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Paul:Which one is this? ATV fuel?
Chrissy:Yeah. Yeah. Lemonade, peach shots That's from a Vodka and Malibu. And What is it?
Paul:I will
Chrissy:Say it again. Peach schnapps. Peach schnapps. Malibu. Malibu.
Chrissy:Lemonade. Lemonade. And vodka. And vodka. K.
Chrissy:And what is it called? ATV fuel? Yes. Do me up, son. Hook that.
Chrissy:Hook her up. Thanks. You gotta hook her,
Paul:hook her.
Chrissy:I love this until I heard Malibu, but I love everything else. But we gotta give her a whirl. We're gonna try it out.
Paul:You can smell the Malibu. It's kinda potent.
Chrissy:Here we go.
Paul:But Malibu is Oh,
Chrissy:that's kinda different. On a boat. It would be good on a boat. It said a k a jungle juice, so that definitely sounds
Paul:like a boat.
Chrissy:Yeah. Yeah. Jungle juice?
Paul:This is what that's what it tastes like. Just a bunch of shit
Chrissy:you're Otherwise known as
Paul:Fucking in high school.
Chrissy:In here, Caleb. He's camera shy. Oh, you are? Oh,
Paul:it's tight in there. It's tight. That's really good. Wow. You're gonna drink the
Chrissy:whole thing?
Paul:I'm just
Chrissy:here to get That's for you guys to try too.
Paul:I'm just here to get fucked up and get fucked up shit.
Chrissy:Another one. Oh, there are no. Mixed drink instead since we just did that one. They are flavored. Really haven't even scored
Paul:any Angry Orchard, Billy,
Chrissy:What do you give this out of a 10?
Paul:An eight.
Chrissy:An eight? Caleb's gives it an eight. Solid eight. Yeah. An eight?
Chrissy:Actually. Like, it's not just best. We've had, like, several tens. I give it an eight.
Paul:Yeah. You don't taste the Malibu so much in this.
Chrissy:That's what I was worried about. No. If you mix them really good. Yeah.
Paul:I mean, you
Chrissy:can taste that strong.
Paul:It's not it's not as I
Chrissy:felt like I put
Paul:nothing but alcohol in it. Yeah. It's not as potent as you would.
Chrissy:Tap around Well, when we're all crawling. Of here, Madison. It's literally like tripping tunes.
Paul:Sorry. Friday night Just hook everything up to the keel.
Chrissy:Yeah. Can get some eight. What do you say, Polly?
Paul:Yeah. Say a seven. I don't like I don't like the tartness of it.
Chrissy:Turk. It's usually
Paul:gonna taste
Chrissy:everything. Well, once we get going, he's gonna this is fucking delicious. The jungle part makes sense.
Paul:Yeah. It's it's a
Chrissy:lot of jungle dudes
Paul:for sure.
Chrissy:We got all these off of Chet GPT. Thank you, Chet GPT.
Paul:Dude, I love that fucking ad.
Chrissy:Jesus. I'm still a I've never used it. What? I no. Are you still it?
Paul:Literally. Yeah.
Chrissy:I'm a YouTuber.
Paul:Chet it.
Chrissy:How many Google thinks it has a tap for the AI. Yes. Yes. I chat GQT. Everything.
Chrissy:Everything. Can't live without it. Or Grock. Grock is pretty good too. Don't think Grock
Paul:is Grock. That's Same thing.
Chrissy:Elon Musk's AI.
Paul:Oh. Well, who owns ChatGTV? Google. Well, of course
Chrissy:they do. Does, doesn't it? Don't think I I I don't even know. That's what I thought too. I think Google owns ChatGPT, I believe.
Paul:That shit's fucking game changer, man. Me can
Chrissy:literally fucking Like, if you are on Twitter, you can get on Grab. I believe you were You guys have liquor. On the mini bike run.
Paul:Told her we gotta go.
Chrissy:Yes. Dude, it's You don't allow dirt bikes. Fun. He has a loud ass two stroke two fifty.
Paul:I got a 300.
Chrissy:And I already said
Paul:mini bikes?
Chrissy:You can do whatever you want. Sean is a riddle. Mike says mini bikes only, but I say if it's her, she can drink whatever.
Paul:If you just show up I do. They're gonna kick you out.
Chrissy:Chinese pitter, $1.25. You You guys go bar
Paul:hopping on?
Chrissy:Yeah. That's what we do. We just bar hopping.
Paul:This happened before it even started last year. Yeah. Oh,
Chrissy:yeah. Because his collarbone.
Paul:Oh, that
Chrissy:He didn't even make it a foot. Well, maybe two foot. What'd you do?
Paul:I was riding a three wheeler that we hadn't fully fucking Or ran out of. We didn't we didn't do all the r and d that need to be done.
Chrissy:And Oh, no.
Paul:No. We had a two fat of a front tire. So when it came down, it grabbed the tar and twisted the bars this way, and I went that way. Yeah. Really?
Paul:Yeah. Know, like those HJC, like, ones you see online, the mini three three trikes? Mini trikes to do the wheelies? Oh, like, those like yeah. That's exactly what it was, but we yeah.
Paul:We put too big of a I should say. No. We Adam. We didn't we didn't put a skinny enough tire, so it grabbed. And it's like it hadn't been really tested.
Paul:Adam
Chrissy:was riding it and test driving it on dirt, on a dirt road, not on tar.
Paul:Well, in wet different balcony.
Chrissy:Wet grass too. So Yep.
Paul:It wasn't the tar wasn't grabbing the front tire like it did. Yeah, I think didn't he quit riding halfway through it?
Chrissy:He stopped. Like, he was on the minibike run. He said it was so fucking sketchy on the tar.
Paul:Yeah. He
Chrissy:goes, I can't can't do it. Like, it's he goes,
Paul:they kicked
Chrissy:in the middle of the minibike run. He goes, oh, I'm done.
Paul:He's getting the win. Lucky boat ride.
Chrissy:Oh my gosh. Tandy jumpers.
Paul:So you go out and play with it. Yeah. I can't do that. You're not Yeah. I seen them in an outhouse I was in.
Chrissy:A sticker.
Paul:He's in
Chrissy:an outhouse. He he did. No. He texted me
Paul:because I was taking a crap
Chrissy:out her ass. Shitter.
Paul:You're alive, though, Andy. Don't know. Panty dropper or no panty dropper? I don't know. No, dude.
Chrissy:It's Angry Orchard. How much panty dropper could it be?
Paul:The panty dropper. Dropping, Danny? Oh, dude. That margarita's a panty dropper. Wine there.
Chrissy:Oh, yeah. That was I'm
Paul:gonna say that wine.
Chrissy:Like this? Kinda. Do you like this? So this is the what is it this one called? The berry something?
Paul:Berry bewitched.
Chrissy:Berry bewitched. Deliver this? Yeah. Oh, I'm not gonna lie. It's just works for Dalheimer.
Paul:What? I worked for Christie for six years too. Dude, help
Chrissy:it. He did. Yep. Sponsor me.
Paul:I'm a nobody.
Chrissy:Make it out. Hey.
Paul:Do you know
Chrissy:person that works there?
Paul:Do you know or remember Jenny Page? She worked with us? Yeah.
Chrissy:Yes. She was a salesperson. Yeah. Got from her. She was my salesperson for
Paul:a while. Would have been, fuck, ten
Chrissy:Super cool.
Paul:Ten years ago? Ten, twelve years ago?
Chrissy:10 guys when he was my salesperson. She replaced him. She was super cute, super pretty.
Paul:You guys seen her. So many people I wanna knew her. Yeah.
Chrissy:Yeah. You would've noticed her out of Dollheimer. Yeah. Because she was the, like, one of the only girls salespeople.
Paul:Well, that's Robert. Wanna hear a story?
Chrissy:Robert's my sale or my driver now.
Paul:Okay. So the guy there, he's up at CF Moto. He's a he was on Farmers Got a Wife.
Chrissy:Yeah. Yeah.
Paul:Farmers Need a Wife. Farmers. So that's
Chrissy:a what is that? Like, a Facebook thing?
Paul:Show? I was
Chrissy:like, TV show. It's TV show?
Paul:It's kinda like wife swap kinda shit.
Chrissy:Oh, no.
Paul:But we got all the information. Get Robin on there. They're looking for contestants.
Chrissy:Oh, he'd be perfect.
Paul:Yeah. He would be good.
Chrissy:Don't even know who this guy is, but
Paul:he sounds He's talking to a guy. Come on, dude. Well,
Chrissy:yeah. There's that.
Paul:So we gotta work that out.
Chrissy:I think we need to have you, Chad, the chicken legs.
Paul:Yeah. He's hammered all the time. Chicken legs?
Chrissy:Yeah.
Paul:That's even better.
Chrissy:These two, him and Chad, were my keg drivers. When I first bought the liquor store, these
Paul:two Forever. Yep.
Chrissy:Were my drivers for me. They would deliver just my kegs. Yeah. Because back then, you guys just delivered kegs. Yep.
Chrissy:Because there were so many kegs delivered. Oh. They had their own driver
Paul:back then. Kegs How the time. Oh, yeah. How many kegs does he go through now? None.
Paul:Not yet. Yeah. Right? No one Nobody buys them. When's the last time you've been to a keg party?
Chrissy:That is a good point. Sixteenth.
Paul:Right? Never. Exactly. Never. Nobody does that.
Chrissy:Twenty years ago when we well, twenty six years ago when I first bought the liquor store.
Paul:Dude, I bought my house. Yeah.
Chrissy:Remember our marketing thing was we would always have a 100 kegs in stock. Remember that when we did that?
Paul:We always Dude, my Right. My fucking grad party, I had five kegs. Yeah. That
Chrissy:is a very good one. Just a
Paul:When's the last time you've been to a
Chrissy:How much do they cost?
Paul:They're way more. You're better off buying eight cases of beer. What? Eight cases of beer in a keg. Seven seven and a half cases of beer.
Chrissy:Eight go a keg. Yeah. And, my store, if you buy nine cases of beer, you get one free.
Paul:Yeah.
Chrissy:So that's why we push that.
Paul:$40 more, but you're getting the.
Chrissy:And then
Paul:you really
Chrissy:have more marketing.
Paul:And then now you don't have to worry about what you'd finish or what you don't.
Chrissy:Right. Yeah. Because you the eggs that I do sell, honestly, because they don't have any. They come back almost three quarters full sometimes. You're why I fucked
Paul:you up. Massive fuck this shit.
Chrissy:So, anyways, getting back to Danny. He was my keg driver for years, and then he actually worked part time for us to deliver.
Paul:Nope. You didn't deliver then.
Chrissy:What? Did he just deliver for a week sometimes? Yeah.
Paul:Yep. When you need to be
Chrissy:But he was my stock, worked for me behind the scenes doing so many in his
Paul:think the last time I've been
Chrissy:here was, like, twenty fucking years. Are so smart. Well, not Annie.
Paul:I know.
Chrissy:We know that. Annie's not Annie. So their oldest daughter is a school teacher, and she's a I'm not even kidding you guys. How old is Jenna? 25.
Chrissy:She looks like she's 15. She has to be confusing in school because they she looks like a They're like, are you a student? Well, that's who
Paul:that's how Deanna's dude, get this. So Britney gave a bunch of Deanna's clothes from high school
Chrissy:Yeah.
Paul:To my brother's daughter, which is eight years old. Yeah. And she can wear a lot of it. Like, she is so fucking tiny. You would think she's like
Chrissy:Deanna's always tiny. Yeah. Missy's tiny. Her mom is really
Paul:I I never never knew her or whatever, but, yeah, like, when I met her, I'm like, holy shit. You're a fucking a child.
Chrissy:So Deanna's school teacher now?
Paul:Yeah. She's like a home ec teacher in Mankato now.
Chrissy:Know shit?
Paul:Yeah. Right?
Chrissy:Good for her.
Paul:Well, it's like Good for her. Yeah. It's badass. But who goes into home ec? And, like, why?
Chrissy:I didn't even know they still caught home ec. I'm surprised they that bag when I was
Paul:that was easy credit. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You get to doctor's day just sewing soccer balls.
Chrissy:Dude, I sewed my own pillowcase.
Paul:I was so happy. I made a soccer ball.
Chrissy:And then you had to cook shit. Like, how easy is that?
Paul:I still cook. I love cooking.
Chrissy:Yeah. Know. Cooking, grilling.
Paul:I don't like bacon, but
Chrissy:But I took small mechanics in high school.
Paul:I never did.
Chrissy:Same with me. I took like
Paul:Did you have p
Chrissy:I s? Yeah. No. It was all boys. It was a badass.
Chrissy:So I took fucking never say that. That, and I didn't do a shit thing.
Paul:I did the same fucking thing you did. I went the opposite way. So I went to the pottery, homework, arms
Chrissy:and lamps,
Paul:water painting. Car. I'm just like, hey. Hey.
Chrissy:Hey. Yeah.
Paul:I've seen the whole time I went to school. I never seen one a besides the first two days.
Chrissy:The first two days. That's it. You what? Caleb, say that again.
Paul:Going. I could've got a pass.
Chrissy:Oh. Oh, did you grad did you not graduate? He is a very, very soon
Paul:high school. You're like, in Did
Chrissy:you get your GED? No. You don't need it, though. I
Paul:can work on stuff, and I can be I do construction.
Chrissy:So Right. Right. You know how far I am from graduating?
Paul:This far?
Chrissy:Four and a half credits. Dude, that's graduated either, Makayla? I wish Why don't you go get your GED? Because you just don't need it. Awesome.
Chrissy:So what
Paul:are you saying?
Chrissy:Maybe. I did just out of principal because I was pregnant. I think I I've been thinking about it. Eleventh grade, I got
Paul:I am literally, like, a semester from getting my associate arts degree. And it's like, why should I go back? I don't need it. They're not gonna give me a raise because of
Chrissy:to Duluth.
Paul:From a fucking They meant a lot
Chrissy:of fucking What didn't you go to school for in Duluth?
Paul:I just went to go get my general associate. Arts. Oh, okay. Basically, just my general
Chrissy:associate's degree. Yeah. But you never got it?
Paul:I'm, like, a semester away. Why
Chrissy:did you leave? We've never discussed this.
Paul:Because my friends left. The only reason I went, I wasn't
Chrissy:even take on student loans?
Paul:No. I pay my little cash. I work two jobs. Yeah. Okay.
Paul:Right. I never Thank god. I don't take
Chrissy:out loans for shit.
Paul:Okay. I fucking hate loans. Oh, dude. We were
Chrissy:talking about interest rates this morning. Yeah. Don't even get me started on that.
Paul:Well, it's like buying a $60,000 car. You're paying $10 at least in interest. Mhmm.
Chrissy:So we just our motor home that we just bought was over a $100. One? Financed. Yeah. What we financed pissed.
Chrissy:We paid cash for everything except $60.
Paul:Still horny house. Whatever. It was. That's what I paid for my house. Yeah.
Chrissy:You're smart. Video. So we had to finance 60,000 of that. But when we finished it the first time back six years ago, it was, like, at, I don't know, 5% interest. Yeah.
Chrissy:This time, it was over 8 or I'll close
Paul:to 9. It's because it's a fucking RV, so it's, like, recreational. Very good. That's why they really hit you.
Chrissy:So now we're just gonna take out a second mortgage on our
Paul:house. Gonna say, wouldn't that be cheaper?
Chrissy:Yeah. We just did that to get it.
Paul:Or, like, a home equity line of credit.
Chrissy:We're gonna do a second mortgage for 60,000 or whatever the balance is.
Paul:And just that's gonna
Chrissy:be 7.7%, you guys.
Paul:For a house is 7? Yes. What about a home equity line of credit? I bet that's just as much if not more.
Chrissy:The second mortgage on our house is 7.7%. And when we refinanced my house house, like, the house that we I live in, which is what we're gonna put the second mortgage on. I'm at, like, two and a half percent.
Paul:You're like, why can't I just copy that?
Chrissy:Trump Trump at 2.5% interest.
Paul:Right.
Chrissy:Biden that we're still fucking suffering for from at almost 8% interest. It's insane. But there's no there's no like, Bison's great.
Paul:Yeah.
Chrissy:Bison's just great. What do you pay for gas? What did you couldn't even fucking get fucking eggs for, you $10 a dozen.
Paul:Yeah. Dude, fucking everything's so it doesn't matter what it is. Everything's fucking ridiculous.
Chrissy:That's the thing, though. It's like, at least you can get eggs now, but and they're not $10 a dozen.
Paul:I don't know, though. I feel like it's because I'm fucking
Chrissy:getting old,
Paul:and I'm like, back in red day, I like paid this. And I look back at what I used to pay and now I go to what I pay now. I'm like,
Chrissy:what the
Paul:fuck is going on? This place is a fucking prison.
Chrissy:You were saying that
Paul:a lot.
Chrissy:I'm planet planet bullshit. Yeah. You're sad about yourself?
Paul:Like, birds in the roof soaks camel dicks.
Chrissy:Listen. Listen, Linda.
Paul:Name that movie.
Chrissy:Back in the day.
Paul:I see it all the time.
Chrissy:You say it all the time. You know, back in the day. Yeah. You're not even old.
Paul:I know. I'm getting old. Fuck you. I feel old. My body's old.
Paul:My body's at least
Chrissy:Slender underneath the table like a snake. That was pretty was saying I'm not limber. Andrew, and what is the what are those contests where you have
Paul:The limbo.
Chrissy:The limbo?
Paul:Is that what it is? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Remember when you used to do the roller skating limbo?
Paul:I could do
Chrissy:I never
Paul:did it. Oh, yeah. I could do the I could do
Chrissy:the Thunder blades roller
Paul:skating limbo? Yeah. In Princeton, the Thunder blades. Yeah. I could do it on roller blades pretty good.
Paul:Surprisingly.
Chrissy:Where was Thunder blades? It's still there.
Paul:Old roller skate place.
Chrissy:So in Princeton?
Paul:Yeah. Down the road from Marf's. True Value.
Chrissy:Yeah. I know. Finish Line? Okay. Did go there?
Chrissy:Oh, yeah. I grew up going there.
Paul:Used to be how was it before Thunder Blades?
Chrissy:Because I was like I've always noted as Thunder Blade. Great skate. You're fucking not. I'm not that young. Does he know how old
Paul:I am?
Chrissy:No. She's now even 30. Yes. No.
Paul:I don't play that fucking game. Fuck you.
Chrissy:Almost. Yeah. I just turned 29.
Paul:Really? Let me
Chrissy:say it. I didn't think you were 30 yet. We That was sick. What is what?
Paul:On a fat tire. Scooter. Look down on the other. Oh,
Chrissy:I didn't see it. The
Paul:fat tire scooter. Look. Fucking put your head this way.
Chrissy:Shit. Now his butt's in the way. Right there. I think. And she goes sorry.
Chrissy:The thing was pretty cool.
Paul:I don't know. She's taking a picture of them. I don't You'll get a picture of them. Those things are
Chrissy:Oh, I do see it now.
Paul:Yeah. Yeah.
Chrissy:That little kid's is it a kid pushing it?
Paul:Getting a little girl. She looks like she's fucking, like, eight.
Chrissy:Yeah. That thing's looks heavy for her.
Paul:Yeah. Fat tire. Oh, yeah. You just got a black belt on the front.
Chrissy:That's cool. What's up?
Paul:You'll have to put that on so everyone can see what we're talking about because they're
Chrissy:like, what are you fucking talking about?
Paul:I wanna see. I hate that when you're, like, watching a YouTube video, and they're like, oh, yeah. Look at that. And then you're like, I can't fucking see it. Turn the fucking camera on, jackass.
Chrissy:Yeah. He's a great guy. He's funny as fuck. Yeah? Oh my god.
Chrissy:He's hilarious. Just sarcastic as hell.
Paul:Yes. Perfect. Mhmm.
Chrissy:Yeah. He worked for me, yeah, six years, he said. Heck yeah.
Paul:A generator sounds like it's running out of gas.