Somebody is living on the edge today.
Did you fart?
No, I'm just saying someone grabbed the reins and was like, man, this is happening.
And I don't care who it hurts.
I don't care if I have to leave Sean at his house.
I'm going to ride my motorcycle to the podcast.
You open with that, really?
I'm late to podcast.
I figured you guys were already setting up and over here.
Hold on, hold on.
This was qualified.
You were delayed.
You had mentioned message to us earlier.
That's right, I'm delayed.
Yeah.
I mean, no, this was sincerely a delayed.
And I did give you a head start on it.
Because you had dinner with your kids.
So I figured, you know.
And you got over here before seven o'clock.
Yeah, wasn't that bad.
It was about seven or six forty or so.
I was just kind of puzzled while you rode your motorcycle.
Because I thought you were already here.
Many other times I've wanted to ride it, but I'm like, I'm not putting Sean on the
podcast.
I'm not putting him on the podcast.
I'm not putting him on the podcast, but who normally rides home with you?
Who normally rides home with you?
Caressing your breast.
Yeah, and like sniffing my neck.
You've done that to him.
You know, I still have to get home, though.
Well, right.
Yeah.
Tell you what, why don't you jog by my bike?
Oh.
All right.
That's a process.
Welcome to the latest edition of Dudes Like Us.
We have a guest tonight.
It's our second show in August.
In August?
It is.
And our guest, we've been asking for the second week in a row.
Absolutely.
And he's like, oh my God.
You guys have been really busy, you know, but I'm back.
Yeah, you put it in the books.
I'm glad to be here.
Yeah.
And you guys.
Welcome, John.
Welcome to the podcast.
John's a dude like us.
Welcome.
I'm Sean.
I'm Paul.
And I'm Jeff.
And I'm John.
There you go.
There we go.
It's almost like a PBS thing.
John's got that soft voice.
Sweaty balls.
Sweaty balls, yes.
Who's that muffin top?
Oh, I like my muffin a little east.
Oh, I like my muffin a little yeasty.
I watched that recently.
It's really funny.
It's a great skit.
Well, what do we start off today?
When we start off with Paul, I'll tell you what, talk about your motorcycle.
You have a nice motorcycle.
I have never, I've always wanted a motorcycle, but I've always been discouraged to get one
just because of all the bullshit, the drama I have to deal with.
My family.
You don't need to be driving a motorcycle.
You're going to live by the van, by the river.
What are you going to do?
No, I just want to ride a motorcycle.
So I never got one.
I get it.
I got a lot of grief.
A lot of grief.
Do you still get a lot of grief?
I mean, for if it's...
Well, it's brand new.
Well, the people that know about it don't give me...
When you ride nude, that's when you get the grief.
No, actually, that's what they prefer.
Most of my neighborhood is like, why you have clothes on?
Come on.
Of course, they're screaming because the bike's really loud.
You got to break in that leather seat.
You got to get that natural juices in there.
Get the oils.
It's like a nice, oily catcher's mitt.
How did this go wrong so fast?
Needs to get the castorum.
Because you got a bike.
That's why.
Yeah.
Well, all fairness, it's a wonderful bike.
Yeah.
Did you say castorum?
Yes.
Is that a body oil that secretes from the scrotum?
What is the castorum?
That's beaver anus oil.
It's an anal gestation.
Well, that's what vanilla comes from.
Fake vanilla comes from.
Did you know that, Jon?
No one told me it was going to be this kind of conversation.
Come on, Jon.
Come on.
Well, you know me, which means you should have known that.
I told Jon it's a very therapeutic Dudes Like Us where we talk about dudes like us, things
growing up in life and doing dudes like stuff, which includes buying a motorcycle with your
midlife crisis.
Yes.
You know, you say that.
So I wanted a bike since I was in college.
It is a...
Let me put this out.
Absolutely.
It qualifies as a midlife crisis.
Well, then it would be like the third midlife crisis.
Now you're going to get like a convertible Corvette or something.
There's a bucket.
Because here's the thing.
Like my wife has always known I've wanted a bike, right?
So when I approached her about it, she was like, okay, as opposed to why do you want
a bike?
Are you going through a midlife crisis?
I mean, it's dangerous.
I mean, she gave me zero grief at all.
She goes...
I thought it was a Tundra that you wanted.
Exactly.
I didn't get the Tundra and instead I got the bike.
How did that happen?
What made you decide to do this?
Well, because they wanted to charge me.
Because you know how...
Yeah, you know right now how used car market is.
Oh no, the new car and used car, right?
And I was like, there was no way I was going to pay that kind of money.
There are a lot of factors.
Yeah.
Yes.
Kids in college, you got the kids wanting cars.
I mean, Brody's about to get a car.
He just got a car.
Reality is kind of so good.
Lydia had buyer's remorse before you even bought, I think.
I was a day and a half away from it being delivered and me buying it.
And I was like, I can't...
Every day it was gnawing at me when I thought about how much it was going to cost per month.
Right.
And I was like, I can't do that.
It's irresponsible.
Yeah.
Like with all the things you just said.
I still have a kid in college.
There's a lot going on.
I got one graduating high school here in the next year or so.
A lot of little parts.
I go, it's just irresponsible.
And what I do, I bought the same amount with the bike.
That's an expensive bike.
No, you did not.
Yeah.
Oh, of course not.
It's like a sixth of that cost.
Yeah.
And you got something that you enjoy and you're going to probably enjoy it more.
And, you know, the only crappy thing is that I probably won't be able to enjoy it with
you.
However, we could entertain purchasing one of those little side cars that will attach
to it.
This sounds pretty good.
I would love that.
Is that a thing?
A triple side car.
This is a thing.
A triple side car?
It could be one on each side, one on the back.
Yes.
That would be amazing.
So let me ask you, what kind of helmet do you have?
I have a full visored helmet.
So it's not one...
You want to know the brand name?
I think it's H. No, no, just a style.
Yeah, yeah.
Full helmet with a full visor.
I'm not doing the half helmet or open face.
Does it have one of those little Nazi spikes on the top of it?
It doesn't.
I didn't get all crazy.
I just bought a...
A swastika on the side.
A black.
Any graphics on it?
I haven't put anything on it.
I did buy a second visor that is tinted.
So I have a clear one that came with the helmet.
And then I have a tinted one for the morning bike rides that we go on.
So you know, so I don't...
So does it look like one of those plague eaters, the plague helmets that they used to wear?
Like the big bird beak and everything?
No, it was between that and the big one.
The plague, the guys that come in here and bury the bodies.
Yeah, they used to wear the big...
They had...
Looked like a bird head.
Yeah, it was kind of creepy.
What was the...
What's the story behind that outfit?
What movie was that?
It was a movie, right?
I mean...
No, that's a real...
That's the way they dressed during the Black Plague times.
That was an outfit.
That's right.
I saw that on PBS or something.
So that was like...
They were like respirators.
Yeah, well I don't know.
Like this long snouted anteater respirator.
Yeah, ringing around the rosy pocketful of posies, ashes, ashes will fall down.
Yeah, the plague.
That's what that's from, right?
Isn't that crazy how we did that as a kid and never knew what that was?
Yeah, it was right there.
That was the first COVID.
Why don't...
They didn't look like that.
They didn't have a beak on them.
It was the first COVID.
It did.
I mean, it kind of was.
No, these are Halloween costumes.
They're exaggerated right now, but that's what they used to wear.
Oh, okay.
All right, oh, I guess so.
Yeah, see?
Oh, God, that was awful.
Yeah.
Well, you got to leave a lot of room in there for you to sneeze.
Why the beak?
I don't get it.
It's for your tongue.
I had long tongues back then.
Man.
I would imagine that you would need some sort of...
They grew shorter.
A lot of happy women during that period.
Well, that long beak, I would imagine that it could be pretty claustrophobic.
I mean, it's already claustrophobic, but can you imagine having no room at all?
I mean, you would need some sort of area to be able to breathe.
Yeah, that would suck.
Those are creepy looking though.
Yeah, they are.
But they've been Hollywoodized and everything, so it looks even extra creepy now.
Sure.
Yeah.
Yeah, so no, to answer your question, I did not buy that motorcycle helmet.
Wow.
Okay.
Well, I think it's cool.
I'm a little envious.
I'm a lot envious.
It'd be cool to see you riding down the street like that and all your black leather and then
that rolling down with it.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Oh, black leather.
I think the police will stop you, definitely.
For sure.
Sir, sir.
And what I need is like a canister on my back that's spraying like green gas.
You know what I mean?
Oh, yeah.
That would be perfect.
And I'll just say I'm spraying for mosquitoes.
Right?
Well, they do that already, but it's that white gas.
West Nile.
You know, it's crazy.
I haven't heard much of West Nile in a while.
Yeah.
That was...
Have you guys ever seen that?
What time do they go around?
They go around when everybody's sleeping.
It's like 12 o'clock in the morning, so it's not...nobody really knows about it.
And they're sitting there just blowing this gas all over the neighborhood.
It's like euthanizing us while we're asleep.
It can't be good.
Is this still happening?
I haven't seen it in a while.
Yeah, it's been about three years, four years.
I've seen a sign that, hey, we're spraying for mosquitoes.
I saw one this year.
Yeah.
Well, you know, there's all kinds of sprays that they do.
In fact, you know, I'm kind of wondering what is the reality on these jets, these cargo
planes that are leaving these...
Chemtrails?
Those chemtrails.
They're saying that absolutely that that is a way for manufacturers to disperse their
leftover toxic shit.
And that's they load it on a plane and they disperse it through a chemtrail.
And there's...
Like commercial crop testers?
Well, no, but this is way high up.
So it's kind of like they have a plane.
That's kind of a conspiracy.
There's been no proof on that yet.
I know there's a lot of talk about it.
There's been some people that have stood up and kind of like the Department of Energy
snuffing out those water powered engines.
You know, they just disappear off the face of the earth.
You never hear about it again.
So you don't know if they've been disqualified.
But that's just the whole thing.
If they've been disqualified, you would think that you'd be able to find a record that would
say, no, man, this has been disqualified, debunked, you know, so forth.
But you don't see that.
You don't see anything.
So you're kind of like, all right, well, what happened to that story?
But I think the EPA would be going apeshit over people.
Well, not if they're getting paid off.
Exactly.
I mean, this is the United States of America.
You can do what you want as long as you got money.
It's a secret society.
It can be.
I wonder if the United States...
It can be.
Well, look what just happened to Trump, the ex-president.
Get lured.
You know, I'm torn on this whole thing.
I literally can't believe it.
Well, look, people should be up in arms about this.
However, if this is real, I mean, what if he did?
What if he did have some top secret stuff he shouldn't have in there?
And actually, it was documented when he was in office that he was taking secret papers
or documents out of the White House.
And you notice, at the time, it may have been top secret.
Everybody was concerned about it.
It was going, what the heck are you doing?
You know, but he was.
Yeah.
I don't know.
So, I mean, I don't know.
I just don't think it's proper.
There's a lot of stories out there about that.
Yeah, I promise you, there's better ways to handle that than to...
Imagine if you're like one of the folks that are working on his property and you go in
the office and you're dusting, you're like, oh, let me just clean up this area here.
And you go in this room, it's like all this top secret boxes.
And you're kind of like, this is kind of odd.
So and then if you get a Democrat that's kind of loose...
So you think there's top secret tape and it says, may please don't open?
There could be.
There's, look, if you get...
Eyes only.
And I hate slamming...
Private eyes only.
... a hot headed Democrat that kind of stifled his way into Trump's property somehow.
But if there were and you get someone in there that's got some sort of issue with Trump and
they're kind of like, they're looking for anything.
I know.
Anything.
To keep him from running again.
And you know what?
If he's got a box, if he's got 20 boxes that say top secret on there and he's not supposed
to have them...
I heard it was a top secret.
I heard it was...
It isn't top secret.
It's just...
Archival stuff.
But for like...
It doesn't matter.
My point is...
It does.
... if he has documents that he's not supposed to have...
Just like Hillary.
... then he's breaking the law.
Well, you know, there's no comparison because, you know, the...
And I hate being...
I don't want to make this a left versus right thing.
You know, I just...
I think that Hillary was wrong.
I think she should have been held accountable.
You know, when you pay someone $50,000 to bit bleach your servers because it had not
only sensitive materials on the servers, but it was hacked and there's proof that those
servers were hacked.
By the Russians.
And it's just like, come on, own it.
And if this is something that Trump did and, you know, and honestly, look, let's think
about this.
If you think, honestly, Trump's going to pack those boxes, he doesn't give a fuck about
those boxes.
Somebody packed that shit for him.
Right.
So if there was something in there, he's going to be like, I didn't know that shit was in
there.
Yeah, that's another conspiracy theory that literally the National Archive, whatever,
they gave those boxes to him and I guess they want them back or something like that.
OK.
And so the conspiracy is they put shit in the boxes so that when the FBI raided them,
it would be, you know, the smoking gun documents that he wasn't supposed to have.
Wow, that's really far reaching.
John, there's so many ridiculous stuff.
There's so many ridiculous...
It's just because any time you say Donald Trump, there's going to be all these...
Crazies.
All these stories, all these things happening, whether it's right or wrong, it's going to
happen.
Yeah.
You know, so if he's back in office, this is going to continue.
Oh, big time.
OK.
So then, you know...
I see it as just a continuation of the witch hunt that the media...
The Russia, Russia, Russia.
It's from the time that he started running where they bugged his campaign office.
Yeah, they impeached him twice.
Till yesterday.
No, hold on.
They bugged his campaign office from before he was even president.
That's what I mean.
Before he ran.
He had a conversation with the Mexican president on a private phone and the press knew about
it.
Right.
How does that happen?
That was...
I know.
That's because they absolutely bugged...
Well, that's what he said.
They bugged the Trump Tower.
It's amazing.
And you know, that would never happen if it were on the other side.
And I'm just like...
But then the question is, would it, could it?
I mean...
Sure could.
But I mean, you just don't hear about it.
And it's frustrating.
It's frustrating.
So yeah, I'm up in arms about it because there's a trend.
There's a trend that's obvious that we're seeing.
And if Trump is guilty for having shitty shit in half, well, you know what?
He needs to own it.
Well, I agree with that.
But I have a hard time believing it just because of the track record that has happened over
the last six years.
It's just frustrating, man.
Yeah, the hatred.
Yeah, the hatred and the witch hunt.
And the thing is, is that was he...
I mean, and people, there's on the other side, they're kind of like, well, he was such a
horrible president.
Well, you know, I don't really see him being a horrible president.
I see him being kind of a jackass.
Yeah.
And those are two very different things.
I've called him a 12 year old bully.
That's what I always called him.
He's an idiot on Twitter.
All successful billionaires can be called the same.
You know, who gives a shit?
As long as shit's getting done the way it's supposed to be getting done.
I mean, the Abraham Accords.
Right.
I mean, come on.
I mean, that's by itself should have got himself the Nobel Peace Prize.
And we've talked about that before.
Right.
You know, but now what is Biden trying to rename it?
Is he?
No.
Yeah, no, they...
Well, they're just not using the phrase Biden Accords.
Yeah, so instead of using the Abraham Accords, they're going to use another term for it.
We're not going to use that because we don't want to give Donald Trump credit for a God
blessed thing.
We're going to say peace, peace, Mideast peace.
The Lincoln Accords is what they're going to call it.
Not to change the subject.
What did I call it?
The Lincoln?
The Abraham Accords?
You did last week.
Oh, well.
Oh, he called them the Lincoln Accords?
The Lincoln Accords.
Well, you know what?
We've probably a little seasoned.
Not to change the subject, but did you guys see Johnny Depp jamming with Jeff Beck?
No, I did not.
Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck.
Yes.
Didn't?
And they actually had a lot of concerts in small venues.
I've never seen all kinds of stuff with Johnny Depp and him playing guitar, but I've never
heard the quality of the stuff.
I'm curious how he sounds.
So he's pretty talented?
He sings and he plays guitar.
And if he's with Jeff Beck, you know, I mean, he's phenomenal.
The musicians that he had, the bass player and the drummer were phenomenal.
OK, well, we need to see a clip of this.
And yeah.
And now they're talking about Johnny Depp ripping off a song, stealing the lyrics to
something.
But we want to see a YouTube video of Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck jamming.
Yes.
Let's see.
That would be very cool.
All right.
And he plays guitar?
Yes.
And this was right after the Amber Heard Johnny Depp trial.
Oh, like the day after.
Yeah.
I mean, it was funny.
Afterwards, he just said, I'm leaving.
And he did.
You know, next thing you know, he's on stage with Jeff Beck.
He's just like, let's get back to life.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
He won his case and then did this.
And then shortly thereafter, got resigned for the Pirates of the Caribbean.
Oh, he did get resigned.
That's what I heard.
I heard that didn't happen.
Yeah, it's back and forth.
I'm not exactly sure that happened.
Oh, it's not done?
Yeah, I heard back and forth.
It's not a sure thing yet, but I'm sure it will happen.
All right, let's see.
Let's see how quality.
All right, what have we got here?
Those guys are like your parents age.
Jeff Beck?
Yeah, they look like the walking dead.
Yeah, look at that.
They do.
That's Jeff Beck.
A little loud.
Yeah, it is a little loud.
Yeah, there may be some slower songs.
Yeah.
Yeah, this one's a little too upbeat.
Yeah, I don't think he's in this one.
Oh, so he was like a guest star.
He would come out and he would do a couple of songs.
He'd sing, play guitar.
That's kind of cool though.
I think that's really cool, right?
Jeff Beck is an icon.
I mean, gosh.
Absolutely.
It's like Eric Johnson.
Just having someone come out of the blue.
Eric Johnson's actually from Austin, so that's very doable.
I'm not sure if he was ever going to come out on that one.
Maybe he'll come out of a different one here.
Okay.
He's playing the acoustic guitar.
Come on, Johnny.
And he's dressed like a...
All right, so you see on the stage you got Johnny Depp playing the acoustic guitar with
Jeff Beck.
Got a sold out crowd.
Of course, Johnny Depp.
And is he really doing anything or not?
Looks like he's...
Yeah.
He's playing one note, one chord.
One chord.
It's like, Johnny, we want you to come out there.
But he looks pretty damn cool, right?
We want you to put all your accessories.
Make sure you put your neckerchief on and your 15 bracelets.
Why is he dressed like Captain Jack Sparrow?
Because he is Jack Sparrow.
Interesting.
Johnny Depp on stage with...
Yeah.
Well, you know, look, good...
I haven't heard him sing though.
Does Johnny Depp sing?
Yes.
Yeah, he has a couple of songs he sings.
Maybe this one.
Oh, there he is.
He's talking or something.
Oh, he's pulling out his real guitar now.
Ooh.
Just pull that thing out.
It turned out just a little bit more, Austin.
All right, here we go.
The debut of Johnny Depp, the rock star.
People say we're young and late.
Don't they know we're so young?
Sounds like you, Paul.
Thanks.
What is that?
Good or bad?
And he looks like you, Paul, as well.
Very weird.
Thank you, John.
He's got a Roger Waters kind of song.
Well.
No?
Not my cup of tea.
Not your cup of tea?
No.
I like the boots.
But you know what?
I think the cool thing is that he's out there jamming.
Exactly.
And that's what I got a lot of respect for.
That's what it is.
And this is right after the trial.
You know, he just packed up and went.
How many?
You can probably fade that out.
So how many movie stars have done that?
Russell Crowe had his own band, right?
Yeah, Russell Crowe's a jackass.
I don't think so.
No?
I haven't seen him.
Did you see Russell Crowe in the last movie he was in?
With Thor?
He's really let himself go.
I didn't see that.
Yeah, see if you can pull up a picture of Thor in the last movie he was in.
He was in Thor?
I didn't know that.
Did I say Thor?
Yeah, he said Thor.
Yeah, he was in Thor.
I wonder where the fuck that thing is.
I haven't watched that yet.
Yeah, but he's really let himself go.
And evidently he's Zeus in that Marvel movie.
And he walks out and he's got a gold-breasted plate on.
And he's wearing this little miniskirt, kind of a white little skirt.
And he's frolicking around.
Isn't that a Scottish thing?
No, it wasn't a kilt-like thing.
Look up Russell Crowe.
I don't know if it'll pull up.
Hopefully it'll pull it up.
He looks good there.
Yeah, well that's not gladiator.
When he was in tip-top shape.
That's a badass movie.
Rick Springfield was an actor and he had a band.
He had a bunch of hits and everything else.
So hold on, Rick Springfield was on a soap opera.
He was an actor.
He was very well known.
And then he had a band as well.
And he had a bunch of songs out on the charts and so forth.
I don't know why it's so difficult to find a picture of fucking Russell Crowe as Thor.
As Zeus.
There he is.
Yeah, but that's not...
You've got to see the ensemble.
So you're saying he had the XXL chest plate?
Yeah, he's just an oversized...
He's obviously been gluttonous for the character or whatever it is.
I know he is one of those guys who adds and takes off weight for the character.
This is amazing that we cannot find his fucking skirt.
You know, there's a lot of...
His full outfits.
There's a lot of actors that have done that.
That balloon up and then lose weight and then balloon up and lose weight.
Well, I tell you what...
It can't be good for them.
I tell you one person who did that a lot was the other guy in this.
Who played the bad guy in this?
In Thor?
In Thor.
I don't know.
I haven't seen it.
He was in Christian Bale.
He played a role called, I think, in The Machinist.
And he got down to under 100 pounds.
Oh, gosh.
Or 100 pounds.
And he looked...
That was for the character.
That can't be good.
So, sticking there, Christian Bale, I think The Machinist is the name of the movie.
That sounds awful.
And then he beefs up for...
Batman.
Batman, right?
Oh, yeah.
You know, it is amazing.
There's a guy from...
Always Sonny in Philadelphia.
There he is.
Mac did the same thing.
No.
That can't be real.
That looks anorexic, man.
That's real.
He did that to his body.
Wow.
And who was...
Didn't Tom Hanks...
For a castaway?
No.
For the one where he had dying of cancer.
Philadelphia.
Yeah.
I never saw that.
I don't know.
McConaughey, as well.
I can't remember the name of the movie.
But he lost a bunch of weight.
And then he could not regain it afterwards.
Really?
And he looked bad.
Is that where he was?
That was the AIDS movie?
Dallas something club?
That's right.
That's exactly what it was.
Dallas something.
That was a good movie.
Dallas something.
That's a lot of stuff.
And hats off to some of these actors and actresses that could do stuff like that.
I mean, it still doesn't put them above us.
I mean, I want to recognize them for being able to put their body through that.
It's like, wow, you're crazy for that.
And for being a great entertainer.
But you're not an authority on anything.
They aren't.
So just get your little...
Like Ricky Gervais says, get your little trophy.
Say thanks to mom, pa, and God and shut the fuck up.
Right.
I love Ricky Gervais.
I really enjoy Ricky Gervais, man.
He said that on stage to them.
Did you watch his latest...
I don't care.
It's my last one.
Did you watch his latest Netflix special?
Yeah.
He announces all kinds of crazy shit that he's...
He goes after everybody.
Atheist.
He does.
I got to be honest.
I'm always honest.
You know, I don't like it when they start talking Trump.
You know?
Well, you have to accept it if they make fun of everybody.
You know what?
As long as they make fun of everybody, I don't care.
They don't, though.
They get...
He's going to get categorized.
And I'll tell you what, I like Ricky Gervais, but I'm blowing him off.
I mean, now he's in the 50% category.
Yeah.
It's a crapshoot if I watch some of his stuff again.
Yeah, I watched it.
I didn't pick that up.
I picked up that he was making fun of all of it.
He did make fun of a lot of people.
A lot of religious people.
Atheist.
But when it came to the politics of stuff, he demonized Trump over everybody.
And that's kind of my thing.
And it was unwarranted.
Are we too sensitive?
I don't think it was being too sensitive.
I think that he was wrong.
Are we too snowflakey in that topic?
No, I think that his facts were wrong.
But I've reflected on that, too.
He lied.
I try to think.
Am I so defensive?
He lied to the people to make a joke.
And it depends.
To Sean's point, if they're continuing to bring up lies like the Charleston thing, where
they claimed that he said that the neo-Nazis were very fine people, that is an outright
lie.
And if they keep repeating that, then they lose credibility.
I'm not going to listen to that.
I agree.
Was that on his latest one?
Because I didn't pick up any of that on his latest one.
Sorry, man.
I drank some of the bourbon and I needed to wash it back with something.
And we need to talk about the bourbon, too.
But no, he did say something that was wrong.
It was an outright lie.
So when I hear shit like that, Bill Burr just did the same thing when he was talking about
All right, I must have missed that because I watched his latest one.
I didn't see it.
Mr. Producer, pull up the bourbon that we're drinking.
We're drinking a very, very hearty bourbon from New York.
You have to chew this.
Very thick.
It is thick.
Lots of legs on this one.
But you already have it put up there.
I saw...
King's County.
Yeah, the New York distillery.
King's County bourbon.
Yeah.
And I think it's 800 proof.
That's very close.
It's 130 proof.
OK, I was off by a little bit.
You can build a fire with this stuff.
You can.
Yeah, you know how you buy those little bricks at the store to start fires?
You know what I mean?
Just pour some of that on it.
Yeah, that's all you need.
Well, and this is a little more expensive.
Do you have the bottle?
It's a $100 bottle, but maybe an eyedropper?
Type in bourbon.
You know, that'll start up everything.
Well, anyways, I don't really know.
Well, from memory, it's 80% corn and 20% malt barley.
Oh, we knew it.
And it's basically it.
And it's been aged at least four years.
And...
There it is.
Three to six years.
There it is right there.
Way to be resourceful.
It's aged...
Oh, it's from the Finger Lake region.
Well, on the bottle it said that.
My niece used to live up there in the Finger Lake region.
Finger Lake.
Three to five years aged.
That's such a weird thing.
130 proof.
Nice.
Finger Lake.
New York organic corn from the Finger Lakes.
And this is what's interesting.
They use barley from the UK.
Yeah, you know what?
I was wondering about that.
I kind of wondered if it was going to be infused with like peat or something.
No, just the barley.
Yeah, they didn't smoke it or anything like that.
And tobacco as well, right?
Because I mean, I can taste the tobacco.
Oh, yeah.
It's got a heavy tobacco...
It's got some stuff going on.
You know what?
It's not bad.
I enjoy this.
I can drink this.
Yeah, it's sweet.
You have to get used to it, but it's good.
Not like you.
John, you like to pour a nice big glass of Crown Roll and shoot it.
And that's your style of drinking, which is one way to do it.
Or Jameson.
But this stuff is not a shooting bourbon.
No, it's not.
You'll die.
It can be, but it'll...
It can be, but you'll have to...
It'll burn a couple holes on the way down.
It'll kick your ass too.
Right.
Let's do five shots of this real quick.
Oh, good Lord.
130 proof?
You be god.
Five shots?
You know what's funny?
People talk about drinking wild turkey 101.
Man, what this packs a punch.
Oh my god.
You do that with this?
I know.
Oh my god.
See my shirt?
What does it say on here?
Something...
Muck Something restaurant.
McCarty's.
McCarty's restaurant.
McNipples.
Right.
So I went to Jefferson City in Texas for a job last week.
How does that relate to the bourbon?
I'm getting there.
Okay.
Well, let's get to the wild turkey part.
So I went there for the job.
By the way, Jefferson City is a crazy, for as far as an historical data point, it is fantastic.
I'd love to talk about it for...
But I'm not going to.
When it's easy.
But basically, the thing about Jefferson City in East Texas right along, right before you
get to Louisiana, is that it's known as kind of a port where a lot of the immigrants would
come off.
So when they get off the steamboats, they come over from the United States, and then they
get on a boat and they follow the coastline, come up the Gulf, come up the river, and that's
like the first land they step on right there.
Bam.
To get into Texas.
Mississippi you're talking about?
No.
This is where Jefferson City's at.
I don't know.
I'm not going to pull up the map right now, but there's a river that leads up to there.
And that should have been the Dallas, Texas, which we are now Dallas, Texas, but that should
have been.
That's where some engineers rerouted the rivers so that it would go further north.
And they got screwed.
Well, whatever.
It is what it is.
But at that time in the 1800s, that was kind of the Dallas, Texas.
Who is it named after?
Thomas Jefferson or Jefferson Davis?
You know what?
That's a good question.
I don't know.
It could be Jefferson Davis since it's in the south region.
What if it was Bob Jefferson?
Could be.
Or Weezy.
Could be Weezy Jefferson?
George Jefferson.
Owns the cleaners right there.
So I step out, I go to this bar.
And so the first thing I do whenever I go on my travels is I try to hit the Irish bar.
And so I'm sitting at the bar and I'm like, that's the picture.
And I ask him for an old fashioned, I forget even what kind of bourbon it was.
But I was like, well, what kind of bourbon do you not know anything about?
You know, and he reaches back.
He's, he pulls out the wild turkey bottle.
And I'm like, are you fucking kidding me?
You don't know anything about that?
This guy's like in his early twenties.
It's just amazing because you're talking about the wild turkey and no one really knows because
it's kind of old school.
Yeah.
I guess.
Well, it kind of, yeah, it's not as popular as it used to be, I guess.
It's kind of falling off maybe.
I mean, but it's amazing.
But wild turkey is, I mean, they have their own grain.
They have their, they make all their shit from scratch.
I mean, it's wild turkey.
What I want is a good bourbon.
It's a great bourbon.
It's a really good.
And the roof is good too.
Well, wow.
It is a solid bourbon.
It really is.
But again, I don't know if I'd be shooting.
Actually, you're probably, we could probably shoot while turkey.
I remember shooting wild turkey when I was in college called a kickin chicken and I remember
hating it scratched all the way down.
You just like, God, that's terrible stuff.
But yet you continue to do it.
But the buzz was great.
Yeah, the buzz was great.
But I guess.
And you weren't going to be the one guy that didn't do it.
Right.
Every time they pull one of them, I hate this shit.
So like me drinking wine coolers and everybody's drinking from the keg.
That's back when Zima's were all popular.
Right.
Yeah.
Shit.
Line me up for some Zima shots.
Yeah.
Looking back, I'm like, how did I have any friends?
Well, maybe I didn't.
You didn't.
Yeah, I did.
Or the punch with Everclear that the punch tasted so incredible.
What was it?
No, Everclear.
Everclear.
Oh, that just like what do you kind of punch?
Yeah.
And you would have it because I'd taste so good.
Oh, wow.
And then all of a sudden, you wake up to see the saints all around you talking to you.
You know, St. Frater.
Well, Everclear.
What is the proof of Everclear?
190.
Yeah, it's damn near pure.
It can kill you.
Robin Williams kind of comes to mind when he's talking about being drunk and he was talking
about drinking Everclear, some sort of fruit punch thing.
And he was like, oh, yeah, we got so stupid drunk with just laying in the room.
And all of a sudden, the ceiling started spinning and it was all place your beds, place your
beds, Rolf.
That's the worst feeling, right?
The room starts spinning.
You're going, when is this going to stop?
As soon as you open your eyes and then you go, oh, yeah.
And that's the foot on the floor.
And we all say the same thing that next morning.
I am never doing that again.
Till the next weekend.
Until the next weekend.
Three days later.
Exactly.
Two days later.
If I go back in time, I would probably, well, everyone would, but I would eliminate a lot
of those nights.
It's just so excessive.
Stupid.
Yeah.
Debilitating.
Yeah.
Debilitating.
It is.
You want another bourbon?
Yeah.
Now, this one's I'm actually really enjoying this one.
And then this is the New York distillery.
And I can't really see the name of the bourbon.
Is it just straight bourbon?
It's called King's County.
King's County?
I thought that was the distillery.
Well, yeah, there's different ones they have listed there and you can't see any of them.
I think it's just that.
So this one's called straight bourbon.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, there you go.
Straight bourbon.
What would you want?
I want straight bourbon.
Sir.
It's not cheap.
What type of straight bourbon?
I mean, it was a hundred dollar bottle for this.
Was it really?
That's amazing.
God bless.
Yeah.
A hundred bucks.
It was good.
Well, the guy who recommended it said that they started making moonshine for some Uppity
Ups in New York City, right?
Right.
Up in New York.
And they decided to go legit and legal.
And the guys that he was selling his moonshine to fronted the money for him to go legitimate.
What'd they say?
Six, seven years ago?
So it hasn't been that long.
Wow.
And like I said, he started like the moonshine right there.
I mean, if you're good at it, I mean, there's a lot of guys out there where they had a breweries
for beers.
And you know, breweries were popping up in restaurants and brew masters became popular.
They became, you know, people were wanting brew masters in their restaurants.
I want to have a maestro here and we want to have a variety of beers to serve.
Imagine it's going to get that way because we went through the phase with all the different
beers.
Remember the big hit?
You got cellists and they had all these raspberry and whatever kind of and then a Shiner box
populated, you know, they just the beer.
You had rogue beers.
I mean, there were so many beers out there.
Now it's starting to hit where things have changed.
People are not drinking beer as much and they're starting to pick up liquor a little bit more.
Yeah, it's become more and more popular.
I was reading a stat about Bourbon Valley.
What do you call it?
Bourbon, Bourbon Trail, Bourbon Trail, how the sales and how the popularity of the Bourbon
Trail has tripled in the last year and a half to yes.
I mean, the middle of covid to wine sales has gone down as well.
You know, but during the pandemic, liquor went up tremendously.
And all it's going to do is make stuff harder to get because there's more people buying
it.
Right.
But I read I told John this earlier that Buffalo Trace is spending a billion dollars to expand
their distillery.
Wow.
A billion.
That's amazing.
That is amazing.
Wow.
And maybe we can find it.
OK, because every time I go to total wine, Buffalo Trace is like once a month they they
have it and then it's gone like in one day.
So in you know, and if they've got deep pockets like that where they can do it, hats off to
them because there is a market and they need to capitalize on it right now.
Think about the ones they sell the Buffalo Trace Eagle Rare, H. Taylor, Blanton's benchmark,
Pappy's benchmark, ancient age.
They still age to.
Yes.
It's horrible.
All the way all the wellers.
Right.
All those stuff.
Oh, really?
They do wellers.
Yes.
I didn't know that.
Yeah.
Amazing.
I did all the shit that everyone wants.
Right.
Yeah.
Right.
So they have the capital to do it.
And why not?
And they depending on they're planning on doing it in the Kentucky.
Huh?
Who was the who had the the aging barn?
I don't know what you call it where they the Rick House, the Rick House that collapsed.
You told us about that.
It's a fantastic picture.
Look up the Rick House.
Oh, well, they had thousands of barrels.
Oh, my God.
It's a tragic or something.
Wasn't it?
It was someone big.
I thought it's I thought it was someone big.
I thought it was.
I don't think it's Buffalo.
I want to say what Jack Daniels.
Yeah.
So the picture is awful.
It's almost like as bad as the Hindenburg.
Look at that.
John, look at that.
Look at all those barrels of bourbon that just gosh.
Oh, that's tragic.
I haven't even seen that that view of it before.
Well, I wonder.
So it was really bad because it all leaked into this creek.
Wow.
And they had to they had to do something.
They had to clean it up or something.
But I wonder how much of that is salvageable.
I don't know.
Well, I mean, it's such a waste.
Well, none of it, technically.
I mean, from a health standpoint.
But I mean, yeah, you could probably get away with going in there and grabbing.
I would.
I'd be there.
Oh, look at that.
That's just awful.
It'd be a river of bourbon.
Our listeners out there, we're looking at the Barton 1792 aging warehouse.
It collapsed and they literally have thousands of these big 55 gallon barrels.
Looks like it just went flat.
Mm hmm.
It did.
Well, that one.
Yeah, that was that.
Well, whatever.
It's it's a huge, but it's a whole thing.
Look at that.
I mean, it looks like half of it went down.
Yes.
They're lucky the other half didn't go down.
So what if you did?
What if you're there in the building when that happens?
It's a collapse.
Oh, the other the other side went down, too, because look, it's a collapse.
It's a collapse.
It's a collapse, yes.
OK, the below where that went also.
Yeah.
So what they're people.
They might've had a big
collapse.
Can you see,Keep an eye thin outside,
A lot of記ящ cognitive group.
left.
Yeah.
The question is, do you think it
Well,
OK, what's the catch?
looked large enough?
We've got toanks away pretty well for building these.
Apart from the one hit with the
mass of the
recession in the first two years.
So
When it comes to insurance, you've got building
and then you have business personal property
which is the stuff in the building.
I don't know what category that would fall on.
I bet these big distilleries, I bet that's insured.
People don't have the products though insured typically.
There's a lot of language in there that.
Well I know my warehouse, everything in there is insured.
I wonder.
Because, now it goes up to.
It's not a matter of it being insured.
It's a matter of the limit of insurance.
Right, because I get phone calls saying,
hey, your inventory is gonna come down
because I have, our insurance policy covers $25 million
worth of product in our facility.
Yeah, you have 20 of it right now.
Right.
Kind of a thing.
I wonder if they could do something similar there
saying this is worth $10 million.
No, hopefully they would all take care of it.
I mean, there was a lot of people hurt.
I mean, the consumers are hurt because they're missing out.
I'm sure the people there.
I bet it smelled good.
Oh God.
I don't know.
Just our own experience of a bottle
rolling out of the back of my SUV
and shattering on the pavement, it was a wonderful smell.
Jackass.
Oh I know.
So I'm guessing if you're hanging around
that 1792 bourbon collapse.
Thousands of gallons are just.
All right, John, let me give you
a little background story, all right?
So we go do a total wine run, all right?
And that was something in Axe.
Axe and oak.
So Paul buys a bottle, that's Axe and oak.
It's Colorado.
Jeff and I get ours and I don't know why ours didn't fall out.
But I think we stowed it correctly.
Yeah.
It was secured properly.
No, it was not.
So.
With Sean's walnuts.
So while we're doing our total wine run,
we're usually, we weren't sampling bourbons in drinks
and we usually get a beer and we used to,
what they call a peanut butter and jelly shot
walking out the door, which is some peanut butter whiskey
and some sort of flavored.
Vodka.
Vodka or.
Or jelly.
I was using, whatever, it doesn't matter.
And so it ended up just a combination
and you guys, we morphed it into something even weird.
Where you guys were doing chocolate vanilla.
Well, it got to the point where.
It really got gay.
But.
We were super shit faced by six o'clock.
Yes.
I mean, we get shit faced walking out the door
of Total Wine and we're just like.
And then we sit on the parking lot,
we do two little mini bar bottles and we slam it.
And then we had to go run somewhere.
I think we needed to go get Brody or something.
At the skate park.
That's right.
And the bottles were rolling around in the back.
And so, and plus there was like.
There were like several bottles of empty beers.
And I was like, hey man, pull over.
We do not need to get pulled over
with all these empty beer bottles up here.
So we pulled over in the park, city park.
Where his.
Fuckin' hot.
And you know.
So I take the bottles, I walk out to the garbage can
and I throw them in there and then I go in the back.
Paul has his automatic door.
And it opens up.
Eee.
And then all of a sudden his little ax bottle rolls out.
Shhh.
Oh no.
And I was like.
I was still in the car.
These two ladies are walking by with their kids.
And first of all, when the bottle hits,
it's like, shh, it's total fragrant.
You can like.
Oh.
You can smell it everywhere.
I mean, it instantly went 50 yards.
I mean, seriously, 50 yards.
It was like the most wonderful, sad smell ever.
These ladies come up with their kid
and they hear the bottle and they're kinda like,
oh, I forget exactly what they said.
But it basically alluded that we were losers.
Yeah.
Oh, but you hear what the kids said.
What did they say?
The kids that were walking with the mom said,
that smells great or something like that.
And I was like, eh, pay attention, buddy.
Oh man.
Son, you never wanna be like those guys.
Yeah.
Okay?
Exactly.
They probably smoke weed.
They probably smoke in a bong as we speak.
Good Lord.
So needless to say, I was very excited
about buying that bourbon because I had a coworker
who worked in Colorado and he advised me over and over again,
if you ever see that bottle, buy that bottle.
That was an expensive bourbon at the time for us.
It was, it was like 55, 65.
No, it was 60, 68, 70.
Wow.
It's about $72 because I remember,
I went and purchased another one for you.
He went and bought another one for me.
Oh, how sweet.
Yeah.
He's a good friend.
Yeah.
Well, not really.
Eh.
It doesn't balance out.
So you should have picked him up earlier, okay?
You should have picked him up earlier, but no.
And the thing is, I'm taking the bike.
I think.
And I'm not telling Sean at all.
That son of a bitch.
I think we're not real impressed with it either, unfortunately.
Yeah, it wasn't really fantastic either.
Yeah, maybe we should.
Well, we still have that bottle, don't we?
Yeah, it's just out there.
Maybe we should try it one of these days.
Try it again.
We'll get there.
We need to go through all the bottles that we have.
I think that if we continue the trend that we're having
where we buy one bottle a week,
but we pitch in and get just a really nice bottle,
we can start, and once we get down to where
we only have one bottle we're sampling,
then we can dive back into our collection.
And then this time, record it as we go.
Right.
Yeah.
Because it's hard to remember 190 bourbons.
Yeah, is it 190?
Gotta be.
Would you give it a grade?
I mean, yes, that would look a one.
That's what we need to do.
Yeah, yeah, we should have done that,
but here's the thing, even if we did do it,
I don't really feel that it would be accurate,
because we're not connoisseurs.
We're not sommeliers of bourbon.
But you know what?
I think now, after a year and something doing it,
I think we have a valid opinion.
Well, plus all those bottles have been open now for a year,
or more for some of them.
And some of the theories and thoughts
are that the bourbon improves when that happens.
Yeah, so the idea is that once the bourbon gets
past the shoulder of the bottle, there
is an amount of oxygen that's allowed into the bottle that
allows it to breathe to the point where
it does something magical.
It doesn't necessarily make it better or worse.
It just can make it better.
It can make it worse.
I don't know.
It just makes it different from when you first open it.
It's kind of like a bottle of wine letting it breathe.
Right, right.
I do know that either way, it affects your blood alcohol
content.
I don't understand.
Yeah, it does not change that.
So your blood reacts the same way, apparently.
It does.
OK.
I just wanted to confirm that.
It doesn't react.
It doesn't revolt.
It just stays the same.
It stays the same.
This may be my ignorance, but is there
any chance that the proof can increase
while it's sitting in there?
Or does it need to be?
It would have to evaporate, wouldn't it?
And then the alcohol would evaporate.
No, the proof stays the same.
It's not continuing to age or whatever
it does to gain its proof.
Unless it's in a wooden carafe, so to speak.
Well, no.
No, I would just impute it.
No, remember, the proof is when it's first distilled,
before it ever gets to the barrel.
It's the distilling process.
So the oak is simply for filtering the taste.
Correct.
It's taste and color.
There you go.
So there's no taste and color.
It's taste and color.
As a matter of fact, Mr. Producer,
if you'd click on the moonshine, the moonshine bottle.
All right, so this is interesting, right?
It's before it's aged in a barrel, right?
So.
That moonshine is just plain Jane 80 proof.
That's right.
So basically, it's everything we drink,
every single bourbon we've ever had,
started out looking like this.
It starts like that.
Looks like this.
But not 80 proof.
No, it goes into the barrel at 126 or something like that.
Right.
And then they dilute it with water to get it down to 80.
Right?
That was one of the questions I asked
when I was at the Wild Turkey's Gillery.
There's a minimum proof that needs
to go into the barrel.
Very good question.
Yeah, I said, what do you?
Is it water?
Or is it?
It's water.
100%.
That's it?
That's what I asked him.
I said, because all they ever talked about was the 101, 101.
I go, well, you have an 80 proof too.
Where in the process does it become 80 proof?
And they go, we just mix it with water
to dumb it down to 80 proof.
Because there's some people don't want.
It doesn't actually take that much.
Right.
Yeah, sometimes it can take an ice cube.
That's why, a lot of these times,
that's why they're good on ice cubes, especially
the stuff strong.
I'm actually enjoying this more than
in the metal one.
I like drinking.
I'm not knocking our fantastic dudes like us Yeti cups.
But when it's like a pure cocktail or an old fashioned,
I won't drink it out of that.
Yeah, I like the Glencairns as well.
I think I'll have the second one in the Glencairn.
This was just a little bit too meaty for me.
I needed a little bit of cube with it.
Right.
The next one is what, 110?
Yeah, it's still kind of.
130, 110?
Yeah, we're stepping down.
We're taking the real step down.
We'll take the second one, a little lighter.
A little step down.
Yeah.
We have other ones up here we could try if we need something
a little less post.
No, we're good.
Yeah, we're good.
A little less robust.
A little less octane.
Right.
Yeah.
Well, I'll tell you what.
I saw some argumentative stuff in the news
with that Britney bitch.
Grindr?
Oh, I'm not going to say bitch.
I apologize.
I didn't mean to call her bitch.
But that young lady that plays basketball.
Yeah, right.
Because here's the thing, baby.
I don't want to just.
She.
The kids nowadays, they just, they're in their own.
I don't get it.
Kids nowadays are different.
And our kids, Paul and I, can attest this past weekend.
Our kids are just fucking different.
They don't have the same type of respect
that we did as grown up as kids for authority
or just across the board, even for some certain parents.
The mentality is different.
And I don't know if I feel as a parent
or whether society has beat them in this direction.
But I feel that this Britney chick is the same thing.
I feel bad.
What, 6'9"?
She's a basketball player.
We expect $5 million a game or per season.
Not game.
Per year, probably.
Got to be per season.
But I mean, come on.
$5 million?
And if she's going to, she wants to make a stupid decision
and smuggle pot, whatever the hell she did over there,
where she's got arrested for having it.
Well, she's been going over there for like 10 years.
But that's her goal.
She's playing basketball.
She's representing the Russians.
But the thing is, that's on her.
I mean, she broke the law.
She needs to pay the consequences.
Now, was she going to the airport
when she was caught with the weed?
What exactly?
Was it weed?
Was it oil?
There were vials for a vape.
So it was a vape with THC and hashish.
They called it dab pen, right?
That's the dab pen.
Well, it's a vape.
It's the same dab thing.
So the problem with the vapes is that,
depending on you're the prosecutor,
the vapes have a tendency to, since they're more concentrated,
it's kind of like having a tremendous amount with you.
With us, we're kind of like, oh, here's a little bag.
It's very quantifiable.
You can see how much it is.
With those vapes, it's very misleading.
You can have a pound of pot in a little tiny vape
so you don't know how much is in there.
Well, she hasn't done that in a lot.
And I guess it was supposed to last her quite some time
while she was over there.
And you know what?
It feels bad.
But here's the thing.
In the United States, if I'm driving down the road
and I get pulled over and I've got the smell of marijuana
and they find some bags on me and I'm
going to get in trouble, and if the consequences are for me
to go to jail and spend some time in there,
then that's what's going to happen.
I don't understand the disconnect,
regardless whether she's disrespectful for our flag
and our nation and kneels at these games.
And for that, I condemn her.
But for being a normal person and smoking out there,
that's just a mistake.
That's just something that they did in that she'll pay her time
and then when she's released, whatever.
But the argument for get her out of jail
is kind of like bullshit.
I'm like, let that bitch sit in jail.
I mean, there are people now in jail in the United States
that are in there of criminal use for pot.
15, 20 years for a bag of pot.
Yeah, if you're going to go through all this effort
to bring her back from Russia and then give her
zero consequences at all, then you, in theory,
should let out everybody who's been
busing for the same thing.
Yeah.
So unless you're trafficking the drug,
that's one thing.
But if they got busted because you're a pulled over
and you have a bag or just like she would keister the.
Yeah, she would have been the drug mule with the condoms.
Oh, she's a big girl.
She probably has a huge cavity up there.
OK.
Extra long.
All righty then.
Jeez.
Well, if she does get released, let's
just say that there's some sort of reciprocal agreement.
Look, we're going to take her and she's
going to serve time over here.
That would be a fair assessment.
But then again, I mean, what's happening over there?
I mean, is she being abused?
I mean, I don't believe she is.
So I mean, let her spend her time.
If nine years is what it is.
Hey, man, look, there are people in China, like you had mentioned,
I think I want to podcast her to go or call the weird.
Yeah, there are people in China.
If you get fucking caught in China with drugs, you get hung.
You get hung.
Yeah.
Right.
Well, I tell my Singapore, they do that too.
I don't know if they do that anymore.
But when I lived in Jakarta, there
were two British girls that were caught with drugs.
And they lost their court case and got hung.
Yeah, I think the ability to travel the world
is much easier than it used to be.
And I think people think that a lot of them
there's a lot of modern cities out there, right?
Maybe you think you're in the US.
I had to tell my son because he just went to he actually
just got home.
I don't know if he's home yet, but he landed from some.
I came home.
Yeah, so he went to Greece.
And I had to tell him, I was like, you need
to remember where you're at.
Absolutely.
It's like you're not in the US anymore.
It's dangerous.
They have different laws over there.
I was like, you have to, you know,
I don't know anything about Greece, right, as far as,
is it safe or dangerous?
I think it's safe.
But I was like, but you're in a foreign country.
Had your head on a swivel, right?
Just make sure what's going on.
You're not in America.
You're not in Frisco anymore.
Right.
Yeah, Frisco, there's a huge bubble in Frisco, the mentality.
And that's kind of what I was driving at,
was the mentality that these kids,
and I'm a little frustrated from this past weekend.
One of my kids got drunk.
And he's on the cusp of, he's underaged.
He got drunk.
And he's given the authorities a hard time.
And he's not taking it serious.
And they threw him in the drunk tank
with a couple of his friends.
What would get him to take it serious?
You know what, probably some serious consequences.
But you know, they're-
Unfortunately, that may happen if he doesn't fix it.
His mentality, right?
It's frustrating as a dad to go down there,
and they're goofing off.
And it's just, they're not taking it serious at all.
They were not taking it seriously at all.
And I scolded them.
I tried to, I did scold them.
I scolded them when they first came out, because I was bitter.
I'm just like, you know, there's no humility.
There's no, there's nothing.
It's just-
No long faces, not no-
No, they're all giggling and having-
Being quiet with long faces and-
Preston looked like he was about to giggle and laugh.
It was just like, you know, it's just frustrating
because had that been me growing up-
You got torn in half.
Oh my gosh, you would have gotten torn in half, yeah.
Well, that's what I mean.
Were there any repercussions at home?
Or is anything taken away?
Was this, did anything happen?
Well, what can you do?
He's in college.
I could do things.
Well, certain things I could do.
What would you have done?
Well, he's still on getting a bunch of money from me, right?
That would end.
What do you send your son off without-
You're gonna send your son off without a phone?
No, it's cool to pay it for.
Yeah, I'd send him without a phone.
Hell yeah, it'd be gone.
I don't think your wife would allow that.
Yeah, she would, 100%.
And I'd tell him, I was like,
if you want a phone, you can go pay it for it yourself.
That phone would be gone.
And anything else like that would be gone.
Yeah, I get it.
You're hard-ass.
I get it, I mean, it's, you know.
But you know what, I guess-
I know.
It's really-
It's not gonna take circumstances like that.
I mean, I wouldn't take the phone,
but I definitely would say, I don't know.
Well, why not, why not?
Well, because I wanna know if my son's all right.
There's always gonna be ways for him to reach out to you.
Well, you ask why not, and that's my answer.
All right.
Yeah, my-
I think that's an inappropriate punishment.
But I do like the idea of taking shit from them.
You know, so-
I think it's fully appropriate.
They need to feel pain.
Until they feel that pain, it's-
So they're gonna have to probably go to jail.
They're gonna have to do something.
I mean, because they're not.
They're not taking it serious at all.
Right.
You know, and it's just, you know, I don't know.
And it's not just them.
I mean, that's my point.
Right, no.
It's not just them.
It's the friscal bubble.
But then I'm like, all right, is it the friscal bubble?
Because then you got that Britney bitch
that's doing the same shit in Russia.
It's not, it's the generation.
It is like a generation.
It is, I think part of it is they've been kind of
desensitized from all the TikTok videos
of all these people disrespecting the police.
The Black Lives Matter programs,
where they're out there, and they're beating up the police,
and they're just, you know, police are second citizens,
second class citizens, and you know, that shit's gotta go.
Yeah.
You know, it's gotta go,
because the police deserve so much respect.
And that's actually what I told my son up about.
Priority.
I mean, they have a rough job.
They don't need punk ass kids.
They don't, and it's disgusting.
Giving them attitude and being, yeah.
It was, I lit them up for that.
I will support a police officer 1000%.
You know, I hope I never have to be put in a position
where I have to, but I will.
I have to pull over and help them manhandle somebody
or do anything.
Yeah, did you see the footage where the 16-year-old kid
was fighting the cop in the subway?
Yeah, yeah, I saw that.
And nobody helped.
African American boy.
The guy was, everyone was videoing him.
And he just got out of jail.
The boy just got out of jail.
He was just released.
It was violent.
And he was fighting the cop.
And nobody helped him at all.
And he was manhailing the cop for a while,
because the cop is restrained
from using certain techniques now.
Right, because he doesn't want to be,
everyone's videoing.
Yeah, everyone's videoing.
He's not allowed to balloon into a George Floyd.
Yeah, a George Floyd scenario.
Right, so this kid was kind of manhandling this cop.
Throwing him on the ground, wrestling him to the ground,
getting him to deadlocks.
New York City subway.
Oh my God, if I would witness that,
I would absolutely jump to the cop's aid.
Yeah, no, they all had their phones out.
That's what I can't stand about this generation.
Everyone's got their phones out recording.
Yeah, the phone's out.
It's amazing.
In New York Subway, there was someone,
you know, that young lady getting raped.
Let me see if we can fire up a video of that.
Even if we did see the video,
we don't think they'd have it.
I think it's this one down here.
The kid in the blue, white, and black jacket down there.
Unbelievable.
Yeah, and he's just a...
Last Detroit.
I don't know, but it was bad.
I mean, this cop was...
Yeah, he's had to fit for himself.
And it's gotta be frustrating for a cop,
and the question is, why the hell was that cop by himself?
They're never supposed to be alone.
Especially in New York.
No, he had a partner.
Oh my gosh.
No, he had a partner.
What was the partner doing?
She was...
Videoing?
She was peeing at the time.
No, I think there was someone else that she was trying to,
but she wasn't very effective at what she was doing.
That's not good.
You know, this brings up some other stuff, too,
about women in the workplace with handling jobs,
not necessarily of a man,
but handling a job that requires a certain physical strength,
a certain physical aptitude
that you need to be able to fill those shoes up.
It's kind of like being a fireman.
You know?
If...
I hats off to the woman that wants to be a fireman,
but God bless it,
you better get your little ass up that ladder
and fucking carry down that 250 pound motherfucker
on your shoulders.
You know, you gotta man up.
Right.
I remember there being some...
And I sound like a douchebag saying that,
but that's the reality of it.
Wasn't there an issue where they were kind of
dumbing down the requirements in the military?
Yes.
Yeah.
Oh, definitely.
Was it the Special Forces or Green Berets or something?
Yeah, one of them.
Yeah, one of them, they were dumbing down
so the ladies could...
That is ridiculous.
That's really dangerous.
It is.
Because it's not a matter...
I mean, look, it's getting the job done.
If the job requires X, Y, Z...
X, Y, Z doesn't...
We don't give a shit if they're male or female.
I mean...
It's X, Y, Z.
We need to get it done.
Yeah, if it's a guy that's not strong enough,
he doesn't make it.
Exactly.
I wouldn't pass it.
I'm not in it, right?
Right.
There's a small percentage of men who can pass that shit.
Not all the men can put in.
There'd be even a smaller percentage of women
that could pass it.
Right.
I'm not saying they can't.
It's gonna be a very small percentage.
Right.
Right?
Yeah, there are some that are, you know,
hosses, right?
Sure, sure there are.
Super-scratch.
There's very effeminate men
and there's very masculine women.
Right.
Exactly.
Right?
So, but those masculine women are still not
at the top of the men.
Right.
Right?
Yeah, no, it's, I mean, it's just.
It goes back to, I saw an interview with,
you know, it goes back to the guy swimmer
who was swimming NCAA.
He was swimming in the women's.
Oh, yeah.
Leah Thompson or whatever.
Yes, sir.
Something.
And they said, well, he was ranked 400 and something.
Yeah, he was ranked 400 and something in the men's.
And he was winning in the women's.
And I saw the same footage, if you remember,
John McEnroe said she would get destroyed
in the men's division.
She'd be ranked like 700th in men's.
The, yeah, which.
Serena Williams, one of the Williams sisters.
And I saw an interview with her who said,
I have no desire.
He goes, they beat the shit out of me.
Their serves are 130 miles an hour.
They hit harder, they're faster.
And I would lose every single game.
Serena Williams said that.
Yes.
Wow.
Good for her that she didn't like, you know,
overreact and be all woke about it.
Yeah, she's like, she goes, I like playing in the ladies.
She goes, I would not survive the men's.
John McEnroe said that?
Yes.
Oh, wow.
They called him out on Good Morning America
and he had to backpedal and kind of apologize for it.
That's sad.
I was gonna say, I'm amazed.
It's sad that he had to apologize for it
because it's the reality of it.
And you know what?
Well, hold on.
There was a match between,
and I know it was kind of like a charity match,
but there was a woman and a man, two top.
That was a while back.
Yeah, what was that?
Billie Jean King and somebody else.
That was back in the 70s.
Yeah, it was.
Bobby.
Bobby Jones or something?
Yeah, I remember that.
Bobby Jones.
It was cool.
Yeah.
It was cool.
All right, well, we're hearing the bell here.
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It's August 9th.
And we have a super special guest star, Mr. John.
Hey, glad to be here, guys.
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