It's Dudes Like Gus.
It is another fantastic Tuesday.
Take another week towards Christmas.
Oh yeah.
More Christmas parties.
It is.
Coming around the corner.
The next podcast will be the week of Christmas.
If we're able to do it.
That's right.
Yeah.
I've got a lot going on this week.
I am, my oldest son is graduating from college.
Very exciting.
He called me on Thursday of last week.
All excited.
He goes, well I'm all done.
Took my, whatever, turned in my last project or whatever the hell it was.
I'm done with college.
Yeah.
He's like, you want to buy me a bottle of vodka?
Ever said?
Yes.
That's a classic Dudes Like Gus moment.
Having our kids graduate college after all the money spent to push them through and
the conniving and the hard work.
Not only just going to school but trying to maintain status of being able to eat.
You know, going, having to work and multiple jobs sometimes to support yourself while you're
going to school.
Did your son do that?
He worked.
He worked pretty much the whole time.
When he got to Texas Tech he worked.
When he was at Stephen F. Austin he was playing football.
He didn't have time to do anything.
That's right.
He didn't have time to do anything.
That screwed him up time wise.
That's demanding.
It's demanding and his grades weren't the greatest.
A lot of the classes that he took at SFA didn't transfer for whatever reason.
He had to retake some stuff.
He's about a quarter behind.
Actually a little more because he took summer classes than the fall.
He's done.
He's going to live out there until June, the end of his lease.
He's going to work full time.
It sounds kind of BSE, you know, the whole classes that don't transfer.
Preston had some issues like that too.
You would think that they just have, come on man, get with the program.
You should have universal freaking classes.
I think part of it is I can make more money to make you take that class again.
That's what I was thinking too.
There's no incentive for them to accept everything.
I took Calculus 1.
How come that Calculus 1 doesn't transfer over to whatever school's Calculus 1?
It's because it wasn't taught by Senior Joseph.
But you do, they do know, as long as you do a little bit of research, you can figure out
what transfers and what doesn't prior to registering during the summer.
But sometimes, if you're all in and you're like, hey man, this is the school I'm going
to.
I plan on graduating here.
This is what I'm going to do.
Well, life happens and you're like, you know what, I don't feel like doing this, man.
This was a bad decision.
And then you try to cut your losses, lick your wounds, and all of a sudden you're like,
fuck.
I mean, I understand if classes don't transfer to a new major within the same.
Well, he was in the same major.
Everything.
See, I don't understand that.
If you go from journalism to medical or something within the same college.
Well, these were medical classes.
Or even within schools.
These were medical classes.
Yeah.
And I guess maybe I need to understand is, okay, SFA called it this, but did Texas Tech,
even though it's called that, did they teach something slightly different?
Was it a different level?
I don't know.
But some of his core medical classes didn't transfer.
So he had to go back and take some beginning classes.
So he was a junior taking classes with freshmen to get back to where he needed to be.
And the other interesting thing is, I would imagine not all classes are created equal,
even if they're the exact same class.
And that's exactly why when somebody struggles to take a class in a college, they're like,
wow, this is really hard at Texas Tech.
I'm just going to take it at Blinn or I'm going to take it at a junior college because
it's a lot easier.
Then I'll just transfer.
Sometimes that doesn't transfer.
Well, I mean, even if it does transfer, it's not the same caliber.
Right.
So maybe.
Correct.
I don't know.
Maybe that's maybe that's I don't know.
I don't I guess.
Well, what you're saying is community college is not as hard as a regular college.
I think that's well, isn't that the general consensus that I don't know that I know it's
less expensive.
Right.
That's a good point.
I mean, I mean, I guess there's you could argue that either way.
A lot of times it's people say it's a better education because smaller classes, you're
more engaged.
There's more one on one with the teacher.
The teacher is more interested in whether or not you're getting it right and whether
you're really learning.
And then versus the big, big colleges where you're one of three hundred people sitting
in a room and no one gives a crap.
Right.
I was in many of those.
I know me, too.
Me, too.
The huge auditorium with 400 people in there.
Right.
I was at the top trying to read his overheads at the time.
Right.
No computers.
So they had overheads and you're trying to read what he's scribbling on his thing that
he's got blown up to the size of a field trying to so everyone can see it.
Well, and then on top of that.
So even at the big colleges where they have small classes, do you feel like you got more
out of those small classes than you did the classrooms of one hundred?
Well, I know once I got up to the upper level classes, it was classes of 10, 12.
Right.
And yeah, I mean, I got more out of it.
I did.
Right.
So I mean, I think I think you could argue either way because the professors know you.
That's right.
Right.
You're just a glob in the auditorium when you're in those huge 400 person classes.
Right.
And you go to your teacher and they'll be like, whatever.
Yeah, for sure.
You know.
Well, let me OK.
This is your first son that.
Yeah.
So your first kid out of college, which is huge.
That's fun.
I've been through that with with Dylan.
So so he did it in four and a half or four and a quarter.
Yeah, about four and a half.
You've got summer four and a half.
Right.
You know, it's interesting.
So I took five years.
Right.
And I remember that being kind of the norm when I was going to college, like everybody
like getting getting out in four years.
Well, people didn't want to get out of college.
They wanted they love the lifestyle.
So they wanted to be a professional college student.
Well, there are people when I was there who are like, yeah, I'm going to be here for two
years.
I'm like, really?
I'm getting out.
But that wasn't my motivation.
My motivation was I, you know, just finding the balance between the number of classes
you were taking school forever.
You know, that's a lot of people.
You know, it's just interesting.
And now my oldest did it in four.
Dawson is going to do it in four.
And I was like, why did I take five?
Julie took what the hell?
Julie did it three.
OK, and Stephen's girlfriend did it in three.
OK, it depends on how you stack your classes.
It is on well, like Stephen and his girlfriend were able to take advantage of getting college
credits while in high school.
That's it.
I think that's actually the biggest part, because Dylan walked into Arkansas being almost
a sophomore.
Yep.
That's the way Stephen was.
That's huge.
And think of the money you save.
I mean, when you have that opportunity to take that
kind of stuff, you can even take college classes while you're in high school.
Well, that's what they are, the dual credit.
They count for your high school credits, but they also count for your...
And they're just your core freshman classes, right?
English 101, history, shit like that, right?
So you get those out of the way and most of those will transfer.
Yeah, it's exciting.
I'm stoked for you, man.
It's a huge campaign where some folks are trying to teach kids that, you know what,
be homeschooled, don't go to college.
There's no reason for it.
It's just like, I mean, you can...
You know, you need...
I mean, there are disadvantages of being homeschooled, which could be more of a social growth, but
outside of that, I think sometimes public schools hurt kids in their brains, you know,
with the structures that they have.
Oh, you mean like being indoctrinated?
The potential for that, but just, you know, I don't really...
That's just kind of the buzz I'm hearing.
I don't personally believe it.
I think public school right now, you know, there's a lot of outside influence that wants
to teach like that white privilege.
CRT.
What is that CRT, Miyake?
I keep forgetting.
Critical race theory.
Yeah, I mean, that kind of bullshit...
It's basically the white are the oppressors.
Yeah, but they're teaching that in high school too.
If that's not just exclusive to college.
All that shit needs to be yanked.
I mean, because that's just bullshit.
Some districts are working it into, even though it's not in the curriculum, it's in...
Their own lesson plan.
The lesson plan.
They call it something, but it's...
That is some racist shit.
It is.
That is some racist shit.
It's not right.
And it needs to be...
They need to yank all that crap out.
You know, it sucks what happens.
You know, it sucks what happened to some of these other races, you know, but you know
what?
Life will move on.
It sucks for me.
I grew up in El Paso.
You know what?
I was a minority there and I got the shit beat out of me and treated like shit, couldn't
understand Spanish, talking shit about me, jumping me.
I know, I get it.
I get it.
So fuck off.
You know, it weren't my reparations.
You know, for getting my ass whooped over there.
I mean, what about me?
I don't want that shit.
I don't care.
You know why?
Because I'm a man.
No, I don't care.
No, that's not what I meant to say.
It's because I'm better than that.
I don't need that.
Life is a huge Bible lesson.
And that's what I think.
And as we say in every single podcast, we need to put God back into our everyday lives.
And even if you don't have an air of spiritualness about you, you still have some sort of air
of humanity about you.
And the basis of that is derived from the Bible.
You know, you got the Ten Commandments.
That's all just good shit, man.
Just, I mean, I want to pound this every podcast because that needs to be the common denominator
in the message that we send to dudes like us.
Because walk the walk, talk the talk.
I mean, it's all about having a moral compass.
Right?
Well, that's what it is.
Where is your moral compass coming from?
Exactly.
Where is it?
Where is it coming from?
Right?
There are some people that are great.
They don't believe in God, right?
They're not spiritual at all.
They got a great moral basis from their parents and they're very moral people.
I don't want to say that people who are not believers are immoral people because they're
not.
But and then, of course, there are spiritual believers that are horribly.
I'm sure.
Look at the Catholic priest and the kids.
That's a huge scam.
Yeah, horribly immoral.
I'm not impressed with the Roman Catholic, the whole program either.
I mean, who?
Right.
What the fuck's going on in the Rome right now?
But I think there's something going on.
Well, no.
Oh, just talk of generalities in general.
You know, they have it's a secret thing going on down there.
They have their own.
I mean, you see all these movies and the conspiracy theories.
You're kind of like it's just like the power of suggestion.
Like, I don't know what's what's real.
What's not real?
Do they really have some sort of secret shit going on there?
I mean, it's not Illuminati, but are they are they pulling the strings of major heavy
hitters on the planet?
You know, you never used to write the.
They always have all throughout history.
They definitely have.
It used to be an extremely powerful person.
And there's no reason to think there isn't, you know, influence and stuff like that going
on now.
Remember, power corrupts.
But it doesn't matter what kind of power it is.
But if you have power, you're human.
You're corrupted.
You ask the question, is there something going on?
Yes, there is stuff going on.
All right.
You know, right before Biden got into office, you know, he put out the pope, put out the
decree of Yankin all the resources of money across the planet and bring it back to the
Vatican.
So that's a thing.
You know, like, like, hey, look, there's a there's a church up the street.
What are your reserves?
Because, you know, the church takes in money.
The church keeps the money for the church and something.
And then half that money.
I don't know if it's half.
And then there's money allocated to go back to Rome.
Right.
You know, in every single church all over the God bless the planet.
Right.
And there's some of these they just hold them.
So there's some banks that they send them perhaps maybe in Arkansas.
Like there's some sort of I'm just saying that I'm not saying there is.
But it's some general bank.
They put it all in there.
Well, the pope put out and thanks and hey, ma'am, pull all our money in.
Did they use FTX in cyber?
All in Bitcoin.
What is something else?
Those those death in the crypto?
The people want to know the top crypto execs died just weeks apart.
Yeah, they did.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I didn't hear about this.
They're young guys, too.
Well, one of them was fifty three.
But I thought well, the last one was a young guy, at least a picture of it was where they
was with a suicide.
They're cloven in two.
Well, so you have three of the most prominent figures in cryptocurrency industry have all
inexplicably died in recent weeks.
News of the unbelievable and surprising demise has caused a frenzy on social media in the
form of conspiracy theories and called for explanations.
You have Nikolai Mushkin, whatever, age 29.
You have probably was pretty close.
Vyassi of Tehran.
And he was 30.
Wow.
And a billion.
I'm sorry.
It was it was a taint.
I'm sorry.
Tiantian colander.
He was 30.
And then I think I think then you have the the property of Tarantino properly pronounced
paint.
Look, so there was one that was twenty nine, one that was 30 and there was one that was
fifty three.
So how do they die?
Well, I'll say I'll tell you the bullets that the one of them, a Russian recently died in
a strange helicopter crash near Monaco, making his death the most recent of what I say, Monaco
and the most recent of the string of disasters that have remained unexplained after taking
off from Switzerland.
The helicopter crashed in the tourist town of Avila, France.
So was there a missile contrail like going up to it?
Well, you know, Tarantino is the co-founder of trading and investment platforms like Libertex,
Forex Club, et cetera.
Then the other was a taint.
Colander, OK, Taintenian, whatever.
He was 30, a co-founder of several different platforms after starting with a group.
Actually, it doesn't say how he died.
Oh, weird.
So this is all unexpected.
So this is all in conjunction with the big one imploding FTX.
Here's a little like the last one.
Apparently there's multiple exchanges that are underwater.
Nikolai, one of the first ones, the cryptocurrency lending platformers reportedly found dead
in a Puerto Rican lake just hours after tweeting that he suspected U.S. and Israeli intelligence
agencies plotting to kill him.
So he makes the gesture.
He says it.
And all of a sudden he's found dead in the lake.
Wow.
Could he have said that then killed himself?
Could have, I guess.
Why?
Who knows?
Highly unlikely, though.
Why?
Because that's the thing.
Where does the money go?
What their money?
What's the company's money, right?
I don't know.
I have no idea.
I mean, we're talking about tremendous cyber value like lost.
Correct.
When Bitcoin and all the other cyber currencies or cryptocurrency started tanking, that's
when people are like, oh, shit.
You know, because all this time they're millionaires, but they're not really millionaires because
they haven't sold it yet.
It's all on paper.
Millionaires just like the stock market, just like the stock market.
So it's an asset.
And it's worth this right now.
But then it started tanking.
And then people were like, OK, time to cash out.
Let's go ahead and make the millionaire thing be real.
I know I just lost 30 percent, but you know, hey, I'm still a millionaire.
Well, everyone did that.
They made a run.
Basically, it was a run on the bank.
Correct.
FTX, for people that don't kind of understand how it went down, FTX exchange.
People were like, OK, I want to sell my crypto now.
I want my money.
Well, everybody attacked it at once and they didn't have the money to back it up.
And so they went back one belly up, one bankrupt.
No bank has the value of cash on hand.
No.
To in case if every bank, if everybody for that bank came in and says, pull their money,
they couldn't do it.
No, but they're regulated and they're back to buy the FDIC.
Correct.
Now they could probably get it up to one hundred thousand dollars.
That's right.
That's what that's what happened is it was twenty eight billion dollars.
Yeah.
Gone, gone, gone.
And they just arrested that guy.
They did.
And they taught the guy in the Bahamas.
They arrested him and someone some thought is they he was about to be called in front
of Congress.
Yeah.
And they busted him like the day before the day before.
And now he's not allowed to testify in front of Congress.
Oh, you know, you wonder.
So he they're protecting somebody like the Democrats, the Democrats, because he was a
huge Democrat.
Well, that's kind of the thought is Biden said, OK, or or not Biden.
But who the hell is the attorney general?
Merrick Garland.
Yes.
Pulled the trigger at that point.
Yeah.
He was like, we can't risk.
Yeah, we can't have him outing anyone.
Right.
So arrest in jail.
No, not testifying.
No bond.
No bail.
Well, I would either.
He still has money.
Yeah.
He's worth one hundred million.
Yeah.
So, yeah, no bail.
So no bond.
No, nothing.
He's he's stuck in the guys.
He's kind of a freak.
You hear about his lifestyle.
He was in a polyamorous relationship.
He lived in a house with a bunch of people and they just shared juices and wieners and
stuff.
Wow.
So share wieners.
Yeah, like all.
And they're all kind of eccentric people, too.
I mean, they're not pretty people.
You know, just like they're like the losers in high school that like somehow became billionaires
on there.
And, you know, whatever, man, it does some.
I don't know.
Whatever.
Well, speaking of a shocking inexplicable death, you got the coach.
Oh, yeah.
Michigan State Leach.
No, no.
What's your name?
Mississippi.
Mississippi State.
Yeah.
Mike Leach.
Leach.
He just collapsed in his house and died a few days later.
They said he had a heart condition, a heart attack.
Well, they said heart in the one I read with heart condition.
What do you think? What do you what what is my mind?
Because I've said a million times old age and bad eating vaccine.
Old age and bad.
It's not a vaccine.
I think I can't help but I go there first.
Whenever somebody says because it's my my oh whatever my oh no, it stopped the blood
going to his brain.
But you know what I'm talking about?
There was a heart condition, the my oh something that's called by the vaccine.
Myocarditis.
Yes.
The most higher learning facilities in Mississippi will soon require all of its employees to
receive covid-19 vaccines or face termination.
Monday, the state's Institutes of Higher Learning Board of Trustees, which include this is recent.
This was well, it says Mike Leach asked about Mississippi's vaccine mandate.
So that was three.
That was a long time ago.
That was about a year ago.
Sorry.
Yeah.
So I'm not saying I'm not saying there's a reason, but you know, my mind doesn't go
there.
I goes to he wasn't healthy.
He was only sixty one.
I know.
So that's not too far off.
I just can't help it.
I can't.
I there's so many people just dropping dead.
So many just dropping dead.
Well, I mean, I mean, this is now seeks a grand jury investigation for the covid-19
vaccines.
He afforded governor Ron DeSantis said he plans to petition the state Supreme Court
to convene a grand jury investigation.
Any and all wrongdoing with respect to the covid-19 vaccines, the Republican governor
was often mentioned as a possible presidential candidate.
24 gave no specific somewhat wrongdoing in the panel would investigate.
But there's a long thing.
I think there is going to be a lot of stuff coming.
But the problem is, I thought they were given immunity.
I thought they were.
Well, I mean, they were given immunity for they may be giving given immunity for people
suing them.
But that doesn't give them it doesn't give the people immunity for pushing the envelope
on these things.
Like pursuing criminal activity.
Well, let's just say, first of all, the vaccine wouldn't even exist had it not been a quote
unquote emergency.
All right.
So in project warp speed, that's the only reason that you can you can go out and you
can and you can make an emergency vaccine is because there's no other treatment.
And that's why they suppressed ivermectin and hydrochloroquine.
Those were extremely effective.
No alternative was allowed if you're going to have an emergency use back.
So that was done.
That was done by Trump.
Well, that was the government.
Well, Trump was project warp speed.
And he's saying was we're going to have a vaccine by the end of the year.
And he did.
So that's not a Biden or a Democrat thing.
That was a Trump administration.
Oh, no, I'm not.
Yeah, I don't think it's a partisan thing.
I think it's a government.
Yeah, I think it's a irresponsible shove it down our throats before we were ready.
I think overreaction.
Correct.
Totally wanting the power.
Right.
Yeah.
You know what?
I don't think it was Trump.
It was during his.
I mean, see, he was a huge proponent for it.
He talked about it a lot.
Yeah.
But he wasn't the one.
I mean, look, he wasn't the one pulling the strings on getting he wanted a vaccine.
Yes.
But he didn't force the vaccine onto people.
Well, he was playing hardball with those pharmaceutical companies.
Yeah.
Well, to come up with something.
And I'm going to agree with you, Sean.
I'm going to agree with you.
He wasn't advocating for.
No, because he's the one that was kind of like talking about hydrochloroquine.
And he was just like, he was like hydrochloroquine.
He was trying to explain it.
And they were like, oh, he was like, bleach in your body.
Yeah, he said we need to attack this with everything we've got.
Well, I get that.
But at the same time, he instituted Project Warp Speed, the vaccine and touted his achievement
on getting the vaccine by the end of the year.
You're absolutely right.
And his administration, the whole administration was infected from the prior administration.
And he's he never hit the ground running.
Yeah, it was the same people.
He never hit the ground running.
Especially at the CDC.
And they took so long to be able to approve his cabinet members.
He was 14 months in before he can actually fill his cabinet.
I still hold Trump partially responsible for all this.
And like you said, to me, it's government.
Yeah, it's the government.
It's the government.
If Biden is the fault for everything going on today, the buck stops here.
Right.
Whether he didn't argue long, hard enough.
And that doesn't seem like Trump to me.
Why do you say Trump is deserve some of the blame?
Because he's the one who started the whole vaccine thing.
And he he probably pushed it too fast.
In other words, his hands are not clean.
And he was all about clearing hurdles for the pharmaceutical company.
It was if you're the president of the United States, wouldn't you push to get a vaccine?
That's what I mean.
Sure. Whether it was Obama, Biden or Trump, Trump was in place at the time.
So he's got his hands dirty.
And he cleared all sorts of hurdles.
I do.
How are they dirty?
Because he's the one who pushed for this.
And so such fast turnaround.
And he cleared hurdles for them.
But that doesn't mean it's dirty.
I mean, I'm trying to figure out the dirty part.
No, his hands are I think you're just listening to it wrong.
They're not dirty, but his hands are involved in this.
They're not clean.
He can't walk away and go, I had nothing to do with this.
Oh, yeah, he did.
OK, well, from that perspective, I can say, yeah, well, of course, he is trying to be
as cold being that the right word.
He was being advised to to take action.
I mean, he's trying to be the best president he can.
If he didn't do it, then there would have been the what's the flip side of that?
Here's the thing. So he he boasted that he removed all the red tape.
Correct. Right. He removed the red tape.
Well, sometimes the red tape and I know I'm being totally talking out of both sides of my mouth now,
because back then I would have been like, oh, this bullshit bureaucracy and bullshit red tape.
And he cleared it. Yeah. Good job.
Well, now in hindsight, if they're clearing red tape that makes them not have to do human trials
and not have to make sure that the vaccine is safe and not the but not do this and not do that.
The ball then that's not right.
In my opinion, the buck stops where they declared an emergency because there were no other available medicines
and they had to force it that way. And they had they lied.
They did change the definition of a vaccine. One, two, they lied about the the medicines that could treat it.
It's to the point where they were banning.
They were banning that what is it called the social banning on on all the the media platforms?
If you say, oh, I've remectum is a is a shadow banning shadow banning.
Oh, yeah. Oh, you doctors are losing their licenses.
I mean, I mean, it was crazy ridiculous.
And these doctors are like, man, you know what? I'm I'm a certified kinesiologist or whatever the is.
Well, the one guy that Jay Bach talking or whatever his name is who came out and he's a he's a specialist in lockdowns.
And he says this is going to be terrible. Right. They shut him down.
He's one of the ones that Elon Musk just released in one of his Twitter file things. Right.
He was one that was suppressed. And they shut him out.
And he's not talking about it. And he was right. It was right.
Well, you know, there's going to be a lot of reflecting on how this all but there's a lot of people who want to go back to that.
Well, those are social and go back and do lockdown.
Yes. It's because they power they're sucking off the teat of the government because like, well, you know what?
If you're going to put him on lockdown, I can't work.
If I can't work, I'm going to have to be giving my food, just give him my block of cheese.
I'll play some video games that whack off the porn.
Yeah, well, actually was did porn porn whack and off it did increase during during.
You know what I'm thinking? And the mentality of a twenty five, thirty year old person.
I know it's just like they've got no they don't have a sense of I've got to take care of my family, the family growth.
I've got generations to support.
You know, I've got my parents to think about, my grandparents to think about.
You know, they don't think about the repercussions of economically of what's happening today because they live in a bubble.
Right. I agree.
And I think that bubble is created by lack of education that our school systems are currently putting on them.
Yeah. Well, maybe they just drinking a lot of Saints Alley.
Oh, yeah. Nice segue.
It's what? So smooth.
What? You like that?
Today's bourbon that we picked was we bought the Saints Alley about a month or so ago, and it's been on the list of things to drink.
Now, we all tasted this and it is kind of hot. It's one hundred seven proof. It's called the Saints Alley.
It's hotter than that. I thought it was.
What would you say? What do you say?
One hundred seven proof. He said he thought it was hotter than that.
Yeah, it's it tastes hotter. We've had hotter than that.
Yeah, we've had hotter than this and it was no those were nowhere near as hot.
So what I was going over the verbiage on the bottle and it says they're a blend of straight rye whiskey finished in to jockey casts.
All right. Wow. This is a ride. This is rise. That's why it's got the one way to ride.
It is the other spin on this, which we're kind of like, what is that?
Is that it was put in to jockey to to hockey. I don't know what it is.
It's a Japanese what is so Jackie? Well, this is ever heard of cognac or toke.
Haji cask finish. This is from 2008.
The little article says toke Haji toke Haji.
Traditionally, Scott whiskey was matured either in bourbon cask or sherry cask.
Couple of decades later, some marketing guru of it devised to leading single malt distilleries to use bourbon casks for the first period of their masturbation.
Just joking. I thought you said for the maturation.
Oh, maturation. So anyways, have you ever tasted the cognac cask finish whiskey?
That's essentially what it is. The cognac is let me go script down here.
You I'm sorry. There we go.
This is a special late harvest wine, essentially from the north eastern region of Hungary called Tokach.
Well, look up here on this. It says barrels that previously held to Kaji a noble rot sweet wine from Hungary.
There you go. Rot.
But where do you see rot? What's the ROT? ROT, a noble rot sweet wine.
Special late harvest wine from north eastern region of Hungary called Tokach.
A Vynum regum Rex venorum, as we say it in Hungary, which means the wing of king, the wine of kings, the king of the wines.
And it really is. There's Scotch whiskeys in to the ex Tokaji wine casks for a couple of years.
So this does have, in my opinion, some I've tasted Scotch that has some influence from this. Have you?
Yeah, there's something extra going on with this.
Yeah, so very fancy, right? Fancy bottle, fancy description, fancy this fancy that end of the day. Not good.
Well, I don't think it's bad. I don't think it's just different. I'm not saying it's bad. It's not good.
It's got a little I'm not a fan. Hit to Pete almost. I think it's the I'm not a fan.
I think it's the sweet fennel or the white lilies that you're a potential Turkish tobacco.
No, I tasted rot, sweet wine. I think as soon as I said rot, sweet, Paul just like, I'm drinking it faster so I can drink more beer.
I'm engulfed in the branded apples and the spiced Christmas cake, the honey dried cherries, the cocoa and the whispers smoke from grandpa's pipe.
I could I could think of one hundred and seventy other bourbons. I drink before this again.
What Williams, a whole bunch of them out there that are way better. Get out of here.
Yeah, they back beat. OK, I didn't say back beat.
Oh, why do you keep bringing up the ones that I bought? Well, duh.
Whatever you could. You could list one of the ones that you got that weren't good.
Oh, oh, yeah, right. Oh, my bad. I thought you're you're you guys were all like 60 for 60. Well, no, really.
We're really not ridiculous.
Anyway, it's not bad. It's just different. I don't I mean, seriously, I'm trying to I'm really reaching here.
So we need to go back and try. Oh, you know, how about the Oregon spirit?
We want. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, that one was I thought that was good.
She's lower. Yeah, I think six and a half seven for me.
I'm going to go. I'm not going higher than five.
Yeah, it's six and a half seven. Yeah, I'm on the same thing.
I'm about six and a half seven. I don't think it's horrible.
I mean, would I pour another glass now? I want that today.
Well, there you go. That tells you everything you need to know.
Maybe we need to try it on a cube next time. Yeah.
Yeah, but isn't that like trying to save it?
You know what I mean? Well, no, sometimes they're better on a cube.
Well, I think it's the thickness, the molasses part of it.
It's kind of really it's viscous. Yeah.
I think that perhaps maybe a little dilution would bring out again.
You got to try to save it. Oh, well, let's add water.
Oh, well, let's let's add some sprite to it. Oh, come on.
Maybe you said maybe a little sprite, maybe it will get better.
All right. Anyway, it's all right. It's a nice sipping sipping bourbon.
It's it's it's not the absolute worst thing I've ever had in my life.
So that's fine. It's fine. It's Saints Alley.
So it's an iron route. Pick it up at your local liquor store.
It's an iron route brand, which is just made up the street, which we can go visit any time.
What do you mean? It's made up the street.
It's made of denison. This this burp.
This this is made in Burd in Denison. Get it out. Yes.
Iron route. You've heard of iron route, right? Yeah.
But it's like nothing Texasy about it. I mean, look at the label and the.
Well, it's probably a joint thing with somebody from Tokaise.
Yeah. To me, I would say this is some euro.
It's it's a hungry style bourbon, essentially, because they use the the casks from the wine that they make.
The king of the wines, they use the casks from that.
So I'm assuming based on the tasting notes from the wine, this is a direct product of that.
You know, we all agree it's not fantastic, but it's just it is what it is. It's kind of horrible.
I should soften my my it's like my angry language.
When you're used to drink a Coca Cola all the time and all of a sudden you've got a Dr. Pepper, you're like, what the hell is this all about?
Right. You know, I mean, because Dr. Pepper is a whore when you were talking about the Colas.
I mean, because you got root beer, which is solid root beer.
You got to get your dog and you don't like Dr. Pepper. I'm not saying it's bad.
I'm just calling it a whore.
Well, it's the whole world pops because you're essentially well, traditionally, Dr.
Pepper was supposed to be like a collection of like medicine, a shit, not a just a variety.
It was I think it originally came from it was a mistake.
I think they originally just had a shitload of sodas.
Twenty three ingredients. You go three or twenty three or twenty seven.
Yeah. Twenty three or twenty seven.
And you know, I can't forget Dr. Pepper.
You know, you don't. Yeah. Oh, it says twenty four.
Yeah, Jeff. Where is it?
Twenty four. Twenty three flavors.
Oh, twenty three redirects here for the Chinese medicine drink.
See, twenty four flavors. Oh, I see.
So Dr. Pepper carbonated drink.
So the Chinese just like I'm going to one up you.
Pharmacist Charles Alderton in Waco, Texas.
I didn't know that was a local. Yeah, it was down in Waco.
I had no idea it was a local soda.
Very nice. Waco.
All right. Anyway, yeah, we jumped to Dr. Pepper. I love Dr. Pepper.
I like Dr. Pepper. Yeah, I'm not throwing stones at Dr. Pepper.
I mean, I mean, sometimes I'll drink it.
I can't drink soda pops with with.
I don't like ice in my soda pops. I don't like them watered down.
No, I like cold cans. Yeah.
Well, I mean, once it gets warm, I don't want to do more.
Yeah, I'm with you there. Pop it back in the refrigerator.
But yeah, it gets it'll get real not syrupy, but seems thicker when it gets warm.
Yeah, I kind of I like that. Yeah.
I just want to get some warm. Yeah. Yeah.
Sometimes when I'm getting ready for lunch and I just love when you first,
you know, that burn the burn from an ice cold can.
And so I get so excited.
I make my lunch and I go over to the refrigerator and all the boys took all the cold ones out.
And then I had to look at the floor where there's a warm one in the case.
And then you rummage through the back of the refrigerator. Oh, I hit one.
But then you stick it in the freezer timer for 30 minutes.
I put it in my from now.
What I do is I had him in the beer in my beer beer case.
Right. I do. I move a couple of cans around.
I showed the coke in the back and I cover it up with beer cans.
And then that's my emergency.
The boys didn't know about it.
She can't. I have to because they and I tell them I yell at them every time you take a can out, put one in.
It's not that hard. Well, do you only have one kid there now?
All right. Well, all his friends.
Oh, yeah, that's true. You got to tell all his friends.
They drink between them. They probably drink.
I don't know, six to ten a day.
It's ridiculous.
And she's like, you know, to leader and show you like you drank a 12, a six pack every day in high school.
And I was like, OK, I didn't know any better.
And I was the only kid in the house.
All the all my siblings were off of college or whatever.
I was like, you know, what the hell?
And they were cheap.
I did. I did. I got home from high school.
I know. This is so bad.
I got home. I would walk into the kitchen, open the refrigerator, grab a coke, pop it completely down the whole thing
and then grab a second one and go sit down and watch TV.
Well, every day. Yeah, I didn't have every day.
I probably I probably did drink four to six sodas within within getting home from school and before dinner.
That is not healthy, not healthy at all.
I have like intestine rot. Yeah, I have a rot sweet wine.
It's probably why you shit three times a day.
You know, shit, shit a lot.
Yeah. And no shit.
Well, I've got to say that the that the price for pop is getting stupid, expensive, stupid.
It's like it's crazy how expensive.
I don't get it. I don't.
Is it carbon dioxide? I only buy it at Costco now because it's.
Yeah. But even that. No, I'm being serious.
That's part of the reason why CO2 is not expensive.
Something happened. You can Google it or something.
But I heard it's like eight bucks a 12 pack now.
Yeah. Something happened that made making soda more expensive because you're not lying.
It's really expensive right now. Yeah.
I don't drink as much. And it's like, I'm not going to spend that much on a damn case of beer.
Yeah. But I'm an addict. So I have to have my soda.
Not every day. I'm doing better on that.
But anyway, so.
So how are you guys doing on your your Christmas shopping?
I think I'm done.
Not quite done. I think I I like to buy.
You know, there's there's gifts that the boys ask for.
Like dildos?
No, none of them invest for that.
Thankfully, that'd be very awkward.
Here's the one I had when I was younger.
Yeah, this one works really well. Your mom and I are just thrilled with it.
It gyrates anyway.
Anyway, Bluetooth off the pillow.
So I I like to I'm trying to get into a habit of buying something,
induction charging, buying something for them that they would never,
which is something cool that they would never buy for themselves.
Does that make sense? So I have to think of that stupid.
Well, I hope they don't. Right.
But it's like that. But you don't mean it's like cool, kind of cool
man gifts or boy gets to to, you know, I changed my tune last week
and you guys kind of made fun of me a little bit because I was like,
oh, you're like presence, you know, but I still stand behind that.
I mean, I was excited about the Christmas season,
but I still stand behind them and fuck them presidency.
I'm tired of buying them presents that they don't appreciate.
You stress out on what am I going to get?
Yeah. Well, I spent so much money on them and I'm just like, you know,
fuck it. I'm not doing it anymore. I'm just not. Right. Yeah.
I love it when I buy them gifts and then like three days after Christmas,
it's sitting in the wrapping like where they opened it.
I'm like, hmm, yeah, I'll take that. I'll use it. That's awesome.
Thanks, guys. I wore that shirt.
Charlie's Angels. Yeah. Right. Right. The fair faucet.
Yeah, I've done the most of them.
But what about what about you guys with your spouses?
My wife and I have gotten to the point where we're like,
we're not going to buy each other stuff. I don't like that.
Well, Julie and I get each other stuff.
I usually try to find something like you said, something unique.
Like, you know, I've had some opportunities over the year with who I work with.
You know, way back when I got her a BlackBerry for I got free to work. Right.
That's what cell phones first started out in the BlackBerry was I love the BlackBerry. Right.
I got her that I got her an iPad. I got her a computer. I got her a monitor.
I try to get stuff like that that she doesn't she'll never ask for. Right.
And it's so romantic. It is. It's put some dick pics on there and it's good to go.
Oh, I didn't think about stuff to a way to provide junk pics.
Well, I work perfect with you because it's got a very small display screen.
The other the BlackBerry maybe I should get, you know, one of those those little actually code the screens that you can like load it from the cloud and it changes the picture. Right.
Like a picture frame. Yeah. Like a picture.
I put one of those on her desk at school and I could send her dick pics.
God, she'll be sitting there all of a sudden.
Yeah, I've had the kids like, what's that?
I've had you should probably ignore that horrible luck with sending my wife.
I mean, first of all, I'm not proud of it.
Are you about to admit something that is going to horrify us?
Well, you know, here's the thing. You've had bad luck with sending junk pics to your wife.
I've sent a couple just for fun.
First of all, there was what other reason it's for fun. Right.
Yeah. Well, of course. Well, I mean, I don't know.
Sometimes it's for harassment. If you don't know the check.
You know, true. Hey, check this out. Wow.
It's just so terrible. Went out with her girlfriends and, you know, I was whatever.
So I sent her a picture and she was driving and the phone goes off and she says, Oh, your husband just sent a text.
And so she said, I will open it up to see what it says. Oh, no.
Boom. That happened.
Then there was a time where they discuss it amongst themselves.
I don't know. Then there was the time.
But I took, of course, you know, an incredible picture, you know, correct.
Oh, yeah. No, I'm sure angle was the what is the the the wide screened fish.
I elongated the fish.
Oh, yeah. The artistic merit to that picture was probably fantastic.
Light scheme had a lot to do with. Yeah. Was there a sunset in the background during Golden Hour?
God bless. Golden Hour.
I did it also to her laptop. Check out my junk.
I said the the laptop or her her her not her screensaver, but the the back, the wallpaper, the wallpaper.
I set the wallpaper to a picture of it as well. Oh, no.
And her cousin opened it up and what do you think?
What do you think is going to happen?
Like like talk about bad judgment.
What? You know, like really?
Be like, don't let anyone look at your stuff ever again because you never know what's going to be on it.
Wow. There's two experiences and they're done and deleted.
I'll never do it again. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
One time I did. I just did play a little. Here we go.
I said, is it safe to send a dirty pic?
And then, of course, I sent a picture of my feet that were muddy.
She's probably yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. No, she's the opposite.
No, don't you dare. Really?
Yeah, I've never I've never got up the urge to text of my fear is.
I actually had to all over.
Well, I'd actually hit my sister instead.
My dad, something like that.
You said it and he hits and you're like, oh, my God, there is no recall.
Have you ever done that? No, I have not.
I mean, just in general, that was the dick pic, but just said it takes to the wrong person.
Sure. Oh, I was meant for Brandon or that was meant for your mom or something like that.
Yeah, it was not that bad, but it was like a response to something.
Yeah, I guess I've done that, too, because you're texting and then they're in order.
Yeah. You think, you know, I just texted with my wife.
All of a sudden, my sister sent a text and I did that last week on the you know, I said,
there's trying to respond. Yeah. And I said, you guys not home. Yeah.
So, yeah, I've never gotten up to courage and maybe I just take it on my phone
and then hand it to her and say, here, look at that. OK, first off,
or get sure the real thing they don't really want to see it.
Just so you know, it's apparently I've been told it's just women don't think it's all that attractive.
Like, it's not until they're in the mood that it's not pretty.
OK, yeah, well, that's different. That's different.
But it's not something you frame and put on the wall.
So it's not like you guys don't a lot of your shopping like online or do you go to the store?
I do. I do all mine online. So I think I was actually considering, you know how I spend so much money on Amazon
that they have a credit card, right? They will you get five percent back or they tell you how much money you could save.
Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. They say that back. Yeah.
Five percent cash back on Amazon purchases. Really?
I know. And I'm like, dude, right now I use I have a Southwest Airlines card,
which I think is Chase. And, you know, we get a lot of points, you know.
And then, yes, it's kind of nice to take a free trip somewhere, but it's usually like.
So I saw not far. And it's only just my wife and I think it's hard.
And they wanted like they give you like one hundred fifty bucks for that.
Boom. Here you go. One hundred fifty bucks. Boom. And they give you five percent.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, are you you're certain? No, I thought today I saw it today.
I mean, because I'll go get that credit card if it's five percent for as much as I buy Amazon.
Bring it up. Bring it up, Mr. Producer. What is the deal on the Amazon credit card?
Just look up Amazon credit card because I've been purchasing gifts for the kids
and for everyone. And I usually select the little spot on there that that this is a gift and wrap it.
Right. Oh, yeah. Amazon's amazing.
And so it shows up in a box already wrapped up to do shit.
I was to say Amazon Rewards Visa credit card might not be the best option if you are after rewards.
Interesting. It's not as easy to get as the basic Amazon store card.
Oh, OK. Well, I mean, you have to have a high really, really good credit, I guess, given in the form of an Amazon gift card.
Well, that might be OK. Well, nothing wrong with that.
Just go to just go to Amazon anyway.
Yeah. Just go to Amazon and see if it's because it's usually a grab on the front, isn't it?
Oh, usually. Yeah, usually.
There we go. See, five percent back at Amazon dot com and Whole Foods Market with eligible Prime membership, which we have.
And are there different levels? What the hell?
I mean, we I'm guys, we put everything on the card and paid off every month. Right.
That's the idea. But you're trying to, you know, rack up the points.
So I don't know. I don't know. Maybe I should do that.
Maybe it's more valuable because we spent so much money at Amazon. We really do.
I'm always if it's five percent back, which I know in your fee.
And you can and it says on certain items, you can get zero percent six to 18 months.
Yeah, but look at that. After that, it's 18 to 26 percent.
Well, that's terrible. Yeah. All of them are that way.
No, mine's not. Well, no, they are for the for the zero percent interest promos.
Oh, well, I don't do those. I have a credit card through USA and I don't use I don't for those.
Yeah. So I mean, I have I have a discount tire card. I've got a I do some of those.
I got to get furniture or something like that. Yeah.
Yeah. Nebraska furniture, Mark Card. I've got a room to I think we have a room to go card.
But again, so that you can get the four years and zero percent interest.
Yeah. Right. Regular Visa card. You know, it's crazy.
See the top right corner. That's the drone's act desk base that I've saved.
Just to purchase. So that is a articulating.
I don't know if it's articulating, but it's an elevating desk.
It's adjustable. Oh, you're going to get the electronic.
The reason why it's the exact one you bought is because it's probably your account that is linked to it.
Oh, that is it. Hey, Sean, you could buy that for two hours.
Is that up there? Probably interesting. This is your account.
Interesting why my account's on that computer. Interesting.
Maybe it is. Maybe it is. Sean. Hey, there it is.
Delivered to Daniel. Yeah.
There you go. Bitch, I knew it. Austin.
Anyway, I don't know if it's a smart thing to do or not.
I need to go back and read that other art, you know, because they say if you really want the maximum benefit.
See what they're showing. I'm going to compare the cards on gift card instantly upon approval.
So you could use this visa visa card anywhere.
Do you get five percent off if I go to Target? You know, five percent off only on Amazon.
They listed them. You scroll down.
One percent on gas stations and Amazon dot com and five percent on Whole Foods.
And that where the bar is. No. Oh, where's the market street?
Oh, damn. We even go back to that one twenty two percent on the other ones.
Right. And all other purchases are one percent.
But I'm talking about how much money I spend on Amazon itself.
I get five percent back. But good.
I mean, if you spend a shitload of money at Amazon, that's worth it to you.
But if you don't, it's 50 bucks.
Oh, well, 50 bucks, I guess.
Well, I mean, money's money. Is it better than my?
I don't know. Southwest card. I don't know.
That's what it's hard to compare those things. Right.
Fifty bucks gets you a ticket somewhere.
I don't know how much money you spend a year. Ten thousand to half a million dollars a year.
Ten thousand. Then you're getting five hundred bucks.
Yeah, I guess we've got to got to go back and do the math.
Right. And they tell you that they say, you know, how much money you spent this year, you could have saved this much money.
Oh, I've never seen that. Oh, I have. I don't like Amazon.
Well, I do need to. I really. It's kind of odd.
No, I don't like buying stuff off of it. It's convenient and I'll do it. I love it.
Is this going to fall in the same categories? I don't go through a drive through. No, I don't know.
No, not at all. Not at all, because there are certain things I won't buy on Amazon.
Put it that way, because I fresh fruit.
Yes, I won't buy food or lotions or medicines or anything like that, because I did a lot of research for work
because we were opening up some retail stores and they wanted me to buy a bunch of stuff from Amazon.
Tech stuff. And they couldn't understand why I couldn't get some stuff and the problems around it.
So I researched, I went on the forums, I got on to forums that Amazon people were on that hold nine yards.
Yeah. And there's a tremendous amount of fraud on Amazon. Oh, yeah.
Not just like how others did. I'll give you one example.
Xbox controllers. Just one. They say they're new and they're not.
Not just that. They're not Xbox controllers. That their original OEM.
They look just like them, but they're not Xbox controllers.
They're selling stuff. They're lying about what they're selling.
Yeah, so there's a large bin and they throw them in this fucking bin and they pull them out.
And it could be an Xbox one or it could be a generic. And you can't tell the difference?
No, because all the labeling says Xbox. So you don't even know until you open it all up.
You set it up and it's like, yeah, this is not.
Now, remember, Amazon is a marketplace, so they can't they don't necessarily.
They can't control every vendor's quality. The only way they do.
Or whether they're lying. The only way they do that is they accept your return.
No questions asked. They do. Yeah, they do.
And then if you complain, if that company gets enough complaints, they'll shut it down.
What happens is this happened when they opened it up to China. Oh, yeah.
China lies about everything and the proliferation of all the all these stores.
Most of them are from China and they copy everything. Everything.
I was reading I was reading the form where a guy bought some some Samsung cameras, I think.
Yeah. Or TV or whatever it was. And he went to register the warranty.
So he got on the Samsung and they're like, we don't recognize this.
We don't recognize this. Wow. We called them. Oh, I'd be so pissed.
They're help hotline. And he's like, yeah, I bought this stuff off of Amazon and brand new.
I need to register it. And they're like, give me this.
They're like, yeah, that's not one of our serial numbers.
What you have is not Samsung counterfeit counterfeit said Sam.
So the word is counterfeit. They're basically stealing and making things.
Yeah, but they're not. Well, I mean, it's the technology there.
And, you know, here's the thing.
You got some Joe shit in the weeds guy that comes up with the product,
markets it, sends it to trying to get fabricated, pays huge fees.
And China's like, you know what? We realize it's going to be a huge fee.
We're going to give you a discount. And in return, you're going to allow us to make your products
after we're done with making yours. And you're like, fuck it, man. If it's going to save me 30 percent.
No, they steal it. They steal it anyway. They can.
Of course they do. But I mean, they do offer that.
And that's probably what they do to Samsung.
Well, I know they do. They probably are making those controllers in the exact same plant.
Exact same molds. Shame everything.
The quality is not the same, though.
Right. It's different materials.
The quality is not the same. The QC department is not there and it's not the same quality.
And other things are because you'll have you'll have individual things like let's say we come up with a great idea.
We made this widget. It's fantastic. It starts selling like gangbusters on on Amazon.
Right. Well, the Chinese companies research that. Oh, yeah.
And they go, I can make that and sell it for half the price. That's right.
So next thing you want to know if they knock it off because they're in China, they don't care about patents.
Yep. No. So they make it. It may be slightly different, but usually it's pretty damn straight on what you just made.
And they're on here and they there's ways you can market it. So your stuff goes to the top.
Oh, yeah. They do that. So there is stuff shows at the top and your stuff is down at the bottom.
And it's more expensive. Correct. And it's a damn thing.
Well, it's less expensive than yours. Right. Right. But it's lower quality.
And it looks identical. And it looks identical. And they're stealing all your sales now. Right. I hear you.
So I buy search. Jeff, I wouldn't buy some of the like I would never buy a lot of lotions or anything like that.
That's I wouldn't buy anything. I did buy my brain, my alpha brain stuff through Joe Rogan when he was the memory of focus stuff.
That's really the only thing I don't know. I mean, dude, I buy so much stuff off Amazon.
I'm not going to I'm not I can't believe that is what you're buying is not real. It's bad.
Well, I mean, pills, the potential is that it could be there. That's really it.
That's not good. I buy a shitload of pills off of Amazon.
Well, I'm sure there are certain pills that are just fine.
So I'm like like certain vitamins. I'm sure that those are pure.
You know, they may cut them. I don't know. But I'm sure that they're pretty they're pretty clean.
I'm thinking more of the line like like your essential oils.
I've researched the essential oils and there's some really good ones out there.
There's others out there that you read the reviews in the forums are like, this is crap.
This is the stuff that Julie rubs on your my taint.
Yes. And taint oil. Yeah. No, they're like and these people do tests on it.
They're like, yeah, this is full of I don't know what it's full of.
I want to be a beaver. It's full of a certain chemical, right?
Instead of a good oil, it's chemicals and shit to get.
Yeah. And and and you know, things that make it have that same aroma.
Correct. Correct. Well, I don't buy any oils from there because we do all of our stuff from Young Living, which is well,
I know, but but a lot of people buy shit like that.
I need to I need to buy a full kit from you guys or buy what is it?
Is that one of the pyramid scheme things? I don't want to call scheme.
Multi-level marketing. Multi-level marketing.
But you know what? That stuff worked, man.
When you when I got that beast thing by going to come over your house and the purification.
Yeah, man, that stuff worked. It worked.
I tell you what, we buy two from you and they work for me.
What does the breathe again?
So when I'm congested, yeah, coffin, I lather up my chest and my neck and I'm able to sleep.
Is it Young Living as well? Yeah, I bought it from you guys.
Oh, that's right. That's right. You did.
And the deep relief soaks into the muscle, gives it a nice burn.
It works, man. That's what works. Speak of deep relief.
I tell you, I did my very OK.
So first of all, I haven't had that many massages in my life.
Three. Three.
And the third one I did today or this last week.
Were you new to this time or were you in your swim trunks?
Yeah, I was down there, but you know, it was very professional.
But it was I just didn't know.
They worked around the tent.
This one was a this one was like so painful.
I've never had a massage before.
They were just like, oh, yeah, they get to some parts of like, oh, the hurt.
And then they move on to the other part.
It's like, oh, this feels like a deep tissue.
Yeah. So it turns out that I got a deep tissue one.
And wow, go to the one I was like, it was like a masochist.
I mean, I was I mean, she went like under my arms.
My fucking forearms, my calves, my thighs.
She found everything that caused pain on my body.
Right. She hit that button.
So but how did you feel afterwards?
Well, I was sore. Right.
Usually feel like crap for like a day, because what that does is that your body releases a bunch of toxins.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Would you do that?
So you really feel bad usually that night.
They're doing good things to you, even though it's really painful.
Well, you know, I took she advised I take several hot showers and I did.
I got home, I took a really hot shower, get some of those toxins out, drink lots of water, which I did.
And I took another shower.
But I'll tell you where she was sharing that, you know, there are masses of muscles that were just bricked together.
Right. And there's like they're woven together.
I got to go in there and separate all that.
You know, that's tough. Right.
And she was like, you hear that pop, you feel it? I was like, yeah. And you know what?
Like the third day afterwards.
I mean, this happened what? Third? It happened Thursday last week.
Yeah. And yeah, I do. I feel I mean, really, when I stretch my back, it's like there's there's some different shit going on.
That's great. I mean, I never realized it. Right.
But I'm just, you know, just about the deep stuff, man.
That was painful. I've never had like I said, I've only had three massages and the first two were comfortable.
This one was like, what the fuck is that? Right.
I've had the deep tissue and I've had the the Thai massage, which was where they bent you in half and stuff like that.
What else do they do to you? Well, we talked about that already.
They made him a flag. Yeah. Yeah. So they bend him over.
That's that's before my shoulder surgery and with his whitey tighty.
And I almost had to tell him to stop because they were bending me in just crazy positions.
And I was like, I don't bend like this anymore.
Maybe it's because I need to massage and loosen up. But I've got bad joints.
It's not it's it's it's comfy. Yeah.
But anyway, you should do that. It was an hour, hour and a half.
And they walk on you. How much is that?
How much is their feet? I don't know. Julie got it for us. It was and I felt great afterwards.
But the process of it was terrible.
There was they walk on you. Yeah.
They have you go to a dark room.
My wife over here and I was laying on the bed and they have these rafters they're holding on to.
Were there some some mirrors in there? No, no mirrors.
It was dark. They had the music going in the and the aroma therapy.
Some guy behind the mirror, he's got a little headset on his like, put this button a little higher, please.
But I like boxers. I didn't get down.
I didn't get down the butt, dude, just because my butthole would have been right up into the air in their face.
Otherwise, and I was not good with that.
Maybe they're into that.
But I didn't know what to expect going into it.
And all special for you. You just we just use regular toilet paper.
You don't even use the wet wipes. The big dingleberries.
Yeah, big old snowballs.
You're messy here. We clean for you.
Tweez. Come back later to shower.
He's going to hurt. Pluck pluck.
Oh, God.
We're going to get in trouble over this.
Sure. Just this one.
Yeah, this is not worse than any other part.
No, but I like the massage.
I don't like the painful massages, but it's necessary every now and then to get those, I think.
Yeah, well, it makes you appreciate them.
I mean, like you said, three days later, I felt great and I still feel I feel good now.
Yeah, you know, it's it's you know, I'm not itching to go get another one right away, but it does.
You do realize that because I had to go through that, that's your body, you know, that's where the chiropractors kind of work, too, because I'll go.
I don't know if you guys ever see a chiropractor, but your body gets out of whack.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
And my hips get out of alignment and they'll just pop back to place.
And Julie's got really loose joints.
It's very hard for him to pop my back.
Right. I guess I don't know why.
They're tighter, but Julie's joints get way out of whack where her back will do this kind of thing and he'll realign everything or head and helps with her migraines and everything.
Nice. Yeah.
Yeah. My brother is a massage therapist and he does like some specialty Astrone patterning, which is hard to find, apparently.
And yes, when he gives me a massage, it's like, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK.
And you just like just steamrolls right past it.
He's like, no, no, I'm just going to keep busting you.
There's also reflexology.
OK, which is on the feet in the head where I've been to these as well, where let's say you have sinus pressure.
They'll press certain on your feet that release everything in your head.
That's kind of along the lines of acupuncture, too, right?
I guess. Yeah, but it's kind of similar a little bit.
Yeah, it's just with their hands. Right.
Puncture anything.
And then there's things back here on the back of your head where they're they're pressing and it hurts.
And you're just like, but it feels good when you're all done.
Right. And sure.
It's all this called reflexology.
And I don't remember that there's that NFL quarterback that they were doing something with the needle treatment and they punctured his lung.
You guys don't remember this. He's that he was he was supposed to play.
He was supposed to play in a game.
And he they they did this treatment just recent.
But this is in the last three years, maybe.
I don't hear that at all.
Yeah. And they and they did some sort of needle treatment in his back to release some some injury.
It was it was part of rehab or something.
And they punctured his lung.
And I mean, you're not supposed to do that.
It was very, very controversial.
Like this treatment is very controversial.
Yeah. Do well, no, just do punctured lung.
Yeah, here we go.
Accidentally, here it is.
Tyra NFL.
Yeah. NFL.
And when was it?
Because that I remember that being OK.
I said two years ago, the team physician.
It's painkilling injection to cracked ribs, so he was like sticking like cortisone or something in them.
There we go.
Went a little bit too deep.
Unbelievable.
Yeah. How do you think that they think I got fired?
Yeah, painkilling injection to his cracked ribs and punctured his lung.
Have you seen the people who do the cupping?
Cup cupping cupping.
Do share.
Should pull that up, Mr.
Put up cupping.
We want to see this.
I don't know.
They use and they use vacuuming.
Oh, OK.
I thought that was for like getting zits.
No, it's it's a like a massage.
Oh, my God.
So they look awful.
It's like they light a match or something.
They have a fire.
They've got a horrible bruises.
They've got what is it?
So they got a little machine that creates a vacuum and it literally we suck juices out of your body.
Oh, that looks awful.
They fill up with with I don't know what the fuck they look like.
They look like you have little breasts all over your body.
Yeah.
And when when they're when they're done, you have all these round bruises all over your back.
Put up cupping bruises and look at that picture because of alternative medicine, which local suction is created on the skin with the application of heated cups.
It's practiced mainly in Paris and Asia, but is also in Eastern Europe.
That sounds awful.
All right. So they're showing pictures of people laying down.
There's the bruises.
So they're basically they're hickeys all over your.
And so that's essentially.
Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
Yep.
And so it's supposed to be removing toxins.
I don't know what it's for, but a lot of athletes do it and you'll see them on their shoulders.
If you see those big round bruises.
Yeah, I see a lot of athletes, a lot of football players get it done.
It's your game.
OK.
Yeah.
Well, there you have it.
Cupping.
Basically, it's a huge hickey.
Yeah. I don't know how long they leave them on, but obviously a while if it leaves a bruise like that.
And I wonder if they're sensitive after that, like a bruise.
So once placed on the skin, the vacuum forces the vacuum force pulls skin up into the cup.
Your provider uses a needle to lightly puncture your skin beforehand and toxins leave the body through the puncture wounds during the cupping procedure.
And it's usually in the form of blood.
So how do they know it's toxins and not just blood?
Well, you know, who knows?
Assuming they just pull toxins from the surface of the skin, right?
These cupping marks are discoloration of skin due to broken blood vessels just beneath the skin, much like bruises.
This indicates the level of blood and key stagnation, QI stagnation, toxin accumulation or dampness accumulation in your body.
I think it's like fucking poking your body with a needle and just I mean, that's just squeezing toxins.
I'm not convinced that it's toxins that are coming out.
That's why I said it's just blood.
You know, that reminds me of a funny story.
I went to A&M and I would go back to Houston.
About the glory hole?
Not about the glory hole, but I would go back to Houston, not far where my parents house was.
Did your toxins suck out to you?
No, but I had one of those basketball goals that had suction cups, big suction cups you put on the window.
I was driving back from home back to A&M and I had one of those suction cups.
I pulled it off and I was just playing with it while I was driving.
I was sticking it on my cheek and my forehead and messing around with it, right?
It was like a fidget spinner almost, right?
So I kind of just stuck it on my forehead and left it there for a while while I was driving.
I get to the dorm and I walk in and they're like, what's wrong with your forehead?
What did you do?
I was like, oh shit, what are you talking about?
I went to the mirror and yes, I had a bright red circle on my forehead because I left it there too long.
And that's when I was like, and everybody was like trying to get, you got hit with a baseball.
I go, all right, everybody.
Everybody was like, it was Sunday night, everybody's getting ready for the next week.
And I was like, you guys take some guesses.
It was all sort of stuff.
You got hit with a tennis ball.
You got hit with a racquetball, blah, blah, blah.
One guy was walking by the group, wasn't even paying attention.
He goes, oh, you took one of those basketball suction cups and stuck it on your forehead.
And I just looked at it.
My eyes were really big.
I was like, what have you fucking done this before?
I was like, what the hell?
Anyway, it was a lot of fun.
But yeah, if you leave it on, I basically cupped myself.
Yeah, I did my own self cupping.
That sounds sexual.
Yeah, kind of kind of does.
Cupping your balls.
Anyway, it was funny.
We got a big laugh out of that one.
But vacuum cleaner will do it too.
I didn't do a vacuum cleaner.
Yeah, if you stick it to your forehead.
I know my boys would do that whenever they vacuum, they would want to vacuum themselves.
Like, you keep it there too long, it's going to keep a bruise.
Yeah.
Like, really?
They lift their shirt up.
Stupid kids.
Boys.
That's funny.
That one's about to graduate college.
Yeah.
And on top of that, it's his birthday.
So he turns his birthday is Thursday.
Graduates Friday.
This week.
So you're going up there for the graduation?
Yeah, I'm leaving Thursday.
Okay.
And we'll be there, we'll take him out for dinner for his birthday.
And then his graduation is Friday.
Okay.
And then we come back, probably spend the day up there, I don't know when we come back, either Saturday or Sunday.
And then we're doing wreaths across America while we're there.
What's across America?
Wreaths across America.
Wreaths.
Which is laying Christmas wreaths at the...
Wreaths.
At the military cemeteries.
Oh, very nice.
I've never heard of that.
That's very cool.
Yeah, Julie did it last year, or I don't think she was able to last year.
It was raining or something happened, but she's done it before and she really enjoyed it.
So we're going to do it while we're out there, take an hour, two hours, whatever, and do it.
At a military... a military cemetery.
Correct.
Okay.
In Lubbock.
Yeah, in Lubbock.
Oh, very cool.
We were going to do it here at the big one out there in Fort Worth.
I guess there was a big one out there in Arlington or Fort Worth, out west somewhere.
Okay.
And she's done it there, but we're going to do that.
And then obviously she realized that her son's graduating and we're going to be out in Lubbock, so she's scheduled it out there instead.
Obviously a nonprofit funds this kind of stuff, right?
Yeah, but I know FWL coordinates.
So the FWL ladies...
What is that?
Frisco Women's League.
Ah, Frisco Women's League.
So that's what she did last time.
And they coordinate and they all go out there and do it.
Yeah, but I mean we're talking thousands of wreaths, right?
It's across the country, right?
Right.
Yeah, it's thousands and thousands and they'll bring out just big truckloads of these things.
And she's like, so we're bringing gloves, right?
Because they're real pine.
They're real wreaths.
They're not fake.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
Okay.
I figured they were kind of like plasticky.
No.
And where did they put the wreaths?
On the tombstones of the military.
I love that.
And I've ever shared you through my story of putting a German, French, and American, United States flag on Saint-Au-Vold, Saint-Au-Vold Cemetery in France.
Part of the Boy Scouts, Troop 517 in Monheim, Germany.
We went out and did something similar, but they weren't wreaths and it wasn't Christmas.
I think it was Veterans Day or something.
And it was one Boy Scout troop and one Girl Scout troop.
And I believe it was a French one, too.
They had some French troop out there, but they were unisex.
We went crazy.
They're unisex and we have ours separated.
But whatever.
I don't give a fuck.
We camped.
So we had tents set up.
In the cemetery?
We camped in the cemetery, which is kind of creepy, man.
And we spent the night, the very next morning, and the night was kind of cool because we got raided by the Girl Scouts.
Oh, that's always fun.
Yeah.
They did not a panty raid.
They did a jock raid.
A jock raid.
Yeah, that didn't happen.
So did you get any skin on skin contact?
We weren't even there.
I mean, we went out on some sort of, we just did some exploring.
You know, it was kind of crazy.
I mean, this was back when shit was cool.
I mean, it was cool to be a Boy Scout.
I mean, this was real fucking camping.
We're in France.
We're in a cemetery.
My parents aren't there.
Right.
You know, I was just like, man, this is real.
This is fun.
And the next morning we wake up and, you know, it's Operation Get Shit Done.
And I remember I had blisters on my fingers.
Could you imagine taking the sticks?
Nice.
OK, your sticks are 3 eighths of an inch thick.
And you're having, and they're probably, you know, two foot tall.
And you've got to shove it in the earth, about six inches-ish.
So you've got three flags.
So, you know, we have, you know, just a stack.
I've got like American flags.
I forget exactly what flag I had.
And I was just going to every grave, just popping it.
And you've got, you know, someone's on the right, someone's in the middle,
someone's on the left.
Figure it out.
Don't be stupid.
And there's 10,000 graves.
Wow.
10,000 graves.
That's a lot.
Oh, man, it was a great experience, though.
So, you know, with the wreaths going out there, I get it, man.
It's an honor.
So an American flag, a German flag, and a Spanish flag?
And a French flag.
French.
Yeah.
OK.
A French flag, an American flag, and a tranny flag.
Saint-Au-Vauld.
And this was to celebrate the sacrifice of the Allied soldiers?
It's Saint-Au-Vauld Cemetery.
So Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial.
So the Germans were not Allies.
Let me see here.
They were the enemy.
You know, I want...
Saint-Au-Vauld, France.
There you go.
And we actually, we went through, this is the tour that I took where we went into some of
the bunkers where the Germans were coming in and the French weren't defending themselves.
Right.
And you went into these bunkers where they were in there for months at a time.
And the bunkers went down.
And you're on the side of a frickin' mountain.
Right.
And I know I've explained on this on the podcast before.
The type of machinery that were in there, like the turrets that they had set up, had
these big turrets that...
The guns of Navarro.
These big guns.
And they're like 12, the room itself was like 12 foot in diameter.
And these guns, they had these cranks.
And everything was like, no, there's no batteries.
There's no electricity.
Yeah.
So they had the cranks that went tic-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac.
And extremely accurate.
So many degrees this way, so many degrees that way.
Oh my gosh, man.
And they were just like...
And they let you get in the cockpit and you turn and you're like tic-tac-tac-tac.
The whole thing's moving.
And you can see it through this...
No way.
Magnifying glass.
There's a big piece of glass that you look through and you can kind of see where you're
going to be shooting at.
So were these German guns?
These were in France.
So they're aiming south towards Germany.
Ah.
When north, so, towards Germany.
East.
North, I'm sorry.
Yeah, they were heading north towards Germany.
Interesting.
I guess they had the Blitzkrieg when they're coming up.
They were coming up.
No, Blitzkrieg was the air...
Boom, boom, boom.
Blitzkrieg was the air raid of London.
So that's kind of...
I wish they had some...
There you go.
There's one of the pictures of it.
It doesn't have all the flags on there, but essentially that's what we did.
So I remember it was...
It was cool.
There you are.
So I know there's lots and lots of allied cemeteries out there.
Do they have...
Like, people talk about one of my bucket list items is to go out to Normandy and see these,
right, and visit all the cliffs and where they fought and where they sacrificed and
the cemetery.
That is a word on my list.
That's high on my list.
Oh, huge on my list.
But do they also have German cemeteries there?
What do you mean?
For German soldiers that perished in France?
Right.
No, so they were all buried there.
So there's a mixture.
In fact, they have people that they don't know.
They have unnamed tombs.
Oh, so within all these crosses are American and German soldiers.
Yeah.
Yep.
Ah, I thought they were like all American in a single cemetery.
Nope.
You've got French, American, and German all buried in there, and you have people that
are unidentified.
Right.
They don't know who they are.
Right.
Okay, well, that's good.
That's good.
Like, for like Morocco or something.
Because when I was watching that movie that you had recommended that...
All Quiet on the Western Front?
Yes.
When I was watching that...
The uplifting movie?
So it was a World War I movie.
Correct.
Right.
And it depicted these young kids in Germany that were like super excited, and they got
them all pumped up to fight for their country and to defend their homeland, and they were
doing the absolute right thing, and they were stoked.
Oh, yeah.
And then they were given uniforms that were from dead soldiers that had been mended.
Yep.
Right?
And they were super excited because they were made just for them, you know, and they got
rushed out to the front lines and thrown into the trenches, and what a nightmare.
I mean, what a nightmare for these kids.
Oh, yeah.
And you know that was the truth.
Even in...
It doesn't matter if it was World War I, World War II.
It doesn't matter if it was Japan or Germany or United States.
I mean, yes, Japan and Germany were the aggressors, right, from a military strategy, military
leadership.
But the people they were drafting to send off to war...
They're kids.
They were kids.
They were brothers.
They were fathers.
And they were doing what they thought was the right thing to do, right?
And so it made me reflect on...
Everything from our perspective is America, America won.
The Americans, you know what I mean?
They beat the aggressors.
That's bad.
Yeah, they beat the bad guys, right?
They beat the bad guys.
Drove them back.
The leadership was bad.
Oh, yeah.
The leadership was bad.
I mean, Germany obviously has cemeteries of their own soldiers.
I'm sure they do.
And do they celebrate them?
Like in Japan, is it a shameful thing to have been a soldier?
That they lost?
Well, that they lost and that they fought.
I have no idea.
Isn't that an interesting concept though?
I mean, so again, we always think good guy, bad guy.
We've got...
Right?
We've been in wars and our soldiers have perished.
Well, Vietnam, we didn't win that.
Well, we lost that big time.
We've got our own cemetery.
But we were still the good guys, but we lost.
Well, this is from our point of view.
That's what I'm saying.
Well, the Viet Cong probably have theirs over there.
Just like look at all these heroes.
Millions.
We lost 68,000.
They lost 3 million.
How many folks did Russia lose already?
Over 100,000, right?
They're saying it's...
Yeah, it's already eclipsed Vietnam.
Yeah, that's what I mean.
In less than a year.
Vietnam was how long?
That is gonna be a long time.
That is kind of sad.
We were in five years.
Yeah, that's what I mean.
Unbelievable.
He's just throwing bodies at it.
He doesn't care.
That's why he threw out the conscription.
He's like, we need all of these young...
I don't know what the age cutoff is, but we need all these people to go fight.
And they're believing that they're fighting for a good cause?
I mean, a lot of times they're...
I think they're all trying to get out of it.
Yeah, they're totally under-equipped and they're like, we're fighting our own countrymen.
Yeah, dudes like us talking about things that dudes like us...
Talking to dudes like us about dudes like us.
I love history, though.
Oh, I do too, man.
I'm a fan.
Yeah.
Well, guys, reminder, it's December 13th and we are...
December 2022.
We're about halfway, a little bit more than halfway to get to Christmas Day.
I hope we can do one more podcast next week before Christmas, but we'll talk about it
in the next...
Why wouldn't we be able to?
We'll talk about it in the next podcast here.
Why wouldn't we be able to?
I'm going to be in town.
Who's not going to be in town?
I'm going to be in town.
In fact, we have guys that want to show up.
I've got some JSL building consultants.
Scott wants to come back and bring Larry, who totally missed out.
He was at the Pink Floyd and Rush concert.
Nice.
All right, well, let's touch on that in the next podcast.
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