Sean just inhaled, she's barking and it's only just started.
I know.
Sean just inhaled half a pig before he came up here.
Have a pig?
Yeah, that's pork wasn't it?
Pulled pork?
Yeah, actually yeah, it was pulled pork and a slice of pork loin.
Looked like a loin.
I was thinking that you had in your buffalo cheese.
No, no, I brought two buffalo chicken.
Looked like cheese.
Well, um, no, there's no cheese in there.
No, there's just buffalo sauce, sour cream.
I can't stand sour cream.
It tastes great, buffalo chicken.
I can't eat buffalo chicken because of the sour cream.
I know it's sad.
How do you know?
I've tried this though.
Actually, I think there is cheese in it.
I don't think there's sour cream in it.
Welcome to the latest edition of Dudes Like Us.
We're in mid-August.
Yeah.
Mid-August Ian, it's a Wednesday.
It's a Wednesday.
So we had to skip every third Tuesday of the month.
I got penciled in.
Sean does nude skating.
Yeah, we do adult night at Thunder, what is it called Mr. Producer?
Thunderbird.
Thunder Valley.
It's good that it's adults only if it's nude.
Yeah.
Otherwise, kids are skating with adults.
Does everything just kind of sway with the music?
Last night was for some strange reason was extraordinarily busy.
We arrived, when we normally arrive, it's maybe half full.
As far as the parking lot goes, this time the parking lot was absolutely 100% full.
We had a park and a field next to it.
The words getting out that this place is full.
What is going on?
This is the place to be the third Tuesday of the month.
They had live music.
Maybe Chick was playing or something.
No.
It's actually going to prove it.
Or Cheap Trick.
I get there.
I'm in line.
It's eight bucks to get in.
So I pay the eight bucks and I got a piece of gum in my mouth.
For some reason, this pissed me off.
I don't know what to do.
This guy was like, I need to go over there and spit that gum out.
There's people been known to choke on it.
Okay.
If I could pick anybody that I know that could choke on gum, it would be you, Sean.
The whole thing is you can't enter.
I was like, dude.
Hold on.
There's a no gum rule in the... Whatever.
I guess so.
But the whole thing is, dude, I'm a grown ass man.
You can tell me to throw it away before I get on the fucking floor.
He's probably used to dealing with stupid kids.
Yeah.
But it's just like, for some reason I was like...
Did you kind of body up and puff up your chest?
No.
But I mentally did.
You're voice get all deep.
I mentally did.
I was like, really?
Kind of like that.
That's a burp.
I don't know why he would burp.
Well, Sean belches a lot.
He would burp when the guy said spit out your gum.
It was ridiculous.
But whatever.
I get the point.
But at the same time, I was like, man, you could have been more tactful.
He was super loud, loud enough for everybody in the whole room to hear him.
Did you feel disrespected?
It was... Speaking of disrespected, I did a Google review.
The thunder struck place?
No.
Oh.
Of a certain property management company.
Oh.
I won't say the name of it.
Have they reached back out to you?
Are you talking about your HOA?
No.
Yes.
Not the current one, but an ex one.
Ex one.
Coincidentally, they... So I had a... We had a falling out with the company.
Our HOA board and the company.
And not just that, but there are all kinds of communities that have fall outs with the
property management, including Jeff's.
Right here.
Jeff's community... Totally get the fuck out of here.
Is it one of those gigantic ones?
No.
It's a smaller one.
You don't come out... Because they have ones that are nationwide.
Oh, yeah.
Now this is a small local one.
Where you can complain and it's kind of pointless.
Well, you see, a lot of those companies... I mean, we should talk a little bit about this.
People that have HOAs in their communities.
I mean, look.
Ignorance is bliss.
And a lot of these larger companies, it's garbage in, garbage out.
You're going to get what you want out of it.
You have to know about it to get something out of it.
If you want them to do something for the community.
If you want them to do some stuff.
You're brand new.
For example, we had a company, we'll say RealManage.
And it was RealManage, actually.
And not... Well, look.
This isn't to knock them.
He just outed them.
No, it's not to knock them, but this was an experience we had.
So first of all, they're a good company.
But this is a cliche garbage in, garbage out deal.
So we got a board.
It's a brand new board.
Because the whole board quit.
Just kind of left.
And so we got a bunch of new board people.
And we're like, we have no idea the structure of what's going on.
We have no... Or the procedures.
Yeah.
It's so silly.
It is.
It's pompous.
It really is.
A lot of it.
But I mean, there are rules in place for... The biggest reason is fraud.
Is because the HOAs, they collect dues and that money goes somewhere.
And they don't want the board members buying bicycles or whatever.
They don't want to... Vespas.
Yeah.
What I'm talking about is like the... Golf carts.
What I'm talking about is the procedures.
I was like the secretary of my HOA and I would write up the minutes.
And they would go, and somebody would go, I make a motion to approve the minutes.
And another person goes, I second it.
And there's four of us sitting at the table.
Well the thing is... And I'm like...
And you're like... Yeah, exactly.
And I'm like, and I thank you both for your motion and your approval.
Are they recording this?
In retrospect.
So why does it have to be so formal?
It's so stupid.
It's important to have... It is recorded.
You should have said, well, whoever said I second that, their name should go in the
book.
Well, no, like audio recorded.
So why be all official in this?
This was in Frisco, right?
Hey, the minutes look good, yeah.
I think they do as well.
It was in my old subdivision, yes.
If you were to say something, I motion to approve the minutes, Paul motions to approve
minutes.
And then you have when your neighbor's... Oh, this person tends...
Okay, what kind of neighbor did I have?
I don't know.
It was a random one, because I didn't want to... It was kind of like a Charlie Brown,
you know, where you couldn't really tell...
No, they kind of go... Oh, I see.
So it's just a generic, weird sounding neighbor.
So anyways, this company... Maybe they weren't clogs.
That's what it was.
Oh, so you couldn't hear them.
They're Dutch.
They were clogging around.
So you had a relationship with this prior management company on a personal level, because
I was friends with the owner.
And just because their HOA got rid of them doesn't mean I got rid of them.
It was just a collective decision by the board.
So anyways, I call for my work.
I was running into some issues that I had with an HOA versus an insurance.
I was like, huh, that's interesting.
I'll call up one of my friends who is a property manager owner, and he may know this.
So I call him up, and he was very ungracious.
He was not a nice person.
He could have just not answered the phone to you.
To me.
He was rude to you.
And it's just like... And then a flood of memories came back.
This guy was such a jerk to me in the past.
He called me a thief.
I remember that.
And I was very upset about that, because I was kind of like, dude, you're calling me
a thief.
You just followed the lawnmower that the HOA had.
No, it was the receipts for these... We have these pool parties.
And I'm fucking... We're charging three, four, 500 bucks buying different stuff, which
is whatever.
Weinerers.
Maybe it was a Home Depot thing.
But the thing is, I couldn't find the receipt, but yet I had it on my bank account or bank
statement.
Credit card statement.
Yeah.
So I still put it in for... They were like, where's the receipt?
I was like, well, I don't have it.
And then he was like, well... Eventually, it kind of... Whatever.
Ultimately, he called me a thief.
That's why you're a thief.
And it just... Anyways, that's where it became...
To your face?
We were on the phone.
Oh, wow.
So it was to my ear.
To your ear.
So kind of side face.
To from your ear into your heart.
I ended up going to Home Depot and getting that receipt and handing it to him.
In person?
Did you go up to him and go, bitch?
Yeah.
Here's your receipt.
The point of me bringing that up is that... People have bad days.
People react, but this guy, he's got like this...
Did he apologize?
No, he's never apologized.
He's never admitted wrong.
In fact, he... And so hold on.
This guy is the property manager.
He's the owner of the property management, and he's the manager.
So he is your customer.
Yeah, he is the customer.
No, no, no.
You are his customer.
Yeah.
Yeah, he works for us.
That's right.
You are his customer.
Yeah.
And he treats you like that.
I'm just duly noted.
Extremely condescending.
And so anyways, I go on their website because this flood of memory just come back, and I'm
just kind of like, man... PTSD.
HOA PTSD.
So I plug in there, and I'm like, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do,
do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do,
do, do, do, do.
So I'm like, man, you gotta understand the fact that the company does think this is a
disaster, that the company does see what it's doing.
And then in fact, they're like, I know you're against this company.
This guy's very condescending.
I mean, I wasn't absolutely douchebag.
I was just like, this guy is extremely condescending, and he's a Mr. Know-it-All.
He's a Mr. Know-it-All condescending.
You know.
Avoid his company.
So he had a bad review too, huh? He personally about the Volkswagen one he personally
Texted me on my cell phone after you left the review after that. It was a couple days later. He was kind of like hey, man
This needs to be taken down by this date and or you're gonna be held liable for slander and this and that
Way, so I went and
double-down
block block
Delete block. I pushed blocked him. I left it. No, I didn't take it down
What it's a you should have doubled down. It's an open platform
Absolutely, and it's there so that customers can leave a response
It's not a matter of slander. I mean is this slander if it's my opinion
Well, did you okay? Did you attack him personally or did you attack his company both? I?
Said he has the poorest customer service skills. I have ever witnessed. Okay. Well, there you go. There's nothing wrong with that
Yeah, there you go. This guy is a mr. No, it all narcissist
They called him that that boy if he could sue you for slander it'd be like these companies that
Support
Republic like that the restaurant that allowed Cavanaugh to eat there also and they jumped on to Yelp
It gave one stars and started throwing them under the bus saying they're
Tearing him up his turn about review wise
Yeah, I mean if that was what this guy was gonna do well couldn't that restaurant do the same thing to all of those people?
Yeah, they could I mean well, no that would yes your rationale is is you know, so yeah plus down
Well, anyways, it struck a nerve with me. I mean I wasn't upset that he responded that way
Just the whole thing. In fact, it may have been childish that I put the review on there. But in retrospect
Did you tell him you wanted to fight him?
You want a box it was the absolute truth and
And everyone on the board agrees with me I had a conversation with a couple of them
They're like absolutely we should have done that a long time ago. Mm-hmm. You know, there's you know, you should have been anonymous
No, I want to own I own it. I want to own it. Were there any other negative reviews? Oh tons. Oh really?
Oh, yeah, specifically about him. Oh, I mean not even the company was him specifically
So if it goes what the hell he's just calling everybody saying he's gonna
See how it slander and some of those other ones have been on there for 11 months a year two years
Five years six years. They're still on there. So, you know that guy's an idiot. Obviously he doesn't understand
Yeah, where his money comes from if if and because yeah all it takes is a board to say
So get a new one if you're like us and you're in the state of Texas and you buy or certain regions of Texas
I guess for certain communities some of them have HLAs homeowners associations
and you have to most of the time get a property management company and
You know Paul's been in one Jeff said well, we're all three in one. We dumped one of ours to get another one
I mean it happens. Yeah, I think we're on our
It doesn't matter what company it is guys they're only as good as the people they hire. Yeah, that's really true
You know the liaison is the you understand you could say you love Marco's Pizza
It's the best ever right and you you live somewhere else and you move to a new area and then the Marcus pizzas right down the street
You get super excited in his shitty customer service and suddenly now you hate Marcus Pizza, right? It's not it's not the pizza
It's not the you know, it's the people that work there. No, it's the pizza, too
No, it's me. Well, it's cold
It is combination they could have a bad day when they're making pizza, yeah
Well, you give it more than one shot. All right, so if you go to some some restaurant
We always give unless it's just completely egregious right where you just suck. Wow. I'm never coming back here, right?
Yeah, we always like to give them
a
Benefit of the doubt and give it a go like a bad day. Yeah, you know everyone has bad
Yeah, I mean somebody was telling me oh, I I we don't we will never have McDonald's again McDonald's
There's like what a half a billion of them around the planet and they go well
I said well why it goes oh, we got bad food poisoning from them one time. Oh
They serve over a billion hamburgers
I know I was like so you had one food poisoning experience and will never go back and because it's too dangerous for you
Well, I could tell you this
I've gotten food poisoning. I got food poisoning once off of leftover stew and
I have not had stew again to this day
Now was it the stew you made? Yes
That's unfortunate
It's wonderful. Yeah, hold on you but you make your own you can make your own stew. Yes
How long ago is that it was probably 15 years ago and you will not eat stew
I have no have a hard time with it because I it was a miserable experience
Yeah, I can imagine miserable experience and you're certain it was the stew
Yeah, because I was sitting or had I had it for lunch
But it could have been a taco that you made three hours
No, three hours later hit me three hours after I ate it. No, but my point is no. No. No my point is
I equate it to stew. Let's it doesn't matter if it was or not. I equate it to stew, right?
So my so my point is you made tacos one night and you let that sit out and you had that for leftovers and it gave
You food poisoning you would now suddenly would not like tacos anymore. I don't know same concept
I was never a huge stew fan
It's kind of like getting drunk on a rumple mince bottle and never being able to or not being able to drink rumple mince for
Right or let's say Buffalo Trace you got shit-faced on Buffalo Trace and you felt horrible never drinking Buffalo Trace
Oh, it's like having sex and you have so much sex that you make your penis all raw
I'm never having sex literally so sore that you had trouble peeing ever having sex again. Never having sex again
It's throbs
What what you see? Well, not when you're jumping in, you know, why do something get weird? Yeah, we guys start to talk about Buffalo Trace
Oh my god
Rob Rob says that I don't know I could see some
Try to go with the flow
Shoot me down
anyway, what's
wheels off
That's all right. So that was new. What's the but you have you guys done any Google reviews on anything ever?
I did I think I told you guys about when they the Volkswagen
Dealership nearby tried to screw me and say I needed a thirty four hundred dollar pair on my car
I got it and I replaced the tube for ten bucks. Yeah on Amazon
I think you should have responded back because they responded to you and they said oh, we're sorry
But no, no, no, no. No. No, my name is I just make up a name Clarence Thomas and I'm the
Supreme Court Justice. Oh
my name is
Beverly Watson and I'm the
That's Liz Cheney's great-grandmother. All right, fine. I'm Bob Smith and I used to work with the Bob Smith. Oh jeez
I emailed a Bob Smith today. I'm gonna go with no name and he said I am the director of
I'm the director of the service department
Please here's my number. Please reach out to me and you never did
I'm like you've got my number fool. I went to your store, right?
And you like charged me 180 bucks to diagnostically test my car
Tell me you I was gonna have to pay three and a half grand for a $10 belt for a hose or whatever
That's you know, it's disappointing because that's one of our our biggest pep peeves
Not just me you the whole planet is when it comes to these
Automoechanics, it's just like can't trust them man. You know, I don't I don't know who to trust
It's just you because ignorance is bus you have no idea
Yeah, you know, it's that extends to a lot more than that
It's also HVAC people right they go upstairs and they kind of just sit there in the heat for like, you know
It's way to come down to like yeah, they stay they sit up there for an oil playing, you know playing jewel or what?
Well, there's what's the thing when you slice the fruit on your phone those little games anyway
I don't know what's called your fruit. Ninja ninja fruit. You guys know what I'm talking about
Yeah, it was like 20 years ago. Oh, they don't have that anymore. No, I do like it
So he's in the attic playing games on his phone for an hour making you think that he's working hard on it
Then he comes down every now and then yeah knocks and don't don't don't don't you know and then he says there we go
See, I'm not a fruit ninja ninja. I've never played that my life. I did those like one of the very first
Phone tablet games. Yeah, it was interesting. Anyway, and then an hour later who comes down and go
Oh, I got some bad news
Looks like you're gonna have to replace all your coils and play your this and play your that and you're like
Oh damn it. What's gonna be there about six grand? Yeah, and didn't open anything. I guarantee that shit happens all the time, right?
All the time man. Well, I had that happen when I had my foundation fix. I got three quotes
First guy came out says it'll be this much
won't have to all the work will be outside second guy came in and
He did his little survey measurements and all that stuff. He came in and he goes. Yeah, it's gonna be about
50 grand and I'm gonna have you're gonna have to pull up all the wood in this half of the house
We're gonna have to drill through your house
through your foundation and put peers here and here and here and
we don't pull up wood and I'm gonna move first so you got to do all of that before we get here and
We're not gonna put it back. Oh, you mean you're flooring. Yeah. Yeah, it would floor what floor got you
Yeah, you have to pull all that up and through the entire house. You have to do that and then after you do that
It's 50 grand. Yes
Yeah, so then the third guy comes out and he gives me something very cool to the first guy and you're like
And I was like, we're hold on
I was like I just got a quote from company a B and C and he said that I was gonna have to do all this
He just looked at me goes
No, you don't need any of that. He goes he's looking for a payday
He goes and if you wouldn't have gotten more than one you would probably thought well, that's what I have to get done
All right, so he was looking so it was about four times higher than
Unbelievable what the other two guys were that's why you get three bids. Yeah. Wow. Well my job
I'm used to getting estimates and they're out there. I get them all the time these guys
Like I mean, yeah, I mean I got one clubbing this guy to climb right now
12 grand the next one's
1950 next one is 29 500. I
Mean just for the new windows. I got the second bid was half the first bit half
Oh, yeah, and the second bid was extortion. I
Should have gone for a third fourth fifth, right? Because you should I mean I screwed up by not doing that but I mean
extortion
You have to you have to get multiple beds
Look can't go with the first these guys are their intellectual property when it comes to certain things
I mean if you don't know, you know, you don't know and it's they know and so you got to kind of like take it for granted
Oh, I well, I guess they know and you know, you get suckered into it and you know the people that they prey on
You know to me just like the little old lady. Oh
I can't afford that I'm on a fixed income. Well, we got a payment plan. That's alright
Yeah, so my neighbor were in our old house
There's a little old lady that lives next door and she was always you know
Didn't want to bother me but like I need help by my my you know smoke alarm is chirping or my toilet won't flush or
You know, whatever it is if it runs constantly right you man to that little old lady was like I don't have
$15,000 but I can work something out
No
No, none of that happened. That makes me think of kingpin
Remember you
Morning sure horny at that age. I've never seen it. Oh god. It was one of the most horrifying scenes of any movie
I've ever seen and I'll ask him to pull it up later. Is that a grandma doing something?
No, it's the is somebody that is she's the landlord and the guy can't pay and so she's like
hmm, we can work it out and she like is like basically like implying that he needs to
Go the opposite of up on her. Oh
That's and he she's like going yeah, oh it's it's awful
Yeah, do the go ahead. There it is scroll down. Oh
No, that's her. That's her but but that's not well, she's got some terrible. Okay. Look it up
It's a kingpin and look up
Bathroom scene kingpin bathroom. Oh why this is she was using the restroom at the same time dudes
I know it's so bad. It's traumatizing
Yeah, that's it there it is. Oh my god, I don't want to watch this again. It was traumatic
I've never seen this
I am calling the cops. Oh, whoa. Hey calm down. Calm down. Calm down
What do you hear also? Yeah, it's a comb over cuz he had to do it. Just take a deep breath
Did you do the one on the far left?
There's got to be some way I can work this off some way I can make it up
No, she's the landlord this is so gross oh
My lord, no, that's not the scene though
Oh, stop it you wasn't that bad
He had to have sex with her
No, that's a different scene
No, that's a different scene that makes me have to crap
I really jarred something loose tiger. Oh
It's really gross it's really gross
I've never seen that I may have to watch that
Either I was my point of view and talking about talk about old ladies old ladies
Oh, yeah, so so she her garage door spring broke
Oh, yeah, and they quoted her five grand what?
Oh, yeah, like three grand or five grand and I was like and she was like
I don't know what to do and I was like I'll come over and I'll buy you a new spring
I'll wind it up for you. I'll fix it and she's like, oh my god. Thank you so much
Did she make you cookies or anything some brownies? No, she said are you done yet? I need you to leave
I was like, I'm still wanting it. Okay. Well, I you know, I need to go to bed. Good Lord
It's hold on. I didn't think you had to wind them. I thought you I thought you just put it on force it
Uppers it force it down. Yeah, that's it
you so some garage doors have one spring some have two and
In any case you got to wind it you got to wind the spring which is very nerve-wracking
Okay
No, so I mean I installed bars you have bars and you have to put one in is like
And then you put the other bar in like this, right? Yeah
Well, you and if you don't put it all the way into the slot
Absolutely people have died. Yeah, that's dangerous. It is extremely dangerous. You've got to be very careful
well, so so what I've done is I've uh, I've actually
Installed it with the door up
All right, and then you pull the door down and it automatically winds it
I
Don't believe so you must have did it wrong it it worked I guess it works
Calls over here doing really dangerous things
Because it's because I've never done it I have no idea because it's loose on the pole
it's just loose right the spring just sitting there and then you have to you have to it's a little tight in the one side and
It fits into a little lock set and then watch a lot of videos on it. So I did it
Yeah, it is very dangerous man. That's that's one of the and look here's the thing
About that is that not only it's not necessarily that you can lose your grip on it and have it come back
I'm bad bad bad bad bad beat the shit out of you over and over
Is that simply the spring can break it can break and that's how well that's how it and it breaks to begin with right?
Oh, it's like it's also like filling tires with air
I've seen these I've seen some footage where they're in the military and they're filling these big airplane tires and they exploded that just
obliterates
Yeah, these peep these guys vaporizes
So that's one thing that a lot of people don't recognize about garage doors. They think it's they think of their light
You know what I mean, you know, but they're like a 900 pound metal door
right, and the only reason why it's really light is because there's this
incredibly wound tight spring
that is that is
Dangerous, right? You know what I mean? It's just it's interesting that people don't recognize how
Like how dangerous a garage door is at all?
Well, I mean there that's why there are some kids that have been caught
In the garage door when it's closing and when doesn't have that safety feature on
I'm shut and you know, it's just with the weight of it just kind of well
Stalls garage doors. He does a great job, too
He doesn't he does he's down in Austin though. So yeah, that's too bad cuz I'd hire him to
I need I'm due for a new garage door Tara had backed up into it and
The damage that she did
It's starting to get worse and more he still comes up every now and then
I'm gonna work. Well, I don't know. I mean we could reach out and say hey next time you're up, you know
Absolutely. Yeah, cuz she backed into it and it will it open and close it will so she backed into it a couple years ago
And it's just that since then it's become more and more dilapidated the section
It's kind of like, you know, it's it bounces and it bounces
It comes in and out. It's it just becomes more and more loose. It still works
It's just on the cusp of breaking. Yeah, and frankly
I'd rather give it to Alf than anybody else because he does a great job because it was bound up and I had all kinds issues
With it and you know, I'm not an idiot when it comes to these kind of things and I gave up
I was like fuck it. I'm done off comes over there dude upstairs. I went to the store or something
I was at the store. We came back like 20 30 minutes later and he was done and gone
Right and all he did is like tweak tweak tweak tweak tweak tweak. I mean he's got his I guess he's been doing that for his career
That's yeah, he does very well for himself
Yeah, because a lot of people don't want to and can't work on it and I don't blame them
I mean, it's not for the faint of heart to wind your own garage door
Well, not just the springs but the mechanics of the rollers going down
I mean, I mean it really it seems like a really easy concept and it is it really is
Simple but when it's in your garage and it's contorted
Jacked up jarred and you got to loosen it up
You know, I don't know what the fuck can do first not to mention the chain and and the operator itself
I mean, it's a lot of elements to it. Absolutely
Now and this all falls back under the home improvement
Sections of a lot of our podcasts we talked about if you know, what should dudes like us know?
When should you throw in the towel and say I'm not doing I need to fence that out to somebody right?
Yeah, you know, I would think garage doors would be something you want to do, but they're really not they're really not I wouldn't
I've replaced a couple. Yeah considering but I was hearing you can save
I mean it depends on the amount of money, right?
I mean if it's 500 or less and it's something I just don't want to take on. Okay fine
But when they're quoting you 1,500 bucks to replace a garage door spring
And I know I can do it myself. Yeah, but I'm talking about
You know garage garage door springs should be around for one. It should be 250 300 bucks
That's other is get I should be well get quotes. I promise you it's way more than that, but well
Maybe that's what it used to be but a brand new garage door with with a motor is around 1,500 bucks, right?
You know, so I'm a brand new opener
Yeah
Huh trying to remember the name of the company there they've their
Over a garage door. Yeah garage door opener is that garage door? It's overhead garage. Oh, they're yet. No read. Yeah, those guys are
Nationwide, they're so cocky to it
Some of the characters I've come across with overhead and there's you know, they just if you have any stupid question
It's the worst
Like totally what's wrong with you boy, you know
Good old country boys. That's what they do. I've done overhead doors last 35 years. I
Mean, but you know what? You got to give credit to guys that are
So good at their jobs that you know, like you said that guy
You say it was your my brother-in-law. It's that's the binding in your garage door
I mean these guys know their shit and he's fixed mine
And you have to yeah, you have to amazingly respect that as like these guys that come out and fix these huge ass
Motors, whatever it is that he's out there and he's he's kind of he's got a hammer in his hand
He's like looks at everything and he he taps part of an engine twice dink dink and charges $20,000
And then the the wisdom behind that was kind of well, why'd you charge me that fucking much? You were here for like
two minutes
Right. Well, you're paying for the previous experience. Yeah schooling. That's because we say that about doctors all the time, right?
Yeah, it took me, you know 50 years to figure out where to tap that
Right, you know, yeah, if I didn't tap that it'd still be broke right now
Well, it's just like doctors would you go on they're like, why'd you charge me fucking 500 bucks to whatever you just did
Yeah, see you see me there. Yeah, I waited for 45 minutes
You saw me for in there. Yeah, I waited for 45 minutes. You saw me for less than a minute, which is pretty typical, right?
And yeah, what the hell but you're paying for 10 years of education. Yeah, you are
So you remember when I had that?
1994 green Ford Explorer. I
Love yeah
I
Sold it to Shelley's brother. He and he never paid me and he destroyed it within a year
Anyway
Sell it for 800 bucks. Oh
That sucks. That car was awesome. Was it was an automatic? I loved it. No, it's a stick man. That car was great
It was like I loved it, you know big back you could shove anything you want back there. Yeah
so anyway, I
Man, I don't know how I found this guy, but he was a guy that trained Ford mechanics
Trained them like at dealerships right and this guy was a complete stud and he did work on the side
You know to make a little extra money and so and he lived all the way in Richardson, right?
So I would like you know how when you have a guy you trust right? Oh my god, you latch on to him, right?
Anyway, so I call him. I was like man something's not working. Right? It's doing this and that and this and he goes
Are you by it? Is it nearby right now? I said well
Yeah, and he goes go out there and start it up for me and hold the phone next to the engine. I
shit you not and I was like really come on, what are you a freaking car whisperer and
I just sit there holding the phone and then he go and I get on the phone with him. He goes
Oh, yeah, it's the blah blah blah blah blah bring it over. I'm free Thursday afternoon
I'll go ahead and get the parts and we'll get it swapped out
He could hear what was wrong with my car
No, you know guys are like that is he still because all he does is Ford. Is he still around?
I haven't no I haven't talked to him in probably 15 years. I don't know if he's still where he was but right amazing
Amazing. Yeah speaking of amazing. We haven't discussed our
Our Paul finished his four ounces. What and the hell is going on over there? I spilled it down your throat
Yeah, I only had an ounce. No, you didn't. Yeah. Yes, I did. I have one ounce. Well, I okay
I have but I still have both my two ounces. I have to tell you the nose lots of caramel and brown sugar
So first of all, what are we drink? We're drinking Bardstown
Bourbon Discovery Series number six. Oh god, the glass smell number six, huh? Yeah, not number four. I believe it's number six
Discovery Series number six, mr. Producer guys. I'm smelling the glass and
It is smells incredible
You're smelling the empty glass. Yes
Yeah, it's got a it's some rich sweet caramel. It made your caramel
I may have to have more after smelling this class from the fusion series
It's a hundred and ten proof, I think right under 1111. Maybe I don't know another one
So this is a blend. So this Bardstown this Discovery Series
This is the six that I believe the seventh is out. They have they have another version of this as well
This is a blend of three different
Bourbons
68% of it is an 11 year with 75% corn 13% rye and 12% malted barley
Then it's 16% Tennessee whiskey. It's a 17 year. Oh, wow
That's what I smell and then 16% MGP. I guess it says Indiana. That's a seven year
I can eliminate everything else. It's the 17 year. It's 17. That's what you get
Incredible. That's what I smell. Yeah, 17 year Tennessee whiskey
16% yeah, but how much oh 16% Oh 16% Yeah, so the tasting notes a burst of vanilla
Cedar I've never chewed on cedar. So I'm not sure what that tastes like
I've been around you you can't even taste it. It's like a
Cedar plank and pushed it through a saw before you never tasted it. Yeah. Well sawdust gets all in your
Your
Sinus area you can smell it
This is a tasty dough. Anyway
And then candied oranges evolves into dark chocolate produce and black cherry with floral accents a
bold balanced and ringing finish
Those that says ringing
All that. Hold on a second. That's what's going on over here. I
Wanted a little more taste
So you hold no I'm being told no I'm a grown-ass man
I want a little bit more of this bourbon and I'm being told no
What the hell is happening here? Look, I gave you an option. I was gonna I okay
I want another little tiny poor Jeff didn't hear what I was saying
I was gonna bring hey, I want another little tiny poor Jeff didn't hear what I proposed to him an ounce and a half
I heard that you did I proposed Jeff and I
Want my other half? Well, no, but we got our two. No, I want my half. That means we get another half. That's fine. No, I
Don't care. All right, mr. Producer. Let me have it. I will pour it. Okay
All right, they're giving me grief for our three listeners. We're being held hostage. Yeah. Well, here's the deal guys
I was like, hey man. Look, I need help with my drinking. I'm getting blown up too much. I'm getting drunk
I need help. I need help. Can you guys please help me that in here?
We are given in that is not how that went down. Oh my god urinating everywhere. Jesus. Well, that was just after
The throbbing no
You know what poor him a minuscule thank you Austin Austin's being yeah, seriously I do
I'll tell you what I do a little tiny just a little time. I'll give you some of mine. I
Don't want to backwash this dude. I know it's so it's a blend with including Sean's backwash
Well, you know what it just brought up the value. I
Dipped my dick in it. Oh, come on. That's too much. That's where that smells that was way too far
All right, so he's gonna give me a little tiny poor art
So the little background unless I if we've already talked about this I am going on a one month
Oh, did it pop? I just spilled your house. I'm going on a one month kind of control my
intake of alcohol
And soda that's half an ounce. That is not a half ounce
Smells so good. This is really good. I don't work tomorrow. So gentlemen, I'm going to give this a seven and a half
What are we going with? Oh wow that that nose is something else
Yeah, the nose on this is spectacular I think yeah
Okay, and it's Bardstown bourbon company and you scroll back up. What was the name of this again?
It's a far
Series number six Discovery Series
Six hundred bucks hundred bucks. It's a fusion series number six. It's a blend of three different
mash bills
Kentucky to Tennessee in Indiana is the origin of a 11 year 17 year
in a seven year 17 year
17 years
17 years of the Tennessee what that one is a truly a malted barley. It's 84% corn on that one though. Yeah, yeah
I wonder if that's a
Dickel
That is a bourbon technically that Tennessee you realize that that Tennessee whiskeys
They don't want to call it a bourbon. Well, it's not a bourbon because it's 84% corn
It only has to be 51% corn
Oh, I'm sorry. I was I was dead. Hold on forget it. Oh my gosh. Yes. It is a bourbon. Yeah
I mean I miss Jack Daniels is a bourbon
But they refuse to call it a bourbon because they're proud of their Tennessee whiskey
Bourbon is associated with Kentucky
There's this Tennessee Kentucky kind of rivalry in terms of you know that kind of stuff, right?
Well, what was the bourbon we found that was?
What was the bourbon we found that was Tennessee? Tennessee was sweetens Cove. Yeah, that was nice. Yeah, that was that was a Kentucky and Tennessee
blend
Wasn't it? Yeah, they called it, Tennessee
They called it, Tennessee and they and they they made some crack on the bottle about how we are able to come together
And mend our differences, right? So anyway, so highly recommended. It's about a really good
It's about a c-note for the bottle. Yeah right around there and it's a series fusion number six
with a blend of three different types and
Actually, I think this was more like in the 140 range. Was it really? Yeah. Well, this bottle was 140. I believe it was
This was one of our first ones that we went in on together. If not the first one. Oh, we've we've got
we've we've got
ever since we
Started combining our money and purchasing instead of three separate bottles, right and buying one really nice bottle
Man, we've scored some home runs. Yeah, I mean I can't wait for the the next month or so
Oh, so it would you know, which kind of defies what we've been saying though. We've been saying
More money doesn't necessarily mean a better bourbon. It does it because we've had some where we're spending 100 bucks like the blood and oath
Yeah, or the blood oath whatever it's right. Yeah, we spent 100 bucks on that and we're like, it's good
But yeah, we've had some you know $50 ones that are just as good
Yeah, it was more like the the box was cool. You know, the story's cool
You know comes out once a year. It's hard to get kind of a thing. Just like Blanton's right? It's just
So when you look at the ages of these three blends 11 17 and 7
I mean, there's no slouch in any three of those that they blended with this
So I can understand why this one has the price point that it does. Yeah, because this is
Well aged all three of them are well aged, right?
So so the average age what do you what would you put of that probably?
Uh, it's gotta be like
13 maybe
I don't know. I mean the seven years gonna bring it down. Well, what's the average 11?
It's 11 plus 17 plus 7. Well, you can't divide it by 3 35 divided by 3. You have to wait it though
Oh you do so
16 oh, there's a lot going on there. You know what too much. I'm not a man. Here's the deal
It's fantastic
It's fantastic. Do like us recommends it. It's bardstown bourbon company discovery series number six
Recommended if you have the label is uh, there's a like a burgundy or maroon. I think right i'm going up to an eight
I just sipped it again. It's an eight. Yeah, it's really really good
And they they they come out with these and it maybe it's one of these where as they get released we buy them
Because each one's different each one's a different blend
Right, right. It's fantastic and i've heard some are really good some are
Not right. So it's a hit or miss. So maybe we do our little research before we pick one up
You yeah, you seem to
A lot of times you're when I call you and I say hey man, is this a unicorn?
You you know what they are or you know if they if they if they are a unicorn, what what are you reading?
How do you how do you know this?
I watch a lot of videos do you?
Yeah, guys who knows what they're knowing what they're doing about just bourbon in general bourbon
Yeah, and they you know these videos just kind of they walk through like their top 20 or top 10
Sometimes some are some are uh, you know that you know, there's this there's this community on on youtube
these bourbon guys
Uh, there's girls too, but uh, you know that they throw challenges at each other like you can only have five bourbons
Right, right in all the world in all the world and which ones are they right?
So you watch and you know and you know not specifically this one
But you know barge town some of these may be one of them or the one we'll have in the second half is one of them
Right, right. So, you know, that's where I kind of get my knowledge or if they give it a terrible review, right?
If I see a bunch of bad reviews, I'm like, well, I'm not gonna
Spend money on that right? Right. So how many people do you think come to our podcast with that kind of?
for that kind of expert advice on our on our bourbons and
Um heard to say
We're up to almost 3 000 listens now 3 000 downloads. Yeah, really? I don't know about 2 900
Wow
You know, there's a way for us and it's new we need to figure it out
That we can earn
uh bitcoin now
By how many listens we have? I don't know. I haven't researched it
yet, but there's a way through the rss feed that
Uh, I don't know how it works. I think people just like can donate bitcoin to you
You know what? I wish you know, I know we don't have a lot of listeners
But it would be really fun to know who we do have
I know we have a couple listeners in like ioran. Well, we have to actually come up with our with a little platform
I mean be nice. I want to do that. All right. Well, I guess we gotta just do it. I mean we have a facebook platform
We have an instagram platform where we just have to cultivate it and jeff was talking about this earlier this week
Is that we got to stay on top of it. We got to start putting our post on there
I just posted something today about these two he did but we have to reciprocally. I tell you what right on facebook
I would not mind being the kind of the social media
Uh, you know person of the group. I don't want to have to lay that on any one person. I think it'd be fun
I think just do it
You know what do it if we all three intermittently do it people know we have a facebook
I mean, there's one and we have a few followers. Oh, dude. Well, I'll tell you what when you post to instagram
One of the switches I just saw it today. I was I never paid attention is post to facebook as well
Okay, so we could probably go back and all of the instagram posts that i've done
You can probably say, you know post facebook and they'd all populate on facebook
That's kind of cool. All right at the same time. I mean because I would love to hear from them and say well
That was you know, if they say that what's working and what's not working
So we should moving forward. Uh, we should
Um just put on there. Uh, I don't even know what link to put so we put the rss feed for dudes like us
Or do we use the apple link feed for the spotify?
I have I have the spotify one on there, which I think I need to change because
Most people do very few actually listen on spotify to us. I do. Yeah
um
So but you have a but we should have like an icon and you click on it and it shows you
and you click on it and it should whisk you away to
our
Spotify one, uh, then put right next just like they have all of them. They have the twitter
facebook
Um, you can't do that on instagram. Okay, so let me let me try to rephrase what i'm saying
So what i'm what i'm saying is that you can have a link
Where where are you to start with? Uh on the facebook page on the face on the facebook page you load in a a topic or note
So you're you're making you're just making you're posting something and you just copy and paste a link
And you can copy and paste
The apple one and then on the separate separate one on the second post you can copy and paste a second link
That's the spotify one and you make like a total of five posts. Well
You just made five posts and they're all links to your podcast
So, you know the fact that you made five posts it's going to get out there a little bit further
My point is you first of all, we just said we have to make the posts
so I think
That's what we just have to start doing you have to make it more
So I guess to do that I need to log on to the facebook
Well, do you have a facebook jeff you have to log on through julie, right? Yeah, I don't have facebook
So I I do so you would have to log on to or we come up with a fictitious person's name
And well, there's a dude like oh you mean just to
Join be friends with it
Yeah, I was gonna say we have why can't we just don't we have a dudes like us id?
Be facebook can't be an entity. Oh, it's a person. It has to be a person
Well, it could be that's what it is. But well, I mean right now it's made the facebook the page is under mine
but the admins, I mean it could be
If you're an admin
So what i'm trying to say is that all I have to do is unsubscribe as an admin
And I can be taken off completely then the face the page kind of migrates over to somebody else
You know what I mean? So we can go back and forth, you know, all three of us could be admins
So yeah, we need to do that
Would you because I want the people who listen to this to be I want to be interactive with them
Yeah to be able to communicate. Yeah
I mean if they if they think something's hilarious, so they want to know more about something because a lot of times
What we do is we start?
We start stories
And we get we interrupt each other and we don't finish them. All right
Well, I mean so maybe i'm sure somebody would say man you you're gonna say something about something and you guys didn't get to it
Right, you know, so that would be kind of cool to hear that too. All right
Well, you guys um, do you guys hear about do you remember sarah sarah palin the governor of alaska?
She's running for senate. She is not running for senate. It's her house. Well, she made it to her
Uh, she made it past her primary. Yeah, the guy that she's replacing was the longest serving
Uh, he died right congressman. Yeah, he did. He he was the longest serving congressman in congress
Right at the time. That's a problem. What is was like when you die in years or something?
You die of old age in office. It's kind of like pelosi, right? It's kind of most of them
There's actually a bunch of them that yeah, it's like a bunch of a biden is like probably the worst one and he's president
Yeah, they did. Ah, man. He's dying office. He was given a token, you know a token chip, you know
He just cashed in all his blue chips. It's kind of like whole life
It's kind of like these guys trying to make life all you know done
Is be all these cardinals spending their entire life kissing their the the catholic
butts and to get pope
It just
It drives me crazy. I'm I hear you. I mean it this is anyway
So yeah, I didn't mean to bring up the pope but that was that was good news
I mean sarah I i've always been a fan of sarah palin. I think she was
Very very treated very very unfairly. Yeah, it was she was
And um, and if there's no reason for it mocked and brutalized
In my opinion and I would love to see her make some sort of comeback. How could they did the press ridicule?
uh kamala like that
No, of course not man. Oh, and she was and she was and she was horrible
And she is horrible. She is horrible. Yeah, sarah palin least knows what the hell's going on
Yeah, I mean she sounds for how many years? Yeah, she was the chief executive of
Of alaska, right?
You know for answer to the president. I think the fact that she sounds
That accent they have up there
Is what they it was easy to make fun of her
There was a whole bunch of reasons. She she was a threat
That's what it was her kids because she's got she's got some that have some special needs
Yeah, they get caught out on that though. Yeah. Well, yeah, but still it's just like they made fun of trig her son trig
Oh, yeah down syndrome. Yeah. Oh totally dogged him made fun of him, right?
And they made fun of amy karen barrett too with the adopted kids, right? They made fun of them as well
Unbelievable, they get away with all this. Yeah. Anyway, so i'm very excited that she uh that so they have a very weird system up there
um
Do you know i'm talking about in alaska? Yes, they they have a system where you have to
You give your first and second and third choice and if it's ranked. Yeah, there's a rank system
Um, oh, no, I don't know. It's really weird. Uh, anyway, but she she made it and so did the lisa merr merr
Whatever. Yeah, one of the people that uh voted to impeach trump, right? She's the last one
And if she doesn't
I think that's correct. I think there were 10 republicans. Well 80 percent are on their way out
because liz cheney
Law just lost just her primary
Terribly bad brilliant. It was so good. She she is so caught up in herself
And her cause
That she's blinded. Well, I know
I know walk me through the process because I didn't really I wasn't paying attention and I don't understand what you guys are talking about
When she was because I read a blurb about it that she's trying to get the democrats to convert or something like that
Yeah, and what is that they're talking about? So in in wyoming and in a lot of states, right?
They have a democrat democratic primary and they have a republican primary
Republican primary and they have rules that say you have to be a registered republican to vote in the republican primary
and a registered democrat to vote in the democratic primary and so
She was asking because she knew she was going to get clobbered and she was panicking
And she and she knew she she loves democrats apparently
I mean she's in bed with them with this whole january 6 thing. Well, they've welcomed her with open arms
Because she's not a republican, right? She's really a democrat, but she was asking
Democrats registered democrats in wyoming to switch parties and vote for her in the republican primary
So just let that soak in
Total freaking snake. Well, if you remember back in the 90s rush limbaugh
Did operation chaos?
Oh, I don't remember he did the same thing trying to get clinton out saying all the republicans go vote in
the primaries
As a democrat and vote for not clinton. Yeah, I don't agree with that
But I understand what he was so I don't know if he was serious about anyway
That was a long time ago, but it was an operation chaos. He tried it back then
I don't know if he was serious about it then so yeah, so it was it was something it's not new
No, no, it's not new but still it's that's just it that just tells you what your true colors are
Yeah, so yeah, she you know, I don't know what her voting record is as far as bills and stuff like that
But she is she's so blinded by her
Hatred for trump. That's exactly right. She can't see anything else and the person that beat her
It's a woman named Hageman Hageman
That's exactly what she said. She said trump appointed. Yeah, no trump backed trump supported
Well, I'm in trump trump endorsed trump endorsed. Yep. Yeah, so she said
The reason why she got clobbered is because she has been obsessed
Obsessed literally and that's the right word obsessed with trying to take trump down
Yeah, as a matter of fact, she has said even if I before she she knew she was gonna lose and she said even if I lose
I'm oh, no. No, it was that other guy adam
Kissinger a kinkinger kinsinger. Yes him. He said
She he said about liz, uh about god. I'm struggling cheney
Cheney strictly said that he is going to she is going to follow trump to the gates of hell like never going to quit
Now what relationship was he to dick cheney? Oh, it's his daughter. Yeah, it's daughter. Okay, and he
He came out in the ads for for liz cheney big anti trump or two
I mean calling him a coward and calling him a it was the biggest biggest threat to this republic ever
I'm like, what are you talking about to do the establishment?
Yeah drinking the same Kool-Aid as to the establishment
I read something that this is the first time that there's not a bush
McCain a Cheney or Clinton and public office since 1967. Oh fantastic
Get rid of all of them. This is the first time and then George W. Bush contributed to the lid Cheney's campaign
I was like, it's good. Get the hell out of here. Yeah
What makes you wonder? You know, it's the whole it makes you wonder
I don't you know, I don't even know what the fuck all these people to be so blinded for their hatred
I don't think they're blinded me. I just they are I think that there's there's some sort of master chess game that they're playing
You know, they're still playing it. That's a good point. I mean back to your establishment. It's the deep state
Yeah, I mean Trump is a major threat to the deep state
And he's not part of it and my wife was asking what are we talking about deep state?
And I was trying to explain that to her, you know, it's like it's like this this power apparatus
It's just cabal so rear career politicians that are obsessed with power. I'll give you an example of
the extent of the
The deep state and how Google is part of the deep state. Oh, yeah, they all are so
Mr. Producer, I want you to pull up a blank
There you go, so he's already anticipated this so
When you when you when you scroll although hold on scroll all the way over to stop when you click that he typed in climate change
It's a controversial topic and he clicked on it in about point nine eight seconds. You have what?
101 point seven one billion billion results populate
billion
Got it. All right, so scroll all the way to the bottom because you're thinking oh my god
I'm gonna be scrolling for quite some time scroll all the way to the bottom
Okay, there's a bottom eventually. There you go
Hit to the ten. Oh
Oh
It looks like someone's not silencing their phones tonight. Yeah, geez Wow
Okay, so what was your point he clicked on ten? All right, so now go click on 14
Did you see a tick tock that showed this?
Yeah, what did you do?
See where he's going 18 now it takes some time. So just kind of take the rest of the podcast
No, no, just go fast and see if you can't get down to it
21
Okay
So we have one billion seven hundred and thirty nine
What oh there's not anymore although what's going on in order to show you the most relevant results
We have omitted some entries very similar to 2000 already displayed 200
200 what I say
But there's not in order to show you the relevant results. We have omitted
so it could run it again to show the
Yes omitted ones. Yeah, now and that's what the one you do. You want to run it again and so that you can do the omitted ones
What it tells you the same they're basically trying to like no, let's get let's get to the end of this because that this is going
somewhere, okay
All right, cuz remember there you go thirty
and
I think ultimately gets up to 44 45. Oh boy. It's not that long. Come on
We're losing listeners left to the right. We lost the one we had. Yeah, he was in Ireland
Damn it. Well now we're not international anymore
Yeah, we have somebody in
Alright, so there you go. It's 44. So hold on. What does it say there? Does it say anything about um?
I scroll all the way to the top. Is this what you call jumping the shark thing? So down the six page 44 of
435 results
so it went from
one
one point six billion
results down to
435 one point seven billion down to
The 435 results my point is is that that is the end of the search
They're not going to lie to search anymore. So those people that have that and that is how they're becoming corrupt
So you talk about deep state you're talking about control on
Intelligence and
Informations, you know that is how they're doing it. They're cock blocking us. Yeah, search engines. They're controlling controlling what you can read is
That is an example and that is so huge you can do that with almost any
Controversial topic and that's exactly what happens. It's the same thing
Well, we yeah, we've already known right leading up to the last
Like never we've never had a sensor and they never had that's that's that's proof
That's absolute proof
Well, I don't yeah, I don't fully understand that so why would they say that there's 1.7 billion
Results and they're really only 435. Well, they're only gonna allow you to see that they're choosing the ones you get to see
Okay. Well, yeah, yeah, we already know that right we know that yeah, but that's proof now, right that proof it says it
You know, we're sure what can we do about that?
We say false advertising you can go you're reporting false duck duck go. Well, he says that they all do it
They all they all do it
Well, I think at some point there's so much information that they they have to figure out some way to
Manage. No, I think that you go down a list of if it has
If it has the it should tell you we're gonna show you the top 500 results. There you go. Boom
Boom, don't tell me there's 1.7 billion
Yeah, and then and then and then not ever let you get to any of those. They should just tell you
Hey, here's the top 500 results
Or whatever. I don't know what determines the top
Right, so I don't think this is as much of an issue as just downright censorship not showing this is
This I mean, but look what we didn't do is we didn't look at the ones that had on there, right?
There were there were there was nothing on there that will support climate change not being a farce
Okay, so they chose a bunch of
They chose a bunch that are left
Slanted left right essentially that didn't that didn't conform to it
It's just it to me. It's proof because you can do it with almost any
I'm telling you totally can and that's part of the deep state and that's part of Google. It's part. That's just fucked up
I know, you know, why is it that we can't have a search engine when you search something that it we don't have all these
Conditions, you know if I mean do we need to go on the bus to go in on the black web?
Is that illegal dark? No, it's not the dark web. It's not how do you even get to the dark web?
There's a certain browser you need to use
dark web browser correct and
So I know why pervs and demented people go to yeah
You can find like anything you want you could find
Contract killers that's where they sell all your fucking personal information, right child porn
I mean, I don't want to get mixed up in it
But yeah, there's there's that there's a certain browser that you get in order to go there
Is there any would there ever be a reason to go to the dark web that isn't in a fight? No, no
nefarious
Is there ever a reason to go? I mean, what is he maybe go look to see if maybe your information was stolen or does
Google work on the dark web? I don't know is Google on the dark web
Has to be right. I don't know. I bet you yeah
Run, I have no idea how they're both
I bet Google is on but I mean you have Google which is
Everything that Google represents and then you're the dark web which has both Google and everything that the Google doesn't mean
I bet you they run the dark web. I
Don't know. I mean, they probably make money off of it and they probably run the dark web
Like how does the dark web like for example, I want a website, you know, I mean just the websites themselves
I mean, I just I didn't know about this until Trump tried to have a website and they were like
Oh, well, we just fucking pulled the carpet out from him
Yeah, because all these left-winged people own all that how can they own the website like parlor?
I mean, how can they own it parlor shut down? They said we're not they own the servers
Is that these right these websites are on and who was it was it Amazon?
Those Amazon AWS AWS and and yet I poured tons of money into Amazon, correct?
Yeah, so well, I'm a complete if I want to open up a part of this
Let's say I open my own server farm and I put whatever
You know five thousand servers on there, you know
Yeah, now is Google gonna say hey, we don't want to use we're gonna bypass my server farm
They're not gonna allow access to my server farm. You have to have your own silver farm. That's why so does that mean?
I have to like, you know Sean enterprises you got a log. Am I like duck duck go my like Google?
Well, that's probably runs on Amazon, right?
There's these server farms out there AWS is one of the biggest if not the biggest one out there
So when Trump social no truth social had to they had to build it on a platform that could they would never shut them down
So what is that? So they're on they're on their own server
They had to build their own server farm really or find a company that is sympathetic to them that won't shut them down
It's incredible. When did we get to a point where that kind of stuff could be pulled?
well, there there there is there is a
a movement out there to create a secondary economy
That says I'm gonna set up my own server farm
I'm gonna have my own stores of all these places that do this kind of stuff
We're not gonna start shopping there like I'm just throwing this out there hurts hurts. You're a woke company
I'm not gonna rent my cars here now
This other guy just opened up this rental company that a non woke economy. Yeah, correct
I'm gonna go over that. I love that. So like Patriot mobile you heard that on the know
That's so Patriot mobile out there does not donate to any of the woke shit. Does it go into it?
So that's a that's a that's a new cell phone company and they're advertising on all the talk shows Patriot mobile
I like it, you know, so there's a whole movement to get that
Secondary economy built that it's not dependent on all these companies that it is today
And it's so disheartening because today we had a town hall my company had a town town hall
Did y'all have to tell your pronouns?
No, no, we didn't yes some guy come out be like no right all you bench warmers
I want to give you guys some good work up today Wow
Where'd that come from? I don't know how the town hall meeting started. No, they were introducing their department of was it purpose?
Department of purpose or something like that. I don't know anyway
What well every company has DEI right correct diversity equity and inclusion inclusion. I thought I was do it yourself
No, that's do you I?
Why do you right anyway? So yeah, they were talking about our our obligation?
To to you know to help society to help the our communities and of course they were talking about
They were talking about climate you know climate change and how we have to be zero
Net zero carbon something could you raise your hand ago? I don't believe in that
I mean it wasn't it was probably massive how many people were on there anyway
so one thing that was interesting is they were talking about an organization that they contribute to that
They're they're wanting to help
black
Students or black young black
Professionals that don't have four degree four-year degrees
To give them the skills to get into the marketplace all right, and I'm thinking how about some white ones
Yeah, I was exactly I go why why would a company?
Put any condition on it if they if they believe that you don't have to have a degree
And they're trying to help people who either can't afford degrees or or whatever why just black? There are tons
There are there are I get there are more
white
There are more white
Young people that don't have four degrees than black
100% easy because just look at the sheer numbers there are 60% whites in the country
There are 20 something percent blacks in the country
13 I thought it was in the 20s now 13%
Okay, well you know what I mean, so if you're really trying to make a difference in helping people that can't get degrees or don't
have degrees I
Just I just have an issue with
It isn't equity. It's it's creating. I don't know it's racism in my eyes
Yeah, I just I felt like asking a question and saying again
Can you imagine if I had asked that question? Why is that program only for black people?
Why can't it be for white people to a little bit like HR? Oh make sure you make
Imagine can you imagine the response and and what the people on the call would have thought about me?
And really all I'm I'm what I'm saying is I want to help I mean I'm a total believer in that
college is is a
Racket oh, yeah college is a complete racket. It is what you learn in college
Very I would say less than 10% of the people of what they learn in college actually matters in their job, right?
Unless it's very very specialized there specialized ones that there are you have to there are but still less than 10%
Yeah, I know I was on a call and I've had those same type of calls where I'm just like I
Don't agree to with what this this person or this message and I'm like
I'm not willing to lose my job. Oh, of course not and you know
And I also don't want to I want people to think I'm a racist
I don't want people to think that that I you know, you know all those things here's here's my problem and
You guys know I'm an idiot and I've already we've I made this I didn't I sent an email to
HR requesting to opt out on
some of the
Heritage months the heritage months. It doesn't matter which one it is. I don't give a fuck
I mean, but I opted out because it's a distraction, you know, I mean
You can't you can't opt out for you know, like the month of February black history month. We got 28 days of
Email of emails of different people and I've mentioned this in the in the podcast before and I don't want to harp on it, man
But it's just like it's it's one thing to do it if you're gonna do it do it
All right, but on the the 11 other months of the year, it's like oh, hey guys
That's Pan-american month and here we go. They don't do it
And it it they do but it's like one day
Why is it that they do 28 days of black history month and then one day of everybody else it I don't care either way
It's all a distraction to me. It has nothing to do
I mean look here's thing if we worked all in a big-ass building together, right and you know what? Hey, you know what?
Joey from Kenya is
bringing fucking lunch and his family whipped up a batch of
African
Delights they're gonna cultural food. Yeah ape. You know what? Yes
I'm all in I think that it's great. But I think if everyone's working from home and there's no
There's no contact. There's no substance to it. It's just the only reason they're doing it is
So that box it is it's to it's to make that blue check is a blue check or green check blue
It was a blue check, but it just I do feel that way that it's to check a box
I mean companies are now feeling pressured that they have to do these things
And that was another thing they said on the call our clients are really there they're asking there there, you know, we
They're insisting that we are participating in these types of programs. Otherwise, they're not gonna choose us as a vendor
Yes, there are there are diversity
quotas and
Every every big corporation has them
Look, you know that you have so many you have to have so many suppliers that are minority owned that are female owned that are black
Owned that are this owned and you have to mind some of that
I mean, I don't mind some of it, but you had to pay more. Yeah, I mean in my experience I
I just I don't know I
Understand where their heart is. I do I understand where they're going with it
I I think and I think it is important to provide opportunities and all that kind of stuff
But they're hard to be I don't like it to be artificially forced. It's not their heart
It's it's them being afraid. Yes, they're you know in and I'm not like that. I'm telling you I'm stop
I'm stepping up. I'm I'll be that guy. I'll be that martyr and it's like look, it's not right
You know, I don't give a shit there. I am no different from a black person. I
Am no different from an Asian person. We all bleed red
Right, so like Republican
No
Look it look it shouldn't even be that way between Republican and Democrats
It shouldn't it shouldn't be you know what some people believe that there should be more
Government-sponsored programs and there's people that believe there shouldn't be it shouldn't be an argument
It was shouldn't be hatred. Yeah, definitely
It's hatred at this point
Blown hatred well it kind of goes into the article that came out this week that in
Minneapolis or Minnesota
that school districts up there are going to
Fire the white teachers first
What is that all about? Yeah, it was a year ago
What do you say fire do you mean lay off lay off right? Well they lay off so let's say they close a school
So what they're gonna look at not seniority not skill
They're gonna look at race and say this is a white person
They get to go these were new policies that were drafted for a teachers union in I forget which state
I think it was Washington. No, it was Minnesota. Oh, Minnesota. Okay, and get that so that's what he's referring to
So basically if there are layoffs the union
Has stated that the first people to be laid off will have to be white people
And whose Minnesota's what is her name part of the quad? Oh
Omar
Omar Ilana Mar and is Talibe the other one is she she's out east somewhere
I think you see Omar won her primary barely. Yeah barely. I don't believe it
But whatever it is what it is. I don't want to start that but I know I think it's I think it's bullshit
You know, I said it to my wife
You know, I said it to my wife and she was just like she's like, oh, that's racism. Yeah
Yeah, the teacher union policy thing complete racism. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how how you get away with that is illegal
It is illegal and now they're starting to twist the rules to where you know, they just turn the I mean
They just turn the other way like well, I wonder if that's our way to have
Black well, I wonder if that teacher has a lawsuit grounds. I'm sorry Jeff. I didn't mean cut you off
Well, well nobody's this is just policy at this point. Nobody's been late
I know but but if it passes and it comes I don't know if it's passed or not
but if you if I was a teacher up there and I got laid off and you would think so what's the reason that I'm
Getting laid off is your white. I'm white. That is absolutely a hundred percent grounds for lawsuit, right?
I'm sure they find another reason they won't say because you're white right, right?
Yeah, I know I know
Anyway, it's very yeah, it's very frustrating
I don't know
I think it's things like dudes and dudettes are having to go through it now in the professional realm
just you know, just and you know a lot of people just got their their nose against the grinding stone and
Sucking it up and buying less and less because we're making I don't say we're making less but we're things are costing
We're spending more, you know, it's it's just absolutely and the new
We'll talk about the second half but the new Biden bill that just passed we'll talk about that
Oh in the the ball the IRS tax bill how I mean we are struggling with inflation
How is it a good idea to pass?
An almost eight hundred billion dollar spending bill. So how do they not understand that spending?
More that that bill is a joke
It doesn't even do because a lot of it they give deadlines to like 20 31 20 35
It's it's ridiculous. They know it's not gonna work. They know they're gonna eventually cut it out
Yeah, it's loaded what I'm curious climate is what parts of that bill are active instantly. All right. Well dudes like us
It's August 17th. It is God bless still hot outside
and it's
But I
Looked at the forecast and it's gonna cool off quite a bit. Yeah, because of rain expected rain every day. I hope
Yeah, I mean I saw highs in the 80s. My yard is cracking
cracking
All right, well dudes like us I'm Paul I'm Sean Jeff