You know what? Take it back.
I think Paul's full of shit.
I'm not. That's what my coworkers told me.
That you sound like the Casey Kasem?
Callister.
Yeah, that's what they joke about. They sound like I'm in a studio.
Doing top 40.
Right.
Coming in at number 12.
I'm going to be like Butt Week.
Alpha Alpha Spanky.
Man, we've been off for a while, haven't we?
We have.
For three weeks. Three weeks. You can blame one person for that.
You can blame me for that.
Yeah, we missed two.
Two weeks because of me.
Someone decided they wanted to get sick.
Yeah. I did.
Oh yeah.
On an episode we had to, I cratered hard. Was it two, three weeks ago?
No, it's been two weeks. It's been two weeks.
And I cratered, went downhill and canceled last week, had the COVID.
And just got the lingering cough at this point.
You don't know if you really had COVID.
Well, I guess you lost your taste, right?
Well, I got tested twice.
And they're saying those tests are like 70% wrong.
Yeah, I don't doubt that.
So I'm just saying, you know, you never know.
You lost your taste and your penis grew smaller.
I don't know how that's possible.
Is that a side effect?
Speaking of small penises.
I don't think that is a side effect.
I thought I had COVID.
I'm sorry, what?
I thought I got COVID. I don't think I got COVID then, if that's one of the side effects.
Not everybody loses their taste and smell. It sucks, too.
I wasn't talking about those.
I was thinking that I had COVID for sure.
You probably did.
But the thing is I never lost my taste.
That's not 100% of the people don't lose their...
Yeah, I know.
That just means that my body was able to, for some reason, fight a part of that off.
I don't know.
Could be genetics.
Could be the curving.
Could be. I don't know.
Curving.
Maybe you just have a superior immunity system than the rest of us.
I'm thinking that's what it is.
Did you eat dirt as a kid?
Because he was sick a good week or so.
It was uncomfortable.
It was a little cough.
All three of us have gotten it, I think, within the last month.
You got it pretty bad.
I think the whole world got it.
I think all of us had it concurrently. Not concurrently, but right after another.
I think you had it first.
And then Sean.
And then I got it.
I'm ground zero. I gave it to everyone.
I'm patient zero.
I think you got it the worst, though, Jeff.
So we were... Dudes like us were sick.
So this is... What is today?
Today is the eighth.
February 8th, we got Valentines coming up.
We got to talk about past events from Valentines.
We've got Super Bowl coming up.
We got to talk about a little bit about that.
We've got the ongoing saga of Bill Biden, Joe Biden's administration.
Ineptitude.
Yeah, just whatever they got going on.
We got to talk about Jen Ball, Saki.
I want to try to bring up some what we call maybe the silver lining moments.
There are some good things starting to happen.
We've got to take some good things.
Let's find out some...
We've got Canada.
I was going to say there are some significant world events happening right now, too.
That's starting to screw with me at work.
We've got Ukraine and Russia going on.
You guys might be a little bit smarter than I am on this, but I'm going to pose the question.
I'm going to come up with a few things.
Just help me fill in the blanks.
As far as history goes, Ukraine and Russia.
From what I understood, there was a pipeline that traveled through Ukraine to feed Europe.
Specifically, Germany and on its way to Poland.
Ukraine was instrumental because the piping ran through Ukraine.
What Putin did is he ran his own gas line and circumvented Ukraine.
He took that away from them.
Is that what I understand?
I don't know of any of that.
I'm not versed in Ukrainian history.
This is what I've understood.
Maybe we need to fact check some of that if it's there.
Basically, Russia has created their own.
At the same time, when Biden shut down our pipelines, he voted to help Putin get his going.
Something happened.
That's Nord Stream.
Where is that?
That runs from Western Europe into Russia.
Or Russia into Western Europe.
They can sell oil to Eastern Europe.
That was the United Kingdom area?
No.
Like Germany.
That's my point.
Before that, the pipeline ran through Ukraine.
From what I understood, Ukraine was making a lot of money off that.
That was what it was all about.
If that's true, Ukraine lost a lot of money.
There's some really shady shit going on.
I think that might be some of the more recent issues going on there.
I think there's much deeper geopolitical forces going on right now.
Joe Biden involved in his shenanigans with Ukraine.
And Hunter.
Just the quid quo pro.
You know what they say?
You try to get Donald Trump on a quid quo pro over a silly conversation that could have gone any direction.
You have Joe Biden flat out saying, guess what?
I'm going to be on the tarmac for another six hours.
If this isn't done and that lawyer isn't fired, you just lost yourself a billion dollars.
Guess what?
That son of a bitch was fired.
Stupid son of a bitch.
There's video of that.
It was completely dismissed by the press during that whole time period.
It pissed me off.
I also think, again, I'm not very well versed in the Ukraine geopolitical shit.
But I think there's, it's Crimea, so I think there's access to ports.
That's why they seized Crimea to begin with.
Right.
Back when Obama was in power.
Right.
To have access to what was it?
The Black Sea or what?
Yeah, the port.
A warm water port.
Yeah.
So it's something Russia wants and needs to, you know, trade.
And it goes even deeper than that.
I'm sorry to interrupt.
We dove right into this Russia thing, and I didn't mean to derail that, but we had to talk about a few things before we get the show going.
We haven't been in the podcast for a while.
We've been out for a couple weeks because we're sick.
And our opening bourbon today, if Jeff, if you don't mind, you get the bottle over there.
What is it?
It's called Puncher's Chance.
You know, and how relevant, because there's a chance that I don't want to ever drink this again.
I couldn't.
Puncher's Chance.
So, you know, there's nothing spectacular about it.
I'm not a great judge at this point because my taste has not fully come back.
I like my bourbons to have a little fruit, a little tart, a little caramel.
But this is like a hold on.
We got some of this joining us.
Are we talking about the one that was left downstairs for me?
Oh, that was actually Austin's. He did not like it. So you can have it.
But is that the one we're talking about?
Correct. Yes. Yeah.
I thought it was very yummy.
I added sugar to it.
There's a little simple syrup added to it.
I think you need another glass of it.
Taste mine without the simple sugar.
So it's got a, I don't know, we got it's Puncher's Chance, straight Kentucky bourbon.
I think that may have changed her opinion.
That changed my opinion quite a bit.
It's distilled, aged and bottled all in the heart of Kentucky.
Crafted and experienced hands on the master distiller.
I almost said something else.
Kevin Curtis, a seasoned pro who refined.
This difficult font to read, by the way.
It's like old English.
Well, read it on the back of this bottle.
It's like the back of a Metallica album, you know?
Yeah, yeah, it's like old English.
Yeah. So the mashpills 90 proof, 75 corn, 13 rye and 12 barley.
This is not the 90 proof version, though.
This isn't the 90 proof.
This is the 100. We got the 110.
This is punchy in the dick version.
Wow.
This is a barrel. This is a store pick.
This is a store pick.
I think that's why it's a little burst out.
Uniquely selected for Total Wine.
This is a Total Wine store pick.
Okay.
So that may have.
In other words, small batch or single barrel.
Well, yeah, well, their buyers went there.
Isn't that amazing that they have that buying power?
That they can go straight to distillers and say we're representatives from Total Wine and.
A lot of folks can do that.
Really?
A lot of the liquor stores do that.
Liquor King does that.
Total Wine does that.
Sure Spex, Goody Goody.
I'm sure all those do.
That's cool. I like that.
Yeah, and they get, you know, different promotional things they pass out.
TAC try to start stopping a lot of that stuff, giving out free things.
They would go to the bars and pass out T-shirts, cups, glasses, jerseys.
Like the little girls that would go around with the little trays full of shots.
At the boobs.
Yes.
Yeah, what she said.
At the boobs, yes.
Little girls?
Little girls.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
What are we talking about here?
Little compared to 50 something year old men.
Oh, okay.
Young.
We're not talking about Girl Scouts and cookies or something.
No, like 20 year olds.
I got confused.
Okay.
All right.
I'm scared.
21 I guess it would be.
All right.
Oh, let's back up for a second.
There was a time where I would frequent working a lot of these promotions with Stratian Heiser,
Coors and the liquor distributors where I would go and bar hop with these chicks and
I'd be the emcee.
Ah, nice.
Nice.
And I would just say, hey, welcome to the stage.
No, no.
Jean-Claude.
Hi, how are you tonight?
My name is Jose.
No, you did not do that at all.
Is this some tacos?
Some tacos, some tequila.
You know what?
They have shots on a beaker.
There was a tequila Susie at one of the places I used to work at and she used to take, what's
going on?
She used to take.
Paul wanted to drink your beer.
Southern Comfort tequila and Sprite.
And she would, she would wear these.
She first of all, she was wearing a very skimpy outfit, but she had on a cowboy belt and it
had these these little holders where it would have the different bottles.
So she'd like flip around.
Well, she'd walk around from table to table and she was really, she was just full of energy.
You know, who do you know, just kind of like, all right.
And all the guys would like pinch her butt or whatever.
Her boobs were hanging out and everything.
Yeah.
It was okay.
They were pinching her butt, but because that's kind of what they call sexual harassment.
Yeah, a little bit.
It wasn't back then.
It is now.
Well, they didn't.
I think it was back then, too.
I think she was kicked around.
She was really in shape.
No one cared about it back then.
My point is it was tequila suzi and she would go by your table and you'd buy, you know,
it was like two dollars a shot.
She would be like, you know, everyone would buy two dollar shots of Alabama Slammers.
I think they were called.
And she would have a little towel and she would slam it.
Bam.
And you'd hear it across the bar.
Bam.
What was that?
Oh, that's Alabama Slammer.
Hold on.
She's pointing out the inappropriate icon that you assigned to next to my track.
All right.
So we have a guest.
Miss Julie's here, Jeff's wife, and she, you know, we Austin had and Jeff had agreed to
make a.
Oh, why is it my fault that his icon looks like a penis?
Because you're the look like to put it.
It is a penis.
You're the one I had something else on.
I showed up.
I showed up and it was the icons are already selected.
And I was like, I put Tennessee Titans down.
No, you didn't.
Yeah, mine's good.
That's not a Tennessee Titan.
Mine's a flag.
And you know, it's you know, it's funny.
Every time I edit, I change it.
Right.
And then the next time I come to edit, I get angry because somebody changed it back.
It's hard coded.
No, that's how it happens.
Like you.
I open up.
There's somewhere else I have to change it as.
For fun, for a little fun fact.
Yes.
The preset that I have that I load up before every single podcast.
That's the default.
I have to change it.
That explains it.
OK.
Because someone put that on the preset.
So why don't you tell them that?
No, we were the one that did it.
We made a workbook.
So I already have the icon I want.
That's always there.
It gets reset.
I just need to find the preset.
No, you don't need to touch anything.
Oh, I'm going to find it.
I mean, it's just an icon.
Who's going to see it?
Paul.
I know it's there and it bothers me.
Paul will see it.
Come on.
I'm going to find it.
Paul will see it.
Come on.
Now everyone knows.
I never even thought about it twice.
Paul's icon is a penis.
Every time he edits, he looks at it and he's like, damn it.
I do.
It's a big old cock.
No, the first thing I do is I go, OK, I'm going to edit.
I'm like, oh, God, I got to change that.
Is it a white one?
That's not what it looks like.
Is it a Caucasian or a Hispanic?
Kind of pink.
It's pink.
Yes.
What is that?
Can we move on?
Kind of looks like a cartoon.
A drawing.
Anyway.
It's a junkie.
So lots of veins in it.
So what does that say up there?
Live big?
Live big.
Wow.
That was difficult for me to decipher that.
I don't think it's bad.
I mean, it's nothing special, but I would say it's the middle of the road.
I wouldn't say it's bad at all.
What was the pricing on this one?
This was in the 50 bucks range.
Really?
Yeah, it was.
Yeah.
I don't know if it's worth that.
Yeah, I would agree.
But you know what?
For what it is, it's 110.2 proof.
Yeah.
It doesn't drink that way.
And it's not bad.
Again, I'm not the best judge at this point.
So hats off to Total Wine for them grabbing what would be a big chunk of that bottle before
they diluted it down to 90.
Hats off for them for capturing this.
That barrel.
If this is to succeed, it would have to be at this range, the 110 proof.
I wonder what the 90 tastes like.
Because you guys are telling me that doesn't have too much of a flavor at 110.
Yeah, that's why I'm thinking the 90 probably doesn't have hardly at all.
That's a good point.
And I put a cube in mine.
All I felt was pain when I took a sip.
It hurt.
I couldn't.
It burns your vulva.
This is just a solid sit outside.
Sip.
Yeah, just sip.
If you have a cigar.
It's not real hearty.
You don't have to chew it.
You just sit there and sip it.
I think anytime you drink it straight, we should be just relaxing and sipping.
Yeah, this one's very easy to drink.
It's not painful.
I think I'd go for a Sprite instead.
Yeah.
Maybe even a 7-up.
Like a 7-in-7.
All right, well there you go.
All right, so we've got the Super Bowl coming up.
We've got the, which man, I'll tell you, who better to be in the Super Bowl than this nostalgic bunch?
You know, the LA Rams and the, who's the other team?
That's the mighty Cincinnati Bengals.
Have they been to the Super Bowl before?
Yeah, twice before.
When was the first Super Bowl?
The 80s.
I wasn't even born then.
And how many wins?
We were in the Super Bowl.
That'd be zero.
Okay, they've never won it, but this was the third time they've been there.
Correct.
They played Joe Montana, 82, 83-ish area.
Quarterback was Ken Anderson for the Bengals at that point.
And then 1989 maybe?
Boomer.
Or 90 with Boomer, yeah.
Boomer is ice.
Against the 49ers again.
But I think at that time, was it Steve Young?
Steve Young, that's not fair.
So both losses, both good games.
Definitely had a chance to win both of them, but the 49ers were just too powerful back in the day.
Yeah, they were. Jerry Rice, right?
Yeah.
And I don't know if Jerry Rice was in the first one.
Was he early 80s?
Maybe not early 80s.
I don't know.
I don't remember.
Who was the running back?
He had Roger Craig.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, I remember him.
That's who I remember.
You told him on the Bengals.
Not, no, that's for the 49ers.
49ers, when they were in their powerhouse mode.
Yeah, Jerry Rice, Steve Young.
I think it went from Joe Montana and then it went to Steve Young was the second string.
And well, when Joe Montana left and went to KC, Steve Young took over.
Steve Young took over.
But there was something that happened where Joe Montana was out for some reason and Steve Young and he did a really good job.
Oh, that could be.
Maybe that's why Montana left.
Maybe.
Because he was nearing the end.
Yeah, it could have been the Drew Bledsoe, you know, and Tom Brady scenario.
Could be, could be.
But yeah, the Bengals, it's been a long time.
I've been long suffering.
I remember being in grade school writing a letter to the coach back in the late 70s, Homer Rice, when you're in like third grade.
Did you do the letter where it's like, come to my school and talk to the students?
No, it was probably I can't remember.
He said your coaching sucks.
I'm so upset.
Why didn't you play so and so more?
Right.
You were my idol.
Why didn't you play Booby Clark more?
You're mismanaging the team.
Isaac Curtis.
Yeah.
So really, what did you say?
Probably, you know, play hard.
I love you.
Yeah, I love you.
I have no idea.
We have the hottest cheerleaders ever.
Do you know how many times the Bengals have gone to the Super Bowl?
We just discussed that.
Third time.
This will be the third time.
Are you kidding me?
The third.
I thought you were talking about the Rams.
No, I thought it was the second.
When was the what am I missing here?
All right.
That's a 1983.
Is that they went in 88, 88, 81 and 88.
That's what you say.
You were both against the 49ers.
Yeah, both were against 49ers.
Correct.
But Bengal teams, both both very good.
Ken Anderson was really good quarterback.
When they went to the Super Bowl in 81, do you remember the freezer bowl when it was
against the it was the AFC championship game in Cincinnati against the San Diego Chargers?
No.
It was freezer bowl.
It was the I think they consider it the second because the absolute temperature was not
quite as cold as the Dallas Green Bay game by a couple degrees.
But the wind chill was like minus 50 or minus 60.
Right.
Right here.
And that minus 56 degrees.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
So that's what basically everybody who went to the game died.
Yeah, it was ridiculous.
We're watching that on TV and that's colder than the cowboy game.
You put it on your channel and the channel just immediately froze.
That's how cold it was.
Yeah.
And I remember watching film.
I watched the game, but I remember seeing films afterwards saying the offensive line
strategically said we're going out in short sleeves.
And the San Diego defense was intimidated by that.
Oh, so they think they got an edge up on that because they were all in sweatshirts and everything.
And the offensive line for Cincinnati was all short sleeves.
Freeze the nasty for me.
I wear a long sleeve in Texas during the summer.
So yeah, yeah, I don't think anybody would be intimidated by you then.
Well, no one's intimidated by to me regardless.
No, it has all those tattoos.
Oh, tattoos.
You all had it up.
I think I'm the only one in our family that doesn't have a tattoo.
Yeah, it even says right there the Bengals offensive line around the field with their standard sleeveless jerseys
in an effort to intimidate the Charger team.
I would be intimidated.
But it didn't work.
They built a 20 to 0 lead, right?
By halftime.
Yeah, it did not intimidate them.
So that's the 49er game.
So in the second half, I'd say in the second half they came out with long sleeve shirts.
No, no, they came out.
They came out with no shirts actually.
It's not working and we're cold, coach.
It was lingerie football.
They went nipple rings.
There you go.
They were in lace tassels.
You're right.
Nice.
Yeah, but so yeah, the Bengals have had some good teams over the years.
It's been just an exceptionally long time since they've been successful.
So I'm enjoying it.
So this weekend we're going to support them.
Good for you. I'm excited for the Bengals.
We're going to support them.
Yes, we are.
Yeah, so we'll have to have a Super Bowl party.
I'm going to make some Cincinnati chili.
I thought you you wanted to watch it alone.
Because I am having a Super Bowl party.
Are you?
I was told that I was going over to Paul's.
Yeah, I was informed.
We are having a Super Bowl party, but Shelley told me that you guys don't want to come because you have to be alone because it's your team.
I never said that.
Did that come from Julie?
No, I don't believe so.
Can you guys come over?
We're holding a party here.
Oh, crap.
Well, we have a scandal.
I mean, I was informed.
I was watching it at my house.
Well, now you're having fun.
Because I'm selfish.
Well, we know that.
I'm going to ever have a bigger party.
I was kind of like, oh, really?
We're going over to Paul's house.
But Alan's going to be there, right?
Alan's going to be there.
We'll figure it all out.
If it's ever at your place, it's your place.
I'll make some Cincinnati chili and bring it over.
Done.
That was the plan.
I mean, we were going to have Cincinnati chili.
Well, and when Shelley said that you guys can't, I was like, well, come on.
We're all going to be rooting for the Bengals.
It's not like we're going to be rooting against them.
Dude, I thought you were going to be rooting for the Rams.
Hell no.
I think she dreamt that.
You think so?
Yeah.
Well, maybe she.
I think Julie said that last time because I was sick.
Oh.
So, you know, we're.
I tell you what, we'll figure it out.
We'll figure it out.
Figure it out.
Anyway, I'm excited about the Super Bowl because it's two teams that none of us has seen.
I have.
I didn't even know they.
You know what I'm saying?
I mean, typically, from the century, everybody talks about, you know, the Packers.
Right.
I learned about the Bengals this year.
The two number one seeds went down early.
The Cowboys got bounced.
The Titans got bounced.
The Packers got bounced.
Bills, the KC got bounced.
I mean, KC got bounced.
I mean, all the heavyweights got knocked off.
The Cowboys.
All the perceived heavyweights.
Perceived heavyweights.
Yeah.
Like the Titans.
Like the Packers and the Cowboys.
Well, I don't think Cowboys were as good as everyone thought they were.
Of course not.
But, you know, people like.
Oh, they're number two seed.
I was thoroughly disappointed with the Cowboys.
Well, they were good.
They just.
I think they were good the first.
They were good.
But then they didn't keep it up.
And then they were not.
They were good.
But then they didn't keep it up.
I think they just.
They didn't know.
They lost their boat job.
And then the end of the game, like the clock doesn't stop.
If you slide and you have to get back to the line of scrimmage to do something.
And the referee has to touch the ball.
Yeah.
I think they didn't understand that rule or something.
It could be.
So you're saying they just didn't understand the rule.
So they're ignorant.
And that's the reason why they weren't able to win.
He just slid too late.
It's the ignorant party.
He needed to slide early.
All right.
Anyway.
I still think they would have struggled with that.
Getting it off.
Well, there's always next year.
Anyway.
Well, there was.
There was a lot of.
I mean, I think they were.
They were both.
Both sides of the of that playoff game were just stupid.
I mean, I can't remember who they play.
Who do they play?
Forty Niners.
That's right.
I remember I went to the game and that that guy went to the game had what's the guy that
was kneeling?
Kaepernick Kaepernick.
Yeah.
Freaking Kaepernick.
He was there.
Who was the guy in front of me had a camera?
You gave him shit the whole game.
Oh, yeah.
Of course I did.
And you know, what am I going to do?
We're losing the whole game.
All right.
We'd smuggled in a large portions of bourbon.
I was a handle of punchers chance.
It was a bladder.
A little too much.
We went to I brought one of those enema bags and just filled that baby up.
Walked around it.
You see, but chugged it.
I was talking about Tequila Susie earlier, man.
I was the guy passing out shots.
I'm like, who?
Did you slam your table down?
Well, but the good thing is by the end of the game, you had sobered up and you were
being like super friendly to the 49er fans on your way out.
Paul is more than correct.
How could you guess that?
All right.
We're not going to talk about that.
Are you saying, oh, we're going to go fast forwarding past the part of being an
outstanding Cowboys fan that was very sportsmanlike having great integrity.
I went above and beyond.
I should be getting kudos.
I did above and beyond.
Did you were a driver on the other side of the planet?
It felt I felt like it took an hour and a half.
It took an hour and a half to get to you.
You have to circumvent the whole thing.
It was wrong.
It was ugly.
But you know what?
I don't want to.
Well, let's move on.
Yes.
So the Cowboys, yeah, they lost.
It was ugly.
They were a huge disappointment.
And frankly, I don't know who to get be disappointed in.
Do you be disappointed in the lack of Zeke Elliott and his lack of productivity?
Is it Dak?
You know, do you think him getting his bell rung at the beginning of the year and
fucked him up when he when he broke his leg?
He never came back after that.
I blame the fans.
I think the fans expected a lot, had high expectations.
It made the players think they're better than they were.
For some reason, the Cowboys are always think they're the press.
Everybody thinks they're the best team in the land.
It's America's team.
In reality, they're not.
It's all word and it's all like talk and word and not in it.
And it frustrates me.
Canada.
Hell, yeah.
You know, I feel like my house, which are like my high school or used to be my
high school football team.
They used to be good.
And now we want to say they're good.
But deep down, we know it's just they're not great.
They've been terrible your entire life.
You talk about the Titans or my high school team, the Centennial Titans.
They're not good.
They were good for one year and it was a long time ago.
They were good when Brandon was.
The Bushes.
They were good when Brandon was in high school.
My freshman year.
But there was like four years.
They made the playoffs.
When Madeline was going to school, they were a group of boys that were huge.
And they worked very well together.
And they dominated.
That's the way it works.
I mean, as soon as those guys graduate, your team goes to shit.
Yeah, the demographics around here have shifted dramatically.
Yeah, there's a bunch of weird, small.
Yeah, but they're all large.
They're all large individuals, aren't they?
No.
I think the tallest kid on the team is.
Is it Indian culture?
What do you call it?
An Indian culture.
We have a lot of immigrants from India that have come here.
We do.
And football's not their first sport.
Yeah.
And there is actually there's a lot of Indians that play football.
They're just not very large.
So when you're competing with other schools.
And they have large men.
The diversity is a little off or different than, you know, it's all about probabilities and statistics after that.
Actually, well, when I.
What do they call it?
The natural selection.
My senior year, I didn't see any like Indian kids on the football team.
Like not a single one.
Well, they have a hard time.
I think a lot of them play basketball, but they don't play football.
I think they have a lot of time even fielding.
Not big ones, but like really tall skinny ones.
I had one that was like six foot six in my AP chem class.
Well, there are freaks in all races that that play basketball.
I mean, they're just they're big boys.
They're big boys.
Yeah.
Well, even when they're not.
I mean, minute bowl.
You're saying you have some shorter guys that are just athletic and can get it done.
Like Spud Webb.
I wasn't even saying that.
I was saying that all the all the teams in the sent on the sentinel high school and in the schools feeding into sentinel and tenu are all Indian.
So they're not tall.
You have Wester.
What do you they're not tall necessarily.
What are you saying?
I'm short.
You didn't play basketball.
Are you saying I'm short?
No, I'm just saying if they were like large, tall individuals, I get it.
But they're not.
So I feel like the whole the whole thing, the whole sports thing for our sentinel high school is it's kind of fizzled out.
And I don't want to throw stones at anybody.
But, you know, actually, there's no reason to throw stones.
Now those kids get out there.
They play as hard as they can.
Of course, you know, the caliber of players.
I mean, I can't I can't talk shit.
I was in the band.
So you spread too thin around here.
Well, I know the extracurriculars.
I think what it is is just instead of sports being dominant, you're going to see other things be dominant.
That is one hundred percent.
It's not their first focus.
Correct.
So it isn't.
So it's just good, actually.
Yeah, it's good for them.
It's kind of refreshing to have them exceed in the hey, man, we're the best high school in Texas for the math department.
Yeah.
Hey, man, our school took our team.
Yeah, our deca.
We did good.
Austin was performed in the marching band before covid took over and completely fucked up everybody's high school for the last three or four years.
I know my son did the same thing.
This covid.
That was three years.
He's just talking about how covid.
Yeah, it's no prom.
No, this, no, that.
But I mean, it literally took away like their whole thing is marching band.
Right. OK.
So when you take away their I mean, they got stripped.
We did everything they were.
They didn't do it.
But to put it in perspective, my senior year, we didn't have a show.
Right.
We did.
I think I think his senior year was shittier than Preston and other schools.
He got ripped.
He got other schools.
We had shows like like we only saw like one other school like have a show like none of the bands got a show.
And with like a marching band without a show, that's why couldn't you guys perform like other schools in the nation where they all were in their own little tent pods?
Dude, you see, have you seen the picture?
Find the picture.
No, luckily it's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.
Luckily, we just had to put like a full orchestra over the trumpet.
Well, no, no, no, no, masks with holes in them so they can stick the mouthpiece through them.
I saw a picture of some guy with a big sousaphone, the tuba in one of the little tent things.
Right.
So this is a full orchestra on a stage.
Each one of them is in their own individual tent and it's pod.
Yes, it is completely ridiculous.
And then and then you have the cases where they were wearing masks and then one of them.
One of them is a picture of a flautist with a mask on
and it's cut out.
Yep.
The mouth is cut out.
But she still has to wear a mask,
but the mouth is cut out so she can blow on the flute.
Sorry, a little off topic.
Walk me through.
Why is it called a flautist?
It's a flautist.
It's a flutist.
But why is it called flautist?
I'm sure it's some sort of a flutist.
Or a flute player.
It's a Latin, a Latin word.
It's a trumpist.
Is it a tubaist?
It's a tubaist.
I'm not finding it.
It's a tuber.
It's a tuban?
But I know exactly what you're talking about
and it looks so funny.
It's so dumb.
I mean, it was embarrassing.
Yeah, it's like, you have these giant,
like, sousaphone players and they're in this tiny little tent
that barely, like, even someone playing, like, a trumpet
could barely fit in.
Yeah.
Well, I think what we're starting to see
is we're starting to see this whole mask with school thing,
big backlash.
Big shift.
Big shift in that.
And kids are still not allowed to wear hats.
I just Googled through Wikipedia a list of flautists.
Flautist.
And there are a lot of contributors.
Sure, there are.
Every symphony.
Western classical, Italian.
Western classical probably has 400 flautists.
I mean, that is amazing.
It has the Japanese, Native American, Irish, traditional
folk, jazz.
I mean, it's amazing.
There's probably 10,000 flautist lists here.
Of course.
Anyway, that's good.
Thanks for sharing that.
I didn't want to stay on flautists,
but someone took a left turn to Flaut City.
All right.
So I'm with you, though, Jeff.
I think that is a very promising sign
that the world is waking up to what's been effective
and what's been, more importantly,
what's ineffective.
Correct.
Wearing masks is ineffective.
Locking down is ineffective.
Now, mainstream media is.
It's effective.
It's 0.2 effective.
I'd rather be happy.
No, that's not effective.
That is not effective.
That's not effective.
Well, it's 0.2 effective.
No, because you probably lose more people to suicide
than that 0.2.
But no offense, I'd just rather be happy.
But that's what the statistics say.
That's what they're saying.
We've increased the quality of life,
or we've extended the life of the masses by 0.2.
0.2.
Actually, I think what it is.
Counting down in a house.
It's ridiculous.
It should be 99.8% ineffective.
Or ineffective, whatever it is.
That's the play on it.
Instead of doing all these COVID stuff,
you know what I'd rather do?
Be happy.
Have a good life.
Go outside and be able to shake someone's hand
without feeling bad.
They showed a TikTok of an Israeli classroom.
Looks like about fourth graders, fifth graders,
something like that.
And the teacher was speaking a different language.
And they had a little caption down below.
The teacher was explaining to the kids
that we have lifted the mandate.
You can take all can take your mask off.
And the kids all jumped up and were so excited and high fived
each other.
That's so sad.
I think.
That's so sad.
Unfortunately, I think the US is behind the curve here
because you still have the Biden administration.
Well, you also have a lot of these.
East Coast, West Coast school boards pushing every kid
has to be in a mask.
I know.
And for they.
And be vaccinated.
And you get all these countries, a lot of them over in Europe,
going, yeah, we're doing away with all of our COVID
protocols.
Restrictions.
My opinion.
You don't need a vax card anymore.
You don't need a mask.
You don't need to wear a mask anymore.
You don't need any of that bullshit, which is great.
Like I said, travel's going to start opening up.
They're finally waking up to the fact
that it was a complete overreaction and completely
ineffective strategy.
I hope, I hope, within 10 years that everything
is back to normal as if it was.
It should be before that.
It'll be before that.
But unfortunately, I think these kids that
are in first, second, third grade.
Oh, no.
Are going to be.
They're doomed.
Are going to be having issues.
Well, who knows?
They're going to be behind.
That is true.
But who knows?
Maybe they'll catch up.
Yeah, they will.
I mean, you'll have those.
They will.
They'll always be like that one and two or five or 18 students.
Yeah, they don't make it.
They'll be 15 in fifth grade.
They'll probably need more hands on stuff or ADD medicine,
or actually, frankly, less ADD medicine.
There's so many things that are against the kids.
I mean, they're starting to legalize pot everywhere.
And you know, recreationally speaking,
I don't think it's a huge big deal.
But there's a lot of kids out there
that make it part of their daily lifestyle.
And it becomes, I think that once you cross that threshold,
it's kind of like drinking.
If you're going to drinking, you get drunk every day.
Then that's just, it's a very, it's
incandescent to family life.
It's destructive, yeah.
Yeah, it's destructive.
But I forgot where I was going with this thing.
Well, I think smoking weed.
It's about the kids that are.
Yeah, go ahead.
I thought I was going to say, I think
smoking weed is just like alcoholism.
If you do it every day, it's bad.
Of course.
Right?
Agreed.
And me being 11, this really does affect me.
You're a little bit older than that.
A little bit.
Yeah.
A little bit.
You're an eight-year-old now.
But you know what?
I'm going to say that these kids that have been set back,
and no question they've been set back.
Oh, hell yeah.
But I mean, there's no more moldable and adaptable mind
than a human child.
I mean, they're going to catch up quick.
Unfortunately, I think you're going
to have these pockets of people who
are going to insist that their kids have to wear the mask.
Yes.
Forever.
So you're going to see this subset.
Yeah, they're going to be forever affected.
It's one of those things, man, that they grew up with.
And look, man, wearing a mask isn't a horrible plan.
I mean.
It is, because they're ineffective.
I don't like.
Well, it would, no.
It's ineffective for certain things.
But there's a lot of.
I don't think it's a good plan.
Because.
Look, for some types of things, for pollen,
and for certain allergies.
They're wearing a mask.
You know what?
Masks aren't for me.
But when you, before COVID hit us,
there were some people that elected to wear masks anyways.
I never saw anyone.
There was mostly Asian folks.
I never saw anyone.
I would agree with that.
Still.
Well, because they warm over in China.
It's correct.
Forever.
Because it was pollution.
Well, it's pollution, and it's part of their culture.
Well, we didn't have people wearing masks in LA.
That's what I mean.
There are people that wear masks in that way.
I do not want it part of the American culture.
I agree with that.
But I'm thinking what's happening
is that they're going to start introducing
this as part of the culture.
It's not.
I will fight that.
Yeah, me too.
Well, they're not going to mandate it.
I think they're going to pull back on it.
But I'm just saying that, mark my words,
masks will be integrated into the system.
What I don't like.
They'll get better with masks.
No, no, no.
They've already been integrated in the system.
If anything, there's a shift to get them out of the system.
Correct.
I mean, we've already peaked in terms of masks.
Yeah.
The opposite is happening.
More school districts are going, we're done with here.
More countries are saying, we're done with this.
So I think we've peaked, and we're
going the opposite direction.
I'm waiting for the airlines to say,
all right, we're done with masks.
No offense to teachers, but the ones that are mad that masks
are going away at schools, they'll quit.
Then they can quit.
And I'm kind of grateful for that.
No big law.
Because I'm like, then our kids might
be learning actual better stuff.
The bad apples anyways.
And that sucks to have to say out loud.
Actually, that's not true.
I knew one teacher that liked the mask,
and she was a good teacher.
But most of them that didn't like the mask.
There was some sort of college teacher
that this is kind of off the subject here.
But they were talking about a college teacher that
was spouting that having sex with a minor is OK.
Pedophilia is OK.
Yeah, I saw that.
What?
Yeah, it hit major.
Fox News, right?
The pedophilia.
OK.
Professor.
Yeah.
There's been a number of academics
that have come out to say that they've been trying
to normalize that.
They're trying to remove the stigma.
Yeah, what is up with that?
Why are they going all Jeffrey Epstein,
Harvey Weinstein on people?
Well, because I think what it is,
it's just the acceptance.
There was gay people were unaccepted for so long.
Now that's morally acceptable.
Not 100%, but it's a lot better than what it used to be.
Now it's OK.
What's the next thing?
Right.
Now it's minor attractors.
Transsexuals.
OK, what's the next thing?
Well, what about pedophilia?
Yeah, to your point.
OK, no, that's my limit.
They're trying to normalize all forms of deviant behavior.
Well, correct.
So you have the name of North American Man Boy Love
Association.
Oh.
Pedophilia is my limit.
It's a real association out there.
So it says their professor who said pedophiles
should be called minor attracted persons.
See, my limit is be transgender, be gay, be lesbian.
I don't care.
Don't be a pedophile.
No.
Right.
Because little Susie, she's 11.
OK?
Don't.
Well, I mean, according to Neil Diamond,
you'll be a woman soon.
What about that song that you sent?
What's the other one?
She's only 16 years old.
She's just 15 years old.
Be a godfather.
Creepy video.
In three years, I don't know what love is.
I'm going to watch you every day.
And he goes to the dude's door.
Her father answers.
And he's like, hey, man, what are you doing?
You're fucking 50 years old.
You're trying to go after my 15-year-old daughter.
What is wrong with you?
And he stands out the side of the door.
And he's like, what's wrong with you?
Yeah.
Yes.
Oh, dude.
Oh, it's bad.
Have you ever seen that video?
No.
Is it Eddie Money?
No, it's not Eddie Money.
We'll have to look at it.
We'll look at it.
And actually pulled up.
So they're making fun of the song.
No.
No, it's the actual video.
What's the song called?
Don't know.
It's Benny Mardonez.
So he's making fun of his own song?
No.
He made the video like that.
And he leaves the front door and goes around to her window
on this 15-year-old through the window like a peeping Tom.
And he's singing to her.
And he's creepy looking.
I don't understand.
Yeah, this right here.
Yelling sound?
Yeah.
You can do a little sound on that.
Look at this guy.
So he's got the long 80s hair pulled down.
Guy's with long hair, man.
I just don't like it.
Got the Euro-style shirt with the jacket,
stripes going left to right.
Wait till he goes to the window.
He looks like me.
I don't like this.
He looks like me.
I don't like this.
Look at this.
She looks like she's like 15.
Oh, no.
Bro, she does not look OK.
She's like Joe Biden sniffing on her.
Yeah, she's 15.
And he's what, 29, 32?
Yeah, I don't know.
He's in his late 20s.
But his hair is perfect.
Yeah, I think what they should have done
is I don't think that this is the spirit of what
the song was supposed to be.
I don't think it was supposed to represent him
with some 15, 16-year-old.
Be a peeping Tom?
I'm thinking it's got to be.
But he's the artist.
It's his video.
I know, but I'm thinking the spirit of it
is I'm hoping the spirit of it was like,
let's say, a senior and a freshman.
Why are you defending the artist that came out
with his own video that made it creepy?
It was extremely creepy.
But how do I get my hair like that?
That's my question.
How do I get my hair like that?
You just got to feather it.
You have to cut it.
You got to part it down the middle
and feather it like Farrah Fosha.
You could do it.
I could.
You could be Benny Mardonez.
I don't know if I want to be him specifically
after watching that video.
Well, she was kind of hot.
Dude, she's 15.
She's only 15.
15 years old.
The way you should phrase that is she's not OK.
Yes.
She's going to be really hot as a young woman.
No, the way you phrase it is she looks like a nice kid.
Yeah.
There you go.
She's cute.
She looks smart.
She's going to be a hot woman.
She looks smart.
That just sounds bad, too.
It does.
It sounds so creepy.
I'm looking forward to Christmas in about three years.
I don't know how we got on that horrible topic.
But yes.
Oh, and so that.
You can thank Sean Cruz for that one.
Hold on.
That professor has agreed to resign.
I am encouraged by that.
Because they just couldn't stomach it.
Well, he agrees.
Has he resigned yet?
This was back in November.
He agreed to resign.
Someday.
A Virginia University.
This is a question for Arnie.
Never mind.
Whoa.
What is that?
OK, that's not even the guy that came up in the news recently.
There was a different professor.
Yeah, I saw this back then when this happened
in the interviews and everything.
She wrote a paper trying to rename
pedophilia to minor attracted or something.
Minor attracted individuals.
And OK, this is not off topic.
But I'm not going to name names.
But I had a student friend that was, and it was a female,
that was always attracted to four different teachers.
Ah.
Well, yeah, that happens.
And no.
What do they call that?
They call that jail bait.
But no, she was smart.
She didn't go after the students because I was a good friend
and convinced her.
I'd like to think I owe that out.
She didn't go after the teachers.
The teachers.
Right, right, right.
I almost screwed that over.
Because I was thinking she didn't go after the students.
I was like, go on.
She should go after the students.
Not the teachers.
But she would comment sometimes and be like, man,
this teacher is so hot.
And I'm just like, dude, you're 11.
But like, dude.
Well, do that.
I guess, yeah, do that.
I wouldn't say dude.
I'd be like, you know.
But you know, we hear stories.
That's interesting.
But we hear story after story after story
of teachers getting into that situation.
And more often, female teachers with male students,
as opposed to the opposite way around.
You know what I'd say if I was a teacher?
In my opinion.
Yeah, and unfortunate or not is the perception
is go get it.
If a student wanted to meet you.
Right.
You know, if that happened to the girls, they're like,
you raped my daughter.
Whereas as a father, you're like, you raped my son?
Are you going to do that?
They do.
They absolutely do.
But I think there's a double standard in that regard.
Probably.
With a lot of people.
He's going around high fiving people.
Yeah.
No, the boy wanted that.
The boy wanted that.
Well, maybe the girl wanted it too.
Girls are good for sport.
Yeah, but if you're a girl, you can get away
with saying that was rape and bye bye teacher.
Unfortunately, you're right.
You're right.
100%.
And that's just life.
Frankly, I mean, yeah, that's bad.
But honestly, I'm OK with living like that.
I'm not.
I'm OK with that.
You were pretty close to a circumstance that in real life.
I was?
Yeah, you knew someone that went to your school.
That didn't necessarily have a relationship.
But yeah, that's the same person I was talking about.
Things got misconstrued.
And that teacher is no longer on this planet.
Oh, well, OK.
That's depressing.
Yes, they went to Mars.
No, I mean, since dad brought it up, and it's a story.
And I just leave names out of it.
Obviously, I'll need to leave names on it.
I had a friend, same friend, by the way,
had a teacher's phone number already.
Let's say this person, her name is going to be Miss Adams.
Patricia.
And the teacher's name is, well, it's like a generic teacher.
So the teacher had the girl's phone number.
And the teacher was inviting the girl over to hang out
with his buddies to smoke weed.
Oh, what was wrong with that?
Nothing.
Now I'm joking.
And then my friend reported the teacher
because she thought it was too much.
That was appropriate.
Well, what do you mean?
He's not on this Earth anymore.
Somebody killed him?
He died.
He killed himself.
Did he really?
The teacher did, yes.
Well, he got canned, right?
He got canned, and then probably couldn't get hired anymore?
No.
He got canned.
He got transplanted.
Essentially, nothing happened.
It was only through text, but nothing ended up happening.
So the principal was essentially like,
we can either fire you or you can be let go.
On your record, it'll be that you quit.
So he was publicly embarrassed and shamed.
He was shamed.
Couldn't live with it and killed himself.
And then, yeah.
I knew the teacher.
I got to be real with you.
He was a nice guy.
He was a Marine for four years.
Right.
And he was one of my favorite teachers.
That's unfortunate.
He got himself in a bad situation.
What I say is a good teacher, he allowed me to watch
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia with him in his office
with three other students.
I think he was trying to be too much of a buddy buddy
with the students.
A lot of them get into that.
And you can't do that.
And there's an interview of him online that a student did.
And he talks about his dream job.
And his dream job was being a band director.
And he got fired from that.
And now he has to do, he did IT work after that.
And I knew he didn't really like it that much,
because, well, I knew the teacher.
And then he killed himself.
Yeah, so that's a really sad story.
Yeah, it is.
Freaking that up, Dad.
Well, because the bottom line is, I mean, everybody
makes mistakes.
And you realize that life goes on.
Life goes on.
I know a lot of times, suicide looks like an option
when you have a problem that you don't know how to solve.
And it is so public shaming.
But there is a way to move forward always.
It's just weird, because like you were saying,
they're trying to normalize things.
Well, I mean, he was pushing the envelope back in the 80s.
So I'm thinking, and even let's take a little bit further.
Well, Hollywood's always flirted, always flirted with this.
Let's go back in time.
Traditionally, like with monarchies and the bloodline,
as soon as that girl, Bled, heard
their first menstrual cycle, the king was like, all right, well,
it's time.
It's time to start bearing children.
And we're going to think.
I think part of that was life expectancy was 30.
Right.
Yeah, you're 15, happy, midlife crisis.
So you're bleeding at 12.
And you're in breeding area for the next several years,
raise my kids, and you're going to die.
I'm 18.
Basically.
Well, was it though?
I mean, I hear what you're saying.
But I mean, I think they would have done it anyways,
whether they lived to 50.
It could be.
But I think part of that dictated life expectancy
as well.
But you have to start earlier because you die earlier.
They started early.
I mean, well, they still have their menstrual cycles.
Well, that was also what?
14.
You would think that they would start their menstrual cycle
later in life.
Yeah, so I'm going to disagree that it
was life expectancy related because there's
too many cultures that have child brides today.
Yeah, even child brides.
Yeah, you're right.
Cultures.
So I think in male dominated cultures,
this is gross and sick and creepy.
But I think men, so I think the culture is, like I said,
is creepy.
But the men.
And this is a creepy topic.
Why are we on this topic?
Yeah, men prefer.
Yeah, but it's real.
Yeah, I know.
Men prefer young women.
And the younger, the better.
You know what?
Well, I don't know about that.
Younger, the better.
In a lot of cultures, they talk about, I mean,
look at the Middle Eastern culture is prepubescent
virgins, right?
Virgins, virgins, virgins.
I get older every year, and they stay the same age.
What does that move?
Dazed and confused.
All right, all right, all right.
You know, who was the janitor or something?
Never saw it.
The high school?
Oh, that's probably why, then.
So he was like, he was explaining.
I forget exactly what he said.
But basically, he was like, I get older every single year,
but the high school seniors, they stay the same age.
Because he's a janitor, and he's just seeing the student more
and more different students.
Correct.
Reminds me of a.
I get it now.
It's a funny.
Get the quagmire.
It's a joke.
It's kind of gross.
It's a little gross.
Yeah, it's a gross.
All right, so a little subject change here.
Are you guys paying any attention to the Winter
Olympics in China?
No.
Negative.
I've seen a couple headlines where.
Is it on right now?
Yes, it is.
It started last weekend.
They're saying viewership is down 30% to 40%.
I saw 43%.
Good.
Well, I didn't even know it was on.
I couldn't.
I have no interest in watching it.
I haven't seen a single ad.
I did see that there is a ice skateress who was born in the US.
She's representing China.
Yeah, I didn't hear why.
But the article was very, very harsh.
They were like, traitor.
Traitor girl.
Well, not just that.
Apparently, she fell once, twice, a couple times.
And I guess the Chinese or the audience was brutal.
Yeah, they were booing her.
To her.
Yeah, they were booing her.
Yeah.
So I don't know.
So I don't know how the US is doing or anything like that.
I have no idea.
And honestly, like I said, I'm not interested in this.
Yeah, I'm not going to watch any of it.
What's wrong with it?
China.
I'm doing my.
This is China.
I'm doing my.
And you know what?
And here's China.
China is the problem.
The soccer players have fucked it up.
The sports, the.
I don't know.
No, no, no.
Listen, the sporting players have fucked it up for me.
You know, they're too woke.
So I can't give those Olympians the benefit of the doubt
that they're not going to kneel while they're
getting their medals.
Right.
You know, I'd rather not.
Because the first time I go over there
and I invest my time to cheer on the United States.
Actually, none of that happened.
None of that happened in the summer.
No, it didn't.
Yeah, the soccer.
It happened in the pre.
Yeah, it was all prelim shit.
Prelim in the United States.
Nothing happened in the Olympics.
I saw the one that won to the girls.
I don't remember what sport she did,
but she was just like wrapped in American flag.
And she was just like, I'm proud to represent the USA.
She was a wrestler.
And I was like, that's love.
I love that.
But I also heard that Chinese government has stopped
some of the news programs.
I don't know.
Some of the presentations.
They even put out a.
That they yanked a reporter off air.
I mean, what do you expect?
Live, I guess.
And said, pull him off air.
I don't understand how they are allowed to even freaking
host any Olympics.
I don't know.
I don't get it.
It is a brutal, oppressive regime.
How are they allowed to even host the Olympics?
I don't know.
Because IOC makes shit ton of money.
This podcast is no longer allowed to air in China.
Nancy Pelosi, she had made a statement.
What was the statement?
Well, she's warning the US Olympian athletes
not to anger China.
Not to anger China.
Yeah, so don't say anything political.
Yeah, keep your mouth shut.
Because you'll disappear.
So House Speaker Nancy Pelosi discouraged Olympic athletes
from protesting at the opening ceremony in Beijing
on Thursday, saying it wasn't worth the risk of reprisal
from a ruthless Chinese government.
Nice.
Yeah, so she and other politicians
would speak out against China's human rights record.
But the athletes would be at risk
if they use their platform to protest.
What about my human rights?
Meanwhile, they're raking in Chinese money.
Well, guess what?
I'm going on Twitter and make fun of the Winter Olympics now.
Yeah.
Just because I heard that.
I'm not watching any of it.
It pops up on the YouTube.
So search.
So there is an image out there.
I saw it.
And because Beijing really doesn't have snow.
And I think they're creating snow.
And they're creating these.
That's so weird.
They can create snow.
Look up Big Air Shugang.
There's a picture out there of this.
What the hell did you say?
Big Air Shugang right there.
Shlong.
And it's kind of a close up shot.
And then a far away shot of where this thing.
Like that one right there.
It's like right next to the nuclear plants.
Oh, guys.
Yeah, for audio listeners.
Everything's artificial.
Yeah, it's a giant snow slide.
And look, there is.
Right next to four nuclear power plants.
They've got people walking around with shorts.
Yeah.
And there's a shot that I saw that was farther out
that it's like in the middle of.
A city.
Yeah, it's just.
Right there.
Nothing.
Bam.
Around it.
Another one is you can see the slide in the distance
and then you see Gloomsville.
That's not the way it's supposed to be.
City.
You see Gloomsville because that's what that looks like.
Dude, there's literally Beijing 2020, 2022 on one of the power
plants.
Gross.
It's Big Air Stag.
You know, I think it really sucks the spirit out of the game.
100%.
You know, I think it was, you know, is this just me?
Oh my god.
Is this real?
Did someone make an announcement saying the Dallas Cowboys,
the Super Bowls?
That's fake.
They were making fun of the Cowboys.
Because they're like, the Cowboys will never win,
so they'll never have a home field advantage.
So that was just.
That was fake.
My wife read the same thing to me.
I was like, that is not real.
No.
What was the announcement, though?
Yeah.
What was the joke?
That the Dallas Cowboys, the Arlington State,
will host the Super Bowls moving forward.
Like forever.
Forever.
Every Super Bowl.
Forever, because it's unfair that the home team has
an advantage.
What's happened the last two years with Tampa Bay and LA.
I love it.
So it's all in Dallas from now on.
Which means, yeah, they'll never, ever get to the Super
Bowl.
But you know, all the Dallas fans are like, yes.
Yeah, they're stupid.
Yeah.
Oh, that's because we don't care what they say.
They didn't realize.
They were making fun of you.
We're passive.
Stupid.
What other significant world events are going on right now?
Hold on.
I wanted to talk about, regarding with the Olympics,
where would we have it?
I mean, let's just say.
It's going to be in LA next.
No, forget about reality.
Let's talk about where would be a good place for it to be that's
quasi-neutral and beautiful.
I'm thinking like Iceland.
Oh.
Have it annually at Iceland.
Iceland's too small.
I mean, why wouldn't you have it in Switzerland or Austria?
That would be perfect winter Olympics.
We've talked about this.
I think they should have four winters and four summers,
and it just rotates amongst them.
So you have different hemispheres.
So you have something over in Europe.
You have something in the North Americas.
You have something in the South.
And all that shit, right?
So you have like global Olympics.
So I guess you'd have the South because you can't,
because it's not winter time in the South.
But yeah, you have like four locations,
and it just rotates.
Yeah, like winter Olympics in North Korea.
No.
I don't know about that.
No, it has to be a city that can, like Lillehammer,
like over there, Switzerland somewhere,
in Canada somewhere, in the US somewhere.
I mean, really, if you want to have like,
if you want to ski down a slope, you
want to ski down a real slope.
Something that's like, hey, look, this is the real shit.
I mean, this is competitive.
This is top notch stuff.
When people cycle and they want the real cycling experience,
what is the one in France?
They've got the famous French race.
Oh my god, I knew this.
Tour de France.
Yeah, they don't hold that in like Australia.
Yeah.
I'm sure they have Australian races.
I mean, you can't do that in Beijing.
That'll be the Tour de France.
But I think they need to have a set.
I think it's going to get there because the complex are
getting too expensive.
And a lot of countries can't afford it.
Wait, you can never have a Winter Olympics in Australia.
Are you kidding me?
Well, I mean, you can on different times of the year.
But I like what you're doing.
Because look, I think that if they start coming up
with what you said, I think that's
a good idea what you brought up, just rotating a few spots.
Because you have countries that invest so much money
Billions.
Into building this infrastructure that
is going to be completely abandoned after the game.
Correct.
Kind of like, why even bother?
What a waste of resources.
It's not supposed to.
It's supposed to make that city become an elite.
But it doesn't.
So even the worst one was the Russian one.
Where they just abandoned the city.
Was it Sochi?
It was Sochi, yeah.
It's literally an abandoned city now,
where they built it just for the Olympics.
And it just sits there abandoned.
I mean, OK, but as a kid, I never
got to do or venture things, wander off
into abandoned things.
If I was living in Russian and I was, I don't know,
let's say 11.
I don't know why I keep saying 11.
But I would want to just wander over to Sochi.
This cool ghost city?
Yeah.
I mean, they could do some badass winter Olympics up
in Canada.
I mean, because Canada's huge.
Canada is huge.
Canada is larger than the US.
Basically, like 90% of their folk in Canada
live just north of the United States.
Correct.
All that area way up north?
Oh, well, 90% of the population.
Because it's almost inhospitable.
Well, yeah, it's so cold.
It's like the tundra.
I was going to say, yeah, tundra.
You don't want to live on the tundra.
To live there?
You'd love to live there?
Is that what you're going to say?
No, no, let me finish.
I would love to be able to visit.
Well, to get some recreational vehicles that
can handle the climate and some living quarters,
like some fucking badass RV with six-wheel drive.
And just drive out in Canada and just explore.
Check out some old caves and just be brave.
I didn't have that here in the US.
Inch-thick clothing.
It's a different world up there.
So my brother, he works for a defense contractor.
But on the weekends, he somehow, so in his previous job,
he worked for a copper mining company and gigantic trucks.
You know what I mean?
With these massive tires and all this kind of stuff.
And he became sort of like an expert on assessing damage
and assessing value to fix versus value
to scrap for these very, very large things.
So he started doing consulting on weekends
where they would fly them all over the country
to these different mining operations or whatever.
And he would assess the equipment.
And he would tell them, this is what I would recommend
that you do based on what kind of wear and tear or whatever.
Well, one of them was in far, far north Canada.
And they literally landed on ice, like on a glacier.
And they gave him special equipment,
like what they see in the Antarctic,
where they got the big, gigantic, fuzzy silver shit.
And he was describing huge parka.
Yeah, he was describing how frickin' surreal it was.
Did he experience the movie like the thing with Kurt Russell?
No.
No, he didn't.
When he took his penis out and peed,
did it freeze before it hit the ground?
OK, and that's so fascinating.
I didn't ask him that.
Yeah, I was about to say.
I don't think I would ask my brother that.
I'm so regretful.
Those are the two questions I didn't ask.
The thing and frozen pee before it hits the ice.
Yeah, well, next time he visits.
Why didn't I talk to you guys?
The temperature is so low that they take a cup of ice
and they throw the air, and it turns to airborne crystals.
In the air.
Imagine inhaling that.
Correct.
Anyway, I think that the penis would freeze off.
I think if you just yank it out, your dick will just fall off.
Minus 60 degree wind chill.
It'll turn black.
It's not instantaneous gangrene or whatever.
Frostbite.
It's like, ugh, damn.
Blast right away.
It just snaps off.
Don't pee out here.
Oh.
It's like the fish dick.
It's like the dick fish in the Amazon.
It was at that moment.
The fish dick.
He knew he done fucked up.
His dick just fell off.
And he cries.
Is that a National Geographic narration of that?
Real men of genius.
Oh, funny.
Urinated in the air.
Hold down your pants in Canada.
Make your dick freeze off.
You know, not to get back to politics, Dan,
but Canada, what the hell is happening in Canada?
It's freaking turning into China.
It's taken too long.
It really is.
Trudeau is a wuss.
What is happening?
They're being heavy handed on all freedom.
They're being controlled by China.
Is that what it is?
Absolutely.
I don't get it.
China.
Absolutely, man.
They both start at the sea.
There's communities of Chinese people out there.
Yeah, but what's their motivation
to be heavy handed like that?
That's not Chinese motivation.
I mean, there's Chinese airports up there.
No, I think it's the government.
It's the socialist-run government up there.
Socialists, yeah.
That's what Trudeau is.
He is.
Well, that's what that government is.
It's socialism.
And they want complete control.
One step away from communism.
One very small step away from communism.
Some people beg to differ.
Well, I saw that I guess the truckers are just honking
their horns around the clock.
And so they're being arrested.
There's a judge in Ottawa who passed a law
that says it is now illegal to honk your horn in Ottawa.
Oh, wow.
So what do truckers do?
Honk their horn even more.
And I guess there's some videos out there.
They have a 10-day, a 10-day, you know, honking their horn.
Yeah, so I guess the people are like,
I haven't slept in like five days
because these truckers are honking their horns
around the clock.
And I can see that being problematic if you live there.
Sure.
I guess there's videos out there of people just
freaking out, charging the trucks,
trying to get them to honk their horn.
Because those are loud horns.
And I guess you're just laying on them.
So they're just crazy.
Sorry, I don't want to.
People have gone crazy up there.
I don't want to take away from your truck story.
But if we had a video of just now,
Dad just took a selfie of y'all three.
And he's doing something with it.
Yeah.
I don't know what with.
He's going to post it on our website.
And why was an eye in the photo?
We don't have a website.
Why was an eye in the photo?
Now, there's a gentleman that wants
to join our podcast for one of the things.
And he was asking me for a link so he can forward
to one of his friends.
So you sent him a photo and not a link?
Well, I just sent him a photo.
So I wonder if our podcast now have the disclaimer on Spotify
like Joe Rogan does.
Are we certified?
What is this?
We're not even a blip on the fucking right now.
Do we have the check mark?
I think that's.
We don't.
Not at all.
I think the warning will be these people haven't
posted anything since August.
It could be.
It'll be like, this channel.
That'll be the warning.
The channel was never alive and is fact dead and dying.
Yeah.
No, I don't think so.
I think the, hey, man, look.
I have this past week, I've got like five people
new that are listening to it.
That's great.
None of my friends listen to it.
I know.
It's small.
But I'm just saying, it's five more people.
So they can listen to what we talked about in August.
You know, I've got on Facebook, there's
the whole people that we've got a podcast about our paintball.
And there's a lot of people that are
inquired that went out to that paintball trip.
And I put that specific link into Facebook.
And there's been a lot of people that click on it.
Nice.
You know, they go in about, you know, it's about 50% in.
And I comment about it.
Well, you could actually listen from the beginning
and just kind of go all the way through.
Right.
So anyways, I think it's slow.
There's merit to what we do up here.
Yeah.
We let the producer make sure he doesn't drink beforehand,
because he doesn't shut the fuck up.
But outside that.
You're like a sip.
You had one sip.
It could not possibly affect you.
I had, I didn't.
I had two sips.
And oh.
It was 110 proof, though.
Dude, I feel drunk.
I dropped my fucking beer on your computer.
What does that ever happen?
No, on two computers.
And your phone and keyboard.
It just shows how much I am.
Yeah.
Like as you're struggling with it,
you're like holding it over everything expensive.
Like.
Yeah.
My god, what's happening?
What's happening?
Let me go hold it over the soundboard.
Put it down.
I had to pick up a laptop.
He didn't pick up the laptop.
I had to move the laptop out of the way
from getting poured on the floor.
Well, yeah.
So the candidate thing, the whole honking,
he's trying to do that.
The minority fringe, or he called it the fringe minority.
That they're just not, they're just, what was his phrase?
They said that they're not responsibly thinking straight.
Oh, the Trudeau is saying this?
Yeah.
Trudeau.
I don't know.
Well, he ran.
Well.
Then he said, I have COVID.
Yeah, he claims he had COVID.
So he left.
He did run, that he just was protecting himself.
Well, no.
He ran.
What do you mean?
He was having a press conference or something?
No, he lives there.
No, he didn't run.
They just like, well, we can't find him.
Because he left the city.
He left the city.
Because he thought the truckers were going to kill him?
Oh, it was like an insurrection.
Probably.
And then so he left.
And then he got a bunch of shit.
He's a squirreling little weenie man.
And then he said, oh, I have COVID.
He is his dad?
No, he looks like he's his daddy's boy.
His dad's rich.
Wasn't his dad supposed to be from Cuba?
I don't know.
He's like, my dad can beat your dad in a fight.
He's that kid on the playground.
I'm not impressed.
I'm absolutely not impressed.
He's the kid that says, my dad owns a Nintendo.
And you're just like, OK, it's my house.
I'm supposed to own it.
Well, he's the one that was in Blackface.
Yeah, well, he just got busted.
He skirted right around that one, didn't he?
Yeah, and he's just like, oh, it's a learning experience.
See?
Justin Trudeau was in Blackface?
Yes.
I want to look that up.
Big time.
Wasn't he standing next to a Ku Klux Klan member?
No, that was Northam, Governor Northam.
And he skated around that, too, didn't he?
There he is right there.
No.
Oh, my god.
Yeah.
Well, he's more of a good lord.
That's Blackface.
He would leave it all out.
That's more.
He's dressed up like a sultan.
I don't know.
I've never seen a South African sultan before.
He was at a beauty salon.
That's like taking it to another world.
That's Blackface.
He's so black.
He's purple.
That you can watch Tropic Thunder and say, that's Blackface.
This is Blackface.
This looks racist.
Tropic Thunder really hasn't taken any heat for that,
either.
Look, it's because he's good at it.
Yes, it's because he's so good.
It's not racist.
Robert Downey Jr., when he gets up there and starts talking,
and he was like, what do you mean, you people?
I don't know.
What do you mean, you people?
He's like, in the water.
That was the real Black guy goes.
He goes, yeah, you people.
That's what Robert Downey Jr. said.
And the other guy goes, what do you mean, you people?
He says that to Robert Downey Jr.
It's so great.
So look up.
There's Northam right there.
Oh my gosh.
OK, so that's Governor Northam right there.
That's not Trudeau.
So that's Northam.
So they don't know if he's the Blackface or the KKK guy.
That's the debate.
So what do you go for Halloween?
We don't know which one he is.
And he won't say.
Well, probably none of them.
You had to have his back on.
It's a lose-lose.
Imagine having that conversation.
Because it's in the high school yearbook.
And it says, I think his name's Roger.
Roger Northam and Bill something.
Oh, no.
So and so and so and so had a fun Halloween party.
That's what it is.
So he won't admit which one he is.
I went it as a ghost.
But it's right.
So he's supposed to be Sammy Davis Jr.?
Is that who he's supposed to be there?
Next to the KKK?
Well, that's the joke, I guess, they were trying to do.
No, that's a jazz player and a ghost.
That's not a ghost.
No, really.
That's a ghost from the movie Go Dads.
It's supposed to be Sammy Davis Jr.'s costume.
I have no idea who that's supposed to be.
Yeah, but the guy with the white outfit,
I don't know if he was able to blow that up.
But he has like a necklace on there.
Or a necklace.
And they've got Budweiser cans in there.
OK, so that's what.
Oh, is that a Schlitz?
What a nightmare.
It almost looks like Schlitz.
Oh, he's just holding a can in front of his necklace.
I'm sure that was a cross.
Probably a cross.
Yeah, most definitely.
That is some serious blackface there.
But he's smiling.
That's like black shoe polish is what that is.
It's very shiny, too.
He dipped himself in Flex Seal.
God, I wonder how long that took to get off his body.
He was so drunk he doesn't remember.
He actually.
I can promise you.
It lasted a full Black History Month.
They didn't have that back then.
It still lasted that long.
Good Lord, I tell you what I did with work.
No, yes, you sent us the email.
God.
So I'm going to share with the dudes like us.
If you got any pushback or.
They're not going to say shit.
I mean, look.
Anyway, so every time they've got
some sort of monthly ordeal, or they start actually.
Let me rephrase that.
Every time they've got an appreciation
for a specific race.
Dad doesn't like that.
I think that's racist.
And so.
Likes it when it's only about white people.
I'm joking.
That's bullshit.
Don't say that.
That's rude.
No, what I'm saying is that we've got.
There's like Pan-American.
I mean, look, to be fair, they do all of them.
All right.
They do.
They do Asian-American.
I don't remember all of them that they've done.
But they've done more than one.
OK, well, that's good.
That's what they should do.
I'm good with that.
But.
Did they do Luxembourgian-American?
But here's the thing.
With the Black History Month last year,
the February has 28 days.
All right.
They had jam-packed emails for 28 days.
Jam-packed emails for 28 days.
Hey, it's February 1st.
And today, guess what, guys?
We're representing Frederick Douglass.
And it's like this.
The secondary, it's Harriet Tubman.
And they just went on and on and on every single day.
Again, I'm OK.
Right.
When it came to Pan-American, they were or whatever.
It's like they had like one or two emails.
And then it fizzled out.
Well, they're just not that much Pan-American history.
Well, it doesn't matter, too.
Really.
I'm sure there is.
You can't pull up 30 people on the Wikipedia
and just print the shit out.
Of course there is.
My point is that it's not a cut.
I just think it separates us more.
I agree.
That's really the bottom line.
I don't have anything wrong with having
an appreciation for folk.
But I just don't think, I don't believe
that it should be based on the color of your skin.
I think it'd be more effective to have a weekly email
from your company saying, here are stars of the week
in this department, in that department.
And here's why.
Because they went the extra mile to do this.
Or they really helped out a customer situation in that.
And it doesn't matter what color you are.
My company does that.
It doesn't matter what color you are, what gender you are.
I think they should do it with everybody.
What I'm saying is that even if you are,
we could look, there's a lot of us that work hard.
There's a few people that get recognized for it.
So with that, what I would propose
is that every day they pick, and they got a fucking list.
One, two, 10,000.
Every day you pick one person, hey guys.
Steve did a good job.
This is David Ross.
David Ross is from Dallas.
And this is his deal.
This is his profile.
He's married.
He's got 20 kids.
He graduated.
Wow, prolific.
And he recently changed genders.
Whatever.
Well, my company does that.
My company does that.
And I think that if they just recognize people,
and they don't even have to be a star, just like, hey, man,
look, this is what he's good at.
It's called what you do.
What do you do at the company?
And if you want to chat with you, he'll mentor you.
And highlight how their heritage or their history.
No, no, no, no.
This is legit.
If you can say, this is how diversity makes us better,
because they grew up in the Samoan islands,
and they learned something, something, something.
And look how it makes them great at a job.
You see what I'm saying?
That is how you bring diversity to the table.
You don't just highlight one diversity.
That's the value of diversity is knowing
that somebody who grew up with a father who had this and that.
You do life stories.
And they bring this to the table.
They bring that to the table.
That is what the value of diversity is supposed to be.
Well, it's diversity of thought, not diversity of skin color.
Yeah, correct.
That's what it is.
What influence do you have?
I don't think it should be different.
Well, I have to say that my company does a good job
at that, because they do do that.
That's great.
They do do it?
Yes, they do.
They do do it.
I've heard from a little birdie that someone's company does not
do a good job.
And people like responding to those emails
that are that great.
So anyways, I've received these emails.
And I've responded back and says, hey, can I
opt out on these emails?
And they responded back, unfortunately, you can't,
because it just goes out as a group email.
I loved it.
But honestly, well, I'm always honest.
It was a horrendous decision.
Yeah, it was.
You know what?
But here's the thing.
I loved waking up to that.
As a result, I have received less emails.
Yeah, like not even work emails.
As a result, e-dollars.
I've received less emails in the whole thing.
From HR.
From HR, regarding that stuff.
So maybe they did take me out of it.
Maybe they have a few of the rotations
that they do that they can exclude me.
Well, there's a distribution list
of everybody in the company.
And they probably add that distribution list and hit send.
And what they could do is say, OK, I'm
going to remove Sean from this distribution list.
Yeah.
I mean, come on, is it that hard?
But it is easier just to say send all.
It's simply two things for me.
It's a distraction, number one.
Well, it fills the inbox.
When I already have 300, I got to read through this one.
I've got a lot of stuff to go.
It creates unnecessary stress for me
by looking at my inbox building up.
But it's not fair for me just to have to,
when my own company is sending me spam,
then I think that's kind of fucked up.
That's my point.
Now, if it were something that were just recognizing people,
I think that's great.
But again, back to the pigmentation thing.
I don't recognize people just simply
because of the pigmentation of their skin.
I think it's wrong.
Well, you're going to miss out on the recognition now
because you get removed.
You're never going to have a Sean day.
They also flagged your profile as first to lay off, I think.
Yeah.
Well, that may come up.
Did you see that Peloton is laying a bunch of folks off?
What's Peloton?
Bike?
The bike.
The stationary bike?
They're laying off 2,800 people.
Well, that's fucking expensive.
They're trying to right size the ship.
20% here, their corporate office is here in Plano.
Now they're laying 20% off at the corporate office.
I mean, now more than ever, I was under the impression
because of the, I mean, we're not locking down,
but other places are.
And people are working out more than ever.
Like, wow, thousands.
Using their bike more than ever.
I'm thinking what they're finding is that to build
the bikes, probably they can't get parts.
They overextended maybe?
Absolutely.
And I think that, you know what?
This business model is going to make us rich,
but it'll make us richer if we would trim the fat.
Right, so they're right.
So that's all it is.
And you know what?
That is when it comes to being a public company
and having stockholders, that is what your job is as a board.
Tumbling stock price.
Yep, that's your job as a board.
Right, to do whatever it takes to make the company
profitable and to produce dividends for the stockholders.
And they haven't been.
So now they're like, we need to lay people off.
There we go.
Because our cost to profit is kind of a whack.
Correct, and speaking of some of these.
How business works.
You know, we invest in the D-WAC, the Digital World Equipment.
I haven't heard of that yet.
Well, the Trump deal?
Well, I mean, I'm not sure if that ship has sailed yet,
but it's.
I don't think so.
It's been pretty stable at 80 for the last two weeks.
Yeah.
And that's very promising.
So because it's taken down into the 40s.
It hasn't even launched yet, the D-WAC platform.
Has it?
No, not yet.
It's supposed to launch later this month.
So as it starts to gain steam and gain subscribers
and get publicity, I can definitely see it
going into the 115, 120.
Yeah, well, I would even.
I would say as we get closer to 2024.
Yeah.
It'll get into 300s.
Yeah, we'll see.
I'm guaranteeing it.
I'm not guaranteeing it.
Guarantee, write it down.
300.
300s.
I feel extremely confident that it would.
Because what is Facebook right now?
Facebook took a huge hit.
20%.
25 billion dollars.
That was just Zuckerberg.
That's what Zuckerberg lost, 29 billion dollars
of his net worth.
What percentage did the stock lose?
The company lost hundreds of billions.
But what's the percentage?
Do we know?
20%?
25.
25% drop in stock?
25%, hold on.
I thought it was 20.
No, it was 25 billion dollars.
Yeah.
What is it called?
Meta.
But also cyber currencies or cyber stock.
Why am I struggling?
Cyber something?
All right, well.
They're getting hammered.
Bitcoin went way down.
So it got as low as 216.
Okay, so what's the, yeah, give me the,
well that's one day.
Give me the one month drop.
Oh wow.
Wow.
Oh yeah.
That's terrible.
That's quite a jump.
And it's gone down since the drop.
Yeah.
Yeah, well they're hammering users.
Well here's the deal.
Yes, they're hammering users.
It's down 32.89%.
TikTok, pull up TikTok stock.
Who owns TikTok stock?
Holy moly, that is significant, gentlemen.
32%.
Did you buy TikTok stock?
Did not.
No, that's Chinese.
Chinese own that.
TikTok stock.
Oh, the shares are not available
on the stock market for TikTok.
I wonder why.
Interesting.
But that's the reason why.
That's the number one reason why.
Facebook tried to come up with Reels
to be competitive with the Instagram as well.
Instagram failed.
Instagram came up with Reels.
Well it hasn't failed, but it doesn't hold a candle.
Well for what I see,
because when I'm on our Instagram page,
I'll see Reels and I'm like,
people are just reposting TikTok videos.
And you actually see the TikTok logo down there.
That's all it is.
Yeah, so TikTok has exploded.
And you know, great.
Because it's a Chinese owned company.
Well, I mean, whatever.
I mean, I don't give a fuck.
No, that's not whatever.
That's not good.
Dude, I don't care.
It's free enterprise, who gives a fuck?
Let them. Okay.
But I mean, it's just, you know,
but the thing about it is so addicting.
It is so easy to just delete it.
Just delete it like I did.
But here, but look, here's the thing.
People are sitting in front of their couch doing what?
Fucking sitting, watching TV, drinking beer.
No.
Okay, not drinking beer.
Drinking. But are you watching TV?
No. I'm up here with you guys.
Not tonight.
I'm just saying, like Monday night.
And good TV.
You're downstairs watching TV with your wife.
You're downstairs watching TV with the wife.
So what is the difference if I'm downstairs
and normally on Wednesday nights,
let's say I watch TV from whatever, eight to 10.
I'll just make that up.
Because you can watch a nice hour long documentary.
But what is the difference?
I'm still being entertained.
Well, looking at somebody getting their balls kicked in
every 10 minutes is also entertainment.
It's about it being like something
at least redeeming.
Oh, come on.
You look at boobies.
Like Yellowstone?
No, they're not all boobies.
85%.
No, they're not.
Actually, they're not.
32%.
No, they're very.
96.
Look.
Are we hotter or colder?
As far as the matrix go or the logarithms go,
I would feel comfortable saying that
there are a lot more boobies on my platform
than the average.
Oh, because that's what you like over and over and over again.
Look, my point is is that.
When you kick, I want more of this.
I want more of this.
What is the difference between me
spamming food TikTok videos.
There's a difference.
I don't think there is.
There is.
I think there is a difference.
I'm going to table this and have this conversation
on the second half of Dudes Like Us
because I don't think there is.
I think I'm going to waste my time seeing.
TV is not addictive like TikTok.
Well, I mean, I'm just sitting there
watching the next video, watching the next video,
and I agree with that statement.
However, if I'm sitting there fucking watching.
Yeah, but when you wake up in the middle of the night.
Wait a second.
And you're sitting there flipping for an hour and a half.
Doesn't matter what it is.
It can be anything.
In the odd, you can fall asleep.
When you're going like this with your phone,
you're not going to fall asleep.
Look at those boobies.
Okay.
Oh, look at those boobies.
Oh, he's lying.
Look at those boobies.
Boobies, boobies, boobies, boobies.
What is the Ozarks?
When you start watching a really kick ass show like that
and you're sucked in.
I'm learning about how to launder money.
Dudes Like Us, hey guys, I'm Sean.
I'm Paul.
I'm Jeff.
We'll see you guys in a little bit.