That glazed donut look, you know?
Post?
Post, huh?
Post.
We're hiring this post show, it's Dudes Like Us, and we were talking about the Bengals'
Hazy Shade of Winter song, the producer had that playing in the headphones while we walked
in.
It's got pictures of the movie from Less Than Zero, so we're kind of, I was kind of reminiscing
about the movie, both Paul and Jeff had not seen it.
Shocked.
No, never seen it.
Shocked.
I don't know why, maybe it was, I don't even know what year it came out, was it the late
80s?
85?
I wonder if it was rated R and I wasn't old enough to go see it, my parents were not going
to take me to go see it.
Could be it.
Maybe, I don't know.
I just never went, and back then I just, you have to wait until it came out on video and
rent it, and my parents weren't going to rent it.
So the whole story is just basically talks about addiction, and it kills somebody's best
friend, you know.
And it's got all the, I forget all, I don't know their names, I always forget their names.
I can learn it and then I forget it comes in.
So what does she look like today?
What's her name?
Susanna Hoffman?
Susanna Hoffman was shockingly cute.
Oh, from the Bengals?
Monday?
Today?
No, even today.
Even today.
Back then, well maybe he's pulling up a picture of her now, but man she was cute.
Susanna Hoffman is...
I don't even know how old she is.
Oh yeah, look at that.
She's cute.
She's still a rock star.
Yeah, she's still got it going on.
Look at her.
Yeah, and I don't know...
How old is she?
Go back and see how old she is.
Yeah, see, she's born in 59.
Wow.
She's ten years older than I am.
So she's 63.
63, yeah.
That's crazy.
Good for her.
She's still doing stuff, huh?
I guess, I don't know.
Yeah, as probably a session player or something, I mean, you know, she's...
I guess when you make a big hit like that and you get rich and you marry and you...
Well, Prince wrote...
Yeah, he wrote Manic Monday.
Yeah, they're hits.
And Simon and Garfunkel did Lazy Hazy.
But they had other songs too.
I mean, they had some...
Like an Egyptian?
Hazy Shade of Winter.
I'm sorry, what was that?
No, Hazy Shade of...
Egyptian?
Hazy Shade of Winter was from another...
Simon and Garfunkel.
Yeah.
There was another person that did Hazy Shade of Winter.
I want to say Bruce...
Hornsby?
Something.
No, it wasn't Bruce Hornsby.
It was Bruce...
Some no name.
Bruce.
Anyways.
Yeah.
All right, so you realize this is the last podcast of August 2022.
That's why the booze is flowing.
Yeah.
You know, I'm looking forward to the change of the season.
You know, I really am.
I'm kind of being burned out on the hot weather.
I mean, this past week we had a trenchal downpour of 15 inches in Dallas.
I mean, historic, 100 years, 15 inches.
Yeah, it's crazy.
And we didn't get anywhere near that in Frisco.
No, we didn't.
But we got a lot.
We didn't get 15 inches.
But did you see where Greg Abbott says this is a once in a century storm and all the libs
jumped on a go and he didn't even acknowledge climate change?
He didn't even acknowledge climate change.
That son of a...
He just called it the century...
That wheelchair bastard.
Once in a century year.
Why do they just bitch and moan?
I don't know.
They hate him.
And they hate anybody that is not on board with, you know, centralizing power to change
the entire world to fight climate change.
I have talked to a lot of people and I try to stay in the middle of the road when I've
had these conversations with them and they talk about Greg Abbott and they're kind of
like, oh, I wouldn't get upset if he fell down a flight of stairs.
And I'm like, really?
First of all, he's in a wheelchair.
Yeah.
Well, there's that.
There's that.
But it's just like...
He's already paralyzed.
That's right.
I don't get the anger of these people.
What did he do that was so bad?
I mean, are they blaming Urquhart's fuck up on him?
No, it's abortion.
I mean, is it abortion?
People are very militant.
I don't think...
Actually, they know.
I think they're jumping on a grand bandwagon.
Yeah, I think it is.
Absolutely true.
I went to a happy hour with some friends and one of the guys there unloaded on DeSantis
and said, yeah, he's the next dictator.
I was like, oh my God.
Did you correct him?
No, no, I didn't say a word.
I was like, let's move on.
No, I'm not talking about politics.
I was just like, really?
Because I will totally crush you.
He called DeSantis a dictator.
I was like, what the fuck?
Do you even know what a dictator is?
Well, it's just like, you know, we're all...
I mean, shut up.
It's just like now we're all semi-fascist.
Right.
Oh, they just throw that word around?
Like they don't even...
And what does that mean?
They don't have a clue what that word means.
That means if you're...
Well, semi-fascist.
That's a new term they've come up with.
And it seems to be synonymous with MAGA, MAGA.
Oh, it's anybody that they hate is a fascist.
Period.
They have no clue what it is.
Well, Biden just slammed basically half the US basically saying MAGA are a bunch of semi-fascists
and they're evil and violent.
Right.
And he's president Biden, the leader of our country.
Yeah, he just said this past week.
Yeah, I would read in your story about how Ozzy Osbourne and his wife, Sharon Osbourne,
have decided to leave their home of Beverly Hills for I don't know how many years, 20,
30 years, and decide to go back to Great Britain because they just can't handle...
Ozzy Osbourne was saying they just can't handle...
He can't handle all the gun violence and just people killing each other and just how awful
it is and keep in mind they're in California, which is even worse, right?
But Sharon said an interesting thing.
She goes, there's nothing united about it anymore.
We're leaving the United States of America because there's nothing united about it anymore.
And she's dead on.
We are so un-united.
We're so...
Everything's polarized.
Everything's political.
Everything's polarized.
We are just grossly divided.
But it's really one side, at least in my opinion, that's doing this.
That's the Democrats.
No, it's both.
It is both.
Actually, you know what?
It's...
But I look at us.
It's the media.
The media is a big, big part of it.
But who's pushing the buttons in the media?
Well, it's the meat.
Well, they're all in charge.
That's the big dark secret, right?
Well, it's the folks at the top who push the agenda.
When you have 100 television stations that are all reciting the same statement, whatever
it is.
I've seen that.
They've all synced it up.
And they splice them.
It's like, you know, a manufacturer conflict or a manufacturer conflict, manufacturer conflict,
manufacturer...
It's the same thing.
Oh, they regurgitate the same talking points.
And they're like, how do they get them?
They get them through email every week?
That's my point.
There's an email blast.
Something happens.
I think so.
Bongino talks about that.
He goes, I've subscribed.
I don't know which one of those.
He goes, I've subscribed to one.
And it's the talking points.
And I see those talking points that day on all the news.
Yeah.
It's just so pathetic.
It's so pathetic how they just...
They're parrots.
They're just chirping parrots.
These people don't even know what...
Being a fascist is...
I don't know if hierarchy...
What is the actual definition?
Let's look up the actual definition of what a fascist is.
Okay.
Well...
So that we can at least...
Mr. Producer.
Yeah.
The meeting of fascism is a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exists, that exalts
nation and often race above the individual.
That exalts nation and often race above the individual.
Individual.
Which means it's the exact opposite of what they're claiming.
Exactly.
Nazis were fascists.
So what are the five main ideas of fascism?
So common themes among fascist movements include nationalism, including racial nationalism,
hierarchy and elitism, militarism, masculinity, and quasi-religion.
Other aspects of fascism such as the myth of decadence and anti-agglutarianism, total
terrorism, total totalitarianism.
Oh my God.
I hate that word.
That can be seen to originate from these ideas.
So...
Did you guys get what I said?
Yes.
You know.
So yeah.
It's the German Nazi party.
That's why they try to keep equating us to...
There's an Italian fascist party.
There's also the Spanish nationalists.
That's why they keep trying to equate us with the Nazis.
Yeah.
So here's another way to... it says characterized by dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy,
militarism, militarism, militarism, forcible... here's the key... forcible suppression of
opposition.
That's what they're doing now.
Yeah.
Which side is forcibly oppressing...
They want to do their ministry of truth.
It's just so crazy.
They are way more, in my opinion, way more fascist than the right is here.
Yeah.
The right wants less.
Less government.
Yeah.
They want less of everything.
They want decentralized government.
They want more individual rights, which is the exact opposite of fascism.
Yeah.
It doesn't make sense.
And if they're talking about MAGA supporters, I mean, that is Trump's feather in his cap
is, you know, less government.
Cut the spending.
That's the whole thing.
That's the whole premise.
That's why we're alive, is to spend less money and spend the money on ourselves.
You know, work hard and reap the benefits of your fruit, your fruits of labor.
Right.
You know, if you can't reap the benefits because you're giving it to the government,
then what's the sense of living?
I mean...
Well, that's what you get into communism, right?
That's why Russia is so depressed.
Yeah, you're just...
Absolutely.
You're just a cog.
Cog, yeah.
Well, and think about it.
What is required to push through all of these rules for climate change?
Hold on.
Jeff, the last podcast, he talked with a list for a second.
Do you remember that?
Yes, I do.
I'll make sure I edit that out.
No, you can't.
It was epic.
He's so little bit...
He probably will.
No, but seriously, I mean, for them to push through all the tenets of their agenda, right?
Climate change.
What else?
What are the big pieces of their platform?
Climate change.
What, a fascist platform?
No, no, no, no.
From the left.
Open borders.
Okay.
Abortions for everyone at any point in time.
Yep.
So, all those things, if you think about it, all those things for all 50 states to subscribe
to all the heavy regulations to support climate change, all 50 states, all 50 states to allow
pro-choice and have no abortion restrictions whatsoever, all 50 states to have rules...
What was the third one that we talked about?
Open borders, right?
Open borders.
For that to happen, they have to have a strong, super strong, all-powerful central government
to dictate that kind of mandate.
Sure.
And we're not just talking about the United States.
And we're not talking about just the United States.
They're trying to build it.
They want global.
Ultimately.
But, you know, let's say you nailed it.
They're trying to build a powerhouse.
That's why, really, they want our money.
They want the money of the citizens, and that is why they're going after the IRS and building
them up and hiring a gazillion...
87,000.
A gazillion.
Now, granted, this says that they're going to hire that many within, I think, 2031 or
something like that.
There's a timeframe in which that's to happen.
But why on the planet, why the hell are they buying so many bullets?
Why is...
I don't get why the IRS are knocking on these people's doors.
Who are the people that don't use electricity and...
Or Amish.
Yeah, the Amish people.
These Amish people have a farm, okay?
And this is a story that came out a week ago, a couple days ago.
And there's a farm...
They were imposing some restrictions within the community.
And they're like, well, these IRS folks went in there and said, well, you've got to stop
production.
We're like, why?
We're not...
We're self...
We don't need anything.
We don't use electricity.
We're doing fine.
They said, you've got to stop.
And then they went ahead and charged them like a crazy, like $300,000.
And so now it's basically shut their whole place down.
Right.
And I don't know the story on it, so it kind of sucks.
But it's just the power of the IRS is ridiculous.
Yeah?
To shut down and for what?
I saw some headline where there was an Amish farmer who was not following USDA guidelines.
But they weren't selling to anybody.
It's within their community.
Shut the fuck up.
Yeah.
Well, if it's a state thing, you need to follow these guidelines and they're not exempt from
it.
Well, I mean, if they're selling it for consumers, but if I go out and I want to go suck on a
cow teat and get the milk, I mean, that's on me.
That's not USDA approved.
You know?
I don't know.
I just saw the headline, so I don't know what the theory was.
Maybe he was selling it to the community.
I'm having a hard time.
It is as absurd as Colorado outlawing harvesting water, rainwater.
In Colorado, it's illegal to harvest rainwater.
Did you know that?
No.
So I got my rain catcher in the back.
Those are illegal.
Was Supremacist behind it?
Do you know?
Well, it's a 100 year old, over 100 year old law.
Well, in the middle of a drought and people were trying to catch it all so it wouldn't
fill the streams.
Perhaps.
I don't know.
Maybe there was one tree out there.
They're like, that son of a bitch has a barrel right underneath the big fig plant that I
want that.
I don't know.
But the thing is, it's a 100 year old law and they're still enforcing it.
It's like, you're not allowed to have more than 120 gallon of storage on your property
for rainwater.
And I'm like, who the fuck is anybody to tell me I can't harvest rainwater on my own property?
I guess the premise is that they need the runoff.
Into the ground water.
That's exactly what it is.
Well, into the aquifers.
Correct.
Or into the rivers.
Well, the spirit of it had something to do with your neighbors.
So they didn't want you harvesting the water and preventing your neighbors from being able
to get it.
Right.
Or you collected it as it falls.
They can collect it as it falls as well.
Yeah, you're influencing the natural path of stormwater.
Whatever.
Interesting.
It's coming off my roof.
Fuck them.
That's what I got.
Yeah.
You know, it's just frustrating, you know, the control that some of these governmental
entities have.
And you know what?
This is nothing.
I mean, on one hand, it's frustrating.
On the other hand, we should be thankful, you know, and I know that's kind of crazy,
but when you think about other countries like China, you know, where, you know, that you've
got people who are trying to put out a mandate and they don't allow anybody to come out of
their house.
We guess what?
We've just created a quarantine and you got your.
Well, Australia did the same thing.
Not just China.
Australia.
I still can't believe Australia did that.
Yeah, they locked them.
They went full, full blown authoritarian.
Authoritarian.
You couldn't leave your house.
And if you did, they would hunt you down.
And I don't know if they'd arrest you, but did you be taken back home?
Yeah, and they did.
Yeah, there was a guy that was walking, walking home from work and he crossed the park and
in the park by himself with nobody around, took his mask down and somebody reported him.
And by the time he got to his apartment, the police were waiting for him.
And there's literally a video of them grabbing him and pulling him out of his apartment while
his mom is screaming.
Because somebody reported somebody reported that he took his mask down while he was walking
through the park.
Do you have proof that I've done this?
I mean, it's just it's insane.
That's insane.
I mean, that is the definition of the I imagine they've lightened up.
I haven't seen anything in a while that they're still quite as stringent.
But what's interesting to me is Aussies for the most part are they were pretty brash people
in the Osborn's.
Yeah.
The Aussies.
Yeah, the Aussies and Harriet, the Osborn's.
I don't stop.
No, but they're they're brash.
They're brash people.
You know what I mean?
They're usually outspoken and they're very proud of you.
You know what I mean?
That's no knife.
Right.
That's no knife.
The Aussies lives in Australia.
Yes.
OK.
I thought you were like the Aussies like Ozzy Osborne.
I was like, oh, he's going back to that.
OK.
So I mean, I'm really I mean, there was a lot of unrest.
There was some unrest down there.
And I'm sure the media didn't cover it all that much.
But I'm surprised they didn't freak out more than they did.
Well, they did.
They were riots.
Yeah.
I mean, like I said, the media never covered like how serious it was, I think.
Yeah.
I'm going to have to investigate to see what it's like there still if they're still requiring
vaccines, just like, you know, you saw now that Canada was bad to Yolkovic.
Right.
Yeah.
Won't let him play in the US Open because he's not vaccinated.
They won't.
They won't let him come.
He's not vaccinated.
However, they're letting people pouring from the south.
Well, no, there's no one walking across the border.
Yes, they are walking across.
Did you see that footage?
We see videos of it every day.
Well, no.
The where Peter Doocy was questioning Jean Pierre Roule and I don't know what her last
name is.
Yeah, she's apparently a fool.
And he asked her, why can't he come here and play when we have thousands of illegal migrants
walking across the border that are unvaccinated or we don't know what's going on with them?
They could be carrying some other disease.
And she basically said, they're not walking across.
Yeah.
And he's like, yes, they are walking across.
And she didn't have a comeback.
Right.
She went on to kind of talk about something else with the vaccine.
It's just unbelievable.
Peter, you believe in your alternative facts and we're going to have the real ones up here.
She said that, didn't she?
Yeah.
Meanwhile, I'm going to go down to my woman.
He's not very good at what she does.
Oh, no, she's horrible.
She's horrible.
Even even the left, even the left, leftist reporters are getting frustrated with her.
Yeah, she's not very good.
So I think the IRS thing, in my opinion, I mean, Democrats have always been by votes
by spending.
Right.
By votes by spending.
Just sink this.
And Democrats and Republicans, too, to some degree.
But they've always had a social platform of spend, spend, spend, spend, tax and spend.
Right.
Tax and spend.
Right.
So I think the eighty seven thousand they're just looking at the numbers and they're like,
if we could get all the people that don't pay their taxes or should that, you know,
pay their what they should be paying.
Right.
We could squeeze out this much more money in the budget.
Well, they want to.
Well, they want to look at your bank and track every payment or amount that's over six hundred
dollars.
That's what I'm saying.
So there's every six or five.
They're trying to get six hundred two dollars.
Yeah.
Like we need to know about that.
And see, and to do that, they need they probably calculated that they need eighty seven thousand
more IRS agents to go after all of those people that should be paying more in taxes.
What's going to be the small business is not to cut down spending.
It's to continue the spending to continue to get the votes and make people.
It's a revenue maker.
It's a revenue.
And it brings up the revenue to match their spending.
Yeah, that's it.
I think that's all it is.
These these agents are going to be going after the small business folks who, you know, you
know, one pan, some people under the table.
Right.
Well, we need to go back and get all that.
All those taxes.
Right.
And now they're flooding.
If you think about it, they're flooding the nation with illegal immigrants.
And at some point, they're going to make them legal.
But they all get paid cash and none of that stuff is taxed.
Right.
But they're going to try to make them semi legal, you know.
And but they also want to make sure that money gets taxed.
So we're going to need more IRS agents.
So in every facet, in every facet of needing more money from from the populace, that's
why they're going in that direction.
Right.
You know, Mr. Producer has a video going on up here about making your homemade beer.
Yeah.
You guys ever tried that?
No, I've done it.
Well, I've had some friends that do it.
It's it's I know Rob does.
Rob's been on the podcast.
It could be.
It could be rewarded.
He actually did.
He did pretty good beer.
Yeah.
And he continues to do it.
Yeah, it could be rewarding, but it's it's a lot of work.
And I did it about four or five times and I had maybe two batches turn out that were
drinkable because it's it's very it's an art form.
Well, it is.
And you have to be extremely clean.
Oh, yeah.
You said that you said that the kids would come tromping through the kitchen.
Yeah.
You know, and their smegma somehow would get into the taste of a little bit of bacteria
gets there and it makes it all funky flavor.
Right.
So you're you're disinfecting everything.
You have the special sanitizer.
All my tools were sanitized and, you know, the, you know, 10 year old comes blasting
through just exuding just juice of some sort gets on your on your spoon.
Gyrates.
Yeah.
And you're just like, you know, I was in the kitchen, so I wasn't in like a separate room
writing like that.
So it was it was tough.
But it is rewarding.
You know, and I see this video and I'm like, we like to try it again.
But you know, it's like I'll just spend past six, seven bucks to go buy a beer.
I would love they sell these three hundred dollar distilled pot still.
Right.
I'd like to try that, too.
I would love to distill pass.
I'll just buy a bottle whiskey or something just for fun.
We don't have time just for fun.
Well, you got to age it for 10 years.
You only have to eat.
Well, the one in memory, we can flash.
That's right.
Or the tea bag.
It would be we can tea bag it to dip your scrote in it.
Well, no, I don't want to do that.
That's not tea bagging.
It's delicious.
No, they flash.
Would they say they flash aged or they flash?
Now, when they open this up, they're like they tried it.
They're like, that's really good.
Or they're like, yeah, this is a gimmick and we're going to try to sell as much of it as
we can.
Correct.
It's not good at all.
And we have to give it some sort of color and some sort of flavor.
But we want to make money now.
Right.
So let's just yeah, let's do we have this really harsh moonshine distill it.
Well, we get this really harsh Noah's mill that we kicked off on the second half of the
podcast we were talking about in the first half, how we were going to start a new program
and we're going to take notes.
And I'm assuming that's what you got written there.
I didn't write anything down.
No, Paul was going to take notes because he's got a pad of paper.
No, I don't think I was supposed to.
I thought you had a pad of paper.
No.
All right.
So it was OK, but the point is, is that we were going to buy a really nice bottle of
bourbon every single week because for ever last two years almost we've been buying three
bottles a week and just stocking up the the inventory that we've got.
And we're getting to the point where we've basically bought all the bourbon.
There's still a lot.
Yeah, there's still a lot out there.
But we've bought a lot of the bourbon that we want.
And so the next step is to is to start getting a higher priced bourbons.
And so in order to do that, we were we're basically going to combine our money.
So instead of buying three thirty to eighty dollar bottles each, we're buying, you know,
a hundred to two hundred dollar bottles each, you know, for all three of us together.
And so the new plan is to sample a bourbon for the first half and a bourbon and an older
bourbon for the second half or vice versa.
But the point is, is that we got these big old infinity bottles and we need to start
filling them.
And the only way to start filling them is to start dwindling down the inventory to where
we could take the leftovers.
And so we are always there.
We need to drink that.
Oh, yeah.
Which is each one's what, four gallons?
I don't know.
Is it is it a two gallon jug?
I don't know.
They're big.
I don't know if it's four.
I think it's a gallon jug.
I think it's a gallon of booze.
Yeah.
And you have four of them in there.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, it was a bundle, so I bought them.
But yeah, I mean, but another big part of this is we have, you know, over what?
One hundred and eighty, one hundred ninety bourbons.
And it's hard to remember.
Like people always ask, like, well, you know, which which ones are the good ones?
Right.
And which ones, you know, all that kind of stuff.
Do you would you have a and we have a handful that we always go back to.
Yes, just a handful.
Right.
And we know there's other ones in there that are like, like the Penelope.
So the penalties are really good.
Yeah, so what the plan is now is the quote unquote second round with our new program
that we've got set up is that we've got this is Noah's Mill.
So Noah's Mill is a is a very weeded bourbon and it's weeded.
Yes, it's weeded as in like over 45 percent.
I think I knew that.
Yeah.
So it's a it's a step.
It's not as much wheat as like nine banded, but it's like nine banded as 51 percent corn.
And this one doesn't have quite actually what doesn't have to say.
I don't know if it's on there.
I don't think I remember it being weeded.
Oh, it's definitely weeded.
I don't know.
That's why I fagged out.
That's the whole point.
It's like we have so many bourbons now that we're forgetting.
We've gone through two or three bottles of Noah's Mill.
Yeah, right.
It's it's well, because we enjoy it whenever I come over here and I'll come down, I'll
come up here and I'll be like, I'll go back to grab the bottle of Noah's Mill and I'll
go back downstairs.
Jeff, we're turning the corner now.
Squail, squail.
Wow.
He does like a double shot of it.
I've been here when you guys squeal like that's because it's a tier three party.
Oh, right.
Yeah, I don't do tier three.
We don't have our boats and pontoons.
Awkward.
Yeah, but we do enjoy Noah's Mill.
So that's why I completely gravitated that on the first poll of our this.
We'll call this the the Infinity Bottle Tour.
The second half will be sponsored by the Infinity Bottle Tour.
And this tour brings us through Noah's Mill.
Noah's Mill.
That's our first one out of the gate.
Yeah.
So the Infinity Bottle Tour brings us to Noah's Mill.
This one out of the gate and it's a hundred and fourteen point seven proof.
This, I'm sorry, hundred fourteen point three proof.
And it is a weeded one from memory.
My eyes are too fucked up to see what it actually says.
But if Mr. Producer, can you pull up Noah's Mill, see if it has a.
It's good.
It smells really good.
It does have it does have a bite all the way through.
Right.
There is a bite, which is odd because this bottle has been open for a while.
Yeah, it's been opened and it's going to change.
Right.
So all these bottles that we may have been about maybe better.
Maybe it's got a nice taste to it.
Oh, it's got a great taste.
But like I said, it does have a bite all the way through from taste to finish.
Yeah.
But it's it's got a great, a great taste to it.
And it's not overwhelming.
Even though it burns, it's not it's not overwhelming.
See the mash bill on there.
You see it anywhere?
I mean, considering the proof.
So hundred forty three, it's got to be really close to there.
So is it it's not real peppery.
It's not that kind of bite.
No, no.
It's got something else to it.
I don't know if it's a sharp.
It's a cinnamon and allspice jump out of the glass and subtle notes of vanilla yeast and
seasoned oak make an appearance underneath for a higher proof bourbon.
The nose is not too overwhelming or unpleasant, but the youth of the bourbon is noticeably
in the sharp spice studs.
So I guess they're using like a younger oak.
Interesting the youth of that.
Well, notice how long it's been in the how long it's been in the barrel.
Well, if you look at the palette, it says cinnamon mint and allspice, right?
Those all have a bite to tang to them.
Yeah, right.
Or a spice.
It's not bad, though.
It's not it's spicy.
Yeah.
This one's whoever rated this one, they said 84 out of 100.
I mean, that and we would agree with that.
That's why it's been a go to multiple times for us.
Right.
Yeah.
I still don't see the mash bill on this guy.
I taste the black currant.
The current.
Yeah.
Well, it's almost like a bad word.
Shut up, you current.
Wow.
Crunt.
Oh, is it a B R's 157 proof?
This isn't small batch, right?
It's no smell small batch.
I believe it is.
I don't know where the hell the mash bill is.
Well, it says.
Well, that little snippet there says it's a blend of four to 15 year old whiskies.
No age statement.
All right.
Well, you know what?
It's a blend.
For some reason, I think it's a weeded bourbon.
I didn't know it was a blend.
A blend of four to 15 year old whiskies.
All right.
Well, so this is our orange peel walnut burnt sugar alcohol tobacco oak nose.
So it's a blend.
Yeah.
It's fantastic.
I enjoyed it.
It's probably one of my favorites.
If someone were to say, what's your favorite?
I'd probably gravitate to this.
But interesting being after saying that I have, I hold a couple more higher than this
now.
I mean, I put that one on seven wellers above this one.
That was good.
I think I'd put the Eagle Rare above this too.
All right.
So how are we going to rate it?
Because one thing I want to be done, but when we do this tour going back through all of
our bourbons, I want to make sure that we have kind of a rating system.
This is not a 10.
I think it's an eight.
All right.
But we got to do a...
So here's the thing.
Like you said, I think it's better than the...
You said it's better than Eagle Rare or it's comparative to Eagle Rare.
It's comparative to the Wellers 107.
So maybe we ought to put that as a classification.
We tie that in together so that...
Maybe groupings like A, B, C, D.
Yeah.
This is a...
Maybe even down to F.
That's probably a good way to do that.
Hey, this is an A.
Yeah.
Maybe we go back and revisit this and go, yeah, well, I thought this was a B and actually
it's comparable to an A now.
Right?
Because...
I would say it's a solid B plus or...
No, no.
I'd say it's a solid A.
I'm thinking...
That's a tough one.
Yeah.
I mean, you kind of want to reserve As for like the home runs, right?
Well, A plus for the home runs.
But you know what?
Well, you know what?
I'd give it a B plus or an A minus.
I mean, that's kind of where I would be.
Yeah, I'm thinking B plus.
Let's B plus it.
I'm going to A minus it.
So, two B pluses, which means yours is thrown out.
Yours is the low one, so you get tossed.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, whatever.
I mean, but B plus works.
I mean, I'm not...
Look, I mean, I get it.
It's good.
I mean, I would probably...
This is my go-to.
So, but is it the...
B plus.
B plus does not mean it's bad.
No.
B plus is good.
It's really good.
Yeah, but...
Most of the ones I buy were D minuses.
So...
Yeah, they didn't even register.
What are you talking about?
Oh, I'm on the way.
No.
Williamsburg?
No, that's a retest right there.
Well, that was a coconut.
You didn't even get to a 70.
So, your highest score is only going to be a 70 because you're going to retest.
A retest.
It didn't even register.
What does the state board say?
It's under review.
That's what I keep reviewing about my license.
Yeah, that was a DQ.
DQ.
So, Noah's Mill, at the Infinity Bottle Tour, we've graded the Noah's Mill as a B plus,
and I'm happy to do that.
So...
Yeah, it's good stuff.
And I guess the other thing we should note, and I know it probably goes without saying,
that none of it, none of what we're doing here are mixers, not one of them.
Yeah, by mixers we're referring to...
We probably have some mixers.
We don't mixers.
We have some mixers out there.
This is not a mixer.
This is what we like to put on with maybe some ice.
You can make a really nice old-fashioned out of that.
Man, I'm on the fence about that too.
Didn't you have an old-fashioned made out of this?
Oh, it was tremendous.
Well, there you go.
So, you know, that's interesting.
I think what we'll probably find is stuff that's lower than C, or maybe C minus and
down, we call mixers.
They're just not good enough to sip.
Right.
Yeah.
It doesn't mean they're horrible.
They're great with Sprite or tonic water or whatever you're going to drink it with.
They're probably better with that.
In fact, they even say on some of the advertisements, goes well with bourbon and Coke, or goes
well with Coke, goes well with Cola, I should probably say.
Cola.
Yeah.
Right.
So this one is definitely...
And again, there's nothing wrong with that.
I mean, there are ones that I have with Coke that are absolutely awesome.
I love it.
Yeah, that's just saying...
But I wouldn't drink it straight.
This is horrible.
Like Seagrams, do you sit there and just sip Seagrams, or do you have a seven and seven?
Right.
Right?
Yeah.
That was popular, seven and seven.
And there's nothing wrong with that.
And the more you drink it, it's kind of like...
So I went from a seven and seven to a seven and soda.
I'm sorry, that's not true.
Seven and seven to a seven press, which is seven and soda with a lime, and then seven
with a club soda and lime, and then seven with rocks.
I mean, that's the stages of loser, where you start to thin out the sweetness and start
getting to the core.
I've tried that and I just always go back to Coke or Cola.
Not anymore.
Yeah, I don't.
In fact, I'm glad you're turning that corner.
I'm hoping you continue this.
And we talked about the different types of mixtures that you can get.
I'm finding that...
I think that San Pellegrino, even though you guys are like, oh, you just like saying the
word San Pellegrino because it's so...
You know what?
I think the small bubbles are great.
And I think that if you guys don't try it, you're doing yourself a disservice.
I don't mind trying it.
Don't confuse San Pellegrino with the different flavors that they have out there, which are
great.
La Croix.
Not by themselves.
No, not La Croix.
Well, similar to La Croix when it comes to what they add to it.
The San Pellegrinos are more of natural fruit flavors in there as La Croix is probably just
some fake shit.
I'm not a fan of seltzers.
Oh, I'm not either.
I haven't found one that I can stomach.
I kind of like some of them.
It's too bitter for me.
You like IPAs too.
I don't like the bitter.
Bitter is a turn off for me.
One other thing I'm also noticing about the bourbons we buy, very few of them come in
a half gallon.
Right?
They don't come in a handle.
Right?
So most of the stuff that you would probably say are mixers come in it, also come in a
handle.
Yeah, because I think the big ones that you use as a mixer would come in a handle.
So the Wild Turkey, the Jack Daniels, the Kessler.
And they're usually less expensive for the alcoholics.
Yeah, I mean you're not going to find a handle of rare breed.
That's right.
Maybe it exists, we've just never seen it.
Or you don't see a...
It would be awesome, wouldn't it?
Right.
You don't see a handle of the thing we just had, the first one.
That's right.
So that's something to consider as well.
So I think almost if it's not available in a handle, they probably intend for it to be
a sipper.
Like McKenna.
McKenna comes in a handle.
Comes in a handle.
Right.
Except the 10 year.
You know, which Jeff put in his fucking...
And you're not going to find a half gallon of 10 year.
Is that still in your safe?
It is.
I need to pull it out.
Yeah, no one's going to...
What?
Well, it was our first unicorn.
I was like, I want to save this.
Now we've got several.
I'm going to pull it out and put it on the shelf.
Yeah, you went overboard on the first unicorn.
That's okay.
That was you...
Well, Jeff and I, we...
My dad's birthday party this past weekend, which unfortunately you were unable to attend,
we whipped out the Heaven's Hill.
Wow.
You know, we enjoyed some of that.
Did I pay for a third of that?
No.
No, we didn't open that.
It was the...
No, we had Heaven's Hill.
Oh, okay.
No, we did.
We did.
We had...
I did not, unless you poured it without me knowing.
We did a shot because I found it on the...
I found it on the island.
Okay.
Oh, so like you don't even remember?
Honestly, no.
But there were several shots missing out of it and...
I remember doing it because I had the mash, the triple mash.
Yeah, yeah, we had that, the Jack Daniels triple mash, which was...
I give that a C.
Yeah.
Wait a second.
The party wasn't here.
The party was at your house.
Yeah.
So you grabbed some bourbons from here and took them back to the house?
No, no.
I'm just starting to cumul...
Cumulate.
Accumulate.
Oh, I didn't know you were kind of building up your own little collection.
That's cool.
Well, I didn't mean to.
It just happened.
Right.
Well, he bought that triple mash on Friday.
Yeah, when we were out.
Ah, okay.
That's where it was.
It was in his house, so we tried it.
I was done pressed.
Yeah, it was...
I don't even know if it was a C. I'd say C minus.
The bonded is much better, I think.
The bonded is good.
Yes, the bond is tremendous.
And the fact that they went all euro and dropped it down from a...
750.
750 to a 700.
And charged the same price.
And charged the same price, yeah.
But do we know?
Yeah, I don't...
We'd have to look at the 750.
Yeah, we would.
I'm just kind of assuming they're making the bottle smaller and charging the same price.
Anyway, I'm excited about getting through all the bourbons.
Do you know what really grinds my gears?
What's that?
What really grinds my gears is when people pressure me.
I get stressed.
Actually, I work well under stress, most of the time.
But this past weekend...
You fell apart.
You know what?
I was mad at myself.
And when you get mad at yourself, there's a difference when you're handling the stress
being impacted on you.
But when you fuck up, and it's your fuck up, it kind of trips you up a little bit different.
Especially if something as serious as fantasy football draft.
Well, that's exactly what happened.
I mean, God, the thing...
What's at stake here?
Well, we are 15 to 18...
Hey, look, man, this league's been around 15, 18 years.
Yeah, there's a lot of...
It's competitive.
It is a long...
In fact, I would be willing to bet some people will want to pay to get into this league.
You know, there was the deal...
Chuckster was asking, how do I get into the league?
And I was like, you get five grand?
Right.
You know, that's probably how you're going to get in the league because nobody wants
to quit.
There's a guy that's been waiting for a long, long time.
You guys know Brian?
Yeah.
Well, well...
Every year he asks me, you guys have an opening yet?
Because he would love to join our league because he knows all of us.
We go to concerts together, right?
So, you know, I made...
So we've got a 12-man league with 20-man roster.
And we, for those fantasy football elites out there, we start a quarterback, a running
quarterback, two wide receivers, two flex, a tight end, a kicker, a DL, and a DE.
That's the starting lineup.
So, you've got to cure your own roster to be able to support that throughout the...
And it gets hard, those later rounds.
Yeah.
Well, the people go fast.
The talent runs thin.
Yeah.
The people go really fast.
Well, especially in 12 leagues.
When you are in a 12...
Especially when people poach quarterbacks.
Yeah.
When you're in a 12-league, a 12-team league where everybody...
Everybody's up their games over the years, right?
In the beginning, people were drafting really stupid stuff.
So, you would pick up really good players for your second or third picks because people
were just...
Didn't really understand kind of what they were doing.
Why exactly...
Now, everybody has raised their game.
When you see the draft grades, they're all pretty much even.
And the parity in the league is really good.
If you look at the lineup for this year's league's matchup, if you go to that screen,
all of the talent is uniform.
That's what I'm saying.
The lowest...
I'm talking about the weekly average right now.
I think Jeff's maybe 101, 102, something like that.
Mine's 102, 707 or something like that.
And then you got Linda, who's 99.
Your projected points.
Yeah.
And then you got the Dream Crushers, which is around 99, I think.
So that's the lowest.
That's the highest.
That variance is incredibly acceptable.
It's tight.
And it is tight.
So when the talent is...I think I'd had a shitty ass draft this year.
However, the numbers speak for themselves.
Yeah, your numbers are not bad.
I think my draft was terrible.
Really?
I do, yeah.
But you had an A.
I know.
Well...
A B plus.
Did you have an A or a B plus?
It was a B.
I don't know if it was a B plus.
Well, I had a...
There were very few As and Bs.
I had an A last year, and it just did not work out.
Well, there are so many factors.
We talked about injuries.
Did you see the one guy running back just got shot?
Yeah.
What?
Brian Robinson or Brian...
I remember he got drafted.
And that's why I was like, oh, so and so...
He got shot multiple times.
Yeah, in the lower body.
Yeah.
He's going to live, but who knows when he's going to play football again.
He can't play for this whole season, for sure.
I don't know.
It depends how bad it is.
I wonder who drafted him.
The Ligers, I think.
Columbus police said Brian Robinson...
That's a whole new reason to lose a player, isn't it?
He gets shot.
He was shot.
Watching DC, man.
Yeah, no kidding.
Unbelievable.
It was a robbery.
He got shot during a robbery.
Yeah.
No one's exempt from that.
It doesn't matter if you're a football player or a bum on the street.
I mean, crime is out of control, guys, especially in dim-run cities.
Yeah.
What I hate about the draft is it's very stressful because in your mind, you have your folks
that you want to focus on.
Right.
And you're like, well, the first thing is I hope I get a good pick draft number-wise
so I can be one of the first ones or whatever so I can make sure...
There's two people I really want.
Right.
Hopefully, I can get one of them.
I didn't get any of them.
Actually, I did.
But if you're later in the ground, there's benefits to placement as well.
Like Sean, I think, was the worst.
The first two picks.
Yeah.
Well, that's not it.
I got the first pick.
The first one.
The second one is when you're doing a serpentine draft, 1 to 10, 10 or 1 to 12, 12 to 1, 1
to 12, 12.
One sucks.
So you get the first pick and then you got to wait 20.
I had number two.
I had 12.
So I had something similar.
So you had advantage.
I had 12 last year and I hated it.
Right.
And I hated it because...
I think 12 is great.
I think 12 is great too because you get, like Barry said the other day, you get two of the
best of the 14 or whatever it is.
No, I hated it.
No, I have loved being 11 and 12 before.
Nine, as I'm thinking back, wasn't bad.
Nine is the same thing.
Nine this year.
No, it's not.
Between eight and 12 is the same thing.
I did not like 12 last year.
Because you basically get the same.
You get two.
I disagree with the whole 12 thing.
Yeah.
I mean, no, you get two of the best 13 players in the league if you draft right as number
12.
No, I disagree.
Well, the potential.
How can you disagree with that?
Well, because everyone has who's the best.
What list are you looking at compared to what list I'm looking at compared to what he's
looking at?
Everybody has different top 12 or 14.
I get it.
Okay, but my point is, okay, look at your own list, right?
So whatever list you're working off of, you think you know who the top 13 players are
in the league, you get two of them.
I don't look at that that way though.
You don't?
No.
Oh.
Well, then you don't know what you're doing.
I'm just kidding.
You don't know what you're doing.
But seriously, that's right though.
I mean, if you think about it, you're getting two of the top 13.
Yeah, you are.
I know some people go, they go straight down and go, okay, I'm the ninth.
I'm going to take the whoever's next.
Regardless of position, I don't do that.
Oh, I do.
I don't do that.
I've done it for years.
I don't do that.
I pick the best available player.
Now, the only time I don't do that, I mean, that's in the first several rounds.
And then if I start filling in, you know, I might skip players that, you know, are better,
have more points, simply because I've got to start filling positions.
Right?
So if I've already gotten three of the best running backs that I can grab and two of the
best wide receivers I can grab, then I'll skip over a bunch of running backs and wide
receivers to get my quarterback.
But up until that point, I am picking the best player available.
What I do is I look at, maybe it's wrong.
I haven't been doing this as long as you either.
I don't have the total ranking by everybody.
I have top quarterback, top wide receiver, top running back.
Yeah, and I don't do that.
Like that.
So I'm like, OK, for the quarterback, I want whatever.
Then I go down and it's like, all right, now I look and I decide, do I want to who do I
think is better?
Why?
Who do I need more?
Wide receiver, running back, whatever.
I get it.
Well, you got to look at the different strategies.
Yeah.
So I'm not very good at this.
So maybe I need to readjust my tactic.
Well, you had some sort of you did readjust something.
You had the whole program.
You had a better draft than most of the league.
So you did something different this year.
You used an Excel spreadsheet and you looked at it and you drafted an A minus whatever
the fuck it was.
Did you rank some of the players like off?
No, I downloaded the free spreadsheet and a shit ton of information on it.
Right.
That he didn't share.
But I for years and years and years, I was able to find fact, he watched me go spend
twenty dollars on some magazines that he had for free and was thinking I always I was thinking
I was like, why doesn't he do this?
I was thinking that I didn't know is available.
You've never gone online and looked.
I looked online.
It's too convoluted because I will tell you, for years and years and years, I found tons
of free cheat sheets.
They're hard to find now.
Free cheat sheets.
Yeah, I always find them.
Yeah, I would dig in for hours.
No, you don't know what you're doing.
No, I do.
No.
Yeah, I do.
And a lot of them are PPR.
And you got to you got to weed all those out because we don't have a PPR league.
So I mean, a lot of them are wanting, you know, what are your frustrations this year?
There are a lot of pay ones out there that frustrates me.
What are your frustrations with your draft?
You had 20, 20 rounds.
What was your big hang up?
Your most frustrations, Paul.
I thought I did really well in the first, you know, first 10 picks, maybe.
And that's where and then after that is where here's the thing.
I don't do enough research to know who your handcuff picks are.
Right.
Which is the backup to your starters in case your starter goes down.
Boom, you already have the backup.
Right.
I don't do I don't spend enough time to have that research in front of me.
You referring to the second string on the same team.
Correct.
Okay.
And also, I don't do enough research to know who the sleepers are.
You know, you got rookies on this team and rookies on that team.
And then you have guys that are not the starter, but they're projected to be the starter by
week three or four.
That's where you got to watch the.
Yeah, I don't I don't do enough research on that.
And in those later rounds, that's where you're supposed to find those gems.
You're supposed to pick up those.
I picked up a couple of rookie folks this time.
Globally of them, four eight, three four and four out of four teams.
Obviously, a bunch of these guys are doing to talk, rather, to teach some assets above
that are other people short and long?
all that, rather than chodzi I guess to be a gesture of respect and respect, rather,
You asked about with eight years of use, of course, like, modelling, couple wide receivers,
not necessarily plastic and I would absolutely not care, but we have a man like Ben lined
hoping that they turn into something.
Sure.
Absolutely.
Like the one of them was Trey Burke, the fulfiller, revenues went to the titans.
He just got cut.
Oh, be quiet.
He did not.
Well, yeah, so they called him punt god because the guy was booting crazy, crazy punts.
He got drafted in the sixth round, which is I think rare for a punter.
And yeah, it's it but but it's who it's guilty until proven innocent in this world.
He got booted.
They cut him simply because of that story, because a girl from years ago claimed that
he was, you know, claimed that he, you know, was one of three people involved in a gang
rape when she was younger.
And there are witnesses that say he didn't do that.
And he has maintained his innocence the whole time.
But and I don't know if he did or didn't.
But really, I mean, where is the innocent until proven guilty?
Well, it doesn't happen today.
It doesn't know.
Unfortunately, this guy just lost his if you're going to you put a blemish on the team that
you're on.
They don't want that.
They don't want that type of like he cut you for any reason.
I know.
But I mean, you know, and what's interesting is she's not bringing up a suit against the
other two guys.
Well, because he's a millionaire.
That's right.
Because they're not in the end because then they're not in the NFL.
Sure.
Yeah, absolutely.
That's not as much.
But he's still making probably a billion couple million bucks a year.
He probably will.
He would have.
I don't know if he was.
What about you, Jeff?
What is what was your fuck up this year?
I mean, you got to be but you know, yeah, I just didn't.
I just get fresh was your fuck up that you weren't able to score a good quarterback.
I got Tom Brady.
I don't know if he's gonna be good or not.
Could be solid.
I did want Joe Burrow.
But again, I didn't want to I was gonna take Josh Allen if he was there.
You take Joe Burrow if he was there.
And then Patrick Bahomes if he was there.
Who's your backup?
My backup is Matt Ryan.
Yeah, I've never I've had him multiple, multiple, multiple times.
And I just well, there's not much it drops off fast.
Well, that's what I'm saying.
There's parity in the league.
People know what they're doing now.
I mean, quarterback wise, I mean, it drops fast.
And Tom Brady won the FFL forum last year for Jeff.
He had Tom Brady and he was knocking it out of the park.
It's not a bad pick at all.
I mean, you're pretty much guaranteed to get you know, you may not get you're not going
to get 30 plus, I think, but you're going to get in the 20s.
Right.
Pretty much every game.
I had Lamar Jackson last year and he frustrated the shit out of me.
You can't.
It's so crazy.
It's like I didn't want to pick Christian McCaffrey.
I absolutely did not want to.
But I did.
I'm probably going to get hurt in game two and miss the whole season again.
Right.
I mean, he screwed me twice before.
And sure enough, here I am picking him again.
Or is he going to be as good as he was because shit, he's been out for what, two years now?
Right.
I know.
You just don't know.
I almost just skipped him and was going to go to to Derek Henry.
I probably should have.
But I don't know.
We'll see.
We'll see what Derek Henry was hit last year, too.
And I know they brought him back early, I think.
Too early.
And he wasn't ready.
He killed us in the playoffs.
Yeah, especially because his backup was playing great.
He was even in the game.
He was playing great.
Every time he touched the ball, he was rolling over people and Henry was just going down
quick.
He was.
So hopefully he comes back.
That was a coaching mistake.
And he's effective.
But we'll see.
We'll see.
Yeah, as far as mistakes, you know, there's always picks and I'm like, why did I pick
that?
Yeah, I had some dumb picks.
You know, I'm just like, whatever.
But I mean, because they're dumb picks in that.
Why did I pick that guy?
There was no way that guy was at risk.
I should have done the other guy who was at risk.
And then even though I was thinking in my head, in my head, I need a wide receiver next.
Right.
Well, the tight end that was out there ended up getting sucked up when that wide receiver
I wanted was definitely going to be there.
Right.
So it's that kind of stuff where you in the moment you then I panic, you know, also in
Sean, Sean breaks to Hyman on the defensive player.
Yeah, I don't worry about that.
It was like, well, the defensive guys can get you some points.
They can.
And maybe that's killed me over the years.
But I have never, never jumped on that early.
Go get a defensive player during the draft ever.
Well, I used to feel that way until I started noticing that linebackers would score a lot
of points.
But you have to get you have to get the top two or three linebackers, the top five linebackers
to be able to get that stuff.
And I thought for sure I had it.
And I screwed the pooch on my draft when it came to it because what frustrated you about
the draft?
Well, there was the linebackers speaking linebackers.
You're not drafted three by accident.
No, no, no, you you you pick one that you didn't know was injured.
That's the other thing.
If you don't do your research.
Well, no, I did my research.
I didn't.
I don't.
I did research.
I had the I had the IR and PUP list up and it was it was on a website and I was refreshing
it and I looked down the list and I looked at I said, I said, look for LB, LB, LB.
And there was like six people listed on there and he wasn't on the list.
So you know what you know.
So I mean, whatever.
I mean, not IR.
He's just PUP.
Well, actually, he's he's no longer PUP.
OK, well, there you go.
But my point is physically unable to when I drafted, I I picked a T.J. Watt as my first
LB.
All right.
And granted, you know, he hit or miss.
He could be fantastic.
He may not, but he's solid.
Yeah.
He's a defensive end.
I think a defensive end this time.
I picked two linebackers at two corners.
I always go.
He's an LB.
He's a linebacker.
I go linebacker safety pretty much every time.
No, no, but T.J. is a linebacker.
He lines up on the line, I think, doesn't he?
I think defensive end personally.
Well, but he's listed as LB.
No, he's listed as a DL.
I got it right here.
It says LB.
Really?
Yeah.
That's right.
It's wrong.
Anyway, he's always.
When I was, when I got, when I, when I got him up there, I think that's probably what
it is.
I think he's listed as both because I looked at another list and I saw, I saw the opposite.
I was like, oh shit, I need to get a linebacker now.
So I looked on the linebacker list and I picked up a homeboy.
Shaquille, right?
Shaquille Leonard, who was a score.
I mean, he's like the best fucking linebacker in the league.
And then I did the research, you know, the research he was on that list.
And sure enough, I draft them and then Barry's like, oh, he's hurt.
Yeah, I hate that.
I hate that.
You know, one of my, one of mine that I drafted, Barry goes, uh, yeah, he just lost his starting
role.
I was like, fuck you.
I was like, he knows all that shit.
That's why he does the frustration was so I got, I got a T.J.
And mind you, I'm picked number one, so I get boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
So it comes back to me.
I get two.
So I didn't pick two linebackers back to back because that's retarded.
So I picked a linebacker and something else.
And so it's like, basically I did three rounds picking up a linebacker and it was, I was
so frustrated with myself because I was thinking T.J. was a defensive end.
And there's a lot going on during the draft, man.
And people are rushing you.
Come on, come on.
Dude, look, I have, what is it?
Two minutes?
I don't know.
We actually don't have.
I don't think yours is a tarp, but there's a bunch of jokes that we don't have an official
policy.
But what frustrates me is everyone starts talking and they start talking about players.
I'm like, did they pick up that player?
Yes.
Oh, no, no, no, no one said anything.
That's when I got mad at Jeff, Jeff, my neighbor, Jeff.
I was like, I was like, don't say names because then people go, oh, they got drafted and they
started crossing off the list and they didn't.
Right.
Well, you're kind of multitasking to when you're doing the job.
Well, in addition, you're you're talking on the phone with Linda, who's from Dream Crushers.
Right.
And, you know, she's, you know, she's become a worthy opponent.
I remember when she was kind of like, you know, again, thank you for your donation or
kind of, you know, that.
But you know, she stepped up.
I mean, last year she performed pretty well.
This year, I mean, I didn't see what the grade was, but you know what?
She held her own to the point where people were fucking up and you were like, dude, you
know, she was saying, dude, she totally was.
And she's like, she's remote and she's saying, dude, it was awesome.
Get your shit together.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was fun.
It was it was fun having her on the phone.
Well, I'll tell you what, this next year, I'm never going to do it again.
I'm never going to wait for the last moment to get my my magazines in my my sheet list
because my cheat sheet, the cheat sheet is is I waited way too long.
That's that's the same.
You know, I need the cheat sheet.
I have to go down that roster and I need to refresh my eye on popless because where did
you get your information?
You said you said you went to a website to get your spreadsheet.
That's a secret.
Oh, you're not going to share.
No, it was it was I sat up here Saturday morning and just started going through a bunch of
websites and I stumbled upon this spreadsheet.
Basically what it was, I downloaded it, opened it up and I was like, all right, I'm going
to use this.
I did a tab for each position and a shit ton of what you're not telling us.
I don't remember where it was.
I think I stumbled on it in bookmark or anything like that.
I should have.
Should have.
But the papers you printed, did they have a title on there or something?
Well, those I usually find every year.
The spreadsheet was new and that really helped me out because I'd have multiple sheets.
I'm trying to I'm finding sometimes a dress fast.
You're like, all right, I need to find this person and cross them off, cross them off.
That takes away from me doing my little last minute research.
Yes.
Right.
As I'm trying to scratch shit off, writing stuff down.
I need a new system.
You know, what's frustrating is that I did I did a draft a couple of years ago through
ESPN and ESPN, you know, and I don't know if Yahoo has the same set up.
I think they do.
You know, they do.
Why aren't we doing that?
Because it's fun to do it off offline.
We're all in person.
So we could do this sitting in our house.
Oh, 100 percent.
What?
The podcast?
No, the draft.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, you mean remotely?
Yeah, I just did the yeah.
If we did it if we did it like that on the the laptop.
Right.
Yeah, we totally do a remote.
None of us need to be there.
And the draft lasts like an hour.
Yeah, it's it's it's way faster.
Super fast.
Oh, yeah.
My draft for the other league, I was sitting on the couch watching TV and I was watching
my phone and it said, oh, you're up.
And I was like, hmm.
Just click it to click on it goes and then it adds it to the team.
It's very it's very cool.
I mean, it's very easy.
It was easy.
Plus, it gives you suggestions.
It says, hey, man, these are the top ranked.
Oh, by the way, you don't have a quarterback yet.
Right.
It is cool.
But I love the way we do our draft.
I do love it.
I love it that it's in person.
I love that.
Well, I think it's important to do it in person, too.
And I enjoyed that as well.
But at the same time, I think that'd be kind of cool for us to to have it online.
Because look, it's just very we could do that.
I don't see why not.
We could all be in person and just draft draft in person.
Sit around the house.
Yeah.
You want to all be in the same room.
No, I'd want to be in the same room because that's part of the fun of the whole thing.
I don't know.
We could we could sell that.
But anyway, we'll see.
That's a good idea.
I think you'll get pushback, although I don't know.
You know, I'm the newbie to this.
Well, I brought it up to Barry and he shut it down.
Yeah.
I mean, by absolute you hear me say it, right?
Yeah, probably.
Well, he's the commission.
He runs this thing, right?
Well, I mean, it's it gives him the the the air of authority, you know, when he's able
to type in the whole lot of stuff.
Oh, I got an error.
No, trust me.
I just loaded everything into Sean.
No, trust me.
He would totally be on board with he doesn't want to be the commissioner.
He's told me, hey, man, can you be the commissioner?
Because he's want to deal with that shit during the draft.
He doesn't he does not want to deal with it.
Well, it seems to me like it would be better to do it that way.
I mean, does he think that it might?
I mean, because, look, again, we're at a point in this league where, yeah, it's great that
that information is there, but we're already doing good.
Right.
You know, and it's kind of selfish because he has that information available right there.
He's looking at the Yahoo as he's loading it in.
Right.
So that information is right there for him.
So if anything, I think he's cheating.
Barry, you know, well, technically, we all have access to to that in Yahoo, but not real
time like he he's because he's loading him in as he goes.
That makes sense.
Yeah, I don't know what he sees, though.
I mean, does when he when it's his turn, does it tell him what the next five best players
are?
I don't think he sees that.
I don't know.
I mean, that's what he does when you normally do it.
I know, but it does.
Yeah, I know it does on a normal one.
But the way he's doing it, does he get that?
I mean, I'm essentially I'm essentially doing that anyway, but I have to do it manually.
I have to find them on the sheet, cross them off.
And then I know who the next according to my list, I know who the next available player
is.
Well, bring it up as as a possible change and take a vote.
Yeah, I mean, I don't care.
I think you're right.
It's probably time to modernize.
I'm not stressed on him, but you know, OK, it does make it nicer, but it does take longer.
This fucking draft was three hours.
I mean, look, I like hanging out with you guys.
But you know, if we get a draft done in an hour and a half, an hour.
Yeah, I mean, shoot, that's huge.
It gives us time to have a really good time.
Right.
You know, kind of tear it up at the end.
Do shots.
That's your equivalent to tear it up.
I was thinking like steak and dance around chicken wings.
Dance around the naked.
Oh, like, oh, like, we're going to where you were going.
Oh, I was kind of pause there.
You went all broke back.
What the hell, man?
I don't know.
I think that's where you were going.
Anyway, it's fine.
I'm looking forward to the league.
I got three teams.
I never had three teams before, but whatever.
Yeah, I've never I've done three.
I did two.
I didn't want.
Trust me, I didn't want to do two of the three.
I did two leagues and I enjoyed that.
I just I don't have it.
I don't say I have enough time because everyone has enough time.
You just got to make time.
But I don't want the stress of having two teams.
I enjoy doing one.
I hear you.
And that's it.
You know, I don't need the who raw from.
I tell you what it makes.
It makes watching games on Sunday a little, a little difficult when you have three teams.
You're like, oh, wait, wait, you're both your quarterbacks are going against each other.
Yeah, right.
And it's like somebody just scored.
I mean, I have I think I have that person is that on which team always on the bench
on this team and starting on the other team.
I mean, yeah, it's crazy.
I would imagine it's going to suck, but we'll see.
It'll be fun.
I'm excited that that NFL's back.
I think are we past the the the drama still boycotting.
Oh, what do we know?
I know we're not boycotting, but I forget.
Are we past the drama of all that?
I think we are.
I forgot.
I think the league has moved past it.
We're talking about the kneeling.
We're talking about the stupid stuff on the jersey.
Well, those are the end.
That's all we'll see this year.
I think it's I think it's it's quieted down tremendously.
Well, I think they've learned their lesson that Black Lives Matter.
There's no place in the institution of NFL for it.
Period.
Well, I think they're still on board with it.
I think that the whole thing turned out to be a sham.
Yeah, they're not on board with that.
And the whole thing is a sham.
Look, the spirit of what they were trying to push, I get.
But look, there's not race, there's no racism and cops kneeling on George Floyd's neck.
There's no proof that he did that because he was a racist.
He did that because he was acting like a fucking fool.
He could have been white.
Yeah, but I'm going to totally disagree that the NFL is not on board with Black Lives Matter.
I mean, they still you're going to see commercials that still talk about contributing to that.
I think the players union insisted that they.
If I see it in, I'm going to mentally have some pushback and it's going to turn me off.
I don't want to see it.
All lives matter.
OK.
And there's no reason to bring up Black Lives Matter because it's irrelevant.
All lives matter.
If you act like a fool and the cops pick on you, you know what?
I've seen lots of white boys get fucked up from cops.
Right.
All right.
If you're a bad apple, then you're a bad apple.
It doesn't matter what color you are.
Right.
It's going to give you a lesson.
And sometimes, you know, I kind of feel like some of the cops from the past.
There's a lot of people that abuse.
There's a bad apple cops out there.
Of course.
So I get that.
But some of these cops out there, they're they're playing neighborhood dad, you know,
where they got to they got to take the long arm of the law and smack you around a little
bit for some of these people to learn, because sometimes it takes a good smack for some of
these dumb motherfuckers to learn.
You got these kids right now.
It's kids, but you get these people right now and like in Los Angeles, California, are
going into these CVS stores, just going in and walking in, taking what they want, walking
right back.
Have you seen the big mob thievery?
Yeah.
They walk in there with like 30 people and just completely ransacked the place.
What do you do if you're an employee there?
I just like, oh, you know, you stand aside.
I would leave.
I'm not I don't want to be in here and get hurt.
Right.
And the argument is, oh, I'll be taking my tag off.
Yeah.
And all this stuff is is insured and, you know, it only hurts the corporation.
It doesn't hurt anybody.
You know, all that cost trickles back down.
Well, they're closing.
That's what I mean.
Yeah, that's it.
It trickles back down because those insurance companies like this store here is high risk.
Your insurance just quadrupled.
Right.
I mean, they're just so ignorant.
And so now like six CVS is have closed in in like the San Francisco area or something.
Well, that's a high inconvenience for a lot of people, especially for like the elderly
that live there and walk and get their prescriptions and shit.
Right.
And they're like Amazon.
There's nowhere.
Well, I'm more interested in the Mark Cuban pharmacy.
What's this?
He created his own pharmacy to beat the big pharma as far as Costco.
Really?
That whole.
Yes.
And it's I don't know what it's called.
I'm not a fan of Mark Cuban, but I'm I'm I'm interested.
Yeah.
You know what?
I'm not a fan of his politics.
But you know, you guys have some good ideas.
Is that it right?
Yeah.
Cost Plus.
He's trying to do.
He's yeah, he's he's he's trying to do a good thing.
And this is a good thing.
And he's got a shoe in.
It's kind of what is the guy's name that from my pillow?
Yeah.
So my pillows, he's trying to do his own Amazon thing.
You know, he's got my pillow, my slippers, my coffee.
He's got my coffee.
He's going to he's going to start coming up there with my sheets, my towels, my slippers,
my condoms.
So I need to go out there and look at this for like Brandon's insulin.
Does it make more sense to go through this guy?
So they're opening in twenty twenty two state of the art Texas manufacturing site will manufacture
products.
Nice.
Now, I like this, actually.
I love the fact that it's Texas that works.
That works.
So where is he procuring the drugs from?
I don't I don't know that China.
Well, I have yes, too.
Well, looks like the manufacturing is in Texas.
Looks like he's going to start manufacturing his own air.
When you say manufacture, does that mean that you're actually producing the pills?
Yes.
So where do they get the chemicals?
Well, they buy them raw materials, raw materials from big pharma.
No, I mean, wherever.
I don't know.
It's all from China.
I mean, they have chemists, they have chemists and shit and they make they make basically
like Breaking Bad.
They have their own little meth lab.
Well, that's good.
Big meth lab.
I'm 100 percent I'm just like Paul, I don't necessarily agree with Cubans political views,
but I do.
Hey, look, it's about what you do, you know, and this is good.
Anytime you can bring down medicine because the medicines in the United States, the pharmaceuticals,
fuck them.
Oh, big pharma has a piece of shit in there that the whole medical field itself.
It's just a goddamn joke.
Just like a vaccine, man.
I mean, it's a stranglehold.
We need to take down systematically every single big infrastructure like this, you know,
I mean, from the from the school systems of the colleges that are charging way too much
money so that they can support a two hundred million dollar annual football college football
program, which is bullshit.
You know, in my opinion, I think they should have you know what you want a football program
to send them to football school and have football school set up or that they all that's all
they do and then have some of the most expensive universities don't even have football.
Good.
Well, that's the whole point.
Well, it's not the whole point.
But the my point is that these colleges are just charging way too much.
They are.
They're outstripping inflation by a lot, by a lot.
You know, and then you have Trump coming in or dipshit Biden coming in here and forgiving
all the debt.
You know, it's just it just it grinds my gears on on on this.
I think they underestimated how angry this country is about this.
This bailout.
I mean, it's just long bailout.
Why would you do that?
I mean, it's just unfair.
You're trying to buy folks.
That's all you're trying to do.
But look, man, they're just not these are smart people, you know, so you would think
that they would understand that, you know, some people didn't have the ability to go
to school.
Some people had to jump in the workforce right away.
Well, I think a lot of them don't think beyond their own experience.
No, they don't.
They're in this Washington political bubble, especially this young generation.
They're in this woke Washington, D.C. political bubble.
And they see, wow, all my friends, my little gaggle of friends could really utilize and
the people I hang out with are all the.
College educated white elite people.
Right.
And they're all bitching and moaning about I can't pay back my loan.
Right.
Or how much student loans they must think, well, that applies to everybody.
So if we do this, it's going to be a great thing.
No, it's not.
No, no.
Or the whole thing could be calculated.
You know, Biden could be like, you know, here's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to offer the kids some free stuff.
It's going to get shut down.
I know it's going to get shut down, but I'm going to say it and I'm going to offer it.
He's been one to do this.
And I'm going to blame this on Trump.
Well, he's been wanting to do this since he was vice president with Obama and Obama shot
it down, saying it's not a good idea.
It's a horrible idea.
Yeah, it's a horrible idea.
But now that he's president, he's like, I'm the man in charge now, so I'm going to do
it now.
Isn't it a little terrifying that a president can just go, man, I'm going to give forgive
500 billion in debt?
I heard it's up to a trillion.
Are you serious?
Yeah, that's what they said on the five yesterday.
I mean, how that the expected cost is going to be a trillion dollars.
The president of the United States has that power.
There's no way he's got that power.
I mean, and yet he just congress, Congress holds the post.
Never rein in the executive order bullshit for I don't care who the president is.
It is ridiculous.
It is completely ridiculous.
And the stupid thing is, as soon as the next Republican gets, he's going to undo everything
to undo it.
Do it like the stupid Keystone pipeline.
Yeah, let's put it back in play back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
And it's going to be all right.
We have four years.
Let's bust the shit out.
You gotta get it done.
Get it done.
Yeah.
Or like the wall, they're just going to leave it hanging with gaps in it.
It'll get it'll get completed in four years.
Right.
Or whenever the next Republicans in there, it'll get passed this.
It's so it's childish.
But until then, it literally is childish.
It is.
He just overturned everything that Trump did in terms of like, you know, executive orders
was childish.
It was just a big middle finger to Trump.
It was childish.
It was at the well, maybe this is he put some good things into practice by doing this.
It's a I'm just going to give my middle finger to him.
Everything he did.
I'm reversing.
Correct.
That's what he did.
I know exactly what he did.
It's childish.
I agree.
It's pathetic.
And he's fucking 80 years old.
Right.
It was still doing it.
But again, I think his I think his administration is run by a bunch of young bunch of fools,
young, idealistic.
Yeah, they don't have they don't have a concept of real world, real world and how the United
States works.
I agree.
And when they're like claiming, oh, we're just going to do this to fossil fuels and
that to gas and this to natural gas and that to gasoline refineries, they don't know how
the world works.
No, they have no concept that like AOC like like when she's you know, they cannot possibly
comprehend how many cars run on oil and gas.
It's just not cars.
Everything.
What about all the what about all the semis?
What about all the whole trucking industry?
Yes.
Airplanes.
All those vehicles that support.
Are we going to have are we going to have electric airplanes now?
I mean, how are they going to do that?
I mean, it's just it's like rubber bands.
All the construct.
Yeah.
And wind it.
Oh, yeah.
Good idea.
That's why industrial rubber bands.
How many of the propellers have to have like this to 800 800.
They all have to be wound at the same time at the same time.
That's a lot.
Well, that'll employ a lot of people.
Well, that's what that's what I hear this.
Well, we need to have no gas cars.
I'm like, OK, that's part of the equation.
You know, yes.
Gradually equation.
Gradual.
Yeah.
But Elon Musk made a statement or he was just saying it's ridiculous that the fact that,
you know, he says we need to start producing more fossil fuels.
And and you know, he's got an electric car.
It's just, you know, you got the the folks like Chevrolet, for example, folks from Chevrolet
who hate who hate electric cars are now investing in an electric car business.
And then you have the people that are invested in electric car business like Elon Musk saying,
no, you guys need it.
We need to stick with with fossil fuels.
We need balance right now.
We cannot have too much of one or the other.
It's it's it.
Balance is a good word, but it's not equal balance, though, because no, you know, lithium
mining is really dirty.
Back to the environment.
We don't have much lithium, far worse.
It's hard to do.
This is very fine.
The batteries.
The batteries don't last that long.
They're harder to dispose of them.
The precious metals or the rare metals that go into them are hard to find, hard to mine
and come from enemies of our country.
Right.
I saw it.
It's just bad news all around.
I saw an article today where a guy had a 2012 Chevy Volt and his battery ran out because
they do they have a lifespan.
Right.
So he went to the dealership and said, what's going on?
Oh, your battery has expired.
You need a new one.
Right.
Perfect.
It will be twenty six thousand dollars.
Are you kidding?
Plus all these fees.
It'll be thirty thousand dollars to get you a new battery.
Thirty thousand dollars.
Thirty thousand dollars for this battery for this Chevy Volt, which he spent.
How much for?
He said the car is now worth like seven to twelve thousand dollars.
OK, so is that what's going to happen with you?
You can buy a new Chevy Volt for about the same price, I think.
Bolt is a B. That's what replaced the Volt.
Yes.
Really?
I didn't know that.
So the Chevy Volt is no longer there.
It's the Chevy new model came out.
They call it the Chevy.
That is crazy.
Still all electric.
Yeah.
Well, yes, it's an electric car.
Right.
Thirty thousand dollars.
Is that the same thing going to happen to all the Teslas 15 years from now?
Yes.
Jack, same thing?
One hundred percent.
There is another story where the there is an Australian fame.
I think I saw this before that they bought a Prius for their daughter.
Right.
And the batteries died on it like six months into getting it.
Oh, it was used.
Right.
And it was going to cost them fifteen thousand dollars to replace the batteries.
They don't.
On a car they spent four thousand dollars.
And they don't tell you that, do they?
No, that's it.
That's incredible.
And then the Teslas are going to be the exact same way.
There's no way I would buy like those first generation, first generation, second generation
or dead at this point.
I mean, the thing is, electric is the future.
We get it.
It is.
But we're not there yet.
No, no, no.
We're not there yet.
They've got a baby step.
We still need to cultivate the electrolysis.
I mean, I saw another video on it today, man.
You and your hydrolysis.
This guy converted a freaking generator and it works.
I mean, the video, it never took the video off.
There has to be a reason why they can't.
They haven't moved past this.
All right.
Well, it's not scalable.
Whoa.
You owe me a coke.
Jinks.
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