Pop Your ....... And let the boy grow up!

The Krewe is talking about making the leap from boy to full on Man and what needs to happen for a male to become what God intended on this week's episode!

We've got another fantastic #weeklywhisky from the Implicit Bias Liquor Collective for our listeners, a cask strength Rye that can't be missed! 

You'll also get stories about Fang Fang going Bang Bang, The Trillion Dollars in gold in Fort Knox and what unnatural hair color could indicate in a person...it's all out there on your Implicit Bias!

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Maybe what he needs is for you to pop yo out his mouth and let the boy grow up. Yes, we are quoting Major Pain. Welcome back to Implicit Bias Radio. I'm Kavan Bordelon. And for those of you just tuning in, yeah, Major Pain is highly relevant this week. And yes, that is exactly the energy we need when we talk, unfortunately, about the modern American male. Because right now we have a generation of grown men who aren't leaving the nest. They're trying to renovate it. They're installing smart thermostats, gaming chairs, and DoorDash accounts in their parents' basements, like it's a luxury loft with free laundry and unlimited emotional support. The book, though, that actually spells it out, does it well. Matthew 19, 5 tells us, therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. Now, most of you hear the word leave and you picture a U-Haul, a first apartment, security deposit you can barely afford. That's just the surface level of the reading. The deeper cut is actually deeply spiritual and systemic amputation. See, leaving is not just about geography. It's about whose permission you still need to breathe, to decide, to fail, to stand back up without a committee meeting at the kitchen table. Look, if you're 25, 28, 32 years old and you still clear major purchases, career moves, or even weekend plans with mom, you're not a man. You're just an accessory. You're living like one of those nameless henchmen in an Austin Powers movie, you know, standing in the background waiting for Dr. Evil to give the orders, except Dr. Evil is mom, and the orders are don't forget the trash before six. Text me when you get it done. Yeah. And by the way, we are profoundly disrespected. You cannot be the international man of mystery when the only mystery left is whether Dad is still covering the internet payment this month. Fact. We have lost the art of the push. Look at the Spartans. At seven years old, those boys weren't getting play dates and organic juice boxes. They were handed over to the Igoge. They slept on the ground, fought, starved a little bit, and learned that comfort is a temporary visitor, not a permanent roommate. Why? Because you can't grow. You absolutely cannot do the things that you need to do. You can't get calluses on hands that never touch anything rough. You cannot build a pillar of strength if the pillar stays wrapped in a cashmere or blanket of maternal protection. Softness feels loving in the moment. Long term, it produces men who fold the first time, life stops saying, please. Some are already pushing back in their heads. But my mom loves me. She's my biggest supporter. Great. Support is wonderful. There is, however, a very dangerously thin line between support and sabotage. When the support system becomes a financial umbilical cord that never gets cut, you're not being supported. You're being domesticated. You're a house cat with the Wi-Fi password. And the world outside, well, that door starts looking optional instead of mandatory. Look at the sports world for a clear public example. Take Jaden Daniels. The talent is obvious, the production is real, yet, when the public narrative keeps circling around whether mom is too deeply involved in managing the brand, the business, the positioning, and the larger operation, a very fair question arises. Where's the captain of the ship of his life? When the mother functions as general manager of a grown man's life, the son risks becoming an employee in his own story. That arrangement can produce short-term wins. It does not, however, build a kind of independent dynasty that lasts when the spotlight moves on. Energy without ownership, well, that's just noise. And for the love of all that is holy, please stop treating your household like the misfit crew from down Periscope. You're not some eccentric officer commanding a ragtag submarine full of lovable screw-ups. You're a man who's supposed to become the provider, the boundary setter, the one who does not need a parental permission slip to make decisions that affect the future of you, your wife, and your children. Ephesians 5.28 is blunt on this point. Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. How can a man love a woman with that kind of sacrificial intensity if he's never had to sacrifice comfort, approval, or the safety net? How can he protect a home if he's never had to defend his own boundaries against the very people who raised him? You cannot give what you have never possessed. And a man who has never left remains a consumer of his parents' resources, their emotional, financial, and mental resources. A man who has truly left becomes a producer, not just for his family, but for his entire community. That prosperity, the kind that transforms families, neighborhoods, it doesn't come from men who were gently helped into every success. It comes from men who were pushed out into the cold, forced to find their own fire, and decided they were not going to freeze. So when a man leaves financially, emotionally, mentally, the language changes. He stops asking, can I? and starts saying, I will. He stops waiting for the next transfer from mom and dad and starts generating the transfer himself. So to the young men listening out there, if you're watching, if the leash is still in someone else's hand, maybe it's time we bit through it. Stop playing the part of the permanent child. Get out of the house, get out of the safety net. Learn how to pay the bills, take the stand, take the hits, and stand upright the next morning. And for heaven's sake, man up. Start picking out your own clothes. Weekly Whiskey Time on this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio. I am your host, Kavon Bordelon. And yes, we have another wonderful offering from the Implicit Bias Liquor Collective. This week, it comes to you from Champines, Karen Crow. Welcome into the Mr. Lester's top secret podcast lair. Let me introduce you to the great crew we have here this week. It's it's an OG crew of sorts this week because we have original OG or Kayla Morse, the rustic renegade, who decided to somehow, again, we dressed a lot.

SPEAKER_02 6:33

And look, I legit just sent a picture of my wife. I was like, the fifth shirt that I chose was a black Venic.

SPEAKER_01 6:39

And this is not the first time this has happened. We've just been doing this way too long on this show. At the bar, we have one of the original OG, Renee Girard, Louisiana's only certified master tobacconist. Renee didn't wear a black shirt. Renee wore his traditional blue shirt.

SPEAKER_04 6:54

Yes, I'm I I just like blue shirts. And Jude made many of them for me, so I'm good.

SPEAKER_01 7:00

Look, that must have something to do with the whiskey that we have this week. I'll be curious to hear your take on it from the proof princess at the bar. And then we have somebody who is a gangster. Well, he's not a gangster, he's just old. Lewis Pizzolato, the nemismatist on the show. It's a pleasure to have you back, Lewis. Thank you for coming in.

SPEAKER_03 7:14

Back again. Enjoying the first couple of sips, and uh, I'm sure a few more, and I'll be enjoying them more.

SPEAKER_01 7:21

Lewis, you missed the best two words you could have put in front of that first sentence. It was tag team. Well, tag team, back again. Yeah, he completely missed it. He completely you don't even know that song was made, did you?

SPEAKER_03 7:33

No.

SPEAKER_01 7:33

I didn't think so. Didn't think so. You're probably like 75 when that song came out. It's okay.

SPEAKER_03 7:38

Yeah, I was probably, you know.

SPEAKER_02 7:41

I see with the last name like Pizzolato, he should have been like mafioso, not gangster. Absolutely. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 7:46

You know, when your family comes from a town in Sicily named Cordleone, it is your family really from Cordoleone, Sicily?

SPEAKER_01 7:54

Yes. That is, I want to visit there so badly. So, you know, it gives you a little up, should we say, yeah, yeah. On a real deal. Yeah. Well, I mean, what people don't a lot of times realize, real quick rabbit hole, and then we're gonna go to our weekly whiskey. What a lot of people don't realize is that the vendetta time in Sicily was a real thing. There was a real shortage of males in Sicily at the time, because the vendettas, if for those who either saw The Godfather Part Two or read the book The Godfather, you know that if your father was killed in Sicily, if you were as a young man, you were obligated to avenge his death. Same and same now in Lafayette. Correct. Which explains why, no, we're not going there. Anyway, all right. So let's dive into this weekly whiskey. I love this offering. Well, first of all, we're we're right, guys. I mean, this is absolutely all right, all right, all right. It is 100% rye. It comes from Champagne's market in Carencrow, Louisiana. It is a six-year-old pick from Pinhook that uh it just kind of hits me right in the field.

SPEAKER_02 9:01

I like this. It this is is something special too. Because when I and when I told my AI the flavor I got on this, it said you can't say that on the radio.

SPEAKER_01 9:12

It was probably something that had to do with an unholy, unbiblical form of fornication, but that's a whole nother thing. Yeah, see, uh Caleb nods his head. All right, let's do this. Let's start at the bar. Let's start. Lewis, you got the microphone in front of you. And look, you're not typically a I'm I'm I'm not really a rye guy at all. And you're not usually an aggressive whiskey guy.

SPEAKER_03 9:35

No, I like it a little mile. I'm not really a rye guy. And when you're not a rye guy, this is right up my alley. Because it's just like what I expected. Rye.

SPEAKER_01 9:46

So wait, you said this is what you would, this is what you would hope for, right? Is that what you know it's what I expected. Okay, it's what you expected. Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_03 9:53

A little bit burn, a little a little bit of uh burn down. I'm sure it'll loosen up after a little while, but for me, it's a little hot.

SPEAKER_01 10:05

So tight at the beginning. You're hoping it gets a little looser. Exactly. But it is spicy, which is good. Very spicy. So spicy, hot, loosen up, hope. Okay, I hope I hope that works. Yeah. Yeah, I hope that works.

SPEAKER_02 10:17

We're all right there on the same page.

SPEAKER_01 10:20

All right. So, not typically being a rye guy, I do have one last question for you though. The flavor profile, though, on the palate. It for me, it's really hard to break out.

SPEAKER_03 10:30

I mean, it just it has a it for for rye, it does have a smooth taste, but it's it it's it's hot. That's that's the best way I could say it. But, you know, like I said, give me a glass and a half, uh, more than like about four sips, and I'll give you another opinion.

SPEAKER_02 10:46

Well, and that hot you're getting, one, it's a high proof, right? And two, rye tends to, it's not as as rounded as corn and barley and everything else. So you get more of those baking spices. So you get the ethanol heat from the alcohol. And then normally when you say hot, you're talking about rye, it's almost a cinnamon or red hot type spice that you get. Yep. And that kind of hits you.

SPEAKER_03 11:07

I will get, I will agree with that. You know, it's kind of like taking the old red hots in a little box. It's like popping about 20 in your mouth and uh not really chewing them, just letting them soak in.

SPEAKER_05 11:18

It's savory, savory.

SPEAKER_01 11:20

A little too spicy. That cinnamon becomes no longer a cinnamon flavor. It's the cinnamon adjutant to your palate, which, you know, for those who can't drink whiskey, okay. So we're we're gonna go from Lewis to Renee. And we call Renee the proof princess, but I got a feeling Renee might like this one.

SPEAKER_04 11:36

Yeah, it's it is a little hot though, but I think a lot of that is just the temperature in the room here because you turn the air conditioner off. Um I tried to cool it down a little bit more than it was.

SPEAKER_01 11:46

It is a little warm here somewhere in downtown Lafayette.

SPEAKER_04 11:49

Well, I mean, it's warm everywhere in Lafayette right now. It is. It was crazy driving in. But yeah, that there, I get a little heat off of this. And earlier I was trying to describe the spiciness I was getting, and I didn't realize it was a a rye. Well, that explains it. That's why I'm getting that that spiciness, which I like. I like rye. This one just seems a little excessive spice. I don't know. It might be the heat. I don't know. It might my taste buds are messed up.

SPEAKER_01 12:16

Here's what I'm gonna ask. Where do you think this comes in on proof? You already know it's high proof because Caleb spilled the beans a little bit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 12:23

Where do you think it is on proof? Uh I'm guessing more like a 118, 119. You know? Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 12:31

Anyway, let's now go to the good guess.

SPEAKER_01 12:33

It's it's it's a decent guess.

SPEAKER_02 12:36

If you were taking an 100-yard shot, you'd be on a four by four piece of paper. Oh, but so you're on, would you be on the paper? I mean Well, four foot by four foot.

SPEAKER_04 12:44

Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. Four, four foot by four foot.

SPEAKER_01 12:46

Okay, I can I can live with that. All right, so I'm gonna reveal the proof since it's just you and I, Caleb, and I know you know the proof already. Go ahead and show your goods. At 123.9 on the proof. I was close. This is this sits really, really well to me on the palette. Like this does not drink 124. So this is the fun part. If you actually look at the back, it shows alcohol by volume is 61.9, but it shows proof as 123.9. Usually, uh-huh, alcohol by volume is just doubled to make proof. So the correct math there would be 123.8. But it tells you that there's a rounding portion on the back of it. So it's one it's 61.9, obviously five or higher on the proof, which pushes it over to that 123.9. At 100% rye, this to me is one of those bottles that if you have someone looking for those crazy, stupid, high-proof, incredibly expensive and unobtainium bottles. That's what this parallels to me. This parallels those very, very easily at 123.9. The flavor profile is wonderful. I got huge butterscotch on the first few sips. Big, big, big butterscotch. It's oily, it's viscous, it's heavy on the mouthfeel, which I like. It stays with you and it makes you, even at 123, want more, in my opinion. So I do. I get that oily, I get a little bit of cinnamon, I get a little bit of Venise, a little like the hint of that licorice underneath those baking spices and some of that caramel that you expect. To me, it's more butterscotch than caramel and really just makes me want to go, man, this is off the chart special. And to me, this is why rye at six years can be such a big deal. Because there are so many bottles out there that are obscenely priced, that are bourbons at 12, at 20, at 15 years, that won't touch the quality of what's in this bottle, in my opinion. It's another one where Pinhook has hit an absolute home run.

SPEAKER_02 15:03

Will said. So on the what it got me on the nose, right? So on the nose, I expected this just powerful ethanol and all these scents and flavors, and it's soft. It's gentle, and it's caramel red apple, not caramel green apples. I remember when I was a kid, I loved green apples, and my grandmother wanted to make candied apples for a Halloween, and she used these luscious red apples, and it is a caramel-coated red apple all at once, because it's not like identify individual flavors, that's the smell I get. And it's just it's delicate and it's just sweet enough on the nose. And then on the palate, it's really soft in the beginning. Agreed. It doesn't come at you quick. Um, it's really, really elegant. Uh, the note that I'm gonna try to soften on this uh is it's like when you come home and your wife is wearing that negliger that she can't really wear outside the bedroom, right? But she is wearing it outside the bedroom. She's wearing it outside. She's like, okay, a little satin negliger, whatever. And she just brushes against you enough to get your attention. That's that first sip. It's like, hey, I'm here and you should pay attention. That's what this is. It's soft, it's sultry, it's seductive, and then it comes at you with the mid-pallate. Mid-palate is spicy, crisp, very, very assertive. It knows what it wants, it knows the flavor profile it wants to get. And then I got pomegranate. I got pomegranate. I can see that. With and that little bit, you were earlier, Lewis, you're saying bitterness. I got a little bit of tartness or bitterness, but that's what I get. That's where it really dropped me home with the pomegranate, is because of that. And then it just cleans up so, so nicely with vanilla, caramel, oak, and that just delicious and wonderful burn.

SPEAKER_01 16:49

The finish on this to me is absolutely perfect. It's seduction in a glass. So here's we have on this show made references to certain bourbons. Soft, luscious. It's Salmahayek in from dust till dawn, right? I mean, we've we've made those references. Salmahayek and Desperado. This, Caleb. Anna Dearmas in the last James Bond movie she was in. Curvy in the right places, not overly, not overly robust, but just, I mean, nuanced, classy, right where it needs to be. Dark haired, dark eye, sultry. I like the nuances.

SPEAKER_02 17:25

The nuance and classy because that's what this is. Yeah. Like this is this is the right bourbon. It's not bourbon. Well, well, this is the right rye, okay. For everywhere that you need to be. Like, no matter where you are, if you want to stand out, this is the one you need to have in your hand. Yeah. Because this is the one where you sip it, you taste it. Someone else is like, what is that? My god, it's it's it's pinhook. Oh, it's pinhook?

SPEAKER_01 17:45

What which pinhook? Mmm, you should just try it for yourself. What I would love for someone to do is to be blind tasted with this against some of those things that are unobtaining that people are looking for 24-7. Oh my gosh, I've got to have this, I've got to have that. This, it's so it is sophistication and maturity in a bottle.

SPEAKER_02 18:06

What it is, the labeling everything matches what it is, right? It's confident. It doesn't need color, it doesn't need pop. You have silver and black. That's it. Just a basic font. It says, look at me. I'm here and I own the room. Did you break window? It's a font. I said yes. Font.

SPEAKER_01 18:20

Faunt. Font? Yeah, that's what he said. Font. Font? Font. Font. Font? Yeah. Font. Whatever. Carmel. Fondant. No, not fondant. Fontant is totally different, but font is very different from a font. A font is what happens when you have to walk away from where you were standing in the room, so nobody knew it was you. That's what a font is.

SPEAKER_02 18:40

So it's very confident, though. It's got everything it needs. It's sitting there. It needs no one to fluff it up. It doesn't need image or anything else. And it's like, look, you either want me or you don't. Either way, I'm fine.

SPEAKER_04 18:52

See, font and fluffing. I just, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:55

I'm not going there. I am not going there at all.

SPEAKER_02 18:59

Yeah, that's called a blumpkin. That's different. Anyway.

SPEAKER_01 19:01

So it is time for us to play what would you pay? And to rate this on the Morse whiskey rating code. The Morse Whiskey rating code for new initiates to the show is this. Red, I wouldn't drink it even if it was free. Yellow, I would only drink it if it was free. Green, I would buy this. Blue, I would seek this out. And the what would you pay championship belt chain presented by Box Drop is simple. Closest to the actual price wins the championship belt chain here in the Mr. Lester's top secret podcast layer. And while we're at the bar, I'm going to see if I can get my phone from the camera so we can actually make sure that the price is correct. Because I think I have it in my mind correctly, but I didn't grab my phone to look at the picture that I took. So I wanted to make sure we are exactly correct for our friends at Champines in Carrancrow to make sure we get this right. All right, Renee, where do you rate this on the Morse whiskey rating code? And what would you pay?

SPEAKER_04 19:53

I'm going to give it a green and I'm thinking $69.

SPEAKER_01 19:58

Green and $69. All right, Lewis, where would you rate this? Yellow. A yellow.

SPEAKER_03 20:05

Well, you gotta understand. It's not my the questions you you present for it. To me, it's a yellow. I'd drink it if we're sitting around drinking it, but I would not go buy it. So that puts me in a dilemma when they say, what would you pay? And and you know, I guess uh if I was going to your house to drink it, I would hope you would pay $79.95.

SPEAKER_01 20:29

Okay, I appreciate that. All right, Walker, I am curious. Thank you for grabbing my phone for me. Where would you rate this on the Morse whiskey rating code? And what would you pay? I'd give it a blue. Okay. And $60. $60. All right, Caleb.

SPEAKER_02 20:46

Well, I know what I would pay, but I'm really confused right now because Walker hiked up his pants a lot. Well, that's because you can see him from there. Yeah, yeah. He did it for you. He went from having chinos on to like chinos. So uh $85. $85. It's a blue. This is uh MF in the blue.

SPEAKER_01 21:03

There is no doubt this is a blue. This is absolutely a blue. If you like whiskey at all and you don't wear a skirt, it's a blue. I'm kidding for the guys at the bar. Only partially just for Lewis. Anyway, the seriously, this is a blue. The flavor profile in this is off the charts, good. It is outstanding. And the winner of the What Would You Pay championship belt chain? Because we had 69, we had 75 or 79, Lewis. 79. 79, we had Walker at 60, and we had Caleb at 85, goes to Walker Griffon. This is $61.99. What? This is a $61.99 bottle of cast strength rye from Champagne's Market in Karn Crow. Worth everybody. Oh my goodness, is it? This is so good at this price, all day, every day, twice on Sundays. And look, if you make a cocktail with this, can you imagine, Caleb, how good a cocktail, a Sazerac with this would be? How good so many cocktails would be at this price? This particular whiskey. Pinhook has done it again. Another blue on Implicit Bias Radio. We'll award the What Would You Pay Championship Belt Chain and come back, start solving the problems of the world three weekly whiskeys at a time on Implicit Bias Radio. We have the gold on Implicit Bias Radio. I'm your host, Gavon Bordelon. Welcome into the Mr. Lester's Top Secret Podcast layer for those watching on social media. Whether you're watching on KLFY Plus, WGNO Plus, welcome in to our episode. Let me introduce you to the crew who's here this week again. Caleb Morse, the Rustic Renegade at the Bar, the Numismatist Lewis Pizzolato, and the certified wizard of tobacco, Renee Gerard of Pipers Haven. All right. So I wanted to save this story because it actually came up several weeks ago and then came up again in the last couple of weeks. We saved it because Lewis was going to be here, or at least we knew that his time on the show was upcoming. So Lewis, we had it said by Bessant, the Treasury Secretary. And then again, Thomas Massey within the last week and a half. Thomas Massey came out and said, I visited Fort Knox. We have a trillion in gold. Am I used to believe that?

SPEAKER_03 23:07

Well, you know, I thought about kind of how I was going to say it when you mentioned we touch on this subject. I mean, I'm going to tell you how I look at it. There's a good and a bad and the ugly. The good is, let's hope we have a trillion in gold. At the same time, remember we're 40 trillion in debt on the books. I have some questions about that, so we're going to talk about that. So then you go to B. Like I said, the good, the bad, and the ugly. The bad is, is listen, I've seen Chinese gold bars that look damn good. And I figure if the Chinese can do it, they probably we probably could do it, and they probably stole the idea from us, like they do with most stuff. But the thing about it is, is if I was going to order that vault, I would bring in one independent camera. I'd say we're going to pluck 10 bars from wherever in this vault that we want to pluck them, and I'm going to give them to five independent metallurgists to test. They didn't do that. There's yellow, yellow, yellow, but that doesn't mean the the guts are goal, goal, goal. Right, because the guts could be lead, lead, lead. So they didn't.

SPEAKER_02 24:17

It could be. They didn't do a re a true audit, then they're not going to do that.

SPEAKER_03 24:20

No, they looked at it and they said Well, you have to essentially audit the core. They need a true audit, count, weight, and what's in the in the core of the bars.

SPEAKER_02 24:32

And to do what's in the core, now you don't just have to like cut them in half, right? You can't do the density and everything else, too.

SPEAKER_03 24:38

You usually drill them. Okay. You pull out the pigtails. And then what you do is now what they're doing is they're they're shooting them with the uh X-ray guns. Yeah, the big yellow guns. And that's what they would have to do. And I would say have an independent person filming the whole thing, offer the feed to everybody, and then you'd know. And and that's the bad. It was no more than looking at them, saying, yeah, they're here, and then gone.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

Okay. So to your point though, while it's bad that they didn't necessarily core sample all the bars, a lot of people thought that they were gonna go into Fort Knox and be like, uh, they ain't nothing here. So there's something there.

SPEAKER_03 25:21

If there's something there, but they I mean, if you're gonna be a doubter, you could say they had years to plan it. But the the good, the good news is, is yeah, there was something there. Like I said, the bad news is we know what's on the outside, but we don't know what's on the inside. And the ugly part about it is to think about we have a trillion dollars in gold, plus or minus. We have 40 trillion, probably plus plus in debt, and we're increasing our entire debt load by more every four months than we have in total in Fort Knox, if they're not lying about what's on the guts of those bars.

SPEAKER_01 26:01

Okay, so but here's the next question I have. We have a trillion in gold. That is the statement. They didn't say we have a trillion in gold at $4,000 an ounce or at the last revaluation, which was what, $4,000?

SPEAKER_03 26:15

Well, it's it's a trillion in gold roughly at $4,000 an ounce.

SPEAKER_02 26:21

So $147 million ounces, right?

SPEAKER_03 26:24

But what they do is is they they always say, well, we keep it on the books, and when you keep it on the books, it's it's it's right at uh a little over $150 billion. That's what they say is on the books, but that's it the old price of gold. That's that's my point. That's the old price of gold. The new price of gold is not a trillion when you're talking about the old price. You're talking about a trillion at the current price.

SPEAKER_01 26:50

Okay. That was my that was my one question because I mean it's not like the U.S. government has ever repriced gold. It's not like they've ever just gone in and said more than we need to revalue this. And it and they've they've done it multiple times. By the way, that whole thing was sarcastic for those if you're watching.

SPEAKER_03 27:06

You know, you hear all of a sudden they're gonna raise the price of gold to X number of dollars and they're gonna do it and kind of settle all this debt once and for all. If they do it to a crazy number, you got to remember you've got to balance it both ways.

SPEAKER_02 27:18

Well, if they do it to a crazy number, wouldn't other countries have to agree because that debt is on other countries.

SPEAKER_03 27:22

Exactly. And then then, you know, yeah, the cost would be this, but they would have to artificially raise the number to a crazy thing. I think they're gonna keep doing exactly what they've been doing. Print and not know we don't know exactly what they're printing, and it's just an easy way out.

SPEAKER_01 27:36

So here's the really interesting number that I ran. I ran if we have a trillion dollars in gold at $4,000 an ounce, give or take, which is right around where we are, how many ounces do we have? It gave me a number. And then I had some math run on will a trillion dollars in capital be enough to float the United States going back to a gold standard? And the answer is no. The answer is no. However, people have said, and the crazy number that keeps coming up is what $20,000 an ounce for gold. And the crazy thing is, when I ran the math and said, okay, in order to fully back the existing US currency in circulation, what would the price of gold need to be? Take a guess what the number was $20,000 an ounce. That's the crazy number. So it you don't know if it's someone verifying from the math and then saying they're gonna revalue it to this to be able to back the currency to get us off of it. I am of the belief, especially that things are all tied together with all the crypto meetings that are supposed to happen this week and happened this week when this episode airs in DC. I would love to see the Fed go away and see us go back to a backed currency as opposed to the fiat debt-based currency that we're under, because the competing currencies of BRICS, the competing entities that are out there right now are really creating a unique situation. And you were the one telling me, Lewis, the biggest hoarders of gold in the last 10 years have been governments.

SPEAKER_03 29:12

They have been governments, and if you go to the biggest of the biggest, until this uh Ukraine-Russian war, Russia was in it, but the BRICS countries are the big countries that are hoarding the most gold. Russia is somewhat backed off because they find they haven't funded a war in Ukraine. But the other countries are accumulating like crazy. And, you know, it begs, what are they what are they accumulating for? And I and I mean it's it's I think it's a combination of two things. One, they they want they want the control of it and the credibility of having a bunch of gold, but but at the same time, they're funneling U.S. paper dollars, which a lot of them held in reserve. They're minimizing and reducing the number of U.S. paper dollars. So what are you going to put it in? They got gold, frozen concentrated orange juice, and a few other things, but they want a commodity. They're not really willing to hold something that's being generated in a computer, just adding a zero every time we feel comfortable adding a zero.

SPEAKER_01 30:18

And here's the beauty of it. If a country has that many US dollars and you convert it to gold, the second you convert it to gold, because of the amount that you are now putting back into circulation of hard cash, coupled with the amount of gold that's pulled off the market, the value of the gold automatically increases and the inflation around the dollar automatically increases. That's exactly what's happening.

SPEAKER_02 30:43

At the same moment. So, out of curiosity, Lewis, when we talk about the old standard, so the gold that we're sitting on at Fort Knox, and I believe there's another place that has gold here in the U.S. Um, is roughly what, $42 or something else? That was the last, I believe, valuation the United States put on this $42 or why why do we have the old value and then market value? What is the real difference between that?

SPEAKER_03 31:04

I never really understood. They they if they wanted to do it, they could give us a yearly update of the value of the goal based on the current world market prices. They just never re-evaluated it. I mean, it brought it up.

SPEAKER_02 31:17

I wonder, I wonder why not. I mean, what what benefit do they have of not showing the current market value or not adjusting the market value?

SPEAKER_03 31:25

I think the I think the benefit would be to show the current, because it it's it's better to say we have a trillion than we do 150 million.

SPEAKER_01 31:33

Hold on. Is it really? Because you're talking about who's the benefit for the benefits for the people if they say, hey, you have a trillion dollars in Fort Knox as opposed to you have a billion dollars in Fort Knox. But it does benefit the banks to keep that number ambiguous, because if that number continues to go up and the people say, hey, we have all of this tangible value, we have all of these tangible assets. You start putting together, and I think this is what was attempted to be done with the sovereign wealth fund, which came into play in what January of 21 upon the inauguration, which was what is the true value of all of the real estate, all of the buildings, all of the gold, all of the physical assets owned by the US government that is owned by the people of the United States? Because now, if you and this is why the crypto conversation comes in big, if you start tokenizing that, now every individual has a share back into it. If you go to a backed currency, now every individual has a share of the government, they own it again. If they don't know the value, if it's undervalued, if it's always kept away from the individual, well, we have no idea what we own.

SPEAKER_02 32:50

And I think that's part of it too, is like if we were to go back to a gold standard, right? If gold was the standard that we evaluate our money on, then we would have to assume that the government knows how much paper money, right, exists. And the reality of it is that the government doesn't know. It knows how much it printed, but it doesn't know how much is still in circulation. So let's say we have a 20% excess because look, somebody's grandparents put it in the mattress. I I know people who ran businesses, were like old school mechanics and that kind of stuff, and then sold the business, and five years later we're like, I forgot about the hundred thousand dollars in cash that was in the lawnmower or in the in the wall.

SPEAKER_01 33:30

Kind of like the $10 million in gold that was found in Europe in the wall of what, an old brewery in Germany?

SPEAKER_02 33:36

Yes. So we look at this and it's do we really know how to back how much money we have?

SPEAKER_01 33:42

Well, I think that's the great reason that they keep all of this such a mystery. Because you can't track the fraud if you have no idea how much money's actually out there. Walker's giving me the finger. I'm gonna give him the finger back, but we're gonna come back. Final segment of hour one of this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio, and we'll wrap up this and then go to something else because you know there's more problems to solve, and Renee wants to talk. He didn't talk at all that segment. I'm shocked. Final segment of hour one of this week's episode of Implicit Bias. It's dumb and dumber, Tweedledee and Tweedledumb, twins on this week's episode as Caleb and I have once again, without even asking about it.

SPEAKER_02 34:18

If we're twins, can I be Arnold and you're you are absolutely Arnold?

SPEAKER_01 34:21

Absolutely Danny DeVito. That's fine. I'm good with that. I am good with that. We also have here in the Mr. Lester's top secret podcast layer Renee Girard of Pipers Haven, Louisiana's only certified master tobacconist. And we have the Namismatist Louis Pizzolato of Coin and Treasure, located here in Lafayette, Louisiana. And it's only fitting that, as I mentioned, that you and I are twins, that we bring up that great story that I pulled up of twins wreaking havoc with cops. Renee, I know you saw this one. Yes. And what's funny, the reason that I had to bring this up is you know that my wife is an identical twin. Yes. And of course, I ask questions. I'm like, so Elizabeth, when y'all were in high school before I met you in college, like they're identical twins.

SPEAKER_04 35:02

When I tell you they are identical, see Elizabeth and her sister doing this. I I just could see your face.

SPEAKER_01 35:07

They are apparently no fun because they didn't like the only thing they did apparently was like because they switched classrooms, they did not switch classrooms. No, they didn't uh no. What they would do is apparently one of them would break up, and I'm not gonna throw either of them under the bus. One of them would like break up with the other one's boyfriends over the phone.

SPEAKER_02 35:25

The bad twin, bro.

SPEAKER_01 35:26

Over the phone, one would break up with the other because one wasn't mean enough to be like, I don't necessarily want to be mean to you. I'll take care of all this, and the other one's like, I'll take care of this, and they get on the phone and they So Elizabeth's the mean twin? Yeah, I'm gonna tell her you said that too. Yeah, just so Jackie, just so you know, when Caleb goes missing, collect the life insurance, do not ask questions. Yeah, because it wasn't me going full Eddie Murphy, baby, it wasn't me. Yeah, but so these two twins apparently get stopped in a grocery store. And my favorite line about this story was that the police said it was the longest hour of confusion, hell in our lives.

SPEAKER_02 36:07

I love how they were like, all right, which one's Amber? She is, which one's Ashley? She is. They pointed to each other both times. Like, what car do you drive? That one. They both put who's left-handed? They both raised their left hand. Like, oh, oh my God.

SPEAKER_04 36:19

I mean they planned this out. And you look at the pictures, the mugshots, even down to the mole on their neck is in the same spot on both of them. I mean, it's my God.

SPEAKER_01 36:31

Now, you really, you really want to have fun with this? Here's how you really have fun with it. Because what I'm saying is a pair of twins messing with someone in a grocery store.

SPEAKER_04 36:41

Yeah, one of evidently it was a coupon. It was, yes, it was that was expired, and the twin went to the cashier and started racing.

SPEAKER_01 36:50

Opportunity.

SPEAKER_04 36:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:51

This is a full-on waste of a complete opportunity. Because, and this is why we have to have a priest on this show to keep us Catholic and Christian. If I had an identical twin that was that identical, I would have found my nemesis and murdered my nemesis and said, take a DNA sample. Wasn't me. And then when we got to court, I just said, prove it was me and prove it wasn't him. Because when they sample the DNA, it's the same. Yeah. Yeah. It's the same DNA. You have reasonable doubt baked in right away.

SPEAKER_02 37:23

Speaking of same DNA, right?

SPEAKER_01 37:26

Okay, we are not talking about stuff like that.

SPEAKER_02 37:28

Oh, okay. Kroger in Memphis, which is where this happened, has a history of problems with people fighting over coupons. There were multiple 9-1-1 calls dating back to 2016 over some of the Krogers in Memphis and coupon altercations.

SPEAKER_01 37:45

Oh, that's a whole new term. Coupon altercation.

SPEAKER_02 37:48

Is it just the Tennessee's the show me state, isn't it? No, that's the volunteer state. So is it just the volunteer state in Kroger? Like, what's going on?

SPEAKER_03 37:56

If I was the manager of that store and it was a coupon over a pizza, from what I understand, a frozen pizza. I just wrote okay on it and put it in a damn drawer.

SPEAKER_02 38:05

Yeah, but you know what? You know how it is. Sometimes you get caught up in a new moment and you're like, this is what I'm dying for.

SPEAKER_01 38:10

Yeah, this is the hill I'm gonna die on. And apparently that manager decided he was dying on that hill. Again, these twins, this is just stupid. I'm telling you, they wasted a golden opportunity. They didn't waste it, they went to jail over it. It was a great time for them. They arrested both of them. No, my point is it was over like 40 cents.

SPEAKER_02 38:26

It wasn't over 40 cents, it was over them having a good time. You can't tell me they didn't sit down or wake up that morning and go, you know what? Let's take two gummies each.

SPEAKER_01 38:34

I'm telling you.

SPEAKER_02 38:35

And go mess with people.

SPEAKER_01 38:36

I'm telling you, this was a golden opportunity to get away with murder. It was a get out of jail free card because literally, if they'd said, oh, we have a DNA sample, I'd have let them buy it the whole way through. I'd have let them get to court. And when they said there is, there's a one in five billion chance that this was someone other than Kavon Bordelon. At that point, I would have told my attorney, question the dude in the back. Have that guy stand up and said, sample that DNA and tell me it's not exactly the same and that you don't have reasonable doubt as to who did it. You're off.

SPEAKER_04 39:07

You're giving these girls too much credit. They're from Memphis, Tennessee. They hate that, Brian. You know, they're you know the beauty. They just they got arrested for disturbing the peace. Okay, so hold on. A resisting arrest.

SPEAKER_01 39:22

Okay, so maybe, so Renee, maybe I wouldn't have committed murder. But did you see the list of fraudsters picked up across the country by the DOJ and the numbers that are out there? Like they showed the DOJ's like top five fraudsters the other day, and it was like 130 million, 80 million, 100 million, 75 million, 75 million. And I'm going, wait a minute. If I would have known this was available, if I would have known 75 million was at stake, take a guess who would have been a fraudster and just moved out of the jurisdiction very quickly.

SPEAKER_02 39:51

Imagine if you or I were identical twins, right? I'd be like, no, he's insane. No, he's insane. We go back and forth, and one of us could have a great time and pretend to be insane. We'd both have a great time because if we're both pretending to be insane, they can't prove that either one of us are not. Exactly. And like that's that's the thing that they miss out on. Like, you could have a you could have a lot of fun with this outside of a grocery store. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 40:09

This I want to say is kind of a warning to people. I was like semi-involved in a very, very recent fraud deal.

SPEAKER_02 40:17

You have a twin?

SPEAKER_03 40:18

Oh, I like where this is with an elderly gentleman who came in and bought over a period of one month over $300,000 worth of gold.

SPEAKER_02 40:27

That's a great customer.

SPEAKER_03 40:28

He was a great customer, and he sent me, insisted on sending me wires. Everything was good and everything else. But this is what happens. Someone called him on the phone because the police came and said, Listen, I don't know what we're gonna do about this. Is there anything you can help us with? And I said, What happened to this man? I like this man. He said, Of all places, he met two men at Dollar General store. At Dollar General Store. They convinced them that they needed gold out of his account to save his account because it had been broken down. Present us with the gold. We're gonna save the goal. We're federal agents, and what's gonna happen is as soon as everything settles down in your account, you're helping us with this fraud case, and you're gonna get the gold back. Well, needless to say, the guy at the dollar, the two guys actually at the Dollar General, gone. The policeman told me, he said, Lewis, if there's anything you can help me with, help me. So the guy wanted gold bars. That's what he wanted. Nothing but gold bars. Well, at least they had like a 10-ounce gold bar? One ounce gold bars. At least they had brand names on them, unlike a coin, it's a generic product and serial numbers. So I'm telling people, whether you're elderly or young, be very, very careful because I always read this stuff on the news. This is the first thing I've ever been loosely involved with. Which dollar? Very, very sad story. Very sad.

SPEAKER_01 41:58

Almost as sad as somebody not silencing their phone during a radio show. Which dollar general would that be?

SPEAKER_02 42:04

That'd be Mike, Mike.

SPEAKER_03 42:05

Actually, it was it was the one on uh I'm not sure the road that goes towards the uh Broussard, uh, the Youngsville uh baseball parks.

SPEAKER_01 42:17

I'm I'm gonna say this. I find it highly suspicious that it's two people that he meets in a dollar general. Not saying it couldn't happen. Hey, maybe that's the story he said. Hold on. Well, that's my point. That's the story he said. For two men in a Dollar General to have a random conversation with an elderly gentleman and to somehow figure out that he has enough financial wherewithal to roll $300,000 worth of gold bars to them is highly suspicious. Unless someone in his family or someone who was a former business partner knew. You know what? And they were put up to it. For half of the money.

SPEAKER_03 42:53

The solicitation was done online. The transaction of switching the goal was done at a very secure location, Dollar General.

SPEAKER_02 43:04

Well, so okay, all right. So it would they he was a mark that was made. Correct.

SPEAKER_03 43:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 43:09

He was absolutely marked, which means that somebody who he knew was doing everything they could to extract from him the wealth that they're gonna do.

SPEAKER_02 43:23

Two, it shows uh the the quality of records you keep, right? Uh, and then it shows how everything is traceable, right? We talk about how much money's in the market and the gold backing and everything else. Everything really is traceable if you dig and know how to dig.

SPEAKER_01 43:39

It is, but it isn't because you don't have independent verification of transactions, which is what, by the way, if you tune into the bonus content for implicit bias radio, you'll hear us talk about crypto. And what we did not talk about in that segment, but it is partial to crypto is blockchain. So, how does a blockchain work? It's on a visible ledger, it is on a publicly visible ledger led. Visible ledger where transactions are verified by independent verification, one account to the other. So right now, when you see people getting scram scammed in like Bitcoin and things of this nature, it's not on a publicly regulated ledger.

SPEAKER_02 44:16

No, it's a Nigerian prints and with your uncle.

SPEAKER_01 44:20

Correct. And it goes through non-verified exchanges as opposed to going on a ledger. And when that ledger is out there and it's all verifiable, the fraud becomes really, really transparent. Speaking of transparent, we were given the one-minute finger. We're having fun on this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio. I didn't even get to the topic that I actually wanted to bring about in that last segment for hour one. So we're going to get to segments in hour two that I promise you will be more fun because there will be more weekly whiskey from Champines in Karin Crow. There will be more topics that you will not get in most media outlets. And that means there will be more implicit bias radio. Hour two of implicit bias radio rolls on. I'm your host, Kavan Bordelon. Welcome back to the Mr. Lester's top secret podcast lair somewhere in downtown Lafayette, Louisiana. We're welcomed by the rustic renegade himself, Caleb Morse, at the bar. Louis Pizzolato, the numismatist of gold, of coin and treasure. He buys and sells gold. I think of him, I think of Goldfinger, right? I mean, I just can't help because he's got so much precious metal always around him. By the way, if you're trying to mug him, trust me. No, don't. Anyway, Renee Girard of Piper's haven, Louisiana's only certified master tobacconist. We call him the SiWAT, the certified wizard of tobacco. And I love stories that drop the day that we record shows. Because we do get to give some instant reaction. But this is one. Renee, wear that bell out. No, I said wear it out. I didn't say Yeah. Yeah, but you didn't say anything magical. Well, we don't have to because that bell means the conspiracy theorists were right yet again. I'm tired of being right. Man, look, basically all we have left is flat earth and dragons. Outside of that, everything is.

SPEAKER_02 46:02

No, no, dragons exist. We now we call them dinosaurs.

SPEAKER_01 46:05

Hard to argue. Okay. What wait, a pterodactyl?

SPEAKER_02 46:10

Yes, I pr I pronounced the p.

SPEAKER_01 46:12

It's not a potato. No, it's a pterodactyl. No, it's a pterodactyl. It's a pterodactyl. No, it's a pact. It's a pterodactyl.

SPEAKER_02 46:19

You weren't alive whenever they named it. They probably just stuttered a little bit. Neither were you. No one. All right, water boy. Anyway, okay. She showed her her boobies when I'm like.

SPEAKER_01 46:32

Oh, okay. Look, let's spend, you know what? Let's spend a segment there. Let's spend a segment on, and I don't usually pull stories from the sports world. But the whole Jaden Daniels LSU thing. Oh, holy hell. Talk about just read a room for crying out loud.

SPEAKER_04 46:55

I heard that the government's withdrawing all the $5 bills.

SPEAKER_01 46:58

Yeah. I mean, this the fact this dude is getting clowned everywhere. I mean, can you imagine being in an NFL locker room? And the you have to look the men in that locker room in the eye and go, yeah, I let my mama send a letter to my former school because I was immensely disrespected. What? You let your mama do what? I let my mama run my dating life. I let my mama run my business dealings. And look, having a parent as a confidant, well, it worked for Michael Jordan on the Nike deal. Okay, so let's let's let's talk here. But hold on. Did Michael's mama make the decision or did Michael make the decision and his mama advised?

SPEAKER_04 47:45

His mama, his from what I understand, his mama cut the deal and told Michael, agree to that.

SPEAKER_01 47:52

But but Mike ran his stuff eventually. Oh yeah. Right? Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 47:56

He grew up. I mean, he was in college at the time, you know.

SPEAKER_02 47:58

So he needed her in the beginning. And then whenever he learned that assets and that he couldn't carry himself, the team had to carry everyone. That's where Michael did a lot more. And we look at a lot of people, they get stuck on their mama, and their mom runs everything.

SPEAKER_04 48:13

Mama's a good advisor, but eventually you got to cut them apron strings.

SPEAKER_02 48:17

Yeah, your mom's gonna have your best interest as long as she's a good person, right?

SPEAKER_01 48:20

Hold on. You said two things there. Mom's going to have your best interest to a point, as long as she's a good person, which is another caveat. That's not always the case. Mama is sometimes more interested in mama's money than she is in the kids' money. I know plenty of parents who were like, oh, I gave this to my kid, they're gonna give this back to me. That's not the way this is supposed to work.

SPEAKER_02 48:42

Well, look, it's the South, right? Like, your mama's not doing something for you unless mama's getting something too. No, whoa, no, that is not always the case. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 48:50

No, your mom doesn't give you sweet tea unless you cut the grass. Your mom doesn't do that. Yes, it is the truth. No, no, mom, mom, your mom will set you good. Mom will set mom should set you up.

SPEAKER_02 49:00

Your mom will set you up as long as she's the first lady in your life. The moment you have a the moment you have a proper woman in your life, listen to me, Walker. The moment Kennedy usurps your mother, your mother's gonna send her a text or an email how she's the devil and that Bobby Boucher should look the other way.

SPEAKER_01 49:16

Okay, so let's That's the problem we're really talking about here. I I don't, and this is the crazy part, I don't completely disagree with you, right? Mothers do not like to be usurped out of their son's life. They just don't. You wonder why daughter-in-laws and mother-in-laws don't get along? There you go. It's that simple.

SPEAKER_04 49:32

I'm I'm 64 years old, and my my mom, I was her little boy up until the day she died. Correct.

SPEAKER_01 49:38

Which brings us to the Jaden Daniels thing. But here's here's the problem. When mom gets overinvested, mom can lose sight of the fact that it is time to hand things off. Yeah. And when sons don't take the stand and say, This is not your business anymore.

SPEAKER_02 49:57

Right.

SPEAKER_01 49:58

That's a problem.

SPEAKER_02 49:58

And look, it's not just moms. Dads, dads do this too. Oh, yeah. I know quite a few people. I know some professional football players who, whenever they got their position, dad was like, Look, I'm happy for you, I'm proud of you.

SPEAKER_01 50:09

Look at Tiger Woods. Tiger Woods and his dad did not work out.

SPEAKER_02 50:12

Yeah, and look, the person I'm talking about, their mom, was like, Well, I want a new house. Dad was like, I'm still working, I'm gonna do this. Mom's like, I want a new house. So son bought a new house, leveraged himself, and then whenever the world ran out from under him, mom still got her new house and now he has the debt, right? So no matter what, at the end of the day, you have to look out for the future in the next generation. Because the prior generation and the generation after you isn't gonna look out for you, they're looking out for themselves. Correct. Because the world will force them to be selfish. And if they don't have a good um spiritual or Christian centering, they're gonna put themselves above you.

SPEAKER_01 50:50

But this is why the Bible says a man shall, not should, it's not a suggestion, not oh, you might wanna. No, shall. You will, as a man, leave your mother and father. And that leave goes back to the monologue. It's not geographical, oh, I'm moving across town, I'm moving across the state, I'm moving out of state. It is I am off a yoke payroll. I am going full major pain and making pop yoke out of my mouth so I can grow up and become the man that needs to lead the next generation. And I think it's a big reason why we have the problem that we have is that we don't have, I mean, kids today, as a general rule, don't want to learn to drive on their own. Be out and go take the car and leave and go do their thing. We're literally, as parents, we took ours and said, you will learn to drive, you will get out of the house, you will not be here because this is the expectation. It is not that you are here sitting in your room playing video games, begging for hot pockets, and then if you happen to hit it big on the professional video game player circuit, that we're gonna manage your finances and call. No, that's not how this works.

SPEAKER_03 51:58

You know, I'm just filling y'all up with true stories tonight.

SPEAKER_05 52:01

And this is how it is.

SPEAKER_03 52:03

My mom and dad at my mom at my house, my mom absolutely was the dictator. I remember my little uh niece one day told my mom, you are the dictator. And it was and at four or five years old, you know, I I had to agree with her. But I remember we used to go to my grandmother's house every day, every every Sunday for dinner during the day. And I I remember one time my mom said, We're not going. And my dad said, Listen, that's my mama. And guess what? If you want to fight that battle, you're never gonna win it. And my mom years later told me that's when she realized my dad had become the whole man in the house, not getting pushed around by me. And she admired him for that. And that was the whole conversation right there. And really, that's kind of how the system works. Women tend to kind of like uh push, push, push, push. But you don't have to push back, you just stand your ground, and all of a sudden the whole thing changes.

SPEAKER_01 53:15

And I think that is what brought about the entire conversation around Jaden Daniels. Jaden Daniels, from all the stories that are out there, is not happy about the situation and how it played out with LSU. Literally, I love the way he says, oh, my team sent these letters, young man. If that's your team, own it. If it's your team, tell them what to do. It doesn't work by you saying, oh, my team sent this, I'm letting them deal. No, don't let your mama run your stuff. Stand up, say, no, it's my life, it's my decision. This is how this is gonna work. And if you want to be along for the ride, I will take care of you. But get the out of the way because you are not leading here. And there's the problem. Look, I'm the youngest of three boys. I am the youngest by 11 years. The day that I moved away to college, me, my two roommates, my father, we loaded up the U-Haul. My mother never made it out of the back room of the house. Sat there and cried the whole time I left. And look, my mother, my parents were wonderful. I had a fantastic childhood. You know what I remember? I remember that my mother couldn't get past herself enough to suck it up for an hour and deal with it later. Well, you also remembered throw up in the bathtub. Right? Yeah, I did remember throw up in the bathtub because if you're gonna get drunk, that's a great place to do it. Anyway, if you're so that way you're not doing it in your bed, you can sleep in the bathtub. But no, it it shows I'm surprised you remember that story, Caleb.

SPEAKER_02 54:40

It shows, you know, someone else has to have a priority over you, right? The the law, her emotional loss of her son was more than her ability, was greater than her ability to tell you goodbye and she loved you.

SPEAKER_01 54:54

Correct. Correct. But here's the deal: there are some young men who can't separate. Hey, mom, I love you. I still love you, I'll always love you, but this is not your show anymore. Yeah, and you should use someone else more. My life is not your show to run anymore. And therein lies the challenge, and that I think is what a lot of younger generations have lost, which is I don't want my kids wanting us to run their life. I desire that my daughter and my son come to us and say, here's what we're doing. If they have questions, I'm there to advise. But it is their life at the end of all of it. It's not mine to enforce my feelings, thoughts, pressures, my implicit bias all over. It's just not the way life and the Bible and God says that we should work it. So you know what? We're not gonna do that.

SPEAKER_02 55:48

You know, and how can you truly be proud of someone if they're always doing what you tell them? Because then they're just living, you're living by proxy through them, and they're succeeding or failing by proxy through you. You never give them the chance or opportunity to grow outside of your shadow or your reach if you always yank the chain.

SPEAKER_01 56:07

I'm thrilled that neither of my children will never be me because that way they can be so much more. And that yes. And parents a lot of times lose sight of that because they want to live through their kids. I've seen it being on parental boards. I had to deal with a bunch of dance moms for a solid two weeks, and I'm amazed that I did not commit sepaku after that. Because talk about live your life vicariously. It's not, it's not always that your daughter wanted this her whole life. You wanted this for your daughter's whole life, and that's not the way it's supposed to be. At some point, they become their own person, and we wonder societally why our kids are not living up to the expectations or making the adult decisions we want them to make. Make them be an adult, make them make the damn decision themselves. Now, all of a sudden, see what happens. Renee?

SPEAKER_04 56:55

Yeah, I mean, it's you know, it's amazing that these kids nowadays they they don't want to make the decision. I mean, I I go through this with my daughter all the time. She's taking over the shop, she's and she's doing a good job. But at times I'm like, go out there. But I no, she's got to make the decision to do it.

SPEAKER_02 57:14

Is she is she gonna get be a certified master of tobacconist?

SPEAKER_04 57:17

Is that that her goal?

SPEAKER_02 57:18

I heard you say she was about to take some tests.

SPEAKER_04 57:20

She I she keeps wanting to, and I say, well, go study.

SPEAKER_02 57:24

Well, the beauty of it is the you, when you did all this, you had to garner and build all this knowledge.

SPEAKER_04 57:29

Right.

SPEAKER_02 57:30

And she has you to lean on upon.

SPEAKER_04 57:32

Yeah, she's got yeah, me to ask questions and how to do it. That that's but she hasn't taken that initiative yet. Well, and maybe But I'm not gonna force her.

SPEAKER_02 57:39

That's her decision. Our goal as parents are to take these little concentrated versions of ourselves and amplify everything we good, everything good we could have been. Correct. Yeah. You know, like if your children don't outdo you, shame on you for being a dirtbag. Like, and I have no other way to put that. Your child should be better than you because you should do everything in your power to build them up where you failed. Ring the bell because that is so incredibly true.

SPEAKER_04 58:05

But the thing is though, what what happens when they don't want to take the initiative to do that?

SPEAKER_02 58:09

If they don't want to, that's fine. They're different people. Right. Both of my children, my two boys, are very different than one another. Oh, yeah. They both have all of my good and all of my bad qualities, all my wife's good qualities. She has no bad, right? Uh so they have smooth answer. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 58:25

So they have they have this- You can puck her up and kiss that one on the rear end.

SPEAKER_02 58:29

They have they have these two really good platforms to build everything for. And look, the world is at the world is at their fingertips. If they don't want to reach out and grab it, I can't force them.

SPEAKER_04 58:39

Right.

SPEAKER_02 58:39

Because then I'm just trying to live my life through them. Right. If they have to make that decision. Yeah, if one of them wants to sit around in his underwear and play video games all day and do not a damn thing, not in my house. Not on my payrolls, he can do it somewhere else.

SPEAKER_01 58:52

Well, so so this is where the beautiful part about letting your children suffer. He's moving in Walker. He's moving in Walker, by the way.

SPEAKER_02 58:58

Yeah. Oh, so they're gonna play Xbox and Bett Hall Sportsbook together.

SPEAKER_01 59:02

But here's but to your point, here's here's where that part of where suffering can be good. Because I had a conversation with one of my children who blew through some savings and some things, having fun in college, which happens. And I care enough about him to let it happen. And I told him, I'm like, look, you're not going to starve, but I am also loving you enough that a can of peas might be dinner tonight. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 59:29

You know, after you get a vasectomy, you have plenty of bags of those lime.

SPEAKER_01 59:32

Because when you figure out when you figure out that that's not what you want out of your life, maybe that's when the light bulb comes on, and you go, oh, I have to do something different if I want more. So that conversation of pushing them to the point of being uncomfortable absolutely works. And it's why, I mean, you look at a guy like Jaden Daniels, who this is funny because things are starting to come out as we go back to this story. I did not know that Arizona State ran into major NCAA problems due to recruiting because take a guess who was involved in setting up improper visits from recruits. Jaden's mom. Oh, snap. Wait, what does she have to do with that? She is his official legal representation as far as an agent goes. And she was, she offered and became an intermediary to set up illegal visits to ASU for recruits because then the school wasn't technically violating the rules, but she wanted to make sure that those kids visited to make her son look better. So this is, I mean, at the end of the day, this is the thing that has to happen where we've got to say, look, I care enough about you to let you fail, and the cream will rise to the top, and your life will be what God plans it to be, not what I plan it to be. Speaking of which, I didn't have a plan for when Walker gave us the one-minute finger. So I just gave him the regular finger back and told him that we're going to take a break. We'll come back, we'll dive back into more topics on Implicit Bias Radio. Dang dang on the fang fang on this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio. I'm your host, Kaban Bordela. What's that for, Renee?

SPEAKER_04 1:01:08

Just because of the segment.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:10

Look, okay, so pure transparency as much as we can on the show. We often have deep philosophical conversations during what translates to a break as we record. The conversation in the last episode was the lengths to which females will many times overreach when given the opportunity. And it just so happened that the day we recorded this episode, there was a major news story that broke about the fact that we as men, our biggest weakness is women. So Eric Swallowswell, for those who don't know the name.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:44

Walker, you dropped your big cup, by the way.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:47

Oh Lord. Oh dear God, you made me look over there and he did hike those pants up. I told you. I warned you earlier. It's hot.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:53

He's wearing capris now. How does hiking up your pants make it cooler?

SPEAKER_01 1:01:57

Walker, you turned your slacks into coolats. I don't know what's going on over there. That is horrific. Okay, so back to the story. So Eric Swallowswell, United States Congressman out of California.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:10

Well, soon to be former.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:11

Yeah, soon to be former. Anyone remember what the big dust up around him was?

SPEAKER_04 1:02:17

Besides him uh releasing gas? Oh, that's okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:21

So he did have the, I'm trying to think of a the grotesque flatulence how about this? A flatulence index of DEF CON 1 on on the air on television. Yes. That was funny.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:35

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:36

What's the part that wasn't funny though?

SPEAKER_04 1:02:38

Oh, that you know, he was having um relations with a Chinese spy.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:44

I love the way you say that. Like, like we are Hercules, Hercules, Hercules. I would give that man nice and warm loving relations. Yeah, he was giving relations to Feng Feng, which is her true Chinese name.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:56

Yes. And he said before he said no, no, no, no. And today he's like, Yeah, I did that.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:04

Yeah. Well, apparently he did more than that because Feng Feng dropped two interns on his staff as well.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:09

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:10

And what we now know, please don't believe us on this story. Please go look this up because we don't want you to take our word for it. Wasn't Feng Fang the name of somebody in Big Trouble in Little China? I don't think so.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:20

Oh I don't think it feels like it should have been. Sorry, I think it is.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:23

I think they should just nickname him Big Trouble in Little China because apparently, well, he might be Little Trouble. Little Trouble in Little China. Yeah, because he does not seem like he's got that energy. Anyway, this guy has a Chinese spy that he is sleeping with, having an affair with. She drops interns into his staff that we now know have access to because he is on. Well, he was a senator, correct? No, he's a congressman. He was a congressional intelligence committee. Exactly. And he had access to stuff, and his staffers had access to stuff that was classified. Yeah. The FBI wanted to investigate him.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:58

They wanted to use the only one. You got to remember, Feinstein's chauffeur was a spy, also. Correct. Chinese spy for years. But my point here is remember the Democrats. California's got something going on.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:11

The Democrats were all behind Swallowswell even after this came out. Now we're getting confirmation that the FBI wanted to investigate. They wanted to use Feng Feng as their own informant when they figured out she was a spy for China.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:23

Right.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:24

And then we find out, and this is the big one, that the guy leading the investigation into Eric Swallowswell was a guy by the name of Jack Smith.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:33

Yeah, but Smith is a very common name. And I'm sure there's a lot of Jacks out there with that name.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:40

There aren't a lot of Jack Smiths. It can't be the same one. There aren't a lot of Jack Smiths who end up becoming special counsels and investigating a president of the United States. The same one? The same one. How convenient. Look, Renee's gone all church lady and Dana Cardi.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:58

Could it be that special?

SPEAKER_01 1:04:59

Could it be, yeah, I need I need a big reverb here or a big sustain here, Walker. Can you do that? Walker's paying attention. He's not even paying attention, he's on his phone. Could it be? Could it be Satan? Yeah, it absolutely could. It absolutely could. But we are now figuring all of this out that Jack Smith was initially in charge of it and then kind of submarine the investigation. Because initially the FBI said we want to investigate Swallows well. And then they went, yeah, no, we'll only be allowed to investigate Feng Feng. And then it leaked that they were investigating Feng Feng. She fled the country and they went, Oh, so sorry. Too little, too late. This is all over again. Please don't believe us on this. Almost like someone paid for them to let her go and not prosecute her or anyone else who was tied to that spy ring.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:53

Well, when you look at his position, right? And the people that were involved with this. Oh, I thought you were saying on all fours.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:59

Anyway, he made

SPEAKER_02 1:06:00

May have been, right? Or maybe there's a swing involved or two. You never know. A little um P D Diddy baby oil. So there was a lot of that though. When you look at his position, do you think this is the first time? No. No. He's already announced his retirement from Congress or his separation, right? Uh earlier because of other sexual misconducts. Right.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:20

Well, yeah, it was because of some interns. I wonder if it's the same interns. Them Chinese chicks are hot. Renee, go ahead.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:30

I guess ring the bell.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:31

I guess that's all the Sriracha and Wasabi. I'm not really sure, to be honest with you.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:35

Okay, so let me let me ask you this. When all of this was happening, was it under when when Jack Smith decided?

SPEAKER_01 1:06:41

No, I think he was on top.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:43

When Jack Smith decided not to prosecute this, this was during the Biden administration. So here's what Biden was pretty tight with China at the time. Oh, Renee.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:55

You know, so you mean there might have been some pressure from a big guy?

SPEAKER_01 1:06:58

Yeah. Who was getting 10%? 10%. Yeah. I'm thinking. Renee. I I love that you're putting together the Legos on this because this is not dominoes, this is Legos. This is all built up to look like something.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:11

It can't be dominoes or Legos because those are both American. It would have to be like Mahjong. Legos is Danish. Legos are Maejong tiles.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:19

But Mahjong tiles are just matching tiles. This is not a lot of things.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:22

It's like Chinese dominoes, is all Maejong is. Yep. Legos is Danish and they build up. Yep. These are they click together and hold and they stick together very well.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:30

These are absolutely Legos because it almost said something. They all build upon each other. And we're don't go down that route, please. We're probably gonna have to edit enough of this show on that. No, no, we're good.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:41

We're good.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:41

I wasn't gonna go down the sticky route, which is I know where you were heading. Yep. See, had it right. Anyway, this whole scenario tells us everything we need to know about politics as it is today, which is Diane Feinstein. Nancy Pelosi. So here's the fun part. All of this was known about him that he was compromised, that he might have been being blackmailed, and I say might have been that he was allegedly blackmailed by the Chinese government when Pelosi continued to put him on the Congressional Intelligence Committee.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:14

I was getting scared because we're talking about sexual misconduct, and you talk about Diane Feinstein and Pelosi, and I was like, That's cringe, but no, we're not going.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:21

We're not going down the route of her husband ending up having the cops called to his house when some dude who apparently was invited over.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:28

He was asked to be there. He wasn't that he was asked to leave when they were done.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:32

That's and he didn't want to leave when they were done, which is uh anyway. Just because they were done doesn't mean he was done. Yeah, that's a whole nother story. But my point is, I mean, think about think about all the nefarious activity going on around these people that shows these kind of radically what what they prioritize, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:08:50

That they care about the power and everything else. All they're trying to do is leverage their power, be it in this kind of manner or in a political manner.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:57

Well, and you look at you look at most of this is happening around the California uh representation. The either the senators or the congress people. I mean, you look at all of them, both sides. Schiff, you look at Schiff, you look at Nadler, you look at uh Schwartz. No, Nadler's New York, isn't he? Well, I don't know. He hangs out with all of those people. Renee's on a rule, Renee's on a rule. You know, it wasn't over when the Germans bombed right. But I mean, it's just it's it's crazy. I mean, look at all the the stuff with Newsom with the mask, and uh it's just so aggravating. I the the whole government overreach is just aggravating.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:35

Well, I mean, look, Renee, you say that like, you say that like Gavin Newsome like cheated on his wife with their nanny and got rid of his wife to marry the nanny later. I mean, you say that like uh oh, wait. Anyway, that's that's a whole different thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:50

And he's not the first California governor to do that.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:52

No. But here in so herein lies kind of my run to the chopper. Herein lies my my problems with almost all of this, which is these are the same people who love to jump up and say the guy in the White House now is corrupt. The guy in the White House now wants to traffic kids and have all this. You're talking about multiple Californian politicians tied to sexual misconduct, sexual blackmail, sexual leverage for whatever it is that they're doing. And I don't know what Swallows well is eating to make him break wind like a small packaderm.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:28

But oh, you went old, you an old Gen Z just now.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:31

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:31

Yeah, absolutely. Chaco Bell did originate in California. It did. It did.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:36

My point is these are these people do not recognize their own hypocrisy.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:40

Lewis, real quick before we're the bottom line is, you know, I guess I'm I'm I'm a pretty balanced guy when I think about it sometimes. The balance is how many of these people have been seriously indicted and or convicted for anything that they do. That's when I wonder about the entire system.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:03

It's all one big club. It's a club.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:06

I always said this there's no two, there's not Republicans and Democrats. There's Republicans. There's them and us. There's Dem Republicans, and then there's us. That's what it boils down to. I mean, it just, you know, think about it. I mean, yeah, they busted, busted, busted, busted, but what came out of it? Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:23

Hopefully that doesn't last long, much like this next break. We will come back. Penultimate segment of this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio right after this. Penultimate segment of this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio. We're doing a really good job of making Walker incredibly uncomfortable here in the Mr. Lester's TSPL. I'm telling you, that's the best advice I've ever given anyone to the audio. And he's giving marital advice, by the way. Don't listen.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:45

Oh, you should speak great advice. You know that.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:47

No, no. You know what great advice is? Great advice is to go down to Mr. Lester's Steakhouse, Cypress Bayou Casino, and get the flight for August. This is an absurd flight. Get the flight and then pair it with prime rib. Pair it with a double cut bone in prime rib chops.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:05

74 ounces.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:06

Yes. So for those wondering what the special whiskey is, what the whiskey flight is, Renee, do you know? Do you remember?

SPEAKER_04 1:12:13

No, but I just 74 ounces of prime rib, that'll feed a family of 10.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:17

Or apparently one 180-pound hungry man. Yeah. Yeah. And that that was not me.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:23

Here's the flight. The flight is this. It is a Colonel Taylor flight. Small batch. It is small batch, rye, and single barrel, uncut, unfiltered, a flight for $25. That's single barrel, uncut, unfiltered.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:35

Good luck finding that by itself for $25.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:38

It is near I dare I say, is it the little death?

SPEAKER_02 1:12:45

The petite mort.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:46

Yes. Is is it is it that level of satisfaction? It's it's close.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:52

It's you know, I've been close before.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:55

Oh God, don't. That dangling participle out there is one I don't want to touch.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:59

Yeah, yeah. It's it's it's near.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:00

That was one hand or two hands?

SPEAKER_02 1:13:02

One.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:04

For Caleb, it was two fingers and a thumb.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:07

Yeah, they just call me 10 pounds because I'm like a bowling ball.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:12

All right, no, seriously, that that flight at Mr. Lesnar's. It's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:16

It really is.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:17

Yes. It is just so good and so incredible. Okay. Speaking of which, there is another offer that is out there that we do have to make sure that we tell our people about. We're actually going to do a very short bonus content that I'm going to put out everywhere to remind people about September 17th. Tickets are on sale, Ambassador Wine and Spirits After Dark with the implicit bias crew. We are going to be there. We'll be there for Heaven Hill next week. I'm looking forward to that night. I really do. Oh, dude, this is going to be such an outstanding night.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:45

Well, they're doing their standard tickets and they're doing an upgraded ticket, which includes an offering by Heaven Hill, does it not? It does. We don't know what bottle it is just yet. That's the beauty. We don't need to know the bottle because it's a whopping.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:56

How much? 50 bucks. 50 bucks. The VIP ticket. Here's the bottles that you will be able to taste from. And look, these bottles are subject to change, and I'm told if it changes, the change grade will only go up. So we're talking an old fit seven year. They will have a larceny barrel pick, which we know how much we love.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:15

You stop that.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:16

There's going to be an Elijah Craig Sportsman's Paradise Barrelproof.

unknown 1:14:20

What?

SPEAKER_01 1:14:20

Wait, what's a Sportsman's Paradise Barrelproof? It's that special release bottle.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:24

Is that finished in like uh red snapper barrels?

SPEAKER_01 1:14:27

Nope, nope, we're not going for snapper flavor, Caleb, despite as much as you would like that. We're going with a Heaven Hill grained of glass weeded, which we've had here. Oh my god. A Henry McKenna 10, a Widow Jane Lucky 13. Those are the initial offerings. They are subject to change. If they change, it's only going to go up. You mean that's the floor? That's the floor. Correct. Tickets. The floor is lava. Regular tickets are 30 bucks. The VIP ticket that gets a bottle is 50. How many VIP tickets are there? Well, there's only going to be a certain number of tickets, period.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:58

So I don't know if you're smart, you'll just buy VIP tickets.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:01

Correct. Just buy the VIP ticket, take a bottle with you, guaranteed. Yeah. And there's going to be an opportunity. There will be an opportunity to buy additional allocated bottles at these events. So there are going to be bottles that you can buy at MSRP that if your ticket gets pulled, congratulations, you get it at MSRP.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:20

And man, I've bought I've bought tequila there during these events. I've bought bourbon there at these events. I bought rye there at these events. It's all fantastic stuff. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:32

Go ahead, Renee. You wanted to say something? Um no, I'm just, I'm going to be there. We're looking forward to Renee being. I'm going to be there. Yeah, Lewis, we hope you're coming. We hope the Numismatist is there. Renee's Renee's going to be there.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:44

And they're I'll probably be in the back smoking a cigar because they won't let me smoke in the city.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:49

You never know if there's a cigar element. Lewis has told us that every person who buys a ticket as a joke is going to get a full gold coin, one ounce gold coin provided by Queen and Treasure.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:00

I'm going to make I'm going to provide the gold coins exactly like the gold bars, loaded with lead. With lead. There you go.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:08

Walker, you're coming, right? It sounds pretty interesting. I got a text about it. So it might come.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:14

That's a might you just say no. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:17

You never know. I don't have anything planned. I've just looked at my calendar.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:20

Well, then it sounds like that's very non-committal of you.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:23

That's like a three-year engagement. Okay, no, I love that you brought that up. Not Ashley, you pay someone. Yeah, I know you've paid Ashley plenty of times. We don't want to hear about that. That's illegal. Anyway.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:38

Only illegal if you don't get if you get caught. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:42

Tell that to Kennedy. Anyway. She doesn't listen. So if you want tickets, where do you get them? How do you get them? You have to go to Ambassador Wine and Spirits to buy your tickets in person. You go there, they put you on the list, they give you a little red ticket that actually correlates to a ticket number.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:57

Well, and you have to tell them the code word, too, don't you? Like Mr. Fluffy wears pants at night.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:01

No, that's no, that's we're not going.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:05

So just me? They they just made me say that? They just made you say that, Caleb. They just made you say that.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:09

And just for people that are kind of like out of the circle like me, what date is it and what time, families?

SPEAKER_01 1:17:15

September 17th, 7 to 9. September 17th, 7 to 9 p.m. So it's after Coin and Treasure closes, Lewis.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:21

Yep. You can be there. It's a Thursday. Yep. Look, it's an easy day for me to remember because it's one of my brother's birthdays.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:28

So it's a great way for you to tell your brother, hey, I'm not with you. I'm here, and you should be here on your birthday. Not kidding. Okay, so go buy your tickets. If you don't get them now, trust me, they're gonna run out. My understanding is they've only got like 40 tickets, 50 tickets. It's not gonna be a time.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:43

It's not a huge event, but it really is a great event.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:46

Yep. And for 50 bucks and you get a bottle. And look, you want to talk to us about any topic you want to talk about. Trust me, we won't listen. We won't talk to you. I'm kidding. We will absolutely listen. We will absolutely talk. We'll give you our opinion.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:58

We have an opinion about everything. We've even tried being at separate tables and it didn't work.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:03

Correct. We have tried this before. Speaking of which, let's jump back into our show and remember, go buy your tickets there, make your reservations.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:11

Oh, wait, we have a job to do. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:12

Yeah, we do. Um, Randall Lane. Anyone remember Randall Lane and his former job, what it was?

SPEAKER_04 1:18:18

No.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:19

He was a chief content officer at Forbes magazine.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:23

Oh, that dude.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:24

He got fired. You know why he got fired? Because he was taking money under the table. There is such a thing as payola in the media industry, which is taking money to provide extra coverage without saying, hey, this is advertising.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:40

In other words, see, he messed up and didn't say it was advertising.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:44

Well, it's only six million dollars. I was about to say that's like one page ad. You know, a six six million dollars to someone like Walker, that's a drop in the bucket. That's a one-page ad in Forbes.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:55

You know, look, that is only one stone on Kennedy's ring for Walker.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:59

Yeah, six million. She has a she has a 12 karat ring, right?

unknown 1:19:04

No?

SPEAKER_02 1:19:05

What Renee? You just got to go.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:06

Oh, Renee wants the whiskey. Yeah. Renee wants more whiskey. Listen, six million dollars is a lot of money, but there's probably more six million dollar deals along the way that have not been, should we say, cop to, but probably by Forbes too, because it doesn't make them look good either.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:23

So here's ring the bell, Lewis, because I think you're spot on.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:26

He was in charge of the 30 and the 30, too. And look, I pushed my butt off and they never noticed me.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:32

So he's not the only one who didn't notice you. The six million dollar deal that you're talking about, to your point, that is what they got caught on. He probably took way more than that under the table than six million dollars. It's what they could prove. It's what they could prove. Correct, Renee. Wait, so I it was just an error in judgment. It wasn't intentional. This is the funny part. What they are trying to say is they're trying to downplay this and say, oh, it was probably just for advice that he gave to this person that he took the six million dollars. They're not firing him for consulting outside of the business to the tune of six million dollars.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:11

He's a longtime friend who happened six million dollars to his friend is nothing. And that's how we should look at it. It was it's pocket change.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:19

As my father used to say, son, don't bolt a bolt. And that's the problem, which is yeah, we told you that there were people in the media on the take. The Trump administration released a list of journalists who were taking money from the Chinese government. Well, now hold on. I don't know that it was a Trump administration. We have a list of people who allegedly took money from the Chinese government during the 2020 election cycle, then 2016 election cycle. But my point is, this is one who was caught. This is what they caught him for. Lewis, you want to chime in real quick before we break?

SPEAKER_03 1:20:52

You know, it it it comes back. Half of our conversations and I have been about essentially boils down to one thing: money for something. And that's what it boils down to. Speaking of which, what powers that be are there to have someone enrich them more and more. They're willing to give a few shekels out, but they're looking to enrich themselves more and more and more.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:16

You know what? We are not gonna give some shekels out, but we will take some shekels in this commercial break to make sure we can bring you more of implicit bias radio. Ring that bell, Renee, because this segment is all about you. This segment proves that Renee Girard knows exactly what he is talking about. The certified wizard of tobacco is a prestidigitator. He can predict the future. I can't even say that word. Renee, you once said on this show, I believe that there is something to do with all of these blue hair colors and unnatural hair colors and mental illness. Yes. And take a guess what a study has figured out. Please don't believe us on this. I was right again. Renee was right. The conspiracy theorists, yet again, it's not a conspiracy. Right? It's not a theory. It is full-on a conspiracy because, yes, a study has linked that people who dye their hair, unnatural hair colors, are linked to mental illness. Does this shock you, Renee?

SPEAKER_04 1:22:17

Not at all. Why? Well, just because you look at in the past few years, all these blue hair, purple haired, green haired, orange hair, they're just raven idiots. I'm telling you, FDA needs to do a study and it'll show that the hair color makes you crazy.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:36

It's the other way around. That's the that's the interesting part.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:39

Well, I think it's their interest in anime that makes them crazy.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:42

I think I think it's the hair color. They get, they see it, and they think, oh, this will look cool. And once they dye their hair, then they go crazy. Okay, so here's No, no, it's they were crazy before they dyed their hair.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:54

It's okay, and that is the great debate. Is it the hair color that makes you crazy, or is it wanting the hair color that makes you crazy?

SPEAKER_02 1:23:01

And whatever killer you do, right? I I think it's the the outward expression of your lunacy. I absolutely agree. And look, if you want to dye your hair whatever color, I'm gonna say it's whatever color you want to do, go ahead. And see, I'm not talking about, you know, getting rid of the gray and just going to the natural brown or black. One of my aunts.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:21

Unnatural, unnatural hair color.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:24

One of my aunts would dye her hair. And look, she she was going gray for a while. She would dye her hair and she put a little purple stripe. English teacher, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:23:31

Just a little crazy. A little purple. Purple's not a natural color.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:34

She's in my family, trust me, she's crazy. So I think it just kind of goes to feed it all. Like whenever you do this, whatever you do, if you dye your hair neon green, purple, blue, uh, white, whatever it is, that is a call for attention because you are starved for attention.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:51

So I don't disagree with you, Caleb. What I believe is that it is your desire for an unnatural hair color, is your desire to not be a natural human being. It is your desire to be extra human, transhuman, whatever. And I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:05

The first time I saw Tug walking around with a bridle and a saddle on his back, I was like, Tug, do you do you need a hug? And he goes, No, I need a rider.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:14

For those who don't know, Tug is also known as Aaron, who is the video producer for this show. And that's just some strange stuff, which I hate to say doesn't surprise me.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:22

Anyway, Lewis, you were gonna chime in. I'm trying to think of it. It always amazes me. The woman that's the representative from some northeast state that has this the purple hair. The purple hair Oh, Stephen Wakowski. What's her name? Dominated up. No, I know the one you're talking about.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:43

She's like 90 years old.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:44

She's as nutty as a fruitcase. I mean, it's crazy. And I'm looking at her and I'm thinking, other than having an extra seat in a house, how do you so how do you put somebody that looks like that?

SPEAKER_01 1:24:59

Oh, is the whole world turned upside down? It's not that the whole world is turned upside down. It's it's it's two things in my opinion. The first thing is that it's people who are also crazy who we cannot take away or have the right to do. Rosa Deloreo. Right. And that's number one. Number two, it's fraud. Because I'm still not convinced that every election in this country is on the up and up, and we've got plenty of proof out there that says we're right on that.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:26

Well, and people vote for them because they're like, look, they have a they have an opinion and they're bold. If they were had an opinion, they were bold and they wanted to be, they wanted to be wild, they'd have a face tattoo because that's permanent. They have a temporary hair color. All they did was they wiped left-handed one time, right? So don't give them credit when it's not due.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:48

This this is what just it doesn't amaze me, yet it does, because it is such a logical explanation. And I think a lot of people call this out again. Please don't believe us on this. Go look up the study. Unnatural hair color linked to signs of mental illness.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:05

Is there a brand new that? Is there a brand of hair dye that's crazier than another? Oh, I don't even know. No, I think the color. I think it's more the color.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:12

Is it Joker Green? Is there a Pantone color? Like what is I don't even know what Pantone color is. What, dude, when did you start wearing a spot? Pantone's the official and high heels.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:21

Like that's how they rate. Every shade, every color shade is Mincy five colors. Like, yeah, black, white, red, orange, green. Boom. Done. Yeah. Right? Everything else is a variation of that.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:30

Well, see, you all I can say is Caleb, you miss out because I do see pink. Anyway. What, Renee? What's funny about that? I don't know what's funny about that.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:37

It's a shade of red. A lighter shade. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:41

My point is, I think any logical human being has always known this. You see people walking around with a hair color, and you're like, that's not natural. And you're like, what's their issue? Yes, they knew that. They were like, oh, highlighter. Yeah. But I mean, my point is the people who don't do that look at that and go, what's up with them? What's their immediately the question that jumps into people's heads is, what's their problem? Right. But unfortunately, now for anyone to say that, right? And I mean, I don't necessarily mean like problem like to say what's their problem, you have to No, to say what's their problem. I mean, over what? See, and I always think 1920, 2021. I always think you can get in trouble for that.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:19

I always think that these people with these weird hair colors, they also have to tell you their pronouns too.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:25

I I did talk to somebody this weekend who was like, I'm a they them. And I was like, there's only one of you here.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:30

Yes. Where are they?

SPEAKER_01 1:27:32

Well, there's only you. And look, the whole thing is you can still call me, by the way. You can still, Renee, you can still have an awful that doesn't have that hair color that needs their pronouns, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:27:42

No, that's true.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:43

Right.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:43

But the pro the the hair color almost guaranteed is gonna have pronouns.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:49

Well, and like, look, last time I went to the self-checkout at Walmart, I saw purple hair, and I was like, I'm not going to that cleric.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:55

And here's the best part. The best part is now, Renee, you can reference a study that says there is a high probability that if that's who you are, you are mentally ill. That's that's the best part of all of this.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:06

No, the best part about this is that somebody got paid to do this study. I didn't need a damn study. I knew this off the bat.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:13

Well, Renee, that's because you are the all-know, all-seeing certified wizard of tobacco. Actually, I believe you are the certified terrestrial wizard of tobacco now. Yep. The C T Watt. Yes. C T WAT. The certified terrestrial wizard of tobacco. Yeah, the C T T WAT. Yeah, there you go. So I just I listened to this and I go, man, this made sense. We finally get some validation. I finally feel like I've been validating.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:40

We've been validating what you should dye your hair again.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:43

No, because I'm not crazy. You should go ahead. Nope, not crazy. Not crazy. Don't need to dye my hair in unnatural color. Now, here's the deal. An unnatural color would look good on you. But here's the deal. If I went blonde, if I went blonde. Like if I went full-on dumb college. Oh, like legally blonde? Like full on peroxide bleach in the hair. Oh, yes. Sunday.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:04

That was big when we were young. What? Yeah, sun in. You don't remember that? I never. Nope. Must have been an Opalousis thing. It was like well, maybe it was.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:13

Help me out here, Toad. Were you going like full on it was fast and furious? It was like Frosted Tips. What was his name? Paul, the actor who did the yeah, you were at full Frosted Tips. I can see that. That's Caleb's new nickname, Frosted Tips. You know, you know.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:28

I tried it once.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:30

Go ahead, Renee. What were you gonna say? You were gonna say something.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:33

Nothing.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:33

Nothing. I got nothing. This is the only time that Renee has ever been rendered speechless on Implicit Bias Radio, which means that yes, the world has come to an end, or at least this week's episode has. We appreciate you listening, watching. Please share with your friends, tell your buddies, tell everybody out there, sit down with us next week, grab a bottle, have it ready so you can share a pour with us, solve the problems of the world, one weekly whiskey at a time, and have more of your implicit bias. We'll see you in seven.