It's odd. It's a very odd day today. Coming here on a Wednesday?
Yeah, my air conditioning was not set appropriately, so I had to crank it down about 45 minutes
ago. Otherwise, it would have been like a sauna up here.
Yeah, we got hot the other night. I mean, it kind of sprang on us, didn't it?
The heating up of the homes. We've been in spring for several weeks now.
Did you guys wake up to the hail last night? Or this morning, I guess?
Yeah, we had probably what? Dime. I heard it. I don't know. I didn't go outside
to look at it. I heard it. It's very loud when it comes.
The sound travels down the fireplace. Yeah.
And it's so loud. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
It sounds like softballs hitting your roof. I don't know. I haven't heard anything about
a bunch of claims coming in, but it lasted about an hour.
They said in central Texas yesterday they had grapefruit size hail.
Yes. Wow.
I saw a picture of it. And it's so odd because you expect it to be one solid ball, but that's
not the way it works, right? The hail goes up and then it adds to it. So it looks like
this mash of little tiny ones stuffed together. That's what it looks like when it's that big.
It's not like a urban cube sphere. Nice and smooth.
Perfect. So it's just basically a bunch of hail that
in the process of falling, it kind of has a vacuum or it just kind of bonds together.
So the idea is like there's updrafts, right? So it freezes and then it gets swept up and
more water falls on it and it freezes and then it gets swept up again. So the bigger
the hail is, however strong the winds at the bottom are keeping it swept up. That's why
hail gets bigger and bigger and bigger. Right.
And then at some point it gets too heavy for the wind to lift it so it falls.
So that would kill you. Yeah.
I remember when I first had... That one right there is bigger than her hand.
Yeah. I remember, can I just smack it out in your head? I remember when I first moved
down here there was a May Day festival at Fort Worth and it was an outdoor festival.
This was the early 90s. And a lot of people got hurt because this hail storm came.
Oh wow. And it was like golf ball to baseball sized
hails coming down hitting people. It hurts.
Yeah. And there were people that went to the hospital.
So people like scrambling all over the place just like running for cover.
Yeah. It was like in a park somewhere. So there was nowhere to go.
Nowhere to go. And you can't really hide under trees because those things bust through trees.
Right. God.
So what are you going to do? Hide under the little tarp. That's what people were doing.
When they get so big. And it's like going right through the tarp.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Easily.
I remember when I first moved down here and I was like, holy shit.
When they get... This was my first experience with hail.
When they become two inches in diameter or bigger, they can go through like a three tab
shingle, 20 or three tab shingle. They can go right through.
Wow. Three inch? Yeah. Forget about it. It's going through anything.
You know, it's funny. I was... Even the board.
I was driving through a neighborhood last night coming home and there was this gigantic
inflatable thing put around this... I'm assuming a truck.
I couldn't see what it was. I almost got one of those.
It's hilarious. It looks like a jumpy house. Yep.
A big silver jumpy house. And it's a hail protector.
I almost got one because my truck doesn't fit in the garage for one thing.
So is it like hundreds of dollars or how expensive is that thing?
I looked at them and it was a couple hundred bucks.
Yeah. I was thinking it'd be like three to five hundred.
Yeah. You have to go out there and set it up and everything.
And then you have like a little blower underneath it.
Yeah. Like a jumpy house.
Yeah. I don't think it's a constant blow, but I can't remember.
It was a couple of years ago I looked at it. I was like, when I got the truck,
I was like, this will never get in my garage.
And we got bad hail. That's basically...
That's exactly what it was.
It's a good thing that instantly a boat pops up.
It looks like a gigantic silver centipede.
It looks absolutely ridiculous. Not a centipede, a caterpillar.
Everyone's car is going to be destroyed except his.
And everyone's going to be like, damn, I should have gotten that.
What the hell, man? What the hell, man?
Yeah. So, you know, it's just a matter of...
It looks so goofy, though.
I know it doesn't matter. That's not the point.
Well, look at this guy. He's put boxes on his car.
Cardboard boxes.
That's great.
So, yeah, I thought about getting that. There he is right there.
God, it's like when you hear about hailstorms that hit dealerships.
Yeah.
And they have a hail sale. Yeah.
And then those things are just peppered.
Destroyed.
And then, you know, what the hell, though? I mean, I guess if you don't care
what your car looks like and you get... How much do you get off? Like 10 grand?
I wonder how much they discount those cars because they're pretty much totaled.
Yeah, but hail could total your car.
Yeah, it can.
But, you know, look, they've got kinds of cool little blowups.
Yeah, when they... They've woven pool noodles together.
Pool noodles? Oh, that's great.
Yeah, people are coming up with clever ideas to try to stop hail.
That doesn't help the sides.
No, it kind of doesn't.
No. Yeah, pick your battles.
Although he has, like, air mattresses on his.
He does.
And when you have a rented car with the pool noodles, he could go like...
Oh my God, that is hilarious.
Well, you know what?
I knew a guy in Denton, Texas, that he invented...
He was an inventor.
He came up with all kinds of ideas.
He came up with a blow-up seat for stadiums.
You know, in fact, I owned one.
He came up, he made, like, 50 prototypes.
Was that your Orange Vagina?
Orange Vagina was one of those sacks that you kind of like disappear into you you kind of open it up and
Just kind of sink in. Yeah you sink in. And it fills up. It's got these big lips that just encompass you.
Well, I mean, but it does but the shape of it is so
Phallic, you know, it was so gross. But you know, it was comfortable as hell
And you know it was because everybody wanted to sit in it. Well, don't lie
We were making fun of it. We were at a concert. Until. We were at an outdoor concert. Until he sat in it.
So he debuts the Orange Vagina. Yeah, it comes out. And he looms up first.
And we're making fun of him so much that by the time we we all got all toasty
It was like we were deliberately jumping into it to like, you know, do some muff diving of some sort
I don't know what we were doing. No, no. You pull grass up and like sprinkle it on it.
Yeah, he says that. Cubes. But once you get into it, you're kind of like. I'm not gonna lie. It was comfy.
Yeah, this is really comfortable. But you couldn't get around the fact that you were, you know, laying in it.
Yeah, but it was it was like a huge donut. Imagine a huge donut that, you know.
A labia lounger. Yeah, I don't care. I'm gonna brand that labia lounger.
You guys could talk shit all you want. It was it was very comfortable. I was the most comfortable person there for two thirds of the concert.
And then you guys commandeered it. It was a very. I did not. I think the ladies did. It was a very funny.
Were you there? Were you there? That was Boston. Yeah, that was one of your first experience hanging out with us, right?
Yeah, you had a ton of fun with that one. That was for sure. Oh, that was one of the first ones.
Yeah, that was the first time I met Shelly. OK. How long ago was that?
That was a while ago. Yeah. Was Tara there too? Tara was there.
Was it summer of twenty eighteen? I don't remember. I'd be curious if it wasn't.
I don't remember. It was a long time ago. Yeah, it feels like it. We had a restaurant on the way down there.
A Mexican restaurant? No, it was not. It was.
Julie didn't go. I vaguely remember that because you guys had an extra ticket.
Oh, yes. That's what happened. Yes, yes.
I remember now we were like, I guess we'll invite them. Yeah, I do remember that.
I made the bottom tier. Yeah, barely squeaked in. Yeah.
All right. Anyway, so here we are. We're in mid mid April.
Oh, my God. Hold on. Oh, I drank too much of that.
And we are we're we're testing a tasty one here.
We're invited. Yeah. OK.
So I I had to go out of town, which I frequently do.
And when I say go out of town, I mean, it's they're usually day trips,
you know, a couple of hours, one direction, a couple of hours back.
So in I end up traveling.
I don't even remember Bridgeport.
Yeah, perhaps. And I enjoy.
Was it Bridgeport? Bridgeport's out that way.
Yeah. So I don't know if it was, but I think this they're in Bridgeport, aren't they?
I don't remember. I didn't retain that.
But the when I travel, I really enjoy hitting the those downtown
or see Texas, maybe it's Decatur, whatever.
So every small town, I always never on the way to the job,
but always on the way back.
I really enjoy hitting any little town.
Sometimes I'll go out of my way to make sure I hit a little town.
If it's an extra 10 minutes, I don't care.
Like Marfa. Sure. They've been to Marfa.
They've got the they got towns in Texas that trip me out.
They got they got Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Paris.
They got Paris, Maxia.
You have hell. Yeah, they've got all kinds of things.
So my point is, is I was driving through I thought the downtown Texas.
There's a dish, a bridgeboard, I believe, and
oh, can even pops out of the corner on the down in the corner.
I was kind of like, oh, can eat in a damn near got an accident
fucking trying to stop.
All right. This is going to I'm going to lose so many man points,
but I got to come clean.
Part of the reason why I hit all these little towns
is because of Austin.
OK, that's mostly another town.
Yeah, no, no.
So it's it's not in for my kids, too.
I I play Pokemon and
yeah, your man one way down.
I I go to these other towns and I I try.
I go because every small town has like a little area
where they've got these little I don't know what they're know
what they're called towers, gyms or whatever.
And you can find unique and rare Pokemon to that region.
And, you know, it's just part of the game.
I try to compete with the kids.
And anyways, so that's what I'm curious about.
Why they're unique to small towns.
They're not unique to small towns.
They're unique to regions. OK.
So Decatur has their own monster ish.
You know, it's kind of like what is rare in Frisco
may not be rare there.
Be commonplace there. Yeah.
So it's kind of like Bourbons, I guess.
Yeah, sort of.
So there's an allocation.
Yeah. And you know, it's kind of cool.
So it's in what it does do is it'll it takes me off the beaten path
and it allows me to see a lot of things I normally wouldn't see. Right. Right.
And I think it's kind of cool from that perspective.
But you always sample the local bar.
I well or or just a restaurant.
Well, I typically like to go to a house.
So I like to go.
That's even better. I like that one.
Roses rubbed out.
All right.
So I'd like to go to the hole in the wall.
Burger joints in some of these small towns.
And I'm just I just as a look, I don't want any means when I go
talk to these people that I'm going to have the appointment with, I'm like,
I'm looking to go have lunch.
I don't want a mainstream restaurant.
What's a solid restaurant downtown?
That's that's not a food chain.
That's this local. I can expect that.
Yeah. And that's what I enjoy doing so much.
And that was one of the things I saw is down in the I think wherever I was at.
Bridgeport in Okanedin was there.
So I walk into Okanedin and it's all very
rustic, rustic is a word.
I'm thinking just a very eclectic.
It's a lot of metal, a lot of hard woods,
a lot of oak.
Yeah, like just different trees, different species of trees.
Like the bar top was like two and a half inches thick of this one tree.
And it was just the length of the bar.
It was a loon.
Um, it was a lot of metal.
I'm trying to think of the God bless him word, but it's like a tasting room.
It's one of those, right?
Well, they did have a tasting room.
Right. Right. Iron and wood.
They had a lot of a lot of metal, you know,
and a lot of a lot of wood.
So it was very rustic and it was just cool.
It was a man's man's place. Right. Right.
And so I walk in there and there's this big dude.
He's like he's six foot eight.
He's a huge dude.
And he's very nice.
And I tell him, hey, look, I'm from out of town and I'm just I just saw it.
I got to stop and see what's going on.
I'm with a group of friends.
We really enjoy drinking bourbons and we have several of the Okanedin bottles.
I'm going to come in and see what you guys got going on.
And so he invites me in and they've got several different areas of the place.
It's not a huge place.
He says I'm not allowed to go in the back.
And the back was like pristine, you know, stainless steel vats.
Is that where they like mix?
That's where they they do their brewing.
And they don't distill there.
Well, they have vats.
So they're starting.
Well, what I've heard is they're starting to distill.
Obviously, it takes a while to make bourbon. Right.
Well, they're doing other things there.
I think they're doing vatkas and stuff.
Well, yeah, that's what a lot of places do because you have to age this.
I think that's I don't know if this is M.G.P., but they buy their liquid.
Is it? Yeah, it is.
And because I asked him that specifically and he was actually impressed that I even knew that.
I was going to say that.
You know, whoa, we like this is M.G.P.
Yeah. Well, you know, I was just like, you know, you guys get your stuff.
But what was really cool about it is they do have a tasting area.
So basically they have three sections of the they have a bar with a bunch of seating.
And they have an area which is it kind of looks like a pharmacy
where you have a bar top countertop and there's no not real seats there.
So you walk up to it and the pharmacy, you would have all these elements,
you know, these little drawers you pull out and you want to try some licorice.
You want to try some mint.
So they're users or something like that.
So it's make your own bourbon and they're kind of like a bottle.
Make your own bottle and you can go there and you pay for the basic M.G.P.
bottle and you put your flavors in there.
They throw a spire, they cork it, they wrap it, wait six weeks.
Yeah, it's very cool.
Interesting. I've never heard of that before.
If you want licorice flavored.
They've got cherry. They've got flowers.
That's a lot of the flavored whiskeys are right.
They just drop. Yeah.
Random shit in there.
And they have, you know, they've got some recipes that you can follow.
And they just say, hey, man, look, you try these, pop them in there.
You have a limit of five and just, you know, wait six weeks, chug away, have fun at it.
And like a men's build a bourbon.
Yeah. Build a bear. Build a bourbon.
That's great. Yeah. It was cool.
So Okanedin, it was in Bridgeport.
And I wish I had more information about that guy.
I should have wrote down his name to go see him down there.
But the particular bourbon I walked away with was we particularly, your dudes like us.
I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff.
Like are like the four grain bourbons. Yes.
You know, we're enjoying the four grains.
We're kind of we're kind of moving.
Yeah, it's just never stopping.
It's always evolving because it was a wheat bourbon.
Actually, it was black powder at first, which I'm sure is just rotgut to us.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, that was our you know what?
Back then it was it was rocket to but it was a gateway.
It was definitely a gateway.
We were trying to get away from spending saving, I think, two dollars on a bottle of Jack Daniels.
I think it's one of the pulled down to and then I think we were like,
you know, I think they stopped selling it. It's what it was.
I don't know. They don't have it anymore. Yeah.
So anyways, you're right. It's never.
We tried to it was a mixer. Yeah, it was a mixer.
Yeah, it was like, right.
It was like your Williamsburg, you know, or your back home.
Kings Creek or whatever.
We didn't even think that was a mixer.
We we thought that was a sipper and it was worse than a mixer.
Now it turned out to be paint remover. Yeah, sure did. Yeah. Anyway.
Well, I want to talk about the actual bourbon that you ended up getting.
I could for you. It was a personality remover.
All right. So this one they have a they have several boxes there and on the wall.
And they've they've got people that that need sponsor.
I don't know what this one particular one's called John Paul White.
I don't know who he is.
He's evidently I thought he was on the show.
Yellowstone, but I was wrong.
That's the four each myth one, I think.
So they have so evidently they've got some superstars
that have endorsed their personal preference of Oak and Eden.
So they've come in and made their own.
I don't know if this is just that you could have the regular four grain out there.
But this one's amped up a little bit.
This one's amped up.
It's it is it's one hundred sixteen proof.
So the normal bottle that you get is probably, you know, hundred proof.
But it's not as strong as this.
So this one's amped up.
It's a it's got a regular char.
It's American oak four grain.
There's no infusion.
It's just 58 percent booze, man.
And it's it is solid.
It's got a very chunky, meaty whole wheat taste to it.
It's very spicy.
Yeah, I think there's some sweetness on it, too.
I have sweet. Yeah. So it's interesting.
So just like the build a bourbon, that's what they're doing with like
some particular representatives that they want to partner with to
to make their own flavor. Right.
That's what we're talking about.
So they start with the same base.
Oak and Eden for all of these. I think so.
Yeah. Well, you know, maybe not.
It's a four grain bourbon. Right.
So there is more than just him throwing in whatever ingredients he wants.
They also have a ride.
Oh, yeah. They have a week as well.
We have the wheat inspire. Right.
There's a myriad of combinations. Right.
Interesting. Yeah.
They have a weeded bourbon that we've gotten.
Well, I think we have another one out.
We have like two or three of these out there.
So when it says no infusion, what does that mean?
That means no licorice or cherry or.
Oh, OK. No. OK.
So it's not infused.
Well, there says no infusion on the.
OK. So that does.
I thought the infusion was the spire, but I guess not.
No, no. Infusion is like me adding cherries to my barrel.
That's infusion. Right.
So all they're doing here is so this is a mash bill.
So he came up with the mash bill.
They partnered with him, right, to come up with his own little mash bill.
And then they have stuck the spire in there. Right.
So that's cool.
So it's it's hot.
It's one hundred and fourteen proof.
But but it's it's got a spice to it for sure.
So but a nice, a nice rich, rich.
So you have a medical procedure tomorrow.
So you are not drinking your sampling.
You just sampled it.
Yeah, but I'm taking it easy.
But yeah. And I think I think that may be why you took a sip
and it just automatically went straight to your balls.
Because that's what he's getting worked on tomorrow.
He's getting his balls drained.
I'm getting them reduced.
They're just too big. They're all in the way.
Well, that's what happens when you don't use them.
Really? They enlarge when you don't use them.
They fill up. I don't think so.
It worked that way. Yeah.
Yeah, I'm not sure it works. All right.
No, no, I'm getting some knee work done. That's all.
I am trying to like head off my knee problems before I'm too old
to do anything else other than a replacement.
So what are they going to do?
It's kind of an experiment.
Are they going to inject something in your knee?
Yeah, I mean, and I wish I didn't prep for this one.
But yeah, so the idea is they take platelets, they draw blood,
they centrifuge it and they take platelets
and they separate the platelets and hopefully white blood cells.
There's different ways they do it.
But anyway, and then they take that and they inject it into your knees.
And so what that does is causes your body to,
like in an emergency mode,
rush to that place to fight inflammation, to heal,
you know, to battle and fight inflammation. Right.
Because right now it's not doing anything.
So it's like a vaccine.
The body. I knew you were going to say something like that.
No, it's not a vaccine.
So so the other thing is stem cells.
But the end game is stem cells is to.
But before the before that happens, what happens to you is you worn them down.
So there's a there's a fiber that protects your knee.
There's a sack when it's when it's run.
When you're when your knees moving, there's a film in there.
Well, it's kind of like a disk in between your vertebrae. Right.
Yeah. There is a pad that, you know, that kind of is a shock shock absorber.
And you've worn your pad out.
Well, I mean, it's not it's not.
And injecting that that plasma in there,
you think it's going to rejuvenate the that's the pad.
That's the idea. They shoot it into the pad or just like in your knee sack.
Jimmy, also, I'm not 100 percent sure.
They just kind of jab it in there somewhere.
Well, maybe they could do the same thing they did protecting these cars.
Maybe they can use some pool noodles or something and just kind of
squirt that in there.
I mean, I think that's what the idea is.
Well, no, the idea is not to create some sort of artificial,
you know, fluid, you know, to to replace a pad.
It is to encourage your body to rebuild it.
And it's all your juice. Yes. It's my platelets.
So I don't think are mine because they would have to like
take that out of my hip bone.
And I don't well, that's why I asked, I was like, did they like
spinal tap you or something?
Well, they could take the stem cells from your circumcision.
Did you save yours?
My circumcision.
Also, your your your phalloplankton.
They removed my foreskin and it was huge. Right.
So my foreskin was so big that they were like 10 years with a stem cell.
You can like do and you could pair a cell with that foreskin.
It's like when you're in it takes like a few minutes for it to work its way out.
Right. Yeah, it takes a while.
Yeah, I could just store my urine here.
Why don't the plastic bag, the the the T cells or the stem cells
they get from the umbilical cords? They do.
And the and the more much more controversial one is
is can be harvested from aborted babies, aborted babies.
And so my wife's like, well, do you know where they get those stem cells?
And I'm like, I'm not sure I want to ask the question.
I don't want the.
Now that the reason why that that's the reason why family planning is
is so gung ho on on on boarding these babies.
They go in these neighborhoods and they're kind of like, hey, man.
Oh, man, look, there's a research out there.
There's some dark shit going on there we'll never know about.
Oh, yeah. You know, and Perino was started by a racist.
Yeah. To send the black population.
What's your goal? Population control.
Well, that doesn't know that it was more than it's population control.
It was black population.
That's what I mean. Yeah, that's what I said.
And there's a word for that.
Not genocide, but there's a there's a word for that.
But she very much was whatever that word is. Yeah.
Right. I forget what it's called.
Anyway, but you don't hear about that much. Oh, no. Oh, no.
Who was that person?
Well, put in put in founder of Plant Parenthood.
Yeah, she was she was not a very nice person.
Her motives were not she the one that bombed the Congress.
No, I don't think so.
Margaret Sanger.
Yeah, here we go.
Yeah, white screen.
Yeah, we'll have to get back to that as we wait for it to load.
Anyway, so that's what I'm doing tomorrow.
And again, the idea is to head off, you know, while I'm still young,
if I can have my body kind of repair itself, which is kind of what they're selling to me.
You know, I'm meeting with a little bit of skepticism, but I know at this rate,
I mean, my my knees are shot right from from 30 years of basketball.
So I know I know for sure that at some point, if I do nothing,
it's it's going to eventually lead to like knee replacement. Correct.
So my thought is, you know, hey, give it a shot.
Well, my dad has a knee replacement.
He ran marathons as well all the way up to, I guess, to his 40s, maybe 30.
Wow. Huge runner. Yeah.
And he had bad knees for an extremely long time, had the arthroscopic surgeries
and stuff like that. One was worse than the other.
And he had one replaced. And he said it was great.
Really? He has no pain.
He was walking around with pain all the time on that knee, and it was no longer there.
Well, that's great. That's great.
Because I was trying to do some research on kind of is this real and and some some of the
and, you know, you can always find something pro and for.
I mean, pro and con. Anyway, but I did find one that said
knee replacements are nowhere near as successful as, you know,
but they don't tell you how unsuccessful it is.
He said it's for about 10 years. Well, that's yeah, that's great.
That's great. He goes hiking in the mountains and and what they were saying is they just don't have the data.
Like, they never follow up three years later with somebody who got a knee replacement and say,
are you pain free? No, you know, that was success.
Right. Well, that's great. But my point is, you know,
they just didn't have the data and so the data wasn't that promising.
And if there was even more data, it would be even less promising.
I don't know. And I don't know whether to believe that or not,
because they're obviously trying to sell this instead.
Right. Of course, of course. Anyway, but so I was like, you know,
what I'm saying is, I mean, if you do ultimately have to have it is
Julie's mom also recently had a knee replacement.
OK, and she's doing great.
Yeah, I probably wouldn't need knee replacements until like another probably 10 years later.
Probably 10 or 15 years. That's a scary thought, though.
Yeah, they're going to cut out my joint and put something else in there.
Yeah. So I saw a diagram of what they do. Yeah, that doesn't sound good.
No. And I know my dad, like the first week, he's like, this is the worst decision I've ever made.
Really? Because I'm feeling so bad.
Oh, no. Yep. And
he was out there by actually my sister went out there and helped him.
And but now he's like, he's like, I'm glad I did it.
Right. Oh, yeah. Because if you're pain free, that's the whole point.
Right. But who wants to walk around in constant pain? Right.
Yeah. Can you scroll down on Mr. Sanger here?
Because there is a word I'm looking for that has to do with weeding out people that you don't like other than genocide.
Eugenic. Oh, eugenics.
Yes, eugenics. I don't even know what that word means exactly,
but that's exactly what the word I was looking for.
Well, eugenics. Isn't that what Hitler did?
Eugenics is to breed the ultimate race.
Right. So she was trying to weed out what she thought were bad, you know, bad genes in the whatever.
Here we go. That's science, which deals with the means of cultivating and improving the innate good qualities of man.
There we go. She was trying to weed out bad genes, which I guess included black people, which wow.
Wow. And she found her plant parrot.
Are you sure that's what it was?
Yes, pretty sure.
I mean, well, I mean, it did say the Republicans.
It says the renewed interest in Sanger is due to the escalation of attacks on Planned Parenthood by Republicans.
Well, of course. I mean, that doesn't make it not true.
That doesn't make it not true, right?
Well, you know, I mean, but I don't want to defend her, man.
It's just in looking in retrospect, it probably hurt the black folks more than anything.
Oh, there's way more black babies being aborted than any other race.
Yeah. Yeah. But even today, it's killed.
It's killed like forty five million, forty five million black people.
Abortion has. But can you imagine if those forty five million black folk were alive today?
I mean, there's hundreds and hundreds of millions overall.
Right. Yeah. But I'm just can you imagine the the amount of input they would have had in people's lives?
Right. And you know, the whole structure of today could be different.
Yeah. They snuffed out. They snuffed out all sorts of influence and and everything.
You know, there's so many opportunities that have been missed.
And, you know, we probably wouldn't even have Black Lives Matter or any of this other crap going on because they'd be stand up.
Well, another big contributing factor to this was the.
Equal Rights Act or whatever it was called, right, with LBJ, right, passed.
I can't remember the name of it equal right.
I know equality or whatever it was.
And basically that that that's when the black family broke apart, where the fathers weren't really.
What would cause that, though? What?
Well, because well, because LBJ, his program incentivized single motherhood and having more more kids
because the government will give you more money the more kids you have.
So in an attempt to solve a problem, they made it worse, made it worse.
Because if you look at how what the percentage of black families that had a father pre that it was like, I don't know.
I'm making you talk about the Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Act.
The the wow was like 20 something percent, let's say.
OK, now it's in the 70s of black families without a family.
I'm sorry, without a father. Yeah, it's dramatic.
Dramatic. And that that leads to the culture that is out there right now.
Yeah, I and it's really hard to understand.
I mean, I don't I don't understand why it's going to take a few generations to to.
I'm going to say weed this out, but to course, correct, you know.
Well, it's going to be hard.
We're here in the suburbs, right?
Where you see black families and you see mothers and fathers.
You go into the inner cities, you don't see that now at all.
You've got and if you do, both mom and dad are working some two, three jobs that they still don't see them.
And yet your brothers and sisters raising each other.
So do you so you do you think maybe it's a socioeconomic issue rather than a racial issue?
In other words, if white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people are in the same boat
as areas where it's pretty prevalent, where there's not a father, I think they following the same trend.
Yeah, I think it's culture right now.
I think you're right, Paul. It has nothing.
It is cultural, but white folk can fall into that culture.
It's Hispanics, Asians, anyone can fall into that culture.
Culture is regional. Yeah.
And you know, it's it has nothing to do with color at that time.
We're hearing plenty of stories of white white single moms, Hispanic, silver single moms, not so much Asian.
I don't hear a lot of stories about Asian single moms, but I'm sure they're out there.
Well, I also heard that, you know, they keep selling that this is a white supremacist country
because the whites are the ones in power and they do the best.
In actuality, the Asians make the most money.
Right. They go to college more.
Right. They hold better jobs. Right. And their nuclear family is a higher percentage.
Right. The families that have a father is higher in Asian families.
Right. And it is in whites and blacks and Hispanics. Right.
So the Asian people are more successful.
Right. I think because of those things, because you have a nuclear family.
Right. And one of the things that the BLM is they want to destroy the nuclear family.
They do. It's in their tenants.
Well, they removed it from the website when they got pointed out.
A BLM was just, you know, that was that's not a real thing.
I mean, that I think it was for a lot of grassroots people.
But then, of course, when the 90 million came around and they went off and bought a six million dollar home.
So they're trying to cover their ass. Oh, yeah.
So Black Lives Matter. I mean, not forgive me, but correct me if I'm wrong.
But weren't two gay women that started the Black Lives Matter?
Oh, I have no idea. I do.
Two black women. They're communists.
Yeah. And they're communists. And they they started this movement and it wasn't really.
They're Marxist. I'm sorry. Yes.
That's what it was. And I wish I could totally understand the difference between a Marxist and a communist.
I think they're very, very similar.
There has to be something similar. Marxism. Right.
Yeah, I don't know. Once you look that up for it, look at Marxism versus communism.
I would love to know the difference between that.
I mean, I know in communism, right, every communist state we've ever known of, right,
has a massively strong centralized government and everybody's just a minion.
Right. A number. A number.
The main difference between communism and Marxism is that communism is an ideology.
It's based on a common ownership. While the absence of social classes, money and the states.
Well, Marxism is an ideology by Karl Marx. That is a social, political and fiscal theory that he created.
Okay. And it focuses on the struggles between capitalists.
Well, I'm reading this and they're very similar. They're just kind of word saluting a little bit differently.
Yeah, there is a lot of similarity, but there are some major, major differences.
What are those differences? Because really, the Marxism is, you know, that comes from Karl Marx.
Right. So, I mean, he was a communist supporter.
I think it's the root of.
He just has a few extra little extras in there for himself.
Like a well-groomed beard.
Yeah. Maybe the biggest difference. I'm just kind of looking at this table here.
I think the biggest difference is it says Marxism is a way to view.
Marxism is a way to view the world, a system of analysis versus communism being a form of government.
Condition of a society, political movement that be considered as communism.
So, you don't have a country that is a Marxist state, but you have a communist state.
So, Marxism is a theory that communism is based off of.
Yes, very similar. Yes. Yes.
Or philosophy, maybe.
It's based on a common ownership while the absence of social classes, money, and the states.
Everybody's equal. Nobody owns anything. It's all owned by the collective.
Speaking of, did you see what's going on over there in Shanghai?
Oh, the lockdown?
26 million people cannot leave their homes and they're starving.
They're starving. Yeah, I heard they were starving.
Did you see the footage where some guy took with his phone and there's people screaming?
It's Chinese, obviously, but it's so eerie.
It's at nighttime and you can hear the drone overhead dictating them to stay in their homes.
And people are like moaning and screaming.
It sounds like they're dying and they're starving to death
because they can't leave their homes to get food.
Oh, no. That's communism for you, man.
26 million people.
That's a crazy strong central government that's totally oppressing people.
What is the food delivery program? Do they deliver food, like DoorDash?
They don't have one because no one can be outside except the military.
Well, I mean, the military can have some DoorDash programs.
What I'm thinking, though, is if there's 26 million people in Shanghai,
what if all of them came out and said, screw you, how big is the army?
Well, millions will die, but eventually they'll have their freedom.
Yeah. And if they all rose up, half of them rose up.
That's what ends up happening.
Yeah.
It only takes, I mean, it takes time.
I mean, if I'm sitting there and my family is over here dying,
but I'm about dead, why not try?
They're never going to stand up because it's kind of like the mentality of the Middle East.
It's an ideology.
Some people, they depend on communism.
Here it is. Let's hear this.
Oh, this is going to be so gross.
Well, how do we know they're not watching the China soccer team in the World Cup qualifiers?
World Cup qualifiers, right?
Could be.
Anyway, it's a bad situation over there.
It's a horrible situation.
I think their screaming is just a way to protest.
Oh, of course.
Of course it is, but it's still eerie.
It is.
The fact that they're locked down and they're starving.
And they don't do anything about it.
No. And if you went outside, I don't know what happens, but you get kinked.
No, you get shot.
I mean, they disappear you.
Yeah.
You end up in the mines.
Yeah, with the Uighurs.
Yeah.
Good Lord.
Or start you go to the Nike factory.
No, Austin.
He didn't say that.
I think it's a legitimate question because the whole Disney thing that's going on, right?
Right.
And I think it's I think Disney is starting to get some hard questions on their affiliation
with some of these countries or who are anti-gay.
Yeah, so ridiculous.
Like China, right?
Yeah, I know.
Right.
And how can you justify how the treatment of these Uighurs and other people in China
and you don't say anything yet over here, you're all up in arms because they're super
woke.
They passed a parental right bill.
How can wokeness be blinded?
They can turn it blind.
How can it be, you know, there's shades like there's different classifications of wokeness.
America has this wokeness.
China, you're off the hook.
Iran, you're off the hook.
North Korea, you're off the hook.
It's like the work.
I don't know.
It's kind of like how black people can use the N word and nobody else can.
Are you sure that's the same analogy?
Well, I'm going to use that.
I mean, you know, they turn everyone turns it.
No, but okay.
It's kind of like everyone turns a blind eye to it.
Right.
It's wrong.
Yeah, but they turn a blind eye to it.
That was the analogy.
Well, my thing is if you're against people being against gay people, right?
You can't be selective on who you're going to prosecute.
It's I'm just going to go after the Americans, right?
Because well, they're easy, right?
And they'll eventually bow to me.
I can't affect people over in China.
That's right.
Can't do that.
That's an excellent point.
They're not taking their fight to something that they know they can't win.
I just got a news update because they will not win.
Our our annual HOA meeting.
Yes.
And I told you there were it was a vote going in.
Yes.
Were you elected?
Well, two of the three folks that were that were what is the word?
They were campaigning.
No, they were they were supposed to win.
They were predicted to win.
And then you had like this this guy that was a Marxist and he was he was running.
And I don't know if he or she I forget exactly.
But they didn't they didn't win.
So that that third party, everything communist party, they didn't win.
So I don't think it was a calm.
Well, was there any protest?
Yeah, he got one vote.
So himself himself.
The quote says shit storm left the meeting after he lost.
And you called him a Marxist, but that's not that's not the right word at all.
He's a militant like he's just an angry person.
Right.
And he's a lawyer.
Don't take those Karens.
Yeah, but he's a lawyer.
So it's like what's the male version of Karen?
Can is there is there a male version of Karen?
Can I don't think there is.
All right.
Well, that's weird.
I asked how many people are for Jeff.
They're Paul's.
They're Jeff's.
They're Sean's.
Let's agree on Sean.
All right.
Good.
All right.
They're Sean's.
Sean and Karen's bird bird.
So have you guys ever gone to an HOA annual meeting?
Yes.
I was on the board at one point.
I mean how do you go every year?
No.
Oh God.
No.
How many times have you gone twice?
Once when I need to get elected.
Why did you want to be on the board?
I didn't actually really want to be on the board.
We found out that the current board that we had was very corrupt and we were all very angry.
They're giving like contracts to their friends and family all sorts of stuff.
Well, no, we uncovered a lot more when we got in there, but we were angry that the dudes just kept going up and up and up and up.
And we didn't understand what we were spending the money on.
Right.
So landscape.
Yeah.
Well, that probably right that too.
Anyway, so yeah, so we went and and not very many people showed up.
But I mean the angry people showed up and they all either quit.
They all quit or they all got voted out somehow.
And I can't remember.
They're leaving a huff.
I can't remember exactly how it went down.
But but the lady who was like kind of like she was our leader.
She was like, you know, I'm going to all be president.
I need you to be this and that and they look at me and I'm like, oh shit.
Oh shit.
And they're like, you be secretary, but we're all going to be vice presidents, but you be secretary.
I was like, okay.
Anyway, the next thing I know, I'm basically you.
We need somebody to take notes and speak English.
Yeah, that's pretty much that was me.
So the people that got voted out or quit, did they kind of leave in a huff with their tail between your legs or?
Well, they fired or sued or they're in jail.
I mean, from what I understood, I mean, there was a guy in the community that was taken on contracts to do all the landscape work.
And he was the one that was up charging his pay.
They are totally overpaying.
By the way, it's it's going to go up another thousand dollars a week.
The interesting thing is we came in and we started doing what's ethical, which is you're supposed to take three bids on everything you do.
Like things you learn from the corporate world.
Right. Sure. You three bids, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And so he wants to he he we said, OK, we'll take you as one of the bids.
Right. Fair enough. You compete with everybody else.
And he wanted time to do a special presentation to us.
And we said, no, you're not allowed to do anything that the others ones can't do as well.
Right. Because that's the ethical way of doing competitive bidding.
Right. And and so he like shows up with maybe some materials or something.
And we're like, OK, OK, thank you. Thank you.
And then we looked at his price and it was double or triple everybody else.
And we're like, OK, well, you're not going to get that bid.
So, right. And he was not happy because it was a cash cow for him.
Well, yeah, but he just got a pay cut big time.
You know, he's part of the community. Yeah, he's part of the community.
I wonder if he still lives there. Oh, I don't know.
But the thing is, if he would have done it right, he probably could have maintained it.
Right. And he could have I think it's a conflict of interest if anyone that lives in the community.
Absolutely. Yeah. No, that's what it was in this community for a while with.
What's the what's the folks who used to do it?
Yeah, he used to live in my neighborhood.
Yeah. And then they kind of took it over and they shortly moved out of it.
Look, there there were a couple.
I tell you what, H.O.A. management companies, they there could be some crooked stuff going on.
I'm not saying they're all crooked, but that particular one, I was talking about,
not giving out any last names, and I'm not saying he didn't think crooked.
I'm not at all. But, you know, there was some some smoke, some fishiness, you know,
and I was kind of huh. And, you know, those one time where there was one of the communities
that's behind my house, one of the houses came up for sale or which is part of my name.
No, no, no, no. That's not what I'm trying to say is I guess they didn't pay.
They God bless it. I can't talk.
They didn't pay their dues.
They ended up losing their house.
The H.O.A. absorbed their house for some reason.
It went under bankruptcy and they owed so much money to the H.O.A.
The H.O.A. absorbed it because they owed so much money.
So the H.O.A. now owns that house.
Well, and then all of a sudden owned it.
It just kind of owned it.
Yeah, and I don't know the details about it.
And I'm not saying anything was crooked because it just it doesn't seem right.
Well, you know, it just seems like a conflict of interest.
And that's why you don't kind of do those kind of things.
But well, he may have bought it from the H.O.A.
It could have been absolutely legit.
And I'm not insinuating it's not.
It's just if you're on the outside looking in and you're kind of like, huh?
I mean, a big part of finding distressed property is what house flippers do.
Right. They go in because it's public record about who is being foreclosed on.
It's public record.
You can go to the county courthouse and see here's the hearing.
You go to the appraisal district. It's there.
Right. And what's interesting is people just let themselves be foreclosed on.
And they're like, if you're in that situation, you use you sell it for whatever you can possibly get for it.
You could do what they call a short sell.
And then you take that money and you run and you can either run or you can pay off part of the loan and work out a deal with the bank.
Right. Right. But you can do something.
But when you do nothing, you just walk away, you lose everything.
You lose everything. You. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
And then that's what it has to be. How well they look for distressed property.
And then they contact those people because I did it for one day.
I'll never ever try to do that again.
You try flipping house. Yeah, I've got a video I bought.
I spent all I spent like two hundred bucks on this video series.
We're talking back in the early 90s, right? Video series on serious.
I'm being dead serious.
That's where the guys by the pool go and your success may not be like mine, but this is what I did.
Even worse, it showed a private jet rising above the airplane above the clouds.
This could be us. Totally. It was bad.
It was bad. Anyway, so I I was like, you know what?
And then I sat on it and sat on it and I said, man, I just spent all this money.
I got to at least try it. Right. And I did exactly what it said.
I said, you know, go to the courthouse, get a list of things.
And then what you're supposed to do is show up in person,
knock on their door and go, hi, I'm an investor.
You know, I understand that, you know, you're you know, you're facing foreclosure rather than do that.
Let's let's work out a deal that makes it better for you.
Right. But I didn't have the balls to do that.
So I made one phone call. How'd that go?
Oh, it was it was awful. I like live through my teeth.
I was like, you know, my wife and I are moving into the area.
I understand that, you know, you you know, we could help each other out
because I think, you know, you're you know, you have some distress property and,
you know, we can we can write.
She was like she went from hello, how can I help you to go to hell?
Really? Oh, yeah. It was like that's it.
She hung up on me and I was like, OK, that's the end of that.
I'm done with I'm just it's just it's not me.
I can't step on people, right? I can't I can't.
It seems like a good opportunity. And you know what?
I don't think it's just stepping on somebody at all because I think what you said was right.
You are helping them. They are going to lose.
They are going to lose everything.
You know, when I think they just don't want to have up here in Frisco,
I didn't sell the house in Irving as fast as I wanted to.
Right. And so we got stuck with the house.
We got stuck paying for both. Oh, yeah.
Both houses at the same time. So not a fun, fun experience.
We rented it out. And I think we went through four people and all four were duds.
All four were duds. Yeah. They were trashing the house.
And it was it was just it was just all four were bad.
I don't remember all the details of all of them.
One of them moved out and didn't even tell you they had the water shut off.
All right. So when she moved out, she disconnected the washer and dryer
and did it on it, didn't turn the water off.
So when the city came by and turned the water back on,
it flooded the whole place.
Great. Well, actually, that could be a good thing.
You get an insurance claim out of it.
So all in all, you know, the house was it was actually really nice.
It was a very cute house.
I mean, it was a thirteen, fourteen, fifteen hundred square foot.
That was your start. We gutted it.
Yeah, we started it. And with my father-in-law helped helped a lot.
And we gutted the place.
We converted like a three bedroom into a four bedroom and opened up the
house. There was like I'm sorry, what to get it ready for sale or for you guys
to live in. Yeah, so I got we completely gutted it, opened it up.
There was like a really small, narrow living room and a really weird,
funky dining room. And we just tore down walls and made it one big ass room.
And I'm sorry. I was wrong.
I said made it from three to four.
We made it from four bedrooms to three bedrooms and so we figure.
Yeah. So we knocked down big walls and made just big open areas because the
boys slept together and the girls slept together and the terror and I had
slept together. So it worked at that time.
Right. And so it was we we ended up renting the place out.
We fucked up three or four times with people coming in and not paying,
you know, flooded the house, got another person to come in.
Meanwhile, we're paying out our ass, paying out our ass.
I'll tell you what, one of my friends helped me out and he just happened to be
in town and it was Congressman Gonzalez.
You know, and I was like, oh my God, I was we're just tapped.
He wrote me a check for five grand.
Why he's getting a ton from China. Why not?
Oh, I'm sorry. I know he closed that account.
Oh, the lobbyists did.
But I'm just saying, you know, he was cool.
That was what a philanthropic thing to do.
You know, so he could have bought the house from you.
He did not buy the house for me.
So we ended up I ended up doing what they call a short sale.
Yes. So on the house and a short sale, if you don't know, is basically you just
whatever you owe, you sell it at that was zero profit.
And that's what we did.
You know, that way, quick sale.
Yeah, you know, that way we get rid of the house and we don't have the
we don't have that on our credit. The credit was the biggest thing.
Yes. You know, and we salvaged the credit.
We end up making that we have impeccable credit.
So and that's that's exactly what people who are in foreclosure should do.
Yes. You sell it.
Yeah. But is that what you're referring to as a short sale?
I believe so.
Because you had mentioned we could both we could help each other out.
Is and you had mentioned a different type of sale.
I heard it as a short sale.
What what what are you talking about when you bought it a great deal?
Oh, yeah. It's a ridiculous.
Whether that's a short sale or so.
You're just saying let's help each other out.
The profit margin is here.
Or are they they wanted to move?
I'll pay you cash.
Like basically, you're underwater.
You're about to be foreclosed on I will give you eighty five thousand dollars in cash.
Oh, you walk away.
And that's that's what these that's what housework do.
So were you able to see how much they owed?
Because I don't think so, because then you would be assuming any extra.
That that they had, right?
Well, you would have to. Yeah, you close.
You close on the house and everything and you buy it.
Well, dead on what? Like utilities.
Or are they still responsible for whatever is on their loan?
Yeah. You're still in the bank.
You still closing on the home.
I mean, you still buy it, you close on it and you pay off the bank.
Well, if you're giving them eighty five grand, that's how much you're paying.
Right. Right. And they're responsible for anything over that eighty five grand.
Right. Right.
So instead of them, oh, in a hundred grand, they only owe fifteen grand of the house.
Yeah. So it saves them from paying the whole thing.
Right. Right. You know, or sometimes the bank, the bank will leverage.
And, you know, they do.
They can. They work with you.
Yeah, they do have.
They can work with you.
You know, I mean, they have accounts where they have to just write off stuff.
I mean, they don't want to be stuck with a home that they have to turn around
and sell to somebody else.
I mean, it's it's money, right? Money and time. Right.
So there are plenty of times when they're just like in short sales
do show up on your credit.
I mean, those they're not fantastic to have a short sale.
You know, but it's better when you have a short sale.
It's not good.
The bank, everyone knows that you went through that experience.
But at the same time, they that you took care of it.
They know you did a short sale to you.
You'd pick the better of the two.
Right. The lesser of the two. Yeah. Right.
I know when Julie and I were looking for our first house,
when we first got married
and we looked at a hut home, yes.
And we tried to get to that program and we found one
that was actually in Julie's parents neighborhood down there in Plano.
And it was big house and it was thrashed.
I mean, it needed a lot of work.
Needed the new roof and the new fence.
It needed a new kitchen.
And so what how that at least back back then, you know,
they're I was 25 years ago.
You put a bid in, right?
Do you say for this this house, you submit your bid to the HUD.
Right. And we did.
We says, well, we could afford this because we're going to dump another
50 grand into the house, right?
Which brings it up to I think we bid 100,000.
This is we can go as high as 150 at the time.
And so that's 50 grand to repair the roof, get a new kitchen.
Yeah. And a couple of other things.
We don't want to take care of everything, but the majority of the stuff. Right. Right.
So we lost it, obviously.
But someone else bid, I think, another 15 grand more than we did.
Right. So I mean, that's the concept.
That's exactly the concept of house flipping.
You know, they go in there.
I see one. They see what they're posting it for.
They go in there and look to see how much they would need to put into it.
And they know if I could.
I mean, I would house flip for a living.
I would because I have the know how.
Mm hmm. If if I didn't if I wasn't burdened with podcast.
No, just a job.
Just, you know, we're going to nine to five.
If I wouldn't burden with that and I had an opportunity and and I had some capital.
She takes money to make money, though, right?
Yeah. If I had some capital where I could buy a house, flip it.
Oh, my gosh. Not always. Not always.
So this one guy I was talking to, he he flips homes.
He never uses his own money.
He basically gets a loan.
Yeah. Right. You have like any 30 or 60 days to do something.
Yep. And he has crews.
So you have you have to finish the job within five weeks.
I think five weeks is the magic number. Right.
And because you have five weeks and then you have three weeks to sell the fucking thing.
Right. Right.
Because it takes a week to process.
Yeah. So he borrows the money to buy the home from whoever has it.
Then he's got a line of equity to put like he might put 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 thousand dollars into it to fix everything.
Like you said, roof and fence and kitchen.
Right. And then puts it on the market.
Walks away with one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
The theory is like, let's say someone gives you one hundred thousand dollars and they're like,
well, you know, you can buy you can buy that one house, turn around and flip it.
You know, but he's like, no, you don't do that.
Because you only need to put twenty thousand dollars down.
So take buy five houses, put twenty thousand dollars on each house and then flip five houses.
Right. And then you have to do it within a certain time frame.
I don't know what that time frame is. I want to say sixty or ninety days.
Good at it. You have a ton of contacts and a bunch of teams that can kick ass.
Yeah. But you can do just one house at a time.
If it's just you, could you get done in five weeks?
You have the contacts for it?
No, just him.
No, I mean, no, man.
No, I'd be too carpet.
I'd be Trump.
I was going to say you can't carry drywall upstairs like you used to.
No, I could. But there was probably time where I probably could get pretty close to it.
You would get back to that.
Yeah. But you know what, though?
It doesn't take long.
I know people and I think I honestly think that's the bigger connection.
Right. You have to know you had to know people that can move quick and that are cheap and fast and good.
So unless you're going to do it all yourself and part of that time for that part of that.
It was some of the key parts of flipping a house is is turning the drywall in the painting and the
and you know, because carpentry is easy.
I mean, the baseboards, the crown molds, slapping doors on, you know, that stuff's that stuff's pretty easy.
You know, electrical. I mean, electrical is really easy, too.
So, I mean, if it were me, I would and I was forced to have to do something.
That's probably what I would gravitate to just the trim work and the electrical and probably the data running the telephone
wires and then you can get these guys that can turn key the drywall and painting and they'll go in there for a set number.
And I'm not shitting you. They'll show up with 30 fucking people.
They'll show up at 30 people and knock it out in two days.
They'll be done in a day. Right. Maybe two days.
You know, they'll start in the morning and they'll they'll come in one room and they like boom is drywall.
Boom, it's taped. Boom, it's floated.
And they're they're just moving.
They go across the whole house and it's just a whirlwind.
And they're just I mean, you get that many people you're going to get shit done.
And they've got different types of tools, too.
They got like bazooka tape embedding machines, you know, where these guys on stilts and you know, I mean, it's the real deal.
And they're fast.
Yeah. And they're not all Hispanic either.
They got lots of black people, lots of white people.
Yeah. You know, there's some African strange enough.
There's a lot of Asians Asians.
Yeah. Is it Haitian?
No, I just say Haitian Cuban or two.
Those guys are in the back cooking our food and smoking cigars.
Really? No, no.
Make still the flip in the I mean, I wouldn't mind doing it.
But then you need an aspect of design as well.
So you can have an empty house. You have to stage it.
So in here's here's here's my thought on the empty house.
Here's my thought on this whole flippant thing, too, because flipping there's there's another.
I don't know if we have enough time to talk about those.
So flipping this is my idea.
OK, like, for example, there are different regions that have like let's talk about Irving, for example.
There are certain regions that have like twelve hundred to sixteen hundred square foot houses.
And you want to go hit those houses that are the L shaped foundations.
OK, OK. So there's a particular reason for that.
The particular reason is because you switch it from an L shape to a rectangle.
Oh, you're adding stuff on. Correct.
Because what are you doing when you add something on?
You're increasing the square footage of the house, which increases the value of the house.
So if you have a house that's valued at one hundred thousand dollars at eighty three dollars a square foot,
et cetera, et cetera, and you increase it by eight hundred square foot,
well, guess what you just did. Right. Yeah.
And you also move your home into a whole different class of of market buyers.
Absolutely. And you can.
But the end game is for these particular type of homes,
because when I say thirteen hundred to sixteen hundred square foot,
those are basically really shitty houses that, you know, really small rooms.
But what you do is you are basically adding that extra area.
You're adding a master bedroom, right?
A real master bedroom.
And you're adding a really classy bathroom in that extra area.
Right. So, I mean, I've already I've already thought about this stuff.
And because I've always wanted to do it, I just never had the capital to it.
And that is the way to do it.
I mean, really is, because for, you know, fifteen hundred bucks,
you get someone out there to pound out the foundation.
I mean, there's it's a process.
But again, I mean, I know the right folks.
It depends. It depends on, I guess, your credit rating and your relationship
with the bank. But you don't use your own money in most of these situations.
They go to the bank. They get the they get the.
Yeah, I mean, but it's if you I mean, and that is a good way to play.
You know, I mean, if you can if you can follow, if you can get away with it
and do it, that's great.
I mean, I would prefer just to have the capital to do it
because you're not you're not robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Because if that five weeks turns into eight weeks.
Yeah, because shit happens. Right. Right.
Shit happens. Weather happens.
Yeah, weather happens for sure.
You know, people, you know, there's there's a lot of stuff.
And but, you know, I enjoy it just simply because I was exposed to it for so much.
Yeah. You did a lot of that kind of stuff. Right.
Yeah. Well, you know, and I think I get the fever for it.
Sometimes when I'm doing my current job, you know,
I end up on a job site or something like that.
And I'm kind of like, oh, man, I can be fun. Yeah.
Then I start to think about some of the how much it kind of sucked.
You know, right. You become country strong kind of sort of speak.
You know, of course you do.
Yeah. And, you know, I was making fun of you.
I feel bad now, but I was making fun of Jeff a little bit.
And, you know, because I was like, come on, Jeff, because he's city week.
Yeah, because I was like, hey, man, let's let's let's I got to
I got to go swing by the what's it called?
I got to go by somewhere.
I got to move like some drywall from this place to another.
And we brought the boys over there to help me do it.
Right. Because it was like, I don't know a lot of sheets.
I don't know what it was. And I was heavy as shit.
Yeah. Well, yeah, it was so heavy. Yeah, it's yeah.
And it's just but when you're used to picking them up and carrying
them, it's technique and just moving it forward.
And I'm looking at Jeff and he's picking them up and he's he doesn't have technique
and my inner monologues fucking with them, even though I'm not saying anything.
No, I do. I was and he's hearing my inner monologue, even though I'm not saying
I saw the look. I'm just like, here we go.
He's manning me up. Yeah. Yeah.
But the back of my head, I know that I don't do this every day.
There you go. Right.
Sean was doing it every day.
Now, if we wouldn't do that today, you would both.
He would know that how you felt.
Yes. Yeah. No.
And then I'd stand there and mock both of you.
Yeah, you would. And we were stupid enough to lift these things.
Now, well, we would like task you with holding the defibrillator.
Now, now we go, hey, guys, they boys, the kids.
Right. Go move this for me. Right.
Yeah, that's not happening.
And you look like it is.
I mean, if you lift that shit every day, I mean, you def your core gets stronger.
Your grip gets stronger. Everything.
It's it's it's more, you know, it's it's climbing up in the attics
and being a contortionist, because when I say climbing up in the attics,
I'm not talking about like, you know, tiptoeing on the joys.
I'm talking about like literally crawling through your hands
and knees and not crawling on a flat surface.
I'm talking about from joist to joist.
Could we do it now with our bellies?
Dude, there's going to be like a teeter totter.
Oh, your bellies are in the way.
Yeah, your belly comes through the ceiling
right in between the joists. God, man.
We really gelatinous just kind of spills down in there.
I tell you what I've done.
I've done enough crawling around in the roof in the in the attic
to know what you're talking about on your stomach.
Crawling to get to the end of the pipe that's leaking or whatever.
You know, it's dudes like us, man. And I'm enjoying this shit.
I enjoy talking about this.
You know, this is HOA stuff.
I don't know if I've talked about it too much.
You know, we can talk about a little bit more.
I think every other every other podcast is this. Are you serious?
Is it just me? It's a lot.
Yeah. Well, you're obsessed with it.
Well, it's been it's been part of my life.
I've been on the fucking board for a year to let it go.
Yeah, I actually do.
And I'm on my last year.
I'm finishing up my year on your sixth term.
No, my last third year, my three year term, my last three year term.
It is a term.
The producers laughing at me is called it's a term just like it is in government.
Right. Yeah. Yeah.
You have a two year term or whatever it is.
This is three years and two month term.
I wonder if I could be impeached.
You can. Yes, of course.
They could probably recall your ass.
Absolutely. Huh.
I'm amazed you haven't been.
I'm a lame duck. So I don't care.
I don't show up to any of the meetings, you know, basically intellectual property.
How do you do this? How do you do that?
Yeah, people, you know, they they're calling me and says, hey, what's going on with this?
This this and I'm like, oh, God.
OK. Call Tommy to do this.
Tell this guy to do that. Call that guy.
Got to do that. Call me at eight to make sure it's all done.
Whatever. So, you know, like people who are on real company board boards.
Is that a total? Is that a total farce?
I mean, what do they really do?
They they make they're on like three different boards.
Right. And they they get paid for that.
Well, there are some cases they get paid a lot of money for their intellectual.
There's there's a couple of things.
They're there for intellectual property and they're also there for status.
I mean, the well status and what is its status that I'm there for status.
But I'm going to join that board and pay money and dues to be next to Paul because of the status.
I like Paul. Paul's a popular guy.
I want to be on the same board.
So you're saying board members have their own selfish reasons for being on it.
Correct. But then companies also want to to get to lure high profile names onto the board
so that it gives the investors confidence that the company is being led in the right direction.
The board the board is really the one who drives when pushes the CEO and says you need to go in this direction.
No, they're supposed to be looking out for the shareholders.
Elon Musk bought into Twitter.
I mean, what do you think's happening now?
He declined or he declined to be on the board.
Well, of course he did decline, but he doesn't matter.
He doesn't need to be on the board to have control.
Yeah, he's sending out tweets that are you know, why the world right now because he doesn't care.
Well, if you're on the board, you have to think of the company first.
You can't do anything detrimental to the company, right?
Which means he's not going to tweet some of the things he's been tweeting.
But he can but as a to be a majority stockholder, you still have you don't have to be on the board to have influence.
True, correct. Yeah, that's correct.
And I also heard on the board, it's like, you know, well, I also heard president when you could be king.
Right. I also heard that if you're on the board, it limits you to how much how many shares you can have.
Right. He probably didn't want to be.
And I think it caps out of 14 or 15 percent and then you're done.
Whereas if he's just outside, he can buy all of them.
Well, did you hear somebody filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk before because he didn't buy his nine percent all at once.
He's been buying stock every day or like throughout March and into April.
And by law, he's supposed to be he did not disclose that he had like a certain percent until much later.
You know, a week or two later, see regulation or law.
That's what this lawsuit is claiming that he or they try to do undo it all.
They're just trying to just trying to sue him for breaking the law.
I don't know. Is it all these but her Twitter?
But no, he's being sued on yesterday by a former Twitter, Inc. shareholders who claim they missed out on recent run up in stocks prices because he waited too long to disclose the nine point two percent stake in the social media.
So they're about her because they didn't make their money. Make more money.
Right. If they had known, in other words, had they known they would have bought more.
Right. They would have bought more because it's got up twenty seven percent since Elon Musk.
Twenty seven percent. So Twitter shares rose twenty percent, twenty seven percent on April 4th to almost fifty bucks from thirty nine thirty one to forty nine ninety seven.
After Musk discloses his stake, which investors views as a vote of confidence for the world's richest person in San Francisco based Twitter, former shareholders led by Mark Rosala said that the delayed disclosure.
Anyways, the same shit we just talked about.
Right. Anyway, they're upset that he gets to make more money.
Yeah, they they missed out on on some sort of profit.
Right. And he was being sued for that.
But anyway, I but is he going to get sued?
Well, he's he's already is. Yeah, he'd be.
Well, I mean, but what's the end game?
Is he going to? Well, I don't know.
I guess he'll have to pay them for whatever they are going to be a penalty for whatever they missed out on salary.
How would that work? Well, I was going to buy a million shares.
So was I. That's so funny. Yeah.
I mean, three. Yeah, I was all good.
I was going to buy shares. Dudes like us.
Three million shares. Yeah, I'm not sure I could afford that much.
But anyway, it's going to be so the other interesting thing about this whole thing is is Elon Musk has been doing these polls on on Twitter.
Do you think that it's OK that they've been censoring free speech?
I mean, really inflammatory.
That's why he didn't want to be on the board because he couldn't do that.
Right. And so anyway, so so conservatives and Republicans are like he's our last, you know,
bastion of hope to hold big tech accountable.
Well, we're thinking, right?
Maybe I think this could be a really interesting thing.
He's so eccentric.
This guy. I loved it when he pulled out.
He went on the stage at some pulled out the new car and he comes out.
He's got this big cowboy hat on and he's celebrating the move to Texas.
Dude, he is he's just I don't know, man.
He's awesome. Yeah.
The first thing that I was thinking in my mind was it was Tony Stark.
Right. You know, because he's totally Tony Stark.
Is he married still? No, they get divorced.
Yeah. He's got his kid.
What? Alpha X or something like that.
I thought it was you.
Yeah. Like some weird sign like Prince.
Yeah. The artist known as.
Yeah. He's very eccentric.
I don't know if you could sit down and just have a beer with him and have a really well,
I mean, Joe Rogan sat down for three hours with them and he smoked a doobie with them.
Well, maybe that helped.
I remember that smoked a joint, a smoked marijuana.
No, Rogan did that or just Elon Musk?
Both of them. Oh, did they really?
Yeah. Rogan sat down with them.
Were they based in California?
Yeah. Can't do it now in Texas.
No, can't do it in Texas.
Not yet. I think it'll get there, but not not yet.
Have you guys ever heard about the Delta 8?
That's another thing that's Delta.
That's marijuana. That's a fake marijuana.
Some people try to sell it as it's not because it's different.
But then now they start cracking down like CBD places were selling Delta 8.
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I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff.
We'll see you guys in just a few.
You say hemp day or hump day?
Oh, hemp.
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