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It's a whole nother world because you're just seeing a brown bottle on a shelf. And you're like, all right, what separates this from everything else? Well, you know, we got into it. Obviously, the whiskey space was considerably smaller than it is now. Now it looks like the wine space, you know, row after row of of the whiskeys. When I got into it, it was, you know, quite smaller. There wasn't all the celebrity brands that's great. I appreciate that. Yeah. That are in the in the space now. And you know, we first started. It was six months old. And now, it's three years old. And we haven't changed the price is still under $24 on the shelves. That's awesome. Are you a veteran as well? I am. There you go. How do you feel about Tim Walsh? Well, you know, we get right into it here, dude. I see that we get right into it. How about how about I don't know enough about him yet? How about that? So don't you feel like that's most Americans? I mean, yeah, I mean, I mean, his name is completely new to me. I mean, I know he was governor of Minnesota. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, that's as far as I know about all the the riots and everything that I know about the riots and the tampons and boys rooms. And that's that's kind of it. Everybody's trying to figure him out. But the media in the meantime, every story you read today is, Oh my God, is an amazing human being. Now he's trending number one for stolen valor. He wants to ban AR 15's Bob. If you'll pull up that video that I sent you via DM here on Twitter, we can play that all the way at the bottom right there. Go ahead and play that video. But we can do background checks. We can do CDC research. We can make sure we don't have reciprocal carry among states. And we can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried in war is the only place where those weapons were. Great speech, Tim. It's only one problem with that. You were never in war, fuck face. He was in the National Guard for 24 years. He went to Italy one time to augment security forces at a what is effectively a domestic base, right? And then when it finally came time in 2005 for him to do what would have been his only combat deployment, he fucking he's in the middle of Sergeant Major Academy at the time. We've been through this a little bit, right? But he's in the middle of a school that would have given him the rank that he was currently frocked to. He just quit left his men hanging and fucked off to go chase his political career. He is an absolute cunt. He's a cunt. He's a fucking coward, man. Like he got everything he wanted from the military. And when it was time for him to go do his duty, he fucked off. That's who he is, right? And you can it's it's no surprise. If you track back through the other things he's done. Four days he sat on his hands refusing to send the National Guard into Minneapolis and stop that shit that was going on for four days. And when the mayor for Minneapolis was like, dude, what the fuck? This is after the fact. He was like, what he does understand is they're just a bunch of 19 year old cooks. It's like, no, they've got two different MP battalions. They've got a fucking Air Force security force group. They have an infantry battalion and a cavalry regiment, right? Like they had all that stuff. And the guy that was a sergeant major allegedly, he was he was never a sergeant major. He was frocked to sergeant major. He means you wore it, but he never got paid for it, right? And he says he's he even today on his campaign website, it says retired sergeant major retired. He is not a sergeant major retired. He's a master sergeant retire. Anyways, that that is technically a bit of stolen power telling people he was in combat is far worse. Because he did wear the rank sergeant major for a while, right? He never actually was one. He was just in that billet. But telling people that like, that's the gun I took in combat when you fucking had one opportunity to go to combat and you fucked off and left, he's a fucking pussy. That's who he is. He's a guy who shrinks away when it matters most. That's who he is. And for you guys as veterans, you all you won't know this. So to go out and say this on the campaign trail, this is easily easily fact checkable where you're like, all right, great, man. Did you really do this? No. Now he's getting killed for it on social media. It's an odd thing to say. Like, especially in the media age and the social media age, rather, where everybody's got a phone and everybody's recording everything. It's one thing 1960, you're saying in the backroom to a bunch of old people like this, nobody's ever going to know, right? Well, I mean, what I saw, he was a senior NCO when they deployed it. He was the battalion. He was battalion. Sergeant Major, Sergeant Major, right? And then when they deployed, he decided to retire. Yeah. That was pretty convenient. So it'd be one thing is he's they've been trying to massage this story to say that, oh, he was already planning on retiring. No, he was in the Sergeant Major Academy. It's a two year correspondence. And then you do two weeks fought like as a capstone, basically, to finish the program. He was in the middle of it. That's why he didn't retire to Sergeant Major. They fucking demoted him post. I mean, it's technically not a demotion. They just removed the frock rank from him, right? But everything about this dude is shady as fuck. He disappears when it matters the most. That's who he is. And that's the guy you want fucking a heartbeat away from the presidency. I mean, if Harris wasn't bad enough for Christ's sake, this dude, the problem with this guy for me is that when he says shit like that, he's trading on the honor of men that actually served in fucking combat, dudes that lost their lives, limbs, whatever the fuck their brains are all fucked up now. They actually did their jobs. He's a coward. So JD Vance has already put out a response to this. He's currently on the campaign trail with Trump. Bob, check your DMS and play this clip from JD Vance, please. I have not heard it yet, by the way. When the United States Marine Corps, when the United States of America asked me to go to Iraq to serve my country, I did it. I did what they asked me to do it. And I did it honorably. And I'm very proud of that service. When Tim Walt was asked by his country to go to Iraq, you know what he did? He dropped out of the army and allowed his unit to go without him, a fact that he's been criticized for aggressively by a lot of the people that he served with. I think it's shameful when the United States Marine, so he said word for word, essentially what you just said. Yeah. And here's how we know that's true. You can look just look the guy up. You don't have to take my fucking word for it. I do have an article in Newsweek in the New York Post about it right now detailing all this shit. But don't take my word for it. Go to Google and type in Tom T. O. M. Barron B. H. R. E. N. D. S. He's the sergeant major that actually took Tim Walt's place when Tim Walt's fucked off and left his guys hanging. And what did he say that he's a bitch? Really? Yeah. Okay. He said he's a fucking coward. He fucking left when his team needed him most. And it's not just him. There's another sergeant major from the Minnesota guard that signed on to an open letter saying that. And there's many dudes from his unit lower enlisted guys that say the same thing. This isn't a single source situation. No, not at all. I'm just surprised that again in today's social media era that we're in. If you say something like this, people are going to fact check it immediately. Well, I mean, so from from March of 2021 until December of 2023, Kamala Harris was the borders are. Right? Yeah. And everybody knew it. Everybody reported on it. Everybody wrote about it. Everybody talked about it. Right. And then all of a sudden is like, no, actually, if you wasn't looking for this, like, come on, man. So they don't give a fuck about this shit. They're a full propaganda mode. Nobody's heard of this dude. Like, three weeks ago, it was our four or five weeks ago, how long it's been now. We got to get fucking Biden out of there because he's a retard now, right? Even though we've been pretending like he was a real human being for years, he's a retard. We got to get him out of there. But we should have an open convention. How do we get past Harris? You know, and everybody's talking about it. And then all of a sudden, because she's incompetent, right? Yeah. And then all of a sudden, it's like, actually, she's great. Like, Oh, yeah, Tony, the tiger, fuck off. And then they install this guy. And they're out doing appearances and all that other shit today. Even the Harris walls thing looks weird, because it's they're trying to do like a last waltz or something like that. Even the last name is awkward. None of us really know who this guy is. I know exactly who he is. You you do now, right? But I think most of the mainstream public doesn't really fucking know. But yeah, they're going to find out over the next few days. Yeah. And then obviously at the convention, but he can't be saying shit like this on a daily basis, it's going to get worse. Well, it's going to get worse because at some point, people are going to find out that you know, that whole story that we got into a debate about about late term abortion and post birth abortion. Yeah, it definitely happens in Minnesota, more than any other state, five to eight cases per year, where an abortion doesn't work. Right? It gets carried to terms. She shits the kid out and they just let it fucking sit there on the table and die with no. What do they call it? Comfort care or whatever the fuck? Yeah, they just let it die, right? That happens like half a dozen or so times a year in Minnesota. So in 2023, he gets called out on it instead of changing the law that allows that. He removed the law that reports it. That's who he is. He's a fucking piece of shit, right? He's the most progressive governor that we've ever had in this country, more so than than Gavin Newsom, more so than anybody like Hocho in New York or any of these people, right? He's the most. He's putting tampons in men's bathrooms. He's like, oh, this retarded nonsense, dude. He's a fucking socialist. He said one man socialism or one person's socialism is another person's fucking neighborliness. Like you had your fucking mind. Yeah, do multiple times you said this. Yeah. Just like, I'm sorry, you can be a Democrat, all you want, but I'm not tolerating this shit. Because after that, looking at the numbers that are coming out, and again, we've said this ad nauseam about the polls and shit like this, dude, over and over. So believe what you want. They're saying how great their art together and there's an amazing chemistry and she's up by four to three to two in the national election, all this other shit. And I don't see it. Because there's times where you take yourself out of a podcast and being a host and you're like, okay, what do I really think of this person? I don't know who this is now. Obviously, we're finding it out. But like, I would have thought, even though I'm not a Democrat, choosing Shapiro would have been the move. Like, all right, everybody knows who this guy is. He's a bright, sharp, younger guy. That's that can really move the needle. And then they backed away from it at the last minute and got this guy in a state that you don't need and nobody really gives a shit about. Well, we're not sure exactly what happened there because the rumor is that Shapiro said no. The rumor is that Newsome also said no, right? Okay. And maybe that's true. Maybe it's not. But I think it might be more likely that the modern iteration of the Democratic Party that the let's call it the the collection of people they need to win certain states to win the Electoral College, they can't tolerate a Jew. That's that's pretty much it, right? Every all the circles that I've been involved in and let's face a lot more Hollywood, they said the same thing. Like, oh, cool, you didn't want to choose the Jew. And here's the big problem with that. 80% of Jewish Americans are Democrats. How do they read this situation? Are they voting still? Are they switching? Are they voting for RFK now? What are they doing, right? Like it's not a huge population. It's like 16 million people total. So I think like maybe what 70% of those are adults. I don't know what percent are registered to vote, right? So it's not it's not a huge amount of people and mostly it's in the Northeast and in California, right? But still when you have states that are coming down between 10,000 and maybe 100,000 votes, it means a lot. Yeah, and I think they're I mean, boy, just from from my perspective, if somebody did that, I would be upset. If I was a Democrat, I would be very much I would be more upset at my own party than anybody right now because in the last three election cycles, they put up, you know, they cut Bernie out, even though he was the guy that could have won. Like Hillary never had a chance of winning that election. Yeah. And they were and she forced her way in and they let her do it. And they disenfranchised the voters, right? And the second one, they lied their ass off to say that this dude was fucking mentally competent. And he clearly wasn't. And they finally had to admit it. And in this next one, they fucking let all the con they let all the primaries go for eight months. They let those primaries go like he's actually the fittest I've ever seen him. He's sharp as a tack blah blah blah. And then he gets enough delegates for the nomination and like, well, well, we need to put our other gallon. Unfortunately, we don't have time for another primary. So we're just gonna put her in. She got fucking certified today, by the way, before, before the convention, she's certified now. She's officially the candidate now. Okay, great. Look, that's who we wanted all along. So that's fine. Yeah, I mean, I'm just saying from the perspective of a Democratic voter, there's got to be it's there's got to be some point where your mind rebels. When your entire message is they're coming after our democracy, they're coming after our democracy, which is not a thing, by the way, let's just say it is from their perspective. At some point, your brain has got to wake up and say, Oh, didn't they just subvert my part of the democratic process again? They didn't care less. Right. No, they don't. So that's what's odd about it to me. It is very odd. Yeah. But as the spin continues here, I'll go back to something we said on yesterday's show of whether or not this was all just a punt. And we'll take a look at last night's primary as an example of this. If you have this extreme side of the party, which let's face it, Tim, it's probably the most extreme governor wise on that side by far, right, as far as for voting record and everything. She's the most liberal senator we've ever had in America. Yes. Was this a plan by Obama and them to wipe this out seeing what's what happening in these primaries? Corey Bush got smoked last night. Yeah. That's now the second member of the squad that didn't even make it out of a primary. It could be a heat check to by Obama. Like he it could be not just like, maybe he's okay with the punt, but he's just going to throw the two most lefty people out there possible and see what happens. And if they win, then fucking we're done here. You know what I mean? But the reason I bring it up is Republicans went through something similar with the Tea Party. Remember that? There was a movement for a while. And then the people that were more extreme on that side ended up getting booted out and they were gone. And it feels like it's happening on the left side right now with Corey Bush. Bob, what were the final numbers last night? She only lost by like seven points. Yeah, I was like six, seven points. He was up really big early, but I think the county polls were reporting before the city polls were. Okay. And you know that that state obviously better than us. That's the district. Is it going to be a Democrat? Yes. This is the bell guy when Wesley Bell's gonna win the seat. Gotcha. Yeah, there's no no repub could ever win that seat. Well, that's and that's fine. But he's also black. So it's not you can't really say racism today. Well, you kind of came because APAC funded this campaign, right? And that's the second person. That's the second person on the squad, actually, that APAC has wiped out an election. Now they try to bowman as well. They tried it with Thomas Massey as well. Kentucky and Kentucky was like, we don't care about your bullshit. Like, this is America. We don't give a fuck about Israel. So fuck off, right? And as far as that in particular, PAC is concerned, like, you can't, in my opinion, you can't have foreign countries coming in here. That is influencing the election. Now, granted, I hate Cory Bush and I hate Bowman as well, who lost. But to give each candidate, the other candidate $13 million for their opposing views in another country's fucking more that I don't give a shit about should be against the law, in my opinion. Like, why? Because it is, you're really interfering with our elections by buying out candidates from another fucking country. Why is that allowed? I don't know. I mean, I would think that there would be some regulation against lobbying for a foreign country. Like, you should have to register as a foreign agent, right? Yes. At the minimum, you would have, you should have to register as a foreign agent. I think if you're a natural, if you're over here on purpose to do that and you're getting paid for it, whatever, I guess that's legal, but you got to register. But if you're a naturalized citizen, like you weren't born here and then you came over here and you're waving somebody else's flag and fundraising for somebody else and supporting some other country, we should rescind their citizenship immediately and kick them the fuck out of here. Send them wherever the fuck they want to go. First class ticket, wherever you want to go. It's 20 grand to Australia. That's a fucking expensive ticket. Sure is. We'll send you. We'll send you right there. But you're asked the fuck out of here. Because as much as I hate those guys, I still think it's wrong that another country came in and dropped 13 million on an individual congressional campaign for Christ's sakes. That's a small district. Not Corey's, necessarily, but Bowman's, where you're like, "Hey, dude, 13 million dollars to the other candidate." I think it was, was it 13 in his and then nine in hers? Yeah. Something like that, Bob? I think it was nine in hers. I mean, that's a fuck ton of money. It's a fucking money. For a congress seat. This is just your district? Yeah. That means essentially you could run ads 24 hours a day on local TV. Let's face it. It's an older crowd, demographic-wise, that is going out and voting in primaries. It's pretty fucking influential. If you look at it as some other country, they have about the same population, both districts. What are they? About 750,000. Okay. What are the winning votes there? I'm going to guess 75,000. Just pull up last night's stats. It'll tell you who it was. I know this when we were doing the school board thing, there's a number that they want you to hit and they're like, "Look, if you hit this number, you're going to win and it doesn't really matter." I'm sure it's the same because you're probably looking at, you'd be lucky, I would imagine, if 20 to 25 percent of your district is voting in primaries, I think. You've done campaign stuff for- Yeah. I mean, I think the average voter turnout in America is 41 percent for a general election. For a general? I think 40-45, maybe, on a good year. Trump and Biden set the record and it was like 60 percent. Yeah, none of that was real, either. But look at the winners from last night. Just pull up their stats, Bob. Yeah, that's what I'm looking at here. Just go to Google, type in Google up there and- I just should have found the right race. Well, it's black, Bob. They're both black. Okay, that's the race. All right? No, he means the political race. Oh, got you, got you. Well, if you just type in Corey Bush and numbers from last night, it'll give it to you. No, I'm getting it. Corey Bush and then numbers from last night. Yeah. Jesus. It's district one, by the way. Yeah, I know it is. It's not- He got 63,340 and she got 56,492. Boom. I was fucking almost right on the money there with 75,000. I mean, you were off by 12,000. That's not bad. And I don't even know where the fuck this is. But the total voter turnout, 65 plus- You can say that I'm amazing. 23,819 was the total vote turnout. Good, Lord. That's fucking pathetic. Also, sorry, guys. We've been using Bing. Oh, are we banging it this week? Well, you told us to. I did. How's that going, Bob? I'm not you. It's not great. It's not doing great. You couldn't even type in Corey Bush primary numbers and that popped up. So, Bing, come on, man. If you want to get in the Google game, you got to do better than that. But yeah, if you're able to get those kind of voters out, I mean, $13 million wouldn't help you do that. I mean, shit, dude. That's a lot of fucking money to spend in these states. But who's up next? I think it's Illinois Mar. Does she have a shot to lose? Pull that up, because I believe- Only if there's another Somali running against her. So, yes. Not really. She's favored to win. Corey Bush was not favored to win. Jamal Bowman was not favored to win. Illinois Mar is fairly decently favored to win. Yeah. I think she'll probably win. You think so? Yeah. She's got the kind of money that APAC can't fuck with. Where is that coming from? Democrats. It is. They really like her. I find that hard to believe. I feel like they wanted Corey. She's a check mark for them. She's a quota filler. It doesn't matter what she says or does. Okay. I mean, in the latest poll, it's like plus 19 plus 27. She's not for Illinois Mar. Yeah, mostly because it's a fucking nobody running from her right on in a far left district. That's not going to happen. Yeah. Right. Not that it's a conservative like old blue dog Democrat or anything. It's just like, she's a lunatic. No, that's who wins there because they're all fucking lunatics. You know, it works a lot like the- And I'm sure you've heard about this before, I haven't lived in New York, but the Hasidic Jewish community up there, they vote as a block. Yep. Everybody's instructed on who to vote for from the top of the ticket down to the bottom. It's the same thing in the small one. And they walk in together, brother. Yep. Like they're all in a row. I love it. Well, they- The fucking organization is top-notch. Strength in numbers, dude. You know what I mean? They're easy to spot in a crowd, so you got to stick together. Yeah. And if somebody will come by and tug those little fucking curls. I lived in a Hasidic Jew neighborhood in Los Angeles. They travel in packs, man. And it's like, very cool. You're not fucking with any of those guys. To be honest, they're wearing too much wool to be fucked with. You don't know what's underneath it. It's 95 degrees outside. Yes. They're still wearing wool. That's a tough dude, in my opinion. LA is a little lighter weather, but they're wearing so much gear. You're like, man, how many guns could you fit underneath it? Uzzies, too, because they made the Uzzie. No shit. And the Glock. We're gonna save Delco? Got another reason to hate Tim Walz. Oh, what now? What happened now? He doubled under- As governor, with attacks, he doubled the prices in. No. We don't do that with tobacco and alcohol, right? Now I know that fucking Tucker hates him. Yeah. Tucker runs through zens faster than any human being I've seen. I did an hour long show with him in Florida, and he popped in like four different zens. So not like, not have one, take it out and sit on the table, put it back in. Like going through him like, dude, you're all right over there? You're going to start sweating. You better calm down. I'm sweating now here, but for a different reason, we had a lot of barbecue, but these are the loosies. The loosey breakers that are here. Those are eight milligrams. So Zen only comes in three and six. Lucy's better. Well, I hear a man is all I'm saying. Well, you guys hear me do the ad reads and everything like that every day. Bob, I don't even know if they're a sponsor on today's show. I don't care. We love them. And I think it's hilarious. But the last line of the copy is they were like, hey, feel free to tell everyone that there is a Zen shortage. And I was like, well, I'm gonna have to look that up. Sure enough. Yes, there is. Everybody's doing these goddamn things. But there's other brands that are making them. And it's hilarious to me like, out of nowhere. Now we'll get to your company here. Let's take Zen, for example, is a good one. And Dan and I are always looking to sit down with other entrepreneurs and kind of pick your brain about everything. But take Zen ZYN. It's a company that trademark wise, there's nothing else out there like it. When I very first saw it, I was like, how does this catch? I don't even know how to pronounce that. And until I heard a bunch of other people talking about it, I was like, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. With you, how did you get America? Well, you know, being a former Marine, or I guess still a Marine, I thought that's how it's spelled. And coming from Texas, we always saw it as a term of endearment. We never use A down here as always, America. And I didn't realize it till later on, after I became adult, we never really say America. We just say America. And that's, you know, so the spelling and the term of endearment seemed to work for us. When you got the trademark for it, was there any pushback? I would think there was like 30 of those. There was quite a bit of a pushback. I actually had to make a couple trips to DC to meet with the attorneys that were deciding on if they were going to grant a trademark or not. And because they wanted to consider it a geographical location. So that was kind of the argument we had. Yeah, but that's a colloquial phrase. That's not how it is. It is. Which is also can be difficult to get trademarks as well. Easier than geography. Like, you can't make Texas beer and get that trademark. That's right. Ever, right. That's right. And that's why we couldn't go with America. And so, you know, it took us about three years, but we finally got the bourbon trademarked. And then, of course, the beers and extension to that brand. Right on. Yeah, we're in the process of doing the same. Then you got patent trolls. Yeah. And all that other stuff. How long did you serve? I served four years. Four years. And then when you got out, were you having a tough time transitioning or figuring out what you were going to do after that? Or did you know this is what you wanted to do? Oh, absolutely not. And certainly, when I got out, it was a lot different than transitioning now. You were just out. I mean, I left the gates of Camp Lejeune and that U-Haul, and that was it. And there was no cell phones. I mean, people had pagers and so forth. What year did you get out? 1992. Okay. And so, there wasn't the technology that you have now. There wasn't groups like the drinking brothers, or there certainly wasn't. I like what people call us the drinking brothers because I think it myself in like a top hat with a monocle. You know what I mean? Yeah, so do I. Oh, the drinking brothers are here. That means you thank you. It's a lot more classy than what we really are. It's sure is. And it sounds nice when you're traveling in the back of an old timey wagon. Oh, you know, you guys call you the booze brothers. 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Yeah, I mean, when I went to, I was with second force reconnaissance company. And when I started, we were with second marine division. And then we went to second F.S. Second F.S. G, I believe. And then second SRI. Well, now it's like it's on our side. So now it's a part of J.Sock. And they were just, it was kind of that thing where they're trying to figure out a green side and black side, you know, and we started forming direct action platoons and things of that nature. But it was definitely a very transitional time. I was trained, I went to Amphibri Khan School in Fort Story, Virginia. And a lot of the gentlemen who trained me were Vietnam vets who had served and recon teams in Vietnam. So obviously they knew a bit about jungle warfare and so forth. But, and obviously they had the combat experience after those tours. And they were certainly different kind of, they're different. Yes, some wild assholes and wild assholes. You can imagine doing like lures, like long range reconnaissance detachments and fucking Vietnam with a bunch of Marines, right? Yeah. Yeah. That's the wildest of the wild. And I'm sure you've seen some gay ass shit, right? Oh, yeah, constantly. Yeah. Chicken, you name it. We're going to do it. We're going to do it today. Okay. Perfect. Now we're going to do it today. I get his fucking hottest balls. It is really hot in there. By the way, because we did a presentation with everybody like, I don't do this, but I always say we use our fucking sponsors. I'm going to take my fucking jeans off here. It's just too goddamn hot here today. I'm not, I'll pull the microphone up. We got listeners back here in the studio, like, dude, we're going fucking pants off today. I can't deal with this shit anymore. It is fucking hot in Texas. I hate this goddamn state. These are either sheath or, who's our meundis? These are meundis. Yeah. Well, you're safe as a pole vaulter, so you're good. Oh, me? You sure not. I don't know if you saw what happened. The Olympics. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He said, you know what his, you know what his response to that was? He said it was a very big disappointment. I don't know if you're talking about his hog or the, or losing the metal. Certainly the hog wasn't the disappointment. No, I mean, the, the, at the entire, it's rare that you get the opportunity to without being a fucking creepy dick about it. Let the whole world know you got a giant dick. Exactly. And he, he was able to do it. Sorry. I feel good for patreon. Here you go, dude. Fucking jeans are off today, dude. I'm not doing this bullshit anymore. Fucking Texas. Holy Christ. There's a lady, listen, I'm so sorry back there, by the way. She's like, what the fuck are you talking about? Oh, she actually took her pants off when she got here too. Well, welcome. There's some barbecue over there. Might as well rub that into it, but my god, it's fucking here. They're 103 today, 104. Is it really? Yeah. God, this fucking stuff. I mean, I'm just pouring sweat. This is about that doesn't help that I'm drinking your bourbon and in between it. But this is the last, you fuck it. Yeah, let's do it. Because everybody thinks they're like, hey, everybody thinks, oh, hey, then you guys have your own booze company won't promote anybody else's booze. It's not true. Like you root for everybody's business to succeed. And there's enough money out there for all this shit where you're like, dude, let's help each other out. So where is America beer served? It's so right now, we're brewing at Alamo Brewery in San Antonio, Texas. I know. So it's in Antoine. Yeah, so it's pretty local. And then we just got mandated for HEB across Texas. So do we? Congratulations, you as well. So we're setting up distribution right now across the state, Tri-City and the New Bronzefuls area just picked us up. The Kristen in a college station, that area. Yeah, we're in negotiations with quite a few more. But you know, we're just trying to get it out there and found out the buyer for buckies as a former jar head. So, yeah, Ryan will show some mercy on us. There it is. Go in there, Ryan. Go in there, Ryan. Yeah, because we root for everybody's company, especially veterans, man. Because once you come back, there's nothing there. Nobody wants to fucking help you with anything. The VA doesn't want to do shit for you. So if you're injured and everything else, yeah, fuck you. Job-wise, fuck you. Because they want some form of education that you may or may not have. Meanwhile, you guys been leading teams and working with teams your entire life being on time, everything else. I'd rather hire veterans every fucking day if I could. Rather than somebody at a Harvard or Columbia for Christ's sake. And you asked me earlier about the transitional, you know, my skill set didn't necessarily translate into office management. Sure. And so, just like my friend sitting next to me here was 80 seconds, so we're both airborne guys. And, you know, you're almost... There's not a whole lot of opportunities in the civilian world to jump out of planes and shoot people to face. Exactly. Unfortunately. And so, you almost like forced entrepreneurial wisdom, I would say, right? Because I mean, it's either that or a lot of people get lucky and find their way into an environment that makes sense for them, I guess, right? The tribe part matters. Because I've worked in private security for a while, but mostly by myself. And, you know, I don't need to talk very much, so doing bodyguard work was great for me. Because I'm just like, I just put my hand on the dude and move him to where I want him to be. And then start doing whatever business I have to do, right? Then I worked for the federal government for a year. And I remember my first day, my section chief, I'm just... I'm speaking the way that I speak, right? And she goes, "Oh, you know, we don't really swear in the office like that." I'm like, "Oh, is there a handbook somewhere that says that?" And she goes, "No." I'm like, "Well, I'm gonna do it." And she was like, "You know what? Let's go." She took me to go get coffee after that. I'm like, "Yeah, I'm not doing that. I'm gonna fucking say whatever I want." So, if you got a problem with that, that's your problem, honey. And no lie, I was on the phone the other day with a company for a car. It was actually Ryan Mills' car, actually, for insurance. And they were like, "Sir, can you tell us the name of your business?" And they were like, "I was like, "Hard AF Seltzer?" And he goes, "Great, like what?" And I was like, "Hard as fuck?" And he goes, "Sir, there's no need for the language." And I go, "Oh, there's no language. That's the name of the company." So, if you have a problem with that, maybe we shouldn't be able to do this insurance company and go, "Oh, shit, I'm sorry," or whatever. And I was like, "Okay, cool." But it depends on what you do, what your business is, what your strategy is, and then how you're gonna talk to people and present yourself. And I'm sure you've gone through this a million times. Oh, yeah. And I could see some co-branding opportunities there. You know, America and hard as fuck. Oh, yeah. That goes hand in hand, you know. But oh, yeah. I mean, all the trials and tribulations. I mean, certainly when we first started on the bourbon side, we got an appointment with Walmart, and we had no expectations when we went to Benton We got the instant no. And I said, "You know, I'm in Bentonville, Arkansas. I might as well get to know these people a little bit. I'm here already." And we got talking a little more. She gave us a license to hunt and talked a little more. And she said, "I'm gonna put you on the fall module." And we didn't know any of the Walmart speak. I was with a friend of mine who was, who put the PowerPoint together for me. He was a disabled veteran from the Rocky War Marine. And she said, "What does that mean?" She goes, "Well, you're gonna go in between 700 and 1200 Walmart's." And we both shut up. And he's like, "Do you want to see the PowerPoint?" Because I'm sure worked really hard on it. If you want to show it to us, you can, but it's not. And I'm over there like, "No, let's get out of here." As soon as they say, "Yes, you know what I got out of here, bro." The biggest problem is we didn't have any money or whiskey. I had a mock bottle. And my friend did the labels for us. So now, like, "Oh boy, now what are we gonna do? Now we gotta figure out where we're gonna get this whiskey from." And I was a distributor for five years in the Houston area, Spirit's distributor. And so I had built some relationships there. And we found a company that would give us some whiskey on terms. And of course, we found some factoring on purchase orders. Yeah, that's kind of how it helps. When you're young, I mean, it's not, if you've got a thriving business, I wouldn't recommend it. No, not at all. Without cash trying to start something and you need product, I mean, it helps. Did you ever work with lead slingers by the chance? I did. Oh shit. So I was actually the first distributor. I was gonna say, man, I feel like I know you. Yes. I was the first distributor in Texas. And I got you guys, were you with lead slingers? Well, that's our co-hosts. Okay. That's Jared. Yeah. Yeah. Rocco. Because Rocco was doing it. Matt's, I think it was just the three of them at that time. Yeah, I know him. But he, we had done the movie, Range 15, and he goes, "Hey, let's put lead slingers in there." I was like, "Yeah, great. Can you get it to me?" And it came from you. Yeah. That's a great story in itself because I was talking to Matt over the phone. And he said, "I'm going to send you some samples." And Spex has had no to us and so forth. And he, I thought when he said samples, but he sent me 10 pallets. And so, no, I got to tell you what, what probably happened was he asked Jared to do it because that's a Jared thing. He's a retarded person. Yeah. He did that. So, he made some every year for the TACP Association. Okay. And he would send them like literally, just for one event, an entire pallet of fucking whiskey. That's a lot. It's a hundred cases of fucking whiskey, dude. Ten bottles is probably fine for anything like that. Yeah. He sent an entire pallet with branded, like co-branded labels and shit. Oh my God, Jared, what the hell? You're trying to murder your own people? What are you doing? Dude, it's expensive. There's not even that many JTACs in the world. Yeah. And you know, it turned out to be a great story because we got the placement and specs and the brand started growing in Texas. I was able to set them up with some distribution in Nevada as well. And then I was more of a smaller distributor, well, medium-sized distributor, more the incubator. And then I moved them to United and, and the rest is history. I don't know. Yeah, but, and now it's a full circle of life. Eight years later, I'm sitting in this podcast with the, the bourbon and the beer. And so, you know, and then the guy from range 15 just took his pants off live on there and threw it around. There you go. There you go. I remember when that movie, you guys did that film and it was right before Shot Show, right? I mean, I might have met you at Shot Show. I did. We did the trailer world premiere there at the Paris Hotel. That's right. That's right. That's right. 5,000 people. It was nuts. Holy shit. I didn't have all this gray then, so you probably didn't. Yeah. Well, none of us did. Yeah, exactly. Go back and look at pictures of us from from years ago. Actually, you can pull up a picture of me from range 15. Bob, look up. Look up Dan Holloway. Look up classics. Look up classics. Well, no, it wouldn't be Dan Holloway, it'd be Colonel Holloway. Colonel Holloway. And it's spelled with O-W-A-Y. Yeah. But either way. Just see who that character was. Because I've changed a lot, actually, since 2015. Quite a bit. You, it's, I can't, I can't put my finger on it. What's different about you. Just click images there. There you go. Yeah. So, I'm in the middle. Nope. There it is. Time certainly flies. No doubt about that. Yeah. Actually, on the, all the way to the left. There you go. All the way to the left. There you go. Perfect. All the way to the left. Ah, click just the fucking. No. On the top row, man. There you go. Right there. Oh, yeah. No, keep throwing to the left. Top left. Top left. All the way to the left. Oh my God, dude. Top left. Top left. You're going. You have a black guy motherfucker. Jesus Christ, Bob. Some days he's good. Some days he's terrible. That's him. In 2015. That's him. He was supposed to do that movie. And, and in pure, in pure, now I was, I was working. I couldn't make it for this. It was, it was a 16 day shoot. It's the fastest movie shoot of all time. You don't have a choice with that type of budget. Um, so this is me. And in true Jared fashion, he spelled my name wrong and everything. Did he really? Yeah. Yeah. Fuck off. Ask him even on the. Wait, zoom in. Is it say Halloween? It's O-W-A-Y. Yeah. Fucking mom. Now that I didn't know either. Oh, yeah. He always does that. So, by the way, so did Joel did it on the credits for St. Gondo too. Oh, he didn't put the A. Yeah, it's not like my name is everywhere, including on his fucking paychecks. Yeah. Jesus Christ, dude. That's really fucking funny. But let's clingers was in that. Um, and so we, we had the products and everything else. And, uh, as it was going along, um, I give a place in, uh, in Wilmington, North Carolina, tiny fucking liquor store there and, you know, just on an island, literally an island. Um, fuck. Maybe 28,000 people live there tops. Mm-hmm. What do I see? Led slingers whiskey on the shelf. Wow. And I was like, holy shit. You know, and I gotta tell you, it's a living proof that, um, you know, that brands can work together. And I mean, lead slingers in America were in a competitive space, but we were still helping each other. And, and the brands are both still out there. So it, you know, it doesn't really hinder you. And I, I mean, to tell you the truth, like, I'm, I'm so proud of all of you. I'm so proud of the guys, you know, Jared and, and everybody with black rifle. It's just amazing. And I'm inspired to see what other veterans have done in the space. And, you know, may God bless them and may all of you keep moving forward. Really. Same. And you hope, oh, you hope all your friends are rich. Like, Dan and I get that question all the time about, uh, black rifle or hardy, I sell turn on the other seven. And it was like, Hey man, I hope everybody's rich. Absolutely. You want all your friends to be rich and happy and full of life. And that's what the American dream really is all about. And there's enough money out there for everyone. So to be so selfish in one thing or another, we're like, Hey dude, who gives this shit? Like, all right. I think the word brothers used a little loosely these days. I mean, really, I mean, a true brotherhood is, you know, wanting to help your brother through thick and thin, you know, it doesn't matter if it's a veteran communication community or, uh, you know, a fellow American, right? I mean, we should all want the best for each other. No doubt about it. Yeah. And with the one Omar, the term brother is a little different for her because she married her brother. Well, the word is really the country. The two words are really similar in her language. Are they? Okay, good, good. But she got him into the country. So yeah, I mean, a couple people. Randy Savage, obviously brothers different to him. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, Cogan, what if brothers way different to him? What if we, what if we made a drink in brothers? And it was like two, it was a black version of us. I think I would love it. I just don't slackface in movies. So like, I don't you've already got pictures of me. Yeah, that's fine. But let's get actual black people. Oh, yeah. And replace us. Yeah. No, no, not just a new show. Well, who would you want is your black person, then? To be me. Yeah. Fuck. I don't know. Yeah. That's a good question. I know I want to be me. It was a guy named Cam Patterson. He's a black comedian. Bob, pull him up. I love to have him on the show. I caught him opening for Uncle Lazer one night and he was really fucking. Oh, yeah, he's great. He's really funny. He's naturally funny. And I don't know what his story is or what he was in Orlando selling weed. Oh, was somebody founded somebody like his his best friend. I've heard a story before his best friend convinced him to go do an open mic. And somebody saw him and then started bringing him to Austin to do comedy here. No, no, that was like two and a half or three years ago. Wasn't that long ago? So he was, if you remember the guy on Kill Tony talking about how I'm not retarded, but I like rocks and he pulls rocks out of his fucking pocket. Oh, is that him? Yeah, it's him. No, shit. He's really fucking funny. Yeah, you open up for Uncle Lazer, but that's one of the things that we're high on in this network is trying to find weird people and then putting them out into the sphere and see if it hits. Right now, it's Gary Faust. But is Gary even here? No, he's not. Like he's not even fucking here. Well, speaking of Hulk Hogan, you know, he has a beer out as well. He sure does. Do you want to talk about it or no? I mean, it doesn't bother me. I mean, it's cool. I'm not a wrestler. I think wrestlers will, you know, people that are wrestling fans will can I really give you some backstory on it? Yes. Okay, great. I talked to him back in January. Okay. And this was before the launch of it and everything else. So he owned the rights to all of those catch phrases. Obviously his name image and likeness there and the WWE song or what was formerly WWF. He's the only wrestler that owns his own IP and shit. And I was like, how the fuck did you get this and everything else? And he's like, man, we negotiated brother and it was, you know, everything you would hope for at a Hulk Hogan, he's rad. And you know, we're trying to set up an interview with him down in Florida. He's torn around with a beer right now. But the other got all the rights to it. And that was the smartest thing that he did. The other guys, even the big ones, I won't mention any names because I don't want to put their business on the street, but they have to get permission from WWE. If they want to go do like a if they want to go to Comic Con or something and sign shit, they have to get permission to be in character. And let's say an athlete, so I'll go further. Let's say retired athletes. See, that's Rudy Jersey behind you. It's signed for from Notre Dame back there. It's on the back wall, not on set because obviously Notre Dame is a school full of losers. And they haven't won anything in 40 fucking years. So it's on the back wall over there for people that want to come in and see Notre Dame shit. If you were to turn that around, it's actually not the official Notre Dame jersey, even the rights to it. Now, if he wants to go to the store and buy his own Rudy jerseys that are officially Notre Dame license, he has the right to do that and sell them. However, he's going to have to jack up that autograph price to make back what he bought in the jerseys inside the stores. So that's how crazy some of this shit gets on the back end, where you're like, God damn, it'd be much easier to invent an original brand. Now, Hulk Hogan was the biggest star in the world for many, many years in sports. He also saved us from the iron cheek, for example. You'd all be speaking Persian right now, but it wasn't our Hulk Hogan. And serious question for you on that, would we even think about going to war with Iran? If if if Hogan was involved, like, no, if they wouldn't, they wouldn't be talking shit. Sure would. If Hogan was involved, sure wouldn't, to be honest, right? So if Trump gets in there, any chance we install him is sector. No, I mean, it's going to be, it's going to be air prints, but I want Hogan. Hogan could be what's his name? John Kirby, the DOD spokesperson or whatever. Oh my God. Let's go. Everything he does is a fucking psych up speech. It's a campaign speech. It's like, we're losing to me, brother. But that's all I want to hear. Yeah, it'd be great. That's all I want to hear a daily basis. Can you imagine being like a member of NATO and they send Hulk over there? It's like, yeah, good luck, guys. You want to look around over here? God, I immediately go to Savage. All right, Pete. I wish he was still a little bit coffee in the meantime. I guess they would think that everybody in America is extremely tan. But what you saw that hot dog skin. That's what I want. Blonde Chinese hair. Steroid coat out crazy where they're like, hey, dude, we cannot fuck with Americans. And it's like, it's Hogan, Savage, all those other guys. I was like, well, can we fuck with those guys? And then they come over there, rip it off shirts. The ultimate warrior comes out, just fucking rip it on fucking ropes. Can you imagine him going to North Korea, just poking Kim, John, on in the fucking gut? Like, yeah, it looks like you haven't been taking your vitamins, brother. It's the fucking bad. If you had them in the chair, we're doing now. Stone Cold Steve Austin, dude, just starts off all those NATO meetings. Just boom, two cans of beer. Let's fucking talk. My dick's hard. Sorry. And I got boxers on now, but I don't know if you guys are old enough to remember a wrestler named Captain Redneck Dick Murdock. Whoa. Oh, wow. Bob Bullock, but the captain, my dad and I will de-commerse him. My hacksaw has been real, hacksaw Jim Duggan is his cousin. So he's married to my cousins. When I was living in Puerto Rico, I ran into this guy on the beach and turned out he was a former Marine. And him and I became fast friends and hanging out together. Unfortunately, he died in his early 50s of arms. That's him right there. And he was in the WWE. Don't try and tell me this guy was a redneck from Amarillo, Texas. This guy died of a heart attack. I mean, I think he would have made a good diplomat going over to the North Korea, you know, with the Hulkster, if he was still around. Oh, Captain Redneck there. He used to get the folks on the island pretty well. Sure is the animal steel. Get some of those old guys back there. Exactly. Dusty roads. Dusty roads could lead in marketing, Kenny. I love Dusty roads, man. I love Dusty roads. Instead of those jabronis that translate at the U.N., it's what's not Jim. It's stroked out dude. What the fuck's his name? Jimmy Hart, mouth of the South. No, no, no, the guys that did the announcing. Oh, yeah. Jimmy and I love this guy. There's Lawler, Jerry Lawler, and Jim Ross, yeah. It's Jerry Lawler and Jim Ross. Just fucking lighting people up. Yeah, being the best. What's this jabroni talking about? And the mouth of the South brings them out, you know? Ladies and gentlemen, they should handle the debate. Probably great. It'd be fucking great. Debates be worth watching now, wouldn't they? I mean, other than some guys staring off in the distance and, you know, the whole talking about the golf swing and this and that. I think we're not that far away from having a debate on either a Rogan or a Tucker or somebody like that. I agree. Where you're just 'cause like, let's say it was me and you two with the candidates right here, we could have a nice, honest conversation where people aren't yelling at each other without an audience because I think an audience isn't great either because you're trying to project and then, you know, go to the back row for all those other guys. I think Trump and whoever, Kamala, you would have an honest conversation sitting around on a microphone, especially if you got earphones on. That's true. Then you can't be that loud. That's true. Neither one of them get really loud anyways of all the things they do. I mean, she cackles loudly, but she doesn't speak loud. Neither one of them are yellers. I mean, every now and then, Trump's got that weird inflection at the end of his some of the word, but it's not like it's high pitch sometimes, like it has an inflection, but it's not like loud. You know what I mean? He doesn't scream. But the guys from yesterday, Shapiro was, he yelled his voice out last night. Josh Shapiro. Yeah. On the worst two words, Kamala and Harris, like, save some for the end, buddy. Yeah. It's going to happen. That's going to happen. But she changes her accent, so depending on who she's in front of her. Yeah. If she was in here right now, I'd be like, "Oh." And she'd be white. Yeah. When she was in Atlanta, she had a black scent down there. Oh, yeah. She was in southern too, on top of it, because like how her greens were the best. Oh, yeah. She's never been a black person in the southeast of America, which is what she was pretending to be. But what do they sound like, bro? Now, do you know what I mean? The repeal? No, that's a white down in Georgia. Oh, that's what it sounded like. Oh, a black guy down there? I don't want to get him canceled. Hey, man. But I will. Like, I don't mind getting you canceled. But I don't want to do that. Not yet. Not yet. We're towards the end here. We're trying to get in the store still. I know. You're sweating a little bit like I am, and you're like, "Oh, damn it, man." We got so far through this show, and then Ross fucked it all up. Yeah. Unless you're, you know, I might be looking at you guys for a job that hard as fuck. Exactly. No, that's not what it stands for. We would never swear. No, this is a hard armed forces. Yeah, our Air Force. Yeah. And then the only thing you have to do is just go into your local liquor stores, say you're pitching them and say, "Hey, man." And that's all we ask out of our employees. So if you can do that in a black voice, we're good to go. Hey, man. What if we pay, I mean, Steve Austin's got his own beer now, but what if we paid Steve Austin just to go into places and slam two hardy-ups together, pour them all over his face, throw them on the ground, stun somebody on the way out, right? whomever's walking in the door, he just lights their ass up. Is Ryan Mills still here? Yeah. That'd be great. Ryan, you got to take one for his team. He's got his own beer. He's got his own beer now. He's not going to do it. Like, you couldn't pay him to anymore. What do you want me to do? No, I want you to get stolen cold stun by, uh, by stolen cold Steve Austin. Oh, yeah. Yeah, there it is right there. Done. And every single SPACs total lines in H.E. Cross. Mainly SPACs have been doing that. I mean, that's like 600 stores. He's got to sell it better, though. He sure does. He didn't take that well. Well, he didn't know. He didn't know you were going to grab him, Delco. There's a difference between you and stone cold. So yeah, this guy on screen does not look like stone cold at all. No, he sure does not. Who he is. Sure, that makes a lot of sense. Well, that's that's an old school wrestler. That was an old school wrestling body back. It was normal for back. It was the end time in shape out of shape. Big, big time. I mean, he could put a lot of beer away too, you know. Oh, I mean, the understatement, it's a good five. He's taking you on to the table. Yeah, he invited us to one of the matches and he was a bad guy, of course. And my buddy who I won't mention his name was a major league baseball player who grew up around me and he was playing winter ball over there and he just got called up to the Mets. And, um, you know, the, the locals were throwing shit at, uh, Dick Burdock and my buddy who Dick Burdock gave us the free tickets to he started picking up stuff and throwing it. I'm like, what are you doing? You know, Dick gave us the tickets. He's like, sorry, bro. I just got caught in the moment, you know, he goes, what are you, what are you going to do? I was just feeling it. And that's, and that happens. It happens here. A lot of feeling it, you know. I feel great today. Throw some stuff at Dick. I'll fucking launch myself right through that goddamn television. Throw some, throw some. It's so hot down here that it's, I've become delusional with it. Did J.D. Vance walk into the studio back there? Also, you're all, you're all greased up now too. You could slide right in. I'm oil at this point. Yeah. I'm shiny as shit right now. I swept my fucking dick off. Still in boxers, by the way, if you don't believe me. Is that one of our listeners right there? Yeah. Okay. Good thing. All right. Thumbs up. There we go. Hard to see through the lights and all that shit. But I was like, I always asked just in case you're, you're, you're about ready to take the shot. Because you're as close to me from Trump, I feel like. And, you know, took my head to the right or left, boom, we're good to go there. Isn't it wild that it's been only like three weeks since the assassination attempt? Nobody talks about it. Not a word. Not one fucking word. Not one word. So strange to me. We had an assassination attempt on a fucking president, United States. And then it is gone. And then it never happens. And it was, it was the most egregious lapse of security in the history of this country. Yeah. And then also a week and a half later, the nominated candidate just got replaced by somebody with no vote. Yep. And all that's in the past now. It should happen fucking days ago, man. Gone, man. And it's very bizarre, super, super bizarre. And I'm looking at some of these headlines here from around the nation. You got George Clooney out everywhere saying, Oh my God, Kamala is the most amazing choice and everything else. And it was like, man, you just held a fundraiser two months ago for Joe Biden that raised $30 million. And now you're, Oh yeah, we got to do it together. And you're like, motherfucker, you wrote an op ed piece to the New York Times to get him out of there. Yeah, that's crazy. That felt like that was the start of it was when he wrote that piece and then boom, boom, boom, it started going down the line after that. And then he found out Obama approved the article and everything else. And then you haven't heard shit from Joe. I don't know where he's at or what he's doing or who's actually running the country today. Well, somebody asked somebody in the White House press corps asked yesterday, Hey, when are we going to see Biden again? And john Lou Picard or whatever the fuck her name is was like, I put out a fucking statement he made. Like, so that's our that is our relationship to the president of United States. Now we have a go between who has him scribble shit down on paper to hand it to us. That's how it works now. Right? That's also what happens to people who are in hospice. Yes. Yeah. You just write something down a piece of paper and say, Hey, is this good for the will? Yes. Change the will. We're all good. And you're just like, Okay, I mean, here's what I would do. I would take all of Biden's stuff, put me as the beneficiary for all of it, and then put it under a bowl of vanilla ice cream and be like, you know what, as soon as you sign that paperwork, get that ice cream, you get the ice cream here it goes. You can see his little chin start fucking shaking like, Joe, this is not pretend you're gonna be able to say no to this buddy. I'd be fucking nice. I'd be fucking nice. Where do you live out now? I'm in the spring branch area. I don't know too far from here up by Blanco. Oh, okay. Cool. Yeah, it's about 45 minutes or so. I know that one because it means white and Spanish. Obviously the power of it. But no, Blanco's not far from here. How do you like it out there? I love it. I absolutely love it. Are you in this area as well? Yeah, we're all here. So we're all, you know, with them eight, 10 miles from here. So we live near the studio and all that stuff. It's just the fucking heat. I apologize for taking my pants off. Yeah, okay. I want to apologize to you. You don't have to apologize to me. You sure? I'm positive. He's a, he's a native Texan. He's been sweating for fucking 50 years. I don't know how you do it. Well, I don't know how my mom and them did it before air conditioning. That's what I mean. Come on. God, it's nice. On those like Mesa style houses back in the day with no fucking AC. That, dude. I mean, honestly, it's a hundred degrees outside and you still leave the door of it because it's not going to get any fucking cooler in here. When were the dates of that war with Mexico that we got this, this land back? 46 to 48. Okay, was it in the summers though? Because I feel like that's 18, by the way. I would have, I would have just given up. If it was in the summer, I'd have been like, oh, is this what it's really like here? I don't want this land to fuck it. You can keep this land. I don't give a shit. If it's the fall through spring, you're like, yes, let's have it here. This is awesome. Yeah. If you fought in the summer, though, I'd be like, man, let's kind of give this up. It fucking sucks. You get it. You get to wonder how many people move back to their home state in August. You know what's even more about that? If you gave me the money right now, I'm gone. Here's the one I don't understand. My pants are off, bro. That's what I'm saying to you. I don't understand all the Samalians and fucking Northern Minnesota. Me neither. Are you crazy? That's like it's Norwegians and German and some like Dutch people and shit up there. Yeah. Maybe some polls like when you get a little farther south than like Chicago and shit. You're coming from fucking Northeast Africa and going to Minneapolis? Like, what the fuck, dude? I thought the same thing. Holy shit. I lived in Ohio for four years at school and they just, they moved a bunch of them there in one small town. And I thought the same exact thing. I was like, dude, how do you go from an African climate to Ohio or Minneapolis? Jesus Christ. I mean, where is polar opposite? You don't know what frostbite is. Probably in your entire life, right? I don't know if they would be able to even see it on their hands. Well, I don't think they don't. They didn't know it's Christmas after all. No, that's true. Yeah. Well, they do now thanks to Bono. Well, do they or do they? No, they don't really know. They don't really know anymore. But we appreciate you being here on the show today. Thanks for having me. And we got a bunch of listeners in the studio. So we'll bring you guys up as well here at the end. Now is the point the show we get to this thing called The Drinking Bro of the Week, which is someone who has inspired you. I hope you become the person you are today. Who would you like to give The Drinking Bro of the Week to? Well, that's a great question. Let's save my my my uncle, my uncle, you, and you know, as far as business and mentorship and and brand building. I think he was one I was certainly looking to when I started all this for so him for sure. And he's a former jar head and he grew up in Houston, but was smart enough. I respect his intelligence because he moved to San Diego and he never came back. So he got the perfect weather and left Houston. And I was going to say, just when we're complaining here in central Texas, I was in Houston last week. Oh God. Yeah. Right. I saw the devil out of the corner of my hide. He was drinking a Gatorade. Yeah. I mean, that's how hot you, but it was down there. It's unbelievable. Shit. I mean, yeah, one more time for the audience here. I mean, I'm in fucking boxers today, bro. Like the jeans are off, dude. We're all done with everything that was happening there because it's hot as fuck out here. In the meantime, though, we got some other listeners in the studio. Do you guys want to come up for drinking bro of the week? Are you allowed to back there? Yes. Come on up, sir. Yep. There it is. Feel kindly swap out with him, sir. We appreciate you being here on a show today. Check out America here in America, bourbon, Texas, straight, bourbon whiskey right now. Come on in, sir. Cheers. Thanks for being here, brother. Look at your mustache. Look at you. How are you doing, dude? I'm doing great. Cheers, buddy. Cheers, man. No, you can leave it. Yeah, God. Yeah, you can leave it. We're not going anywhere. We're not going anywhere. You got a couple more shows today, so I'm not going anywhere, dude. I'm going to sweat this out. I'm going to sweat to the oldies today. Tell everybody your name. Uh, Michael Drake. Michael Drake. Yes, sir. Hell yeah. Where are you from? Uh, originally in Northern Nevada, but I moved to Texas three years ago. Digi, how do you like it? I'm with you. You get me the hell back north. That's weird, right? It's weird. I don't like going across the continental divide anymore. I stay on the west. You know what I've figured out? If you're from here, it's like a source of pride and all that other stuff. And I understand it, and then you're like, "Cool, man. Get these fucking carpet baggers out of my state." I'm one of them, and at least I'm admitting it to you. I'm not claiming to be Texan. I'm not doing that. See, my girlfriend back there, she is born and raised native Texan. Oh, really? Every time I talk any little bit of trash, I get put in my place real quick. Oh, I know. I get shit from Texan listeners all the time. They're like, "You're fucking pussy." At least I tell them, "Yes, yes I am. It's too fucking hot here. Sweat my fucking D&B's off." Well, I swear, if I took her back home in the winter time, she would not be having it. No, she's tiny. What if she were like 110 pounds? She'd die. Oh, yeah, no. She'd be hurting. Her left hit would freeze off. That happens a lot. Yeah, it's always the left one, for some reason. Yeah, I can't figure out one. Science hasn't figured out why. I don't know. Sure haven't. We'll look into it for you though. Yeah, let's check it out for you and get back to you. Who do you want to get drinking brother week to? I actually have two. Good. The first one is going to be Jeremiah Mastlon. He's my best friend since we were little kids. He just retired from the Air Force. Congratulations. He's stationed in Romstein and then in Albuquerque. So he just retired, moved back home to the family ranch, and now he's putting up hay running cows. So shout out to him and then Justin Paps. I used to be a pro rodeo. I rode saddle bronch. You did? Yes. What does saddle bronch mean? So you know the bucking horse? Yeah. You have the saddle. That's what it's called. You wear a dress, like a hoop skirt, and then you go side saddle and it's kind of a fun, flirty, bouncy thing. You know, they actually do have a rodeo in California every year where it's a costume contest, and a lot of people wear dresses and everything when they get on the bucking horses. You don't say. Oh yeah, it's cool. I'm choking. It's California. Of course. Of course they do. And then afterwards they get fucked by the bull, you know. But no, Justin Paps. He was my traveling partner for a long time. We hit a lot of states together and, you know, two guys driving five states away, two o'clock in the morning, just keeping each other awake and whatnot. So shout out to both of those guys. That's awesome. Will you guys listen to the show right around them? Oh yeah. Yeah. Well, I got both of them into the show. I've been since day one. I remember art 15, all that. Well, the two things that I'll tell you, because there was another question from the audience, you know, they thought it was a very good question, was one, what do I say good night? Good night is simply because we had so many night shift workers and people that were, you know, truck drivers and everything else. But it was a salute to them of like, hey, that was our first fan base. That was our first audience. Right. So I say it forever, even though we were recording the afternoons. The other one was, why do Dan and I wear hats? Dan clearly has a good head of hair. I've got a fucking salad underneath this. I learned a long time ago. I made a mistake. So somebody told me they were like, Hey, branding wise, make sure you have a drinking bros or a hard day of seltzer hat on your head. If one of these clips or one of these shows goes viral, it's like 2 million people who aren't seeing your brand or your show or whatever. And I was like, I'm fucking scared, right? And then boom, sure enough, we had one show that I was just with me and my sweet haircut. And it got a gajillion views and I wasn't wearing any of the products. And I think it was even matter gier than they were like, you fucking moron. And I was like, God damn it. So that's why I wear the hats every day. And that's why we say good nights, everybody. But, but yeah, we appreciate being here. Grab a 12 pack of hard AF on the way out. Oh, thank you, man. Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. We got one more show to record. And then Dan three one more time. Where were you at tonight here in about two hours? You can stay. At yeah, five oh five, I think it'll be the head time on news max on Carl Higby's show. Okay. You can find the information about it on Twitter and Carl Higby's Twitter. And then sometime on news nation, I'm not sure exactly when that's going to go down. Great. And then usually we share these clips from the other interviews and shows that we're on on our Instagram feeds and Twitter and all that other stuff. So just follow us there. That way you guys don't miss the segments. And some of the other shows that we've done, if you're subscribed to patreon, you got to see the full shows in their entirety. We went over to blaze and did a bunch of interviews last week with those guys on all their shows. Those are running on patreon currently and you can see those. And then we'll obviously share the clips with you. Go to iTunes, rate the show a five star and leave a quick preview. Also head on over to Spotify. It's just a five star and you can walk away. No, I'm not going to put my pants back on. All right, for Anthony, Anthony Holloway, I'm Ross Patterson. This is the Drinking Bros podcast. Good night, everyone. [Music]
