I'm going to have 10 working sessions a day.
No wonder these guys get bribed so much.
Right.
You know, someone's there.
We'll see five grand.
Hey, man, look, there's something coming up here.
I need this.
I need this area cleaned out for my new junkyard.
Here's an extra five hundred.
Oh, they get paid under the table all the time.
Well, we're talking about New Jersey and New York.
Not here.
But they but but Garland has 10 minute working sessions.
Right.
So they have five per hour.
Does that does that include with a break connectivity issues standard with a seven dollars every
session.
All right.
So so.
OK, McKinney.
I think mayor of McKinney.
I think we've exhausted this.
I'm going to go with eleven thousand dollars.
This is the last one.
I would say McKinney's got bigger pockets.
Eleven thousand seven hundred.
A month.
Fifty dollars per council meeting and there's how many no salary.
Fifty dollars per council meeting and a hundred dollar phone stipend a month.
How many council meetings are there?
That's one a month to two a month.
Well, it can be four.
OK, so one a week.
What is the point?
I think they're like Tuesday, Thursdays and there's every other week.
You get better perks being the H.O.A. president.
No, you don't.
H.O.A. zero.
Right.
I know that.
I got from the H.O.A. being the H.O.A. president for so long.
Let me think of a perk I got.
Well, yeah, you cook three hundred hot dogs.
Only one hundred hundred were eaten.
Well, you got to go home with two hundred hot dogs.
That's a perk.
Well, I didn't.
I didn't really do that.
I mean, I may have come home with like five, ten, whatever.
But there are a lot more people.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
We're expecting eleven hundred people at this party, guys.
We better start cooking now.
Now, there's some times I got stuck with like a fucking vat of Gert, Gerdelli chocolate
after the Christmas.
OK, huge pot.
I mean, it tasted great for the first day, but after that, I was kind of like, oh, it's
coming out of my pores.
I don't want any more chocolate.
Oh, the suffering or the pain.
Death by chocolate.
Well, it was made by Chef Damon from the corporate of the hot chocolate Marriott hotels.
Oh, nice.
He did a lot, man.
I tell you what, I was real proud of him stepping up and and donate some food for.
He's a resident resident in the H.O.A.?
Yeah.
He's on the board, but he's a he's in our community and he stepped up and complementarily
provided this.
I thought it was great.
And then you got to take it all home.
That's a very good hot chocolate.
Man, here's the deal.
I got I set the shit up.
But look, people could take Dern's kiss in my ass.
I'll tell you what, these are a bunch of ungrateful, ungrateful pieces of shit.
The people that are on H.O.A. boards, you can have some really bad apples in there.
You know, I mean, as far as running it like a Nazi program, you know, just very one one
sided and fuck you fuck off.
And these are my rules.
And that's all there is to it.
Sure.
Well, they are cutting the balls off of all.
I mean, you get a frisky lawyer in your community or in your community that gets some sort of
a violation.
And you know, they can they can cut the balls off a board real quick, just by, you know,
because board members like me, they were loose.
We don't give a fuck.
Oh, boy.
Loose, huh?
Well, I mean, I'm not you're a skimming off the top.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, nothing like that.
We're just we're neighbors.
We're dudes like everybody else.
And driving a brand new truck.
We are not driving a new gorilla.
Eight hundred.
I don't.
I don't have any hot dogs in my freezer anymore.
We ate them all.
Finally, eight hundred of them.
How do you even do that?
He's pickled.
Wow.
So you got to deal with a lot.
It's kind of like Brody working at Water Burger.
I mean, they're people are assholes.
They are.
You know, and they got in the if you're on the board, people can understand.
Hey, look, man, I'm your fucking neighbor and I'm a volunteer.
Yeah, I don't.
I'm trying to make the world a better place.
What's going on?
I really don't.
I don't care if you don't cut your grass.
I don't care.
I don't give a fuck.
Right.
You know, it's all about it's all about what's going to make my property value go up.
Correct.
If I have some asshole that's going to live in my community that's not going to manicure
his yard, you know, I got a problem with that.
Right.
You know, you know, if there's some mistakes that happen and something falls between the
cracks, I get it.
I'm human.
You know, I got a I got a fence that was dilapidated forever.
And I told the world to fuck off because I bought one of those first versions of fences
that were composite.
And it turned out that that was the style of composite fence that I got was like the
worst one you could ever get.
And it was wavy and so bad.
And I'm like, I don't give a fuck.
I spent so much money on that fence.
The world can kiss my ass.
But it's not your fence now.
No, I took it down.
Yeah.
You said I replaced it.
But still, my point is, is that, you know, people make attempts to take care of their
shit.
And the idea is don't affect my life.
So if your property is going to look like so bad.
Well, that's the whole point of the board, the HOA.
It's to make sure.
But some people take it too far.
An integrity they do.
Of the community.
Some people do.
Yeah.
Well, they become like Democrats and they start to control your life.
Well, you know, they start, hey, man, look, I think we need to start paying.
We need those dues that you pay.
I guess what?
Yeah, I think we need to start buying.
We need to buy some some lawnmowers.
And I think that the community should be purchasing, you know, people to cut the grass and do the
weed eating and they raise the dues.
How much is that?
And expensive that would be.
I think everybody and they know and they know when you have a meeting to like talk about
what's going on, nobody shows nobody shows up.
And then you raise the dues with a really simple vote.
I mean, that's that's the situation.
So I was on the HOA.
I don't know.
Did I tell you that?
Oh, I was on the HOA at my very first house.
Right.
That was like six blocks away from the current house.
And we were really upset with how things are being run.
Right.
And we were raising the dues and we were like, we don't even know what you're spending the
dues on.
What are you raising them for?
We all got pissed off and we all showed up until you finally learned what's really no.
No.
Yeah, we found out what was really going on.
Oh, yeah.
We were so, you know, you know, when we started to challenge them about what they were doing,
whatever they all they all like didn't didn't run again.
And so we're like, OK, well, I'll be the this and you be the that and I'll be the and I'll
be the secretary.
OK.
I mean, it was kind of like a, you know, like a simple deal.
And they were like, OK, well, vote, vote, vote, you know, blah, blah, blah.
We all got voted in.
And the first thing we did is we went through all the contracts we had, the landscaping
contracts, the pool contracts, the everything.
And they were one that the landscaping guy was lived in the neighborhood and was getting
paid three to four times what the average rate was.
And we were like, yeah, we're going to put this out to bid.
We're going to put everything out to bid.
Three bids, minimum three bids.
Right.
That's what they got, bitch.
That's what you all he well, no, he actually can I present to the board, you know, what
I do.
Right.
So we're like, OK, sure.
Whatever.
And so he came together with his PowerPoint presentation.
He was describing how, you know, they check the sprinklers and they check to this and
they check to that.
And we were like, OK, well, we'll include that in all the bids.
And you are welcome to bid.
And so he bid and he was double what anybody else bid.
And so we went with we went with this lower company.
He was all but hurt.
Right.
And we're like, listen, we have to be responsible with the H.O.E. H.O.A. resident dues, man.
Well, yeah.
How much was he making a month ish?
Oh, I don't know.
It was like three grand ish.
I don't know.
I really I don't even remember the numbers.
But I'm thousand five hundred twenty two.
I think he was making over a million a month.
Well, I mean, there are there are some communities out there that.
But you've got that that financial unrest where people are going out there just buying
shit.
You know, I've got oh my God, I'm I'm the president of our H.O.A.
I'm in a four hundred lot community and nobody wants to join the board.
I'm by myself.
Right.
I just fired the property manager.
I've got one hundred twenty thousand dollars in the bank.
And you went and bought like.
And I'm going to go to Mexico.
Nice.
And it happens.
Oh, I know.
And it happens.
I know does.
You know, it's just we went from we went from needing to raise dues to to handle our deficit
to having a surplus within within like several quarters.
Right.
Because simply because we chopped all of our we renegotiated all of our contracts and we
made smarter smart business.
It is it was ridiculous.
I mean, yeah, it was totally ridiculous.
Well, our community currently, we were doing pretty good, actually, because I got you know,
I said part of the perk of being on the board and with younger kids, actually, are the pool
parties of the parties, basically, because, you know, of course, you're planning parties
all the time for the neighborhood for.
That's fun.
And it's social events that we actually have fun with.
So we have a good time doing it.
We just bought a we invested in a.
And of course, it's open for the entire neighborhood.
Yes.
That's what it pays for.
We invested in this huge blow up video screen where we bought a projector and a screen.
And I donated the audio equipment because I've got a bunch of audio gear.
And so it just it was perfect.
I mean, hell, the the projector was like thirteen hundred.
The screen was like seven hundred.
So for for two thousand twenty five hundred, I feel overall we got like we got entertainment
like every month during the summer for almost eight years.
Yeah, it's fantastic.
It was.
I mean, it was a blast.
We had a good time.
I'm done with that period of my life.
The kids are older.
They don't give a shit.
Right.
And frankly, I've become calloused from everybody, you know, because I used to go out there and
set up Christmas lights.
No appreciation.
No one gives a fuck.
I mean, no, no help.
The silent.
Yeah, that's the biggest thing.
If you didn't get it done, they'd bitch.
Yes.
And that's where I'm at right now.
You know, in fact, I had a meeting tonight and the president.
He asked me, hey, you're going to attend the meeting tonight?
I was like, no.
Why should you?
That was Chuck.
Yeah, you're not on the board.
I am on the board.
I'm vice president.
Oh, what the hell?
I thought you were done.
Well, that's what I'm saying.
I'm done.
I don't give a fuck.
Well, then, yeah, you need to have somebody else step up.
Well, they're not going to step up yet.
So we got to wait to the next meeting.
And then and then I'm out completely.
So when I say meeting, I'm talking about annual meeting.
Right.
So this might be another.
This will probably be March of next year.
OK.
So look, I'm available if anything shit hits the fan.
And we need to make freaking out.
Is he doing well, man?
No, no, we've got I know it took some coaxing to get to get Chuck to do it.
You know, it's extra work on his plate a lot.
And I'm just like, yeah, I know I did it for almost 10 years.
There's other people on the board.
There's a treasurer and a secretary.
Yeah.
And you know, we had a hardcore treasurer, man.
That's what made everything turn around.
They were like, no, I mean, it was like it was like an accountant for a corporate a corporate
company, you know, and they were hardcore.
And I was like, that's what we need.
That's what we need.
We need somebody to hold the shit accountable.
Yeah.
And there was, you know, because there are some folks there was a story out there where
there was like a church lady that was taking in money and she had or someone had a debit
card and they're basically, you know, they're pulling money out of the account and they
were buying fifteen hundred dollars of this, fifteen hundred dollars of that.
They were planning on giving it back.
Yes, they were.
I know that's the way it works.
And all of a sudden there's a five thousand dollar deficit and they're like, um, we have
a we need to do a reckoning of the books and there's an audit and this is Jim.
He's a Pisces and oh yeah, he's also a CPA.
He's going to climb up your ass.
That's how it happens.
And then suddenly people like I'm going to pay it back, I just was borrowing it temporarily
and they and they meant it like but they don't know how to manage their finances and they
got in over their head and now suddenly it's like it's like gambling.
People who they don't know, you know, oh, the bookie.
And you kind of did you really need that Mercedes?
Did you really?
Well, because usually the stuff they buy is for us.
Just dumb.
Yeah, it's stupid.
Yeah, I need three hundred bucks.
Let's run up the street to the booby bar.
Right.
I'll get you a couple of hours.
Do we have one right up the street?
The duck pond.
Yeah.
Boobies.
Well, I mean, there's there's fish.
I don't think they're called boobies.
Were they called the birds?
Help me here.
Shawn's really helped me here.
Yeah, we go fishing up the street.
What does it have to do with the booby bar?
Well, I mean, it's there's a bar in the center where there's a bridge.
And when you're walking across, you get hot and you're booby sweat.
So that's not what I had in mind.
You had three hundred bucks for that.
Yeah.
All in singles.
Not at all what I had in mind.
So now the H.O.A. we didn't get paid shit.
And I you know, if they had given incentive to be on the board, at least this, I would
say I would say at the very least, excuse the board members from having to pay the dues.
You know, if they're there and you know, and they're they got to go to the meetings, they
got to make a lot of time.
The big time community, they really do.
Because hey, look, what are we going to do with the pool?
They have to make smart decisions.
There needs to be some thought in there and there needs to be sincere time.
All the board members, in my opinion, shouldn't have to pay dues.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, whenever there was a problem in the neighborhood, especially with the pool, right,
I was the guy that had to program the cards for the pool because teenagers first.
First off, there was no it went from not being secured.
Right.
Because it was just the neighborhood pool to needing a gate around the whole thing to
know we had to have the gate because of safety problem of code code.
Yeah.
Code things.
But we had a shared key.
Everybody had a shared key in the community.
Yeah.
And then people were copying it.
And they caught people copying it.
And then we make sense.
Right.
And then we had teenagers having sex in the bathrooms.
So we had to put up, you know, cameras, but they weren't real cameras.
They were fake cameras.
Oh, you didn't make the actual video footage.
Right.
Well, because, you know, we didn't want to spend that extra money.
We just wanted to.
It's like putting up an owl.
We put up an owl hoping that the teenagers would run away in fear.
But they're not stupid.
But they're not stupid, apparently.
Well, we put actual cameras up.
We put the ring systems up.
We put like three.
That's expensive.
That's expensive, though.
Well, but it was an investment.
And we had a rash of kids that were coming in.
Yeah, tearing shit up.
Yeah, they were tearing the stuff up.
And guess what?
We caught them all in a ring, coming and going.
And we posted that shit on Facebook.
Nice.
Busted.
Cops got them?
Parents got them.
Mostly parents, you know, because I put it on our community Facebook.
I was like, hey, guys, just want to post this video of some folks come up and say, hey,
kids coming in.
This is about three o'clock in the morning.
And then we checked it the next day.
Is that your kid?
Yeah.
Well, we checked the next day.
And it looks like they were smoking some marijuana.
You know, I would just like I would.
I was that guy.
Busted.
I was busted.
And you know what?
Oh, man, I shouldn't say this.
Say it.
Well, it was just a neighbor's kid because I had called a neighbor and I was like, hey,
so I've got this video and of your child.
I don't know if it's your kid, but I'm going to send you a clip of this video.
And you decide.
And yeah, basically.
And I was like, oh, no, that's that's not my kid.
There's no way that could be my kid.
There's no way that I said the video.
That's totally my kid.
I'm going to fucking kill.
Oh, after looking at the video.
Yeah.
We know instantaneously what our kids look like.
But there are parents out there that they live in in the head in the sand.
There's no way my kid.
He was up at at seven in the morning to go to football practice.
He couldn't have been there at three o'clock.
Right.
Oh, no, no, no.
He was there.
It's amazing.
There's video of him.
Yeah.
And there's video of me picking up the shit that he left there, you know, because it was
there all night on the video.
Right.
The stuff he had left there.
He left some stuff there.
But it was just like, that's not my kid.
There's no way that's my kid.
That's totally my kid.
I'm going to fucking kill him.
Yeah, that's typical, man.
But I think it's a I think having you know, I hate to bring up Ring because personally,
I think Ring, those guys are fucking crooks.
They are.
I bought I bought Ring and I was super excited about it.
But let's let's be honest, man.
If you don't buy their cloud package, it's pointless.
Yeah, it's just like, you know, it's a doorbell.
It's a two hundred dollar bill.
Yeah.
By the time you.
Yeah, it'll be like, oh, there's motion.
And I'll be like, oh, I scrambled to go look at the live footage and it would take forever
to load.
Yeah.
And then by the time it loaded, I saw nothing.
Yeah.
And they were gone.
Whoever it was.
It's it's frustrating.
But so I bought the ten dollar package a month.
Well, I'm about to because I bought I bought like some backyard lights with the camera
two years ago.
It's been a couple of years.
I think I'm going to install those this coming week.
I have a ring sitting in a box.
On my counter, just like you.
Yes.
I'm going to put it in the backyard.
Oh, great.
So dumb.
That cuts that out, doesn't it, Sean?
Yeah.
What?
Well, that's so that was you guys.
I'm thinking more of Paul.
He's shenanigans are actually, but he caught on film.
OK, first off, I don't do any shenanigans for him.
No, I don't do shenanigans that you remember of.
Oh, well, that's different.
I don't do any shenanigans.
All right.
Anyway, anyway.
So the HLA stuff, I don't want to beat this up.
I'm going to I'm going to finish this right now.
I guess it is a stepping stone.
I guess there's a lot of people that that find that energy in in the HLA to make it
better because it's all about, you know, the integrity and the value of your homes and
bringing it up and also for social reasons.
If you've got a big enough community, they have social events.
It's a whole community of networking.
You want the potential is pretty endless.
You want to know your neighbors.
It's a good thing because if there's a rash of burglaries or if there's something going
on, I mean, you want to be connected to where they use that next door in my current neighborhood.
I don't know any, any neighbors.
And we've been there.
We've been there.
We've been there 18 years.
Wow.
And I don't really know any of my neighbors.
We're super sad, but it is well.
Yeah, it is, because, you know, it's not the way it was.
I don't know.
We had block parties.
Yeah.
Right.
Where you'd set up.
They'd all set up the tables and everyone would bring food out and they won't bring
out their boom box.
We did that one time and we and they were there was tension because we set up cans on
one side of the street and set up cans on the other side of the street.
But you could always get to where you needed to go.
We weren't blocking people, but and and this guy, this guy drives up and he's like, what
gives you the right to put cans out and block the street?
And I said, well, we registered this block party with the city.
So we were allowed to do this.
Well, I mean, you know what I mean?
And then we got this negativity from people.
And then one guy moves the can and drives past and like drives into the, you know, into
the street where kids are walking around and you know, we had it blocked off for a reason.
Right.
I mean, there we go again.
And I'm like, you can't block it.
I'm trying to get to my house and blah, blah, blah.
I'm like, what the hell, man?
So much negativity out there.
Shoot them.
Yeah, I did.
I killed like seven or eight of them.
Yeah.
One of the things that unfortunately I think is starting to happen is, you know, everything
is racist these days.
I know they're completely diluting that word.
Yes.
For one thing, if everything's racist, then nothing is right.
Right.
Remember when they oh my God.
So Microsoft went through, they constantly go through a rash of updates on their software
and like the Microsoft Outlook had changed the whitelist to allowed list.
So and then they, Microsoft Word came out with exclusiveness changes or selective for
your documents.
Wow.
You know, what are we talking about?
We talked about the last week, gender bias and plurals and he, she shit.
As part of your grammar check?
Yes.
Oh my God.
I think I sent that to you guys.
Yeah.
I didn't realize it was Microsoft Word.
Yeah.
It's that's exactly what it was.
Microsoft Word.
Yeah.
I remember the whitelist thing.
I was in a meeting where we were talking about IP addresses that need to be whitelisted or
you know, whatever.
And yeah, our business owner pipes up and goes, it's a loud list.
Like does he really?
She she goes, yeah, it's a loud list or whatever.
And the and the technical developer goes, I'm sorry, what?
A loud list.
And he goes, I'm not familiar with what that is.
And he knew exactly where she was going with it and got all attitude about it.
And he was like, I have no idea what you're talking about.
So yeah, whatever.
What were whitelisting is.
I was like, oh, boy, that's awesome.
But I was seriously hearing this.
I was like, are you kidding me?
Now we're doing OK, so it's allowed and not allowed, meaning instead of blacklist and
whitelist.
Right.
I think I said it to you guys in an email.
I don't know.
Well, one of the things is just the word black when you hear like Black Friday.
Right.
Yeah.
There has been some pushback that that's racist.
Well, what's the origins of Black Friday?
Well, it's a big sale, right?
Well, I know.
But why do they call it Black Friday?
Well, because a bunch of black people congregate outside of Wal-Mart and race in.
I don't believe that.
I didn't think that's what it was either.
But for some reason, if it's racist, I was thinking that's what it's got to be.
Here you go.
Black Friday shopping, a colloquial term for the Friday following Thanksgiving.
It's supposed to be the year.
OK, get all that.
I get all that.
Scroll down.
Origin of the term.
Yeah, let's go down.
OK, here we go.
Earliest evidence originated in Philadelphia dating back to sixty one, was used by police
to describe the heavy pedestrian and vehicular traffic that would occur on the day after
Thanksgiving.
OK.
For centuries, the adjective black has been applied to days upon which calamities occurred.
Black Friday, most significant event in American history.
Panic of eighteen sixty nine when financiers Jay Gold and James Friss took advantage of
the connections with the Grant administration.
I don't see anything.
I think I see nothing racist in there.
Well, let's go down a little bit.
The day after Thanksgiving has been regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping
season.
So, scroll down a little bit more.
The practice linked, you know, the Santa Claus Parades.
Parades celebrating Thanksgiving.
I mean, that's the start of it.
So Thanksgiving, you get the Thanksgiving Parade, the Macy Parade, and hell, it's Christmas
time.
But Black Friday, I mean, to me, it's just it says it's a shopping chaos.
Blackout prices.
Insane.
It's like I don't think it has anything to do with race.
It has nothing to do with race.
But people are injecting it now.
You know, I remember when John Wiley Price, this is about four or five years ago, another
councilman says I walk, you know, and he's talking about a mess in an office, papers
everywhere.
And he came in and goes, you know, when I submit a form to you, it goes into a black
hole.
Right.
And John Wiley Price got offended and says that's that's an incredibly racist thing to
say.
Come on.
The term black hole.
It's insane.
Kiss my black hole.
So I mean, when you.
Wow.
I'd rather not.
It's brown.
It's quite clean.
That's not the point.
I use the web wipes.
But you know, what's the color of ink?
Are you allowed to say I need I need a pen that's black ink?
Oh, shit.
Here we go.
Can you can you say that now?
Yeah, I need black ink.
All right.
I need it to sign my documents.
Yes, being black ink.
Well, no, you can't say that anymore.
I mean, I know my boys.
I know my boys were getting to the point where they would like not want to say that somebody
they were talking about was black.
Why?
Because they were, you know, antsy about it.
Like it's racist to say that somebody's black or white.
Yeah, it's it's it's it's almost like racist to make a declaration of somebody.
Well, who's that person?
Oh, it's that Mexican guy over there.
Well, you can't say that's that Mexican guy over there because it could be deemed racist.
Well, right.
Is it?
No, it's not racist to say that.
But people are fearful, fearful that people's going to get some woke person is going to
be like, oh, some uneducated.
Well, I know that's just like, you know, look, and they're everybody.
All right.
You know, the Chris Rocks said that I share this little skit he did when he talks about,
you know, there are two types of black people.
And I'm not going to say for the show because I don't want to go through all the editing.
But you know, he basically says there are two types of black people and says even the
black people hate this other type.
You know, it's just like.
Right.
Come on.
And the white people, the same.
There are multiple different types of white people.
You know, there's different types of everyone.
There's different types of everyone.
You got assholes and you have non assholes.
Right.
You got people that believe in in righteousness and then you don't.
And there are racists in every single category.
Correct.
There's racist white people, racist black people, racist Asian people, racist, whatever
people.
It gets down to the point where, you know, is it racist to make assessments of your experiences?
So if, for example, I were to say, all right, well, I'm a white guy and you start posing
these questions.
All right.
If I walk in a room full of five black guys, you know, how do I feel if I walk in a room
with five Asian guys?
How do I feel if I walk in a room with five white guys?
How do I feel?
And then you just basically start interchanging all these things out.
You know, how does an Asian feel walking in a room with?
How does how does that, you know, how does that work as far as probabilities and statistics?
You know, I think that we're all birds of a feather flock together, so to speak.
Hundred percent.
You know, I don't think there's anything racist about that.
They naturally gravitate towards people that are like themselves, whether it's color, whether
it's ideology.
Right.
Like in terms of Republicans and Democrats.
I mean, people naturally gravitate towards people of their own kind.
And to do that doesn't make you racist.
Well, you got these folks out there that it's just that's what they're going to do.
It's like it's it's a sickness, you know, to to sit there and look for these reasons
and then to say it out loud because they're not true.
Even they they've got to know it's not true.
I was.
But it's almost like when they say it and you deny it, they're like, see, it just makes
it worse almost.
Right.
They had like you have the audacity to deny it.
Right.
They had some interviewer.
Yeah, you're not allowed to have to make your case.
The Rittenhouse case going on right now, they had reporters sitting out in front of the
courthouse and they were leisurely talking to some of these folks that were wanting Rittenhouse
to go to jail.
Right.
And you're listening to them and you're just kind of like they're not angry.
They're talking and they're trying to express their point.
But in the process of doing it, they're clearly ignorant as fuck.
Right.
They just don't know what they're talking.
They don't know the facts.
They don't know why they can't articulate.
Oh, he shot him in the back.
What the kid did.
Yeah, they're completely uninformed.
And it has everything to do with the power of suggestion that the media has done.
That's correct.
And even right now, we talked about it I think on the first half.
It's just it sickens me and it's on my mind.
And I don't it didn't come out.
It was supposed to come out.
Like you said, based on what they said earlier, they're they're split.
Yeah.
They haven't gone to a consensus.
Yeah.
The latest update I saw is that the judge let them go for the night and they have not
reached a verdict.
This is ongoing.
Right.
So, you know, and I don't know.
This could go.
I mean, I don't know, man.
I mean, to me, it's it's it's black and white.
It should be clean and cut.
This kid should get off.
I mean, but I mean, what is there something we don't know?
I mean, no, I mean, they went through the trial.
They presented all the evidence.
The prosecution presented their witnesses, defense their witnesses.
I mean, it is a clear cut case of self-defense.
The video makes it completely clear.
And the people involved confirmed what the video showed him with the with the gun itself
is like, well, he was 17.
He didn't legal.
He wasn't legally allowed to have it.
And that's not true.
Not true either.
Yeah.
If you have a long barrel, you can have you can operate a gun if it's a long barrel in
the state of Wisconsin.
Right.
Yeah, the prosecutor said that as soon as you bring a gun to a fight, you lose your
right to use self-defense.
Yeah, I don't think that's true.
If you're the one to bring it down.
But that's our Second Amendment.
Yep.
That's what he said, though.
He goes, you lose that right when you bring the gun of self-defense.
That prosecutor.
You know, I feel bad for the prosecutor.
Frankly, maybe it was a ploy.
Maybe the prosecutor was acting like that so that they can get this thing thrown out.
Maybe they can get it to I think they reached a point where it's like, yeah, we need to
do what we can to throw this thing because it went downhill fast.
All right.
It says that no verdict has been reached as of yet in the murder trial with the judge
retiring the jury after eight and a half hours of deliberation.
So that's not encouraging.
So what is the most ridiculously open and shut case just like the OJ trial?
Something bad is going to happen in terms of that being no justice in terms of an acquittal
in my opinion.
Yeah, that'll be too bad.
That'll be too bad.
It's going to change everything if that's the case.
It's going to change everything.
And there's going to be there's going to be a shit storm on both sides, guys.
It's not going to be good.
What else do you have on your list, Mr. We ran through all of them.
Really?
We did the what we covered your elk trip.
We did cover the elk trip.
You know, one thing I don't think we really touched on adequately enough was the whole
I don't know if we even talk about it, the whole Aaron Rodgers thing.
No, not really.
I mean, he he apparently did not want to get vaccinated and he was very misleading that
he said that he was immunized, which made everybody believe that he was vaccinated.
And when they found out he was not vaccinated, they were furious.
Yeah, but who was they?
I don't know.
I don't know who the they is, but I think it's the press.
Fuck them.
The Twitter mob.
He is allowed to make a decision about his own damn body and for them to turn on him
like he's the woke crowd.
The one after the woke crowd went after him and including Terry Bradshaw.
I mentioned that I'm embarrassed for some of these guys.
Yeah, would work like so look, anti I come to call anti American because it goes against
your right as an American.
It totally does.
You can't be more un-American than to allow someone not to have the option of that booster
or vaccine.
I mean, how is it their damn business?
I know.
And now now Tony Romo is getting a bunch of shit.
Well, because he seemingly was defending Aaron Rodgers.
He he said, well, I'm glad you know, I'm glad that he stepped up and admitted that he was
wrong for for being misleading.
He was too easy on him.
And hopefully we can put this past, you know, we can move on.
Right.
We can move on.
Well, that's perfect.
I think he said that perfectly.
Well, and they were dogging him for not vilifying him.
Well, I mean, whatever, man, I think he did good without having Tony Romo himself admit
or acknowledge whether how he feels about.
He didn't talk about the vaccine.
Right.
And he said, oh, man, he was wrong.
You should get the vaccine.
What he said is that, well, that's that's that's too bad that he he he did that.
Right.
That he was being misleading.
Right.
And that was his point, which is perfect.
I like it.
Now we've gotten to the point where if you if you are choosing to be unvaccinated, man,
you can't bring it up.
No.
I mean, there's no way otherwise you'll get torched.
Absolutely torched.
And it's ridiculous.
Crazy.
And again, I reiterate for the millionth time, an unvaccinated person has no greater chance
of spreading it than a vaccinated person.
So this is bullshit.
This whole thing is based on total bullshit.
Biden's vaccine mandate, all the all the mandates that are going on, all the vilification that
a word.
Yes, it is.
Villification of all the people that are unvaccinated and the restrictions they're putting on people
like my wife and I were trying to figure out where we want to go for vacation.
Right.
We've been on a vacation since the damn covid thing hit.
Right.
As a family.
Right.
We want to go on a cruise.
You can't.
You got to be vaccinated.
Oh, you want to go to Europe.
You want to go.
You got to be vaccinated.
You got to be vaccinated to get on a cruise.
Every single one of them.
Yes.
Yep.
I mean, they're basically making it more and more difficult to do anything that you
want to do.
Well, that's the goal.
That's the goal.
It's like you don't have to get vaccinated, but you're not going to be able to do anything.
Yeah, that's right.
Is it still that way?
Even though the Fifth Court of Appeals has said that that's.
Yes, nothing's changed.
Well, I mean, is there opportunity that it will change now?
Maybe.
I don't think so, because that that whole thing was in place well before Biden did his
thing.
That's true.
Cruises.
Well, I mean, maybe now they could say, well, you know, if it's not a if it's not a mandatory
thing, maybe we ought to not do it.
Plus, you know, let's let's be honest.
Cruises don't make a lot of fucking money right now.
Well, I ain't got no making money off of me because I'm not going on a cruise.
They say what, 75 percent of the population is vaccinated, so there's still a good portion
of the population that's vaccinated.
There's still a lot of people who take cruises.
Yeah, now you can.
So it's not like to take a cruise.
It's not like 25 percent are vaccinated.
It's 75 percent are vaccinated.
Yeah.
So that's still a good chunk of folks that could still do these things.
It's total violation of rights, man.
Complete and total violation of rights.
And then here's the argument.
You're not vaccinated.
How dare you put me at risk?
How do you put everyone at risk?
How selfish of you know your fucking facts?
We're not any more at risk putting you at risk than anybody else.
So shut the hell up.
Suck it.
Yeah, big time.
Get educated.
Quit quit being spoon fed bullshit from the media.
I mean, get educated.
It just it's crazy.
Anyway, now that I'm all worked up, red face.
You know, we had mentioned about the upcoming Thanksgiving.
We got Christmas coming up right after that.
We do.
Boom, boom, boom.
I'll tell you, the one thing and I mentioned this last, I mentioned it before, but what
really grinds my gears?
What does?
When you have a major holiday on a fucking Saturday.
They should move it to the 24th.
Well, I get the 24th off instead of so you still get a day off.
You do.
Yeah, Saturday.
No, no.
Every company is going to give you a day off, a Christmas break, a Christmas holiday.
I get one last year.
I got it on a Saturday last year.
It should you should get like Christmas Eve off or something.
Right.
Well, whatever.
My point is, is, you know, is that they have it on Saturday.
That's my point.
I wish it were on a Thursday.
Christmas is always on the 25th.
I know, I know, but it's like the calendar fucking you.
It's like, oh, come on.
Oh, great.
Thanks.
It's not the government doing it.
No, it isn't.
You blame the Romans.
Who created the calendar?
Was it the Romans?
Oh, I don't know.
The Incans?
No, it was Thor.
I think it was the Incans.
Thor.
And that's why the Aztecs and the Incans battled each other.
They had two different calendars.
Two different calendars.
They both invented a star based calendar.
The Mayan calendar.
Yeah, the Mayan calendar.
The Aztecs.
Which ended.
Oh, that's right.
We're dead.
Yeah.
The world ended already according to the Mayan calendar.
Yeah, well, maybe it ended a long time ago and we didn't know it.
We're in the matrix.
That's some creepy ass shit.
Yeah, you're all into that stuff.
You watch these weird shows on the History Channel where...
I love history.
Everyone loves history.
Well, at least I do.
I mean, the mysteries of, well, hell, even the Roman.
I mean, I was watching something today about Roman concrete.
I mean, they still today don't know what the fuck is in Roman concrete.
To where it lasted as long as it did?
Yeah, because this stuff is like indestructible, you know?
I think it's...
And it's just like they still don't know how they built, how they did that.
I think it's human tallow.
What is that?
Human...
What?
They mix it with experiment?
Bound it together.
No, human tallow.
That's when you melt the fat tallow.
Yeah.
They basically melted like 100,000 slaves to make the cement.
Yeah, and they bound it with the cement stuff.
Yeah.
That's an interesting notion.
I mean, I can think of the pot-bellied pork, you know, kind of slosh coming off there.
It's very gelatinous.
I imagine when that hardens, it's kind of like a polymer, you know?
No.
Epoxy sort of deal.
How do you like it that they're still excavating things from the Pompeii eruption?
So they get on with it.
How long was that?
I mean, like 89 AD, and they are still finding like amazingly preserved...
Humans?
Yeah.
It's not just the little ash things, but they're like...
Well, they're petrified.
But the conditions of when the hot gases came down and killed everybody in the village,
followed by the ash, it was so instantaneous that it perfectly like...
Preserved them.
Yeah.
It just froze them in time.
It sucked all the oxygen.
It's like putting someone in a vacuum bag.
It basically baked them and then put like a coating of concrete on them.
So archaeologists in Italy have unveiled a ceremonial chariot they discovered near the
ancient Roman city of Pompeii.
Yeah.
It's amazing.
They're still like every single time they build like a...
They do like a construction project.
This happens a lot in Jerusalem too.
This was in February of 2021.
So they found bodies of rich man and slave discovered in Pompeii.
Sorcerers, treasure trove found in Pompeii.
Sorcerer?
Well, it says sorcerer's treasure trove.
Like a wizard.
Well, it was a wizard.
Like Merlin.
Yeah, like Merlin.
It was a...
Sorcerer's treasure trove.
They found Merlin.
It was Gandalf.
Gandalf the black.
Yeah, he was the gray.
The gray.
Racist.
Well, actually, let me see if I can't bold it up.
Sorcerer's treasure trove.
This seems very specific.
The Pompeii archaeologists uncover a sorcerer treasure trove.
Let's see.
They've got a bunch of little figures.
Archaeologists working in the buried Roman city of Pompeii said that they have uncovered
a sorcerer's treasure trove of artifacts, including good luck charms, mirrors, and glass
butt beads.
Oh no, just beads.
Like a wand?
Did they have a wand?
They weren't angle beads.
They're more like trinkets, it looks like.
So I'm looking up here.
You see there's like little crystals.
Most of the items would have belonged to women.
A room with a bodies of ten victims, including women and children, was excavated in the same
house.
Now this was engulfed by a volcanic eruption by Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
So this was like.
Amazing.
That was fucking 2,000 years ago.
I know, that's what I'm saying.
I mean, what an absolute unique situation for archaeology to uncover how sophisticated
they were, what they ate, what they traded, how they lived.
Some of the artifacts that they find are amazing.
So I want to back up a little bit because not necessarily on this specific one, but
with the Pompeii they found trinkets like stone carvings of something smaller than the
size of a baseball.
It was kind of a glass.
It had multi colors on it and it was magnetic, but it was magnetic in certain spots.
So if you were to take something like a piece of metal, it would stick to certain spots
of the baseball size.
Oh weird.
And when you hold the baseball up, there are different colors, like it's translucent.
So they found that in Pompeii?
Yeah, they found some of that, they found them all over that region.
But it's just amazing, it's kind of how do they make that?
Because there's an astrological map that they put on there of the solar system and you're
kind of like, holy shit.
So the people that are making this know what the planets are.
How the hell do they know that?
I mean Galileo came up with that in the fucking 1600s.
Star charts from early human history are amazing to me as well.
So they're going through different artifacts that they pulled out of Pompeii and one that
I'm drawing attention to is I guess they have the people.
They're like stone.
So what is your fascination with that?
Just the fact that they were so well preserved.
Yeah.
Didn't he have any tattoos or anything that were?
Big American flag across the back.
Yeah.
Let's go Brandon.
Tramp stamp.
Yeah, so apparently they knew this was coming.
Anyway, I just think it's amazing.
It is amazing, man.
I tell you, some of the stuff that you find that you can't explain, like one of them was
the rock I told you.
I know I'll have to do a sidebar with you guys later and show you what I'm talking about
because we could pull it up but I don't even know what the hell it's called.
It's a star chart disc rock with magnetic points on it.
But outside of that, I mean things that they find in the earth that are unveiled like these
crystal skulls, those glass skulls.
That was Indiana Jones.
This is in real life.
Can you take all those and put them in their rightful places?
The point about the skulls that are significant is that they tried to reproduce them and you
can't pre-produce them.
You simply can't reproduce these skulls.
The Japanese went through, it looked just like it but under a microscope you could tell
the difference of the way the glass is shaped.
The thing about these skulls, I think there's what, seven, eight, nine, ten of them.
People have some opinions.
It's always cold.
Well, whatever man.
Fucking, I mean if you touch a big fucking piece of glass, yeah it is always cold.
They say some vibrate and who knows?
Because really glass has a memory just like water does.
Water has a memory.
I mean there are some components that we have no idea how to tap into and we're just now
starting to learn.
I mean we are now starting to find out that we can etch on a little piece of glass and
we can put like a terabyte on a fucking stamp size piece of glass.
I don't know how they do that.
Laser etching, right?
Yeah, I have no idea.
So is that something that you, when they do the laser etching.
They do it on diamonds as well.
On diamonds?
That's amazing.
They'll put real small like serial numbers on diamonds to identify your diamond.
Do they?
Diamond etching, yes.
So the etching that they do on these, is this kind of like a microfiche etching?
It's very, very, very, very small.
So it's not data like you can download it.
So when they say they can put a...
Like storing data on it.
Yeah, you're not storing data on the disk.
Like you can pop it into like a thumb drive.
It's like numbers and shit like that.
So it's literally an etching of binary code.
Right.
I don't know.
Well that's amazing.
So the thing about the skulls that are amazing is just that the fact that they're perfect.
So when I say perfect, it's just like, you know, the distance, they're so smooth.
They've been around.
It's like someone's been rubbing them forever.
You know?
Where'd they find them?
In random places all over the planet.
Oh wow.
Yeah.
So you'd have to...
Any improsper?
I think in South, I think in South America for sure.
Gunter.
Let me see.
Origin of the glass skulls.
I really think that's an Indiana Jones movie.
Well, it kind of was.
So many crystal skulls claimed to be pre-Columbian, usually attributed to the Aztec or the Maya
civilizations, is what this one article is saying.
So where do they come from?
You know, basically Mexico and Central America.
So I misspoke.
I thought some were found on the Middle East.
I guess they're mostly from the South, Mexico and Central America.
Interesting.
Anyway, so you know, I like that kind of stuff.
I love the History Channel's Ancient Aliens.
You know, a lot of that stuff is crazy.
The people on there are hilarious too with the big freaking blown out hairstyle.
And I'll tell you what, if you know this airplane, if they didn't know how to do it back then,
how do they learn how to do it?
If I guess it must have been aliens.
I'm not saying it's aliens, but how did they learn how to do it?
If there were aliens.
We're going to see Sean on one of those episodes one day.
I'm surprised he hasn't already been there.
It reminds me of like an episode from one of those little cartoon.
The Muppets?
God damn it.
The South Park.
Yeah, thank you.
South Park.
I was like, how did you get that so fast?
You're thinking cartoons?
I'm like, no.
South Park.
I'm thinking the cartoons that Sean would like.
South Park.
Actually, I don't want South Park.
I was going to go through all the Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
We could do that again.
No, let's not.
Here it comes.
Very uncomfortable now.
So you know, what if you were traumatized by the Hanna-Barbera cartoons?
Yeah.
Did we beat the shit out of the folks?
Yeah, did we chat about the collusion between the National School Board Association?
We briefly talked about it.
We briefly talked about it, but we didn't really get into the meat of this.
Well, we kind of went sideways.
We talked about the Fort Worth guy with his little militia.
Yeah, that was kind of...
Dude, that's too much.
You show up to something like that, you know what?
See, that's...
You get people like that that show up, which is fine.
Say your piece.
But it's intimidating.
He completely intimidated and threatened the people there.
At that point, you have to stand up.
He says, look, I disagree with you.
And I said, you know, history needs to be taught, but you don't need to tell...
We don't need to be talking shit about white folks, just like you said.
They don't need to be teaching people that white people are bad.
I'm wondering if he's on the no-fly list now.
Probably not.
I mean, they got his name over everywhere.
I'm sure the FBI is on him like stink on shit.
I don't know.
You would think...
Probably not.
I mean, if I lived in that area, I would come dressed in a flock suit, just totally decked
out just like him, that I would be his nemesis showing up at these meetings.
You'd be in a tactical kilt.
Yeah, I like that.
That'd be cool.
And then you'd get knocked to the ground.
You would totally get knocked to the ground.
And he would be handcuffed and you'd be hauled away.
You would be roughed up so fast, Sean, compared to the other guy.
I can guarantee it.
What do you mean roughed up?
If you showed up at that school board meeting, well, not the tactical kilt part.
But if you were acting like he was, you would be like that dad of the daughter that got
raped in the bathroom, that got knocked to the ground and handcuffed and carried away.
They let the other folks go.
He could have shut up.
He set his peace like he was supposed to.
I know, but they didn't bother him.
The police did escort him out.
Did they really knock him down?
No.
I'm talking about the black guy in the Fort Worth deal.
One of the things...
He was escorted out by the police, but I'm just saying, had it been you talking like
that and all this kind of stuff, they probably would have dragged you away from him.
No, what I'm saying is that I want to show up at the next event that he's going to be
at.
I know.
And I want to come in my gear.
And he turns around and looks at everybody and says, I think anyone's got a problem with
that, I'm going to stand up and say, I have a problem with it, bitch.
And they'll call you a white supremacist.
That's okay.
A white nationalist.
I'm all right with that.
White wingers, psychos.
Look how he's dressed.
Dressed all like a militia.
Totally.
There's no equal treatment right now.
No.
At all.
I'm going to keep some grape Kool-Aid packet in my back right pocket.
For what?
What's that for?
I'm just trying to build some trends here to...
Grape Kool-Aid packet?
What's the significance of the grape Kool-Aid packet?
I'm cultural.
Oh, boy.
I'm just saying, look, you can't assume just because I come in tactical gear that I'm a
white supremacist.
Come on.
But that's what the...
Well, as soon as you talk, they'll label you that.
That's the narrative.
What if I say I love black people?
They wouldn't believe you.
Oh.
I was just like, well, I have a black friend.
Well, it's just like Biden calling Wittenhouse a white supremacist.
They knew nothing about this kid.
Nothing about it.
Where are the repercussions on that?
Nothing.
No.
No word.
Actually, I'm hopeful that he is acquitted and then he goes on a...
Oh, sues the shit out of the fucking planet.
That's what I hope, but I mean, already they're deadlocked.
Yeah.
So, I mean, what should have been very straightforward justice for the kid.
Yeah.
Usually the ones that are the no brainers, they come, they're in and out.
I mean, this is crazy that they're...
So does that mean that they're tied or does that...
Somebody is not a grain with someone else.
It has to be unanimous.
But we don't know what the ratio is.
We don't.
All right.
But someone on there thinks he's guilty.
All it takes is one.
Yeah.
So there's six people on there and one of them...
No, they said they brought it down to six because Rittenhouse, they were drawing the
numbers out of the thing today.
There was 12.
Oh, I did see that.
Well, there were like 18 jurors and they had to pick which ones were going to be the final
12.
But I'm almost certain it's 12.
I mean, it's always 12.
All right.
So Rittenhouse draws...
Oops, that was a video.
I didn't mean to do that.
Rittenhouse draws six numbers to whittle down the jury.
So maybe he drew six numbers for people to leave.
Right.
Maybe that's what it was.
Okay.
That makes sense.
Yeah, that makes sense.
So jury deliberation expected to start next week will include consideration of six.
Do you think those six that were let go were like completely relieved because they don't
want to deal with the drama, the fallout, and the protest, and the looting?
Well, I mean, let it go to court again.
I mean, look, it's been a year.
I mean, this kid's life, this sucks for him no matter what.
But he made the decision to do what he did and like it or not, to put himself in an adult
position like that, there are adult consequences.
And he did that.
Well, and so...
He knew what he was getting into when he was carrying that gun.
Yeah.
He knew what he was going to get to when he showed up.
We can have a debate whether it's a good idea for him to do any of those.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, from a humanitarian standpoint, when he shows up there during the day and
he's got a brush and some bristle brush and some water and he's cleaning up the graffiti
everywhere.
But really, the fact that he went out there to try to...
He's carrying a weapon to protect himself.
No, to protect businesses.
Yeah.
Well, to protect himself.
No, to protect businesses.
That's why he went there.
Well, okay.
Well, but also to protect businesses from fire.
But I'm saying he brought the gun to protect himself.
Okay?
He went there to protect the businesses by trying to put out the fires.
Because that's basically that Rosenbaum douche from what I gather initially got upset because
he was putting out fires in the dumpster.
So he set a fire in a dumpster, was pushing down the fucking street and in comes Rittenhouse
and puts it out.
Fire extinguisher, it's out.
Fucking...
He calls him N-word and da-da-da-da.
And he takes off.
I mean...
Insane.
That's how that shit starts.
And you know, let's back up two, three, four, five, six months ago.
There was some individual that was kind of doing the same thing.
And he gets...
He's on the ground and someone punts his fucking head.
Remember that?
Oh yeah.
Yeah, you're right.
You know, just like a fucking melon.
I mean, look, fire Rittenhouse, and I just saw that because that came out previously.
Yeah, it did.
You know?
So I'm like, man, look, I'm not getting my head kicked in.
And they're coming out.
I mean, it's tribal.
I mean, look at all the people that's around him.
And there are people taking video.
And you can hear it in the tone of their voice.
Get him, get him.
That and like, oh shit, he's going to get beat up now.
And I'm just like...
It's just...
What type of person sits there and laughs at things and thinks that the mentality, the
humanitarian...
We suck.
I mean, we're pathetic.
I mean, as a human race.
Look at the rape on the subway in Philadelphia.
Oh yeah.
It was raped for 40 minutes.
Right.
And nobody did anything.
There were 10 people there.
And they filmed it.
10 people were in the same car and they filmed it instead of helping her.
I mean, we suck.
This is a world devoid of God.
It really is.
Well, you know, I think it just takes the right person to be there.
Yeah, you know, I know if I were there, I would have done something.
I can promise you.
You know?
Well, I guess it's tough if you're by yourself.
I don't know, man.
I don't care.
I would have gotten involved in it.
I probably would have got hurt.
But I don't care.
You know, what's right is right.
I'm with you.
And some of these other folks, if they're older, they can't handle it.
The other folks probably were not filming.
It was probably a bunch of younger folks.
God, it just makes me sick in my stomach.
Yeah, but did anyone call 911?
No.
That's the disturbing part.
They went through 10 stops, I think, before someone finally called 911.
That's unbelievable.
How does one...
I don't know.
I've been on those damn trains.
How does one do that?
I don't know.
I just, for the life of me, I can't understand it.
And they say they were going to pursue...
They have video inside the car and they're going to pursue...
People that are going like this?
Yep.
Who those people are and they're going to...
I mean, because I think there's got to be some law about...
It's kind of like, you know how with a wreck, you're required to stop.
Right.
I mean, I think there's probably some laws like that.
I don't know.
All right.
How about...
Isn't there like some...
There's a fantastic movie on Netflix right now.
Red...
Red Notice.
I watched it last night.
How was it?
Is it good?
It was good.
It was entertaining.
Yeah.
It was stupid, but it was entertaining.
I can't believe it was on Netflix.
I thought it was in the movie theaters.
No.
I mean, yeah, I really want to watch that.
Yeah.
There's a number of movies I'm excited about.
I'm excited about the new Matrix movie.
Yeah.
I'm excited about...
I'm curious to see how they reboot that because the previews make it look like everyone's
back in the Matrix again.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, yeah, you can reboot the Matrix as many times as you want, right?
I guess.
Yeah.
Well, and then there's Dune.
You saw Dune.
I saw Dune.
It was really good.
I watched like 15 minutes and I passed.
I was out.
For Dune?
Yeah.
I just fell asleep.
I was tired.
I'll tell you what I saw last night was Love Hard.
Love Hard?
Yeah.
Love Hard, it's a Christmas movie.
And...
Is it like a new release?
I guess.
It's like number two or three on Netflix right now, but it's basically this Asian...
Oh, I saw that where he fakes his Tumblr or whatever it was.
His account.
Yeah.
He's basically someone who's not, and he attracts this woman and she's surprised that they're
talking for months and he's not that charismatic, but I guess he does have a swimmingly fantastic,
buoyant personality.
And he's a great writer.
This is based on the same story where...
It's a Hallmark movie on Netflix.
And then another guy acts like he goes in his place because he's too afraid to...
Like Roxanne.
Well, whatever.
You guys got to watch it.
Cyrano de Bergerac.
It's not a...
Right.
It's an okay movie.
It was cute.
All right, let's just put it there.
It was cute and we'll just leave it at that.
It was a Hallmark movie.
You watched it by yourself?
Yeah.
Unbelievable.
I just gave you one of these shit.
I know.
All right, well, that's a good one to watch.
There was another one.
I think she was in Vampire Diaries, right?
Really?
The girl from Vampire Diaries?
Does she have something to do with this bourbon?
Yeah, what's her name?
Nina something?
Stephanie Chang.
No.
Nina Dobrev.
Yeah, that's the chick from Vampire Diaries.
I haven't seen her.
Yeah, that's her.
I've never seen the Vampire Diaries.
She made this bourbon.
Yeah, she made this bourbon.
Yeah, her bath water.
There was another really anticipated movie and I can't remember the name of it now.
What tastes like it?
What do you think about the Ghostbusters with Paul Rudd?
Is it out yet?
No, I think it's soon.
Very soon.
Oh, is this supposed to be like a creepy one?
I don't know.
Oh man, that would be cool.
I don't know.
It's the grandkids is what it is.
Is that what it is?
Yeah, it's the grandkids of...
So when a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their
connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy that their grandfather left
behind.
There you go.
Well, that'd be cool.
It would be a good reboot after they blew the stupid all-woman Ghostbuster movie.
Yeah.
I never even saw it.
Yeah, I saw parts of it, but it's just...
Come on.
It was bad.
Who's that actor right there?
It's Paul Rudd.
I like Paul Rudd.
He's funny.
He's an Ant-Man.
Yeah, I like Ant-Man too.
What's his name?
Well, Ant-Man's good.
I'm trying to look at my list here of other movies.
This is 40.
He's in This is 40 with that movie's freaking hilarious.
What is that movie about?
Being 40.
Yeah, being 40.
Turning 40 with kids and life.
Pretty much.
He's a dude like us.
And what's bad is when you're 40 and you're just like, my life sucks.
And then you turn 50.
Yeah.
Right.
Your life sucks and your body hurts.
Yeah.
There you have it.
I believe he was just named the Sexiest Man Alive.
Really?
Paul Rudd?
There you go.
Yes.
Why?
He's like a mini-me.
I don't know.
I don't get it.
He's 52 years old.
He's 52 as well.
There we go.
Sexiest Man Alive.
Wow.
I disagree.
You don't find him hot?
No.
I don't.
I disagree.
He's cute.
19, yeah.
He's actually a month older than I am.
So let's go into our Sticks concert.
All right.
So this past weekend was actually kind of cool.
It was Friday.
Friday evening.
Yeah.
Friday was tough, man.
I had to travel, so I had to get a rental.
And man, we had this all planned out.
We went to go see Sticks.
Uh-huh.
Domo ogregato.
Oh, Mr. Ogregato.
Isn't that what?
At Choctaw.
Choctaw.
That was my version of it.
Yeah.
No, that's not the right version.
You missed it.
Yeah.
You're talking about Jerry's text.
I'm wearing my stick shirt right now.
It was really funny.
You are wearing your stick shirt.
Yeah.
Oh, look at you.
Yeah.
Barely fits.
That's exciting.
Sausage-y.
Yeah.
So I think the...
I think the...
I don't know exactly who were original members.
I think two were original members, if I'm not mistaken.
I think James Young and Tommy Shaw.
The two guitarists, Tommy Shaw and, yeah, well, they consider tall, but I don't think
he's as tall as...
I think Tommy Shaw is just really, really short.
Yeah.
And so the other ones, though, like the drummer and the funny piano guy...
Crotch Man.
He...
They were older musicians.
They may not have been the originals, but they've been with the band or friends with
the band forever.
It's like 20 plus years.
Right.
So, Lawrence, who was the accordion...
Dennis DeYoung.
Dennis Young was the original.
Yeah.
He's not there, obviously, but...
So who's the...
Who took over?
Tommy Shaw.
Yeah.
But who was the pianist?
The pianist.
I don't know his name.
The pianist.
I don't know his name.
I did not say that.
Anyway, he was quite boisterous.
Like he was jumping around and river dancing and...
Shaking his junk everywhere.
Shaking his junk and being very over the top.
Yeah, he was.
Just Todd...
Todd's a Superman for the drums, which was...
He was good.
Yeah, he was good.
He was awesome.
Who's the big, four-headed motherfucker?
Well, they're talking about the large guy...
James Young.
That's James Young.
Yeah.
He's one of the originals, I think.
Yeah, him, Tommy Shaw.
Him and Tommy Shaw, yeah.
He was in the Tura Ridge, and then you had the singer...
I don't know his name, but he was wearing tight white...
I don't know if they were leather pants or what, but he liked to stand up there with
his legs spread and shake his junk around.
Oh yeah, he'd come with the pianist.
Yes, the singer.
Yeah, he sang a lot.
His voice wasn't bad though.
Well, he sang all the Dennis DeYoung songs.
Right.
And Tommy Shaw sings a lot as well.
He sang a lot more than I realized.
So when did Dennis DeYoung die?
He didn't die.
He quit in like 19...
That must have been a long time.
So was it Lawrence Gowan?
Yes.
They split.
Yeah, it's Lawrence Gowan.
James Young is...
Because I put in here who plays the keyboard.
Oh, hold on.
We have up here...
We'll go down to the members.
Are you kidding me?
We can't find...
We have fucking Google.
We still can't find who this guy is.
Go to members.
I mean, I'm looking at it.
I put members on there.
It's got nothing.
It's got the Dennis DeYoung, Lawrence Gowan...
Lawrence Gowan is the singer.
So he's the pianist then?
The pianist.
The guy with the pianist.
Yes.
So, yeah, so Lawrence Gowan's a singer.
He did good.
Again, he was a little over the top singing and...
He was.
Jump shaking.
He was still a great concert.
And he would play his keyboards, his back to the crowd, as he shook his ass at you.
Wow, that's a much younger...
Much younger...
Picture.
So he had kind of a cool setup, though, where the keyboard could go 360.
Right?
Yeah, he'd spin it around.
Yeah, he could spin it and he had this cool kind of pedestal that he would climb up on.
It was actually a pretty cool setup.
There's the James Young, yeah.
Anyway, so it...
I thought it was a cool concert.
I mean, they...
I thought they sounded good.
I mean, when they first came out, they sounded like shit.
Yeah, you guys were worried about it when they first came out.
The sound sounded like shit.
Well, you know, anytime they tried to integrate the sound system, it sounded...
It was just overall...
This is going to sound like if you're too loud, you're too old.
But no, it was.
It was like...
It's like they went in there and beat the shit out of the sound system to warm it up,
I guess.
I don't know.
But it was just like so caustic.
Well, then obviously they adjusted it.
They did.
Yeah.
Yeah, they worked on it and it sounded better about halfway through that first song.
But they do a sound check.
Well, when you fill it with people, it changes the sound.
It changes things.
OK, yeah.
So you have to tweak.
They get it close and then they'll tweak it.
So...
Makes sense.
But yeah, I mean, they sounded good.
They played all their hits and then they played some of their new stuff.
I think when they were live, it was like, eh, maybe?
Then we listened to the album on the way back home.
We were just like, eh.
Yeah.
It's not that...
It was very, I think, generic.
I think when we were getting caught up in the concert and they played the new stuff,
I thought it was like, didn't sound bad.
Right.
Well, you get the harmonies that they do.
So you're like, oh, everyone likes harmonies.
Right.
And then, yeah, we did.
We listened to the new stuff in the car and it was underwhelming.
Yeah.
I mean, even Barry, even Barry was saying that he...
The thing about it is...
He listened to that whole album and he was like, man.
They've got a significant sound to them.
And to me, it's something that just needs to be in the past.
Hold on.
It just needs to be something that, you know...
They don't need to remake that old shit, the retro sound.
It's hard to build on that.
It's like a retro sound.
So it's just like, dude, you know, you need to end it.
Just play the hits, make your money.
It is really interesting that these bands can't seem to make albums and still be successful.
I can't believe you can't find that dude's name.
Ooh, Lawrence Gowan.
The pianist.
Yeah.
It's Lawrence Gowan.
Lawrence Gowan.
Which is right there.
Lawrence Henry Gowan.
He's a Scottish Canadian musician born in Glasgow, raised in Scarborough, Ontario.
So he was the one doing the Riverdance up on the...
Correct.
He was the guy jumping around being kind of silly.
That dude...
Look, as...
Lots of energy.
As crazy and gay as I thought it was, he's got some energy.
Yeah.
Well, and he's old.
I'm sure he was going to fall off the fucking piano.
Yeah, the dude's old.
Anyway, it was an enjoyable concert.
All right.
So...
We're ready.
So yeah, that was it.
That's our wrap.
So we have Brothers Bond.
We were not overly impressed with that.
We did Clyde Mays, Alabama style on the first...
Yeah.
That was good.
It is good.
I'm going to have another little sample and...
I am good.
All right.
Thanks for hanging with us.
I'm Paul.
I'm Jeff.
And I'm Sean.
And this is...
Dudes Like Us.
Loving it.
All right.
Have a good night.
This is great, man.
Happy holidays.
Yeah.