You are NOT an American

The American thought process, philosophy, and founding principles are unique to the world, if you have a different vision, you're simply not one of us.

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

Sometimes you gotta take what life gives you, because life is like a mop. Gets full of dirt, crud, bugs, hairballs, and all kinds of nasty. You gotta rinse it out, wring it good, and start fresh. But sometimes life sticks to the floor so bad that a mop won't cut it. You gotta get down there with a toothbrush. And if that doesn't work, you run down to the window, throw it open, and yell, hey, these floors are dirty as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore. Welcome back to Implicit Bias Radio. I'm your host, Gavon Bordelon. And if you're joining us, you probably caught that unmistakable aroma of burning circuitry, pure desperation drifting across the airwaves. It's giving major Detective Frank Drebin vibes, total chaos, misplaced evidence, and nobody can find the damn filing cabinet. After America's 250th, we're starting at a political landscape that maybe looks less like a functioning republic and more like a plane coming in for a landing with the pilot reading the manual upside down, the co-pilot eating a powboy, and the passengers fighting over the last parachute. And now we have this sudden, seemingly national craving for democratic socialism, as if the best way to run the world's greatest superpower is to turn it into one big neighborhood potluck where nobody remembered to bring a dish. Folks are throwing that term socialism around with the confidence of a man who thinks he can fix a busted pipe with chewing gum and a Hail Mary. See, they're saying that they're chasing the American dream. Brother, the American dream was never supposed to come with a central planning committee telling you how many slices of cheese you're allowed to have before you become excessive. It's naked gun logic. Everybody running in different directions while the only guy in charge can't find his own pants. The irony? These same people think that they're updating the software of the Republic when they're actually trying to install an operating system that the founders rejected before the ink on the declaration was dry. Our founding principles were not drafted by bureaucrats in a climate-controlled room. They were hammered out by hard men who believed in rugged individualism, personal responsibility, and the radical idea that you should earn your keep or get the hell out of the way. Suggesting that the American spirit is naturally socialist is like claiming the Pacific Ocean is just a really big puddle of lukewarm sweet tea. It ain't a misunderstanding of history. It's a full-on rewrite while the cameras are actually still rolling. And that brings us to maybe the real sleight of hand here. The suits in DC playing both sides of the aisle like a cheap harmonica. They promise the moon to the left, the stars to the right, steer us towards a destination that ain't on any map. They're not leading us to utopia. They're rearranging deck chairs on a ship that's already taking on water, all while pretending they're the ones holding the plug. If you want the unvarnished truth, go to the Word. John 8 44. He warns us about the father of lies. The Bible is packed with sins, but the common thread that wrecks nations and souls is always the same. It's deception. Jesus just didn't hate hypocrisy. He called out the distortion of truth as the ultimate chain on human freedom. And when leaders claim to champion the people while dismantling the individual liberties that define this nation, they're not doing politics. They're committing spiritual fraud, selling a counterfeit liberty and labeling it as progress. It's straight airplane energy. You know, the controls flashing red, engines on fire, the captain calmly telling everybody that everything's just fine while he's still looking for his glasses. We're being told the only way to save the American dream is to replace it with a system that depends on the competence of the government, and that government can't even deliver the mail on time. In other words, if you believe in democratic socialism, you are not an American. You want the multiple failed governments of history, not the America that our forefathers outlined. The moment you trade self-reliance for a government allowance, you don't enhance the dream. You wake up from it into a beige bureaucratic nightmare. The founders didn't design a country where our success gets capped by quotas and our ambition gets treated like a hate crime. They build a wild arena for ideas, grit, and gambles. Trading that for socialism is like trying to win a marathon by making everybody hold hands and shuffle in a circle until the clock runs out. It's the ultimate gaslighting operation. A political shell game where the P is your autonomy and the dealer is wearing a tailored suit he definitely didn't pay for himself. They slide from we the people to we the state so smoothly it'll make a Vegas magician jealous. Community and common good are just velvet gloves over the iron fist of dependency. So we nod along thinking we're being a good progressive patriot until we realize the American dream has been replaced by waiting in line for a permit to exist. And when the individual gets swallowed by the collective, the dream didn't evolve. It evaporated. If you can't see it, you can't understand it. If this scrambled your brains before the third paragraph, please, for the love of all that's sacred, step back from the political arena. The rest of us will take care of you just as we have for the last 38 years. You've been living in mom's basement yelling for meatloaf. So we all know that we all need a second to process that in the progressive utopia that's basically a homeowners association run by people who can't operate a toaster. We'll dive into some weekly whiskey when we come back, where we will explore the sacred line between sophisticated vintage and that drink that sometimes makes you forget your own middle name. Stick around, folks. Implicit Bias Radio. Be right back. Implicit Bias Radio back on the air. I'm your host, Kavanaugh, and yes, we're gonna explain why if you think a certain way, you are not an American. But obviously those who listen to the show are Americans. Why? Because you're probably sampling weekly whiskey with us here in the Mr. Lester's top secret podcast layer. What is that, Caleb?

SPEAKER_02 6:25

What, me popping my jaw? Is that what that was? That's exactly. I was putting my ear thing in, and you have to like crack your jaw sometimes to get it, you know?

SPEAKER_01 6:33

I didn't hear it, thank goodness. How was you making the sound that time? Well, I didn't hear it the first time, is my point. I obviously heard you making the noise that you didn't make the first time. Anyway, I was just curious because it looked odd and I was like, what is going on over there? Well, maybe I just have narrow ear canals. Apparently, you have no earwax. We're not even going to talk about that. Let's go to the bar, introduce you to the crew that's here for this week. Renee Gerard, Louisiana's only certified master tobacconist. Renee, it's a pleasure to have you back. Last time you were here, we had to go find an outdoor venue. Hopefully, the temperature here on the Mr. Lester's TSPL is more amicable this time.

SPEAKER_03 7:04

Yeah, I'm now I'm thinking about I'm gonna have to start bringing my implicit bias vest with me because it was like an ice box in here.

SPEAKER_01 7:10

You'll get crew spelled the right way, correct? Well, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 7:14

We I talked to our our person about that, and he's like, Well, you're gonna have the only one. So, you know, maybe on y'all's it'll be spelled correctly.

SPEAKER_01 7:23

Hey, if we can keep the temperature in here as it is now, which you might be able to hang aside a beef in here, I'd be thrilled throughout the summer because it is just oppressive somewhere in southern Louisiana where we record this show. Speaking of oppressive, Danny Izo of Nouveau Photo is here. How are you, Danny?

SPEAKER_00 7:40

I am good. Pleasure to have you back. It's a pleasure to be here. I am so honored to be sitting between two of the not quite sure how to put it, but two of the a lot of people say that. I'm I'm just gonna Two of the legends of implicit bias.

SPEAKER_01 7:55

I am I am really gonna I wore my cowboy boots.

SPEAKER_03 7:57

Apparently, I need my hip boots for this week's show. For me, it's just worse.

SPEAKER_00 8:02

Yeah, full-on chest waiters for that one. An honor to be here between these two gentlemen. I use that term loosely.

SPEAKER_01 8:09

That loose would be a good term for those gentlemen. All right, let's talk about our weekly whiskey as we have another fantastic offering from the Implicit Bias Liquor Collective. This comes to us from Champines in Abbeyville. It is a five-year pinhook. And Renee, I want to start with you because you've already given some thoughts around it. You've had your first sip. I'm curious as to what you think of this offering.

SPEAKER_03 8:30

I like this one. It's it's not high proof. I mean, most of the pin hooks that we've had, to me, are a little hot. This one is perfect. I mean, it's just, I'm, you know, I'm guessing this is probably 105 proof.

SPEAKER_01 8:45

100 to 105 is what you're guessing proof? Okay.

SPEAKER_03 8:48

Because it's very smooth, not real hot. Um, it's a good whiskey. I like this one.

SPEAKER_01 8:54

So are you getting any notes on this? Is there anything that stands out to you to me? This is very flavor forward for something specific.

SPEAKER_03 9:01

It's got it's got some fruitiness to it. You had brought that and mentioned that earlier, but I can't I can't pinpoint the fruit. Um, I don't know. It's it's just good. I'll drink it.

SPEAKER_01 9:13

Well, Renee, let's be honest.

SPEAKER_03 9:15

I it's not a whole bunch that I won't drink.

SPEAKER_01 9:17

Correct. I mean, I don't think you've ever had a red on this show because your definition of a red.

SPEAKER_03 9:22

I think there was one red, but that was like, you know, five years ago or so.

SPEAKER_01 9:27

But you are literally like, there is no red because we've already drank it. And Renee's like, I will drink it again if it's free. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:32

So everything, therefore, is a yellow. I I hate to pour it out. I mean, you know.

SPEAKER_01 9:36

That would in some veins be called alcohol abuse, which we don't do on this show. We do try to drink responsibly for everybody out there. Danny, I'm curious as to what you think of this pinhook. Does it measure up to any of the offerings you had at Mr. Lester Steakhouse for Summer Supper?

SPEAKER_00 9:52

Yes. And um, quite honestly, we've had pinhook on this show a number of times. Um, I've never been real fond of most of the pinhooks. I like this one. Okay. Um, it's you're right, it's it's a little, I don't know, it's a little fruity, but a little sweet um without the corn, even though it's a bourbon. Of course, you know I'm really a rye guy. Yeah. Um and it's not real hot. And it's it's very smooth.

SPEAKER_01 10:23

I just I like it. It's interesting that you say that, because Caleb, did you get a chance to look? Is the mash bill on the bottle?

SPEAKER_02 10:31

I didn't look it up. I was too busy enjoying it, I'll be honest. I've almost done finished my class.

SPEAKER_01 10:35

Because I'm not gonna lie, I think this is probably an incredibly high corn content.

SPEAKER_02 10:40

I would assume so with the flavor that I'm getting.

SPEAKER_01 10:42

I would assume so. Me too. I get a lot of that sweetness. I get a lot of the what we like to call bourbon, bourbon-y McBourbon.

SPEAKER_02 10:49

And oh, look at right here, here's the mash bill.

SPEAKER_01 10:51

According to the Surgeon General, that would not be the mash bill. It might be the bill for something else, which, you know, might be the fatty liver that I've got from doing this show, but that's a whole nother story. All right, Caleb. So what do you think?

SPEAKER_02 11:05

On the nose, it's gonna be strange, right? So on the nose, I get orange zest, followed by like a wonderful early summer breeze. Because I get that heavy pollen.

SPEAKER_01 11:17

What are you doing? Like a feminine hygiene commercial over there? I mean, come on. That's summer breeze. You're close.

SPEAKER_02 11:22

But like I get that heavy pollen, not floral per se, because it is floral, but that heavy spring, warm breeze that carries the smell of the season that's coming. That's the smell that I get. And then on the palate, I get zest, orange zest in the beginning, followed by blonde caramel. Not deep caramel, it's very light. Okay. Still a little floral in there. It's not overpowering, extremely well balanced. This is uh an acrobat high above everyone, all the trapeze sitting there perfectly. It is so well balanced, it's crazy. None of the flavors really jump out and attack you as much, but it's got enough legs to where it wants to be enjoyed, wants to be, wants to hang around for the entire time you're drinking it. And at the proof that it is, it is amazing.

SPEAKER_00 12:08

Renee's gonna be shocked. Danny, go ahead. If I ever grow up, I want taste buds like Caleb.

SPEAKER_01 12:16

Yeah. No joke. I mean, I want to be able to smell a fly breaking wind from 300 yards like he can, because this dude's nose is just obscenely good. So I'm gonna tell you the flavors that I get. On the nose, I get the sweetness. I do get that that bright but deep citrus that you expect. So you get that little bit of acidity, you get that orange, and I think that's heavy on this because it almost borders on an old-fashioned in a glass.

SPEAKER_02 12:45

Very yes.

SPEAKER_01 12:46

But I think that it goes to a fruity side on the palate instead of going to the deep bourbon side on the palate, which is incredibly unique and incredibly wonderful. And what's the flavor that I get, and there's a reason why I didn't want to say that. Not necessarily. It is actually a mixture or what we think is a mixture of fruit. I get juicy fruit gum on this. Wait, hold on. Yeah, it's taste it, and and Renee's over there going, yeah, I get that same flavor profile. Right in the beginning. Uh-huh. That first little it, that first little sweetness that you get, you get that bright, sweet, fruity note on the palate. And then it smooths out, like you said, hint of vanilla, light caramel, not heavy. And at 121 proof, Renee.

SPEAKER_03 13:36

Yeah, man. I wouldn't have thought that.

SPEAKER_01 13:40

Well, we we know that because you thought it was 100 to 105 at the most.

SPEAKER_03 13:44

It drinks very smooth. I wouldn't have thought of 121.

SPEAKER_01 13:47

I mean, look, at 121 proof, this is what got me hooked. Pardon the pun, on high-proof bourbon and specifically on pinhook product.

SPEAKER_02 13:58

Well, pinhook does such a great job because all their stuff is a vertical release, right? So, like they're a little bit older, they have the flavor changes, you get to see it and enjoy it as it progresses.

SPEAKER_01 14:08

So it was the original pinhook rye humor that got us. Oh, back in 2017, 2018, 2019. And then we got to try the architect before it came out. Well, the architect is Penelope.

SPEAKER_02 14:21

Oh, Penelope, yeah. Not Pinhook.

SPEAKER_03 14:22

Yeah, the Pinhook Rye. That was the green bottle. It was one of them, them P bourbons. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:27

We've had we've had multiple pinhooks, but I'm telling you, that pinhook rye humor.

SPEAKER_02 14:31

The rye humor was 13 hands or something.

SPEAKER_01 14:32

It was 114 proof. And when I tell you it drank so smooth, it was incredible. And then we get this one where you get depth of flavor, you get fruity, you get floral, you still get the caramel, you get what you expect from bourbon, but you get so much more with this. And that's why this is such a unique bottle from Champines Down in Abbeyville. Again, this is a store pick. It's available only at Champines in Abbeyville, which means that if you want one, you have to go get one because it's unobtaining them anywhere else. And it's why we partner with the stores we partner with in the liquor collective.

SPEAKER_02 15:03

Well, and Pinook, their stuff is so robust. The flavor profiles are so different because it's all small batch, right? So you know that they they had to sit down and probably chose between three different barrels, maybe four, but most likely three. I'm willing to bet you every single one of them was a banger. Because this is phenomenal.

SPEAKER_01 15:21

I was about to say, this is special.

SPEAKER_02 15:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:23

This is really special whiskey. We have a studio audience here with us this week. And I'm curious, do we get a nod on like liking this one or not? Oh, yeah. I mean, he could have said no and we'd have still said yes, but that's okay. All right. So it's time to play What Would You Pay for the What Would You Pay Championship Belt Chain presented by Box Drop of Lafayette, and rate this on the Morse whiskey rating code. So for those unfamiliar with the code, it's very simple. Red, I would not drink it even if it was free, which means Renee will never issue in a red, because if it's free, Renee will drink it. A yellow, I will only drink it if it's free. A green, I will seek this out. Or a blue, I'm sorry, a green, I will buy this, or a blue, I will seek this out. So red, wouldn't drink it even if it was free. Yellow, only drink if it's free. Green, I would buy it. Blue, I gotta seek this out. This is special. This is something to open on a special occasion that people will remember. So we're gonna start at the bar. Who wants to go first? Renee's gonna grab the microphone. Renee, where do you rate this on the Morse whiskey rating code? And what would you pay for what's in here compared to what you've had before?

SPEAKER_03 16:29

Uh this one I'm gonna give a green. And I'm thinking 110.

SPEAKER_01 16:35

$110 in a green. Now, here's the interesting part. Renee missed the proof on this by 15 points and only gives it a green. You know, hey. Womp, womp. All right, Renee. Aye, Danny. You are typically a rye guy, so the sweetness might be a little too much for you, but I'm curious as to where you rate this.

SPEAKER_00 16:55

Oh, that's a definite green for me. Okay. But like Renee, there are no reds. Okay, so fair. I've had some really bad free bourbon.

SPEAKER_01 17:05

Hopefully, not on this show because Trammell's not here to talk about donkey whiskey. Mostly in hotels on the road. That's a really good place to get bad bourbon.

SPEAKER_00 17:15

Well, I saw them later on the bottom shelf in the gas station for $4.50. And you paid $21 for a one-ounce pourer. Anyway, no. We're free. Free. Okay. The the you know, the tickets you get when you check in. I got you. Um, I'm gonna say $121.

SPEAKER_01 17:30

So you think the price is the same as the proof, $121? Yes. Okay, so $110, $121, two greens. Caleb.

SPEAKER_02 17:40

I can't deny this one. This is a blue.

SPEAKER_01 17:42

I'm about to say you better not squirrel on this one.

SPEAKER_02 17:43

Yeah, I can't deny it. This is a this is a blue all day long and uh $80.

SPEAKER_01 17:48

A blue and 80 bucks. Okay, so here's the good news. My vote counts more than Renee's and Danny's. So it's a two-two blue. It is absolutely a blue. This is so special and so unique. It's something that I think everybody would want on their bar. They need to seek this out. And I I kind of hate giving as many blues as we do, but we just get we are so blessed to get so much really good bourbon and whiskey on the show.

SPEAKER_02 18:16

Because uh to do what we do and and and get to enjoy the company that we have, it is truly a blessing from God. It absolutely is.

SPEAKER_00 18:23

All right, Danny, what are your I was gonna say I will seek out that pinhook rye humor.

SPEAKER_01 18:31

You will not find that release anymore. That's the hard part. That's the hard part. Is that release has been gone for almost 10 years now. And it's sad to say that, but man, was it good stuff? Rest this one, rest in peace. Yes, this one is also incredible stuff. It is a blue here on the show. And here's the really interesting part the winner of the What Would You Pay Championship Belt Chain presented by Box Drop of Lafayette is Caleb Morse. This bottle is $49.99.

SPEAKER_02 18:59

I won at 50% over. You won't be easy math.

SPEAKER_01 19:03

Yep, you are that almost 50% over the price. And that's the really interesting part, right? Go ahead, Renee, because I tell you you are shocked at the proof and the price.

SPEAKER_03 19:13

Yes, I that I would not think that price because pinhooks normally go for a little bit more than that. And you know, of course, it's a it's a store pick. I'm sure they gave Champagnes a deal, or Champagne's just, you know, they want to treat all their customers right.

SPEAKER_01 19:28

So here's the other reason why this one is special. It's only five years old. And when I say only five, it does not drink like it's five. It drinks like it's 10 or 12. Very, very, very dignified, very, very balanced, very smooth. It is incredibly mature for five years old as a bourbon. Yep. And that is something that is truly unique. And even as the bottle opens up, I'm actually starting to get on the back of the palate like dark chocolate on the back of the palette. Like it's amazing the palette variation. Renee, is that a sign of a stroke?

SPEAKER_03 20:02

Yeah. I'm watching his face to see if you know he gets to face drooping or something. Any more than normal, right?

SPEAKER_01 20:08

Yeah, well, I'm about to say, any any more than it normally looks like.

SPEAKER_03 20:10

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:11

So what I would say is this is a definite blue. And at $49.99, it's Champines of Abbeville. Man, if you've missed this one. Wait, $49.99 or $44.99? $49.99. Yeah, $50. I mean, all day long. And here's the best part of this. This might be one of the biggest slept-on bottles that I've seen in a while. Because people are probably going to walk by it because they're like, oh, it could be another paper pitch. It's that little purple top though.

SPEAKER_02 20:39

That's purple. That it's purple.

SPEAKER_01 20:41

Yeah, it's it's not quite the lavender you wore at the Sazerak house. Yeah, you know. Okay, that's right.

SPEAKER_02 20:45

It's magenta.

SPEAKER_01 20:46

Yeah, I magenta. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 20:47

That's one of the colors I don't see.

SPEAKER_01 20:49

Nouveau photo. Danny has to understand color balancing and all that fun stuff, much like Aaron does, who's actually running audio for this show. Thank you, Aaron. We appreciate you doing that. We also appreciate you listening. We'll be right back with more Implicit Bias Radio. Welcome back to Implicit Bias Radio. We are sipping whiskey. We are talking about all the things you're not supposed to talk about in polite conversation. And that includes the fact that if you don't think in a certain way, you are not an American. I'm your host, Gavon Bordelon. Welcome back to the Mr. Lester's TSPL. Let me introduce you to the crew who's here this week. We've got Caleb Morse, the rustic renegade, who has already chimed in with his notable nose on what he was able to find in this pinhook five year from Champagne's in Abbeyville.

SPEAKER_02 21:30

Well, look, I'll be honest with you. I'm already my second glass, too.

SPEAKER_01 21:33

So yeah, this is my shock face.

SPEAKER_04 21:34

Yeah, I can tell.

SPEAKER_02 21:35

Yeah. It looks a lot similar to your O face.

SPEAKER_01 21:39

That's what your wife tells me.

SPEAKER_02 21:41

So one of us walked right in the bar.

SPEAKER_01 21:46

At the bar, we have Renee Gerard, Louisiana's only certified master tobacconist. Renee, it's a pleasure to have you with us.

SPEAKER_03 21:52

It's great to be here.

SPEAKER_01 21:52

I know you like this whiskey, which you scrolled on and gave a green that should have been a blue, but that's okay. You know, we give we give certain blues. You undershot. It doesn't matter whether we give too many blues. What matters is the quality of the whiskey.

SPEAKER_03 22:04

Yeah, but if you give blues every week, then blue really doesn't mean nothing. We don't know. That means we're gonna have to come out with another color that we talked about. We did. We will talk about that in hour too.

SPEAKER_01 22:15

I like that. We'll talk about that in hour too. I like that and I like that idea. We have Danny Eisel of Nouveau Photo. Danny, it's a pleasure to have you back. Don't tell me we're gonna go to Perry Winkle or something. We don't play soccer. It's okay. No, that's not happening. Speaking of soccer, can I be the first to say football? I am looking an American guy. I watch the American games in the World Cup because I want America to win. But thank God I don't have to watch that boring game anymore.

SPEAKER_03 22:43

Yeah, but America, America did win.

SPEAKER_01 22:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:47

They got, you know, they they got four mail-in uh goals from California at 3 a.m. So we actually did win.

SPEAKER_01 22:54

Yeah, and look, they had their apparent according to the Supreme Court, they're allowed to count those as long as they get sent in late, doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_00 22:59

Yeah, it does matter. Yeah, as long as the postmark's right. Yeah. Anyway, which which drives me crazy because as a business, we mail a lot of stuff. They don't postmark stuff anymore. Say that again? The post office has quit regularly postmarking.

SPEAKER_02 23:16

I wonder if that's because the post office is just horrible at everything they do.

SPEAKER_03 23:20

If you mail a letter, you're lucky to get it in 2035. Yeah, they they'll cancel the stamp, but they don't normally have a postmark or date time. They just have a cancellation mark.

SPEAKER_00 23:30

Oh, that's a whole notherity, if ever, a technical postmark on mail anymore. Look at your mail. There's no postmark.

SPEAKER_01 23:39

Well, and look, it's the little things like that that people do away with and claim and say, oh, we're as long as it's postmarked by the right date. Right. Right. And that game is afoot where they probably know, well, they're not gonna postmark anything anymore. We'll cancel the stamp, and everything stays the same way. And this is what bothers me as we get to these people who love to say, Oh, I'm all about saving America. We need to be socialists.

SPEAKER_02 24:06

Um that's 100% not American.

SPEAKER_01 24:09

I was about to say, how does that work? You if if you believe this is where I'm like channeling, and I hate to even say this because like of everything he did, but it's just it's funny. If you believe that socialism is American, and y'all know who that is my bad impersonation of, um, and if you don't, I've got a drink that you might want, and we'll see what happens to you overnight. Um you're not American. If you are a socialist, and this is what really irks me. If you are a socialist, guess what? Do you know how many options you have on this planet to go be a socialist? Go be a socialist.

SPEAKER_02 24:48

Everybody everywhere but here. Correct. Well, even then, when you look at it, socialism only lasts until you run out of money. Well, no, until you run out of somebody else's money. So then all of a sudden it's like, well, I can do it better. It's like having, it's like having a crazy husband or a crazy girlfriend and being like, I can fix her. No, you can't. They're crazy. Yeah. But that's what they that's what these socialists try to keep doing. They're like, well, we can do it better. We can do it better. You're doing the same thing. You're reading the same book. All of you are reading the exact same book. At some point, what's the different definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. And that's what's amazing about America. We didn't do the same thing. We broke the rule book. We said we never want this to happen again. And how can we protect the rights of independent citizens and make sure that the citizens' rights outweigh everyone else's rights? Well, outweigh the rights of the government, not everybody else's rights.

SPEAKER_01 25:38

All of our rights, all of the study, correct.

SPEAKER_02 25:41

They're the same. Your rights don't don't end where, well, don't end where mine begin and so forth. And your rights aren't more important than my rights, such as freedom of speech, Second Amendment, and everything, and so forth. We can exist without infringing on each other's rights. But the government has to recognize those rights. And just because it recognizes them doesn't mean it gives them to you.

SPEAKER_00 26:02

What gets me is the number of people living in this country in their even 20s and 30s and 40s and 50s and older who spent time living in socialism, who are trying to speak out. And nobody except for right-wing media will give them any time to talk about what they experienced. And they actually experienced what these people want us to become.

SPEAKER_03 26:33

Talk to any Venezuelan that left Venezuelan. Talk to any Cuban or Cuba.

SPEAKER_02 26:38

Yeah. Well, look at all the people that were here for the World Cup and everything else. So like America's amazing. This is great. They're like, you have air conditioning? Well, okay. Okay, so I threw that in their own purpose.

SPEAKER_01 26:51

I know, and I don't want to go to that rabbit hole yet, but we might as well because we'll come back to it. But they weren't New York. This, this is this is one of those funny things that when you go, America is a great country, and sometimes we do take it for granted. One of the things that we have talked about on this show, it has been a point of contention with us for the six years that we have been going. By the way, happy birthday, implicit bias listeners. This is our six-year anniversary show because it will air on July 11th, 2026. And we started on July 11th, 2020.

SPEAKER_03 27:23

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 27:24

But one of the big challenges we have had is whenever we have a shooting, mass shootings in the United States. It's always been something where we feel terrible for the victims, but we also recognize our Second Amendment rights. And this is why you don't hate the media enough. And here's why. Because the United States gun deaths are dwarfed by something else. Caleb, do you want to tell us what dwarfs United States gun deaths in a single year?

SPEAKER_02 27:54

Man, you know, first name, don't remember it. Last name Carrier, last name Reed. Did some wonderful stuff for it. And air conditioning's wonderful. And when you look over and you look at the UK, Europe. Yeah, Europe, because France is really bad for this. The amount of deaths due to lack of air conditioning and heat exhaustion is staggering.

SPEAKER_01 28:16

And it blows away the number. Again, pardon the pun, I didn't intend that. But it is far and beyond more deaths in Europe from heat exhaustion. We're talking gun deaths in the United States in a year.

SPEAKER_03 28:29

It is a massive number. And they're more north than we are.

SPEAKER_00 28:33

Yes, they are. And who was it? The vice mayor of Paris is saying that their heat wave is because of our air conditioning. Oh dear lord.

SPEAKER_02 28:45

Yeah, I love how all of a sudden it went from, you know, we can't just have all these deaths from heat exhaustion to where it's America's fault. When you look at it, if you want to blame somebody for pollution and for bad O2 or bad carbon monoxide poison, blame Asia. Blame India. Yeah, India and Asia push out way, well, Asia is India. Push out way so much more than we do. You know, and blame somebody, don't blame you.

SPEAKER_03 29:12

With all the coal plants and uh exhaust fumes and yeah, yeah. Okay, going back to.

SPEAKER_02 29:17

If you really wanted to have clean energy, we'd all have nuclear energy because it's way better than everything.

SPEAKER_01 29:21

Going back to though, you don't hate people enough, right? Because you know, you'd never hear that statistic in the national news media. You wouldn't hear that on ABC, CBS, NBC. Renee, I and Danny, I know you will both remember this because I remembered this as a kid. And I know when I was a kid, y'all were about 130. Yeah, we were old men back then.

SPEAKER_00 29:39

I was gonna say he's saying something about how old we are.

SPEAKER_01 29:42

Yes. So, but here's the here's what I remember. I know you remember this, and this is why we don't hate the media enough. When I was a kid on the 4th of July, every major network was airing patriotic 4th of July material, whether it was a concert, it was something at the National Mall, the Boston Pops, the amphitheater in Los Angeles. I mean, it was always, and we had the 250th anniversary of this country. Did ABC, CBS, NBC, did they run the big Washington, DC event with the fireworks? Did they like just air that live?

SPEAKER_03 30:21

No, uh, but well, I you gotta give ABC props. They did a 24-hour broadcast of the 250. Now, I didn't watch it because I don't watch ABC. I watched Fox because they were in DC and showed the delayed because it was so delayed because of the weather, but they stayed live and carried it.

SPEAKER_01 30:42

You know what's not live? This show. We actually are not gonna put four guys drinking whiskey, talking politics, religion, and all the other stuff in front of live microphones, which means the one-minute finger just hit us. We'll be back right after this. You are not an American on this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio if you think that socialism is the right way for us to go, because guess what? That's not how the country was founded. I'm your host, Gavon Bordelon. We've got a great crew here in the Mr. Lester's Top Secret Podcast Lair. Final segment, hour one. And before we jump into the topic of, again, how America can be so great. Not that we're perfect, but how we can be great, I do want to remind people of the special for the month of July at Mr. Lester Steakhouse, Implicit Barrel. The $17.92 single barrel picked by the crew of Implicit Bias Radio and only available at Mr. Lester Steakhouse, $5 pours for the first pour, $10 pours after that. And if you want to buy the bottle in the restaurant, it's only $50. Yeah, Danny's like, wait, I've never seen or heard of restaurants selling a whole bottle for $50. At Mr. Lester's, they will, but what I will tell you is you better hurry and get it because as of about a week and a half ago, half of the barrel was already gone.

SPEAKER_02 31:54

I made a mistake because when when we went the other day, I only bought one bottle. And I really wanted to enjoy it this last weekend, but I don't have another bottle.

SPEAKER_01 32:05

So I need to buy one so I can drink one. There you go. Because if you have one, you have none.

SPEAKER_00 32:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:10

If you have two, you have one to drink and one for the collection.

SPEAKER_00 32:12

And I didn't even know that. We drove to Homan back today. I could have stopped and picked up a couple of bottles. Oh, you were right there.

SPEAKER_01 32:18

Yeah. You you'd have been right there to go with it. You know who probably picked up a couple of bottles? That dude that went missing for 10 days that is our hero. Look, you want to understand how cool and how much fun the United States of America can be. Just go look at everything that the Europeans and the global citizens who have come here for the World Cup are doing, other than watching soccer, because they are realizing just how awesome this country can be.

SPEAKER_02 32:44

They're eating and having fun. I love how some of them are like, Americans are so friendly. We are. We're we're happy people. We really, really are happy people.

SPEAKER_03 32:52

Well, and I think a lot of the Europeans, too, they don't realize how big America really is. You know, most of their most of our states are the size of their countries.

SPEAKER_01 33:02

So if you stop and think about that, yes.

SPEAKER_03 33:04

So I mean, uh, you the size of Europe is only slightly bigger than the state of Texas.

SPEAKER_02 33:09

All of Europe. And we should have invited someone that was down here to watch the world. If they're still here, why not come on the show?

SPEAKER_01 33:15

Look, email us, text us through implicit biasradio.com. You can message us. We will happily have you on the show just to get an understanding of what your view of the United States is.

SPEAKER_00 33:26

This is strictly my twisted thinking. Okay. We like twisted thinking. My twisted thinking is that FIFA planned most of this along the south, thinking if these Europeans would come over here and see how the rednecks are so bad. And it just backfired in their face.

SPEAKER_01 33:44

Oh, I absolutely agree with you. And when you think about what Renee said, so we were actually talking during a break about trips that we'd gone to Europe. And I told somebody we went to Venice, we went to Florence, we went to Rome. You know, those are three of the major cities in Italy. And the only one that you couldn't like walk the whole city everywhere and not need a car, really not need a car. Your groceries, everything was walking distance, was Rome. And even in Rome, the population is so dense and the stores are so dense and everything. You don't necessarily have to have a car. Yeah, you might a lot of people don't.

SPEAKER_03 34:21

You might not go uh past five or six blocks. I mean, everything you need is right there.

SPEAKER_01 34:27

Correct. And it's it's not like New York, where everything you need is right there except for the bulletproof vest. Right. It's it's Europe, so it's a little more laid back. The pacing is more casual, the speed of life is just different in Europe. And I think they expected something very different when they came to the United States and what they're finding. And I've the video that I love are the guys dressed up as Revolutionary War soldiers playing the 1812 overture, and they've got, you know, AR-15s and all this stuff. And the caption said, I just want Europeans to realize that this is 100% legal in the United States of America. And it's why you never want to try to invade us, right? Because that is who and what we are.

SPEAKER_03 35:10

I mean, the south South United States has more firepower than all of Europe does. This is probably very true.

SPEAKER_01 35:18

Well, I was about to say, and we don't have the reverse lights like French tanks. So when you when you stop and think about this guy who got lost. So the story is this this guy comes over here for the World Cup and goes missing.

SPEAKER_02 35:32

You know his nickname?

SPEAKER_01 35:33

No. Lil Mick. That is perfect. He goes missing for 10 days. Like his family can't find him.

SPEAKER_03 35:42

Yeah, but was he really missing, or he was just having a good time and refusing to answer his phone?

SPEAKER_02 35:47

He lost his phone, and like most modern people, his plane tickets that he needed were on his phone. So he had a layover in Barcelona and said, you know what? Went in Spain and just stayed there. Didn't call anybody because I mean, who it uh no, probably everybody on here right now knows at least 10 people's phone numbers. I'm willing to bet you that the people right here, you know your wife's phone number by heart. Yes. No. I know my wife's really oh yeah, I still know my phone number.

SPEAKER_03 36:18

I remember our whole landline that's where I grew up, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 36:21

We are we are recording this at seven o'clock at night. Renee forgot that at 5 30 this afternoon.

SPEAKER_02 36:26

Well, so he said he didn't call anybody because he didn't know their phone numbers. He didn't go to the embassy because he's like, I've got my ID and I've got cash, so I just need beer.

SPEAKER_01 36:37

Look, and this guy is so American he doesn't even know it. That's what I love about this. This dude disappears for 10 days, nobody can find him, and he's like, Yeah, I don't need y'all. All I need is the bar. Brother, we can party. I mean, that's my kind of guy. But ultimately, that's what I think is at the heart of the American spirit. I think every one of us, uh specifically here in the TSPL, would love to be able to go, you know what? I'm gonna disappear for 10 days.

SPEAKER_02 37:06

God, sounds amazing.

SPEAKER_01 37:08

No phone, no email. I'm just gonna even I'm just gonna go sit in the woods at the deer camp for 10 days and not tell anybody I'm going. And just count fireflies. Yeah. That in and of itself is I think an American thing that we wish and desire to be, and this European guy happened to find it. And you know, the rest of the country is continuing to show why when people come here, they are shocked. Because yes, there was there was a situation in Boston. I've been to Boston. I I know some Bostonians who were nice. I've been to Boston and been cursed out for just standing on the side of the literally the side of the road. Somebody gave this dude a ride home because he missed his transportation. And the guy's floored. He's like, wait, this I can't believe this happened. Why would it not happen in Europe? Well, in Europe, to Renee's point, you might not have needed a ride home because you're only walking four and a half blocks.

SPEAKER_02 38:09

Right. You're two days away.

SPEAKER_01 38:14

Two days. Dear Lord, the wrong part of Texas. You're a desert, and pray to God you get out of there alive. You look like Clark Griswold trexing across the desert trying to replace four bald tires, right?

SPEAKER_02 38:24

I used to hate waking up and I'm like, I'm still in Texas driving somewhere else.

SPEAKER_01 38:30

This to me, though, is why Americans have to embrace the American philosophy of thought. We do not live in a country where if you get caught somewhere in Texas not knowing where you are, you can go, oh, the collective's gonna save me. We live in a country that is vast, that has so much land per person, it's not even funny. And it also makes me wonder if this isn't why the world is, I hate to say so jealous of us, because we take a lot of that stuff for granted.

SPEAKER_02 39:03

Well, look, they they were making fun of us because we're only 250 years old. But you know what? Look what we've done in 250 years.

SPEAKER_03 39:10

Yeah, but I mean, the the land mass we have and the resources that we have. And I mean, that's what amazed me when I was watching, you know, these these other other people from other countries. They the the bounter the stuff we have in the grocery stores, they couldn't believe the amount of selection we have in grocery stores, that we get free refills on sodas and and fast food restaurants, that we have fast food restaurants.

SPEAKER_02 39:35

So we have we have excess. Even our poor have excess compared to the poor of other countries. Look at how comfortably we really live. You know, um, when I think about the countries and the UK and all these other ones saying that we're young, we are a young country. I had a guy the other day tell me, he's about 60 years old, and he said, Caleb, you know, at 60, I can still do what I did at 20. Well, I hate to tell you this, but you didn't do a damn thing at 20. You know, and that's how the United States is. Yeah, we're young. We're only 20 years old when you look at the grand scheme of things, but you know what? We've done more in our 250 years as a country than other countries have done in their entire existence.

SPEAKER_03 40:10

Well, also, you got to look at a lot of these countries too. They're older, but their governments have changed multiple times. Oh, yeah. Still the same name of the country, but their governments have changed.

SPEAKER_01 40:22

Danny, did you have something you wanted to chime in with? I saw you leaning in there for a second.

SPEAKER_00 40:26

No, it was a long time ago.

SPEAKER_01 40:27

Long time.

SPEAKER_00 40:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 40:30

The the thought process that I think we see so many people lean into when they say America's young, 250 years, right? And Caleb, you you really kind of summed it up in that when you look at what this country has accomplished, what people don't realize is that the country has accomplished what it has because of its philosophy of rugged individualism, not because of collectivism. Collectivism moves slow, collectivism stops progress as opposed to rugged individualism, which generates it. So, Renee, I love what you brought up, and I've told this story to those here in the crew before. I was fortunate enough to work with a lot of people from the former USSR, the Soviet Union, the wall fell in the early 90s, and a lot of them immigrated to New Orleans. So I was in college and I'm working with them. And literally, I drive a couple of people because they didn't have a car, this man and his wife, to the grocery store. And I walk in, grab a basket, like I'm just gonna help them shop. And they are stopped at the door. And his name was Yevgeny. I said, Yevgeny, are everything okay? And he looked at me and he said, We've never seen this much food in one place. So, what do you mean? You don't have no, our stores are not like this. And this is what the people who are propagating this BS democratic socialist garbage don't understand.

SPEAKER_03 41:50

See, that's what you get for bringing them to Schwagman's.

SPEAKER_01 41:54

Schwagman's is it was huge. We we we wasn't making groceries at Schwagman's, babe. Schwagman's had already closed at that point.

SPEAKER_00 42:00

I mean, this is where it was. But this is also what all these people coming over for the World Cup are discovering. Correct. That there's a lot of everything.

SPEAKER_01 42:11

Yes, there is abundance in this country that I don't think they realize that we have. Now, unfortunately, some of that abundance is bioengineered and designed to kill us, but that's a whole different story.

SPEAKER_02 42:22

Now you're going back to a chicken in every pot.

SPEAKER_01 42:24

So well, and and there's or pot in every chicken. That's the more modern philosophy. Ring the bell because that might be the comment of the show from Danny Izo. Yeah, yeah, a pot in every chicken. I'm somebody's farming that somewhere, I'm sure. And that's what I was curious about. But at the end of the day, these people who think that in order for America to grow and America to be great, we have to not be Americans. That's a problem. Yeah. And I hate to say it, a lot of that problem probably stems from people who are close to my age. Maybe a little older, because it's a lot of their kids who are pushing and driving this stuff. And here's the other thing. We like to think, and because of the headlines, oh, this is a major movement. It's not a major movement. It's not. It's only happening in deep, deep, deep Democrat districts, deep, deep, deep Democrat cities where this the only way they can win.

SPEAKER_03 43:19

Well, it sounds like a major movement because the media is pushing it. So it makes it sound bigger than it really is.

SPEAKER_00 43:25

And well, it'll be interesting to see what happens in the real the real election. Because what we've seen is in primaries. Yeah, everything we've seen is in primaries. Are these people actually going to make it through a regular, real election when they have to stand up against a normal person?

SPEAKER_01 43:41

I'll be curious to see because I always said Mandami was going to be the best Republican commercial ever to get elected as mayor of New York City. And now that we are seeing this, the backlash, well, hopefully that's our implicit bias, which in our two is always more fun. Be right back. Putting Renee on the spot now or two here on Implicit Bias Radio, where we are solving the problems of the world, having the conversations you're not supposed to have in polite company, and we do it with whiskey and with microphones. So, Renee, we have this blue whiskey which you squirled on. This beautiful five-year cask strength bourbon from Champines of Abbeyville. What cigar would you put with this?

SPEAKER_03 44:23

Oh man. See, you should have let me know during the break. Now I gotta think about it.

SPEAKER_01 44:28

You're uh dude, you are the certified territorial wizard of tobacco.

SPEAKER_03 44:33

You know what would go good with this one? That 1916. I didn't. That's why I asked you. That 1916 that we had a couple weeks ago.

SPEAKER_01 44:41

The one that I was actually smoking on the porch when we did the show outside.

SPEAKER_03 44:46

That would go very well with this. I could see Roa. Who's who's that one up?

SPEAKER_02 44:49

Yeah, it's Euro.

SPEAKER_03 44:50

It's it's Santi Aurora that blended that cigar.

SPEAKER_01 44:53

I actually could see and understand that palette-wise.

SPEAKER_03 44:57

You know, it still amazes me that you know it's a 121 because it does not drink that way. It's very smooth, and that's why I think that 1916 would go very well.

SPEAKER_00 45:06

But does it have a magenta band?

SPEAKER_01 45:08

No, it's actually red and gold. Yeah, no magenta band, as Danny asked. That is Danny Izo of Nouveau Photo. It's a pleasure to have you back with us, Danny. Caleb Morse, the rustic renegade, is here. He won the What Would You Pay championship belt chain presented by Box Drop of Lafayette because he was closest to the price of this bottle. Caleb guessed 80. It's $49.99 at Sean Buck's.

SPEAKER_02 45:29

That's still ridiculous. I can't believe the bargain that you get with that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:32

Yep. Uh it it reminds me of. Okay, so I asked this question.

SPEAKER_02 45:35

It's almost as good as the prices you pay at Leicester's.

SPEAKER_01 45:38

Almost. And look, when you think about what they're charging for implicit barrel, the $17.92 that we were fortunate enough to be part of that pick. $5 for your first pour, $10 a pour after that, and $50 bottles in the restaurant.

SPEAKER_03 45:51

I look forward to the next barrel. Same price per bottle.

SPEAKER_01 45:54

Yep. Yep. Same price per bottle. That is absolutely outstanding. Okay, so I gotta go back to the monologue of the show because I asked everyone, hey, if y'all know where the opening quote of the monologue comes from, I'll get you a bottle of whiskey. Anyone know what that was from?

SPEAKER_02 46:09

I completely forgot what it was. I wouldn't even listen to when you said it.

SPEAKER_01 46:12

It was about the mop. Well, yeah, you're not the only one. It was about Life is Like a Mop. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyone know the movie?

SPEAKER_03 46:19

Nope.

SPEAKER_01 46:20

No one knows the movie? UHF Weird Al Yankovic? Stanley Spadowski. Oh Stanley Spadowski's Playhouse. Life is like a Mop. That's my mop. And it was the guy who it was the guy who played Kramer on Seinfeld. Yes. Who played Stanley Spadowski, had Stanley Spadowski's Playhouse. Yo, so stupid. Great, great movie.

SPEAKER_03 46:43

Yes. Strange, but it's a Weird Out movie.

SPEAKER_01 46:46

Well, it's what you expect from Weird Al, right? I mean, it goes back to kind of what we were thinking of when we're talking about cigars and what goes well together and all that. Weird Al just plays well with Strange.

SPEAKER_03 46:56

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 46:56

He just does. Weird Al made movies.

SPEAKER_03 46:59

No, he made a movie.

SPEAKER_01 47:01

I was about to say, he might have made more than one. I don't know. He might have been in more than one.

SPEAKER_00 47:07

Yeah. Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:08

His rendition of Fat instead of Bad by Michael Jackson. Who's fat? That was that was well done. One of the funniest things is my son, who's now 20, the first concert he ever went to, he was in like middle school and we found out Weird Al was performing in Houston. So we went to go see Weird Al in Houston like almost 15 years ago now. Maybe what, 12 at this point. When I tell you the dude put on a good show, like he worked for his money. He absolutely was working for the money on stage. He did come out in the full fat suit for fat. Still addiction? Yes. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 47:46

Amish Paradise. One of my favorite air conditioning. That's what I would say.

SPEAKER_01 47:49

Thank God for air conditioning. Amish Paradise, the I love the story behind that one because the story behind Amish Paradise was that Coolio did not want him to do it. Yeah. And he was, I mean, he can do it. He did it anyway. But like when he did Eat It, which was his first, I think, Weird Al's first big hit, he had Michael Jackson sign off on it. Like Michael Jackson was like, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 48:09

Another one rides the bus was the first react. Another one rides the bus.

SPEAKER_01 48:13

That wasn't his first big hit. That was his first, like, kind of put him out there for those who knew. But the one that really, I mean, Eat It, he did the whole, it was almost a full remake of Beat It. Right. The music video.

SPEAKER_00 48:26

Right.

SPEAKER_01 48:27

Even down to the diner and the but he had sight gags in there. It was, it was, it was hysterical stuff.

SPEAKER_00 48:33

And one that never really became popular was Ground Zero. I don't remember that one. I don't remember that one. Ground Zero? Now I'm gonna have to go look for it. Standing there on Ground Zero when the atomic bomb is coming down on you. Again, I don't remember this one.

SPEAKER_02 48:47

But I I mean I don't put it in Weird Al's weirdest. I can I can imagine how it went, and I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:54

I I need to look that one up. Speaking of absurd. Good segue. There are some things going on governmentally that are just flat out absurd. And we now have proof from the Fed. You want absurd, you want a bad joke? Housing prices over the last seven, eight, nine, ten years. Yeah, we can do 10. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bad joke.

SPEAKER_02 49:20

Housing prices are just a bad joke. Average, the average is about 35% increase in the past 10 years.

SPEAKER_01 49:27

And interestingly enough, I mean, you expect a little bit of an increase, but that's a lot. I mean, you gotta think. That's taking a $300,000 house and making it $400,000.

SPEAKER_03 49:40

Well, and a lot of that quick. A lot of that is because the shortage of supply. These there's companies now going and buying up inventory and houses so they can turn them either into rentals or pick up the price.

SPEAKER_01 49:57

Let's talk about what the Fed told us. Please don't believe us on this story. Please go look this up. The Fed went on the record with the real big reason. So you said housing prices are up roughly 35%. According to the Fed, please, again, don't believe us. Don't say Kavan said, don't say I heard on implicit bias radio. Go look it up and say, man, the Fed said this. Housing pricing increases in what, Caleb? The last five, six years? Well, I'm going up. 10 years. 30% increase due to illegal immigration. And then the rent is the same. Rent's up 20.

SPEAKER_02 50:38

And then you know what? The dollar is down? Gee, let me guess. 45%? 35%. There we go. So these people out there that think their home is is an asset, your home is not an asset. It's a liability. And the housing increase you think you have, if you if you think you pay on your home in 20 years and you make money, you don't do the math. It costs you way more than you pay. Yeah. So you lose that much more money. And then the increase that you see doesn't even keep you ahead of inflation. It's because there's not enough product in the market.

SPEAKER_01 51:08

Well, okay. So you're, and let's we've got to clarify because we've got to compartmentalize here. Okay. So first of all, when you say you're paying on your house, you're not making money because you pay so much, that is due to the interest on the house and the way it's calculated. And what we are talking about is not interest. What we are talking about is pure price inflation of homes due to an unnatural influx of population growth.

SPEAKER_02 51:34

A ton more buyers equals a ton more demand, which the price goes up. So if you had a South Louisiana, $150,000, $175,000 house 10 years ago, now it's worth, we'll call it $245,000.

SPEAKER_03 51:47

See, there's there's a pro there's a flaw with this theory, though. Okay, what's the flaw? The illegal immigrants coming in don't have money to buy a house. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What they would have money to get the federal government to pay their rent on a house.

SPEAKER_01 52:02

That's the point. Right.

SPEAKER_03 52:03

You know, and there again, that's when the corporations that are coming in buying up the inventory and then turning them into rentals because people were having a hard time finding a house to buy.

SPEAKER_01 52:15

Well, that's the point. Regardless of whether immigrants, illegal immigrants are buying homes, that is beside the point. The point is homes are being lived into a point where the supply of available homes in the market had shrunken so greatly. We couldn't build them fast enough because of artificial demand.

SPEAKER_03 52:34

Right.

SPEAKER_01 52:35

The artificial demand drove up the price, which meant that we had too many dollars because it was federal dollars, it was assistance dollars, it was fraudulent dollars, it was people in Minnesota who earned and owned learing centers, right? Buying excessive homes for excessive dollars, chasing too few goods, too few homes that are out there, which meant that we saw the price of houses skyrocket due to the artificial demand and therefore the artificial dollars in the market.

SPEAKER_00 53:06

And and when you throw into that the idea that um big companies like BlackRock Well, and that's what Renee's referencing, buying whole subdivisions.

SPEAKER_02 53:17

Well, and when you look at the the percentage rate, right? So during COVID, two and a half, three percent interest rates. Yeah, now you're seven percent interest rate, right?

SPEAKER_01 53:27

Well, okay, this is the this is the back part of in of thinking you're investing in your home. Because compound interest, the way that it works out, over 30 years, you will pay double the cost of the home just in interest plus the cost of the home at a minimum.

SPEAKER_02 53:42

Well, I mean, yeah, because from two and a half to seven percent, even though that we're more than double the interest rate, we're double the note. So when you look at whatever your home costs, not just counting the increase in price, you also have the increase in rate and everything else. It compounds across all facets of it. That's why we look at people now, like, you know, your your kids, my kids, yours grandkids. Um wasn't me this time, Danny. Wasn't me this time. Like it's gonna be almost impossible for them to own a home. It's so hard now because of one, the prices, and two, the devaluation of the dollar the way we sit at. It's it's really hard for a young American today to say, I want to buy a house. Or they can say it, it's really hard for them to do it. And it's we, and I say we, we as the American people, not necessarily my generation, but we as the American people have created the perfect storm of you know what? No, you can't buy a house.

SPEAKER_00 54:41

Uh it's it's it's a fiasco. And yet people will still find a way to do it. And I love listening to all you really young things. No, look, I I have found about 7% being this horrible thing when you first bought a sort of thing. I do remember the 70s when 14, 15, 16 was the norm.

unknown 55:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 55:04

I am I am old enough, Danny, to remember getting a savings account with 16% interest rate being paid to me.

SPEAKER_00 55:10

Yes. Yes. But a car loan was 30%.

SPEAKER_01 55:14

Yeah. Yeah. And on a used car, especially. Well, and this this to me is part of, I think, the great trick that's been played on the American populace and why the system is broken. It needs to be shattered and rebuilt because they do things like call it simple interest. Simple interest would mean, right, that I simply repay a portion of the interest as on top of a large portion of the actual principal of the loan so that the interest doesn't compound upon itself, which is not what happens. So for those who have not done the math, when you buy a home and you start paying your note, you are not paying 50% of the value of the home for that month. So take it, take the value of the home, divide it by, you know, 60 months. Well, divide it by, I'm sorry, divide it by 30 years, right? 12 months per year, and spread it out evenly. No, you pay, you pay, you know, 40 cents towards the principal of the loan and the rest is interest, which means that that principal sits out there and the interest continues to compound on that big number of the principal. So you keep paying all this interest until you get to the very back end of the loan when you're finally paying majority principal minority interest in monthly payments. It's that, I hate to say it's that simple. That's not simple. That's complicated for people to sit down and figure out. If you wanted to do this with a financial calculator, it takes about 23 to 25 steps to figure it out on a financial calculator, not by hand. I know because my father was in the mobile home business and he taught me how to do it on a Hewlett-Packard financial calculator in like 1983. I couldn't do it again today, but I remember the sheet and the number of steps. It was a lot with the computer. Much less sitting there trying to understand I am borrowing $200,000 for a home. I'm gonna pay 3% interest per year. So that means that every year I should pay what, $6,000 in interest? That's not how it works. 3% interest on a $200,000 loan is gonna end up being somewhere in the neighborhood at the end of 30 years. Oh, call it $320,000. That's just the interest.

SPEAKER_02 57:42

Yeah, I mean, I just ran it for a 20-year. Let's say you do a 20-year and you got lucky and got it at 5.5% and you bought a $150,000 home. South Louisiana, that's not outrageous, right? Or used to not be outrageous. $150,000 home, 20-year loan, 5.5% interest, $257,500.

SPEAKER_01 57:59

Here's the deal. If you can find a house in southern Louisiana for $150,000 right now, you're incredibly lucky if it's not in a place that doesn't need extra security. I mean, it's just the reality of it. And leave opposition.

SPEAKER_03 58:10

Or you're gonna have to spend another $300,000 to fix it up because it's it's it's a shack.

SPEAKER_01 58:15

Correct. So again, this is why the collective doesn't work, because the collective is being bled. It's being bled dry by the elite at the top. Which is, by the way, for those who don't know, what happens in socialism and communism? That's why you're not an American. At least today we have the opportunity to get ourselves out of it.

SPEAKER_03 58:35

Well, in socialism, all men are created equal. It's just some of them are more equal than others.

SPEAKER_01 58:40

Well, again, the problem with socialism and communism is it all works great until you run out of somebody else's money, which is what this is.

SPEAKER_03 58:48

See, I always thought we were socialists because, you know, we're very social creatures. We like to get together, we like to drink, and we like to talk and socialize. I thought that's what socialism was.

SPEAKER_01 58:59

That's not what it is. Not quite, but you know, I would be willing to argue if we had like a implicit bias roving camera and QA session, and we started asking people under a certain age, hey, what is socialism? I'd be willing to bet that you'd probably get that answer from 30% of those questions.

SPEAKER_04 59:16

Probably.

SPEAKER_01 59:17

Oh, socialism. That's people who like to be social.

SPEAKER_02 59:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 59:20

That's all my social media is on one app. Yeah. Yep, yeah, yeah. So I just I find it amazing that what people don't realize is that right now, so first of all, Renee, I think you've got a great argument that under this system, we have a lot of things that are already socialized.

SPEAKER_03 59:38

Oh, yeah. I mean, it's I mean, look at all the government programs and everything. That's all socialistic.

SPEAKER_01 59:44

That's exactly what it is. But the worst part is when you realize that we were not just paying for socialism in the United States. Oh, no. We are socializing the world. Yeah. With not anymore, thank goodness USAID, that's been done. But with illegal immigration, we were paying for people in other countries as well. Which means that the one-minute finger, of course, has to pop up because we just might have made a decent point. Again, please don't believe us. We'll have more fun as hour two continues on this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio. What was that, Caleb? He's recording, isn't he? No, not yet. Oh, yeah. I told you. What was did you like? I mean, do you have Tourette's or something?

SPEAKER_02 1:00:27

Nah, I wanted to just make Doug jump, and I think I got him right before. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:31

So I guess we'll try to tell this inside joke. Aaron gives us the countdown. Three, two, you break before one so that you've got a clean break before audio starts for a radio show or podcast.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:42

And Caleb decides to like flip out and have you know, that's the way professionals do it. That's not the way I do it.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:51

Yeah, pretty much. I think Caleb needs to see somebody about that. He might.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:55

Well, like I told you earlier, I see three people.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:57

I think you need a fourth. One of the three.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:59

And I need a fourth.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:00

And I think I think the people who see him have to see someone because of him. That's a whole nother story.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:05

I keep recommending medication, but I'm not down for that.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:09

All right, so this is a story that, you know, it was interesting when it started because I would have sworn that it wasn't price fixing. I really would have, because for those who remember when a regular dozen of the white hormone-fed speed-to-market eggs were, you know, $7.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:32

Oh, I remember when they were 89 cents a dozen. I know. And then it went up to 27.50 a dozen.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:39

But my but my point is this. My point is, right before all that happens, for those who remember, you had a culling of the American chicken flock. Oh, yeah. Allegedly because of some disease, yeah, some bird flu. You also had massive fires that struck down, you know, five or six large and major egg-producing facilities.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:06

See, I don't believe that because they didn't donate a bunch of big chicken afterwards.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:11

Right?

SPEAKER_03 1:02:12

But my point is, I could have seen they couldn't sell those chickens because, you know, all the hormones and antibiotics in it. Those are flammable. You're right.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:20

That's flammable. But my point is, we could have seen a tightening of supply. That would not have shocked me, which would have driven up the price of eggs. Well, that's but it turns out that's what they tried to sell it as. The price of eggs was manufactured.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:39

Imagine that. I mean, look, we we have we have an economy where there was a point in time, whenever not that long ago, if you wanted eggs, you raised chickens, or someone in your family raised chickens and you bought them from them. I remember buying farm fresh eggs for a dollar a dozen. You know? Uh we had chickens and we raised our own chickens for eggs, for meat, and everything else. But then if you've ever been to North Louisiana, you've seen some of the big chicken farms. Yeah. You've seen the thousands of pellets they have out there that they would go through and put out, and you had some for meat, some for egg. And there are people now that don't realize or recognize where it comes from or what it means to raise your own food or be self-sufficient. And we've all become so reliant upon grocery stores. And I'm it's not the grocery stores that were doing it.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:22

No, okay. So, Caleb, you want to outline the price fixing that was going on with eggs? Because at the end of the day, that's why the price of eggs went so high. And we now know because someone filed a lawsuit in Arizona.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:33

Well, when you look at it, if you're buying a um a white pack of a dozen eggs, a yellow pack, a brown pack, a blue pack, what other colors are there? Like green, pink, pink. They really are they're coming from one of three places. There's not a lot of independent egg farmers. Is that the right word? Egg farmer, egg rancher?

SPEAKER_03 1:03:49

No, egg farmer.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:50

Yeah, I would think it would be egg farmer, egg collector, egg, I don't know. This is an existent existential question. Yeah. So they it goes to like three different people, uh, three different groups, and then it's distributed from there. And then the farmers weren't necessarily fixing prices either. It was all these massive distributors that were fixing the prices and just driving it up.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:10

Okay, so when we say fixing prices, and please don't believe us on this, go look up the lawsuit in Arizona. What we mean is there was collusion between the major distributors with regards to the prices that they would set for their eggs. In other words, let me let me lay this out for you. And I'm not gonna name anybody specifically, but there's a large company. Let's say they drive brown trucks, hypothetically, and they deliver packages by ground. They might be considered the ground delivery expert in the United States. Now, there might be another large company that also delivers by ground, but they're not the ground expert, right? They are known because they get things there in an express manner.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:51

And they might be considered the air transportation experts. So here's what people maybe don't know. When they release pricing every year, and I want you to understand the ramifications of this. Two companies that control the market, it's not the monotone. Guy from Aceventura Pet Detective. It's not Mr. Monopoly. No. What is that called, Renee? I would say it's collusion, but it is, but there's a specific term. It's not a monopoly.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:16

I don't know. Colonoscopy? Yeah.

unknown 1:06:19

Polygamy?

SPEAKER_01 1:06:20

Caleb, that is just you wishful thinking. It's called a duopoly. A duopoly. Right? Two companies. No. No, that's a duet. Is that where the term duop could be? Oh, a duo. That's a duop. Yeah. Aaron's over there. He's like, yeah, I missed the mic on that one. It's too quick. But no, I mean that that's a duopoly. So essentially what you had with the eggs situation was exactly the same thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:44

Two people driving.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:45

But here's but here's the difference. They got together and said, we're not releasing any eggs until we release them all at this price. So no matter where you're buying your eggs within a whether it's today, tomorrow, in perpetuity, as they would say on the sand lot, forever the pricing was the same. And this has come out in the evidence portion of the lawsuit, right? Where they are doing discovery and they're getting through emails and all this stuff. And they're like, wait, they really were sticking it to the American public on the price of eggs.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:19

Well, and what people need to realize is like American love, we Americans, we love our butt nuggets.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:27

Oh you you waited, you waited how long to come out with that? Quite a while. So about as long as you waited to come out, period.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:34

Yeah, you know, it comes from a chicken's vent, right? And with without roosters, roosters are there to help and fertilize the eggs and grow them and all that. So we literally have these little velociraptors that are meant to be just to produce eggs for us to eat. And we consume a ton of eggs. Eggs are a great source of protein, carbohydrates, everything. They're fantastic food. It is really delicious. And we've just become so dependent upon these processes and systems that we know nothing about that whenever it has a tick, we don't pay attention.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:09

But it's not that much different in the beef and pork market. There's only four producers of beef and pork, and none of them are based in this country. I mean, they all have processing plants in this country, but the companies themselves are not here.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:24

Cargill isn't based here in the U.S. Because Cargill has meat packing plants all over the U.S. Yeah. So then the other three. Look, there's a big issue with consolidation at high levels. And I agree with you, some of it has to do with meat packing, some of it has to do with eggs. I would argue a lot of it has to do with gasoline prices. Because let's talk about, and we actually talked about it on the show. We were then backed up because our 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump, actually called them out like two weeks after we said, okay, so the whole Iran conflict starts, and overnight the price of gasoline jumps. Well, the price of oil jumps like $20 a barrel. And the price of gasoline jumps like 60 cents in a day. Well, in a day, we saw the price of oil drop from over 100. You won't feel that though. To right at $70 a barrel. Which was about where it was before it started. Correct. It was a little less than $70 when it started. But here's the big problem the circular logic that gasoline companies use for this is problematic. Because at the beginning they say, oh, the price went up. It's speculatory. We have to cover our potential losses. So they jack up the price of gas. Then when the price of oil comes down, they go, Oh, that expensive oil is still in the pipeline. BS, you got your money on the front end. So you shouldn't get it on the front end and on the back end, which is what you're doing. How dare you tell me where and when I can't make more money? Look, well, here's the deal. When you have that much control over the market, and this is where you know, this is where you know it is a complete and total lie as to how much money they're making. This show is recorded in downtown Lafayette, Louisiana. Anywhere around here, I was looking at prices of gasoline. If you buy on a credit card or a debit card, it's somewhere around $3.35, $3.39 a gallon. I'm not complaining about it, it's just what it is. But what's really interesting is you jump on the interstate and you go seven miles down the interstate. And there's a major place advertising gasoline at 305 a gallon. 305 a gallon. Don't tell me that there's a 10% differential to drive that gasoline seven miles, eight miles down the interstate. It just doesn't exist. You know what else doesn't exist, Renee? Your comment because we got the one-minute finger. We'll come back to it when we come back on Implicit Bias Radio. Somebody please ring the bell. Why do we ring the bell on this show? Because who was right?

SPEAKER_02 1:10:54

I was right again.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:55

Not well, technically, yeah, I guess you you were. The conspiracy theorists were right again. Remember, Renee, it's a conspiracy. What's it not?

SPEAKER_03 1:11:03

It's not a theory.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:04

It's not a theory. This is Implicit Bias Radio. I'm your host, Kabon Borderland. Welcome back to the Mr. Lester's top secret podcast layer, where we have more fun behind microphones than I think some people should be allowed to have because we get weekly whiskey. We get to talk about all the things you're not supposed to discuss in polite conversation.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:19

And we don't care.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:20

Renee, you took the words out of my mouth. We don't give a anyway. So the conspiracy theorists were right again when we said that there was a lawsuit filed against a former president that was completely bought, paid for, made up, and manufactured. How do we know this today? And it's our favorite saying on the show. I do really enjoy saying this. Please don't believe me. Please don't believe us. Please go read. Please go ask AI. Because even though AI will probably still get some of it wrong, AI will get a lot of times the majority of it right. But if you ask AI, you then have to investigate because AI does nothing but source stuff, and sometimes there's bad sourcing. But if you go read what actually happened in where did that bad Picanti sauce come from? New York City. Yeah. God, it's scary that we all knew that because that was not planned or scheduled in any way, shape, or form. E. Carroll's lawyer lost a bar complaint in the city of New York for not disclosing who was funding the entire lawsuit. Did anybody read this story? Did y'all get a chance to look at this one?

SPEAKER_03 1:12:40

I'll check it out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:41

So what'd you think, Renee? So, I mean, we're talking we're not talking like somebody wrote a check for 50 bucks to get the attorney on it. No. We're talking 6.4 million dollars.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:52

Yeah. And it just amazes me how all of this is tied in. That the the players are all tied in, even though it's different games, they're all tied together because it's Epstein's people that paid for the lawyer.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:10

Danny, I hear you I hear you laughing over there. You you followed this one as well, probably.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:14

Not that much, because I really don't care. Okay, fair. But still, I mean so yeah, it's how many conspiracy theories turn out to be true. Turn out to be just conspiracies.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:32

So the definition of a conspiracy are two people in a conversation and come to an agreement in order to break a law, right? Yeah. And I mean, technically it doesn't even have to be to break a law. We can be involved in a conspiracy for business. I mean, right, it can all be a conspiracy. But here's the nuts and bolts of the story.

unknown 1:13:52

E.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:53

Jean Carroll's lawyer was asked, is anyone else funding this lawsuit and all of this? So for those who don't know, it is not cheap to sue a former president of the United States who is worth billions of dollars over something that no one can prove he said, over something that no one heard him say, for slander about something which no one can prove happened, which is the nuts and bolts of the case. Which means you have to have an attorney who's getting paid a lot of money to go try and sue this person for something that no one can prove.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:34

It's just an allegation, right? This is something that a lawyer doesn't take on a contingency basis. Correct. So a guy by the name of Reed Hoffman.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:45

Now, you may know Reed Hoffman out there if you're listening or watching, and may not know that you know Reed Hoffman. Reed Hoffman is the owner, founder, developer of that corporal circle jerk called LinkedIn, right? And he's worth billions. So take a guess who it has now been proven, paid for, and bankrolled the entire E. Gene Carroll lawsuit against Donald Trump. Reed Hoffman.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:19

Do you think it's because he owns a big like would it be a big social media? I forget about it.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:24

Well, LinkedIn is not, I wouldn't social media. But here's the deal. That's not necessarily part and parcel to this. What's maybe more important to this is who Reed Hoffman's friends or acquaintances or financial managers, um, private plane purveyors. Um maybe, maybe that guy, may maybe it's because that guy, because it all goes back to what Renee said. It's all connected. Reed Hoffman has been named multiple times. Now, this is not to say that he's definitely guilty. But what I'm saying is, man, if you want to appear innocent, it's probably not the best idea to say, yeah, I know my name's in the Epstein files, so I'm gonna fund E. Gene Carroll's lawsuit against President Trump, who wants to prosecute the Epstein files at the time. Well, come on, it's just retaliation. Wait, what?

SPEAKER_02 1:16:22

He's retaliating against Trump? Well, yeah, because his name's getting exposed, he's getting out there. I want to I want to get a little payback. That's all that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:29

Well, then well then why didn't he retaliate instead of having Eugene Carroll retaliate?

SPEAKER_03 1:16:36

Well, they I mean they gotta hide it somehow. They're trying to cover up the connections, but I mean, obviously they didn't do that good of a job covering it up.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:45

Well, I I think a lot of it goes to it. Many things that are done in the dark come to the light, right? The Bible tells us that. And when we look at this kind of stuff, many, many people think that the American populace is just too ignorant or too lazy to look.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:03

Because we are. As a general rule, we are. I mean, the reality is if if 80% of the population paid attention to the facts that we pay attention to, we wouldn't have this show. Danny.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:17

It's like, I mean, it's almost a liberal playbook. You can't come out and say that. You gotta couch it somehow. No, it is a liberal playbook.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:26

It lit because Nancy Pelosi is on camera saying it's what we call the smear tactic. You go out, you put the smear out there, the press picks it up, somebody comes to you to confirm a rumor that they heard, which is the smear, which you then don't confirm or deny, which propagates the smear that you put out there in the first place. She's she's on camera talking about this. That's that's the couching. Yeah. You can't come out and say it. You've got to couch it. In other words, you've got to have somebody else as a proxy to say it for you, so that when it comes back, you can say, Oh, I heard that. I've heard things about that rumor. Well, of course you did. You started it. Ooh, I heard that. Oh, I didn't say that. Look, this very well goes to what's happened in New Orleans as well. When you think about how the couching and all this, we don't normally talk about New Orleans stuff on the show, other than how great the city of New Orleans can be and how good Louisiana is, how awesome it is, and how we do live in God's country. But this is one of those stories that's making national headlines. Because the attorney general of the state of Louisiana literally sent a letter and I had a conversation with a person I love this week. And he said, Well, you know, threatening them in public was stupid. That should have been done behind closed doors. It was. It was done in a it was done in a private letter. And all the letter said was, please go read the letter. All the letter said was, these are the laws you're breaking. If you break these laws, this is the penalty.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:55

It said, you if you do this and break these laws, you will face legal recourse.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:00

And the legal recourse is XYZ. Yes. And it wasn't even you will. You could. Correct. Correct. It was you could. And what did the city of New Orleans do? My goodness. To come up with a criminal charge. I mean, it it's very similar to what we saw with the Eugene Carroll lawsuit, which is we're gonna find a way to make this a criminal complaint. We're gonna find a way to get this in court. Because if we can just get the press and get the attention, this is what the this is what the Demoncrats, leftist socialists think. They're too stupid and too lazy to figure it out. Because once it's out there, we got all the press we need. Because the press is on our side. Because guess what? Isn't the mayor of New Orleans a former news reporter?

unknown 1:19:47

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:48

Yep. Yep, sure is. You know, we are gonna talk about a former mayor. No, we're no, we're just gonna talk Bigfoot. You can understand how I got him confused when we come back on Implicit Bias Radio. Final segment of this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio. I'm your host, Kavan Bordelon. And I've got to remind you before we're done, we've got a couple whiskey things we need to tend to before we get to our final fun story of the week. The first is this Mr. Lester Steakhouse, $17.92, implicit barrel, picked by the crew of Implicit Bias Radio, still $5 first pours, $10 after that, or just buy the whole bottle for $50 at the restaurant. What, Caleb?

SPEAKER_02 1:20:25

You know, it just dawned on me. Uh, we should have sat down with Willie and signed a bottle or two.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:31

We probably should. We probably should get a couple bottles and sign them. And I would love to keep a couple, but they're selling so fast, I don't know if we'll get that opportunity.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:40

So so once y'all sign it, the price goes down to like 40 bucks a bottle? Probably more than that.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:45

I was about to say, it's about 40 cents a bottle when we sign it. That's where it goes. Yeah. So that's the first whiskey thing. The second whiskey thing is this. Keep your eyes and ears open. This will come out via social media. We'll have it here on the show. But save the date, September 17th. Why? Because one of our implicit bias liquor collective partners, Ambassador Wine and Spirits, is going to host a very special implicit bias radio, Ambassador Wine and Spirits After Dark. We are going to be there with Heaven Hill Spirits. So if you saw anything about what Heaven Hill brought when Heaven Hill came in about a month or two months ago, they had all kinds of unobtainium there for people to try. We'll see what they're going to bring. We'll have more information as we get closer to September. But September 17th, multiple members of the crew will be there. We're talking about potentially there being a little cigars in play and things of that nature. As we get those details, we'll let you know. But save the date, September 17th, Implicit Bias Radio at Ambassador Wine and Spirits with Heaven Hill. Gonna be a fantastic night. Okay. Speaking of fantastic, I told you we were talking about a former New Orleans mayor. Bigfoot apparently has been found. Look, the New York Post threw this one out there, I think, Caleb. Was that where the article came from?

SPEAKER_02 1:22:08

This guy claims a few that New York and Michigan actually did one. No, wait, wait, wait. Minnesota, I'm doing the hand. Minnesota did one too.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:15

The finger, don't get me started on the finger lakes rabbit hole. Anyway, this guy claims to have finally found what I think would essentially be labeled as the holy grail of Bigfoot finds. Because I think the one big flaw that everyone has said is we've found the bones of dinosaurs. But if Bigfoot existed, we would have found bones, we would have found a skeleton, we would have found remains. We would have found those things. And this guy claims to have found them, Caleb.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:45

He claims to have found a body. And this is to be truthful, this is the second time he's claimed this. Right. And there we go. So he goes by the name of uh is it Snake, the Bigfoot hunter? Something like that, yeah. Um something I'd like to forget. And he look, he looks like a methamphetamine-induced macho man Randy Savage. See, I would argue with that.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:04

I think he looks like a crack addict crocodile dundee. That's what I think.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:10

Instead of Tiger King, he's Bigfoot King. Very close. I will never financially recover from that.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:16

Look, just the uh we're just talking visuals and what we think here. It's just our opinion. I think there needs to be some sort of mind-altering chemicals in there.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:24

I don't know, just because from the look. And look, he said he found an eight-foot-tall or long carcass that weighs approximately 300 pounds. And then he sent it to uh Stanford. No, not Stanford, but to the sea. Um God dog it. Um Cornell. Ah, okay. He said he sent the DNA to Cornell and had Cornell test it. And Cornell said it was 58.5% Neanderthal and 45.5% human, which confuses me. Okay. And then as I did the research, Cornell has 100% said we didn't do this. And he's like, no, no, no, no, Cornell did this for me. They go, who at Cornell? And they're like, uh William. It was Joey. Yeah. Joey bag of donuts.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:06

What I don't understand is has anybody called the sheriff? Is this guy's former mother-in-law missing? Well, it's cool. You know, ring the bell today. I just I mean, you know, maybe they need to check this dude out, you know, find out if his relatives are all okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:24

Uh I figured we were doing a I'm not going there. I'm not going there because that poor dude from the UFC got in so much trouble for making a joke about a former president's wife. If I go there, man, somebody's gonna want to cancel us. I'm just not going there.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:37

Well, and and there's like a uh, here we go, the Bigfoot Field Research Organization, Bifro, right? B F R O. Uh, they've come out and they've said that uh what they recognize is that this is all false. And that this guy is just making a modern day freak show. Because he's traveling with this eight-foot now taxidermied carcass and selling tickets to see it. So he's got it in a glass casket, and he's like, This is my Bigfoot, and there are none like it. And it's $15 to see. Do you want to smell it? I made the last part up, I'll be honest with you. But that he's traveling around with this Bigfoot carcass going all over, and he's targeting Bigfoot groups specifically. So Bigfoot groups are New York, which he says this, he says he found it in the Adirondack area, or Adirondack National Park in New York. But New York, uh, Minnesota, I don't know what state is right there, just south of Minnesota, Florida, and California. Those five states are the Bigfoot hot spots. Makes no sense to me.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:44

Florida, I would believe. Really? Oh, dude. I mean it might be like a wayward Rougarou. Have you seen have you seen the number of Florida man things that happen? That's just some Florida dude who went feral. That's all that is.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:56

Yeah, Ballet Point, Ballet Point. Danny, you wanted to chime in? Uh I don't know. I mean, well, Wisconsin's kind of south of Minnesota. It might be Wisconsin. I was thinking it might have been Wisconsin. But I always thought all of these Bigfoot sightings. So if this if this carcass is from what, the Paleolithic era?

SPEAKER_02 1:26:20

Well, no, no, no, no. He's saying that they checked its teeth, right? So when you look at age, when you check deer teeth, that kind of stuff, you can tell about how old they are because of the sharpness of the tooth. He says this eight-foot, 300-pound carcass was approximately 20 years old when it died.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:36

Okay, here's the other question I have.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:37

Okay, but when was that?

SPEAKER_01 1:26:38

Well, recently recently.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:40

Because it wasn't fully decomposed either.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:42

So here's here's the other question that I now have.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:46

So you were there's so many questions.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:48

You were somewhere, you were somewhere in the woods and found an eight-foot-long. He smelled it first, by the way. Fine. Found an eight-foot-long 300-pound thing that is not probably rigid to like pick up. You know what I mean? Like it's going to be at this point decomposing. It's probably past rigor. So if this thing's real, you how did you get a forklift back there to haul this thing out? No, look, Snake is what he goes by.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:22

Snake carried it out intact. Okay, by himself, I'm sure. All 151 pounds of him carried a 300-pound Bigfoot carcass out of the woods. And don't you dare call it a lie.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:38

So, how decomposed was that that's the that's the question.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:41

It's not a lot, you know. It was growing a little moss on it and some other stuff. So it's not just a skeleton. No, no, no, no, no. There's correct, there's tissue.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:51

There's tissue. He had it properly patched. Yeah. I don't know what this dude's been talking about. I want some of it.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:58

It's uh and here's the worst part. Go ahead, Renee.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:02

Why why didn't Snake contact a real news media like the National Enquirer or something like that? I mean, that's a story that they would cover.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:11

He said he wanted to do, he wanted to get DNA testing done first, but it's expensive. And he was lucky to get for it.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:17

He was lucky to get a friend at Cornell to do it. Okay, so let's speak of, I love where Renee went because this actually brings me to a legitimate story, which is this. And it's funny for this reason. Because it brings us back to the you don't hate the media enough. The wife and I happen to be looking for something to binge watch over the Fourth of July holiday, and we stumble across the Michael Jackson trial documentary. And what's really interesting is one of the major reporters they have on it actually makes the comment that one of the allegations against Michael Jackson, the family was paid, quote unquote, for their story. Right? Now, as a former journalist, the one thing you did not do was pay for a story. Why? Because if you paid for a story, what happened? People would make up stories to get paid. That's number one. Number two, this woman was on CNN during the Michael Jackson trial. But you know where she got her start? Hard copy. She was paying for stories and then went to CNN, which tells you everything you need to know. And also it also tells us that we got the one-minute finger. We are gonna have some bonus content this week. We've had some difficulties with the way that uploads have happened lately because the company that does our uploads changed one of their dynamics and now they don't give us the time they used to. So we're gonna sort through it. We'll get you some bonus content. But in the meantime, if you missed any segment of Implicit Bias Radio, please go find us anywhere you get podcasts. If you're on Apple, you can watch us on video. I'm sorry for what Caleb looks like. And you can absolutely enjoy the time sipping with the crew. Cause if you don't, we'll have to just see in seven on implicit bias radio.