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Come join us for another fun filled episode of debating the things we all have on our minds as we ask the age old question... this is still cool, right?

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Welcome to We're Still Cool, Right? The weekly podcast where the conversation flows smoother than top-shelf whiskey. And cool, well, it never really left. Grab a drink and hang out with Erik, Mike, and Shaun while they dive into nostalgia and attempt to answer the age-old question. We're still cool, right?

Let's get ready to stumble. Because we may be drinking some whiskey.

Well, that lovely sound means we are back again. Hell yeah. Which is awesome. I'm Shaun. I'm Mike. Well, yeah. I just want to reach it to the punch. And Erik. What's up? Yeah. So we're really excited. Basically, we've been sitting here looking at this whiskey that we're going to taste. For way too long. And so Mike can barely control himself if he didn't tell. So with that being said, Erik, why don't you hit us off with that? All right. So, well, first off, first off, we have some important news to share with everybody. We have our first official sponsor. Oh, yes. So going forward, you know, for now, like we're going forward, the drink of the week is sponsored by Benz Beverage Depot here in Cedar Rapids.

so if you don't know him if you haven't been there go that's awesome yeah if you don't know you should but you need to go find out 501 7th ave yeah oh you you remember it's like a laser beam it's like a laser beam a hotness it's like the bat signal we drive by and see the little logo we're like oh must stop in what is that she's a tractor beam of light of hotness. It is a bright green building, too. You can't miss it. You can't miss it. When I walk in, it starts singing, oh.

Also, it's right by my doctor's office. I'm like, oh, I don't feel good. Ooh. Get a little treat on me. She said I should quit drinking. So I got rid of her. Anyway.

Who needs a lollipop when you're stopping for a whole bottle? Easy for you to say. You got a Benz in your parking lot. Come on. Yeah, exactly. um so our our good friend matt over at ben's uh put together some whiskeys for us today so we we had kind of talked to him about hey what do you think would be good we're kind of going into the holidays let's look at some inexpensive yeah um whiskeys that don't drink like cheap whiskey right so we're not we're not going for the stuff that you know burns as it goes down this is like i the one that i brought up to him was old granddad 114 because i heard that it's really good for the price point like i like it usually under 20 bucks and it's very tasty i'd never had it so here we go i guess we should say that neither of these bottles should you should probably you'll never see it above 30 bucks these are very budget friendly because you don't always need to spend 80 90 to drink something that's good so and i think people get like think you have to do that otherwise oh it's bottom shelf this and that i don't know the rumor is once it hits this podcast it gets pretty popular so yeah we're sorry the price gets jacked up but uh no i i'm the kind of person we've had really good whiskeys on here eric's got his finger on the pulse and always finds the good ones i am not that kind of a person that gets in all the raffles and stuff like that but i like good stuff um but i'm pissed when i can't just go get what i want so when we asked you guys these when we asked matt down there he's like well here here's some affordable ones

that you can generally get so what is the first one we're kicking off with here yeah so the first one we're gonna start with is old granddad 114 so i already got a little bit my glass i'll pass it to you guys um and then while you're tasting that i'll uh talk about this other one here that matt provided um i'm sure you're familiar with or you've heard of old forester but this is old forester 100 proof and they have lots of different variations old forester but this one um is very reasonably priced sorry eric it's a wide mouth bottle we should we should probably say that i fucking glugged a little hard on that one we're gonna be picking mike up off the floor mike might be only tasting one of the whiskeys tonight so it's fine so um yeah so thanks to matt at ben's we just wanted to uh kind of it was an idea i had based off of a tick tock that you know people are talking about all these inexpensive whiskeys that yeah like good ones so right i love those i do the same thing with like tequila i don't know tequila at all so like when anytime a video floats by it's like these are five tequilas you should totally try that are you know under 60 bucks i love seeing those because i i don't know otherwise i just buy one and pray so yeah and we've been like at our house we've been getting into it like i said ashley likes whiskey so you know it's not about finding a good one that we can find good price and easy to find. I like it.

Cheers, boys. Cheers, boys. Yeah, I like that. Oh, man. It's fantastic. It's really, really good. It makes me question my decisions on some of the $50, $60 bottles I've bought. That's the thing. I mean, I haven't had as many as I don't think you have or anything, but the great bottles I've had, yeah, they're good. But then I have something like this and I'm like, okay, is that really worth $160 a bottle? It's just like, once you have some of these, you're like, I can't justify that. And props to those people who can. I just can't. So that's delicious. I'm just not rolling in that kind of dough, but that is really good.

You guys just give me another hour, and I'll finish my glass. I can't wait to hear what comes flying out of your mouth after you get through that one. It's going to sound like Shoe for Heromers. Hey, remember, we're uploading all our episodes to YouTube now, so the video doesn't lie. That's not going to take you the entire episode to finish. You guys are about to see something real special.

We know better. Although you guys may move on to the second bottle, and I may wait a bit to move on to the second bottle. That is exciting, though. That is being said. We're getting on YouTube. We've been on there without any video, but we are ready now. Yeah, so if you're listening, we've been putting a lot of shorts out, which have been doing great, by the way. So thank you to anyone that's watching them and liking them, sharing them. but yeah a lot of people are actually eric and logan have been hard at work uh you know getting our logo going in our intro and so now you're going to start seeing all of our episodes even the past ones to date being uploaded uh god i don't know you got like 10 of them on there today i think or something yeah at least five or six today yeah so we'll get all the old ones out there hey it's like guy sizes my goal is to be caught up to current this week so we'll see how it goes We appreciate it, buddy.

We have a lot to shout out. So, yeah, one last thank you to Benz and Matt at Benz. It's the perfect sponsor for us if you can't tell. So, like, it's a match made in heaven. So we really appreciate them. We're working on a couple new logos. You'll see one behind Shaun right now. That's kind of our... If you can take your eyes off me. Good luck. Yeah, just dreamy eyes. But, yeah, so that kind of stuff. And then one more quick shout I wanted to give. a buddy of ours, Alex Hendricks, he's Hendricks Handcrafted on Facebook, but he does woodworking and he made us some bottle openers. So they're magnets.

And then on the other side it has a bottle opener on it. So shout out to you, buddy. Please go follow him out there. He makes really awesome stuff. We're going to have him make us some more stuff. So yeah, definitely check him out. So thank you for the openers, buddy. Yeah, for sure. That's a good one. This is delicious. Right. God damn it. i i do think i kind of wish i had thrown a little bit of ice in now but i wanted to try them without it's fun to try it's it's nice to try it both ways yeah the i'm a little ice guy we know that i just can't quite handle the heat so you're just a chill little guy you get over 100 proof the ice helps too it does it's weird though so i mean i've had some that are just so hot and and i know some people like that but i don't like a massive burn you know when it's going down but i don't know i've had some over 100 and i couldn't even tell they were over 100 so it's just weird how how some people mask it, you know?

But I guess the same thing with we've all had a beer where we're like, this is delicious. And we just send it. We're like, 18%. Oh, no. But it tastes like liquid brownies. Oh, my God. I have to tell this story quick, and I'm not going to get off topic. It's just I need time to get through this glass of whiskey. Okay, but have you ever, and maybe stop me if I've brought this up before, but like chugged a bottle of something, not a bottle, but you know, a whole beer, but not looked at the ABV and then realized, oh, it was a little more than you probably should have drank. So like one time, a long time ago, I was having a couple beers.

I think it was like a Friday night, just chilling at home or whatever. But I had to get up early the next day. And I was like, I'm going to have one more beer. I'm not even tipsy. And I grabbed a beer. This is early days of crap beer. So I didn't even know. I just drank everything. And I'm like, this is delicious. So I'm like, I'm just going to finish the whole bomber. And so I drank it. And I was up for like a couple more hours. I'm like, oof. A little fucking woozy here. what's going on? And I look at the bottle and it was like 18% and I was like, oh, fuck. I fucked up. Enjoy the ride, buddy.

Yeah, it was like a quad ale or something. I don't know, but it was like... I was going to say, that's when you fell in love with barley wines. Literally, I did. Yeah, I love barley wines. Most people don't. Anyway. Kids, do yourself a favor. Check before you chug. I also don't know how you chug a $25 bottle. I didn't chug it, but I drank it quicker than I should have. I probably should have savored it more. some of that shit's good when you bust out your stock of that stuff it's yeah we'll have to do some more of that maybe we'll do that coming up the the i'm just gonna offer up eric's beer why don't we just start drinking that well damn it it's just sitting around come on i do need to whittle you're on to collecting whiskey now so we gotta make room let's get rid of all these beers and god i love the way you think yeah this is great we're really We could spend his money all day long.

Aaron, you're welcome. What are you guys doing? Clearing out your closet. Come on, we're doing it for you. I'm sure she'd be okay with it. Do we want to kind of get into some other stuff and then just come back to the forest, or do you guys want to do that now? Yeah, I think we should jump into what's cool this week. Yeah, I agree. What's cool or not this week. So I had one that I wanted to bring up.

Shaun already heard a little bit about it before we were walking in here. Okay, I don't know. So I just had like on social media, Playboy popped up in my TikTok feed. And I was like, Playboy is still a thing. Wait, they still make it? That's exactly what I said. I was like, is this still a thing? Old creepy hef. So yeah, that's exactly. You hadn't heard about it. You know, nobody gets magazines anymore, right? You hadn't heard about it, but they have been still doing it. And now they're putting them all on TikTok and all the social media. Oh my God. Playmate of the Month. Porn delivered right to your feed.

I'm like, and they get classy porn. That's classy. Come on. I only watch it for the articles. Well, that's the thing. Now you can't say that anymore. No, you can't. You're like, well, there was tits, then an article. You're like, ah, you got to get past that. Alright, so is the Playboy still cool? Yeah. So, just in general, is Playboy still cool? It doesn't have to be the magazine, but is Playboy still cool? I honestly think we could do a whole show on playboy to between dude i could do it on other nudie mags too i mean i saw some shit growing up talk about you know when all this stuff comes out about half now you knew it was like that right but just something about it like i never i never wanted to believe i thought he was just like kind of this man of mystery that like was the ultimate playboy that like just totally had it together yeah and now you hear all this shit that comes out it's like what a fucking creep oh he really died at the perfect time but then i'm like for his sake what i really expect you know what i mean like look how he built all this but yeah it's like the i mean from playboy you know from being a kid stealing my dad's you know to showing it to my buddies out in the woods you know like all the way to when the girls got every time that they would tan they'd put the little bunny on there oh god and hot was by the way any any chick that had a playboy bunny like that from tanning yeah they've definitely been in prison so what's from like that like they were cookie monster pjs to pick up their kids from school you know what i mean they didn't back in the day they're buying scratches buddy i'm just kidding but hey

half my friends had that so hot was that when i was growing up my mom uh ran a hair salon and she had a tanning bed yeah she still has a tanning bed but she had a tanning bed in the business and i mean the rolls of those stickers that just went out the door like people every single person it was hot though yeah even even like the the models and stuff again having like a playboy bunny tattoo like on their butt yeah like but so it went from like i remember well whatever like me first time i saw tits and the whole deal was in the you know in a playboy that i took and that my buddies did to then the girls kind of got into it and thinking like playboy was cool like they had tattoos and i mean we talked about the lucky jeans lucky you oh nothing was hotter than unclipping a girl's pants and seeing that little tan bunny right there it was you it was a good day all right that was like that's when you look when you go thank you god have you rule i want to be like you when i grow up okay but you said about what like finding them or reading them in like the woods yeah why was that a thing why does every kid like guy have a story of like oh yeah we snuck out to the woods or like we hit him in the woods you've never heard of that no because i remember having a buddy he like took me to the woods and he had like an area that like he hid stuff and that's where he like stored his nudie mags yeah it was a beaver park yeah we grew up on the southeast side how many playboys do you think are in beaver park oh god i hope there's just a time

capsule of them buried i wish oh it's gonna be like jurassic park there's so much dna in these there's a good 12 of them out there i know that have been left from i apologize for interrupting but i googled no please i googled playboy magazine in the woods just to see how quintessential it was and the first thing that came up was an article from medium that says there are a lot of girly magazines in our nation's woods see it's just a graveyard of but it was like pubescent but you'd roll there with your buddies and take a look at it and you hear a sound and you'd throw that thing underneath and take off running right oh yeah well plus your buddies were all and now now everyone was hard so it got awkward so you're like run away scatter yeah you don't want to be sword fighting out there so jesus christ i i mean i remember i do remember a friend had like a fort and it was in the woods but i didn't think about like oh we're just going to hang out in the woods no we he went he did it in his fort because then it was like in a lock box so yep well that's okay that's the next level i'm talking about we just were in the fucking woods in the woods like the swimming pool is right over there and the the whatever tennis courts are right over there you know i mean and we're just up there and you'd see another tree another tree group 100 yards away doing the same thing what's up brothers like and then you learn to figure out yeah i don't know it's just weird to me i didn't do it but i had buddies who took and i'm like that's not bad took me out there but like i just hid mine at home like you want to see some yeah right i do yeah i was like oh but it was it was like before bottle sharing right it's the same generation that

bottle shared they you use leave your playboy out there and then you knew you could go out there you had to keep protected though from the elements you know i know yeah there's some plastic bags out i don't want to i don't want to deviate too far from the playboy thing but this is just too funny not to share maybe you should um the uh a friend of mine had it was another magazine i can't remember which one it was it was probably hustler or something like that yeah it had a scratch and sniff feature what yeah seriously and it was supposed to smell like cherries or something like that but it just smelled like basement just like someone's rotting moldy basement smelled like mildew and there's a joke in there if you didn't get the bait anyway yeah oh my god why would you do that man see that's what playboy was the classy one they wouldn't do something like that and i will say this i remember the joke everyone always said like no i read it for the articles they really did have fucking great articles hidden in that there was the centerfold and it was classy I saw some growing up where it was like the hustler and there was one just called I think it was like wet but that was all just like softcore porn you know what I mean no articles just fucking that wasn't like a magazine you got that purely to jerk off exactly yes playboy was so classy about it you know what I mean but then they did hold on in a what's the Adam Sandler movie uh not happy Gilmore.

Fuck, when he's in the tub, like... Billy Madison? Billy Madison, where he's like, ooh, it's Nudie Magazine Day. Oh, Nudie Magazine Day. But, again, when I think about that, they did do class and, like, cool, you know what I mean? On an edgy thing. They did. They had the Playboy Club. They had, like, all these things before, right? Then it kind of died down. Then it got cool again with our generation or my generation growing up again with those stickers and girls started to get into it And they thought it was cool like having shirts that said Playboy and everything like that Do you remember the girls next door?

Is that what it was called? Yeah, and then that show took over. Yep. People loved that show. I remember watching it. I mean, what was fucking cooler than like the Playboy Mansion? Like I still would have been, I remember watching like Entourage, you know, and they were going to the Playboy. And I remember being like, that would be, that's like, you fucking made it. Right. Like if it would have been, I totally got that. They were going to a, to a party at the Playboy mansion. And I could be like, that would be fucking awesome. Like to do that. Yeah. You know, to go there. And now you're like how big of a dump that place really was.

I know. They basically put lipstick on a pig every weekend. It's like a TV set essentially. Yeah. But the way they showed it, it was like, you showed up, there's the tennis court. all the girls are just sunbathing and like g-strings then there's the pool right and they're just flopping their boobs out you know i'm just sitting there going what better life right like because well yeah but they made it sound like it was like this great life for the girls too like they could show up and they swim pool you know and like everything was taken care of and you're underneath you know like no they did sell this like they did unbelievable world of like you know free sex in your body and you got this area and it's like just kind of be you and type deal but then yeah i think all the girls that went there it was a you know you get to be here and we get to exploit you a little bit but the the girl girls like the ones he was married like the girls from the girls next door like uh that that well it sounds like those three girls are the ones that ever really made any money everybody else he just fucking really oh exactly you know what i mean like at least they got their own show and got popular on their own but i'm guessing he Cosby'd like thousands of women.

But it sounds like he just told them to do it. Power, yeah. It's too bad. I guess it only takes one. To be able to pull that off, you have to have a certain I would say it. But fuck in my head, he was just the coolest, created this atmosphere, not fucking drug people, but unfortunately they will find out now. He blackmailed and drugged everybody.

With that being said, sorry. I remember there was a mystique around it before the news now and all that stuff but also like when I first got married Aaron and I had it we kept it on the back of the toilet like we both read the articles are you going to say something or am I going to say it I'll get to that yeah because I'll say it this is my favorite picture of all time but we read the articles like we enjoyed the jokes in it and like all the stuff Good jokes. Also, good writers. They had the nip slips and stuff like that from the celebrity. It was always the only one that could really get celebrity at the time.

Like Shaun said, it was classy. I mean, the classiest way you can do a magazine like that, they did it. You know what I mean? Yeah. I really did enjoy reading it. People would be like, get in there. Real Hollywood people would go. To close out what Mike was bringing up about it being on the back of the toilet. It's the best picture ever. So this shortly after this, we kind of ended our subscription and we were done. But it was it was a good picture. I have a picture of my son. Who's how old now? He's 20 now. OK. And we showed it at his graduation. Yeah, I remember. I have a picture of him sitting on the toilet, like holding a Playboy.

Like he couldn't read at the time. But like he's smiling. It is the cutest picture. He's probably like I've had to guess like five, six, maybe. I don't know. That's fucking awesome. And it's just like if Playboy would have saw that picture back in the day, they would have been like, oh, my God. Hell, yeah. They would have promoted it. It was so funny. Damn, that's like. It was iconic, man. It was a part of our childhood. You talk nostalgia and all the stuff that we talk about. That was what that was for us. So I will be honest with you. When I still see the Playboy's sign or the bunny or whatever in my head, I still think it's kind of cool.

but he just because he was such a creep that it's not cool that i hope that you know whatever this taken back over can become cool again that it has like that i'm glad we enjoyed the like got to enjoy the magazine for how cool it was like not again for the article like it was awesome and it was a whole thing but the price that people paid it was shitty and yeah you know so it wasn't worth so right now i'm gonna say it's not cool i hope somebody can i mean it can be cool i feel like because if someone could remake that without the creep factor and drugging people and stuff like i feel like i feel like that is what they're trying to do based on like the little bit that i looked through it's worth a shot problem is you have you're tied to that name right like you got that's a hell of a brand flip to turn that around but old fucking roof years gone so it's like you know but when you're just surrounded by that many hot chicks you gotta get fucked up. I don't know.

It's got to mess with you. Just in general. That's no excuse. Also, one more thing, though. The amount of famous people that posed nude in that. That's what I was talking about with celebrities. I'm pretty sure Kathy Ireland was in it. Oh, I loved her. She wasn't naked, though. Are you sure? Oh, no. Didn't we talk about this with John Yad? If Kathy Ireland was in there, we need to get that. She might have been on the cover, but I don't think she was naked. I can't remember. Vanna White was in it. wasn't Marilyn Monroe on the first one yeah I think the biggest one that I was Pamela Anderson that was huge yeah but then later you realize you could watch her actually have sex for free on YouTube so yeah okay so just a quick google of celebrities in Playboy Lindsay Lohan, Pamela Anderson whoa does this mean they were actually nude that's right this was one of her failed comebacks poor girl Well, I think now she's actually kind of coming back because she's actually like, fuck yes, you drank that.

I'm proud of you, son. Drew Barrymore. I told you you were going to see something special. Drew Barrymore. Okay. That's what it says. I'll always love her. Madonna. Yeah, Madonna was definitely in it.

Jenny McCarthy. Do you see how small I went on this port? It's because you don't have any ice cubes. Shannon Dordery. she passed away Drew Barrymore dude there's a ton yeah there's like 50 it says 50 hottest read the names I want to know more Farrah Fawcett oh that's a good one huge bush Madonna see I was wondering when that tagline would come around again for us I was like if we have to wait for Ozarks 2026 for that tagline. I'm going to be really sad. There's people who've been waiting for that. Shout out to you, Kara.

I'm about to spit up my beer. Talking about your hat, of course. Of course. Madonna. Daryl Hannah. There's a bunch of names on here that I'm not familiar with. Sure. I probably know them. I probably do, because I'm 100. Before we move on, give me three names that you don't know and I want to see if I know them. uh leanne tweedden yeah uh that wife of gene simmons oh that's that oh that's shannon tweed damn it i thought i had it you're right she's a poker queen yeah that's what i was thinking what's that she's a poker player all right wait what's her name leanne tweedden oh yeah i don't know her i know a lot of poker players too aubrey o'day which i had no idea yeah there's no way she was nude in that. That's what it says.

Breaks free of her Danity cane and clothes. I had no idea. Right on the cover. Yeah, I just watched stuff about her in the Diddy documentary. Oh, that's a good documentary. That's a really good one.

I'd be fucking scared and shitless about some of those people out there. Should we talk about that next episode? Because you guys have all finished it. Okay, we'll talk about next episode. You're not allowed to ask if Diddy is still cool i don't have to when i already know the answer it's a big fat no he's not it's a real quick way to figure out if you're going to be around again or not real quick i gotta say as someone who was always a giant biggie fan even more than tupac i always thought diddy sucked i hated him just moving around like yeah yeah we'll get back to that someday yeah um olivia munn wait what yeah not nude god damn it i have to buy so many playboys they're topless and classy it's okay it's not like no i know but olivia munn is gorgeous yeah i mean yeah she's a superhero okay so let's go let's go to the wall we gotta get to the vote here okay sorry so i'm gonna say it is it's not still cool not still cool yeah i'd say not they're working on it but it's a no it could come back i'm glad we had the nostalgia i mean yeah get olivia munn again and you're back and it's a really good start i think you guys are right for sure the only thing that's still cool about it is the brand like that icon well that's the thing yeah but but is it because it's tied to him it's because of what i think people have made it into yeah yeah the brand and the icon has become something on its own yeah but everything else everything you've referenced

like that's not yeah because it was legendary i mean they made that little stupid bunny sign yeah i like next level it's a marketing thing oh yeah you believe it can come back like even as much as people hate half you know i mean or like whatever all the creepiness that for good reason why we don't like any of that stuff again but i think that he that that brand is cool enough that it can't separate itself but it's not there yet i think a little bit depends on if you associated playboy's coolness with a guy in a robe you know an old guy in a robe with a bunch of women around him or if you associated it with the brand and like the the fact that they got all these cool celebrities and they had these like articles and the things like that like yeah i found i never i was never mystified by half like i just thought he was sure i was like yeah i mean yeah it's like just the true a tinge of jealousy right that he's got all these hot women around him but like a tinge a tinge but like i just didn't find girlfriends him cool like i never thought that was cool no i get it totally agree totally but i do think there's this idea of like uh um it's a women's empowerment thing right it's people like owning their bodies owning their sexuality and that there evolves into you know only fans now which has become this like massive movement of you know self-monetizing and entrepreneurialism of of your own body and like it's yeah it's evolved into something really crazy can you write down only fans and diddy because now now we have two things i really want to talk about i really want to talk about only fans one of these days

because mine is not selling as much as i thought it would but you can find it irish owens yeah and then send me reviews that we're still cool right at gmail.com okay so that's officially the damn i i have a feeling it's gonna make a comeback let's talk a little bit about this uh whiskey here on to the next one yeah we jumped onto it i'm impressed with mike here it's old forest you're impressed with me that you got that other one down well you know i'm kind of a boss all right you guys talk a little bit about it while i think this is good too yeah i mean we had no ice with this one and i i drink the whiskeys i drink on the normal i always drink neat i don't usually add a lot of whiskey well or add a lot of ice um it just depends like you said how hot they are you know like i love buffalo trays without ice but that's not a super hot one this is smooth like i i wouldn't need ice i've had old forester i don't think i've had the hundred proof before um but especially for the price it's phenomenal thing under 25 bucks for for these i was kind of we know it's under 30 but yeah under 30 yeah i was like i don't know i figured 30 to 40. this could easily be 45 bucks and you'd be like this is worth 45 you know what i mean so so for sure then with that being said add that to the list i would recommend both of those if you're looking for uh yeah i think i like old granddad a smidge more

like we had to compare the two. Oh, Grandad? Yeah. Is that what it's called? Yeah. Oh, it really is. Yeah. Hold on. Shaun thought I was making fun of him. He's like, oh, you're calling me old Pappy again. Honestly, I thought you forgot the name of old for instance. You were like old Grandad or something. Get my panties in a bunch. Oh, maybe there's a thing about Playboys is what he's thinking about. I'm not wrong. Maybe there's a thing here about these just like any whiskey that has ancient or old in the name that it's... Ooh, I like that. Anything promoted by Shaun is fucking delicious. Fuck off.

Actually, all this picture is missing is a nice Playboy sitting between the two of them and a cigar. Well, guess what? I'm going to find one. That's the ultimate Christmas package. If anybody wants to give me a Christmas gift, it's these two bottles with a couple old school Playboys and a couple cigars, and I am a happy man. dude in in the last 45 seconds of my head i'm so excited for for next week to record we've we've it's gonna be great so all right do you want you want me to go next or you want to go uh go ahead uh so moved on from playboy i thought and i couldn't remember if we talked about this but i don't think we did is roller skating still cool and the reason i say is because like it was the jam when i was young like yeah like we we went to super skate all the time like you would go outside of school functions oh yeah oh yeah yeah so for history's sake i'm pretty sure we did talk about this i thought but we didn't but we haven't like always been good in the past about bringing it to a conclusion we just kind of throw it off into the nether oh yeah we never actually make a decision on if it's still cool we just said hey so we just send it into the ether and hope that one day it comes back so if anybody out there has a good memory and you know you're like oh yeah you guys already did this we might revisit some and like really bring them to a head yeah and if you can remember and you're judging us have a little whiskey you'll forget about it be all right have a little old forester and if you're mad at us about it just remember that little middle finger yeah but no i mean it was the jam i met lots of friends uh like i i met girlfriends super really

yeah i mean skate country was open at the same time across town it's been long gone now i don't know how the hell super skate is still open though i took the last time i went there was probably Well there's nothing else there now It's the only place to skate I don't even know the next closest place Right But you go there and I don't want to bash on it because it's like a local God damn they need to update it But there's probably no money There's probably no money Five bucks a roller skate I don't know I do see it busy on like Friday and Saturday nights That used to be the real nights You'd go there, it was like the late skate Did you go? Did you do it?

Oh, yeah, all the time. In Burlington, we had something called Kenny's Roller Rink. It's not closed. Dude, small towns had the best roller rinks. I went to a buddy, or my cousin grew up in, like, Kelowna, or what's the W town? With all the Amish people. Anyway, Washington. But, like, there was, like, a roller, and it was the jam. It's just where everybody went. It was packed. It made Super Skate look boring. So. I just remember going for school functions. Like, we would always go twice a year or whatever. and I can't, I just, when my feet aren't planted on the ground, I'm not good at it. I played a lot of sports and was pretty good at them.

Roller skating, skateboarding, rollerblading, nope. It just, water skiing, snow skiing. When my feet are not planted, I just don't do well. Oh, so it's not a big deal if someone's feet don't touch and they don't feel comfortable? So it's okay if someone can't pee when their feet don't touch? No, that's not okay at all. You son of a bitch. Yes, it is okay if you can't do that. I thought I had it. Can you pee while roller skating? I haven't tried. Give me a couple weeks. The smell will fit right in. It'll be fine. But I remember having one of the most embarrassing moments. We'd always do the school thing, right?

And then it'd slow down. He'd ask some girl to skate with. Right? Remember the big deal with that stuff? Oh, yeah. For sure. Romance was happening. Couple skate. Yeah. I got up the crew of jazz the hottest girl in class in our school and I was in 7th grade, she was in 8th grade we did and I fucking did it and fucking pulled her down on top of me you asshole broke her collarbone ruined your college volleyball career she didn't get hurt talk about being a bumbling fool okay but hold on buddy I wouldn't have the balls to do that well I knew her enough doesn't matter around that stuff doesn't matter the fact i think she felt sorry for me and then i fucking drug her what's her what's your name let's shout her out i can't do it i can't do it let's send her a strongly worded apology she might be really happy that you called her the hottest girl in school she was they know they all know no i i just there like certain songs that still stick out to me of like couple skating with girls to the songs Like it all coming back to me by like Celine Dion isn that the one that was like uh but also like Casey and Jojo like all my life that came on you're like you're like where is she there you go let's go get the disco but I will say watching the videos on YouTube when the guys like or people are just crushing it and that's hard I know but I'm like that's awesome it is awesome yeah do you guys to go skating i would do it right i would do it right now i will not i'll bring the whiskey and

just watch it because i will fucking die now no dude we'll fall but you'll be fine i don't bounce like i used to you're on your mind i'll have a broken something guaranteed none of us will bounce i don't know what that floor is made of but it is like harder than concrete i mean no way we'll teach you how to do it it'll be fine yeah it's fine you start by the wall nobody's offered to teach me once i pulled the hot did you hear my story about pulling the hottest girl is cool on top of the leg down. Shaun's distracting us. Come on. Look, you're looking here. Look over here. If I can't pull off in that moment, it ain't happening.

It's just not happening. Next year, Bar Olympics are going to have roller skating. Fuck yes, dude. I would love... Hold on. Beer pong on skates. Actually, fuck you two and all your shit talking. We are going to go, and I'm going to record both of you two and look at you and all your badassness. I'm so excited. I will literally do it. And I know I will. i know i will be shitty for about the first 20 30 minutes but then i'll be fine okay you i'll be fine because i just did it like two years ago you asshole you no wonder he brought it up i know i can do it like i it's just one of it was a little bit awkward at first but i got it like playboy bunny tattoos on our butts well i mean you still need to get yourself to your your spray tan that's what i'm saying i would get it tattooed no i'll get no i'd rather you get a tattoo i'd rather we're Are we talking to tattoos now?

Let's get Playboy Bunny tattoos on our butt cheeks. Oh, my God, no. So you would rather do that than get the sticker in tan? Yeah. That's whiskey talking, folks. Guys. If you didn't see how big his whiskey pour was, I'll say how big his whiskey pour was. I'm at a weird point in my life where I'm just like, fuck it. Let's get it. Let's just do it. Who's going to see it? I don't want short term. I want permanent. Who's going to see your bare ass? Your wife or significant other. And like I said about Caten with his tattoo, if they don't love me with that, then they don't deserve well that's pretty badass but it's also like even better his was a bet like fucking paid it and he owned the shit i mean that is as manly as it gets it is like his shout out to you chris yeah for real okay so we're all we're skating yeah i do think it's still cool and the reason i say this the kids are still doing it my like are they yeah not as they're doing it like because there's one here it's like so think about what we used to do when we wanted to like go see a boy or a girl or whatever it was they like instead we would go to the mall or to the movies or we would go do something that's their thing they can do it like your parents can drop you off and you're in the same place the parents don't have to wait there some parents might but like you could be alone without being totally alone for a couple hours you know yeah and it's like for us back in the day like when i would go to the roller rink it was because it was kind of like going to the club you know like it was like a young teenager club because you got to listen to music you got to skate with girls like yeah i so you're saying it's still

cool i think it's still a thing if there's a one around the problem is a lot of them have closed like there's not it used to be like every small town had one yeah sure now i think it's still cool because i i want these things to stick around i want to see the kids have these things to do that aren't just being on their phones. And I'm not that old guy like, no, they shouldn't have phones. I'm not saying that. But I don't want to see everything we did go away. I think it's good to get out and do a couple things. You know what I mean? The malls, eventually there's gonna be no malls even. So like, the longer this can stick around, the better. Like, goddammit, I miss Mr. Movies. I miss Family Video. I miss the nostalgia.

So just for, let's get it out there. Who sounds like the fucking old man now? It's me. I mean, seriously, both of you. Like, you guys bust on me. I know. I'm gonna 100% say it's not even kind of cool i don't believe you that people go i think that's bullshit bro super skates right there i hey i hope it does well like i that sounds great but i i don't think people go so when we go we'll go on a friday or saturday night oh and then you can fall on your ass with all the teenagers yes that's even better no but dude take the nostalgia when you bring someone down with you i i think i think we can get some feedback on this one because i I think you two are full of shit.

I think you two want it to be cool. You want it to still happen, but I don't think it is. He's right. I'm not saying it is in the grand scheme of things. Everyone thinks it's cool. I think it needs to stay cool. I am committed to We're Still Cool Right podcast. At Super Skate. At Super Skate. A little field trip. Bring the family. My kids will go. I don't even know that they can skate either. I know Cooper probably can't. I bet Cooper can just because he's Cooper. He'll figure it out.

It's going to be great. Sophie probably can. We'll give it a shot. I won't skate, but I will sit there and film you guys. Can you write down field trips and put super skate? Perfect.

It's literally happening. We will record us eating shit. I think if our kids are listening at all, they're going to be like, we're not letting you off of the hook on this one anyway. I don't know. I don't think either of my kids want to go to school. They've done it. It's not fucking cool anymore. It's just like you either started doing it and kept doing it every now and enough to be able to do it, or you don't. We're going to find out. I have a feeling this is going to spark some conversation. I'm hoping so, because it's going to hit some people in nostalgia and some people that fucking hate it.

Moving on from roller skating. All right, so with mine, with the weather, got me thinking. The stocking cap, wearing the stocking cap indoors is that still cool so you know what i mean like so i'm not talking about like the hat like my he actually brought one sorry guys i got chilly in here i just i can't hear you hold on all right what's up oh can you hear us yeah no i'm good now yeah okay well what was the question yeah you're that dumb ass stocking cap i think you're already saying how you feel about it just maybe i'm just calling his dumb ass he did call it stupid is that what he said okay yeah so you love it is that what you're saying yeah i so you know what i'm talking about like the and not just like it's you know negative right now so i walked in with it my hair is a mess i want to keep it out i'm talking about like the going out going nope this is the one and i'm wearing it oh yeah yeah so you're more wearing it for fashion than for fashion not just because it's fucking cold outside and yeah it's negative and you have it on i'm talking about like you putting it on i mean yeah with your bald head i'd be worried too yeah and the funny thing is i don't wear them very often i always have a hat on which that doesn't do shit but it makes me feel warmer but i i don't wear them indoors ever there's like one picture actually i think what i have care and i wearing them but it was last winter in a bar and we had just gotten in there and we're both wearing stocking cap who just hadn't taken them off yet.

So it's very different when a female wears it though. It's so attractive. Because she probably had little pigtails coming outside. Oh, good God. She just did that the other day and I was like, I'm a big fan. Fucking huge fan. What is it with chicks and hats? Oh, it's so hot. Now, I will say not everyone can pull it off. I have seen people where it's like, what are you doing? Okay. We're trailing off. Sorry. We're bringing on this hat, but we will get back to that. We just have to decide with this. So I think that I don't I I will never do it. It's not for me. I don't like it. But I do think I see I see people that like they look good in them.

Guys and girls. They look good in a stocking cap. This is hot as fuck. Yeah. That's exactly why you will never see me doing it. I can't do it, dude. It's so hot. I wear a stocking cap while I'm clear in the driveway. That's it. Okay. So. Yeah, same. I wear them outside when I absolutely have to. I mean, I wear it, yeah, snowblowing, playing in the snow with the kids. If I'm going to be out there for more than 10 minutes, then I'll put one on. But going into a gas station, I mean, driving, I very rarely do I wear one. So that's to my point where I just thought it was actually kind of stupid. You know what I mean?

Like when I would see people doing it before, I'm like, I didn't ever get it. I couldn't tell by the way you opened. But I will say some fucking people can pull it off. Agreed. I cannot. I can't. Like, even when I'm going out to snowblow and I put it on, I'm like, God, you look like an idiot. just go do the driveway because i just it just doesn't work i'm bald and i don't feel like i can pull it up it looked all right there that one looked okay but it took me time to find that like some people were like the uh the beanies where the beanies right you know and then some were an actual stocking cap they look stupid on me the only thing i found that like i feel like i can accept is the slouch beanie which is what that is yeah i've tried a few times just to be that person to put on because some people i've seen look cool yeah but i just no i don't think it's cool no i yeah doesn't mean some people can't pull it off but that's just some people are just and also we're not saying don't wear a beanie it's just like if you're wearing it just for fashion's sake and by the way i've seen people where i look at them and i go you're sweating your balls off right it's you're so uncomfortable right okay 60 degrees yeah that's the one caveat i will say where it is absolutely not cool i see people wear them in the summer like in the spring fall summer when it's not warranted weather-wise it makes me sweat i'm like do that No.

But I'm not going to hate on somebody else, but it's just like, to me, I'm like, what the hell? Yeah. I don't get it. No. It's a hard pass for me. I think certain people that can pull off just know it's cool. And they're probably just kind of those cool people that can do weird shit. There's still the minority, though. Yeah. But it's the ones that aren't. And you're like, you look like a fucking fool. Yeah. Anyways, back to the chicks wearing hats. So we're all agreed that that's not cool right now. Yeah. But the chicks wearing hats. Ooh. I know. That is. Didn't we touch on this recently? We did.

Okay. It came out somewhere, but when they put it on and they had... You punched yourself in the face with the mic. I don't even know you did that. That was impressive. Hilarious. You pulled the finger back. How hard? Well, a lot harder than I thought because I was going to describe it. Guys, Shaun really wants to say something. No, I get it. There's people who can pull it off. There's people who can't No one looks atrocious in it but some people just like Oh you're out like Dogging it around you know like you know I don't care about anything today And by the way I'm not knocking you ladies I'm just saying some people do think They're doing that and it's hot as fuck It's a hot yeah but yeah It works I think it's always Cool for the girls to do it I will say Yeah I had an ex that wore Overalls this was a Long long long long long long time ago yeah working at the mall but she wore like literal like overalls yeah with like a short top underneath the shorts that were like kind of the it stuck with me it was a good one i don't know what it was yeah are we back in high school right now what's going on with super skating i'm having a flashback right now about yeah yeah okay so you guys think it's cool if girls 100 all the time i mean yeah as long as you're not sacrificing your comfortability like again if i see anyone doing anything uncomfortably just because they think it looks cool i don't like that i think

that's stupid sure temperature warranty let's say it that way temperature warranty fine but yeah 60 degrees sorry yeah anytime you're indoors it's too hot for me so well exactly that's well dude i run hot like we've talked about this like you know other cities or whatever dude if it's over 50 in iowa i'm wearing shorts i don't everyone's like that you don't actually do that i'm like no my friends have seen me i'm in shorts if i can help it that's my jam especially in the 50s dude shorts and a hoodie that's the comfortable yeah i push it as long as i can oh yeah yeah but yeah anyway but i think that's where i think we're cool for the you know temperature awarding it then chicks are creating it guys i'm gonna say no but hard pass hard pass on that for get out of here wieners that's what sean meant all right uh we have an email oh i love emails i don't know if anyone knows this but they're my favorite thing our good friend uh remote producer ben sent us an email can we just talk about like i think i hurt my lip dude it came in hot we got that i literally just took it are you bleeding am Am I? No.

Oh, it's the purple. Dude, from over here, when he turns there, I literally thought he was bleeding. I'm like, oh my god, I was kind of kidding when I said you punched yourself hard. I mean, this microphone came out. Dude, your face, I pray to god that's clipped. It's gotta be. I mean, it's gotta be. Because your face, it hit you and you were like... You were offended like, how dare you? And then you realized you did it and you were just like, oh, it's fine. It's not a big deal. You have my... know you can slow motion you can do everything out of it like really you need to go to town i don't usually like laugh at somebody getting hurt but like when you do it to yourself i'm like oh i can't say anything yeah i will always feel bad but like i people getting hurt is probably my favorite have you ever seen the sorry we're digressing but your mom's house podcast with tom and his wife and she's like you're a psychopath like you watch people almost die It sounds like he actually is.

Well, I think I might be too because I laugh just the same. I don't feel bad until about five minutes later. I'm like, oh, God, but are they okay? There's a video of a guy in, I think it's over in China or something like that, and he's in a mechanic shop, and the guy's pulling in. Well, the guy hits the gas instead of the brake, and he jams against the wall, and he goes, ah! And he's banging the hood. He's like, I got that. He's saying words. That one sounds horrible. It's so funny. I've never actually seen it. I've just listened to it on there. it's so funny yes and i'm like that sounds terrible because in excruciating pain excruciating pain but he lived so so it's funny well don't worry i can play through my injury i'm pretty tough guy i'll send it to you guys and get your opinions there's there's a fine line for me on those where like it goes to not funny even if even if they do survive it's like man that's serious i know there's something that sounds like that's real pain um just a quick deviation because you made me think of this have you watched the videos where somebody like falls or gets hurt or something like and they just make a weird noise oh it's so fast like ah and then somebody starts making a song out of it yeah like they hit their head on something that's like staying alive staying alive so we're all by the way the same i'm going to say like rams into like the bed frame dude they're so funny i don't care yeah so good uh what's the other one like Like, anyway, now my mind is wrong.

Yeah. What were we talking about? Emails. Emails. Yes. Child producer Benjo. Yep. Add it again. So the subject of this email is a quote from Frank Drebin. Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.

And that's in reference to our previous episode. I was saying, Adam's where you really got to hand it to blind people. prostitutes yeah frank trevin oh man how good is that yep so ben says what's up boys congrats on the new digs cool um i i think he's asking if they're cool i think they're pretty cool yeah we're enjoying it um okay so he says vegas long gone or the are the 199 steak and eggs and one beers but at its core is vegas still cool i've been there a lot over the 25 years i stopped counting at 50 trips i am not a degenerate gambler um but he goes there for work but oh yeah he's there all the time he's not afraid to gamble let's he's got a guy that he talks to before he bets the ponies just to say so his name well i won't say it yeah don't give up the uh good call he's got a fucking cool name so I'll tell you guys later.

Yeah. So he's watched the town change over the years. The people watching the massive hotel shows, lights, venues, and food is still pretty cool. What are our thoughts on Vegas? Okay. So we'll stop there, and he's got some more. This is weird for me because you guys know that most of you who know me know this, but this will blow people's minds that don't know me. I've never been to Vegas. Yeah. And I've never been dying to go there either. Now when he said how like it used to be I'm sad that I never went then Because that sounded like When I would have really liked it But anyway Have you been out there?

You've been out there? Work? Okay my first trip to Vegas We went as a family So I was You took the kids? No my parents took me My parents took me to Vegas as a kid We went to Circus Circus I was like new booming brand that was the hot thing and they had like the coolest roller coasters and all this fast forward now we took the kids out there a couple years ago for christmas because it was covid and we didn't know what to do so we were trying to find something yeah yeah so we went out there and just kind of took them around and showed them around circus circus was a dump oh like yeah but i remember it being like i remember it being one of the coolest places because it was brand new did you like how did it turn this fast i mean not that it was fast no that one has always been kind of a slow because vegas went through this stretch where it was like they tried to be very family friendly and then they kind of realized like people were like i don't want to gamble some kid runner you know i mean like they realized that their money was in not in families it was people out there gambling and yeah if you're gonna have have like some guy pissed off or like wanting to have fun or whatever and he's like stepping around kids that that's not yeah you're not creating the environment that they wanted i think i think the biggest problem is and and they they kind of keep doing these ebbs and flows with it people don't

like think about the good social norms like like if you take your kids don't have them down at the poker tables right yeah yeah you have them out doing the fun things like here's your wristband go do this shit and I'll go do some gambling or something. Yeah, that's why people take their kids on cruises because they go like, here's the kids club, we'll see you in eight hours. Or if you're walking down the road don't be like, that guy's drinking dad shut up, like this is what you're going to see here you know what I mean? So to get back mine, I've been to Vegas probably six or seven times and from a kid to just like a couple years ago So I have been to Vegas three or four times.

The first time was with Benjo. He hits me up and calls me, hey, we can get out there for 200 bucks and we can stay for four nights. You know, blah, blah, blah. This was 20 years ago. Not really. So he'd been there like five or 10 times by then. He'd been there a lot for work or whatever. But so we went out there and had a blast. I mean, I went out there and I spent $1,000, meaning my flight, my hotel and a hundred dollars to gamble and drink with like a day yeah and came out to about a thousand bucks to the last time ashley and i went out there and it was i went and ordered a beer and it was 33 for two miller light bottles jesus christ and i was like what i'm like no i just you know need the two but you know and they're like well it's a deal and i'm like i remember which when i'm on vacation or whatever i don't care about paying for like i want to have fun so yeah you're not paying for whatever money but when it was like four drinks in and we're already over 100 i'm like this this just wasn't even fun you know i mean so yeah but if i could do it the way ben does it when he's on company stuff because he'll go out there for trade shows and he's out there and it's like a big deal so he'll have people that are inviting him to parties he's been at the clubs for like the real good parties like yeah the ultimate ones like that i've never been out there but i've had family members that have been out there when he's out there and they get a like that he'll get them a pass to the party that they're going to that doesn't start till

you know 11 at night or whatever you know at one of these places and goes like all night long and yeah well then it's like so then like aoki spinning or like yeah he's been all those and then you're out there for work and you know your vendors and all these people are buying all these like where he doesn't have to spend anything to where it's like amazing yeah i would love to go see vegas in his shoes to get into through some of those ways and he's been but again i've been out there with him he's been out there you know on his own so he could tell you that stuff but i would love to see vegas one time through his thing where you get into these private clubs and these private parties and these that's you know like where you order a beer and you're not worried about it because it's some company that's entertaining you for it you're not paying for it my two work trips out there that that was similar not quite i didn't go all night i was right you know i was still in bed before midnight or at least back to the room and having a beer before midnight because i didn't get up and yeah go to the conference the next day i'm always like a conference attendee you would have to do that too but then it was always like the last night you know like they would and that's where you get to this private party or something whatever and it's like yeah i have a pretty crazy story from one of those because it was the last night and we were yeah yeah well a vendor vendor took us to a strip club and bottle service and yeah yeah that's a good vendor yeah it was ridiculous i did not expect any of it they they pulled up to the front of the hotel with a limo and said we're going see damn it the most i've gotten is like a really expensive meal which was good and i

appreciate it but come on i need the vendor that looks after sean goes we are hitting the club and that's what i'm talking about guys logan already told me the podcast we're this close he's taking We'll see you all out. Come on, buddy. Please deliver. Please. Please no. Please no. Can I say, please yes? Can we just say that quote from Super Troopers once an episode? Please no. But in this one, it's please yes. That's true. That's true. All right. So I'm adding this to the list to get Mike to Vegas. Okay. I'm good. On Logan's dime. Oh, I like the asterisk there. Yeah. It's great. Got you, buddy.

so mike yeah you said you've never been i haven't but do you think it's cool would you like are you is it something that so someone who's never been there do you want to go like do you like that sounds cool like if i want to go to say i went that's how i know it's like it's not that big of a deal i'm not like dying to get out there now when we like when i first met you like back in the day when we when it was like you me chris and yeah ben and diddy or like we're all into poker and all that yeah i was way more into like gambling and stuff like that and we were good but like trust me we suck out there no I know by the way I'm not stupid I'm not going like well I'm going to take them for all their money I'm just saying like it was more of a thing and it was way more fun then that's what I really wanted to go now I would go and be like if someone's like oh let's go see the show I'm like okay we'll do that but I'm not dying to get out there I will say there is something about being out there still that is like holy fuck because everything is over the top like yeah it's that part of it my only down part is the amount that it takes to get drunk is like the cost the cost to drink and like have a really good blow the doors out and like have the vegas time the vegas experience yeah the really true thing where it's like you could sit there and gamble and they would bring you drinks and i mean they still do a little bit you can but they don't come around like i've heard so many people you gotta go downtown yeah go downtown and you sit up at the bar and you gotta bet the max though which is fine you know whatever and you find really cool downtown vegas is like old vegas it's it's it's fun still down but if you're betting the max how much are you going through in that 30 minutes to get

one free beer well if you know the guy really well and you give a little tip you know he gives you a heads up he goes you just made you got to be betting the max every time i walk over and you need a new beer so it's like hey oh when you see him yeah yeah look he goes all right your max bet yeah another beer yeah but yeah i don't know it's just that's the funny thing like beer and in the grand scheme of things is still not that expensive it's it's obviously the cheapest way to drink and all this stuff and the fact that it's like i don't know i also always wondered like what's stopping like hobos from coming in and just back in the day i'm saying playing penny slots well they don't have to give it to you right they just walk around and decide who they're gonna ask is that what it is yeah i mean it's still just a waitress coming around you know i mean and it's not like like the waitress has to see you that you give them the order then they have to go get it then they come back okay i kind of thought as long as you were actively gambling or you're up at the table or you're up at the bar playing and i suppose at that point they'll just run the thing and or a lot of them probably know get out of here you know i mean type of a deal so so i don't know i still i still think it's cool even if it frustrates me i've always been a giant poker player and a poker fan just of the sport and like of the player like the guys i grew up watching i'm always going to love vegas for that i haven't been but i still think it's cool so and one of the things that i'd like that they're doing now we were out there for a concert over at the allegiance stadium which is fucking awesome and you can walk over there you know from the strip that i would love to go to a football game out there or not now they're going to get a

baseball team out there and they're going to put that down there they have a hockey you know i think it's coming more of that driven that way that now that i'm older like i don't want to just out there and drink and gamble going to a show going to a game going to something like that that sounds kind of cool you know i mean to be a part of that whole experience one of my favorite times was before like sports betting was available everywhere on phones and all this stuff it was basically only in vegas yeah at least legally um i went out there for an iowa game and we watched like all the college football and we're doing parlays we're just sitting in the sports bar all all day doing that and that was a blast that's what i mean you can't do it on your phone i would love to go do the the pool bar on the rooftop over there down because it is downtown which i'm blanking on the name of the casino um but you you know reserve it where you sit no it's i'll look it up but it's on fremont that's the yeah it's downtown so and so you reserve your spot up top and then they have all the huge games or huge tvs outdoor and you can watch all the games i don't really have the figure for it anymore i kind of let myself go i don't know you look pretty good oh it's circa circa yeah yeah which is the newest downtown hotel yeah so okay but so i'm gonna say it's still cool but i just don't think i'll ever i i think if it's the right scenario it could be cool yeah um yeah it's it is what you make of it like yeah so we need to get on ben joe's corporate card come on i've actually had like i went there for a bachelor party with two guys it was just

the the groom and me and another guy and that was it and we had a blast but we we did our own thing like we were like none of us are big gamblers sure we did a little bit you know because we're there but like we would just go into a little shop and grab a six-pack and walk down the strip and drink because you can drink yeah that's the way to do it now now they say you just go in and buy it at the little bodegas or whatever you know i mean you go on in gift shops and get the beer there but and we do that and we just kind of made our own adventure we got pictures because the people watching is next level you know what i mean that is awesome yeah oh we almost saw a bum fight like it was crazy two people and i i was like dude you gotta throw some money in between them really makes them fight more they got they gotta want it you know what i mean like that's 20 get it throw a hand bone in in there yeah yeah here's it i am who i am i will say ben and i were walking into a casino when we're out there and on the way out was some guy just you know stopping his way out and his wife or whatever behind him do we get to keep the car do we get to keep the car do we get to keep the car as they're walking holy fuck my guess was they didn't get to keep the car i don't really know but we're like fuck did you ever hear the conspiracy not to get okay i'm gonna go a little off but i have to say this did you hear the conspiracy around bruno mars so he has a residency in vegas and they're saying it's because he got in such bad gambling debt like and apparently there's a lot of like

proof to it where it's like there there's a reason he does that and it was just to pay out like he got so in the shit that like that was his only way out really well he has kind of dropped off well i I was going to say, dude, there's not a lot of content or stuff coming out from him. I just feel like with... He hit the biggest song of the year last year. What was last year? Die With a Smile, him and Lady Gaga. That was last year. That was last year or this year. I thought it was older than that. And he's been doing stuff under... What's his other name? He did the band with Silk Sonic, too. Yeah, you'd know it.

If I heard it, yeah. Yeah, yeah, and just like that basically Mike and I were told to shut the fuck up We're idiots yeah exactly yours you're 30. I'm ugly no, but it's the whole like Michael Jordan thing right? It was like cuz everyone him retiring back in the day was like because he had gambling debts And like it was like this huge thing and then his dad gets murdered by like supposed to be with it It was like this whole conspiracy. So yeah, I've heard this where it's like... I've heard that, but I've heard Phil Mickelson. Same thing with golf. That's why he wore Ford forever because he was in such debt that then... whatever.

I don't know. Now we're just spreading misinformation. Bullshit. That's what we do, Shaun. Don't stop. Stir it up. We're going to have to break out the tinfoil caps again if you guys keep going. We should do another one of those. There's so much shit I want to talk about. I should redeem myself a bit. You guys are right. I had also heard that about Bruno Mars. You have? Okay, good. I've heard a lot of people talk about it. But he's also making massive music still. Have you heard this song before? Good, because I love him. This is the Silk Sonic song. Oh, yeah, I love this song. I thought this was older, though.

This one's a little older. Like, a couple years old? Well, but that's what I'm saying, a couple years. Was Die With a Smile really in the last two years? Why do I feel like that's older now? Like, I... I've always loved Bruno Mars. Oh, I... Yeah. It came out August 16, 2024. Okay. So a year ago. Well, he has to come out with things to keep the residency going. Okay. He also, along with his residency, has a high-end cocktail lounge in the Bellagio called the Pinky Ring. Yeah, so he's doing nothing. Yeah, they have to keep it going, Erik. The Pinky Ring? Yeah. That's awesome. They might as well call it the Coke Ring.

It's the Coke name. We know what you're doing out there Bringing old Vegas to new Vegas You sly dog With that being said Vegas is still cool Vegas is still cool Do we have a dad joke? Yes we do We'll hit your other ones next time We'll keep some because honestly We could probably do a whole other episode On the next two he has I feel like we could have done a whole one on Vegas For fuck's sake Dude that movie Is it Major League 2? where the catcher has to say stupid shit to catch the ball or whatever. It's like, imagine nudie mags. He's reading nudie mags. Yeah, like the articles. Is that too? Yeah, it is.

But I said, I haven't even been there. And he was like, hi, they're going to send me back to Oklahoma. I don't even live there. So for the record, I threw it out to Benjo that he needs to get here so he can be on the podcast. So here's the pressure, Ben. Yeah, hurry up. I mean, we're clearly going places. but the sooner the better or he can just fly us all out to Vegas that's what I was thinking of no shit right? put us on your corporate jet let's get this over with I don't have one around Vegas I should have we never know we're going to end the dad joke I have is more seasonal we're coming up on Christmas ho ho ho so Santa why do you use reindeer and not cows hold on I don't know because the stakes would be too high Jesus Christ there it is hold on my favorite thing lately is Adam said this to me the other days like yeah you said that joke and I feel like it took Shaun a few seconds I'm like it's kind of a thing lately and I love it Yeah, the blind prostitute you were like oh you have to hand it to him. I was like there it is Yeah, um I just was having drinks with him and Kelly and she she's like I did the exact same thing Shaun did I love it and you can fuck off at him.

Stakes are too high. Goddamn. Alright, well hey, thank you guys for joining. What did you say? I said the stakes are too high. Okay. I thought you said snakes at first and I'm like I'm not sure you're listening. No, bro, those are on a plane. Get your shit together. Yeah, they are too high. Right. Quick shout out again to Benz, Matt, the whole team over there. We appreciate it. We're looking forward to this and to keep it going. Logan, thank you for having us here at Upload. We love it. And if you have anything to contribute, we'd love to hear about it at we're still cool, right? At gmail.com. Yeah, for sure. Please go like, subscribe, follow, do all the things on all the socials. And a reminder, we are on YouTube and we'll have all the episodes up there.

Yeah, so if you want to see what we look like. Full episodes. I know. Everybody's been talking about wanting to see our faces. God, Mike really did drink that whiskey fast. He did. It's real. It's real. Well, this hit me a problem. See you next week. See you in the comments on YouTube. All right. See you guys. Cheers, everybody. Bye.

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