The final edition of our March podcast.
It's March Madness.
Have you guys watched any of the basketball?
I watched quite a few games.
I got into St. Peter's.
I've watched zero.
That's too bad.
There are some good games.
I wasn't into it.
No, I'm not into the college basketball anymore.
I think the climate has changed.
The kids are there for one year, two years.
You can't follow a team.
When I was in college, maybe high school, this is the last one that I really remember
watching was when Georgetown with Patrick Ewing was winning it year after year after
year.
He was going.
You could follow these kids through their college career.
They're one and done a lot of times.
I don't want to diminish why you don't like it, but I will say that my wife and I were
watching it and we were getting to learn them after the first game.
Are you guys talking about March Madness?
When we watched them for the second game, we kind of knew who they were.
What is it?
College basketball?
Made us into it.
You know what I mean?
To the novice here, I don't reject shit about college basketball.
There's a ball?
I know about basketball, but college basketball I don't.
People are talking about the Big 12, the Big 8, Big 4.
I get nothing.
I don't know any of that shit.
They all have their conferences.
You just described a whole bunch of conferences.
Then there's two major tournaments.
When everybody is said and done with their regular season, there's two major tournaments.
There's the NCAA tournament.
That's the big one, the March Madness.
Then the teams that don't get invited to the March Madness, the big one, go to the NIT
tournament.
Which by the way is 32 teams as well.
32 teams, not 64.
Do you have to qualify to get to the NCAA?
Yes.
You either have to be invited or win your conference, right?
Or you can win your conference to get in.
There are some teams that would not make it, not get invited, but they won their conference.
It doesn't happen very often, but they win their conference championship and then they
automatically get a berth to the show.
There's always controversy because there are teams that people are like, how did they not
get invited?
Texas A&M, there was a lot of chatter about A&M not getting invited to the tournament
this year.
Did they win their conference?
They went to the championship and lost in the championship.
They lost to Arkansas?
They lost to Tennessee.
It would seem like you would want the top four to go.
Or is it just not enough?
That was just of that conference.
But it's still the SEC conference.
It wasn't a slouch conference.
Anyway, there was a lot of chatter about it being basically total garbage.
But if Duke lost their championship, they would be in.
That's right.
Or North Carolina, the blue ones of college basketball.
Like I said, you don't have to win your championship.
You just have to be a heavy hitter.
So it's all about money.
Unless your record is crap.
I think that's most of it.
But you have to be ranked, which means you have a good record.
There was some team, I don't want to pretend I'm authority on this at all, but you guys
had mentioned there was some team that wasn't even supposed to make it, beat a big time
league.
You mentioned on Saturday.
OK, so St. Peter's, a small school, I don't even know where it is.
Do you know?
I have no idea.
Anyway, so they were the first 15th seed to ever make it to the Elite Eight.
Or was it Sweet 16?
Elite Eight.
Elite Eight, yeah, because who beat them?
North Carolina.
North Carolina beat them.
They're in the Final Four.
But they beat a couple good teams to get there.
They won two games.
They won two games deep in the...
So they're like 32 teams on either side?
64 total.
So you have 31 each side.
32 and 32.
And how fast does that 32 go?
Like the first round, they play 32 games in a day?
That's why they call it March Madness.
They rip through it, man.
They start on Thursday.
It's Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, right?
And that's to get through two rounds.
So there's like 15 games a day.
Oh, it's nuts.
Oh yeah, it's crazy.
15 games a day.
So everyone's just kind of like just checking them off the list.
And that's where the March Madness numbers come in where you pick the brackets and you're
trying to figure out where it gets on.
Put in five bucks and see if you can...
I would say there's probably, from the standpoint of like, I don't know if it's betting, but
you know, filling out brackets and like seeing if you've got the right bracket, that is the
biggest...
That tournament is the biggest of that type of thing.
I think the reason I never didn't pay attention this year is this was the first year I didn't
do a bracket.
Right.
I didn't do it.
So I was just like...
So you were kind of...
And my teams that I root for, Cincinnati and Xavier, and Ohio University, were not in it.
Right.
So they got out and I wasn't interested.
And maybe that's why I didn't do a bracket.
I don't even know, was Ohio State in it?
Did they lose pretty early?
I don't know.
They're up and down.
Yeah, it wasn't like we were all over it, but I will tell you, we watched a couple games
and I mean, when my wife...
They're always exciting.
Yeah.
When my wife's screaming at the TV for a college basketball game, I'm like, okay, it's...
Was that the women's college basketball?
No, it was not.
It was actually...
What was that final score?
Like 80 to two?
Oh my God.
That was so bad.
So bad.
So is it over?
Oh, no, no, no, no.
It's final four.
Final four now.
Right?
Yeah.
So it's what?
Duke, North Carolina...
Villanova.
To Kansas.
Is it Kansas?
Yeah.
Kansas is the other one.
It's probably there.
Oh yeah.
Powerhouse.
Yeah.
Powerhouse programs.
Just like football, you got Alabama, Ohio State, you know, those guys, Michigan, the
big guys that are always there, Clemson, here lately.
Basketball's the same way.
Mm-hmm.
Sure.
And you'll have ones every now and then like, UConn will pop up and make a run for it and...
What the hell's the private school that does well, Gonzaga?
Oh yeah.
I mean, there's a number of teams that can make a run in any given year.
But yeah, it is exciting.
So yeah, so final four is, I guess, this weekend, right?
Yeah, I believe so.
See, I haven't watched...
That's interesting.
So I wouldn't mind watching the final four.
Yeah, well, it's coming up.
And tonight, the NIT final four has started.
I know that A&M is playing tonight.
Oh, that's interesting.
Oh, they're in the final?
They're in the final four.
Nice.
Yeah.
So NIT is basically like the...
People that didn't make it.
People that didn't make it or what do they call that?
They've got different leagues of baseball.
Minor leagues.
Right.
So the NIT is kind of like the minor leagues?
Yeah, apparently the nickname for NIT, and I don't even know what it really stands for,
but they say it, not in tournament.
They're dogging the teams that didn't make the real tournament.
Well, it's not a very attractive acronym, in my opinion.
Yeah, I don't know what it is.
Is it national...
Is it short for nitwit?
I mean, I don't even know what it stands for.
Not in tournament.
I mean, there's all kinds of negatives that you can pull out of that right away.
I would have like...
Well, not in...
Oh, he's here.
So the final four, what you guys were just talking about.
Yeah.
I like Duke is normally like...
Well, hold on a second.
We got a guest.
Yes, we do.
We got a guest.
We forgot to tell him.
He showed up a little late, and now he's...
He's sparring a bourbon.
What is that bourbon?
No, that's right.
We didn't even talk about the bourbon yet.
He jumped right into March Madness.
Yeah, we sure did.
All right, so this is a repeat guest, Rob.
Thanks for joining us again.
Well, you're very welcome.
Thanks for having me.
Yeah, all right.
So he liked it so much the last time that he agreed to come back.
I don't think we've had that before, have we?
No, and he's not a ship face this time.
Oh, whatever.
Not yet.
Not yet, anyway.
Wait till we get to the powerful bourbons.
Well, we had to discuss the contract first and everything, or no?
Yeah, maybe.
More liability.
Yeah.
All right, so you've got the bottle down there, Rob.
Why don't you tell us what we're drinking real quick?
We are drinking Wilderness Creek, Kentucky straight bourbon.
All right.
100 proof.
Bottled in bond.
Yes, bottled in bond.
Very nice.
So the details are up on the screen here, and it's the mash bill, which we were kind
of surprised at because we hadn't had one of these in a while.
It's a weeder.
64% corn, 24% wheat, and 12% malted barley.
So no rye.
No rye.
So have we seen a mash bill that's had wheat and rye?
Is that a thing?
The four grain, right?
Oh, a four grain.
Yeah, well.
So it means to be a four grain, or is it two different types of corn, two different types
of wheat?
I think you're saying within the same mash bill, a four grain is like four separate bourbons
with four different mash bills, right?
No.
That's not four grain?
It's made out of four grains.
All four.
So just a balance of it.
Four distinct grains.
That's what I would think.
Corn, wheat, rye, and barley.
Right.
Nice.
Okay.
I'm not sure I ever put two and two together on that.
I didn't either.
To make it four.
I was thinking mash bill four.
I was thinking the whole time that it wasn't four grains.
I thought it was four like strains of mash bill.
Like a blend.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, I'll tell you, when I first tasted this, the first thing I was like, this
is really smooth.
It's really easy to drink.
It doesn't kick your ass.
Even though it's a hunter proof, it doesn't bite you.
No, there's no bite at all.
I'm finding that the more we're becoming alcoholics, the easier it is to taste the rye and enjoy
it.
Right.
And we're actually enjoying some of the rye.
So we haven't done a wheat in so long.
To go back to the wheat, which was our original, the smoothest is crazy because it is so easy
to drink.
Yeah.
Like that life cereal one.
No.
That was so yummy.
I thought it was good.
You guys all complain.
We'll get that out and see if you like it.
Yeah, the Texas giant, you can have it.
That's what it was, right?
Giant 95.
We got giant 95.
Very harsh.
You guys, not the burger.
We'll have to try it again, but it was like eating a hunk of yeast.
Yeah.
Mikey wouldn't have liked it.
I don't think he really not.
Paul does not.
Paulito liked it.
That's all right.
Baul.
All right.
So this has been aged five plus years.
That's impressive, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, actually it is.
How much is this?
It's a nice price point.
What is the price point?
It was 50 bucks.
Oh.
Yeah.
So I would say two thumbs up.
Maybe we should start doing like out of five stars.
Like how many stars would we give it?
I'd give it three and a half.
I'd give it a four.
I like it.
It's smooth.
It's got sweetness at the front.
It's got enough of the spice going down at the back.
Got a four here.
What do you think, Rob?
What did you put it at?
I think 3.8.
Oh, yeah.
I'm about three and a half.
Pretty detailed.
Yeah, that's where I'm at.
All right.
So it's not bad.
I'd say it's a winner.
So we all liked it.
It's about a B. Very nice.
All right.
So getting back to the tournament we were talking about, that's the exciting thing happening
in sports right now, Rob.
I don't know if you have been following the tournament at all.
Tournament?
The women's NCAA tournament?
No, the women's swimming.
Is it Mia Thomas?
What's her name?
It's Leah.
We'll get to that later.
Don't even start with that really.
I was thinking Javelin, but yeah, you're right.
It might be swimming.
Anyway, she got a boob job.
Who?
Leah did?
Yeah.
I don't know.
He got a boob job?
No, it's a she.
I thought she had one at the last meet.
No, a boob job.
Seems to me it looked a little...
In between meets?
Just one.
Now, what are you talking about now?
Okay.
Wow.
Anyway, yeah, back to basketball.
I was going to say, have you been watching the tournament at all or no?
Yes.
Who are you following right now?
Do you have a horse in the race or no?
No, out of the final four, I do not.
I tend to dislike the ACC, so Duke and North Carolina, right?
They're playing each other, so that's good.
One of them will be eliminated, but I want the other one to lose.
I don't really like Kansas either.
Yeah, I don't have...
So you're all for Villanova then?
Villanova, I love...
I'm a big East guy, an old big East guy.
Where is Villanova?
Villanova, Yukon.
Where is Villanova?
Do you know?
Philadelphia.
Okay.
That's one of those...
That's brotherly love.
I don't know where they're at, right?
I don't know where any of them are.
Villanova.
Temple.
It's very rare for me to know exactly where the teams are, and then when I find out...
St. Joseph.
I didn't know they were there.
Like Notre Dame.
I have no idea what Notre Dame is, right?
Notre Dame.
I think St. Joseph is in Philadelphia too, if I remember correctly.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Yeah, what's the one in New Orleans, the Green Wave?
Tulane?
Tulane.
Yeah, that's another one.
I don't know where it's at now.
Tulane is in New Orleans?
Yes.
I had no idea.
That's the thing.
I have no idea where any of these colleges are.
That's kind of cool though.
I have a friend of mine that went to grad school at Tulane.
He enjoyed it.
Nice.
What about Rice?
Houston.
I know Rice is in South Houston.
What about it?
Where is that?
South Houston.
South Houston?
I think so.
I don't know.
Is it not?
It's in Houston, I would say that.
I don't know anymore.
It's on the southern part of Houston, I think.
I don't know.
It's definitely in Texas.
We're getting away from the basketball tournament with that, talking about Rice.
I think it's run its course.
We kind of established that it's kind of the exciting thing that's going on right now.
We were also talking about how NCAA versus the NIT and sharing with...
Yeah.
The NIT is basically the secondary or the minor leagues.
The runner-up, not in tournament.
What does NIT actually stand for?
National Invitational Tournament.
Look at you, man.
Look at that.
You can throw it out all sorts of sports trivia over here.
Look up St. Bonamantra.
That's my alma mater.
They were in the NIT and they were doing pretty well.
I don't know what they did this past weekend, though.
Well, I know the Aggies are playing tonight.
They're in the Final Four.
Are they?
Yeah.
And they're playing tonight.
You might play right now.
Okay.
St. Bonaventure might have played them.
I know Bonaventure won the first couple of games, but I'm not sure what happened after
that.
They have to go back and hit news.
Small university, upstate New York, south of Buffalo.
Oh, they're playing Xavier?
Yeah, they're playing Xavier and they're down by 10 points.
Xavier Musketeers head back to Madison Square Garden for NIT Semifinals versus St. Bonaventure.
Both of them were or are in the Atlantic 10, Xavier and St. Bonaventure.
Xavier's another one.
Do you know where Xavier's at?
I do not.
I told you I don't know where any of them are.
Cincinnati.
It's like two miles from Cincinnati, from University of Cincinnati.
Do you ever go there?
Yeah, I've been to some games there.
They have the Crosstown shootout between the Cincinnati Bearcats and the Xavier Musketeers
or whatever they're called.
Those are always big because they're two miles apart.
Yeah, big rivalries.
Yeah, the basketball's a huge rivalry and it's always fun.
Oh, I'm sure.
All right, so.
I wouldn't mind going on a college game.
A&M's playing Washington State, Rob.
Washington State and that is later today after the Bonaventure game.
Okay.
So where is Washington State?
Washington State, I believe, is in Tacoma, Virginia, Fairfax.
Good big.
Okay.
So is George Washington.
So are the tickets, when you want to go buy, are these tickets comparable to like NFL tickets?
Yes, especially the Final Four.
In the NCAA or the NIT?
Oh, either.
Yes, well, NIT.
NIT, no, but I don't know, actually, but the main tournament?
Oh my God, they are ridiculous.
It's expensive.
They had one of the few rounds they had here.
Fort Worth this year.
Oh, it was here this year.
Okay.
They had some games here.
Yeah, they looked it up and it was like, we should all go.
And I was like, 400 bucks a ticket.
Well, there was a couple of pretty big upsets in Fort Worth.
You know, those 12 versus five seeds or something.
I think there was at least one, if not two of those.
Yeah.
Or something similar.
Yeah, it would have been fun to watch.
Yeah, it would be.
Yeah.
But it's not unusual to have at least the first round in somewhere around DFW anyway.
You know, actually, after I paid so much for those Dallas Cowboy tickets, 400 bucks is
nothing.
Like for the memory, you mean?
Well, I mean.
The good memory you have of the post game.
Or the lighter wallet.
I enjoyed it.
I have a great memory of it.
You know.
With the bail.
To a certain point.
When you got bailed out that time.
I dwarfed how much you spent for the ticket, didn't I?
What do you mean?
What?
A jail?
Or what do you mean?
Yeah.
The post game festivities.
Oh, Lord.
I don't want to talk about that so much.
But you know, before the experience before I like to, I don't know how much I forgot
how much I paid for the tickets, honestly.
It was 800 bucks a ticket.
Was 800?
No, it was not.
Are you kidding?
It was something ridiculous like that.
In fact, I think it was more.
Oh, I don't know.
I think it was more.
You told me it was your wife know that.
It's OK.
She doesn't listen to the podcast.
No, she she does know I spent a lot of money.
I forgot actually how much it was.
Maybe it was 800.
No, no.
Austin was your driver.
Who'd you take?
Oh, you took.
OK.
No, Austin drove our producer drove us down there.
Save.
We saved money from driving down there.
There you go.
And then we took a bottle of bourbon and we I had already pre filled these plastic, you
know, those ladders, these bladders that are designed for booze.
Take a plastic flask.
Yeah.
So essentially.
And you put it right in your front pocket.
It's so I'm not it's like 10 ounces of bourbon in each one.
So I filled up.
I don't know how many people were there.
80 of them.
There's four people with us.
So we had four, you know, four there.
Everyone got one.
We did it.
We did a big ass double shot before we went into the game.
I mean, it's fantastic.
We got to the seat.
I ordered a big large coke, dumped the whole thing in there.
Nice.
That's not true.
Dumped half in.
And then I started drinking more and then I dumped the rest of it in there.
And by the time I finished that, I like the third quarter, I was snookered.
Yeah, I bet.
And you're like, you're like, are we winning?
Yeah.
No idea.
I think because we had a lunch before we we went to the game on purpose, you know, so
we had a big lunch.
So I didn't start to really get munchies or anything like that to like, you know, well,
it to like the halftime third quarter.
And then I finally went and got out ventured out there.
He stood up and he was like, holy shit.
Yeah.
Stumbled around the concourse.
And then we went into like the main area and I bought like four beers and three shots of
tequila and was like, that'll be one hundred and ten dollars.
I was like, oh, my God.
Sure.
I mean, I don't remember exactly how much it was.
You just go, I'll take a very reasonable.
That's a very realistic number.
It was it was an outrageous number for what I purchased.
And I was like, fuck it.
Yeah.
I was in a sporting event with my father in law, he he insists on, you know, getting double
everything.
It's thirty four bucks a pop.
Well, every drink, every double drink, which is not which is not big.
I mean, we're talking just, you know, they're not big.
Right.
Thirty four dollars a pop.
And it's hard.
Well, it's only it's only double of one ingredient.
Right.
Yeah.
Right.
Not not both.
I mean, it's two shots of Bacardi and a splash of Diet Coke.
And I guess that's it.
Thirty four bucks.
Yeah.
It's hard to stomach.
Like whenever you're buying a drink and you know that you can buy almost two bottles of
that in the store for the one drink you just had, it's like when we were bar hopping in
Vegas, I I it was hard for me to stomach every single drink.
And I'm talking little drinks.
They were yeah, they were 20 bucks a piece.
I will move forward for the rest of my life.
I will make taking bladders into these little things.
I don't care, man.
I mean, look, these things are small.
They fit in your front pocket.
It's not like you're carrying something huge.
And well, we brought the big one into the bar the first time we tried to do this.
We brought in.
It's so they called it.
What was it called?
Smuggler's Delight.
Yeah, it was called the Smuggler's Delight, the little packet.
And it was it was like a body suit.
It was it was a large bladder.
It was like the things they shove up your ass kind of bladder, you know, to clean you
out.
It probably fit about.
I don't want to lie.
It was at least a bottle of wine, probably a full bottle of booze, if not almost a whole
bottle of booze.
And they're like peach.
So it was filled up and I brought it was wintertime outside.
So I brought it in my jacket.
No problem.
Stuck it in there, sat on the chair.
Where are you sneaking it into?
This was up at the bar up the street.
It was not Coach Joe's, the Rebel.
And it was I mean, so we ordered these drinks, right?
Just these drinks.
That's not even expensive drinks there.
No, but it was wrong with you guys.
It was a challenge.
It was an experiment.
They did.
Did anybody try to frisk your bladder?
They did.
So when you buy the bladder, it comes like in a four pack or a five pack and you get
one big bladder and then three or four smaller ones.
Well, the we only filled up the smaller ones at first.
So when you pop the top on the small ones, there's some resistance.
You have to like press it in order for it to shoot out.
All right.
So that sounds fun.
Well, like milking the cow.
It's kind of a controllable.
It's it's it's safer, in other words.
So it's not going to shoot out.
There's no there's no leakage.
This is you don't need to or something like that.
Yeah, there's no leakage.
But the large one didn't have that safety feature.
So so I had the large one and it was aimed down and then it was I had my glass and you
know, I imagine there's a full bar.
We're right in the middle of it.
Down.
Try to be sly.
I popped it upside down.
You're in like this wasn't the rail yard.
You're like, no, this is not a bar.
This is Joe or something.
Well, I pop the top off.
It doesn't have the safety feature where you have to apply pressure for it to shoot out.
You're doing this in the corner.
So as soon as I sprained the waitress, I've got top off.
No, I'm not.
Dude, it was like I was coordinating.
It was like it was like your index finger worth of.
Well, it was like the size of a pencil.
Like shot out like 10 feet.
And then you're like you jam your thumb over it and you start squirting out the size because
you have to.
It's got this bladder.
It's all flopping in your hand.
It's a little thing like a like a sports drink kind of tap.
You got to kind of close it.
So I'm jumbling with it.
It's all over.
It's a screw and the whole floor smells like bourbon.
So people are walking by and they're like, what the?
It's better than some other smell.
They thought you probably did at first.
Anyways, that was a bad experience.
You live and learn.
It's unnecessary to carry in a gallon of in a bladder.
It's just this is so what do you use that?
What do you use that big bladder for now?
If we try to pull or something.
I think you took it to the movies and left it there.
I have one more in my I just buy it.
He left it by mistake.
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
You must have drank the whole bladder.
Well, you were with me.
Was that Midway?
Was that Evan Williams?
Oh, my God.
You remember?
OK, no, I don't.
But I didn't hear the part where you left your bladder there.
Well, the more it more ways I won.
Yeah, seriously.
The only focus of that night was what happened.
Bad things happened to me.
Not you or anybody else.
Nothing bad happened to me except getting thrown out of the bar because of you.
I'm hearing impaired.
That's the first time I was loud.
I didn't know how I would have been approached were they like, sir, if your friend doesn't
calm down, you guys are going to have to leave.
Paul's all hyped up.
I was like, he's out of his frickin mind.
I'm talking about we were talking about politics and I'm hearing impaired.
I don't know how loud I am.
And you had a bladder.
Well, it's not a complaint.
No, no, that was Sean.
I wouldn't face.
Yeah, we were.
We were.
Yeah, we were.
Dude, I was.
But I can remember the bar.
I love my phone.
I have to work.
Well, to protect the innocent, I don't think you should reveal that.
Thank you.
If there was any innocence on advice anyway, but on advice of counsel, I declined the decline
to answer.
All right.
And so the producer pulled up a variety of these these plastic vessels.
Looks like.
Yeah.
Well, it has a pop top like that.
Yeah.
It just unscrews.
You have to massage it first or something.
If you're going camping, it works pretty well.
I mean, if you're if you're trying to sneak a poor side of a bar, it's kind of cumbersome,
you know.
So like the waitress were walking by and she saw you doing that.
Yes.
So you think she would just have ignored it or would she have walked by and said, sir,
you need to.
I would have told her manager and then the manager would have walked over and said, you
need to leave.
Probably.
That what you think would have happened.
I would have left.
I don't care.
But we made it even worse.
So Jeff and I have these two drinks loaded with bourbon and the ice is melted.
So now, now it's miserable.
I even put ice in it.
And then we had like a Coke and it was kind of like it was kind of a Coke bourbon and
it was way too strong.
It wasn't even enjoyable.
Oh, no.
And the whole area just smelled of bourbon.
The band that opened up was like a 90s band.
They played all kinds of stuff like Stone Temple Pilots.
And then at a certain time, the band stayed, but they had a few players exchange like the
singers left and then all and then a bunch of people left.
And then Jeff and I just sit in there.
Next thing you know, it the tribute to the heart band just showed up.
You've got Joan Jett and heart and there's we know some people left.
Well, the only people left were like these couples and so you're Jeff and I.
And then there's like little husband and wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, boyfriend, girlfriend
and then Jeff and I sit in there.
You're completely ship based.
And someone's like freaking the heart songs, you know, the love songs.
And you were yell singing together.
Yeah.
It was a comfortable evening.
This one was at, this one was at.
I can't see that going on there.
The rebel.
What was it?
It was before whatever.
Oh, the rebel.
The Grovers.
Yeah, Grovers, which used to be Coach Joe's, right?
Originally.
I like Coach Joe's a lot.
Although rebel, it's been the rebel the longest of anything.
It still is.
It's still the rebel.
It's interesting dynamic over there.
It's a beautiful location.
I mean, it's a great location.
I mean, I was saying that the actual establishment, like it's nice and roomy and they've got like
a bar.
Yeah, they have a backside bar.
And then you got the issue of the fiscal laws.
Do we have a 50-50 rule?
I don't know what the problem is with that place.
I don't know.
It doesn't seem to do well.
No, well, that's because I think they have to, there's a balance.
I don't know if it's 50-50, 60-40.
Right, food, food.
Food, it does.
Yeah, because it's not very conducive for, I mean, I wouldn't, hey, where you guys going
to go eat?
I want to go eat at that place.
It's a bar.
I mean, it stinks like a bar.
Coach Joe's was probably the most restaurant.
That's mostly what it was restaurant.
Lots of teams went there after playing like baseball games.
Well, but they had, you show up and they've got like menus and it's not, I mean, they
had burgers, they had a chef.
Yeah, no.
And now it's, they got some cook in the back that's like dropping wings, you know?
Yeah, no, it's a bar.
It truly is a bar now, not a family restaurant type of deal.
But they've always had entertainment there.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Not bad.
One of the mill cover bands that you would expect there, really.
Some are pretty good.
Journey.
Yeah, they had some Journey covered cover band was there years ago.
My company used to be out there doing karaoke.
Really?
DJing and karaoke out there.
Yeah, why don't you still do that there?
Maybe you should suggest it.
I don't know.
I'm done.
Are you done with that whole thing?
No.
Well, I mean, I don't know, as a business, I'll subcontract some stuff, but it's just
not worth my time.
Right.
It takes a lot of coordination.
It's like for one show a week per month.
Basically, it's like $125 a month.
And for what I'm like, it just isn't worth it.
I mean, that's one bourbon.
One bladder.
If you have a bunch of shows going on, then it's worth it because it's kind of a hobby
because you don't have to do anything.
You just subcontract everything.
Yeah, if you build up like eight teams all over the metro.
Now that's kind of fun a little bit, but no, I don't care.
But my point is, I even ran sound up there when they had the big bands play.
Yeah, because they had the X 32, the big soundboard, the soundboard I know how to use.
Yeah.
And so there was a band that went up there night shift with Anthony Nagid, the keyboard.
And I think I invited Jeff up there.
Yeah, I could come up for some reason.
I get something going on.
Oh, you didn't.
Who was that that was up there?
That wasn't me because you called and I was like, I can't make it.
I was disappointed.
Yeah.
And it wasn't Paul that he can remember.
Well, no, I don't get invited to stuff like that.
Well, it's a tier one event.
Yeah.
I think I explained the tiers to you.
Yeah, I kind of remember that T E T E A R S.
Well, that too.
It could be hurtful for people that are lower tiers.
It's a minimum of what a boat and a cabin to get tier one.
Was it an airplane or jet?
Yeah, the cool thing about running sound up at that bar was for this particular time was
because when I loaded in my gear, I loaded in a cooler, a cooler bench.
No, it's like a six pack of beer.
It's like some Belgium fat tire beer or something like that.
But it was iced and everything.
And every time I wanted it because they sell that was like one of the few bottles that
they had up there was.
So, you know, if they see me with a fat tire, they're like, well, you ordered a fire.
You brought a case and someone was with me up at the soundboard.
I don't know who it was.
I thought it was you.
It wasn't me because I can't sit at the soundboard alone.
I have to have companionship.
I'm very codependent when it comes on stuff like that.
You get lonely.
Well, it's not just that, but it's the experience of sitting up there with a live band playing
that's fantastic.
This is like when you walk up the little stairs and you're in the little elevated box.
Yes.
They don't have that anymore.
No, they well, it's now an office up in the front.
But at the time, but still it's elevated and it overlooks the front stage.
Well, yeah, it used to be up there.
And then they dropped it down below.
But I've been at both of them.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
Of course.
I want I mean, who wouldn't want VIP seats?
Yeah, it's kind of cool.
You know, when you got your own beer, you're up there by yourself.
You're like, you got control of everything.
Got light controls.
They're nude.
You just are.
I'm not watching Twilight.
What the hell?
You were nude in the box.
No, no, no, no.
There was no Twilight stuff going on.
Oh, yeah.
That's just a Jeff thing.
Jeff binge watched Twilight this past week.
I did.
Hey, I love my wife.
And apparently it was all nude.
What does that got to do with it?
And we acted out scenes.
They larped in Twilight outfits.
Great.
No, we didn't do any of that.
So have you seen the Twilight trilogy, Rob?
Is it actually five movies?
Oh, quintillogy.
No, it's not a word.
I don't know.
I just made it up.
That works.
It's the one where the vampire is and she's not a vampire.
Yeah, I've seen bits and pieces of who knows what.
Lots of teen angst.
Teen angst.
I thought you said eggs.
Teen eggs.
I was like, you get to see some of that too.
There's at least one egg that gets fertilized.
That's true.
Jesus.
You know what, man?
Is there something else we can talk about?
Yeah, seriously, what are we talking about?
We brought up Twilight.
We went bladder and downhill from there.
Yeah.
All right, so let's talk about what's in our...
How do we even get on the bladder?
I don't know, but...
What is on our topic list?
Oh my God.
It's spring.
I'm done with NCAA.
I mean, look, I can only handle so much.
So they got the, what's it called?
The four pack up next, the final four.
Final four.
Is coming up this weekend.
And we're all rooting for Villanova.
I guess.
I will.
I'm just looking forward to some good games.
I mean, they have been some good games lately, so I don't know.
I'm looking forward to it.
I don't have that NCAA March Madness fever.
I very, very seldom do.
In fact, I think I've only had it a couple of times in my life.
I used to have it.
I don't have it like I used to.
And I get that way with college football.
College football.
Yeah, I love the college football.
Yeah.
Not a big basketball fan.
I'm more into college football than...
But you wane on it some.
You go back and forth as far as how involved you are.
No, I lost interest of it.
We were talking about this earlier.
I lost interest.
Just get burnt out.
Because the kids these days don't stay in school, right?
So a lot of these kids are one and done.
You can't follow these teams anymore.
And when I was late teens, early 20s, maybe whatever that year that was...
10 years ago.
Yeah, 10 years ago.
When Georgetown was winning with Patrick Ewing and all those folks, right?
So...
That was more than 10 years ago.
Yeah, that was 30 years ago.
80, 20 or more.
84, 85.
I won a pool that year when Georgetown won.
But you know, you could follow teams, you know, for...
You seem to be the authority of some of these college games.
Not a swimming pool, but a...
No, no, no, no, no.
Yeah, he knows his NCAA history here.
Yeah, so you know, then you had the Twin Towers with Samson at Houston, right?
Oh, yeah.
I thought Twin Towers was like something...
Olajuwon.
...Hakim Olajuwon and Ralph Samson, right?
No, that would be the Rockets.
Houston Rockets back-to-back championship.
Was it Twin Towers, though?
We were talking about Twin Towers.
I thought it was like Larry Bird, somebody else.
No, it wasn't the college.
No, it wasn't the Celtics.
That would have been Hakim Olajuwon and Rob Samson.
Is that the Twin Towers?
It is.
In basketball.
Interesting.
Ralph Samson.
He went to Houston, did he?
Absolutely.
Except the fact they fell, but I mean, that's...
Absolutely.
I thought he went to like Virginia or something like that.
No, this is a pro.
Twin Towers and Houston Rockets.
I thought you were talking about...
I think they played each other, though, during the college, didn't they?
Oh, they might have.
Ralph Samson was what, 7'4"?
Yeah, he was tall.
Yeah.
But yeah, that's what I was watching it, and I lost a little contact when I first moved
down here to Dallas in the early 90s.
And then things changed in college basketball, where the kids are...
They have the right to...
All they have to do is play one year in college, and they go to the pros now.
I apologize, Jeff.
I want to interrupt you.
I'm going to lower my rating on this bourbon.
Why, because it's empty?
No, it's more than full.
I'm going to lower it to three.
And here's the deal.
I think it's lost some of its luster.
Is it watered down, though?
No, I mean, we only put one cube in there.
And it was about 45 minutes old, right?
Well, the cube could make a difference.
Well, mine's empty.
Well, the cube would make a difference, and plus I think it's just...
Gyrated a little bit there.
Yeah.
What was up with that?
That's kind of weird.
Mine was fine.
It's empty, so I don't know.
Did your palate change?
I don't know.
I don't think that's what it is.
I just took a poll right now, and it just didn't hit me right.
Maybe you had like a hunk of pepper in your tooth that just broke free and impacted it.
That could be it.
I think there's a high probability of that.
You should have brushed or sweep.
All sorts of shit stuck in his teeth, I'm sure.
Yeah, and what did he eat today?
Several things could have dislodged.
And considering, yeah, you would know all about this, Rob.
All right.
Anyway, moving on.
It is spring.
It's officially spring.
Yeah, March 20th.
Is it?
March 20th.
The reason I only know the start of spring is because that's my sister's birthday.
That's the first day of spring, March 20th.
I thought spring was like, it changed every year.
Well, not today.
I'm just saying.
It's usually the 20th or 21st, somewhere around there.
I don't know what scientists determine that.
I was going to say it's wrong, but it's not.
Technically, it was spring last podcast.
But anyway, we're talking about it.
It's spring.
It's fun.
It's warming up.
Definitely warming up.
We're having a few little...
Of course, the time change helped, right?
It's lighter later.
Yep, that's nice.
Yeah.
And we're getting no spring storms.
As a matter of fact, we're supposed to get one tonight.
It was quite windy coming in here.
Oh, yeah.
Man, I'll tell you what.
For my job, I had to climb on a two-story roof today.
Oh, wow.
That's always healthy.
Smart.
Were you wearing parachute pants?
Well, thank God I wasn't.
I'd been parasailing down the fucking street.
It was windier than all, man.
It was an easy roof.
I mean, I don't like to climb roofs.
It's probably about 10% of what I do.
But it was probably one of those days I probably should have said no.
Yeah, probably.
Because that wind when I got up there, I never get nervous on roofs.
I mean, what was it, 30 mile an hour gusts?
It was enough to where it moved my fat ass.
Oh.
It was 110.
Was it F5?
Yeah, F4.
Full hurricane strength.
It felt like the whole roof was moving.
It was very seismic.
Did the roof come off with you?
The shit started just moving.
Whatever.
Low mills.
No, but it was really strong.
It was very uncomfortable.
They come in gusts, so you never expected this.
No.
Slams into you.
And in one second, I'm doing great.
I'm like, hey, how's it going?
Yeah, which you take your guard off, right?
If it's a constant thing, you kind of lean into it, right?
Yeah, you're kind of wandering around the roof, looking, looking, looking.
All of a sudden, boom.
Well, to make things even more troublesome, the roofer that shows up,
which is what they call the ladder assist, he sets his ladder up,
and it's one of these really lightweight aluminum ladders, extension ladders.
It's second store, not a big deal.
He's got it in this little nook, but the extension ladder was at its max.
Were you already on the roof?
I was already on the roof.
So you had your own ladder.
Well, no.
I knew he was bringing a ladder.
Never.
Because I always make sure that...
The goal is for me not to bring a ladder.
Because a single store, I've got this telescopic ladder.
Do you have a jet pack to get up there?
Which one needs to get up there?
A ladder pack?
If the roofer's unavailable, then I will hire someone that could get me up there safely.
Sometimes it's a lift, depending if it's an apartment complex or a five-story building or something like that.
It just depends.
That's smart.
This one, it was just the wind was so strong, it almost blew his ladder off.
My point is it almost blew his aluminum ladder, almost blew it down.
Because we're standing up there, we're both looking, me and the roofer,
and the ladder was like, shrink, and it just hit the side because it was like in this little nook.
And it twisted.
And I was just like, I'm going to have to call 911 to get off this fucking roof.
Or you have to call your friend like I did.
Which was you.
Do you not remember this?
It was not even a month ago.
Six weeks ago, maybe?
What he's describing exactly happened.
You should have just jumped in your pool.
I was standing on my roof.
I'm repairing a hole for my squirrel.
You could have jumped in your pool.
Did you man up and jump in your pool?
You were trying to shoot a squirrel?
No, I was patching a hole where the squirrels were getting in.
And I'm at the front of the house, and I got on from the back side of the house.
That's the only way you can get on.
How were you patching it?
Well, I can tackle it.
Was this peanut butter?
Anyway, so I hear this very, very loud clatter.
And I was like, God, what's the neighbor doing?
What the hell is that all about?
Those new neighbors next door?
Yeah, I didn't know what was going on, but I was like, man, that was a loud clatter.
Then I go back, and I don't see the top of my ladder sticking over the gutters.
And I'm like, oh, my God, that was my ladder.
I look over the edge.
Yep, sure enough, my ladder was laying on the ground.
And I'm like, um, hmm.
And no one was home?
Well, no, they were.
To make it worse, the ladder separated or something like that.
Right.
So I called my wife, and my middle son's there.
And I'm trying to guess.
The ladder came separated when they were trying to pick it back up.
Oh, is that what it was?
Yes.
And they didn't know how to put the ladder back together.
And I was like, and it's kind of tricky.
I don't know if anybody's got a ladder.
If you've never messed with it.
It separates.
Well, it's an extension ladder, but if it comes out of the rungs, like it'll separate.
And it's tricky to get it back in there.
I got really frustrated trying to get it back in there one time.
Anyway, so I had to call my lifeline.
And of course, hey, what's going on, Sean?
What are you doing?
I'm just playing video games.
Yeah.
What are you doing?
I'm on my roof.
And my ladder blew down.
And he's like, oh.
It's like the walk of shame.
Oh, yeah, totally.
And I was like, and then of course, it took you a sweet time to get over.
What?
I was there like in a second.
He had to finish the game.
Right.
Anyway, and I'm just sitting on the roof waiting for Sean to come over.
Was it really delayed?
No.
I thought I was over there pretty quick.
It wasn't that bad.
I think you did finish the game, though.
I did.
I had a kill streak going.
It was like the final four weekends.
I was in the math.
Yeah, right.
You don't think you could have leapt into the pool?
Oh, hell no.
No?
No.
It's not that far from your roof, is it?
You got a running start.
That's a four foot pool.
Four foot deep?
What do you do like?
You'd have to like slam, like belly flop it.
There are clowns that jump off these high rises into a bucket.
It's a 20 foot roof for sure.
Got to be 20 feet.
Yeah, you'd have to belly flop it.
You think so, Sean?
20 feet, you think?
Or is he exaggerating?
It's two stories.
It's around 20 feet, 22 feet.
But you can climb down to the first story from there, right?
There is no first story.
It's all two stories.
Yeah.
So.
Yeah, I wasn't anybody at the church that you could shout to or something to please help.
There's some crazy guy on a roof yelling at us.
Is there any alternative other than calling Sean?
So did you take video?
No, I sat up there for 90 minutes before I called you.
Oh my God.
There was no way I was going to call you, but that was my only option.
And meanwhile, your wife is just sitting down outside and watching you.
She's watching Twilight.
And your son.
I enjoy watching Twilight.
I had chalk with me and I wrote on the sun panel, please help.
SOS.
So I'm in a flight path.
That would be a good excuse for work the next morning maybe.
I'm stuck on my roof.
For some reason I don't recall you climbing down.
Did I leave or something?
I climbed down.
I mean, it's not like you put up the ladder and scampered away.
You know, I climbed down.
Did I use my ladder or did I fix your ladder?
Yeah, you just put the ladder back up.
OK.
Yeah.
Because I had brought over.
I've got.
Oh, yeah, you had somebody with you.
Who was that guy that was with you?
Like one of your daughter's boyfriends.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Leighton.
Or friend.
Friend, I should say.
Maybe.
Oh, that's how lazy I am.
Yeah, you had him do stuff.
Yeah, I'm just like.
You get the ladder put in the trash.
Yeah, he was instructing him to do stuff.
Yeah, it was fantastic.
Put that together.
Yeah.
What are you doing?
My friend's on the roof.
Come on, man.
I still don't have a beer.
I didn't have a beer up there either.
I'm surprised you didn't take any pictures of like, Paul peering over.
Oh, my God, that would be great.
That would have been a dudes like us moment.
Oh, by the way, this is a Dudes Like Us show today, right?
It is.
Hi, my name is Sean.
I'm Paul.
And I'm Jeff.
And we've got a special guest tonight.
His name is Rob.
There we go.
We're a little late into the show.
Or Scott.
If you haven't figured out that it's Dudes Like Us.
What the fuck's going on with Scott?
I hope he hears this.
He keeps having a work excuse.
It's two weeks in a row, Scott.
That's his life, his work excuses.
Yeah, we need him here.
He would have fun with this.
It appears that he works hard, but it could be just appearances.
It might be.
We have a chair.
We're all ready to go.
We're all ready, man.
He would be a hoot, too.
He would probably dominate the conversation.
He definitely would jump in.
There's no question about that.
So what does he do for a living?
Cement?
Yes.
Is he doing concrete still?
Yeah, concrete.
So I know he changed jobs.
He's not doing the overnight cement.
What a job that would be, right?
Would you guys want that?
You know how when crews are working 24-7, like overnight, and you're driving by?
I mean, I'm usually never up that late anyway, but they got the lights going on.
And that's when dangerous stuff happens, right?
That's when you get your shit done.
Oh, yeah, drunk people driving through it.
Yeah, some great stories.
I'll tell you.
I don't think I would want that job.
Work or otherwise.
That depends.
I mean, if it's your nine to five, I wouldn't want that.
But if it's contract, I would imagine you make...
I mean, that's kind of hazard pay, in my opinion.
I think you would get paid pretty well.
Yeah, that night work is hazard.
Yeah, seriously.
Anyway, I would...
Shout out to Scott.
We'll get him here sometime.
Yeah, no, that'd be fun.
He'd be very entertaining.
The ratings will go up.
He probably will insult some political figures and everything, but that's OK.
That's good.
We can get to that later, so we'll do that ourselves.
I'm sure there's plenty of that to go around right now.
There's lots of them.
We got so much to talk about.
We got the Will Smith thing.
We've got Joe Biden and his nonstop gaffes.
One after another.
Oh my...
And you hear what Putin said today?
In retort to him?
To Biden?
Yeah.
OK.
It's just...
I mean, look, he's kind of...
We'll be watching him very closely to hear it.
He's going to walk us into a goddamn world war.
I know.
He needs to go, but Kamala cannot be the replacement.
Can you imagine?
I can't say.
I mean, Tucker Carlson is talking 25th Amendment to get Biden out.
I'm like, are you sure you want that?
I mean, Harris?
Can you imagine Harris on the global stage as president?
Hold on.
Let's process this.
There was conversation about bringing Trump into what?
Speaker of the House.
That's right.
So, hypothetically...
You'd have to impeach Kamala.
Well...
You would.
You'd have to impeach her.
How would you get her out?
Incompetence.
Well, we're talking...
It's not that easy.
It has to be a diminished...
Can you do an M-8?
The 25th Amendment back to back?
Where are we skipping Trump?
Let's get back to that.
Yeah, where is Trump coming into play?
How is he getting to Speaker of the House?
He was nominated.
I mean, because Kamala is the Senate.
He was nominated for the Speaker of the House.
No, they said they were going to.
He was.
I heard he was nominated.
Hold on.
You have to be in Congress.
You have to be a member of Congress.
No, you don't.
You do not have to be a member of Congress to be nominated for Speaker of the House.
That cannot be true.
I don't believe that's correct.
Producer?
I wouldn't...
That can not be true.
The founding fathers...
You do not have to be part of Congress to be Speaker of the House.
They don't get a vote.
Today's politics ignores a lot of the founding fathers stuff.
So I wouldn't doubt it.
All right, well, we're going to find out here.
Do you have to be part of...
You've got to be.
I mean, that's how it works.
You know, I was thinking the same thing, but they were saying you don't have to be part
of Congress to be Speaker of the House.
You have to be nominated.
The Speaker of the House is the...
You're nominated.
That's it.
So Speaker of the House is the majority...
Well, it says no there, whoever that is.
American conservative...
Okay, well, look at you.
All right, so it says no.
Scroll down.
Donald Trump does not have to run for Congress to become Speaker of the House.
Okay.
When Donald Trump did a radio interview, okay, conservative hosts floated the idea that Trump
could run for Congress in Florida.
That's so interesting, blah, blah, blah.
Republicans have the majority.
It says there's no constitutional requirement for him to be an active elected official.
He simply needs to be elected by a majority of current members of the House of Representatives
and the second in line of succession to the presidency.
Right.
Well, so he could be that like after the 2022 elections.
Well, that's what happens.
Correct.
That's what they're talking about.
Yeah.
It does not require the Speaker to be an incumbent member of the House of Representatives.
That's crazy.
That seems awful easy, but has that ever happened before, I wonder?
No.
But look, we're in uncharted territory right now.
We have no idea what the hell's going on.
And frankly, I think the United States is turning on Joe Biden.
72% of them really are nervous about his next step and his gaffes and what they're going
to cause.
72.
You saw that he said all these things.
There's like three or four of them he said right in a row.
And then I saw, is it Peter Ducey from Fox?
Yeah.
And he's like, you said this and this and this and this.
And he's like, I never said those.
Yeah.
He's trying to do the whole that didn't happen.
Yeah.
He's like, I'd say that was me.
And then the news is like, well, here's where he said it.
Heard you talking shit to Putin.
Wasn't me.
Heard you talking shit to Putin.
Wasn't me.
It wasn't me.
He's a nut, man.
He's just not all there.
And then the whole talking points thing happened again today.
Oh, his little flash card.
He's sitting there holding his flash card and almost showing it to the press.
So they zoom in on it.
Or why don't you just take a look at this?
And it's got the questions and it's got the answers.
And like really?
I mean, or he's a little confused.
If he doesn't have it, then he's lost.
That's right.
That's the whole point.
And meanwhile, we're at the crux of war.
I'm sorry.
I was going to go back to the whole thing of bringing Trump into, I mean.
I don't think it will happen.
Well, of course.
No, it won't.
But you know what?
It's fun to think about.
Wouldn't that be funny?
It'd be funny, but I don't think it will happen.
Oh, my God.
Imagine to replace Pelosi with Trump and have him get Biden out of there by
impeaching him for corruption and have him go to jail.
Well, we'd have to win the Senate.
Well, we're going to win the Senate.
That's why Trump was impeached, because we had the Senate.
Otherwise, Trump would have been.
That's why he wasn't convicted, put it that way.
That's why he wasn't removed from office.
That's why he wasn't ripped off, because we had the Senate.
He was impeached, but he wasn't removed.
That's ridiculous.
Well, we have to win twice.
Wasn't he impeached twice?
Well, yes, but the second was complete.
Well, the first was totally both bullshit.
Bullshit.
So he was impeached twice.
And then they had to steal the election to keep him from being president.
How do you think he would react if he if he was president now?
What would what would he be doing in response to this?
I don't think Putin would have done what he did in the first place.
I think I think he I think I think Putin was Biden his time for Trump to get out of there to see what happened.
And then he started because he's been building his troops for a year and a half.
Right. So by then, he started building his troops on the edge of Ukraine.
But there's there's been some other stuff going on, too.
I mean, Ukraine's not innocent in this whole program.
Well, no, Ukraine's not the lily flower that they were thinks they are.
Jabbin the beast.
Yeah, well, they're highly corrupt.
Yeah, the whole thing.
I mean, the place is what it doesn't have any sovereign borders.
You know, it does.
No, it does. It definitely has that.
It's a sovereign country with borders.
I think it was. It is its own country.
Absolutely. I thought it was still just part of Russia.
No, no, that's what Russia wants it back in Russia.
But no, when Russia broke apart in the 90s, Ukraine was part of it just like Soviet Union, Soviet Union, just like Chechnya and Georgia and all those
and Belarus, Belarus.
That was all Russia. Now there are their own countries.
Well, as far as the Russians are concerned, it's not a sovereign country.
It's kind of like it's kind of like the analogy you created about California trying to emancipate from the United States and then all of a sudden trying to to side with Russia.
And we're like, no, we're taking California back.
So that's how that's how Putin wants this.
The old Soviet Union. Right.
Put that together. That's what he wants.
But those countries don't necessarily want that.
And Ukraine absolutely doesn't want that.
I think Ukraine is too corrupt for them to even have an opinion because any opinion that the Ukraine has isn't for the better of the people.
It's for those conglomerates that are the deep, deep pockets there.
Well, I don't know. I don't know if that's true.
I mean, there are people that are dying to fight for their freedom.
It's sad because you're right. Well, it's fighting for their freedom.
That's people themselves. But there's people who will always do that.
It just sucks. The American Revolution.
And we don't know what to believe. Right. They've got all you know, they've got.
But I know where you're going with that. There's bullshit going on.
Definitely some shadiness going on.
Unfortunately, I think right now, even even if Putin decides, all right, I'm done.
I'm pulling back. What kind of shape is Ukraine going to be?
Oh, it's a mess. I mean, the whole country is a disaster.
Ukraine is a a source of natural minerals.
It's a source of of valuable minerals. Of course.
You know, so who cares is what Putin's thinking. Fuck it.
Let's not let's euthanize these guys.
And we're just going to we're just going to take the the great stuff from the resources.
And that's what China's doing. I mean, you think that we left Afghanistan.
You think Biden pulled out of Afghanistan just because he's trying to save us money.
No, he's sucking homeboys dick in China.
And he pulled out because China is all in Afghanistan pulling out natural resources
and all the precious metals and all the important shit that they need.
That's the reason why I know we were speculating that that was going to happen when we left.
So is that is that confirmed? That's absolutely.
I have not read one. Hold on. Hold on.
Well, why would I want to do that?
I know is China in there doing it right now? I have not heard China was in Afghanistan
before we even pulled out. I have not read.
Why did we even allow them in there, so to speak?
Because they were on their way out.
Who was on their way out? China could do.
I mean, we're not we're not at war with China.
China can go into Afghanistan to do stuff as long as well.
Well, we can we can make some stands here and there, right?
Sure. Yeah. Cooperation.
They can have little factions of little Chinese
because that's essentially what has happened is that they've they just with it to a mine.
They took over it. And I mean, they're going to do the same thing.
I'm kind of wondering if Putin is what does it say there?
I'm not reading that whole thing. Yeah, that was a lot to read.
China in the Middle East is a whole different thing.
We got Russia and China. Yeah.
China definitely has aspirations to get into that mix.
I'm not sure it's a. Well, what was their response to to Biden
when he kind of warned them not to go in there?
So now they're you know, get involved with the Russian. Ukraine.
They they kind of reiterated their solidarity with Russia.
They didn't they didn't they didn't they didn't face the threat head on.
They just said we stand with Russia, we're solid partners.
So, you know, it is what it is.
That's kind of that's been China's stance up.
But now they also were kind of critical of the fact that Russia invaded Ukraine.
They wish they hadn't. They did say that officially in the beginning, at least.
At least they waited till after the Olympics, I guess.
Well, so the word is they asked Putin to wait until after the Olympics.
Correct. They like asked them to.
And what was that all about? I just felt horrible. Sorry.
Anyway, so, yeah, there's there's there's a lot of one of the things that
that we're going to start experiencing over here are tremendously increased food costs
because Ukraine is in the top five or six in wheat producers.
Now, I heard that most of their wheat goes to Africa.
Well, the United States takes an 18 percent of our wheat consumption comes from Ukraine.
That's a big deal. That's a huge 18 percent.
That's a huge deal. So bread to go everything with wheat. Right.
So stock up on pastas and breads and corn chips.
Oh, that's corn. Corn. So anything.
So anything gluten free is going to be OK. Right. Right.
Yeah, but that's a big deal.
And you know, I don't even know what to say anymore.
It's so frustrating because, you know, we were winning with Trump and and now we're not.
And what a perfect storm of everything.
We have overspending in government, like crazy overspending. Right. More than normal.
They want to spend more, not just overspending, but irresponsibly overspending.
Irresponsibly. We're going to give you an extra hundred dollars a month because we're sorry.
Gas prices are so expensive. There you go. Here's a hundred bucks.
Did they get passed? Did they get passed? I don't know.
I hope it doesn't. I don't need a hundred bucks.
So yeah. So you got to matter. You don't have to take it. You still get tax for it.
So you got the overspending. You got the inflation already.
Inflation was already running away. I don't know how that works.
I don't even know if taxes covers it really. I don't know.
I mean, it's disincentivizing the workforce.
They're charging. They're charging sixty one or sixty one cents out of the dollar for every fucking gallon.
Is that right? The government? Oh, that can't be that government taxes.
Well, they've always been pretty high. Is it every gallon or is it for every every dollar?
I think it's like fifty eight, sixty one percent of every dollar.
The federal taxes? I don't know if it's the city or the federal.
There's all kinds of taxes on fuel. But there's so much.
I think it's like sixty one percent of fuel goes to taxes.
Look up the federal gas tax.
Or just gas tax. I would imagine that there's a federal gas tax and then each state has the option of adding to it.
But there's so much. Because a lot of that gas tax goes to rebuilding roads and things like that.
That's what they don't do.
All right. So here is gas taxes and what you need to know.
Excise taxes that you pay when you fill up your car with gas.
Federal government and states both impose gas taxes.
Much of the revenue raised goes towards like highway and infrastructure projects.
That's what they like to say.
The average state gas tax is nearly sixty cents a gallon.
It says here by the Texas Motor Fuels or the Comptroller of Texas.
Texans pay thirty eight point four cents in taxes for every gallon of gas.
So federal and state?
That's just federal.
And then forty four point four cents for diesel per gallon.
That's a lot. That's a lot.
So is it the opposite? Are they paying forty percent or sixty percent?
So federal taxes include excise taxes of eighteen point three cents.
So that's just federal though.
And twenty four point three cents on diesel. So federal is eighteen point three.
And then states add to that.
Now imagine so that you get you get the federal expenses, which is then you have the state.
That's why your gas prices are so high.
Then you then you have the the folks that are working the oil, the ones that are producing it,
the ones that are working their ass off in the field sucking out of the ground and converting it.
I mean, that's a lot of money.
And the government takes that much.
Shame on them.
I think something that folks don't think about when you when you hear people say we need to get off oil is what is everything made out of?
It's made out of petroleum.
Yeah. What is made out of? What runs the country?
It's not just gas in your cars.
It's almost everything that we have is made out of petroleum.
It would seem to me that instead of trying to to change, I mean, it's fantastic that we have these Teslas.
We have these little golf carts that you can plug into the wall and they run.
Great. You know what? If I could afford one, I would probably buy one too, because they're convenient and they're kind of cool.
There are they're they're technology really bad ass.
But the reality of it is, is that we run on fossil fuels.
So if like massively, massively run on that's it.
We we run off fossil fuels.
I mean, well, whatever my point.
I can't drive across the country in a golf cart.
No, that's true.
So the point is, it's just like any kind of resource.
Like, let's let's talk about lights, lighting and like in this room right now, you know, you got incandescent lighting.
Well, how can we do make it cost effective for lighting?
You know, they started coming up with L.A.D. Well, guess what?
It still takes electricity. Right.
It's a fraction of the electricity and all, but it's got that weird five thousand Kelvin aluminum.
Well, they've they figure that out.
They dumbed down the drivers on there and figured out how to make warm lining from L.A.D.
So it's the same thing we got to do with with the fossil fuels.
You know, they've got to come up with these different types of engines that are or maybe even some mechanics of the engines that just make it more efficient.
That's it.
Well, for instance, I was looking at the I was watching a video of Paul's truck that he almost got almost got.
Yeah. And the every time you turn it on, you have to like, you know, well, well, the different levels, sacrifice or something.
Well, the different levels of the truck use the exact same engine, but it has different fuel efficiency.
It has different horsepower. It has different torque. It's the exact same engine.
Right. So they're tweaking it, but they're tweaking it in separate different ways to get better fuel efficiency, better torque and horsepower.
And why wouldn't you do that automatically to be the most efficient engine you can possibly make?
I know. That's right. Top to bottom. So that you consume more.
It's the same thing they want to charge more.
It's the same thing they're doing with electricity when they're talking about these phasing with motors.
You know, we talked about that a week or two ago. Right.
You know, phasing the motors is ridiculous while you have a transformer outside that runs at a different frequency than the motors inside.
It's like, well, who's programming that transformer outside?
Can't we just change it so that my motors don't have to consume twice as much power to get the same output?
So in summary, what everybody's saying here, right, is that we could run lots and lots of things more efficiently.
But we probably don't because it makes somebody money.
It's the stocks. It's the stock. It makes somebody money.
It's the Department of Energy.
But even if we made it as efficient as we possibly could, we still cannot get off of fossil fuels yet.
It's the Department of Energy is corrupt. It's probably it's just as corrupt as the taxes.
What is the tax? What? What is the tax?
IRS.
Yeah, the IRS. The Department of Energy is more corrupt.
Corrupt. I mean, think about it. Why are they making transformers that don't sink to anything?
I don't.
In fact, they say, let's line up with all the different stuff we have.
Line up, put everything up.
Transformers that blow up on the polls.
Yes. Let's line up everything we have in the house.
Let's line up everything we have in the businesses and let's figure out how what's the transformer we could put up on the pole.
That's going to produce the most fucked up energy that we can give to everybody. And that's what they do.
So can we put up a transformer in between that in our house?
It's. Yes. Yes, you can. And that's what they're doing.
These companies are starting to do that now. In fact, it's amazing the output.
It's like we got it's kind of like dirty water coming in and you're consuming dirty water.
It's I don't know what they call it by solution of transformers.
They it's filter. I'm not I don't know is the shorter.
But I know it has something to do with the frequency of how certain things work.
And it's it's just like, you know, if you.
So is this a new technology, not necessarily new, but a new industry that is coming out to be able to do that?
Yes, because there were these old there were these homeboys that were just smart.
They they paid attention to chemistry and they never went to high school and they skipped school.
But yet they're in their their fucking farm and they just I just bought this because I was matched up and it works.
And there's I forget the they got these YouTube things.
So this is fucking from like the early 90s.
And they're like, I just bought this and it changed the input output ratio from like one to two to like one to ten.
And it was amazing how much more efficient these early 90s.
Why has it not gone anywhere?
That's why I'm saying it's the Department of Energy.
I think that they're in bed with people, meaning they're OK with people like being inefficiently using or absolutely using electricity.
So the electricity is just like everything else.
They make money off of people sucking up electricity.
Electric companies are have the lobbyists in Washington who say you need to shut down ABC because they're starting to do these transformers or whatever.
This shit has been going on since the early nineteen hundreds because, you know, and I'm playing a little conspiracy theorist here.
But when you have Tesla, when you have someone like Tesla that comes to that says, hey, we're going no.
They say when you when you can when you can have free power because the earth harnesses electricity and Tesla has some sort of mechanism that could pull electricity out of the ground
and this huge network that you would have free electricity all over the planet.
But all of a sudden, Tesla dies of some mysterious illness.
I think it was gangrene.
And then he's got he's got all his notebooks in his plans that are in the safe in his hotel.
It was a black plague.
Some dudes that came in and they open up the safe and they take all the shit and see fly and they go.
And then I was up to do to do it's more like Star Wars.
Oh, OK. Star Wars.
So they go to the aliens trying to suppress the technology of Earth.
They're prepping us for an I don't know what it is, but it's not right.
OK, well, you know what?
I think I think we need conspiracy theorist 101.
Yeah, I think I I don't I don't think I don't think there is any doubt.
I don't think there's any doubt.
Well, I wish I had a nickel that there is incentive to not be efficient with with with fuel.
Right.
No question about it.
But again, going back to going back to is there something that OK, you know, we need to get off of fossil fuels, but it needs to be a baby step scenario.
Right. You go to liquid L.
What is it? Liquid natural gas again?
Is it do we need to get off of it or do you go to hydrogen dumb it down to where it's the matter?
It's the matter of consumption.
We need to dumb down the consumption of our fossil fuels.
And we're condemning ourselves because you have people in administrative positions that aren't allowing these engines to be developed that consume less.
Right. It's like all of a sudden, it's like, hey, you got some some dude on the left corner that's that's producing this engine.
And the the guys that are are the oil sellers are like, well, fuck that.
Yes, we talked about last week.
We're not going to make it ready. It comes out. We remember when I was in high school reading an article in Popular Science about a ceramic engine that made they got one hundred miles per gallon in high school.
What was that? One hundred eighteen years ago.
At least so you know what I mean?
And so that just quietly went away during the Yellowstone 1883.
Right.
Before, you know, they were still using wagon wheels for Tim McGraw.
Anyway, I had a buggy with business. I used to make these little whips for buggies.
What?
You know, back in those days, back in those days, back when you were in high school.
Yeah. The final boss is what you're saying.
You know, and I, you know, I have not I have not seen any of those shows.
I haven't seen Yellowstone. I haven't seen 1883.
Very good.
I have to say, I don't even know where I find Yellowstone.
I was told it was Paramount, but it's not Paramount.
It's Paramount Plus.
Yeah.
I have not watched any of that either.
So we're blissfully ignorant, we could say, or are we better off for it anyway?
I'm not. I'm not.
Here's the thing. I'm not blissfully ignorant because I've been hearing for a year or longer that it's the most amazing show ever.
Do you still have your YouTube show? YouTube thing?
My YouTube TV? I had to go back to it, yes.
So if you have YouTube.
Spectrum sucked.
If you have your your paid YouTube thing, you can get Yellowstone there.
On YouTube TV?
Yeah, YouTube TV.
So it's an add-on to YouTube TV.
It's not an add-on. It comes with it.
I don't think so.
It does.
Like illegally?
No.
It comes with what?
YouTube TV.
He's saying if you subscribe to YouTube TV, you get Yellowstone.
Are there different packages on YouTube TV?
I think so.
You just have the top of the line?
No, he can get it.
He pays a thousand dollars a month so he gets everything.
No, no. Because I have watched Yellowstone on YouTube TV.
I know, but there may be different packages is what I'm saying.
It was his package. I don't have YouTube TV.
You watched my package?
Why was that? That was during the day sometime when you were at work.
Right? I'm over at his house for five minutes. I put on YouTube TV just because he doesn't have anything.
And now he's got it forever. From you. From me.
We have Parliament too so it doesn't matter. But my point is that...
Parliament?
What was that? It was called Paramount. We have Paramount.
Paramount.
What the fuck?
You're talking about England now or something.
Yeah, he's talking about C-SPAN.
My point is that you have it.
Because I've watched on YouTube TV.
When we take our break, I would like you to enlighten me. I need to find that.
Do that on another room, please.
You have a magnifying glass. You select that button. You type in Yellowstone.
And it should populate up there on the screen.
We absolutely did that.
It didn't work.
It's not there.
It could be blocked.
1883 was there.
It's not your fault, Paul. It's an aptitude.
Now what's 1883 about?
So that is a pretty cool...
Aren't you an IT major?
It is a kind of a...
So Yellowstone is modern day. Ranch up in Montana, right?
So 1883 is...
Earlier.
Their family back in 1883 when they were on the way to Montana.
How they got there.
To establish the ranch.
So it's an offshoot of it?
It's a prequel, right? So it's a great, great...
It's like Dallas and it had the different shows coming on.
It's like all those western movies all wrapped up in one.
They've got fucking tornadoes.
They've got bandits.
They've got Indians, banditos.
They've got the last Mohican.
What are you talking about? In 1883?
Tatankas.
Yes.
Tatankas.
Wow.
Tatankas.
Yeah.
Buffalo.
No, it was good.
The last episode is tough to watch.
I have to tell you.
Oh, really?
Are you crying?
Very emotional?
Yes, extremely.
Did you strip your clothes off?
Yes, we were.
Is this before or after you watched Twilight?
We acted out all the scenes.
In 1883?
To both of them?
Yes.
So this is the thing.
So you and your wife act out whatever you watch.
Correct.
Yeah, the DC...
The Marvel movies are interesting.
They have a new version of Yellowstone water.
Yellowstone water.
And you jump off the table and put your hand in the ground.
I'm Thanos.
He's the cowboy, Julie's the Indian.
Stop it.
Right.
Or else I'll say stop again.
What's the safe word?
Hula hoop.
I don't know.
Wombat.
Okay.
Anyway, I'm glad we're off of the fuel thing because that's a crappy subject.
You know what?
I'll tell you what.
I'm starting to get a headache.
What's the best price you've ever had on your expedition?
$100.
Your expedition?
Well, think about it.
The Tundra would be a little bit better.
When you get that tank that you're about to purchase.
Yeah, it would be a little bit better.
How big is your tank in your expedition?
I don't think you heard, Rob.
I bailed on the Tundra.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah, but can you imagine if you had got the...
Well, there wasn't any bailout to Toyota.
How much more was the tank?
No.
Okay.
Actually, it seems to be pretty much the same.
I have a 35-gallon tank in mine.
You're talking about the Tundra?
And what do you have?
The Tundra is 32.
Good Lord.
32 gallons.
Mine's 35.
The expedition is 26, and it was almost $100, you feel.
No.
Wow.
Did you use premium gas?
No, it was $94.
$96.
I had a quarter tank, a little less than a quarter tank, and I put 92 bucks in today.
But I have Kruger money, right?
The fuel points.
So I had 40 cents off.
Oh, that's good.
So it docked it down to $3.29.
Yeah, that's really good.
That's great.
How often do you get...
Is that every time?
No, no, no.
You got to build up the fuel points.
I have 40 cents.
Oh, is this like buying a unicorn bourbon?
No, no.
You save up points?
I've got another 50 cents for next time I fill up.
I fill up points a month now, so I'm fine with it.
Well, you don't have to drive it.
As much money as you spend at Kruger, you get points, right?
Oh, yeah, okay.
Do you also have a Kruger credit card?
No.
Oh, okay.
Because it sounds like you're getting faster points than I am.
I don't know how you're getting points so fast.
I don't know.
Well, it's a point per dollar, right?
And it takes $100.
Probably eats a lot of Kruger food.
Every time you spend $100 at Kruger.
He eats a lot of Kruger food, even though they're empty nesters.
Yes.
I think you guys are gluttonous.
Well, if you spend $100 a week, you get 10 cents off every week.
They buy...
I fill up once a week.
They buy nothing but the best.
I fill up once a month, so that's 40 cents.
Yeah, they don't buy that shit to a fish.
So you strive for that white albacore.
It's a white albacore.
No, it's got to be albacore.
It's got to be white albacore from off of New Zealand.
Humanely caught.
Yeah, no net fishing.
Humanely what?
How do they catch it when there's no net?
Hand, catch it by hand.
They swim with it.
That's the very expensive...
It says that on the can.
Every fish is hand caught for your safety and pleasure.
That would be very expensive tuna.
The fish was not stressed.
Oh, it swam up willingly.
It's like a dolphin.
They just ride the tuna.
It's like you treated us so well.
I've been chosen by the group.
And I'm here.
Harvest me.
Free range salmon.
Feed me free range salmon and deserving people.
Those tunas can get huge.
The halibuts are freaking huge too.
Somebody from Nose.
Yeah, those can get huge.
Oh yeah, those can get huge.
I worked at that.
They're flat.
The Humperdinks in Las Calinas was like a fine dining seafood restaurant.
I worked at that place for a little while, waiting tables.
And they had these...
You walk into the place, first of all, Humperdinks is like a...
It's like a Benningans on steroids.
It's a big place.
They're out of business now, aren't they?
They left.
Yeah, they're all gone.
Bighorn Brewery purchased...
They were a subsidiary of Bighorn Brewery.
And Bighorn Brewery just basically pulled out of Texas.
Why?
I don't know.
It's weird.
Why would they do that?
I mean, I remember being in a pretty popular place.
The business model was failing.
I don't think they were in on the gas tax.
Apparently not.
They had a bunch of things going on.
But back at the time, it was cool because they had the halibut fish there.
And I remember the chef, we would...
It was big-ass fucking fish.
They had a display, and the fish was probably like three, four foot long.
I mean, that's without the head.
I remember they would leave it in the display all day at lunchtime and at dinner.
And at night, they'd bring it in, and they would freaking slice it up in all those little slices.
And it would be the next day's special.
Very cool.
They would do that in front of everybody or just for employees' pleasure?
Well, no, they did it after close, I guess.
The display was out front for people to see the fresh fish.
It was always a day-old fish by the time I got here.
At least.
So it was like, put some chowder on it.
It was not still alive.
But they had an interesting concept because they would make the staff there talk about how the fish was caught.
This was like Alaskan from the sailor or the shipmate, Bruce Gore.
Bruce Gore was the guy, it was a group of...
Al Gore's family or something?
That's very interesting.
Could have been Al Gore's family.
But Bruce Gore from Alaska would catch all these Copper River salmon.
And Copper River salmon were a very particular type of salmon because...
God.
Copper was like...
I think a little phlegm came up on that.
What is that thing that hangs down in the back?
The epiglottis?
That's your vulva.
The vulva?
It's dripping off your microphone.
No, I've got allergies and it's swollen back there.
So it's like a huge penis hanging on the back of my throat.
Paul can help you with that in a separate room later.
No.
At break.
Paul's good at that, too.
He's very proud.
He's extremely proud.
Well, he helped you on the roof.
You owe him.
So you're big time.
I'm pulling in my favor to fix my vulva.
God.
Not vulvo.
Vulva.
Oh, whatever.
So the Copper River salmon, they would catch them at the...
The Copper River.
They would feed.
Okay, so the whole thing is that the salmon have to get from where the fuck they're born
up to wherever they're going to breed.
Via the Copper River.
Yeah.
Into the Copper fucking River.
And then they die.
It's a miserable life.
Yeah, well, it is until...
Well, if they make it to the end, it's kind of like the...
That's the end game.
Died by orgy.
We think about it.
Ever since they were little, they swim all the way up to the...
It's like the Underground Railroad.
You got to make it to the very end to be happy.
They swim all the way to the top of this river, and then they lay their eggs, and then they
die.
That's it.
Yeah.
I mean, or...
Or they jump into a bear's mouth.
But for the rest of it...
Or we work our entire lives and then die.
Well, what the Copper River Salmon is famous for is that the color of the Copper River
is like pure copper.
So when you've got that flavor...
It's supposed to be the most flavorful salmon out there.
Very mineralized.
To the point where they've made it an art to take the color of that Copper River salmon
and basically they add that color to all salmon.
Kind of like fish grown... or what do they call it?
No, naturally grown salmon are naturally pink because of what they eat.
Yeah, but the Copper River salmon...
Well, you're talking about flamingos, I think.
Yeah, flamingos do the same thing.
Copper River salmon is a different color.
They do color salmon, though.
Farm raised salmon, they color the meat.
But naturally...
Like the so-called Atlantic salmon, you think?
Yeah, those are naturally pink because of what they eat.
The krill, the shrimps, or whatever.
The naturally pink things.
Right, and there's different salmon, you're right.
There's different colors of salmon.
But you think of salmon, it's pink or red or something like that.
So the farm stuff is artificially dyed.
That's nasty.
D-Y-E-D you're talking about.
Yeah, because farm salmon is gray and it's nasty looking.
How do they harvest it?
Do they grab onto it as well, like you would a tuna, maybe?
Swim next to it, catch it.
Yeah, it's not as humanely caught.
OK, well, let's get off of that.
We don't need to.
I think it was fun.
We were on something a while ago.
I don't remember what now.
It's a typical dudes like us moment where we're just jumping
and hopping ship from one step to the other.
Not making much sense.
Madness to Ukraine, to the gas prices, to efficiency.
To bladders, to gray salmon.
And to wheat bourbon.
I'll tell you what saloons.
And shum's vulva.
Yeah, what the hell?
Vulva.
Yeah.
Good Lord.
I cued our producer to speed up the exit plan.
Yeah, it's time for our intermission.
I don't know why the music's not playing.
It's kind of strange.
Oh, because we have two minutes, he says.
Two minutes, OK.
Well, what can we talk about with two minutes?
Two minutes.
Something a little bit more sensical, maybe.
But my what?
What?
Penis.
No.
No, we're not talking about my penis.
I'll open it up.
Well, you went to the doctor, right?
Oh, you had a doctor visit?
Yes.
Checked your penis?
I did not have a doctor visit.
What's wrong with you people?
You had a penis doctor visit?
This is a HIPAA violation.
We're not talking about my health.
This isn't your woke fucking work that you work at now.
Yeah, I go by he, him, by the way.
Oh, Jesus.
Did you have to clarify that?
I tell you what.
Every time I see an email, I see emails and profiles.
And they all have their pronouns.
I will not do that.
I will not either.
Hi, my name is Dustin.
And I identify as it.
Now, does that come before their name or after the name?
Where is that in there?
It's at the bottom.
It's in their signature.
It's at the bottom?
Yeah, in the signature.
So if you're just up at the header, so to speak,
you wouldn't notice that necessarily.
Yeah, I started to notice some shit like that, too.
Something came from a major insurance company.
And their title had like the rainbow flag.
And I'm like, why the fuck do I need to know that?
So I was on.
What is the heterosexual flag color?
Can you make your name out of that?
Well, that's the default, Jeff.
I'm going to do a cock a ball.
So I was on a WebEx webinar, I guess.
And then the person came on and said, hi, I'm Angela Hensing,
or whatever her name is.
And I go by she, her, and I was like, uh.
And every single presenter did that.
And I was like, just a year ago, two years ago?
I guess if you don't say anything,
it should be what you would think, right?
So that's what I'm afraid of.
If you don't do that, they're going to go, oh,
so you're against.
You're against.
So you're against the transgender.
I would not do it.
I refuse to do it.
I'm not going to do it either.
I'm just not going to do it ever.
All right, guys, we're going to take a break.
And we're going to have some snacks.
And have another bourbon.
I want more bourbon.
The lava lamp has not warmed up yet.
So.
Well, yeah.
Yeah, it's getting there.
You know, throttle that thing.
We got some fantastic bourbon downstairs.
Do we have some snacks or something?
We do.
We have two fucking.
We're going to get jacked up.
All right, we'll be back.
Doos, I guess.
Bye.
music