Well, you know what?
It's got a great chorus.
Does it?
It does.
Bye bye, Mr. American Pie.
So I was like the whiter shade of pale and what was the other one?
Hazy shade of winter.
So hazy shade of winter.
I don't know.
I got confused.
Bangles and the original.
So what was the other song by Pearl Call Harem?
That was a...
I don't know.
Not a big Pearl Call Harem kind of sewer.
I don't even know who that is.
You would know the songs.
Pearl Call Harem?
Pearl Call.
Okay.
Harem.
I was looking at pictures of Jamie Gertz.
Oh really?
There was nothing wrong with that.
When she was 14.
14?
No, she was not.
She was 17 and a half.
Good Lord.
Actually, she was 20.
When did Lost Boys come out?
85, 84?
So she was 19, 20?
In that movie?
I like that soundtrack to Lost Boys too.
For a little context, our producer had the Bangles, hazy shade of winter video playing
while we were warming up for our podcast.
And that was the song from Less Than Zero.
Doing our throat exercises.
Yeah, while we were going...
La la la la la la la.
Oh, what the hell just happened?
Well, that's what I do.
I don't know what you guys do.
Anyway, Less Than Zero, which had Robert Downey Jr. heroin addict and Matthew McConaughey.
No.
Matthew McConaughey.
All right, all right, all right.
No, he was not in that.
Andrew McCarthy.
Who cares?
So that is basically where...
Jamie Gertz is in there.
What is the name of the...
What?
Tony from...
Tony Bennett.
Tony...
No.
Iron Man.
Oh, that's...
Tony Bennett.
Tony Stark.
What is the actor's name?
Robert Downey Jr.
Yeah, Robert Downey Jr.
I just said it.
He was...
I know, but I was kind of in and out.
Well, I had some of the bourbon we're about to talk about.
I've got a quick buzz, but I'm saying...
Very nice.
So that movie...
I need a beer, please.
It's like...
It was gross.
It was like...
That was one of the first movies that introduced me to homosexuality within the videos.
I mean, it was just like...
What, Iron Man?
No.
Hazy Shaded Winter.
Tony Stark was gay.
Less than zero.
He's gay?
Less than zero.
No.
Well, he wasn't in the show, but he had an addiction.
And to earn money for the addiction...
Oh, he had a sexual encounter?
A gay sexual encounter?
Well, the guy was kind of like, gay, you want some of this white powder stuff that goes in
your nose?
You're going to have to put some white stuff in the back of your throat.
And that's what had happened.
Is that what he said?
Well, no.
I'm not...
It's kind of paraphrasing a little bit.
What is the other guy's name?
Andrew McCarthy.
So Andrew McCarthy bursts in the room and he's kind of like, come on, grabs him.
And you see Tony Stark's face all jacked up and it's kind of looked like he had shmeg
on it.
It was disgusting.
Oh, no, he didn't.
Stop it.
Donut icing is what you call it?
Oh, God.
He looked erect because he looked like he had a cocaine problem.
Back then, he actually did.
Yeah.
Yeah, he did.
So he disappeared for a while.
Yeah.
All the people that pulled him out of the bowels of hell, who do you think it was?
Johnny Depp.
Jimi Hendrix.
Johnny Depp.
Can you hear the stuff going on with him right now?
Before we jump into that, we got so much...
Mel Gibson, of all people.
My next guess was Michael Dukakis.
Well, Mel Gibson, you know, because...
He was going to say Van Quail.
He had pulled him...
Basically, he had nowhere to go.
So he lived with Mel Gibson for years, and he got him over his addiction and got him
through walking the Word of God and walked him down the path of Christian.
Hold on, really?
Mel Gibson's like a really devout Christian?
Well, I think he's...
Yeah, he is.
He made the past for the Christ.
Oh, that's right.
He did.
Yeah, he's the real deal.
So that's why it was kind of...
But he had that low moment.
He had that low moment where he had like a drunken thing where he dogged Jews.
Yeah, I don't...
Well, his wife was...
His wife was...
Yes.
They were going through a divorce, so there was a lot of animosity between them, too.
And there was a lot of drinking.
I mean, imagine with anybody that's got a job, like an actor's job, where they make
a couple million dollars.
I mean, think about it.
If we made a couple million dollars by working six months...
I know.
I mean, we would be set for...
I mean...
It's so dumb.
We'd be set for years.
We'd spend our entire lives trying to save up $2 million for retirement.
Our entire lives.
And these guys make it in a movie.
We try to.
And 99% of the country doesn't get to that.
Yeah.
And these guys make it in...
So you wonder why they live in a bubble.
Look what Aaron Rodgers is about to make every year.
Really?
Patrick Bowles, $50 million a year.
$15 million a year.
$50 million.
Oh, $50.
Oh, I was going to say 15.
That's nothing.
But 50.
Oh, yeah.
There you go.
That's good stuff.
Anyway.
All right.
Well, it is a wonderful day for some folks out there.
It's 420.
It's April 20.
In case you guys don't know what that is.
It's my son's birthday.
First and foremost.
It is your son's birthday, foremost.
Nice.
Which one?
Steven's.
He turned 20 today.
No way.
Yeah.
Outstanding.
Yep.
As Preston had posted some pictures of them growing up on his Instagram, I thought were
pretty cool.
The both of them.
It's funny because he's holding Steven in two or three of the shots.
They're a couple years apart.
It's just funny, man.
Good friends.
Wait a second.
A couple years apart.
Preston's not older or younger.
What I'm saying is that there was a picture taken of them two.
Oh, I got you.
I got you.
It was like a year would pass, two years would pass, a couple years would pass.
I understand.
So it's just chronological.
It was a cute set of pictures.
That's the thing that kids can do nowadays.
We couldn't do that growing up, but they take a picture of themselves every day.
And then they have like a collage of their entire life.
Our collage was a line of pencil lead on the casing of a door.
That was our collage.
How tall did you grow?
When I was a kid, there were slides still around.
Oh yeah.
Like if you watched your family, whatever, my dad pulled out slides.
Well, when Brandon was born, phones didn't exist.
Well, cell phones didn't exist.
And we have a bunch of photographs of Brandon.
We really don't have any actual photographs of Steven outside of professional school ones
and shit like that.
They're all on the phone.
And then when the kids were really little, we got the high eight Sony camcorder.
I mean what a different world we lived in.
We didn't have the ability to do what they do today, which is take a picture of themselves
every day for every day of their life.
The one thing I did and I consciously did this is I started with Brandon in kindergarten.
I took a picture of the first day of school every single year.
By the school?
No, out front of the house.
Oh nice.
Same spot every year.
You did it every year?
Every year I'd have them.
And they expected it after what, two years of it.
Wow, that was brilliant.
So they'd come down and they'd stand there and the neighbor boy would come over because
they'd walked the school together.
So I'd have the three of them, then I'd have the two of them every single year up until
Brandon graduated and then I did Steven two more years by himself.
So have you ever made a montage of that?
Did it for when they graduated, yeah.
You did?
Oh how cool is that?
Very nice.
Yeah.
So there you go.
All that pain was worth it.
It was.
There was a couple years when Brandon was playing football for middle school and he
had to get there at 6 a.m.
But you're like, no I'm getting a picture of you.
I had, I took it after school at that point so.
Oh so this Greek was broken.
Yeah.
So first day.
With two children.
It's not authentic.
With two children it's, I struggled.
I had the real struggle.
I had four kids I had to gather.
Always somebody was always in a bad mood.
I don't care who it was and unfortunately it was usually the producer.
And I've got the pictures to back it up.
He's got a very unruly, angry look on his face like how dare you.
First of all, how dare you take a picture of me.
How dare you take a picture of me on the first day of school.
How dare you.
Why am I living?
Why am I wearing Preston's clothes?
Yeah.
No he didn't.
All right look so it's April 20.
It's Stephen's birthday.
Happy birthday Stephen.
Shout out.
And it's, you know it's interesting where that 420 comes from.
And there's a basically what I've understood is 420 was the case number where they legalized
pot or something in California.
And that's where that 420 came from.
I may be wrong.
So this is a celebrate the legalization of pot day?
I don't.
It's weed day.
But 420 isn't based on a date.
I don't think it is.
I think it's based on a case number or something.
But it's all it's about how marijuana became relevant in California on a specific date
or it was a case number that related.
So maybe just type in.
I heard it was also Hitler's birthday.
That was a thing.
I don't think that may be in Queensland for sure.
No one needs to know that.
So whether you know a lot about marijuana or very little chance you've heard of the
numbers 420 are particularly significant in weed culture.
But what does it mean?
Why do we weed aficionados hold April 20th and 420 p.m. so sacred?
And according to the Time magazine 420 can be traced back to 1971 when a group of five
students at San Rafael High School in Marin County, California began meeting at 420 p.m.
to smoke marijuana.
Interesting.
I haven't heard that.
How could they possibly know that?
They can't possibly know that.
I call bullshit on that.
But anyway it's a fun story.
Yeah you scroll up just a little bit right there grateful dead spread of the ritual.
Yeah I don't I don't know.
I'm going to let it go because I heard a bunch of different things and I'm sure there's probably
about but regardless 420 is an unofficial marijuana day for those folks that enjoy smoking
marijuana because marijuana is a fantastic tool for some people.
Are you one of them?
No.
It is illegal in the state of Texas and I am not a proponent of smoking marijuana where
it's illegal.
So if we had Elon Musk on our show I would roll a doobie up and I'd smoke it with them.
Hey Elon how you doing?
That'd be an interesting conversation.
Of course I don't know why I get it.
What would you ask him?
What would be the first question you'd ask Elon Musk if he was sitting with us right
now?
Where do you get a haircut from?
Do you get your hair cut?
Is it did you get your hair from your dad's side?
I mean do you have pictures of your dad?
I haven't seen Elon Musk's dad or parents or anything like that.
I think I would ask do you check African American on your forums?
Nice.
I'd ask him why can't you just go with a normal kid's name?
Or that.
Let's piss him off.
What?
Dude I'm walking out.
Oh hey by Twitter.
By Twitter when you walk out.
I don't think he would give a shit.
Did you hear what he had to say about Netflix?
Yeah that's a collection of woke fucks.
Yeah Netflix is tanking.
They are 25% drop in the stock.
But I tell you what I'm watching I mean we're continuing to watch a lot of shows on Netflix
so it's not like and we're not atypical are we?
Am I atypical?
Are people boycotting?
I mean what's happening?
Well some people are.
200,000 people dropped.
Why?
Well they may have watched everything.
There are people like that out there like there's nothing on Netflix anymore.
They reached the end of Netflix.
Well I guess everything they want to see right?
There's a lot of shit on there that you're like I'll never watch that.
I shouldn't say it unfortunately but you know Netflix offers a lot.
They do.
There's a lot of shit on there.
There is and like Disney in some of their programming we had heard there were executives
in Disney that were forcing homosexuality down people's throats.
Hyper woke.
The same folks are doing the same thing with Netflix and you know from what I understood
the Obamas have some influence in Netflix.
They are part of Netflix.
They own or they have a big chunk of it.
I don't know if that's paying off or not but I think that was a mistake.
Well he has a new documentary on Netflix.
Did you see it?
It's a nature show.
On how to run the country when you're still not president?
No it's a nature show that he narrates.
First here's what you got to do boys and girls.
You become president and then groom your vice president.
Who is clearly not of sound mind and body so you can influence the shit out of him.
Let's jump back a little bit here and hit up our bourbon that we're drinking because
Jeff was in Lubbock Texas and he had found a maker's mark.
He picked a unicorn.
He did he found one and this one's a straight bourbon.
It's a maker's mark.
The release date was September of 2021.
Well hold on it's not just maker's mark.
You need to follow that with a something.
Well I mean we're going to get down to the fatty acid stuff and elaborate.
Is that what you're talking about?
No like it's a single barrel something something right?
It's not regular maker's mark.
I'm going down the line.
Where's the single barrel?
I don't know I don't see it anywhere on there.
It's a limited release.
But hold on let's pump the brakes here for a second.
So let's start with straight bourbon.
Is it single barrel?
I don't know.
So it's the company Beam Suntory.
Maker's mark.
It's release date was September 2021.
The proof of it and you wouldn't know this by tasting it because it's extremely smooth
and I am enjoying it.
Me too.
I'm enjoying it.
I enjoyed it without the cube which says a lot.
I agree.
And even with the cube it goes down even faster.
In fact to the point where I'm thinking I want to add a little bit more of a glass.
So the mash bill.
Well hold on you didn't say what the proof was.
It's 109.1.
9.1 no slouch.
No burn.
No slouch.
And there's no age statement.
So that's the age is NAS.
No age statement.
People with the nose say NAS.
That's full of shit.
What is NAS?
It's short for NASA.
Nasal.
Oh for NASA?
No age.
NASA.
They put people in space.
They just can't.
I think in German the word for nose is NASA.
I don't know.
It's just lazy people can't say NASA so they say NAS.
No age statement.
So it's no age statement.
So we don't know how old it is.
Why is that?
Don't you think they would be proud to put how long it's been aging or maybe if they
don't put it then they're not proud?
Well I mean maybe.
What if it was 14 months?
Yeah that's just the whole thing.
To be bourbon doesn't have to be four years at least.
No no no.
It can be two days and still be bourbon.
Really?
Yeah.
It has to be aged in a white oak barrel.
It doesn't say how long.
But you know what?
That's shady to me.
You know what I mean?
Well that's why you have some of those aged at least six months.
You know?
Right.
It's still bourbon.
No less than 20 days.
Well it's just like that that shit bourbon that you had down in Fredericksburg.
Okay first off I don't buy shit bourbon.
Flash aged.
Actually I just listened to that one.
Oh the one that yes I bought it.
That was a tea bag of wood chips.
Do they have a?
It was horrible.
It was NASA right?
It was so bad.
Did I say what it was?
Well no it was a local one.
They did it themselves right?
Yeah it was horrible.
Yeah.
Alright so go back to the breaking, to the review.
Yeah the review.
Alright.
He's trying to fact check me on the whole nose thing.
So speaking of nose.
So the Makers Mark wood finishing series 2021 limited relays the FAG Alpha Elta.
What?
The fatty acid.
What does that stand for again?
Esters.
Fatty acid esters.
Oh Jeff.
Why don't you, why don't you go into the fatty acid esters.
Okay it's not fatty ass.
I wasn't able to spit out.
You're really struggling right now.
Oh fuck off.
This is going to be a long podcast if you're struggling 10 minutes into it.
No.
Just I mean I still can't remember his name.
It comes from the French oak staves.
Tony Stark.
Yeah.
And the, and the, you know we probably need to get a dictionary out to see exactly what
it is but it comes out of the wood, the oak staves they put in.
You would think they would come up with a better term than FAEO1 and FAEO2.
Like it needs to, like that's very chemical.
Yeah.
Infectible though.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
That's not very like, when you're talking about bourbon and aging and nose and palate.
I mean FAEO1.
That's an FAE.
Right?
It's FAE2.
It's a dash two.
Definitely a two.
Not a one.
Seriously.
That doesn't look right.
It sounds better than spelling out fatty acid ester.
Okay well.
Jeff's valid point right there.
That's true but come up with something else.
I'm going to email him.
Well just call it FAE.
I'll email him and say hey dudes like us are not happy with your terms.
Is that a FAEO1 or is that a FAEO2?
Continue with your review here Sean.
Yeah.
That's my fault.
That's fine.
And so that's the overall.
We're going to go right up to the nose and the whole spiel on that.
So hold on.
There's something unique that they do right?
What do they put in the bottles?
Well it's a stave.
So okay.
So what makes it the fatty acid esters that they put in there, which makes it different
from the different other makers marks out there, is that they introduce it to an oak
stave.
They make it.
They sear it on one side and leave it raw on the other where the fatty acid ester 0-2
is produced using double heated treated virgin.
Has to be virgin.
Virgin.
Has to have a hymen.
Uncouched virgin.
In French oak barrel staves that undergo infrared exposure prior to flame toast finish.
Wow.
That was difficult.
Yeah that was very difficult.
You did well.
Yeah.
So you did well.
And about the creation of the process and the company's press release, which you can
probably find on the website of makersmark.com.
It's very unique though right?
Very unique.
I don't think anybody else does staves.
Well I'm sure there's a lot of folks there.
Okay I was just kidding.
Everybody does it.
I think maybe they treat it a certain way to get it to expel these fatty acids.
Well I mean I think it's valid.
Maybe the infrared does something.
But what I mean is like we've been buying bourbon for a while now.
Lots of different bourbons.
Lots of different stores.
There's not many that have a stave inside the bottle.
There really aren't.
Well I'll tell you this.
Well Okanedon does.
It's not in the bottle.
It's in the barrel.
That's how they age it.
Well I'll tell you what.
Then they pull the staves out.
What this does, I do enjoy the taste of it.
So whatever it does.
No no no.
It makes it a little bit more smooth.
I'm not critical of it.
I just think it's unique.
Ah well.
But maybe not.
I think it's creamy.
That's a good word.
I don't think that's a very good word.
Kind of a buttery oak.
I like banana bread in the nose.
Although I didn't smell that.
What about Dad's Root Beer Barrels Hard Candy?
That's interesting.
Let me go ahead and pull it.
I'm going to have to pull this back again.
Those are all sniffing.
Yeah I think I do smell Dad's Root Beer Barrels Hard Candy.
Really?
It is intriguing.
No it's not.
The very last one.
I do taste green peppercorn in the palate with leather.
I can't do this.
I can't do these crazy ass descriptions of the nose.
Is that like the ones that aren't even ripe yet?
The green?
Someone's going to taste that?
Hey why don't you try these peppercorns right off the tree.
I think a million people could taste this bourbon and not one out of a million people
would say I think I taste green peppercorn.
Alright.
Whoever did the feedback on the.
They're running out of originality.
They enjoyed a little bit of 420 today.
But long story short I'm enjoying it.
It does have some spice in it.
It's very smooth and as Jeff said it's creamy and maybe that is the result of the fatty
esters.
Anyway I enjoy it.
You got it watering.
Did you take a big gulp?
Yeah I did.
Sean's getting emotional that's okay.
He's tearing up.
It's getting a little weepy.
This is Dudes Like Us and I'm Paul.
I'm Jeff.
And I'm Sean.
Teary eyed Sean.
Did you need a tissue?
There's one right there.
Alright.
No I was looking for my phone.
I heard a beep and I don't want it to make any more noise so I'm trying to find out where
to put it.
But that's why we love this podcast.
We are passionate.
We get emotional.
We cry.
Yes.
Well Sean does.
I remember my first fatty ester dester.
And we actually have one.
I think it's a 2020 the FAE01 that's out there.
Oh Dewey.
That's fantastic.
You know what it sounds like.
That's an easier one to get for some reason.
It's the two that for some reason is hard to get.
To me it sounds like a motor oil.
SAE.
Doesn't it?
It kind of does.
It sounds like a motor oil.
I don't like it.
They need to come up with something different.
Well you should email them.
I will.
And as soon as they see dudes like us they're going to be like what?
This guy's there emailing us?
Right.
We're going to call it DLU02.
So let me tell you something that's happening.
Once a week.
Once twice a day.
It just.
You shit?
There's a dog that lives up the street like three houses.
It's a beautiful black collie.
It's tame.
A black collie.
Yeah.
It's a great dog.
It's beautiful.
It likes to escape their house.
Collie like Texas A&M collie?
Like I don't know.
Yeah well we can Google it.
Collies aren't black.
Collies are brown and white like a collie.
Well this one's black with white.
So we got two colors.
I don't think I've ever heard of a black collie but that would be wonderful if the producer
could pull up a black collie.
I'd love to see what that looks like.
Anyway please continue.
They escape.
And what do you do?
So the what's going on?
All right.
So anyways so this dog will come to our house and he knows how to open up our front door.
It's hilarious because I'll be well he just goes up there and our door doesn't have a
knob it's got the handle.
It's got no it's got the electronic code.
It's a thumb thing.
Right now it's it's got the little.
Yeah it does have a thumb thing.
Actually actually I don't know what the fuck it's got but the dog gets in the house and
it's hilarious.
He's he's kind of like Kramer from Seinfeld because when he comes in the house he comes
in and is bam right to the front door.
Hello.
What are Lenny and Squeaky from Verne Shirley and your dogs are going bonkers.
Oh my god it's just like hey I fucking live here.
What's going on over here.
Hey let me tell you some of these snacks over.
He goes straight for the food.
He's like same shit.
I don't want it.
Boom.
It heads outside.
It takes a dump.
So you know it's terrible.
It's just me because the dog came over earlier today and and I wasn't home.
So there's been some times where like like I'm asleep at six o'clock in the morning.
He just shows up and the dog will open the door and what's amazing he'll shut it.
So I don't know if he's hitting the door door so hard that it automatically shuts or he's
shutting the door.
But by the time I get downstairs to find out what the fuck's going on the door shut.
But this dog finds finds us.
It wakes me up and I'm like what the fuck is this.
He jumps up on the bed and it's like he owns the fucking house.
I mean have you talked to the owner about this.
She's fine.
She's.
Yeah well I mean he gets out of the house.
What are you gonna do.
How.
Well I mean right now she doesn't know.
She doesn't know how the dog is getting on the house.
Like he came over earlier today and she had no idea how the hell.
She says I was in the middle of a zoom meeting you know so whether he's opening the door
and closing it at her house.
I guess I have no idea.
But she's like there's not any door open.
I do not know how he got out of the house.
That's amazing.
So whatever does he have.
Do they have a doggy door.
Maybe he's getting out from the backyard.
I don't know.
But Tara just texted me says he's back.
You know but but it is hilarious because it's just like Kramer from Seinfeld.
It's just hilarious how he busted the door and he's going hey guys what's going on.
I had a beagle.
I had a beagle that would would would scooch under our gate and then just go to various
neighbors houses.
She would go into their garages and one of them one of them was down the street.
She was an Indian woman and she's terrified of dogs.
And if you saw this beagle it was the most like old unimposing non threatening beagle
ever.
But there are some people that are just terrified of dogs right.
So she oh oh oh she comes up to our house and she's knocking on the door and you would
think she's like help me help me.
My house is on fire.
Right.
She can't even talk.
She's like your dog your dog is in my garage.
I'm like really.
I'm like I'm like really.
This is what you're freaking out about.
Anyway so yeah that's exactly it.
She would be in maybe she got mauled.
She'd be as a child.
Maybe maybe I'm being an insensitive prick by thinking my aging little beagle could hurt
her.
Could be.
Anyway so the dog came through so he's just funny Terry just texted me hey the dog is
back.
So I had to stop.
So Bronco is good with it.
I mean Bronco.
Hey they all get along.
They all get along.
Do they hump.
Oh wow.
So you took this in a weird weird place.
He's not fixed yet right.
Well I guess the question you got to answer the question do they hump.
I haven't seen them hump.
But you know I don't watch them all the time.
I mean I put them in the backyard.
It'll be hard to and I have to lock the front of the backyard.
It's hard to miss.
Well they're they're two males.
Dad they're humping again.
So this black is a male.
Yeah they're two males.
So I don't know.
LB dog TQ.
I don't know what they call it.
You put a C on the front.
They do doggy style though.
Do you put a C on the front of the whole thing.
Canine LBQ.
A little missionary style it.
Oh.
Dogs.
A missionary.
I don't need a visual.
I'm struggling to get the visual which makes me happy.
Imagine the missionary style.
No no no I don't.
Maybe that's a side saddle.
OK anyway that's a that's a that's a shepherd dog.
That's not a collie.
It's a black Belgian shepherd.
Well that particular one is.
But if you scroll up.
No OK anyway doesn't matter.
There it's right there.
Really.
Yeah that's it.
The hell is that thing.
It's a dog wolf.
Yeah it's a dog.
Does it fucking matter.
It's not a collie.
You know what she said it was a collie.
It's a collie.
What the fuck am I going to do argue with her.
Yeah you just said that's a dog wolf.
Hey Paul said.
Yeah my friend.
My other dude like us.
Anyway.
It's sweet dog but you know it just.
Does it have all four legs.
It does and two eyes.
Oh.
Unlike your dog.
Unfortunate.
You know I take my dog every single time I go to the chiropractor.
I asked.
Yeah we know we heard.
I know.
It's embarrassing.
I asked if they were dog friendly.
I take her every time.
Every time.
Is she bitch if you're not there.
I mean she just she does expect it.
Like you know they're amazing.
Like they know patterns.
Right.
Like if you jiggle something or you open something or you put on a certain hat or you put on
whatever.
They are amazing when it comes to patterns.
Right.
And yeah there are certain time every day because I always schedule it for lunchtime.
Right.
And she's like OK let's go.
And yeah I bring her and the other the other people there like nobody's been like why do
you bring your dog.
Put your dog on a leash.
I hate you.
They all know she's got one eye and three legs.
Right.
She's a novelty.
She's become a party favor.
She really.
She's like a clown.
Dude.
I mean just glue a googly eye on that thing.
She's awesome.
And she just hangs out.
She lays down next to me on my on my little patient bed.
You know does she get adjusted.
She does.
She doesn't know.
No I did ask and they said it'll be extra.
We could put her in the missionary position if you like.
Don't touch my dog.
Good Lord.
Yeah.
Your dog touches my dog.
We got a problem.
Well I'm sure she's going to have a difficult time.
She's missing a rear a rear leg.
Right.
Difficult time of that.
Is it a rear left leg.
Rear left.
OK.
Driver side.
That's weird.
That's interesting.
Driver side back leg.
Have we told the the the dudes like us listeners out there how exactly your dog came about.
Yeah.
I think we did.
But it's always a fun.
It's always a fun.
Well I'll just nutshell because we've got lots of stuff to talk about this this podcast
is basically Paul decides he wants to shut down again.
He sure did.
You want to talk about that.
Well you know we're not we're not going to see how we did that.
Yeah.
You know you're exuding dominance.
The power of suggestion.
Yeah.
You know what I want to talk about.
I know it's kind of a left turn.
You know what I was thinking we could.
There we go.
We did it again.
I was going to ask you guys I want this beer.
I was going to ask you guys how much trust you guys have in mechanics.
Very little.
Why is that.
Because.
Well actually the one I have now I trust until they do something wrong because I've been
to mechanics and well for one thing I think mechanics have a I don't know if it's a bad
rap but they have a rap of not being making up.
It's not that simple.
Yeah.
Make it up.
There's all kinds of television shows out there where they bring these cars into these
local mechanic shops and they say X Y Z is wrong with it and they take it in there knowing
that only Z is wrong with it because they have another professional mechanic that says
this car has a clean bill of health.
We're setting it in there with problem Z and they say.
Oh really.
That's a TV show.
Well they had.
Yes.
Well they basically camera.
So they set these guys up.
Yeah.
And they're fraud.
Almost all of them fell.
God that makes me so mad.
Yeah.
It was like it wasn't a 60 minutes but it was like it was a date line or something.
Yeah.
Something like that.
Well you know what.
I it's a valid it's a valid thing to pin on them because let me tell you what's going
on.
So I have 2006 Jetta.
It's a diesel.
Not many people know how to work on it.
And so I've taken it to two different places and they struggled.
They got it fixed sort of but they struggled.
And finally I was like you know what I'm going to take it to the dealership the dreaded dealership
right.
Those are the ones that you definitely like there's tears of distrust.
Right dealerships are they're always the most expensive to the most expensive and they make
up shit.
Right.
So I went ahead and took it there because I'm on the verge of getting rid of this thing
because you know everybody fears the whole you know the things work 2000.
They're going to tell me it's eight thousand to fix it.
I can't do that.
It doesn't make sense.
Right.
I'm not going to fix it because I'm having trouble with power.
Like I put the accelerator to the floor and it just doesn't move.
Right.
So I take it in there and I'm like yeah I'm not getting any boost.
And they're like OK and they call me back after a couple hours and they're like yeah
it's the turbo boost.
You're going to need to replace that.
It'll be three thousand dollars thirty nine hundred.
Oh really.
Thirty nine hundred dollars.
And I'm like yeah I'm not going to fix it.
So there we go.
I'm cemented in my mind.
I'm not going to fix it.
So it's time to get rid of it.
Right.
So but I you know I'm an engineered heart.
I am an engineer.
Right.
I'm not trying to tap credentials but a train.
Yeah.
So anyway I get on YouTube.
Thank God for YouTube.
Right.
How many times YouTube saved our asses.
And I watch a three minute video that talks about TDI.
Missionary.
Oh no no.
Three minute video that talks about here's what here's possible reasons for why you're
not getting power for your your diesel jetta.
Right.
And so I go out to the car pop the hood poke around for literally less than 30 seconds
and find a broken hose.
Really.
I found a broken hose and they want to replace the whole thing.
Thirty nine hundred dollars to replace my turbo booster.
I found a broken hose in less than 30 seconds.
What does that tell you.
Now to be fair.
I went bad that time.
I was the first I read that is the first.
Anyway so I I bought some tubes.
Right.
I did some research.
I went to the TDI forums.
I mean it's amazing.
You will find no endless endless information if you really want to dig into it.
Right.
If you're if you're committed and they were like these are the tubes you have to buy.
I go to Amazon.
I buy eleven dollars worth of five foot tubes.
It's supposed to arrive tomorrow.
I'm going to cut a little piece off.
I'm going to connect it to that little section that was broken.
And if that thing works like a charm and the check engine light comes off.
This is a absolute certified fraud.
The dealership will you go back up there.
I'm going I'm going to as high as I can at that dealership and I'm going to say this
is what happened.
You guys are full of shit and get this today.
I get a random call from that dealership.
Yeah.
So I just wanted to call.
I'm Bob from the sales department at this VW place.
You know I think it might be time for you to trade in your car and get a new VW.
Really.
I'm like so.
So the service guy tells the sales guy.
Yeah we just screwed this guy over.
He's not going to pay the thirty nine hundred dollars to fix his car.
He's probably going to get rid of it.
This now is the time to strike a guarantee.
I guarantee unbelievable.
It's unbelievable.
It's a frickin racket.
Anyway.
So if that hose works I am unleashing I'm unleashing hell.
I'm excited.
I can't wait.
And then you got to fix the brakes.
Can you record it.
Get this brakes.
Same problem.
Leaking hose.
Yes.
Same problem.
The way the diesels work is they have an entire system of vacuum hoses like all throughout
all throughout the car.
And if you break the vacuum anywhere in there.
Yeah.
There's a one that goes to the vacuum boost of the brakes.
And I'm like that's when I was doing research right.
I was watching YouTube videos.
Fix your brakes.
My eleven dollar hose could fix everything.
Quite the savings.
I could drive it for another hundred thousand miles.
I almost want to go up there with you and just watch.
Yeah.
Well I want to carry a bat.
I'm not going to do it in person.
I'm too I'm too chicken shit.
I'll send an email.
You don't really want to bring it up there.
I might text him.
I would totally bring up there.
Fine.
Are you the sales guy.
I'll snap to gram them.
Hey you know what.
I'll snap to gram them.
Yeah.
I will I will put on my kilt and we'll go we'll go up there.
That's crazy right.
That is that is that is proven fraud.
It took me 30 seconds to find the broken hose.
Yeah.
I was literally going.
So what am I.
I was like I was like tracing my fingers and I was like OK well this one should go to this
and then I lifted it up and I was like.
Well one of my neighbors.
This one's not connected to anything.
When he when he takes his car up there to do routine maintenance there were part of the
scheduled maintenance is to rotate the tires and he always marks the tires.
I think I mentioned that before.
Is this out of dealership or like just actually I don't even know.
It's it's at a place that services for his stuff on a regular basis.
So they've got to be some sort of reputable place.
Right.
And it doesn't really matter if it's dealership or whether it's Firestone or or Michelin or
whatever.
They're all they're all.
Yeah.
And he says he he labels them and he says nine times out of 10 they don't do it.
They say hey rotate your tires.
Yeah.
Does he call him on it.
Absolutely.
And when they say response he's like he's like I took chalk and I marked or marked on
my tires.
Yeah.
Full of shit.
Yeah basically.
I mean I haven't been there or he had discussed how he handles it but he's he's a very matter
of a fact type of person.
I love it.
And he just says you know like I said I don't know but he called him out on it.
He made him fix it.
But just just like what the hell.
See I it's little shit like that.
It's just like look if you're going to miss the little things you're going to miss the
big things.
Oh yeah.
And it's just like where does it.
Where does it be.
You know it.
Unfortunately it's probably with a lot of stuff.
You know what are there.
What percentage would you guys throw out there that that auto mechanics are dishonest.
What percentage.
Oh I bet most of them are.
I'm going to go 70 plus.
Yeah I bet it's a lot.
I would bet with 100 percent.
Wow.
That's harsh.
There's got to be one out there.
No that's not.
I don't.
And look just because I said 100 percent of them are full of shit sometimes is what I'm
going to say.
Oh I got you.
I'm not saying 100 percent of them.
So there's never been an auto mechanic place that has been honest 100 percent of the time.
Yeah I mean they're I mean those guys come in and part of their job is to upgrade and
upsell.
So you know that's why they ask you.
Yeah your filter look a little dirty.
You want me to change that.
Dude shut the fuck up.
Are they French or drunk.
Frank Harry.
Harry.
No but the point is they always ask to do the stupid frivolous shit.
You're kind of like dude just fix the fucking car.
Shut the fuck.
Yeah.
When you take them to these oil places they're like I could change your windshield wipers
and your air filter and it's you know the air filter is like 60 bucks.
Oh yeah.
No it's like going to Autozone for 10 bucks and do it yourself.
And 699 at Wal-Mart.
Yeah and the windshield wipers.
Yeah there'll be thirty five dollars to replace those for you.
No I can do it myself.
Thanks.
You know what.
There are some people where that's that's convenience.
No sure.
Right.
Like the little old lady down the street who has no idea what's going on.
I mean if I was old I had arthritis I couldn't do it.
Right.
All right go do it.
OK.
There you go.
But I mean still that's just yeah that's I mean they're upselling like you said Sean.
Anyway I wanted to share that little story because I'll tell you what I will report back
next week and tell you if my little hose that I get tomorrow fixes my problem.
Your little hose.
My little well my big hose.
Oh what just happened.
Well I mean I felt challenged.
OK anyway moving on.
Well that is true.
What other kinds of businesses out there do you feel comfortable with.
I mean when you go to the doctor they pretty much tell you what's going on.
The only thing about the doctor I don't like which is kind of similar is the fact that
you go in there.
By the way I'm scheduled next week to get the shipping out of me.
Well well well.
The full oil and lube.
So but the thing I don't like about going to the doctors and this is that I know is
because I've had I had not have I have not had insurance for large chunks of my life.
Right.
I don't have cash for it.
And normally they say all right look you've got this element we're going to do test one
two three.
Right.
And I'm like I don't have insurance.
And they're like let's do test two.
Oh meaning and you trust that test two was all really what you needed.
Well I mean they're like one in three.
One is only three in there because they're fucking the insurance companies over.
Yes.
But I mean is there a chance that test one and three.
Is there a chance those were needed.
Why do you rule them out.
Maybe.
Why do you think medical costs are as high as they are.
Because the same thing companies there is a racket going on.
Yeah.
Everybody wins.
Yeah it is.
Except the patient.
Well the dude man.
We're the ones lose a big time.
All that money all that money.
Who's making the money on the interest of that.
So I mean it's just it's absolutely ridiculous.
I mean Jeff was telling me about how much he pays.
I am astounded.
I have I have I have nothing.
I I'm beyond.
I am just blown away on how much you I don't know how much you pay.
What is your deductible.
My deductible.
I have a high deductible.
I have.
Yeah.
That's what most of what is yours.
That's what most of the more now are there.
Mine's eight hundred and seventy seven thousand dollars.
No really.
My deductible.
It is.
And it's only three months that it resets.
Damn we almost got there honey.
It's got I need to look is new now.
But I mean it's not a typical for it to be like what is it three thousand five thousand
twenty ten thousand twenty five hundred dollar.
Per family member.
Oh my God.
Her family member.
I'm tired.
Per family member.
Sure.
Jeff's is like five grand.
OK.
Her family member.
I mean well and then you probably pay a very low premium.
No.
OK.
Well you have bad insurance.
Well it is what it is.
It's either that or I don't have anything.
If I go outside and it's gonna be more.
Right.
No I hear you.
You could go to Obamacare.
No.
And then but the thing the thing is is the employer is paying most of your pay.
They are.
A lot of people don't know that.
They don't appreciate that.
So your employer is paying most of the premium.
For sure.
I'm paying.
So four hundred bucks a check.
No way.
I can't remember.
It can't be that high.
It could be a month.
OK.
But then the employer is paying like double that.
Right.
Oh yeah.
Or if not more.
Yeah if not more.
Yeah if not more than that.
So if you go if you drop that and you go outside your insurance is going to be shit or you're
going to be paying a lot of money for it.
Yeah a lot of people just don't appreciate how much their employer pays.
So I've got to I've got to get that into your summary as well.
Yes they do.
I got to get dialed in on some of the realities of of what these costs are and and start figuring
out you know what are my options.
Because what you work for a good company.
I think they have pretty good insurance.
They do.
They they absolutely do.
It's just that when you're used to not paying it and I get it.
You know you're going to big risk risk.
I am.
I'm at a point where you know life is life is going to change.
I mean there are people left and right of me that are getting cancer and as as some
of these cancers are you can champion and get past.
But it requires active health care.
You know you can't walk in there without insurance and expect to them to work on your cancer.
Unless your name is your last name is Martinez.
You know just saying you literally walked across the border days ago.
Yeah I mean I could say that.
Yeah.
Well fuck yeah.
Walk to say I just walked across.
I'm from Ireland.
Oh well here's a cell phone.
Here's here's a visa card.
If you're in New York you get 15 grand.
Yeah.
Wow.
What a hell of a deal.
It is bullshit.
What do they get in in Washington D.C. where Abbott is dropping these guys off.
How many how many how many is he done.
Four or five buses now.
Yeah but they're not full buses.
Yeah they are.
Now one had 10 people on it.
Damn it.
What the hell.
What's the sense in that.
It has to be by volunteer.
They're wasting a lot of money.
That's a lot of gas was one of the comments.
Why are you spending money to ship 10 people cross country on a bus.
Because you know what I think it's money.
He's making a point.
Oh it is.
I mean think about 10 people process them.
How much would that cost.
A million dollars per immigrant.
He needs to send them to Martha's Vineyard and see and Pelosi's house.
Well they'll just move them to downtown San Francisco.
Yeah no shit where the rest of them are.
So yeah I mean it's all good.
And you know DeSantis has come out and says don't come down here.
Yeah right.
We're not a destination for you.
You know and what sucks and we talked about this before but what sucks about it is these
people are pawns in a very ugly game.
They are.
I mean they are families with young children and they and they are escaping you know a
very hopeless situation.
Yeah.
I have no problem with that.
They're not evil people right.
They're not evil people that are trying to exploit the system.
They're just trying to get to America because their situation sucks ass.
But they you know what.
I don't disagree with that.
All right.
Well I don't I don't agree.
I don't think they're evil is my point.
But yes I think that you know they're just trying to get a better life but their life
isn't that bad where they're from.
I mean this isn't like you know coming from a communist country right.
You know they can make it.
I hear you and I'm going to add one to that.
Not only not only may it may not be that bad but they know that that's not the right way
to do it.
Yes.
And so they're making a conscious decision to illegally cross that border because Joe
Biden has basically said come correct.
Yeah correct.
They do this.
I mean but but their decision tried.
Yeah but they're they made a decision.
This is not what is abducted from their village.
What is that forty two.
What is the the title of forty two.
What is that was the covid vaccine where the border title forty two was title forty two
turn away hordes of people because of covid.
So now that that has ended what does that mean.
It has not ended.
They're considering to end it.
So basically when it does what's going to happen is that going to be an influx.
They're saying that there are people that are milling around hundreds of thousands
of people and milling around on the border waiting for that policy to end.
But there's already up to eight there's already.
It's gonna be more even more like literally hundreds of thousands milling
around the border.
And they're saying the port port of entries are going to be swarmed and that the border
patrol are recommending local law enforcement to have riot gear.
They think they're just going to storm the border patrol is recommending that.
Are they going to storm the border.
Yeah man hundreds of thousands of people.
What are you going to do.
What you can't you can't do anything.
Shoot them.
Yeah I mean yeah but that's not going to do it.
More bullets yeah but look it's here gas salt instead of instead of putting them on buses
and sending them to D.C. we need to put them on buses and send them back to their own country.
That's what we're doing.
Reagan did that as well.
Trump was doing that he was sending them back to the country of origin and telling those
country and the leaders of those countries solve your problem.
That's exactly what needs to happen.
And Kamala Harris goes down and says here we'll just give you a bunch of money.
Right.
And all that money just disappears and it doesn't fix the problem.
No and you know what and we've talked about it before.
I I think their their goal isn't really to solve this problem to change the electorate
is to change the electorate.
Yeah.
100 percent.
Let's jump ship here for a second.
Can I go back to I want I have one more complaint about the doctors thing.
Oh yeah let's go.
Yeah yeah.
So it drives me crazy.
Let's suppose you've been a patient of a doctor's office for so regular 15 years.
Oh 15 years.
You walk in no you're ready for that finger swish.
Absolutely.
And you get the same prescription for either 15 years heart thyroid mental you know whatever
like antidepressant whatever it is you've got the same f in prescription and then you
call me like yeah I need a refill.
We're going to we're going to need to see you.
We want that.
We're going to see you it's going to be 90 dollars to see you to refill that for you.
It's total crap and they see you for what 40 seconds.
Correct.
Usually not even.
Have you ever said anything.
I don't really take any drugs so it really doesn't apply to me.
I haven't had the opportunity to I don't say drugs but medication to have that conversation
with them because whenever I go in I'm either sick or I'm getting my yearly what is the
frequency in which you're I mean what this is a monthly deal or it could be well it's
usually three months.
Right.
I mean that's why you try to encourage your doctors.
Listen I'm on this medication.
I'm going to take it forever.
Give me a six month.
Give me a six month supply.
But you made the statement.
Yeah we want to see you in a month.
OK.
So it's every 30 it's every 30 days.
Yeah.
90 dollars every every month.
Yeah.
Now for the same prescription for 10 years.
And here's how I know it's bullshit because I don't have insurance.
Right.
They give me like four or five months six months they give me months and refills on
top of that total.
So I go there and they fill up a huge vial that's probably it's got 60 pills that's worth
of it's like two months worth and then three refills two or three refills.
So that's six months.
Right.
Yeah.
I can share a personal heartbreaking story.
I wear hearing aids every once in a while I start to get an ear infection because my
hearing aids are trapping moisture.
Right.
Do you have one of your dogs.
Heartbreaking story heartbreaking story.
Right.
And so what do I do.
I feel it coming on.
So I have something called separate decks.
They're ear drops.
I have it on hand so that I know it's coming.
I do a couple of drops couple of drops couple of drops.
Boom.
I had it off before it even starts.
I've been wearing hearing aids since I was fricking seven years old.
Right.
And I tell the doctor hey I need a I need another you know I need a refill so that I
can have it on hand for these ear infections.
Yeah we're going to need to see you.
Come on in.
We don't need to see you.
You ask why.
Well I mean you're talking to the person up front.
Well ask them.
Why do you need to see me.
Right.
I've had I've gotten this refill.
I know it.
A hundred times.
I tell you it makes my blood boil.
It does.
So I have a feeling I'm going to have to get on to blood pressure medicine and I'm going
to you know I understand that they're going to want to test and test and test probably
initially initially.
And that's fine.
I'm on this for five years.
Right.
Same dose.
Why do you need to test me again.
Yeah.
Give me give me a 50 year prescription.
Yeah.
I mean if you've been using these ear drops since you were who knows how long.
Absolutely.
Oh it's been 20 20 plus years.
Doc I've been taking for 20 years.
Why do you need to see me.
Right.
And and I have it before like if I were to go in right now they'd be like yeah I mean
I see a little bit of see a little bit of redness but I mean it's not it's definitely
not infected and then I'm going to have to convince them.
Yeah.
It's going to turn into an ear infection.
Well I'll tell you what if it does come back.
No I want to head a lot before it turns right.
You want it.
I mean I'm telling you I get so crazy mad.
It's like fucking car dealerships.
Yeah.
Right.
I think I think if I ever get on to a medication I'm sure I will at some point.
I think that's a bad thing to say.
Hopefully you don't ever have to be.
I mean yeah we're getting older and I'm going to have that conversation and say why do you
need to see me every month three months for this prescription that never changes.
Yeah.
I know every once in a while you'll find a doctor that I come in once a year.
Yeah.
Let's revisit it then.
Yep.
If you've had a life so my I had a doctor that I had for 15 years and he was awesome
and he retired and he was the guy that he could be.
I could just call him say it was probably old school.
Yes.
Need another prescription and he'd be like I hook you up.
I got your back.
Right.
But nowadays you're like oh yeah we're hurting for money so come on in.
Anyway quick hundred bucks quick.
You see him for 15 seconds and it's a hundred bucks.
Right.
Anyway.
All right.
So I want to talk about some craziness that happened that's happening in the news.
I want to talk about Johnny Depp.
Are we going to talk about new news more news.
I want to talk about Johnny Depp.
All right.
Well and that crazy and all the accessories that he wears.
Well he is well accessorized.
So first off.
OK.
So first off this is.
Hold on.
Let me put on my 50 bracelets.
Right.
Necklaces.
So he is.
I'm an eyeliner.
He is suing his ex-wife and rightfully so.
For defamation.
I don't disagree for defamation.
Why.
Why is it live streamed.
It was on court TV.
Yeah.
Why.
Did they.
Do they agree to that.
Did Johnny Depp and Amber Heard agree to that.
Do they have the option.
I don't know.
I found that strange.
Well let me put it this way.
I don't think he would want this air.
Exactly.
Like if you were going through a an ugly deformation where you're you're bringing up the worst
of your marriage where you were fighting and saying this horrible things to each other
and things you're not proud of and she's not proud of.
Why would you want the whole world to know about that.
And would you have the option.
Well the Cal right now has an option.
Yeah.
I know Jay Simpson has an option.
I think Kevin Spacey has an option.
Now this is a civil case.
You know what.
That's a good point.
Maybe.
Maybe they literally don't have an option.
Well regardless the reason why they put it on the news is because Johnny Depp is well
known and it's going to get some it's going to get some clicks.
You know people are going to they're going to want to know what's going on.
You know Johnny Depp.
I mean is he a good guy.
Is he a bad guy.
It sounds to me like he's very passive.
He sounds to me like he's a pussy.
Well I know for years there was he had a bad rap.
He was beating her up.
Oh there you go.
There was out there because I was like he's a piece of shit beating up his wife.
That's exactly why he's suing.
Right.
And now it's coming out that she was the aggression.
She was the psycho.
Yeah.
And cut his finger off.
Turns out that she took a dump on her their bed.
Did you hear that.
That came up in trial.
I didn't watch it.
Yeah.
I've just been reading some headlines.
OK so what she she she they're going back and forth through arguments.
OK.
This is right when they were about to get the divorce.
Did she do the walkie in traffic cone.
I'm not sure.
But sorry.
Can we take a pause.
The what Slovakian tractor cone traffic cone.
Yeah.
OK.
I don't know.
I think Mr. Producer have to pull up the description.
No no no.
We don't see a picture.
There's no picture.
I would I would actually like you to describe what a Slovakian traffic needs to read the
description.
Mr. Producer could you please pull up Slovakian traffic.
Amber heard did a Slovakian traffic cone on depth head.
Well she.
And he said I said sit on my face.
I'm waiting for a pull up the lock in trouble.
He responded to my joke.
Urban dictionary right there.
Did you guys even hear my joke.
Yes.
I don't have time to think about that right now.
The active aggressively forcefully go down.
This is the next one.
Traffic cone going down.
Keep going.
Right.
Slovakian traffic.
Oh well read that.
No no no no no no.
First of all Jeff Jones tell us.
This is something you know.
Tell us what you heard about this.
Yes.
I saw it on a meme.
Oh did you.
Did you.
I saw this exact thing right here on a me.
OK.
Since you advocate for this go ahead and read it.
Well this is something that I don't know if this is what happened during the journey.
I saw but that's OK.
Yeah I think we should.
The Slovakian traffic cone is the act of stuffing the small end of a regulation orange traffic
cone into the anus of your sexual partner and the jizzing puking pissing and shitting
into the traffic cone.
Then you take a plunger and force the concoction through the traffic cone and into the girls'
intestines.
She then takes a large dose of laxatives and shits out the concoction under your chest
while wearing the traffic cone as a hat.
OK.
You know what I was thinking it was total bullshit.
I believe it's real.
I think this is something a lot of couples do.
So do they clean the traffic home before they wear it as a hat.
I don't think it matters.
You know what.
OK.
That's a good point.
So I'm done.
There is.
Well.
And I thank you for bringing that up.
Jeff.
I'm even more disturbed on why you know that.
I always wondered why he had a traffic cone in his garage.
Right.
Multiple.
But it's going to be regulation.
And why was Brown regulation.
It's going to be regular.
It can't be one of the really tall ones.
I guess.
Oh, I see.
So during the trial, he said she gave me a Slovakian traffic cone.
So what happened is they had my god called the police.
They had got they were she was going to they were going out to dinner and Johnny Depp said
I can't make it.
OK.
So I'm sorry.
I know it's your birthday.
I'm sorry.
He was too.
I'm going to be late.
He was two hours late.
So something that happened and she was you know she said, well, I'm going to get you
back.
I don't remember exactly what it was.
And I'm kind of missing a bunch of chunks here.
Long story short, he was out of town for an extended period and she had there's a maid
that takes care of the house.
No.
The man obviously he's telling this this story.
The maid had called him and said there's a there's there's there's human shit in the
middle of your bed.
There's a duty.
Yeah.
And he says like he's a do you think it's maybe the the animals and he's Lithuanian.
Yeah.
No, he's Scandinavian.
Oh, OK.
Or Slovakian.
Was it Kosovo?
Yeah.
Well, you know, he's so anyways, that's he he says he says, are you sure?
He's just like, she's like, well, I'm not going to test it, but she's like, I it's because
the he had confronted the wife and the wife was like, no, the wife's sister.
I didn't do that.
There's got to be the dog.
And the maid was like, no, I clean the dog shit up all the time.
That is not the dog.
She testified.
I don't know the details about that, but that are those are the details that took a
shit in the middle of their bed.
And that's when Johnny Depp was like, all right, this is over and I am never going back.
And then she said, I'm going to kill myself.
I'm going to kill myself.
And we're screaming at the top of her lungs at three in the morning outside of where he
was outside of the home and saying, if you leave me, I'll kill myself.
And so he went back to her.
No, he went back to her.
He was terrified that she would do it.
What a mess.
Why would anybody want this stuff aired in public?
I don't know, man.
I don't know how you could sit there and drop a deuce like that in someone's bed and not
be held accountable for it.
I mean, well, hold on.
Some couples are into that.
No, I'm just saying if it's a Slovakian.
I'm thinking one out of a million.
I'm thinking even less than that.
Yeah, no, it's definitely less than that.
It's just, you know, and it's just their personal life.
And I don't want to bring it.
It's fucked up.
Everyone has everyone's fucked up.
You know, and that's what I was going to ask.
So how many marriages do you think have this kind of vicious, vindictive shit going on?
Man, I hope it's not a lot because that's that's sad.
You know, there's one thing about having bad marriages where you like you don't talk to
each other, you don't hang out, you don't do whatever.
But like the addictive stuff like that.
These guys have money.
So there's got to be some sort of codependency.
She's an actor.
They both do.
She's an actress as well.
Not I don't think he's my point.
She's not an unknown actor.
Is there got to be there's got to be some codependency on some mental level where they're
both dependent on each other too much to let go.
And just like you said, he he he sacrificed himself and went back to her.
Man.
Yeah.
And then she slandered him.
And that's what he said.
He was like, I was meant I was mentally abused.
Right.
I'm under attack.
She made me feel small and worthless.
And you're thinking to yourself, you're Johnny Depp.
Like you're worth it.
Doesn't matter.
Yeah, I know exactly that.
That was my point I was going to make.
He's worth a half a billion dollars.
Not anymore.
He's almost bankrupt.
What I understand from all those.
What the fuck?
Although he was in the Caribbean movies.
He burned through all that.
He doing what?
Right, the lavish lifestyle from what I read.
Wow.
He spent basically all of it.
Wow.
So he's now bankrupt.
I don't know if he's bankrupt, but he doesn't have hundreds of millions of dollars that
he used to.
I'm sure he's not poor, but he doesn't have half a billion dollars that he should.
Wow.
He's got a fraction of that.
But he could make that in like that.
Probably.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, he just has to get mentally right.
Has he worked in a while?
I haven't seen him in a while.
Because they kicked him off.
They kicked him off of that Harry Potter movie because of this whole thing.
Oh, the fantastical beast.
Yeah, because he was the bad guy and they didn't renew him for this last one because
he got slandered.
Too much drama.
Johnny Depp, Net Worth.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
Because you were beating up your wife.
Yeah, because he's a domestic abuser.
Correct.
Which is why he's trying to clear his name.
According to sites like Celebrity Net Worth, Johnny Depp's Net Worth in 2022 is $150 million
despite having squandered the aforementioned $650 million over 13 years, largely because
the actor charges $20 million a movie.
Yeah, see, he's not hurting, but he doesn't.
He should have a billion dollars by now.
Okay.
So if somebody.
He's not hurting.
He's like Brewster's millions, right?
If somebody says to you, you have $650 million to squander.
Can you do it?
What's your strategy, Jeff?
What's your strategy?
How are you going to blow $650 million?
By a big yacht.
Like, okay, that's there's a hundred million of it.
It's more than that.
Yeah, you could buy more than a yacht.
You could buy a cruise line.
You have an asset and then you sell it to a Russian oligarch.
You donate it to charity then.
Real easy.
I'm going to donate it to my favorite charity, $650 million.
But you see my point.
How do you.
Oh, I know.
Well, he was buying.
What do you have to do to get rid of, to burn through $650 million?
Well, isn't there some sort of natural element that you can buy that's like a trillion dollars
per.
Yes, it's strong.
Trillion ounce.
Yeah, there's some sort of.
Well, whatever.
You're asking how to get rid of money?
Give me strong to you.
We could find out.
I could buy.
You could buy Twitter.
What if I bought non fungible tokens?
That's $650 million worth of non fungible tokens.
Wouldn't buy Twitter.
You see, you see Elon Musk is only offering 15 billion of his only of his 360 billion.
Well, he doesn't have that.
That's what his stocks are worth.
Right.
He doesn't have 350 billion, but his stock holdings are worth that.
Just like Bezos.
He doesn't have.
Well, it's other people's money.
So it's how much he has in cash.
Like if you if you were to log on to Wells Fargo, see note.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
As Elon Musk.
Well, Wells Fargo like click.
I'm sure I'm sure.
I'm a smart guy.
Look at your accounts and then look at the checking account.
I am sure.
What was his checking account?
His assets are just a bit.
But that's the thing when you see these the richest person in the world.
$80 billion and 300 billion.
He doesn't have 300 billion dollars.
He'd have to sell all of his stock and everything in order to get that in the process of doing
that.
He would lower everything.
And I don't know if you could sell 100 percent of your stock at one time.
No, no, sure.
Right.
No.
Why not?
Well, I don't think the SEC allows you to do that.
If there's not a buyer for it, the stock plummets and you don't want that.
Yeah.
So you have to like.
So he's worth that.
He doesn't have that.
Right.
It's potential.
So that's what they were saying.
I mean, he doesn't have the 54 billion to pay for Twitter.
Easy.
No, he does.
But I don't think he he can do that without SEC problems because he's he's leveraging
his Tesla stock to get the 15 billion.
But is he?
Yes.
Do we know that for a fact?
Yes.
That's what the news article said today.
Well, I still don't think do we know that for a fact, though?
I mean, doesn't he have like assets other places?
I mean, if I were the so he's leveraging SpaceX and Tesla to do this.
His stake in that.
Well, he also has that cow methane, but mask company.
Yes, yes, yes.
Well, regardless, he bought he bought 10 percent of of Twitter and no, he had nine point two.
Did you see Vanguard was like, you're not going to be the biggest.
So they had to buy it.
Never hold on.
Vanguard can't Vanguard countered.
Yeah, no, they they they bought their share.
They have their share so they could be the major stockholder.
Yeah.
The biggest they so they cock blocked him.
No, Elon must have has nine point two.
I know, but he's not the biggest shareholder anymore.
I know, but Vanguard deliberately bought more to cock block him.
Why?
It doesn't.
You know what?
That smells up to me.
You remember when when Robin Hood stopped trading GameStop?
It smells to me.
Vanguard is an institution.
They're they're not they're not an individual investor.
They're they're an institution.
Yeah.
My dad, my dad has a lot of his his retirement in Vanguard.
Yeah.
And my dad was like, why the fuck are they buying there?
Yes, that's that.
Why are they taking my money and putting it over there?
That stinks.
Yeah, something's going on there.
And did you see what the Santas said today?
He said that the retirement fund for Florida government employees includes Twitter stock
as part of the makeup.
Get rid of it.
So no, he's like, so if it's doing well right now, actually.
So if the Twitter board does not approve this sale, we will sue them for fiduciary mistrust
or whatever you call it.
Absolutely.
Because it's in the best interest of Twitter.
No, no.
It's in the best interest of the stockholders, shareholders, shareholders.
The only reason why the board exists, the only reason why these public companies exist
is to make it attract, maximize the investment in value of the shareholders.
But regardless, what happens, who's the former CEO?
Jack Dorsey.
He came out and completely trashed the board and said it's an activist board.
Yeah.
They say he said they're not looking out for the shareholders.
And that is their sole goal.
That's the sole purpose of being.
Yeah.
Well, the bottom line is Elon has achieved his goal.
And he's thrown a wrench into the whole system.
And he's basically fucked Twitter.
And you know what?
This may be his goal, maybe not necessarily to buy it.
He probably, if it ended up that way, OK, let's do it.
But I think he's trying to force the board's hand.
Yes.
And force them to.
They're still playing field with what their product is.
And they're going to get their ass sued.
No, to do their job, which is again, maximize the value of the stock for the shareholders.
Did you hear what Mark Cuban said?
No.
He chimed in.
Yeah.
What did he say?
He chimed in and said that Elon Musk is playing with fire with the SEC, meaning he's like
doing inappropriate shit to drive up the stock, drive down the stock, whatever.
If you do artificial shit just to manipulate the price of the stock, up or down, in this
case up, because he made a lot of money right after he bought.
No, if he sold it, he would have.
Well, but on paper, right?
On paper.
So he.
Well, it came back down.
Did it?
It went up 27%.
What are you talking about?
Twitter stock?
Twitter stock, what, 48, 49, I don't know what it was before.
It went up 20 points.
It was around 28 points.
So it's still up.
Oh, really?
It's still up big.
All right.
And that's what Mark Cuban is saying.
He's like, he's just jacking with the stock.
With the stocks.
But look, after Trump got thrown, blocked, cock blocked, thrown out of there, Twitter
stock has been dwindling.
It's been going down, down.
If you look at the five year rates and see it's going down, down, it's going down all
the way down to 28.
So Musk did him a favor by bringing the rate back up.
And he offered him like 53 or 54.
And all you got to do is be fair.
Right.
And then they put in, what's their response?
Instead of like, oh yeah, that's great for our shareholders, they put in a poison pill.
Yeah, but I don't get the poison pill.
What is the poison pill going to be able to do?
So the poison pill is like, they say if you take over a company, it's like you become
the majority stakeholder and you do this and this and this, you have to pay, poison pills
can be different, but you have to pay every employee 10 times their salary.
It's like, you know what I mean?
You have to make it so it's financially unattractive to purchase the company because if you do,
that poison pill kicks in and it makes it not feasible.
So that poison pill would have had to preexisted prior to him.
No, they threw it in like this week, last week.
How can they do that legally?
Because the board can just vote on if there's any hostile takeover, this is in effect.
And I don't even think it's the board.
The board has to approve it.
But I think it's the executive team.
I don't know.
I think they're shooting themselves in the foot because here's the thing.
At this point, he can sell.
People are buying the stocks right now.
So he can sell his, even if he sells 5 billion of it, he's going to make all his money back.
Think about that.
Yeah.
Oh, and more and way more.
He could still have $4 billion in stock and sell half essentially and make his full money
back by the stock, the prices going up as much as they did.
I think he spent what, 2.8 billion for his 9% or whatever it was.
I thought it was more, but I'm getting confused now.
I thought it was like 8.8.
I thought it was over 8 billion.
No, it wasn't that much.
It was less than 3 billion, I think.
But the poison pill is a defensive strategy used to prevent or discourage potential hostile
takeover.
And it's to make them look less attractive, kind of like what Paul said.
So it kind of institutes some things that says, well, maybe I shouldn't do this because
it's going to cost me more than I thought, kind of a scenario.
And also it says poison pills allow existing shareholders the right to purchase additional
shares at a discount, effectively diluting the ownership interest of a new hostile party.
So, yeah, so Twitter, you know, I think it's got a long way to go.
So it's up to $54 a share right now.
Oh, is that high?
Yeah.
Well, that was two days ago.
I don't know what he bought it for.
I thought it was about 9 percent, but I thought it was for a little bit more.
It really doesn't matter at this point.
Like a scroll do have a five.
Do a year to date.
One month was right there on April, beginning of April.
Yeah, look at that.
Do it.
Do a year.
The next one.
Yeah.
All right.
So I was wrong on what I was saying earlier.
See, it was a dip when Trump was in office.
It went up while he was in office, because they and then it dipped when he probably got
booted.
You can see that dip right there.
I don't know when he got booted.
It was right there at the end.
And then it's gone way up since 2020.
Well, it was almost as high as 74 bucks.
Yeah.
Wow.
Well, whatever the end game for this, the Elon Musk for which is reputable.
You know, it's not like he's doing this to crash a company.
He's doing this so that they can, you know, they can play fair.
Correct.
You know, it's not like, you know, it's just cockblocking Trump or who cares?
I mean, Trump's obnoxious, but you know, his tweets are funny.
I mean, it can't be any worse than Joe Biden's gaffes that he does on all the news.
You know, even this past weekend with the Easter program where he there, the kids are
rolling the Easter eggs down the hill and you've got that bunny rabbit.
Well, you got Joe Biden that's kind of walking around and he bumps into the front line of
a bunch of reporters on Easter day.
And they start asking about Afghanistan and some tough questions.
And all of a sudden, this fucking rabbit comes out of nowhere and re re directs the president
and to the point where they're like moving the flash in the hands and then doing eight
over here, over here, over here.
And you see the look that they were that Biden gave the rabbit.
Was it like a nasty look?
It was like I'm going to it was like the death angels were coming to to kill him.
He didn't realize that bunny was there.
And he I don't even know if he realized the bunny.
There was a bunny.
You know, there's a look that Biden had look on his face like he thought he was going to
die.
Because the bunny came out of nowhere.
You should see the look on his on his face.
He was like startled for a second.
He looks like a confused old man because at first he said, get back is what he said.
I wonder who's actually in that.
I wonder if it's like a staffer.
It's definitely a staffer staff.
Well, that's what they had said, who said that to he's like, I just go and kind of walk
around and be close.
And if you hear if he gets close to the reporters, redirect reporters and guests at the cheerful
holiday event when he began discussing Afghanistan.
But Megan Hayes, a White House press official, no, no, leave this on.
I'm sorry.
What it asked as the Easter bunny.
Megan Hayes interrupted him and Megan Hayes was in a desperate bid to avoid another gaffe.
Well, you know what?
I think I think over the last two to three months, his mental acuity has gone way down.
Yeah, it's kind of sad.
I don't know what's happened, but it's it's gotten worse.
I mean, it was bad before, but it was worse.
It's worse now.
So I think I think Joe Biden, you know, we just talked about the the Easter bunny scenario.
Yeah, the Easter bunny directs Joe and blocks questions from so they know who was in the
Easter bunny.
You guys know that, right?
Yes.
Who is Megan Hayes?
Oh, just an aide.
Just a staffer.
Yeah, she's a White House aid.
So they basically told her follow him around.
And if he gets into any conversations that are dangerous, you know, because we redirect
him.
Oh, I'm pretty aggressive.
Redirect.
Don't you think?
Oh, dude, she her hands are flailing.
Oh, my God.
I thought she was going to pull like a she's like, no, no, no, easy, easy with the microphone
over there.
I thought it might have been a rotator cuff tear.
Oh, I haven't seen the video.
Oh, yeah.
There's another footage like, oh, his face.
Yeah, there's a camera from the other direction because I think when she first pulls up, he's
kind of like he says, get back because I think he's scared.
He didn't realize that that was an actual person in the outfit.
That's not the real Easter bunny.
Come on.
You see him stumbling around.
What I don't understand you see is so obvious.
Are these people just excited to see the president?
Is elderly or is it Joe Biden?
Because I don't know how you could be excited to see Joe Biden.
No, it's the president.
If I ran into Joe Biden, I'd shake his hand and say whatever.
Right.
I wouldn't respect.
I'd punch him in the mouth.
But oh, wow.
Would I wouldn't be excited?
I wouldn't be smiling.
Yeah.
I'd be like, OK, no, I would say, look, I'm extremely disappointed.
Oh, yeah.
Two things.
One is I'm in Washington, I'm in Washington, D.C.
I'm at the White House.
This is a fun thing to be a part of.
Like how many times can you say you've been to the White House and seen the president?
That's part of it.
Second part of it, the brainwashed fucking libtards that think he is all there and they
watch CNN and they think he's doing a good job.
Well, we're going to be talking about libtards on the tick tock thing and the whole.
That's coming up on the second half.
It's it's it's April 20th, 420.
This Dudes Like Us is a great show.
I'm looking forward to the second half.
That's you.
I'm Paul.
I'm Jeff.
We are dudes like us.
Oh, dude, we're coming back with some old granddad.
Old granddad bottled it.
Yeah, but it's bottled it.
I was going to say it's not the homebrew.
Homebrewed homebrewed homebrewed.
No, you said no.
No.
All right, we're out.
Okay.