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The Krewe is back looking at why tradition is so important in today's society and why statues have been destroyed, historical figures have been cancelled, and what some people look to gain from it.
We'll welcome in a new member of the Krewe on this week's episode, We'll kick off Cocktail Season with the first reveal of a San Francisco Wine and Spirits show medal winner!
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A flute with no holes is not a flute. And a donut with no holes is a damish. Ty Webb said it in Caddyshack. He wasn't giving pastry advice. He was actually trying to explain how things work. The hole is the point. That void where the music happens. And unfortunately, modern folks look at tradition the same way they look at the hole. Empty space. A dumb gap in the middle of progress. And it's wrong. Tradition is not the missing piece. Tradition is where the music plays. I'm your host, Gavon Bordelon. Welcome back to Implicit Bias Radio, where the crew talks about what polite company won't. Of course, we'll do it with a weekly whiskey in hand. Principled, logical, Christian, Catholic, irreverent, and stupid when we earn it. Today it's about tradition. What is it? Why it matters? Why even hazing done right belongs in the argument. Here's poor one. We live in essentially the golden age of the disruptor. I mean, everybody wants to smash grandpa's pottery, remove the statue, glue the shards to a canvas, and somehow call it abstract art. Congratulations. You have a mess and a manifesto. Great societies, though, but they don't work that way. Athens, Rome, the Han Dynasty, none of them invented greatness on a random Tuesday. They ran a full-on ledger, trial, error. You know, keep what didn't get you killed. Tradition is that ledger. And it's not that, you know, we get to do this because Pawpa did this. It's actually the greatest hits in the album of the human race. It was pressed after a few thousand years of terrible B-sides. Treat every question like the first people to discover fire, and you're going to end up spending the afternoon burning the house down instead of warming the room. You know, Led Zeppelin did not promise a trampoline to heaven. It was a stairway. Rip out the bottom of the stairs because they look old-fashioned, and you don't reach the pearly gates. You reach the basement holding a TED talk. That is why scripture talks continuity, not vibes. Second Thessalonians 2.15, therefore stand firm then and hold to the traditions that you were taught. Not A B test the Zeitgeist until the focused group claps. No. 1 Corinthians 11 2 put it in perspective also. Paul praises the church for upholding the traditions he passed on, not mindless photocopying. Unless you think that progressive thinking guarantees improvement, and hint, it doesn't. If you want to destroy a people, skip the army. Start with the traditions, cancel the holidays, mock the weddings, tell the children their ancestors were fools. Cut the rope between yesterday and today, and the individual becomes a floating atom. Lonely, confused, and easy to sell, a new self every quarter. No tradition, no benchmark, no way to tell wisdom from a sales pitch. You become a leaf in the wind, or as the 80s warned us, you go walking out on the wild side and find out the wild side has a cliff and a gift shop. Fill the hole in the donut, and you don't get a better donut. You get a Danish. Dense, self-important, and priced like it went to college. Which brings us to the world that makes HR faint. Hazing. Every durable group has an initiation. The military might call it earning your place. A locker room calls it paying your dues. A hunting camp, a firehouse, a fraternity, a Mardi Gras crew, it's all the same pattern. The new man is not just handed the jacket on day one. He comes in through a shared ordeal that is embarrassing, inconvenient. And if grown-ups are running it, it's actually funny. And that's the case for hazing as a tradition. Now, we have to separate that. We are not talking about cruelty as a sport, which, you know, needs a filter and glue. You learn who will laugh at himself, carry the cooler, take the nickname, still show up on Saturdays. Shared ridiculousness becomes loyalty faster than a laminated mission statement. We do draw the line though, and we do this in permanent marker. Good-natured hazing is a prank with a purpose. The ugly sweater, the dumb song, the nickname you never live down, nobody goes to the hospital, nobody's assaulted, nobody's coerced into a crime. Next year the victim becomes the comedian because he inside the circle knows that that's how it's done. That is how strangers turn into a crew. And that's a crew with a K. To be clear, hurting someone is not hazing. That is a crime. Put a man in the ER, lock him in the trunk of a car, pour liquor in his mouth until he throws up and almost dies. You're not keeping a tradition, you're a coward in a costume. That tradition never required a felony. The second embarrassment now becomes injury. You have left the right and entered the statute books. Prosecute that. Do not confuse that with a joke. The modern error, though, is treating those two things as one animal. Ban the prank, shrug at the assault, then act shocked when the group has the cohesion of a slack channel. Outlaw every harmless ordeal, though, and you don't get a kinder brotherhood. You get name tags and a wellness webinar. Nobody takes a bullet for a webinar. Music proves the same law. 70s rock was rebellion standing on the blues. When Queen hit, another one bites the dust. They were actually playing a lineage, not inventing a rhythm in a vacuum. Ignore the tradition of songwriting, and you don't get masterpieces. You get noise. Look, don't smash things because smashing is fashionable. Throw out the old ways without learning why they were built, and you're not innovating. You're just an amnesiac with Wi-Fi. Without tradition, we are ghosts in the machine, wondering why the music stopped. So keep the hole in your donut, keep your feet on the stairs. And if you haze a pledge, make it a reunion story, not a statement to a detective. Make your tradition your shared implicit bias. The TSPL North, brought to you by Mr. Lester Steakhouse, is back. Yes, this is Implicit Bias Radio, and we have a great crew for you here this week. We're gonna start at the bar where we're gonna have some big news coming from the bar. Major announcement a little later in the show, but I'll tell you who it's gonna come from. It's gonna come from Jared Brasso of Ciro de Saison. Jared, it's a pleasure to have you back with us. You got to grab that microphone when you talk into it. Always thank you, sir, for having me. Wonderful to have you back. Next to you is Louisiana's only certified master tobacconist, Renee Girard. Renee, how are the new chairs?
SPEAKER_01I love them.
SPEAKER_04The new chairs comfortable.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I don't have to worry about falling off or the chair collapsing.
SPEAKER_04You don't have to worry about the chair breaking. No, I was concerned. I came in earlier this week.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_04We got the new chairs from Box Drop of Lafayette. They're nice. We had a little bit of a height discrepancy on the chairs, so we were able to augment that and make sure that was taken care of.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_04They work well. Hey, look, I'm glad you're happy. We do everything we can. We do everything on this show solely to make Renee Girard happy. That's what you need to know.
SPEAKER_01Thank you, Coban.
SPEAKER_04Speaking of making everybody here in the TSPL happy, we have a new nickname for a new guest here on the show. He is known as Captain Upchuck. He is my favorite buddy that I would call a great, as the Brits would say, a chum. He is Caleb Morse, the rustic renegade. How'd you enjoy that boat trip last week?
SPEAKER_05It was great until it wasn't. I'll tell you that right now. So it was it was a large vessel. We're talking like 45 to 55 feet, 20 feet wide, and uh God punished me. That's like I I get seasick, and I my ego got in the way. So we go out and everybody's like, oh, I took drama, drama mean this, that, and motion sickness stuff. And I was like, got it. Out there was fine. When we stopped, cast the line out, hits bottom, one, two cranks up. Yeah. Everything opened up, sideways rain. The sea was trying to eat me out. I felt like Jonah being tossed to a whale. Really? Uh yeah, yeah. Like uh uh Clay Higgins came over and he's like, Caleb, let me pray for you. You know, it was uh it was a rough moment. I'll tell you that right now.
SPEAKER_04Well, we're glad you're back in one piece, even though Captain Up Chuck is is now gonna be probably your new official title here in the TSP.
SPEAKER_05If you want a great ab workout, be seasick for five hours. Oh, five hours? A three-hour boat boat ride out, you know, fishing. So we were out there for like 45 minutes fishing in this weather, and then the three-hour boat ride back in. Oh, so my abs look great.
SPEAKER_04Well, hopefully we have given you something that will make you not necessarily remember that fishing trip because it is weekly whiskey time.
SPEAKER_01How much weight did you lose? You know, enough. I'll tell you that right now.
SPEAKER_04Wow. Well, the weekly whiskey, I'm pretty sure, will help you put that back on because, man, this is this is gonna be something special. And I don't know that everybody here knows the story behind this weekly whiskey. It actually ties in to the event we have coming up on September 17th at Ambassador Wine and Spirits. It is Ambassador Wine and Spirits After Dark with the crew of Implicit Bias Radio. You have to get your tickets at Ambassador Wine and Spirits and hint, hint, wink, wink, nudge, nudge. They don't have many left. So we're gonna talk about kind of what we have here, how it ties into that, and how you can come sip and just talk about whatever problems of the world you'd like solved by the crew in person at Ambassador Wine and Spirits right here in Lafayette. So this bottle is one of the featured bottles that you will get to taste at that event. It is a Heaven Hill night where there will be everything from Old Fitz seven year to an Ambassador Wine and Spirits Larceny pick to this Elijah Craig barrel-proof Louisiana sportsman, right? Beautiful sportsman's Paradise Reserve. And I I know you know the proof. I don't know if Renee knows the proof on this one, but I'm curious to kind of hear what Renee thinks of this one because this might not be up your alley, Renee.
SPEAKER_01But I judging by your response, and I cheated. I did read the proof. And yes, I would if just reading the proof, I wouldn't drink this. But I'm drinking it and it's very, very tasty.
SPEAKER_05You're enjoying it.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Now, one of the things you I'm gonna have to correct you, that bottle will not be available on the 17th. Because that bottle ain't making it out of here tonight. No, this bottle will be dead because the remainder of the night is over.
SPEAKER_04But if you want to try the Louisiana Sportsman, so for those who don't know the story behind it, this was a pick apparently done from some stores in North Louisiana. Somehow, some cases made it here to South Louisiana. The only place you will find these cases is at Ambassador Wine and Spirits, and it is on the menu for the tasting. So it won't be this bottle, but it will be from this barrel.
SPEAKER_05It will be North Louisiana is still part of the sportsman's paradise. I mean, they have small deer, pigs, squirrel, turkey, right? But they don't have the same fish.
SPEAKER_04They don't have everything else. No, but well, and to be fair, we do have bass down here, but they don't have the saltwater fishing that we have down here either.
SPEAKER_01Well, I mean, you know, they they say it's you know, like Monroe, LA, and you know, uh LA is lower Arkansas. Yeah, it's not part of Louisiana.
SPEAKER_04No, look, we love our listeners in Monroe at K LB. We do.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but we can talk trash on that.
SPEAKER_04And it is, well, we love them enough to talk trash about it because it's what we do. Uh, but to be fair, this they get a winner, we don't get a winner. This is really difficult, they do. This is really difficult to find in South Louisiana. So if you want to taste it, you got to buy your ticket. You'll get a tasting, you'll get a small pour of this at the Ambassador Wine and Spirits after Dark Atmosphere.
SPEAKER_05Which this alone is worth the price of admission.
SPEAKER_04100%.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, because of the the rarity of it.
SPEAKER_04Well, that and the tickets, two options. You can get the regular ticket, which is 30 bucks. You get all your tastings. I'll go down the menu a little later in the show, or you get the VIP ticket where you are guaranteed to walk out with a bottle of something on top of all the tastings that you get, which, like I said, includes the old Fitz 7. It includes this Elijah Craig Sportsman's Paradise, it includes their Larceny barrel pick on the tasting menu, it includes a McKinnah 10, it includes um a widow Jane Lucky 13. I mean, and look, they're all subject to change. If they change, they upgrade, though.
SPEAKER_01So, Renee, let's go back to this because you were saying you really like I like this one. And and, you know, y'all call me the proof princess, and it's true. I mean, I normally like things one ten or lighter. Don't say what this is because I don't know that Jared knows. Okay. Okay. Uh, this is way above what I'd I'd normally drink, but it does not drink to its proof. I mean, it is very smooth, very tasty. No, it doesn't. I like this. In fact, I'm almost out and I'm gonna need another pour.
SPEAKER_04Well, we'll we'll get you another pour, a little one. All right. So, Jared, I know you're now curious as to what the proof is.
SPEAKER_03Yes. Well, and and I'll tell you this too, though, uh, about Renee. The last couple times I've been on with him. We've done some it most of the stuff that we do is high proof stuff. He's like, like I think he's growing up.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, like he's all maybe he's all grown up. The skirt is turning into a kilt. That's right. Okay, so what do you think of this Elijah Craig Sportsman's Paradise?
SPEAKER_03I mean, I mean, the first taste was so you know, first sip high proof. Sometimes you get some off stuff or different stuff, but the first sip was phenomenal. Um the nose is phenomenal. There's all kinds of stuff going on in there, and there's something that I can't quite pick out that I'm sure Caleb's gonna be able to identify. Oh, he will. Um, but the just the overall flavor profile, I really dig the back end of it. Um, because you you got, you know, obviously it's it's bourbon to me, McBourbon. That we also have to do it. I was just about to say this. You got all of that, all that normal stuff going on, caramel, brown sugar, all that, but the back end is so different and so good.
SPEAKER_04I was about to say this fits the profile of bourbon, bourbony McBourbon. 100%. When you think of, I would like to drink a bourbon, this is it. I mean, without a doubt, 100%, you get the caramel bomb on this, you get the vanilla, you get the bit of oak, you get, you even get to me get a little spicy cherry in it. Yep. It's spicy enough, and I mean like bacon spicy enough without being over spicy, as if it were a rye. Elijah Craig barrel proofs, they do a fantastic job. This, when you talk about where it's proofed at 130, this almost to me drinks like there's no alcohol in it. No, I thought it was a regular 94 proof Elijah Craig. Yes. You know, it is that smooth and it is oily on the back end. It is, which means it lingers, it sits on the palate, and it does everything you want it to do, including making you go, man, I want more.
SPEAKER_03Do we know the mash bill on this? We don't. It's gotta be a high rye. Or not high rye, but it's gotta be like 15 to 20 or somewhere in the.
SPEAKER_04I might argue that it's not because while it has the spice, it doesn't, it doesn't have that pepper that you would expect with something over 25. But there's something else going on. Oh, look, I get hints of anise, so a little bit of licorice to it, like the hint of licorice without being too much. It is an absolutely fantastic offering. My only concern with asking Caleb for his review on this is that he's gonna bring about something from his fishing trip and a flavor that he got to revisit while he was out on the water.
SPEAKER_03So you said you said God punished you. Like, was it green? Did your head spin around? Like, was there any of that?
SPEAKER_05No, no. Like um, I I actually drank half a bottle of uh Elijah Craig on the way out there. Oh, that could explain it. As I was as I was vomiting, I'm like, what did I eat that's orange? And they were like, that's that's bourbon.
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SPEAKER_03So make it with stomach bile.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, those guys are all beer drinkers, right? So they have all this beer and everything else, and they're drinking their whiskey. And I brought a bottle of uh a 12-year and uh at 130.6. And uh everyone else tried it, you know. And uh drank it. I I would not recommend the second time. Yeah, would not recommend it the second time. Um, but this on the nose, I get heavy caramel, vanilla, a little bit where there's originals on the nose. It is pleasant and pleasing. It does not smell like a 130 plus proof. No, not at all. And then on the palate, it is exceptionally balanced. It's soft, it's forgiving, it's smooth, it's viscous, just oily enough. It's not aggressive. It doesn't come at you and tell you, hey, drink me and enjoy me, and try to choke you a little bit. You pay extra for that. And then once you get past that initial caramel bomb, I was trying to pinpoint the berry or fruit that I tasted.
SPEAKER_04Berry, like a guy, B-A-R-R-Y? Yeah, it's close. No, that's berry. Berry. Oh, that that's the opposite berry, B-E-R-R-Y. It's a berry, yeah.
SPEAKER_01It's a berry, pork berry, you know, berry. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Uh elderberry.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_05I can see that. I get I get at first I was like blackberry. I was like, no, no, blackberry is it's it's more acidic, more tart. But elderberry, you get like a cooked elderberry, you get that sweetness, a little bit acidic flavor, and it's got this wonderful, just beautiful floral finish on it, and it just finishes so clean. Almost like a wine-like finish on it. It is just superb.
SPEAKER_00I am so disappointed in you because you missed the perfect opportunity to say, your father was a hamster and your mother smelled of elderberries.
SPEAKER_04Valid point. Yeah, no, I I do get that. And I think you brought out the key word here. I am not a fan of whiny bourbons. Yeah, not at all. And I don't mean like whiny, like port finished or no, I don't. I was about to say, yeah, I don't mean like whiny, like Walker whining about, oh, I need this or I didn't get that. I mean like whiny like port, like sherry. This it gives you just enough of a hint of a whiny tang on the back end that balances out the sweet so well.
SPEAKER_05You know, I could see this barrel sitting there and Mary leaning over to Jesus, be like, hey, that one. That's the barrel.
SPEAKER_03Look, this is absolutely fantastic. G. So there's there's something in there. Um, when you were talking about the wine finish, so it reminds me of a really good like single malt scotch that's finished in like an Olaroso sherry cask, but not something that's finished in like a cab or like you know how they're doing those rose finishes and cab finishes. That's like it's like pretend finishes. Like olor rosso sherry has been used forever to finish scotch. That's something that it's more balanced, it's more fortified, but it doesn't slap you around like it's it's not an abrupt flavor. Correct.
SPEAKER_05Okay, because normally you get those abrupt flavors, yeah, very gentle.
SPEAKER_04I I'm gonna put something to this, and you're probably gonna go, yes, or I think you will. Vermouth. So it is a finish as a winy finish as in vermouth. Vermouth is a fortified wine. Yeah, so it gives it that sweetness without necessarily all the tannins on the back, but you still get some of that flavor of the fruit. And to me, that's almost what you get on the back end. You get that it's a a good vermouth. I'm not talking the cheap stuff, I'm talking a good vermouth finish on this that makes a 130 just so good. This at 130, for those who are out there, if you're hunting a stag, yeah, not a George T, if you're hunting a stag short fat bottle for those who know, this all day, every day. Well, it blows it out the water.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it's so forgiving compared. Like a stag, I do like the burn, right? I like my high alcohol content, I like that high proof. But this one at 130, like I would get sideways on this really quick, really quickly.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but the the problem with what you just said, Kavan is you could probably find stag easier than this stuff because this is only in one spot, then there's only four cases. I don't disagree. Next Thursday, that'll probably be gone.
SPEAKER_04Okay, so it's time for us to play. What would you pay? And to rate this on the Morse Whiskey Rating Code. For those who are new to the show, if you're in New Orleans, you're watching on WGNO Plus, if you're listening, new to the show in one of our markets in Monroe, New Orleans here in Lafayette, the Morse whiskey rating code is as follows. Red, I wouldn't drink it even if it was free. Yellow, I would only drink it if it was free. Green, I would buy this. Blue, I would seek this out. It is a unicorn. So let's start at the bar. And by the way, the what would you pay? I'm gonna I've given you a hint as to what you can get this for already on the show. So that's what we're gonna play for the what would you pay? All right, Renee, let's start with you. Red, yellow, green, or blue, and what would you pay?
SPEAKER_01Well, I'm gonna have to definitely give this one a blue, but I won't have to seek it out because I know where it's at.
SPEAKER_04You know where you're gonna get a taste of the bigger.
SPEAKER_01I know where I'll be able to get something. Yep. Um and I'm gonna say 90 bucks. 90 bucks. All right, G.
SPEAKER_03It's no doubter a blue. No doubter. Like the first sip, it's a blue.
SPEAKER_04Um 82.99. 82.99, Caleb Morse. That's a blue. I don't even have to think about it.
SPEAKER_05Like, there it is. Blue. Uh God they don't. 9642.
SPEAKER_03Technical term. Yes, it is. Scientific.
SPEAKER_059642.
SPEAKER_04All right. So what do we have? Renee, you were at 90. G, you were at 80. 82, 99. 82 99. Caleb, you were at 91. 96, 42. 96. 42. Okay, so let's start here. First of all, unanimous blue. Without a doubt. If someone had said that this was anything other than a blue, you were going to get slapped. That's all I'm going to say. This is turn in your card. Yeah, just turn in your whiskey drinking card because this is that good. There are two price points that would have won the what would you pay. Because if you want a pour of this, I don't even know if any of the bottles will be for sale, but if you want to pour, all you got to pay is either 30 or 50 bucks. So, G, you are the winner of the What Would You Pay championship belt chain because you are closest to the price. The tickets for the Ambassador Wine and Spirits After Dark event with the crew of Implicit Bias Radio, Thursday, September 17th, $30 and $50. You will be able to get a pour of this Elijah Craig Sportsman's Paradise at 130. And let me tell you, you don't want to miss it. Don't sleep on it. Do not sleep on this. Do not miss it. Do not break the tradition of the great whiskey that we have brought to you on Implicit Bias Radio. We will keep the traditions. We'll explain why they're important when we come back on implicit bias. Implicit bias radio rolls on. And can somebody do me a favor and ring the bell here in the TSPL? I'm a poet and I didn't even know it. All right. Why did we ring the bell, Renee? Why do we always ring the bell?
SPEAKER_01Because once again, we have been proven correct.
SPEAKER_04Well, the conspiracy theorists are right again. And by conspiracy theorists, I basically mean the Bible and every Christian. But that's us.
SPEAKER_01We're the conspiracy theorists that we we keep proving ourselves correct.
SPEAKER_04Well, look, you just we we put things out there and then we get these stories. So if you've been paying attention to the New York Post in the last couple of weeks, allegedly, because we're not there. I'm not physically in the Middle East playing Indiana Jones, the archaeologist, and finding sites that the Bible told us, hey, this is where they are. But apparently, archaeologists have now found the town of Bethsida as well as the tomb of Jesus, they firmly believe, which is take a guess where it it is. It's exactly where Catholics and Christians said it was. It's underneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Middle East. Are you shocked at this at all? Man, it's tough being right all the time. What gets me, and this is where we take this, and this is why this conversation dovetails into you have to destroy the traditions. One of the reasons this show got started was because we got tired of people trying to rewrite traditions. I grew up in New Orleans. Lee Circle, especially for our viewers and listeners in New Orleans, will always be Lee Circle. You can't just take the statue down and call, oh no, it's not happening anymore. Guess what? It's always going to be Lee Circle. You don't get to take down a statue, destroy the tradition, and say, oh, we're starting anew, it's better. That is not always the case. Same thing with the religion of this show. We've always said we are Catholic, we are Christian, we we believe the Bible. And guess what? The Bible, it's a tradition. Everything in the Bible is a long-standing tradition. Because guess what? Most people didn't read and write at the time of Jesus. So how did they pass the stories down? Anyone remember what they called that? Oral. The oral tradition. Caleb got one word right. Ring the bell. We yeah, he got something. No. I mean, seriously, it was called my favorite word. Leave it to Caleb to take a discussion about the Bible and being proven right and take it then. That doesn't multiply.
SPEAKER_06Not orally.
SPEAKER_04But I mean, we're now proven that the Bible is historically again proven correct. And I think it's a fantastic.
SPEAKER_05You know, and many, many people try to uh discredit the Bible by saying it's not a historical document or it's hearsay or it's not scientifically founded. But when you look at religion or or uh spiritualness, it used to be heavily intertwined with science, heavily intertwined with math. And all of this is where we got a lot of the knowledge we have from. So when you look at uh his his burial site, one of the biggest contentions about it is, well, it's out it's inside the walls of Jerusalem. Well, yeah, you know, if Jerusalem never expanded over the last 2,000 years, it sure would be inside the walls. Uh but what we have is a former site of a stone quarry. We have a limestone quarry that was no longer used. There was a limestone grave cut out inside of it that was used for it. The mortar that they dated, right, they went through is 346 AD around the time of Constantine, whenever he had the monuments built. So they continue to go through all this stuff. And look, if you want to say that it's uh it's a lot of happenstance, fine. At what point do 10, 12, 14, 20 happenstances but but hold on.
SPEAKER_04If if you want to say that the Bible and what we are finding archaeologically is happenstance, well then you have to say that uh the legend of Julius Caesar is happenstance.
SPEAKER_05Well, there's more information that that gives Christ credibility than does Caesar.
SPEAKER_04Well, you have Tiberius who wrote about Jesus, you have Jewish historians who wrote about Jesus. The Talmud mentions Jesus. Josephus. Josephus. I mean, the the documentation is there, right?
SPEAKER_03There's more physical evidence that Jesus existed than that Julius Caesar existed. Agreed. And if you don't believe that Jesus existed, then you can't believe any history that has been written down.
SPEAKER_05Oh, yeah, but that's the argument that people don't want to have, right? They they would rather tell you, yeah, Caesar existed, yeah, Rome existed, yes, this, yes, that. And they say the facts are there. Yeah, well, when you show them our facts, they say, well, that's not real facts.
SPEAKER_03I go back to my earlier point. It's tough being right all the time.
SPEAKER_04But understand the reason that tradition is destroyed. And this I think is the big takeaway from the discussion. Tradition can become monotonous. People forget why we have the traditions that we have. But if they're ingrained and those traditions stay, guess what? I don't want to say the status quo stays, but what stays are the values that the tradition instills. However, if you destroy the tradition, you get to rewrite history. And that is what we have seen in this country in the last five years. It's why they wanted to take down all the monuments. It's why they want to destroy the founding fathers. It's why they want to do all these things to say, we want to rewrite this because we don't want we don't want children born in 2026 to know what George Washington and Thomas Jefferson did. They don't want children born today to know that Andrew Jackson fought duels on the steps of the Capitol and said, if I can kill every central banker, I will. That's not a direct quote. I wasn't there, but he was not happy with the central bankers. That's why they have to destroy the traditions, because then they attempt to rewrite the traditions in their own philosophy. And you have to look no further than a holiday at Christmas time that is not a religious holiday that many people believe is.
SPEAKER_01And it's not Christmas. I mean, that's the that's the thing. You get a tradition and eventually they forget the story that created the tradition, but they have the tradition. So you have the the reasoning why we do things, but you forget the true story. But if you have the true story written down, like in the Bible, it it's documents. Now we can go back and look at what the actual reasoning for the traditions are, the things we do, why we do them.
SPEAKER_04Look, the the holiday that I'm referring to, y'all probably know what it is, and somebody's gonna get upset because I say it. Kwanzaa. Correct. Yeah, but but here's here's here's the thing. If you celebrate-I knew that was coming. If you celebrate Kwanzaa, I'm happy for you. All I ask is that you understand where it came from. So I'm not even gonna tell you what I have read and believe to be true. I wasn't there, but the documentation is out there. When you go look up Kwanzaa, it did not start, it did not start in Africa. Kwanza started here in the United States. And look up who created it, why he created it, and what went into it. It was in the 60s. It was in the it was in the late 60s, early 70s. When it was created, it was that time frame. Right. But it has not been around for that long.
SPEAKER_02No.
SPEAKER_04But now you have people who believe it's a formal religious holiday. Yeah. And it's just not. If you celebrate the holiday, congratulations, right? As long as you don't make us try and celebrate it, we're happy for you.
SPEAKER_03So those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it. Every single time. Okay. And so if if we continue to s to to wipe things clean, for instance, we just celebrated our 250 year anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. That was in 1776. When was George Washington president?
SPEAKER_04So let's see, the revolution was what? The Declaration of Independence was 76.
SPEAKER_051776. Like 79 or 80, I think. No, it was way way later. It was like 80.
SPEAKER_04It was like 1786. 1787.
SPEAKER_03So in 11 years. So that's when they established the Constitution. So there was a period of time, nine years or 11 years, where there was another government that existed. So to my point, we're not we're not wiping that history clean. That existed. It wasn't nice and it didn't make sense and it didn't work. So we fixed it. Correct. But you can't just cover over everything like it never existed because you don't like it.
SPEAKER_04And I think ultimately that is the goal. It's why it's why the right traditions are important. It's why, in my opinion, hazing. Now we're gonna define hazing. Hazing is not physical abuse. It is not attempted murder. It's not blindfolding a young man and telling him to walk across an interstate where there are cars actively traversing the roadway. That is not hazing. That is attempted murder. Yeah, that's what hazing is what we do, and I think that's a great way to put it. It's a rite of passage. What we do to Walker, where we pick on him, we make fun of the slides that he's wearing right now, the fact that he's wearing booty shorts while he edits the show and sits here, and I'm thanking God that Caleb has to look at him when he looks my way, and I don't. He keeps manspreading over there, too. That's hazing. We're just picking on him. We love him, and even though most of what we say is true, I'm kidding, it's not.
SPEAKER_05Well, you know, like the jabbing, they're going back and forth, it builds character. It does. You know, uh, I mean, I I I'd be a hundred percent lying to you if I told you that I wasn't hazing the military. Like I looked forward to getting my promotion so that someone could bash them into my collarbones and help draw blood.
SPEAKER_03You have to be able you have to it it it is a true um character-building identity to be able to laugh at yourself.
SPEAKER_04So we've always had a saying on this show, right? Which is if you can dish it out, you damn well better be able to take it. Yeah, and therein lies a big problem societally, and I think tradition builds that when you haze, when you joke, when people pick. You know what? Caleb's gonna come up with a short joke at some point in this show, and it doesn't matter. It's funny. Guess what? I'm short, it's okay. You can't have a big mouth and soft skin. Correct. That is fantastic. Ring the bell. That that's a t-shirt. You can't have a big mouth and soft skin.
SPEAKER_05I love that. So, I mean, you have to you have to be able to take it. You know, if you're gonna spit it out, you have to be able to take it. Otherwise, you're gonna get slapped. Right? That's just that's how it goes. I mean, everything we do with life is a is a contract of violence, right? The government threatens you with violence, they'll put you in jail. Uh, you know, you go back and forth, you're threatening each other with violence, they'll take it to the ground, whatever it might be. And it's it's that societal contract, and you have to be able to take it if you can push it out and give it out.
SPEAKER_04One of my favorite videos that made the rounds a few years ago was this poor woman who is standing on the sidewalk, and there is this guy behind her. She was in New York, she's being berated by some clinical moron who is talking about her husband who was a first responder. Her husband died on September 11th. And it's relatively ironic that this video comes up on this show, right before we hit September 11th this year. And he is just continually dishing it out and dishing it out. And the woman turns around and calls her son. Now, her son looks like the 51st state. Her son is about 6'6, 6'8, walks over and he's like, hey, and all of a sudden the guy who was berating the woman starts running away. My personal wish is that the crowd who witnessed it would have made that guy face that man.
SPEAKER_05You know, no matter who you are, when you give out, you get you're talking trash of somebody's mom, somebody's grandma, somebody's wife, somebody's na nah, somebody's son, somebody's daughter, like all throughout it. There's still the human element to it, right? So you can you can be a blank hole, that's fine, right? But someone's someone's always gonna be a bigger one. Caleb, you you censored yourself. What happened? I was gonna do, I don't know.
SPEAKER_04Did all the did all the puking like mess with your brain chemistry?
SPEAKER_05So it's all jacked up now. But like you have to understand that that there's still people, right? And and whenever we when we haze each other, when we josh at each other, when we jab at each other, we still love one another.
SPEAKER_04Well, there's a big difference between we have the context in the relationship to say these things about each other, and some stranger walking up and having malicious intent in the conversation. That's a huge difference in the situational awareness that many people just don't have. And apparently I don't either, because Walker's apparently trying to wave the one-minute finger, which means last segment of hour one after this? Yes, sir. That wasn't actually his finger. Look, well, it was it was small. So, you know. Look, I I love where you went, G, when you talked about those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it. I can't remember who said the quote. We'll end the segment on this. Tradition is incredibly important. Why? Because history may not directly repeat itself, but it definitely rhymes. Final segment of this week's episode for hour one on implicit bias radio. Caleb over here, apparently Captain Ukchuk having an absolute relapse. We're we're not on a boat, Caleb.
SPEAKER_05You should have heard the sound on the boat. It was much more guttural.
SPEAKER_04I wish we had that recorded because we would play it as bump music for whenever you're getting ready to come on.
SPEAKER_05I can promise you that there's recordings of it. Oh, I need to see these. One of the guys, uh Justin, uh back with he was out there and he leans forward and he gets his little you know Australian accent. He goes, Would you like something in your tummy? This guy, he's recording the whole thing. I know it. That's fantastic. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Okay, so this Elijah Craig continues to open as we get through the bottle, and it just gets better.
SPEAKER_05I mean, I'm gonna keep trying because eventually the bottom of the bottle might taste different, and I won't know until I get there.
SPEAKER_04Well, look, we we have we have cocktail hour in hour two, because Jared Brasso of Ciro de Saison, the official mixer of Implicit Bias Radio, we got cocktails. Something new. Correct. Something as Ferris Bueller would say, if you have the means, I highly recommend one. It is so choice, right? Yeah. All right. We have a guest here in the TSPL. And I say a guest. This is actually the introduction to a new member of the crew on Implicit Bias Radio. Mitch Kraft. It is a pleasure to have you here with Jay A. Bear Roofing. So, first of all, I gotta ask, uh, was this what you guys expected when you showed up for Implicit Bias Radio here a little bit?
SPEAKER_07Oh, a little bit. But no, no, this is this has been a lot of fun. I mean, we've been in there watching in the waiting room and just laughing and we're we're speaking on the same thing. I mean, it's been good, been been laughing. And hey, we uh I agree with a lot that's being said and I appreciate it. I really enjoy it. Thank you.
SPEAKER_04Well, you know, we hope you don't disagree with much because you are a large individual. So not saying that we couldn't get there, but it would really be difficult if we did. And that apparently somebody got to experience that in Lafayette. Correct. There was uh there was an incident with a young lady crossing the street or something of that nature.
SPEAKER_07Correct, yes, yes. So I was just leaving the weight room, right? So you know testosterone was high and everything like that. But no, I was in I was at the red light. I was in front of Mesh's Donuts over there by Ambassador Caffrey and Kylie Saloon. Uh, just kind of noticed uh a young lady got hit with something, couldn't tell what it was, looked like it was a cup flying around on the ground. I looked up, uh, she's yelling at a car in front of me, and there's two gentlemen in the car that are yelling at her, but it's kind of stuff. Hold on, you just said two gentlemen.
SPEAKER_04So we're gonna be a little more honest. If they had thrown something at a young lady, they are not gentlemen. Yep. That's right. So see, there's a technical term for that. Correct. It's called douchebags. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Two douchebags are in front of the car in front of me. Um one started trying to climb out the window, the girl started walking away, so I honked a horn, and then the guy turns around, douchebag number two, who's in the uh passenger seat, turns around, looks at me, gives me the cutthroat thing, flicks me off, uh, tells me. Now you're behind them or next to you? I'm behind them. Yep, right behind them. So I take the seatbelt, click off, I start getting out, light turns green, and they take off. And I thought, you know what? Hey, I got a little time today.
SPEAKER_04So uh I start- Almost got a second workout. That's right. Absolutely. Somebody did. Right. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07So I just start following them. We get to the next uh, they take me around Sam's Club and everything around the backside and get behind them next at the street sign. I knew that Kylie Saloon was gonna be packed at that time. It was noon. Um I get out of the car, I approach it, and then why you know I wasn't happy when I got up there, right? And I'm sticking up for this this woman, this young lady who just got off work. And uh when I get there, I see that they're, you know, two young idiots or whatever.
SPEAKER_04By the way, idiot is a clinical term. So they're clinically idiots, yes.
SPEAKER_07Clinical idiots, and you know, I look at it and I say some words to them, and uh, you know, I pop the glass a little bit, just kind of remind them, right? Hey, because I, you know, I I at the time, right, they were the predator not too long ago, right? You're going after a young woman, now of a sudden there's a shark outside of your car, right? Now, now you're scared. Now you're backing up, right? So then that, you know, the video made the internet and uh context was kind of taken out of place. All you saw was me hopping out of a vehicle coming up, approaching the windshield, popping the glass. Now you take what you want from that. It's it's where the internet is uh displaced. Oh, look, we we love the comments because we put it all wanna watch this video. Yeah, we're I don't have it. I'll need to give it, I'll try to find a two.
SPEAKER_05A buddy of mine, his was on there and he actually uh he got out of his truck, he punched through a car window and hit a guy in the face.
SPEAKER_07Okay.
SPEAKER_05And uh that one was removed.
SPEAKER_07So like I I should see this one. So yeah, so what happened was when when they started getting context and people started saying, like, no, you know, I've known Mitch a long time and there had to be something going on, right? Uh the young lady uh had told the McDonald's people, she, you know, so the McDonald's manager at the time reached out to me and he's like, Hey, you know what'd she look like? I'm telling him, uh he said, Does she have curly hair? And I was like, Yeah, it's a little skinny girl. He said, Yeah, that's her name's so-and-so. Would you like to meet her? Right? Yeah. So would you like to come meet her? I said, No, I'd love to. Uh got the opportunity the next day to go meet her. We had a photo opportunity. The young lady was real happy for me, you know, just kind of gave me some personal information about herself and you know, just basically saying that, you know, there's not been a whole lot of men in her life that have gotten that she doesn't had a father, so no one's gonna be able to do that.
SPEAKER_05Because, you know, in the world where they cut it out and you have the absence of masculinity, the absence of what they call toxic, right? Absolutely. Uh when you have somebody stand up for someone they don't even know, you have somebody who says, Look, these are principles that I will abide by. Uh because I I hate a bully. Absolutely as a as a young man, I was bullied and all this other stuff. And then it wasn't until I I figured out what a weight bench was that I I stopped being the little scrawny kid and started adding a few pounds here and there and realized like I just don't want to hear a bully talk. You know, and some days uh you're the hero in a story, and some days you're the villain. Either way, it needs it needs that protagonist or antagonist to make the story interesting. That's right.
SPEAKER_04And I I think this is a great connector to what we were talking about on the last segment, which is tradition and hazing helps teach you how to stand up to the bully. It teaches you how to deal with those who will pick on you, those who will do. It tells you when, you know what, when it's time to say, look, I know that I'm a pledge in your fraternity, I'm not putting up with this crap anymore. Well, you know, it teaches you that line, and when you lose it, you lose masculinity with it.
SPEAKER_05And when you look at what y'all do, right? You here you stood up for a complete stranger, right? The vast majority of homeowners' insurance policies, they deny. So I think it's what 82% of homeowners' policies are denied because it's easy to do. Don't you want somebody who's willing to stand up against a company like one of the big ones uh for someone they don't know? Imagine what they would do for their own clients.
SPEAKER_07Absolutely. No, it's it's it's we're gonna stand beside you, right? And then again, it's a deal where you go in there and you wanna, you know, we you there's trust. Yeah. Like I'm gonna stand right beside you, right? You know, I ain't got you back because I'm gonna stand next to you.
SPEAKER_04I've said for a long time, don't do what's easy, do what's right. That's right. And and and it's not always easy to do that. I mean, it is more often than not harder to do the right thing than it is to do the easy thing. Absolutely. And we don't always succeed. But when it comes to a business, that's one of the things we stress here. We don't bring in business partners that we don't trust. Sure. That we don't trust to do the right thing. Has it burned us? Of course it's burned us because yeah, it happens. Right. But when it comes down to what people have, when it comes down especially to something that's like their house, where they've put their life into it, that's a big deal for y'all to take that trust and say, Yeah, we're gonna do you right by doing your roof the right way. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_07You know, and it's trust over pressure, you know, in a lot of things, right? And a lot of times, you know, you it is your home. I mean, that's that's something that's protecting, you know, your family, right? And it's a lot of times it's real easy. Some people come in there and say, hey, look, and we can get you, like, we're the best thing in the world. We get you this quick quote right here, it's gonna be real cheap, right? But again, is cheap always the best answer? Well, you can get it cheap, you can get it fast. You can't get it cheap and fast. Well, that's very true.
SPEAKER_04There's there's there's quality, there's cheap, and there's fast. You can have two out of the three. Yeah, if you want it quality and fast, it ain't gonna be cheap.
SPEAKER_05When you look at when you look at your house, like the structures, you have the foundation, the walls, and the roof. Everything else is just the insides, right? So, where are you gonna put your assets? Where are you gonna put your money? It doesn't have to be the most expensive thing, you know. Like I'm I'm sure if somebody wanted standing seam copper. Uh you know, spun copper seal uh roofs and all that. If you all wanted to do it, y'all can do it. I bet you know, like it is getting someone the right product for what they need and what they desire. Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_07No, it's uh and again we talk about you know we're repair versus replace versus you know, there's there's nothing here. Just tell you the truth, right? Like we're not gonna try to upsell you on this thing and say, hey, listen, you know, it's not that easy sometimes to pull out sixteen, twenty, thirty thousand dollars and say, hey, here's what you want. We're gonna give you what you need. We're gonna tell the truth about it, we're gonna stand behind it. And again, when after it's done, it won't be the last time you hear from us, right? We'll be there. You're gonna have my personal cell phone number. We'll come by and check it out anytime.
SPEAKER_04And I understand there's even not just repair replace, there's refresh now with with some stuff. I mean, you got all kinds of stuff with roofing now, right? You got all kinds of things. That's right. Yes, sir. So it is a pleasure to have y'all here. For and and I hope you've enjoyed kind of the thoughts that and the conversation we've had here so far.
SPEAKER_07No, I've loved every bit of it. I can't wait to again. I'm I'm uh you got me, I'm gonna be listening and I'm gonna be sharing this as everybody that I can. We got a good, again, good, a good crowd, a good, like I said, I I agree with everything y'all are saying. I love it. Tonight at least. Yeah, for now. For now. And that's okay.
SPEAKER_04It's okay when we disagree too, because this is implicit bias radio. J A Bear Roofing, give them a call. Go find them online, they will take care of what you need, and we will be back with hour two of Implicit Bias Radio. Cocktail hour. Why? Because hour two is always more fun on implicit bias radio. Cocktail hour on this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio. It is hour two. And yes, go ahead, G. Go ahead. We have a very special announcement on this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio. What you are witnessing is the first opening, the inaugural opening of a bottle of old mill, ready to drink old fashioned here on Implicit Bias Radio. It is made with take a guess what. Caleb, do you know what mixer it would be made with?
SPEAKER_05Ciro de saison. Correct. I'm still impressed that he had the little pocket spigot. The fun stopper stops at an ounce.
SPEAKER_04No, that one doesn't stop at an ounce. It doesn't have the measured pour. Yeah. But it is cocktail season. We are in September. It is time for us to have old fashions, and by the time this episode airs, people are getting ready for the first full Saturday of college football. I thought you were going to say teal season.
SPEAKER_01Wait, wait, stop, stop. I gotta clarify, there's a season for cocktails. There absolutely is, Renee. Yes. I just thought that was whenever.
SPEAKER_05It's sometime after January 1st and before December 31st.
SPEAKER_03Right.
SPEAKER_05That's what I figured.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. All right, Gene, why don't you fill us in on cocktail season? So, all right. So there are multiple cocktail seasons. That's why we have multiple mixes. All right. So, but we are coming up to old fashioned season. October, November, December is generally considered old fashioned season, right? It's cool. The whiskey warms you. Walker's over here begging like Walker's like, I need to see. I heard it like a little puppy whimpering. So, so this is uh, but but if you go back to the springtime, right? That's the season of the Claire and the mint. Like, that's when we do those things. But like now we are in the bread and butter season of C Row Trading Company.
SPEAKER_04And for those who don't know, an old-fashioned cocktail got its name because an original cocktail. What the lore and the legend says the original cocktail was a sazraq. Water, bitters, sugar, spirit. So you had in a sazerac rye, sugar, originally made with a sugar cube. We make it with Ciro de Clare, which is fantastic, right? Bitters, and then we strain over ice, so there's your water. You have the traditional cocktail. That's right.
SPEAKER_01Now so isn't Ciro de Clare, isn't that like liquid sugar? It is.
SPEAKER_03It's sugar with ring the bell because Renee finally caught up to the rest of us. But with tropical accents to make multiple cocktails.
SPEAKER_04But yes, correct.
SPEAKER_05Yes.
SPEAKER_04So someone apparently, gee, said, I want what type of cocktail? And they got bourbon, bitters, so in the sugar and water.
SPEAKER_03So in the 1880s, the influx of like cointreau and like pineapple liqueurs and orange liqueurs started flooding in from France.
SPEAKER_01What was it like, Renee? So that I was I wasn't drinking back then. I was a young man. He was eight.
SPEAKER_03So so at that time, the bartenders started, they they bartenders were super excited about it and started using all these things. But most people who had already been drinking for the last 30 years were like, that's not that's not what I want. I want, I don't want this. I want an old-fashioned whiskey cocktail. Or an old-fashioned rum cocktail. So that's where the old-fashioned term came from.
SPEAKER_04And there's big news around this ready-to-drink old-fashioned. Number one, it will be on shelves. October-ish. Octoberish. Right.
SPEAKER_05What I what I like about this, too. I'm sorry, I'm jumping in the mix of it, is uh the proof is right and it's not overly sweet. No. A lot of the the mixers, when you get them pre-done, uh I think it's done for people who want to be diabetic. Right.
SPEAKER_03So you know, you know that like like you've had our syrup before, right? Like you're a big proponent. Okay. So our two things about our syrup. First of all, our ratio of sugar to water is is very distinct in the fact that it's a it's a loose syrup in the sense that it it doesn't have to be refrigerated. So at room temperature, it automatically mixes with the cocktail. And there's something really good about that. And then it's also shelf stable for at least six months once you open it. Whose mixer lasts six months? No, that's what I'm saying. If you if you listen, she wrote a say's audience. If this lasts you more than six months, call me. I'll I'll teach you how to hear.
SPEAKER_01That means you ain't you're not drinking enough if it lasts more than six months. I mean, you know. Um, and uh something that I gotta state here because I am diabetic. And I'm not and and I'm not a big sweet flavored guy. I don't like a lot of sugar nut just, you know, because it's my diabetes net. But this stuff is not overly sweet at all. It's very, very tasty.
SPEAKER_04This is how you know that Monet has had plenty, because that's exactly what Caleb just said. No, it's white sugar.
SPEAKER_01No, but I'm I'm here to say that he's talking about diabetics. I am one. So I'm here to state it as a fact. What's his name? Diabetes.
SPEAKER_05He's preaching.
SPEAKER_03He's just preaching.
SPEAKER_05And y'all aren't using white, y'all aren't using white sugar, bleach sugar, and all this kind of stuff when you make your drinks.
SPEAKER_03No, we're using so we're using 100% Louisiana cane sugar. Yeah, and we can't give away this. Brian Seymour in Vermillion Parish grows all the sugar that we use in C Row, in all the C Row products.
SPEAKER_04That is number one amazing that you can name the farmer who's growing the sugar cane that you use. Here's the other thing that a lot of people don't know before we go to the really big news. A lot of people don't know that implicit bias was the tasting guinea pig for this bottle. If you remember, about a year ago, Jared brought us two different ready-to-drink old fashions. Red pill, blue pill. Correct. And we picked the red pill. The red pill is what's in this bottle because it is for the bourbon drinker. It's not for the I want sickly sweet drinker.
SPEAKER_03Yes. And so to really like cap this off, if you've had a RTD anywhere at a grocery store, you've seen it on the shelf, it's 70 proof. So, first of all, 70 proof. That's sugar, spirit, water, all right, 70 proof. You put that over ice, it's gonna become sugar water immediately. You're not gonna taste any of the bourbon. So we set out to do something totally different. So we take cash strength, 117-proof bourbon, our proprietary mash bill, we mix it with our zero in a minimal amount so that you get a whiskey-forward cocktail. We've talked on this show since time in memorial about how disappointed we are with all the old fashions that exist in restaurants around the place. Correct. And what we set out to do is give the home bartender a way to set themselves apart and have a true experience. What I envision this to be is if you're going to a tailgate or you're going to a party or you're going to somewhere for Christmas, you grab this, you got 12 old fashions in this bottle ready to go. And you don't have to do anything to it. I thought there was one. I was about to say there's about two. There's one for me and one for Caleb, and that's it. So legally, there's 25.36 ounces in Christmas.
SPEAKER_05Look, I honestly think what you did here is you took a lot of restaurants here in Acadiana, especially, and now they have a brand new household fashion.
SPEAKER_03Well, that's what we're shooting for, right?
SPEAKER_05Because I I've I we'll go eat somewhere, I get it old-fashioned. I'm like, this is disappointing.
unknownRight?
SPEAKER_05Well, it's all sugar, it's all water, it's 99% ice, whatever it might be. I'm like, y'all, y'all should really try something different. You should do this. This elevates everyone's game. And by elevating their game, you're elevating the kind of drink that someone enjoys, right? And if we can elevate everyone and bring the water level to a certain area, then now everyone should be drinking a better product, a finer product, hangovers or less, less headaches, better drinks, better whiskey. This brings up everyone to the same standard.
SPEAKER_03We actually're talking about real ingredients here, right? So 100% Louisiana cane sugar, distilled water, organic extracts. Like that's what we use. So there's no junk in this, there's no high fructose corn syrup, there's none of that stuff.
SPEAKER_04We actually have a listener who's a friend of the show in Illinois. Actually, we've got a couple in Illinois, but one of them has said, in this, we were having this conversation. We now go to restaurants to order old fashions to be disappointed on purpose. I mean, I still do it all the time. I order it and go, okay, I just want to see how disappointed I'm gonna be.
SPEAKER_03Well, I just want to maybe I just want to know when I when I really get one that I'm impressed by. Like we've talked about it on the show. I was in, I was in Miami, Florida at the Lowe's Hotel, and I had an Oleo Sacrum brown butter. It was a fat wash fashion. Yeah, that would blew my socks off. All right, I'm in for $18 a pour on that. Easy, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Um, but but $18 a pour on a garbage old fashioned with a maraschino cherry muddled in the bottom, no thank you. Or like fruit salad with some whiskey on top. Yeah, nobody wants that. No, no, no. This is this is fantastic. So I I have to ask because we got to play for the what would you pay championship belt chain here? So, Renee, what would you pay for this?
SPEAKER_03This is gonna be fun.
SPEAKER_01This is gonna be fun. Uh I'm thinking 40 bucks. 40 bucks because Renee's a cheap skin. Yeah, I am cheap. But you know what's neat about this? I could that means I can make old fashions. Correct. Because I don't know how to make an old-fashioned. I don't have to now. I just buy this stuff.
SPEAKER_04Well, you already got the old part.
SPEAKER_01Yes, yeah. Right? Fashion is your whole part.
SPEAKER_04But fashion's the very hard part for me. All right, Caleb, what would you pay for this?
SPEAKER_05I'm actually trying to sell it right now. Um God dog it. What would I pay? Well, if you do the math at a so stop and do the math. I was doing this.
SPEAKER_03I'm thinking, okay, you've got to be. You're gonna pay $15. Let's talk about the constituents. All right. So we got a five-year aged boardstown proprietary mash bill bourbon going into this at $117 proof.
SPEAKER_01Well, wait, and let's then I need to re revise my price then. I didn't know all the ingredients.
SPEAKER_04You go up to $41?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, $41.50. Like no, when you think about it.
SPEAKER_05When you think about it, it should be at least $100, right? Because if you go if you go to a restaurant and get an old fashioned, you're gonna pay $15 to $20 for a lackluster old fashioned.
SPEAKER_04You just said you've got $12 in the bottle, right?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, $12 pores.
SPEAKER_04So you've got $12 pores times $15. That's $120 plus $60 is $180. It's $180 value.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. So even if you give them a 50% discount, we're still at $90.
SPEAKER_04Right.
SPEAKER_05Right. So for what is in this product, less than a C note is a steal. And I honestly don't think you're putting it out at $100.
SPEAKER_03No, this is going to be less than $45 on the shelf. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05That's way less than I was thinking.
SPEAKER_04That is a steal. That is an absolute steal. The good news is Renee just won the What Would You Pay championship belt chain for the second hour of the show because he's the only one who put in a price. So, Renee, congratulations. You get to wear the What Would You Pay championship belt chain presented by Box Drop.
SPEAKER_03So the cool thing about what we've done is we worked with Barkstown Distillery and they've been phenomenal on really giving us, they have 60 different mash bills that we were able to choose from at different ages, anywhere from two years to eight years. And we really wanted something that had an age statement on it because we felt like we're making this for the whiskey connoisseur. We're not making this for, you know, the guys that go out and want something super sugary sweet and that's not easy.
SPEAKER_04You mean you're not making this for a guy with a man bun who sits down in front of you and goes, This is a $30 burger, right? No, you're not making it for him? That's not that's not the guy. That's not the guy we're shooting for.
SPEAKER_05I know that guy, though.
SPEAKER_04You are that guy. Anyway.
SPEAKER_03Twenty years ago, I might have been that guy. No, no, never had a man bun, but I did have hair at one point. Um But so so the thing is, is we really wanted to bring something to the market that said, this is something different. So the fact that it's it's full, so this finished proof is a hundred. That is finished. So this is a hundred-proof cocktail, it's not 70, so it's not gonna get watered down. You could pour it over a big ice cube and you'd be good to go. And then the other side of it is we took really good five-year age bourbon to make it with our syrup, right? And the ratio of that presents a cocktail that is whiskey forward with a little bit of background sweetness, which is the favorite flavor profile that we're kind of looking for.
SPEAKER_04And you bring up a fantastic point because I was actually going to talk about this. So I've had the opportunity now pouring this over ice to let the ice melt. It still tastes fantastic. It still doesn't taste like water with a little bit of whiskey and sugar in it, with, you know, and I can only imagine what dropping a Luxardo cherry and an orange peel on this one is.
SPEAKER_05Well, I mean, when you look at it, when when you look at a lot of the ready-to-drink uh old-fashions out there, you can see through them, you know. That's because they make up for good ingredients with more sugar because they hide it just like coffee, just like everything else. What do they do? They put more sugar in there. You don't want sugar? Well, we'll just fill it full a gallon of aspartame, right? And with this, you're getting a dense product because the value is there, the flavor is there. Like if you want like traditional Louisiana, what's the place on the label?
SPEAKER_03All right. So this is this is the rice mill in Abbeyville, Louisiana, the Riviana rice mill that has been there for a hundred years. Wait, you mean Starbaseville, Louisiana? Yeah, just south. Just or just north, just the star bases.
SPEAKER_05The unofficial drink of SpaceX.
SPEAKER_03Listen, if I can put this on Mars, I'm in.
SPEAKER_04All I know is this the very heavy rocket that SpaceX uses is gonna be the hat the very Cajun heavy because they're gonna have to add like 30 to 40 pounds to each astronaut when they get here for 20 minutes.
SPEAKER_03Well, yeah, we gotta have like jambalaya.
SPEAKER_04Oh, we're gonna feed them full of jambalaya and crawfish etuffet and uh old fashions and all the good stuff.
SPEAKER_03By the way, I was actually able to attend that event. Oh, that gala in downtown Abbeyville. And uh it was uh it was really, really cool um to just it was like watching science fiction. The only way that I can describe it.
SPEAKER_05The hope for Louisiana is palpable on this, right? More money has been put into Louisiana the last two or three years than we're number one in the nation.
SPEAKER_03We're number one in the nation in invested dollars.
SPEAKER_05So and when we look at it, Louisiana's been struggling. This this is our chance to become what Texas has become.
SPEAKER_04Well, that's because we had jobs be elsewhere.
SPEAKER_01No, I'm sorry, John L. Everett. Well, the and the thing that concerns me though, is people are putting real money here. I just hope that our politicians don't just throw that money away. Because our our past history, we have gotten big federal money deals with and money just evaporates.
SPEAKER_05It's easy to embezzle federal dollars. It's harder to embezzle private dollars.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, here's what we need to do. This conversation needs to continue, but we need the time and the decision space to be able to come to a landing point on it. So, what we're gonna do is we're gonna end this segment. And drink moral fashions. We're gonna have moral fashions, and we are going to talk about star-based Louisiana when we come back on Implicit Bias Radio. Cheers, fellas. The traditions sometimes do need to die on this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio. I'm your host, Gavon Bordelon, and man, cocktail hour. It has been a fun show so far. Welcome back to the TSPL. By the way, I don't think we touched on the full pour list at Mr. Lester's. No, we didn't.
SPEAKER_05No, we did not.
SPEAKER_04Oh, look, so if you want to know what the whiskey special is at the only five-star restaurant between New Orleans and Houston, all you have to do is stop here. Our friends at Sazerac are friends of Mr. Lester's. And when I tell you this flight is it is clinically moronic that the pricing is out there.
SPEAKER_05Willie refuse to tell me, just so you know.
SPEAKER_04Okay, so you ready? So I'm gonna tell you the price first for the flight. All right. The price is 30 bucks. Okay. For how many? A flight of three pours. Three. Okay. Three poor dollars each. Right? It starts where you go, maybe Buffalo Trace. Okay. Yeah. Right? It's a good pour. Yes. It's low proof. It's a great beginning of the evening pour. It's a great princess. It's approved whiskey.
SPEAKER_01It's a gateway whiskey.
SPEAKER_03Dollar for dollar. Dollar for dollar. It's a solid pour. Well, they're very consistent.
SPEAKER_04But at $10 a pour, you're like, and then you go to the second pour, which is a pour of Eagle Rare. Ooh. What? Yep. So you go from Buffalo Trace to Eagle Rare. Ooh. That's a nice transition. It's a beautiful, it's a beautiful stairway to the bourbon and whiskey gods. Is that a gateway bourbon? Not quite a gateway bourbon. Not quite a gateway bourbon. The third poor, George Stag. Used to be Stag Jr. So we're not talking George T.
SPEAKER_05Buffalo Trace.
SPEAKER_04Keep going. Eagle Rare. Keep going. George Stag. Correct. 30 bucks for the flight. G is up there because. I mean, we going Thursday? We're not mathing right now. Look, we we might be. If if there's a reason to go, that's it. For $30 for the flight. Oh my goodness.
SPEAKER_01I mean, just the stag is worth $30. Oh, more than $30.
SPEAKER_04Here's what I will say. If you live in Lafayette or New Orleans, if you live in Monroe, you can't get a pour of stag for $30 anywhere.
SPEAKER_01Well, look, and it's been proven that people from that area and Monroe and that can find their way to Lester's. We had one. Cheers to Donald Day. Yeah, we had one.
SPEAKER_04Look, from Rustin. Yes.
SPEAKER_05I was talking to people last week, right? And we're discussing it, uh, discussing whiskey and all that. And he's like, Man, you should go to Lester's. Who told you this? Last name's Gil. And uh I was like, What?
SPEAKER_03Did you ever listen to the show?
SPEAKER_05No, he goes, You should yeah, you should try out Lester's. And I was like, Well, when do you go? He goes, I go every Thursday. And I was like, Well, who do you normally talk to? He goes, Well, uh, we're kind of special. So uh Miss Ashley takes care of us and we know Chef Willie. And I was like, take a picture with me. And he goes, What? I'm like, take a picture with me and text it to both of them. Yep. And he texted to them and they were like, oh sh, sorry. There's the edit for Walker for this week. They're like, oh, snap, you know somebody important. That's what they told him.
SPEAKER_04So you know it's it's it's yes, it's it's a fantastic offering. Don't miss it. Take the opportunity, go down there. You cannot find a better offer.
SPEAKER_01And they just reloaded with cigars, so you can sit in a cigar bar, have the flight, and a great cigar.
SPEAKER_04By the way, just to buy the only certified master tobacco in Louisiana.
SPEAKER_03That's right. So I had the uh I had the Connecticut um cut Monte Carlo. It was great.
SPEAKER_04Monte Cristo, sorry. Monte Cristo. So we so good. They put it powdered sugar on it and deep-fried it. No, not a different. It's a different Monte Cristo.
SPEAKER_03It's like a fried ham sandwich. Yeah, that's different. That's different.
SPEAKER_01That's the Monte Cristo white. Oh, okay. Is what it is. Okay.
SPEAKER_05Well, you know what? I used to think it I thought it was far to drive there, right? But look, Lafayette. Get across Lafayette in that one under an hour.
SPEAKER_0145 minutes.
SPEAKER_05Drunk. Drive south. Go to Sherrington. It works. It happens. 45 minutes. I'm sorry, Jared, as you were saying.
SPEAKER_03No, wait till SpaceX shows up and then traffic gets a little bit.
SPEAKER_05No, no, we're gonna get a 10-lane, we're all gonna hoverport.
SPEAKER_04And hold on. And try and get a reservation once SpaceX shows up. So look, we we were we got we've got so much to talk about. We need to talk about SpaceX. I mean, that thank you for bringing that back because I completely forgot I teased that at the end of the last segment and was not gonna talk about it.
SPEAKER_05But oh my goodness. Wait, you were teasing Elon?
SPEAKER_04Don't so first of all.
SPEAKER_01Don't tease Elon.
SPEAKER_04No, first of all, at Elon Musk, Elon, you have an always good invitation. Come on the show. It is an evergreen invitation to be on implicit bias radio, Southern Louisiana. We are not gonna try and trick you like many in the media, where we come in with a preconceived notion. We want to know what your plans are. We want to know what you're thinking. I don't think he drinks.
SPEAKER_01We really appreciate what you're doing for our state. Okay. Oh, yes, we do.
SPEAKER_03So, first of all, as a business owner in Vermilion Parish, I can't I can't tell you how much we appreciate what they're doing. Because our towns are dying. Our kids are leaving. All these things are happening. I have six kids. Okay. No, they're not all mine.
SPEAKER_04Nobody thought you were nobody nobody thought you were that much of a stud.
SPEAKER_05Jared, I'll be awesome. I totally get that. Like when I when I graduated high school and joined the army, I thought I was never coming back to Louisiana. Right. I wanted nothing to do with this state. That's very factual. Be mad if you want to be. But when I was under the age of 18, my experience with the state of Louisiana was not good. And my wife won the argument, so home is where we came.
SPEAKER_03So let me ask you a question on that note. Did what changed? I know you I know you said your wife, but what was there anything else that like because I've traveled all over. Now I haven't been overseas or anything like that.
SPEAKER_05People in Louisiana make a difference. We are a different breed. Look, our our economy, not so good. No. Right? We're based upon the oil field and medical field. And medical field is always going to do well because look, we like we like whiskey, we like fried food.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_05But we're broken. We're broken. But the oil field here has been struggling. And that's been our lifeblood. We never adapted, really, to have more than one revenue stream as a state. So we've been struggling. Because it all came so easy.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. So we never had to think outside the box.
SPEAKER_05And then now, when I look at where we are now and who I am now, what we're doing, like, I want to make a difference for Louisiana. I want, I don't want my kids to say, I never want to come back to this state. I want them to say, I need to go back to Louisiana. Look at our veteran community here in Louisiana. Seven out of ten veterans that ETS in terms of service in Louisiana, in Louisiana, leave. Seven out of ten. Oh, I believe it.
SPEAKER_01And that's a skilled workforce that we could use here. Well, and when I was a kid growing up, I was an Air Force brat. I grew up all over the country. I was born overseas. But when my dad got out the Air Force, we had to come back here. Why? Because of family. Families here are very strong. And even to your detriment, you come back to family.
SPEAKER_04So this is interesting because Caleb, I did not know that you went through that dynamic where your wife won and you got to stay. The reason I say that is because I had the opportunity circa 2008 to 2010, and my wife won. We were gonna move to Florida, as far as I was concerned. Now, they offered Detroit, and I went, not no, but hell no. But at the end of the day, but at the end of the day, I thank my wife over and over again for keeping us close to family. So when it comes down to something like star based Louisiana, I am old enough to remember, G, you're old enough too, because you and I are the exact same age, almost like within months of each other.
SPEAKER_0573.
SPEAKER_04No, 72.
SPEAKER_0570 close.
SPEAKER_04But we remember when Louisiana was supposed to be the Georgia of today, when New Orleans was on its way to being Atlanta, and then New Orleans continued to make bad decision after bad decision after bad decision on leadership, and the state made bad decision after bad decision with regards to the governor. And literally, you had opportunities to have Disney World here. You had opportunities to have the headquarters. I mean, the biggest building in New Orleans to this day, if you ask me, is still one shell square because it was the headquarters in the United States of the Shell Oil Company, which guess where they moved? Houston. Yep. Now with Starbase coming here, you have the opportunity for Louisiana to be on the forefront of evolving technology for the next four to five decades.
SPEAKER_05And what gets me is we have people are going to be upset. And I get it, I understand it. Because someone's way of life is going to end. It's about six people. I love Pecan Island. There's about six people who live out there. A lot of the people in Pecan Island are upset because they're saying, what about duck hunting? Duck hunting in Louisiana hasn't been good for 20 years. It has not.
SPEAKER_03Arkansas until they stop feeding cornfields in Arkansas and no ducks are coming.
SPEAKER_05Look at the uh what's the NASA base uh um just up the road? Stennis. Stennis. So Stennis, they still have ducks. They still have deer, they have everything else. You know what nature does when it hears loud noises? They adapt. Yeah, they're correct. Yeah. So, yes, things are gonna change, but the people in Pecan Island are upset about losing their hunting leases and everything else. They had the opportunity to buy it. And if someone in Louisiana didn't buy it, someone in China would have.
SPEAKER_03So, and they and they first of all, they didn't the the the property that we're discussing, they didn't have access to that anywhere. Not all of it, no.
SPEAKER_04Correct. And that I think is the big thing, which is this is, I hate to say, nothing but good for the majority of Louisiana. Starbase Louisiana is gonna put a 280-pound astronaut who's looking for his crawfish A2FA on the moon when he gets there. And that's that's our Mars. That's our implicit bias. Penultimate segment of this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio. Man, it's always more fun when we have cocktail hour with Jared Brasso from Ciro to Saison. And man, I want to make sure I get it right. Old mill, Ciro, old fashioned, ready to drink. Start looking for it in your grocery stores. Matter of fact, don't just start looking for it. Ask for it.
SPEAKER_03Ask for it. Yes. Spread the word.
SPEAKER_04Wait, isn't it hold on, Rene? You need the microphone. Isn't it award winning? It is. We didn't even get to that. Yeah. It is a San Francisco wine and speaking of which I need some more gold medal winner, which is that tells you everything right there.
SPEAKER_03So I don't know how many people from Louisiana have ever won a gold medal in the San Francisco Spirits competition. But we are super proud to have that.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I mean designation.
SPEAKER_03You should be moniker. Moniker. Let's go. Let's go. Award. Awesome. Yes. It's a major award. It is. It's for G.
SPEAKER_04Huge. This is the best old-fashioned. When you ship it, it's for G L. When you ship it, it is for a G L. Yes. It's a major award. I want it. No, look, and here's the deal. They still couldn't do it justice. Even with the gold medal, they can't do it justice. It blews every other RTD old-fashioned just out of the water. Straight to plaid. Thank you. Straight to plaid.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Speaking of straight to plaid.
SPEAKER_01Gee, you need to put the gold medal on the bottom.
SPEAKER_03No, we will. We will.
SPEAKER_01So we're gonna like Campbell soup dishes.
SPEAKER_03We're gonna have like an insignia that'll hang on the bottom.
SPEAKER_01Oh, there you go.
SPEAKER_04Okay, so we we need to jump to this because this is one of the major happenings in the world in the last week that very few people are talking about. We actually found out in our implicit bias what the entire Iran war is about. Scott Bessant let the cat out of the bag. In front of the world. And look, if you didn't see it, go find it. But when I tell you it's not a dog whistle, this was a direct, we are going to, and as he said, I will say this in front of the world. So for those who haven't heard tracked, the Iran war starts. We are physically, kinetically, Caleb, destroying Iran.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Right?
SPEAKER_04Then we begin to economically constrict Iran by saying, we're closing the strait, we're doing these things. If you can't get oil out of the strait, you have zero financial and economic benefit from continuing this. And then Bessent and Donald Trump came out and said, Hey, we are launching the operation that is going to shut down anyone who is doing business with Iran. And then Bessent spilled it this past week. Bessent came out and said, and this is as close to a direct quote as you can get. Please don't believe this on this. I have a direct quote already. He says, We know where the accounts are in the British Virgin Islands and the trusts that are being run, and we will take them out and shut them down. Am I pretty close to the direct quote?
SPEAKER_05That's very close. Very close.
SPEAKER_04But here's the deal: there was something in that sentence that didn't need to be there, and that's the tell. What was in the sentence that didn't have to be there? That is the tell as to who exactly is the enemy in this war.
SPEAKER_05Oh, come on, really. Was it whenever he's talking about how they're working with other countries to work toward it?
SPEAKER_01Nope. No, that's not it. The thing that got me about the quote was we will. And the water why wouldn't the quote that is we have. Okay.
SPEAKER_05No, but I'll explain.
SPEAKER_04The we have is separate. I'm gonna explain in a second. Because see, if you really want to manipulate the masses, right? You have to go what I call full unusual suspects. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing us that he didn't exist. So the question in this is who's the devil that has convinced Americans that they don't exist? We know where the accounts are, we know who runs the trusts, we can shut them all down. But what did he say specifically? We know where in the British Virgin Islands, who runs the British Virgin Islands?
SPEAKER_01Uh, would that be Britain Virgins?
SPEAKER_04Nope, it's uh apparently not Virgins, it is the British. Yep. So why is he also said that you know where the houses are too? Correct. So my point is, and this to me is the big tell. It has been speculated for a long time that Iran is a pro what we call a proxy state. So if Iran is a proxy state, the question isn't are they a proxy state? The question is who's who are they a proxy state for? I love how you did that. Which means that someone is pulling the strings behind the scenes in Iran that makes them a place where they can do what? What are they doing? Are they laundering money? Yes. Are they running global finance because of insurance scams in the Strait of Hormuz? Yes. But what are they doing financially and who's pulling those strings? Our implicit bias? Why would they specifically call out the British Virgin Islands if the British weren't running the financial scam through Iran?
SPEAKER_01Well, and most people don't don't understand, a majority of the ships in the world are insured by a company called Lloyd's of London, which is not a company. It's a bunch of dudes that sit around and throw money at situations. That's all it is. Lloyd's of London is not a company, it's a bunch of individuals with sh but but buttons of money. Loads of money, yes. You know, and and that's what it is. It's it's finance.
SPEAKER_04And that to me was the big call-out of what Bessent just put in front of everyone, telling them look, the Iran conflict, it's not a war because we have not formally declared war. Don't let anybody tell you we have to.
SPEAKER_05Well, it has to be a conflict for AIPA to be part of it.
SPEAKER_04Correct. So my point is for him to specifically say we know where in the British Virgin Islands the trusts are, the multimillion dollar homes are, they are tracking the finances. This is all about money. And that's why clarity is important right now.
SPEAKER_05Well, the beauty of this, too, is if we had gone to a gold back dollar already, the petrol dollar wouldn't be what it is and wouldn't give us the leverage that we have to do this.
SPEAKER_04Well, it's why if if the Clarity Act was passed and signed, the blockchain would allow everyone to see who's pulling those strings. It's why this is all connected. But clarity is connected to the Iran War, the Iran war is connected to the dollar.
SPEAKER_05They're voting on clarity in the next, what, three, four weeks? They're voting on cloture on what, September 15th? Uh 15th, yes, more than that. Yeah. So, but what we have here is what you need to look at whenever we're trying to do this. Can can the United States really go in and confiscate assets? Confiscate? Confiscate. Confiscate. And I would argue we can. We can. Why? We cannot technically seize assets. No, we actually can. Well, it depends. We can con we can confiscate and freeze assets. We can confiscate. If they're inside U.S. property, we can seize, confiscate, and the U.S. owns it. Outside, we have to collaborate with a host nation.
SPEAKER_04So I'm gonna argue we can confiscate anywhere in the world. And here's why. Petrodollar. Nope. No, that has a lot to do with it. There is an executive order that was issued almost eight years ago now. It was issued by Donald Trump in his first term that said any asset of any foreign government that is interfering in United States elections can be seized by the United States government and taken back for the people of the United States. And take a guess who actually take a guess who renewed that multiple times. Joseph Robinette Biden. Or the autopen.
SPEAKER_03Well, it was definitely the auto.
SPEAKER_05It actually goes back further because uh Bush Sr. had one. And then Bush Jr. seized assets in Iraq to further and rebuild Iraq. He seized billions of dollars from Iraqi nationalists and Iraqi auto. Yeah, but that was gold that was off the books. Yes. But no other assets too: homes, property, boats, cars, all this. And then they sold it off at auction to help take that money, and a portion of it went back to Iraq's fund, which if no one realized that we were a signature authority on Iraq's bank account.
SPEAKER_04See, I thought you were going to tell us it went back to the Democratic National Committee. Oh, that's exactly where we're going to be able to do that. Which is what happened.
SPEAKER_03They're fleecing themselves.
SPEAKER_04Well, now fleecing the American public through the tax dollars. Now we have proof from John Solomon that money that went to Ukraine came back to the Democratic Party in the United States. It's just honoring money. That's all it was. So, Renee, ring the bell. Because remember, we had a reel that went viral because we said foreign aid was nothing more than a money laundering scandal. Go look up John Solomon and what he discovered about Ukraine and where that money was going back to the United States, proving that implicit bias, your implicit bias, is right. Cake toppers on this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio. I'm your host, Gavon Bordelong. Caleb, why you look confused? Wait, wait, wait.
SPEAKER_01Do you mean that in the new slang term for cake or is it cake? Are you talking about wedding cake toppers?
SPEAKER_04So this actually, Caleb is correct. We are talking about slang for cake. This apparently is a new trend. And I'm not with it. And here's why. I'll Alex, let me explain. Wait, what's the trend? This is the trend. So I am I am a child of the 70s, 80s, and early 90s, right? And females got a tattoo in the small of their back. What was that called? What is that called today? Thumb prints. Nope. Oh, tramp stamp. Ah, ring the bell. Caleb got it right. That's called a tramp stamp. Well, apparently, there is now a movement to rebrand a tramp stamp to a cake topper. This is what leftists do. We have to redefine terms in a second. They take the term for something and they redefine it. Look, George Carlin nailed this.
SPEAKER_01Illegal alien.
SPEAKER_04How about an undocumented immigrant? The leftist, the leftist did this when George Carlin was alive. They are not a wife beater, they're a domestic abuser.
SPEAKER_05Nancy Pelosi pushing this? I don't know who is. No, Nancy Players. And if Nancy Pelosi is pushing that, I don't want to see any of that. You don't think she has a tramp stamp or a cake topper? Dude, you do not want to see that.
SPEAKER_04But apparently. Is that coconut on there? No, baby. But apparently, there is a movement to rename tramp stamps to quote cake toppers. Um, first of all, it ain't a cake. No, no, no. Second of all, that stamp is exactly what it says.
SPEAKER_05If y'all want to call that cake, some of y'all need to whip that batter better because it's really good. Preach. Preach on.
SPEAKER_04Mix it up. This is where we are today, right? Literally, and it's kind of a social media thing. So Gen X, Gen X females are rather offended, and I don't blame them because they have dealt with the term tramp stamp for 30 years.
SPEAKER_01You can't you look at the leftists, they have totally redefined a majority of terms. They have their own dictionary now.
SPEAKER_05You can't do that crap. Like, look, when I was younger, I wanted to make my own word, right? I don't know who invented the word cool and all this other stuff. And I was like, you know what? I'm gonna start saying spa. So I would say spa. And look at you're laughing, but yeah. I would say spa when I wanted to say cool or something else. I was like, it's gonna catch on.
SPEAKER_04No, I'm trying to remember, I'm trying to remember what your mom called you, your nickname, and I can't remember it off the top of it.
SPEAKER_05Ubi-duke. Ubi-duke, yes. So I was like, I'm gonna start using this this term and it's gonna catch on, it'll be my thing, right? Yeah, and they'll say Caleb did this. Wait a minute. No one, no one can be like, I invented, I I coined cake topper. So a couple of things.
SPEAKER_01First of all, I invented a term and it hadn't caught on.
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SPEAKER_01What was that? When Elon changed the name from Twitter to X, when somebody posts something, exclive. It's an exclamation. That's what it was. Okay.
SPEAKER_05So a couple of things. They missed out on that.
SPEAKER_04So first of all, they missed out. Did your mother name you Obi-Duke because that's the noise you make when you throw up on a boat?
SPEAKER_05That'd have been a much better noise. I I think I actually called myself Ubi-Duke because I was like, Yeah, no, that she she did tell us that Ubi-Duke Morse. I was she was she would say I was touched by a great spirit.
SPEAKER_04So second of all, this is the problem with where we are today trying to redefine the term.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, being being the middle-aged husband who's like, oh, sweetheart, you got a tramp stamp. No, baby, that's a cake topper.
SPEAKER_04Okay, look. Okay, so first of all, if it were my wife, it's my wife, right?
SPEAKER_01She wouldn't have a cake topper.
SPEAKER_04Well, you I know your wife, she would not do that. You you are correct. She wouldn't have a tramp stamp neither. You are correct. You are correct, Renee. Thank thank goodness. But at the end of the day, the tradition that it built was there for a reason, right? I mean, I hate to say this. Stereotypes are there for a reason. White people can't dance. Guess why?
SPEAKER_05Well, we can dance.
SPEAKER_04Look at ballet. All right, white men can't jump. Ish. Dance. Yeah. Ish. White men can't jump. I mean, unless you're eight feet tall.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, but I can if I try hard enough, I'll have as many, I'll have as many rebounds as Shaq.
SPEAKER_04No, no, you can have as many rebounds as Angel Reese because you just miss all the shots and collect your own rebounds.
SPEAKER_01Exactly. Like, yeah. Yeah. Larry Bird, he didn't have to jump. Correct. He could shoot. Correct. Well, I could shoot.
SPEAKER_04But but my point is, this whole movement to try and redirect the term, you don't get to reinvent yourself. No. Right?
SPEAKER_03You have to live your past. Well, and why does why does the 2% of the population get to redirect and dictate everything to us? That would be like a minority.
SPEAKER_04That would be like Walker saying those socks with slides is straight. Right? I mean, it just doesn't work. You can't deny it. It's not.
SPEAKER_05It is not. And next thing you know, we're gonna want to like rename throat throat tattoos from mistake to great idea.
SPEAKER_03Hey, no, no, all of a sudden regrets.
SPEAKER_04No regrets. No regrets. No regrets. No regirds is gonna be no regrets.
SPEAKER_05It just doesn't work. As somebody who has a horrible tattoo because of it, look, you know what you roll with it.
SPEAKER_04And look, at the end of the day, you can also own it.
SPEAKER_05Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03I mean, that's the way it should be, right? You made a bad decision. Yeah, you own it. You should own it.
SPEAKER_05I had the AOL guy getting shot in the for a long time on my back because I was like, you know what? This is what it is.
SPEAKER_03If you watch, if you watch the original video, which is what you sent, if you watch her discuss it, that's what she says. She's like, I've had this for 30 years and I know it was a bad decision. That cake's gone bad. And so, like, all of a sudden, now it's a positive thing. She's like, No, it's a negative thing. And it should always be a negative thing. I made a bad decision, and that's the way it should be.
SPEAKER_04And look, you don't want, you don't want like that cake growing mold and yeast. You just don't, right? You just don't. And unfortunately, that's where it goes when you try to call it a cake topper.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_04What, Renee? I don't know what's funny about that. Yeah, I'm just I don't know. Wait, nobody's going there? No. No, we're not, we're not appealing to the 20-year-olds. Like, I think that's that's where we are in this.
SPEAKER_05This this just they watch weird stuff on on the internet, so I don't don't want to know.
SPEAKER_03Watch weird stuff on the internet. What do you mean by that?
SPEAKER_04I'm waiting on Walker to try and bet on it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah. He's already on on whatever the the web betting thing is.
SPEAKER_05We're taking advice from a group of individuals that made bad decisions, right? And whenever we were younger, um how do I word this? We made plenty of bad decisions. We made lots of bad decisions, right? We owned it and we built ourselves back from it, right?
SPEAKER_01We didn't have to be young enough. I mean, you made a bad decision a couple of weeks ago by not taking Dremine on the boat.
SPEAKER_05And you know, like a Playboy isn't what it used to be. They've crumbled, they've gone down, but now the most Googled term is like stepbrother, stepsister, that kind of stuff.
SPEAKER_04I don't even want to know how you know that.
SPEAKER_05I get reports of this kind of stuff. He's got AI, man. Do we really want these kind of people defining what tomorrow is? No. We just don't. You know, I I think that many people have failed as parents, is what we can all agree upon.
SPEAKER_04I think what we can all agree upon is that people who make bad decisions try and redefine it, so their bad decisions aren't bad decisions. That's a play of words. Right? Yeah. My bad decision wasn't a bad decision. I'm making it into a better decision. It sounds better, so I feel better about myself.
SPEAKER_03I'm gonna say it's no different than the pronouns and those kind of things, like how you identify yourself. Like of America. There are constances that exist in our society. And if you're if you're if you're a boy, you're a boy. If you're a girl, you're a girl. Like if you if you come to the table and you tell your dad, hey, I want to be a girl, the next question would be what about this makes you want to be a girl? Like tell me more. I would not have gotten a question. No, I know you'd have gotten slapped. Right, and so would I. But but but if my son came to me, my kids are all grown, but like let's say I got a 12-year-old that comes to me with this, I'm gonna ask the question, what are you talking about? Like, what is it that that appeals to you about this? And let's let's dig deep. And if we dig deep, then we're gonna find out that it's all just a ruse.
SPEAKER_04It's not a real thing. Look, it's all a ruse.
SPEAKER_01And you can play act, you have XY and Y or X. That's it.
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