No, I don't know what a straw band is. What does that mean?
Really? Straw band? It is a United States Southern rock band.
I think we said they were bands between, yeah, American bands between like 1978 and 1982.
And there was a lot of leeway there.
Like Southern rock?
Yeah.
I've never heard straw band. I've heard Southern rock.
Like Bollie Hatchet?
Yeah. Yeah. Molly Hatchet would be one.
Lyrdrd Skinnerd?
Yeah. Lyrdrd Skinnerd. 38 Special.
38 Special.
Yeah. And then it wasn't just Southern though. Like Boston would be considered one.
I've never heard straw band before.
Well, I think straw band was something that the, what is our fantasy football, Jeff, our fantasy football partner who has the agent that comes to the draft?
I'm just trying not to.
Anyway, I think he's the one that came up with straw band. I don't know where he came up with that.
Which we're all going to come with five agents next.
Yeah.
I think we need to ban the consultant.
Yeah, no, I don't disagree with you.
But anyway, that's where straw band came from.
I disagree with that. I think that if somebody wants to split their account.
Split their winnings if they have any.
Whatever. If they want to, if they want to split the opportunity to be part of the Astro Pansies, then they buy it.
Is that what this is?
You know what? Does it matter?
Yeah.
I mean.
If he's just there to make sure he does a good job.
He's just a coworker. I mean, it's not like he hired him from Vegas to come down.
Well, maybe he's an expert.
Actually, he's from Vegas.
Maybe this guy's an expert. Maybe he's a guru. He won last year.
Yeah, but he fucking sucked a huge dick.
Every year before that.
Like for three years.
It was like the third draft and they they were horrible.
Yeah, I think I don't agree with it.
Well, I don't agree with not being able to, you know, in the middle of the season.
I are not doing this.
We are not having a rules debate about fancy football.
But here's the deal, man. It's wrong.
It doesn't matter.
Why should I have my guy that's on injured reserve affect my normal week to week draft or normal week to week?
I don't bother you go join another another league where they can just pick up wherever they want.
So look, if you're going to be with the elite boys.
No, this is not the elite.
Oh, this is the elite.
This is the elite. But here's the point.
My point is that I can't even bring it up for discussion.
No. Why?
Because I said so.
Yeah. Well, that's very very members.
I'm one of the founding members.
So I get that kind of vote.
How about that? I get veto power.
I have bat wings veto power.
I disagree.
I think that if a player goes on IR, I don't care where you're at, what time you should be able to instantly drop him and instantly pick up.
Suck a dick.
So we're going to have an elders committee board meeting.
Well, OK.
And if I even even suggest if that we believe that wings from the league.
Well, I'm the oldest one.
So I get the most.
No, no, no. It doesn't work that way.
You can't pick up like after the first day.
Like, let's say there's a Thursday night game.
Well, you can't pick up after that.
Obviously, if they played, if they played.
Yeah.
Yes. So I'm just saying you can pick up somebody.
But they have also they could not have played.
I agree.
That's why I look.
I just disagree.
I think that if you have two players that get hurt, you know, an IR, I don't think it should affect your opportunity to be able to to get another pick.
I think I think you need to reorder some bad yourself.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, I went there.
So bad yourself and fishing trips.
Hey, that happens to be at the top of the list of our topics tonight.
Yeah. Does bad yourself fix fish?
Well, what I do think is that it's a good lubricant to put on your hook for you to be putting the bait on.
It's not a lube.
It's for yeast.
I tell you, I I enjoy going fishing.
I don't know. So we have a fishing hole.
We have a fishing hole that's within a mile of all of our houses.
Do they have any musky lunge in there?
I don't think they have any musky lunge, but they do have large mouth bass.
Is this your little neighborhood like stocks right down the street?
Dude, it's it's a stocked pond.
Yeah.
But little tiny little fish that you always have to go back.
They do have a few of those.
They have three eyes.
I don't know if you'd eat anything out of it.
Producer, producer, back me up on this.
Have we not pulled out 24 plus inch bass
out of that bad boy?
No way.
Two foot.
Producer, back me up.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
That's 30, that's 28 inches.
Damn, that's a 24.
I was gonna say, that's a long ass 24 inches there, bro.
I don't know what your-
I caught a fish this big.
Yeah, I don't know what kind of measuring stick
you're using.
Or like, you know.
The point is, is that there are,
it's a great fishing hole.
You're not gonna have 24 inch bass in there.
That's like a six pound bass.
There's no way.
Yeah, no way.
I call bullshit.
No.
On a 24 inch bass.
That's like a four foot deep pond.
There are certain areas of that pond
that are deeper than that.
I don't know exactly where, but.
Like five and a half.
Maybe four and a half.
I don't know, man.
I know that-
It all depends.
It all depends on how stock it is.
Emily has pulled out some catfish that are huge.
All right?
And we've had a couple bass that were pulled out of there.
But you don't keep them.
You always put them back.
Oh no, we always put them back in there.
But the thing is that it's fun.
It is fun.
It's fun to go out there.
Fishing is fun.
I used to have a lot more fun when I was younger.
And the thought of it-
When I was younger.
Well the thought of it, fishing now just doesn't-
I used to go fishing.
Oh no, I love fishing.
Doesn't Brownie love fishing?
I went fishing all the time.
Me and my buddy Jeff.
Sounds like a song.
Wow.
Me and my buddy Jeff, we'd go out to-
Oh, you had a friend named Jeff?
Sushi, yes.
Wow.
His real name is Jeff.
Is that racist?
His real name is Jeff.
But he goes by Sushi.
He's Asian.
Why don't you go by brisket?
He's half Japanese.
We didn't have brisket in Ohio.
You like that?
We didn't have-
Hi, my name's brisket and he's my buddy Sushi.
I'm Weeblewobble.
Yeah, we didn't have brisket in Ohio when I grew up.
Which is, I never had that until I moved down here.
Anyway, we used to go fishing all the time
at a place up in Ohio called Cowan Lake.
Cowan Lake?
And we'd sit there, sometimes we'd just fish off the dock
and get pan fish, bluegill.
And we'd sit there and just-
Yeah, that was the best.
Did you used to cook them up right then and there?
We'd have fish fries every now and then, yeah.
If we caught big enough ones, we'd keep them
and if we get enough of them, we'd fry them up.
If not, we'd end up letting them go.
If we just got one or two of them, we'd let them go.
But if we got like six or seven,
because those bluegill, you'd have to get
six, seven, eight of them to have any kind of meal.
If not more.
That's pretty fucking lame.
It's interesting, so when we went to Wisconsin
and we used to fish up there,
and they used to tell stories-
They used to go to the Great Lakes.
The Great Lakes too.
Well, it wasn't Great Lakes, but it was Chano Lakes
in Wapaka, Wisconsin.
You guys have heard me talk about going up there, right?
No.
Oh well, it's one of those.
It's my summer home.
Anyway, so we fish up there and they do have bluegill,
but they talk about what those lakes used to be like,
and they were overflowing with bluegill
and they were gigantic.
So this was not Lake Michigan.
And no, this is Wapaka, Wisconsin.
W-A-U-P-A-C-A.
He was looking up Cowan Lake.
Yeah, Cowan Lake, right there.
Wapaka.
Anyway, so were there a lot of bluegill?
Oh yeah.
A ton of bluegill?
A ton.
And they were gigantic?
You put little mealworms on there.
When you were little, or like now?
Well, I was a teenager, so I was driving out there.
Is it overfished now?
Oh, I haven't been there in 30 years.
See, so my grandfather was talking about
when he fished as a boy, it was like out of control,
gigantic bluegill.
There's no lake but Wapaka, Wisconsin.
Wapaka, W-A-U-P-A-C-A.
Wapaka, Wisconsin.
Yeah, but the lake out there is part of Lake Michigan.
No, no, no, it's Chain-O Lakes.
Minor Lake, Wapaka, Wisconsin, Chain-O Lake.
Yeah, I mean the bluegills were...
No, Chain-O, Chain-O Lakes.
And it's beautiful, and there's like nine lakes
that are all connected through little channels.
It's amazing.
Chain-O Lakes.
There's like a Senko Lake.
Is that it right there?
It's Minor Lake.
I mean, what's wrong with you guys?
No, that's not it, that's golf.
Texas, Gulf Coast, Texas.
What's happening?
Have you guys ever used the internet before?
The World Wide Web?
Anyways.
You guys should...
So you were out in your Tier 1 fishing program out there,
and what's the class in?
Did you have a yacht?
Did you have a yacht out there?
So we have, what's interesting is
we have a ton of history there.
My grandmother was born there.
Actually, we haven't been there yet.
And married there.
My mother was, was she married there?
And I used to vacation there every summer
from when I was a little kid,
and my parents would rent, rent, right?
I don't own anything here.
And can you imagine if they had just...
Bought something.
I mean, literally, they are vacationing there
every year for 30 years.
Why, and their grandmother, my grandmother was born there,
why not buy something?
You know what it's worth now?
A lakefront property, two million, three million.
Oh yeah.
Wow.
And they could have bought it for probably 25 grand.
Yeah. Yeah.
It makes you sick to your stomach.
I mean, there's places around here,
you have to get pretty far out, but you can find that.
Yeah.
It's harder and harder and harder.
Yeah, it's crazy.
Anyways, beautiful.
There are a bunch of quiet lakes.
They're all connected together.
You get on a pontoon boat
and you put through all these lakes.
Yeah, that type of fishing is kind of fun.
Oh, it's a lot of fun.
Yeah. A lot of fun.
There was a, there was a, in fact,
you and I went out to Lake...
Texoma. Lake Texoma.
Oh, that was so much fun.
Mr. Mark, Mark was like,
he had a house out there in Pottsboro.
Yes, it's a paintball house.
Yeah, it's a paintball house.
Yeah, that's great.
So we've got, we mentioned that in one of the podcasts.
We ended up, it was both, it was Mark, Paul and I,
and we went out to go and fish at Lake Tahoe.
God damn it.
What is it called?
Texoma. Lake Texoma.
We got a guide.
There was a guide.
And...
That's when you like, you know,
you're guaranteed to catch fish
because they know exactly where to go.
Yeah, well, I mean, when you go out there,
and he's kind of, hey man, look, you're guaranteed it
because these guys right there,
they take care of the lake.
So when I say that, it's because when you go out there
and you catch the fish, they gut the fish
and they, right there and there.
Well, they do everything for you.
Well, they do everything.
But my point about bringing that up,
that they do everything for you,
is regarding the gutting of the fish,
is they put it back in the lake.
So to help the ecosystem out.
Meaning that...
So it feeds the fish?
Yeah, so I mean, there's just...
So they're cannibals?
I don't remember them.
Oh yeah.
So the fish are cannibalistic?
Yeah, they're taking it back to this flat metal thing
and that's where they measured them and trimmed them up.
Yeah, that was on the dock.
Oh, and then they take all the guts
and throw them back in the lake.
Yeah.
Oh, okay, okay, I got you.
I was envisioning like doing it on the boat.
They were throwing it back in the lake and...
Kind of like chum?
Yeah, just chum.
I mean, I thought it was cool, but the point is,
but that didn't happen.
Like the time that Paul and I went out to a...
Oh, it was beautiful.
It was 77 degrees.
No, it was not.
And no wind.
What time of the year was this?
Was this like November?
It probably had to be mid January.
Well, whatever we were out there...
Why would you do this?
19 degrees with gale force winds.
It was supposed to be cold, but you know what?
You still catch fish in the cold
and we had an opportunity to go and so we did.
And it's always worse on the water.
Oh my God.
We got out, first of all, numb nuts here.
Oh my God.
Okay, when you go and fish...
He's in parachute pants and a wife beater?
Dude, it's like when you go fishing,
you're getting on a boat.
There's gonna be high winds.
There's gonna be a little water that pops up.
You gotta be prepared for that.
So you wear clothes that are gonna retard
the water coming into you.
He wears like this cotton zip up hoodie.
I was horribly unprepared.
And statistically, it should have killed me.
He's sitting in the back, right?
And so we're driving all over the way.
I'm dressed appropriately
and Mark is dressed appropriately.
And there Paul is, he's got his arms crossed
and he's shivering and he's like, oh my God.
Time out, time out.
You put me at the fucking front of the boat
where all the water was just flashing on me
and I don't care what you were wearing.
There's icicles hanging off your fucking nose.
You may have started off there,
but there were many places for you to sit.
It wasn't a five man boat.
This was like an eight man boat.
You could have chose anywhere.
No, it was not.
Oh my God.
This is all lies.
So Paul, I just sat there.
The guy was like, well, you know what?
It's just not happening today.
So we were out there for about an hour.
I think hour and a half at the very most.
I think we didn't last an hour and a half.
We were out there for about an hour
and you were probably getting cold.
I was cold, but I wasn't gonna say anything
because once you stop the boat,
things kind of get a little bit better
and then you go fishing, but we couldn't catch anything.
And he was trying every place that we could to go.
And he was like, hey man, you know, after,
and I look back at Paul and Paul, first of all, is wet.
Hypothermia, full blown.
Full blown hypothermia.
His lower mouth was shivering uncontrollably.
I was like.
His, his wannabe mustache.
Was he shivering?
Looked like it had frozen cum stains
from the last 10 years all over.
It was horrible.
It was awful.
But you know what?
It was one of the most uncomfortable moments,
I'm not kidding, most uncomfortable,
like, you know, temperature moments of my life.
Did you have gloves?
At this point, I'm thinking I may have been naked
because that's how uncomfortable I was.
He may have been better off just hopping in the water.
I may not have had anything on.
I may have just been like a nudist.
Was it a nudist fishing deal?
Had it not been for Mark and I
taking turns pissing on you,
you probably would have got hypothermia.
Were you turtling?
Oh my God, it was awful.
I think it's.
How about I tell you what, when we came back.
I think it's three months it came out.
There is something.
Took three months for it to pick its head back in.
There's something about.
Like, is it safe?
You know, fresh fish.
When people say fresh fish,
you know, you don't really think about it.
Fresh fish, okay, go ahead there, fresh fish.
Fresh fish.
These guys, because when we went back and we caught,
because we did catch, we caught our.
Striper, striper's a big up there.
Yeah, it was striper.
It was striper, they were huge.
There were also gray catfish, blue catfish and.
Steelheads.
I'm not sure what that is.
It's a catfish.
We got some big tuna that day, I think.
There was a couple swordfishes out there.
Mahi-mahi tuna.
Were you swimming next to it?
Yeah, we were.
It was out there like frolicking with the tuna.
Why the body gyrations there?
Well, you're swam with it.
No, no, I don't know where you do swimming next to fish, but.
Well, these fish were north of, you know,
they were right around the couple of us, the pilot,
the board, the guy that was.
Steelhead's a trout.
He was.
The guy.
The guy was astringent with the rules.
You know, so, you know, we would get a fish
and it had to fit within that two foot mark.
Yeah.
Because if we caught over 24 inches, he would throw it back.
If we caught under 20, 20 inches, he would throw it back.
So.
Were they too big to throw it back?
I don't remember that part.
No, no, there was a couple of big ones.
He was like, no, it was too big and he'd throw it back.
Why, why were there.
Why would it be too big?
Maybe it was pregnant, I don't know.
But I remember.
I see that if it was pregnant with a bunch of roe.
You know, but so anyways, we catch our fill pretty quick.
I think we have around 10 or 12 fish a piece.
And, you know, so when you're in the boat,
it's kind of like he goes out there, he baits all the pokes.
You know, so you're.
We actually got a ring check that we never cashed in on.
Let's cash it in.
Oh, I think we did cash in it.
Well, I wasn't invited to the.
Interesting, did you pay?
Yeah, of course.
Interesting, so you never got paid back?
Yeah, I got screwed on that deal.
I think we should plan on doing that this spring.
I think that'd be great.
There's no reason why we should, because it's a lot of fun.
What I'm driving to.
It's an hour and a half away.
I'm gonna wear 10 layers.
What I'm trying to drive to is the fact that we can.
When you get to the dock and they take all your fish
and they got it right then and there.
Yeah, and they put it in Ziploc bags
and we immediately go straight to the house
and we immediately fry them.
They taste fluffy.
Oh yeah, it's wonderful.
Yeah, lots of butter, lots of the unhealthy stuff.
Lots of butter and salt.
Marinade and bourbon.
Oh, well.
Nice bourbon fish.
Yeah, I know one of the.
Again, I used to go fishing all the time
and we'd go, I remember for a family vacation,
we went up to Canada.
Did you go down the Niagara Falls in a barrel?
While fishing.
Yeah, well.
They say that's the best fishing.
Didn't do that.
We went up through Michigan, went over Mackinac,
Mackinac Island, not Island, but the bridge
and went to Sault Ste. Marie, Canada.
Where is that?
Help me here.
I don't know anywhere in these places.
So Michigan, if you think of Michigan,
it's kind of tall, right?
It looks like a, I don't know.
It looks like a mitten.
Like a mitten, right?
Yeah, it's a mitten.
So the Mackinac Bridge, I think is one of the longest
bridges in the US, if it's not the longest in the US.
And it bridges across one of the Great Lakes.
I think Lake Superior and one other one.
It's Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.
Okay, and once you go over there,
I don't know if it's Michigan on the other side
or Canada on the other side.
I can't remember.
But we went up into Canada and came down
and stayed at Sault Ste. Marie.
We had a cabin and.
Nice.
We were up there for a week.
My mom and my sister hated it, right?
Because they're.
Because it's guy stuff.
It's guy shit, right?
They didn't want to fish.
And there's really nothing to do out there except.
It's interesting that that bridge you were referring to
is four miles exactly.
Yeah, it's.
Four miles long.
It's really long.
It's to the north.
It's at the very top of the Michigan.
North.
There's Mackinac City.
Yeah, right.
To the right.
Sault Ste. Marie right there.
You see it up there.
And you know what's crazy?
Right, up, right, right, down, right there.
Zoom in.
That's the actual bridge right there, Mackinac Bridge.
And you know what's crazy?
North of Wisconsin is Michigan.
Yep.
I had no idea.
We were so far north in Wisconsin,
we were gonna go to Walmart,
and we went and they said, welcome to Michigan.
I was like, how is that possible?
And you see that.
I thought it was Canada.
You see that Mackinac Island over there, Paul?
I see it, I see it.
That's where Somewhere in Time was filmed.
Oh, okay.
So it has those big, like a mansion, white mansions.
That's exactly where that's at.
Anyway, so we went up there and.
Very nice.
We didn't get a, I think we got a boat.
Me and my dad and sister would go out,
just a little bitty motor on the back,
and we'd go out.
Putting around.
We were catching some northern pike.
In the Great Lake?
Yeah, we'd go.
Oh my God.
We were in Sault Ste. Marie, which is up in Canada.
So we'd go out and I caught some northern pike,
which are.
Those can get big.
Well, these are probably two feet long.
They weren't huge.
Okay.
But it was big enough, so we caught them.
Yeah, they weren't near that size.
Oh my God, yeah, those are gigantic.
Yeah, but they got teeth on them.
Oh, they can kill you.
Even at two feet long, they have teeth.
But we, I probably had, I think I caught two one time,
and a couple another time.
So we had four or five of them.
And I remember my dad, Philanthrope,
he didn't know what he was doing, right?
He did not?
No, well he wasn't a fisherman or anything like that.
So he was just kind of winging it.
Well, yeah, he was cutting it and getting it.
My sister was down there watching him.
I was watching him as well.
She refused to eat it.
Oh yeah, no, I got it.
Because she saw how it started.
Right, oh yeah.
All the guts that he was pulling out of it.
All the blood everywhere,
because he wasn't clean or anything about it.
Right.
He wasn't a professional.
So yeah, she refused to eat dinner that night,
because I'm not eating that.
She just starved.
She had rice, I don't know what she did.
I mean, that's no different than my wife
not refusing to eat elk.
Well, she didn't see you gut that.
True, but it's not something you see at the grocery store.
Right, that's just like cow.
Oh, you see salmon at the grocery store,
you guys don't eat that.
It's mental.
But you're right, I mean, that's a little different
when she sees the animal being prepared.
Right.
And like, you know.
To go back to the fishing point,
I'll tell you, that was from my memory.
Like a dude's like us moment,
I look back and I think that some of the funniest visuals
was looking back at Paul and how miserable he was
with the frozen mustache.
You don't understand how cold it was.
It was unbelievable.
I mean, I felt for him, but I knew he was cold,
but when I had looked back for one of the last times
and he was like, he was like.
I was shivering, literally shivering uncontrollably.
And I almost just said goodbye to you guys
and rolled off into the water.
Right, right.
Look how big those northern pike,
the producer pulled up a couple northern pike on there.
They look like eels.
Like big fat giant eels.
They're very big.
Pull up musky.
Those get about twice that big.
What's up musky?
They look very similar to that musky, there it is.
They get even bigger than that.
Musky lunch.
Wow.
Yeah, musky fish.
Oh, there's two people holding it.
Yeah, those get even bigger.
That's a lot of meat.
That's exciting.
It must be difficult to pull that thing out of the water.
I mean, look at that thing.
That thing's gotta be strong.
I wonder if it's a meteor.
It's got teeth, I can tell you that.
It's got big old teeth up.
Look at that, you can see the teeth.
Well, actually what I'm really gonna say is,
will it attack humans?
Well, that's, you want your feet dangling down there?
No, I don't.
With a fucking four foot musky lunge?
I mean, if it's not gonna do anything.
I mean. Is it?
I don't.
I've had my feet dangling in lots of water
but nothing has ever happened.
Oh.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Well, you're lucky.
Maybe.
Have you guys ever done offshore fishing?
No, never have.
No.
I've liked it.
I've always wanted to.
I've gone out way out in the docks
and fished off the piers and stuff.
Get any sharks?
No.
Did you catch anything?
I didn't tell you guys my one offshore fishing.
I caught a fluke.
What?
Is it called a fluke?
Fluke's a worm.
Is it a, what's the one side of, it's a surgeon.
Flounder?
Fuck.
A flounder?
Hold on, I thought it was called a fluke.
A great white?
You caught a great white off the piers of Galveston.
Would you like me to share my one offshore fishing story?
Why don't you look at that?
Oh, that's exactly what it was.
It was a fluke fish.
A fluke?
And we caught that off the piers.
Fluke?
Oh, there it is on the screen.
Yep.
Fluke?
Fish.
Oh, flounder.
That's flounder.
That's flounder, isn't it?
Well, you know, they called it fluke.
Yeah.
Ah, okay.
Flounder's good.
Yeah, so.
Oh no, it's supposed to be really good.
It is.
So we caught that off of Connecticut
when we were out there.
And that's right off the dock too.
So it wasn't horribly bad.
Okay, so you fished in the ocean, but off the dock.
Correct.
Yeah, fluke's are very similar.
Look at that.
I've never heard of that.
I've wanted to, I've always wanted to.
Very similar.
And there are, man, there are boats
that we can champion anytime.
I have some contacts.
Where at?
The Gulf.
Like Biloxi or Texas?
Both.
Well, Mississippi.
Biloxi, most likely.
We need to, I get so fresh
because I listen to these podcasts
and we have all these plans.
We need to fucking do it
because I'm all in on that.
I know.
We need to put a pin on the fucking calendar
and knock it out.
That'd be great.
Paul.
All right, so the one time, what?
So the one time, the one time I went.
So I had, my best friend from high school,
his father had a boat.
And so he.
Was it a dinghy?
He, no, I mean it was a 20 something foot boat.
I mean, not gigantic, but I mean.
20 foot's not very big.
Well, I know, but plenty big enough
for four of us to fish off of it.
And we went, we went far enough out.
I mean, I don't, we didn't go off the continental shelf,
but we went far enough out into the Gulf
where we were, we tethered to a, an oil rig.
That was not operational.
So what is the continental shelf?
Yeah, that's a good question.
I don't know how many miles you have to go out,
but I mean.
So when you go over the continental shelf,
that means when it drops.
Oh yeah.
So that means there's no real fish around.
No, there are fish and they're gigantic, like massive.
Yeah. Oh really?
That's where the big shit lives.
That's where the big shit is.
Yes, yes.
Anyway, but we, we went far enough out,
like to where it's, you can't see anything in any direction.
So it's gotta be right on the shelf.
So it's got, cause they, they,
they go up and down that shelf all the time.
Right, right.
As part of their.
And so they, he tethered,
he tethered to a, an oil rig
that was no longer operational, right?
If there was nothing, it was like a platform
flat on the top and everything on the top of it
was gone, right?
Oh cool.
It was, it was, it was cool.
Could you climb on it?
No, we didn't, but I will tell you,
it had this annoying,
pong, pong, pong.
That's a bell.
Oh, it was awful.
And, and we were rocking, rocking,
and I got sick, so sick,
but I ate jerky and it saved me.
But anyway, so we're fishing.
We're fishing.
You had one of your friends named Jerky with you?
No, I will tell you, if you, if you ever feel.
Did you jump?
If you ever feel seasick,
eat jerky, because I don't know
what the magical thing about it was,
but it went away instantaneously
when I started eating jerky.
Interesting.
So it's probably the high salt content.
I would want to test that again.
I don't know.
You should test that again.
I am gonna test that.
When we go out.
Anyway, so we were, we were fishing.
Jerky.
We were fishing King Mackerel.
All right.
And they, these things are, I mean, I don't know.
What would you say, three feet?
Yeah, I don't know.
These three feet, and they were about,
if you can see my hands, they were up at this.
So they're like tubes.
And these things are strong fish.
I mean, they're slender, really strong fish.
King Mackerel.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's what they were.
And so here we are fishing, right?
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
And I mean, we, a school came by
and it was like, wha-bam, wha-bam, wha-bam.
All three.
Our producer says he's people.
Well, I'm sorry.
Yeah, no, no, no.
A school came by and all three rods went,
ba-bam, ba-bam, ba-bam, right?
And so I'm holding mine and I'm like, oh shit.
I mean, I've fished before, not something this big,
but I'm like, wow, this thing's kind of, you know,
I'm digging into my shoulder, digging into my shoulder.
And the other one's like, we're gonna cross lines,
we're gonna cross lines, pull your, you know,
people are kind of scrambling on the boat.
Yeah, and I'm scrambling and they're like, okay, okay.
And so I'm working and working and working
and it dives under the boat
and my rods like completely bent over.
And they're like, whoa, what's going on?
And they're like laughing at me
because I'm struggling with the rod and all this kind of stuff.
And I'm like going, okay, I got it.
You don't wanna seem like a total P, right?
I'm like, oh, I got this guy, this is fine.
And I'm like, oh my God, oh my God.
Anyway, we finally get the thing up.
I have hooked it through the dorsal fin.
The fin on the top of the fish.
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how you did that.
Exactly, well, cause it was a school of fish
and it was just, they came swinging by
and a dorsal fin got my hook.
Graze did.
And this fish was just like, fuck you.
It had full mobility, no pain.
Right.
So, and that's what the guy said.
He was like, the father, my friend's father said,
well, no wonder you hooked it through the dorsal fin.
I was like, oh my God, oh my God.
I had a bruise underneath my armpit
and how hard I was working to get that thing out.
Anyway, it was amazing.
It was amazing.
It was big.
Did you eat it?
Oh yeah, yeah, we ate it.
Wasn't that good.
Oh, the fish though.
I didn't saute very much.
Yeah, we brought it back to the house
and his father knew exactly what to do.
Split it all open, cut it into,
it was almost like a loin, right?
When they cut it straight up and down, you know what I mean?
And it was like little horseshoes.
Our own producer went fishing.
And it wasn't that great.
Where did you go, Austin?
Where'd he bake it?
He, I think he baked it, like on the grill.
Just grilled it, you just grilled it.
Like a back-flip steak.
So you said it was like a loin,
I mean, cause really they are.
They're very meaty.
Well, I'm just saying loin because when you have a long,
skinny piece of meat, you know, beef or pork,
you cut it, you know, you cut it vertically.
Like a chop.
Right, and that's what they did.
They didn't like cut filets out of it or anything.
They just literally.
It's like a steak kind of a thing, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, you do that with certain times of fish.
Yeah, I buy the canned mackerel.
Okay.
At Kroger.
If you ever got that.
That's a little different.
Yeah, we should do a canned meat night.
We should do a canned fish night.
We've already done the canned meat night.
Oh, that was a disaster.
That was a success.
It was, it was fun, but it was gross.
Yeah, I think we need to limit our canned meat night to spam.
Spam is so good.
And oysters. That I love.
I love spam.
Yeah, I'm all in for fishing trips,
whether it's on the coast or up at Mackinac Island.
Yeah, so what does that mean that you have a hookup?
Well, Mackinac Island, huh?
You have a hookup.
What does that mean?
Well, I've got two hookups.
One is a lifelong friend.
His name is Will.
And he is, he's from South Texas.
And he goes on large fishing trips all the time.
He invited me a lot and I'd never gone.
It's not that I don't want to.
It's just about opportunity.
And so there's one.
And he goes out three times a year.
Of course.
Now does he own his own boat or he?
No, he goes out with a group of guys.
And one of them has a boat.
I think they charter each time
and there's usually a 12 pack of guys.
Oh, you know, that's the other thing.
We could totally do that.
We don't have a guy that knows a guy who has a boat.
We could do it ourselves.
We could charter a boat.
It's a couple hundred bucks piece
and you're out there for the day.
We get a hotel room, whatever.
We can work out those details.
The other contact I have was a contractor
whom I went out there for my job.
In Alabama, right?
Yeah, in Alabama.
And he's from Mississippi.
And he was just like, you know,
because I brought him onto a couple of different jobs.
And, you know, I'm huge on integrity.
So I'm like, there's no quick quote profile.
I don't need anything.
You know, I brought you out here
because the demand was high and you were here.
Sure.
You know, so it has nothing.
So I never, I think I may just call him up
and just say, you know,
cause he says he has friends
that can give me the hookup on,
cause they have big boats.
You know, they all have personal big boats that they go out.
That'd be so much fun.
So much fun.
It would be.
And you know, those guys just would love
to take out guys that have never done it before.
Yes.
It's like, it's like that feeling,
they're feeling it all over again
because they see what we're doing, right?
What we're feeling.
So that's kind of what I'm doing.
Well, have you talked to this guy in a while?
I talked to him about every couple of months.
No, call him.
Call him, yeah.
Well, I will.
I'll make a point to do it.
Snapchat.
That's up for the springtime.
Yeah, Snapchat.
Well, I mean, I don't even know when.
I mean, is there a bad time to go fishing?
I don't know.
When it's cold, when it's cold
and there's water blowing over the boat
and you have icicles hanging from your nose.
I don't think that's true though.
I mean, can you go fishing in the cold?
I, the Gulf?
Oh, I have no idea.
I don't know.
I don't know if there's seasons.
I have no idea.
Well, I think it's always warm in the Gulf, isn't it?
I mean, it's always the same temperature, the ocean.
I mean, the ocean is like 58 degrees.
Always.
It's rising out of control.
No, it's not.
What?
Glaciers are melting.
Oh, you're being a jackass.
No, it's 15.
The polar bears have no homes.
Warm weather is roughly around 5 a.m. to 7 a.m.
I don't know.
Warm weather is roughly around 5.
That doesn't make sense.
It makes no sense.
Anyway, I'm all in whether.
That's what time they went out to go fishing
was that early in the morning.
Whether it's Lake Texoma or down in the Gulf.
I'm 100% in.
We just need to freaking do it.
We need to stick to it.
We need to make a dudes like us bucket list
that when we. We need a calendar.
When we, okay, that's what I'm saying.
And then when we talk about it, we put it on the board.
I thought we were gonna have our.
Like we've talked about.
So here we go.
We've talked about.
Are we gonna have our 15 minute a week meeting?
Well, hold on.
What have we talked about so far?
Bourbon Trail.
We've talked about.
Now we talk about fishing.
All of these things.
Some sort of fishing.
Are absolutely doable.
Camping in Palo Duro.
Oh, that's happening.
We talked about that one.
I'll go by myself.
And I just posted one where we talked about
where we were in.
This is what pissed me off
because this kind of set me off.
We were so high onto it.
We're gonna go watch the Frisco Fighters.
A football game here locally.
We couldn't get to.
P-A-L-O.
Season's over.
But it's a long drive, dude.
I mean.
Dude, it's five miles from here.
Hey, the price of gas.
And we couldn't manage to do it.
Brother, the price of gas right now.
And you've already got it.
Do we really?
T-shirt.
Yes.
I mean, come on.
We can't even manage to do that.
All right, good point.
Point made.
Because I just listened.
I was like, son of a bitch.
You went.
The producer went to a Frisco Flyers game.
He was probably like.
Fighters game.
Because we even picked a date out.
He was probably like, all right, up we go.
And he went.
You a-hole.
He didn't go with us.
Why didn't you invite us?
What's wrong with him?
Hey, what with the friends?
The reality of it is is that most dudes like us our age
are just, we're busy.
We get busy.
We're professionally.
No, we're ADHD where we don't forget.
We forget.
Well, I think that's part of it.
But here's the point.
But in reality, man, we've got a lot of responsibilities.
These things matter.
These things are important.
You gotta take time.
Life is short.
We have no idea what next month's gonna be like.
I could be dead.
That's what any one of us could be.
Any one of us could be dead.
Most likely me.
I will be quiet.
I don't wanna hear that kind of talk.
Anyway, so we need to make these things priority.
What else is on the list?
Well, I mean, we did talk about, I mean, I love camping.
I love outdoorsy stuff.
I'm kind of choked on my opportunities with my family
because, but not necessarily with my kids,
most of my wife, because things beyond her control,
she's got that gorophobia.
So she can't do certain things.
Yeah, she doesn't do long trips.
It's frustrating, but I've accepted the frustration.
And now it's just a matter of,
anytime I even go do things, it's kind of like,
I feel guilt.
Right.
Because I'm kind of like, I'd rather do it without her.
Yeah.
I would wanna do things and be happy with her.
Why, you know, and it sucks that I have to piggyback.
Don't get me wrong, Jeff.
I enjoyed going to Lake Tahoe,
bringing the boys out there with both you and Julia.
I would do it a thousand times, man.
It's fantastic.
Yeah, it was just-
And you'd run up the same mountain.
It would have been better with your wife.
Would you hike up the same mountain you did last time?
No, I'll tell you what.
I'll tell you what, if Jeff weren't there,
I wouldn't have been able to do that.
You know, I mean, the fact that Jeff was there
was the only reason we were pushing it to get that done.
I thought you guys were gonna have to be care-flighted
off the top of the mountain.
We were close.
I, I-
That's sad.
It was close.
If we do that, and I wasn't invited, but that's fine.
If you guys do that again,
then you probably should be in better shape.
And don't take the Eagle Rare with you.
No, we were drinking.
That probably, that's why you struggled.
We did not struggle because of the-
We drank Eagle Rare, you were out of shape.
We struggled due to lack of oxygen.
Yeah, we had a 1.75 of a bullet.
It was a fucking stair master straight up the side
of a mountain.
I get it.
All right, there wasn't, this wasn't like a casual goat trail.
No, this was a hardcore climb.
Okay, I-
Now the boys, the boys are just like,
they were running up there and I'm like, I hate you.
Austin's wearing jeans and-
They were on a two-person bicycle
going up there together.
Well, they had, yeah, that was a mistake too.
Well, we get up there and then Preston and Steven
are on like a kayak.
Yeah, we get all the way at the top at 10,000.
Jumping off the cliffs into the water and stuff.
Just splitting lips open.
Yeah, Preston and I were splitting his mouth open.
Yeah, you guys were giving each other mouth to mouth and-
Well, and there were a lot of chipmunks up there too.
I, of course, I thought it was cute.
Which, by the way, they have signs posted
that you shouldn't touch them or feed them because they're-
Antivirus.
Yeah, they're infected with something.
With the plague. With the black plague.
It's the plague. The black plague.
What the, what, oh yeah, you told me that story.
I was like, what the hell?
Yeah, the plague. Thanks, Pelosi.
Just what a horrible trip.
It could have been.
Yeah, you do reach the top of the mountain,
you're gonna be killed by a black plague squirrel.
Yes.
So Lake Tahoe, all in all, was beautiful.
There's another fire going on out there.
Pardon?
There's another fire going on out there.
There was a fire that we thought
was really threatening that area.
Yeah, there's another one going.
They got lucky.
There was going last week.
It's similar area.
It's a little further north. God, it never ends.
That whole area, they've not taken care of it.
I know.
They've had zero forest control.
Forest management, it's called forest management.
They don't believe, it's all on the California side.
California too, yeah.
Wait, hold on.
Lake Tahoe is in California?
It's half and half.
I will never.
That's where the boundary between Utah and California is.
No, Nevada.
Yeah, Nevada.
That's what I meant, Nevada and California.
So the casinos in Tahoe are on the Nevada side.
Nice, okay, I didn't know that.
And the fires are on the California side.
And that's not being drained like Lake Mead is?
No, no, not at all.
Nothing I'm aware of.
Lake Mead isn't really a lake.
Lake Mead was a river or a.
Reservoir.
Well, it was made into a lake because of the dam.
But that lake didn't exist before.
Well, that's every lake in Texas.
See that line, that's the state line.
Very nice.
So.
Now we were on the south side, I believe, right?
Yeah, we were on the California side.
All right, so I wanna get back to our bucket list
so we don't forget.
South Lake Tahoe, that's where we were at.
We were supposed to go to my parents' cabin.
And why did that happen?
I gave you guys four opportunities, I gave you the week,
and I reminded you three different times,
not four, but three, three different times,
I was like, are we doing this, are we doing this?
No response, no response, and no response.
Yeah, I own that, that was on me.
I don't know why Sean didn't respond, but.
I responded.
No, you didn't.
I'm in anytime.
You didn't, period, nobody responded,
so I nixed it.
No Colorado cabin for you guys.
Yeah.
That was.
That happened.
I think there was something.
Forever?
Forever, ever?
I don't know, I don't know yet, I don't know yet.
I think the timing was weird for me.
I haven't decided.
You need to.
I'm a little emotional about it.
So, you know, I have great expectations going out there.
It's gonna be fun, man.
I mean, you know what, I love nature.
I love the tranquility.
I love being exposed out there.
I mean.
You like fighting socks at the bottom of a lake?
What do you mean?
That wasn't the highlight of the trip,
but I did enjoy the scuba diving and the clarity of it.
The south side of the Lake Tahoe is kinda,
is a lot more cloudy than the north side,
because it travels from the north to the south.
So, it really, if you want to go to Lake Tahoe,
you really wanna like, play on the north side.
It's like the Elephant Butte, or Elephant Lake.
Whale Cove.
Whale Cove, yeah.
Whale Cove is on the.
How could the rocks look like a whale?
Yes, it did.
Yeah.
It's reaching.
It's about two thirds up on the west side,
and I thought that was, that was really clear.
That was the east side.
Was it the east side?
Yeah.
I don't know.
That was the east side.
I had never been to Lake Tahoe.
Well.
It's absolutely beautiful.
The short amount of time that I was there,
I fell in love with it, man.
I could abandon everything and live there.
Yeah, you could like,
you could like fake your own death,
and move to Lake Tahoe.
With my job, I could probably move anywhere.
Yeah, that's Whale Cove right there.
And I would love to, I mean.
That's pretty.
If shit hit the fan,
and I would have to rebuild for some stupid reason,
I would absolutely, Lake Tahoe's on the list.
You would do like the Mel Gibson thing,
where you would get an RV and put it on the beach,
and just live on the beach?
No, I.
Do you remember that?
Yeah.
That was Lethal Weapon.
Yes.
Yeah, but I.
And then that scene where the helicopter
comes down the beach,
and it totally blows up his RV.
I'm just now remembering that scene.
That was an awesome scene.
That was a good movie.
Yeah, he was diving on the floor.
Was that Lethal Weapon 4?
Was that the one where it says.
That's Lethal Weapon 1.
Where he.
No.
It was the first one.
Where the helicopter blows up his.
Yes.
I think it blew up more than.
How do you mentally separate four different Lethal Weapons?
I just remember that one specifically.
It's really hard to know what the difference was
between the four.
Well, one of them had Jet Li.
Oh, that wasn't the first one.
I think it was the first one.
The first one was like.
Diplomatic community.
No, that was the fifth one.
Was that the fifth one?
The one that none of us watched
because it was never made.
What is South America?
No, seriously, that was one of the best ones.
Was it Danny Glover?
The Cougarang.
He was kind of like the Cougarang.
Yeah, he was like.
He was like.
Diplomatic community.
Well, why wouldn't you want to do that?
It's because you're black.
Yeah, he goes.
And Joe Pesci was like.
You are.
He goes, what are you doing?
I'm just looking to see if I'm standing on plastic.
There you go.
That was a great movie.
That was the South Africa guy.
Oh, sorry.
I derailed it.
All right, so you want to be in an RV on Lake Lick Tahoe.
I didn't say RV.
I would, you know.
I'm just saying I wouldn't mind being a bag of on.
I mean, I don't care.
I don't have the.
I tell you what.
The summertime is beautiful.
You would not want to be there in the wintertime.
Oh, it's as cold as balls.
They get feet of snow.
They got 10 feet on one weekend.
Well, see, that's what Wapaka is like.
I would vacation there.
Every single summer.
I mean, we had never been there during the winter
in Wapaka, Wisconsin.
You know why?
Because they would.
The lake would freeze.
Imagine.
The lake would freeze and they would have to take their docks.
They'd take their docks and they'd have to put on the land,
right?
Don't they have to do that?
I don't know.
I mean, there's 10 feet of snow.
I mean, they shut down the supermarkets.
There's more than 10 feet of snow.
When you have that much snow.
But I mean, do they shut down the supermarkets?
You can't get anywhere?
Because the houses are up on the mountains.
Yeah.
And they never shut down.
They know.
People live there.
And they deal with the snow and the ice.
That's what I'm saying.
I mean, you traveling through snowmobile at that point?
You can.
Yeah.
You can.
Absolutely.
I mean, I mean.
Some of those roads are steep.
And you may be snowed in for a few days.
Anyway, I wouldn't want to live there in the wintertime.
That's a hard pass for me.
Well, but it's not about living there.
It's about, well, so hold on.
Have you never gone skiing?
No.
Really?
No.
I've been up there in the wintertime
and we've done inner tubing and stuff,
but I've never been skiing.
You've never skied?
OK, well, but the point is you can go on winter vacations
and it's miserably cold, but it's still manageable.
Vacationing in the snow is one thing.
OK, OK.
Living there is something else.
Not living there.
That's what I'm getting at.
I was like, I have no problem visiting some place like that.
I do not want to live there.
Yeah, I got you.
We went to Colorado and we.
Probably wouldn't want to live there.
Dude, we went on a snowmobile excursion.
It was like a four or five hour snowmobile excursion.
It was so much fun.
Yeah.
I bet.
I bet you were sore too.
Actually, no, I don't remember.
I don't remember being sore.
It was fun though.
It was like follow the leader on trails.
And then we got to like a little lake.
I'm assuming it was a lake because it was incredibly flat.
And he said, go to town, have fun.
And we just went nuts in circles and went around and.
Make rooster tails.
I don't know what that is, but probably.
What, you're still coming out the back?
I mean, I almost flipped over and that
would have been painful.
Oh, yeah.
I've never been on a snowmobile.
Oh, they're a lot of fun.
Was it like a jet ski?
Yeah, basically.
Yeah.
I think he was more control on a snowmobile than a jet ski.
It's very similar.
I don't know.
You're on skis.
I want to say it's very similar.
Your front or skis.
Yeah, but you have wheels in the back that.
It's a tread.
Tread.
But it's a tread in the back that
has contact with the ground.
And it has the ability to break probably as well, right?
It does.
And I don't know.
I've done the jet skis.
I've never done a snowmobile.
Honestly, I've done both.
I've done both.
And they're not.
They're kind of similar.
They are kind of similar.
As far as the driving, maybe.
Keep in mind, on a jet ski, you can go any way you want.
On a snowmobile, you're usually on a very tight path.
That's on the edge of a cliff or a mountain.
And you're winding your way through.
You know what I mean?
So it's different from that standpoint.
Right.
But winter vacations are great.
I wouldn't mind being exposed to it
for an extended period of time.
Winter vacations are great.
Yeah.
They're fun.
Yeah, snow's good as long as you don't have to work or live in it.
Right.
You don't have to shovel it and shit like that.
What about you, Sean?
Have you not skied?
Have you gone?
I've gone skiing before.
Oh, you've gone skiing?
I enjoy it.
OK.
I went skiing in a fire cloudcroft.
What?
I said fire as a cloudcroft in New Mexico.
Angel hair?
Angel hair.
Angel fire.
Angel fire, yeah.
Oh, good Lord.
What cloudcroft?
Hold on.
What's cloudcroft?
Never heard of that.
Sounds like Harry Potter or something.
No, no, no.
Cloudcroft is something.
I think it is.
It's quibbage.
Or it's squibbage.
Squibbage?
Squattage.
It's skmibbage.
Yeah, cloudcroft is in New Mexico.
It's angel fire.
I know somebody that has a cabin that owns a cabin that she rents.
Boy, we have so many things.
We have so many inns.
Yes.
And she would totally let me do it.
I know exactly who she is.
I used to work with her.
Well, Tara's cousins both own a cabin.
You're so stupid.
I know.
We have opportunity.
What is wrong with this?
Add that to the bucket list.
We need a, I'm calling it bucket list,
but it's really more like a dudes like us list.
Dudes list.
I'm not really interested in going out there and skiing,
though.
You can go during the summer.
No, we can go out there during the winter time.
What else is there to do besides skiing, though?
I mean, I'm.
Sit in a hot tub and drink bourbon.
Yes.
In her tube.
Go check out the snow bunnies.
Yes.
Really?
Yeah.
What, snow bunnies?
Yeah, they're cute little animals.
And they jump all over the mountain,
and you just kind of watch them.
And you shoot them and eat them.
Oh.
Do you want to eat them first, or then shoot them?
Really dark on that deal.
Well, you know.
Wow.
Hossed fiffer.
So the Claude Croft is a skiing resort.
Nice.
In New Mexico.
You know a local one that is very disappointing?
You're talking about the list we haven't gotten to?
How many distilleries are within?
I don't know.
There's Lockwood down in Richardson.
There's one in Valley View right off of 35.
I go there on my motorcycle right next to my donut shop.
Right.
What the?
What really?
There's Oakley.
We need to write down.
We need to do our own little Texas trail.
Well, Texas Bourbon Trail.
And Whiskey Trail.
Oh my god.
You know, I want to change the subject a little bit.
A Friday afternoon?
We can totally do that.
Let's do it.
This is kind of aimless.
It's not aimless.
No, no.
There is an end game for it.
But I want to kind of change gears a little bit.
We're not necessarily talking about politics.
But I want to talk about some fun things that happen.
Here we go.
Well, first of all, you had mentioned
that it's going to be fruitless, but DeSantis
decided he wanted to take some of the immigrants down
to the Martha Vineyards.
Fly them.
Two plane boats full.
Yeah.
And dropped them off.
I thought they ended up being like 50 people.
It's 48.
Yeah.
So I mean.
Oh.
Oh, that must be so overwhelming.
They lost their shit.
And they're just saying, we're not prepared for this,
blah, blah, blah.
And now it turns out that some of those folks that
are on that plane are trying to sue DeSantis for something.
OK, first off.
Did you see the Tucker special?
I read about it.
I didn't see it.
They immediately moved.
They bussed them to an army base.
Yeah.
Did you read about that?
Yeah, they bussed them the next day.
They bussed them to an army base on Martha Vineyard.
It's in Cape Cod, I think.
Right, right, right.
You know what I'm saying?
Right.
So immediately.
Wow.
Yeah, the next day.
So what are the grounds of the suing part?
You had mentioned that there's a lawsuit.
Yeah, there was a lawsuit over.
Well, I didn't.
I actually didn't read the details
of why they're suing, but you know.
Someone got to him and says, you need.
I'll give you lots of money if you cut this suit.
Kidnapping.
I didn't want to go here.
I didn't agree to go here.
That's what he said.
That's what DeSantis came back.
They didn't agree to go to the fort.
Well, DeSantis countered and said,
they all signed a waiver form, sorry, or a former waiver form.
Right.
Anyway, so yeah, it's going nowhere.
But that's what they're trying.
Gavin Newsom, oh, this is kidnapping.
We should know what they were signing.
Yeah, the DOJ.
They're here.
It was in Spanish.
They're here.
But illegally.
I'll tell you what, another.
This is huge.
This huge benchmark.
We had Queen Elizabeth die.
Am I the only one that's thinking
the coverage of this is just a little trying?
It is.
You know what?
I watched it yesterday when I was eating my breakfast.
I watched the, they had what, 10 days of mourning, right?
Which ended yesterday.
But they were fucking walking.
Well, that's what I watched.
I watched the end of that yesterday.
The whole parade, I think they said it was miles.
It's such a beat down.
Wherever she was in rest.
What did they call that?
Lane and rest, right?
Yeah, I guess so.
And then people just walk by and look at her coffin.
Right.
Throw flowers at her.
Lane and wait, or whatever.
And then they bus her over to, or hearse, whatever, very slow.
And they're walking.
And they have all the.
They walk behind it.
No, they're all around it.
They're all around it.
It was a huge parade.
And they have.
There's a row of guys on the right
and a row of guys on the left.
And they have people in front.
I didn't see any women.
They have very sexist people in front.
The the house workers, house workers were invited to walk.
So they're talking about some of them, you know, the pages,
the dresser and the person and that person.
They were all part of this royal do sure.
And then they had the you know, the the guy with the red
and the big black hats, the people that guard West.
Yeah, they're the army.
Yeah, they had them up and down and horses and all this
regalia and all this these crazy costumes.
The royal court.
Is it like the Egyptians when the Pharaoh dies, they they put
they kill all the servants and bury them with them?
No, well, I don't think they did that.
So anyway, I watched that in the British monarchy.
I watched about a half hour of this was at the very end.
It was a lot. I had to get I had to turn around.
It was it was.
And then we flew our flags a half mast.
I mean, yeah. Well, for how long?
I mean, there was there's still a half mass.
But I don't have a problem with that because and here's my line.
I would be a nice because what she did for us, she was 11.
Yes, she was awesome. She didn't have to do that.
She broke a 600 year old six hundred years played
our national anthem. Yeah.
On her ground, she was a lovely lady.
Right. So I don't have a problem.
Seventy years of very old school.
So she she was very traditional, very formal to take on.
Look, if you want to really dig into it.
Have you guys seen the cloud?
Had some issues with you watch the cloud.
Do you remember when King George Charles and when they first met Lady Diane?
And, you know, there was a little bit of drama between the queen.
And a lot of drama. They treat her like a commoner.
Oh, it was it was horrible.
So, you know, from that perspective, I'm kind of like, you know,
you were kind of a piece of shit to.
I don't know if it was her.
Dude, there's so many more people.
She never even gets to the Queen.
Shit rolls downhill and had to be the queen.
Well, I watched the crown and I thought she was a lovely little.
In addition to that, there was a lot of a lot of weird sexual stuff
going on in that damn probably Andrew Epstein.
Whatever. And there was there was a lot of stuff going on.
One of the stuff.
I mean, you had a lady.
Sustained. Yeah. Yeah.
The Charles Charles had his own thing going on.
Well, with Camilla, then Camilla, Camilla.
That's her name.
Camilla. Yeah. Camilla.
Green. Oh, yeah.
Lady Di that was in fact, some of the stuff is kind of funny
because they pull up pictures where Lady Di was taking lessons
riding the horse and then you have the horse trainer
and you compare it to Prince Harry.
And then you have the horse trainer and they look like carbon copies
like that could have actually been her son.
You know. Yeah.
Yeah. It's like they allude to that.
Well, there's a lot of shit going on.
So there's a lot of weird stuff that happens behind the scenes.
And the fact that Lady Di died, you know, a lot of people are like,
well, is that a conspiracy?
Was the queen trying to kill her?
But you know, no, that wasn't.
Or was it? You know, the fact is, is that the guy that was driving
the car was drunk one to the you know, they're being chased by a bunch of paparazzi.
Do we know that for sure? Was the driver drunk?
I've heard no. Yeah. No, I never heard that. I heard it.
The only thing I heard was she was not wearing a seatbelt.
Well, I mean, they were in a limo.
I mean, is that normal for people on a limo?
It's almost like a like a like a tour bus.
Well, I just read how many people in a tour bus don't wear a seatbelt.
Well, I just read an article where her normal security guy
did not ride with her for some reason.
And he goes, the reason she died is because she didn't wear her seatbelt.
Whenever I rode with her, I made her do it. Where the seatbelt.
So the so the Princess Dan's show for a lovely lady to the Princess
Dan's chauffeur was drunk driving on the night of her death.
Now, that's so he had a you know, he he was.
But I think there was some sort of relationship between the two as well.
So not not the driver.
I believe there was. Oh, she was.
She was with her boyfriend.
Was that where because she left the hotel.
Where was the billionaire boyfriend?
Oh, some Saudi Arabian or Middle Eastern.
Yeah, he owns Harrods.
Well, you know, it's just, you know, you see,
I'm trying to build up a history of weirdness, of drama.
Just, you know, you know, and then you get it.
I don't really have a whole lot of fantastic things to say about Queen Elizabeth.
I mean, first of all, what is her last name? Elizabeth.
First name Queen. Do you know her last name?
Samson. Samson.
Are you trying to tell me I've stumped Jeff?
Yeah, I don't know her last.
What the hell? Why would I know her last name?
Yeah, we would.
It's the she's been a queen for almost a century.
She's not my queen.
Yeah, Johnson, we thought that we won that battle.
Oh, Smith, that's my final answer.
Her last name is Windsor.
Yeah, but it's just Windsor Castle.
Yeah, there you go.
So I'll be kind of Elizabeth Windsor.
That's her. That's her last name.
So it's amazing how many people don't even know the Queen's last name.
You know, she had a last name.
She's a needle. It's the share.
What is Cher's last name? Windsor.
Bono.
What is Madonna's last name?
Oh, I used to know this.
Well, that Madonna is not her real name.
What is Bono's last name or Bono's last name?
Look, this isn't a pseudonym.
All right. She's the fucking queen.
No, she goes by one name.
You're trying to justify the fact that you had no idea
that Queen Elizabeth's last name was Windsor.
And I find that actually now that he said that, I find that appalling, Jeff.
I did. That's ridiculous.
Now that he shared her last name with Windsor, I'm not going to be able to.
He shared her last name with Windsor.
Don't squirm your way out of this. You should have known that.
Well, there's lots of people who go by one name.
You know what? I don't want to do a huge fight here.
But I think so.
You got you got other people that that totally are
aren't in
cue with the spirit of what's going on on the funeral day of
of Queen Elizabeth.
There's a funeral day. You have Don Lamon.
Don Lamon. And he's interviewing.
He got demoted and he's like, oh, no, I got promoted.
So I was totally on board.
Don Lamon tells a royal commentator, Hillary Fortwich,
the royal family should pay reparations.
And is Don Lemon saying this?
Don Lamon. Here's what he says.
Oh, she was a beautiful woman.
When you know this all of this wealth and you hear about it comes as England
is facing rising costs of living, a living crisis, austerity, budget cuts
and so on, and then you have those who are asking for reparations
for colonialism and they're wondering, you know, one hundred billion dollars.
Twenty four billion dollars.
Hook line and sinker.
I got them.
So people want to be paid back.
And members of the public are wondering why are we suffering when you are,
you know, you have all of this vast wealth.
Those are legitimate concerns.
Oh, my God. Well, I think you're right about reparations in terms of
if people want it, though, what they need to do is you always need to go back
to the beginning of a supply chain. Where was the beginning of the supply chain?
That was in Africa.
And when that crossed the entire world, when slavery was taking place,
which was the first nation in the world that abolished slavery,
the first nation in the world to abolish it, it was started by William Wilberforce
was the British in Great Britain.
They abolished slavery.
Two thousand naval men.
He just got scuba.
Trying to stop slavery.
Why? Because the African kings were rounding up their own people.
They had them on cages waiting in the beaches.
No one was running into Africa to get them.
And I think you're totally right.
If reparations need to be paid, we need to go right back
to the beginning of that supply chain and say who was rounding up
their own people and having them hanged up in cages.
Absolutely. That's where they should start.
And maybe I don't know, the descendants of those families
where they died in the high seas trying to stop the slavery.
Those families should receive something, too, I think, at the same time.
She made him look like a fucking fool.
It's an interesting discussion, Hillary.
Oh, yeah.
And thank you so much for joining the show.
We're going to move on now.
He had no come back.
He got his ass kicked.
You know, his mind was just going, oh, you know, you know,
what his mind was, was you assholes brought this woman on this show
and made me look bad. Correct.
I bet his producer was like, you get rid of her, get rid of her right now.
And I cannot believe you brought her on here. Right.
Don't you ever do that again?
I'm going to find the people that float the narrative that happens again.
I'm going to get moved to the morning show.
Well, I'll tell you what, it gave me, you know, it gave me great joy
to see that just because he's so he's such a douchebag.
He's very that whole that whole campaign for the reparations.
It just got defused right there.
You know, and it's just like who who pays for those reparations?
You know, in my opinion, I mean, there's a little bit more to that.
You know, they forget the fact that we had a whole show, about a third of it.
We talked about the Barbary Pirates and the history of what actually happened
and how the Barbary Pirates were actually stealing white folk. Right.
And they were North Africans, right?
Well, well, more they're from Turkey and the Middle East.
The Barbary Pirates.
You know, and then you have like, you know,
we had a conversation in our house.
We got a huge argument over the Cowboys and Indians theme for our Halloween party.
And I was like, there is nothing wrong with that.
You know, why is there something is that we'll have a maybe we'll have a pirate
tear party. I was like, you should be more offended on a pirate tear party
than you were when you were.
Yeah. Why are you glamorizing?
Like the most violent.
Oh, my God. The Barbary people were the worst on the planet.
They traveled all up and down the coasts,
all the way into the Scandinavian Scandinavian area
and plucking out people on and all the the the coast cities,
the small little villages.
They go out there and pull a bunch of blondes from Sweden, pull them on the boat.
They bring them down.
They bring a bunch of because those folks sell on the the slave markets.
Right. You know, when they had let's say you have a catalog
and you have on their
Swedish blonde blue eyed girls.
Well, hold on. Where and where are you selling them to?
Well, so first of all, you got to take all these slaves back to Northern Africa,
which was basically the main distribution area. Right.
So you go up and down and that's what the Barbary pirates are doing.
They weren't bringing black slaves up and down the coasts
of the United Kingdom and the Scandinavians.
They were bringing white folk down and they were selling them.
It's no different than human trafficking today.
Sadly enough, I just can't believe that boats. Yeah.
So they would have they would have wealthy people that own boats
and they would be out there just playing and doing whatever.
And the Barbary pirates would come up and they take all the people off the boat,
put them on their boat and sell them.
Sell them. Yeah. Basically sell them, you know, and for this huge,
huge sex market, slaves market.
You know, that's going on today today.
It is unbelievable.
Well, I mean, slave market.
That's what Epstein was all about.
He would he would consort with billionaires and super rich people.
And he and they would tell him, what's your sexual fantasy?
I would like to be with a virgin who is like that color, that size.
Go find me one.
Well, you know, my son and his girlfriend, mainly my son has said this,
that the mall by us is a big hub where a lot of girls go missing.
Unbelievable.
He does not buy us. He does not want Camden to go by herself there.
That's what he told me. Interesting.
So there's a shocking.
Well, think about it.
It's not about the girls that go there.
Oh, they cruise them all all the time.
Yeah. They peruse the mall of 13, 14, 15 years old.
And, you know, those guys are here about this.
Why wouldn't why? I don't know.
Why wouldn't parents be warned about this?
Are you kidding me? I don't know.
I'm going to I have a couple of policemen friends.
I'm going to ask them.
Ask him. See if see if it's right.
This is I'm going to I am going to 100 percent ask about this.
I'm going to my 20 year old son.
So I just said rumors of sex trafficking at the Stonebriar Mall are false.
That's unbelievable.
So the Frisco police said there's no evidence in support of our social media
post falsely claiming the Stonebriar Mall is number one for sex trafficking.
That's a little bit of a relief. All right.
According to the post scheme at the Frisco Mall
involves a senior citizen asking teenagers to help find her car.
All right. Well, you know what?
It doesn't really matter because there are we know that happens.
There are people that we know it all the time.
And they're they're they're weirdos that hunt down folks.
Just recently, just recently, a woman was with a girl,
was with her father at a Dallas Mavericks game.
You're right. And some and then and then at the end of the game,
like he was waiting for her and never came back.
And the game ended and the whole entire arena emptied.
And she was not there.
And she had been sexually trapped.
She had been human trafficked.
And they found her there. Somehow they found Oklahoma.
And yes. And there was something weird about it because she walked with the guy out.
But you know what they say, they're like, hey, if they know the father's name.
Hey, your dad, your dad, Andre, your dad, Andre is had to go outside
because of something he he needs you to meet you out there.
You know what I mean? That kind of thing.
And so she's like, oh, shit. OK.
I thought my dad was in the game. OK. Oh, yeah. I'll go with you.
So you never really know what's going on.
But they kind of painted it to where something was like she knew this person.
Yes. Like something sensual about it.
But I don't know. I don't know.
It scares me even when my boys were small and they walked everywhere.
Right. Schools, you know, always in the back of your mind is, is
can someone drive by and snatch them? Of course, yeah, I can.
It totally can. You know, and you know, is that more prevalent today
than when we were kids? Yes.
Why do you say that? Internet.
What? Internet.
Just because it's easier to like the dark web.
More people asking for it.
There's more people that can be connected for it.
So there's a higher demand, higher demand.
That's what it is.
It boils down to higher demand.
But you can get like this is the thing about China
that's like most upsetting is that they are harvesting
humans, organs.
Well, they're they're humans.
Yeah. For organs, organs, too.
You know, they literally I mean, China, they're disgusting.
You know, it's just like they've got these these people that are in cages
and they don't give a shit.
But the there I don't know.
There's all kinds of horrible ugliness everywhere.
I don't want to shed a whole lot of light on here.
I would be interested to find out if they if you know, is there
is there it said there was no truth to that.
Yeah, that's a relief.
That's a relief.
But it happens.
I mean, there look, there there are all kinds of things that go on.
There are teens that are going to high school
where you have a female that breaks up with another person
and then they go out with another one and then they collude to kill the other one.
You know, it's there's all kinds of ugliness going on.
That's been going on for a long time, though.
Yeah. And the thing about it is that you don't hear about it.
No, because because very technology is there.
Oh, I remember the Botafuco.
Oh, yeah. Is that what her name was?
The wasn't that the Long Island Lolita? Two sons?
No, the Long Island Lolita.
What was her name?
But a fugo, but a fugo.
But a fugo in this teenage girl.
Do you guys ever get a look?
We're talking about police a little bit.
But have you guys ever you guys got police tickets?
Moving violations before, right?
I've never got a ticket in my life.
So have you ever have been pulled over?
I'm kidding. Yes, of course.
I've gotten traffic tickets.
Well, I'm not talking about getting kicked out of bars.
I'm talking about. Oh, no. Yeah, that happens every week.
So the what do you I mean, what kind of moving violations
were when you when you got pulled over, what was going on?
Let's see. I don't think I've ever gotten pulled over
any for anything other than speeding.
All right. Yeah, I guess I got pulled over for
speeding, going like 45 and a 35 or something like that.
That's kind of crazy.
I got pulled over for having no license plate on the front of my car.
But it was a warning.
And I also got pulled over to which this this. Yeah.
There's a couple. It is.
I've been pulled over a couple of times, been warned.
I think once or twice, once for the registration, but once was
we were coming back from a fishing trip and it was me and four of my friends.
I was probably 19 or 20.
And I had three guys in the back and a buddy up front.
And they had big blankets on the back and they had a bunch of beer underneath it.
And I changed lanes.
I changed two lanes at once.
So you're supposed to change your line.
You're supposed to establish yourself in a lane.
So he singled one lane, but I went over to two. Really?
Yes. You have to establish yourself in a lane and then you make the next.
Well, he pulled me over for that. What an a hole.
I can't believe he came up and, you know, we were all fine and we were professional.
I wasn't drinking or anything, but we had beers in the under underage
and the blankets were all covering everything up, but he didn't see it.
So he let me go.
You have any fentanyl in the car?
They have fentanyl back there, which is holding the story by itself.
And then the other time was I think I may have told you.
They have probably other stuff that they could have told you guys this.
I worked at McDonald's was my first job.
Well, that police made you have butt sex?
No. And like a human centipede.
I used to close every Friday and Saturday night.
So we get off at like a two in the morning. Right.
And was that together with the cop?
No. Oh, you mean get off work?
Get off work at two. Oh, yeah. Different kind of get off.
Yeah. Two, two thirty, whenever you're done cleaning up.
And one of the guys rode his bike.
And I was just like, you know, I'll just pull you on the side of my car.
Yes, you did tell us a story.
And I didn't get very I didn't get very far.
But it was it was all back roads.
He was like, I just live in this neighborhood over here.
I was like, all right.
I was like, just kind of hold on to the side of the car and I'll take you.
And lo and behold, a cop was sitting there and he pulls me over
and he wrote me a ticket for that.
So what did your friend do on the bike?
He like scabbed off into the woods.
No, he just stood there.
You know, I don't I don't remember if he got to see.
I know I got one.
He probably could have gotten a ticket.
So you ever get pulled over and the cop let you go?
Yes, I've gotten warnings before, but they weren't egregious.
It was like by registration was out.
Right. A couple of months.
I don't think I've ever gotten pulled over and then let off received a warning.
Never. You don't show your cleavage.
That's not true. I think one.
You like cop also that you do have the right.
I have the constitutional right to a little upper thigh.
I have. I always show respect.
Does that work?
I think I think showing respect to police officers when you get pulled over
is paramount. Of course.
I always think that in.
I always tell the cop as I hey, look, I have I have a license to carry
and my gun is here and thank you for your service.
You know, and here are my hands and look at my thigh.
Yeah. Does he put his hand like this as soon as you say I have a gun?
No, they're usually really cool about that.
And actually, they appreciate it to be honest.
Well, I mean, I tell them because there's one time I didn't tell them.
And they're like, what the hell is this?
Well, what they said was they were just like, so I see you got a license to carry.
So are you carrying your gun right now?
I said, no, I'm not.
So did you lie? Well, I wasn't.
I didn't have it. Oh, good.
But there was this like, you know, they're like, no, as soon as they run your name.
Well, it's that then that's just the thing is that the law they had told me.
They said, do you have to disclose? No, you do not.
But you want to be cool.
You need to tell you a full disclosure is always going to ask you anyway.
You don't need a license anymore, though.
What do you mean?
You don't have to have a license to carry. Yeah. Open carry.
Well, you need a license for concealed. No.
No. Yeah.
Not anymore. You know, open carry.
I don't believe that. Well, that may be true in Texas.
But my license is true.
My license goes to 22 states and excuse me.
Those other 22 states.
This is Texas. Yeah.
So I mean, my license goes on.
So it's kind of cool that I go to 22 other states and have a concealed handgun.
So it's not about Texas.
It's about my opportunity to to carry it other places. Right. Right.
And that's always good.
Yeah. New York and Chicago, Los Angeles.
You know, I could not go to this vineyard.
That would be great.
You know, well, I took it.
I drove to Alabama.
But the thing about is New Jersey and New York, you can't have one.
But did something just happen recently that allows people to take guns into?
Yeah, the Supreme Court just shot down New York's law.
Says you're not that that you could you could carry a weapon to protect yourself.
No. Yeah.
So that on that just devastated the liberals devastated.
They couldn't believe it.
Yeah. Did you hear about the congresswoman out of California
whose house was robbed, but all they stole was the lockbox with her guns in it?
Yeah. And what was the what was the?
I don't know. It's still it's happened like last week.
Oh, it was it's recent and she's on the getting interviews
and she's all smiling and laughing.
She's like, yeah, I don't know what what's going on.
FOCL
You know, they just that's all they stole.
What's going on? You want him to rush it?
No, I mean, it's not like the
We work over here at Signal.
California Congresswoman.
You know what, look, we had a week off.
Paul was out in Chicago playing with the Blackhawks.
Chicago, I'm playing with the Blackhawks.
Wearing body armor.
Did you get any wieners, Chicago wieners?
No wiener.
He's hanging out with the Blackhawks, Blackhawks.
Black hot, hot hawks.
Any good food?
Well, we went to really nice restaurants,
because company paying for it type of thing.
Good steakhouse, yeah.
Trying to sell you product.
Did you go to Allen Brothers?
Is that what the big one is up there?
No, we didn't go there.
Well, it sounds like we have, as dudes like us,
a lot of things to think about,
because we have this bucket list
that we really need to survey and take into consideration.
Plus, we have our own personal bucket list
of getting products kicked out the door
with dudes like us, wood products.
Yes, we do.
You know, they got a CNC machine we invested highly in.
Lots of things.
My suggestion, 15 minute weekly meeting.
Yeah, just to be on the same page.
Yeah.
We're gonna be sneaking some breakfast in.
We had our second half of bourbon.
We're gonna get rid of this.
Clyde's Mates, it was a five year special reserve.
It was a red label.
It was the red label, in case you guys are wondering.
That was our second half.
It was tasty, good, good.
Extremely tasty, and it's one we've already had,
but we drank it again so that we can put it
into our infinity bottle so that we can auction it off
for the highest bid for dudes like us coming up.
Hey, look, it's September 20, dudes like us.
I'm Sean.
I am Paul.
And I'm Jeff.
A special shout out to our producer, Mr. Austin.
Thank you, sir.