Wow, I think this is more like one of the first times we come back from the second half
and I'm like, I feel like I went to a buffet. I'm stuffed. Yeah, that was quite the spread
down there. There was a lot going on. God, I haven't had a salami or kind of so capicola.
So Dudes Like Us, we show up for the podcast and for those viewers out there. First of
all, this Dudes Like Us, I'm Sean. I am Paul. And I am Jeff. And we have a show once a week,
at least we try to do it once a week. And we have a show and it's basically one night
we do two shows. First, when they're about an hour and a half ish each show, each show
ish somewhere. And half time we go downstairs, we have a snack, we talk about things and
how they went and usually we're scolding me on some stupid thing I said, which is we just
think you talk too much. That's all. Raise your mic up just a little bit. And then we
have snacks. Usually it's popcorns. Yeah, because we're all fat and we're trying to
lose weight. And then Jeff has like all these seasonings he throws on there. They're extra
slap yo mama. I don't think that's healthy. Skinny Pop is not healthy. It is. It's like
three cups is like 90 calories. Really? Yes. Oh, well, I'm glad I ate a lot of that then
and three cups is basically that entire bowl. Yeah, but when you when you but when you eat
like a bag, we don't need a double fisting. Well, today we had a lot of food. Yeah, well,
that's Sean, Sean brought over buffalo chicken dip. Yeah, some of that too. That was good.
And then on top of that, your wife and Miss Andrea, yeah, leftover had a nice charcuterie
our local neighborhood dog. What do they call it? Dog Walker. Dog. Blue dog. Democrat. Mr.
Andrew dog Democrat. Yeah, yeah. She had one of our favorites. She catered some event the
other night had a huge charcuterie and had some leftovers. Lots of salamis and lots of
fruits. Yeah, I'm not sure. It was nice. It was nice. I'm full. I'm not gonna be able
to eat until tomorrow evening. I am too. As normal. Anyways, I started diet. I don't call
it diet or fasting. It's it's intermittent fasting. So essentially, like I won't eat
until tomorrow between five and six. And that's conditional starvation. That's all that is.
Another word for it. Yeah. But here's the thing. Redefining words. Yes. Yes. Working
though. So yeah, but is it working in the correct way? I don't know. But the result
you've lost weight is I want to lose weight. What do you mean? So you said it's working.
So are you losing weight? I'm losing weight. So are you losing fat? Are you losing muscle?
Well, I'm losing weight. So that's where it's at right now. I think as long as we continue
to do our workout, even though it's kind of intermittent, you know, I think that that's
fine. Which do you lose first? Do you lose fat or muscle first? Well, you start with
fat and if you eat if you don't eat enough, then you start getting into your muscles.
Well that's after you burn all your fat. No, no. Look, here's the thing. I don't eat. I
have coffee in the morning. I drink a lot of water during the day. That's good. And
and you know, and it's not even painful. It's not it's not hard at all. You know, I just
assume whenever I'm hungry, I stand up, I walk around the house a few laps and grab
a bottle of water, suck it down and I sit back on my desk and I start pounding on my
work. See, it's amazing how many different diets and different variations of advice you
can get about how to lose weight. I don't suggest it. What I have been told is that
you need to eat a lot, very small portions, very frequently. You're supposed to nosh all
throughout the day. Man, look, I've tried all kinds of things. And that is the exact
opposite. What you're doing is the exact opposite. I get it. I get it. I get it. But you know,
there. But isn't it frustrating? There are some people that believe on the opposite of
that. They believe exactly what I'm doing. And it's just like they give themselves a
portal in which they're allowed to eat and they give themselves a four to five hour window
right of the day. Yeah. And that's the time you eat. So my portal started when I got over
here basically. So I didn't eat anything. So yours is from midnight to 10 p.m.
Jackass. Right. That's your portal. No, like I got here. What? So you're allowed to eat
for a 10 hour. No, for twenty two hours a day. Like when I get home tonight, I'll probably
have an apple. And then I go to bed and that's it. You're not supposed to eat right before
your bed. Go to bed. See, that's not true either. You know, all these things are are
rules that people say that they're rules and that some people say there aren't rules. And
it's just like saying it's frustrating. Who's right? Many wrong. But here's the thing. At
this point in my life, I have tried numerous, numerous diets and none of them work. Yeah.
But for how long? It doesn't matter. And were you 100 percent true to it? I've been unsuccessful
regardless of the reasons. So this one, I feel like I have more control because all
I have to do is not eat, is not eat. And if that's it, then I'm good because I can eat
whatever I want during that little window of opportunity as long as it's reasonable.
Because really, like an entire pizza. That's not going to happen. That doesn't work. No,
but you see, here's the thing. My stomach has shrunk. So at this point, you get sick
if you eat a whole pizza. No, but here's I have a technique. So what I do is I eat a
small protein. A protein like a professional teenager, a couple of pistachios. Or you know
what? I'll have a little bit of that pulled pork. You know, I've got a bunch pre-packaged
and I'll do I think I've measured them out to 125 grams and I'll have a little bag of
that and then I'll just kind of sit bitch for about an hour. And my stomach takes it,
it's having fun, it's having a good old time. And by the time when it's come to eat like
something else, I'll have a little salad and I'll throw a little extra meat on top and
I'm done. I'm good. So far. During your portal. I'm only yeah, during the portal time. So
I've only been doing this what? Since Thursday, six weeks, Thursday of last week. So it hasn't
even been a full week. But look, here's the deal, guys. I weighed 155.8. That's a really
good weight for you. I'm sorry. I weighed 255.8. Yeah, that's like, wow, you must be
like three feet tall. My dick fell off. Wow. So I weighed 255.8. Now I'm not saying this
is working. I'm not. I'm not. All I'm saying is I weighed 255.8. All right. Before I got
in the shower before I headed over here, you have a good deuce. It was one. It was 255 of
two fifty one point zero. So you guys seven pounds. No, no, it's four. Oh, I thought you
said two three. It's two five zero. So two fifty one, two fifty one period zero. That's
all water weight. Yeah. It doesn't matter. I said I was water. Yeah, but I drink lots
of water. So just like when I had the stomach flu, I lost 10 pounds. I water weight. But
here's the thing, guys. It's going down because I measured myself. I weighed myself, you know,
every other day. It's going down. It's going down. It's going down. So I don't care. I
mean, it's it's it's it's it's only we've all struggled except for Paul. Right. He's
just like, I lost five pounds. Oh, yeah. I quit drinking and I lost five pounds because
I'm eating lots of protein. Sperm. What? What you said? Oh, no, I did not say that. Interesting.
You know, I think we're going to have to omit a few words from our vocabulary. I wouldn't
mind sperm being one of them. Whale. Sperm whale. That's not bad. Yeah. We were talking
about whales. If it's a compound word, it'd be different. Yeah. Can't be a pause in between
sperm and whale. Yeah. Well, I mean, this is a spurt. Well, I was going to ask you guys,
have you seen Terminalist? Yes. What is that? That's the name of Chris Pratt. Chris Pratt.
Oh, my God. I just watched Passengers again with Chris Pratt. Oh, I want to watch that
again. That was such a good movie. Yeah. I love that movie. Me too. Me too. All right.
So what I heard about it terminal list, what I heard about Terminalist is that it was getting
torn up by the critics. The critics are a bunch of bulls. I don't listen to any critic.
I know because here's what they were saying. Oh, it's full of, you know, masculinity, wanting,
wannabes. Military, pro-American. Yeah. What does it say? Glorifying the military and,
you know, all this kind of crazy stuff. And for those that don't know, the Terminalist
is an American action thriller television series based on the Jack Carr's 2018 novel
of the same name. The series tells the story of a Navy SEAL who seeks to avenge the murder
of his family. It starts Chris Pratt. It's quite violent. Oh, it is. There are some dark
parts to it I was not ready for. I mean, when he killed the Sicario, I kind of warned you
about that. You did. You shared something about his intestine. And I was thinking, wow,
he's. Yeah, he was. But they didn't really show anything. Well, they showed him handling
a very long sausage. Yeah, that's true. They did. Oh, and then said, hey, you're free to
go. All right. You can go walk now as his intestines were nailed to the wall. Oh, yeah,
that's right. The guy passed out and died before he could move. But, you know, yeah,
it's very good. I'm actually going to read the book. I'm going to read this whole series
because this guy, Jack Carr, he's an ex SEAL himself. You know, what's interesting is that
that so Chris Pratt is the producer. He's the everything of this thing, right? He's
the producer, the obviously the main actor. And he said what it was along with the director.
They were both saying a big reason why they wanted to make this is because they wanted
to honor it. It's a shout out to to military personnel and Navy SEAL. And there's a lot
of stuff going on behind him. He's doing shady stuff. So how is that really? But are they
honoring Navy SEALs? Are they? Oh, he's clearly doing shady stuff. No, they're doing their
job. Well, but he's well, he was wronged. He was he was given the different. This is
no different than what's the Keanu Reeves John Wick. Yeah, John Wick going around just
vengeful. Right. So this guy was given the compound G or whatever it was called. Right.
And again, brain tumors. Are we spoiling it for any of us? Yes. Spoiler alert. So as I
post this back up. But the point is, is that but what are what is that compound stuff they're
giving? Well, it's supposed to enhance them. Right. So that's what it was. It was an experimental
thing that they wanted to give because, you know, when you sign your life over to the
military, you're like you're their property. Right. You know, so they were trying to make
them more elite. Yeah. And this stuff was. I haven't watched the whole thing. So this
stuff was supposed to make them more in the midst of watching. So you haven't seen the
intestines. I just see that one. Responsive. It was supposed to enhance them all around.
And it perhaps did. But gave them to gave them brain tumors and then they tried to kill
them all. Yeah, they wanted to suppress. Right. So they tried to kill them all. And now because
if it got out that this was causing tumors, it was going to torpedo the company sale,
the company sale. Correct. Right. Oh, yeah. So anyway, but what led me to to talk about
terminal list going kind of going back to critics is that this is joke. It's one of
these examples. Click on Rotten Tomatoes Terminal List right there, Mr. Producer. And and this
is what the problem with critics are. Average average thermo thermometer tomato meter, tomato
meter. You're close. So that is that's the critics, right? That's the critics. Yes. That's
thirty nine percent. Stop making fun of me. Thirty nine percent of the Tomoman Tomoman
meters is 20. Oh, what? Oh, all critics are all critics. Twenty six percent liked it.
And then the average audience score was ninety four percent liked it. Well, you know what?
So the average person, us, a dude like us, liked it. It's kind of like the everybody's
choice of words. You know, the snobs didn't. You know, you got the people that say, all
right, look, if you're going to want if you're going to have a movie and the movie has to
hit a criteria and they're like, all right, well, you know, the criteria is A, B, C, D,
whatever it is. Doesn't matter. The people's choice. Don't give a shit. They're kind of
I like the movie. I think it hit all marks. Whatever. I don't care. The critics are looking
at those tiers. They're looking at. All right. Well, did it fulfill tier one? I think so.
The full two turn to two. I disagree. I disagree. Well, that's what the critics are kind of
like. Like they're grading. I mean, an analogy that they're grading the the chilies, you
know, like, you know, the people's choice can love the chili and they could rate it
fantastic. But the critics are going to be like, well, it didn't hit the mark because
the tomatoes were too large and the beans weren't right. And it had meat. I don't think
that's all of it, though. I think they they look at these these days. And just like Paul
said, there's too much masculinity. There's too much pro-America, too much pro-military.
So I don't like it was. Yeah, they woke. They woke. Wokenism is applied. Sentiments. That's
too bad. Totally personal sentiments. So who are these? Here's the problem, though. Sorry
to interrupt, Sean, but here's the problem with that. It completely makes their opinions
irrelevant. It's void. That's why I don't look at any completely irrelevant. Yeah, because
we're supposed to be looking at that going, hey, should I go see that movie or should
I go watch it or should I rent it or should I buy it? Right. Is it a movie worth watching?
Well, here's another thing that people that watched it said, yes, they they average a
tomato meter. Well, for this example, the critics, it really should be a little bit
more broad, you know, because even at the Cisco and Ebert, you know, they would give,
you know, there's a little two thumbs up, you know, but they would also explain the
movie a little bit like it was a very fun movie to see. It was different back then.
But it was still because I used to watch it. I used to watch it every Sunday or whenever
it was. That'd be one of the shows we'd watch the Cisco and Ebert show. And they'd have
three movies and we'd sit there and listen and they'd break down the movie and they'd
say why they didn't like it or they'd never said, well, it's too masculine or it's too
pro-America. Even after the end of them criticizing it, they'll come back and say, even though
I didn't like these parts, the movie was a lot of fun to watch because a lot of action.
There was a lot of stuff going on. The storyline just sucked. So, Mr. Producer, click on see
score details. Let's just pick one or two really crappy scores from all critics, right?
And let's see. Let's see what they say about it. What do you mean? Because it says, I go
to the top critics. No, no, no. Any of them. I mean, you're supposed to be able to click
on it and it tells you why they didn't like it. Well, it's the actual reviews, right?
Yeah, the actual review. Where does it say that? You can't click it anywhere, huh? So
where are the reviews? I don't go to the site at all. I have done that before. So do they
hide it? I don't know why it's not in there. All right, let's try it again. Let's try.
See, select top critics. Just. You're supposed to be able to. Oh, okay. Can you click on
the tomato? There they are. There we go. All right. Here we go. Let's see. Let's just pick
one of them for me, Jeff, and read it. Let's see why they say it's horrible. All right.
You got Alex Mady, the Joe Blows movie network. The Terminus likely would have worked far
better as a feature film or maybe a limited series of no more than four to six episodes.
As it stands, the story is overlong and ploddingly told and somehow makes Revenge feel bland
and boring. Okay, we're giving it six out of ten. Scroll down to this one below. The
problem with trying to intellectualize a glorified one man mission is that the writing paints
itself into a corner in terms of real world nuts and bolts. Oh, my God. It gave it a one
point five out of five. This is a dude from India. Rahul. Rahul Desai. But hold on, I'm
kind of curious. Click to the left left of the full review. I mean, one point five. Guys
are moron. I don't know. I don't know what went when when when I see these critics and
they're like the Oscars, right? The movies that they nominate for the Oscars, I've never
seen like the last couple of years. I've never seen them. So are the critics that you're
deciding who wins the Oscars, the same folks that are making I think so. I think I think
there's a there's a panel who decide what movies are up for best picture. And they're
all recently, for the most part, just obscure things I've never seen. I have no desire to
see them. So this is a I mean, we could translate translate this directly to politics. I mean,
this is currently how our politics are picked as politicians. I mean, what do you mean?
That's the same type of of lottery. You know, you would think it's the people's choice,
but it's not. You got just the critics that are. Yeah, I couldn't tell you the last time
I actually read a critics review that a lukewarm and dilated story poorly sustained by a mediocre
performances in spite of the important names in the ensemble and without much else to offer
but the promised resolution of a predictable plot. Mr. Paul, it's actually Paul of Prieto.
Paola Paola Paola. Yeah, I mean, but again, I'm going to argue that they are completely
irrelevant and invalidate from Argentina when 94 percent of the people who watched this movie
loved it. And Chris Vassar from the Irish Independent. So how would a critic how does
any critic go? How do we get so wrong? Yeah, they should say they should see that and go,
man, I must have missed something. But look, of course, you know, what do you think they
say? I watched the whole thing. Well, those people are just plebs. I mean, what do you
think, Jeff, if you were to give it a scale from one to what they was one to one hundred,
they gave it a what? What did they say on their eighty nine? Ninety four percent. What
would you give it? I mean, I'd give it a name. It was well done. Now there were, I thought
in the first one or two episodes that there were some really slow spots. OK. And once
you got past those first couple of episodes, it really picked up. I thought there I even
told that to you. I even said that to you, Sean, that there's a couple of spots in the
first one or two episodes that it's just really slow. Right. Right. And outside of that, I
thought it was outstanding. Like I said, I'm going to write the book and read it. I give
it a like four or five of eight of a ten out of ten. Yeah. Eight out of ten. Yeah. I mean,
it was maybe maybe maybe a B plus. Yeah, I could do that because you know what? It was
fun. Chris Pratt's fun to watch, you know, the the technology associated with everything
that the Navy SEALs have, you know, all the gadgets and gears. You know, people like to
see excellent teamwork, you know, and how they they go into places, they infiltrate
and they're they're they're communicating and they're you know, these are the type of
books that I read. I enjoy this exact right here. There's about three or four authors
that I read that and I'm going to add this guy to a Jack Carr or this exact same thing
where they're black ops elite force. Yeah. Well, they're even above that. Right. They're
the elite elite. And those are the books I read on top of, you know, a couple of other
ones. Right. But I read this all the time. Yeah. But those guys that are the elite of
the elite, unfortunately, they only they have a they have a shelf life. Oh, for sure. Yeah.
I mean, you can only deal with and what is interesting is these books that I've read
that I have like 10 or 12 in the series, all these guys, they age through this series and
a couple of them where they're getting into their late 40s and they're starting to deal
with and they deal with the the age aspect and still trying to do what they do.
So I say they're dealing with like the trauma PTSD. Well, that maybe what's the physical
attributes? Well, the physical attribute course, it's beating the body down. It's keeping the
mind sharp. And so they're what I find interesting is, is the characters are aging through the
series and they're dealing with it now and they're struggling and they're and yeah, they're
having to work out harder. They're having to do this. It's not as easy as it used to
be. Right. Well, that makes it realistic, at least. And they're having to think what's
next? Right. So what's all right. I can't do this forever. What's next? Right. Yeah.
Yeah. I don't know. What do what do they do? I mean, how do you go from a career like that
back into like working at a manufacturing plant? Well, that's part of the challenge,
right? Is adjusting back. You hear about the the soldiers coming back and say last week
I was over there shooting people and now I'm serving hot dogs at the ballpark in a completely
what? Normal, quiet. Yeah. Like it's an adjustment. And a lot of a lot of the guys having some
little shithead disrespect you. Yeah. And you kind of like, dude, I just I just watched
five of my buddies die. Yeah. Like this country like less than a week ago. Yeah. Last week
I was over there and you're getting pissed at me because someone forgot to put a fucking
mustard packet in your bag. Right. You fucking suck. Yeah. Yeah. I can understand the frustration
and the the the adjustment back to be it'd be it'd be difficult. Well, I mean, that's
what PTSD is like, like very prevalent. Let's see if that's different than just the adjustment
period. Right. Yeah. Well, the post-traumatic stress syndrome is, you know, those are from
experiences like hardcore, like, you know, run driving over an IED or something. I mean,
the whole experience of going overseas itself and being exposed to it is one form of it.
But, you know, you've got extreme cases where you got these guys that that can't sleep,
you know, they're they're having just like these bad dreams and, you know, they're needing
this medication and they're just going crazy to where they blow their head off. Yeah. Yeah.
That happens. You know, it's more than I should. It was happening way back in the Vietnam War.
And you know what? Nobody gave a shit. You know, and it's fucking sad because nobody
knew nobody knew. It's kind of like the women in the past. You know, they're complaining
and I don't want to stay home and do dishes, all the shut up again, the kitchen, make me
a pot pie. No one was listening to them back then. You know, it's the case. I could give
a straight face with it. What the hell? No, but I'm serious. The whole Vietnam era thing
was, I mean, really, there wasn't a sensitivity towards those Vietnam veterans. There really
wasn't. And there should have been. There should have been more attention to it. Put
back them. And in fact, it should have been something public, not attention public wise.
There should have been real hands on exposure to these soldiers when they came back. They
came back, they got them off the bus. Yeah. They put them into their hometown. And they
said, hey, good luck. Good luck. By the way, here's your wheelchair. Did you get the impression
or you ever had the impression that the people coming back from World War Two acclimated
so much better than like Vietnam or who knows or version golf? Well, we won't know. But
I don't think so. I don't think so. You think it was because I'm saying because I see I
watch the documentaries and I see they're very old guys now. Right. And they still break
down. Right. So they still deal with that stuff. Here's your story. So they came home
and they started a leather leather business. That doesn't mean that they were in a good
place. I think that a lot of the the mentality of some of these these guys that grew up is
back in that era is that they they had hard times. So it was hard no matter what. They
were a little more conditioned. They were conditioned, I think. I mean, there were still
still hardships. Well, I think I think I think I think came on a hardship on a farm is a
little different than being a trench warfare. All right. Having you absolutely right. So
I think there's differences there. And I guarantee those guys and what were the guys at Pearl
Harbor? Well, what I'm saying is that these guys were these guys were more taught to keep
it in and keep them their emotions in check. And I think that's a big part of it. I think
that's a big part of it, you know, because they call it the greatest generation. Right.
They were thankless and they just got it done. They got it done. They got it done. And they
just kept it in. And that was what you were supposed to do. You know what I mean? You
weren't supposed to complain. You weren't supposed to admit that you had PTSD. You weren't
supposed to, you know, you had a family to take care of. You had a farm to run. You
had that. You just came back and you just did it. You just took care. Well, there were
a lot of back then that just weren't reported. Right. And I think I think you're right. I
think I think they were dealing with all that same stuff because you know what? There's
no way any human couldn't not write. You know, you have to you have to have you have to be
affected. You know, they weren't different types of humans back. They exactly they just
dealt with it differently. They dealt with it differently. Right. I mean, we don't know.
We weren't alive then. There wasn't coverage about it back then. No. So how do you know?
But just seeing what the soldiers go through now. We've got parents that have gone through
it. You know, well, yeah, but not World War Two. I don't know if your dad ever went through
a war. Well, my grandfather did. Your your your father was in Vietnam. Yeah, he went
through Vietnam. So I don't know how he deals with that. But my dad, I'll tell you a story
about my dad. There have been moments when we were living in Germany. My my dad was came
home from work. We ate dinner. We were eating. He served us ice cream. He sat on the chair,
was watching TV, had the bowl of ice cream. He had finished it and fell asleep in the
chair. And my sister and I, I don't think my brother. I don't know if my brother was
born or not. Doesn't matter. We're laughing in on the diner in the dining room and well,
the dining room was it was like the whole fucking place is like a thousand square foot.
So it's not very big at all. And something that happens where my sister makes an abrupt
noise and it was from laughter. It was from it wasn't anything bad. No one should have
got in trouble for like, ah, that's so funny. Well, my dad woke up, gets up out of the chair
and dives to the corner of the room. Oh, damn. For safety. Damn. And then he was
stood up and realized what the hell was going on and then took his bowl and fucking threw
it across the room and then went to bed. So there are little things like that. I'm kind
of like, wow, you know, that happened. And then you wake up, that's post-traumatic stress
syndrome. Oh yeah. You know, I think, right? Well, yeah. Cause you think there's in inbound
mortars. Yeah, that's exactly what it is. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's what they dealt
with. They were sleeping and then mortars would hit the camp and they would all have
to, you know, something like that. Oh yeah. They'd have to scramble out of bed with, you
know, you know, adrenaline and fear and God, I mean, I'm awful. Yeah. You know, I felt
bad when it happened, but even, but it didn't really register back then. I just felt bad
because it happened and I didn't understand. But now that I understand, I'm kind of like,
I feel even worse. You know the why. Yeah. Now it's just like shit. And there's, that's
nothing there guys like that, that, that never got over it. My dad, I think got over it obviously.
Yeah. Well, there's my father-in-law did as well, but I tell you what they tell, you know,
he told the story where he landed and was going through the airport and got spit on.
Yeah. They did. They completely disrespected the Vietnam. He got spit on. It wasn't like,
yeah, some of the guys like you got spit on. He got spit on. He got spit on three purple
hearts. Yeah. Silver star. Yeah. That's insane. Despicable. Yeah. Unbelievable. I mean, he
goes from turning 18 on the plane over there, 18 years old and goes through what he went
through and comes home and gets spit on. Oh, but his story, he's got such a story and someone
needs to capture it. Yeah. I mean, cause he shared something. I'm not going to share it
because it's his story, but the story they have is it, it's so Alan, the things, cause
the things that he did before he got in the military, you know, in high school, you know,
selling booze out of the trunk and doing that. And then the job he got in the Marines, how
he's kind of like moving ice around, like ice was a commodity and it was like, he figured
out a network on how to get ice from point and he was kind of making a little side gig.
He's always been an entrepreneur of some way or. But it's just, it's just, and yeah, that
was just a little slice. It's not like he could really get in trouble for it. I mean,
it was like one of these things where, you know, you, you have a laundry list of a schedule.
All right, we're going to bring ice to this place today. We're bringing it to their tomorrow
and we're going to make the list of where it's going to go. Well, he had the choice
to make that list. So he was able to, you know, whatever. I mean, there's a lot more
to it obviously, but I'm not going to get into it, but it was crazy. His story was absolutely
funny. But when he turns a corner and he says that when he was out in the jungle and he's
out there for 45 straight days because his platoon was blown up. Right. And he's out
there alone and he says, he's got these people to the left and the right of me. And I never
forget my dad saying this when I said, when you got these gooks, he went dad stopped me
and says, Hey, you don't have the right to call them gooks. I can call them gooks. Interesting.
So I don't call them gooks anymore. But anyways, when he was sitting out there and you know,
there's people walking, you know, feet away from him, right? That will totally kill him
and the two other guys that are with him. Oh yeah. Wow. Crazy. You know, and nobody knows
that story. Right. We know it because he told it to us. Yeah. That story needs to be captured.
I know. There was one time when my company, we decided to go visit a nursing home for
a day and we set up all sorts of stuff. There were people, there was a musical show where
people were playing instruments, you know, that for the company that did that. And then
there were people that just, you know, whatever they needed, you know, whatever they needed.
Well, one of the thing I did was just go talk to people. There are people that would not
leave their rooms, right? You know, they have like a community area and they don't want
to leave their rooms. So you go in there and you say, you know, Hey, you mind if I sit
and talk with you? And some would say, leave me alone. No, you know, and then, but there
was this one old guy that was, uh, I sat down with him and he was a war war two vet and
he was like, did he give you a popsicle? Uh, no, no, he didn't. He didn't. But you know
how you were talking about earlier, they still break down. Right. He was telling me stories.
I mean, and I don't know if he's ever told anybody these stories. Maybe. I don't know.
And he just started, yeah, he started crying and yeah. And I was consoling him and telling
him and cause he was like saying stuff that the things I've seen, the things I did, that
was what he had like major regrets about the things he had done. Right. And I was like,
I was like, sir, you were doing your duty and you did it well. And you know, you know
what I mean? I was kind of trying to make him feel better. That's the thing when you're
in the, in the middle of it, especially during like war war two with the Germans, right?
Because you've got an 18 year old on this side and you got an 18 year old on that side.
They're not, neither one of them had a choice to do what they're doing and they're just
trying to kill each other. That's right. That's right. And you do things and there's things
that you do out there that are questionable. You know, it's kind of, you're trying to stay
alive and there's only, and when you do them, it's just like, well, I just killed that guy
a hundred yards away. I just killed that woman by accident a hundred yards away. So there's
only things that you and God know that you did. Your, your, your neighbor didn't see
it. Your friend, your partner, your, your soldier next to you didn't see it. You saw
it. Right. So there are certain things that you have to own. You just, you know, there
are guys that are dropping bombs out of, out of airplanes and you hit a, or out of a tank
and you blow up a school or something. Well, you know, that's collateral damage. Right.
You know, and you got to own that. And that's something that, I mean, hard to deal with.
My God, man. Can you imagine? That's, that's why it's, it's so hard now with the terrorists,
right? Because they hide in hospitals, they hide in schools, they hide in those type of
places because they know that the U S has rules of engagement. Yeah. Where they will
not and they're using human shields. Right. And that's when the type of bomb or missile
that killed the, the last guy, the head of the, yeah. Did you hear what kind of missile
that was? The bunker bomb? No, no, no, no. He was on a patio. He was on a patio. And
it's a type of small missile that came in there. Then it shot out a bunch of blades
and shred of them. Wow. And they, and they studied, they had, they were on him for weeks.
He was living in a hotel and they saw his routine where he would go out on the patio
and have a coffee or something. And they were trying to minimize collateral damage because
his family lived in the hotel as well. That's why they, that's why they use that type of
weapon. So when the bomb, when I should say missile, because it was not a bomb, it was
a missile. It is. But when the missile hit the patio, did it just like, I don't think
it hit the patio. I think it exploded right before it. I mean, I don't know, but it, they,
they said that a bunch of blades came out and just cut the guy apart. Well, there, there
are very sophisticated munitions out there. I mean, they've got these bullets that fit
in these super large 50 caliber bullets. I'm sorry, guns. These bolts are smart enough
that it's going to know that it's going to go through a cinder block wall and it's going
to explode after the cinder block wall. Right. That's amazing. Amazing. That's amazing. You
know, it knows to hit the wall and explode before it exits the next wall. Well, and I
read that there was munitions that changed the battlefield in Afghanistan where they
could launch, it was a grenade launcher and they could tell, they could program when it
should explode. So they would lob it over the wall where those guys were shooting at
them lob it over the wall and they knew exactly how long it would take to get over the wall
and explode just past the wall. They could literally tell the like they had their iPhones
out and says, so you say amazing. So you could just, you could say, all right, I wanted to
go off in five seconds as soon as it's launched. Right. Or you're cause I mean, I think it
would be, cause they know how far the distance is, right? I guess the gun you can see infrared.
They know that the wall is 37 feet away. They need to explode 39 feet away. Even hand grenades
way back in the day, they're timed, right? So you pull the pin and you have it. What?
Seven seconds time was time to throw it. Well, I know, but that ability, it wasn't quite
as refined back then, but it's been there. Right. Yeah. But for as a bad ass as it is
or the, the, the potential for it to be is, uh, you know, you don't hear a lot of those
stories, you know, and that maybe those are special stories that are, are limited to like
the seal team. Don't talk about it. My dad doesn't really talk about his military experience
much. My brother-in-law doesn't talk about it much. Yeah. I think a lot of guys just
bury it. Yeah. They don't want to talk about it. It is, you know, even, even my conversations
with Alan and they were late night, you know, having a drink, you know, and he, he, he admitted
I've never told anyone this before. I, I, and he says, I haven't thought about this
or talked about this since I left. I'm extremely privileged to have been there that night and
was sober enough to understand what he was saying because it was such an incredible story.
What he was telling. And it just like, man, it is a story worth telling. Someone, somebody
that, that came out of the war with three purple hearts and a silver star has a story
and his is, uh, has the, has the merit to make a movie. Yeah. I mean, it really does.
I mean, just the stuff he did. That's like a good morning Vietnam kind of story, you
know? Yeah. That was kind of an interesting one. You know, going back to the munitions,
I'm surprised that, and maybe this is obviously going to be a future thing, but that they
haven't just to develop a laser that can zap a single person and kill them. You know what
I mean? I know that's kind of a star Wars laser. I'm thinking they kind of do. I mean,
from like, so they can like for that dude that was on the patio, literally a military
satellite, what is the movie that shoots a laser vaporizes the guy. I don't know if that
exists yet. Oh, it doesn't, but it will. It's the, that is coming. That's the part of the
star Wars program and the star Wars program Reagan is, yeah, it was started by Reagan.
It was well, that wasn't designed to kill people that were designed to knock down ICBMs.
However, there, there were other components to the star Wars program that, that would
involve lasers and that was out at what there were, you know, white sands missile wrench.
I had to think about where that was in New Mexico because it was just a west of Fort
Plus because I remember my dad would have to frequent out there, you know, for his job,
but they have a lot of interesting stuff going on as far as that laser. What was the name
of that damn movie? Real genius or with the popcorn. Yeah. With the popcorn or is it top
secret? No, it wasn't. You got it. It was real genius. I thought that movie was fantastic
and I love the guy that the, the, the real, real genius guy where he's has all these,
was it a Doritos, uh, where they turn in the little, no purchase necessary or he submits
all these, these coupons, no proof of purchase necessary and he submits all these things
into the sweepstakes and he says, I want them all. I got a trip. I got a truck. I got a,
all this stuff. I thought it was fantastic. I've seen that. Yeah. I don't remember that
movie. No, this is God. Oh my God. You, you have seen it. I've seen it. Yeah. 30 years
ago. It was a long time ago. Oh man. He had the, one of his friends that was a douche
bag that tried stealing a lot of, uh, their, their, uh, secrets because it was kind of
like an MIT school. Yeah. That's what it was. High end technology and one of the competitors
that were there had braces and he used the braces as an antenna and put a little, uh,
finger in his mouth and he was talking to him like he was God and making him do different
things and stop masturbating. And he was like, it is God. It was dumb. Yeah. Well now the,
the whole star Wars thing, the thing that China just tested the hypersonic missile that
flies faster than we basically can't, can't be shot down. Yeah. The, our technology and
our defenses can't shoot it down at this point. Right. So we're scrambling to try to fix that.
I guess. Well we've launched our own hypersonic missile a couple months after that, but that,
that, that was a big, uh, big is that hypersonic missile. What is this payload? What's the
capacity? I'm sure they can. I mean, I don't know. I mean, if we ever get to a point where
we're using any of these weapons, we're in major, major trouble. I think, I think you
come out recently. I saw the headline. I'll edit read the article. It says there's not
going to be any need for any nukes in Ukraine. So he's come out and said that now that no
nukes will be used. Putin said that there's no need for it. I think he feels confident
he's going to win. Well, of course he's going to win. No one's stopping them. Right. Other
than Ukrainians, he's strolled right on in there and he's, he's taking it over. He's
still losing a shit ton of, oh, they've lost like 70,000 troops, more than Vietnam in,
in four months, five months. He doesn't care. They just blew up a bunch of planes. He's
got shitloads of look, they sent all their 19 seventies old shit, old tanks in their
jeeps and just sending all that old shit in there. They don't give a fuck. They're trying
to find it's a tax write off for him. Do they have new stuff? Unbelievable. Well, I mean,
I'm suspect they have a few, but they showed videos of them taking out some of their new
tanks too. Oh really? Yeah. Cause we're sending anti-tank missiles. Yeah. Well, man, the whole
thing is it's, it's a nightmare and we've got two more years left of it. And I don't,
you know, Biden's just doesn't have the balls. The United States doesn't have the balls right
now to do anything about it. And frankly, when, I don't know if I want to say when Trump
gets in office, cause, but you know, if Trump doesn't get into office, who's going to go,
who is going to take his place? Cause the Democrats have really beaten themselves over
the head. So I mean, who's going to take Trump's spot? Trump's going to run. He's going to
run. Now because of that FBI raid, he's madder than ever before. Oh my gosh. I mean, there's
the stuff coming out now. Well, this is just falling apart at the dooms or the FBI anyway.
Yeah. Well, the FBI, I mean, even the FBI is turning in on themselves. They're, they're
turning around saying whistleblowers. Yeah. The whistleblowers are turning in information
saying, uh, yep, that happened. Like, you know, well, Donald Trump was like, well, hey,
they took my passport and they were, I'm sorry. He was like, they took my passports. And then
the CNN was kind of like, Oh, look at Trump saying, Oh, you took my passport. That's not
true. They wouldn't have taken your passports. Well, the, nor O'Donnell even tweeted out
or CBS or CBS nor O'Donnell did. Yeah. Oh, they, they never took his FBI. And then like
the next day, they said, I'm sorry, we're giving them back. Yeah. We took two expired
a passport and one that was current and his diplomatic passport. What's amazing is that
Garland, the attorney general sat on this for weeks. He had weeks to decide whether
or not it was supposed to be an urgent thing. Yeah. All right. Here's the reason why. On
top of that, he had weeks to decide if that was a good or bad idea. Yeah, but he didn't
sign the, he didn't sign it. Reinhart did. No. Well, they submitted it to that, to the
judge to clear it. Well, he had to sign off on Ford to get a final, right? It probably
sat on his desk saying we want to do this. But the person who made the decision to do
this was Merrick Garland, the attorney general, and he had weeks to decide if it was a good
or bad idea. Do you know that Bruce, so you know, currently right now, which is on the
news anywhere is that Trump is suing Hillary Clinton for defamation and wrongfully accusing
him of the whole Russia escapades. Russian hoax. Yeah. So he's suing her and the, there
was a, I don't forget the original judge. The second judge assigned to the, was Bruce Reinhart.
Right. And he had to recuse himself. From, from that lawsuit. From the lawsuit. Says
I recuse myself because I don't like Trump. Right. And I side with the, how, okay, my
point by saying that is now, if he recused himself because he's biased against Trump,
then what, how does he have the authority to sign the affidavit? I mean the search warrant.
The search warrant. I mean. I know. It's crazy. That doesn't make sense to me. So. He was
screwed up in, uh, with Epstein as well. Right. The picture with him and, oh, well I sent
that. Or whatever her name is. Is that real? Well, I don't know. It looked, she was. Yeah.
I thought that too. I was like, I don't remember her being juggy. Oh no, she is juggy. Oh,
interesting. Yeah. She's got some, she got, they're right between a C and a D. They're,
they're nice spread. C plus. You really zoomed in on that. Oh dude. I've been. Wow. Okay.
Were they fake? Uh, I don't know. I tried not to dwell on that picture too much, but
what is she, what's she having her hand? His feet. She was giving him a foot massage. Is
that what that was? Yeah. And he was taking his big toe once, you know, hitting her boobies
off. Speed bagging it. Wow. Like a, like a little boxing bag. Yeah. Yeah. But she got
a little from anyways, whatever. It was, it was a fight. It could have been a fake picture.
I don't know. But the fact that it was just kind of like, wow, was he really on the island?
Was I have a hard time believing pictures in memes and on the internet these days because
they're getting so good at deep fakes, deep fakes that you're just like, I don't know
if it's real or not. It's hard. It's a problem. But was he on the, what is it called? The,
the register? What do they call that? The, the list flight register or whatever, right?
The manifest. Manifest. Yeah. Was he on the manifest for those hundred flights out there?
I don't know. I mean, there are so many people that were on that manifest and I was kind
of like, why aren't these people being drug out and ask questions? Why is none of this
being public? None of it. And so it's just like, all right, well, there seems to be some
sort of weird shit going on because. Well, there are somebody's protecting somebody.
I mean, but you and I are asking the question, you're like, why is this not happening? So
why is it not happening? You know, my theory about why, uh, one of the possible theories
about why they rated his places because maybe Trump was going to declassify shit like that.
Well, he did declassify it. Oh, hold on. No, like Epstein. Well, Trump had a lot from what
I understood. I don't know for a fact, but what they, from what I understood, he had
a lot of those FBI papers in Mar-a-Lago. I think they were worried that he was, he was
going to release sensitive information that the deep state and establishment could not
allow to be released. That was going to hurt too many of their, their buddies. Yep. And
so that's why they went in and grabbed all that stuff. And now they're kind of scramble.
Okay. Well, trying to come up with a good reason. Why were we really in there? Right.
Yeah. That's that. He had some nuclear secrets that was going to give away. That to me is
a very plausible. Right. Theory. Very plausible. Well, never know. You know, there are people
out there, oh, it's January 16th. You know, none of that's going anywhere. None of it
has gone anywhere. I wonder if Liz Cheney, now that she's lost her ass, is she's just
going to go balls out through the rest of her term through the rest of the year and
just is like, I don't give a shit. She said she's going to dedicate the rest of her career
to continuing. No, but while she's still in Congress, I wonder if she's just going to
go balls to the wall. What is her beef? What did Trump do to her? She already has been.
Well, even more. Yeah, she will. Yeah, but what did Trump do to her? The answer is yes.
What did he do to her? What did he do to her dad? I mean, I'm kidding. She abhors him.
Why though? What did he do to her? I don't know. She thinks she's convinced that he is
the devil when it comes to bad for America, bad for democracy, bad for he's a liar, he's
a cheat, he's a he's a this, he's a that. I mean, all these. Yeah, but. Total BS. It's
frustrating because here's the thing, if you're going to say something like that, you know,
have some substance. Yeah, back. So look, he's a liar because he said A, B and C. Right.
You know, he's a cheat because, you know, we caught him with this, this and that. Yeah.
This is Dick Cheney saying he's a coward and he's the worst thing, the worst threat to
our democracy. Worst threat to our republic. It's like based on what? I mean, you know,
says who? It's so easy to say that says who about anybody? Yeah, I mean, crazy. I don't
get it, man. It's just it's weird stuff. I'll never understand it. You know, but we're going
to we're going to be faced with it. We got two years of this torture, you know, and we're
still waiting. There's there's all kinds of things we're waiting for. I mean, did that
Durham report ever come out? No. I mean, what the fuck? What the hell? Why does it take?
Why is he still doing it? I don't think it's ever been released. He's had a couple of leaks
or whatever you want to call them, but I don't think it's been fully released yet. I don't
think it's going to take him 20 years to do it. By that time, everyone's going to be dead.
Maybe. Yeah, maybe he has his strategy. He doesn't have to try anybody or indict anybody.
Well, he's indicted the one person they went to trial and thrown out. It was thrown out
because there were like nine Hillary people on the jury because it was in Washington,
D.C. Yeah. So they was like, yeah, he's like guilty. And I don't want to say like I'm a
huge Trump supporter. I mean, it's not a matter. But you are. I do support Trump, but I support
his his politics. I don't support him. I don't support his his presidential spirit that he's
got. You know, he's not very presidential. Part of it, I think it's kind of funny. But,
you know, at the other part of it, I'm kind of like, come on, man, enough. I mean, it's
impossible. He can't tweet anymore, but he still has the ability to do. I think he's
very presidential in certain settings. Like when you see that he's visiting hospitals
for injured folks, I've seen the footage. You don't see it on the news. You'll see it
on the videos. They're never going to show him in a good light. When he meets the first
responders and stuff like that and he loves him, he loves that. He's very presidential.
But when he gets on that Twitter and he's going against the Democrats is where he gets
little wheels off the people that he doesn't like or don't like him. Right. He gets defensive
and he acts like a 12 year old. What he does is he acts like a 12 year old, but so does
the other side. So he's just doing he's replicating. And as a conservative drops to their level,
he drops to the level as a conservative. If you've noticed over the years, no one has
ever done that. It's always we're not going to stoop to their level and become them. Well,
Trump stoops to their level. Totally. And that goes against kind of how the conservatives
think. Right. They're kind of like, oh my God. Yeah. They're like, he just called us
out. Yeah. Even the conservatives are like, what are we going to do? We don't do that.
We don't stoop to their level. Well, he does. He totally does. And it drives the conservatives
nuts who believe that the rhinos I'm not a rhino, but I don't give a shit. You know,
he could do what he wants. I just don't pay attention to it. But it drives the Democrats
nuts because no one's ever done it to me before. It drives me nuts too, because it's detracting
from what we all care about, which is focus on the platform. Let's solve problems. Let's
not. Why are we talking about stupid tweets and this and that? I mean, well, the reason
is, is because the press reports on it. Right. If they just ignored his tweets, it'd go away.
Well, I know. But on the flip side, if he didn't send out stupid tweets like that. Well,
he's not going to do it. And he would just focus on. I mean, they're sending out. Look,
he's got to defend himself. They're accusing him of everything. I know. Yeah. So I mean,
I think his verbiage sometimes can be part of the problem. Absolutely. Right. I mean,
he could defend himself better and more have a little more cues. Right. Then he has protein.
Right. But he's just he's just a construction guy, you know, and that's really where it
comes to. I mean, he's he's not a career politician. And that's what we love about him. That's
why we voted for him. We wanted like we felt confident about kind of Ross Perot kind of
mentality. He's not that like Sean became president. Would you expect him to change
or is he going to be? No. What he is. Would you? What would you start acting like if you
were president? Dude, I would I would have a meeting like this podcast three nights out
of the week. We would be eating presently in the situation, sipping on presidential bourbon.
So you would invite us to the to the Oval Office and we do podcast from there. You guys
would have your own wing. I vote for you. What's that mean? It's hold on. What's your
platform? Trump. No, whatever Trump did. Man, seriously, if I were president, I would I
would start I'd be like fucking blue light special at Kmart. I would start slashing,
slashing, slashing, cutting government programs, programs there. But would you hold back if
the press started calling? No, that's what I mean. So you'd act like a 12 year old. We're
calling Trump. I'm going to go as far as six year old. No, well, here's the thing. They
call they they call me out. I'm going to call them out. You know, what is it? What is that?
That was something you you show up here with a knife. I'm going to show up. I'm going to
show up here with a gun. You bring a knife to the fight. I'm going to bring a gun to
a fight. You said when you use the hospital, you said one of my last bomb. So one years
of the war. I mean, what was that? I could say I'm I think it was Sean Connery and what
was Harrison Ford? No, it was a movie about taxes alone. It was a movie about taxes. It
was and the guy movie about taxes and, you know, just let it go. Al Capone. Yeah, it
was Al Capone. It was Sean Connery. It was the guy that the untouchable untouchable.
There you go. It's where Sean Connery was. They say explains. Hey, they said what he
used to the hospital. You said one of those to the morgue. You know, he was just that's
that's it was a funny little spot they had to the morgue. But that's that's the way I
would talk about it, because I'm kind of like, fuck them. That's what he's doing. You know,
fuck them. That's what Trump because they're taking their I mean, what is that? The little
the little what he was out talking about when they did the march, some dude ran through
with the with the car and he was like, some of them are bad people on both sides. You
know, he wasn't talking about the KKK. They were very fine people on both sides. Yeah,
it was just like they took that in totally misrepresented it and used it as a fuel to
Biden is has done it like like a month ago. I mean, did he really? Yeah, I mean, it's
still saying it. It's a lie. A blatant lie. It's an absolute lie. And when they do shit
like that, it's just like an any quote, no credibility. If any quote I read from any
politician that brings that up, I immediately I immediately say to myself, you have zero
credibility. But it works. You have zero credibility because that it doesn't matter if it's right
or wrong. You're repeating a lie. It's a matter of what the sheep think. I know. And the sheep
are kind of like, I never checked fact check that I believe you. He's a racist. Oh, my
God. He's orange. Orange racist. Orange man bad. Yeah, it's just ridiculous, man. I mean,
I see the obsession. The obsession is ridiculous. A friend of mine on Facebook. I have such
a difficult time following him because he and his friends just beat the shit up out
of him. Oh, that fucking orange turd. You know, I'm just like, God, what the hell? You
see, Biden's a wrinkled raisin. Oh, I start. But it's a wrinkled raisin turd. Yeah. He's
more like, I don't know. You have did. So I watched the five yesterday and they're talking
about how the press is trying to re image Biden all based on his his aviators. Oh, yeah.
What? He's back. He's back and he's in his aviators. And he's bad. He's awesome. Oh,
look, Brandon, he's back. He's talking right there. Making fun of it. No, the press. No,
the five or the five were there's like, yeah, the five were making fun of the press for
saying Biden is back. They're trying to reignite that image that back from vacation back from
where he's back back from covid ever since he got back from covid. Oh, my God. He's it
is he's in his aviators and he looks like he's back from their tapioca pudding. Tom
Cruz. I'd be horribly offended if I were Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise. Lord have mercy. That
was a good movie. It was. Yeah. I don't know if we talked about that. Top Gun was kind
of fun. I mean, that's another movie. Not very cerebral, but it was a lot of jam packed
fun. I'm curious. What was the Rotten Tomatoes score on Tom on the top gun on Top Gun to
it was too masculine. Yeah. Well, that's 100 percent too masculine. And it was a total
repeat of the top. But Tom Cruise is Democrat, though. Did you put in? Yeah. Rotten Tomatoes.
There we go. Let's see what we got here. Sharp stick. Well, you know, 57 percent. That's
the first one. Oh, the first one. Now we want the second one. All right. Let's see. 96 percent.
OK, how is that possible? How is that possible? That defies all logic. What about top critics?
Ninety nine. I don't know. Ninety nine percent of the critics love that movie. Yeah. That
makes no sense. This has to be one of the ones one one difference. And it has to do
with left and right. I liked it, guys, but I didn't think it was that great. No. Ninety
six and nine was an action. Ninety six percent of the critics liked it. I can't believe it.
It's a little nuts. Yeah, because it's military and it's it was basically a repeat of the
first movie. Oh, my God. They they they could have said all the same shit that they did
with Chris Pratt on this one. But they did. I mean, it's just that this is an example.
I can't believe it. A microcosm of the bullshit. Well, there's a lot of folks in the Hollywood
area who do not like Chris Pratt because he's a Christian. He's a Christian. Outspoken Christian.
Correct. That's exactly why they that's his rating is so low. I'll tell you one one funny
blooper from Chris Pratt. He was who's the blonde girl on it's all Austin Farrah Fossett.
Austin was the name of the show. Cheryl, Cheryl. Yeah, so yeah, it's Parks and Recreation with
who was the Kathy Rigby? The cast of Good, Good. Please pull it up. Good. Yes. They did
the cast. Oh, yeah. Amy Poehler. So Amy Poehler is Leslie. Have you guys seen Summers? Have
you guys watched Parks and Recreation? No. Really? No. Oh, it's it's a funny sitcom.
What's his name in there? The guy from Ozarks. Well, Chris Pratt's in there. No, no. Jason
Bateman was in Arrested Development. Yeah, I get this. I get this too. Arrested Development
was good. So Amy Poehler's in your. My wife wouldn't get past the first couple of episodes.
No, you need to. It's good. Which one? Arrested Development. Oh, yeah, that one's good, too.
But this one Parks and Recreation is fine with Chris Pratt because one of the things
that Chris Pratt, he got in trouble was when Amy Poehler had answered the door in one of
the little scenes, he was he was he was living in a ditch behind the house temporarily because
he had a tent down there and he was mad and and what for whatever reason and it was raining
and he had his clothes off and he the bloopers, he opened up the door and he was naked. He
didn't have anything on and then he got in trouble by the network because he did that
and they kind of blew it over. But it was just more those are the that's the type of
mentality he is. He's just an idiot. Oh, I mean, I don't know. He's a fun guy. I mean,
just I mean, he's fun. I mean, he's funny. So did he when they when he made Guardians
of the Galaxy, which is brilliant, brilliant movie, the first movie, do they know he was
an outspoken? But hold on. Yeah, I need I want to get there. But we're talking about
Chris Pratt, where he's at in his career, his career right now. This right here, this
one show set him up for success. Yeah, sure. I mean, because he was he started beginning
somewhere, right? Well, true. But I mean, he didn't start off as the star on this one,
but he became a major, major part of this, this, this, the sitcom. OK, I mean, because
he was just funny. He was naturally funny and everyone naturally liked him and he was
that. And he was not as healthy as he is right now. Really? Yeah. He did. So this one's called
Parks and Rec. Parks and Recreation. I've started the first season of about four or
five in where they and it's kind of like the modern family thing where it's the one camera
kind of a thing. Pull up a Nick, Nick Offerman down there. Now he was Ron Swanson. Yeah,
he's you've heard of Ron Swanson, right? I've heard the name. Ron Swanson is like the well,
that's not Ron Swanson is the masculine guy that he's got the mustache and he eats meat
and bourbon and scotch. Oh, I know exactly who he's he's so isn't he basically what?
Anchorman he he was an anchorman, wasn't he? Yeah, yeah. But he was an anchorman, wasn't
he? No, yeah, I think that's based. The character has got to be based on it. It is. But this
is but he is a the hardcore right Republican, right? Where he doesn't want any Republican
government. He gets mad. He has to pay taxes, you know, and right. And he's supposedly super
wealthy, you know, because I started working in a sawmill when I was seven, you know, and
he is he's just like, I just want to prove to you that I could have driven home drunk
last night. Here's proof. I whittled this. He whips out this violin, you know, and it's
all this masterpiece. And after that, I finished the rest of this bottle. And to prove to you,
I held up the newspaper, you know, with the today's date on there. It is, you know, and
when he goes into a restaurant and he orders the food and it's a breakfast and he was like,
I want the something platter says, sir, that feeds eight people. It was like, you know,
and he goes to this next another restaurant. He was like, there's like, I would like a
porterhouse steak. It's like, sir, we don't have steak. And he was, he looks at the guys
like, are you kidding me? He's like, look at me. I want you to bring all the eggs and
bacon you have back there. Waiter, come back. All the eggs. I just want to make sure I'm
not. I want all the eggs and bacon. So they give him a bunch of funny one liners. Oh man,
that's all he is. He's fantastic because all the little pictures I'm seeing here is, yeah,
he's a, he, he, they, they have a office, a park party and he's bringing, he's bringing
the food, the meat and he's got the smoker and he's got this pig that's alive. And the
cops like, you're not going to slaughter that now. And he was, I was thinking everyone could
play with it and then we can eat it. And he's like, I'm sure there's a health code or something
about that. And he reaches in his pocket and he pulls out this official document from parks
and recreation and it says, I'm Ron Swanson. I can do whatever I want to see it to. I mean,
it's just funny. If you have to watch both of those things, I highly recommend and arrested
development. Yeah, they're, they're very funny. I got my first job when I was nine, worked
at a sheep metal factory and two weeks I was running the floor. Child labor laws are ruined
in this country.
Yeah.
That's great. Classic stuff is mustache. And plus his, his wife in his real wife is the
Burnett on, you know, what is that? The two gay men and skinny girl,
Will and grace. Yeah. Will and grace. So there was Will and grace. And then it was the great
grace is person that she worked for that black haired lady. Yeah. Well, anyways, that's Ron
Swanson. That's his wife in real life. And on the parks and recreation, she plays his
girlfriend. That's the crazy bitch that comes from hell. And he, he divorces her. And then
once in a while she comes back in the show and he kind of goes crazy. He comes back and
he's got his hair braided in the middle of his mustaches is missing. And they're kind
of like, what the hell happened to your mustache? She was like, I rubbed it raw.
I rubbed it raw. Oh, great. Oh, I guess he had to watch the show. It's one of these things
where I sit there and I watch the show every single night. Cause it's one of those things
where it's like what 15 seasons, ridiculous amount of shows. Yeah. That's the way we are
about everybody loves Raymond. We can just, we've watched every episode probably five
times. Oh, that's funny. That's fantastic. It may be one of the best shows I've ever
seen. I'm about to start. I've watched, I've watched time for the last two, three months
now. Yeah. Just all those episodes. I haven't watched too many of that of Seinfeld. I need
to go back and watch that. They're all funny. And if you can get back into them, they're
just all those sitcoms. They offer a lot. I highly recommend parks and recreation because
of the diverse group that's on there. They have everything. Leslie Knope runs for Congress.
I mean, it's just, you know, they have Aziz on there, the comedian. He's funny as hell
cause he's lazy as shit and he tries to not do anything. It looks funny. I mean, I'm just,
we're just watching little clips. Oh, I like her. I forgot her name. She's very attractive.
It really is. He would've. Did you know that the food becomes energy? That's spaghetti.
That's my husband. Owned this series that critics called the funniest show on TV. Period.
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and Recreation. Own it on DVD. I think it's on Netflix. Yeah. Okay. Let's start watching
that. That'll be fun. Cause it's all beaten funny, right? Sometimes we're just watching
too many depressing shows. Depressing shows. Yeah. That's definitely one that takes you
away from politics. I mean, there are a few little slams in there. They go. Yeah. I'm
watching the Sandman now. I'm two episodes in and it's, uh, we gave up on it. It's interesting,
but it's just like Parks and Recreation is Austin approved show. We, you did watch the
Sandman? No, I've gotten two episodes in. Oh, it's tough, man. Well, we were really excited
to watch it and we made it through maybe two episodes and we said, did it get dark? Oh,
it's just dark the whole time. No, you got to get past that. And I mean, if you can get
through it, it's, it has merit. I'm out. After what we've, after what we've already watched,
there is no way it's not, it's not necessarily butt sex, but there's just way too much. I
mean, look, I get it. I get it. I get it. There's an agenda, but come on. I mean, what's
the agenda? It's just the, the homosexual, uh, it's just it's woman. Well, the woman
on one was fine, but I mean, there was like, well, they only had one, you know, and then
there were like four different dudes on dudes. And I'm like, come on, first of all, that's
not real. All right. There's the ratio is just, it's just not there. You know, it's
what frustrates me is why they have to show guy on guy when they're not even showing guy
on girl. Yeah, that's just it. I don't mean I don't even show a heterosexual couples
kiss or show a butt there, but they're showing two guys together all the time, like making
out and stuff. I'm like, and it doesn't add anything to the program. Nothing, nothing
at all. I mean, the only thing I could tolerate is girl on girl. That's it. I can't handle
anything else. I don't want to see the guy on girl. I just, it's already, you don't want
to see the guy's butt. Yeah. I can pass on all that. Yeah. You know, the sucky thing
is that these guys are so fucking pretty. You kind of look at it at first. You're like,
Hey, oh, well, I tell you what, you fooled me. I looked really hard for a second. The
Sandman looks anorexic to me. Yeah, he's gross when he was naked in the ball. Yeah. I was
just like, dude, he's put some weight on. He looks bad, like terrible. And he's, he
brings nothing to the table. His acting is just blah. He just talks like this. Yeah,
he's nothing. I was just like, this is a waste of time. We both were like done. Yeah. Not
going back. I'll finish it, but I'm only two in though. Yeah. Well, you know, we're out.
You gotta, you gotta go all the way in. Oh yeah. All the way in. No, look, just do it.
Look, I don't care if you watch it or not. I, I, I struggled. I watched it. The whole
thing. It was extremely painful. There, there is, there is one episode specific where it
just got really bloody. And that one was where I almost said I'm done. Have you guys heard
of the show called the boys? I've watched it all. Is that like superheroes? Yes. I've
watched it all. I haven't. I, so I recommend it. It's good. It's harsh. It's difficult
to watch. I mean, very gory. I stopped watching when that lady was like trying to nominate
a new star or a new superhero and some blind dude or somebody who rips off his glasses
or says he here was that was, I don't know. I don't know. Fucking he's pretty gory. Yeah.
It was come on, man. I haven't given up on that one. We've watched, I think, two episodes
of that one. Well, wait till you get to the first episode of the final season. There's
a scene. I don't want to give it away. Don't give it away. Don't give it away because we'll
probably go back and watch that one because I'm still on the second season. Well, wait,
it's the first episode, like 15, 20 minutes in. If that far, you'll know what it is. And
it's just like, oh my God, it's just way over the top. Yeah, they were, they were not afraid
to touch anything. Was it gay? Was it? Yes, some of it was. But the end of it, you're
just like, holy shit. I can't believe that just happened. Well, they already showed full
frontal on the dude, the invisible dude in the bathroom. Oh, full frontal. I was like,
oh, OK. I'm not used to seeing that. Well, the big push now is if they can show full
frontal on the girl, why isn't it equal time of showing full frontal on the guy? Well,
first off, they're not showing full frontal of the girl. They're just showing her topless.
But that's why they're OK. Show men topless. They do all the time. Exactly. So what's the
problem? So they want some junk vision. They know some of the ladies. Yeah, because now
they're in the producers and directors chair. They're like, well, let's show the guys junk
instead of the girls. So it's becoming junk TV. We're just not used to seeing that. Right.
But yeah, the boys are very good. I would prefer not to. It's like a lot of it's prosthetics.
It doesn't matter. I want a junk free TV, junk free TV. I'm no nudity for the women
as well. I said junk. I don't call anything women has is junk. Well, if you can't have
one, you can't have the other. Who makes that rule? Well, the producers and directors. So,
OK, we don't show vaginas. We just show penises. Well, they show the Merkins. The Merkins.
That's right. Well, look, if the Merkin is covered. What is that? An over an overhaired.
Now, a Merkin is a is a to pay for a pubic. It's a it's a to pay for the for the the taco
pubic wig wig. Oh, my God. The Merkin. I remember you tried. Do you stop that with that fucking
about a year ago? He said, oh, but I'm a Merkin. We're both like, what? We had to Google that
up. We went down the rabbit hole. Yes. I just posted that one. Did you? Yes. It was a fresh
in your mind. I'm going to use that word again. Yeah. Merkin. I'm a Merkin. We were prepared
for that. And all the boys, boys, boys are really good because it's the superheroes,
but they're they're not very nice superheroes. They're very flawed. Speaking of boys, you
know, Jeff and I, well, even you, we went and took the boys back to school, back to
college. Yeah. So it was a moment where you bring the kids back to school and.
This is the third year. Well, this is well, fourth year for Brandon, but he never left.
So he went to summer school. Right. Yeah. Third year for Stephen and Preston. Yeah.
Third year and for Dawson. Yeah. Yeah. I had 10 hours of driving and I was there for less
than I don't know, less than 12 hours. I don't know how long I was there. Yeah. It's a tough
drive, man. I could imagine that. Each way. It's kind of brutal. But if you take the back
roads, I love the back roads. Yeah. It's a really nice drive through eastern Oklahoma.
I guess it depends. I mean, I don't know. My wife won't travel, so it's difficult. I
enjoy it. I agree. I try taking the road less traveled. This particular with our trip, it
was more of a straight back and forth. We had some. Well, you had more of a detour than
I did because Stephen had a mattress because we had to write a U-Haul because they have
to furnish their house this time. So they have sofas and mattresses and stuff. So we
had to stop on the way down there just outside of Waco because Stephen has some friends down
there. His girlfriend has some actually family down there and they had a mattress. Oh, so
that's where you picked up stuff. Yeah. So we picked up a mattress there and we're all
planning on meeting there. Well, we all got separated because I left early. Yeah. Sean
left and then the drama the night before Jeff comes over bitter. All right. We're not going
to get too much into that. We'll just leave it at that. So we're like, all right, because
you know what? Honestly, the day was late and we're still fucking around. I got the
eye of the truck at four thirty five o'clock ish. I get it. Yeah. I thought you guys were
leaving Friday morning. Well, we did. Well, we did. But the thing is that we're supposed
to you know, there was a bunch of people just dragging their feet. The boys both were. They're
just kind of ready. They weren't packed. You know, they weren't this. They weren't that
they're working out and just whatever. So, you know, and then we start loading up the
truck and then Jeff's kind of like, I'm not fucking staying up this late. And so he comes
over and he's letting nobody know that. So I was like, all right, well, we're taking
the truck over to your house because I don't want to leave late. He doesn't want to work
late and I don't want to leave late the next morning. Right. So, you know, we'll just compromise.
I'll go over to his house first. We'll load everything up and then I'll stay up. I stay
up late anyways. I stay up late. I work up. I wake up early. It doesn't matter to me.
So that's you know, we end up going over there, loading everything up. Guess who wasn't ready
in the morning? Steven. Yeah, that was me. I don't care who was. We came over here early.
Ready to roll. Let's go. Let's go. And you know, it was about 10 minutes. It wasn't real
bad, but it was about 10 minutes. I was pushing his ass. I was like, you know, we need to
be there on their way. They're on their way. They're on the way. So we're about 10 minutes
behind and it ultimately worked out. It worked out really well. He left because he was in
the truck. I figure he'll be going the slowest. He actually was fucking going 100 miles an
hour. That truck goes, it goes nice. It goes about 80. It does 80 to 85. It does about
84 easily. It got about four miles per gallon. Probably. No, there's a well, whatever. So
anyway, I went down. I originally I gave bad directions. We had to go down Waco, which
is down 35. Right. I said, well, that's being at that Buc-E's, which is down 45. That's
way over there. Yeah. So I was driving down 75 at the time and I called Sean. I was like,
hey, I had it all wrong. I was like, and I've luckily I got ahold of him before he got to
the 35. I was like, go down 35. I was like, I had it wrong. We're not mean to Buc-E's.
Let's meet at this place instead. And then that changed because like there's no need
to meet. And he calls me and I'm like, fuck, I got to get my phone. I hold a pause. Pause
Netflix. Okay. Hold on. Yeah. Why are you driving? It's not a problem. I'll go to the
check step. See, it wasn't a big deal. Wasn't a big deal. And I took off and I was like,
boom, went straight to dude. I'm I was straight. I got stuck. I got stuck. It's really nasty
traffic. I sidestepped that shit. Yeah. I got stuck. It's really nasty traffic. So I
was behind and we were supposed to meet at so lucky this place and wake. The accident
was like two exits in front of me and I was like pulled over to the side, went off the
exit, passed it. I was like, and just went off because it wanted to. I'm surprised it
sent you down Preston first. No. So anyway, then we're going to go to we're going to meet
at these people's house to get the mattress. Well, I was so far behind that and Stephen
was even in front of me that I was actually exiting to take the that exit. And Stephen
technically go, Sean's already picked up the mattresses on his way to college station.
I was like, what? So I pulled over. I was like, I'm not going to go there if I don't
have to. Right. You know, 20 minutes off the highway, then 20 minutes back. Right. And
so I called him. He's like, yeah, I'm on my way. Let's just meet at the house. So I was
like, all right. Well, Stephen felt obligated. He still went to their house. Is there his
friend? Well, his girlfriend's family. Right. Right. So he went and he visited, ate some
food, visited. So he showed up late. He let he showed up about 45 minutes after start.
For sure. Yeah. And so it all worked out great. We all met down there. I got there ahead of
Sean by about 15 minutes and started unloading shit. He pulled up, started the boys unloading
really that much stuff for a whole U-Haul. You know, it wasn't it wasn't really that
much. We had a 20 footer and they had it full, but they didn't have a full from the top to
the bottom. It was just poor loading. Right. And I blame myself. I should have been more
top of it. It worked. It was fine. We didn't need any more room. It was a sofa. It was
a sectional. There was a kitchen table with four chairs, three mattresses because Preston
had two of them, three mattresses, box spring, dresser, nightstand. Yeah. So it was a lot
of shit. And Preston has this humongous bean bag that basically took up half the truck.
So it was huge. It's huge. It's a love sack. And it's it's extremely it would fill up half
this room. It was that's that big. What color is it? It's blue. It's bright blue. It's got
like semen all over it. Oh, good. So you could see that. It's a it's a love sack. Well, he
didn't even want to touch it. Yeah. He didn't. He was like, I know what's been on that. Lord.
It's fucked up because when we we we ended up getting it upstairs and then his roommates
were all like on it and like, oh, this is so comfortable. And they're kind of like and
I was like, you know, that's a stiff spot right there. Yeah. You might want to peel
that off. That's not frosting. Just flake it. Flake it off. Anyway, so they moved into
a house, moved in the house. And it's nice. Nice house. And it's actually less expensive
than the apartment. No, it doesn't surprise me. Apartments are ridiculous. Yeah. Well,
especially in called station. Well, they have apartments offer a lot more as far as like,
you know, the amenities they have out there, which they never really take advantage of
it. Any of that ridiculous. And really, because of the covid, they didn't offer a bunch. I
feel as if contractually they should have provided a discount for the for for them because
you know, this was Jim was closed. The pool was closed. And they're like, well, it's not
our fault. It doesn't matter, man. You know, if you have something and it includes A, B
and C and you take out A, B and C, what's the value of it? It's no different than schools
that said, OK, you got to do it online and we're going to charge you the same amount.
Yeah, they did. Total bullshit. Yeah, I paid the same amount for Brandon. Yeah, they did
online. I was like, you can do that in the house. You don't have to live there right
now. Well, they you know, this only supports the whole school thing as a rocket. Anyways,
look, the bottom line is, you know, you can take your C classes for work, you know, the
same thing as you can do for college. You know, come on, it's blown out of course. But
boys, they they live in a nice place. They live in a nice place. They've got better roommates.
Hold on. Let me rephrase that. That's really not what I meant to say. What I meant to say
was that the roommates that they have are little OCD. So it's Stephen and Preston and
they're just different from their other roommates. They're just little OCD. They're like little.
I don't want to say they're cleaner, but you know, it's like they were walking around us
cleaning up. Yes. Yeah, I'm like, well, like a rag and a little squirt bottle. Yeah, he
touched their. Oh, wow. Yeah. On touches ball sack there. I took it. I took a poop there.
Wipe my butt. Yeah. So we moved them in and it was the other there for the most part,
self-sufficient. Right. So they did it themselves. Sean helped hang the TV, which was an exercise
of just Home Depot runs. Yeah, it just kind of got it was just, you know, you tried coming
prepared with with different things and tools and stuff and you know, like, fuck, you always
forget something. I buy ratchets. Yeah, he did. You did. Didn't use it, but it ended up
working out. You know, we ended up going Home Depot, picking up some stuff and it worked
out. That's really the bottom line. And we hung up another TV, that little tiny TV up
in the kitchen. Yeah, that's nice. That's a nice little feature. Yeah, it really is.
Worked out great. Yeah. The next morning they were all watching it in the kitchen. I know.
Yeah. So yeah, it's nice. They got a backyard. You know, Sean calls it a goat trail because
it's pretty much dead grass. It's like straw back there. It does. It does. So nice. They
have a hopefully no smoke. They had a patio. They need to get like like you said, I think
if they get like a 10 by 10 canopy. Yeah. What do they call those things? Canopy. Is
that it? Just 10 by 10. You know, do they make smaller ones like eight by eight? Yeah,
I think an eight by eight or they make do they make eight by tens? Different denomination
there. Whatever. I mean, landscape. I mean, really, that'd be a cool little back area
if if they can if they can cover that whole back section back there. They could do that.
So the the boys trip was successful. Yours was pretty successful. Yeah, it was. I mean,
they also did the same thing. They moved out of an apartment and into a house and it's
a nice house. I mean, it's a you know, how many people barely knew. So it was originally
going to be four. Now it's going to be five because one of the bigger rooms they're going
to split, you know, they're going to have two guys to share it. Now you get a discount.
Yeah. So five guys in the in the house. Now, Dawson's room is pretty small, but it was
awesome. We hooked it all up. We you know, I hung a TV and you don't need much in college.
No, you don't. I mean, he's got a really kind of a sweet setup and he's really happy. He
was really thankful and really excited. And you know what I mean? And that's and that's
exactly why we did it. Like you wonder why we drive 10 hours. I mean, he can fend for
himself, you know, that kind of thing. But that's what we do. You know, we want them
to be excited about being in a new place and show that they want us to bless it. Yeah.
Directly and directly. They want us to bless it because I mean, they want us to to to
kind of pimp it out, help them pimp it out, you know, and make it their own little own
little crib. You know, I mean, I mean, dude, he's got a 50 inch TV hung on the wall right
at the base of his bed. I mean, that's nice. Come on. And a soundbar and, you know, it
means crazy. Yeah. Well, you know, entertainment's awesome. I mean, the trip down there, I was
doing nothing but listening to musicals when I was in college, listening to musicals. I
was listening to that musical with the Wolverine. What is it? The greatest show I've never seen
that movie. That's good. It's good. How do you not do that? I have a good highly recommended
great music, highly recommended great music. See, my wife doesn't like it. She doesn't
like that. She doesn't like musicals. She'd like that. I wanted to watch La La Land. It's
a great love story. I want to watch La La Land. And she was like, I like both of those. I
tell you what, I would be willing to bet money if she saw the greatest show, she'd fall in
love with it because it's such a role. I watched it. Her father watched it and was so emotional
about it. He like teared up about it. Yes. Yes. Isn't that the circus? Yes. Yes. He freaking
loved it. It was like, it's such a great connection. In fact, you know, well, you know what? I'm
glad you said that next time Alan's in town, I'm gonna pop that bad boy on. He's going
to sit down and fag out and watch it. Well, I definitely want to watch it. So I recommend
it. That and Xanadu. What? Gene Kelly. Xanadu is a musical. Yeah, I'm not going to watch
it. It is. Yeah, it is. It's a great one. It's got some ELO music in there. Oh, by the way,
Olivia Newton-John, I know we, last week we talked about her death, right? Which was tragic.
She is alive. The chicks. No, no, she didn't come back to life. The Dixie Chicks are now
called the chicks, right? They were on stage somewhere and they gave a tribute to her and
sang, Hopelessly Devoted to You. It's great. We don't like them anymore, though. Well,
I do. Yeah, actually, they're coming to Irving. I think I'm going to buy tickets. No, no,
I think I am. I will not fund them. Yeah, they made a mistake and they admitted it. It
was a big mistake. Yeah, but they're they're continuing their mistake by calling themselves
the chicks. Yes. Yeah, but so is Lady Antebellum. They're Lady A. Exactly. I won't buy them
tickets either. It's always something. It's August 17th. It's we got just a couple more
weeks in September. This is an awesome. It's an awesome times. We got some awesome bourbon.
I don't know if we really went to the bourbon. We didn't even talk about it. We didn't talk
about the bourbon. We get 30 seconds to talk about the bourbon. No, we don't. Cooper's
craft. Yeah, it's good stuff. It was OK. Five or six. We're out of time. Guys, dudes, I got
some sun. I'm Jeff. We'll see you next week. Producer Austin. Thank you.