Fruit salad.
From the Wiggles.
Yummy, yummy.
Yeah, the Wiggles were big in my household for a couple years.
Why did we jump into fruit salad and Wiggles?
Nah, you know, here's the thing.
What just happened?
What'd I miss?
We wanted to talk about butt holes, so.
And we just did.
Well, for lunch today, I was excited because I was trying to always eat better, but you
know, so I had a fruit salad.
I was going through the refrigerator and terapies these lettuce.
They're not like cabbage shaped.
I don't know what the fuck they call that.
Like the long romaine lettuce.
Yeah, it's a long one.
So she comes in little packages of three.
Well, I grabbed one, I washed it, cut the end off, and I sliced it up really good.
I was like, oh, that's nice.
Usually I like throw some meat in there and this how I was like, you know, I'm going to
do something a bit different.
I had a I had a pear.
I had a bunch of pears, cut up a pear, had a mango, cut up the mango, put it in there,
put an apple in there.
I love I love Bartlett pear.
I put some pistachios in there.
That's not a fruit.
Yeah, but still.
Hold on.
You made a salad.
I'm trying to go through all the ingredients.
So you had a and I had like pumpkin seeds to do any walnuts.
I did.
I threw a couple of walnuts, crushed them, put them in there.
So it's kind of like cans.
No, no pecans.
And you can or no almonds, no pecans, can or pecan.
Then I took a two yogurts on your salad.
And yes, the berries, the raspberry and was not just a mess.
Yeah, it's all in a big bowl and I scooped the yogurt and then I kind of tossed it really
quick with the lettuce all together.
It was fantastic.
No, the more detailed you get with this, the worse it sounds.
I eat the yogurt separately.
I would not mix it with my lettuce.
Yeah.
Well, it tasted good going down.
They really did.
But coming back up is when it caused.
Well, I think that was like four and a half, five hours ago.
And we're smelling it now.
I am I am producing fish tank quality.
Working your way through the system.
Yeah.
And so that's great.
Yeah.
Well, thanks for sharing.
So that was basically an extended forewarning of toxic gas podcast.
And welcome to the podcast.
Yeah, you're welcome.
That was a long winded way to to fuck with Paul.
Yeah, that's great.
And this is our last podcast before Christmas.
How about that last one of the year?
No, guess what?
It is.
You're not here next week.
Oh, Austin, where are you?
I'm in Missouri.
What?
Yes.
So this is the final.
Oh, look at this.
This is one of my favorite Christmas songs, actually.
It's not a Christmas song.
Yes, it is.
If Die Hard is not a Christmas movie, this is not a Christmas song.
What are you talking about?
It's absolutely a Christmas song.
Absolutely.
It's some foreign language.
No, it's Hawaiian.
Not foreign.
It's one of our part of our union.
This should be English.
No, do you?
That's that they should make Hawaiian like equal to English as the national language.
Yes, this does nothing for me as far as Christmas is concerned.
Are you serious?
Yeah.
Even when the backup singers start doing say Christmas in it.
Luck is always wise.
Why don't you like this song?
I don't understand.
I don't say I didn't like it.
It just does not.
It does not mean Christmas to me.
When you hear that, I think it makes me think of a Hawaiian Elvis movie.
No, it makes you think of Griswold standing at the window.
Yes.
Looking at the girl coming out of the fake pool.
Oh, yeah, we always forget her name.
What's her name?
Nicola Calessa Golicchius.
Yeah, that girl.
So she was like took off her bathing suit and food at the window.
And they show her.
And he like, he like stumbles back.
Stumbles back and he's pitching a tent and then he turns around and there's.
Well, no, it gets you better.
Remember, remember he's seeing the perfect image until it gets real in his own image
and he sees his brother.
His brother-in-law.
With the flip flops and the rain around his waist.
The frog inner tube or the duck inner tube.
So great.
Every, you know, every Christmas we talk about the same exact.
I think it's fantastic.
But it's great.
But it's Christmas.
You know, I Christmas.
I yearn for those types of Christmas nostalgia.
You know, it's they don't have, you know, and we talk about this too, because usually
back then I say back then when we grew up, you know, when you had a Christmas of a special
that was on TV, it was prefaced by some theme song that said special.
And it was kind of like an HBO sound.
You know how the presentation and it was just kind of you can hear that shit everywhere.
You can be a mile from the TV and all of a sudden you hear the wonderful sound of the
rain towards about the start.
Oh, my God, there's going to be some.
It's on the little bar on the bottom of the screen, right?
Talking about little Chiron.
But it was it was a Chiron Chiron.
Yes, that's what they call those.
Oh, sorry.
We weren't in that industry.
Chiron.
Yes, it's a Chiron.
A Chiron.
It's got a ticker.
Chiron.
I think it's C-H-I-R-O-N.
You think?
Yeah.
Right.
Isn't that what that's called?
It's a Chevron.
Greek mythology.
One of the centaurs.
Hold on.
You said C?
Is it that how you spell it?
Well, I mean.
I know it's a show.
Oh, a Chiron.
OK.
It's a Greek mythology.
How do you pronounce Chiron?
Here we go.
What's the name?
What's the word in the code?
Ready?
He's going to play it.
Chiron.
There you go.
Chiron.
OK.
Well, that's not what you said.
OK.
You didn't say C-H-I-R-O-N.
You were like, Chiron.
It's a Chiron.
I mean, it's a Chiron, guys.
Come on.
What do you not know?
You guys are stupid.
Yeah.
I was in this industry.
I don't believe I said that.
Well, you acted like it.
Chiron.
You had lots of attitude.
So you say the Chiron lived at the foot of Mount Apellon in Tessaly.
Stop saying Chiron.
It's Chiron.
Well, it's Chiron.
No.
They just...we just played it.
Chiron.
Moving on.
Why are we talking about Chiron?
Oh, that's the thing that came up on the TV that told you when there was a fun special
coming on.
Anywho, so the special...there was a fun special.
It was just this...it was all between...before every special.
It could have been Easter one, Halloween one, Christmas one.
It just said, ooh, this big wonderful sound of the graphics came across.
It's a wonderful life.
It's the yearly special that you would see, like Wizard of Oz was shown once a year.
Yeah.
Right.
Sound of music.
Rudolfo Redo.
Charlie Brown.
Now you can watch whenever you want.
It doesn't have as much meaning.
Death Wish 2, once a year.
Yeah.
That's when you would watch it.
You know?
Yeah.
Sure.
You'd have...I remember the one thing that I always used to like when we finally got
cable growing up is WTBS would have James Bond marathons.
Oh, yes.
Because the only time I could...I'm a huge James Bond fan, especially the old ones.
Sean Connery.
Yeah.
Sean Connery, Roger Moore.
And then you had a couple more in there.
George Lazenby was in one.
Yeah.
And who was the other one?
Timothy Dalton was in for a couple.
And then Remington Steel guy.
Remington Steel guy.
That's who I'm thinking of.
You know, he had more than I had thought.
Pierce Brosnan.
I thought he was a one and done.
He had like four or five.
He did.
I didn't realize that.
I watched some of those.
I really liked him.
Remington Steel was a great show.
Oh, yeah.
It was good.
I still call him Remington Steel.
Very high class.
He had that chick that was with him.
Yeah.
He was a...
Stephanie Zimbalist.
Sure.
We'll go with that.
What the hell?
She was a hottie.
Look that up, Mr. Producer.
Stephanie Zimbalist.
How do you...I just don't get it.
It's stupid.
Well, it's not stupid.
It's actually very commendable, but I just don't know how anybody would know who the
actress from Remington Steel is.
From back in 82.
I think I was in high school.
Stephanie Zimbalist.
Pierce Brosnan.
I had a hot for her.
Yeah, there she is.
Well, everyone had the hots for her.
She was a cutie.
Yes, she was.
There you go.
Look at that.
Yeah, we're looking at her.
There we go.
You know what she reminds me of?
The girl from Castle.
A little bit.
She reminds me more of the girl from Bewitched, that hairstyle.
Well, yeah.
But that was a different age.
Stephanie Zimbalist in the movie.
She was a zipl...goddammit.
Laura Holt.
She was cute.
Has she done anything else?
I don't know if she has, but I couldn't tell you anything else she's been in.
She didn't become an A-lister, that's for sure.
She would have been in a bunch of big movies.
But you know who I'm talking about?
The girl from Castle?
The Awakening, the man in the brown suit.
Nothing really.
I mean, Caroline, The Prophet's Game in 2000.
Prison of Secrets in 97.
I can tell she was all the way back.
She was in Lassie, The Magic of Lassie in 78.
The Magic of Lassie?
Yeah.
I never watched any of the Lassies.
I've seen some snippets.
I never watched the Lassie.
I never watched Old Yeller either, because I knew what happened.
I didn't want to deal with that.
You know what's funny?
We never really watched Lassie.
My wife and I, neither one of us watched it, but we still reference it all the time.
Like if our dog starts barking, we go, what is it Lassie?
Has somebody fallen in the well?
We literally say that.
It's retarded, but it's funny.
She peaked out.
She did a lot of work in the late 70s, early 80s.
Interesting.
You know what's strange is, and I don't think it would float these days.
There were dog main character shows back in the late 70s and 80s.
Lassie, Benji, remember that one?
Benji, yeah.
Benji?
Well, animals in general.
Yeah, Mr. Ed.
Yeah.
I don't know if you necessarily, I can't think of any that have that today.
Like nowadays?
Yeah.
That's good.
Yeah.
I can't think of animal related shows where they're the main character.
Maybe a cartoon like Bojacks or something like that.
What was the big red dog?
Cliff, Cliff the big red dog.
Well, how about Chomps?
Who?
Chomps.
I don't know that one.
Chomps?
Yeah, it was a robot dog, I think.
Sounds familiar.
But going back to Christmas, that's the theme of the week.
Christmas movies.
Must watch Christmas movies.
There's a new one out.
My favorite Christmas movie is Christmas Story.
Yeah.
It's very nostalgic for me because it looks like where I grew up.
The houses and everything, right?
It reminds me even though it was.
Didn't you say it was filmed in?
Oh, look, was that Valerie Bertinelli and Chomps in 1979?
That's a dude from the Land of the Lost.
Looks like him.
Is that Bertinelli?
Yeah.
She was so cute.
Yeah, Chomps.
It was a robot dog.
Yeah.
Well, there you go.
Oh, she was young.
Look how young she was in that show.
Dang.
So impressionable.
My bet.
It'd be like somebody like Eddie Van Halie could land that.
He did.
Oh, that's right.
He did.
And you had Mr. Drummond from Facts from Different Strokes on there.
Oh, that's funny.
Yeah, well, Christmas Story was filmed in Cleveland.
Yeah.
And that's where it took place.
It's very close to Cincinnati, outside of the lake they got up there.
But it's the same Midwest town.
Same look, the old houses, the neighborhoods.
It was very nostalgic for me because that's what it looked like without the cars and all
that shit, right?
Do you think when these actors get together and make this movie, they had any idea that
it would become an iconic movie that would last?
I mean, how many years has it been?
Well, what about the kids that the actors?
I have no idea when it came out.
1980-ish?
Unbelievable.
But they should be well off.
Well, the main character, Ralphie, there's a new movie just came out called A Christmas
Story Christmas.
Basically, he's an adult now, which is very strange to see him as an adult.
It's the main...
Ralphie.
You're going to shoot your eye out.
Yeah, that kid.
He doesn't have blonde hair anymore.
But Christmas Story actually came out in 83.
Yeah, 83.
Which I thought it would be sooner, actually.
So it's a case of a 40s, a young boy named Ralphie Parker attempts to convince his parents,
teacher, and Santa Claus that a Red Ryder range 200-shot BB gun really is the perfect
Christmas gift.
It's a great show.
Did you see the commercial where the kid that gets his tongue stuck on the pole?
There's a commercial out right now.
I forget what the commercial is for.
I think it's the same actor as an adult.
No, I don't think...
If you're talking about... it's Scrubs, if you're talking about the actors from Scrubs.
It's a different guy.
But that guy is in the remake.
So some of the characters are in the remake.
Obviously, the dad died.
And I think the mom died as well.
But it's about him with his family going back home or something like that.
Anyway, it looks good.
There he is right there.
That's what he looks like now.
And actually, he turned into a producer of movies.
He's good for him.
He's produced a shit ton of movies.
That kid is in it.
I think I read that he got into soft porn.
Are you sure that the kid licking the pole...
No, that's the Scrubs guy.
Okay.
Because it looks to me...
I was like, man, I wonder if that's the same kid.
Well, it's Zach Braff and Donald Phasian from Scrubs.
It's just strange seeing him as an adult.
He looks so different.
Anyway, there he is.
There he is.
Right.
He does.
And I heard that he...
I think it's the one who stuck his tongue to it.
I think he did soft porn after this.
Oh, no.
That's too bad.
Soft porn?
That doesn't really mean anything.
What do you mean?
Well, they didn't show the penetration is what it is.
Like Red Shoe Diaries?
Well, I mean, but did they show penis?
I don't know.
I never saw any of his movies.
I thought that in soft porn, they only showed boobies and butt.
Yes.
I don't think they showed penis or vagina.
Wow.
But they had sex.
They were all there.
Like they were all butt naked and they're going at it, but you just don't see...
They were all nude.
The camera's just not down in there.
Well, hold on.
How do you know they're going at it?
That's every God-blessed sitcom on Netflix.
Do what?
Yeah, I was going to say, we watch tons of shows where they're going totally over the
top with grinding on each other.
That's why the...
But I don't think they're having sex.
Do you think they are?
How often do you think they're having sex in these scenes?
They're not, right?
No.
There are a couple where they say they actually did, but 99% of them, no.
And what was the urban myth on which ones they did?
Like one of them I heard at Fatal Attraction, the scene where we're in the bathroom, and
we're talking about high profile actors, and they said they did do it in that scene.
And I'm like, eh.
Well, I heard the one with...
It's called Monsters Ball.
I saw the movie.
Completely depressing.
Halle Berry.
Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton.
Yes.
Depressing movie, but good.
Depressing movie, but that scene, it's authentic.
Really?
Yeah, you see his nutsack and the whole nine yards, I think.
I've seen the movie too.
But you never know with angles and stuff if they're really...
Well, they have ways to tape stuff down.
I know.
But I'm like, these guys...
How are you going to tape that?
I mean, once that blood gets thrown, you're like, yeah, good luck with that.
You still tape it down.
What kind of tape's going to hold that thing down?
Well, I mean, it might be taped when it's like fully got going.
Fully engorged?
Yeah, fully engorged.
I think that would be painful.
Well, I mean, that's why it's so hard to be an actor, especially in filming those scenes.
It's really hard.
You got to feel for them.
You need to have a heart of prosthetic waistband.
And the girls have these scoops that go...
Scoops?
Another reason why we don't do video, if you were watching how he was...
Scooping with his hand.
What are you, a steam shovel?
What you were doing there.
I don't know what kind of scoop you're talking about.
Anyway, what other Christmas movies are the go-to's?
Die Hard, definitely for sure.
We got into soft porn there for a minute while talking about Christmas movies.
Yeah, I know.
There's not a lot of soft yet.
Die Hard.
Well, let's back up a couple seconds here.
So we want to tell everybody, first of all, it's Happy Dudes Like Us Day.
It's Tuesday, December 20th at Dudes Like Us.
I'm Sean.
I'm Paul.
And I'm Jeff.
And we've got interesting topics to talk about.
It's the Christmas spirit, and we want to elaborate on some of our experiences growing
up during Christmas and Christmas morning.
For some of those folks that have heard past Christmas podcasts, you're going to probably
hear some repeat stuff.
But nonetheless, these are all important, kind of cool things that happen to us we want
to share.
Yeah, we suck it.
Tis the season.
Oh, ho, ho.
Absolutely.
We got to talk about this stuff.
It's good stuff.
Yeah.
I've seen other Christmas movies.
There's more TV shows than movies for me.
It's the Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
It was the Domino Snowman and Chris Pringle and stuff like that.
I've always thought those were creepy.
I watched all of them.
You know, the claymation?
Claymation.
Oh, dude.
Yes.
Oh, it was magical.
I like them.
When the reindeer and Rudolph was trying to, and the snow, the Bobominal Snowman was coming
in and Rudolph's nose was whistling.
I don't remember any of that.
Maybe I blocked it out because I get terrified of it.
Frosty the Snowman.
Oh, Frosty the Snowman was so sad.
I mean, the claymation and the cartoons.
Yeah.
Because he would go away.
He melted.
Silver and gold.
Then there was another Frosty that came out.
Frosty Returns.
I think it was The Ages.
They had like three of them.
It's that John Goodman has the voice.
Yeah.
It's Paul's.
They had the fucking little rabbit in the hat that was hopping everywhere.
Oh, you've got to get the rabbit in the hat.
I was like, dude, get the...
Because, you know, the snowman has a magical hat.
Right.
You know?
With a corncob popping, I've got nose of three eyes made out of coal.
You know, I'm having flashbacks because we had this same conversation a year ago, but
remember the snowman with Mel Gibson?
No?
No.
He's a guy from the Cloned Himself movie.
His name is...
Michael Douglas?
No.
Or Michael Keaton?
Michael Keaton.
Yeah.
He is snowman.
He dies.
His father, the son, the father dies and he comes back as the snowman.
We talked about this.
I never saw this one.
It's really good.
Mr. Frosty or something like that?
Yeah.
I never saw it.
Michael Keaton.
So he's trying to tell his son...
He melted at the end?
I think he did come back to life.
Or did he put him in a freezer?
Like his head in the freezer?
He cut his dad's head off and put it in the freezer.
Good God.
Yeah.
Come to think of it, it was kind of Dommerish.
Yeah.
Did they like scoop ice out of it?
They do.
They eat him and they put like some sort of syrup on his head.
Raspberry.
So it's called Jack Frost.
Jack Frost.
It's a good one.
Yeah.
It's really angry looking.
Yeah.
Never saw it.
It's a creepy...
Yeah.
It's a creepy snowman.
Because they do the...
It looks like a human face kind of thing.
Yeah.
I think I've seen parts of that.
It's a little creepy, but it's still good.
Yeah.
Well.
And you have Tim Allen's Santa Claus.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Oh, and he has a series out right now called The Clauses.
Does he really?
Yeah.
It's on Disney Channel.
Tim Allen does?
Yeah.
He's got The Clauses, and it got grief because he said something about...
Christ and Christmas.
Correct.
There were only three of them, right?
All the libs were up in the air about it.
Why?
Oh, they don't like him.
Because he said put Christ and Christmas.
Oh, wow.
Or keep them.
It's kind of important.
Yeah.
So they didn't care for that.
Yeah.
So yeah, I haven't seen it.
But...
Fuck them.
You know, I think that I'm so...
I mean, I talk about the fucking Twitter and the Elon, but yeah.
I just hope this is a trend.
I hope this is a trend where all of these social medias will start tapering their bullshit
and more right-wing it or less left-wing shit will be pronounced over the right.
You know, because they're always heard.
You know, it's just like you say, it's an echo chamber.
Well, the right, I don't know if we just don't give a fuck about arguing with them.
Right.
Or you know, that's kind of what I think.
I think the right is just kind of passive.
It's a different mindset.
That's a great point.
Well, the GOP in general, they don't play the game like the Libs do.
The Libs go out to win.
Yeah.
And they play dirty.
They do.
And they'll do anything to win where the GOP will try to get along to win.
Right.
And if time doesn't work.
Yeah, it's kind of time to play dirty.
I hate to say it.
But I think it goes to the different mindsets between the two different types of people.
I agree.
So I totally agree with that.
So it's an interesting, I don't know what you want to call it, just the differences
between those two and how they play the game.
Yeah.
Yeah, I had an interesting conversation with my wife about because there was an article
that talked about the new, the young.
And stop me if we've talked about this already.
The young, young couples, young, young parents are saying that they're not going to propagate
the the Santa lie.
You know what I mean?
They're not going to lie to their kids and say that there is a Santa because they don't
agree with.
I never lied.
I just didn't say one way or the other.
You know, I think it's all just personal choice.
I mean, I think kids.
Yeah.
I think it's interesting, though, that it's a generational thing.
Like they're they're I don't know.
They're coming out and saying that we're not we're not we're not going.
So do we see a time when Santa Claus would go away?
Well, and because the kids aren't going to look at Santa Claus ago.
Yeah, he's not real.
Not real.
That's that's where I think I'm not going to get into a morph into just kind of a time
of year for appreciation of one another.
You know, yeah, keep Christ and Christmas is what Tim Allen's saying.
But I've said this over and over.
I just think it's that time of year where you're blessed and you try to provide blessings
for other people.
You know, and you it's it's like an extension of Thanksgiving.
You're thankful and you love your kids.
And it's a it's a cool thing.
I mean, I think Santa Claus is a great way to bring Christmas in without having to to
work in Christ for those folks that that aren't religious.
Yeah.
And so I brought that up with my wife.
I go, what do you think about the young parents that saying they're not going to do that?
She goes, I'm totally on board.
I go, well, what do you mean?
And she's like, because Christmas is all about the birth of Christ, our Savior.
And I was like, that's an excellent point.
That's an excellent point.
And and that is absolutely what it should be.
And she's right.
I think they because you know, there's always this secular, a secular thing going on, right?
Where you know, they are they brought, you know, did they invent Santa Claus simply because
they wanted to divert attention away from Christianity and away from the birth of Christ?
I don't know.
I don't know where or when Santa Claus came to be.
But but it is I mean, if you think about it, it is a it's a diversion.
It's a distraction from what the season is supposed to be.
We've we've made it into Santa Claus and gift giving.
Santa Claus is a big dude.
It's been like that.
Chimneys have been like that for a hundred years.
Right.
I guess so.
Right.
Yeah.
I mean, what did Santa Claus first show his face?
Right.
I don't know.
That's good.
You know, the Chris Kringle.
And that's not the last.
It's before our life.
Of course.
But did it was it started to like, you know, to distract from what Christmas is supposed
to be?
I think I don't know.
I don't know.
Well, well, today's world is much more materialistic than it was when we were growing up.
And it's much, much more.
Yeah, that's what's that's that's the that's the complaint that a lot of people have.
This has become this commercialized thing where it's gift giving.
It is.
But I will say this.
The I will give the I gave them shit when they did this.
A lot of the companies, Wal-Mart, Target, Coles, all them on Thanksgiving, Black Friday,
they would have their people work on Thanksgiving.
Right.
Thanksgiving Day.
And they stopped doing that this year.
That's good.
All those big companies, Wal-Mart being one of them, stopped being open on Thanksgiving.
Good.
And then there's I don't know how long it's been 10, 12, 15 years where they had people
come in working Thanksgiving Day.
Right.
They stopped doing that.
That is good.
So that's a reversal going back to, all right, spend time with your family.
And do they do that for Christmas Day, too?
Right.
Everything's pretty much closed.
Yeah, I've never seen.
Well, hotels aren't there's other things that aren't.
But sure.
I think what a Christmas Day is a very popular movies.
Yeah, theaters are definitely open.
So I think movies day is kind of I'm sorry, Christmas Day.
You know, everything's open.
Theaters, bars as well.
I mean, because really think about it.
You're you're out of town in town and you've got what do you mean?
You can only handle family so much and you kind of like, all right, guys, let's go to
the bar.
Right.
Yeah, that's that's what I agree.
That's a must.
You got to have the bars open.
You know, Joe Rogan had a interesting restaurant take on Santa Claus and kind of his version
of it, which which is kind of they have a YouTube thing.
Joe Rogan.
Santa Claus was a mushroom, Mr. Producer Joe Rogan.
So anyway, so he basically what he was saying was that, you know, some of the shamans somewhere
were there.
Maybe I don't know where exactly in the world, but there'd be like a lot of snow because
it was like, all right, first of all, Santa, there used to be shamans that used to dress
like that because they had to wear in the in the snow and they were like, well, sometimes
it would part heavy, heavy, furry clothes, heavy, furry clothes.
They stay warm.
And so.
Yeah, that's that's part of it.
So he was saying basically like the presence under the tree where those there were mushrooms
and because there's a significant growth underneath pine trees.
And they say a lot of mushrooms grow under there and it's very specific one.
Yeah.
And they're psychedelic.
And, you know, and they're red and white, just like the Mr. Producer has up there.
And he's saying some of these shaman would go from town to town and they'd visit and
they were doctors or whatever.
And the way because the snow was so high, they access the house through the chimney.
And that's a real deal.
It's fun.
Joe Rogan.
Well, I mean, that's what it says.
Joe Rogan.
Santa Claus was a mushroom.
If you can pull that one up.
And I don't know.
They have a short version of it.
Huh?
Yeah, go ahead and select it if you can.
If the video view file should what they could eat and they knew what they couldn't eat.
Well, they knew that there was a relationship between carnivorous trees and carnivorous
trees would grow these weird looking shiny red and white mushrooms under them.
That's what can if it's trees, pine trees.
That's what we use for Christmas trees.
Those red and white packages, they are like the shiny packages underneath the Christmas
tree.
They are the color of Santa Claus.
They're common in Siberia.
They're eaten constantly by caribou.
Caribou are reindeer.
Reindeer are addicted to these to the point where when people are having psychedelic mushroom
rituals and they go outside to take a leak, the caribou will knock them over to get to
the Amanita muscaria piss in the sand because they smell the Amanita muscaria in the piss.
And one of the ways these guys trip their balls off is they eat the mushroom and then
they drink their own urine.
They have a second process of this.
Here's where it gets even crazier.
I'm thinking he had a mushroom.
Yeah.
Well, there's another.
Well, I mean, there's another.
That was part one.
There's several other parts of that where he gets to start talking about, hey, look,
it has merit.
There you could definitely cross some have some lines drawn there because, look, if you
look at some older Christmas cards from the 20s, 30s, 40s, there are always those mushrooms
underneath the Christmas tree.
I have not looked at any cards from the 20s, so I can't really chime in on this.
But it was just it was interesting.
I know the whole Santa Claus thing has roots that are really old.
Right.
Chris Kringle in Europe, Denmark or Copenhagen.
I looked up the origins of Santa Claus and it's actually of course we know St. Nicholas.
Right.
That's the old German version.
Right.
It derived from the old Dutch word Sinterklaas.
Sinterklaas.
Which is pronounced perfectly.
Well done.
Santa Claus, I think, is the name first used in the U.S. in the press in 1773.
1773.
Right.
So he was a bishop in everything in the church.
St. Nicholas, who would give presents, gifts.
Right.
Is how it kind of turned into and over the years it just turned into what it is today.
So while America is feverishly fighting for its independence, he's frolicking around Europe
giving gifts.
Got you.
Yeah.
1773.
Got you.
But it also said that, what's his name?
His last name was Irving.
Michael Irving.
Anyway, Michael Irving made a book as a parody of the Dutch culture of New York, which was
the Sinterklaas.
And much of this portrait is his joking invention.
Irving's interpretation of Santa Claus was part of a broader movement to tone down the
increasingly wild Christmas celebrations of the era, which included aggressive home invasions
under the guise of wassailing, substantial premarital sex leading to shotgun weddings
in areas where the Puritans waning in power.
But anyway.
What the hell?
Yeah.
So they're trying to calm down Christmas parties, it sounds like.
Oh.
Anyway, that's what you need.
Well, yeah.
Leave that shit if you want to.
Yeah.
We're kind of just snuffing out the Christmas spirit.
Yeah, Santa Claus was there to put down.
Put down orgies.
Christmas orgies and he's talking about psychedelic mushrooms and reindeer drinking their own
piss.
No, the guys do drink in the urine.
Yeah, that's great.
That was just part of it.
Merry Christmas.
Yeah, Merry Christmas, everyone.
We're going to cut this short tonight.
There was another part of...
You're at the fuck it mode now.
Yeah, yeah, fuck it.
Well, I mean, Joe Bergen starts getting into where Santa Claus got his outfit and he was
talking about going down chimneys and the gifts and it really has merit because he would
bring the shamans would bring food and gifts to people that couldn't get out and do their
hunting.
And the snow because of the snowdrifts.
Yeah.
So, well, imagine being stuck in your house for a month and you don't have any food.
Yeah.
They'd have these dudes that would go around and deliver.
That's nice.
I think Germany's going to feel that this year.
First, before we get too far, I finished mine.
Not just Germany, but Ukraine too.
Right now, it's freezing there and half the country doesn't have power.
I know.
I'd like to discuss the libations that we're drinking.
Yeah, multiple good ones.
Yeah, Paul brought over, I have to say a wish.
I don't think Sean likes his because he still has half a glass.
Yeah, I don't know what's going on with that.
So I went to a place called Thursky Growler and they have, it's very interesting.
They have a lot of interesting seasonal and they rotate different types of beers from
all these different local and some of them.
I have to be careful with those.
Some of them I do not like.
Yeah, and they range from like 4% to like 15%.
You know, so some of those.
That was like Jeff and I's.
That's what we tried doing.
It's like we would go somewhere and we wouldn't look at the beer.
We look to the far right column to look at the ABV.
The percentage.
Yeah, oh you're the one with the top notch.
We'll have that 22% one and she brings out, it's like some dark, tootsie roll, gingerbread
tasting thing.
Yeah.
Some Imperial Dragon milked shit that comes out that you can catch on fire.
And I'm new to this.
So we go to Thursky Growler and it's really a cool setup.
They got the board where they show how much is left in the keg and you know all this kind
of stuff and they tell you, you know, all this different stuff and then you can fill.
They can it for you.
Yep, right.
They can it for you.
And I think that was started in at the covid times.
I don't know if they did that before that or it was illegal for a while because the
bottlers unions in the canners, they fought back and there was a there's a rule around
it.
Yeah, so that I guess they passed up because you brought cans.
So yeah, I did.
So I got a four pack and it's called bullshit.
Is hoppy hop, hop and something hoppity hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop
hop and something.
And it was called Christmas cookie.
Where's the can?
Is there one of the time I let me look throw on the table out there and it might be anyway,
it's really good.
So I brought three of them over and Christmas cookie is called Christmas Christmas cookie.
It was really, really good.
Tasty.
You wonder how they make that flavor.
Is it just like a little extract they put in there or do they?
But could be the verinus could be some of it.
Yeah.
Beaver oil expressed.
I thought you were talking about your bourbon.
So I drank mine really quick and I went to that.
This is a new one.
And you like Sean's is full and I was like, oh, he wasn't talking about my.
So this is a new one that we're trying.
It's one hundred and eighteen point four proof.
Yeah.
It's called Wyoming.
It's got a lot of balls.
This is the second Wyoming we have.
OK.
All right.
So this is I think the first one we had was their standard bourbon.
This one is what this one producer.
What's this bourbon?
Why?
I know you've got it bookmarked up there.
This would Wyoming different.
It's a whiskey, private stock, private stock.
OK.
All right.
So use their own winter wheat, which gives their bourbon a completely different taste.
What is a weeded bourbon?
You ask.
There's a bourbon that uses wheat sort of rye and mixed with corn in the mash bill.
There are a few bourbons that come from Kentucky that use wheat in their mash bills.
Perhaps you've heard of them.
Wellers, old Fitzgerald, oh, and Pappy Van Winkle.
I love a big bourbon.
I was going to say something else.
I'm sure you were.
Anyway, so I'm trying to find out where the the Nicholas notes.
It says I had this bottled at cask strength and it came in at a fairly whopping one hundred
seventeen proof.
Ours was one hundred and eighteen point four.
Yeah.
Ours is better.
Yeah.
Much better.
So the bouquet is a freshly baked bread, orange rind, honey and syrup.
And that pretty much nails it.
I mean, it is so easy to hone in on something that when you read it, you're like, yeah,
yeah, that's it.
You start to think, I don't know if that's that.
I do smell that.
Our suggestion.
One of the things I noticed when I was sitting out there and Paul is it's not as chewy or
as rich as some of our other high proof ones.
It's kind of thin.
That's what I mean.
It's not as this good.
It's not as rich or whatever you want to call it.
Right.
Yeah.
You're chewy or whatever.
It's just it's it's missing its leather oil.
But you know what?
I mean, seriously, on the nose, I do I do smell bread, bread, honey and syrup.
I don't I don't I don't smell orange rind, but I do smell bread and honey for sure.
I could smell the orange, the citrus of some sort.
Yeah.
And on the palate, it says honey, chugged it.
Orange, hold on, what else was on the palate there, Mr. Producer?
The palate was caramel, cinnamon, winter spice.
Nice.
The finish is long, smooth with a nice slow burn that tapers off with the smooth notes
of spice.
So what do you think?
Well, it says you never feel the heat.
Oh, I feel it.
No, I definitely feel it.
I don't know.
I didn't.
I'm going to give it a six and a half.
It's not bad.
Are we?
Yeah, it's it's too seriously.
We're reading that.
It's it's OK.
I mean, it's again for the proof.
I expect it a little bit more.
I don't mind it.
Honestly, I don't.
I think it's pretty good.
I think our producer needs a second monitor so he can do these little.
Yeah, he's putting together a little collage.
And anyway, but I think we got through it.
I mean, well, look, Wyoming Whiskey products.
That's what I mean.
Page again, because he had a bunch of different burbets.
The next one.
There you go.
There's two.
There's a and what have we got?
Oh, wow.
They do have a lot of them.
Wow.
Whiskey rider and that's a ride.
All right.
Double back.
Double cask bourbon.
OK.
Outrider.
Small batch.
Single barrel.
He's going down for us here.
Beryl Strength National Parks Limited National Parks number two.
Eighteen seventy two and ten year old.
Ten year anniversary.
I bet you that's a unicorn.
What's the I would love to go find out.
Roll up and take a bottle to let me see the ten year.
What is it?
Any notes of rye?
One hundred and three.
Is that it?
That's it.
No, it says 50.
I can't read that on the bottle.
Fifty one point seven.
So it looks like to me.
That's all right.
Hundred and.
Yeah, I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not saying that's not good stuff.
I would like to taste it.
I like the label.
Yeah, that's solid.
Nice cayenne pepper candy pecan and baklava drizzled with orange blossom.
That's very specific.
Yes.
Ridiculously.
I imagine some some Jewish guy with the I should say a person with a Jewish accent saying
that.
Where does it say baklava?
Out to the nose.
I don't know.
It's a rye one.
Hot cocktails.
Where is it?
It sounds Irish.
It was.
I can get it.
I tried.
So is this Kanye 10 year?
That this Kanye.
Yeah.
Speaking of Kanye, that boy has jumped the shark.
What?
You said is Jewish something.
What did you say?
Well, fuck that.
Seriously, Kanye has jumped the shark.
That boy went from having thirty million dollars in the bank and the world said, fuck you.
Here's your money back.
Take it out of the bank.
We're shutting everything down.
They told me canceled him.
He lost all of his endorsements and he doubled down, tripled down.
What is he doing?
We do we understand where he's coming from?
I think he's got mental issues.
Even Trump was like, yeah, there's something wrong with this young man.
I think there's been something wrong with him for quite a few years.
Well, it's tough when no one checks you and you start to get he's a billionaire, isn't
he?
He was.
I don't know anymore.
He had more than thirty million dollars.
Yeah, maybe it's two hundred thirty or something like that.
He well, he made a statement saying, you know, I've got this much money in the bank and they
want to shut me down.
I'll take my money somewhere else.
He could disappear and live perfectly fine.
Absolutely.
I think his ego is so big and I think his mental acute is not there right now.
So where did it start?
All right.
So if you've been living under a rock, I'll tell you where it starts.
It starts because nobody checks him.
He got into hot water because he made some anti-semitic comments.
Look, he has had issues forever.
First of all, he smokes pot or he used to smoke pot so much that he was just completely
like on the Ellen DeGeneres show.
He was just a mental wreck.
Oh, man, he's talking on there and he's just in his own little world.
Making no sense at all.
Right.
Just talking about how he thinks he could change the world and he could do this and
he could do that and his kids are great and his wife up above.
What, does he think he's Elon Musk or something?
He thinks he's a god.
He thinks he's smarter than everybody.
He does.
He's a total narcissist, but the problem-
Where did the anti-semitic thing come into play?
Well, I think-
That's when the wheels shot off.
He was-
I don't know.
Is that when he was wearing that stupid mask on the Alex Jones show?
Oh, my God.
Is that when that happened?
I don't know.
I don't know where it started.
I know he tweeted something and he got booted and then canceled.
I guess that's where it started.
He said-
Then he went on Alex Jones.
He was wearing like a ski mask or something, spouting all kinds of stuff out about how
he liked Hitler.
Oh, God.
What does he think?
Or admired him or something to that effect.
I don't know.
Well, he was saying that there were good attributes of Hitler.
Wow.
Even if there was, you can't say that.
Yeah.
I can't name any, but-
I think the only good thing about him was he died.
Yeah, or did he?
He's still in Brazil, huh?
He's hanging out in the Brazilian mountains, the Brazilian Alps.
He's 115 now.
Is he 115?
He'd be over 100, I think, at this point.
He was in prison in the 20s.
So-
That's when he wrote his, mine cough, mine cough, mine cough.
Well, he reminds me of Hitler.
Did I tell you guys that I saw the Holocaust Museum when I went to the Titans commanders
game and the day before we went to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC?
I heard it's quite moving.
It's moving.
I tell you, not to one-up you, but I've been to some museums in Germany.
Oh, in Germany, yeah.
Did you ever, have you toured some of the concentration camps?
No.
Well, we, no.
I would like to do that.
But the museums-
I would like to see that just for historical purposes.
They had-
Just to pay homage.
Is that the right word?
They had like a-
Homage, homage.
They had like a tank made out of glass filled with shoes.
Oh yeah.
That was one thing they had in the Holocaust Museum.
It's just-
Just shoes.
Oh man, men's shoes.
Shoes and shoes.
Well, he was born in 1889, so yeah, he's well past 100.
Okay, so he's probably dead.
Potentially.
I mean, despite the fact that he shot himself and they found his body.
Well, they did lots of tests back in the day.
Yeah, they said that that was actually-
He had a serum.
What?
He didn't shoot himself?
Well, they analyzed it.
They said that the body that was found was that of a woman.
Oh God, here we go.
That was his wife.
Is that the same-
Well, I'm thinking he shot her and he tried shooting himself and he was like, oh, I'm
not going to do this after all.
You know, because there are signs-
What?
I thought you were going to do this after all.
There are reports that he hopped on a little plane and flew south and hopped on a boat
and went to South America.
They found his body?
No, they claimed they found his body and later determined that his perished, burnt corpse
was a woman.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, there's whole shows about hunting Hitler down in Brazil.
All I know is when they found the burnt body, there were crystal skulls all around it.
You son of a bitch.
And I don't know-
They don't know.
That's the part that's really confusing.
They don't know where the crystal skulls came from.
Probably out of his ass.
When you point them all in the same direction, the ground moves and shakes.
Yeah, it's a reverberation.
Frequencies start to tune in.
Yeah, and you get an erection.
Well, I think it's- did you hear about-
And water starts to catch on fire.
There is a Nazi, there's a Nazi camp secretary who just got arrested.
A Nazi secretary?
She was a secretary in the Nazi camps.
And she's like 117?
She's 97, I think.
Oh my God, they arrested her now?
Yes.
That's still happening.
Yeah, they're still finding people.
There's a picture of her and she's 97 in a wheelchair, I think.
So obviously she did something to the gas chamber.
But that bit's horrible back then.
Because they went after her.
They found her and tried her.
So what do you want?
Do you want to extricute her or do you want to put her in an injection?
I say put her in a gas chamber.
Oh, wow, harsh.
Is it?
What are you saying, too soon?
Is that what you're saying?
No, not too soon.
It's just-
Really?
I mean, seriously, you know, we've had this discussion before.
What do you do when you find somebody?
But what exactly does she do?
I mean, was she just like the-
They're in their 90s.
Yeah, they're in their 90s.
Was she the architect of some of these destructive-
She was a secretary of probably one of the main guys.
Yeah, but I mean, that's her job.
I don't know.
I mean-
Well, what do you do?
Well, you could argue that about the guards of the concentration camp.
They were just doing their job.
Well, I mean, look, if you say, I don't want to do your job, what are they going to do?
They're going to fucking euthanize you.
They're going to kill you.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, it's like, come on, what are you going to do?
Well, they arrested her, so-
Well, will that bitch in an oil chamber-
I think they just put her in prison for the last year or whatever of her life and call
it a day.
I say they put her on parole and put one of those electronic tracking bracelets on her
ankle, make sure she doesn't go anywhere she's not supposed to, like flee the country in
her wheelchair.
Right.
At 97.
Oh my God.
She's a flight risk.
Yeah.
You never know.
But you know, we have no dog in that hunt.
She's got to eat her whole life.
It's up to the surviving family members and the surviving people of that who experienced
that.
They're the ones who should dictate what happened.
Can you imagine the torture?
Honestly, guys, if you think about it, when it comes to something so horrific, there is
no statute of limitations on justice.
There isn't.
Right.
There is no statute of limitations.
Right.
I think the, I'm sure it's going to be the courts that decide, but I think the people
that were impacted by that should have the right or the right to say this is what happens.
I say we forgive her or slam her against the wall, whatever it is.
Yeah, whatever.
I agree.
That's well, the German court, 97 year old ex secretary at a Nazi camp.
So a German court on Tuesday convicted a 97 year old woman of being an accessory to a
murder over 10,000 cases for her role as a secretary of the SS commander of the Nazis.
10,000 people.
I mean, come on.
Yeah.
She needs to burn.
So it's a Fugner who was accused of being part of the apparatus that helped the camp
function.
The it's who state court in Northern Germany gave her a two year suspended sentence.
German news agencies, DPA reported.
She was alleged to have aided and abetted those in charge of the camp in the systematic
killing of those imprisoned there between June 43 and 45 in her function as a stenographer
and typist in the camp commandant's office.
Yeah, there's a little bit more, but they show a picture of her.
She's got a, I mean, she's got these big black fly looking glasses on a red beret and anti
COVID mask on white, the N 95 and 95.
Yeah.
Oh, that'll stop everything.
Yeah.
You wonder if she, if she, I wonder if she, I wonder if she at this point in her life
goes COVID.
Yes, that was me.
I own it.
Do whatever.
Or if she goes, fuck you still.
I don't know.
I be curious.
I mean, there's been a number of these now.
I mean, guys, you hear about, well, they have five cases.
You hear about a guy living in Ohio.
Remember the guy living in Ohio?
There's a Netflix show about that.
Yeah.
He, he, he has grandkids and he's known in the neighborhood as being a, you know, a nice
dude and all of a sudden they roll up and they arrest him and, and he was a fricking
Nazi concentration chap guard.
And like, like an awful one, right?
Like horrible one.
God, you imagine getting away with that forever.
But look, here's the other side of that.
Those guys, those guys do have humility.
They do have guilt.
They have to live.
They're people.
They are people.
Because like I mentioned before about Peterson, Jordan Peterson, and he was having an interview
with Pierce Morgan, Pierce Bronson, Pierce Morgan.
And he was saying that, you know, there's a little bit of Stalin and Hitler and everybody
and it just takes a matter of activating it.
And you have to be brainwashed into believing, you know, it happens in the bigger, in the
bigger picture of what Hitler was selling.
It happens.
It does happen.
The whole country got behind it.
I don't think saying there's Stalin or Hitler in you is the correct way to phrase it.
I think there needs to be a phrase that says there's a piece of hate or evil in all of
us.
All of us can be moved to hate.
We can be moved to hate.
Anybody can be moved to hate.
But you can't be sitting there in your prison writing this book going, I'm going to kill
a whole religion.
I mean, well, think about it.
Right.
Think about the story of Lord of the Flies, for example.
I mean, that's kind of, you know, and it's not it has a little bit of the same premise.
I mean, those people is that where kids eat each other on the beach?
No, it's just that they they become very troubled.
Yes, they become tribal and they start killing each other, I believe.
I saw the movie or they eat each other, too.
Now, there's no cannibalism.
I never read the book.
I never read the book or saw the movie.
I thought I thought it was required reading in some schools.
Lord of the Flies.
Well, maybe it was an option.
It's one of the books you could read.
It's stimulating from from a I don't know, an evolutionary society.
A little bit of a societal commentaries.
What it is right.
And it really does.
I mean, you've got kids out there that are that are given the authority of the power.
We become savage.
Yeah, yeah, very sad.
We become savages.
And so, I mean, that's that's the same thing.
You get put in a position like that.
Yes.
Then, I mean, it's, you know, I mean, I'm sure all the people that work on the Death
Star, you know, they're not all evil.
They just want their job.
And, you know, it's just kind of dark.
It comes by and it's kind of like a movie.
It's a movie.
Yes, not real.
Not real.
Really, Jeff?
Are you listening to this?
It's not as fucking you know, it shut his mic off.
Mr. Producer, shut him down.
I'm out of here.
You know, no, no, no, he know.
But I disagree when when when he says there's a little bit of Stalin or Hitler in us.
Yeah, no, that's I think what he was trying to say was there's there's a little bit of
evil.
He killed his son's mic.
He's son of a bitch.
You know, you got the right mic.
You got the right mic.
Shut him down.
I think the proper way to say that is there's a bit of evil or hate that can be triggered.
You could be the best person in the world.
Then something happens.
All humans are capable of unspeakable evil.
Unfortunately, absolutely true.
And most of us go through life without triggering that.
I'm sure that you have you've you've walked into a room and were you had some sort of
a bug that landed on you and you've you just all of a sudden chimed in your fight flight
response and and smack the shit out of it.
I mean, there are a lot of people out there that have a lot of respect for bugs and you're
like, oh, I don't want to kill that bug.
You see a little spider.
Oh, let's put it up on a piece of paper and put it outside.
You know, or there are some guys are like, fuck that, kill it.
I remember as a kid, I mean, are you a bad person because you killed the spider?
No, I remember as a kid, I was over at my friend's house and different analogy.
But OK, it's nice that the kids used to play outside.
Right.
Yes.
And we're outside.
Actually, we're downstairs in his garage in the driveway and this huge black wasp looking
thing.
Ha ha ha.
Oh, God.
Oh, and it like stung me so good.
I stuck into my skin.
Oh, and you went ape shit.
It hurt so bad.
I pulled it out, smashed it.
He got a torch and torched it.
Burned it.
I burned it.
I tried to pulverize it into a little tiny crust.
I don't know if you ever see those huge yellow jackets, those big, big ass thing?
Oh, yeah.
That's what it looked like.
But it was all black.
And you had rage in your eyes.
Your eyes were all bloodshot.
And then you looked at everybody and said, who's next?
You were a Hassan Trump.
I'll kill everyone.
Right.
That thing stung and it hurt.
And I took I took my vengeance.
Nice.
I like that.
So that's admirable.
You know, it's looked crazy.
I just I just pulled up a Wikipedia to do a generic search.
And this little.
It was funny.
This thing.
Well, it says Wikipedia.
Yes, it says that Wikipedia is not for sale.
Please don't skip this one minute read.
We want donations, though.
Yeah, they do that every year.
Yeah.
Is that like a Christmas thing?
They do that every year.
Ask it for money.
Yeah, they have no advertising.
I will never give them a penny.
They are highly liberal.
Did you see that someone created the Thursday Massacre Thursday Night Massacre?
Was that January 6?
No, that's when Elon Musk banned those six reporters.
Oh, wow.
Talking about overreaction.
They're calling it the Thursday Night Massacre.
Yeah, never, never mind.
There's a Wikipedia page for you know, they banned Bob Katz.
Is it Bob Katz?
Katz weight cost Costner Costner Bob Costner who?
The costner dude that guy was the reporter that would stand in and give the press secretary
are such a hard time.
Bob Costner.
Is that his name?
Steve Costner Bob Costner Bob Acosta Bob Acosta.
Oh, oh, not cost or cost Acosta Acosta Acosta.
So he was first name Scott.
Now, I got Acosta.
I don't know what his first name is.
He's a jack.
Phil, he's a jackass.
It was a cost and everybody was like, you just want attention.
You sure enough.
What do you do next?
Right.
The guy's a total jackass.
He's a fraud.
Anybody.
What about him?
Bill Acosta.
Well, his his account got got banned.
He was because you know, you broke the Twitter rules and now you're banned.
Okay.
So do you know the the reason why Bob Acosta?
Did you hear the reason why Elon Musk did that?
Yeah, that's because he was he was pushing Jim Acosta.
Jim Acosta.
Jim are all wrong.
Because you cannot he's saying the rules of of Twitter is that you cannot dox real time
location of anyone, most importantly, him and his family.
So what people were doing.
Oh, you're talking about the six reporters.
Yes.
So they so they were linked.
My understanding is these reporters were linked to an account or or a website where they they
can real time track celebrities planes.
Right.
And so they were able to real time track where Elon Musk plane was and his family was to
the point where the the car that his son was driving was accosted by was accosted by a
site jumped on the hood.
Yes.
Right.
That's right.
So he was like enough.
You can he said you can tell you can follow like the location and stuff.
It can't be real time.
Right.
And I also heard because the argument was, well, it's it's it's public information.
Anyone can get this.
Right.
I was listening to the five yesterday or today, whatever it was.
They said, actually, what happens is Elon, he has an agreement with the FAA.
His plane gets a new ID every month.
Right.
Because of threats.
And the person who posts this actually hacked the system to get his new ID every month.
So he knows what it's not public information.
Unbelievable.
Every month, Elon Musk has has every right to protect his family.
And if those journalists are like hate him and hate his family and want to put his family
in danger, fucking shot him down.
And the uproar now was ridiculous.
I think doxing is bad.
But if we're for free speech, we have to be for it on both sides.
But I agree with the doxing part of it.
Absolutely.
If you're going to talk someone real time stuff in order to do that, then you're you're
done.
And we can't we cannot as as as conservatives all of a sudden start being OK with banning
the left when they say something stupid.
I agree.
But it was purely doxing.
Right.
But what I find humorous is all of these libs all of a sudden were like, oh, my God, how
dare you ban us censorship free speech.
Right.
When it's been happening for years on the other side.
Ridiculous.
And with Twitter, with with the IRS, with I mean, the Department of Justice.
And I haven't been following all the latest Twitter files.
I've got way behind because I was out of town.
And I know some very high level stuff that the FBI has been.
Yeah.
Colluding or whatever you want to call it with Twitter.
And there's one that got released today, I think.
I have no idea what it's about.
And still, half of America has no idea.
Well, I don't know the latest ones because I haven't looked right.
Because I've been out of town doing a bunch of shit.
Yeah.
But the people who watch mainstream media, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, they have no idea.
It's not being covered.
Oh, it's not.
None of it.
And this is I mean, this makes Watergate look like.
Like child's play.
Right.
I wonder if anything will come of it.
My guess just I don't think history is no.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, so what will happen is the new Congress, right?
In January, the new Congress is going to get seated.
The new House.
They'll have hearings.
They'll have hearings and nobody will cover it.
Right.
They literally won't even cover it.
Right.
And they won't report on it.
And I mean, you know, the exact opposite of the January 6th Commission, where they hyper
covered it.
What they should do is have a prime time executive produced.
Yeah.
I think just to go.
Well, yeah, we're preempting.
We're preempting all of your shows.
Right.
You can't watch TV because this is the only thing on.
And look what look what happened to your country while you were asleep.
Right.
It's not going to happen, though.
So it won't.
So in Congress right now, they've got a one point seven trillion dollar federal spending
bill that they put on the table.
You guys are familiar with this budget passed in it is the budget negative.
Well, I don't think it did.
It's not a spending bill.
I thought it was the it's called an omnibus, which is a spending bill, right?
It's essentially running right.
One point seven trillion.
Senate leaders unveiled a one point seven trillion year long federal government funding
bill, unbelievable, early Tuesday morning legislature.
Well, yeah, even though there's a new Congress being seated in January.
So in like 72.5 billion for non-defense discretionary programs and eight hundred fifty five fifty
eight billion in defense funding, according to the bill summary, it's the largest defense
bill funding ever.
I'm OK with defense, but I'm not OK with the rest of it.
I'm not.
I'm actually not even OK with that much for defense either.
The sweeping.
Where's the oversight?
Yeah, exactly.
Well, you never find it's all going to fucking Ukraine.
It also includes about at least a forty five billion dollars in emergency assistance to
Ukraine and NATO allies boosted in boost in spending for disaster.
NATO can't spend their own money.
Well, that's just it.
The door.
You know, I'll tell you what, the one thing.
Well, there's tons of things I love.
Really enjoyed that what Trump did.
And one of the the feathers in his cap was when he sat at that NATO table and he was
kind of like, you know what, motherfuckers, we're the United States is putting 80 percent
of the annual money into NATO that stops now.
Yeah, ridiculous.
So anyways, this this should Congress approve the one point seven trillion omnibus bill?
Twitter right now has just put out a poll and currently it is 70 percent, 76 percent
versus 24 percent.
And what do you think the 76 percent is?
Yes or no?
Probably yes.
Probably.
Yeah.
It's no.
Really?
Seventy six percent of one million fifty two thousand votes put in so far say seventy
six, no.
And we have twenty four, twenty one hours, forty two minutes left of the poll.
So they're supposed to represent us, right?
Yes.
In theory.
Yeah.
Yes.
Except for Whoopi Goldberg and all the other set left the the Twitter, all the people that
don't amount to much and they'll come back.
Now there's a mastodon.
I don't think it's going to make it.
Yeah.
Well, you know what?
Fuck them.
So anyways, that's a.
I think I think Elon Musk is going to come in, stir the shit and then he's going to leave.
No, not not sell out, but he's going to go, all right, I'm stepping down to see someone
else.
Yeah, he's I think he came in specifically to do this.
He's a SWAT team guy.
Yeah.
He comes in, starts that company, pulls out, does something else, does that come pulls
out, goes and does something else.
I mean, look how many companies he has.
I mean, he can't he can't dive head first for a long period of time into anything.
No, I think I think he won't as well.
Because I think this will eventually end up hurting his other companies.
Right.
So because you've already got people like Alyssa Milano saying I'm so my Tesla.
You know, I think he realizes that Tesla isn't a fantastical program.
I think it's not.
No, I mean, think about the dirtiest.
They say, all right, what's the dirtiest feel on the planet?
Oh, must be gasoline.
No, it's lithium.
Dirtiest.
Right.
It's dirt dirtiest.
He recognizes that he's coming up with alternative methods.
In fact, he's probably already gone past that.
He's dumping his Tesla stock.
He's dumping it.
I mean, he said he's dumped billions of his Tesla stock right now.
So what is the future?
Well, he needs to pay that bill to buy Twitter.
Whatever.
But what is the future?
Future fusion.
Well, is the future.
Yeah, that's a ways off.
But yeah, it's nuclear.
Well, I think I don't think anyone's going to drive around with a nuclear reactor.
The car.
They have nuclear ships.
I think they have nuclear submarines currently and ships.
But I'm saying that not going to be those are maintained by super qualified crews.
And you don't know what about vehicles.
You're not going to have a fucking nuclear power vehicle.
So this is the tragedy.
This is the tragedy of the whole thing.
But I think the same way about being transitional fuel for cars, transitional, meaning, you
know, 30 years, a 30 year transitional period to where we get to a sustainable, you know,
did you pass me?
Yeah.
So thank you.
So it should have been cars that run on natural gas and cars that run on hydrogen.
Those should have been the transitional fuels until why aren't we running on hydrogen more?
There are some.
Oh, yeah, I don't know.
I don't know.
Because they're trying to fast forward.
They're trying to they're trying to speed things up and go straight to something that's
not sustainable.
I think a lot of that has to do with the power of the energy companies.
Exxon Mobil does not want you to.
Anyway, I think I think the energy lobby is big and powerful and they shoot things down
or they buy technology companies and they disappear.
I just think it's the Department of Energy and that I think.
Well, it's because of the lobby.
It's all tied in.
It's all the lobbyists, right?
The energy lobbyists.
And they're like, you're not going to get your money if you pass this bill that allows
for hydrogen vehicles.
Yeah, but now all the companies are going straight to creating electric cars.
The Exxon Mobil's done it.
How do you think they feel about this?
Yeah, that's a good point.
Fuck Exxon Mobil.
No, no, it's not.
But they're powerful.
That's what I'm saying.
What I'm saying is that segment of the country.
Those guys make so much money.
It's ridiculous.
It is.
And they want to keep that money.
It's power.
They want to keep that.
They're just a bunch of greedy sons of bitches.
That's all they are.
And you know what?
I guarantee you the only reason we shut down the keystone, the only reason we shut down
our internal resources for gasoline was to externally buy it so that the mobile people
can start making money.
Bring up the gas prices so that Mobil Exxon can make money.
You sound like Joe Biden.
You sound like Whoopi Goldberg.
Yeah, Joe Biden.
You sound like a lot of liberal people right now.
What happened to you?
Who are you?
What?
Using your own words?
Who hurt you?
You know damn well I'm right.
No, you're not right.
Good Lord.
I think we lost them to the other side.
We did.
You went to the dark side.
Now I'm saying it's a horrible idea.
It's bullshit that we have to go that we should be doing our own.
No, I agree.
It was the only reason that the prices went up is so that the old folks can make up their
money from the COVID.
That's it.
You got those people.
Look, what happened during COVID?
Everyone stayed home.
Lockdowns.
Everyone stayed home.
Nobody was driving.
Well, we went and picked up our food and our drinks in parking lot spaces.
Nobody was doing the daily grind going back and forth to work because they were stuck
at home.
I'm just saying that there was a huge loss.
I took more road trips during COVID.
Yeah, I did.
You burned more fossil fuels.
I did because I went to Ohio.
I went to places like that.
Unbelievable.
Yeah, but that's just you.
But the daily grind, it was way low.
Way low.
Those people wanted their money.
They were like, fuck man.
They're probably mad in retrospect.
They're probably thinking, what the hell are you guys doing working with China to infuse
our country with this virus so that we're not going to make money?
What does that have to do with...
You're talking about fossil fuels, right?
Global demand for oil plummeted during COVID because everything was shut down.
Shipping wasn't going.
Cars weren't going.
Demand trucks weren't going.
Demand for oil plummeted.
Who did that hurt?
The oil companies.
That's right.
Who wants their money back?
Pfizer.
Pfizer's continued.
I'm just saying that the reason I'm saying that Biden's was...
I hear you.
They're all sucking Biden's dick to raise the prices of gas.
And that's exactly what happened.
And they don't care.
They can make up anything they want.
The reason why the gas prices are going up.
Why are the gas prices going up?
Well, hold on.
It's a little more complicated than that.
Of course it is.
I mean, it has to do with global supply and OPEC and all that kind of shit.
But I will say this.
I read an article today that said that in 2023, in 2023, the US is positioned to be
an exporter of oil.
Again?
Yes.
How?
I don't know.
I didn't read the article, but I saw the headline and I was like, what?
Those 9000 permits that they have out there?
9000 leases have got sucked up.
I don't know.
But it would be wonderful if that could be on the screen right now.
But anyway, we need to look that up because let's do that in the next podcast.
Let's find out how the United States could be in a position to export oil in 2023.
I just...
A net exporter.
Right?
I think some of the stuff that we've been complaining about, I think the border, I think
oil, I think Biden's going to change his tune a little bit on some of this because with
this Proposition 42 or whatever it's called.
It just got pushed back.
Well, a judge gave it a stay.
Yes.
Yeah.
And there we go.
Look at that.
US poised become net exporter of crude oil in 2023.
How is that possible?
I don't know.
But I think he's going to have to concede on whether he does or not.
I don't know.
But the border, I think he's going to have to concede because there's going to be a mad
rush.
It's bad.
I mean, they're poised to pounce.
Yeah, they are.
There's 50,000 plus people, they say, right across the border waiting to come across for
this Title 42 or whatever it's called.
And I think...
And it was John Roberts, I believe, of all people.
He put the stay.
I also read right before the podcast that the Biden administration asked them to lift
it, but they need to come up with a plan to deal with the influx.
So I think he's going to change his...
Start issuing Joe Biden blankets.
What's crazy is all the talking points, you know, they always have talking points.
Now they're all coming out and blaming Republicans.
Kamala Harris.
If the Republicans are willing to work with us on this immigration and border security
thing, this would not be a problem.
They're blaming Republicans.
Basically, say, if the Republicans do what we want to do, then we all be good.
It's unbelievable how they're blaming the Republicans for the open border.
Again, I said it before, it's all about wording and how they phrase things.
Well, it's about letting in as many as they possibly can.
We've talked about this before.
And then they want to give them a path to citizenship for votes.
It's about power, guys.
It's about votes and power.
I read in the article today that I think 70% of people when they ask them, how many illegal
immigrants do you think have come across since Joe Biden came?
And they said about 500,000.
Two million.
And when they found out that it was two and a half million, 67% of those people decided
something needs to be done.
It's bad.
They were shocked at how high it was.
And now all these New York, New York is a state of emergency, right?
They're getting a thousand immigrants, illegal immigrants, bus to them.
Chicago, you know, I mean, they're freaking out.
I haven't heard much of that.
Is that still going on?
Still going on.
Is he introduced to any other cities?
The mayor of New York City said he started to tell New Yorkers that we're getting to
the point now where we're not going to be able to provide you basic services because
of the influx of the bus in migrants.
Really?
Yeah.
It's greatness.
These border towns literally has brought this the conversation to a head.
Correct.
Because nobody gave a shit until that started happening.
Yeah.
It was.
And this isn't happening in my backyard.
It's I can turn a blind eye.
Yep.
And guess El Paso is drowning.
Well, he just the mayor who's so he just declared a state of emergency.
He has been busting people all over the place.
But he stopped.
I don't think he had.
He did.
But there are still there are there are organizations that are doing it by himself.
It's just that the city of El Paso is not paying for that shit anymore.
That could be there.
They're still being funded.
The amount of people that are being that are captured in El Paso right now.
I mean, all right, let's put it this way.
Five years ago, there were five hundred to a thousand daily.
Five years ago, even when Trump was in office, I mean, there were just that many people and
they were just released out in the public every day, every single day.
That is incredible.
Well, now it's like five thousand a day.
It's uncontrollable.
You know, completely actually, it's absolutely controllable.
They just choose not to.
Yeah.
I think there's a stat on one of the radio programs.
I can't recall who it was.
They said that there was 14 million people here illegally that's come across.
I don't know what I don't know what the span was.
I bet you like ever.
I don't know if it's ever, but it's I don't know what the time span was.
I don't think it's ever.
Ten years or something like that.
Because higher than that.
And they said, if you think about that, the population of the U.S., that's that's the
equivalent of 13 more states if you look at the lower population like Montana, Delaware,
that's 13 more colonies worth of people.
Unbelievable.
Yeah, but there's look, here's here's the the the flip side.
I don't give I mean, the people can come sign up, put up.
It's the other things that are kind of we have to have the infrastructure to be able
to support them.
But I'm just it's more than that.
The biggest thing for me is all the drugs that are coming up, the fentanyl that's coming
to sex trafficking, sex trafficking, the human trafficking period.
And they say that the cartels make more money off of human trafficking now than they do
drugs.
Oh, that is unbelievable.
Billions of dollars off of human trafficking.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
You know, it's it's it's kind of crazy because I mean, let's say you're from Mexico.
OK, it's like you want to get the United States.
I mean, let's say you want to visit the United States.
How do you visit the United States as a guest?
You need a visa to take a vacation.
Correct.
You need a visa.
Like we need a passport.
But not not for not to vacation.
Yes, you do.
Because I was talking to one of my guys today because we may be having some workshops even
just to visit and to get a U.S. visa, the next schedule is November of twenty four to
get a U.S. visa.
Yeah, but the visas are usually like a somewhat extended stay.
It's not to vacation for a weekend.
They'd be up for two days or a week.
No, you need a visa to get over here.
Really?
I didn't know that.
Yeah.
So you can just walk across the border.
I don't understand what he's.
Well, my point is, is that, you know, if they really want to get over here, they just pay
you that to say, I'm going to go on vacation in two years.
We're going to go visit the Grand Canyon and just disappear.
I'm over to say that people do that.
Yeah, all the time.
They're saying over 60 percent never go back and do their court case.
Why the guy who thought it was more than that guy?
He's the guy who used to work for me who was illegal.
He came up and he lived up here, went to school, high school, kids.
Yes.
And his family brought him up.
Right.
But he went through the school system, high school, whole nine yards.
And then he ended up moving back to Mexico City.
Moving back or being deported?
No, he moved back.
OK.
And well, I don't know.
I don't know if he was sent back.
We never got into that, but he couldn't come back.
Right.
To the stage because of that, because he must have been caught.
But he like I said, he went from 10 years age, age eight or nine up to 20.
Yeah, that that'd be tough.
That'd be tough for a kid that grew up here.
Yeah, that's confusing.
Yeah, like something now.
Something now I'm a criminal.
I'm an illegal alien.
And because my parents arrived when I was a baby and he had no ill will or anything.
That's amazing.
So he's just like, yeah, it happened.
And he was happy down there and it was fine.
And he'd like to be able to come back.
But yeah, I do.
I do feel for that situation.
I mean, it's not unlike what we're talking about with Afghanistan.
Right.
We were there for 20 years and babies that were born 20 years ago grew up with freedom
and everything.
And then we left and the Taliban take over and now they are under Sharia law.
That's confusing.
They don't understand it.
Right.
Just like babies born here.
Suddenly now they're illegal.
What?
I mean, not here.
Those are the dreamers.
Aren't there the DACA?
Right.
Yeah, whatever.
Yeah.
Well, there's that that that my god bless it.
Yeah.
Maya Flores.
She's on the news again.
Well, you know, I cannot believe she lost that drum.
You got a bunch of libs down there.
That's the problem.
Well, but she she won.
And that was shocking that she won.
But then they did some gerrymandering.
Yes.
And and changed the district lines or whatever.
And your homeboy end up beating her.
Probably totally shady, in my opinion.
Yeah.
Well, it's true, though.
That I don't you know, if I were to make a recommendation or, you know, change some
things, I would change the that whole program, you know, where they redraw the the lines
were both sides to it.
Yeah.
It doesn't matter.
Well, exactly.
Why do they do that?
Well, well, because they want the votes.
It's the census, isn't it?
Where the people are living.
You know, they figure out who's living there.
So they say there's 100,000 people live in here there.
That's a district.
Right.
So in order to get the next 100, you have to go like this.
OK, so OK.
So that's why they do it.
So they're trying to make the district, the population of the districts equal.
That's why they look weird.
Right.
OK, I'm not sure I put two and two together on that one.
So they're always in a constant a constant effort to make the districts equal in voter
size and representation and representation.
And so they're having to redraw the lines to include certain areas that are brand new
subdivision.
And we just had the census.
That's why they all got redrawn.
So right.
I mean, you got to do that.
You got to do that to include brand new areas and all that kind of stuff.
And then and then suddenly now everybody's, oh, yeah, you read for your favor.
Well, that happens.
They absolutely do.
Well, any time you see like big zigzags going on or they like go through a creek and have
a little narrow line and all of a sudden it flumes open to capture another one.
Get the fuck out of here.
I had no idea.
I there are more constructive ways to do that.
I had no idea.
Blocks.
Boom.
That's what I'm thinking.
You know, get get rid of the gerrymandering.
But just get rid of it.
It is what it is.
This is guess what?
We got we got one hundred thousand square miles.
Bam.
That's counting.
I wonder why they call it gerrymandering.
Where did that word come from?
From the Beavers.
Because Jerry likes to fuck with all the things.
Oh, the best.
Oh, my God.
Jerry is knocking out of the park, isn't he?
I'm well, no, I'm not playing.
Here we are playing play.
You couldn't give it to him.
You could you had to bring you in.
I say, no, no, no, I was about the first thing I know.
No, no, no.
What I was going to say is I mean, what I was going to say is I think I'm going to play
him in the next round, but I'm not.
I'm not playing him.
I'm playing the Plato boys.
The Beavers are playing.
Well, you'll beat the Plato boys and then you'll lose with from the Beavers.
Well, keep in mind, I'm the points champion, so let's not get all cocky over the second
points.
Yeah.
Well, you.
That'd be me.
That's right.
Well, they don't count the playoffs for the points, do they?
No.
What do you mean?
No, no points cut off at that point.
Two separate things, right?
Yeah.
Well, Jeff's question is, do the points stop tallying?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
No, no, they've stopped.
It's over.
I'm already the champion.
No, I think I believe I am.
You're the second point champion.
Well, I lost like 30 points, but I know I am the points champion.
You are the runner up.
Yeah, but you know, it doesn't work that way.
Yeah, I think it does.
Actually, I'm fairly certain it does.
Actually, I had a very good week for my point.
It fucking sucks.
Oh, in the constellation bracket.
No, we're not in a bracket.
They had a constellation bracket, right?
No, they don't.
They're so low.
There is no bracket.
You're such a dick.
Look at you, man.
No, I'm being serious.
No, there is not.
No, there's not.
OK, Jeff and I are hanging out in the constellation bracket, you little shit.
You guys don't play each other?
No, not at all.
We don't play at all.
Oh.
What are you talking about?
Like, you don't know.
No, I'm serious.
I thought there was.
You've always been in the playoffs.
Always.
I have never been in the constellation bracket.
I don't know what that's like.
I can't help it if I'm really, really good at fantasy football.
Balls are swollen, it's like undulating right now.
Well, actually, they're the normal big size.
I mean, they don't get bigger because I made the playoffs.
I don't understand what's going on here.
Why so much animosity?
No, I don't have any.
I just came in second place at points and.
And didn't make the playoffs.
Did not make the playoffs, which pisses me off.
That is the most.
This, we had the most, the biggest anomaly ever where the parody.
What did we have?
We had 12 teams and we had six that were six and seven, five that were seven and six.
I'm just that kind of shit is crazy.
Glad that I didn't suck as bad as Jeff.
Who had more points?
Well, it matters.
Hold on.
The point is what matters.
Oh, because you got a tie with me.
You were one one time better than him.
You select the league button and they're ranked from first to 12th.
And all I'm saying is that he's 12.
I'm ahead of.
But if you look at those points, I'm like 500 points ahead of him.
Seriously, where did you guys end up in the second to last?
You were second to last.
I'm ahead of Jeff.
Who was who was last?
Dream crushers.
Yeah, poor Linda.
Yeah, yeah.
Ouch.
Yeah, she started out strong to.
She beat me.
She beat me once and I beat her once.
She started out strong.
She had a strong she's fucking hating me right now because I if we had tied, I'd be in last
place.
Oh, that's right, because you had the lowest points in the league.
Did you break a thousand?
I don't think so.
You had a thousand and one.
I think I had like thirteen hundred.
No, no, no, no.
I'm definitely off on that one.
There were only three teams that broke thirteen hundred, I think.
Oh, yeah.
I'm one of those.
I broke.
I know I broke a thousand.
Yes, good for you.
That's that's.
I'm one of those in week 10.
Yeah, that's for sure, man.
Yeah, it was a eleven hundred.
Eleven, eleven.
Still, the parody was great.
I thought it was great.
No, it was fun.
I had a lot of fun.
This it was it was so interesting.
I suck so bad last year I gave up after so many.
I was just like, this is terrible.
This year, like midseason.
Last year, it was Jeff is technically six points higher than the first place.
That's stupid.
Stupid.
Oh, now?
In total points now?
Well, no.
I mean, at the time of the rankings before the playoffs.
Why would that be?
No, because I won the points.
No, the first place as far as rankings, not as far as I'm confused.
Yeah.
Well, it doesn't make sense.
So anyway, completely.
So this year was more fun because my team was actually good.
It's just teams.
You put up points, man.
So it just I mean, look, look.
Yeah.
The playoffs that just happened, David, I think, lost to somebody and he would beat
everybody else.
It's like the two top scores played each other.
The two lower scores played.
You know what I mean?
That kind of thing.
It's just it's a crap shoot, man.
It is.
Oh, man, we were all over the place.
Jerry Mandarin.
Here we go.
See Jerry Mandarin film.
Jerry Mandarin redirects not to be confused with Jerry Mandarin.
Iraq is with the Germania plans.
So in representative democracies, Jerry Mandarin is the political manipulation of electoral
district boundaries.
We'll go down to the term.
Jerry Mandarin is named after American politician Elbridge Jerry.
No kidding.
G-E-R-R-Y.
OK.
It's Christmas time.
It's December 20th.
It's dudes like us.
First half, we're already drunk.
This is Sean.
I am Paul.
And I am Jeff.
1812, this guy was the vice president of the United States, Elbridge Jerry.
Never heard of him.
Me neither.
All right.
We're going to go have time, have some snacks and another bourbon.
Yes, sir.
See you in a little bit.
Be back.