Was that what it was at?
That's terrible.
Mr. Flatulence over here.
I can only hope that that was recorded.
That was not recorded.
I'm sure it was.
I'm going to add it.
Because I don't do that live on air.
Well, speaking of live on air, we've got lots of fun.
I was going to bring up some of the technical difficulties we're doing tonight, but who
cares?
You guys don't know about that stuff that's behind the curtains.
It's all positivity tonight.
Now, if we went live every night and we're 45 minutes late, then they'd know.
Somebody's getting fired.
Yeah.
Our listeners would be violent.
It's November 15th.
It's a Dudes Like Us moment.
I'm Sean.
I am Paul.
And I am Jeff.
And we can turn down the music a little bit because we've got that little static thing
going on.
All right.
Well, look, it's the Ides of November.
We've got Thanksgiving next week, right?
It is next week.
That is next week, next Thursday.
Yeah.
Everything's coming around.
We've got Christmas music.
You can tone out that music, bro.
We've got, oh my God, we've got Christmas music playing on the local radio stations
now.
Oh, they are?
Yeah.
Why hasn't it been out there?
They started up several weeks ago.
Really?
I just thought it was just November 1st.
Oh, I guess that is several weeks ago.
I listened to a lot of the Sirius.
I don't know.
I listened to a lot of the Sirius XM and they changed one of the channels to a country Christmas.
One that we typically listen to, it changed to Christmas music back in September.
Well, I enjoy it.
I'm embracing it.
Or I'm sorry, not September.
I just, you know, maybe just a couple days early.
I don't know.
I opened up my Amazon app and I was trying to pick a genre and yeah, I had to scroll
through a bunch of Christmas.
I was like, I'm not ready.
I'm not ready for that.
I'm ready.
So you picked dudes like us?
I picked love songs, the 100.
La Bamba?
Yeah.
No, I'm ready.
I'm totally embracing the whole thing and I'm going to enjoy every Christmas day from
now until January 5th until we have to go back to all holiday.
Are you going to take some time off this year?
Who knows?
We'll see what happens.
I haven't taken any time off.
The time I take is literally going to be the time I literally take.
I'm taking it.
I don't care.
You know, you should.
You work.
I don't think you worked that day.
Everyone worked around that day.
Everyone deserves to take time off.
You take time to recharge.
For sure.
I do.
Recharging is huge.
People should recharge.
People should, you know, take the time to do those types of things.
People should take the time to follow directions.
People should take the time to learn about these little indicators in life that are imposed
on you that help you through life.
Because one of the things that we were chatting about, Jeff was kind of like, oh, don't be
lazy going through the drive-through.
You're lazy.
No, it's about the quality of life.
Why do you sound 85 in that impersonation?
You sound like an old man.
It's about the quality of life.
And part of having that quality of life being enhanced is when you're driving your car and
you got these little lights that come off and on, like the check engine light and the,
oh, I've got a little right turn signal.
It's like blink, blink, blink, blink, blink.
It even makes a noise.
Mine goes fast.
Hey, let's go.
You probably have a light bulb out.
No, I don't.
Yeah.
You mean like in my car or?
Yeah.
I rented a vehicle this weekend.
And every time I rent a vehicle, it's always something new.
All right.
It's always something new, meaning there's always different cool things to see.
I rented a Buick Enclave.
And it was nice outside of this.
It was very nice outside of this.
But there is a glitch.
There is a glitch.
And I found out the hard way.
And then I confirmed that it was a glitch because there was a certain period where I
was saying it was a glitch.
Did you Google it?
But I wasn't certain it was.
So here's my thought.
So I traveled to Arkansas from Frisco, Texas, and it says I have 452 miles to travel.
So I leave Frisco.
I get almost to Arkansas and it says I have 452 miles left.
And I'm like, well, that's not right.
Something's wrong.
Well, let's believe it anyway.
No, no.
Am I driving an EV?
I just haven't kicked in with a combustion engine yet.
Maybe you're running on water.
Whatever.
Whatever, whatever.
So I stop off.
No, I stop off.
I turn the car off.
I turn it back on.
And it kind of recalibrates and things happen.
And then I continue my venture down to Hughes Springs and then continue to Longview.
And then I head home.
And it said you had 4,800 miles left?
Well, what it said is, hey, dude, it's time for you to get some gas.
You got like 50 miles time.
And you're like, oh, well, thanks for the warning.
And I will casually and leisurely find my way to a gas station.
That's exactly what I said.
Within 50 miles.
Exactly.
So I went up right immediately.
And I hit the little Google button.
And I said, hey, Google, how close is the nearest Buc-E's?
52 miles.
55.
Close, though.
Oh.
And it was just outside.
And I was like, oh, that's not going to work.
Not going to work.
You don't want to walk those last three miles.
Cannot make that.
Because you know, usually when it says 50 something miles, it probably has a little
bit more.
Just a little bit more.
So I'm like, all right, well, I need gas now.
Then I'm just going to get gas and move on because I'm not going to fuck around with
it.
As soon as I said that, the car turned off.
So you were just coasting down the highway?
Not even coasting.
I'm coming to a fast.
It's engaged in a gear.
So it's not coasting.
It's now in drive.
And it's slowing down.
And I'm like, oh, shit.
I'm trying to get my bearings.
And I'm kind of like, and plus it's electronic.
It's not like I have a manual shift where I can move it from drive to neutral.
It's electronic.
I hit a button to hit to neutral.
So it's just like, I don't know.
So you put your blinker on.
I'm getting acclimated with it real quick.
I'm like, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, emergency scenario.
I finally hit neutral.
And I'm coasting.
And I'm like, all right, well, cool.
I'm going to get as far as I can.
Well, that was another 18 feet.
All of a sudden you start to go up an incline.
So you started rolling backwards.
I end up cruising a little bit further.
I don't know how far.
Probably a mile-ish.
Maybe not.
So not much traffic on the road at this point.
No.
So I cut over immediately.
Hold on.
The car was off.
And you were in neutral.
I'm in neutral.
And just going as far as you can.
I'm going as far as I can to just, you know.
Do you have Armstrong steering?
No, it was easy.
So you still had power steering.
This was like Shania Earhart.
I don't know what that means.
We found him, though.
So here's the deal.
So I pull over.
And I'm like, well, fuck.
Shania.
This thing just told me I had like 50 miles.
Amelia, Shania.
And I'm thinking, well, maybe something's wrong.
Maybe I just need to restart it.
And I'm going to catch up and just go right out there.
Maybe something really positive is going to happen.
So it did not happen.
So was it a push start?
Yeah, it is a push start.
So my question is, usually you get a really good feeling when you turn that key.
So when you car or when you have a push start, does it do that?
Or does it just go?
No, you push it once.
And it sits there and goes all by itself until it starts.
Or it says, hey, buddy, we're not starting.
I'm sorry, gentlemen.
How did that go again?
No, no, they were very similar.
So I think you might be driving the same car.
I think UX, yes.
I actually managed to get it started for just a few, for maybe five or 10 seconds.
And I tried to do that on purpose to try to get a little further off the road because
it was on the side of the road.
I just wanted a little bit more space so that I could, you know, I didn't want to get hit.
You know, essentially.
So I call up I look on Google and I'm like, all right, well, let's let's look for the
roadside assistance.
You have AAA.
I rented a car, so they've got stuff.
OK, so I call up folks and it's a rental.
It is.
So the rental should have had a they do.
So I call up folks.
So like 10 minutes later, they said, oh, well, we should be there within 45 minutes or we'll
actually we'll call you shortly.
You should get an update every 15 minutes until we figure something out.
That's great service.
All right.
So, yeah, what happened about 45 minutes later?
I called because I never got not 45, but I called about 30 minutes later because I didn't
get my 15 minute increment update.
And they were like, yeah, it's been sent to dispatch and they're currently looking for
someone to go and take care of you, refuel you.
Because you're in the middle of nowhere, right?
Were you really in the middle of nowhere?
Van, Texas.
Yeah, but you're you had coverage on your phone.
It wasn't like you were.
Well, you know, they've got a lot of coverage everywhere on the planet.
Doesn't mean that there's people around.
I guess that's true.
So I'm in Texas.
It doesn't equate people.
I guess that's true.
I'm about a mile and a half.
West of South Oak Street, to be exact.
Yeah.
And is that the TV downstairs?
She knows my wife on the phone.
Oh, so we're about a mile and a half west of on 20.
And you know, so I call these folks up and I'm like, you know, they're well, it's going
to be three hours now.
I'm like, all right, well, three hours.
Yeah.
How did they go from 45 minutes to three hours?
That's what I'm saying.
45 minutes later, by the way.
Yeah, 45 minutes later.
So now I'm kind of like, is that a well, what's going on with that?
I was like, well, they were just like, dude, we're we know we've got a lot of people on
the side of the road and we're busy, you know, and that's just what's going on right now.
Sorry.
I don't see anyone else.
Next time, watch your fucking gas meter.
So you know, I'm like, well, fuck it, man.
You know, I'm waiting for them to call me.
So I just like I make a business decision.
I'm like, dude, it's it's it was nine thirty when I got pulled over.
Now it's 10.
Yeah.
It's like, it's like a nine to nine.
And I'm like, all right.
It's going to be one o'clock by the time they get out here.
Yeah, I'm doing it.
I mean, I saw a gas station.
It was not that far up the street, you know, and I just had to coast an extra mile.
So these your survival skills are so you had to go back.
Yeah, went back.
So I took my gun out, put it in my little satchel, put my satchel around my neck.
And of course, I've got all these accoutrements for stuff just like that.
Like I'm a little flashing flashlight was like a strobe like.
So I clip it.
Did you lube your crotch?
Chaff?
No.
Oh, is that part of your emergency kit?
Yeah, he's got that.
The accoutrements that have the lubing.
I usually carry cornstarch for those emergency moments.
Like on the side of the road, we like dusting your nuts.
Oh, dude, I was like I was like Charlie Brown, the pig pen.
You know, I was just the car.
I was like, I see some guy and so again, this is the emergency mode we're talking about
here.
Right.
OK, despite the fact that it was not hot outside, you know what?
It was like 60 degrees, something like that.
It was comfortable.
So I start humping it all the way to the gas station and run.
It's a very brisk.
It's a brisk walk.
All right.
I just speedwalk.
I'm walking.
I'm humping it.
I mean, I worked so hard.
My butt cheeks were sore for two days.
That's how hard I was.
I was there for about 40 yards.
Man, I get to the gas station and you know, red.
I was totally red.
I'm looking for I'm looking for a defibrillator.
You know, I'm just I'm almost about to die.
And I want to ask, there's like there was a slight lady there and I just I want to ask
like, can you please drive me down here?
But I was just like, no, look at me.
I'm a fucking wreck.
I'm red in the face.
She doesn't know who I am.
I'm dressed.
Well, whatever.
I'm like a barnyard animal at this point.
And there's a cloud of dust coming out of your pants.
So I go inside and I saw him dusting his street.
I'm not picking up.
She's like, yeah, I totally saw his pants were down.
He's like, I have no idea what was going on.
Seriously weird about this.
Really flashed as the headlights flash.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I think he had music.
He was dancing.
I saw a strobe light going off.
You know, this is like Jeffrey Dahmer.
I get into the gas station and I immediately say, you have gas tanks?
And she points over there.
I grab up a five gallon gas tank and I'm just kind of like, huh.
Yeah.
Well, in retrospect, yes, it was.
So I think it can hold five gallons.
Yeah.
Five gallons.
How much weight?
I didn't realize.
80 pounds per gallon.
So what is that?
Well, it's like 400 pounds.
Go ahead.
So I fill up the.
He has been working out.
So the five gallon gas tank and I fill it up.
You know, I pay first of all, pay thirty nine dollars for that gas tank.
All right.
Total fuck.
They always screw you on the gas.
You know, they can.
Just like fuck.
All right.
For sure.
Talking about.
They always screw you.
So, you know, I fill it up and then I start I start walking back.
OK, you know, it just it just seems like forever.
You know how it is when you're walking back, you know, the tail and you just keep moving.
This thing is heavy.
Yeah.
100 pounds.
Yeah.
Swap an arm to swap and swap and arms.
And then eventually, eventually I get kind of smart and I take my satchel and I disconnect
it and I hook it through the loop of the five gallon buck.
The guy on your back now.
And now I'm here and slosh, slosh, slosh.
And I'm thinking, is that coming all over?
Is that on my back?
What's going on here?
So, you know, no, really, I thought it was, you know, I didn't smell it, though.
So I just I just kept going.
And then eventually my thing broke, so I was like, Motherfucker.
So I had a broken the little little little clip.
So the thing just came crashing to the ground.
Oh, man, it was just, you know, but it didn't shatter anything.
I mean, split open and broke everywhere.
Just my pride.
I've been there.
So I see the I've been saturated gasoline before and I see the very, very far distant
these blinking lights from my hazards, you know, and I'm like, oh, this is a battery
work ever.
Well, I was hoping it wouldn't work too good.
So to not be able to start the fucking car after I fill up the gas, that was my concern.
Yeah.
So you're trying to hustle.
Oh, dude, I'm still I'm thinking the battery is going to run down in flight mode.
Dude, I'm still in flight mode.
I'm ready.
I'm hauling ass at this point.
Did you buy any jerky or anything like to sustain you?
I didn't.
I had a granola bar.
I had a water bottle.
I know it's a bottle and a half.
He had emergency supplies.
You could have like a tent up right there and like halfway.
He had a can of sardines.
Yeah.
So, you know, I get to the car and I'm like, thank God.
And I just take a moment and I'm saved.
I'm sweating.
You're saved.
I'm sweating.
I'm like, this is I've got this now.
You did it.
You survived.
So, you know, I take off the satchel, I put the car.
I'm getting a little cocky at this moment.
Yeah.
I walked a hundred seventy seven miles.
Yeah.
Well, it was about three miles, a little bit more than a round trip.
But you know, I call up the roadside assistant people and I was kind of like rude.
I was like, you know, you know, just whatever.
I was bitter.
So I was like, I saw my own problem.
I did.
I was like, look, it's not so much that you, you know, it's just that you could have just
told me the truth.
You could have just just told me the truth.
Like no more lies.
Yeah.
So I said, thank you, but I'm good now.
I went and walked the distance and came back and now I'm good.
So I hang up and I'm like feeling accomplished.
You know, they were just like, I just got up, hung up with an asshole.
Yeah.
Right his number down.
And they're like, I hope I hope something doesn't go well.
Yeah.
So I grabbed the gas can and, you know, and those gas things are kind of complicated sometimes.
I mean, I don't know if last time you got, I don't know why they're stupid like you got
to like push down on the sheath to be able to.
Yeah.
I think it has to do with vapors.
They don't want the vapors to escape.
So they made them all environmentally green.
I take this.
Uh, I put it into the gas Buick, the Buick, uh, you know, the gas tank, the little lid.
There's no lid.
So I just take it and, uh, I poke it in there as far as it'll go.
And it's really stubby too.
And then all of a sudden it's not fucking working.
Gas isn't going in there.
I'm not understanding what's going on.
What the fuck?
And so I jam it a little harder because now I'm in a plus I'm tired.
You might, I just walked in, not just watch.
Oh yeah.
I carried three cases of soda, you know, essentially, you know, a mile and a half, two miles back
to the legs are shaking my arms.
My arms isn't so much my legs.
It's my arms.
So I'm picking this thing up and I'm just, I'm my arms are, I mean, it was bad.
So it turns out, um, and then at that time I called the police and I was like, Hey, look,
I'm one of these guys that needs help.
I'm retarded.
I'm not saying I'm going to have a, I'm not saying I'm retarded.
I'm not saying I'm going to have a heart attack.
All I'm saying is that if you have a courtesy car that could just swing by and just kind
of take a look and see what I'm doing, we have a code 41, we have a code 41 special
needs special needs person on the side of the road.
Yeah.
A little Darwinism going on here.
I'm not really sure what's going on.
So I'm at risk to himself and others.
I'm reading the directions and it even says on the bottom of the directions.
Here's the YouTube link.
You can go see how this works.
And so that they, you know, you go to that YouTube link and they're kind of like, Oh,
this is used as a design for some, this design for lawnmowers and chainsaws.
Hold on.
You went to YouTube to find out how to put a gas can into your car.
You must have been desperate.
I'm waiting for it.
Cause I can promise you, you would have mocked me.
But it said on the gas tank, it gave you the link to the YouTube thing.
So it's not just me.
Apparently it's complicated.
Why there's a link there.
They made it so complicated.
I mean, we need to explain a gas can.
Good God.
And you know, when you're using this thing, you're usually in like a really pissed off
situation and you're already like fatigued, apparently fatigued and just wrecked.
And they just, you get the little freaking sticks out, you dump it in there.
It's done.
Fuck.
I see.
So at least you had power and you could watch the YouTube video.
So how'd that work?
And you know, so it worked out fine, full surround sound.
So you know, but at this time you got to also know I'm covered with gasoline.
Oh, it spilled all over you.
Yeah.
Because I was, I was jamming it in the hole and gas was coming out of the gas tank, but
not going into the car and going onto you.
It's going on everything.
And so I just stopped what I'm doing and the cops were allegedly on their way and I called
them back and I was like, Hey, so it's been 25 minutes.
I'm not rushing you.
I'm not rushing you, but you know, but we're, you know, how about how long?
So they never showed up.
You managed to resolve the situation before they showed up.
Well what happened is there was a roadside assistance that was driving by and just wanted
to see what was going on.
And so this, a good Samaritan roadside assistance.
Yeah, this guy gets paid by the state and his job, that's what his job is.
It's not part of that service that you call up.
He's just in one of these pickup trucks you see with the yellow lights on it.
Very nice.
Yeah.
So he swings by and he's like, Hey, big, big black guy.
He comes out and he's like, Hey, what's going on?
And I'm like, so I explained to him, I got this, I got that.
No, no, no.
Give me, I'll give you the reality.
I'm so tired.
I just want my daddy.
Please help me.
Okay.
Now keep going.
Well, I think inside that's exactly what it was.
Did he give you a big hug?
He's like, come here, bring it in.
I was mad.
I was distraught.
There was a lot of emotion going on and he saw, I look at him and he was just like, he
was like, you need one, you need an extension.
Yeah.
And we've all heard that.
Those aren't, those aren't the, that's not the, it's not, these cars should come
with an extension that fits into the gas tank.
So he says, if you look in next to the, the spare tire, like in the car, that in the,
in this car, there should be a, something that sticks in there.
Something tells me this guy knows what he's talking about.
Yeah.
So we go, we both go into the car and we look and there's a little bag and sure enough,
it wasn't there, but it was in the inventory of stuff that is so it should have been there.
So someone stole it essentially.
Well, somebody used it and threw it away.
Yeah.
Whatever.
So he had one.
So somebody, somebody rented this exact car and had this exact problem.
Yeah.
Probably.
Yeah.
That's a hundred percent what happened.
And he threw it away because he's like, yeah, he's angry.
Suck it.
Yeah.
I'm not going to be the only one that gets screwed by this car.
So the, the roadside assistance guy had the extension.
He filled up the car.
I zelled him $50 in cash.
For what?
Just to be nice?
Just if he didn't show up, you'd still be out there.
Who knows?
But they usually don't, I mean, they don't take tips.
Like this is their job.
He did.
Oh, oh really?
He had business cards and I'm sure they weren't official, but you know, you got to imagine
when you're out in the middle of nowhere and you need help, people are like, hell yeah.
Because they wanted $170.
I would, I would accept it too.
$170 to have them come out and bring fuel.
Oh wow.
And it's not covered by insurance?
The car insurance?
The car insurance or any of that stuff?
When you turn the car in, did you be like, this piece of shit car?
I told them.
Dude, dude, first off, you're in a, you're on a company business.
Yeah.
Company business, renting a car for company business.
All of this would have been totally covered by the, your company.
But it should, and I may have a conversation with them about it, but part of me is a little
embarrassed, but here's the deal.
Up to this point, I was second guessing myself.
I was thinking, man, you know, I probably, I was listening to dudes, honestly, I was
listening to Dudes Like Us podcast.
And it dumbed you down.
And I was thinking, well, maybe, maybe I just drove an extra 20 minutes and didn't realize
it.
So I started second guessing myself.
That much.
Well, yeah, when you listen to this podcast, you become totally engrossed.
We were listening to-
I mean, it's educational, it's inspirational.
We were listening to Selena Elias-Tinos and we were talking about how, you know, she smelled
so bad the night that we took the photos because she just got done with her concert.
Anyways, so we fill up, we fill up the gas tank.
Well, if you were up to date with the podcast, you know.
Oh, I'm about two and a half years behind.
So we, so I go to the next gas station, fill up, head down to home and-
Did you stop at Bucky's?
Get a brisket sandwich.
And you were like, pig pant.
I don't think all these people were moving away from him because he's just a cloud of
gasoline.
You know, I did go to Bucky's.
Really?
Yeah, I did go.
God, that must have been awful for the people around you.
No, I don't remember.
I mean, I was more concerned about the gas smell coming from me than anything.
That's what I'm saying.
Yeah, I did go to Bucky's.
I absolutely did because I remember I went in the bathroom and I basically bathed in
the sink.
Took a whore's bath?
Yeah.
Wow.
Basically.
Hey, we don't say that word on this podcast.
No, we say everything else but whore.
Yeah.
We're fucking whore.
Yeah.
Slut bath.
God bless.
So, the next day, I fill up.
Then I go home and I take the car back on the way to the, God bless it, the Hertz rental
place.
Yeah, the rental place.
Did you just throw the keys at him?
I was just about to say that.
Hey, you know that Buick you rented me?
Fuck it.
So, but here's what happened.
So, I shared with them.
Well, hold on.
So, I'm driving there.
I fill up the gas tank again because I think it had a, you know, $13 worth of gas.
Right.
So, you're filling up every 30 miles.
But I noticed that when I looked at the gas tank, it was like full and it said it was
over the full mark.
Ah.
So, I'm like, this is bullshit.
That's when I knew 100% something was wrong.
That fucking thing is wrong.
That's crap.
It is crap.
That's not cool.
So, it fucked me out of a bunch of stuff and I will refer to the Hertz folks to this podcast
to get more information.
That could be lawsuit kind of stuff, don't you think?
I mean, not necessarily against the, you know, Hertz, but a Buick.
Yeah.
A Buick Enclave.
I mean, if somebody runs out of gas in the middle of nowhere and they end up getting
like, you know, killed or something or.
Remolded.
Dying.
Yeah, getting eaten by a bear.
Oh, that was one of my fears too, man.
Because there was a.
Bears are everywhere where you were.
There's bears, but seriously, I was walking and I was hearing all kinds of shit.
Oh, like Pee Wee Herman.
Like coyotes.
Remember that scene in Pee Wee Herman when he hears all those things and it's complete
back dark and he turns on the flashlight and there's like 6,000 animals around him and
he's like, ah!
That is one of the funniest scenes of a movie, even though I'm ashamed to say that I ever
watched that movie.
But anyway.
All right.
So, yeah.
So, you could have been mauled to death.
You know what?
The whole thing I walk away from, I was just like, well, you know, the moral of the story
is a learning lesson.
Yeah.
You know, I should have got gas.
The moral of the story is don't ever rent Buicks.
Check all your kutriments before you leave.
Yeah, exactly.
And the stem.
I'm a little.
Have your extension with you.
It's a double edged sword.
So, yeah, I should have probably filled up, but there wasn't that much.
I mean, you have these warnings set in place on purpose.
Oh, dude.
You know what I mean?
All of us have done that.
And the car goes ding ding, you know, 50 miles.
Right.
And then you start to count down and you see a gas station.
You're like, oh, there'll be more.
There'll be more.
And there's another one.
Oh, there'll be more.
That one was that was on the other side.
I'm going to keep going until it starts getting really if you're like, oh, it's a really dark
on the horizon.
I see no other towns.
Right.
I mean, we've all done that.
Oh, yeah.
Right.
I mean, so.
So here's the other thing.
Had had I just driven a little bit further?
There was the world's largest gas station.
No, there was there was the world's largest gap in between gas stations.
So it would I mean, I'm lucky I stopped where I stopped where you stopped.
Yeah.
And in retrospect, I was like, well, you know what?
I should have probably slammed on the brakes and moved over.
I probably saved me, you know, probably for who thinks that you could not have known.
There's no way you could have known.
Actually today.
It's better today because you can always pull up your phone now and say, show me the nearest
gas station.
I know this way.
I know we ran out of gas when we moved down here.
Actually, there was a trip down here before GPS.
Oh, nine yards.
And it was outside.
It was in Kentucky somewhere.
And we were stopped in the middle of nowhere.
It's like, which way do we go?
Yeah.
Forward or backwards.
We flipped the coin.
You never pay attention to what was behind you when you're not looking.
Right.
I mean, and we started walking forward.
And luckily, we got picked up by a guy that had his whole family with him in a minivan.
Lord, way back when when you could still do that was just to.
Oh, wow.
I was 22 at the time.
My buddy was the same age.
So he picked us up.
And you guys were sitting like on a bench seat between two two car seats with toddlers
in them.
No, there was a 15 year old teenage girls.
So developed.
Nice.
But the gas station was fully developed.
You had to add that part.
I'm sorry.
Really?
Yeah.
The gas station was about four miles away.
Cheerleading outfits.
And he sat there and waited for us.
He took us back crotchless.
No, we got lucky.
He took you to the gas station.
You got a can that took us back, took you back.
And so worked out.
But no funny business.
Yeah, nothing, nothing crazy.
And what I was saying is back then you didn't know.
No, no hand job.
God, he's like, come on, we're going to walk out here into the into the forest.
So yeah, it's just now you can you have your phone.
You're like, you comb the hair on his back.
Yeah, I did.
You're you're you're totally right.
It's a it's a crapshoot back.
It is nothing like what it was a long, long time ago.
I disagree.
I think you look at your phone like, oh, I know the gas station right there.
You could do that back then.
Oh, that's true from that perspective.
But I thought you were talking about the generosity of people.
Oh, no.
I mean, trying to.
That's a good point.
The generosity of people, I think, is still there.
But to to your point, Jeff, it's like nowadays, do you stop?
I mean, you can't trust anybody, right?
Somebody's going to be a killer.
Right.
You know, that one might be a story.
They could be somebody that voted for Pelosi.
And then what do you do then?
So I have a story.
Are you don't?
I don't want to.
So my mom was went to UCLA, Berkeley, and she was on a freeway somewhere in California,
either ran out of gas or flat tire.
I think it was a flat tire.
And she was by herself and she's, you know, twenty, twenty, twenty one.
I don't know.
And Hell's Angels pulls up.
Well, they were amazing.
The guy was he said, if I remember the story correctly, he said he was a founder.
Right.
So I don't know if that's anyway.
He gave her he.
Are you talking about your mom?
My mom.
Oh, sorry.
They totally hooked her up, fixed her up and everything.
He handed her a card and said, is she right?
Which unlike the back of a Hell's Angel?
No, no, no.
They fixed they fixed everything.
They changed her tire and all that kind of stuff.
And they and he handed her a card and said, if you ever need anything anywhere, you hand
this card, show this guy, show this card to any biker anywhere, anytime.
And they will they will completely, completely take care of you.
That made me think, dude, was it because not long ago, the founder died.
The founder died.
Yeah, the founder died.
I was thinking to myself, maybe that was him.
Maybe.
Because my mom tells you don't have a card and you'd like be able to like drive anywhere.
You go to these big biker things and bikes like cause all kinds of shit.
Oh, yeah.
Fuck you.
The people come up to me like, yeah, bro, I got my car.
Yeah.
Get out of jail free card.
Yeah.
Anyway, it was a cool story that mom used to tell about that.
But you know, I think there are still people that pull over and help.
Of course.
I would like to think of myself as one of those folks.
But I've done that a couple of times.
There's a litmus, you know, and litmus is getting worse and worse as the days go, as
the years go on and the more wisdom that we get that we don't.
And that's sad.
But we also size up the situation, right?
If you see a minivan, a minivan pulled over and there's three kids standing and there's
a father that's struggling or maybe just the woman, that's different than a dude that's,
you know, looking shady with a backpack, you know, with his thumb in the air.
Right.
And that's crappy.
And I know that.
But the reality is we size up that situation.
We assess the route.
I would have got in the car, put it in neutral and made my whole family push the minivan
all the way to the gas station.
Nice.
Yeah.
Hollering at him the whole time.
Like faster than a breeze.
Put your back into it, woman.
I know you're pregnant.
Perfect.
Yeah.
Perfect.
Yeah, that's good.
Well, that's a wonderful story.
Sean, thanks for sharing.
Here's the deal.
It's a dude's like us moment.
You know, it's a little bit.
Have you ever run out of gas?
I haven't.
Well, you just said you did.
I know.
I'm just kidding.
My friend was driving, so technically I did not run out of gas.
I'm trying to think.
Have I ever?
It was his car.
I did run out of gas one time and it was in Frisco.
So it was no big deal.
I just called up Shelly and was like, yeah, I ran out of gas.
Can you come pick me up?
Yeah, but that was a little bit of a shock.
Yeah, but that was just like that was a beat down, man.
I got home at one thirty.
OK, baby, it's OK.
I'll be there to help you.
I was tired and I was so do you?
I'll be dude.
Honey, why are you nude?
I just want you to be comfortable.
But I will tell you, I did.
I did feel good after walking all that way and carrying that five.
I mean, I may go buy a five gallon weight or just start and just walk around with a kettle
ball.
Yeah.
Carry around this big kettle.
Kettle ball.
Kettlebell.
It's a weight.
Nice kettlebell.
Yeah.
You're going to do that?
You know, buy a 400 pound kettlebell and drag it around Frisco.
But I may get some like some wrist weights, you know, that way.
Maybe forty five, fifty thousand.
Well, you know, they have those backpack weights.
Yeah, they have the vest things.
The vest.
Thank you.
Brandon has that.
He runs with it every now and then.
I would imagine.
I mean, that's that's a great idea.
Yeah.
Well, again, I felt I really did feel well.
I felt great.
Speaking of feeling great.
Yeah.
I got my package in the mail yesterday.
Your junk.
Your penis.
I got my penis in the mail.
Your sex stories.
Well, I had I had.
And they felt great.
I took my my cog and balls and I put it in a plaster and they mold.
They put a mold.
That'd be for your wife, though.
Yeah.
Why would it feel good to keep on our desk and work?
What were you doing with this?
That'd be a good Christmas gift.
So she could take it to work.
You know what you should have gotten instead?
It's probably one of the breathing machines.
Something with a suction cup on it so I could I could stick it to my friend's windows.
Wow.
That way you can just go fuck yourselves with your dick.
You got a breathing machine, didn't you?
I went through that website, Loft.
It was a tedious.
I don't want to say it's tedious because it wasn't.
It was more of a actually was pretty simple.
You know, you go to these people, you pay 200 bucks for it was less than that.
But you pay a couple almost a hundred couple hundred bucks.
You get an assessment for an assessment.
You put a little finger thing on there.
They put a microphone in your throat.
You sleep overnight with it with an app on your phone.
Check your prostate.
It. Yeah, there's a little umbilical that comes out and it tickles your prostate when you sleep.
It's like a plug.
Yeah.
It's because they say most of the reason why you can't sleep is because of anal.
What is it?
Anal relaxations.
We talked about it.
I'm a year behind.
Oh, and the seventy seven year old in some study that had anal.
What do you call it when you spasms?
Restless.
Restless rectal syndrome.
That's where he does it quite far.
It's just kind of like it's so funny.
I was listening and I was like, what?
What on a seven seventy year old is not restless?
Anyway, I don't want to read this at that.
Anyway, so did you sleep better?
Um, yes.
I want to say yes, but I don't know because I was asleep.
Did you sound like Darth Vader?
So you need to record yourself.
So I asked the there were I slept through my alarm.
Oh, that's a good sign.
I slept through my arm.
Didn't hear it.
One of the kids, it was Alex that got up and made something to eat probably at four in the morning.
He was like, I didn't hear you snore at all.
He says, I heard once this big inverted fart sound.
But that's your anus.
That's not your mouth.
It was me breathing.
I was kind of like that.
Like that noise.
That sounded very weird.
But it's cut when this, you know, you have to get used to it.
I have a full mask.
What do you have?
I have something that covers the full nose, but not the whole face.
You have a face mask.
I have one.
Well, it doesn't cover the whole face like my eyes and everything, but it's not like it covers my nose and mouth.
So and mouth.
Yeah, because I got a deviated septum.
And so I have I have I breathe through my mouth as well.
It's very painful.
Julie had it done.
It's very painful even for them to stick instruments in there.
I know Julie did it.
Yeah, I've got fucked that written all over it.
Well, Julie did it.
Well, good for her.
She'd have a baseball bat fucking crushing her nose.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, you're not actually hurt.
Your son's baseball bat crushing your nose.
I got smacked with a baseball bat right in the bridge of my nose.
Like it was a robbery attempt.
Anyways, so it covers the whole face and they do like this.
Does your beard get in the way?
Well, no, it doesn't.
I know she discussed that on the call.
So what it does is that that mask is I don't want to say sophisticated, but it's it's not sophisticated from technology, but they knew what they were doing.
It basically it hugs the lip, the skin of your lip on the very bottom, so it provides that suction.
And then it just it just it works because there's no air gaps.
But there's a little test that you run and I ran it several times and it provides 10 pounds, 20 pounds of pressure of suction.
So I mean, I freak you out the first time you turn it on.
Oh, my. There were periods of time where I actually I was I was thinking that I was a fixating.
But when I breathe, when I took a breath, it was totally assisted breathing.
Yes. It jammed air into my my my lungs.
I got us through it was so weird, though, because it was like I want to breathe.
I want to rip this thing off and I think I'm going to die.
Yeah, because I can't breathe.
And then all of a sudden oxygen goes, but I'm just like shooting into your lungs.
I'm like, all right, well, I'm doing through your nose.
Then I'm freaking through your nose.
What are your mouth?
Well, I have to breathe through my mouth.
That machine is forces you to breathe through your nose, not your mouth.
No, it covers both.
So one of the questions as you are, are you a mouth breather or no breather?
Yeah, so I'm both.
So I can breathe through my nose or my mouth.
It doesn't matter because it's all pressurized.
I thought the whole premise, not that I'm an expert expert, but I thought the whole premise was to force breathing through your nose, not your mouth.
That's because that's where the snoring comes from.
That's for your CPAP.
He's got an APAP. I've got an APAP.
Oh, I got an APAP.
I mean, dude, look, I mean, when I went on the when I got my test back that said 30 was severe and it didn't even it cut off at 50.
I have an 86.
I mean, they were like.
Well, Jeff and I are fully aware from that one time that we all three shared a hotel room.
It was horrific.
Yeah. Well, this changes it.
It's a game changer. I was going to call care flight.
Well, obviously, look, here's the thing.
The kids, I mean, even like this afternoon, I was sitting at my desk around three thirty, falling asleep, sitting at my desk.
All right. So I just went out into the living room and I put the machine on.
I took a nap today, today, during the day, turn the day took twenty eight minute nap.
And I know that because the machine said it was twenty eight minutes and kids had come and gone.
And I asked them, hey, did you hear me snore?
They were like, I didn't even know you were there. Yeah, baby.
This machine might have saved your life. I mean, I say that in all seriousness.
I agree. I mean, who was the famous football player who died of sleep apnea? Reggie White.
Oh, did he? Reggie White, right? The Packers.
You said he was an asshole, though. He was an asshole.
I mean, he didn't deserve to die. He was a preacher, wasn't he?
He was. I find that hypocritical. Austin pulled up.
Yeah, look up Reggie White. I thought he died of sleep apnea. Hold on.
Hold on. Pump the brakes there. So we got that Rez Rez Med right there.
I've got the Air 11, I think it's called. Yours is fancy.
No, I've got the 11. It's a little bit more fancier than that.
Oh, wow. Air Med. Well, whatever. I mean, yeah, that's basically that.
I mean, they're all essentially the same. They all do the same.
Does yours have a humidifier in there? Do you add water?
Yeah, yeah, I add water. Yeah. Yeah, so that's kind of weird.
How often do you have to clean it? More than what I do.
So you have like a shmeg? I will tell you the first time I cleaned it,
I opened up the compartment and I was like, oh, it's all clear.
Like not a big deal. And I was like, how can it be this clean?
And then I stuck my finger down in there and I ran it across the bottom of it.
And it was like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. I was like, OK, wow, I got to clean this.
It left like this deep is like silt. It was literally like silt across the bottom of it.
It was gross. I was like, OK, but it was no color. It was no.
Anyway, so I cleaned it up pretty good. I wonder.
You see, mine has the tube that connects to the machine from the machine end has electronics.
I say electronics. Oh, yeah. But I'm not sure what that's for.
I mean, because on the other end. So it can detect whether or not you are.
So when you first put it on, yeah, like mine, you don't have to turn on the machine.
It detects that I'm pulling air in. And so it turns on.
Yeah, but but the but and that's the electronics.
That's the electronics. But what does that have to do with the tube, though?
Because at the end of the tube, there's electronics that detect airflow.
Yeah, but but that doesn't make sense.
But why why is the tube need to be powered?
I can understand the little mechanism inside the machine that can detect air coming in and out.
But why does the tube need to be powered up?
What's in the tube? Well, my mind isn't powered up.
But at the end, the very end of it, the very bottom of it, where it plugs into the machine.
Yeah, clearly has some sort of chip or something.
All right. Well, whatever. I think it's because of the airflow indicator.
Maybe a sensor of some kind. Well, I don't have to turn it on.
No, I don't have to turn it off because when when I put the thing on the apparatus
and I put it on there, it automatically does.
I know it's funny. Mine doesn't always turn off.
And so I don't have my hearing aids in. Right. So I can't hear anything.
And so I get I'm getting up very early for basketball while my wife's trying to sleep.
And so I said it's got magnets, right. It's got magnets on the end of it.
I plop it on my little gun, my little gun safe right next to the bed and I plan, plan.
And then I get up and I and I come back to the room and the whole time it's going.
And I'm like, oh, I'm sorry. I didn't hear that.
Yeah, that's the whole noise.
Well, that's the whole, you know, living with a hearing impaired person.
It's got to be tough.
So speaking of tough and hearing impaired, we are celebrating.
Yes. Another podcast and your APAP and your life there here.
Cheers. Cheers to you.
Not dying of sleep.
You do it's like us out there. Most people are starting to get these machines.
And you know what? Hey, look, as far as I know, it's a game changer from from the fact that I don't snore anymore.
Like I said, I was I'm so tired today, but that could be simply because I'm getting a deep sleep.
Yeah. And I mean, you probably have to do. Absolutely.
I mean, you can hear how well you sleep if you get on a regular pattern.
Maybe you stop gaming and you're born in the morning supposed to be pretty sophisticated where it's recording the data.
The one that goes to your phone, right? So you can look at your data to find out more information on that.
I kind of got it out of the box. It's funny. I started out caring about all that.
It was like you've gone straight days of of nine point three percent.
You know, you don't mean nine hours or whatever.
And I was like, eventually you stopped caring and just go to bed.
Well, I mean, it's it's good to hear.
But what are we drinking? What are we drinking? We're drinking.
Drinking Bookers. I walked I walked into Bookers Bourbon Bookers Bourbon.
It's a good one. And I walked. This is a hard one to find.
It's a blend. It's a blend.
And I walked into Total Wine and the guys were like, yeah, do you want a Bookers?
Yeah. Follow me. I was like, well, yes, I do.
I was like, you have some. I love that when we go in there.
They look at you with that stink eye and they're like, hey.
Oh, the greatest one is when they're sitting there helping somebody, blah, blah, blah.
And they make eye contact and their eyes get big.
Their eyes get big like they're excited to see us.
And then he starts motioning with his finger.
Follow me. And then we're like, oh, my God, oh, my God, it's going to be good.
So anyway, I was like, well, yes, I will. I'll take a Bookers.
Because I've been wanting one. I've seen them at Liquor King up at the top, right, for points.
And I was like, that needs to be one that we need to keep an eye on.
Well, they had it. So no points. We know points.
I got it. And it's like Paul said, it's a blend.
It's a blend of how many?
One, two, three, four, five, seven different bourbons.
Yeah, but they're all but they're all from the same.
It's not like a lot of times people do a blend of.
I see what you mean. This is definitely a blend.
It's like, you know, they've they've they got seven.
Oh, my gosh, look at the breakdown.
Well, it's from the different Rick houses.
It's from the different Rick houses, the different floors of the same distiller.
Yes, that's important. Same distinction.
Yes. But, you know, two percent came.
That's just an example.
Two percent came from the fourth floor of the seven story warehouse X.
I love it. Three percent came from the third floor of the seven story warehouse.
Let's say five.
Guys, this is goes down.
This is how particular they get about the barrel they pull it from, the Rick house.
They pull it from.
I mean, they're literally telling you what floor and which warehouse
and the percentage that came out of it.
That's amazing. These these master blenders.
How many how many variations did they go through to get to this?
I don't know.
Oh, maybe maybe they never really know how it's going to turn out,
which is why, you know, they're going to have to do it.
They don't know how it's going to turn out, which is why, you know, the the Somalian,
they they really they all I want that barrel.
Right. I want that blend.
I want a small. That was a great year.
Somalians know all about bourbon and wine.
Oh, right.
Whatever. Anyway, this is the lumber yard batch.
So batch number two thousand twenty zero to sixty two point forty percent alcohol by volume.
That's a hundred and twenty four point eight proof.
And this has been seven years, one month and seven days per the Booker's master distiller notes.
And it shares that the aroma is deep with hints of vanilla and oak.
Lead you back to the enjoyed several times to explore its depth.
One hundred and twenty four point eight proof.
And I just digest that most people who drink whiskey and it doesn't taste proof.
They drink eighty proof whiskey.
This is sad. This is one point five.
I know. Time's that.
God bless. And that's where we go back and, you know, I know we give Sean shit about going.
He needs one hundred twenty plus.
But when we go back and try the ninety proof, we're just like, wow, it's like water.
It is. It is.
It's just it just doesn't.
It doesn't. It's no impact.
But you can there. So when you do go back to those nineties, you you don't have to deal with it killing you.
You can actually go in there and taste a little bit.
Oh, that's me.
I love it, too. Yeah. Oh, that's the fucked up part.
See, when I call mixers, right, I mean, that's how many.
Well, I guess I couldn't I shouldn't call all eighty and ninety proof bourbons mixers.
But we're kind of I'm kind of getting there.
You know, I don't know.
What is Makers Mark? Is that a mixer?
Absolutely. The one downstairs, the one I mean, I know I'm excluding the single barrels and the makers mark the cast and the cast.
We don't have the standard makers.
Yeah, we don't have that. That's that's a mixer.
You know, the thing is, it's not that percent corn and they consider it a weeded bourbon.
It just kind of fucks me.
Well, because we did bourbons use instead of right.
We were going to start all over with this guy.
Yeah, he's a newbie. Listen, hey, whiteboard for our for our four listeners.
Sean's a newbie. He's new to bourbon.
He doesn't understand what a weeded bourbon is. It's OK.
I get it. But it's just like when when I've envisioned a weeded bourbon, Makers Mark does not pop up on the screen, you know, right.
Because you start with nine banded and that stuff was so smooth.
Oh, yeah. Forty is forty nine percent.
We know it's a lot. No, it wasn't quite that I I forget.
Oh, it was it was it was it was 50 percent corn, 51 percent corn.
That's to be a bourbon. It has. So it had a very it had a large amount of wheat in the 40s, I think.
Anyway, so, you know, I have a guys I have a an announcement to make.
Oh, God. This about your fantasy football team.
You got your third knuckle and Trump has announced his presidents.
Oh, yeah, he did that at eight o'clock today. Yeah.
He's announced that he's running for president in 2012. We all suspect otherwise.
I thought he was going to concede to Hillary Clinton.
Let the fun begin. Anyway, I want to sit on the sidelines and watch.
I did not mean to do a hard left on politics, but he has officially announced that he is running.
Where did you read that? Someone text that to you? Oh, yeah.
Well, he had a huge press conference about it. Yeah.
He had eight o'clock. Kind of curious to hear what the press conferences and you know, in look, you know,
I I want I want Trump as president. I don't want him separating this country.
Yeah, I don't want them separating. I don't want to fuck him with Santa's, you know, dividing.
Yeah, I want it's going to happen.
If no, if the status doesn't does it declare it'll never happen.
I would prefer that I can't believe I'm saying this because I prefer to Santa's over Trump.
But I would prefer that we just sidestep the like the bloodbath on our own party,
like dividing our own party and letting the Democrats just love every minute of it.
I want to Santa's to just just wait. He's young. He's young. Let him wait for me.
Let him wait. Let him wait. Is he 40 or 42? He's in his 40s.
Do VP. Absolutely. Twelve years. I don't know if he'll do that.
I think I think I need someone about the power of that ticket.
I don't think you know why, because the people that like Trump but really don't like Trump, like the personal Trump.
Yeah. Right. They like him as a president, but not as a person, because that's me.
I'll be honest. I don't like him as a person. I like him as a president.
I don't think Trump will do that. I think he needs someone that is weaker than him in the.
I don't know about that. Pence Pence was wasn't weak.
I wouldn't call him. Well, he was personality wise. He was a beta.
Correct. A beta to the alpha. Right. And the Santa's is an alpha to the alpha.
Correct. I don't think Trump could handle so they'd devour each other.
I think Trump would try. Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know what happened. You know who you should bring on is Haley.
Nikki Haley. Nikki Haley as he may.
Well, you know, we've got a lot of contenders. She's a BIPOC.
Lord. Now this is going to create two years of.
Imagine twenty twenty eight when Sarah Huckabee runs.
She won Alabama governor. I think I'm super proud of her.
I'm proud of her. She was so body shamed and humiliated.
She had the media. Look at her. Bounce back. She had cancer.
She had cancer. I'm proud of her.
I think she's going to be a kick ass leader too.
I can't wait to see how she does. Sorry. Go ahead.
No, that was I mean, I see her as far as Nikki Haley goes.
You know, she handled herself well. She's an ass kicker.
She is. There's other amazing in the U.N.
She really was. I like that other one that Heather Newhart.
Who? Heather Heather Newhart. I think that's her name.
Where she had she was Guam.
No, she was like some sort of I think she was press secretary
in the U.N. or something. Is it Heather Newhart?
That's the blonde blonde. That's the same height as Pete Sessions.
Yes, you. We have brought this up multiple times.
Now, why? Well, because what is it about this Heather woman that you are fixated on?
Because she knows how to handle people. She's a geek.
I don't know. Wow. Does she have an extension if she were to run out of gas?
I can't read them. I fucking need glasses. But go to the doctor.
You can have insurance. Wow. You have your own little cheat sheet
with little pictures of people and their height and weight.
She was a spokesman for the United States. So anyways.
Anyways, I saw her. Oh, I see why now. She's a looker.
No. Whoa. Click on that picture. It's not just that.
It's the you should see how she engages the the reporters.
She's a former. That can't be the same person.
That's that's her. No, this is the Fox News anchor.
Was she Fox News? That's not the same person.
That's her right there. Yeah. Heather Newhart.
Anyways, look, I'm saying she would she would be great for politics.
I don't think her name is big enough because I don't hear her name anywhere.
I don't either. That's probably the perfect person you want either.
Then I think I think Nikki Haley is a good one.
I know she kind of made a step. She made a misstep.
And that's OK. I think she can recover.
You know what fixes that is Trump publicly acknowledging her,
like like forgiving her for the shitty things that she said.
We'll see if he does. I hope he does, because she can be a massive weapon
for the for the Republican Party. Well, she's a Nikki Haley.
Well, she's a she's a minority. She's she's Indian.
She's Native American. Yeah. Even though Sonny Hostin won't admit it.
I know. Well, not as much as Elizabeth Warren.
No, Nikki Haley truly is. What is she doing?
Well, she's not the governor of South Carolina anymore.
So what is she doing? What is she doing?
She's just a political. I go to all speaker, I think.
So she's the former governor. So that's all I can say.
She look at her first name, Nikki. Yeah, no, that's her middle name.
Nimrodda. Nimrodda. Nimrodda.
Like, does that mean like bold, bold eagle?
That's actually Nimrodda. Isn't that the name of a rat on Pokemon?
Look at her name, her born name, Nimrodda, Nikki Rand.
Oh, so she doesn't sound like American Indian.
That sounds like she's Native American Asian Indian.
She's Native American. Really?
Well, that's what the whole stink was.
You know, she has a American diplomat and politician served as the hundred
and I like her a lot. The first female governor of South Carolina
for for one session and as the twenty ninth United States
ambassador to the United Nations for two years.
You know what? I think you may be right. I think that may be Asian Indian
because look at her parents names. I could I think I have that wrong.
Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, obviously, there's Singh Randhawa.
OK, yeah, that's 100 percent Asian Indian.
So but anyway, so Sean, try to pronounce her parents names for us.
Oh, it's Ajit Singh Randhawa.
What? Akawa?
OK, now you went American Indian.
The Rajahara Rajahara.
Dude, you know, probes.
Well, that's what you would you were being all to Tanka.
I just said what the name was to talk to.
Anyway, I love her and I've never met her parents, but I love her parents
too, because they made her and I love her.
So, you know what? We've had a big but though big one bottom.
Wow. But talks, how do we do this?
I've seen it. No, no, really.
You do Nikki Haley, dude. Type it in.
Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead.
Nikki Haley, nude bottom, nude big bottom.
Really? Haley bathing suit. We're not doing that.
OK. Anyway, they can't see it. So hold on.
So hold on. We're on the cusp.
We haven't even talked about this big red way was supposed to happen.
Didn't happen. Well, you know what? Look, that's OK.
That's OK. Did it or did not?
That's the thing. It wasn't recognized whatever it was.
I don't trust our voting election systems. I just don't.
I possibly believe. I just think it's too easily manipulated.
I don't believe it. There can't be that many people voting for the Democrats.
There just can't be. And you know what's funny?
I saw something. I saw like an interview with somebody that said
they couldn't believe that people were stupid enough to vote for Republican candidates.
They think the same thing. They think the exact same thing about us.
About us. Here's the thing, guys. We think they're stupid.
They think we're stupid. I mean, we've gotten to the point where
we were questioning each other's intelligence because because we can't.
Neither one of us can fathom somebody voting for somebody that believes that
or acts like that or. Right. So the reality is we're not all stupid.
These are smart people. So the question is they're ignorant.
No, it is not even if it's just a belief system, we have to we truly
if we're ever going to solve this divide, we've got to we've got to truly sit down
and understand. So how is it that you feel this way?
What do you learn? What a Republican is and what a Democrat is?
Because we've got to get past this.
They voted that way because they're ignorant and they're stupid.
They're not. It goes back to the schooling.
They're not our lack of education in the systems.
I mean, this is systematic. You're talking about. I disagree.
These are smart people. They are well educated, smart people.
They're not ignorant and stupid and has shady saying that the
that you talk about the Democrats. Yeah. No, no, no.
I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about in the school systems now.
They're doing a very poor job educating people.
They're easily led down paths in the school systems, especially colleges.
Colleges brainwash our kids. I hear what you're saying.
But but like I said, I can promise you all this narrative influence.
These these what? How many people are coming across the South border right now?
Instant Democrats. All of them have come to America by Joe Biden.
But those aren't the people we're talking about.
We're talking about people who are like like private school educated,
quality education, super smart parents, super smart kid.
And yet they are hardcore Democrat.
And they can and they fit does that.
I don't get it. What is the benefit of being a Democrat?
Why? To give our kids free fucking school? Yes.
That's ridiculous. They want. Why would we want to pay for that?
That's a realistic because they OK, well, they you nailed part of it
because they believe that the role of government is to is to if we're paying all these taxes, right,
paying all these taxes, then the government should be the one that like
it out here that that makes that makes life easier for everyone.
It's a belief system. It is. I will. I will extend this out.
I will extend this out. I will say that there's a part of me
that does believe that the government should pick up the tab on some of the things for sure.
They pick up the tab on kindergarten to 12.
There's no reason why they couldn't take that to 14 or 16 grades one through 16.
And instead of having like a quote unquote college, they just have advanced school
and have a curriculum set up that is just the bare necessities like an associate's degree,
essentially, or a certificate that you can graduate and you're you're you can continue your education.
And, you know, and you don't have to go to a school.
I mean, you can go to like a Colin Callen. I'm sorry.
I remember a phrase that you go to a community college is what I'm saying.
Or I'm just saying that the school system could go all the way up to the 16th grade.
Well, here here's the can. Well, here's the difference.
I mean, you're talking about schools where the government pay.
Well, we all pay for public schools, but there's there's there's a lot of people
and I'm one of them who wants about school choice. Right.
So I think the money should follow the student. Right.
So if I'm like, I don't want to go to this school.
The school is going to cost ten thousand dollars to send my kid through school, whatever it is.
Right. I should be able to take that ten thousand dollars and go pay for private school if I wanted to.
Agreed. So that's where you break. The Democrats don't think that way.
Well, why? Well, and it's because why?
Because they came up with the program called school vouchers that you're able to know.
That's not in place anywhere. They're so here's the thing.
That's what we want. If you do that, something because they know what's going to happen.
They know what's going to happen if all the people who can leave do leave.
It's going to make those school systems even worse.
Well, look, right. And so they know that the underprivileged, you know,
they're going to get just as much money as I know.
Well, maybe not because they live in apartments and they don't have the socioeconomic situation.
They should get if my kids is worth ten thousand dollars, their kid is worth ten thousand dollars.
Right. I think that's I think that's are they saying those parents aren't going to use that money appropriately?
That might be part of it. That's what the parents or I thought that people living in apartments don't pay.
Are you basing that ten thousand dollars on the school taxes? School tax.
OK, well, if you live in an apartment, you don't pay school tax. Old people still pay school taxes.
They don't have kids. Yeah. But but but but people living in apartments don't pay school tax.
Are you saying poor people live in apartments?
No, what we're saying is that people that live in apartments don't pay school tax to have their kids sent to school.
But but so what are you saying that is that part of their rent?
Does that landlord who says I have a thousand apartments here, is any part of their taxes go to the school?
I don't know. And does he trickle that down? I don't know the answer to that.
I think the answer is no, but that can't be true. I think it is.
Yes. So all those apartments are exempt. So indirectly, I don't think so. Indirectly, they're paying school taxes.
It's technically a commercial property, even though people are living there. It's a commercial property.
I think he's so I think he's right. I don't think so. I don't think they are paying any school tax.
They don't pay it. And like it's like coal. Why do cities allow apartments?
Well, because not everybody can afford. I don't know. I want that verified.
He's looking it up right now. How about that?
So what we're sharing with about the the the schools like one through 16 is that if we were to set up schools like that,
we could we basically get rid of certain colleges. We can get rid of a lot of these things. I would get rid of tons of shit.
If you want to go to college that you like, hey, look, I want to play football and I want a college where it features football, A&M, whatever, then go go tear it up.
But there should be something available for the regular Joe that doesn't give a fuck about any of that extracurricular stuff that just wants a good old fashioned education.
Well, that's what community college is supposed to be.
Agreed. But I mean, I just think that we have a great we have a great, you know, community college.
It's not a community college. It's not even a community college. It's a four year school. We have a great it's a great school.
Well, that's that's what I'm saying. I think that if we are paying taxes and for as much as we are paying taxes, why not take it all the way?
There's no there's not a reason why we can't because everywhere you live, except for apartments,
I guess, you know, school taxes are expensive.
Frisco is the highest that I've seen in probably Texas.
All right. So here's my take on that. I don't disagree. But under no circumstances, no circumstances can the federal government run that program.
No, it needs to be states, all state. Yep. It needs to be county. It needs to be city, county, state, however they work it out.
But that's exactly how it needs to happen. Not federal because that's not the role of the federal government.
We took a hard left because of my Trump announcement. Anyway, I think we're we we're almost I know we had delays.
We had technical delays. We got seven minutes. Seven minutes. All right. All right.
So with that said, we had a number of things that I wanted to talk about.
I can definitely talk about within five minutes. All right. So we talked about here's the other thing I want to talk about since we're on politics.
So I read a story today that talked about Democrats drumming up the warning and the fear that Republicans are going to make Trump the Speaker of the House.
How do you guys feel about that? I don't I think it's ridiculous. I don't think it will happen.
It's ridiculous. Well, so they're continuing to drum up this fear of Trump and this hatred.
I think it's actually it's a hatred of Trump. It's a hatred of Trump.
Oh, the TDS is going to kick into high gear. Oh, they're probably already doing it. Right.
It's churning. Do you remember during the Republican primaries?
Can you imagine him being in the house though? It'd be funny. It'd be funny. He'd be great. Sparks.
He would he would be on fire. He would be whipping people into shape. Anyway.
So do you remember during the Republican primaries that the Democratic Party were pouring money into Republican candidates that were hardcore pro-Trump?
I think so it worked. It worked. Forty million dollars into they were talking about six particular races where Democrats were funding that.
They were funding their campaigns and donating to their campaigns because they knew that that would bolster enough Democratic support when the actual election came, like which was last week.
They knew that people hate Trump enough to get off their couches, go to the polling booth.
That's why I'm a little nervous with Trump running again.
Me too. Because it activates that they hate him base that just in the core they abhor him.
I like that is I can't I can't think of a stronger word. The Democrats hate Trump with a passion.
They literally think he's the devil. Why? Why do they hate him? They because of him. His person.
He's a 12 year old bully. He's an asshole. And he's the least diplomatic person we could ever put in our government.
And then the debate with with Hillary Clinton and you know, it's like Trump exclaims, you know, the system's rigged and the moderators like, well, what do you talk that's bullshit.
What do you mean the system's rigged? It's rigged. And I know it's rigged.
Yeah, because I use it. And the modern and they were like, oh, OK. And then Hillary looks over there and she's like, he doesn't pay taxes.
And then Trump's just like, that's because I'm smart. Right. I remember that.
And you know what? If you want me to pay taxes, change the tax codes. Right. But you won't.
You won't change the tax code. Too many billionaires. All of your friends. Yes. They support the Democrat cause. Have the same benefits that I do.
And that's why you're not going to change the tax code. And it was kind of like, boom, boom, slam, fuck off. I get it.
That's why they hate him. It's because it's a reality slap. Fuck you.
I don't disagree, but they hate him. Yeah, it may mobilize. I could see him losing. Yeah, me too.
And I can see them being motivated enough to make sure he loses. Yeah.
Unfortunately, like as much as I would want to be already done.
I could see just this motivating that core base.
Because it warrants it's more than anything else. Like it's worth it. Right.
Like at any cost, make sure he doesn't get elected. Right. Right.
Anyway, so anyway, I thought that was kind of ridiculous that they thought he could be speaker of the house.
And I'm glad to hear that. Well, I'm not sure. I'm glad to hear that McCarthy. There's a lot of there's that law.
But I'm not a big fan of folks who didn't want him in there. We need new blood, in my opinion.
We need a lot of changes here. I personally think it would be kind of funny if Trump did take the house and lead them for a while.
I think it'd be funny as hell. That's certainly never happened. Right. It's never happened in U.S. history.
No, where they just and it's interesting that there it could even be a possibility that somebody you don't have to be voted.
Then you said we talked about this on previous. Yeah, but you don't even have to be a sitting member of Congress.
I mean, it's scary. How does that work? I don't know. It's scary because currently, like right now, the California governor, Newsom, you know, he could slide in.
Let's just think. Kamal to Harris is kind of like, oh, I've got ovary cancer. I need to quit.
You know, Biden, he nominates. He gets in a news from California. Right.
All of a sudden, Biden is no longer fit for office. Jackass gets in. Oh, yeah.
No, that can happen. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Just like that. There is nothing that we can do about it.
There's speaker. The House does not automatically become vice president.
No, no, no. The speaker. No, hold on. That's not what I'm talking about.
No, that's not what the speaker of the House because vice president vice president when the vice president dies instantly and the kind of oh, my God, we need a temporary vice president just in case something else happens.
It was like the speaker of the House is third in line. Yeah. So third in line, but it is temporary until the president appoints a new VP. Yeah.
Correct. Just until the but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about how if Kamala decides that she wants to leave for whatever reason, she quits. Yeah.
She's quick. Like fucking I'm done. Biden. He gets to choose somebody.
Well, he could do that now with anybody. He doesn't be speaker of the House. Can he dismiss her? Hold on.
We're not talking about. I thought you said Gavin Newsom becomes speaker of the House. No, no, no, no, no. Vice president. No.
OK. Yeah. As far as I can make sense. No, ignore speaking the House. Yeah. Yeah. Joe Biden. Yeah. Vice president. But do they have to be confirmed by the Senate?
Which they have the I don't think so. I think Biden just puts it out there and it's done. It's done deal. These are all great questions. Can the president just dismiss the vice president? Yes.
I don't know. You're done. I don't think that's the he's there. They're on the ticket. So that can't happen because they were elected. So they have to step down or something has to impose like some sort of medical condition.
impeachment. Oh, possibly. And peach the vice president for being a. Are we looking are we looking at at at Trump's announcement tonight?
This is the system is OK. I was like that because Pence will not be there. They're not friends anymore after what Trump did to. Yeah. Well, Pence had an interview today.
A while in Pence basically spoke out about the January 6th deal. Yeah. He wasn't on board with it being a stolen election.
Well, I mean, he basically said he says, look, I'm friends with Trump. I support Trump 100 percent. He's a class. He's like, but here's my feelings about about life and my devotion isn't to Trump.
My devotion is to God and my devotion is to country. Applaud that million percent. He said that those are the that's the pecking order that came in.
And when this scenario popped up, I felt like the president was stepped over the line. I agree. And that's that's where I'm at.
Yeah. He was he was asking. Yeah. He was asking Trump was asking him to decertify.
And he was like, no, I'm not willing to do that. Did he actually ask that he did. Yeah. Well, I would have to because there was so many anomalies going on.
You know, there was cause, you know, in my opinion, there was cause. Yeah. It just would have been a disaster had that played out.
Yes, that would have played out. That would have been really bad. They would have rioted and maybe even the capital. I mean, it's bad. Oh, wait. I did that happen.
I'm saying it. It got bad. It's halftime. The the Ides of November. It's dudes like us. We're going to take a break.
We're going to come back and we're going to have a new bourbon and we're going to have a different perspective as we're going to list of fantastic things.
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