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I Made a $10,000 Mistake in Europe/Episode 007/Part 2

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Chrissy:

So we're gonna get to our sip and pass.

Paul:

Holy shit.

Chrissy:

It's a locally made and owned in Zimmerman, Minnesota, moonshine. Homegrown. It was a guy locally that had been making his own moonshine for quite some time. And according to the story that they told me and I read as well, kind of always boasted about bottling

Paul:

it

Chrissy:

and selling it, but then they actually got drunk one night and decided, yeah,

Craig:

let's do it. Let's

Paul:

fucking do this.

Chrissy:

He's done with his best

Craig:

bread and do it.

Chrissy:

So it's basically two couples using one guy's recipe. He started out with just apple pie flavored. Yep. So obviously the most common.

Paul:

Right.

Chrissy:

But now he has a root beer flavor and a peach flavor. So I have heard this is just phenomenal. So

Craig:

Also heard there's some other flavors coming like a

Chrissy:

Yep. Butterscotch. Oh. Yeah. There's a blackberry or

Paul:

some Blackberry remnant lemonade. Little white lightning. Yeah. Oh.

Chrissy:

So this is apple pie. Right? Yes. The one we Oh, this is apple pie.

Craig:

My god. This smells so fucking good.

Chrissy:

Cheers to this.

Craig:

Holy Santa Claus shit.

Paul:

This is the mermaid.

Chrissy:

So, like, had this been successful for

Paul:

this size.

Craig:

Fucking excited about this.

Paul:

Oh, man. Give me some vanilla ice cream to put on it. Holy shit.

Chrissy:

This is like tastes like apple pie. Dude The idea, brother.

Paul:

Yeah. Yeah. I'll just dump it dump it in like a milkshake.

Paul:

Kristen, now I know how you ended up fucking balls deep in a tent. Oh,

Chrissy:

that's right.

Craig:

I have

Paul:

made it. Wow. Okay.

Paul:

Oh my god. I've even made

Craig:

this shit, and I've never had anything near

Chrissy:

no bite to it at all.

Craig:

No. Either. None of It tastes like a straight up like, you actually like that Apple. Cinnamon apple. Yes.

Craig:

Like an apple. Yes. Exactly what it's the glam. Fuck. Yeah.

Craig:

You just need the crunch. You make this into,

Paul:

like root beer fucking float with this shit? Absolutely.

Craig:

Vanilla ice cream. You get

Paul:

some good

Craig:

old fashioned vanilla in that.

Chrissy:

Yeah. Does that make you wanna try it, Blake?

Craig:

No. I know you do. This is gonna fucking wreck your life.

Chrissy:

This is delicious.

Paul:

Does he Does he ever talk? To

Chrissy:

you guys.

Craig:

Does he have what talk?

Chrissy:

He talks.

Craig:

I try to stay off.

Paul:

Plus, you're probably in charge of editing, so you're letting all this out anyways. No. No.

Paul:

No. Do.

Chrissy:

I hire that out.

Paul:

Oh, there you go. Yeah.

Chrissy:

I hire that

Craig:

I still hire. Yeah. God. This

Chrissy:

Absolutely amazing.

Paul:

Duff is

Paul:

Bravo. So

Chrissy:

sipping pass.

Craig:

I wasn't When they were talking about how good it is, you know, like, everyone breaks up says that. Their friend's shit. Right. Know? Right.

Craig:

But it's like this lives up to the hype. Yeah. For sure.

Paul:

Definitely. We gotta try the root beer now.

Chrissy:

Oh, yeah. I'm in.

Paul:

Alright. There you go. Are you

Paul:

gonna try it? What's the flavor?

Chrissy:

What's the percentage of these?

Craig:

I should probably fucking one forty.

Paul:

Yeah. Just look at the fucking thing.

Chrissy:

That's the one thing I don't have.

Craig:

Well, look at

Chrissy:

the label. John, Cheryl, and is it Polly? I hope it is Polly, p o l l y, not that Polly.

Craig:

Aw. I wish it was me.

Paul:

Or Patty. I don't I

Craig:

don't know.

Chrissy:

I was up at two in the morning typing this. So I sorry if I got it wrong. Vinny and John, though, is I think Vinny is the one that created it, and John and his their wives both of their wives are in on it too.

Paul:

What's that other favorite?

Chrissy:

This is a seventy fifty.

Paul:

Milk, ravir, peach. Peach. I was gonna say ravine. You like peach? I love peach.

Paul:

Love And

Craig:

Another pie a la mode.

Paul:

Yes. It

Chrissy:

sells for $23.79.

Craig:

Sold. I'll take all

Chrissy:

three. Cinnamon. I'm so happy.

Paul:

Oh. Proud

Craig:

of them. That's fucking badass.

Chrissy:

Very good. I looked on their map on their online last night, and it's only being sold in Minnesota so far. But we're all over Minnesota, and there's a couple spots up in Canada.

Craig:

Really?

Chrissy:

Yep.

Craig:

Cool. Dude, I give this, like, six fucking weeks, eight weeks

Chrissy:

This is better

Craig:

than Six months.

Chrissy:

Better than

Craig:

And it's gonna be nationwide.

Chrissy:

Smokies. Old I think it's

Paul:

better than

Craig:

Old Smokies. Crushes Old Smokies. I've tried

Paul:

a bunch of different ones that are commercial. Yeah. Like, you

Chrissy:

know Better?

Paul:

And no. This is the best one.

Chrissy:

Yeah. Isn't it good? Yeah. I know what you're doing, buddy.

Craig:

But But you figured

Paul:

it out.

Paul:

Yeah. Right. Told you.

Chrissy:

Try some, Maddie? Do you wanna try some?

Craig:

Don't act like you don't.

Chrissy:

It's amazing. You know, it's If you like apples pie pie. Girl.

Craig:

Girl. Don't

Paul:

don't drink it too fast.

Chrissy:

Right? Right?

Craig:

Wow. Ladmin. Yeah. That's really good. Yeah.

Craig:

I don't drink. I don't like your negative attitude. Fucking try it.

Paul:

Negative attitude.

Chrissy:

Pressure. No peer pressure, Mary. Absolutely delicious. Oh my god.

Craig:

Smokes old smokey.

Paul:

Oh, yeah.

Chrissy:

Pure pressure here. Yeah.

Craig:

I don't know what you're talking about. Oh my god. This smells fucking

Chrissy:

good. Root beer. I am not a root beer person.

Craig:

How can you not be a root beer person?

Paul:

I don't know.

Craig:

You know, the only thing

Paul:

I don't like about root

Craig:

beer is the fucking carbonation, the bubbles. So if this is smooth as fuck So

Chrissy:

1919 doesn't really have that. But

Craig:

I know. And that's the shit I buy when I smoke cigars. I Root beer? I love it. Yeah.

Craig:

Surprisingly, dude, it's super cigar? Yeah. It's so good.

Paul:

Oh, yeah. The the root beer flavor. Yeah. Yeah. You know what'd be good?

Paul:

This would be good for you? Root beer float? No. Well, that that that's a no brainer. No.

Chrissy:

I don't like it. I don't like my beer, though.

Paul:

What do

Paul:

you I'd I've lost it. When you drop a shot in a beer. Oh. Root beer barrels. Root beer barrels.

Chrissy:

Oh my god.

Paul:

That'd be this would be good for a root beer.

Paul:

Yeah. If you

Craig:

wanna fucking lay on the floor the rest of the night. Oh, yeah.

Paul:

It's a good start.

Craig:

See what

Chrissy:

it's like.

Paul:

Oh my god.

Craig:

Right?

Chrissy:

Because I actually like to roof your grills back in the hall. Did you actually just think about that? Like, he didn't know if he wanted to ruin it or not. There's more.

Paul:

Oh, that was good.

Chrissy:

Was it? I don't know. I got

Paul:

a. That was good. Oh

Craig:

my god, dude. This shit is just fucking ridiculous. You're gonna like you're get cold.

Chrissy:

Fuck. I actually like the root beer rolls back in

Paul:

the day. Yeah.

Craig:

Do you sell that chip at Lukesia?

Paul:

It it codes it down.

Chrissy:

Way better.

Paul:

Tones it down. Tones

Paul:

it down.

Craig:

Well, especially if you don't like root beer, I'd be fucking knock it off.

Paul:

But I

Chrissy:

could always do root beer barrel shots.

Craig:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Chrissy:

Yeah. Delicious.

Craig:

Oh, hell yeah. Fuck. Yeah. We are.

Paul:

You ain't gonna leave out the best fucking flavor.

Chrissy:

Driving. This is good.

Paul:

Where's that taco truck now?

Craig:

Right. Have

Chrissy:

you tried that yet?

Craig:

No. But

Paul:

I drove by yesterday. I was kinda hoping it was her day.

Chrissy:

Well, it's kind of deceiving because there's a Mexican restaurant. If you get a chance while you're home here in Malacca

Craig:

It's in Malacca. Yeah.

Chrissy:

What's it called? El El Jalisco. Yep. And it's their menu, but this for some reason, they're using a different name of a taco truck, which I think is totally bad marketing their part because if people know El Jalisco, like, know

Paul:

that name

Chrissy:

and they know it as to what the best Mexican restaurant

Craig:

Oh, so it doesn't have the same name as the restaurant?

Chrissy:

No. They use taquer taqueria. But their

Craig:

food. Yeah.

Chrissy:

So it's kind of deceiving.

Craig:

I've been up there a couple times with Brittany and it's Yep. She's good friends with everyone up there. Yeah. Yeah. It's been Alaska.

Craig:

Yep. Yeah. Check that out

Chrissy:

for sure. Right across from it's a it's very tiny. It's right across from the the blue

Craig:

Blue moon. Yeah.

Chrissy:

Yeah. Still driving.

Paul:

Yeah. Okay.

Chrissy:

It's delicious. I'm like, and these guys barely speak English. Like the ones out in the taco truck don't. It's very broken English.

Paul:

Right on.

Craig:

Oh my god. Mhmm. Uh-huh. So good.

Chrissy:

I'm not a big peach fan either.

Paul:

I love the peach. Patch.

Chrissy:

In the in

Paul:

the caramel.

Paul:

Wow.

Chrissy:

Wow. Peachy. Very peachy.

Craig:

Jesus. Super

Chrissy:

smooth, but they all are Yeah.

Paul:

One's strong this one tastes stronger. This one tastes more alcoholic.

Paul:

You can

Craig:

yeah. You can taste a little bit of a nip in this, but nothing

Paul:

But not like that. The other two are I

Craig:

don't what what is the alcohol rating on this? By volume or whatever. Proof.

Chrissy:

I can't see. So

Craig:

Jesus Christ. I can see

Paul:

it from here.

Chrissy:

You probably can. I think I looked online and

Craig:

I

Paul:

see it.

Craig:

Let me

Paul:

see it.

Chrissy:

That's because you're still

Craig:

a baby

Chrissy:

and have good eyesight.

Craig:

Well, no. It's because I

Paul:

got a LASIK.

Chrissy:

You got LASIK?

Craig:

Yeah. Forty percent forty proof. 20%.

Chrissy:

20% alcohol.

Craig:

Yeah. But this shit's fucking.

Chrissy:

That's what you kept saying. These guys at the grad party were saying you get super fucked up on this shit because you Yeah. It doesn't taste boozy.

Craig:

Kristen told me that. She had it one year, and then she had to be fucking carried to bed. And this dude, I I get it now.

Paul:

Look at this guy. He's a pro, man. He set it down. The label was turned. He turned into the camera.

Craig:

Oh my god.

Paul:

You wouldn't have done that on episode one.

Craig:

Fuck. No. I was learning. My goodness. You

Paul:

You was in the hot seat episode. Yeah. I was

Craig:

I was, yeah, I was in the hot seat the

Paul:

first a great idea when you started doing them. Theater cohost. Co host. A great idea.

Chrissy:

Makes me feel comfortable, and he brings, obviously, humor and light to every episode. And he thinks of things that maybe I won't think to ask.

Paul:

I think he thinks of a lot of things that normal people would never think of.

Chrissy:

I was

Paul:

just gonna say, normal people, he's just like, you got that brain that's like, hey. Maybe should should should I should I ask this?

Chrissy:

Yes.

Paul:

You probably shouldn't say it.

Craig:

Let's fucking see what happens. Yeah. Let's go. Yeah. You're not actually like doing anything, you know, so it's easier.

Craig:

You could just listen to it. It doesn't really matter. You don't really need to watch it kind of Right?

Paul:

You know?

Chrissy:

I have listened just to see experience

Craig:

The difference?

Chrissy:

And it's just as fucking funny.

Paul:

Yeah. But then you

Chrissy:

does make you wanna see.

Paul:

Then you go back and you go back

Paul:

and you say, okay. Let's see what That does make you wanna see. So you can

Paul:

you know, let's see. Right? My I got a nephew that does a a podcast too, and he does

Chrissy:

Oh, really?

Paul:

On on their him and his this guy that that that cohost together, they're both in doing trying to get into stand up comedian, and they do marketing. And I

Craig:

do a lot Nice.

Paul:

And so so I've been I started watching their podcast.

Craig:

Yeah.

Paul:

And then yours came on about the same time I started doing that. So they're very homegrown. They're both of them are homegrown.

Craig:

So nice.

Chrissy:

How's this doing?

Paul:

Pretty good at that. Every yeah. They get they're getting

Chrissy:

better and better at it. Know them. Maybe we can collaborate or something.

Paul:

Yeah. You know what? I'm like

Paul:

a limb.

Chrissy:

Of, like, what Mike was telling me because he I'm not I have never been

Paul:

to YouTube. Gonna watch this. He's been watching it.

Paul:

Good. Good.

Paul:

Oh, he's asking. He's gonna now that I'm on it, I I texted him. He says, where what is it? And I told him where

Paul:

he's where

Paul:

how did you hook him up and that. But

Chrissy:

Yeah. I'll definitely follow his. Yeah.

Paul:

Pretty it is pretty good pretty good what was it? Pretty good podcast. They're pretty good

Paul:

Funny?

Paul:

Yeah. Oh, yeah. They're they're pretty funny. That's what

Craig:

it's called? Pretty good podcast?

Paul:

Yeah. Is that what

Paul:

it's called?

Paul:

Yeah. They're off the they're off the charts. They're, you know Okay. Okay. Giving you little

Chrissy:

they at?

Paul:

Idaho. Boise, Idaho.

Craig:

Okay. I'm

Paul:

flying out there to see is one of his stand up routines.

Chrissy:

So he's an actual

Craig:

Oh, so he's he's

Paul:

been he's been breaking into it on his own. Yeah. He's a marketing he's got a degree in marketing. That's badass. Stuff.

Paul:

And, yeah, he's so it's pretty cool.

Craig:

I love fucking And that community shit.

Paul:

Time I started watching his stuff, you started.

Chrissy:

Well, it is the way to get your name out there and your business out there.

Paul:

I think it's smart.

Chrissy:

You know, newspapers are a thing of the past. Absolutely. Even fucking I mean, do they even exist anymore? I don't haven't seen them.

Paul:

Online at best.

Chrissy:

I get one, and it comes in the mail, and I throw it right in the trash.

Craig:

I don't

Paul:

even open it.

Craig:

Yeah. No.

Paul:

Yeah. I mean yeah.

Chrissy:

So this is kind of the thing of the

Paul:

future. Think you're on on on some here. I know he's on some, but you're on.

Chrissy:

Oh, yeah. He's on.

Craig:

I'm always on

Paul:

some. On under No.

Chrissy:

Frank, where I'm supposed to ask you. Where did the name nickname, you have this nickname called Dirtball. Oh, Dirtball. Did that come from? I've never called you Dirtball.

Paul:

I know

Chrissy:

there's one person

Paul:

that does. Yeah. Yeah. We can we can

Chrissy:

How does how does that

Paul:

say Chris Floor.

Paul:

Yeah. Allowed. Did that name

Chrissy:

come about? He told me to ask him this.

Paul:

He he has invited me somewhere to meet him for dinner or drinks or something, and I blew him off.

Paul:

I asked him, by the way,

Chrissy:

before you go Yeah. I asked him, is his story gonna be the same as yours?

Paul:

We'll see. Let him know. We'll see. And so all of sudden, I'm drive driving down the road, and he yells out the he walks out of the pizza pub or the it might have been Stevens. Stevens at that point.

Paul:

But it was the same building. He comes walking out. Either either he was driving by or I was walking out. I guess I don't remember exactly.

Chrissy:

He was driving by you.

Paul:

You're walking out. Blew him off I blew him off to go to dinner with somebody.

Paul:

That's what it was.

Chrissy:

That's exactly his bar, though.

Paul:

I'm not

Craig:

at his bar.

Chrissy:

That's what he said.

Paul:

Yeah. Now I yeah.

Chrissy:

With you early because according to

Paul:

Chris And I blew up.

Paul:

With you earlier that

Chrissy:

day, and then you were gonna go with whoever you were going with that evening to go out to dinner. Yeah. He's like, well, I'll just you here

Paul:

later then.

Chrissy:

Yeah. That meaning shooters. Right. You're like, no. I think we're gonna go to Stevens tonight.

Craig:

Exactly right.

Paul:

That's a young but, anyways, it was Chris Floor. I'm walking out, he drives by. You fucking dirtball.

Chrissy:

And he said And he yells it. Buddy Sternlock.

Paul:

Okay. He yelled it out. It was loud. He basically stopped the truck in the right across from the rock store there and the post office and just yelled it out.

Chrissy:

Seen him yet since you've

Paul:

been there? I talked to him on the phone. He's I'm gonna run into him. He was busy yesterday, so we're gonna run a project together today or tomorrow.

Craig:

Yeah. I But yeah. Hit him

Paul:

a lot. So but now we call him Chum. Yep. Chumlee from the Pawn Stars because it's funny. He's

Paul:

always like comes in. Yeah. Yeah. We call him Chum.

Paul:

Just know where Chumlee came. Nate Nate came up with we were watching Pawn Stars, and he goes, kinda guy kinda looks like Flora from the side.

Craig:

So I called him Chumley.

Chrissy:

I never

Paul:

knew that. So then the two of them

Paul:

the two of them started calling each other Chum. So, you know, hey, Chum. No. You're Chum. You know?

Paul:

And

Craig:

it's just Yeah.

Paul:

It's just the thing. They're both called Chum.

Chrissy:

Chum. I know.

Paul:

Yeah.

Chrissy:

Because Nate and Chris Ford do not look anything

Paul:

No. Similar.

Craig:

But they're both chumps. I mean, they really are.

Paul:

They really are.

Chrissy:

And Chris is on his You know, is that the one that's, like, really super close?

Craig:

Yeah. So it's two of them side by side right through the tip of the head.

Chrissy:

Yeah. Okay. Yep. Yep.

Craig:

And then you got, like How fucked up were you to have that done? Stone fucking silver.

Paul:

And Why did Wait. Wait. Did they

Paul:

but did they freeze

Paul:

it with, I bet on

Craig:

my iPhone three or my razor, there's probably pictures of it. But, yeah, it's it's Oh

Paul:

my god.

Paul:

That's a whole other episode. So, like I

Chrissy:

I That's a whole another, like

Paul:

It's I think I think it's

Craig:

right through the head like this, and then you got that little lip around your head. So then the ball sit

Paul:

on the right,

Craig:

and then they come back

Paul:

and sit

Chrissy:

on the back. No. He's taking a picture. You asked. Hey.

Craig:

But you you think that would hurt? No.

Paul:

I don't think anything. I'm not

Craig:

thinking anything. Yeah. I guarantee you, your fucking nipple piercings hurt 10 times worse.

Chrissy:

I will.

Paul:

100%. I don't care. I've done both. Especially when it Yeah. I've done both.

Paul:

Now you're on the record because they are filming this. Yeah.

Paul:

I've done both.

Chrissy:

Even nowhere near as bad as my nipples.

Craig:

See? That's what I'm saying.

Paul:

Yeah. Nipples? How the fuck how is it possible? Because now we got a clit. You're clit and a We got

Paul:

a a clit and a

Paul:

head and a set of nipples.

Craig:

We got all

Paul:

sorts of nipples.

Paul:

Let's get some other piercing going. Anyone back there? Yeah. Dude, you got any Yeah.

Paul:

You wanna you wanna fucking pierce something?

Craig:

And I and I thought and I wanted to

Paul:

get DNR tattooed on my chest, so don't wanna resuscitate me.

Craig:

I thought that was a risk.

Chrissy:

That is so funny.

Paul:

Yeah. But So

Craig:

the barbell is, like, the more The barbell.

Paul:

The more

Paul:

you have sex. Again now.

Paul:

I'm about lifting your cock. You're lifting your cock right to your face. I'm weak. I'm so weak. I don't want cock in my face.

Paul:

It will never Get

Chrissy:

to the

Paul:

Pearl will never be the same.

Paul:

You think Oh my god.

Chrissy:

Did you think that this is gonna be pleasurable when

Paul:

you did it? And it did. It wait. Wait.

Chrissy:

Wait. Wait. Did. I did fine. And it did.

Craig:

Like, so so after after it hit they said you can't have sex whatever, like, I don't know, two weeks until after it healed. I did it, like, three days later. But, yeah, of

Paul:

course you did.

Paul:

Fucking

Chrissy:

because you don't listen.

Paul:

Never have I ever.

Paul:

I'm gonna I'm gonna guess you're exaggerating on the three days. It

Paul:

was that day.

Chrissy:

Yeah. That day? Shit.

Paul:

Yeah. I knew you were lying. I can tell your mustache

Paul:

fell a little bit harder. It gets it gets a little gets a little Yeah.

Craig:

Really? Straight.

Paul:

It's like Yeah. It's a tell,

Craig:

man. Let's play poker.

Paul:

It's like poke Pinocchio or whatever. You're no your fucking shit's going straight.

Chrissy:

Play poker. He's got no poker.

Paul:

He's got no Yeah.

Craig:

But, yeah, I just I wanted it for, like, the sensitivity or whatever. And it's like, ever since I had that

Chrissy:

told you that.

Craig:

My nipples pierced, she's like, if you think that would And be that sensitive

Paul:

it She

Chrissy:

wants to make money.

Paul:

Well, Doesn't it doesn't it kill nerves? And then don't you need sensitivity? You need nerves? It did make it It's I had it hearing something.

Craig:

When I had it, it was more the nerves. You would think, but it It was more sensitive. Well, that's because there's pain involved. And then guess what?

Chrissy:

In that

Craig:

one have they have barbells with vibrators in them now. So now my dick becomes Wait.

Paul:

Wait. Wait. You have a battery pack on your nut sack?

Paul:

No. I did. They're just They're in battery power. You just twist it together and fucking What? Solar So power.

Paul:

Power. I got it on my back. I'm always hungry. I'm on the sun. Oh my god.

Paul:

Bang bang chicken.

Paul:

What the fuck? Why why would wait. So so many questions.

Chrissy:

I know.

Paul:

So so you hit so it how do you battery pack it?

Craig:

There's so there's little batteries in the How little? They're fucking tiny, do they? But what if you got a big cock?

Paul:

And you what do need?

Paul:

A 12 volt? Yeah. I don't I don't have that big of a cock, so I don't gotta worry. Is this? It a car battery?

Paul:

Just like jump, brother. Your battery's got dead here. I'll let you hook up my car so I can jump start my vibrating dick. Oh

Chrissy:

my god. I'm dying.

Paul:

But yeah.

Paul:

Yeah. I still I I just.

Craig:

It's all the questions.

Paul:

I got jumper quest every

Paul:

time Jumper cable questions. Cables. Every time there's jumper cables out of there. Oscar.

Craig:

I'm gonna wanna you're like, you're never gonna have to fucking jumper cable someone's car again.

Paul:

Sure. Alright.

Paul:

Let's go back.

Chrissy:

One more thing here. One any women that you've been with since you did that, did they say it was pleasurable or more pleasurable than without it?

Paul:

Be honest.

Chrissy:

Because I can't think that it would be.

Craig:

I don't I I think it was like half and one or two or the other. It was did it depend on who it

Paul:

one or two of the so did the half one did the half one think it was pleasurable? Yeah. Or does the The whole

Chrissy:

woman or the half woman?

Paul:

The half And then not

Craig:

even that. It's like you get laid even just mentioning it.

Chrissy:

Because you're good looking. That's why you get laid out because your weiner's piercing.

Craig:

Nope. Because your weeder's piercing. Lead with not I got a barbell cock.

Paul:

Yep. Yep.

Paul:

I mean, let's go.

Craig:

I got a vibrating

Paul:

The for real

Craig:

battery pack right down here.

Paul:

Battery pack, man. Vibrating neck.

Craig:

And it's a real one. It's real. Yeah.

Paul:

No silicone. That's silicone.

Paul:

I can see the commercial now.

Craig:

Call my Dildos.

Paul:

You don't need a fake one. Call me.

Paul:

It's a

Craig:

battery pack. Alright.

Paul:

Fuck it.

Chrissy:

So you you slightly mentioned that you did a horse. You worked at a horse ranch for the Wrigley family. We're we're talking Wrigley gum. This is,

Paul:

like No. I would. Yeah.

Paul:

They For the big boys.

Chrissy:

Geneva. Wrigleys.

Paul:

Yeah. Lake Lake Geneva, Wisconsin is a beautiful area.

Chrissy:

Yeah. I bet.

Craig:

They put

Paul:

the old

Craig:

baby How did

Paul:

you get that? Be there. Well They oh. The Playboy Club.

Chrissy:

I just want What?

Craig:

That's fair. And then

Paul:

there was a one of our

Chrissy:

I just watched the documentary

Paul:

on that. Of the people in the area that had horses that that, you know, I I kinda consulted with, she owned the Sugar Shack, which is a male strip joint.

Craig:

Okay.

Paul:

And she had one in Chicago and then one out in Lake Geneva. But there was a whole Lake Geneva area is Morton salt, Heinz ketchup, all the Money money. The big old old money.

Craig:

Yeah. Yeah.

Paul:

Old money and big money.

Craig:

The old money.

Paul:

But but I had I got fortunate when I got in the horse business.

Chrissy:

Yeah.

Paul:

Before I was just, you know, working in working in in Idaho. I started in Idaho running pack horses and stuff, working for the college that I was going to and getting something out of it. Which

Paul:

is college?

Craig:

What college?

Paul:

Rick's Rick's College.

Chrissy:

Rick's College?

Paul:

Rick's College. It's a it was a two year school then. It's a four year university now.

Chrissy:

Do what?

Paul:

I was doing wanted outdoor education and recreation.

Chrissy:

Okay. Gotcha.

Craig:

And so I was Would that lead into for

Paul:

a career? Well, it it would've it would've it it helped me it helped me into yeah. It helped me get into the into working with the kids. Okay. But also, you're looking at tourism business and all of that.

Paul:

So you're

Paul:

looking at

Paul:

national parks. You're looking at private at private private companies. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Paul:

Yeah. Whole thing. And I like I was snow skiing, water skiing, doing a lot of outdoor stuff back then. So Yeah. It was just kind of something I enjoyed doing.

Paul:

And so anyways, so then once I got when I was a kid, I started liking horses young.

Paul:

Yeah.

Paul:

But my parents couldn't afford things like that. I love my first set of reins. I can't afford them either. Yeah. I got my first set of reins when I was, like, in kindergarten, my big ass.

Paul:

So they gave me reins, and I sit on the couch, arm of the couch, and much more volume.

Chrissy:

I got my first pony when I was three.

Paul:

Yeah. Well, really, that's cool. See? And then it phases. Then I I I would ride my bike up to this little rental place in in California, Lakewood, California, and I got to where I could ride a few times and use my own reins and stuff.

Paul:

And then over the years, I just kind of made sure that I was around horses, friends with horses, things like that. Same with motorcycles. Yeah. You know? I kinda came up with motorcycles and horses.

Chrissy:

Same exact thing. Size.

Craig:

Yeah. A little bit. Right. And so both unpredictable. Can't really control.

Craig:

Right.

Paul:

Yeah.

Paul:

So I think you're in control,

Craig:

but you're not really.

Paul:

So in in high school, we used to drive through this valley called Hidden Valley.

Chrissy:

K.

Paul:

And Like Hidden Valley. There's this High school in Utah. No. In California.

Chrissy:

Oh, in California. Mhmm.

Paul:

And so we drive by, there's this big, big farm there. Ventura Farms. It was in Ventura County. And I said I I said it to my girlfriend at the time. I said, nah.

Paul:

One day I'm gonna work there. And it was just, you

Chrissy:

know It was.

Paul:

No. No. It was it was I'll I'll get there. Okay. Alright.

Paul:

I'll tie it together. Alright.

Craig:

So so

Paul:

I got so I'm doing

Chrissy:

I'm gonna work.

Paul:

I'm driving there, and I said I'm gonna work there. And this is I'm six 16, 15, 16. Oh, 16. I was driving it. Okay.

Paul:

The old GT Mustang.

Chrissy:

Nice.

Paul:

Yeah. Fox body. So yeah. Exactly.

Craig:

Fast back. Yeah.

Paul:

And it was green.

Craig:

Oh. Yeah.

Paul:

Flaring the fenders out. Yeah. Anyways

Craig:

Whole layers.

Paul:

So anyways, years later

Craig:

Sidetracked 500.

Paul:

I was working in construction. I got I was done with the college thing. Going get my, know So you went to New York Yeah. Went moved moved back to California, followed my my first wife there. I started working construction.

Paul:

And then

Chrissy:

You're like, this sucks.

Paul:

The bus the the boss is my boss was selling. If he if he I'd probably still be there. Had his family kept kept the business, but he sold the business.

Chrissy:

Sold it. It.

Paul:

And I did not like the guy he the two guys he was selling. Dude,

Paul:

fucking man. I

Paul:

said that's it. I mean,

Craig:

might get this better 90%

Paul:

of it. The best. 100%. Holy shit. I went I was on unemployment, it was in between selling.

Paul:

So he gave us all a severance, and then we would collect unemployment. There while the sale was happening, and I'm like, I don't wanna go back to work there. And so I saw an ad in the paper for horse grooms. Oh. Just brushing horses.

Chrissy:

Yeah. Brushing.

Craig:

That was

Paul:

I thought, what the fuck?

Chrissy:

Hell yeah.

Paul:

So I went out there.

Paul:

Love that.

Paul:

And it was Ventura Farms, which is the place I said I was gonna work one day. So I went out there, and I ended up working, like, three weeks straight, not taking a day off. And the boss finally said, dude, you gotta I'm not paying you overtime.

Craig:

You gotta take time off.

Paul:

I said, look. I said, man, I am I said, no. I said, I need the money. I don't want the overtime. Pay me straight time.

Paul:

He goes, well, you gotta take time off. I go I go, look. I'm just trying to make my

Paul:

rent You're old. Apartment.

Paul:

20 Like,

Craig:

I don't have time to take

Paul:

time off. '25, 26, something like that. So

Chrissy:

And married.

Paul:

And married.

Craig:

This way.

Paul:

Yep. And so we're in Cali Southern you know, basically Southern County, California, and renting an apartment. And I'm like, dude, I gotta make rent. I gotta do this. And I said, I really like what I'm learning here.

Paul:

I like what I'm doing. I like the horses. I like the setting. I always wanted to work here. Blah blah blah.

Paul:

About two weeks later, he said, I'll tell you what. And I was the only white guy. It was all white girls. You know? Girls love horses, all that type of

Craig:

thing. Always. And so it

Paul:

was all that, and then a lot of Mexican help. And those guys were awesome. They were great great guys. I had a we had a great community. So they ended up giving me a house and letting me live on the farm.

Paul:

Yep. And once they did that, I could afford I didn't care what

Craig:

they paid.

Paul:

You're like, I'm rich, I

Craig:

did not care

Paul:

what they paid me.

Chrissy:

Same housing as

Paul:

And I'm in the I'm I'm in this valley that I used to drive through all the time, and it's just beautiful.

Craig:

Dude, people don't realize that.

Paul:

I'm just sitting there in this house. I mean, there's it basically got Dean Martin's place up the road. You had all these movie stars

Chrissy:

running like a shabby house.

Paul:

No. Hell no. It was nice. Yeah. It was nice.

Paul:

Am, Gina. And And so then that evolved into, so I started working with the trainer. So I was working with the trainer and then they had me move over to work in the veterinarian. So I worked with the veterinarian, we had our own veterinarian there. We started doing in vitro fertilization, I started working with the stallions.

Paul:

Started working Free in health. I started working with herd health, but we would we were taking embryo transfers and putting them in donor mares and fertilizing the eggs and doing all of that stuff. And I'm sitting there watching

Chrissy:

all this stuff. Scientific shit.

Paul:

Well, it really and and The education you're

Craig:

getting for free.

Paul:

It's like, fuck, dude. It was so cool. And then and then so then I did that, and then I went on the then I started

Chrissy:

pay you decent?

Craig:

No. No. But I didn't know. I didn't care.

Paul:

Right. You have free house. Free house.

Craig:

If you had a free house, I didn't even I literally got a bill.

Paul:

Right. You know? I mean, I didn't have any money before to make, you know Yeah. I get it. So so I don't have any bills.

Paul:

So I was we were fine. And then then my wife ended up getting a job in their office. So we were both working

Chrissy:

ask you. You've you said you moved around in all these different

Paul:

places in

Chrissy:

the twelve years that you guys were married. What did she do?

Paul:

She would end up well, she first, she was working in a bank, and then she went to work at the farm. Okay. And then when I moved to when I got transferred, then so then anyway, so then I got to meet I'll go back up. Yeah. Yeah.

Paul:

So she worked there. Mhmm. And by this time, I'd worked with the trainer, I'd worked with the vet, I'd been haul I hauled horses for them all over the country. I'd go to shows and set up shows and and work the shows. So I was gone all the

Craig:

time. Yep.

Paul:

And she would be able to travel where I was wherever I was going. And so then Kenny Rogers was doing commercials for the guy that owned Dole Pineapple. The guy I worked for owned Dole Pineapple. And Hot the farm.

Chrissy:

And so own

Paul:

No. Not Wrigley's. The guy that Ventura Farms.

Paul:

Ventura Farms. Gotcha.

Paul:

He owned it's a conglomerate of Castle Cook. Castle and Cook was the conglomerate, but they had bought Dole Pineapple. And then they bought he bought Cannon Mills, which was the sheets, bed sheet. He bought the whole city of Kannapolis. Kannapolis, North Carolina.

Paul:

I had to haul black sheep Welsh sheep one time. That was a good trip. And so The

Paul:

black sheep of the

Craig:

family.

Paul:

Yeah. Pretty much. It just kinda goes there. So I just was being exposed to to all this stuff, and and then we'd go to we're we're at one we're at an auction in in at Lazamo Farms in Scottsdale, the big Arabian nationals or Arabian horse show. And I watched my guy trying to bid Arm and against Arm and Hammer, another rich guy.

Paul:

And they're sitting there out trying to outbid each other for this Russian mare. They spent I'm like, man, we need we need a new tractor. Why don't we need a new tractor?

Chrissy:

They shouldn't be spending money.

Paul:

I'm prompting, man.

Paul:

You know,

Paul:

we need we need stuff at the farm. Million bucks for this mare. No. Million bucks. So watching that, and then we all most racist.

Paul:

We all got up then we all got up on the stage, and we had our pictures taken and stuff. So it was pretty cool.

Craig:

So he he won the mare?

Paul:

He bought yeah. He got

Craig:

kind of Arabian.

Paul:

From Poland. Imported from from Jesus. Tax write offs.

Chrissy:

Do you even do with Arabians?

Craig:

Was just gonna show them.

Paul:

They did

Paul:

all kinds of stuff.

Craig:

And they're pretty So you can make bank off of showing them a shit?

Paul:

You could. Now now Now there's there's like, there's there's no tax write offs. They changed the tax laws. So I

Paul:

was gonna say,

Craig:

like, has changed million. How the hell are you gonna make a million off this fucking horse?

Paul:

Oh, they

Craig:

did. Other than racing rivets.

Paul:

Back then, it didn't Rivets?

Craig:

It didn't matter.

Paul:

Oh, sweet. Again Look

Paul:

at this blue sheet of rivets. It's like the

Paul:

race it's like the business, though. Mean, if you

Chrissy:

get buy one.

Paul:

If you get if you get a stud out of the right mare and, you know, it all it all

Chrissy:

moves around. Resources, there's money involved.

Craig:

Yeah. Like, as far as I'm like, less you can race it or breed it,

Paul:

show horses show horses is more prestige, more more that type of thing.

Craig:

But you can still make bank off of showing them? Oh, yeah. Oh, really?

Paul:

There's things you can do. Yeah. Buying, selling. Yeah. It's just like anything like cars.

Paul:

High scores. It's like cars

Paul:

or bikes

Paul:

or anything, know, going Yeah. My bike to me is worth a lot more than you give me money for.

Craig:

You know? Same thing more worth, like, $5.

Paul:

But you know what I mean?

Chrissy:

So do you think that your ramp work helped shape your union work?

Paul:

Yeah. I I do it all. I mean, I filed my first union when I was 16. I filed my first my my first union was was the grocery store. Oh.

Paul:

Working grocery stores when I was 16.

Chrissy:

So you were

Paul:

open union. The old guys had taught me told me that I they and my bosses, I opened a new store, a new grocery store.

Paul:

Mhmm.

Paul:

I was working there, and and they had me stocking shelves.

Paul:

Okay.

Paul:

Well, the guys that stock shelves were pissed at me, and I couldn't figure out why. Why? Because I was working out of class and not getting paid and taking the job off one of their guys off

Paul:

the bench. Sure.

Paul:

So I filed my first grievance then. And I won it, and I got a bunch of back j, and that was my first Nice. Union.

Craig:

And that's what

Paul:

age were you? I was 16.

Chrissy:

Oh, wow. So you were already a

Paul:

union. So that was when I learned what how unions could benefit people, and I and the old guys the old guys taught me the old guys taught me then about, you know, you have to since you're in a union shop, you need to participate in it and and pay attention. Yeah. And once I did that, they all liked me. Management hated me.

Paul:

Yeah. So then I I learned that.

Craig:

Yeah. And then I stepped away have become so weak. People have an age.

Paul:

People. The the people. They don't understand they don't understand it. They don't understand the power they have. So It's just like with any anything that you know, that's why I got into the school board.

Paul:

That's why I got in to get involved in things is because, you know, you you question something, then if you're gonna question it and you're gonna bitch about it, then you better

Craig:

You better do something about it.

Paul:

Able to stand up and do something about it.

Chrissy:

You better understand it.

Paul:

And and learn yourself, you know, learn learn from it.

Craig:

There's that's that's a lot. Like, a lot of people don't know, like, the benefits or the negatives of like, being say for me. Right? I'm not union. You're not.

Craig:

And I've I've seen union shit, and it's like I've from what I know, I feel like, alright, if you're not union, you're gonna make more money, but you're gonna pay more benefits. If you're union, you're gonna make a little bit less, but you're gonna pay your benefits are like 100% covered.

Paul:

You know the the Yeah.

Craig:

You also have like a pension with a union, which

Chrissy:

You have a four zero one k. Yeah. But is there a difference? I mean, I don't know.

Craig:

And our four zero one k is fucking huge. Like our four for SS

Paul:

for SS

Craig:

They they match 10% of what I put in. Yes. Which is fucking huge because like every other company I've ever been with has only been like three to 8%. Really? So they're 10 I've never seen a company go to 10%.

Chrissy:

If a company does that avenue or goes down that way Yeah. And they're not unionized

Paul:

Right.

Chrissy:

It's a really good company. Right. But

Paul:

That that's the that's the thing is if if employers are good employers

Craig:

Yeah.

Paul:

You don't need a union. Right.

Chrissy:

I agree.

Paul:

If you you really don't. You you really don't. You can still

Chrissy:

I agree.

Paul:

You can still politically, you can still vote to support, you know, organized organized type of labor. Yeah. But you don't have to naturally be a part of it. If you're getting something good out of your out of your employer Right. And but when the employer starts to screw you

Craig:

That's when you wish to

Paul:

be able when it happens.

Chrissy:

Yeah. And I think I feel like so many do.

Paul:

And I yeah.

Craig:

There I feel like a union of of also protects, like, shit workers.

Paul:

They well, it's because they it can because 100%. Because the reason there are shit workers is because you have shit supervisors. No. Shit supervisors. Sometimes Now if the supervisor's doing their job, you can you can fire and get rid of anybody.

Paul:

No one's protected. You know? I mean

Chrissy:

Immigrants are

Paul:

Well, that's what I don't know.

Chrissy:

I'm still immigrants, but women are, and they can be shitty.

Paul:

There's Or

Paul:

But they can still get rid of them if they if the supervisor's documenting and doing the things that they're actually doing wrong. Right. But if you don't, and and you obviously

Chrissy:

are are forced, and this is I'm gonna go with the laborers union on this one.

Paul:

No.

Chrissy:

I because Jim was laid off many times when the freaking lazy immigrant or lazy

Paul:

woman or Mexican or woman. Minority.

Chrissy:

The minority.

Craig:

It's usually the minority.

Chrissy:

Wasn't. Or, you know, they were fucking horse shit workers, and he would be laid off before they won?

Paul:

No. I It's bullshit. But that but the reason is there's probably a contract that says of seniority, and so it's not based on

Craig:

Not seniority,

Chrissy:

but it was

Paul:

It should be.

Chrissy:

It should be.

Paul:

It should be. And if there's if it's a seniority issue, then that's what that's why you need to when you come into contract negotiations is, look. So and so is sitting on the bench and not getting work, and this person's getting work, and this person has more seniority. So you have to get your people plan. You have to get your people, you know, together.

Paul:

And it's it takes a lot of work and a lot of effort, and people wanna just go home. They don't wanna put in for it. And that's why unions are weak.

Chrissy:

Jim was friends with a business agent for the laborers. God. I can't remember his name.

Paul:

Kevin Mooney.

Chrissy:

What's name? His name was

Paul:

Oh, no. I know. I he was a business agent.

Chrissy:

Nope. It wasn't that. Oh.

Paul:

For laborers.

Chrissy:

He's related to Chappy.

Paul:

It was his

Chrissy:

brother or something like But anyways, he was laid off and he was at the time working for Opus, and he was working with just minorities. So let's put it that way. Minorities. He was lazy ass motherfuckers. And his Jim's foreman had to come inform him that he had to be laid off due to the fact of the minority situation and that they had to keep these two guys who were

Craig:

completely They were filling a quota.

Chrissy:

Yes. Yeah. They were filling a And that is fucking bullshit.

Paul:

I I totally agree. Matter of fact, in the when I first graduated high school, I tried getting on with several fire departments. And I was I was I was rate getting score higher

Paul:

Yeah.

Paul:

But I was getting overlooked.

Chrissy:

Because you were a white man.

Paul:

Because I was a white man. Yeah. And there was and then when I would look back at who got hired, yeah, it was black female or or Mexican or whatever.

Craig:

Because they gotta put because they're in that big court.

Paul:

They're quotas.

Chrissy:

The what is it called?

Craig:

Equal opportunity No. It's or whatever.

Paul:

It's called something.

Craig:

What's it

Chrissy:

called, Mike? D e I. D e I.

Paul:

D e I.

Paul:

But the

Paul:

thing is is yeah. There's gotta be d e a. There's gotta be a balance. There's gotta be a balance somewhere.

Craig:

You know what? Up, but

Paul:

it has to be grassroots.

Chrissy:

Is bullshit.

Paul:

But it's not true. It's all bullshit. It's like fill the you should be paid on based on your job Our politicians should have politicians should have been our our Us. Politicians He's not

Craig:

He's anybody else. He's not even

Paul:

should be held accountable based on their job performance.

Paul:

I agree.

Paul:

They shouldn't get lifetime benefits. Nobody does.

Chrissy:

No. And congress needs to

Craig:

This that's the problem is Term limits. They're they

Chrissy:

need Term limits.

Paul:

Yes. Well, that's another area. No lifetime benefits. Nobody nobody in America gets it.

Chrissy:

Same health care

Paul:

normal people running for office.

Craig:

Running. Yeah.

Chrissy:

Yes. I agree.

Paul:

You know? And it doesn't I I doesn't really who parties I'm I'm a nonaffiliated.

Chrissy:

I know.

Paul:

And I don't and I think it's it's ridiculous. I'll I'll vote for a Republican. I'll vote for a Democrat.

Craig:

I'll vote for whoever vote for both. If I was run if I was

Paul:

gonna run for office, I would run as a non affiliated.

Craig:

Just need a fucking in there something.

Chrissy:

Is trying to open up his start his own thing. I'm like, you're not even from here.

Craig:

Right. You

Paul:

know, but that but see and that's the other thing about going back to unions Yeah. Is you've you're made up of all kinds of thing of people, and union has got its let itself get stigmatized as a as a left progressive thing, and it's not. It's a middle of it it it It should be. Should be a middle of the road, and they gotta get back that middle of the road.

Chrissy:

The game union went full fucking red on this year.

Paul:

They yeah. Oh, they have.

Chrissy:

Because they're sick

Paul:

of it. Most of the most of the guys every election every election that that we've had, when I was a business agent, was people more people voted Republican. And we would and we would talk about that in our meetings.

Paul:

Mhmm.

Paul:

You know? And we had people when I first started working at the union, they would they were publishing things and and writing things that was didn't need to be written

Craig:

Yeah.

Paul:

But pissed off our members.

Chrissy:

Yes.

Paul:

We we lost a lot of cop groups

Craig:

Yeah.

Paul:

Because because of that. Well And it because, you know, you've gotta

Chrissy:

You can't.

Paul:

You've gotta be

Chrissy:

You can't tell me you're gonna defund me because of I'm standing up to save my freaking life and save the life of

Paul:

me around me.

Craig:

And then now you want me

Paul:

to fucking put my life on them?

Paul:

Defund me because of

Craig:

George Floyd, the freaking

Paul:

But the mister Gayster Nobody's defunding. It's just all of that stuff, the rhetoric

Craig:

Minneapolis did though. Well, yeah. But they never

Paul:

their their Minneapolis cops are still doing well.

Chrissy:

Okay. But there isn't as many.

Paul:

No. Well, there's never we never have we never have a we never

Chrissy:

I know.

Paul:

We never do.

Chrissy:

So many re took their earlier

Craig:

They got out. And left.

Paul:

Yeah. I would blame them. Fine.

Craig:

Yeah. People to do it.

Paul:

I don't blame them. Wanna be in Minneapolis? No. This cop? Hell no.

Paul:

No. I wouldn't wanna work in Minneapolis at all.

Chrissy:

You just put people in prison.

Paul:

I don't wanna work there just as a bus driver.

Craig:

I don't even wanna fucking drive there. No. Alright.

Chrissy:

We're gonna start drink bar. We're done with that. I love the fact that you work for the Wrigley family and

Paul:

Yeah.

Chrissy:

You worked at the horses and all of that. So we're gonna drink a Corona Sun Brew. Oh. This is a big old can.

Craig:

Dibs. Dibs.

Chrissy:

Dibs. Is this what it comes in, Shannon? Oh. Comes in 12 pack bottles. But you just opened this up.

Chrissy:

Okay.

Craig:

It'd be a lot cooler if it did.

Chrissy:

12 packs, $17.39, four and a half percent. I'm super excited to try this.

Craig:

Comes in a six pack like that.

Chrissy:

Pack. Yeah. Six pack.

Paul:

You imagine you get a six pack

Craig:

of that and it's

Paul:

like, alright, we're getting fucked up, doing fucked up shit.

Chrissy:

Listen to this. It's brewed with real orange juice, real orange and lime peels. Not the juice, the peels. With Corona. It's not a light beer, it's a 180 calories.

Chrissy:

So I probably won't be drinking too many of it.

Craig:

I'm gonna fucking drink this whole bottle.

Chrissy:

You probably will.

Craig:

I already got a piss.

Chrissy:

But I've been super excited about once I've seen this. I'm like, oh. Oh,

Craig:

numb. That's pretty good. It's it's a it's got

Paul:

a tart tartness to it. It's like a like if you're putting zest a zest a zest on something. An orange zest, don't need to peel

Craig:

the like you bit too far into an orange.

Chrissy:

I think I just did this last name with the dogs.

Craig:

That's right. You're exactly right. Weird. That's weird.

Paul:

It's like when you bite into the peel to get it Yeah.

Craig:

Yeah. Yeah.

Chrissy:

But it tells you.

Paul:

It's made

Chrissy:

with orange and lime peels.

Paul:

Yeah. And a sweet

Craig:

apple citrus.

Paul:

You can drink.

Chrissy:

I I think I

Paul:

like it. I I'd I'd throw vodka in it myself. Right? That's what I do. We're gonna learn today.

Paul:

Alright. So

Chrissy:

what are we giving this? I give it probably a seven.

Craig:

It's good, but like

Chrissy:

I'm a little disappointed in it. I thought it would be better. I too much of the peel I tasted.

Craig:

I do. I kinda like that peel. You Yeah. Like, it's just like, you could drink it.

Chrissy:

And I'm wondering if it is it even gonna taste better? I think

Paul:

In a bottle. Better.

Craig:

Me see.

Paul:

Out of the bottle. Yes. I agree.

Craig:

Yes. This is a big fucking can.

Chrissy:

You can drink it. I think we definitely Colonel, mate, you just drink out of the fucking vampas. I've never drank

Paul:

it before.

Paul:

Did you change? It it With a bigger Try

Craig:

it try it out like try it out like can, it tastes different out of the can. It you don't taste that bitterness as much out of the can though. That's weird.

Paul:

No, you don't. Right? Of the can. Right? I'm going with an eight.

Paul:

Yeah. Really? Try it. Is it No.

Paul:

I'm

Craig:

good. That's weird.

Paul:

I don't know.

Paul:

Interesting. I agree. Yep.

Paul:

Do you want it all? The cup? Yeah. Way better.

Paul:

100%. I don't know

Craig:

what it is.

Chrissy:

Out of the bottle, it's gotta be even better.

Craig:

Well, out of a bottle probably would be Probably

Paul:

would be better.

Paul:

Phenomenal. Corona

Paul:

I didn't taste that in a bottle.

Craig:

Yeah. Yeah. You know weird. That bitterness isn't is is potent. Right.

Craig:

Like, I hate beer.

Paul:

I I don't know what it

Craig:

is or why. Take a

Paul:

big one. Take a big. So You're

Craig:

gonna have to wash the Red Bull through it.

Chrissy:

You're kinda right. How weird is that?

Paul:

Right? Yeah.

Paul:

I'm going heroin.

Paul:

I wouldn't better.

Craig:

I wouldn't have never pain. I would have never expected that, but, yeah, it is.

Chrissy:

Yeah. It's Interesting.

Craig:

Yeah. Fuck.

Paul:

I would

Craig:

take that down. That's that's

Paul:

so I just raised my score.

Craig:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 100%.

Chrissy:

Greg, I have to ask you some of the first things that came up Oh, boy. I asked the Eggies.

Paul:

Oh, you're right. I know exactly what

Craig:

you're Yeah.

Paul:

The hot seat.

Chrissy:

Did they did they tell you?

Paul:

She did.

Paul:

Oh, man.

Paul:

She did. So I went back to That's not fair. You gave

Paul:

them time

Paul:

for I went no. No. I went back

Paul:

to my

Chrissy:

buddy. A union aide or a business agent.

Paul:

I didn't.

Chrissy:

But But

Paul:

your Yeah.

Paul:

The Oregon the union local did. Yeah.

Chrissy:

And you were assigned to train him.

Paul:

Correct? Nope. Oh, We were we were he was a young a younger younger guy. He'd been a business agent for a while, and we'd gone through the strike in '19, you know, he'd been he'd been seasoned. He had a couple of bad big groups, but but he's a young young guy.

Chrissy:

Yeah. How old

Paul:

is he? Like Oh, he's probably let's see. His boy's I'd say, late twenties, early thirties, early thirties. So

Chrissy:

he's not, like, 22.

Paul:

No. No. No.

Chrissy:

He's an adult.

Paul:

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Married, couple kids.

Paul:

Good guy. K. And so we're on Zoom meetings during COVID.

Chrissy:

Okay.

Paul:

Right? And Nate and I had been talking about the differences in in words and cultures, and the word cunt came up. And we're like, it's a good favorite word. Yeah. It's a great word.

Paul:

It is. And and when I lived in England Yeah. On my mission

Chrissy:

Yes.

Paul:

They said What did I get to? They said

Craig:

ken a lot. We were in the Dominican, and I met a dude from over there, and Yeah. He called me a ken all the time,

Paul:

and I fucking loved it.

Paul:

Right. I that's how Nate and

Paul:

I were like, we're we're

Chrissy:

I love it.

Paul:

We get excited.

Paul:

We get excited, you know, because it's a good word.

Paul:

Yeah, dude. It's just It's some

Craig:

punch to

Paul:

it. It's

Paul:

like a hard r word.

Paul:

Why should women own it? D y I or whatever you call it. D n it's

Paul:

it's a DIY.

Chrissy:

Care of anyone.

Paul:

Alright. So I think I think, you know, it's a good one. So anyways, I I looked up this urban dictionary thing, and I got and I and so trying to make a point since Jan Blab, we were trying to convert Jan. We were trying to convert Nate and I were trying to convert Jan that it's okay for us to say, because we would say it, she'd, like, give us that old

Craig:

woman thing.

Paul:

And so we so we started looking stuff up, and I looked it up, and I came up, found this good definition of how they

Chrissy:

buddy or

Paul:

how

Craig:

they use it. That's well, that's how

Paul:

they use

Paul:

you're a

Craig:

friend or buddy or

Paul:

Right. It's a house

Paul:

or whatever.

Paul:

It's like when you it's like when we say fuck Hey, fuck off, motherfucker.

Paul:

Right? You

Paul:

know? Good to see you, you fucker.

Craig:

Good to

Paul:

see you, fucking So

Craig:

it's like that.

Paul:

So I so I'm sitting there explaining we're before the meeting. There's a bunch of us that are sitting there in Zoom. And I said, guys, I gotta get your opinion on something.

Chrissy:

So now you're at home

Paul:

I'm at home.

Chrissy:

On Zoom

Paul:

doing a

Chrissy:

business agent.

Paul:

Meeting with other business agents. I got a cocktail going. I got we're sitting What? We're sitting there

Chrissy:

having shit.

Paul:

We're having How do I

Craig:

get on this Zoom meeting?

Paul:

We're having this meeting, and and we're all sitting there talking, waiting for the boss to show up. And and so I I explained what was going on.

Chrissy:

Yeah.

Paul:

And because I hadn't talked to these guys in a while that, you know, we're trying to bring back the word cunt and this is what I found. And I Yes. And I and I shared with them the definition and they're all, wow. Wow. Really?

Paul:

They they say it

Paul:

a lot in England. Yep. Yep.

Paul:

Yep. And get into meeting, and this kid starts talking about this lawyer that he was negotiating. The the employer had hired a law firm to handle their negotiations.

Paul:

Yes.

Paul:

And she's a bitch.

Chrissy:

Okay.

Paul:

I know her well. I know I've dealt with her. She

Craig:

is. So

Paul:

So he

Paul:

American story. We're using the American He going.

Craig:

He gets going.

Paul:

And everyone's and so the boss said something. And he said, no. Really. She's a cunt. Something

Paul:

to that effect. That's not an exact really is.

Paul:

That's not that's not like a quote exactly, but it was to that effect. Now, how

Chrissy:

many people were on this

Paul:

Zoom meeting? At this point at this point, there was probably 10 or 11 people on it. Men and women

Craig:

at this point. Someone's gonna lose their

Paul:

fucking shit.

Paul:

He I'm laughing my ass off.

Craig:

I'm talking.

Paul:

On the meeting. Right?

Paul:

I'm laughing my And ass we are it is funnier than hell. And so then, I never, you know, I never did really find out until a few days later that, yeah, he got called into the principal's office and and lectured on it. Officer in in the local and Yes. Okay. And, yeah, he's a good he's a good, know, good union guy.

Paul:

And it was funnier than hell, though. And for him to say that in front of everybody, she's a and we all think it.

Chrissy:

Right. Well,

Paul:

everyone is winking in, but he just said it.

Paul:

He just on the conversation Yes.

Paul:

And the declaration that I

Paul:

had given him. And, you know, he probably had never I don't think he he's the type of kid that I don't know he

Chrissy:

women.

Paul:

He never said I don't think he's ever said the word cunt out loud in his life.

Chrissy:

In his life.

Paul:

I guys.

Craig:

He's good guy. He's just popular guy. Her a cunt in the good version or the bad version?

Paul:

He was calling her a cunt that she is a cunt. Oh. Yeah. She's a

Paul:

bad

Craig:

version. Yeah.

Paul:

She's she was a

Paul:

ball buster. She was good at her job. Oh, good. And and so something

Chrissy:

about being a court reporter? Is that what Jim No.

Paul:

She she no. No. She was the lawyer she was a lawyer A lawyer. Representing representing county a or a city or Oh. Or something.

Paul:

So she was the she was the one who was negotiating again.

Chrissy:

Court reporter.

Paul:

Yeah. No. I well, I used to used to represent the court reporters in the whole state. Oh, okay. That was a tough group.

Paul:

Okay.

Paul:

Very tough group. That was a and that contract was messed up. Those those those people really get they get screwed.

Chrissy:

The court reporter too?

Paul:

Yeah. That's a that's a tough

Chrissy:

Thankless job.

Craig:

Yeah. Yeah.

Chrissy:

So did you ever find yourself in any dangerous positions in any of all your business agent times?

Paul:

No. Not not really. I mean, you know, yeah, every once in while

Chrissy:

People are throwing rocks at you.

Paul:

No. Whatever. Like, they do nowadays. Yeah. If if every once in a while, you know, we would like, if we'd go to go regular businesses.

Craig:

You wanna stand in the middle of an interstate and fucking watch a trucker come Everyone

Paul:

Fuck that. Face motherfucker. Get back.

Paul:

So against that kind

Paul:

of bullshit. Yeah.

Paul:

But but, you know, every once in while, you'd you you would you would get yourself into a position where your members were pissed off Mhmm. And you'd have to kinda defend yourself and defend a position and, you know, that got a little bit hairy.

Chrissy:

Yes.

Paul:

But nothing really to the point where but we would go on the line with other groups too. Sometimes, you know, you'd have a UPS would go would be threatening a strike or doing something at UPS, and they were, you know, they weren't public employees. Yeah. And, you know, and so you have, you know, crossing union lines or crossing crossing picket lines and things like that when there's you know, it's always risky. Yeah.

Paul:

I mean, you're, you know, so

Chrissy:

You just never know. Right?

Paul:

And we would go support we would go support other other locals. Well, I

Craig:

was gonna say, how how does that affect you? Like, so if UPS strike, how did that affect you?

Paul:

We would we would go support the local that represents them and be on the picket line with them and help them.

Craig:

Yep. Yep. Yep.

Paul:

Yeah. That that would be our our position or Oh, okay. Or whatever.

Chrissy:

Our liquor drivers here, it will throughout the state just went on strike Yeah. About two weeks ago. They didn't strike last long, so they must have negotiated Yeah. Quick,

Paul:

but Sometimes sometimes

Craig:

See that?

Paul:

It's it's a negotiating

Craig:

I've I've never been union, but for the fact of like that shit, it's like I would love to be union. Right. Just for the fact that I want someone on my side loyal. Fighting Yeah. I want someone fighting for me, you know.

Craig:

Right?

Chrissy:

That's how unions

Craig:

I bust my ass. I do like, I do whatever that fucking company says I do. Yeah. And it's like, when I get fucked over, there's no one there to fight for me. Right.

Craig:

You know? And that's what's That's the point.

Paul:

Sucks that's the that's

Paul:

not the

Paul:

being union.

Craig:

I got I got fired. When you got someone union, if you're busting your ass, you've got that backup. Yes. When you're not union, you you're you're on

Paul:

your own.

Craig:

You're gonna go to your boss and be like, hey, you know what? You fucked up. You pay me. And he's gonna be like, Yeah.

Paul:

Get fucked.

Paul:

I don't wanna.

Chrissy:

So now with Mike's job, he's the basically, he's still in the union. He's getting union wages and stuff like that, but yet he works in the office. So he's more or less the liaison between the two, the office people, the corporate headquarters

Craig:

and the union members.

Chrissy:

Yeah. And so he's kind of the in between person.

Paul:

And he And he needs that. But it gets tough.

Chrissy:

Definitely needs it. And

Paul:

But it is. It's hard.

Chrissy:

I know that his heart is with the unions, like Right.

Craig:

With the union workers. Absolutely.

Chrissy:

Something like that. If they're good workers Right.

Craig:

Right. You got you got good guys. Like, that's how it is. It's like

Chrissy:

But it's important to have that position that he has.

Craig:

Yeah. For the most part, like, all the guys I work with, they're bomb as fuck. They're just Right. Go to work. Do your job.

Craig:

Fuck your job. Come home. You're done. Right? Right.

Paul:

You don't think about it again.

Craig:

Yeah. And it's just like, it'd be nice to have someone on your side to be like, hey, you know what? He's doing his job fucking whatever, paying what he's worth. Yes. And then you've got some of these guys who do the same job as the same other guy, but you got like, say you got a p and d delivery guy and he's doing 20 deliveries.

Craig:

Mhmm. And then you got this other guy who's doing like four.

Paul:

Yeah. They're making the same money.

Craig:

They're making the same money. Yeah.

Chrissy:

Yeah. But you look at it like union members, like, nowadays. If you start when, like, Mike started in his early twenties or whatever. I mean, these union members, these are blue collar working men.

Craig:

Drillers.

Chrissy:

They're becoming millionaires. Like Yeah. Every fucking single

Paul:

one If of they're way smarter than me.

Chrissy:

Like, you didn't go to college. You don't have that expense on your ass. Like

Paul:

I Yeah.

Craig:

So what am

Chrissy:

I They're all gonna be millionaires.

Craig:

42? Yes. By the time I'm 52, I promise you I'll be more than a millionaire.

Chrissy:

Oh, yeah. And I believe that because you've been smart about it.

Craig:

But it's

Chrissy:

Not everyone's not as smart as you.

Craig:

Not like a millionaire like you think it is though. Right?

Paul:

No. What what it I'm is gonna be worth a million have You to worry.

Craig:

Yeah. Right.

Paul:

You'll be you'll be in a position to where you're worrying because you're doing making smart moves. Right. Right. And and are you gonna be like, you know, buying a buy are you gonna be flying in a Learjet? No.

Paul:

No. Fuck. No. No. No.

Chrissy:

And I

Paul:

say I'll be lucky if I'm even

Craig:

loose sleeping. Yeah. Yeah.

Chrissy:

It's really not even

Craig:

No. It's Well, I know we grew up. Millionaire nowadays is like insane

Chrissy:

shit.

Craig:

Right. Millionaire is like a thousandaire nowadays.

Paul:

Paper on on paper, I'm

Paul:

worth It is a

Craig:

100%.

Paul:

On paper. You know? But it's

Chrissy:

not because that's we were kids.

Paul:

I can't liquidate it.

Chrissy:

You're a millionaire? You are, like Oh. Donald Trump.

Craig:

Yeah. Made it to the big leagues.

Paul:

Big leagues. Yeah.

Chrissy:

But now, he is a millionaire.

Craig:

He's like a thousandaire.

Chrissy:

Smart with your money. Yeah.

Craig:

You've paid attention. You need to listen to people smarter than you.

Paul:

I had to stop looking at property values around here because I really screwed I my had to screw I screwed myself. Could've could've rented my house and made money on that and and kept my 10 acres. Yeah.

Chrissy:

No rent. I just see that I was telling Paige who works for me. She's not here today. But because she's kinda looking for a place, and Kylie is too. It's a two bedroom, two bathroom bathroom house on 15 acres, 3,000 a month.

Chrissy:

Good. Rent.

Paul:

I could've done that. Rent.

Chrissy:

I'm like, did you see that, Kylie? Yeah. I was like, are you fucking

Paul:

kidding me?

Paul:

Crazy. I didn't get it.

Paul:

I could've I mean

Chrissy:

get it.

Paul:

I I could've I literally, if I had just waited five years, I should've doubled my money.

Chrissy:

I mean, it does

Craig:

I mean Yeah. Well, and then who knows that shit too. It's the same like when I bought my house. Right? I bought my house at the peak of that bubble right before o eight.

Craig:

So if I waited like two years, my $60,000

Chrissy:

high price like I paid.

Craig:

My $60,000 house probably would have been like $20,000.

Chrissy:

It probably would have.

Craig:

You know? But it's

Chrissy:

We We bought in o five, the place I'm in now, and we paid premium price back in 2005 at February.

Paul:

Right.

Chrissy:

You know? And then by 02/2008, there's January. Worth a $100.

Paul:

I paid $8. Right?

Chrissy:

A $100?

Paul:

I paid $8 for my 10 acres.

Chrissy:

Which 10 acres?

Craig:

The warehouse is at?

Paul:

Yeah. Where it was.

Paul:

Where it was. Yeah.

Paul:

$8.

Chrissy:

But what year?

Paul:

I bought the I built the house for 60. Dude, my

Craig:

parents And then I

Paul:

refinanced it five times.

Craig:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Paul:

That's how I refinanced it five times.

Chrissy:

Can't afford to

Craig:

live. My parents bought their 10 acres on four for, like, 32 back in the day. Yeah. Built built that that

Chrissy:

house you grew up in?

Craig:

Yeah. Built that big ass fucking house.

Chrissy:

Even that old.

Craig:

No. That that big ass house. Right? House was probably where

Chrissy:

I never seen it, but I just assumed.

Craig:

It's roughly I think it was, like, 5,600 square feet.

Chrissy:

Holy fuck. Why did they have such a big house for just four of you?

Craig:

Dad just wanted to live like the big leagues. Fucking baller. Yeah. A baller. Yeah.

Craig:

He was like, what's his face is? Remax.

Paul:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Craig:

So kinda like that.

Chrissy:

So were you like, known as like the wealthy kids?

Craig:

Don't think so.

Paul:

Upper I don't

Chrissy:

because we were poor.

Paul:

I don't

Paul:

Like, if we were

Craig:

poor We we weren't poor, but we weren't like rich.

Chrissy:

You make it sound like, oh, we didn't have no money when we were kids, but you had a 5,600 square foot fucking house.

Craig:

Right. So

Chrissy:

they were house poor. So they were house poor.

Craig:

Yeah. They were. And it's just like, well, you know, and the funny thing is And that's too

Chrissy:

I never will be. I will never be See?

Craig:

Far. And I think

Paul:

Try that's not an RV.

Craig:

I think that's the way I that's why That's

Paul:

the one.

Craig:

I think that's why I live the way I do. Right? My I watched my parents buy this big ass fucking house.

Chrissy:

And that's what you

Craig:

told me, he's like, hey, he's like, you wanna be a millionaire? Save 10%. I'm like, alright. Well, why didn't you do that? You.

Paul:

Yeah. Right?

Craig:

Oh, you because don't he because he

Paul:

He put kids in a position.

Craig:

He put kids in fucking hockey, traveling Right. Two kids in traveling hockey, which If you

Paul:

have two kids

Craig:

in traffic and hockey, I don't know how the fuck you pay for that shit.

Paul:

No. Not now.

Craig:

Not to mention a fucking 5,000 square foot house. No. You ain't doing that shit. Nope. And it's I

Chrissy:

don't even know what your dad does. What does he do or what did he do

Paul:

for you? I don't know.

Craig:

He's a fucking magician.

Paul:

He fucking He's sells

Chrissy:

like gold coins.

Craig:

And sells rare coins. Coins. Yeah.

Chrissy:

He still does that?

Craig:

Still does it. And it's like, don't even know how you make money at doing that. It's like, who the fuck buys well, he's just he can sell fucking ketchup pasta gold to an Eskimo. Swear I

Paul:

got Bob Circle. I've been dying for one. So

Craig:

yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure you talk to him. He'll sell you one real cheap for the low low price of

Paul:

$19.99. You know what?

Paul:

It'd be great. You know, you take a ketchup, popsicle, you can mix it with the citrus thing and you'd have a margarita.

Paul:

Yeah. Yeah.

Paul:

Yeah. A bloody Mary a

Paul:

bloody cerveza. I'm sorry.

Chrissy:

We have two more drinks after this.

Craig:

Winner winner two more.

Chrissy:

Whoo. Bring it on. Alright.

Paul:

What are

Paul:

we Yeah. When are we filming the the the rebuttal thing next week? I'm on vacation.

Craig:

Drinking free is nice.

Chrissy:

This is called

Paul:

Come over to

Craig:

my place.

Paul:

I'll let you drink free all day.

Paul:

I could tell you about that.

Chrissy:

Ass drink here. It has

Craig:

It's like it's

Paul:

like the when they put a straw in it, purple people eater. Wait. Wait.

Chrissy:

So you could call it a purple people eater or a So great?

Paul:

Call it Jimi Hendrix.

Chrissy:

I love

Craig:

Jimi Hendrix? Know, fun. What's that other that

Paul:

that's a guitar guy.

Paul:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I know.

Craig:

He gets fun.

Paul:

He did a little music in the day.

Craig:

Well, what's that other fucking Purple Rain fucker?

Paul:

That's your that's your generation.

Chrissy:

Oh, numb. You guys. Oh, numb. Hey, you guys.

Paul:

Hey, you Hey, guys.

Craig:

Remember that?

Paul:

I just that movie last night. It's like grape pop. Hey, you guys.

Chrissy:

This is so good. It's like

Paul:

This is not there's no alcohol in this.

Chrissy:

But there is.

Paul:

No way. I don't believe it.

Chrissy:

Vodka and grape pucker.

Craig:

You know, what's what's that other one that you get at the bar that tastes like this?

Chrissy:

Grape date.

Craig:

Grape date bowl. Yes.

Paul:

That's racing You mean this is something you can make? It's not out of a can?

Paul:

Alright. Ready, set, go. Ready, set, go. Are we are we gonna race? Hey.

Paul:

Purple. Purple pucker.

Paul:

Great pucker.

Chrissy:

And Sprite. Yep.

Craig:

This Tito's.

Paul:

Wow. Tito's? You have me at Tito's.

Chrissy:

Yeah. Me too.

Paul:

I love my Tito's. Ready? I do too.

Craig:

We're gonna race.

Chrissy:

No. We're not.

Paul:

Yes. Are. Just a slam.

Paul:

No. A slam?

Paul:

Oh, yeah. Hell. Ready?

Paul:

Hold on. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.

Chrissy:

I'll let you idiots do it.

Paul:

Get it.

Craig:

Alright. Alright. Get it in. Get it out. No.

Craig:

You gotta cheers.

Paul:

Alright. Wait. Wait. If you clink it, you gotta drink it. Yeah.

Paul:

Oh.

Chrissy:

Oh. Damn. Nice. Some trickery involved. Motherfucker.

Chrissy:

Gotta click it. No.

Paul:

Gotta you gotta drink it. That's what my

Chrissy:

I like that.

Paul:

My buddy and cat.

Paul:

I thought it was like a hey. Get it get it out. Don't mess my hair up. Nope. Just straight clink and drink.

Paul:

Clink and drink. If you click it, I'm I'm fucking stealing You're clinking? Yeah. I'm drinking.

Craig:

Yep. Stealing that.

Chrissy:

Do think

Paul:

clinking a drink? Hold it here.

Paul:

Hold this

Paul:

real quick.

Paul:

Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. How

Paul:

much you got? No. It's on. Same. Same.

Paul:

Same. You got your own drink. Well, your your purple drink was way less than mine. It was that much different. Go.

Chrissy:

My god. Idiots. Oh.

Paul:

Oh. Oh.

Chrissy:

Well, I think that was kind of an even tie.

Paul:

No. I still got some in there.

Paul:

Oh. You still have it.

Paul:

Said it. Purple people eater. Yeah. But he only had that much.

Craig:

Well, well, your drink, your purple drink was about this much lower than mine.

Paul:

I know, but I beat you by fifteen minutes.

Paul:

Check it on the camera. Was like fifteen minutes. Dude, you're like, oh my god. Like a circle. Put a nipple on that thing.

Craig:

Give me a nipple. I probably would have fucking slammed you No. Yeah. Yeah. I'm better.

Craig:

I'm way better with that. Barbell or something. Way better with a nipple.

Paul:

Put your

Craig:

fucking barbell. You would like to see that barbell, wouldn't No.

Paul:

I'm gonna have nightmares thinking about it.

Paul:

Every time you're lifting that barbell, you're gonna be thinking to me, my leg.

Craig:

I will

Paul:

never I will never I lift weights

Chrissy:

will never lift weights again.

Paul:

I've never lifted a in my life.

Paul:

Not a dumbbell. Because it's a dumbbell, actually, not a barbell.

Paul:

Boy, I

Paul:

I think of

Craig:

it more of

Paul:

a dumbbell. Oh my You have a dumbbell in your cock.

Craig:

It's two of them, so it's bars.

Chrissy:

They're not even there anymore.

Paul:

They could Are you sure?

Chrissy:

Well, that's what he said.

Craig:

Well, I'm We took them out because it stretched the skin a little bit back and

Paul:

Who's we? He said we took it

Craig:

out. Wait.

Paul:

Wait. Who's Who's we? Who was was we? You are you had a party? I I might have.

Paul:

We all got together.

Paul:

I'm like, hey. I'm like, this is

Chrissy:

Removal party.

Craig:

Removal party.

Paul:

With my other barbell buddy.

Chrissy:

Did you guys fight? So Well, they

Paul:

So are you in a club? Are you in this fucking

Chrissy:

In Iowa, him and his brother came to the bathroom with me and Mike? No.

Craig:

They gave us shit because we pissed in the same bathroom. Oh, I

Paul:

know what you're even presenting. Do remember. They

Craig:

were having pee battles.

Paul:

Shorts fight.

Chrissy:

No. We're like streams.

Paul:

My sword fight. Every kid that has a brother does that.

Paul:

Yeah. Right? Did you? No.

Paul:

Yeah. Yeah. You

Craig:

know how to little.

Paul:

I'm not talking I'm not talking big. No. I never had I never

Paul:

had sword fights with my brother as an adult.

Craig:

Well, you didn't get drunk with your brother as an adult at 35, did you?

Paul:

They were four think.

Paul:

Oh, no. We were at 35, we were both drinking pretty heavy.

Chrissy:

So do you so how many brothers and sisters do you actually have?

Paul:

I've got two sisters and a brother.

Chrissy:

Where are you the you're the oldest.

Paul:

I'm the oldest. My brother's eighteen months younger than

Chrissy:

they all do they practice more?

Craig:

No. No?

Chrissy:

Nobody does other than your mom.

Paul:

My mom's the only my mom and all my cousins, and I got lot

Chrissy:

of kids. Dad.

Paul:

Dad dad's out of the

Paul:

way in

Paul:

February.

Chrissy:

Were were they still married?

Paul:

Oh, yeah. Okay.

Paul:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. No. I had a I had a great

Chrissy:

still a Mormon?

Paul:

Yeah. I he yeah. He was

Chrissy:

So they didn't drink? Or

Paul:

No. My dad my dad was a convert. He joined he joined he Yeah.

Craig:

I was just

Paul:

shit. He wasn't born. No.

Craig:

Okay. No. He's got Converse shoes when he was,

Paul:

like, 18.

Chrissy:

18. Not Converse.

Paul:

He was in high school.

Craig:

I just got Converse shoes. They got steel the Converse too. I got them I got them for free because we're get

Chrissy:

Converse with steel toes.

Craig:

I got them. Oh, no. No. They're not Converse. They're DCs.

Craig:

No. My bad.

Chrissy:

Yeah.

Paul:

Yeah. DCs are I'm

Chrissy:

a Converse person.

Craig:

What? Er what? Anyways. You don't know my real life? I had a great I

Paul:

had great my parents were great.

Chrissy:

That's cool. I mean, you're

Paul:

My dad my dad dad was my dad my dad was he when one of us kids got in trouble, we would go

Craig:

to you 100%.

Paul:

He a 100%. Unconditional love. He literally mean, we would his sec we had his secretary on speed dial. Okay. All us kids did.

Chrissy:

What did your dad do?

Paul:

He was a principal at a middle school. Uh-huh. And then he was a he was an administrator. Couldn't do that.

Craig:

I didn't yell at kids too much. So let's

Chrissy:

talk about your abroad. Not abroad like a girl, but your abroad administration.

Craig:

Be allowed to cool everything.

Chrissy:

You went to Europe. Is that last summer?

Paul:

'24.

Chrissy:

Two summers.

Craig:

'24. I wanna do this so bad.

Chrissy:

He went

Paul:

to It's better.

Craig:

For a Where'd you go?

Paul:

A over a month. It was over. It was almost almost two months.

Chrissy:

So where did you fly into?

Paul:

Alright. We we left. I I met my buddy in Boston.

Chrissy:

K.

Paul:

And we flew from Boston to Dublin. Then Yep. Yep. And then we got on a plane in Dublin and we went and we landed in Naples, Italy. Yes.

Craig:

And so when you got into Dublin, what you you you hang out there for a little bit or do

Paul:

you just No. We had we had pretty much had to get right on the

Craig:

So it's like a just connecting flight. Connecting flight. Peace out, bitch. I'm out.

Paul:

Yep. Okay. Gotcha. So then we we he

Paul:

Would you go

Chrissy:

back to Ireland?

Paul:

Oh, absolutely. I am going back.

Craig:

I'm doing a motorcycle trip in Ireland. Gotcha. Fuck.

Paul:

But he

Paul:

he had I'm doing I'm doing Ireland and and Iceland.

Craig:

Okay. Yeah.

Paul:

Wanna Seven do day motorcycle trip in Iceland on a tour. You do a tour for seven days and they hit you all the hot spots on

Chrissy:

you didn't obviously bring your bike.

Paul:

No. Yeah. So we he calls me up and he says, dude, I I wanna go back to where my family's from in Italy. Do you wanna go? Yep.

Paul:

I said, if I'm going Fucking 100%. I'm going, I wanna I wanna do a motorcycle trip and he rides with me. He rides too. He goes, oh.

Chrissy:

He is your

Craig:

He goes service buddy.

Paul:

Yep. He goes, oh, yeah. Yeah. He goes, alright. Let's do that.

Paul:

I go, and so we're probably so we ended up renting this house for for two months, basically. And in the South Of

Craig:

Jesus.

Paul:

South Of Italy.

Craig:

Have you as fuck.

Paul:

We're we land we land in the you're right.

Paul:

We land in in Naples

Paul:

and this place is fucking nuts. Right?

Chrissy:

Like just Nuts.

Paul:

Beautiful or No. Yeah.

Paul:

The town The city

Paul:

is City is We're we're

Craig:

we're Like, everybody

Paul:

you would dream It's crazy.

Craig:

But it's busy?

Paul:

Crowded busy. Right?

Chrissy:

Busy busy

Paul:

So busy. We get our rental car. We get in and

Chrissy:

And everything's backwards.

Paul:

We couldn't find

Chrissy:

what you're used to.

Craig:

Well, all you driving the office side.

Paul:

We couldn't find a place to exchange money. So we didn't have any any euros.

Paul:

You didn't do that. Was like, Bob,

Craig:

we didn't

Paul:

think no. We didn't think about anything. So we get in the rental car, and we're driving. All of sudden, we come to a toll.

Chrissy:

Oh, we have no

Paul:

No money.

Chrissy:

European money.

Paul:

We have

Craig:

no money.

Paul:

No money. We're all over.

Craig:

Now my buddy my buddy's got a box that's scan a car?

Paul:

Wait. No.

Craig:

No. They don't have a scan car No.

Paul:

No. So we're so

Paul:

we're online and people are honking and pissed. And my buddy Fuck. Send

Paul:

it. My buddy's got it.

Paul:

So my buddy gets my buddy gets out of the car and he's got a $20 bill. He's And like he's trying to and he's trying to communicate with people that don't speak English. So he's doing a Boston accent trying to Oh,

Paul:

for Christ.

Paul:

You know you You've got

Paul:

a pocket. I'm in the car,

Paul:

but you know my god. I'm in

Paul:

the car and I'm accent. Gonna

Paul:

And he's got the whole thing going, and then he and then he's then he switches, and I'm hearing this, and he switches to try to he thinks if he talks Italian now,

Paul:

you gotta go to the

Paul:

pizza, but, you know, I gotta

Craig:

I gotta I gotta euro here.

Paul:

I need a euro. Again, he's trying to talk and he and It worked? He gives the guy

Chrissy:

It worked.

Paul:

The guy looks out and goes, $20 and you need a yeah. Gives him a $5 euro.

Paul:

So we get the so It's like giving him $5 for $20.

Paul:

This is like this is like fifteen, twenty minutes. People are backed up Oh, I'm pissed.

Paul:

Just pissed.

Paul:

And you're losing

Craig:

their fucking shit. Running around and I'm like, oh my god.

Paul:

So we so we get in so we get back in the car and we drive and we drive to and so we get off and then we get off into into the next town down well, Naples proper, actually. So we get in there and we're just driving, looking for a bank, looking for anything because we know

Chrissy:

the money.

Paul:

We know we're yeah. So we kept going into these banks and we're trying to talk to people and no one spoke English. Nobody Oh my finally

Chrissy:

Is your

Paul:

I took over and I said, dude, we gotta find the train station. We can find a money exchange at the train we went into like five banks and they wouldn't they had no idea.

Chrissy:

The train station called in Italy?

Paul:

Well, I forget what the what the was

Craig:

the It's oh, Bonhoe. Yeah. Saw

Paul:

a lot of I actually saw a

Paul:

lot of I went to Germany,

Paul:

but I'll get to that.

Paul:

I got a guy, and

Paul:

I even told my buddy. Said, I know someone in. Alright. So we we get to the finally get to the train station, and I'm like, dude, I'm going in. So I grab I I brought, like Blakey's I brought, like, $10, right, with me.

Paul:

Jeez. When when I was in Europe before Can fly with me? Yeah. Can fly with like 10 in Europe when I was in Europe max, I think. I got the best deals with the

Craig:

exchange Cash.

Paul:

By having cash.

Craig:

Yeah. Yeah.

Paul:

Alright. So I'm thinking it's the same. Yeah. It's not. Oh, I go in there and they're like, we don't we don't do chain cash.

Craig:

They're like, who if

Paul:

you don't do cash?

Chrissy:

What do you mean you don't do cash?

Paul:

No. What the fuck is that?

Paul:

Put it

Craig:

on a card.

Paul:

Right? So I'm at Western Union, which is the most expensive fucking conversion. So I give them my Like on that movie,

Craig:

what's that? Fucking with Johnny not Johnny Depp, but Robert No. Robert Downey Junior and Zach Galifianakis. Remember that? Nope.

Craig:

You you never seen that movie?

Paul:

What movie? Name the movie. I don't

Craig:

know what shit. What is it called?

Chrissy:

When they're exchanging money?

Craig:

Yeah. It's it's it's Stuck on a vacation or What's it? What's what's that called? Downey Junior. Yeah, dude.

Craig:

I like both

Paul:

of them.

Craig:

Yeah. I just watched that movie. It's not road trip. It's not Euro trip. It's shit.

Craig:

Never mind. Anyway, yeah. Alright. He goes to Western Union in this. The dude from East bound and down is like in there.

Craig:

Right?

Paul:

Right.

Craig:

And he's like he's like, oh, yeah. He's like, I'll change your money and Due date. Due date. That's what it is.

Paul:

Due date? I've never I've never seen that. Really? I'm putting that on the

Paul:

list. Yeah, dude. I movie is

Craig:

fucking hilarious. With especially Robert Downey junior.

Chrissy:

I love him.

Paul:

And the Yeah.

Paul:

I got

Craig:

not only Jamie Foxx is in there too and then Oh. Zach Galifianakis.

Paul:

Oh, he's

Paul:

I gotta I gotta say dude.

Craig:

Dude, yeah, dude.

Paul:

He's on the list. Yes. Okay.

Craig:

Dude, it's fucking hilarious.

Paul:

So so then we I go into the Western Union, and I pay this exorbitant amount of money to get the money exchanged.

Paul:

Yes.

Paul:

So we get back in the car. Totally worth it. We get back in the car. We finally make it. No.

Paul:

No. No. No. No. Oh, thank you.

Paul:

No. No. I was realizing this was not gonna work. So we get to the hotel

Chrissy:

Thank you.

Paul:

Where we're staying, and it's just on the outside of town. Beautiful place overlooking one of the seas. I can't remember exactly the name of it right off the top

Craig:

of my head.

Chrissy:

One of the seas.

Paul:

So we're we're overlooking it. We're drink and now we haven't slept yet. We're jet lagged.

Chrissy:

Just getting there. Yep.

Paul:

Hitting the cocktails, hitting everything. Tired of Get to the restaurant. We order all kinds of food. Idea. We realized then that nobody spoke English.

Paul:

We didn't know what the menu said. So we would just point to stuff that we thought was good.

Craig:

We're like

Paul:

that we didn't like.

Craig:

So so

Paul:

we get to our

Paul:

room we

Paul:

get to

Craig:

our room.

Paul:

So the bar The the next day we get up and then we walk in and we're like, we gotta so we talked to somebody who spoke English and he says, well, you need to exchange money? Just there's a machine there. It's called an ATM.

Craig:

Oh, you mother. And I'm like, What do you mean?

Paul:

He goes, yeah. You just put in your debit card or your credit card, and it converts it cash. It converts nobody does cash. That's what I'm saying. So so I'm sitting there.

Paul:

I had 10

Chrissy:

Cash.

Paul:

And I can get a better rate on on that than I can with the cash. And so I'm That's insane. So I'm going in. So then we hear, you know, give me a grand. I don't give a shit.

Paul:

I need a euro.

Chrissy:

Yeah. Thousand

Paul:

dollars for the euro.

Paul:

I'll send this shit back.

Paul:

So I so I I just pack up so I just pack up my my cash and hide it in my my thing.

I Made a $10,000 Mistake in Europe/Episode 007/Part 2

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