Cocktail Lounge w/ Aggie and Brad: Ball, Beard, and Beer

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:30):
The following program contains course language and adult themes. Listener
discretion is advice and welcome everyone to another episode of

(01:06):
The Cocktail Lounge. I am your hostess with the mostes
Eggie and with me it's always is the ever suave,
affable and cofable co host Brad Schlager. How are you
doing this evening? Brad?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Oh, and needed this show this week, That's for sure.
I needed the content of the show. That's what got you,
because holy crap.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Okay, so, since it's the Cocktail Lounge, what are you drinking?

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Having peanut butter porter tonight? Chocolate peanut butter. But it's
pretty good, pretty good stuff. The there's more peanut in
the aroma than the flavor, but it's there and uh
eacent enough. It's a It's okay, it's a it's a
Middland effort in that regard, but it's six percent. And

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I'll be happy to have a couple during the show here,
so that'll get the job done. I think.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
I am having a bottled margarita. I just did not
want to go through the trouble of mixing a cocktail tonight.
Well I almost. The weird thing is I actually have Octoberfest,

(02:27):
some Shiner october Fest in the refrigerator, and I should
have opened one of those because it is thematic with
some of the stuff that we're talking about tonight. But
I needed something that would last me a little longer
than a beer. So so yeah, I know it was

(02:48):
kind of you had a rough weekend.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Again, so we kicked a shit show off on Thursday
where the Miami Dolphins forgot they had a game apparently.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
And I forgot that they were playing Thursday, so did
the coach. Oh for the days of Don Sula.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Holy yeah, they just looked like dog crap and not
gonna get much better as they played the Buffalo Bills
at home this coming weekend. And what's really funny.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Is fun at your house?

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well, they're like half from going to the game. Oh
really yeah, like and scored a ticket and then Shelby
and their boss actually bought them like fifty yard line
seats I think or something like that. So she engaged
and stepdad are all going. And the funny thing is
none of them want to go. Wait, which.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I don't know. They're like, oh, you know, Miami's losing.
The fans are going to be all obnoxious and attacking
us and blah blah blah. And I was like, well,
score me a ticket now, you know, protect you. I'll
stand up and take to you know, cover your sins
and all that. No, it's not a matter of beatings.
It's a matter of me standing up, turning around and
saying shut the hell up, or we're rolling. You know.

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It's because he's uh, you know, it's a good friend
of ours that has season tickets forever, and apparently nobody
wanted to include me, Like he had two tickets set
aside for them, but then the stepdaughter scored those tickets
from the boss. I was like, all right, well I
could take hers. I'll pay for it. Let's go. And

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they're like, oh, we already gave it away.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
And I was like, so the actual fan doesn't get
a ticket.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Well, I mean, you know, it's I like going live.
The tailgating is the best part. Yeah, we you know
her her friend has this thing wired. He gets in
line at like eight o'clock in the morning. They popped
the gates at nine. He's got his one, he shoots down,
gets it. They've been doing this forever. So yeah, we

(05:06):
all bring food and drinks of course, and we sit
there and party it up and play football and do
everything else and just get you know, rockets mood.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
And I remember when you took you took an two
bills came up in New York, right, and y'all went.
You did the whole tail getting thing, and you sent
me a picture of you both and you guys looked
like you were so bundled up because it was so cold,
and it's just like, yeah, better than me.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
No, that was amazing.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Actually yeah, she.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Was like dressed in like seventeen layers and stuff. And
I'm you know, I had my ski jacket on but
no hat, and I had a hat with me, but
I just never put it on everybody in the stadium
that I had on me. I'm like, I'm eating this up.
I'm loving this. We found some guys. We park right
next to people that had a bonfire going, which scared like,
I don't know, I don't think so. And I look over,

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I'm like, we're cool. They're Miami fans. They had like
fifty dollars worth of taco bells that they're throwing tacos
at us, and it's like, all right, I'll trade your
beer for tacos. That works for me, and we you know,
hammered it out that way and got into the stadium
snow on the seats and everything was beautiful. I loved it.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Well, maybe you'll score a ticket that can help me.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
We went up and saw game in Jacksonville a couple
of years ago and that was fun. Went up with
some friends, tailgated with them, and yeah, just have fun
wherever we go. So don't forget. Well it's not even
a matter that it's just.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
No, no, it's true though.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Well, I you know, we go around and she's all,
I don't know, like out of her element and such.
It's like, let's explore, let's go find stuff out, let's
do this, and she's like, I don't know, I don't
think so, and finally just grab her. Look come on,
like we're Jacksonville walking around the tarmac area and stuff
like that, and found out there's a bar area and

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in one end zone it's actually opened up and you
will be in there and see the game. Because they
cut out the entire section of seats, you're watching the
game right through the goalpost.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
This is awesome.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
And we can see the game.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Several stadiums actually did that. I know they did it
at the Cowboy Stadium, and I know that the Bence
is it the Mercedes Benz one and Atlanta that has
that beautiful retracting roof and everything they have at the
end zone they have, Yeah, they have like five different
bars at each end zone that you can actually watch

(07:47):
the whole the game as it's going on. It's very ritzy.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
No, it's uh, you know, it's all a matter of
how you do it and just have fun doing it.
That's that's the whole thing. So I'm a little more
adventurous in a regard where it's more of like, you know,
I just want to go see the game and that's it.
It's just like there's so much more to do, so
I have to kind of like throw a chain around
her and drag her go do stuff. But it's really

(08:20):
cool at Miami too because they've got you know now
they run that F one race, the Miami Grand Prix
at the stadium.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
Oh that's cool.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
And it's like part of it is on the turnpike.
And what they did years ago when they built a
stadium is a turnpike has its own off ramp that's
like a quarter mile to lead to the stadium. Well
that's part of the track now, so they use that section,
and then they have a course directly around the stadium
and the pit area is on the right, on the

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outskirt of the physical stadium. And what's so cool now
is during football season they open up all those garages
and make them into lounges and bars and stuff. So
you're walking like inside but on the back of all
of the stalls and you can get beer over here,
go sit in the lounge over there. They have a

(09:13):
butcher shop in there now, which is hilarious. You can
actually buy Tomahawks snakes at the stadium to go grill
and the tailgate.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Okay, so you can take them at the tailgate, not
just to take home. I mean I would imagine you
could take them home.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
I suppose, yeah, But I mean it's you know, like
if people show up on an ounce or something, it's like, oh, craft,
we got to run inside and get some more. And
they have every t bones your name it.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
And it's like that's pretty I think.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
And there's always I get to figure this out where
he parks one row over there's these guys that set
up a full scale bar like stool and.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
They have a bar, a.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Literal bar, and they ring a bell like every hour
or so and give out free shots, free jello shots
here and there, and you can sit there and just
drink your ass off with them. And it's like, how
much does it costs? They're like, nah, no, go ahead
right right. It's like who.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
So they have a bar with stools and they bring
stuff to drink and they share like shots or whatever.
But they have like coolers I guess next to the
bar to get their beers and whatever. Is that how
it works?

Speaker 2 (10:25):
I don't even know how they do it, but they
do it. And literally, like we'll be sitting there talking
and you hear the bell go up. It's like one moment,
I'll be right back. You're like, oh, not again, Bride.
It's like shut up. And they come out with a
trade and it's got like thirty or forty shots on it,
and people are just.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
That thick.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
I don't know who backs this, but you know, if
it's George Sorows, I don't care. Thanks boy.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
You know, that's actually pretty cool that they hey another
option rather than just tailgating and having all of this food.
People get thirsty, right, This makes sense to me.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Yeah, that's just you know, that's the way you do.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
I know.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Years ago, it was the stepdaughter's first football game against Buffalo,
of course, so I was like ten eleven o'clock and
it was like, all right, Shelby, come on, we're going.
And she's like where. I was like, we're going exploring.
And I grabbed a couple of beers because she doesn't drink,
so it's like all right, fine, and just as we're going,
and she keeps running into bills, fans and this and

(11:29):
that and comes back and we left literally with two beers,
came back with both of us with two plates. I
had a cigar someone gave me and just and she
just didn't blink for like half an hour. She's like, mom,
I have no idea what happened.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
It's like she's like shell shot.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah, She's like I had a yellow She's like admitting
the mom she tried a yellow shot and something else.
It's like, shut off.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
I've never heard of any bad happenings at tail getting
at college campus, you know, like really bad, like a gunfight,
major uh fight breaking out you know, with like knives
and knuckles, you know, brass knuckles or anything like that

(12:19):
most of the time, it seems to be like this
is where we this is like this is like the
un of football. That's the way I see tailgating because
people either from either camp can just walk around and
there's camaraderie and you walk away, you know, like it's

(12:39):
better than the costco free sample area.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
If I can interrupt, if you want to, you want
to trip sometime come up to New England for the
Dartmouth Yale game.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
Dartmouth Yale, Yes, really.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
Yes, you are talking full on crab tails, everything, high
end out, the water girls and it was accurate, the
Gilmore Girls.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Hello, have you seen a house full of women? The
show was always.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
But okay, don't get defensive on me.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
It was an accurate portrayal. And now they had hid
the lower end of that that game. But yes, it
is well.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
I can honestly say the most epic thing I ever
saw televised at a tailgate was an entire gator wrapped
in bacon over an open spit and turning. And you
saw that too, right, And that was here at Texas
A and M when we played Florida.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Tell you I'd have been hanging out with those boys
for quite a while it was.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Pretty epic, and from all reports it was pretty tasty.
Oh hell, I think next time I'm fixed gator, I'm
gonna wrap it a.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Vacon Gator tail is awesome. Oh it isna word of advice.
Don't fry it. Whatever you do, I.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Don't fry I did. I want to keep it as
I'll forget if this is not a cooking show. But anyway,
so it wasn't just the Miami Dolphins that were having
a bad time.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yes, yes, Hurricanes managed to crap the bed. And I
was worried about this game. I said it weeks ago
that the one on the schedule that had me concerned
was s m U on the road. It was Miami's
first foray out of the state all season, by the way, And.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
They no empty I do mean the cater not the fan.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
Guys. But yeah, the uh they basically had the game
in hand. Say, they outplayed him for the most part,
except for the inability to stop committing penalties a dozen
all games, mostly on offense. But even so they had

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you know, they had the lead less than a minute ago.
Just got to pin these guys down and they were
about to and I don't know, it was like third
and long, I want to say, and then they had
a penalty for illegal procedure. They killed the play, which
would have backed them up more except our dumbass defensive

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end kept going and ran into the quarterback. Now it
didn't even he didn't tackle him or anything. He like
ran up and then pulled up as soon as he
made contact. But that was called personal foul fifteen yards
allowed him to keep the drive going, go down, scored
the tying field goal, and then in overtime, Carson Beck
tosses an interception at the goal line and sim U

(15:56):
gets a score to win. It. Just frustrating as hell.
Here's the stat. Miami under Mario Christobal in the month
of November Onward has a four and fifteen record, and
they'll have a job well, I mean, otherwise they played great.

(16:21):
It's just like later in the year, it's like, coach,
we forgot how to do this? Every football is that
what we're doing? You know that kind of thing. It's like,
what the hell? I mean, they were world beaters for
the first two months.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yes, you guys were on fire, and it was it
was almost like watching a juggernaut, you know, and well deserved.
I mean, they shut down all over the place. I
don't know what happened.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Notre Dame has a great running tandem and the Miami defense.
Here's another stat for you. Every single running play that
Notre Dame had, their running backs got hit in the backfield.
First contact was behind the line of scrimmage, and I
think together they gained all of thirty three yards the
entirety of it. So, I mean, just all right, defenses

(17:09):
in lockdown mode, we're looking awesome. Nop forgot how to
do that, apparently, So I think they said Miami has
got a four percent chance or eight percent chance of
making the postseason.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Now we have quite a few SEC teams that are
that have a high probability to include Texas, A and M. Well,
how about it, you know where the redheaded step children
of the SEC.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
So well, No, I mean people are starting to talk
up A and M real big so well.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
The thing is, for a very long time we were
not and a lot of it had to do with
the fact that our coach was Jimbo Fisher and yeah,
and it was just and there was you know, I'm
not gonna this may sound bitter, but it's not. There

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was There's a lot of disrespect because Texas A and
M was not part of the SEC. We were brought
into the SEC and they kind of treated us kind
of like, yeah, we're just tolerating you here and blah
blah blah and whatever, and we had to build up

(18:31):
that particular place in the SEC. And I still I
joke about it all the time. We are the red
headed step children. But in a way, I think the
SEC sees us the way in a good humored way now,
as opposed to they resented us before. We still have

(18:52):
three more games we had to buy this week. The
next game that we have is Misery, and it's a
flex game, so I have no idea what time that's
going to be on. And after that is Stamford, not
Stanford Samford, and the last one's going to be Texas.
And I know that there are some people, you know,

(19:15):
there are some people in Carolina and that are Texas
fans and they're very very few. Only one that's an
Aggie fan. So it should be interesting. But you know,
like I said that that is a rivalry that goes
back many many decades and it was suspended for a

(19:35):
time and now it's back. So a lot of people
are like Yay, it's back and everything. Me I'm just like,
it's another fucking game. I saw it, just like whatever.
But it's kind of neat to see that ut is
starting to move back up in the rankings. I saw
that Manning was actually you know, coming out of his shell.

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He's actually starting to to to bloom as a quarterback
without the mantle of being a Manning, which in my opinion,
actually worked against him in the at the beginning of
the season.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Well, I think the big problem was their offensive line.
The last few games, they've actually figured out how to
properly defense against it. And you give him a little
bit more time, and look what happens. I mean, he
had a big game.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Well, this is something that has happened to you T before.
And I mean I could be wrong, but this is
just from having seen Colt McCoy and Major apple White,
you know, back in the day, and you know several
other They concentrate so much on the quarterback to carry
the whole team that they forget that it is a team.

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And I remember after Colt graduated and he went to
play in the NFL for for a while and then
you know, came back and now he's working as a
defensive coach, I think, or something like that. And he
was talking about that, saying that it's it happens in

(21:07):
a lot of school programs, but he noticed that it
happened a lot at ut where the quarterback was so
important that they would forget that there was a team
that was around him and it did a disservice to
the quarterback. And he's afraid that that's one of the
things that's happening to Manny. And I was like, that

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tracks because I saw it with Major apple White, and
I saw it with Cold McCoy. I saw it with
like when I was in when I was at Texas
A and M I saw it with their own quarterbacks,
and it was just it's a disservice in my opinion,
But that could be indicative of the way the school
thinks that because I've had plenty of really good, outstanding coaches.

(21:58):
So I don't know it just it just so happens
that it happens a lot there, and I don't know why.
I really don't.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Well, they've managed to prove out the theory that if
you're going to lose, you got to do it in
the early part of the year. Because now Notre Dame
and Texas are both in playoffs.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
Ye in the playoff position, I believe.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Yeah, tonight is when the first playoff seating comes out.
Because there's nothing else happening tonight, listen. Yeah, we got
a whole we got election results coming in, We've got
the NFL trade deadline. I've got an NHL game at
ten o'clock because we're on the West coast. I mean,
Jay's I'm never going to damn sleep.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
But we had we had several pop positions on our
ballot today here in Texas, and I'm not sure how
it works in other states, but all of these propositions
we're going into our constitution, so you know, one they're
being codified, and a lot of them were some of

(23:05):
them were really interesting. And yes, I voted. I voted
for everything because these propositions came from abbot, so I knew,
you know, I just I had this feeling. I just knew.
But one of the propositions was really really interesting. It
was a proposition seventeen. And that one was a particular

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interest to counties that border the United States of Mexico.
Anybody that owns land that is a jutton to the
Rio Grande River that has ranch land, has land for
any reason right there. The previous administration had specifically said

(23:51):
that they could not build any fencing at the end
of their land. They had to bring it in a
few miles. I think it was like ten miles. So
ranchers lost the ability to have their cattle. There were
farmers that couldn't farm that land, and the illegal immigration

(24:13):
was completely traping all over the ruining the land of whatever.
This specific proposition says that if you have land there
and decide to build a wall, not put up a fence,
but build a wall, the state will give you a

(24:33):
tax credit.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
So how my question is this, how did this even
get into play? Did Biden go the imminent domain angle
on this?

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Well, there is an eastmant that protects the river, yes,
but the eastmant is not that big, you know, it's
not ten or twenty miles. There are cattle ranchers that
need to access the Eastman in order to to get
water from the river, you know, for their stock tanks,

(25:04):
for irrigation, for any you know, for whatever reason. But
the counties that were the most affected were the ones
in the sectors where most of the illegal immigration was coming.
Through and then administration said, no, you could not put
fences there. You cannot put walls there. The walls cannot
you know, because you know you're impeding with the Eastman.

(25:24):
That was their excuse. And we didn't have a law
in the books that said that the ranchers could actually
put up a barrier between the Eastmant and their land
and their property. And it's like, because it was always
understood that you could put a fence at the end

(25:47):
of your property, but offence was never enough. You wanted
to put up a wall, the Biden administration said no,
you cannot put So they they put this in proposition
to incentivize ranchers and farmers and anybody that actually has
lands that adjunct to the Rio Grande River eastmanth they

(26:11):
can actually put up a wall. Now they don't define
what the wall needs to be, they don't do that necessarily,
But what they're trying to do is incentivize ranchers to
actually take it upon themselves to build a deterrent towards
illegal immigrants coming onto their land. And the state of Texas, hey,
well go check it out, make sure that it works

(26:32):
in everything, and give you a tax credit for it.
It doesn't matter the tax credit is five percent. It's
the fact that you're now allowed to do this on
your land by state law and it supersedes federal law.
So that was a very important proposition that was on there.
The other proposition that was of interest that I thought

(26:53):
was absolutely perfect and it's going to drive the Democrats
insane parental rights. The parents have absolute rights over their child.
I mean, it's that. It's that clean, clear, clean cut.
That's it. That's going to be put in the constitution.

(27:15):
And there are a lot of I've already been hearing
from Democrats saying this is going to take away children's rights.
Children's children don't have rights. I hate to break it
to you, so they.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Would rather take away the parents' rights.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
They a lot. I saw some teachers actually saying that
this could be detrimental to their teaching, This could be
detrimental to the child because this could impede their education.
And I'm like, I don't see how it could impede
their education whatsoever, as long as the education is you know,

(27:53):
arithmetic and writing and reading and you know, science and
things of that nature. But yeah, so that those were
two of that I thought really stood out and like
I said, the Texas Constitution is kind of different like
most people we have I don't know last time encountered

(28:15):
we had two hundred and seventy odd amendments, but you know,
like the Prohibition, we had an amendment that took away
that particular amendment. It's the same thing. We just happened
to have a lot of them. But these, because they
are will be in the constitution. There is no way
that the schools can actually go around it whatsoever. They

(28:41):
cannot say it's because you know, we're trying to protect
the child. In this case, the parent has to be
involved in any decision that the school would maintain for
the child. So it's you know, and I go in
there thinking, how can they possibly, how could somebody take
advantage of it? How could this go wrong? And there

(29:02):
were a couple of those that, yeah, I could see
where it's kind of iffy the government can take advantage,
you know whatever. But one of them was at the
point that I'm like, I'm okay with the government taking
advantage of this because it's been rotten forever, so you know,
let's give it a shot. And that is the infrastructure

(29:24):
to save water during times of you know, drought. Our
infrastructure for water retention is really really bad. It has
been bad for decades. So I don't mind my tax money.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
It just seems like these are beyond common sense though,
that this is one of the things that something on
their own property and that parents should have the rights
to govern how their children are managed. I mean it is.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
And a lot of the ones that were a lot
of the propositions that were on the bottom ballot today
here were about common sense. There were a few, like
I said that there were iffy to include the one
about the water issue, but most of them are about
common sense. And it's the reason that they have to

(30:19):
put these laws in the books is due to the
fact that the left has so embraced gender ideology and
all these things that it has actually put children in danger.
And they had to we had to actually put the
law that says, yeah, parents have the right over their child.

(30:40):
We actually have to put that as a law. And
I'm wondering, are we the only ones, because I don't know,
you know, that makes me think, I wonder if there
are any other states that need to do that that
don't have that particular law in the books. And it's
like you know Ord was complaining they spent all this

(31:02):
time in Virginia for the gubernatorial race and the all
the other races in there that we're going when the
GOP should have been concentrated on what's going on in
California with their proposition I think it was Proposition fifty,
and had they actually done work there, it might have

(31:24):
made a change. But as it was, they ignored California.
So we'll see. It has been. It has been an
interesting day.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
So far. The calling the election for Jay Jones in
Virginia for attorney general.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
That one's the one that doesn't make any sense because
the entire time miyadz was ahead by like eight ten points,
and suddenly on the day of the election, he's not.
He's behind by ten points. That makes no sense to me.
But you know it is Nova is rife with corruption,
and that much is obvious. They they're now electing somebody

(32:08):
that would your children.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
Right now, to make a point, looks like span Berger
has a commanding lead with about seventy of the precincts
in so that's a bad one. Pretty early. Still with

(32:30):
the governorship in New Jersey, Mikey Cheryl has a lead
for now.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
The one that I was watching, I'll be honest.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Yeah, and I thought Chiarelli had a had a chance.
There looked like coming into today, it looked like it
was almost even or he had a couple points advantage
at least in the polls in New York. But that's
still early too. That's like only one third of the
precincts are in there so far. But that miss, it's

(33:10):
going to happen.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
I'm like, I said, this is this, you know, I was.
I was explaining before. This comes down to the demographics.
We had previous administration in that city that made it
a sanctuary city and allowed all of these undocumented migrants,
illegal immigrants to come in set up shop. And now

(33:35):
everybody that wants they've been having free everything. Mom Donnie
comes and says, I'll give free everything to you again.
Who do you think they're going to vote for. Of
course they're going to vote for the guy that's going
to give him previous And and that's just one of
the demographics that has changed New York City. Everybody has.

(33:56):
Nobody has been noticing this, but the Muslim population of
New York now rivals the Muslim populations of places like
Deerborn they're just more subtle about it. So when you
have somebody that's running on a Muslim ticket that's speaking
Arab to you, who are you going to vote for?

Speaker 2 (34:16):
It's it's just, uh, it's headshaking at this point because.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
There was a time when there was pride in New
York City, but that has been completely erased. It only
took one generation to forget the horrors of nine to eleven.
One generation, and now this is what they're going to
vote for. I say, bring it, go ahead, let him win.

(34:45):
Perhaps they'll learn a lesson, perhaps not. But I'm done
with New York City. There is nothing that would incentivize
me to ever visit that place. And I don't want
I know they don't want me there. They really don't
want me there because this is definitely going to take
away from tour.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
Well, this is the thing that makes no sense. I was,
you know, looking at some of the exit polling and
the demographic makeup of people in New York City. They said,
of the people that were voting, because there's this impression
that there's just been this massive influx leading to this change,

(35:24):
I think it was fifty percent of the voters were
born in New York City. Another thirty eight have been
there for ten or twenty years something like that, and
only you know, one to five years was about twelve
percent and new arrivals were less than five you know,
it was so that has been These are the natives

(35:47):
that are turning this the ones that are going from Mamdani.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
But keep in mind ten to twenty years considering nine
to eleven was twenty four years ago. So it tracks
the whole influx of immigration into that city. Does track
with the demographics that are not voting for this guy,
and they're voting for somebody who is young, who has

(36:15):
no blemishes whatsoever in politics, because they're pretty sick and tired.
Oh no, hold on, they're sick and tired of Cuomo.
They're sick and tired of you know, Eric Adams. So
there were you know, Slee was pretty. I don't know
he's out there, but they wanted somebody that was pretty,

(36:39):
just like they got AOC. They wanted somebody that was
pretty for them. It's about slaying Lukes looks, and that's
what you're getting. But they're not paying attention to mom
Donnie and what's behind him. They see his face, they

(36:59):
see him smiling. They're seeing him saying, this is what
I want to do for you. I want the government
to regulate, you know, government owned grocery stores so that
they're always stocked and all that stuff. And I'm going
I lived in places where the government owned the grocery stores. Okay,

(37:21):
they were never stocked.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
They tried their Kansas. Just recently, yes, and somebody went
in with a camera and showed that the place is
nearly empty. We cannot keep product on the shelves, they
can't get products. And just today this morning, video came
out of some supporter of Mamdani in New York and

(37:43):
he's wearing a communist T shirt, handing out communist newspapers
and said, we're going to do it. We're if these
grocery stores don't want to play along, we're going to
go in and seize.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Them, seizing the means of production where they're learned that from.
They want the buses to be free. They want the
buses to be free so that no one attacks the
bus drivers anymore. Keep in mind, they're not talking about

(38:18):
nobody attacking anybody on the bus, just the bus driver.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
So to be free, the buses and subways are completely free,
they're going to become rolling homeless shelters.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Yeah, yeah, what else.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Do you think is going to happen?

Speaker 1 (38:37):
He has absolutely Well, maybe he does have an idea
of what's going to happen, and that's why he's doing this.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
I want also talking about free, which has already been
tried in that city and has been an abject failure
any and every time it's been tried. I want every
one of these guy's policies to go through and have
them become laming failures for everyone to see.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
But the problem with something like that happening, as it
is with every socialism place on the planet, is that
if there is a safety valve, then people can say
that the socialism worked. And that's the problem that we have.
It's in a city, and if something bad goes wrong,

(39:26):
if something bad happens, something goes wrong, the state can
actually divert funds to float the city, so they have
a safety valve.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
But that's the other problem here is that you know,
he's got this plan where he's going to soak the
rich and the and they're saying, you know, oh, you
know New York's got some of the lower end. Well,
what they don't tell you is there's New York state taxes,
in New York City taxes. He wants to raise the

(39:58):
New York City taxes, which people are already being taxed
from the state. That's the one thing they don't want
to tell you. And then they look and say, no,
there's all these other examples. Look at the Massachusetts in
this other state where they've taxed the rich and the
rich didn't leave. They're still there. In fact, there are
numbers increase into Okay, but you're looking at statewide, not city. Yes,

(40:20):
this is a microcosm. So he's thinking i could tax
a rich in New York City and I'll have the
same success rate as entire states had bull crap you.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
Well, no, he And my issue is that, you know,
the President said, I'll just give them the minimum so
that they won't sue the federal government. But I'm not
going to give them a lot of money if they
if they go for Mamdanni, that's not going to happen.

(40:51):
And but Trump's not going to be president forever. As
much as the left thinks that he is going to run.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Again, Yeah, you know, but well it's of course, these
are the people that are incapable of figuring out when
he's trolling.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
No, no, completely, no, they can't even figure out when
my governor is trolling people. Did you see that tweet? Yeah,
about the tariff. I died laughing. I thought that was great.
It was hilarious. And every single asshole on the left
foul for it, every single one that's illegal.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
He can't do that. You can't put a terrifying of
person that's not a you dumb shits. I mean one
of them was a Crasenstein brother. They're flaming ignorant. So
you had to assume that was going to happen. But
some other PhD with a massive account is like, this
is just uncontrollable. I can't believe our god, or you're

(41:51):
supposed to be smart, how was it? No, And this
is something humorless scolds over there.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
The whole thing is that New York City knows about Mamdani.
They know he lives in a rent control department. They
know that his parents. If he needs money, the parents
give it to him. His parents are very well off.
His dad is a Marxist ass and probably one of
the main directors of the whole Freedom for Palestine crap

(42:20):
that happened after October seventh. He has dual citizenship, and
that to me is very concerning. There is no reason
for Mamdani to actually have dual citizenship none. He can
still own land in Uganda and be an American citizen.

(42:42):
Ganda does not have a law yet yet, like South
Africa has decided to pass whereby only Ugandans can own land,
and he owns land by virtue of who his dad
is really, so it's not like it's direct to him.
It's just that it will come to him. But I

(43:05):
don't understand why he still has dual citizenship. It makes
no sense to me. I know people that had to
give up dual citizenship in order to run for Dockcatcher.
I mean, I have a friend, my ex boyfriend from
high school had dual citizenship here and in France, and

(43:28):
when he came of age, he had to give one
up because France did have you know, conscription that he
had to if he was a French citizen, he had
to serve two years in the French army, so he
had to give that up. But his cousin, who happens
to be female, didn't have to give it up. But
when she decided to run for council in the tiny

(43:49):
little hamlet she lived in. She did have to give
it up, so she gave up her French citizenship, you know,
because it didn't look good. It didn't look good for
somebody who with you're going to be serving in a
political capacity. You're going to be serving for a certain
group of people. You're going to have constituents. You must

(44:10):
show that you have an allegiance to those people. And
it doesn't matter how big or how small the political
office is, but it does look better if you show
that your allegiance is to them and not to some
other party in some other area of the world. So

(44:30):
for me, it's a really bad look that he still
has dual citizenship in another country, and it's not exactly
a US friendly country either.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
Well, I mean nothing about mom Donnie is a good
look period. His proposals, his past comments, his antisemitism, his
pro homont I mean.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
I don't job an an. Yeah, but the man is
practicing takiya at every turn, and people still take him
at face value. I'm like I, you know, I I
have Muslim friends and they're the ones that tell me,

(45:14):
don't believe this guy. Of course, they're also the ones
that are drinking with me, and they smoke and they
eat bacon too, you know, so they're not exactly the
good Muslim. They're the bad Muslims. That's why I hang
out with them. But you know, they they're they're telling me.
It's like, you can't believe that guy. He's lying to everybody.

(45:34):
And if a Muslim, if somebody who knows the values
of Islam and knows the religion well enough that they
have actually started to reject it to the point where
they don't even practice it anymore, they just need to,
but they can't leave it because you know, their family

(45:54):
could actually hurt them. I mean, that's that's part of them,
that's part of Islam. M And if they're telling you
don't believe this guy, this is takiya. He's lying to
everybody because you're the Infidel and it is in a
requirement for them to light to you. But they're buying it,

(46:15):
lock stock and barrel, I mean touch the stove.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
I since they're the one's buying it, that they're the
ones paying for it, and it comes bail out of time,
there's going to be some wailing and gnashing of the teeth.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
I'm okay, with that, but I'm also okay with people
from New York. I'm okay with that too.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Oh my god, that's illegal. You can't do that. Well.
In keeping with our show's theme, there's some dastardly news
coming out of Germany.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
I know.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
They are having I don't know, there's a paucity of
beer drinkers in Germany. They're actually going down in beer
consumption to the extent that breweries and pubs are closing
on a regular basis over there. Just makes no sense

(47:25):
until we start to dig into this and figure out
what the hell is going on. But they give examples,
you know, like an Octoberfest, and they're talking about how
the younger generation's not drinking as much, they're so health
conscious and beer is something that they're swearing off of.
And yet at the same Octoberfest, this guy's going from
tent to tent and watching people doing cocaine on a

(47:48):
regular basis, like literally saying they're bumping rails off of
the heads of bald guys.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
Wait, is this where already's at instead of all walking
in California?

Speaker 2 (48:03):
I can neither confirm nor deny that.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
Jeff, Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
Rest Mine be Ah.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
Yeah, I don't. For I mean, Germans are allowed to
begin with, I don't think I want to see them
hopped up on flake. Holy crap, you'd be surprised.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
The the drug issue in Germany has always been pretty bad.
It was bad when I was there, what twenty twenty
four years ago, whatever it was, but yeah, twenty years ago.
But one of the things that I that I found
interesting in that article, and you know I told you

(48:48):
about this on our phone call, was that it talked
about all of the issues that some of the beer
just you know, breweries were having. Now, for those not familiar,
almost every single town in Bavaria and throughout most of Germany,
but mostly in Bavaria has its own brewery and they

(49:11):
market their beer, and their beer goes throughout Germany and everything.
So when you go to when you go to a
beer garden in Germany and they ask you what kind
of beer you want, it's impossible for them to tell
you their entire beer because it's a catalog. You they
give you the book, it's like four or five pages

(49:34):
and just all of the beers that they have in stock.
So wow, yeah, it's I love beer gardens. They're really cool.
But anyway, they were talking about certain breweries that are
closing after well over one hundred years of being open.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
Yeah, one is one hundred and seventy two years old.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
Yeah, and you know that we're talking about how things
are changing with the U in Germany and the youth
are trying to be more health conscious and all that stuff.
But like you said that, we're talking about how they
were going. You know, he was going ten to ten
and he was seeing all these kids, you know, health
conscious kids doing coke. You know. So I'm just like,

(50:17):
it's not about the health consciousness. There were two things
that they that that article did not touch on that
I actually witnessed when I was there. After Fukushima reactor
issue happened in Japan, Germany and France both decided to
take all of their nuclear reactors offline. Germany had seven

(50:39):
nuclear reactors. I lived near one. I actually have a
picture somewhere in the house of me standing in the
field right next to the tower. It was really cool.
But they not only took them offline, they just let
them fall apart in decay. They never up kept them, okay,
choosing instead go to both green energy and to get

(51:03):
gas from Russia. This is the whole north Stream two
issue that we have touched on before. I remember several
years ago when we were doing the show and its infancy.
After you became part of the show, I connected all
of the dots about north Stream two and why Germany

(51:23):
was so entrenched with Russia, and it all led back
to former Chancellor Schroeder. He was instrumental in doing in
putting all this together. Why because he was the president
of Gasprom, so you know, there was there were a
lot of a lot of little webs from that. But

(51:44):
the price of electricity in Germany has skyrocketed since then
because they decided to put in a bunch of wind farms,
and they decided to do a bunch of solar and
guess what Germany tishly there all the time there were
there was wine year that I could literally count how

(52:08):
many sunny days and have days left over in one
month the entire year. So it's it. There's not a
lot of sun to be had in Germany and there's
not a lot of wind to be had in Germany.
But on top of that, you could only put these
things in several places because Germany has a very vibrant

(52:30):
wine uh production uh thingy, you know. I mean, they
produce a lot of wine, so there was a lot
of wineries. There's a lot of vineyards all over Germany,
and they're they're beautiful, you know. You you you're driving
down the Audubon and you can see them, and it's

(52:50):
just it's a gorgeous, gorgeous scenery to see. But they
do have a very very private wine production, and so
there were only certain places where they could put these
wing farms. There were only certain places where they could
put the solar panels, so they don't have as many
as they had hope to put up. And now they
have the issue with the electricity. Electricity is so expensive,

(53:13):
heating oil is so expensive. It's so expensive that my
girlfriend and her husband have to actually grow timber on
their land for the express purpose of cutting the timber
so they can have wood to heat their house in
the winter.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
I mean, can we talk about how brilliant Germany is?
I mean, come on, they invaded Britain for the sunshine.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
Yeah, okay, So, like I said, Germany wasn't very smart
about the whole situation with the nuclear reactors because they
just let them go to rot. So now they can't
even bring those online, they have to rebuild them from scratch.
So they have a really bad energy crisis that they
don't let anybody else know about, but everybody living there

(54:07):
knows about it. And that's affecting the breweries because the
breweries do need energy. They need a lot of energy.

Speaker 2 (54:14):
Not just why I covered this, but maybe about a
month or so ago, where was it Spain that had
that major electrical grid that collapsed.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
Yes, what they moved all the way up to, Oh,
we're running on green energy. The entire country is running
on green energy for the first time ever. And then
it crashed.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
And then I covered Reuters that had the headline, don't
blame new energy green energy on the collapse, and then
about five paragraphs in the solar and wind grid actually collapsed.
It led to this entire blackout throw.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
Yeah, so let's blame it, but don't blame it. But
blame it.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
I mean, it is the cause. Just don't blame it
on that. If you would, thank you, we'd appreciate it
if you didn't bring up the actual cause. I mean, well,
so there, that's one is Europe is just doing it
to themselves now they're inviting this invading army from the
South that resents them and wants to take over their culture.

(55:12):
And on top of that, they're handicapping their own culture
in the process.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
Because one of the things that Germany has to contend
with is their open border policy. All of the immigration
that has been coming into Germany, well not all of it,
because I did have a girlfriend from Peru who immigrated
and she's not Muslim, but most of them come from

(55:38):
Muslim countries, and that impacts a lot of the food
and beverage consumption. If you have Muslims going to a
restaurant to eat, most of them will drink. They will

(56:01):
eat non halal food because most Germans are not familiar
with halal, and so they can get away with eating
whatever's being served. But they will not drink because all
Germans know that Muslims are not supposed to drink. So
you have Muslims going to these places, but they're not
ordering beer, they're not ordering wine. So it starts to

(56:28):
make an impact. I don't know how it is. I
don't know how to explain it, but Germans have specific clientele.
They just go to one restaurant, they don't go to several.
You know, they find a restaurant they like, they stick
that to that restaurant, to the point where they get

(56:51):
the table is theirs, you know, you know, they walk
in it's like your table is ready. They don't have
to make reservations or anything. They just walk in. And
on top of that, when you go to a restaurant
in Germany and you get seated at a table, that
table is used for the evening. They don't expect you
to leave until you're ready to leave, unlike here where

(57:11):
they're like, oh, are you ready? Are you ready for
your check? You know, they bring your check as soon
as you're done. No, you can stay there, you can
sit there, you can smoke there, you can drink there
for as long as you want. And if you have
that table for three or four hours and you're not
ordering beer, they're not selling beer. So once they have

(57:34):
a certain client tele that restaurant may be losing revenue
by stalking beer that it's not selling. That's another reason,
you know. So for them to say that the young
are trying to be more health conscious, you can walk
into any bakery in Germany and all of their stuff
is very health conscious because most everything that you see

(57:57):
there is not made with any preservatives, and they say
whole grain, they mean it. You can see the grains
all over that bread. So it's not like healthy things
are not part of their diet. Greece is part of
their diet. I mean, the broadwars thing has never gone away.
As a matter of fact, Broadways is more in demand

(58:19):
now than it has been in a long time. So
it's not about health conscious anything. I think what it
is is that the Muslim population is actually impacting the
way some of the youth choose not to drink beer
because they don't want to be attacked over it either,
which has happened.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
So there's a significant shift of that sort taking place
here in the States too, though, because I just covered
this in my Dipsology column last week, where mick Ultra
has become the number one selling beer in the country,
took over for Madela, and there's this undercurrent where that

(58:58):
type of beer is the big seller. Low calorie, low carb,
low alcohol, low reason to drink this stuff, but they are.
And you go to any bar now, you're likely to
be able to order a near beer, non alcoholic. Where

(59:20):
it used to be if you asked for that, the
bartender would look at you funny and like, get the
hell out of here now, Budweiser Elite and Double zero
Heineken Cores has one on the market. One of those
is going to be available for the most part at
my tavern. There's a couple of people that drink. It

(59:41):
blows my mind. But this is a legit trend and
we're seeing now a rare slow down in the craft
beer market. In the last year they've had it was
the first time that there were more closings of micro
and openings. Yep. I mean it's still pretty healthy marketplace.

(01:00:05):
I mean, there are just under ten thousand breweries in
the country right now.

Speaker 3 (01:00:10):
And don't forget hot water is starting to come out
into populous as well.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Yeah, so there's there're just this movement, this trend is
taking place, and a lot of either you know, microbreweries
or craft breweries are coming out with low alcohol options
or non alcohol options. A couple of them even have
like twelve pack varieties you could buy, which tells me
quite a bit right there. I mean, when you see.

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
Well, there's always an upswing and a down trough to
all of these things. I mean, you you guys remember
when pass through Ribbon was the thing to be drinking
at bars because the hipsters thought it was like just
cool to drink it. And I'm like, yeah, I remember
when you know what cold was the thing?

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
So well, the whole thing with perhaps that blew up
with beer pong on college campuses. Yeah, because you needed
something dirt, cheap and involuntary. I used it this evening.
As a matter of fact.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
I did. I sent him a towel that had peraps
blue ribbon all over it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
I'm you know, I'm not a snob. I'll drink PBR
if it's available. In fact, if you find a place
where it's on tap, it's actually quite drinkable. I prefer
it on tap. There's a couple of times Orlando.

Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
And it's great with salty food. The saltier food better
PBR taste.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
Oh that makes sense then, because my uncle loved PBR,
but he ate it with you know, my grandmother's food,
which was very salty. So that's the tracks.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
I mean, what was it a couple of years ago,
we we went out with some friends on the West
Coast and such, and we hit a Publix and I
was gonna get something, and they actually had a full
case of PBR on some sale table for like eight
bucks drink. I'm coming back with a suitcase of beer.
That's what I don't give. Sometimes you want qualities, sometimes

(01:02:23):
you want volumes.

Speaker 1 (01:02:24):
There you go, oh yeah, there's a there's a blast
for the past efty old Milwaukee.

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
That too, I mean, I liked though. On the discount
side was Schlitz. It's really good. Before stros bottom out though,
were the eighties.

Speaker 3 (01:02:44):
My first beer at the age of six was a Schlitz.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
Out of a bottle. You couldn't beat it out of
the squad bottle. It was really good.

Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
Yeah, man, I don't know why, but my every every
morning when my grandfather was he would get up at
about four o'clock in the morning and he would take
a six pack of Schaefer or Schlitz, whichever one it was,

(01:03:16):
and he would put it in the middle of the well.
It's a big concrete plaza that was between the house
and the warehouse where they actually processed all the coffee,
and so he would leave it there and then he
would go up to start the whole coffee gathering thing,
which had to be done by hand. So there were
quite a few of us that were doing it. No,
I never got paid, and so at noon he would

(01:03:40):
take a break and he would come down and grab
that really warm six pack and he would sit in
his jeep. He had a gi issue, you know, and
he would sit there and he would drink one after
the other. That was his lunch, was his entire break.

(01:04:02):
And once he was done, he'd go back up side
of the mountain and we'd start all over again. But
I never understood why he drank it warm, like sunwarm,
like sun tea warm. Okay. I never understood that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
Yeah, I still do that. I can't. I've been in like,
you know, with Britain or on British battleship one time,
and they were served it. It was all room temperature. Okay,
I'm not going to complain because it was free, but nonetheless,
but you know.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
A room temperature I could understand. But it was warm
by the sun. And I'm in a tropical island, y'all.
It wasn't like it was the sun in Germany. It
was the sun n in Puerto Rico.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
Yeah, that's it's a bit unique.

Speaker 1 (01:04:47):
Yeah, that was a trip.

Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
Well, there was something I picked up today. Actually, I
gotta throw credit to our Saturday crowd, and this one out.

Speaker 1 (01:05:04):
I don't want to laugh, but I'm laughing because I
know what's coming.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
Well, here's the thing with with the election of Mom
Donnie on the Horria, I'm pretty sure he's gonna win it.
I think it's there. Oh, you know, the press has
been covering them. They've been giving them glamour shots and crap.
And he is, like myself, a bearded individual, stylishly so

(01:05:32):
right and.

Speaker 1 (01:05:33):
And like I belove it. Podcast producer also bearded.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
And Jade Vance had made some waves as the first
vice president in quite a while to have a beard.
So it was the fashionable thing, you know. It was like,
uh the style.

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
Yeah, beards have been a thing for a few years now.

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
Yeah, they're they're kind of getting away from the Duck dynasty. Look,
that was never one I favored. I never understood like
the longer beard and all that. It's like the food
capturing aspect of it kind of. Uh have an issue.
I just have an issue. The New York Times came

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up with an article about shaving and it just seems
to run counter to this, you know, fashion trend mm hmm.
And I'm sorry, but and it's like a primer on
how to properly shave. And it just floors me because

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I'm like, what, who needs this?

Speaker 1 (01:06:47):
I trying to figure that out.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
If you're somebody who doesn't know how to shave, you know,
maybe you know you're an up and comer, you're you've
had trouble doing and I want to do it the
correct way. That kind of thing. Who among them, however,
is running to the New York Times for this advice?

Speaker 1 (01:07:09):
I really don't. I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
I jeez, I got questions as shaving. I don't know
how to do it correctly. What does the New York
Times have to say about this?

Speaker 1 (01:07:19):
I don't understand it. I don't get it. I don't
get it. But I'm a girl. I don't shake my
face with the blade.

Speaker 3 (01:07:28):
I have opinions on this. And the the article that
I saw, I was shocked by one gleaming, glowing absence
of what was mentioned in that article. What people that
don't know how to shave as men? Did they have

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a dad?

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
Well that's a very good point.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
That's a prevailing, you know, unmentionable of course, because this
is write a passage stuff, right, you know you would
think so, And you know, I mean, at some point
in time. I don't know, you know, if you know
my grandkid, if his stepfather is going to teach him
or not, or I will. But I've you know, there's
been a number of times I've had him in the
bathroom where we've you know, gone through hair. I've introduced

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him to moose and how to style your hair in
a certain way as needed because he was going to
some events or such. And you know, he'll even say
to me, it's like, hey, so pap, what can I
use in the shower? And what's soaping this tonight? And
it's like, here, use this, do this, go with that.
You know, it's and it's not like a massive process,
but it's the thing. So yeah, if there's some day
where I get to sit down with him and show
him how to shave, cool, let's do this. This is

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you know the way. Here's the point, though, it ain't
a big deal.

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
So they beat it into an art when it's really
just a necessity.

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
The article is how to shave properly, A guide to
removing facial hair like a professional. Bullshit. I'm just gonna
say it right here, because like I've seen the guys
that go through this. You know, there's this it's a routine.
You gotta you know, it's facial and I have to

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first exfoliate properly, and I have to steam moisture and
you go through it and I need this and you don't.
But I just for me.

Speaker 1 (01:09:25):
What I found interesting was it provided a lot of
links to products that recommended, but all of those products were, oh,
mostly expensive.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
Here's what they suggest for men who need to learn
how to shave.

Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
Apparently this is really under brad skin, y'all.

Speaker 2 (01:09:44):
So they recommend from Sephora a shave moisturizing oil. Okay, okay,
all right, no, no, no, no, no, we're oh, we're
not done. We one. This is a moisturizing beard serum

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thirty eight dollars for a one ounce bottle.

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
Wow, give me Sydney Sweeney's bath water soap. I'm good.

Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
Yeah, I would have paid money for that. I'm not
even gonna lie. That would have been a great stogging
stuffer for everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
And the they, you know, they recommend a complex shaving foam.
And by the way, they recommend that you use from
a company called ASoP a shaving brush tipped with silver
fiber from the finest quality badger hair sixty five dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:10:54):
Do you have any idea what I could spend sixty
five dollars?

Speaker 2 (01:10:58):
Then after your shave, they also recommend the Alpha Beta
pH Balance replenishing cream.

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
I I mean, I get that it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:11):
It has some really dollars for a one point two
ounce jar of this replenishing cream. And oh, by the way,
you also need to augment your skin care production properly.
Oh my god, I'm going to punch people all right.

Speaker 1 (01:11:29):
I'm gonna play Devil's advocate right now, simply because A
I'm a girl, and B I can seeing as that
our producer has a very healthy beard and so do you,
and seeing that what I end up shaving in my
body is my legs totally different skin. But I am,

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and I have said this before, I'm a big proponent
of taking care of your skin because A it's the
largest organ is the body, and B it's the one
that is on the outside. So it is attacked by
a lot of elements. It is attacked by the sun,
It's attacked by a lot of things, so you should
take care of it. Men should take care of their skin. However, yes,

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you're right, there are some things in there that are
just superfluous and men don't need.

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
Are you done? Neat?

Speaker 1 (01:12:23):
No, I'm not, I am not need. I'm not I'm
not going.

Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
I'm gonna tell you something. I'm not going to go
to Laroche and get their Toleraine hydrating gentle facial cleanser
at forty dollars for four hundred.

Speaker 3 (01:12:38):
Serving y'all twenty dollars. Beard oil and you're good.

Speaker 1 (01:12:47):
Believe it or not. Oil on the skin is actually
a good thing. And a lot of people are like, no,
it'll make me break out, not if you use the
right kind of oil. But men can just use a
bar of castile so which is not expensive. It lasts forever.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
Let me tell you the way to shave and dr
skin in a way that worked, Like Gellette comes up
with these ergonomically complex engineered shavers on a ball. It
looks like a title vacuum cleaner and you have to
get over the contours and it'll pivot and shift around.
If you have this much problem shaving, you got to

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sit down and assess your life. Because I use bit Raisors.
It comes with like a six pack of changing heads
on it, three blade and the best foam that I get,
and you don't have to get you know, like on
movies where you get this Santa Claus beard of foam

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that have to rest on your jawline for five minutes
to soften developers and get them ready for the proper
Shut the hell up.

Speaker 1 (01:13:57):
But here's the thing everybody has seen Western I down.

Speaker 2 (01:14:01):
No, no, no, no, you're a woman. You've got seventy
five products in a bathroom. That's by law. I'm with
you right now. I'm walking men through the process.

Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
No. I was just gonna say, a bottle.

Speaker 3 (01:14:13):
We have a bottle for every part of our body
that is three dollars in ninety eight at our local
grocery store. That works.

Speaker 1 (01:14:20):
I get that. You' all have some shower gel that
also acts as wheel lubricant and anna freeze and everything
else under the sun. I get that.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
I'm just saying the bathing products are phenomenal.

Speaker 1 (01:14:36):
I'm just saying that some of the things that they
were saying there, I'm like, because you remember the old
Westerns when you walked into the barber shop and they
put the the heated towel on you to loosen the
fo you can do that at home with a washcloth
and hot water. You don't need this stuff. That's what
I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:14:54):
Body by Goop is the way to go.

Speaker 2 (01:14:59):
I do even I'm shave in this shower without a
mirror and it's never a problem. They're the one splurge,
if you want to call it that. I came across
accidentally because somebody got it from me for Christmas one year.
Cramo is the brand, Yes shaving, Yeah, Bourbon, and they

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got it from me. Bourbon. Van was like, yes, gotta
do it. But this stuff, okay, noted.

Speaker 1 (01:15:25):
I'm writing this down.

Speaker 3 (01:15:26):
This stuff is golden hashtag, not a sponsor, but we're
available exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:15:33):
I get maybe about an inch of this stuff on
my finger. All I do is coat my jawline. I
don't sit there and build it up or any okay
enough to get a coverage. I let it sit maybe
fifteen seconds. I get my bit razor boom done in
like thirty seconds of shaven. Don't need a mirror. I

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go okay, yeah, got it, got it, got it, boom done,
And that's all it takes. You don't need to go
through this process with beijor Badger hair brushing, and.

Speaker 1 (01:16:04):
I get it. I was just I was just telling
you that that whole hot situation with the talent and
everything that's been done for decades, years, hundreds of years.

Speaker 3 (01:16:14):
You going to shower, yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:16:16):
And you're going to shower and if you shave exactly
So for me reading all of that, it was like
taking a mundane act and making it into this big
procession that requires a New York a New York City

(01:16:36):
parade to to actually do you know what I'm saying.
It was like completely ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (01:16:42):
I apologize, I am going to be one gross and
if you want to mute and not listen to me
right now, Aggie, I understand it takes less time to
masturbate than what this article says to shave my beer here.

Speaker 1 (01:17:01):
I live this show.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
But see this is I would make everything more complex
than necessary, because seriously, when I'm in the shower, my
entire shave routine, if it takes two minutes, I'd be surprised.
It's one of the last things I do because that
way everything's want moisturized. I put on the crane, let
it set for a bit, and go to town with

(01:17:27):
the razor and done. And I probably changed my razor
head about every three months or so. Like they recommend.
You know, if Ruby suffering strokes, there's time to go
with them. Doing works fine.

Speaker 3 (01:17:40):
And what I said about my ex wife too.

Speaker 1 (01:17:46):
I'm gonna survive this show.

Speaker 2 (01:17:48):
Jeff needs a rim shot tonight. It's kind of crap
ag because the entire purpose of this article was to
sell products so that the New York Times can get
a cut of it. I mean, when I'm looking at
thirty eight dollars for a one ounce vial of beard serum,

(01:18:10):
shut up there is. You don't even need this stuff,
but I have it because of the women. One the
wife wants a softer beard, so I'll rub it in.
And two the granddaughter absolutely loves the smell of my
buffalo trace beard wax, and so she'd be here. I'm
come out and she's like, did you put it in?

(01:18:32):
And I know exactly what she means, like, ah not,
I didn't, boom, And then she comes up smells me
big eye roll and it's like, Okay, there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
Do you do it for the for the women in
your life? That's sweet, that really is.

Speaker 2 (01:18:46):
But even though you can get the tins of this
stuff for you, depending on your brand, ten fifteen, maybe.

Speaker 1 (01:18:52):
Twenty bucks, there are options that are far more affordable,
especially for the middle lass. You know this, this, that
entire screed was not for the middle class. That was
for the affluent metrosexual living in New York City.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
So I guess, I guess. But it's just I get
pissed off at this because.

Speaker 1 (01:19:18):
I'm going to get you all gift cards to Sephora.
I'm kidding. I'm totally joking.

Speaker 2 (01:19:25):
Yea, And you can do that, and I promise you
it would be regifted. I just have to figure out who.

Speaker 1 (01:19:34):
I'm just going to give it to. Ad. I'm just
gonna give it to add.

Speaker 2 (01:19:41):
The only time I ever go to Sephora is to
pick somebody up from work. That's about it. Sorry, No,
it's just the reason I hate these articles is because
they frame men in this mindset of theirs and they
make it sound like all men go through this crap
and all men need these opulate products.

Speaker 1 (01:20:03):
Like Jeff said, where's the father finger to teach them?

Speaker 3 (01:20:06):
And if I may may add, none of what they
listed in this article, which is surprising because New York
City gets cold, would fly in winter up here.

Speaker 1 (01:20:20):
You're right, it wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:20:25):
Now, And when it comes to you know like I'll
say this. I came upon Cremo not by accident, but
I mean it was bought for me. It's like, okay, Bourbon,
I'll try this out, and it actually works. I mean
it works great because I could put it on finish,
rents it off or doing something else and then boom,
I'm ready to go. No problem, hair drifts right off,
smells great, love, it works, Boom. That's all you need.

(01:20:48):
And I think it's like that one I believe is
maybe eight bucks or two. They have others that I think, yeah,
six or seven you get, depending on what you want
for a fragrance.

Speaker 3 (01:20:59):
He loves taking baths with the Bourbon Cremo body wash.
I will use it as a bath soap.

Speaker 2 (01:21:08):
But it's just you know cutting.

Speaker 1 (01:21:09):
Y'all know that I'm like taking mental notes about this
for Christmas?

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
Right, Well, yeah, you better better. Uh yeah, I think
I can stretch my bottle for Christmas. I think I
got it for two Christmases ago. I mean, I my
shaving doesn't involve tremendous amounts of anything. I just sit
there and use the necessary amount, get their job done.

(01:21:34):
Go fine, boom. The ones that elevate shaving into some
otherworldly event.

Speaker 1 (01:21:43):
No, and this is something that women. We do this.
We do this because of that whole spa day pampering
thing that we do. I mean, you know me, I
love to take a bubble bath and I will soak
in there and I will have my face mask on
and I will scrub my body with you know, pumis crap,

(01:22:06):
and I'll do all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:22:09):
Women do that, but the men different.

Speaker 3 (01:22:12):
Men.

Speaker 1 (01:22:12):
I need to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:22:14):
No, shaving is a daily thing, and so just sit
there a clear out a block of time in the morning.
Oh yeah, I got my shaving seminary. I got to
start now exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:22:26):
And when I do myself, it's just once a week maybe, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:22:31):
Yeah. One besting for a beard, especially in cold environments,
is a sauna. Oh yeah, a couple once a week
at most, or at minimum maybe once every three days.
Go to the sauna. Let the sweat build into the hair.
Wash off your good I just uh, I just check

(01:22:54):
with the broads, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:22:55):
If I get told that the hair is too prickly, Okay,
it's time for the some beer wash and it doesn't
smell right, Papa, All right, fine and done. You know
you're so good to them.

Speaker 1 (01:23:12):
To check with the brons.

Speaker 2 (01:23:15):
Just cracks me up at the seven year old demands
I put in bourbon trace beard oil though that's Papa. Really,
I never get that complaint. I usually get the opposite.

Speaker 1 (01:23:30):
Well, it's almost that time, it is mm hmm, So
I guess we should start like winding up? Did we
have another? I think we Oh yeah, we had a
quick one. Teen Vogue.

Speaker 3 (01:23:47):
Oh right, talking up proper way to shave.

Speaker 2 (01:23:53):
Yes. Sadly, teen Vogue is dissolving. They're folding it into
the company, and I had to laugh at the There
was not a huge amount, but there were a few
other journalists today that were basically crying about this. It's like, oh,
it's so sad to see the demise of this once

(01:24:15):
vital and important political outlet. And one guy today I
was like, yeah, that's real sad. Now our kids won't
learn about communism and how to perform anal sex before
they get into the sex trade industry.

Speaker 1 (01:24:31):
Well, what I never understood.

Speaker 2 (01:24:32):
These were actual articles in teams, were Vogue teams, and.

Speaker 1 (01:24:38):
They were lamenting the fact that the political arc of
it was going away. And I'm like, again, teen, they
can't vote, they have no voice. Why were the politics
so important? Nobody seems to want to address that, because
addressing that actually brings to life that this was just

(01:25:00):
basically a way to push social justice crap on teens.
So I'm glad it's it's no longer. I'm glad that.
I mean, it's it really is just going to be
part of Bogue itself.

Speaker 2 (01:25:14):
So it got rid of the entire editorial staff. I mean,
but the people that were producing that piece of crap
content are gone and they're looks like it was my
last day at teen Vogue is like, you're really going
to put that on your resume?

Speaker 1 (01:25:28):
God, No, I would never have said anything.

Speaker 2 (01:25:32):
Because basically what the left was doing is what major
corporations do, and that is try to lock in a
very young audience for a lifetime dedication to a brand.
And so they were trying to cultivate the next generation
of hardcore leftists. And so yes, they were literally giving
advice on anal sex and legitimizing the sex traight industry

(01:25:57):
as a viable monetary option.

Speaker 1 (01:26:00):
Gender queer issues we're always at the forefront as well.
So yeah, I'm not crying. So anyway, well, with that,
I guess we should wrap up the show, So Brad,
why don't you go first and tell us where we
can find you.

Speaker 2 (01:26:20):
I am covering the mayhem in the mainstream press on
a daily basis over at town hall dot com with
my media column called Rift from the Headlines, also on
the front page of Red State at the Regular and
I've got a twice weekly podcast there on the media
called Liable Sources, going into deeper detail into the problematics

(01:26:41):
in our dysfunctional media. And you can hear more of
me on this network. Thursday night, I'm going to be
here with Paul Young from Screen Ran He and I
go through the dark side of Hollywood and bad movies
on disasters into making alternate Thursdays, it's me and Already
Packard going through the vital business side of the entertainment
industry on the Culture Shift, and of course every Tuesday

(01:27:03):
here at eight and a half with the ever eff
investent Her on this show. And if you need more
of me than that, let's face that you do if
you head over to Jit or I am at Martini
Shark and yourself, Aggie. Where can people find more of
your magnificent content?

Speaker 1 (01:27:19):
You can find me at Aggie the barkeep you can
find me a thirty pm Eastern Tuesday nights doing the
Cocktail Linig with the Everswap view a thirty pm Eastern
Friday nights doing he said, she said, with the awesome
writing Rick the second Wednesday of every month, which, well,
next week we are getting together for Toxic Masculine eight pm.
I bring the drink of the evening, Jeff, and I

(01:27:41):
postpone our show, so it'll be on next Monday, eight
thirty pm Spirited Books. Stay tuned for that, and you
can catch me also tomorrow because I will be the
inquisitor on Inquiry at seven pm Eastern. So thanks for
joining us everyone, and we hope you have a lovely evening.

Speaker 2 (01:28:04):
And now go raise the glass and look at the ceiling.